What do you guys think of Sora's character as a whole? Lots of people keep saying that until now he's been bland and boring with no major development compared to the other characters in the series. Some people say because he didn't have any sad backstory like the others. What do you guys think about his character? Is it true? Does he really need to be more interesting as others say?

Edited June 1, 20169 yr by Roxas_58644

I don't care much for Sora myself, since he is basically a Mary Sue to the entire Disney universe and all the problems that brings. Sora is every all loving hero cliche in the book, with no actual depth or development as a character, which is compounded by his ability to basically plow straight through every obstacle that at least would give the Disney heroes trouble with not much if any difficulty. Every other protagonist that Kingdom Hearts has had has actual dimensions and growth, with internal turmoil they have to try to resolve and sometimes fail, but not Sora. All of Sora's conflicts are ultimately external with nothing internal, even his Jerkass behavior in Chain of Memories is the result of Namine screwing with his head.

 

Even taking the series as a whole from at the beginning of Kingdom Hearts 1 to Dream Drop Distance, the only thing that developed about Sora is his combat ability, not his personality. He goes from some kid from an island that play fights to someone that can wipe out world destroying Eldritch Abominations without breaking a sweat, but that doesn't make him a good character, just a typical protagonist. They are going to have to pretty drastically overhaul Sora's character in the next games to really bring it up to a reasonable quality.

• KH1 - Actually Development and you can see how he has grown throughout his journey. Most of the Disney Worlds in the game were canon & contributed some form of development to Sora's character.
• CoM - Angsty & Angry Teenager. I swear he was like on his period or something throughout this game. He also made A LOT of stupid decisions throughout this game (memory manipulation or not).
• KH2 & Above - Typical Shounen Hero. In other words unlikable or unique to me.  

 

• KH1 - Actually Development and you can see how he has grown throughout his journey. Most of the Disney Worlds in the game were canon & contributed some form of development to Sora's character.
• CoM - Angsty & Angry Teenager. I swear he was like on his period or something throughout this game. He also made A LOT of stupid decisions throughout this game (memory manipulation or not).
• KH2 & Above - Typical Shounen Hero. In other words unlikable or unique to me.  

 

 

If it makes you feel any better, the manga version of CoM has Sora nicer towards Donald, Goofy, and Jiminy. It even gave him a different reason to leave the former two behind.

 

You know, it is heavily rumored that Sora is going to be more mature in KH3. Now don't lash out on me, but I think Kairi might accuse Sora of being the trope category "angst, what angst", when it comes to Lea. And with the announcement of San Fransokyo, I think Sora would admit he felt the same desire to punish that Hiro once felt in Big Hero 6. Reminder: the events of Big Hero 6 was announced to have already happened.

Since sora is my fave character, yes he has some developement in his characters. I would say that he's more mature in kingdom hearts 2, although sometimes he's kinda childish. For some reason, he also develops his romantic side too. I hope that I can see more mature sora in kingdom hearts 3.