I never thought the story in DDD was too complicated?
There are no difficulties in it, and I understood certain moments only from the second time, but I can not name the game that is absolutely impossible to challenge.
Oh, DDD's storytelling is a hot mess.
Time travel is explained once at the beginning, then another time at the end in a long and uninterrupted Young Xehanort monologue where things go a hundred miles a second. "You need to leave the body behind in order to time travel. Got that? Good, because I'm already talking about how Ansem did it. I'm not going to mention he was able to because he's a Heartless, figure that out yourself. And while you're at it, keep listening, for I'm explaining that he met me, passed onto me the power to time travel, now you got me and him to keep track since we're both doing important stuff. How did I time travel without losing my body, or did I actually lost that? Not relevant right now. Hey look, Xigbar's back. Or maybe it's Braig, who knows."
The whole Dream shebang is not even fully explained. The worlds failed to awaken from their slumber and are trapped in a loop. Then why are Destiny's Islands also in the Realm of Light and one can go there no problem? Does being a Sleeping world doesn't affect that? ...then WHAT does it affect? Unlocking them saves them from what, exactly? *cue Captain Hook* "And why those seven?" Who or what decides which world becomes Sleeping and which doesn't?
And let's not forget my all time favourite: The Grid is not a dream. It's a real world. Which means... heck if I know. Something.
Oh, and Riku visited Sleeping worlds while being in Sora's dream, and that still counted. Then again, why wouldn't it? I don't understand the first thing of this dream concept!
That's an awful lot of unanswered questions for what is supposed to be the game's main theme.
And then we have meaningful and self-explanatory phrases such as "Darkness within Darkness awaits you". Sounds cool, but what does it means? What am I supposed to get from it on a concrete level? What are the additional dangers a Darkness within Darkness holds over mere Darkness?
But let's focus on more positive things: Master Xehanort possessed Young and within him used No Name but with a different keyholder. And this actually makes sense: Young cannot use a Keyblade since he hasn't undergone proper training yet, so Master Xehanort had to do the honors. Which means he broke Mickey's Stopza like a boss, and then Riku battled technically Master Xehanort.
I'm not gonna lie, that's pure badassery. Man, I wish I was able to get all of that from playing the game, and not from reading it in an interview.
Oh, and Riku and Sora still have dream world clothes and powers at TWTNW. Well, that's because that world is weird. Makes sense I guess. And Dream Eaters are also still around, so... where the hiffle is everyone now? Is Mickey in the Dream World, or are Sora, Riku and the time travelling Norts in the Realm of Light and in the present?
Secret bonus post-credits nitpick: Lea, Pete and Maleficent are Darkness wielding beings who appeared at Disney Castle through dark portals. Because screw the Cornerstone of Light and what it represented in KH II.
Look. This still isn't rocket science. It's still plenty understandable... well, for the most part. Heck, if you got all of it during the first view, more power to you. Sincere congratulations. And we can still cook up some possible explanations for the unanswered mysteries, these forums are littered with them.
I'm afraid however that doesn't change how badly DDD decided to tackle all of this, delving into complex explanations but glossing over pretty important "details", throwing a bunch of new stuff in the canon at us with no other choice but to accept them without questions.
The X-Blade is now made of 20 parts, please engrave this in your mind or we can't proceed. Forget all you experienced in Ventus' story in BbS.
Honestly, KH III could conjure out of thin air ANOTHER method to forge the X-Blade without explaining why, and I will just take it. I already did it once.
One person's ability to understand even the most complicated matters doesn't mean there isn't a bad and a good way to show and narrate stuff.
And to further clarify, that doesn't mean you can't ENJOY this or that, or that I'm passing judgement to whoever enjoys DDD: I don't hate DDD myself, and I wasn't foaming at my mouth in rage while writing all of this. In fact, it's one of the KH titles I play the most. You don't need to hate something to point out its flaws, and vice versa.
If you feel depreciated or that this is too negative of a post I apologize, that wasn't the intention.
I was just poking a bit of fun at certain moments and how they've been realized.