I read an article about DDD and figured, hey, this section is pretty dead, why not share it and see what people think?
Saw this article promoted by Gamasutra and decided to give it a look. I don't think it really quite explains well what the writer wants or is thinking as strongly as it should, but it raised some interesting points. This paragraph in particular caught my eye:
Here's the full article. It focuses a lot on how DDD uses (or doesn't use) the dream motif throughout the game and how it reflects back on the story/characters. So give it a read, and share what you think.
Saw this article promoted by Gamasutra and decided to give it a look. I don't think it really quite explains well what the writer wants or is thinking as strongly as it should, but it raised some interesting points. This paragraph in particular caught my eye:
So it would make sense that the game would begin this deconstruction with Sora, the central hero throughout the franchise. (Or maybe it’s Riku’s perception of (himself through) Sora. This is a dream world, after all.) In previous Kingdom Hearts games, we’d received faint hints that Sora was suffering some kind of severe identity crisis, whether it was Ven’s fragmented self, Xion’s unstable identity, or Roxas’ dual existence. The only reason Sora himself didn’t succumb to a similar fate was that he had his friends to ground him in a more certain reality. So what happens when you remove them from the equation entirely and create a world where only Sora exists? Does that reality remain certain? Apparently, no. It turns out Sora is no different from his counterparts. The game ends up characterizing him as a fundamentally empty person who uses these fantastic opportunities to distract from the cloying nothingness inside him. Bleak that stance may be, but in light of everything the game does, it’s hard to argue against
The game’s insistence on sticking to friendship as the ultimate ideal doesn’t hold as much water when it does so much to discredit the concept.
Here's the full article. It focuses a lot on how DDD uses (or doesn't use) the dream motif throughout the game and how it reflects back on the story/characters. So give it a read, and share what you think.
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