It always makes me laugh how non-written Terra's visit in Dwarf Woodlands is.
Queen: "Get me this girl's heart cuz she pretty af"
Terra: "Sounds like a terrible thing but that IS a dope-ass talking mirror you got there, so I'm not gonna say no to it. Brb."
*...*
Terra: "Damn, girl escaped. Well, can't go after her: those woods are spoopy. Guess she's lost forever and on her own. Man, I am a good keeper of peace and balance."
*...*
Queen: "My dope-ass mirror showed me you didn't get the heart."
Terra: "Yeah, I decided not to. DECIDED. Make sure to remember it was me who didn't want to do it, not the fact that she ran away and I didn't bother to take one scene transition to her.
Also you're bad, like, a really bad and evil person. You probably also stink smh"
Queen: "Mirror obliterate him"
Mirror: "Uh, when did I show such powers?"
Queen: "Right now thanks to my green potion"
Mirror: "Guess that makes sense"
*...*
Terra: "I won, now you'll ask the mirror what I want"
Queen: "Let me get this straight, you materialize in my castle, agree to bring me the heart of an innocent girl, fail to do so while also leaving that innocent girl to fend for herself, go back on your promise, come back regardless to... insult me, idk, and use brute force to get the reward for a pact you did NOT go through? And you call me bad?"
Terra: "Yeah! Also, completely unrelated to this, I do wonder why my Master doesn't think I'm ready to be a Keyblade Master."
Aqua's visit is also kinda bland and nonsensical (I guess the Queen re-Unverseded the Mirror before leaving to die off-screen), but Terra's is so... wow.
If they at least made him say something like "No, this is wrong, I shouldn't do it" while protecting Snowhite, but he's just a prick to literally every character involved.
That would have been nice. It's criminal how the Cloud/Zack/Tifa/Sephiroth subplot never got resolution.
*extreme sarcasm infinity overdrive* Whyyyy, you don't like how it endend up with Cloud and Sephiroth, aka Cloud's Darkness, kissing everything goodbye and "went back to their own world", despite it being confirmed that Cloud's world is Radiant Garden, and how Tifa, aka Cloud's Light, literally took a right turn and disappeared and the implication was that maybe she was never there to begin with?
Hindsight being 20/20 we should've smelled smoke the moment Nomura talked about how he didn't think anyone was interested in fighting Sephiroth again.
Not because of fighting Sephiroth per se, but for the approach taken to the whole thing.
This will irk me going into the next saga, the new story wont feel like a fresh start since we have so much old drama that wasn't dealt with. And this gives me little reason to get attached in any new subplots and teasers that get introduced since they'll most likely fade away a without a proper ending/explanation.
Yeah, pretty much this. Like, I'm replaying the series, this will be the first re-run including KH III, and I'm in BbS right now.
Nowadays I'm struggling to care again even for things that were intended to be big, like Vanitas and Ven in BbS.
How am I supposed to get invested now that I know their X-Blade is essentially a scam, that it doesn't work that way at all, and that both of these characters who are supposed to be the alpha and the omega will be as tertiary as they come during the *actual* clash?