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Alittle late but....
Hi! Its my first time posting on this forum. I know its a bit late, but i just finished Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien. I liked, it had alot of emotion. The one thing i didn't like was the how Takayuki choose Mizuki instead of Haruka. THAT's right I am a Haruka supporter! Anyway I heard there was a "Haruka" ending, that they didn't make. Is it true? If it is how does the story end in the game if Takayuki choose Haruka? Someone plz tell this has been bothering me for awhile !
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2004-03-30, 21:22 | Link #5 | |
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And, welcome Leux13 - always nice to meet a fellow Haruka supporter! Don't mind the insanity... people are fairly opinionated when it comes to the ending of KgNE! I hope that one day the KgNE game will get translated so we can all experience all the different possible endings for ourselves. |
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2004-03-30, 23:14 | Link #6 | |
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2004-03-31, 01:38 | Link #7 | |
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As you may already know (and forgive me if you already know all this), these types of games have many possible different endings depending on your choices. Essentially you play the role of the main character (Takayuki) and you can choose various things that affect your relationship with the various girls. There are happy endings and often sad endings for each of the different characters. Often times, in story-heavy games like this one, there is one ending which is labelled the "true ending", which is how the authors originally imagined the story working (in this case, that's what the anime's ending was based on). That doesn't mean, though, that it will be your favorite ending! If I ever get the chance to play the game, I also will be trying for Haruka's best ending right away! |
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2004-03-31, 02:01 | Link #8 |
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I think what the anime cut most from the game is not the ending, but the beginning. They cut almost everything from the highschool chapter, which is about more than a third of the content of the game. in the anime it becomes... about one seventh... and because of the cut, characters like Haruka and Akane are seriously under-developed.
About the "one true ending" of the game, I personally think there's nothing such as that exist. Every character has a "true ending". Also debating whether "Haruka true ending" or "Mitsuki true ending" is the "true ending of the game" is very likely to turn into a flame war in those forums. |
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2004-03-31, 07:35 | Link #13 |
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Hmmm, are you sure there is no "true" game ending to the story itself? I know it's really up to the person to make his/her personal choice with regard to the 17 endings, but I think--at least storywise--Mitsuki's ending is more fitting and makes more sense--especially when you consider that hontou no takaramono scene in the end.
I heard that Haruka's ending was that everything just went back to normal like it was during their high school years and Takayuki ends up with Haruka, as if nothing happened at all. (clarification anyone?) And that just totally blows it out of proportion in my opinion. So, why did people start calling Mitsuki's end the "true ending" then? |
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2004-03-31, 11:57 | Link #15 |
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I actually prefered the good-Mitsuki ending, not because I'm a Mitsuki fan
(Haruka all the way!), but because it was the only ending that showed Haruka's story book. If I could figure out how to rip that ED sequence I would be very happy. That and the television ending didn't do her story book justice at all, they basically skipped three quarters of it. |
2004-03-31, 12:57 | Link #16 | |
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I prefer the Mitsuki ending too, because it seemed to fit better with the vibe of the story. Having an ironic title which basically means, "the eternity you wish for" in light of the issue of having to move on, just made Mitsuki's true ending more appealing and meaningful to me. |
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2004-03-31, 13:18 | Link #17 | |
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2004-03-31, 13:51 | Link #18 | |
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whether it's ero game or not does not matter, since ero game just means there are, well, ero scenes in the game, and that's nothing to do with the story. There are many linear ero games with a central story (Words Worth, Dragon Knight, etc.), as there are many non-linear ero games without a central story (Kanon, Popotan, etc.), or even some to the extreme, no story at all And in KGNE, it doesn't even have a single "heroine #1", both Haruka and Mitsuki are "heroine #1" so to speak. That's the official word from Age Soft AFAIK. If you just HAVE to choose a single "heroine #1", then it's more favorable for Haruka. 1) in the ending credits, Haruka goes first before Mitsuki. And we all know in most cases the first one listed in credits is the main heroine. 2) in most publications with descriptions for this game, at least those that I can get hold of, they show descriptions of Haruka first, over Mitsuki. 3) in most game guides, the Haruka path/ending is the first one, before Mitsuki. And we know that the "true ending" of this kind of games most likely get listed as the first or last ending in a game guide, Mitsuki's ending is neither. And AFAIK, the only arguments for Mitsuki ending being the "true ending" is that 1) some fans claim it's the true ending, which holds no more credibility than my claim of the Akane ending being the true ending. 2) the TV anime shows roughly the Mitsuki ending (which is different from the Mitsuki ending in the game) as the anime ending. which again holds no more credibility than that Kanon's Ayu ending being true ending fiasco, not to mention the anime buthers the highschool chapter which means it buthers a lot in-game character development for Haruka and reduced Haruka side story a lot, which in turn supports the "anime director is a mitsuki fanboy" theory... All in all, I don't see any credible evidence showing Mitsuki's ending being the "true game ending". And I always consider TV animes to be different and separate from the games. Also the anime ending doesn't really strictly follow the Mitsuki end from the game anyway... |
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2004-03-31, 14:55 | Link #19 | |
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That's an interesting piece of information you have there. The games I have encountered or have at least have seen tend to have a character who's obviously the central heroine. You can practically recognize her from the rest of the cast. It's also quite refreshing that the anime went along with Mitsuki's path, because Haruka really looked like the central heroine at first.
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I'm not saying the Mitsuki ending is the true ending but in support of it, at
least in the game, Mitsuki seems to be the central character in the game (or at least the failsafe character). No matter how poorly you treat her it is almost always possible to get a Mitsuki ending in the game. She is the default character you end up with and from the games I've played it seems that, to me at least, those characters tend to be the primary characters and recieve the best endings or the endings that hold most true to the game's theme. Just my thoughts on the matter. |
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