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btw, in the japanese trailer the hp bar is missing during the whole scene.

yeah, admittedly im not entirely sure, but still, have a hard time seeing Onward and DuckTales worlds in KH (though maybe thats on me).

also didnt saw that when watching the trailers at normal speed, but the thing with the manifestation can be seen in the D23 trailer after the giant Darkside emerged and before Sora warned Vali, and the thing when the Heartless are defeated and dissipating in the Nintendo Direct Trailer after Sora summoned Keyblades from a portal and did a finishing attack with them.

thought that also at first, but now i dont believe that the medals in Chi were hints, because beside medals for Coco there were also medals for Moana, Incredibles, Zootopia, Onward, DuckTales, Jungle Book, so for it being a hint would mean that all of those worlds appear in KH4 (or another game), which i dont expect. all of those movies/shows had releases between 2016 and 2019 (DuckTales a rebooted series, and Jungle Book a live action movie), so their inclusions in Chi probably had promotional reasons, and whether or not they appear in KH with a world probably is independent from their inclusion in Chi.

yeah, theres also at least this one gigantic Darkside, though the Darksides at the end of the D23 trailer seem to be normal sized.

kinda looks like that those are the equivalent of regular Shadows, the antennas on the head have a very similiar shape like the ones of Shadows. also, maybe the Heartless in Quadratum not only have different appearances but also work differently there, meaning it looks like to me that the regular Heartless there have features of both Pureblood and Emblem Heartless. Pureblood, because their appearance really resembles that, with Darksides there are other Purebloods there, and they (seemingly, see below) dont eject a heart when they are defeated. Emblem, because they seem to manifest around a heart with their body (as depicted in the D23 trailer), though maybe they also do something similiar like ejecting a heart in defeat (in that moment theres a fitting glow from their torso, which you can see in the Nintendo Direct trailer).

It was, if you mean the ciphered hidden message there: https://www.kh13.com/news/update-kingdom-hearts-20th-anniversary-recap-breakdown-r3665/

Also to The Big Lebowski 😎 🎳

Thanks. Yeah, with so many possibilities for the basically unaged appearances of all these characters in Quadratum, im momentarily willing to bet that its not that their forms (be it their original self or something else) [i]experienced[/i] living/existing for hundred(s) of years in Quadratum (except MoM), also because having lots of characters with century/-ies old minds would/should have heavy implications on the character and the story (MoM and Luxu already have this feature, and both probably will play a big role in the next title).

Im confused, am i in the wrong channel for this (which is to discuss and trying to understand story elements of KH4), did i violated some etiquette here or something, would you mind to elaborate?

https://bsky.app/profile/cabletown.bsky.social/post/3moimoxjhqk2y

Some posts about KH4 and the trailer from PJ, primarily that maybe in Quadratum these arent the original selfs of the Wielders, but data/illusions/whatever instead (which would make the matter of how time works there not an issue, which would needed to be adressed), and that its not sure that Quadratum is a afterworld for all the characters and Keyblade wielders, because the wielders shown in the trailer all disappeared under extraordinary circumstances and some upperclassmen in Dark Road were shown to be in the Final World not in Quadratum:

Also strictly speaking the concept of afterlife is independent of how time flows (though should it be the case that Quadratum is based on the specific concept of afterlife, where you live/exist forever and dont age, it would indeed be intuitive that time flows with the same rate there), but deriving, that Quadratum is the 'dont age forever' concept of afterlive, from just Strelitzias short sentence seems overhasty to me.

She described it very vaguely (" its similiar to an "afterworld", i suppose. " were her exact words), also even the concept of afterlife itself is ambiguous (it could mean living/existing forever in another realm, could also mean being reborn/reincarnated directly, or after some time, or after you lived/existed in another realm for some time...).

So when one year later Riku (presumably) arrives in Quadratum, does Sora also experienced living one year then, but did not age during that (which funnily enough would kinda balance his time sleeping in the pod between CoM and KH2), or were for Sora just a few weeks passing by then.

Does time flow with the same rate, but their bodies dont age (for example, did Vali subjectively experienced living almost 100 years there, and Strelitzia maybe even something like several hundred years), or does time flow much slower in Quadratum (something like 1-2 weeks there for 1 year in the realm of light).

Seeing in the trailer that all the KH characters have the (or close to the) same age as when they landed there, though that spans over hundreds of years in the realm of light, raises the question, how time works for them in Quadratum (compared to in the realm of light).