Kingdom Hearts III - Or How to make the most convoluted video game plot ever

[WhatNemesisMeans]

Was it ever explained why Mickey and Rikku took to wearing hooded cloaks that made them look like members of Organisation 13?

DiZ (the guy with the red turban) gave them to Riku and Mickey late in Chain of Memories because after the shit they stirred up in that game he knew the remaining Org members would hunt them down. Supposedly they make tracking you down a lot more difficult. They also provide immunity from corruption by darkness, which is why Riku can teleport away freely in KH2 until the plot requires him to lose that ability. Which makes you wonder why he didn't just give one to Sora so he could just warp into the Org headquarters and kill them instead of going through twenty hours of mostly filler Disney worlds.

Or why the Organization's introduction was hastily thrown into what was pretty much a half-assed cash-grab of a game?

Nomura thought it was a good idea ? This wasn't the only time he did this. The most useless installment in the entire franchise, Coded, started just like Chain of Memories: a port of the first game, this time to mobile. Again Nomura added story elements that turned it into a sequel, and it's been stated that Nomura was drunk off his ass when he suggested the changes. At least CoM had lasting repercussions throughout the rest of the franchise. Coded is 99% filler, with only the final cutscenes being relevant to the plot. The game is mentioned three times in KH3 in passing and... that's all.

 

[Antique Rice]

Was it ever explained why Mickey and Rikku took to wearing hooded cloaks that made them look like members of Organisation 13?

From what I gathered after absorbing some recaps of the ninety different games before 3, the cloaks protect them from the dark world somehow. Okay.

I never expect any KH game to have a story worth a damn. The plot has been complete nonsense since 2 at least. I just check in to see stuff like the Tron world and Timeless River. Also I really enjoyed the combat in Birth By Sleep, but I've yet to actually finish any of the games. I tend to lose interest when trying to clean up everything on the way to the endgame.

Also apparently Julius is a boss in 3D? Holy shit, I thought I was the only one on the planet to remember Runaway Brain.

 

[Crocophile]

From what I gathered after absorbing some recaps of the ninety different games before 3, the cloaks protect them from the dark world somehow. Okay.

I never expect any KH game to have a story worth a damn. The plot has been complete nonsense since 2 at least. I just check in to see stuff like the Tron world and Timeless River. Also I really enjoyed the combat in Birth By Sleep, but I've yet to actually finish any of the games. I tend to lose interest when trying to clean up everything on the way to the endgame.

Also apparently Julius is a boss in 3D? Holy shit, I thought I was the only one on the planet to remember Runaway Brain.

Birth by Sleep is, imo, mechanically the best, I have no idea why they threw out the command deck and instead added eyeburning 'attractions'. It also has the only protagonist who isn't clinically re:Tarded (Aqua).

Spoiler: Not Actually A Spoiler

I think my favorite probably actually is the gay visual novel that 358/2 just because I actually had a bunch friends back then and we played the multiplayer together almost daily for about a year. It was a lot of fun and I have a lot of personalized fond memories of it, which automatically puts it on par with the first in terms of 'good because I'm hopelessly blinded by nostalgia'.

Also literally anyone that plays Demyx in multiplayer is a cunt.

 

[Battler]

Too bad Yoko didn't compose the song for the final boss, Oscurità di Xehanort shits all over the final boss theme.

 

[Admiral Mantoid]

I really don't know what to make of any of this except...

 

[friedshrimp]

Maybe it's because I sorta grew up liking these games, and knowing what to expect, so I'm not really as mad as some people are...? I mean, come on, the writing's always been super convoluted. Maybe it's because I've been so pissed off at Disney lately with all their greed, shitty movies and woke tendencies, that I'm kinda glad they let KHIII be for the most part its own thing rather than try to force gender politics or Starvel down our throats in it. I mean it could've been way worse, they could've forced Elsa to help save the day in the anime plot or some nonsense like that.

 

[WhatNemesisMeans]

Birth by Sleep is, imo, mechanically the best, I have no idea why they threw out the command deck and instead added eyeburning 'attractions'.

Because people complained for years that BBS (and DDD) were "clunky", due to the character animations being slow and the multiple commands having your characters dash all over the place, disorienting players and often landing you straight into an enemy attack. So KH3 gave the little whiners a streamlined battle system where you can simply press triangle to win. Or X if you want to make it slightly less easy.

Personally I think they're just scrubs who don't know aerial dodging and invincibility frames exist.

 

[BeanBidan]

So I found out from a coworker that Kairi is now some ebic magic user? which is just Mary sue as fuck. She's a useless and annoying character they should of just kept her on the fucking island. The game should of just been about Axel Rose and his jihad against the organization remnants. That seems edgy but more interesting than sora and his goofy ass shoes. Also coworker told me some of the org members came back and I just thought "why?" Marluxia dying in CoM was fine. He was a trying to be head honcho and got his ass killed but apparently when they "die" they just become human again can kill themselves to become nobodies again or some shit. This is some Dragon Ball Z resurrection wish bull shit

 

[TrippinKahlua]

When I said "Duck Tales" I meant Duckburg! Is Duckburg represented?

Scrooge McDuck, the money vault, the Beagle Boys and etc where around decades before Duck Tales.

Don Rosa doesn't even like that adaptation.

 

[Bread Fetishist]

Here's Dunkey's review of the game. He hates it.

 

[Archeops]

Here's Dunkey's review of the game. He hates it.

That doesn't surprise me in the slightest, I remember him saying that he hates JRPGs in one of his earlier videos.

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

So I found out from a coworker that Kairi is now some ebic magic user? which is just Mary sue as fuck. She's a useless and annoying character they should of just kept her on the fucking island. The game should of just been about Axel Rose and his jihad against the organization remnants. That seems edgy but more interesting than sora and his goofy ass shoes.

She trains with Axel in Merlin's hyperbolic time chamber for 90% of the game, then they both fight like half a battle, job hard, Axel gets his keyblade broken and Kairi gets kidnapped again. Nomura is truly a master of comedy.

 

[Ass eating cunt]

That doesn't surprise me in the slightest, I remember him saying that he hates JRPGs in one of his earlier videos.

and anime too, excluding gibli films apparently

 

[the autist of dojima]

Here's Dunkey's review of the game. He hates it.

>hates jrpgs with a passion
>hasnt played any of the games but thinks he can understand the 8 installment in a long and confusing franchise
>only likes shitty reddit approved animes and hates anything resembling anime
Into the trash it goes, if you are gonna post a garbage e-celeb opinion atleast post the opinion of someone that has bothered to atleast play the other games

 

[WhatNemesisMeans]

She trains with Axel in Merlin's hyperbolic time chamber for 90% of the game, then they both fight like half a battle, job hard, Axel gets his keyblade broken and Kairi gets kidnapped again. Nomura is truly a master of comedy.

I liked how Kairi was as useless as ever. What a beautiful middle finger to all the dangerhairs screeching for more strong and independent women.

 

[Archeops]

When I said "Duck Tales" I meant Duckburg! Is Duckburg represented?

Scrooge McDuck, the money vault, the Beagle Boys and etc where around decades before Duck Tales.

Don Rosa doesn't even like that adaptation.

Duckburg as a location still runs into the same issue as the characters from DuckTales, its only animated appearances have been in TV shows or things that Disney connects to said TV shows. You COULD say that Disney Town (the little town surrounding Disney Castle that you can explore in Birth By Sleep) has some semblance to it but it's more of a generic mash-up consisting of parts from Toontown from Disney's Toontown Online, Mickey's Toontown from various Disney Theme Parks, and possibly Who Framed Roger Rabbit's Toontown.

I liked how Kairi was as useless as ever. What a beautiful middle finger to all the dangerhairs screeching for more strong and independent women.

That's what's great about Japan, the chance of a game developer not giving a rat's ass about what the West thinks is pretty high unless they have to go through Western publishers (or SIE's new publishing guidelines).

 

[Crocophile]

Here's Dunkey's review of the game. He hates it.

90% of it is memeing on the main story for being incomprehensible, but I don't think he's 100% wrong about the rest. He's also the only person I've seen really talk about how if you haven't actually seen the movies then a lot of the worlds don't make any fucking sense because it's just a few scenes ripped out without their context and just assumes you're following along.

Like Tangled, which I actually had seen before, doesn't explain any of the rules of that world. Even I got confused when she just started calling Flynn, Eugene halfway through the world without the scene of him telling her. I thought I must have accidentally skipped something but nope it just bullet trains you through that story. It's by far the worst one.

 

[Bread Fetishist]

>hates jrpgs with a passion
>hasnt played any of the games but thinks he can understand the 8 installment in a long and confusing franchise
>only likes shitty reddit approved animes and hates anything resembling anime
Into the trash it goes, if you are gonna post a garbage e-celeb opinion atleast post the opinion of someone that has bothered to atleast play the other games

Ahem.

 

[BeanBidan]

She trains with Axel in Merlin's hyperbolic time chamber for 90% of the game, then they both fight like half a battle, job hard, Axel gets his keyblade broken and Kairi gets kidnapped again. Nomura is truly a master of comedy.

Sora, the exceptional individual is in another Disney World.
Thus the 4th installment comes to switch.
Kingdom Hearts : bing bing wahoo IV

 

[TrippinKahlua]

Is Ana & Elsa in it? Is Ana still desperate to get a man? Does she try flirt with Sora?