So the limitcut fights are all about ‘here’s how powerful the bosses would be if we weren’t balancing them around being beatable by the average gamer’ right? They are literally what if we cut the limits. Every member is fighting at their max strength, not holding back.
Except Xigbar.
Obviously at this point we know why, but just think about that. Xigbar was that powerful, and that was only an act. Now the glove’s off, his ACTUAL limit is cut.
I cannot wait to fight Luxu, and the rest of the lost masters. And here’s hoping they all get limitcut fights too!!
"I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God that you have. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control."
Can I ask what you make of the ReMind menu art? It may be a small thing, but I also interpreted Sora as uncomfortable in the paopu scene, so it made me kind of sad that the menu has this pretty art of him and Kairi with the paopu fruit again.
Well my personal opinion of it is that I don’t like it at all lol. Precisely for the reason that I know 99.9% of people looking at it will believe it was made with romantic intent, even though I myself don’t believe it was. I find it extremely annoying in that way....however. It is also I think dripping with Nomura’s very specific brand of spite and so it’s also as interesting as it is annoying. First of all, it makes perfect sense to have K on there since Remind was all about getting her back, so whatever, that’s to be expected. But what’s strange is the way they are positioned. If it was supposed to be romantic I would expect S to have been revealed to be walking towards her, ready to share his paopu with her. Or at the very least, for them to be walking together side-by-side as equals looking off to the horizon together- or looking at each other. But instead what do we get?
They each have their own paopu, they are not sharing them (perhaps this says something about them each having their own, separate destinies). K is lagging behind slightly, looking at S (she has always been trying to catch up to him hasn’t she) while Sora walks on seemingly oblivious to her. This is especially pronounced by the fact that the title screen starts with just him, then she fades in like a ghost or invisible guardian he doesn’t see (I believe Niku also talked about this in the srt, how it may also be a hint that her heart was in S’s throughout kh3, as it was in kh1- she was there the whole time and he didn’t realize it, which I still firmly believe especially after Remind). If you think I’m reaching with that, consider the fact that when they released the soundtrack cds, there was a special sleeve that Nomura said he helped design himself (which is rather unusual for him to get involved in the design of merchandise packaging). I need to find the promotion for it to check exactly how it worked but iirc, when the cd was in the sleeve, the S artwork was all that could be seen (or maybe K could be seen on the back? Can’t remember), then when the cd was removed K could be seen through the clear plastic next to S. Quite literally they were on separate planes. (I think there was also a folder they sold with a similar concept where if the folder was empty you could see k through the front but if you had papers in the folder she disappears and you can only see S lol yikes)
Anyway, no matter what the nail in the coffin on this matter will always be the fact that Irino said he didn’t think that the paopu scene was a confirmation of romance. As S’s voice actor he would have been told if it was supposed to be romantic (tbh I suspect he had already been told it definitively WASNT but he couldn’t speak about that publicly yet), and he also wouldn’t have said that if he had been told any other scene was supposed to be romantic. People can do all the mental gymnastics they want but if S’s own voice actor doesn’t believe there’s a romance there by the end of kh3 I’m not going to either. He would be one of the first to know if there was.
Edit: oh yeah I forgot to mention that when remind was released Nomura said the art was a hint towards the next title, which turned out to be Melody of Memory so... take that how you will. We all know how that one ended lol To me the separate destinies thing is the message.
Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned so He [i.e., Allāh] may let them taste part of [the consequence of] what they have done that perhaps they will return [to righteousness].