?Unknown Episode - Part 9

[davidn]

I love this part, and I've been waiting to get to it for ages! It's the second of three videos that could be said to make up the game's ending, and it's only now that I look through it that I realize how large the mood swings in it are. We start off laughing, end up with our hearts warmed, and all do wonderful impressions of broken air conditioners with our shocked gasps along the way. This is where we really start to crack under the game's pressure.

From the very beginning of this route, I was terrified that Nageki was going to have to die. Even though that thought remained unspoken, I think that the game knew that, and it toyed with the possibility multiple times in quick succession during the ending, twice in this video alone. Like the revelation of Hitori in Class 8 of BBL, the emotional lighthouse scene is another kjorteo-davidn partnership, and despite my involuntary horrified noises throughout it, he has the more difficult part to get through - even in still picture form, the images and music along with the story of the Flame of Scorpio from Night on the Galactic Railroad is just a... distressingly beautiful moment, reminiscent of the ending of Mother 3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-was6I_1Zag

0:40 Head removal
1:30 A unique phrase
4:40 Go all the way to the tower
5:20 Fly
7:40 Lighthouse
8:30 The first King
11:00 Alone
13:15 The last star
14:20 SUN FOR THE WORLD
17:05 RESCUE
18:30 The Great Escape
19:40 Kazuaki and Hitori

Comments

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[xaq.livejournal.com]

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[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

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[premchaia_pre4]

It's a classic, of course, and I find it more tasteful than the “lj-spoiler” tags and the like.