Before I start this post, I'm not trying to be a downer about different aspects of the Kingdom Hearts series. I'm merely bringing up my thoughts and opinions. I still feel some charm even for the things that aren't my favorites.
In short I wanted get everyone's views of the different trios from each game. Sora, Riku and Kairi. Roxas, Axel and Xion. Ven, Terra and Auqa. Something that gets tossed around from time to time is how the "deep" friendship of the last two groupings are forced just because of the first group. The games keep trying to get you to believe that they have such a strong bond.
In reality, Sora Riku and Kairi's bond wasn't over emphasized. They were friends because that's what the game said and showed us them being together for a brief time. I don't think I'm the only one but doesn't their friendship seem more legit than the others even though we only see them together for a short time in the beginning of the game? Here's why I think that is. It's because Kingdom Hearts I was simplistic in nature. Things didn't need to be deep and expanded on. Just like in Disney movies, relationships and friendships are formed very quickly, unrealistically almost like two children becoming friends. Two kids can become friends just by saying "Hey, you wanna be my friend?". It can work like that if it's simple.
However things change in the later games try to be "deep", "emotional" and "complex", which means simplicity can no longer work. I honestly think that things could have benefited more if they didn't have the game throwing it in your face of how close friends they are. In fact, the games could have just had it be some kind of common bond. They didn't have to say that they're friends to try and convince us.
It's been years since I played 358/2 Days and I just re watched all the cutscenes. I liked the charm but I think the bond would have been stronger to us the audience if they had never used the word friends except maybe once at the very end. They could have just emphasized of how they were together for their own reasons. I think what should have drawn them together shouldn't have been "friendship" but the fact that they were the only ones from the organization who gave each other a chance to be around one another. They were outcasts from the group. That would've been a much better thing to emphasize and focus on and see a friendship develop because of that rather then claiming to be friends with no real reasons.
As for Ven, Terra and Aqua, I haven't played that one in a while either but that's next up. That one to me feels even more forced. They keep trying to emphasize how close they are but there's nothing that makes me believe that. Similar to the previous trio, instead of calling them "close friends" they could've had them grow together from a common bond. In this case, the common bond is the fact that they are all students training. If we could see them develop from that, it would have been more believable. I don't know if they are trying to emulate the first group, if they are, it won't work because Kingdom Hearts is no longer that simple.
In any case, this is all just in MY eyes. I just don't find the last two groups as believable as I do the first.
So, any other opinions? Different perspectives? Reasonings? Agree? Disagree? Why? Why not?
Anxious to hear your answers
In short I wanted get everyone's views of the different trios from each game. Sora, Riku and Kairi. Roxas, Axel and Xion. Ven, Terra and Auqa. Something that gets tossed around from time to time is how the "deep" friendship of the last two groupings are forced just because of the first group. The games keep trying to get you to believe that they have such a strong bond.
In reality, Sora Riku and Kairi's bond wasn't over emphasized. They were friends because that's what the game said and showed us them being together for a brief time. I don't think I'm the only one but doesn't their friendship seem more legit than the others even though we only see them together for a short time in the beginning of the game? Here's why I think that is. It's because Kingdom Hearts I was simplistic in nature. Things didn't need to be deep and expanded on. Just like in Disney movies, relationships and friendships are formed very quickly, unrealistically almost like two children becoming friends. Two kids can become friends just by saying "Hey, you wanna be my friend?". It can work like that if it's simple.
However things change in the later games try to be "deep", "emotional" and "complex", which means simplicity can no longer work. I honestly think that things could have benefited more if they didn't have the game throwing it in your face of how close friends they are. In fact, the games could have just had it be some kind of common bond. They didn't have to say that they're friends to try and convince us.
It's been years since I played 358/2 Days and I just re watched all the cutscenes. I liked the charm but I think the bond would have been stronger to us the audience if they had never used the word friends except maybe once at the very end. They could have just emphasized of how they were together for their own reasons. I think what should have drawn them together shouldn't have been "friendship" but the fact that they were the only ones from the organization who gave each other a chance to be around one another. They were outcasts from the group. That would've been a much better thing to emphasize and focus on and see a friendship develop because of that rather then claiming to be friends with no real reasons.
As for Ven, Terra and Aqua, I haven't played that one in a while either but that's next up. That one to me feels even more forced. They keep trying to emphasize how close they are but there's nothing that makes me believe that. Similar to the previous trio, instead of calling them "close friends" they could've had them grow together from a common bond. In this case, the common bond is the fact that they are all students training. If we could see them develop from that, it would have been more believable. I don't know if they are trying to emulate the first group, if they are, it won't work because Kingdom Hearts is no longer that simple.
In any case, this is all just in MY eyes. I just don't find the last two groups as believable as I do the first.
So, any other opinions? Different perspectives? Reasonings? Agree? Disagree? Why? Why not?
Anxious to hear your answers