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This is so hard. There are so, so many. I think one of my favorite scenes, though (don't know if it's my exact favorite, as it's too hard too choose) is the "You're Not Alone" bit from FFIX. FFIX had so many great themes, and Zidane taught everyone so much. And here, at the climax, he's been given some rough news. But his friends--and his love, Dagger--are there to be there for him like he was them. And the track "You're Not Alone" is just amazing. Here's a great fandub. I'd link a non-fandub version, but this one cuts out the battles, and highlights the important moments of this part. IX is such a wonderful, underrated game...

Xion's one of the best Kingdom Hearts characters, if not the best, in my opinion. She's just amazing. She grows from this sweet little girl who doesn't know anything into the most self-sacrificing character in the entire series. Also, she is the most tragic character in the saga. In my opinion, she's a lot more worthwhile than Kairi or Nami. Kairi, sadly, hasn't done much. And Xion hasn't made as many mistakes, or been as selfish in some regards, as Naminé has. And Xion is not a Mary Sue. If you're going to call her that, guess what: half the KH cast could fall under that category! And, yes, that includes Sora. What people's problem with Xion is (besides some of the irrational hate) is that Days came out after KH2. If Days had come out before it, no one would be saying any of this stuff. And you know what? Naminé's in the same boat as Xion in many ways. Her character might not have been "needed" either. Nomura himself said they only started work on CoM before KH2 because Nintendo approached them and asked them to make a GBA game. Therefore, since there were no original plans for CoM, there might not have been any plans for a Nami, either. So, yes, she could be considered useless, too. She was just fortunate (where Xion wasn't) to have her game release first, and for Nomura to have time to make her affect a lot of things. So there. Gosh, I hate KH hypocrisy and character hate. Seriously. Stop with all the senseless hate. This isn't what KH promotes at all. I love all the KH characters, and every fan should at least find a way to respect them, if not like them. I'm sorry if this got a little ranty, but I love Xion to death, and get irritated when people insult her (a lot of times with hypocritical or invalid arguments).

You bring up some really good points. Hahaha. Honestly, I had no trouble with XII until the Henne Mines. Suddenly I was so under leveled it was ridiculous, but FF games do that a lot. In fact, part of this video at around 2:35 (that details the half-way part of XIII) is how I feel during the half-way mark of most FF games. LOL. But, yeah, as long as you take time to level up, and get your Quickenings as soon as possible (which we both seemed to do), you'll be fine! Oh, and paying good attention to the license board, of course, also helps. Also, I love what you put under the spoiler tag. Hahaha. Your avatar is also equally awesome:)

I won't talk about X-2 because people have given you sound enough info on that. Hahaha. I will say about XII, though, that leveling up is a pain. Most of the monsters will slaughter you, but you have to defeat stronger ones to level up. Also, I don't think you get exp from defeating bosses. And the half way point (like a lot of games) will suddenly become murder. Still, XII is a good game and is a decent length. The license board is pretty cool, and I like the battle system in general. And also, if I remember correctly, most of your party members will be whatever level Vaan is when he meets them. Because of that, it might be worth it to do a little bit of grinding in the beginning so your characters are a bit stronger. Anyway, I like both games, so you should enjoy them, too. I think I prefer XII, though, because X-2's a little gimmicky and girly, but it's still a good game (even if you have to be married to your strategy guide to get the perfect ending). And the Leading Man rocks in XII. That is all.

I think you and I are gonna get along fine, my dear. Xion is my favorite KH girl (and my second fav KH character in general; Roxas is my third fav). Also, Roxas and Xion are my OTP (tied with Sora/Kairi, Neku/Shiki, and Joshua/Rhyme from TWEWY). I think you and I are gonna get along famously. Welcome to the site:) I hope you'll enjoy your stay here. -Shanna

That's so true! I was only thinking of in-game things, but I forgot about that! There's also a KH1 art (the Final Mix one, I think) where Kairi's pretty much leaning her head on Sora's shoulder. And then there's also that one pic with Sora, Donald, Goofy, Riku, and Kairi (the one where they're stretching Sora's face and forcing him to smile) where Sora has a hand on Kairi's shoulder. Oh, SoKai. How I love them! -Shanna goes away before she gets too fangirly, but since SoKai's the only canon pairing in KH, she thinks she's somewhat justified in loving them so much.-

Freakin' Re: Coded. All that really mattered was the ending (and even that they could have just covered in another game, which they kind of did with 3D). It was all just pointless filler, and Nomura just made it "Data Sora", instead of the real Sora going through the Datascape, because he wanted to reuse his KH1 model. Need I go on? Re: Coder, er... Coded in general, is the worst in my opinion. And I hate things like the stupid Eliminator (even though I can own his ass now)! This fic sums up my feelings on that thing very nicely. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6748480/1/The-Eliminator So why, then, am I ironically watching a playthrough for Re: Coded at the moment? Because HellfireComms is just too awesome. How I love TheHellDragon and NTom64's humor...

Well, I know my two best guy friends and I are Ven, Terra, and Aqua (or really any of the trios). It's so funny, because we've been friends since we were really young. We're even like the characters, but it wasn't until my Ven wanted to play Ven first, my Terra wanted to play Terra first, and I wanted to play Aqua first that we noticed it. We sometimes call each other by those names now, but not really. Mostly "Ven" and I do it. And I have to laugh at the fact they never even completed BbS. They only played their stories, and I beat the game in its entirety. I'm the Keyblade Master of the group, indeed (plus the biggest KH fan in general). LOL.

LOL. I wouldn't mind a Zack/Aqua date. I'm really more of a Terra/Aqua and Zack/Aerith fan, but the authors on ff (The Genius Mage and Alacquiene) made me love ZackQua. They deserve that one date. In fact, I'm kind of tempted to write my version of it. Hahaha. I wonder if they went on a date, if Zack would fall through Aqua's roof before it. You know, like how he did when he met Aerith (and later Cloud did the same)? In fact, this vid has a part where they make it look like that's how Zack met Aqua, and when he meets Aerith the same way, he can't help but think about Aqua. This vid is sort of sad, but really beautiful and well edited. You know, Zack and Aqua look really good together...

Really? Because I've noticed a lot more, but that's because I'm always looking for SoKai scenes. Hahaha. Here are the ones I've noticed. And keep in mind this also includes when Kairi touches Sora. 1. When Kairi smacks Sora on the head in the opening cutscene when she's teasing him about his dream. 2. There hands, of course, brush when Kairi hands Sora the water bottle when they're collecting provisions. 3. When Sora tries to catch Kairi in the scene where her heart first goes into him. There's also another two versions of this scene now. One in DDD's opening and a later cutscene in DDD, as well. 4. When Sora's reaching for Kairi in Neverland (when she's a floor above him) and she wiggles her fingers in response. 5. When Sora's trying to wake Kairi up in Hollow Bastion. There's, of course, another version of this scene in the KH2 opening, too. 6. When Sora frees Kairi's heart, and when he's fading away Kairi tries to catch him. 7.When Kairi tries to protect Sora's Heartless and ends up hugging it and then the real Sora (once she changes him back). There's another version of this scene in the KH2 opening. 8. When Kairi gives Sora her lucky charm and they hold hands for a brief moment. 9. When Sora catches Kairi's hand to keep her from falling at the End of the World. They then hold hands until they're literally torn apart from each other. 10. The opening to KH2 when they're laying on the beach and holding hands. I know that Riku's holding Sora's hand, too, but I'm counting all of the SoKai touching moments (plus the camera at first just shows their hands interlocked; not Riku's). 11. When Sora imagines himself dancing with Kairi. 12. When Sora and Kairi are reunited and hug. After that, even when he lets go of her, he keeps his hand on Kairi's shoulder for some time. 13. When Kairi helps Sora see that "Ansem" is Riku and they all three hold hands. 14. When Ansem's Kingdom Hearts Encoder blows up, if you look carefully, you can see Sora catch Kairi when she starts to fall. 15. During the ending to KH2, Sora's running to Kairi, and might have kissed her or something if Donald and Goofy didn't tackle him first. Still, we do get the scene where they hold hands, and Sora simultaneously gives Kairi her lucky charm back. 16. When Kairi gives Sora the message from the King, their hands brush. 17. When Kairi gives Sora her lucky charm again in the BbS secret ending. So, yeah. Those are all the ones I can think of. There, of course, are also scenes where they're reaching for each other and stuff (KH1 and DDD's opening, the half-way mark of the Xemnas battle in KH2, etc.) And, technically, you might could count the SoNami stuff in CoM (since Sora pretty much thought she was Kairi), but I won't get into that. Hahaha.

Is it sad that I somewhat want this to somehow appear in KH? I know it would cause a lot of plotholes, but I don't care! Rumpelstiltskin especially would be an amazing antagonist/anti-hero to KH. Just sayin'. I actually wrote a fanfic where I crossed the two over. http://www.fanfictio...-From-the-Curse And this is sort of off topic, so I apologize, but if you want a KH like Once Upon a Time story, then read Twisted Lore. http://www.fanfictio.../1/Twisted-Lore It's AMAZING. But then, so is anything Dani (The Faceless Warg) writes. The Once Upon a Time creators should just snatch her up to write for them. Square, too. If you read this, or her White Knight, then you'll know Dani has a real handle on KH and being Nomura like. Anyway, I love Once Upon a Time, so I'd love to join! It's my favorite show right now, and I can't wait for season 2! When does that come out again?

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Meh. He still touches Kairi more, I think. In fact, I might make a collage of it for SoKai Day... Still, I do get what you mean (even though I do like their bromance and am glad Sora finally hugged Riku after everything). I wish Kairi was in the games more. Hopefully she will be now. But I miss SoKai moments. Heck, I'd even take SoNami moments like in CoM. But Sora needs to "get like that whenever he's around a girl" again.

I thought they advertised something for Days, but I don't know for sure. All I really remember is when they advertised KH2, and before that KH and CoM with the "secret lab" commercials. Anyway, Disney probably thinks people that like Disney channel are too young to know KH, and that the ones that grew up with it don't watch it anymore. Anyway, I'd really hoped they'd advertise DDD! I mean, it's the ten year anniversary game, the story takes place after KH2, it ties into the long awaited KH3, etc. But no dice. Stupid, Disney channel... What really gets me is that they advertise things like Wreck it Ralph (which is about video games) that doesn't even come out until November, but they don't advertise KH when it's already out. I mean, WTH? And though this isn't Disney channel, does anyone remember when Disney advertised KH1 before the House of Mouse Movie? http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGxmI7Eo0X0 Anyway, to get back on track, the fact is Disney doesn't target people the same way anymore. When I was a kid, we got things like So Weird and KH. Now people have things like Hannah Montana. Yeah... Enough said. Still, it's sad that you're least likely to see an advertisement for a Disney game on a Disney channel. They'd better advertise KH3, though, (but I won't get my hopes up).

Personally, I always thought the pod room is where the real Twilight Town and the Digital one intersect. Therefore, it really was Sora that Roxas comes across. Anywho, I always thought the pod opened then because DiZ sort of tricked Roxas into opening it. You know, because Roxas is trying to hack away at the Digital Projection of DiZ, but at the last moment he moves, so Roxas slashes the pod instead. The pod probably opened because of the Keyblade. Perhaps it recognized its true master; at which point Roxas and Kingdom Key return to Sora. Also, Roxas did return to Sora then. What Nomura was talking about in that one interview was that, Roxas wasn't awake inside Sora until TWTNW (when he fights him, and afterwards Sora learns Final Form). Anyway...

To be honest, this game is the perfect example as to why I think if you didn't have loose ends to tie up, don't make a sequel to something. Because then if you do, it just seems really random, unnecessary, and annoying (because you had to screw around with plot points in the original to make it tie-in somehow). That being said, I do like XIII-2. I like the story of Yeul and some of the darker elements to it. Were they to succeed in saving everyone, the party would have doomed Yeul to an eternity of death. I like that they actually put some sacrifice into the game, and made Noel, Serah, and Lightning have to choose between the greater good and Yeul. And, yes, I somewhat like the irony that Serah is fated to die like Yeul (the girl she kind of threw under the bus). Actually, I like the Seeress idea in general. I also, like most people, really like Caius, as he is a truly inspiring and heart-wrenching villain. And of course, anything Lightning does is generally awesome, and she didn't disappoint in this game. It was also nice to learn more about the Maker, etc. And I will just come out and say I am a Noel fan, and was really impressed by his plight. However, I still have major issues with this game. It really ticked me off (mostly the annoying ending), and hopefully XIII-3 will fix it, but meh. My main complaint about this game isn't just that it ruined everyone's happy ending, but that by doing that it got rid of the main thing that made me love FFXIII: Hope. In all of the first game, the characters were pretty much completely screwed, but they never gave up hope that they could save Cocoon and maybe even themselves. They never turned against Cocoon, and I really admired that. In the end, they miraculously succeed in their endeavors, and showed that if you try hard enough, you can accomplish miracles. XIII-2, on the other hand, is completely depressing, and goes on to say there is no hope. Seriously, many of the characters say that way too often. And, once again, though it'll be fixed in XIII-3 (and most likely make all of my complaints in XIII-2 worth it, because I do like this series), it's still really annoying. XIII-2's main problem is that it was really only made to cater to the people who complained about the first one. And, yeah, the gameplay's better, and everything feels more FF-esque, but to do that, they had to get rid of things that made the first game what it was. So basically, to try and please the fans who didn't like it, they had to displease the fans who did like it. And despite this game being all about Serah and "developing" her, I actually liked her better in FFXIII. Maybe because she became a little Mary-Sue like in XIII-2, or maybe because she was a little more shallow, but I actually liked her better in FFXIII. In some ways, she seems like a different character to me, but I don't know why. However, I do like Serah, and there were many moments in XIII-2 when I really did love her (like when she sacrificed herself to save the world). I just wish that the Snow/Serah stuff was executed better. In all honesty, that's XIII-2's problem right there, but then it was also XIII's. It had great ideas and potential, but wasn't executed that well. For instance, I was really hoping for there to be a ton of Snow/Serah and Serah/Lightning flashbacks in this game, but no dice. I had thought that in some ways XIII-2 would be about Serah saving Snow and Light (in contrast to XIII), and while it sort of went there, I feel like XIII-2 didn't do a lot of things it set out to do. I was also sort of off put that Serah always refers to Lightning as, well, Lightning. Don't you think she'd call her Claire every now and then, and make it more personal? Wow. This is really wrong and really sort of contradictory. Umm, let me try to sum up my feelings and end this. I loved FFXIII despite its flaws, and it's actually become my favorite FF. While I do think that XIII-2 was unnecessary, if XIII-3 fixes all that it messed up, then I'll really love the series as a whole. As I said before, I do like XIII-2, but just wish it was done better. (Seriously. We needed to see more of the main cast and not freakin' Mog), I just wish that when Square chose to do XIII-2, they would have done it for the people who loved FFXIII. Not the ones who hated it. If they had, that might have fixed all their problems right there.

@Caity Raindrop To be quite honest, I think it'll be 7 vs. 13, too. Though it would be cool if the teams were even, Nomura has said it'll be 7, and I don't see that changing. Still, I do see how people get the 13 versus 13 idea. And it is amazing that there are, ironically, 13 Lights (though most can't be used)... But yeah, 7 vs. 13. Can't wait to see it! And actually, it'll be more epic that way, anyway. When, despite all odds, our characters win... Well, I'll know why I've been eagerly awaiting KH3 for so long. LOL. I so can't wait, and to see who the Seven Lights are (but I believe it'll be Sora, Riku, Kairi, Lea, King Mickey, Ven, and Aqua). All I know, is this game will be great and everything KH should be! Aaaaaaaaand I'll be rooting for Kairi to be somewhat playable in KH3 (at least as the tutorial character). After all this time, she deserves her time in the spotlight.

Ahh, the whole, "Who was Xehanort and Eraqus' girl?" question. Actually, I wonder if there was one, myself (probably), and would love to meet her! I've actually read some good fanfics about her: Mainly that because of her death, disappearance, retirement (or whatever), that's what made Xehanort and Eraqus become what they did. I like this one fic where Eraqus' is always a bit sad around Aqua because she reminds him of her... Anyway, I wonder if we'll ever get a "fire" element to the trios. And, yes, while Axel is clearly fire, he doesn't really count because he somewhat serves as the "Riku and Terra" role for his trio. Also, I wonder just where Naminé fits in. With Vanitas and Repliku perhaps? JK. Actually, maybe it's best she doesn't fit anywhere. If tragic things happen to the trios, maybe they need to break the tradition and be more than just trios. Quick, Nami! Go join Sora, Riku, and Kairi (like in the false memories you created), and break the cycle! Yeah, don't really take a lot of this seriously...

So you know, I've been thinking about that whole, "it could be an even match in the end" idea quite a lot, but never really analyzed it all until now. But you're right. I wonder if it will be 13 versus 13 in the end (and it probably will be what Nomura planned all along). I mean, Xehanort would have to get more Darknesses if that were to happen, but we do, in fact, have thirteen Light Keyblade wielders. They are: 1. Sora 2. Riku 3. Kairi. 4. Roxas 5. Axel/Lea 6. Xion 7. Ventus 8. Terra 9. Aqua 10. King Mickey 11. Master Eraqus (who most people forget to count) 12. Master Yen Sid (who I could see coming out of retirement to help in this clash) 13. Naminé (should she get a Keyblade, and I'm fairly certain she will). So, yeah. It'll be interesting to see if it ends up being 7 vs. 13 or 13 vs. 13. And you're right, Gambler's Apprentice. I think MX may have created his own inevitable downfall. Also, as we learned in KH: 3D, he never counted on Sora, so that's another thing that's tripped him up...

Man, I know I have more than this, but the one I remember the most was when I first played KH1 (and was fighting Cerberus for the umpteenth time), I actually managed in slicing one of the heads off, and it didn't even reappear. No lie. Unfortunately, it didn't lower his health, and I ended up dying. Sadly, that's never happened to me again, but it was still pretty cool... I also remember in some fights in KH2, I was unable to get some orbs in the Coliseum Matches. The game would just glitch and not let me get them? IDK, but it was weird, but not really a big deal.

This is an interesting thought, and I wouldn't mind seeing it implemented. In all honesty, it probably won't happen, but apparently they did direct Benjamin Diskin to play YMX the way you mentioned. He said, in an interview with KHInsider I believe, that they told him to act unsure of himself. Like maybe he was debating about doing what he was instructed to, and maybe he didn't like what he would become. Of course, that probably means it won't happen. I doubt the voice acting directors would say something that if it was a future plot point. Especially if one of the VAs could unknowingly blab about it. Anyway...

I don't think the hair's blond, though. It just seems a bit lighter like Sora's hair became. And she could have dyed her hair; you never know. And how do you know what Shiki's eye color is? They never showed the top of her face, unless I'm missing something...

So, someone's probably pointed this out by now, but I so think that's Shiki. If you cover up some of her hair with your hand, it looks like Shiki's haircut at the end of TWEWY. Her hair's a bit lighter now, but there are still some dark parts to it...

She looks like Eri with blond hair! Could it be her? I sort of hope so, actually. I want her involved in the next plot, and with Shibuya's trends, it would make sense if she colored her hair. As for why she has something like Mr. Mew... Maybe Shiki made it for her? IDK. Unless it is Shiki, which would be sort of annoying; I don't want her to be in Eri or someone else's body again. Maybe she had a makeover? IDK.

She has headphones and something that looks like Mr. Mew... She's Neku and Shiki's daughter! Okay, I'm totally kidding. LOL. But seriously, what is this? Is it at the end of the game or something? Where have the videos been posted? I need answers, people! -tries to hold back excitement, but fails-