Personally, I think Riku and Mickey are going to be at the center of whatever the Lost Masters plot is. You can't really have a war with half a dozen Keyblade wielders.
While that may also be reasonable, there is quite something off except if Yen Sid wants to wage war too.
As far as we know the main goal is to
prevent another full war from breaking out (the inevitable, destinied clash between the 7 and 13 is NOT the war itself, it
can serve as the starting point for another war though) so Yen Sid tasking Riku and Mickey to basically get even more Keyblade Wielders is just playing into Xehanort's hands by basically gearing up for war by building an army.
Not to mention that the "Lost Masters", which are arguably the Foretellers, were the ones who were responsible for starting the first war so that may also play right into Xehanort's cards.
That's a really good point. The entire aim of the main games (and most of the side games) has literally been
- Reunite with Riku and Kairi, or save one (or both) of them
- Defeat the big bad/stop the heartless
Having been separated since KH1 and only reuniting at small points you'd imagine that they'd want to spend more time together but in an effort to keep things "classic KH" I'm almost sure we'll get stuck with Donald and Goofy again. Some kind of flimsy "we all have parts to play and we'll get together in the end" justification (like in KH2). Then again if they go this way I'd almost hope for a BBS/DDD style scenario switch, if only so that we finally get to play as Kairi and get a glimpse of what Riku/Kairi/Aqua/Mickey are up to, instead of them showing up at the end a la KH2.
Sora really does need to know about TAV, and one can only hope that he'll be clued in at the end of 0.2, or told near the beginning of KH3.
Yes, and the first main aim has been fulfilled by the end of KH 2 and was arguably replaced with "rescue the tormented ones (aka TAV, Ansem the Wise, Naminé, Xion and Roxas, all those who called out to Sora)" while the second is still in place since Xehanort just constantly refuses to stay down.
That's what I am suspecting at least. Riku, Mickey and most likely Kairi as well are intentionally swept aside to force "just" Sora, Donald and Goofy into effect.
It does not even need a BBS/DDD-like "scenario switch" at all though as long as these characters are not kept out of focus for the entire game until the last world like they did in KH 2 where
everything that did not concern the events happening around SDG took place completely behind the scenes.
DDD already did a sort of mixed variant to cover other characters by having cutscenes (like Lea waking up, speaking with Ienzo, Mickey & co in Disney Castle etc) between worlds showing what other characters are up to.
I agree, despite Sora not being the brightest in understanding more complex scenarios, he should certainly not being left out of the loop in such a total fashion.
This would be totally irresponsible of both Yen Sid and Mickey (the latter already not looking so good in that regard anyways because he didn't really inform Sora about what he learned in Coded in detail), especially when considering Sora's overall importance to their side.
I really hope after Aqua and Ven are saved(Which is i hope isn't close at the end) everyone pretty much stays together for the rest of the game.I'm so tired of everyone being separated.
Is it so hard to ask for a big group of your friends going to most of the worlds together.I actually think it would be amazing to have a party system similar to star ocean 5 for later parts of the game.
Amen.
I've been hoping for a true party system and actual
freedom to choose your party members for years already.
Having such a big cast and not really allow the player to
use it is also a flaw in the KH series in my eyes.
