I'm not going to bother with any spoiler tags here as I feel that this doesn't really give away anything related to the story, but turn back now if you are trying to remain as "pure" as possible before the release
This game uses TONS of puns, jokes, and references to people and old games that have required me to do a lot of research while writing/editing the story. Usually, I'm able to track down the source/usage, but I'm having a bit of trouble with one character's name. There is a Russian man in the game who goes by the nickname Vanya... It was easy enough to track down the origin (quick google search brings up "Uncle Vanya" a play by Chekov), but his real name in the game is "ワレンコフ", which I've seen written as Varencov, Varencof, Valenkov, Warenkov, etc... Just about every single NPC in the game has a name that I can track down to a particular source, so I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a famous person going by the name ワレンコフ.
Thanks!