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That somehow is less cursed since com, recoded and ddd exist

fair

Xigbar looks like a firetruckin Elf in the Sunset puzzle

I completely forgot I modded X-Blade over Fenrir

Hot take, the gameplay of kingdom hearts 358 days/2 is actually pretty good

ik the controls might be clunky but lets be honest its all because it was on the ds which any game that used the dpad for 3d movement was going to be clunky anyways

mario 64 ds literally is another example

so its not fair to say 358 days/2's controls are garbage and janky because that's just the console itself

which begs the question why the hell didn't they just make the game on the psp?

also it would've been warented for kingdom hearts fans to get the console considering there would've been 2 kingdom hearts games on the handheld

hell recoded should've been on the psp as well

Hot take that isn't a hot take it's just piggy backing off of what you said, I think Days is one of the best entries in the franchise.

I would argue it's narrative can stand toe to toe with 1 and 2, and to a lesser extent (just cause they're both handhelds) BBS.

i am saying in also a gameplay standpoint

Yeah I agree I think the gameplay is good

I don't think it's fair to editorialize it with "it's good for the DS" nah I think the combat and it's leveling up customizations were cool af

And they got expanded on in Coded for fun effect- I wish we had something similar in new games tbh

358/2 days battle system is the clostest to the main games battle system on an handheld

it literally is the regular kh battle system except there is no mp and magic are like limited use items

also i like the music of the game:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/493890345751412737/1241255253232320562/Totally_the_world_that_never_was_theme_from_358_over_2_days.mp3?ex=66498889&is=66483709&hm=b36cc87105dde356197c76652a0585eb2f4c49143b36b8072d18ed10c3332c48&

no one knows
especially bc simba already knew them with their base form and transforming like that would kinda break THE ORDER

Tbh the order is the worst rule kh writers ever created

It's an in universe equivalent of saying "disney won't let us use the characters outside their respective stories"

The fact "the order" is brought up ALOT in kh3 means the team probably had disney breathing down their necks more than ever

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Interesting.

knowing that kingdom hearts dream drop distance was meant to be a kingdom hearts 1 remake, it makes me wonder if kingdom hearts could've been ported to 3ds

i believe it could've been possible considering graphically the og 3ds was about the strength of a ps2

Oh, I didn’t even know that. Dream Drop Distance was originally going to be a remake of KH1? I had no idea at all. That’s fascinating.

i believe so just the fact sora and riku are put in their kh1 attire in ddd says a lot

actually nvm it was a misconception

@sora_cloud_claudekenny_2b_spyro

yeah people had theory of it but its wasn't actually confirmed though but, it would've been nice to have kingdom hearts 1 on 3ds

think about it there isn't really a good official way to play kh1 on a portable system

and could you imagine if kh1 did have a remake on the 3ds with 3d feature

@Kakarot2020 Oh okay. So it was a theory then, but never confirmed. That’s all right.
It would have been cool to see KH1 on 3DS, definitely!
Heck, I still feel a little baffled as to why the Kingdom Hearts games could only get cloud versions on Switch, whereas NieR Automata got a native port on Switch.
I suppose there are always Windows handhelds that could run the PC versions of the Kingdom Hearts games, but I don’t have a Windows handheld, so I don’t know how well they’d run. Plus, whether those are defined as handheld game consoles is probably a debate in of itself.
Oh well. Here’s hoping that maybe the successor to the Nintendo Switch might get native ports.

the cloud versions are a slap in the face for kingdom hearts fans

for a 20th anniversary

the fact they revealed this in the smash reveal for sora and then revealed it being cloud versions

Yeah, I can understand that feeling. I tried the cloud versions myself, and they were a little finicky at times too. It was a confusing marketing decision in my opinion.

square enix literally lost money by doing that

i can't imagine they even got a profit from that

tbf square enix itself is falling off

Well, I don’t know how well the cloud versions sold either. I know that they didn’t stay very high on the eShop charts for long, based on what I saw. So I think it’s possible they probably didn’t sell all that well. We never really got sales numbers for the cloud versions themselves, so it’s tough to know for sure.
I still hope that maybe native ports might be a possibility for the Switch’s successor.

I know that Square Enix recently announced changes in their strategies, so I’m hoping that by making more of their games available on more platforms in the future, and by slowing down releases to focus a little more on higher quality, that hopefully they’ll be able to do better financially in the future.

I personally really enjoyed almost everything they released over the past few years, but I’m also aware that not everyone shares that same sentiment. I’m pretty easy to please, personally, and I’m not super critical by nature, so maybe I’m just easygoing sometimes. 😅 But even though I really enjoyed most of the games they’ve released in recent years, it’s true that a lot of their games haven’t met their sales expectations.
Which can be a whole other topic in of itself. Sometimes their sales expectations can be a bit too high in my opinion. Like, Final Fantasy XVI sold 3 million units shortly after launch, and while they saw that as successful, they did hope for the game to sell more over time. We don’t have any updated sales numbers for FF16 since then, so it’s hard to know if the units sold are somewhere around 3.5 million or some other amount. But yeah, sometimes their sales expectations can be a bit too high in my opinion.

At the same time, a lot of those games cost a lot to make, so I’m hopeful that they’ll be able to increase their financial success over time. And hopefully please more players too. I’m pretty happy with most of their recent games, but I also know that not everyone is. So hopefully they can keep improving in both aspects.

I think they could be doing better sure but they're fine for now

People forget how bad this company really can be lol I remember the 2009-2017 years...

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