Like, one old MMO that was a rather major factor of my childhood, I was finally going to start making some more progress in it since I'm an adult and can actually pay the membership fees. It's been a blast, going back in and seeing everything, but... well, there's a certain sadness to it all as well, bit of a "Rosebud" situation. Not that I mind playing the old game again, mind you; if anything, being able to go back and finish off everything that I couldn't is both a welcome relief and feels like putting some old lingering threads to rest. Can't bring back my old character, but I can at least make my new one as close as possible, so it's been going well.
One of the sadder points, though, is that the voice actors for several major characters have passed away over the past few years; I knew about their passings previously, but going back into the game now... feels like it's just now hitting me in full force, really. Like I said, this game was unironically a HUGE source of enjoyment for my child self - it's a major part of what inspired me to become a writer and was/is still a major influence for what I do - so going back and listening to these characters again, one of whom became my favorite recently, there's a certain bittersweetness to it all. Makes me both eager to see the story all the way through, and dreading the inevitability.
>FF7
