Hey, Wolfson, congratulations! Now that you’ve gotten Ending 1, which is your favourite so far?
Sorry, Rooker, if it sounded like I was snapping at you. It was more that it sounded like you were suggesting that everyone who played the game should try to ignore Kana, not that you were suggesting that Kana wasn’t appealing.
Recommendations should always be taken as ‘opinion’, not fact, I think. The only one who can say how you’re going to react to a certain game/movie/novel/whatever is you. Other people’s recommendations should only serve as a guide.
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Wolfson, I think I took Ending 1 the first way you mentioned - ie that Kana was leaving for good, that she didn’t think her relationship with Taka was something either of them could pursue, and that she would still love him… but she couldn’t be with him. And that made me feel pretty rotten, let me tell you!
However, I’m a staunch romantic. So, despite what I believed the ending was saying, I went off and wrote fanfics where they got back together anyway. In the process, I came to your second theory - that Kana was just leaving in order to grow up and make their relationship possible. If I’d just realised that in the first place, maybe I wouldn’t have had to go through all that writing in the first place!
And yes, Endings 2, 3 and 6 definitely (well, to my mind) point towards a Yumi/Taka relationship, in varying degrees. That’s half the endings! Guess I should reconsider my opinion of young Yumi…
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