Same. after seeing it for myself it was way better then what leaked.
still the biggest bait in the series but at least the execution was well done.
Right. And see, I can understand why people might feel upset, but let's not forget that in KH3, everyone told Sora the exact same thing lmao. But then Sora eventually said "screw it" and went in after Riku and Mickey anyway. Let's
also not forget that the last time Riku dived into a place he didn't know about with somebody else, DDD happened and he spent the whole game separated from Sora. And look what happened to Sora at the end.
Add to the fact that he wouldn't have any idea about Sora and Kairi fighting Armored Xehanort in ReMind and... Yeah, no wonder the guy is hesitant. All Riku knows is that Kairi was destroyed, Sora went to save her, and even though she came back, he didn't. Imagine what must be going through Riku's mind when hearing that she wants to come along, given how much he doesn't know. The fact that he didn't know what the Final World is implies that Kairi never told him about what happened in detail either.
However, MoM makes it explicitly clear that she's not going to be in the backseat anymore. And I love this because it introduces an idea I've said on here constantly -- Make Kairi train with an actual Keyblade Master. I suggested Riku, but Aqua is actually a better choice. Aqua is the one that bequeathed a Keyblade to Kairi (accidentally), and Aqua seems to be the one that's most qualified to have an apprentice. Plus I mean, it'd be nice for Kairi to have somebody to look up to and relate to.
So I mean... I get why people might be iffy on Kairi's current direction, but Melody of Memory is clearly setting things up for Kairi to take center stage. Nomura can't walk this back now, and I think he knows it, especially after how disappointed people were with Kairi in Vanilla KH3.
Quadratum featuring Verum Rex, his own version of FINAL FANTASY, more specifically, his own version of Versus XIII, makes sense to assume that the unreal reality will have Nomura's version of Disney worlds.
Meaning that Quadratum being an unreal reality makes even more sense from a meta point of view: those Disney adaptions that'll happen there won't even be real in real world standards, lol.
TL;DR - Quadratum is the Tetsuya Nomura version of the MCU
Watch Star Smash be related to Quadratum somehow.