A sorta fairytale
Nov. 27th, 2007 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maypirateLast night I got home around 6, and decided I would try to beat Odin Sphere, assuming I'd be done by 8. It took much longer than I thought, and I didn't finish til after midnight, and it was gorgeous, touching, and sad.
OH GOD EVERYONE DIED! ;_;
Okay, not everyone, but even Brom and Myris died - if they were on Horn Mountain like Gwendolyn suggested. And the Cauldron was a fuck to fight; climbing it every time was a royal pain.
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donburi thinks they're stupid and useless, but it broke my heart that Mercedes and Ingway died. I knew he would, that was kind of hugely unavoidable, but I was hoping Mercedes would come out of it. At least he died thinking about her, and she...saw his corpse? Wait, that part is still sad! I was hoping there would be some sneaky secret ending where it turned out they were okay.
Leventhan was such an oddly quiet fight, and the background music was beautiful, and Gwendolyn falling to earth afterward was incredibly poignant - "In all history there has never been anyone as brave as you."
I was thinking about playing the rest of the possible endings, but I found a summary of them on Gamefaqs and there was nothing but sorrow, and it only gets worse every time, and I don't think I could bear it. I've never buried myself in a game so deeply, and with the exception of the Guilty Gears, I've never loved game characters so very, very much. Everything about it was amazing.
But waaaaaaaaaaah Mercedes and Ingway! ;;;_;;;
For those of you who don't want the spoilers: It was fanfuckingtastic amazeotron, and is the greatest game that isn't Guilty Gear that I've ever played. I'm not sure why you're not playing it right now, and I don't care if you don't like RPGs or don't have a PS2. Just buy the goddamn disc and spin it around on your finger and shine a flashlight on it. Just being that close to it is worth it.
In celebration of my achievement and the wonder that is Odin Sphere, here is a picture of Ingway drinking tea that I coloredreally badly in like 23 seconds on OC3 and forgot to edit out the background smudgies:
Peace.
OH GOD EVERYONE DIED! ;_;
Okay, not everyone, but even Brom and Myris died - if they were on Horn Mountain like Gwendolyn suggested. And the Cauldron was a fuck to fight; climbing it every time was a royal pain.
And
donburi thinks they're stupid and useless, but it broke my heart that Mercedes and Ingway died. I knew he would, that was kind of hugely unavoidable, but I was hoping Mercedes would come out of it. At least he died thinking about her, and she...saw his corpse? Wait, that part is still sad! I was hoping there would be some sneaky secret ending where it turned out they were okay.Leventhan was such an oddly quiet fight, and the background music was beautiful, and Gwendolyn falling to earth afterward was incredibly poignant - "In all history there has never been anyone as brave as you."
I was thinking about playing the rest of the possible endings, but I found a summary of them on Gamefaqs and there was nothing but sorrow, and it only gets worse every time, and I don't think I could bear it. I've never buried myself in a game so deeply, and with the exception of the Guilty Gears, I've never loved game characters so very, very much. Everything about it was amazing.
But waaaaaaaaaaah Mercedes and Ingway! ;;;_;;;
For those of you who don't want the spoilers: It was fanfuckingtastic amazeotron, and is the greatest game that isn't Guilty Gear that I've ever played. I'm not sure why you're not playing it right now, and I don't care if you don't like RPGs or don't have a PS2. Just buy the goddamn disc and spin it around on your finger and shine a flashlight on it. Just being that close to it is worth it.
In celebration of my achievement and the wonder that is Odin Sphere, here is a picture of Ingway drinking tea that I colored
Peace.
