Isamu Kuno

And that's just for the Japanese release. It doesn't release in the rest of the world until the 24th, almost 2 weeks later. Those 12 days are gonna be hell for avoiding spoilers.

Well, they've also been promoting the hell out of 2.8 all year.

Why would they? It's not like it has any new content like 2.8 does.

Roxas would only be related to Gula the same way hes related to Ven. Like you said, he's his own person, not Ventus or Sora, but he didn't exist until Sora sacrificed himself for Kairi, and thus could not have existed in any way during the era of Fairy Tales. He's a new person born in this era. As I understand it, the reincarnation theory states that the hearts of the Foretellers where reborn into new vessels in this era, meaning beings that only came into existence in this era, such as the Princesses of Heart and Nobodies can't be reincarnations of anyone from before the Keyblade War because their hearts did not exist.

Wow, lots of avatar boards today

You might be on to something with the whole "maintainance hatch" idea. Perhaps the Keyholes where deliberately created by the Dandelions who rebuilt the World after the Keyblade War as a fail-safe against Darkness. We know that Keyblade Masters have always been charged with protecting the balance of Light and Darkness in the World. Perhaps part of that was maintaining the hearts of the worlds via the Keyholes. Maybe they're supposed restore the balance of a world's heart if it's out of wack. In fact, that's pretty much what Data-Sora did in the Datascape. But maybe "Ansem", having once been a Keyblade Master himself, knew of this and used the Heartless' innate hunger for hearts to use the Keyholes to his advantage and do the opposite. We know that when the Heartless enter a Keyhole they do something to the world's heart, maybe that "something" is throw off the balance of the world's heart, allowing the darkness to consume the world. As for them being left unlocked, perhaps they are locked initially but are forced open when the wall surrounding a world is broken. There's definitely a link between the Walls of Light and the Keyholes because it was stated in the Ansem Report that when the Heartless "Ansem" was studying found Radiant Garden's heart, a meteor shower occurred the very same night and meteor showers like that one are caused when the wall is broken. So maybe if Keyhole is improperly unlocked the wall is broken and vice-versa. However, much of this is just conjecture based on the very limited information presented to us within the games, as we have no concrete answers from Nomura or Yasue.

Well the theory actually has Ven as Gula's counterpart, but the same can be said of him.

I think she was being facetious because Sora's KH model has a pose that's extremely similar to, although not exactly the same as, Aced's

So I was going to make my own thread to ask but then I remembered this one exists. I'l put my question in spoiler tags for those who havn't beaten the game yet. So we have a list of DLC content, In addition to the recent patch that gave SSB Goku and Hit their Awakening moves and made Android 16, Future Gohan, Whis and Bardock, among others, mentors and the DLC giving us Cabba and Frost and making Hit a mentor, upcoming DLC will give us Hopefully another DLC pack will give us Merged Zamasu and Trunks new form. What do you all think of all the announced DLC so far ans what are you're hopes for the remaining DLC?

Retcons like the ones in KH are a good example of Word of God in action.

It's a literary trope that says if the highest authority of a crative work, i.e the writer, director or producer says something is canon then it is, even if it contradicts an earlier statement. Oh and also this person apparently can't tell the difference between being wrong and lying.

Well, someone doesn't understad what "Word of God" means.

True, but the same can also be said of Ven. His facial structure is identical to Sora's. At least, I think it is. It's hard to tell because their hair frames their faces differently. Also, look at the mouth. Sora is always smiling in his renders, Ven not so much, even though their personalities are so similar.

I can see it working like this. He gets hurt and has to retreat into is own heart where he sees and talks to all the people he's connected to and it gives him the stregth he needs to get up and finish the fight. It totally works with the "my friends are my power" line he loves so much. So, pretty much the Max S. Link True Ending of P4.

Sure you can. But in that universe the sereies ended at KH2 and KH3 is not, and will never be, a thing.

Before I saw this was in Random, I was about to say for probably the billionth time that Aqua and Ansem where in a different place that Sora and Riku.

I've never been able to beat him. It was hard enough to beat Vanitas' Ligering Sentiment.

Yeah, but here's the thing George Lucas explaind those changes after the special editions came out. 2.8 isn't out yet. I can't imagine how upset you'd be if it turned out that Ven actually is the player character of x, seeing as how everything about that design can be completly changed on a whim.

As far as the Ciderella vs Ven thing, Sorry to say but yes the changes to Cinderella and Belle are more ligitimate concerns than Ven, becasue Nomura designed Ven, he can change Ven's design and anything related to him however he wants. He did not design the Dinsey versions of Cinderella or Belle and should not change something that is a part of them like hair color. That's why she's still 14 in BbS when technically she shoud be 4. look at Sora, his hair went from chocolate brown to caramel brown. As the character designer that is Nomura's right.

I really hope they fix her and Belle. I really hope that's one of the "major grapical improvements" they make. That's a good point about Ven's eyes. Ven and Vanuitas where originally one person unlike Terra and Xehanort, and the original Ven had blue eyes.

Anyone have any idea why the official US KH site is down?

Physical. I want to put it with the rest. I have all of them stacked neatly on a bookshelf. Pre-ordered from Amazon and paid extra from two-day shipping. Sure I might have to wait for about a day or so, but I can deal. Though I do wish they had had 1 day shipping option for the game.

I'll stick with physical just so I can put the case with all the others.

Honestly? Magic up a place for me and my man to live. Also just pretty much make all our career goals come true. Boring? Perhaps, but practical.

I know this is gettign old, but Nova is yet another reason we need Mickey&Brooms