- Jan 1, 2022
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I agree with you, I even began skimming through some of the first parts of the game. For one reason or another, most of the earlier parts of the prologue didn't sit well with me, and as you can see but what I wrote, I almost gave up on it early as well, but I'm glad I didn't.
Honestly my first thoughts went something like:
Why is the MC being dragged around like this? Oh here we go, we (the readers) are getting forced into a relationship that's going to end badly one way or another, aren't we? Is she going to die in a car accident? Is she going to fall into a coma and the MC moves on in life, finds a new partner, only for her to wake up from the coma after he's started a new relationship? What forced cliché "tear jerker" intro are we being dragged through with this narrative?
...And I didn't really feel anything. At all. Not until one specific moment, and it hit me hard. The part where the MC is on the street and a car is about to hit the MC, and the scene flashes. I guess you could say his life flashed before his eyes. He sees his wife and kid and gets to talk to them, though it was all in his head, when they said their final goodbyes and helped him move forward with one final push, in a literal and figurative sense, out of the way of the car. That's where it all started for me and I was hooked. I wanted to find out where the MC would go for here, how his journey through life would begin again, if ever.
