This video encapsulates what I feel about Kairi.
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Lol, brilliant. Anyone catch the text at the end?
This video encapsulates what I feel about Kairi.
No Buzz/Zurg fights. You can't just tease Evil Buzz & then have it resolved off-screen.
Literally everything Kairi.
Most of everything with Frozen (& I actually like the film for the record.) We couldn't even get Elsa as a summon?
Rapunzel being removed as a party member. Heck Finn's only in the party for like half the world's story too.
Isa/Saix: Also deserves his own thing because screw him, seriously. Remember Severus Snape and how people who worshipped him as a saint who did nothing wrong after the last book got rightfully mocked because Snape, while a hero, was also a bad person who loved sadistically abusing and tormenting 11 year old kids without a reason? Yeah, that's how Isa/Saix be.
Isa took part in the 10 year-long Heartless invasion and world corruption started by the Organization and Ansem, kept messing with the world order, humiliated and emotionally tormented Sora and Roxas, kidnapped Kairi and did to Xion... well, what Snape did to Neville Longbottom: emotional and psychological abuse of the highest grade.
All of this because he was jealous. After helping out (read as: sending other equally repentant members to do the actual work) the good guys he still shows up at the final battle and doesn't hold back at all. When it's all said and done, he doesn't acknowledge or apologizes for anything he's done, says he's jealous and claims he won't even say it again and disappears.
His absolution comes at the hands of Lea, who while tied to him was, also because of this, the least qualified person to do so (what about Roxas and Xion?), and after that I have to put up with him frolicking happily with a bunch of children he either doesn't know at all or tried to hurt.
I know the fanfic scene is huge about him and his possible futures, and as long as that stays there I'm totally cool with it, but as far as I'm concerned he just worked as a boss I wanted to fight against.
Screw Isa.
Dunno if you've had the chance to read the VA interview from the KH3 Ultimania, but it does help to clarify the intentions of that scene a little bit?
I knew that interview and it bothers me xD because I can't see any of these feelings in the actual scene and if someone has to tell me they are in love with each other sooo deeply and it doesn't come off one bit, I don't buy it. It feels like an afterthought.
Yeah, its really only Mamo who waxes on poetic. Miyu is like "eeeeeeeeeeeeh no that's wrong"
I think it is more telling that Nomura hasn't spoken about the paopu scene, which is crazy because you'd think it would have been considered a pivotal character moment, thus worth addressing in a post-game interview.
Of the things that KH3 does not comprehend, this tops the list.a pivotal character moment
- Speaking of which, the Visual Works opening was the worst of the franchise. Still technically and visually impressive, but as a recap it does nothing DDD's didn't do better and it somehow manages to be both less faithful and less inventive in delivering the legacy of the series. It's basically just Sora whacked people with his Keysword and Kairi's his gf The End.
- What are the Heartless even doing in this game. I mean, what are they actually doing. They serve no function.
- Dive to the Heart was too abridged and lacking in a substantial sense of foreboding.
Yeah that was REALLY a blue-balled moment there. Like.....jesus literally ALL of the bosses in the trailer were shown yet they were meant to be a surprise? That was another disappointment on my end.They showed footage of the tree, the UFO, the wolf, the Titans, the snail/slug unversed thing, and other bosses in trailers
So yeah, they spoiled them all while saying they weren’t.
Riku is for sure getting hetconned.
That's the words I've been looking for! I've been wanting to mention the pre-rendered faces for a while now, but couldn't put my finger on what my issue is. I was just "looks right, but not looks right." lol The mouths have looked weird too, where it's like they're a little puckered.- The CGI faces on the pre-rendered models (or whatever the technical term for them is) bothered me. They looked doll-like and sallow and waxy and I couldn't take any of those scenes seriously because of it.
On one hand though, the opening gives a perfect impression of what to expect in the game.- Speaking of which, the Visual Works opening was the worst of the franchise. Still technically and visually impressive, but as a recap it does nothing DDD's didn't do better and it somehow manages to be both less faithful and less inventive in delivering the legacy of the series. It's basically just Sora whacked people with his Keysword and Kairi's his gf The End.
And they couldn't even get KH1 Sora's hair right. It's been shortened.Here is just... eh. Also, random KH1 Sora and his clothes, because yes.
And why did Yen Sid want Sora wandering around aimlessly hoping maybe he'll gain it back? What's stopping Yen Sid, or Riku, or Mickey from helping? It's not like Sora needed to do it on his own for it to work or something. Ven just straight up tells Sora he had it all along and boom, Sora has it back.Yeah that was REALLY a blue-balled moment there. Like.....jesus literally ALL of the bosses in the trailer were shown yet they were meant to be a surprise? That was another disappointment on my end.
While we're on the topic of nitpicks like why are the Heartless here we can go on to question Sora's purpose in the Disney worlds. None. Sora had no purpose to go to any Disney world. Apparently he needed to find the Power of Waking, yet they done did the all the more boring "ahh...the power was within you this whole time" tropue. An ANNOYING tropue, which paints EVERY world Sora went to pointless as hell. But hey, if anything it almost felt like Sora had no purpose in anything in 3 in general.
This is a really good example of how KH3 cheapens its own premises over and over: the third heart inside Sora is introduced specifically as a mystery he and his friends need to solve, but it's not a mystery to the well-informed audience, which means that on a storytelling level it's leaning not into the revelation but the follow through on the other end of the revelation. We're meant to anticipate that Sora's discovery of Xion will represent a turning point, encompassed in a moment with real meaning and weight to it...and instead we get a cop out eleventh hour drive-by delivery of the plot point with zero rebound on the development of the narrative or even Sora as a character. It's not even clear if he's aware of what Xion sacrificed for him and the full magnitude of what it cost to restore his memories and reawaken him-- if he has any real grasp of the source of the "torment" these characters with connections to him were facing, which if anyone cares to remember was the entire idea behind how these characters were gong to be saved: by unburdening them of the pain they carry.and have Sora try and figure out who the other heart in him is.
I don't really know other games that Nomura works on, but I think I read somewhere that he doesn't really like to write romances? That could have been someone else, but I feel like I read that Nomura doesn't like to focus on romance in his works.Yeah, its really only Mamo who waxes on poetic. Miyu is like "eeeeeeeeeeeeh no that's wrong"
I think it is more telling that Nomura hasn't spoken about the paopu scene, which is crazy because you'd think it would have been considered a pivotal character moment, thus worth addressing in a post-game interview.
This is a really good example of how KH3 cheapens its own premises over and over: the third heart inside Sora is introduced specifically as a mystery he and his friends need to solve, but it's not a mystery to the well-informed audience, which means that on a storytelling level it's leaning not into the revelation but the follow through on the other end of the revelation. We're meant to anticipate that Sora's discovery of Xion will represent a turning point, encompassed in a moment with real meaning and weight to it...and instead we get a cop out eleventh hour drive-by delivery of the plot point with zero rebound on the development of the narrative or even Sora as a character. It's not even clear if he's aware of what Xion sacrificed for him and the full magnitude of what it cost to restore his memories and reawaken him-- if he has any real grasp of the source of the "torment" these characters with connections to him were facing, which if anyone cares to remember was the entire idea behind how these characters were gong to be saved: by unburdening them of the pain they carry.
Nope, instead it's Roxas swooping in without any preface and Xion being remembered because Nomura checked his watch and realized it was getting late that day and writing is haaaard.