Re: Kingdom Hearts Union X English Story Won't Be Up To Date When Kingdom Hearts III Launches
Welp, that's the last nail in the coffin for me.
Been playing the game for almost three years now, and I've only been playing it for the story. The gameplay sucks, even if you take away the pay-to-win aspect. The "content" is either painfully redundant or depressingly scarce, the cash-grabs are obscene, and the art style has always given off an inappropriate sense of frivolity to what should have been the darkest and most visually impressive installment in the entire franchise.
I don't just blame SENA, if I'm being honest. I mean, yes, they are scum, and they make the unpleasant situation that is the original Japanese release a thousand times worse. But to be honest, I think this whole project was a shitshow from the start, with very little prospect beyond the profit angle. Nomura clearly didn't learn his lesson about where, when, and how to integrate relevant plot details in a franchise, and what little has been revealed in this game is only about ten percent of the story, or so it feels like. The filler is, was, and always has been unforgivable. Kingdom Hearts has never been short of that kind of stuff, but at least what filler there was in the games was usually integrated into the overarching narrative, and at least it was finite—it could only go as long as the runtime of the game. This game has no reason for the Disney worlds in which they spend about ninety percent of the story, and it goes on for years and years. It's all fluff. It's all garbage.
And you know what? I pity those poor whale fools who wasted innumerable amounts of their own hard-earned money on this trash, only to be continually manipulated and betrayed at every turn, while earning nothing of any real-world value from their countless purchases. I'm thankful I never fell into that trap. I don't even care that I can't advance past my own nose in the PvP tournaments, or that I can't hope to win the expert hard banner challenges that they keep farting out exclusively for the whales, or that I've constantly passed up on the VIP boards. I'm done caring about any of it, because it's very clear that it's all been a big bait-and-switch all along. I've never quit anything—a game, a book, a project, whatever—in the middle of doing it, because I'm an obsessive completionist, and the thought of doing so gets me riled. But I'm going to make the first exception of my life with this dumpster fire, and sign off. I pray for all of you who continue to play, I hope none of you give another dollar to it, and I hope these corporate assholes in charge of the game wise up and release some goddamn story content, or just shut the whole thing down so we can all forget that it ever existed.
