I dont Know How but Square-Enix Did it(Crisis Core Spoilers)

[ShadowSoldier]

MaxwellGT2000 said:

ShadowSoldier said:

I dont know how but Square-Enix actually made me care enough about Zack to actually feel some sadness when he was killed. This has only happened to me 3 times before where a developer made me care enough about a character that their death was actually able to get a stir of emotions out of me.(Aerith's death, Raiden being crushed by Outer Haven and Snake apparent suicide before the credits roll) It brings up the question of how did you feel to seeing Zack's untimely demise after going through his life and career during the gameplay of Crisis Core?

 

Sorry to spoil this for you but replay that and wait till after the credits...

And indeed Zack is a better character the Cloud could ever hope to be.

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I also have a badass theme on my PSP of Zack in his dying moments

It was Apparent because it seemed to have happened as it was off screen and you heard the gun go off leading you to suspect that Snake killed himself, coupled with Otacon's and Snake's Monolouges and yeah before the credits end it makes the player think that Snake is dead a. if Kojima ended it there Snake would be dead via suicide. You mean to tell me you actually expected the de-briefing to happen?