True after the playable riku and aqua fights i was betting on being able to play as the guardian of lights against their darknesses counterparts during the war segment.
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[UNMARKED SPOILERS] Kingdom Hearts III & ReMind DLC- Spoiler Thread
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The producers when they found out there's only like 10 hours of gameplay.
totally agree with this sentiment. i was baffled by that part of the scene. it just felt so shippy so out-of-the-blue... might i add that it would be doubly weird for rikunami to happen when sora tells her specifically in the final world how much roxas misses her. not riku. roxas. i'm pretty sure nomura meant them to be essentially mirror image sora/kairi. they've even been pictured alongside them on official art. like??? it'd be a super weird change of direction out of virtually nowhere. but yeah, i'll be chosing to believe it was riku's way of honoring the wishes of his "other me" by receiving naminè in a totally chivalrous and innocuous way until i'm confronted with evidence to the contrary. (tbh i don't see why nomura couldn't just have left an extra dummy body lying around for repliku to just slide into and become a ~real boy~ like everyone else did.. it's not like 'having two rikus is confusing' is a viable excuse when ven and roxas are running around at the same time)
honestly if nomura wanted to make kairi a character of consequence he would have just let her stay dead. the fact that he went out of his way to showboat about her "dying" when we've got people literally popping out of the grave left and right just goes to show that her sole purpose is to be endangered and get hurt for the sake of fueling sora's Macho Angst™ re:"hey look everybody, xehanort killed kairi! ... yeah i know nobody ever actually stays dead in these games but look!! look at how angry sora is now! isn't that suspenseful??? aren't you soooooo worried about her??? maybe she'll never come back!! have i reminded you she's the love interest within these last 25 seconds? she's the love interest!!"
I feel like we will either get a Kingdom Hearts Chi/Unchained/Union Cross remake with Sora instead of the custom MC, a post Union Cross game with back cover like flashblack cutscenes to explain that story with Skuld/Ephemer/Ventus as the MCs, or both.
Same thing with Yen Sid's tower now existing outside of Twilight Town not getting its own world, and Destiny Islands being cutscene only too.
Roxas in comparison had at least meaningful conversations with Naminè about their doubts, feelings, and overall existential crisises surrounding their existence and eventual doomed fate no matter how one chooses to interpret their interactions. They bonded and began a budding friendship based on getting to know one another. There's foundation.
Even without adding Roxas into the mix, Riku and Naminè can't stand on their own as a fundamental and liable option. The closest I could think of is when Naminè offered to lock his darkness in his heart (this girl so powerful) and he chose to grow from it and accept it instead. Nothing concerning romance there, nor anything more in depth between them as an attempt to understand or learn more about each other. He just stated to look after Sora and that she smelled like Kairi. KHIII should have build up to that cutscene with something, yet it wasn't present. I'm on board with the chivalrous and innocuous outlook as well. It appeared friendly, coming from their expressions. Just the romanticizing of it with petals and the close up wasn't. If they really go for this, what an awful start. I am not feeling it fam.
I feel Riku Replica got done wrong by Nomura. His sacrifice moved me, it was sweet and touching. But couldn't Vexen/Even create another vessel? It could be he wasn't informed enough before deciding this. Or maybe he really did want to go away. All I know is that he at least died with agency. I wish Naminè had a moment and/or scene reflecting his sacrifice, but alas, her connections to other characters got shafted aside from mentions.
Nomura can't write a female character being independent alongside her male love interest without fridging her, so might as well put her far from Sora's range of influence if that's what he is only capable of.
So the latest Union X quest seems to be Blain/Brain making his move and seprating everyone. Lauriums with Elrina seeing what looks like corrupted data of Strelitzia and where she got killed. Emp has gone to see the player in the data and help them out (to investigate what's going on) and Ven and Skuld are in the room together with Brain/Blain when he seems to flip his cap up at the end as though to reveal his plan has started to commence.
I have no translations for this, so i'm just assuming, but if they're all trapped in separate places this might be where we see who the traitor is, and how the new Chi Union Leaders ended up where they did after Chi with them all seemingly being separated. (perhaps if Ephemera gets trapped we might eventually findout how he ended up at the end of 3 stuck in the data) Ven and Skuld ending up in the future (Ven at Keyblade Graveyard at BBS) and Laurium and Elrina being together so him and Larxene appearing together in the future. This is just me assuming of course, but them all being separated makes for some really interesting potentional plot points.
Edit: Roboloid pointed out that Blaine/Brain looks a whole lot like Eraqus. Probably not a coincidence knowing Nomura.
I have no translations for this, so i'm just assuming, but if they're all trapped in separate places this might be where we see who the traitor is, and how the new Chi Union Leaders ended up where they did after Chi with them all seemingly being separated. (perhaps if Ephemera gets trapped we might eventually findout how he ended up at the end of 3 stuck in the data) Ven and Skuld ending up in the future (Ven at Keyblade Graveyard at BBS) and Laurium and Elrina being together so him and Larxene appearing together in the future. This is just me assuming of course, but them all being separated makes for some really interesting potentional plot points.
Edit: Roboloid pointed out that Blaine/Brain looks a whole lot like Eraqus. Probably not a coincidence knowing Nomura.
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Something's bothering me so I'm wondering if I can get any sort of confirmation here, but if all footage being uploaded to youtube is accurate. There seems to be a couple of variations(at least 3?) on what song plays during the ending. Does anyone know?
Cause if that's the case, I definitely prefer this version with the piano rendition of Sanctuary as it lines up perfectly with that moment:
Cause if that's the case, I definitely prefer this version with the piano rendition of Sanctuary as it lines up perfectly with that moment:
Either random or based on Difficulty?
you mad me watch that again... damn the feels
Oh god. I was expecting maybe one game, but Nomura is totally going to place 3-4 different post Union Cross games between KH3 and KH4 to flesh out everyone's story, I can feel it coming. Brain looking like Eraqus is a bit of a trip though, his proper art suggests nothing like that though. It would be very Nomura though if Eraqus came from a lineage of Dark Keybladr masters and Xehanort came from a line of Light Keyblade Masters.
Oh man. I have seen this so many times the past week, and Don't Look Twice after the feels of Simple and Clean just couldn't compare. But following up afterwards with Sanctuary? Complete sensory overload, Jesus. Just so goad everyone got their happy endings, even if Sora didn't. It feels a lot more rewarding that way, and far less cheap than if even Sora came out unscathed. Also, that fully restored Radiant Garden is god like. I need it to fully return as a hub world like Twilight Town.
It should be 'Don't Think Twice'. The other variations were added by various youtubers because youtube had blocked the music before the official release date.
Not insane at all since we've been doing that since 0.2, on the real version of the boss xD
Also how have people been calling this chip damage?
Japanese KH twitter confirmed the secret ending will be at the same time worldwide. (in 20 minutes)
The Eraqus ancestor thing is definitely a thing because the secret reports mention him having descending from a pre-keybalde war lineage.
Wouldn't suprise me with Nomura haha.
The Eraqus ancestor thing is definitely a thing because the secret reports mention him having descending from a pre-keybalde war lineage.
It's an update for the game dropping on PSN and Xbox Live in 5 minutes. If you don't have it in 5 minutes, it's because your game is open. Relaunch.
As far as secret endings go, that was extremely underwhelming to be honest. It literally told us nothing.
If that was a teaser for Nomura's Versus XIII reboot, I'm going to fucking stupefied seriously.
Nomura was so salty over FFXV that he actually made a secret ending about it?!
Final mixes secret ending is the extension, maybe after one year lol?
KH1 and 2 secret ending are literally one minute of Riku and ROxas and Tav staring each other
KH1 and 2 secret ending are literally one minute of Riku and ROxas and Tav staring each other
Nope, that will be explained through DLC or next game
That's what I'm thinking, if this is a teaser to a TWEWY world I'm about to be hype af tbh
Watch that be part of the DLC or the first inevitable "side" game before KH4.
What kind of guts does it take to make a fake parody trailer that's clearly making fun of your own work and style, then it turns out its relevant in the secret trailer you made for your actual next work
So Nomura's next work will be a crossover between all his works? Is the Bouncer coming back?
So Nomura's next work will be a crossover between all his works? Is the Bouncer coming back?