The Last Story = Final Fantasy

[aleusianacht88]

couchmonkey said:

aleusianacht88 said:

andremop said:
I want something more like Final fantasy V, lighthearted.

How was V lighthearted? the world was still in jeopardy at the hands of a madman.

 

Armageddon is a theme that could never be taken lightheartedly.

Sure it can. Compare the movies "Armageddon" and "The Road".  One of those is lighthearted and the other is not.

I can't really comment on Final Fantasy V or the newer games, but armageddon is not really an inherently serious theme because the average joe can't wrap his head around it.  Something like murder or rape is a much more serious theme because it's personal...although a fair number of black comedies have turned murder around.  Still, armageddon?  It's a topic you can easily play with to either extreme especially if the negative outcome can still be prevented by your heroes - as it always can be in most video games.

But the reality that any being can be so deranged to bring about so many deaths turns anything from a happy and light hearted theme to a dark one, because the notion of the character's insanity is kept automatically turning it from G to PG-13

 

Seriously, Genocide..