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[little_lady_d]

ohgoodness, but the ending of okami has the most heartfelt message about art and its ability to inspire hope and reverence and make the world better by envisioning how it could be. without giving anything away, before the final battle there's a moment of the sort that gives meaning to all the moments preceding it -- to all your time spent sprouting trees, fixing watermills, bringing down the sun to dry an old woman's laundry, becoming a part of people's lives with a stroke of your brush. and it's that brush, it's that story you've made and all the people who know it now and believe in it, that makes everything that follows possible, in the simplest and grandest of ways: it lets you make the sun rise again. i love it.

(i'll admit, i'm a sucker for sappy speeches in videogames about what makes life worth living and the big bad worth fighting -- even persona 3, twisted as it was, had its share of them. it's not very edgy of me, i know, but i'll still take idealism over cynicism any day.)

and there's a diegetic new game+! 'i guess i'll have to tell the story again ...'