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[UNMARKED SPOILERS] Kingdom Hearts III & ReMind DLC- Spoiler Thread
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Riku's issue was more personal, and that choice was confronted and resolved with his friends. They can move pass it.
Axel, Terra, and Aqua are adults, btw. With Axel being in his mid-20s. He, most of all, should know better.
And none of that changes the fact that all main trios are toxic. It's why life has friendships broken permanently and others cutting poisonous people off. But that's not what fans want. They want their romanticism to be true.
People's perception have been influenced by teen drama shows from what I see.
That's 358/2 Days in a nutshell: a teen drama.
With keys as blades.
I can't get over Master Erquas (however you spell the stupid characters name).. Literally, Xehanort tells you he is diving into darkness, then when you try to stop him he literally scars you - something you mentally AND literally physically cannot forget - with powers of darkness. THEN you invite him to your students' mark of mastery and THEN when the orbs of light turn to dark you are like 'WTF is going on?!. AND THEN you act like you have no idea what is causing all of this mayhem AND THEN you try to kill your student VENTUS!??!?! PLS someone this is like the worst thing about KH I think. Now he gets his own childhood flashback scenes of endless chess acting like he is the best light master of all time (even tho he completely was the reason this started really).
oh my gosh...you ARE SO RIGHT! Hahaha did not even think about it.
Somehow, Eraqus actually seems less dumb now that the new Star Wars movies came out and revealed the actual Luke Skywalker is just as awful at teaching.
I mean I agree that it's all schlocky teen shit, but that's exactly what the series is going for and exactly what the target audience wants lmao.
It varies for me. I like Sora and Riku's dynamic a lot because they've shown the most growth but. but I find anything from BBS hard to sit through given how old they're supposed to actually be.
Days is somewhere in the middle for me. They're all less emotionally mature than you'd expect but they're also all essentially new to this whole emotions thing. Nomura had an interesting out with the nobodies in that their awkward interactions and mannerisms could be pinned on their lack of emotional range.
That's not how everyone is going to read it though.
Heh. In Episode 9 we'll probably find out that Snoke put a piece of his essence in Kylo Ren.
Hey, at least it was the POINT of it.
The movie was ABOUT him paying the price for his stupid impulsive mistake and he learns to overcome it.
Eraqus' dumbness was just there to give Terra motivation.
Oh, Luke's arc in the new movies is fine. I just like poking fun at the fact that Hamill seems to have been typecast as an awful teacher.
Excuse me for that.
As you might notice from my avatar, that's a subject I end up getting defensive about.
Honest question: So do most of you actually think Eraqus and Xehanort played that chess game? Anything's possible in this series (and maybe Nomura has already clarified on it), but I've always thought we were supposed to take it be metaphorica and opposed to literal. Especially the part with them setting up the "new game."
Because the point of that game was never about developing the Orginization. It was to develop Roxas, Axel, and Xion.
Considering the group seems decently popular and I'd say for the majority it succeeded.
I'm guessing it's just a really complicated board game and what he did was totally within the rules.
Then I just disagree on a fundamental level with the game's existence. Which is fine, every Nintendo KH game has been bad and that's never gonna change.
It's metaphorical as far as they actually played out the events of KH3 and the pieces corresponded to the cast, but probably they played an actual game where the tides turned like that when they were kids.
So I've noticed in a lot of anime and Japanese games that no one can play chess properly. Like sometimes its done for dramatic effect, like the common thing of a king being placed in front of another king as checkmate somehow, but a lot of the time it's just wrong for no reason and it feels like the only reason is no one there knows how to play chess. Whats up with that?
I was confused about this post at first cause I thought you meant the blue people movie when you said Avatar. Like I definitely didn't remember him being in that movie. LMAO. Then again I barely remember much about that movie in the first place.
Welp you had me guessing for a second. Like no way was that movie so bland that I missed Mark Hamill playing a blue space alien.
Btw anyone in this thread: def recommend reading the Q and A ultimania stuff that someone just made a threat. Clears up a lot and makes the story more interesting (altho nomura seriously needs to hire someone with a half a brain to write good dialogue - the 'plot' is actually not that bad overall).
Her music is one of the main reasons Kingdom Hearts is successful. I feel depressed that I had to google her name when you posted it to see who it was, when I always remember Tetsuya Nomura (who writes game dialogue in crayon).
This is the way I feel. Honestly I really love overall plot and concepts/ideas around Kingdom Hearts, even the modern ones and Ux stuff. But Nomura and Oka's writing execution has a lot to be desired. I wish it was Nojima writing along with Nomura's concepts, and Jun Akiyama doing the cutscenes instead of Nomura/Oka doing all these.
After the loss of Versus, and waiting so many years for KH3, I was really hoping that Nomura would deliver another action RPG for the ages. Though knowing that would be highly unlikely. So we ended up with a pretty decent game with a whole lot of issues holding it back. Awesome combat mechanics that aren't utilized properly due to the lack of any real difficulty. A meandering mess of a story that doesn't feel like it goes anywhere until the last few hours of the game. A whole bunch of villains that feel like harmless jokes. Like, how many times did an Organization member show up, spout some nonsensical bullshit, and then just leave? These guys aren't threatening, they're not funny, they're just annoying.
The Disney worlds left a lot to be desired. Toy Story in particular was disappointing. We interact with so few characters from the series, at least let me have a boss fight with Emperor Zurg. Exploring Andy's room was cool though. The Toy Story and Monster's Inc worlds made me think Pixar put a lot of limitations around their IP use for the game, which doesn't make me hopeful for more Pixar worlds in future sequels. Olympus was probably the best level in the game, even if we didn't get an actual Coliseum this time. Funnily enough that one wasn't even considered KH3.
The finale was cool though. I liked the boss fights, and the emotional beats of the story were landing pretty well at this point. Nothing that comes close to "looks like my summer vacation is over" of course. But this is the point where the series gets to cash in on built up fan service and it did a pretty good job of that at least. The hack & slash gameplay is as fun as ever, and Yoko Shimomura hasn't lost a beat.
A critical mode and some more bosses (where the hell is Sephiroth) will elevate the experience, but I feel like playing through a lot of these Disney worlds again will be more of a slog than anything else. And my god make Donald Duck shut up about ingredients.
The Disney worlds left a lot to be desired. Toy Story in particular was disappointing. We interact with so few characters from the series, at least let me have a boss fight with Emperor Zurg. Exploring Andy's room was cool though. The Toy Story and Monster's Inc worlds made me think Pixar put a lot of limitations around their IP use for the game, which doesn't make me hopeful for more Pixar worlds in future sequels. Olympus was probably the best level in the game, even if we didn't get an actual Coliseum this time. Funnily enough that one wasn't even considered KH3.
The finale was cool though. I liked the boss fights, and the emotional beats of the story were landing pretty well at this point. Nothing that comes close to "looks like my summer vacation is over" of course. But this is the point where the series gets to cash in on built up fan service and it did a pretty good job of that at least. The hack & slash gameplay is as fun as ever, and Yoko Shimomura hasn't lost a beat.
A critical mode and some more bosses (where the hell is Sephiroth) will elevate the experience, but I feel like playing through a lot of these Disney worlds again will be more of a slog than anything else. And my god make Donald Duck shut up about ingredients.
Man enough of this shit.
People love to put the onus on Aqua for this and its like
No, fuck that.
They broke apart cause Terra and Ventus are giant jackasses.
You think those two woulda come waltzing back if Aqua hadn't that one dumb thing in Radiant Garden?
Its especially bad with Ven cause that munchkin has no reason to be out and about.
I wanted to punch his stupid face in Radiant Garden cause he's literally doing nothing. It's legit like "motherfucker, stop being a baby and go home."
I completely agree - some of the worlds felt very limited. I guess I never noticed before, with the previous main numbered titles being on PS2 and naturally assuming "oh, well the console isn't powerful enough to handle so much". Like some reviewers have said, the graphical improvements are a double-edged sword: beautiful game but it kinda makes the negatives stand out more.
Also, it really annoyed me how a world title card would appear for THE FINAL WORLD and SCAL AD CAELUM (or whatever its called) when the worlds couldnt even be explored and it was more like a big QTE section. I think those worlds def saw stripped content because of dev time constrictions. Sorry but don't show me a frickin world title card when its not even a world.
Your gifs always make me want to go back and play it, but I've already played through twice and platinum'd, so have mercy! lol
I love everything about this DM, it's so over the top and amazing.
The twelve Xehanorts at Scala ad Caelum being the replicas used as vessels for the Organization members doesn't make much sense since it's stated that Vanitas, Saix, Luxord, Demyx, Marluxia and Larxene didn't use replicas.
Speaking of which, I'd rather had Demyx, Luxord, Marluxia and Larxene be pulled from the past (KH1-Days-KH2) instead of being made nobodies again just to me made human again at the end of the game. Other Ultimania detail that sort of contradicts the game is that Nomura said Xion is the 13th member that replaced Sora, yet in the game Mickey states that the 13th and final member is Terra. The writing in that scene goes out of the way to dictate that Terra was the final member to be revealed, yet Mickey himself hasn't met the rest of the Org members to even know that.
Also, Saix being retconned into joining the Organization with wanting to atone for the pain he caused to the protagonists doesn't sit well with him stopping Axel from saving Sora during KH3D's ending. I don't buy the "he was playing an act/trying to gain Xehanort's trust" because he already did that giving away his humanity for him willingly and with all of his Days/KH2 actions lol
Speaking of which, I'd rather had Demyx, Luxord, Marluxia and Larxene be pulled from the past (KH1-Days-KH2) instead of being made nobodies again just to me made human again at the end of the game. Other Ultimania detail that sort of contradicts the game is that Nomura said Xion is the 13th member that replaced Sora, yet in the game Mickey states that the 13th and final member is Terra. The writing in that scene goes out of the way to dictate that Terra was the final member to be revealed, yet Mickey himself hasn't met the rest of the Org members to even know that.
Also, Saix being retconned into joining the Organization with wanting to atone for the pain he caused to the protagonists doesn't sit well with him stopping Axel from saving Sora during KH3D's ending. I don't buy the "he was playing an act/trying to gain Xehanort's trust" because he already did that giving away his humanity for him willingly and with all of his Days/KH2 actions lol
My rationalization for this is that they were assuming Vexen was in the Org at this point, and so once they knew Terranort was in for sure Mickey was like "Well, that's 13 now".
Still need to play DDD but I loved both CoM and Days.
Not as much as the mainline stuff but I still enjoyed my time.
But Vexen had already returned to Radiant Garden to help Roxas come back. If we assume they thought Vexen and Demyx were still true Org members at that point, chronologically Riku Replica would be the last one member revealed for the heroes to assume that they already knew the 13 darknesses.
I just figured it was Xehanort using the essences of all the dead members, rather than the replicas themselves. The Riku Replica replica got taken by the heroes, so even if it was replica dolls Xehanort would be down one.
Yeah, but he says in the Dengeki interview that the black coated figures at Scala ad Caelum were the Organization replicas. Also, Xion never died, yet one of the replicas uses her keyblade. The same happens with Xigbar. The only way this makes sense is if Vexen kind of made a whole lot of replicas. The entire Scala ad Caelum segment is implied to be happening inside Xehanort's heart too so maybe the twelve pieces of his heart came back manifesting themselves as the replicas or something.
I think that's what happened. All the little nort pieces he used came back with a bit of power from the people he Norted and those became the cloneanorts. There aren't 12 more fresh replicas lying around.