I just don't understand how Nomura is allowed to continue writing this series. Kingdom Hearts, as a story, defies all logic and attempts at comprehension. Listen, I "understand" Kingdom Hearts. I know about Heartless, Nobodies, Somebodies, Replicas, Data-Replicas, Norted, Time-Travel hearts, etc. I've played the games. I've watched the famed PCP lecture many times. Yet, every time I think I finally understand what is going on my brain collapses under the weight of it all especially when Nomura just decides to ignore his own complicated rules to do whatever he wants; complicated rules that NO ONE asked him to setup in the first place. For example when a heart becomes a Heartless, you must destroy the Heartless and then the Nobody for the somebody to return. Yet, Sora just comes back from being a Heartless without needing to do any of that. Roxas is Sora's nobody, but also kinda Ventus' nobody but then Ventus comes back in KH3 so obviously Roxas can't come back, yet Nomura just says, "yo, Roxas gets to come back too." THE FUCK?!
Please stop, I don't want to hear your long-winded explanation about how this replica allowed Roxas to come back and whatnot, its bullshit and we both know it. I just don't understand why Nomura keeps adding complexities upon complexities (many of which should have earth-shattering philosophical questions that are just waived over) to what should be a simple and clean story about friendship, adolescence, and growing up. Let's think about this for a second in the world of Kingdom Hearts there are:
Light Worlds/The "Real World
The Realm of Darkness
Data-Copies of the Real World with Data People
The Sleeping/Dream World
Illusory Worlds Projected onto the Real World
Entire Worlds Inside Books
All of these worlds also have worlds inside themselves. Like, the Realm of Light is a Multi-verse that connects FF and Disney worlds, but each world is its own self-contained universe. Yet there can also exist Data Copies of those worlds, which are really entire universes, with simulated data people and those Data people can develop hearts making them real people. How is this not a earth-shattering event that would break the sanity of any individual? You can have Riku and a Data-Riku who both have hearts and thus are "real" people. How is this shit even possible? I mean, in KH2 they introduce without fanfare that Data-Worlds and People can exist. Yes sir, people in KH just have that technology. That's like The Matrix introducing THE MATRIX as just an afterthought, something not at all worthy of discussion or a second thought. KH does this routinely.
But really, let's just explore the fact that the series is so willfully obtuse with regards to just the basic logic and meaning of words and human life. NOTHING in KH operates with any semblance to the real world. Words straight up do not mean what they should and human beings don't function as human beings do. You see human beings are made up of a Body, Heart (comprised of Light and Dark), and a Soul, each of which are Distinct. Entities. Death doesn't seem to have any real meaning because a heart is independent of the body and the body is independent of the heart. You can have Heartless that retains a human shape (Ansem) and a Nobody that retains a human shape (Org XIII), thus someone could separate into two separate, sentient human beings.
Heartless does not mean someone without a heart. A Nobody is a person. A Somebody is just regular you. X means Key. Up means Down. 6=7.
Just why?
The reason the majority of people like Kingdom Hearts is the Disney appeal alongside heartfelt, adorable original characters. People watch the story for sea salt ice-cream and spending the last days of summer hanging out with their friends. But then you've got all this obtuse, nigh-incomprehensible nonsense thrown in constantly on-top that distracts from the actual appeal of the series. I don't get it, why does Nomura keep adding complexity that no one sane wants? You could even somehow excuse it if it was a tightly written, intricate narrative such that the complexity makes sense, like a rulebook, that you could have fun predicting shit. But its not, nothing is ever really followed and will be undone for the sake of emotion. Its LOST level of writing except far worse. You can theory-craft all you like, but it doesn't make a lick of difference when Nomura laughs in your face and just trolls the entire narrative with some new shit that gets retconned in.
Why is it this way??!?!?!
Please stop, I don't want to hear your long-winded explanation about how this replica allowed Roxas to come back and whatnot, its bullshit and we both know it. I just don't understand why Nomura keeps adding complexities upon complexities (many of which should have earth-shattering philosophical questions that are just waived over) to what should be a simple and clean story about friendship, adolescence, and growing up. Let's think about this for a second in the world of Kingdom Hearts there are:
Light Worlds/The "Real World
The Realm of Darkness
Data-Copies of the Real World with Data People
The Sleeping/Dream World
Illusory Worlds Projected onto the Real World
Entire Worlds Inside Books
All of these worlds also have worlds inside themselves. Like, the Realm of Light is a Multi-verse that connects FF and Disney worlds, but each world is its own self-contained universe. Yet there can also exist Data Copies of those worlds, which are really entire universes, with simulated data people and those Data people can develop hearts making them real people. How is this not a earth-shattering event that would break the sanity of any individual? You can have Riku and a Data-Riku who both have hearts and thus are "real" people. How is this shit even possible? I mean, in KH2 they introduce without fanfare that Data-Worlds and People can exist. Yes sir, people in KH just have that technology. That's like The Matrix introducing THE MATRIX as just an afterthought, something not at all worthy of discussion or a second thought. KH does this routinely.
But really, let's just explore the fact that the series is so willfully obtuse with regards to just the basic logic and meaning of words and human life. NOTHING in KH operates with any semblance to the real world. Words straight up do not mean what they should and human beings don't function as human beings do. You see human beings are made up of a Body, Heart (comprised of Light and Dark), and a Soul, each of which are Distinct. Entities. Death doesn't seem to have any real meaning because a heart is independent of the body and the body is independent of the heart. You can have Heartless that retains a human shape (Ansem) and a Nobody that retains a human shape (Org XIII), thus someone could separate into two separate, sentient human beings.
Heartless does not mean someone without a heart. A Nobody is a person. A Somebody is just regular you. X means Key. Up means Down. 6=7.
Just why?
The reason the majority of people like Kingdom Hearts is the Disney appeal alongside heartfelt, adorable original characters. People watch the story for sea salt ice-cream and spending the last days of summer hanging out with their friends. But then you've got all this obtuse, nigh-incomprehensible nonsense thrown in constantly on-top that distracts from the actual appeal of the series. I don't get it, why does Nomura keep adding complexity that no one sane wants? You could even somehow excuse it if it was a tightly written, intricate narrative such that the complexity makes sense, like a rulebook, that you could have fun predicting shit. But its not, nothing is ever really followed and will be undone for the sake of emotion. Its LOST level of writing except far worse. You can theory-craft all you like, but it doesn't make a lick of difference when Nomura laughs in your face and just trolls the entire narrative with some new shit that gets retconned in.
Why is it this way??!?!?!
