Yeah, character interactions, man.
It might be the biggest gripe I have. Not fulfilling those means seriously not understanding why so many people were into this story for so many years. We wanted to see these good guys and gals interacting, not in their small original groups but between one another.
The reason why I entered here was a small nitpick, so might as well throw it here: forget Lea and Roxas and Ven looking at each other, I wanted to see Aqua's reaction to another blonde kid identical to Ventus of which she should have no knowledge about.
Another Nitpick I have, why after the events of Re:Coded and DDD did it take Sora and co so long to piece together who the three hearts in Sora were. I thought they already knew Ven and Roxas where in Sora's heart and that Riku would have figured out by the mention of a third heart that it'd be the third person he met when he dived into Sora's heart.
Literally Mickey says in Re:Coded's secret movie that they finally figured out where Ven's heart is.
What, am I supposed to believe that he did figure it out but didn't bother to inform Sora YET AGAIN? Like, what would be the point?
It's like Nomura wanted to give small hints and clues in the secret endings but ALSO wanted those very same notions to come off as a surprise in the big game.
I've lost count of how many times I severely underestimated what Sora and Riku ignored about the entire event they're in.
I'd be really curious to know just how much did Sora understood about Master Xehanort, other than "he bad guy, must defeat".
KH3: Ansem's data who?
But really, KH3 just ruins all of the careful story building Nomura had made over the years. I know it is because he was just absolutely bored with his own story and eager to introduce new content, but a writer can't create all of this buildup and then just suddenly drop all of it with rushed conclusions.
There are so many of these moments in the series where we get this really good lead-up to something and then KH3 just ignores it for its own nonsense.
Definitely the build up to Sora finding out about having Ven's heart was absolutely wasted. It should have been a better moment, something more personal. It would have made more sense for Riku to be the one to guide Sora to this conclusion since it was originally Riku that guided Sora to even connect to Ven when he was dying again in BBS.
Mickey and Riku should have come to this conclusion. It should have been meaningful, and Sora meeting Ven for the first time in person should have also been a big moment.
Roxas...lol I'll never not be upset about Roxas. KH3 likes to pontificate on how Sora really wants to find and save Roxas, but it doesn't matter. It's resolved off-screen by characters we don't even give two shits about. Sora has absolutely no role in bringing Roxas back besides being in the right place at the right time. Roxas' heart just shoots out. Why was that even possible when it was such a big deal to free Ven's heart? How did Xion's heart leave Sora's body so easily? WHEN?
I'm still amazed that among all things, they decided to make Joshua's explanations about Portals relevant. I don't know how many people could've predicted that.
And really, I was thinking about it the other day, what was ultimately the point about Ansem's Data? What did it have? I only seem to remember it mentioned the hearts, and then the discussion immediately switched to Vexen and the Replicas.
Yo, same hat. My depression post-KH3 has yet to go away. I try to focus it into something productive like writing, but I just cycle between anger and disappointment.
What sucks is that some days I really do like KH3, or something said by some fans reminds me that there were some parts of KH3 that brightened up my day when I was playing and I feel okay about the game...then I remember everything I hated and that well of joy just dries up.
Yeah, that's a carousel I know all too well.
I feel like I might have lucked out though because my big fanfiction I've been working on is set in the future, so every time I feel the gripes with KH III resurfacing I just go and write a better future, almost like it's some sort of emotional "revenge".
Jump onto my story fellas, where Riku doesn't have plastic car keys, gets things done, Vanitas is around, and conflicts are more grounded.
Ehr... is what I'd say if it wasn't written in Italian. -.-'
I don't hate Terra, but I have a hard time not to do, lol. People usually defend him as being naive and "he couldn't know better" and stuff, but honestly, dude's about 19 years old and agrees to beat up 10 year olds with a keysword because some shady guy with a hook for his hand claims they steal his shit. And he does this without ever questioning it - this is what bothers me the most. If there's was some kind of actual struggle with that guy that goes beyond "oh no, it happened again and people are mad at me, now I'm mad at them", I'd find him much more relatable, but this way it's basically a bulky dude who listens to one side of a story and goes to act based on that. Up to this day, I can't figure out much more about his character as displayed in BBS than "sullen, brooding and gullible".
I can defend Terra believing Xehanort: you'd have a hard time second-guessing one who is considered a veteran Master, especially immediately after failing the exam yourself. If anything, even if some parts of his reasoning felt off to him, Terra would probably think that HE didn't understand it well enough.
But yeah, I can't honestly defend Terra from being manipulated by the Disney villains.
Or abandoning Snowhite in a world where he KNEW there Unversed roaming around just to go and flex all over the Queen.
Oh, speaking of that, I dislike Ventus. A lot. More than Terra. Despite being much more mature at age eleven than with .. fifteen or what, he's so annoyingly childish "I wanna know now!" and really rude. HE was the one who grew distrust in Terra in the first place, so much that a random stranger he had never met could convince him that Terra would never be the same again, then he distrusts him in the first world he hears his name (Aqua had to remind him not to listen to Maleficent) just to be a total douche to Aqua when she actually tries to talk to Terra. Damn hypocrite.
Ven's arc in BbS makes no sense. I still wonder if what Vanitas says to him about Terra somehow makes more sense in Japanese, because MAN it so does not in English.
And if the first half is frustrating, the second is infuriating. Ven found Terra, he still believes that they're friends and can overcome anything, but does he comes back home?
No! Let's go around and frolick and mess with characters and order, even if you're a supposed runaway and you know it. Clearly nothing will go wrong.
Terra was dumb and gullible, Aqua was a glorified janitor, but Ven was literally out there only so that the plot could happen.