Headphone Jack

i doubt Sora is going to actually be more mature in this game. he's gotten increasingly less mature in recent games so idk why they would suddenly do a 180 now. KH3 is definitely not going to be T though. language won't be an issue, the violence mostly involves flashes and sparks but little no blood, and the themes aren't suggestive. at most it'll get an E10 rating like the other games.

i figured she was born there because she was a unique Nobody/Castle Oblivion exists as an in-between world.

pretty sure Xion, Roxas, Namine, and everyone else will come back. for better or worse.

there really isn't a need to release multiple versions of a game nowadays considering downloadable content is a thing. of course that doesn't companies from doing it with "Game of the Year" editions or "Complete" editions containing all DLC items. i imagine if there is a sizable amount of DLC for KH3 (which i sure hope at the very least it's not story related) we'll get some kind of Season Pass deal. then maybe later on down the line once all the major DLC is out we'll get the typical Final Mix version that comes with everything. again, i really hope we don't get a DLC-riddled KH3. i'd like to have the full game Day 1.

no lots of people also understand it. there's even a nifty guide all about it made by a Youtuber named "everglow"

would have taken the fancy box SE Japan was giving out. i'll probably pass on this since i'm not too big into pin collecting.

with the Key to Return Xehanorts of course

i wouldn't mind if they stuck to more contextual banter. that way you wouldn't have to worry about hearing the same lines repeated over and over, breaking immersion. plus it would help to demonstrate their friendship better with some casual dialogue between the three of them.

oh no i don't think there's anything wrong with liking to replay CoM. i mean it has some good replay value in the ways you can customize your decks. the game really opens up after the first few worlds and that's when it becomes fun to experiment with the cards. while Riku's story is a bit more redundant, it's also shorter than Sora's so i guess that makes up for it a bit. and i also don't get all the praise aimed at Days' story. maybe it's just because it's been so long since i've played it/watched the cinematics but i don't remember ever feeling really emotionally invested in the Roxas/Axel/Xion trio. I was more emotionally invested in Roxas during the KH2 prologue because you were watching his life crumble around him while he was helpless to stop it. it feels like so little happens in Days because a lot of the story takes place in about 2 locations.

hmm that's ok Seth. unless it was some really high quality animation like that of a Disney movie i feel like it just would be lacking something.

Days is an absolute grind. i tried replaying it and stopped pretty quickly. once the novelty of "wow a fully 3D KH game on a handheld" wares off (and i remember it's done better on a PSP) i lose all motivation to keep playing. the story is stretched out so thin across so many days and nothing of interest happens for so long. at least Re:Coded has things happening. there's an actual story with events taking place. yes, they essentially make you play through the story 3 times for some reason and the game feels like it never ends, but it's more interesting than Days. and Re:CoM gets better the longer you play. Once you begin to upgrade your deck size and get better cards there's a lot of fun to be had from customizing your deck and planning sleights out. 358/2 Days is a game i'll probably never go back to.

i think Nomura already said there wouldn't be any new additions to the games in terms of content. i'm just hoping for bug fixes.

nomura should have just ditched the entire second Organization 13/time travel plot and instead focused on MX being the main villain who wants to get Kingdom Hearts. Sora's killed the heartless and nobody of Xehanort so that means he is fully formed again and out trying to spread darkness to the worlds or something. This prompts Sora and co. to go on another journey and stop him once and for all. there. bam. KH3 officially set up. see nomura, it doesn't take layers upon layers of plots just to establish a sequel. instead we're getting KH3 with a truck load of baggage that's going to scare away casual fans and newcomers. i'll say this though. the plot of the series is at least laughably stupid so you can still enjoy it as a big "What the hell is happening" sort of moment.

spoilers: Dream Drop Distance makes no sense. as far as i know, yea the existence of the musketeers world doesn't really make sense. they could have just written it like a different time period for Disney castle. that at least would have maybe foreshadowed the more prominent use of time travel in the plot by showing Sora and Riku traveling back to the past to see this older Disney Castle. oh well. it's just another lump of trash to throw on the dumpster fire that is DDD lol

i always assumed it happened at the scene where Destiny Islands is first invaded in KH1. Sora finds Kairi in the secret place. The door explodes open and she collides into Sora and vanishes when she touches him. I figured it was at this moment that her heart took refuge inside Sora.

if it gets announced for other regions i'm totally buying it asap. i like how they even have it made to hold 2.8 so it's all nice and uniform. i've been holding out on pre-ordering the PS4 collection specifically for some kind of package deal like this.

play them in order of release, since that's the order Nomura wrote them in. if you play them chronologically you'll only get confused due to the introduction of plot points that are only significant to those who have an understanding of the future games. the key for understanding the series is to not get bogged down by the details. so long as you have a basic understanding of the plots you'll be able to connect the dots and get along fine. people have gone mad trying to figure out the intricate details that go into a KH plot.

nah i've heard Yuri Lowenthal too many times for it to not be distracting in a game. whenever a character is voiced by him all i can think is "Hey that's Yuri Lowenthal." i'm not saying he's a bad VA, it's just that i'm hearing him too often lol same goes for Troy Baker and Laura Bailey. they aren't bad by any means but they're definitely starting to pop up a lot. i'm sure there are talented and undiscovered voice actors out there who could get the job done, it's just a matter of taking the time to find them.

"See you in two years!"

$2.99 seems like an awful lot. i'm assuming they aren't even dynamic themes. it's gotta be a bug or something right? i mean who wants to unlock the ability to purchase something? if you're going to make people pay money for a thing why not just make it accessible to everyone?

spoiler alert: any name from a video game is too gamey, that goes doubly for Japanese games. although oddly enough the only normal names come from the Somebodies Evan, Dillan and Lea (Axel also works). i get the feeling that was just a lucky accident and Nomura would have given them more funky names if he hadn't already decided how the Nobodies got their names.

i mean if they can be more useful then yes i don't see why not. maps in KH2 were very pointless because it was impossible to get lost in any of the rooms you went through.

not if nomura can help it

i'm planning on going DDD to 0.2 to Back Cover. i'm hoping i'll find the time to do a full run through of the series once the PS4 collection comes out.

i'll give it until 2023-ish until it really starts to die down. maybe the first whispers of the new consoles will pop up in 2020 or 2021 and then we'll get confirmation in 2021 or 2022