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Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

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I doubt you're able to pick yourself up and enjoy the experiences in life when

Spoiler for TA:

You die in such a stupidly tragic fashion. After losing your memory.

Some things I say may be inaccurate, mainly because I haven't played TA and have no wish to, but...

Also, as I have stated, life does not really work that way either. Life is full of happy AND sad things, and you CAN be rewarded for lots of hard work, although luck and talent have an equal share in success.

You've missed the point completely. You really should refrain from making such comments when you haven't played the game.

Spoiler:

Tomoya's death is a direct challenge to *Tomoyo* and how she has to face this wall that she has absolutely no power to change nor can run away from. It then becomes a problem of how Tomoyo comes into grips of losing Tomoya and picks herself up after Tomoya's death. Of which she did by turning it into a force to help others and not trivialising the times they had spent together. (which I must add, is a direct opposite to what Tomoya did when he lost Nagisa in Clannad, which show then has the better message?)

The death which Tomoya had to face was not about how Tomoya can pick himself up at all (actually he did as well, he did regain his memory, but at a cost of a much shorter and harder life, as well as being able to get Tomoyo to move on while he was still alive).

Facing the death of love ones is also a hardship that everyone must face one day too. Plus one must also accept the fact that you do not live forever. That is part of life also.

Also there were happy things in TA as well, and epic trageties does happen in real life (a sudden passing away of a love one is FAR from unrealistic, though the incident causing it might be, as in the case of entertainment), you really shouldn't make assumptions when you haven't played the game.

Also, as I have stated, life does not really work that way either. Life is full of happy AND sad things, and you CAN be rewarded for lots of hard work, although luck and talent have an equal share in success.

It most certainly does. There are WAY more things in life where you have no control over than there are things which you can. For example tell that to the millions of honest hardworking people whom had lost jobs and money due to the current economic crisis.

Also of course you *can* be rewarded for hardwork, *can* being the modifier. TA doesn't exclude that possibility (in fact it includes it in many ways too). However it is not you WILL MOST DEFINITELY be rewarded for hardwork, which is what a lot of entertainment work does (even in Clannad). What TA does is present the other scenario when things don't go "right".