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[UNMARKED SPOILERS] Kingdom Hearts III & ReMind DLC- Spoiler Thread
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I recognized Ishimoto's awful signature samples instantly when the first boss battle music started playing and it felt so out of place next to Shimomura's music. I'm in the same boat as you, wish they hadn't used him at all, most of his recent stuff sounds grating.
Yeah it's a shame but that world is coming back 100% in future games.
I remember absolutely hating most of KH2's soundtrack when it initially released because the synth was worse than in KH1, and made the tracks sound like cheap MIDI instrumentation. That OST really wasn't done justice until 2.5.
I actually don't mind Ishimoto's contributions to the series (For a while, people weren't even aware he composed the Vanitas themes), but I think of the additional composers to come on board since Birth by Sleep, Sekito's work makes for a better compliment to Shimomura's style.
The Final boss theme is a disappointment though, yeah.
I actually don't mind Ishimoto's contributions to the series (For a while, people weren't even aware he composed the Vanitas themes), but I think of the additional composers to come on board since Birth by Sleep, Sekito's work makes for a better compliment to Shimomura's style.
The Final boss theme is a disappointment though, yeah.
The Gummi Ship has a pretty recognizable shape, so I doubt that's it. Literally, it's probably just clouds, but with the way the scene is shot, it's definitely meant to represent something.
I thought it was the gummi ship in that scene at the clock tower because they all ended up on Destiny Islands.
Tokyo could also be the hub world. Maybe Sora need to like travel to a new world each day for a week in this reaper game.
Yeah I wish Yoko did the entire soundtrack because Ishimoto does NOT cut it. Why did they get him to do the final boss of all things??? His violins are straight trash!
KH4 probably starts with a nuke landing on Kairi's face and her head falling on Mickey's hand if KH3's writing is anything to go by.
Yes, but after the 15 minute tutorial she'll be kidnapped and you'll take over as Sora
Please give us Live Action Maleficent:
Maleficent: This is it, boy: Darkness... True Live Action darkness!"
Sora: "Maleficent! Why... why do you look just like Lara Croft?"
Maleficent: I'm her Nobody.
Sora: :O Let's go, Donald, Goofy, Mr. Stark!
It does feel like everyone is a bit negative about the game, or perhaps criticisms are being voiced more/people with negative experiences are louder.
Not sure this is the place to ask, but my Omega Ship fight seems to be glitched. I have beat the 4 sub bosses 3 times now and nothing appears up top. How screwed am I?
Lol careful Nomura may be reading this forum and will think this idea is brilliant.
KH3, unfortunately for me, is worse on the second playthrough. Gameplay is still solid but the optimism with which i went through the game is gone. Now all of the negatives are so blatant. Love the gameplay and series still but KH3 dialogue reads like it was written by the guy who the film The Room.
Probably both but thats a ton of games. Its very clear people like/love the game in general. As a KH fan I like it a lot, its no KH2, but even KH2 wasn't KH2 before FM+.
It seems about as poor as it as always has been for me so I just enjoy the ride in spite of that as always. I guess I'm surprised people weren't expecting what we got.
I've replayed (almost) every KH game/movie in the 1.5/2.5/2.8 set of games prior to KH3.
Maybe those games ended up shaping my expectation of how KH3 was gonna be, but KH3 was by and large what I expected it to be and even though I can jote down three dozen criticisms of the game ranging from combat design to writing, I'll pen those frustrations down another day when I feel like I can vocalise all the points in a detailed criticism towards SE and the KH team as improvement points for future games.
Having replayed the final arc a second time, did trophy hunting by exploring the KH3 worlds - the game, as flawed as it is, still gets to me. The culmination. The music. The spectacle. And when the story is unapologetic in its attempt to tug at your heartstrings, it works more often than not.
Maybe those games ended up shaping my expectation of how KH3 was gonna be, but KH3 was by and large what I expected it to be and even though I can jote down three dozen criticisms of the game ranging from combat design to writing, I'll pen those frustrations down another day when I feel like I can vocalise all the points in a detailed criticism towards SE and the KH team as improvement points for future games.
Having replayed the final arc a second time, did trophy hunting by exploring the KH3 worlds - the game, as flawed as it is, still gets to me. The culmination. The music. The spectacle. And when the story is unapologetic in its attempt to tug at your heartstrings, it works more often than not.
That was how it worked in DDD. The replicas were made to get AROUND that restriction, though. They were designed to allow those hearts to stay in their time.
Everyone is just in your party in their respective world like normal except Rapunzel, who is under her family mural in Corona.
This is more of a series question instead of a KH3 question, but I don't know where else to ask it. Do we know how much time passes between each of the games? At the end of KH3, we see all the foretellers, who look the same as they do during Kingdom Hearts X and Union X. But I assumed there were many, many years between then and KH3. I can't seem to find any kind of timeline that does anything other than list the games in chronological order.
The Foretellers seem to have been pulled forward in time without an indication of exactly how long has passed. The same would be the case for Ven prior to BBS and the other characters from that era.
There's really no telling how much time passed between Back Cover/UX and BBS, but it's safe to say at least a couple hundred years, and probably more judging by the reports.
As far as the rest of the games go, 10 years between BBS and 1/0.2, a year between 1 and 2 while 358/2 Days happened, a few months between 2 and DDD tops, and then 3 pretty much right after that.
There's a timeline in the artbook that lists the time between union X and BBS as "a long time passes". I thinks it's assumed to be on the scale of hundreds if not thousands of years considering Daybreak Town has been flooded and Scala built on top of it by the time Eraqus and Xeahnort are apprentices.
No, they all still have to go back to their times. The replicas are there so that they can have a physical presence since time travelling requires you to leave your body behind. They have had replicas in DDD too. The time travel works in a way where it remains a stable timeline where you don't change anything. It is predestined that all of their hearts return back to their origins so that the events of past games still play out the same.
I love how a minor plot element in a GBA interquel almost assuredly conceived to allow for some kind of Riku boss fights in the game ballooned into a means of resurrection for characters long thought gone just in time for the closing of the series' main arc. This series is wild, lmao
I'm not inherently opposed to non Shimomura final boss themes; Sekito was responsible for the Dive Into the Heart arrangement used for 3D's final boss, and that was pretty decent. III's final boss track just kinda falls flat altogether.
After all that talk about it being her turn to protect Sora you would think, but that would allow her to stand on her own and grow as a character so it's hard to imagine. If I'm reading the secret ending right she just sent Riku to do it instead.
I don't think I would want to play a game with Kairi as the main character. Not only does she have no personality and no fighting talent, but her KH3 redesign is aaaaaaaaaaawful.
There's literally nothing good about her, which is almost impressive if you think about it.
I don't totally hate the new design but I definitely preferred KH2 Kairi.
I know what you mean but for some reason I always find myself rooting for her and wanting to give her a chance even though I continue to be disappointed lol.
It really bugs me how Sora and Riku got to age and yet Kairi somehow comes out of it looking even younger and more waifish than in KH2.
Lmao Xigbar thought he was slick dodging the repelled lasers
It's the face. The haircut combined with the super-round facial redesign makes her look like she's 12 or 13. The fact she's also by far shorter than almost everyone else only makes it worse.
That doesn't mean they can't improve on everything you mentioned. But I have my doubts they will... it sucks
I don't even think it'd be worth it. They would be better served either developing a character who isn't made of baggage or just creating a new one.
Okay, thanks, I thought it meant the 7 of light or whatever they're called.
