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They're different games with different approaches

See, here's something I have noticed

If you look at the games from KH1 to Days, you'll see that they are fundamentally built on emotional storytelling. The plot serves to cause conflict between characters when it comes to their relationships. It's also heavily reliant on themes. As a result, the plot being somewhat complicated and wishy washy and downright confusing sometimes doesn't detract from the storytelling because after all it's all built for the purpose of telling an emotional and thematic tale first and foremost.

I read this quite a while ago

From BBS onwards, you can see a slight shift in the narrative angle. The plot becomes less reliant on emotional conflict and becomes more focused on hard facts and logical outcomes. BBS still has many emotional moments but with DDD and specially KH3 you see a plot that is much less built around personal conflicts and themes and more built on objective goals and cold facts.

With that angle, the complicated nature of the lore and story at hand starts to bother many players because when you build your story around simple objectives and hard narrative progression, the complicated aspect starts to detract from it.

This is a thought I've had for some time now

So, in KH1, when Sora is looking for Riku and Kairi, that objective is not built on a simple hard fact, it's emotional first and foremost. And the themes of friendship are all sprinkled in very well. So I don't really need to know where the darkness originates from, what is its goal or how it spreads in specific scientific terms. It's essentially a physical manifestation of people giving in to their dark thoughts, and that has happened to Sora's friend Riku, whose negative feelings gave way to the darkness which ultimately led to DI getting destroyed. The narrative is clear, I don't understand the exact metaphysical properties of darkness and all that but I fully understand the emotional implications of it and that's all I need in a plot that is built solely on themes and emotional relationships between characters.

Id like to bring up something if thats alright.

Similar thing with nobodies in KH2, I may not fully understand what exactly is going on with them behind the scenes, or how they seem to sometimes show emotions when they aren't supposed to, but I understand the emotional angle of it. They feel nothing and want to feel again.

Yeah, sure

I don't want to keep dishing out text walls like a senile old man

ive been reading some youtube comments on various kh3 related videos, and someone brought up a point that kind of stuck with me

That the showdown between the seekers of darkness and the guardians of light is a battle over what the world should be* and not wh at the world currently *is

I mean... yeah

That's literally what it is

Sora and co. are fighting to keep the world the way it is and the guardians want to change it to... whatever Xehanort wants to

At first you think they want to fill the world with darkness but then at the end Xehanort says that's not what he wanted to do

Xehanort i think he simply wanted a balance, because he felt like the worlds were tipped into light's favor.

So I think he just duped them?

Yeah, but at the end Xehanort says darkness is a plague and he wanted a world without it, right? I don't remember the dialogue to well

I kinda get the ideology behind Xehanort, because essentially he wants to unify all the worlds that are separate and alone within the realm of light, whereas Sora wanted to keep them separate and within their own bubbles. At least from what I remember, and can think of atm. The main problem is that we don't really understand the big picture, and we don't understanding the ideas and reasoning that go behind each of their motivations

I think i recall seeing a discussion that the line was probably mistranslated, but quote me on that.

I like how pretty much more than half of them could care less about what it is that Xehanort wants too, I mean like YX, Xemnas and Ansem are obviously just well, him, and I would say Darku Tnort and Vanitas are the only other ones that are really in on it all the way

When did Xehanort say he wanted unification? Have I really forgotten so much of his dialogue already ?

Esto is more right on what Xehanort wanted

Well his whole thing was “balance” all the time

He wanted equilibrium

He wanted to reset everything so the light and darkness was in balance

Because he thought there was too much light in the world

@Estoria#4001 I liked reading that

Yeah, that's what it had always been. But at the end of KH3 he says so much bad stuff about darkness that it ends up confusing me

yeah its just that idea that we don't really understand the big picture. Like, what does a RoL with more darkness look like? What does the RoL look like now, even? we just don't really know lol

Like, old man, do you really meant it when you say you want a balanced world when you've dissed darkness so much you could make a whole rap album out of it?

Yeah but he dissed darkness like a friend

Not to mention his "means" to get the goal were to cause a second keyblade war even though he knows how trhe first one went