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Probably a change, like how 1.5 for PS3 swapped several vanilla gummi block and dalmatian locations.

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It would be unprecedented if Xehanort knew how to wake Ventus. So it would be more rational for him to allow Aqua to do so. There must be another way to forge the x-blade than Ventus and Vanitas clashing in battle because Xehanort didn't expect Ventus to wake the first time after he spawned Vanitas from him. He'd left him to die. I'll bet Ventus didn't have to be the pure light Vanitas clashed with just because their light and darkness is of the same heart, that in KHIII if Xehanort would attempt once again to forge the x-blade, he'd target Sora, perhaps even to target Ventus through him. Ergo, he wouldn't necessarily need to wake Ventus beyond to wake Vanitas and the only reason he would have to go after Aqua is to use her to bait Ventus and/or Sora like Vanitas did. He wasn't even interested in her in BBS.

Have you seen the whole episode in which Ventus was chosen as a union leader? Right now, nothing apart from this has been revealed. What brought him centuries into the future though it can be speculated was either kidnap by a time traveling Master Xehanort or centuries spent in The Realm of Darkness and with total amnesia remains unknown. It appears you're misinterpreting complexity as abundance. Ventus has the least backstory; rather than revealing his identity, each of the flashbacks of him in BBS just further established the void that it was, but because of that mystery and uniqueness he's more of a focal point than Terra and Aqua. Terra and Aqua's backstories may be just as lacking but because they're a given. Both were average keyblade wielders. The Ron Weasley to Ventus's Harry Potter. Just as we don't get Sora's backstory other than his accepting Ventus's heart into his because apart from that event, he was an average boy who grew up on an island spending his days playing with his friends like average kids do. Ventus was not just from a different and very important era but additionally wasn't originally Master Eraqus's pupil and was pure of heart under unique circumstances, the only pure of heart character to our current knowledge who was created as such rather than born. I'm anxious for the next part of Ven's Unchained Story.

Welcome to KH13. Don't worry, I'm sure most fans have at least one game in the series they opted to watch the cutscenes of rather than play or at least finish playing. For me, it's CoM and Re: Coded.

Anna because the first film was Elsa-centric and tied her up effectively enough. I'd appreciate a revelation that she'd once known about Elsa's powers before they exploded out of her on coronation night. It was hinted at several times, such as when Hans points out her white lock of hair and she tells him she'd had it since birth and Kristoff telling her that he's seen his troll family cure the effects of ice magic before but never followed through and that irked me. Since Anna and Kristoff are together he'd probably share at least a bit of her spotlight and I want to know his backstory.

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I concur, when he wasn't lovesick, he was brilliant. I really did love the actor choice. I've seen him in antagonistic roles on the Hallmark channel and he's quite good in the typecast.

Exactly! I'm not against love at all, I'm actually quite the hopeless romantic but Hades isn't supposed to love, he's supposed to be a twisted, self-empowered badass. What he did with Gaston was his finest act, the one small step in the right direction that they'd taken him.

I agree. This feels like it would be kinda like Being Human UK, when the main cast started leaving the show in the third season, instead of ending it, they got a new cast and it was terrible.

The Underworld arc had the potential to be so much better had Hades not been an inconsistent, lovesick idiot! I concur that Neverland was one of the best, Peter Pan was the last strong villain until Hyde. It was a bit of a stretch to make him Rumple's father but passable. Interesting Fact: In James Barry's original play, Neverland was actually Heaven. Hence how aging didn't occur there. Everyone there is dead. Shame KH didn't do anything with that, such as making Neverland the place of lost hearts within the realm of sleep.

I would love to see Goofy's son Max as a wielder and for Oswald to be incorporated with the revelation that Mickey is his nobody.

IMO, this series has been deteriorating since roughly the second half of season 3 to season 4 at which point it was consistently weak. - Villains have either been below their classic standards--far below such as Maleficent and Hades (losing a child, winning another villain's heart, what the hell kind of dark, earth rattling agendas are those?) or had corny, anticlimactic conclusions like Ursula and even most recently, The Evil Queen. - Protagonists were abandoned with little to no solid conclusion such as Jefferson (I've been jonesing to see him again) and strong figures with conviction, namely Robin Hood and Hook were demoted to purse dogs. - Most backstories became added as plot devices or to make new characters fit rather than for the purpose of eloquence and contained unnecessary elements. - There have been character conflicts that were irrational messes (Ex. Dark One Emma shutting everyone out which accomplished nothing apart from convincing them that she was evil). - Major characters revived from death, one of said deaths was even a knock off of Buffy The Vampire Slayer though admittedly, it was well performed and I'm not actually a fan of the Buffy and Angel ship which the knocked off moment pertained to. - Then we have redundant plot devices, the Belle/Rumple relationship and all these pregnancies. - Zelena. She's been consistently useless and well, inconsistent ever since she got knocked up. She goes back and forth between wanting to be good and wicked and has served no purpose basically this entire season and very little in the last two or so. Though I haven't seen the latest episode yet and the teaser did suggest that she has a plot with the Black Fairy now. We'll see how that goes. Characterizing the Black Fairy as the source of all darkness does effectively finalize the series and so far this season has been its redemption. Jekyll and Hyde were the best things to happen to this series in a long time, I hate that they didn't last longer (and I love the actor who played Hyde), the Evil Queen was a twisted genius and finally, Belle has gotten a set and put Rumple on a damn leash and he's getting a clue. To go out at this point would be to do so respectably. Unfortunately, however, a 7th season has been considered and the premise is that it will be some form of "reset". Details here: https://tvline.com/2017/02/16/once-upon-a-time-season-7-spoilers-cast/ It sounds absurd and I am concerned.

This isn't news per say. Most fans accepted that it will be a 2018 release in January, perhaps sooner. Funny, I just came from scrolling through the Sora Play Art Kai thread and everyone was all "IT'S A SIGN, THERE'S TOO MUCH GOING ON NOW, KHIII HAS TO RELEASE IN 2017!" Nope. I'm not bummed, I'd rather have a quality game than a sooner release and well--I need a PS4. The later the release date the longer I have to obtain one. I also concur with Alpha Baymax, I'd rather have progressional updates than release updates. For example, I'd like for them to add to the confirmed world list.

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Thanx, glad to know it came out alright.

Namine made it clear that to regain his original memories Sora would have to sacrifice his memories of Castle Oblivion and was quite confident that they're not reobtainable. Nothing to the contrary has since been established. In fact, in the KHII prolog, the very last memory of Sora's we see revived (via Roxas's dreams) was him arriving at Castle Oblivion's door and it appeared to fail to stick. Knowing, from being told is indeed, different than remembering but that hasn't been established either. Re: Coded implied that Mickey's letter to Sora revealed to him the Sea Salt trio (Roxas, Axel, and Xion) and the Wayfinder trio (Ventus, Aqua and Terra) and how their fates depended on him but does not imply that the events of CoM were included.

Riku, Roxas, Ventus, and/or Aqua would be the most sensible but I don't believe there will be other playable characters. Numora has stated that while he appreciates how popular the desire is, it's not on their priority list, the focus needs to remain on Sora as it's his story.

I had to Google Manta. He almost seems familiar--almost. I can see Terra's Atlantica form resembling him. Aqua I imagine having a koi fish style tail that is a lovely blue and white gradient.

It does complicate things.

That's what I saw. So I'm not behind then. I'm anxious to know the rest of the story. Interesting that returning to the Keyblade Graveyard in BBS didn't have some kind of a de ja vu affect on him.

True, no direct suggestion is made. So then that first part of the story is all we have right now?

This concept has merit. If the setting could somehow be reworked to be more fictional, I could see The Key to Return Hearts being the treasure or at least Sora and the Organization (perhaps one because of the other) believing it is since that's what Sora is searching for in KHIII. I do like the film a lot. And Nicolas Cage's character's name is Ben Gates and now that I think of it, I'd be interested in seeing KH do something with how the Gates family is infamous for their absurd belief in the treasure, as a result of which Ben uses a different last name in the beginning.

A thread I was participating in at KHinsider about Atlantica's possible role if it is in KHIII touched on its absence in BBS being something of a missed opportunity to establish at least some of Triton's past experience with keyblade wielders and it got me musing about how the BBS trio would have appeared in merfolk form. Since I'd basically have to conjure Aqua's or Terra's out of thin air, I'm not able to make them, I'm not that skilled. I can't draw worth shit, but since it allowed the use of Sora's merman form as a base, I manipped Ventus's on Photoshop. It's my very first KH fanart.

Ventus is a second-hand part of Roxas because he is a part of Sora and Roxas came from Sora. Although Ventus is the source of the double wielding, it was Sora he lent his wield to and thus Sora who lent it to Roxas. I'm confused by the claim that Roxas double wields with Ventus's keyblade though, I thought Ventus's keyblade was the wayward wind. I like the thought though and the art is fantastic. Roxas having more of Ventus's identity than Sora's is a great idea for an AU fanfic.