To laugh, to tremble or to cry in front of a beautiful moment, it is not the prerogative of cinema. The video game also has its cult scenes. Readers who responded to our call for testimonials share with us the games whose stories have affected them.
Antoine, for example, was conquered by The Last of Us. The game, adapted in series this year, marked a generation of players. “It took me a while to recover from this emotion, but the game marked me forever, an extraordinary narrative experience, which I experienced as a mise en abyme of my paternity”, describes Antoine. For Maxime, it is Deny, by Yoko Taro, which was a revelation. “We laugh and we cry with the characters in the face of all the events they experience during their adventure in a dying and melancholic world”, he explains. Above all, the game uses its interactive format to provide a unique feeling. “One of the different endings of the game also requires us to delete our entire backup to access it, continues Maxime. It’s a radical decision when you’re a long-time player, and this end marked me deeply when I was a teenager. »
Sometimes, entire sagas leave a mark, like the “Bioshock” series, “a crazy experience” for Julien. “The richness of the artistic direction, the main and secondary characters, the audio recordings telling us about the fall of the system and the total loss of control linked to the use of plasmids and the madness of the powerful of this world”, says -he. “All the” Metal Gear “came to give me a wide range of emotions, joy in the accomplishment of the mission, hatred towards a protagonist, sadness for the death of characters”, advances as for him Maxim.
Games that have nothing to envy to the cinema
Beyond the story, it is sometimes the staging that makes players remember certain works. “For a veteran of video games, the visual slap of the 1990s is Outlaws, says Frédéric from the height of his 47 years. This game in a western world offers animations of extreme quality. Put end to end, they form a real film and recall the great hours of Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone. »
Of course, with the release of Final Fantasy XVI very close on Friday, many readers quoted the famous saga of role-playing games. Like Rudy, who was branded by Final Fantasy VIII when he was 13. “It’s the first game to provoke in me emotions that I only found in the cinema until then, but here tenfold, because, as a player, we are not simply passive, we actively participate in events” , he explains. Final Fantasy VII will be remembered by our readers for being the first episode to be released in Europe, the X for being the first episode with dubbed cutscenes, the XIV for its well-written characters.
“All my childhood is in this scene”
Sometimes, more than stories, it is sometimes simple scenes that have marked the minds of our readers. always in Final Fantasy VII, the death of Aerith remains unforgettable (sorry for the spoiler of a game that is 25 years old). “I know that at the mere mention of this scene, many pebbles my age – 44 years old – will have tears in their eyes and memories in their heads”, confides Philippe. “The cutscene that struck me is the scene, in Zelda Ocarina Of time, where Link meets Princess Zelda for the first time, adds Lionel for his part. My whole childhood is in that scene. She represents the innocence, beauty and purity of childhood. » The year 2023, with releases like Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Or Starfieldalso promises beautiful memories.