Over time, their idiosyncrasies came to define what a “Classic” JRPG was. In North America, the SquareSoft style of RPG dominated cultural imagination around what JRPGs were and could be. The strange nostalgic warmth of a familiar corpse?īravely Default 2 represents something deeply broken in the way we talk about history. This is all to say that I don’t know what I should feel when he explodes in a fireball after an awkward fight with a demon-sword wielding villain who instantly overpowers the party. I bet he watched an old man die in his day, too. He passed on the wisdom he had to a special boy he just met because he, too, was once a special boy. The player is meant to be sad when he expires, but we all knew he was going to die, didn’t we? The old man passes without irony, dramatic or otherwise - no tragic march towards oblivion while dreaming of a better future. He’s a strong, loyal, and kind old man who used to be a strong, loyal, and kind young man. This is not a spoiler because it’s obvious. An old man dies in the prologue to Bravely Default 2.
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