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RPG Emo-Off

From sighing to suicide – which JRPG character out-emos them all?

Words: AJ Glasser, GamesRadar US

Regal crushes Ansem with a monologue about never again using his heartbroken hands to commit murder. The Main Character from Persona 3 takes out Regal by staring him down from beneath a fringe of greasy black hair. The Main Character then loses to Shuyin, because Shuyin’s actually had sex – so he knows what he’s missing out on by dying. And Cloud defeats Shuyin in both Square Enix seniority and quantity of spiky hair to become the end-all, be-all most emo character of all JRPGs...

...until Gackt took over Final Fantasy VII continuity. There is nothing more emo than a guy with 1) spiky hair and 2) a long trench coat, who 3) reads aloud from a play called LOVELESS.

Face it, it doesn’t get more emo than that.

Oct 15, 2008


 
45 Comments
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Skellington  - 1 year 1 month ago 
YAY FIRST EMO-NES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
emoemoemoemo
Levy  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Great Article!!! I loved it!!!! America needs at least one Emo protagonist.....
Z-man427  - 1 year 1 month ago 
and emo protagonists matter because?
GoldenMe  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Gah! Too much emo! Need...country music.... to replinish... non-emoness!

Great Article GR!!!
iluvmyDS  - 1 year 1 month ago 
My friend doesn't like this article. Then again he's a rabid FF7 fanboy.
octagons  - 1 year 1 month ago 
I really hate it when characters are supposed to be mature but they are really just emo. the same goes for game plots.
lava_lamp  - 1 year 1 month ago 
emo kids and rpgs two of the worst things ever
Christrigg1  - 1 year 1 month ago 
emo supremo ftw! im not emo, i just felt like saying that. it sounds like a great burger king burger. "ill have the emo supremo with a side of fries and adr. pepper" awesome.....

NICE VID GR!!!
Christrigg1  - 1 year 1 month ago 
well, not a vid, but its a great report for sure. awesome!
noofer7  - 1 year 1 month ago 
well im a constantly depressed 8th grader, so i can relate to this...
not actually emo though.
ZellieKinneas  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Of course Cloud wins. You can't win an emo contest if you're not emo. And Squall is definitely not emo. He's just introverted, to put it briefly.
jonathan13k  - 1 year 1 month ago 
im emo
Biohazard82493  - 1 year 1 month ago 
i hate emos they are like a plague long live metal!!!
BlackKraken  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Whats actually the difference between being depressed and being an emo?
Weasel  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Maybe that's why these games always feel unfinished somehow, they're so emo they cut themselves *ducks*
Dameon Angell  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Haha Gackt with the come from behind victory!
zeldafanjohn  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Oh come on!
Neku isn't in this?
What the fuck?
MissWhipKat  - 1 year 1 month ago 
What, no Roxas?
REALLY?
Comatose92  - 1 year 1 month ago 
lol, "and the winner is... Clou-! Wait, scratch that. Genesis!"

Cloud: "WTF?"
Comatose92  - 1 year 1 month ago 
lol, "and the winner is... Clou-! Wait, scratch that. Genesis!"

Cloud: "WTF?"
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