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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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Poor Roxas. Poor Axel. Poor Xion.
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I know you've read the script, but have you seen the cutscene of Xion's disintegration yet? A LOVELY GIFT FOR YOU. THE GIFT OF TEARS.
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I'm almost tempted to do an ice cream shop fic, but I'd probably just making reality collapse around them and all turn out to be some heartbreaking illusion or something. Which kind of defeats the point of the ice cream shop.
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And by the world, I mean me, and possibly you.
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(Can you think of a plausible reason why Roxas's life and mind might fall apart a third time, leading him to discover that the happy ending with his friends was just an illusion?)