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- Apr 21, 2019
The problem with DDD for me is it is arguably the true start to the absolute insanity that KH would become, their is a reason this script is made fun of so much. It set ups so many bad ideas imo, the nobody twist, the Org 13 twist, the time travel, "Half Xehanort, it hints at Roxas coming back instead of just being dead, etc. Some people have argued with me saying the nobody twist about them having hearts was in KH2 but even if I agree with that it sucks anyway. Nobodies were more interesting when they pretended to have emotions and hearts as it made them tragic, yet it was hopeful enough because when they went they had a chance to be whole again like Roxas did.
Riku to me works better when he's more introspective and looks within himself more like in CoM/KH2, and he still had room to look within himself and figure out where he fits in during this whole light and darkness battle, when he's just Sora's baby sitter he isn't nearly as interesting. He's better when the story is about him more then his relationship with Sora. Sora gets mindfucked, but the reasons why and for what suck so hard for me that I just don't care plus it felt like a little too much of a retread through CoM.
CoM has some off the wall shit, "to lose is to gain, and to gain is to lose", but DDD is way worse and their was much less to ruin in CoM then DDD so DDD dropping the ball messes up more so to me its worse.
I think that Remind fight sucks as a story moment, it feels so...forced, it feels like a weird apology for no one except Sora doing anything in the base game then a natural plot element (I felt that from Remind a lot tbh), and the dialogue is so damn awkward (in the dub anyway) especially with Ventus and Roxas. So it falls flat to me.
Also Terra sounds like he literally phoned his lines in through a Discord call which kills my mood so much. Terra may not be my favorite character at all, but he should have some kind of redemption moment and he just gets absolutely fuck all besides jobbing in Remind as Lingering Will. Terra like the entire BBS cast got absolutely robbed in KH3, which is why I retroactively dislike BBS even more then I already did 10 years ago after my initial playthroughs were over.
Considering I know someone who played 1.0, and could actually run it, and I've been playing FF14 since 2.0's launch and still play to this day (I have a bunch of autistic posts in that game's kiwi thread to prove my MMO autism). I know full well how badly FFXIV 1.0 fucked everything for SE. What I question is how much of KH's fuck ups are truly beyond Nomura's control?
Xion doesn't need to exist to make Days a spin off game, all the stupid shit in DDD doesn't need to exist, and ultimately it doesn't change that most of KH3 is filler as fuck and could have been better used to make this large cast actually do something. If you fixed even one of these issues, or just all three, KH3 wouldn't have been such a disappointment.
Him losing Versus and everything to do with FFXV though was likely the fault of FFXIV's failure though, due to the very hands on deck approach they took to get FFXIV 2.0 out as fast as they did. That is unquestionably SE as a companies' fault due to its engine autism during the PS3 era. I just am not fully convinced that all the spin off's problems and eventually KH3's problems with it, are wholly at fault there beyond that "we needed to make a bunch of shitty spin offs".
Also they could just not make the spin offs all canon, that'd probably also help a lot.
This is a very low standard if we're being honest. KH has a pretty bad female cast for a JRPG, and this isn't even some "muh wamen" sexism spergy, JRPGs for the last what 20 or so years usually get at least one good to solid female party member, yet KH has at best an okay female character as Aqua's resolution is so terrible that I thought she was better before KH3 even happened. If her story ended in 0.2, she'd be a better character which is incredibly sad.
