2010-09-01, 12:27 | Link #2883 | |
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I got that one too. Pretty funny.
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It might have been Fate then. I don't remember honestly. It's the one where she's at Shirou's house waiting for him.
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2010-09-01, 18:23 | Link #2890 |
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Well, to be fair, a few of the choices you cane make while playing through HF really give the feeling of making it more of a Rin route, or a Saber route, or a Rider, or an Ilya route. Sometimes it's hard to keep in mind that you're supposed to keep the romantic developments focused on Sakura.
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2010-09-01, 21:26 | Link #2892 |
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That... actually makes a lot of sense. I'm an unabashed Taiga fan, so I can easily see myself picking out options that sound like they would give her more screentime, even though they weren't the most sensible choice... and of course Ilya too, God I probably missed all of those points
In unrelated news, finally started up UBW with the RN patch! The first new image actually came surprisingly early, and it was a decent enough starting point: Spoiler for UBW Spoilers, both RN and otherwise:
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2010-09-01, 21:54 | Link #2893 | |
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2010-09-02, 07:19 | Link #2894 | |
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2010-09-02, 07:53 | Link #2895 | |
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Now, if Rin had been aware that Sakura was the Shadow at that point in the story, then that's when things get morally grey. Shadow!Sakura's a confirmed danger to everyone in Fuyuki; unintentionally, yes, but she's still responsible for a great deal of death over the course of the story. When that information comes to light, that is when we reach the point when killing Sakura starts to become the pragmatic, 'kill one to save one-hundred' option. But at the MoS junction, Rin didn't know that and so letting Sakura live to try to save her really does make more sense. |
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2010-09-02, 08:59 | Link #2896 | ||
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They'd have been forced to deal with the situation immediately, one way or another. Either they'd kill Sakura, or she would agree to confront Zouken on the off-chance that he knew some way to stop the shadow that was non-fatal to her (and that he was willing to implement). None of them, including her, would be willing to accept the idea of her being responsible for a monster that would harm others. Admittedly, they don't know that the shadow is a danger to innocents at that point, but nonetheless Sakura would not accept its existence as long as it endangered Shirou. |
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2010-09-02, 11:37 | Link #2897 |
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From my perspective during my first playthrough, even though I was mostly indifferent to Sakura, I still felt intuitively that Sakura could be saved during the church scene (especially since sociopaths like Kotomine tend to spin things for their own ends anyway), and I know that if someone like Shiki or Ciel (or Ryougi and Tohko particularly) had been around that they would be able to provide a different perspective to approach the situation (which is why I like stories that take such approaches into consideration, e.g. 'A Thin Veneer'). Many of the great solutions in history do often come from the unexpected.
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2010-09-02, 13:57 | Link #2898 | |
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I mean, Nasu quite obviously intentionally wrote it so that people wouldn't overly blame Shirou for his decisions (or, indeed, blame Sakura), because the story relies on you sympathising with him and with her, and it wouldn't work if Shirou had any real reason to be blamed for what happened. Incidentally, the one person who undoubtedly is guilty (other than the villains) is Ilya. She knew exactly who the shadow was from well before even MoS, and yet deliberately avoided mentioning it because she knew it would destroy Shirou and turn him into Kiritsugu. But, she's always shown to be somewhat self-centred (albeit sympathetically, due to her past), so that fits pretty well with her character. |
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2010-09-02, 20:38 | Link #2899 | |
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Though to the prior discussion, yeah any decision to kill the main character of the arc is obviously the wrong choice. That much should be obvious to anyone. |
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2010-09-02, 20:48 | Link #2900 | ||
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