The average player would assume that Vincent's nightmares were simply scary, horrible bad dreams, the kind we had as children, for instance. This is probably partially true, but Vincent's nightmares were actually more than just dreams. The title of the track that plays whenever Vincent takes the spotlight, The Nightmare's Beginning, is evidence of this. The composer, Nobuo Uematsu, always corresponds the title of each piece with the scene it accompanies. Most of the other main characters' main themes are titled after them, but Vincent's is titled after the flashback with Lucrecia, when his nightmare began. So in essence, the nightmare was really that he couldn't save his beloved Lucrecia from harm. It was the fact that he had to live knowing that he didn't rescue her, knowing that he had failed her. Not only that, but he had also lost his humanity. His nightmares were a combination of these things. Such an overwhelming sense of guilt and loss of self-esteem pushed him over the edge and threw him into despair. He had essentially lost everything by what he believed to be his own doing, and for Vincent, that was the worst possible thing that could happen. "BACK" |