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Maintenance time

Yup

WOW

JUST WOW

NO IN-GAME NOTICE

NO ANNOUNCMENT ABOUT THE POSTPONEMENT OF THE SHUTDOWN

NOTHING

JUST NOTHING

:sit:

i think it was mentioned that there was a glitch regarding clothing/avatar parts not being able to be equipped in certain scenarios? but idk

given how the app was down last night and seemed to get some kind of update, everything just feels Weird

Oh yeah, that glitch. Maybe it was fixed?

There was probably updates for preparation for the finale updates, but the fact there is absolutely no in-app notices about the postponement is truly disappointing. I mean, what's gonna happen to the global version????

Feels like non reality

Nothing that noticeably different as of yet

But you think people will read the novels. It's only main focus are the games... sad but true. This applies to all.

yeye thats the point; the central story delivery is the games, so even if the novels give more internal introspection and characterization that the game's can't provide due to the medium, it's still the game's story that takes precedence at the end of the day.

like i love how the novels give vanitas a lot more personal motivation as to why he wants to become the x-blade beyond the game itself just kinda making him xehanort's partner in crime with a chip on his shoulder, but they lean super heavy into the "yeah vanitas is totally 100% just ventus's darkness turned human, no other storyline here" angle, and since khux seems to be rewriting that sort of angle, it doesn't really matter how good that characterization was. sad but that's just how it is at the end of the day

love living in a headspace that separates canon from fanon tho

(ur also right about not everyone reading the novels too; they definitely get a lot less notoriety than the manga at least, and i personally have only read bits of the bbs novel purely For that vanitas content bc the games themselves have so little. them being secondary is completely reasonable in that sense)

re:mind kinda went hard on the angle that vanitas was a being long before ven and ux just havent made a connection to vanitas yet

ux hasn't made an explicit connection to vanitas, true; i personally would still really like for vanitas to be a fragment of ventus's darkness that merged with Darkness to create the being we see in vanitas. but with how the latest ux update had ventus referring to himself as "pure light," the implication there seems to be that he never had any darkness within him in the first place, and therefore nothing that could be turned into vanitas.

idk; im a huge fan of the original dynamic between ventus and vanitas, so everything re:mind and khux have done to change that interpretation of them makes me kinda :// but we still don't know Everything yet, so i am. Looking. i am simply Observing.

yeah thats why i said there hasnt been any explicit connection. we'll see with part one this month then part 2 in may

i have a feeling that if ventus and Darkness do merge in this finale, they'll take the form of dark inferno, but that's just kinda a hunch playing off the secret boss and re:mind's re-emphasis of it.. i'm just rly excited to see what we get these next few weeks

also just had the realization that dark inferno would probably be a really easy boss to model in khux because it's basically just an ogre/invisible.... thinks

dark inferno was like "chill, ven's fine so focus on me!"

Tell me more ?

Or a new being the true form, a bing of both light and darkness, the true identity of Ventus

He felt like terranorts guardian and ansme guardian. Even when riku took the form, the guardian.

Good to see this medal is still relevant

love her,,

watching her scenes again is so much more heartbreaking now :' (

The character as well

A driving force in Lauriam's investigation

Exactly :' (

The whole entirety of UX is just so more heartbreaking

Speaking of Lauriam, I found this segment in the KHIII Ultimania that got me super excited (me get way too excited for stuff):

Quote

Interviewer: - When Marluxia is fading, he says, "I am on the cusp of reclaiming my identity, my purpose for being." Did he remember that he was from the distant past?

Nomura: Yes. I think if you play KH Union Cross to the end, you will learn his purpose for being.

I don't think Nomura ever mentioned UX's end before this lol. 

To protect his little sister, he uses the power of scythe, he has pink petals representing death. He summons a skull in data fight. He gonna be great in the future and on top of that a protector of dandelions.

For Strelitzia

Hmm.....maybe! (Whatever it is, I'll end up loving it anyway)

Man, I hope the first half of the finale comes out this Thursday!

AND WHY'S THERE STILL NO NEWS ABOUT THE NA VERSION

ahem

AHEM

I was playing the Proud quests and uhhhh, I was at the part in Enchanted Dominion where the three fairies prepare Aurora's dress and b-day cake while the Player watches the sparkly-magic-thingies popping up from the chimney. And....apparently, my device can't handle that animation LOL so everything was super duper slow and glitchy, which caused a huge delay. SO this wacky thing happened: