Seriously, how many games kill off their sole main protagonist partway? Okay, yeah, obviously he comes back to life later.

Up until that point, the entire game had been from Chrono’s POV, and suddenly, his merry band of sidekicks were bereft and leaderless. This would’ve been shocking enough if it had come at the climax, but it happened like two-thirds of the way through the game. Not to stomp on what is certainly a tragic and poignant twist, but for me, the bigger impact came in Chrono Trigger, the spiritual cousin to the Final Fantasy series, in which the hero, Chrono (I refuse to spell his name without an H), sacrificed his own life while fighting the evil Lavos. I hear it because it’s brought up all the damn time, as though it were the plot twist of the decade or something. So I hear Aeris croaks in Final Fantasy VII. Seems only fitting that I should lay down a list of story turns that, for whatever reason, blew me away. I know by the time I finish and post this, people still won’t be over it. In this case, I know what’s about to happen, but many fans will get to experience the awe and heartbreak for the first time. As I write this first paragraph, I’m eagerly waiting to hear fan reaction to “The Rains of Castamere,” a new episode of Game of Thrones in which and will be by in the event known as. But you can’t deny that the movie, show, book, or game wouldn’t have quite the same impact if the plot hadn’t taken that neck-snapping turn. Sometimes it pisses you right the fuck off. In a fictional story, few things stir the audience like a sudden, out-of-nowhere plot twist. There’s a reason all these are legendary. SO IT’S YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT IF SOMETHING IS SPOILED FOR YOU.īruce Willis is a ghost. THE ENTIRE POINT OF THIS POST IS TO DISCUSS SPOILERS. WARNING: NOT ONLY DOES THIS POST CONTAIN SPOILERS, THIS POST CONSISTS ENTIRELY OF SPOILERS.

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