>>528923182
Well, Robotnik is mentioned in the blog by name, so maybe Vader was the Fang or Metal stand-in.
>>528923772
He's not, but Chris Coffin, another X-Treme designer who often gets confused with him and whose near-death make him cancel the Saturn version (probably for the better to be frank) is.

>>527865551
I also blame Frontiers having the most divided EN/JP script yet.
No one liked that shit, we liked our shit unified, stop doing that shit.