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rionaleonhart) wrote2011-01-24 05:00 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2011-01-24 05:00 pm
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Day 357 Is, Appropriately Enough, Called 'Tears'.
So. I finished Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days.
I have never cried so much at a videogame before. At the beginning of that final gameplay sequence, in the World That Never Was, in the pouring rain, I had to pause and dry my face so I could see the screen properly.
That mission in Hallowe'en Town? When you're going through the town, and there are no Heartless anywhere, and it all feels a little bit wrong, and then you go into the graveyard and a gigantic demonic Heartless attacks you and halfway into the fight BAM, SURPRISE, YOU'VE BEEN FIGHTING XION THIS WHOLE TIME?
Oh my God. I nearly gasped aloud. I had to put the DS down and freak out for a moment. Rarely has a twist hit me harder.
And then there was the very-nearly-the-ending where you fight Xion and you know it's Xion, and the final sequence where you're in the air above Twilight Town and KINGDOM HEARTS I DO NOT WANT TO BEAT MY FRIEND TO DEATH WHILST PRETTY MUSIC PLAYS IN THE BACKGROUND. I REALLY, REALLY DON'T WANT TO DO THAT. (Just listening to the music again is twisting my insides. Seriously, battle music is making me sob.)
And how Roxas is already forgetting who she was when she's dying in his arms, oh. ('Who are you... again? It's weird. I feel like I'm forgetting something really important' was the point at which I began to perform my impression of a waterfall.) And the fact that Axel wasn't even there when she died, and the way you see her fade out of Roxas's memories of the clock tower. And the fact that Roxas and Axel parted on such bad terms, even though Axel never stopped caring about him. And Roxas shouting that he has to find Sora, he has to get Xion back, he has to get his life back, but we've played Kingdom Hearts II and we know that it's hopeless, it'll never happen.
Does it appear to be raining where you are? It's not rain; it's just my tears.
Oh, Roxas. Roxas. He was already the most tragic character in the history of videogames from the prologue of Kingdom Hearts II alone, and now this game has made him twenty times more tragic.
When I bought 358/2 Days, I thought it was just going to be a bit of fun. I never suspected that it would be so good, or that I would become so emotionally invested, or that it would shove a Keyblade straight through my heart.
Highly, highly recommended to anyone with a DS.
I have never cried so much at a videogame before. At the beginning of that final gameplay sequence, in the World That Never Was, in the pouring rain, I had to pause and dry my face so I could see the screen properly.
That mission in Hallowe'en Town? When you're going through the town, and there are no Heartless anywhere, and it all feels a little bit wrong, and then you go into the graveyard and a gigantic demonic Heartless attacks you and halfway into the fight BAM, SURPRISE, YOU'VE BEEN FIGHTING XION THIS WHOLE TIME?
Oh my God. I nearly gasped aloud. I had to put the DS down and freak out for a moment. Rarely has a twist hit me harder.
And then there was the very-nearly-the-ending where you fight Xion and you know it's Xion, and the final sequence where you're in the air above Twilight Town and KINGDOM HEARTS I DO NOT WANT TO BEAT MY FRIEND TO DEATH WHILST PRETTY MUSIC PLAYS IN THE BACKGROUND. I REALLY, REALLY DON'T WANT TO DO THAT. (Just listening to the music again is twisting my insides. Seriously, battle music is making me sob.)
And how Roxas is already forgetting who she was when she's dying in his arms, oh. ('Who are you... again? It's weird. I feel like I'm forgetting something really important' was the point at which I began to perform my impression of a waterfall.) And the fact that Axel wasn't even there when she died, and the way you see her fade out of Roxas's memories of the clock tower. And the fact that Roxas and Axel parted on such bad terms, even though Axel never stopped caring about him. And Roxas shouting that he has to find Sora, he has to get Xion back, he has to get his life back, but we've played Kingdom Hearts II and we know that it's hopeless, it'll never happen.
Does it appear to be raining where you are? It's not rain; it's just my tears.
Oh, Roxas. Roxas. He was already the most tragic character in the history of videogames from the prologue of Kingdom Hearts II alone, and now this game has made him twenty times more tragic.
When I bought 358/2 Days, I thought it was just going to be a bit of fun. I never suspected that it would be so good, or that I would become so emotionally invested, or that it would shove a Keyblade straight through my heart.
Highly, highly recommended to anyone with a DS.
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So now I can ask what you made of this crazy cutscene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGe6NjRB2Vg&feature=related
(I couldn't find the cutscene on its own in English, but it's the beginning of that video). That was the biggest WTF I ever did!
I quite liked Xion. I was sceptical at the random addition of a new member, but it does kinda tie into KH canon, and she's not exactly a Mary Sue (despite her being called one by some parts of the fandom).
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(I was quite fond of Xion as well! She didn't have a great deal of personality, but, er, I suppose that was sort of the point. (Oh, dear, Kingdom Hearts fandom. I remember that the treatment of Kairi was appalling back when I was reading Sora/Riku; is Xion similarly demonised? On one level, the way Xion faded from the memories of Roxas and Axel seemed almost like a comment on the tendency of fandoms to erase characters they don't like.))
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MAYBE THEY ARE ALL ONE PERSON WITH MPD
...I got nuthin'.
Kairi is still treated appallingly. She's generally a total bitch in fandom. (That high school fic I talked about recently didn't feature much Kairi for various reasons, but it had a really good portrayal of her - and Namine - as... not being psychotic. Though it did basically have all the girls in the school (all non-canon) as one character squealing fangirl known as the Girl Entity or something like that. Played very well for laughs. Brilliant story.)
As for Xion... some people like her, which is good! Others just seem happy that she disappeared and so don't write her into anything. Others also make her become psychotic. Some make her become a big Axel/Roxas fangirl. I think that's mostly it.
I think some people just dislike her for interrupting their Roxas/Axel time, though, so...
I typically like the girls in Kingdom Hearts though. I love that of all people to be pretty sadistic, it seems to be Larxene. Again, though, in fandom, that turns into bitchyness (well, fair dos, the game does say she has a sharp tongue) but no danger.
I was very impressed with the game too though. Birth By Sleep is also fun, and has lots of new worlds for a change.