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Also missed potential of knowing history that spans to even the Age of Fairy Tales.The untapped potential of Santa Claus knowing of everyone in existence.
Too many characters had a bone to pick with each Xehanort and they probably didn't think it was 'fair' to have all....13? (idfk or care anymore) party members against three or one dude.Should've been Roxas & Xion as Sora's party members against Ansem, Xemnas, & YX. Then it would've been all the Soras vs. all the Xehanorts.
Continuing THAT nitpick, I'd like to say....the matchups in the Keyblade Graveyard made no sense. Long ago people speculated solo battles with all 13 members like Ven vs Vanitas, or Riku vs Ansem, or Aqua vs Terranort. Where tf was that? People would complain that solo battles have been done to death in this series, but this...gangup nonsense with matchups that made no sense is okay? Why is Mickey fighting Larxene, Marluxia, & Luxord? What does Xigbar have to do with Riku? Could've just been Riku vs Repliku and be done with it.
Also, the 13 darknesses make no sense as well. Are they just an excuse for Nomura to bring back those 'fan favorites?'" 'New Organization' my ass, it's LITERALLY the same cast -3. DEMYX & VEXEN HAD LITTLE TO NO RELEVANCE, TOO WHY ARE THEY BACK?!
Makes it even worse because Nomura just HAD to bring them back for the sake of tying them into the 'distant past' BECAUSE IT'S OH SOOOOOO NECESSARY TO TIE EVERYONE INTO THE AGE OF FAIRY TALES!
Remember this meme?
Now it's basically Everyone is Riku. Everyone else is from the Distant Past. The 13 we got...BARELY even have any changes between them that signify that their hearts in ANY way connected to Xehanort. It's LITERALLY just the eyes.
As Larxene puts it: It's LITERALLY Organization Rehash, but with yellow eyes and 3 gone.
Should've been Roxas & Xion as Sora's party members against Ansem, Xemnas, & YX. Then it would've been all the Soras vs. all the Xehanorts.
Exactly. Nothing was stopping Larxene and Marluxia, who didn't even want to be there in the first place, from betraying Xehanort, or even just walking away altogether. Hell, Larxene even suggest outright that they attempt another coup, because why in the world would they want to lose their agency to Xehanort? No literally, this is exactly what she says:It's just troubling to see the schemers of Castle Oblivion now working with Xehanort and there not even being brainwashed like Riku Replica and Xion were, or even possessed like a Terranort. Which means they are free to back stab whenever they want, and they never do.
Exactly. Nothing was stopping Larxene and Marluxia, who didn't even want to be there in the first place, from betraying Xehanort, or even just walking away altogether. Hell, Larxene even suggest outright that they attempt another coup, because why in the world would they want to lose their agency to Xehanort? No literally, this is exactly what she says:To this day I still have no clue why fuck they didn't go through with it. The worst that would happen is they get their Nobodies destroyed for "betrayal", but they'll just be re-completed (and even randomly get their memories back because convenience) anyway.
Ya know what? Despite how lukewarm I've always been about Marluxia (despite my name), him creating his own faction honestly sounds like a pretty sweet idea. Or at the very least, just an active duo of him and Larxene would be interesting enough, and still has a lot of potential as a villain group. Especially compared to their characterization in the broken, trainwreck of a narrative we got in KH3 proper.It's such a shame. I was one of the people back when Marluxia was first revealed with his normal eye colors who thought he was going to be doing his own thing with his own Organization that was against both Sora and Xehanort's forces. I was actually thrilled at that idea, because Maleficent just wasn't cutting it at the time. Nope he's on Xehanort's side with Larxene. We don't even know why he joined. Larxene at least gave a reason, lame as it was. It's just weird they would be selected and not put under some kind of influence like Terra is and what they were going to do to Sora. But then I have to remember that they are trying to fit them in more with their Union X background stuff rather then what made them cool villains in COM. And it just feels like they made Demyx a reserve because they had nothing for him to even do in the game. You could take him out and the game would be fine. And this is coming from a Demyx fan too!
Ya know what? Despite how lukewarm I've always been about Marluxia (despite my name), him creating his own faction honestly sounds like a pretty sweet idea. Or at the very least, just an active duo of him and Larxene would be interesting enough, and still has a lot of potential as a villain group. Especially compared to their characterization in the broken, trainwreck of a narrative we got in KH3 proper.
There's no logistical reason or benefit that would explain why Larxene and Marluxia would willing join Xehanort. They have no agenda of their own at this time, and such a choice would inevitably lead to them becoming full Xehanort clones and kissing their freewill goodbye. It's a lose-lose situation. And we can't even say Xehanort used their memories as leverage to coax them into it, because we see Xemnas reveal it to them for the first time mid-game.
The only logical conclusion is that they were physically forced into it to some degree, but even then, as I said before, nothing was really stopping them from backing out of the problem any time they felt like it. Which would've been the Wise decision, but I guess they just love fucking with Sora and co. too much. *Shrugs*
In regards to to Xemnas' diologue about the members in DDD, it was virtually retconned out of existence. Take that cutscene I posted for instance: Marluxia claims that Xehanort doesn't care about the individual, and by extension their past qualities. He's just interested in their bodies... Which is creepy in way, lol. At the end of the day, the 13 could've been anyone. Even 12 empty replicas with no soul... Oh, wait!
Was there any story purpose or explanation as to how the replicas were even made or even WHY the group was sent to Schala Ad Calem out of all places, in the first place?Was there any story purpose or explanation to why we fought the scala replicas???
Was there any story purpose or explanation as to how the replicas were even made or even WHY the group was sent to Schala Ad Calem out of all places, in the first place?
It's like you said: lazy writing, poor creative choices, lack of cohesion, etc. It's pretty clear at certain points that Nomura was just writing from memory, or otherwise didn't care. The thing he was truly interested in was setting up future ideas, not properly concluding or paying off old ones (at least, not unless he absolutely had to for the story to function).I've never been a huge DDD fan, It's always just been "okay" for me, but I actually did like the whole idea of a new Organization of hand selected vessels that Xehanort wanted. DDD made it seem like it was a selective rare group of people or stages in Xehanort's life (I wanted baby Xehanort so badly) and Xemnas's line really sold that. But come KH3 it just feels like they got lazy and brought most of the originals back and the most untrustworthy ones with full free will. I know Xemnas gives a excuse about their Keyblade legacy, which I currently hate, is why they were selected. But it still bugs me that three people (Marluxia, Larxene, Demyx) are even options but loyal members Zexion, Lexaeus, and Xaldin aren't? Why?!
Wow... That didn't even occur to me. Yeah, I'm through with taking KH3 seriously at this point. It's one thing for it's own internal plotting to suck, but now it's damaging one of the best story dynamics in the series?! Honestly, I could go on whole rant about that, but then it'd only be harder to eject KH3's story out of my head when rewatching Days, KH2, and BBS. So... I'll pass for now.And this creates another problem. So Xemnas says he choose numbers 9-12 for the original Organization due to their Keyblade legacy thing. That means Xemnas has known about them since COM, Days, and KH2. If so then why are they constantly in need of Keyblade wielders when six of them are already tied to Keyblades? Why go through all these lengths to get their own version of Sora if they can use Keyblades themselves? Why can't 9-12 summon Keyblades? Roxas and Xion endured child abuse and Dusk threats all because Xemnas was too lazy to summon his own or use 9-12, because he states that's why he picked them which goes against everything COM, KH2, and Days have told us about the Organization and their constant need for a Keyblade Wielder. I hate this because I love the politics of the old Organization XIII but now this Union X Keyblade Legacy thingie is souring one of my favorite aspects of the series! I feel like I could rant about this forever!
Facts. Now that line's an utter joke, as is Siax. In fact, can someone please make a meme out of that? I swear I'd laugh every time, lol.As far as using 12 replicas as the Xehanort vessels, that's what I'm saying. Might as well, they do the exact same thing as the real ones anyway. "A puppet can't be part of the Organization" oh please, the puppets make the perfect Organization.
Lmao Replica's asserting their dominance and running around consuming whatever Nobodies they come into contact with would be one of the most existentially horrifying things introduced in this series, but at the same time, still feels appropriate.Seriously Replicas can easily overthrow Nobodies now, especially since they eat Nobodies beings. Vexen wasn't kidding when he said they were going to replace humanity. That should be the next major threat. Replica Revolutionaries!