Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Saddest game of the year

[XkeybladerXX]

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is the saddest game of 2009!

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days: Saddest Game of the Year (Link)

Who agrees?

Also, Kingdom Hearts is the 45th best selling console game of this decade so far with 5.50 million sales.


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And 40th place in The top 50 video games of the year

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[Ehres]

Not me. Maybe that's because I knew what Xion was before I played the game or that I was only really paying attention to Xigbar. Everything else was like, a slog. I think the only time I felt sad in the series was when Roxas "died" in II. His words were quite touching.

 

[Ordeith]

Honestly, though Xion's existence as a puppet was a bit sad, I didn't find the game particularly teary.
The "sad" bits, while obviously intended to be sorrowful, didn't elicit much of a reaction from me. However, what's true for one person might be vastly different for another, so I can still see how Days could be viewed as having a very sad plotline.

 

[State]

Honestly, though Xion's existence as a puppet was a bit sad, I didn't find the game particularly teary.

I concur. It would have been a bit sadder if the other members of the Organization knew about it and treated her like shit, but alas, they found much, much later.

Also, when I read the thread's title, I thought someone was saying that the game stinked. :S

 

[Chakolat Strawberry]

I agree it was pretty sad, but saddest game of the year? Um, no :/
I didn't cry at all, mainly because I already knew who Xion was.

 

[*~BlackCat~*]

I agree it was pretty sad, but saddest game of the year? Um, no :/
I didn't cry at all, mainly because I already knew who Xion was.

yup i thought the same thing

 

[XkeybladerXX]

I agree it was pretty sad, but saddest game of the year? Um, no :/
I didn't cry at all, mainly because I already knew who Xion was.

There weren't any other sad games that came out this year....were there?

 

[Gram]

days had my vote til i saw the scene between axel and roxas after the roxas battle on FM

 

[HerGuitar]

To be honest, I didn't shed a single tear but I did feel sympathetic towards Roxas in the scene where Xion "poops", if you catch my drift. I was playing on an airplane though, so maybe the sad music didn't get to me because the engines were roaring so loud. xD

 

[Smile]

I knew what the deal with Xion was and I still cried a river over her ;-;

 

[493pokemon1]

I dont see how this can be made saddest game of the year just for xion.
Xion deserved to die
I personally believe the sad part lays with axel

 

[Lonbilly]

It was sad when Xion died, but I don't think it was sad enough to make saddest game of the year. Sorry Xion >.>

 

[Sora1915]

I dont see how this can be made saddest game of the year just for xion.
Xion deserved to die
I personally believe the sad part lays with axel

That's your opinion sir >>; I would add a "I think" before deserved because I strongly disagree >>;

But anyway I bawled me eyes out xD I too have never cried my eyes out that much over a fictional character ^^;

 

[Abysmal]

While I don't think 358/2 was THE saddest game of the year, I do think it was rather emotional.
I didn't cry, but after seeing the fates of Roxas, Xion, and Axel, which weren't exactly uplifting or positive in any sense, I spent the rest of the day in an unexplainable gloom. XD
After the credits, when it shows Roxas looking up at Sora in the pod--gah, I'm pretty sure my heart broke. ;___;

 

[Ikkin]

I didn't cry, but after seeing the fates of Roxas, Xion, and Axel, which weren't exactly uplifting or positive in any sense, I spent the rest of the day in an unexplainable gloom. XD

Yeah, I think this is it: 358/2 Days is hard to describe as sad, because it's not really a tearjerker in the usual sense. The mood shift is too gradual for that - by the time the worst stuff happens, there's not really enough left for tears, leaving you with a sense of gloom and emptiness instead.


Then again, I still have no idea what game came out this year that would have been more qualified. Looking at Wikipedia's list of games that were released in 2009, there's a severe lack of games with any storytelling ambitions whatsoever. Unless someone's able to make a convincing game for one of the FPSes with cinematic aspirations (rather unlikely, in my opinion), I think 358/2 Days wins by default.

 

[Salty the Hero]

358/2 Days was pretty emotional. Especially at the end. Not much surprise it made Saddest Game of the Year, imo.

 

[luna1017]

I dont see how this can be made saddest game of the year just for xion.
Xion deserved to die
I personally believe the sad part lays with axel

:lol: I think the sad part lays with Roxas. One of his friends died and he lost his friendship withhis other friend.

Not me. Maybe that's because I knew what Xion was before I played the game or that I was only really paying attention to Xigbar. Everything else was like, a slog. I think the only time I felt sad in the series was when Roxas "died" in II. His words were quite touching.

I loved the last thing he said before Sora woke up
Days was sad because Roxas lost his friends, IMO. And the music added sadness.

 

[Snow]

It's basically the music. That was really the only part that made me feel sad, now that I actually looked the cutscene over. Otherwise I only felt pained, but not really sad (it added to character development).

 

[everydaygamer]

i thought the game was pretty darn sad.

besides as another person pointed out was there some other game that deserved it more?

 

[Lumen et ignem]

I don't think it's the saddest game of the year. The ending wasn't really that bad because it gave you an idea that it was going to happen in the end.