Finished the game so obvious Spoilers

Really scary thing is that KH shippers (Even the aggressive ones) are probably some of the tamer shippers.

Honestly I probably won't ever play it, if mostly due to it not being F2P friendly. It absolutely blows my mind how there are people willing to spend thousands of dollars on a cellphone game. Especially in Japan.

That's fair.

You did. That Sora and Kairi being the ultimate progressive couple was really funny. But after reading your trolling the next thing scrolling down was that old shipping post. It was interesting, so I read it.

I'd argue most of Xehanort's knowledge comes from what he learned as he mastered the keyblade in Scala Ad Caelum. So, logically, Eraqus knows most of what Xehanort knows as well. That being said, if this order of keyblade wielders knows that people from the ancient past managed to somehow wind up in the current world then they would have actually done something to protect these people.

I got only the required Soras as well. I'll probably do a Proud Mode run (Or Critical if it becomes part of a Final Mix DLC) and grab 333 without stopping during that run.

I figured the Chirithy just appeared to them whenever they wanted. No idea. Naturally the game gives no explanation.

Never felt that way to me. I dunno. It might feel simplified due to having to fight a larger number of heartless at any given time.

So best second transformation keyblades are probably the Pirates and Frozen keyblades. Yeah, the chef keyblade or whatever it is. It transforms into a shield like the Olympus one, except instead of thunder animations it has fire animation and its finisher is smacking down with a big frying pan instead of the terrible finisher that is Pegasus chariot. You get it by getting excellent on every recipe.

To each their own.

Fair point. After all now that I'm thinking on it, there was that large column of light and darkness when Repliku yoinked Riku-Ansem out of the replica body.

I've never actually played TWEWY so I don't know much about that universe other than whatever vague things I spoiled myself on (LIke Joshua being some kind of god-like character and Neku supposedly actually dying with the Final Mix version on the Switch).

Good point. Being one of the people who got into FF from KH (Kinda, but not really. I was introduced to KH first and then one of my brother's friends let him borrow FFVIII. There was never a "Hey, I like those characters what are their games like" kind of thought from me). I also never viewed any Disney animated movie in terms of their time period (Renaissance and all that), so I never would have considered that possibly having an effect on the popularity of KH.

Thinking now, it's probably jumping to a new "worldline" to delay the MoM's prophecy. Worldline A: The Keyblade War happens and light expires. Worldline B: The Dandelions avoid the Keyblade War and the MoM's prophecy (But knowledge of it gets passed down to the future) but the Darkness still gets at this worldline. Worldline C: The Dandelions jumped to a new worldline again to again avert the MoM's prophecy (Or perhaps only some of the Dandelions. Specifically whichever ones appear in the current time) and we get the events of the main series. Giant heartless tornado nabs everybody and the MoM's prophecy is fulfilled once again and light expires. Which leads us to Worldline D: Sora or somebody else jumps to a new worldline and Namine uses this connection to send the Lingering Will to help, thereby averting (Or at least stalling) the MoM's prophecy. Therefore, assuming this thing I just made up is correct, the MoM's prophecy has technically not yet come to pass and the MoM and Xehanort are still correct in saying time and fate are immutable.

Of course at the same time I feel KH3 was very much made to imply either Sora altered and prevented the MoM's prophecy or the prophecy came to pass and the MoM knew it wasn't the end.

I'm curious how she would even manage to do that given that she was supposed to have fallen in battle before Skuld and Ephemer even made it to the Keyblade Graveyard to recover the player character. I don't think Ava was painted as any kind of traitor given that section of the Book of Prophecies seemed to only really imply that the bell's toll would signal the start of the war, not that the traitor themselves would cause the bell to ring. Then again, the MoM did give everybody such specific roles that honestly any of them (Or none of them) could be the actual traitor.

For all the criticism the game has (Deserved or not), the one thing I don't think you can legitimately criticize it for is the graphics. Visually it is absolutely beautiful. Anybody who says otherwise is either trolling or has no idea what they're talking about (Or are from a point so far in the future that video game graphics have surpassed reality).

The gif didn't even show the full thing with Sulley. After throwing Vanitas into a door, he then picks the door up and throws it through another door. And then picks that door up and throws it through another door. And then tosses that final door through a door shredder.

I swear before that the original explanation was that Roxas and Xion were both summoning Sora's keyblade at the same time (And therefore the keyblade was in 2-3 places at the same time depending on when Sora was conscious). But seeing this does remind me of the part where Riku beats Xion and calls her keyblade a fake.

Weird. Any time I tried to get into a scene during a keyblade transformation Sora would just revert into his normal outfit.

Yeah, that's a very notable issue. Everyone's all saying stuff like "Aqua/Ven should've been saved at the midpoint" and stuff like that. Hell, thanks to the trailer showing Scala ad Caelum I legit thought the Keyblade Graveyard stuff was gonna be the midpoint.

Honestly though, they wrote themselves into a corner by having everything bank on Sora getting the power of Waking. Once he gets that power back, there's no reason for him to not immediately go rescue Aqua, then rescue Ven, then head to the Keyblade Graveyard since they'd have all 7 guardians. I suppose they could've decided to go with "Hey, you saved these two but they need time to recover and Kairi and Lea aren't done training" but honestly that's not a good excuse.

Congrats. I assume you noticed the blade of the weapon is the 3 symbol? Strange how I never thought to transform in those worlds. You can still totally use it on Xehanort himself and the game's "bonus boss" (If you wanna call it that) found in Battlegate 14. It is kinda overkill against it though. I figured my next playthough I would stop story progess the moment I'm able to get all the Orichalcum+ materials so I can use it against all the Organization members.

 

I don't remember if you had mentioned any issues with the worlds (Other than not liking the Frozen world), but I read in an interview that apparently this time around Disney and Pixar were super strict about things on their end and as a result really tied Square down on things. This would explain why Tangled and Frozen are simply recreating the events of the movie with Sora and co thrown in and why we couldn't have had Elsa as a party member.

No kidding. When Chi was first announced I was really interested in the fact that there was going to be a game detailing the events of the Keyblade War. In fact because of that I refused to believe Square when they claimed the game would have no actual connection to the rest of the series (I initially interpreted it as it would be connected simply due to showing the Keyblade War).

No idea. The whole concept of a Keyblade Order needed to be planned out more.

Is there an extra Namine scene aside from the one you get if you can find her in the Final World?

Did you get the keyblade for getting all of the Classic Kingdom games and getting a high score on them? I've been lazy and haven't done that yet.

Fuse in what way? Like make the series actually connected to KH and therefore the TWEWY characters in DDD being the actual, legit characters?

Well it's not like we're gonna find out for some years now. Thinking now, it could be he's referring to the events of KH3 and focusing on after light expires is simply meaning to focus on when the Foretellers become the new antagonists.

She could be. We'll get better guesses whenever it gets revealed how exactly the other Foretellers returned. I know Ira said Luxu brought them back, but simply saying that without explaining how doesn't really mean much.

On the one hand, I've got no idea how anybody can tell if a keyblade is real or fake. I suppose Riku could know when it comes to the Kingdom Key specifically since he did possess it for a time. On the other hand, at least this helps justify how Riku would know Roxas is Sora's nobody (Other than DiZ telling him) since the two look nothing alike, regardless of what Xemnas says.

Makes sense. I stopped trying to see once I knew for a fact I entered a cutscene while in a transformation. First time I tried I gave myself the benefit of the doubt thinking the transformation might have ended right before the cutscene started.

I think there's a certain level of power that goes along with the Power of Waking. More importantly though (As to why it was so important Sora master it), the game's journal information on the Power of Waking claims it is used to gain access to the Realm of Darkness (Which the game then argues against it by having Mickey claim his keyblade, being from the Realm of Darkness) is able to open a way to there.

First time I did the transformation the camera didn't focus on it so I couldn't see that. But seeing the way the weapons spun around Sora and seeing one of his combo finishers where a bunch of weapons spin towards the enemy I was very much reminded of FFXV and Noctis.

Nice.

 

While on the topic, Game Theory made a video about it 4 days ago. No idea if you like Game Theory at all (Seems to be very love it or hate it), but I feel it's a good video and provides a guess as to how much control Disney had over that world. Plus if the theory is wrong, at the very least it provides a much cooler idea for a world than what we got.

Can't speak for the filler missions (Plus no idea how bad they were in the original browser game), I get what you mean by them forcing the story alive by continuing it even further than it needed to be.

I wonder why I kept on seeing people online claiming there was a Namine scene for collecting 333 Soras even though I saw the scene without collecting that many.

High score as in simply getting a score recorded in each game. I don't think there's a minimum score requirement unlike the flan heartless. There just as easily could be though, since all the games seem to be easy enough and they go on forever basically.

Sad, but understandable. Just today I was thinking about what if SE decided to make TWEWY officially part of the KH universe, except none of the TWEWY games themselves actually interact with KH themselves and any interaction is solely on KH's side. I suppose that's more towards it being an AU of TWEWY though.

I mean, we all do. Perhaps the MoM is more like us than we realize (Crack theory, the MoM is revealed to be us, the player).

I wonder if it's possible they were in the Final World the whole time, stuck in a state similar to how Sora was. Like how Kairi kept Sora bound to the world, Luxu kept the Foretellers bound but at the same time was preventing them from returning until the right time.

I can understand that in the case of the Kingdom Key specifically since Riku was originally supposed to be its owner, but who knows.

That makes sense.

Didn't he specifically say the power was for using hearts to traverse worlds? Not that such a statement makes any sense whatsoever. At least, not making sense aside from arguably traveling across worlds to reach someone's heart. So if I'm in Olympus and you're in Twilight Town, I use the power to travel to your heart, and therefore Twilight Town.

 

Yeah, that's a concern of mine as well. I understand why Disney is so protective of their newer, profitable, franchises. At the same time though, it's okay for them to loosen their grip on these things. Portraying things in an alternate way isn't really a bad thing. At least, not on its own.

Yeah, I'm still missing like 2 or 3 games and half of them I haven't attempted. Once I go back to working on getting that platinum trophy I'll take the time to do these things.

Honestly I'm not a fan of the idea of having a Star Wars or a Marvel world in KH. That being said though, making a world just of Spider Verse and nothing else would quite possibly work rather well.

That could've happened, but the idea of the Foretellers jumping worldlines as they're all dying from the Keyblade War (And not being hostile to each other if they all appear in the same area at the same time) seems a little farfetched. That being said, I can see it being entirely possible that the MoM jumped worldlines. That would explain why he suddenly vanished without a trace.

That section of the game seemed like Sora jumped to wherever each heart was and guided them back to their bodies, possibly using Kairi's heart as a waypoint to send them to.

 

Yeah, I remember seeing how Aced (The bear guy) originally planned on basically making himself ruler of the world after the Keyblade War. UX is probably gonna alter everything it can then. Funnily enough, I was thinking recently about now that the Xehanort Saga is over, KH can actually move forward with a more simplified plot. If you think about it, all the UX/Union Cross stuff was basically trying to force its way into an already established storyline that is drastically different in many ways. Which could explain some of why the series is so convoluted. With the Xehanort Saga out of the way, the story doesn't need to have these ridiculous explanations for things that are obviously contradictory without the explanations. Of course that's probably not how its gonna happen, but oh well.

Wait what? How did Sora rewrite reality? He had to have at least time traveled even a bit in order to go back to a point in time to prevent his own death.

 

I get that, and I hate that I get that. I've yet to try critical mode (I keep on debating whether I should do it now or wait for the dlc to drop), but I have difficulty getting myself to wrap up the rest of the needed trophies. Hit level 99, get all the treasures, play all the Classic Kingdom games, grab the remaining Lucky Emblems, and do the synthesis stuff. I don't know if it's because of the relative lack of postgame stuff but I'm able to keep up with these things better in KH1 and 2.

Honestly though, I don't think it's the game itself that's the cause of my struggles. As childish as this sounds, growing up sucks. Ever since my last semester or two of college some of my hobbies have gotten thrown to the wayside. I've never been able to recover from that. Heck, I don't ever go on my computer nearly as much as I used to (Which explains my relative lack of activity on the site).