Hacks’n'Slash #9: The END DAY: A Tale of Love
71997, October 1, The END DAY. The day the cult classic NES RPG Crystalis predicted would be the end of civilization as we knew it. We here at GameCola have made it a point to celebrate the anniversary of the absent apocalypse: in 2012, we played a Crystalis-themed Dungeons & Dragons campaign; in 2013, we recorded playthroughs of the NES and GBC versions of Crystalis; in 2014, we hosted a six-way blind race of Crystalis. This year, we may have gotten carried away.
Celebrating The END DAY with an episode of "Hacks'n'Slash" was inevitable, really. Customarily, we read other people's awesomely bad fanfiction out loud. Except...in the case of a semi-obscure game like Crystalis, there's not much fanfiction to read at all, let alone anything worth giving the "Hacks'n'Slash" treatment to. So...we had no choice but to write our own deliberately terrible fanfiction.
The story you are about to hear is a collaboration involving the entire GameCola staff, each of us taking turns fleshing out the narrative a few lines at a time. Some of the writers have even played the game. It is said that an end is merely a beginning in disguise, and so it is with this tale of love, which begins at the conclusion of Crystalis. So, without further ado, I present to you our humble reading of this loving parody that we are totally posting on Fanfiction.net. The story is also reprinted in its horrifying entirety at the link below if you'd like to follow along. Enjoy!
http://gamecola.net/2015/10/hacksnslash-9-the-end-day-a-tale-of-love
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