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Memorable is a lot different than best or favorite. For me, even though the World of Chaos from Kingdom Hearts 1 is my favorite boss fight in the entire series, the most memorable boss fight has to be the final boss fight against Xemnas in Kingdom Hearts II. Since Kingdom Hearts II was my first Kingdom Hearts game, the entire ending is really memorable to me, especially since this was the first time I was introduced to multiple phases for a final boss fight. I kept thinking it was over, but it just kept going, and I had to start all over again if I lost. It was so frustrating, but it felt so good when I defeated him and saw what I consider one of the happiest endings of all time. Plus, that final attack that Xemnas does makes this fight impossible to not be memorable.

As a follow up to a post I already made, while I personally don't need a lot of content in order to be satisfied with the game, I can completely understand why others would be concerned, especially if it's true that not as much attention was given to the original worlds. The point that I was trying to make was that Square-Enix has made good games and has given us complete stories in the past, even when the original worlds were small, such as in Birth by Sleep. So, I'm sure that they will still give us a good and complete experience no matter what. Basically, I think that there are still reasons to be optimistic, but I guess we will just have to wait and see for ourselves once the game officially is released.

I have not been paying attention to any of the leaks, and I don't plan on exposing myself to any of them before the release of the game. So, I don't know for sure what is being talked about, but from what I can gather, it sounds like there is way more content for the Disney worlds than there is for the original worlds. I don't want to make any judgements before I play the game, but I have never cared about how much content there is. All I care about is whether or not I had fun while playing the game. Take 0.2 for example. That game was very small, but it is probably one of the most fun games in the entire series for me. The original worlds in Birth by Sleep were also very small compared to the Disney worlds (except for Radiant Garden), and yet the Keyblade Graveyard is my favorite world in the entire series, despite there being barely anything in that world. For all I know, the Keyblade Graveyard will still have basically nothing in it this time. Maybe all it will be is just a giant open space for that huge battle we saw in the trailers. As long as it is fun, I don't care. All I want is a fun game, and I don't necessarily need a lot of content in order for it to be fun. However, that is just my opinion.

The Dream Rod is my favorite of Donald's staffs.

I feel the same way! I feel like it should have been obvious since there were orchestra versions for the theme songs of Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, but for some reason, I didn't even think about there being one for the theme song of Kingdom Hearts III. I'm so happy that there is, though! It sounds so good! Plus, I'm a sucker for orchestral music.

I think that they will each have their own boss fight. It might not be during the final battle, but I do think that we will get to fight each of them at least once during the game. Maybe it will be like in Kingdom Hearts II where we fought some of them in other worlds, and then the remaining ones were fought one after the other right at the end of the game.

Yes. However, since I think that Demyx and Vexen aren't real seekers of darkness, I think that there being fifteen pieces on the side of the darknesses can be explained by them not belonging there. Also, since Terra's piece can be seen on both the side of the lights and the side of the darknesses, it's possible that this could mean that Terra started off as a light but then became a darkness. If these two guesses of mine are correct, then that would bring the total number of pieces on each side to seven for the lights and thirteen for the darknesses. That being said, there could be more pieces that haven't been revealed yet (such as a piece for Roxas), which could throw another loop into things.

Unless I'm mistaken, I believe we've seen eight so far.

I fully expect to be wrong. However, I would like to explain why I think what I think. The reason why I included Riku-Replica is that we saw him (or whoever that other Riku was) confronting Sora in San Fransokyo. As far as I know, the only people that we have seen Sora encounter in the trailers so far have been members of the seekers of darkness. Plus, the other Riku has yellow eyes, and yellow eyes are one of the signs that someone is a Xehanort. I am aware of Demyx appearing at the beginning of the Final Battle Trailer (I'm not sure if Vexen appears there as well because Demyx was the only one I could make out). However, I think that he is only infiltrating the seekers of darkness and isn't really one of them. He seems to be working with Ienzo since we see him approaching Ienzo and talking to him while carrying something at the end of the TGS Big Hero 6 Trailer, and I don't think that Ienzo is a seeker of darkness. As for Vexen, since he was not one of the thirteen who were originally chosen to be seekers of darkness at the end of Dream Drop Distance, I don't think that Vexen is one of them unless there was a shakeup in the roster. Also, since there appears to be a total of fifteen chess pieces for the seekers of darkness, maybe that means that two were among them who didn't belong there, and those two could be Demyx and Vexen. I think that Terra will be a seeker of darkness because we see Young Xehanort use Terra's chess piece to declare a "checkmate" against Young Eraqus at the beginning of the TGS Big Hero 6 Trailer. That opening scene seemed to imply that Terra is going to be the one to seemingly give Xehanort the victory, but that Sora will do something unexpected that keeps the game going. And if this really is how it is going to happen, then Terra has to be one of the seekers of darkness.

While I think that overall, the final boss to Kingdom Hearts II was the best, the final boss to Kingdom Hearts 1 is my favorite. I just love the fact that you get to destroy a giant living spaceship piece by piece. Even though it wasn't the most challenging final boss, I found it to not only be the most fun final boss, but also the most fun boss in the entire series.

We all know that Xehanort intends to forge the χ-blade and start another Keyblade War, but why? Does he just want to do it out of sheer curiosity, as the cutscenes of Birth by Sleep seem to imply, or does he intend to use the Keyblade War to tear down the tyranny of light and use the powers of Kingdom Hearts to create the Next World, a World equal in light and darkness, around the darkness that creeps back in, as he writes in the Xehanort's Report? And why was his Heartless trying to open the door to the artificial Kingdom Hearts of Worlds? Was it really to unleash the great darkness of that Kingdom Hearts, as Ansem the Wise wrote in the Secret Ansem's Report? If it was, how did that fit into Xehanort's plan? In addition, Xigbar seems to imply on two separate occasions (once to Zexion and once to Young Xehanort) that no one knows what Xehanort really wants. Does that mean that there is something else that Xehanort is after that won't be revealed until Kingdom Hearts III? In an attempt to arrive at an answer to all these questions, I will write down how I think it all connects. Since the Reports are meant to serve as context to what is going on in the games, I think that what is written in them should be taken more seriously than what is revealed through cutscenes. Therefore, I believe that Xehanort's true intentions are to start a new Keyblade War in order to tear down the tyranny of light and use the power of Kingdom Hearts to create the Next World, a World equal in light and darkness, around the darkness that creeps back in. However, since he seems to only mention this in the Xehanort's Report, it's possible that everyone thinks that he just doing this out of sheer curiosity and that he is keeping his true intentions to create the Next World a secret from everyone, but why? Just doing this out of curiosity seems way worse than create a perfect world. Because of that, maybe there is something else that he plans to do that he is keeping hidden from everyone that won't be revealed until Kingdom Hearts III. As for why Ansem is trying to open the door to Kingdom Hearts, I really have no idea anymore. It's almost as if the most recent games have made the fact that he tried to do that irrelevant, but also are not denying that he did it. True, Ansem the Wise did say in the Secret Ansem's Report that he was trying to unleash the great darkness of his Kingdom Hearts, but how does that fit into Xehanort's plan? It doesn't. I originally thought that Ansem could have been trying to create an artificial Kingdom Hearts for the same reason that Xemnas was: to fill Organization XIII with Xehanort's heart. However, in the Glossary entry for "Kingdom Hearts" in Dream Drop Distance, it says, "The Kingdom Hearts made from the hearts of worlds had a door that led to the realm of darkness; its depths were never fully charted. The Kingdom Hearts made from the hearts of people was believed to have the power to recomplete someone whose heart had been lost." This seems to imply that only the Kingdom Hearts of People was able to fill Organization XIII with Xehanort's heart. Not only that, but it also seems to imply that there was no purpose to the Kingdom Hearts of Worlds since it tells us the purpose of the Kingdom Hearts of People but not the purpose of the Kingdom Hearts of Worlds. If there really was no real purpose for creating a Kingdom Hearts of Worlds, why do it? I think that the best explanation is that Ansem was creating an artificial Kingdom Hearts of Worlds in order to fill Organization XIII with Xehanort's heart, but failed. After this, Xemnas welcomed Roxas into Organization XIII and began sending him on missions to free the hearts for the artificial Kingdom Hearts of People since Ansem's attempt to make a Kingdom Hearts from the hearts of worlds failed. The only reason why Yen Sid had no record of the Kingdom Hearts of Worlds' purpose was that it ceased to exist when the Door to Darkness was sealed and the hearts that made it up were set free and restored before its purpose was made known. That's my best guess anyway. What do you guys think? Is there a reason for the Kingdom Hearts of Worlds to exist? Does Xehanort really intend to create a World that is equal in light and darkness, or does he have something else in mind?

The Final Battle Trailer was my favorite.

I love LEGO DC Super-Villains. I have always been a fan of the LEGO games not only because of how fun the games are but also because of how much respect Tt Games gives to the source material. My favorite LEGO games of theirs have been the superhero games, and now, thanks to LEGO DC Super-Villains, I have the LEGO DC game that I've always wanted. I have always loved the creative and fun boss fights and the original music in the LEGO games, and this game is no exception. The hub world is a mashup of a lot of the most popular DC locations, such as Gotham City, Metropolis, and Smallville. Every level takes place in a different location in the DC Universe, be it Oa, Themyscira, or Apokolips. The custom character, which was always one of my favorite parts of the LEGO games, is not just an extra thing you can do for fun but is now one of the main characters and plays an important role in the plot of the game. Then, to top it all off, they got back iconic voices for many of the DC characters, including Kevin Conroy as Batman and Mark Hamill as Joker. It definitely seemed like Tt Games went all out with this game and I don't know how they can possibly top themselves.

With the release of the Final Battle Trailer, I have decided to make one final prediction on who the guardians of light and seekers of darkness are. However, because I will discuss some things revealed in the Final Battle Trailer, I will give a spoiler warning in case you do not want anything from that trailer revealed to you.

Dice are associated with gambling though. True, Luxord is more so associated with cards, but his Nobody type, the Gambler, does juggle dice in its hands. Plus, both Luxord and Gamblers can turn Sora into a dice. So, I would say that it does make sense for those cubes to be dice, but I could be wrong. I personally think that saying that it looks like Saix's weapon is a bit of a stretch. However, now that I look at Vexen's shield, the top of it does look like the symbol on that chess piece, so it is possible that it could represent Vexen. I'm starting to think that could represent Aqua's Keyblade Glider since I think that it does share a similar design if you look at her Keyblade Glider from the top, but I think that that's a bit of a stretch. I also don't think that her Keyblade Glider would be used to represent her since almost all of the Keyblade wielders, with the exception of Sora and Master Xehanort, seem to represented by the symbols on their Keychains, with this one, on the side of the lights, possibly being the Keychain of Stormfall: Speaking of Keychains, I think that there is a lot of similarities between this symbol... ...and Gula's Keychain: Xehanort does mention the "lost masters" who started the Keyblade War in the early trailers for Kingdom Hearts III, so maybe the "lost masters" were found and Xehanort got his hands on one or more of them. Finally, while rewatching the E3 2015 trailer to get a look at that chess board, I discovered that there is another piece on the side of the darknesses that hasn't been seen since: That would bring the total number of darknesses to fifteen. As for who it could represent, I think that it would most likely represent Marluxia since it seems to bear resemblance to his scythe, which would mean that the flower doesn't represent Marluxia. As for who the flower could represent, maybe it represents Xion. I don't know what other symbol would, and I am fairly certain that she is one of the seekers of darkness. However, I still think that my original thought that the flower represents Marluxia could be right. Who knows for sure?

That's a good idea. It's possible that Terra turns from one side to the other. Young Xehanort does say in the Toy Story trailer that they are missing a darkness that must be reclaimed. Maybe he was talking about Terra. Other than that, I have two other ideas for why the same symbol appears on each side. My first idea is that one of them represents Lingering Will. My other idea is that the chess game represents not just the final battle, but the entire Dark Seeker Saga. So, if Xehanort captures Terra's piece when it's on the side of the lights, maybe that is meant to represent what happened in Birth by Sleep. I think the symbol is meant to be the Keychain for Terra's Ends of the Earth Keyblade, which is why I think that it represents Terra. You do bring up some good points here. I have been going back and forth on whether those cubes are dice or Bug Blox for a while now, so I think that it could be either Luxord or Data-Riku. However, since Young Xehanort's Keyblade has an hourglass for a Keychain, I think that the hourglass is meant to represent Young Xehanort. If I may add one more point to back up the theory that Xion is a seeker of darkness, she totally has a silver hair in the Opening Movie trailer.

With the release of the Opening Movie Trailer, it appears that we now know what all of the symbols on the chess pieces for the seekers of darkness look like. As for who they represent, these are the ones who were confirmed in the trailer: Master Xehanort Ansem, Seeker of Darkness Xemnas Here are the ones that I am fairly confident on: Young Xehanort Luxord Marluxia Xigbar Vanitas Saix Larxene Terra Here are the ones I don't know: You may have noticed that there are fourteen chess pieces for the seekers of darkness. Does that mean that there will be more than thirteen Xehanorts during the final battle? Do you agree with my guesses for who those symbols represent? Who do you think those last three symbols could represent?

I would like to see both Sly Cooper and Cuphead get adapted into animated tv shows. I think that they would both work really well as cartoons since Sly Cooper presents itself as a cartoon, and Cuphead is inspired by old cartoons (in fact, it pretty much already is a cartoon). Neither have to follow the events of their games. In fact, I don't think that they should, except for maybe one or two story arcs.

I don't think anyone other than Master Xehanort himself has been confirmed to be on the final roster for the seekers of darkness. There are more than thirteen characters who have one or more traits of a seeker of darkness (including the black coat), and they can't all be seekers of darkness. If we just list the characters who we have seen Sora encounter in the trailers so far, we have: 1. Master Xehanort2. Young Xehanort3. Vanitas4. Ansem, Seeker of Darkness5. Xemnas6. Xigbar7. Luxord8. Marluxia9. Larxene10. Data-Riku (or whoever that other Riku is) If we just go off of the chess pieces that are clearly visible at the beginning of the TGS Big Hero 6 trailer, we have: 1. Master Xehanort2. Young Xehanort3. Vanitas4. Ansem, Seeker of Darkness5. Xemnas6. Saix7. Luxord/Data-Riku (the cubes could be either dice or Bug Blox)8. Marluxia9. Larxene10. Terra If we combine these two lists together, we get: 1. Master Xehanort 2. Young Xehanort 3. Vanitas 4. Ansem, Seeker of Darkness 5. Xemnas 6. Xigbar 7. Saix 8. Luxord 9. Marluxia 10. Larxene 11. Data-Riku 12. Terra So, that would leave only one spot open, meaning that either Demyx and Vexen couldn't both be seekers of darkness or one the characters currently on the list will cease to be a seeker of darkness before the final battle, which would allow for both Demyx and Vexen to become seekers of darkness. The point that I'm trying to make is that anyone could be on the final roster for the seekers of darkness and that we don't know for sure who they are yet. Just because one of the characters shows signs of being a seeker of darkness in the trailers does not mean that they will be on the final roster for the final battle.

That's a good point! Thank you for bringing that up! I had completely forgotten that Merlin was in Traverse Town in Kingdom Hearts 1! I guess you could say that Pooh's book appears wherever Merlin is. However, the last we heard of Merlin, he was training Lea and Kairi in a special location. We know that Merlin usually packs everything in his house when he travels, so it would make sense that he took Pooh's book with him to that special location. However, that raises the question: How is Sora able to visit Pooh and his friends if Merlin has the book? The way I see it, there are two possible explanations. Either Merlin left the book behind at either Radiant Garden or at Mysterious Tower in the care of someone he could trust, or Lea and Kairi's training finishes early enough in the game to let Merlin return to either Radiant Garden or Mysterious Tower with the book, allowing Sora to enter it then.