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Am I The Only One Who Gets Sad After Playing Kh?; Long post.
Topic Started: Apr 3 2006, 12:16 AM (368 Views)
Alixen
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Do games give youth a false perspective on friendship and life?

Probobly just me.

It has a brilliant plot, you go around making great friends who stick toghether no matter what, and so on, and so forth.

But after its all over and i see that 'The End' screen i cant help feeling depressed.

Friends like Riku, Kairi and the others don't truly exist, and that saddens me.

People can be great friends; brilliant friends, but in the end i have never met even one person i feel as close to as Sora and Riku are.

Do you get what i'm saying?

I mean yea i have a best friend; he's a great guy and i trust him without a doubt in my mind.
Can't see me finding a better friend.

Yet... its not the same.

Sora and Riku trust eachother with their lives, they would walk through darkness and torture for the other, they can spend days toghether without feeling trapped.
They are brothers in all but blood.
Hell, they are so close they sometimes give off the 'yaoi' vibe.

But in my experiance this could never be applied to real life.

People move on with their lives and drift apart, they get married and mabye see eachother once a month.
Over time the friendship fades.
The best of friends can be slit up perminantly by a relationship dispute; and it wont be fixed by time, that only sours it.
Or if someone has the Cloud/Squall factor (me) they go into slumps were they tend to distance themselves from people for months at a time.

(I think thats once of the diffrences in my experiances; my best friend is 22, 4 years older than me, and is married with a son, were i am single, so we dont see eachother that often.)

What Kingdom Hearts portrays is closer to what i have with my family; unbending loyalty and faith.

It could just be my personality, but...

I feel Kingdom Hearts gives a false impression of what frienship and companionship actually are; that the youth of today are gunna descover this the hard way.

I feel Advent Children was a better show of how even the best of friends go their seperate ways within two years.

I dunno; either way the ending of both KH and KH2 have both made me happy while i was living it with them, then sad when it was over.

KH2 especially.

When Sora and Kairi get more serious; Riku wont get jelous or feel left out, thats not the way KH works.
When Sora and Riku spends all their time toghether, Kairi wont get annoyed at Riku for keeping her boyfriend to himself.
When Riku and Kairi laugh toghether Sora wont mind; this is KH, the couples are established.

I just feel that KH is gunna influence the younger players to feel that friendship is something it usually isnt, and in the end they are gunna get hurt because of it.

Wow, this thread was melofdramatic...

Just wondered if anyone else feels the same?
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I think you should give kids more credit. Disney films also over portrays love and friendship in their movies. Final Fantasies as well. Heck, even regular TV shows.

Power of friendship is a powerful theme, and there was some cases that friendships lasted very strong in a prolonged period of time. My sister is proof of this. Her high school friends are close, despite the fact they're working, or still studying in different colleges.
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Lynn
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I feel if kids are gonna believe that all friendships last forever and are unbreakable, they would've believed it long before KH came out, thanks to the number of feel-good series Disney churns out (among other influences). I really don't think KH will make much difference.

Furthermore, this is a game, so idealisms are a given. Just as with the romantic pairings in the FF games, the games touch on what all friendships, in a perfect world, would be. We know it's not always the case, so playing KH gives us the chance to see this friendship play out if it really did happen.

It's a nice escape for a couple of hours a day, and even a source of strength for some.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that. And I believe most kids are able to separate reality from fantasy.
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slowerthanaverage
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*somewhat lost*
Well, anything you don't experience it yourself, you could see it as melodrama.
You hear about something "dramatic" happening to a friend and you go "wooh that's kinda dramatic isn't it" ..

What more do we expect out of games? movies.. literatures.. they can seem melodramatic to you but to another person who have experienced similar stuff, it's another story..

Why would a game portraying "idealistic friendship" be misleading?
Idealistic friendship like those portrayed in KH is possible, albeit rare. Would you rather have a bunch of kids growing up with the mentality that "hey I will cherish my friends and be there for them as much as I can" or "naw nevermind, friends suck at the end of the day anyway".
I would choose the former.

Ok, what am I talking about? O.o Nevermind -.-
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