I've started watching the cutscenes for Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, in the absence of a PSP to actually play the game on, and have found myself quite intensely 'shipping Terra/Cinderella (or, perhaps more accurately, Terra/all the classic Disney princesses and possibly also Minnie Mouse). I, er, I wouldn't have expected this.
...all right, since writing that I have finished watching Terra's storyline. I don't think I was prepared for this game to be so completely heartbreaking. I'm always inexplicably surprised when a Kingdom Hearts game upsets me, having apparently forgotten that I cried enough to fill a small reservoir at the end of Days. Kingdom Hearts: a charming, Disney-filled, child-friendly series about friendships and how they are inevitably and horribly torn apart.
And since writing that I've watched Ven's storyline. This game is heart-shattering and adorable in equal measures. On the one hand, there's the endless tragedy; on the other, teenage Lea! Hanging out with teenage Isa! Making friends by being obnoxious! Amazing! I knew Birth by Sleep was a prequel, but it hadn't occurred to me that the human versions of the Nobodies we'd later meet might appear.
Just Aqua's storyline left to watch! WHICH WILL BE HORRIBLY TRAGIC. BECAUSE EVERYTHING IN THIS GAME IS HORRIBLY TRAGIC.
It's been ten years since the first Kingdom Hearts game was released (ten years? really?), and I still can't quite believe the series exists when I really think about it. Disney and the makers of Final Fantasy collaborating on a videogame series: it's such an April Fools' joke of a premise. I'm glad it's real, even if it results in a surprising amount of emotional devastation.
Speaking of ridiculous game-related things: I like how videogames seem to make perfect sense when you're playing them, and then you're looking through that videogame's wiki and come across a line like 'Joshua attacks by typing in digits on a phone to summon random objects to bombard enemies from above' and go 'hang on a second...'
I've played too many Square games. I just take these things for granted. Seemingly human enemies turn into dragons mid-fight, my ally's 'telekinetically throwing a soft toy at foes' battle technique becomes more effective if she wears a pirate hat, mobile phones are deadly weapons and I blithely accept it. I tried to explain The World Ends With You to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
th_esaurus and realised too late that absolutely nothing in that game makes sense. But I love it so much!
...all right, since writing that I have finished watching Terra's storyline. I don't think I was prepared for this game to be so completely heartbreaking. I'm always inexplicably surprised when a Kingdom Hearts game upsets me, having apparently forgotten that I cried enough to fill a small reservoir at the end of Days. Kingdom Hearts: a charming, Disney-filled, child-friendly series about friendships and how they are inevitably and horribly torn apart.
And since writing that I've watched Ven's storyline. This game is heart-shattering and adorable in equal measures. On the one hand, there's the endless tragedy; on the other, teenage Lea! Hanging out with teenage Isa! Making friends by being obnoxious! Amazing! I knew Birth by Sleep was a prequel, but it hadn't occurred to me that the human versions of the Nobodies we'd later meet might appear.
Just Aqua's storyline left to watch! WHICH WILL BE HORRIBLY TRAGIC. BECAUSE EVERYTHING IN THIS GAME IS HORRIBLY TRAGIC.
It's been ten years since the first Kingdom Hearts game was released (ten years? really?), and I still can't quite believe the series exists when I really think about it. Disney and the makers of Final Fantasy collaborating on a videogame series: it's such an April Fools' joke of a premise. I'm glad it's real, even if it results in a surprising amount of emotional devastation.
Speaking of ridiculous game-related things: I like how videogames seem to make perfect sense when you're playing them, and then you're looking through that videogame's wiki and come across a line like 'Joshua attacks by typing in digits on a phone to summon random objects to bombard enemies from above' and go 'hang on a second...'
I've played too many Square games. I just take these things for granted. Seemingly human enemies turn into dragons mid-fight, my ally's 'telekinetically throwing a soft toy at foes' battle technique becomes more effective if she wears a pirate hat, mobile phones are deadly weapons and I blithely accept it. I tried to explain The World Ends With You to
th_esaurus and realised too late that absolutely nothing in that game makes sense. But I love it so much!
