Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-48285-20161205164344/@comment-26871067-20171116001520

Jaadowgg wrote: Olivemeister wrote: Jaadowgg wrote: Olivemeister wrote: Jaadowgg wrote: Olivemeister wrote: (Oh fuck I've revealed myself to be thinking of a specific game haven't I) If you have, then I wouldn't know what it is. The only thing I'm gonna say is that my friends are my power. Okay. I think I got an idea of what it is.

If it is what I think, then V or R? We're at this point where we might be thinking of the same thing or might not be (your question makes me think No, but there is in fact a way it could apply), so I'm just going to say "It's Kingdom Hearts 3 and I've been actively dying for over a decade". Since it's out there, my full question was: Ventus or Roxas (as Sora analogue)? Really, I've just seen Team Four Star play through all of the KH games (and only played a bit of 1.5 and Re: CoM) and that's where my understanding of the series comes from. I thought that was what you were getting at, glad I wasn't misinterpreting. As a Sora analogue? Ven shares more of his personality traits, probably because we see more of his "normal" personality before his rapid descent into existential crisis. Roxas doesn't have a normal personality. By the time he's really solidly a person with his own heart, his life's become a whirlwind of trauma and he's just full of anger. This is mirrored in Data-Roxas, so it definitely is a core tenant of who he is now.

At the same time, Roxas's relationship with Axel and Xion is a much better match for the SoRiKai dynamic than Ven's relationship with Terra and Aqua since he's sort of the kid brother. I feel like there tends to be an outlier that doesn't match their equivalents in the other trios - Riku isn't the parental/brother figure that Terra and Axel are, Aqua is a parental/sister figure where Kairi and Xion aren't, and Roxas is an outlier in that his existential trauma and rage at the world just isn't matched in Sora and Ven.

The nature of the derivative trios is pretty complex, so while Roxas and Ven are obviously Sora analogues it's all somewhat situational. They fill the Sora niche superficially, but it's definitely debatable how much like him they are.

Joke answer: The best Sora analogue is actually Xion, she is primarily comprised of his memories.

Even jokier answer: it's Shadow the He- Vanitas.

I've played and own every game in the series minus the mobile game since it's microtransaction-heavy and I have no impulse control. If you can't get your hands on the entire series/the consoles for them (Days and Coded got sub-par cutscene compilation movies that sap the emotional impact from the story via rushing the plot), Everglow on Youtube does incredibly thorough silent playthroughs.