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hottopic-aqua · 5 years

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“the edges of sleep and death touch and one can’t help the occasional crossover” is way too metal of a line to be coming out of a stuffed animal

#and also wow death is finally actually mentioned in this series #erin plays kh3

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angelrinisadork · 7 years

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THIS GAME IS SO GORGEOUS

#THIS MAKES ME EVEN MORE EXCITED FOR KH3 #Erin plays KH2.8

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ohcrackerjacks · 6 years

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GUYS I’M FUCKING FREAKING OUT ERIN GOT A PS4 AND SHE SAID IF I GET KH3 I CAN GO OVER AND HANG AND PLAY IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I CAN PLAY KH3 I CAN SEE MY SON IN THE NEW STYLE AND I’M SO SO SO HAPPY THERE WAS NO WAY I WAS GOING TO BE ABLE TO PLAY THIS ONE AND ERIN JUST SAVED MY KH LIFE

#KH #BEST #THANK

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hottopic-aqua · 5 years

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It would have been so much cooler to enter Castle Oblivion and then exit to see the Land of Departure. It would have given Sora an opportunity to remember - or at least get a sense of - what happened in CoM, since he STILL doesn’t know anything about that. (Which would have also given him context for who Marluxia and Larxene and Vexen and the other org members are... He also would’ve remembered a darker side to Axel than he knew now...) (Also he’d remember WHY he’s supposed to thank Namine aksldhjfh)

And, most importantly, it would have given him a chance to bond with Aqua more? So the audience who never played BBS or 0.2 could feel a connection that’s more than just, “Keyblade Master who was in Disney Hell for 10 years and was really angry at Mickey for some reason.” It would have given Sora some essential context to her and Ventus (and Terra’s) plight what would have allowed him to forge better connections with them.

Because that’s literally all of Sora’s character - making connections with people. All of RE:Coded was about how Sora needed to have the strength to shoulder other people’s pain so he wouldn’t succumb to the pressure and fall. If Sora fell, he’d be bringing everyone down with him, because he’s the thread holding them together. All of this was swept to the side, if not outright dropped.

He just collected the pieces needed to complete the team and they all moved right to the final battle without anything more than a few obligatory “wow we all know each other huh” exchanges.

There was so actual sense of connection - they were only together out of a sense of duty and responsibility. They all had their own agendas and didn’t focus on anyone’s friends except their own. When Sora tried to shoulder some of the burden (like he was supposed to) and focus on the people who are still lost, everyone else shut him down and told him to just worry about himself.

Sora is a character built on empathy - that’s the whole source of his power! “My friends are my power,” has become such a cheesy line in the series, but it’s true! It tells us everything we need to know about Sora! The other half of the line, that hardly gets mentioned is, “And I am [their power].” His strength comes from empathy and forging bonds with people and by making those bonds he, in turn, empowers others. The entire series is about the power of empathy and how the greatest thing you can do is care about others.

It was never meant to say, “Without my friends, I’m nothing.” That’s how the villains tried to twist it. The fact that the series seems to have taken that route with the quote is a slap to the face.

The fact that Riku pretty much abandons Sora during the final battle spits on the face of what the series is about. It spits on the face of Riku’s entire character arc - an arc centered around atonement and recovery and learning how to ask others for help. He devoted years of his life around protecting and helping Sora after almost destroying everything because he got selfish and let a petty rivalry get in the way of friendship. Because he constantly shut people out. Because he felt that to be strong he had to deal with things on his own.

Then Sora, whose entire personality centers around empathy, breaks down after witnessing the death of everyone he loves. Riku doesn’t turn to help or comfort him. Riku doesn’t acknowledge his pain and expresses any grief himself. He just tells Sora to suck it up, before throwing himself into a reckless, suicidal stunt to try and stop the Heartless all by himself.

In just a few hours everything I loved about the series was torn away from me and I couldn’t feel more betrayed.