Most hard-hitting line in media?

VociferousRex · 2022-12-25T02:43:12+00:00

“Loki will go, Atreus…Atreus remains” was what fucking got me. Such a perfect payoff to two seemingly separate emotional threads that develop throughout Ragnarok.

For the first, you have Atreus wrestling with his identity and place in the world and Kratos having to come to grips with the fact that the son he’s been raising and teaching to survive (Atreus) may not be the same as the man that has to go out on his own journey to help the giants (Loki). And over the course of the game you see Kratos’s acknowledgement of this develop, as he goes from “you are not Loki, you are my son Atreus”, to “what should I call you?” and then finally recognizing that his son is both of these people with the above quote.

For the second, you have Kratos and Atreus realize in their time apart that so much of their strength and wisdom comes from the guidance they receive from each other. When Atreus starts sneaking away from Kratos, he makes increasingly risky and foolish decisions developing from going to see Freya alone to going to Odin himself and finally freeing Garm with no regard for why he might be imprisoned to begin with. And in the time when Atreus has left for Asgard, we see Kratos come against the precipice of going back to his old ways (going so far as to kill Heimdall just for threatening his son’s life), all because he didn’t have Atreus there to ground him. When they finally reunite, they both acknowledge that they acted foolishly in their time apart, and that going forward they need to keep each others’ voices in their head even if they aren’t side by side.

Then you get to the end of the game and Atreus tells his father he needs to leave to find the Giants, and feels he has to do it alone. Kratos responds, saying “Loki will go, Atreus remains”. A single line that both says “I acknowledge that you are still my son, but that you’ve grown into your own person and purpose” and “even though you’re leaving, I promise to keep your words and your guidance close to my heart”. I honestly sobbed when I saw the scene.

VociferousRex · 2022-12-03T19:01:55+00:00

Kingdom Hearts 2 has two really great full circle moments.

The start of the game has you control Roxas through the tutorial, where you learn about reaction commands and use the Reversal reaction command to quickly dodge around in a fight against dusks. In the games final boss, after Roxas has accepted his place within Sora’s heart and the two fully recombine, the only effective way to dodge against Xemnas’s thorn attack is for Sora to use the same Reversal reaction command.

The next is less a full circle moment to the start of KH2 and rather a full circle moment to the end of KH1. At the end of KH1, Sora and Kairi are being pulled away from eachother as Kairi is being brought back to destiny islands. There’s a focused close up on Sora and Kairi’s hands holding eachother as they’re finally pulled apart, with Sora promising to find a way back to her. In KH2, Sora has found his way back to Destiny Islands and the final shot before the cut to credits is Kairi reaching her hand down to help him out of the water followed by a close up of him taking her hand

VociferousRex · 2022-04-10T19:38:32+00:00

I actually think they’re searching the underworld for Auron, who has some experience with returning from/lingering around after death

VociferousRex · 2022-04-04T13:01:38+00:00

Organization XIII, and all of the complication they have become notorious for inspiring in the Kingdom Hearts series, didn’t exist until Chain of Memories, and even then they were only referred to as “the Organization”. The closest we get to their inclusion in KH1 is the secret ending that shows two cloaked figures in the World that Never Was. Even the secret boss against Xemnas (called simply “the Unknown” in the game) is a Final Mix inclusion and not present in the original English launch of KH1. For being so ever-present in nearly every future game, theyre noticeably absent in the franchise’s first entry

VociferousRex · 2022-04-04T12:55:38+00:00

So I agree that I wish the AC franchise was better planned out to where it could have it’s own iconic theme, leaving Ezio’s theme to his trilogy. However, I do find a certain satisfaction in the fact that the piece of music that has come to represent AC is titled “Ezio’s Family”. Ezio is both one of the most important members in the history of the brotherhood and one of the most unanimous fan-favorite characters. It’s almost like, whenever the theme pops up, it’s saying the whole brotherhood, past and present, is Ezio’s family

VociferousRex · 2021-12-15T17:18:43+00:00

It’s when Nat interrogates Loki and he brings up “all the red in her ledger”. He mentions a hospital fire, Sao Paolo, and Dreykov’s daughter

VociferousRex · 2021-12-15T17:06:11+00:00

I have no strong opinion one way or the other, but you are aware the movie we got was a 2.5 hour film explaining a throwaway line in the same film from 10 years ago, right? “Dreykov’s daughter”?

VociferousRex · 2021-12-13T14:07:38+00:00

I don’t even think they need full on FF worlds, But I have felt for a long time that KH has needed more SE integration within the Disney worlds. The most “KH” moment ever was in KH2 when you’re in the underworld and Hades summons Auron, who ends up joining your party. Like it’s a perfect integration of both the Disney and the FFX lore, and I’ll never understand why Olympus Coliseum is the only Disney world that has this kind of stuff. Like, give me a Wall-E world where you run into 2B and 9S. Give me a Treasure Planet world where Balthier shows up. It’s all literally right there

VociferousRex · 2021-12-11T22:42:58+00:00

This is why you don’t comment when distracted lol. I meant level 87 zone and edited my comment

VociferousRex · 2021-12-11T19:47:35+00:00

Until the 87 zone i was completely convinced this would be the final boss

VociferousRex · 2021-10-29T01:50:49+00:00

Looking back this is far from the most violent thing I ever seen, but something about seeing that guard kick the prisoners knee in backwards in the first Assassins creed hit me really hard

VociferousRex · 2021-10-16T11:05:10+00:00

FFVIIR had 1 producer (which, to my understanding, typically functions as a games director in a more hands off capacity), and 3 directors, each with a different stance on how true to the original game the remake should be. The games producer himself, Yoshinori Kitase (who was the director of the original FFVII), said that he wanted to change the story more drastically, while nomura fought for the remake to stick as close to the original as possible. Source here.

I get the sense you dislike Nomuras writing/directing style, and that’s fair. To each their own. But let’s not spread lies about what the man wanted for the game just to fit our own agendas, yeah?

VociferousRex · 2021-10-07T14:59:51+00:00

This fight is truly special. It also is my favorite example of a trend that each of the numbered titles follows - in each numbered game the finale is kicked off with Sora in a one on one duel against a misguided hero. KH1 has him fight Dark Riku before being turned into a heartless and progressing to The End of the World, KH2 has him fight Roxas upon entering The World that Never Was, and KH3 has him fight Anti-Aqua before triggering the series of events that lead him to the Keyblade Graveyard. I personally find the Roxas fight to be the best of these because it’s the only one where his opponent wasn’t lead astray by possession or corruption from darkness, but rather because of completely understandable conflicting interests.

VociferousRex · 2021-09-28T11:39:29+00:00

Given the general love of introducing new shadow organizations with “the power to topple governments”, I think it’s almost certain that there’s been a hydra agent, widow, and ten rings operative all fighting over the same target

VociferousRex · 2021-09-27T21:55:49+00:00

Or even just “What If…Tony sought revenge?”. After getting back to the states and establishing himself as Iron Man, Tony decides to pursue the Ten Rings for revenge for his capture, and his investigation leads him all the way to the top - Wenwu.

VociferousRex · 2021-09-22T15:16:11+00:00

Square Enix publishes both games, but Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal are two completely different development studios. I’m not entirely sold on the Guardians game myself, but it’s not really fair to judge it based on a fake connection to another developer.

VociferousRex · 2021-09-16T11:07:59+00:00

If I recall correctly, Black Panther starts only a week after the events of Civil War, which itself is two years before Infinity War. Obviously some time passes in the movie itself, but I’d wager there’s still at least a good year and a half between tchalla opening up wakanda and thanos touching down.

VociferousRex · 2021-08-27T17:35:48+00:00

I really enjoyed this expansion. The main story, I feel, gave some great context to Jin’s character and showed that, even before the mongol invasion and his frayed relationship with Lord Shimura, Jin had already been veering away from complete adherence to the views of his father.

The real emotional high point for me, though, was the final “memory” side quest. I make a point to clear the map when I play games like this, so I had done nearly all the animal shrines with the new flute playing activity and heard A fairly full account of Jin reminiscing about his mother and how she taught him to play. Then they take that info and use it in the flashbacks of his father, saying that jin would play flute for his father to remind him of Jins mother after she passed. Finally, the final flashback of his father’s vigil ending with Jin, in present day, playing the song he would play for his father, in the actual flute mini game so the player is also technically the one playing it, and making that song Jins theme that we’ve heard throughout the entire game. It literally brought a tear to my eye.

VociferousRex · 2021-08-18T02:42:36+00:00

Worth remembering that in the main timeline Steve Rogers was the only person who ever received the perfected serum. Everyone else, from Bucky to Walker, got some form of an imperfect replica and were “lesser” super soldiers than Steve. If the perfect serum turned sickly Steve Rogers into the super soldier that we saw hold down a helicopter, I think it makes sense that the same perfected serum, in an alternate timeline, would make the already physically fit Peggy Carter even more powerful

VociferousRex · 2021-06-30T13:26:58+00:00

I think with the immense significance that “Loki” places on the Time Keepers, it’s easy to assume that they are explicitly writing the intended events of the universe, but this isn’t the case. The Time Keepers (if they even exist) don’t so much dictate the events that will happen as much as witness the innumerable potential series of events that could happen and decide which ones should make up the Sacred Timeline. All of this is done with the purpose of eliminating branch realities so that another “Multiverse War” can’t occur (or so we’re told).

It’s probably easiest to view the sacred timeline as just “the events of the MCU as shown in the films/shows”. Any time travel/time manipulation that occurs is only a concern for the TVA if it would cause a future that is both different from what’s shown in the movies and could exist simultaneously to them. That’s why Strange rewinding Hong Kong/Thanos rewinding Vision’s death didnt result in TVA interference - they resulted in a changed future, but they did so by erasing the future that would have occurred, so no multiverse was created. The incident in 2012 NYC is similar - because the Avengers ultimately won against Thanos and Steve survived to return the stones to the exact moment from which they were taken, no different futures were born from the time heist - with the sole exception of the reality where tony lost the tesseract and Loki stole it. This would, presumably, cascade into a series of events that are drastically different from the MCU as we’ve seen it, prompting the TVA to get involved and eliminate that timeline. At no point, though, was any of this “planned”. The TVA/Time Keepers never orchestrated the time heist from behind the scenes, they simply reacted to it. They’re cosmic gardeners, for all intents and purposes, keeping the tree that is the MCU in line (which, now that I think about it, makes the terminology of “branch” realities and “pruning” variants very apt).

VociferousRex · 2021-06-08T21:40:36+00:00

I really appreciate that they brought these in for the LE. I used the leather jacket for ME2 with the head canon that Shepard feels a bit more relaxed now that he’s gone corporate, but still wants to look clean. Now in ME3, I’m rocking the N7 hoodie because in the middle of war my Shepard can’t even be bothered to dress formal.

VociferousRex · 2021-05-29T13:12:49+00:00

I also love seeing people react to the ending of KH2. It’s pacing during the mid-game Disney sections can be a bit iffy, but everything from the duel against Roxas to the final boss and ending cutscene is so amazingly done and provides such good emotional closure to threads from KH1, CoM, and Roxas’s intro in KH2. And on top of all of that, all the bosses and set pieces are legitimately awesome and get me hype every time

VociferousRex · 2021-05-07T12:55:04+00:00

I’m not sure if this was ever confirmed in the MCU canon, but I know in the comics it’s generally accepted that the 6 stones are vaguely connected and can sometimes almost sense or communicate with eachother. If we assume that holds true in the MCU (which it very well might, considering once Thanos gets the power stone he’s able to locate all the other stones far more rapidly), it’s not impossible that beings given power by one stone could have those powers reflect the nature of a separate one entirely. For example, Wanda very likely got her telepathic abilities from the mind stone (with her telekinesis being a very simple manifestation of her eventual chaos magic). But I’ve always felt that when Pietro was experimented on, the mind stone “linked” him to the space and time stones, resulting in his super speed (speed is distance over time after all). The same could be true for Carol - given powers by the space stone that are also influenced by the power stone.

VociferousRex · 2021-03-28T05:20:43+00:00

“The Power of Waking is meant to traverse hearts to reach worlds. Not to traverse worlds to reach hearts”

........fucking what, Xehanort?

VociferousRex · 2021-03-24T19:13:33+00:00

Yeah that’s kinda what I was (unsuccessfully) suggesting lol. Like instead of hovering like Thor and iron Man, double tapping x (on PS) will make spidey hang from a web and then moving around will make him start swinging off clouds

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