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Like they just cannot let go of their vision until they are forced to sacrifice something

I wish Japanese devs weren’t stubborn to the point it’s a detriment. Yeah good things can come out of it, but at a cost. It reminds me of how stubborn the Zelda team was about the arm abilities that things like the story and worldbuilding suffered as a result

Let alone trying to get that to appeal to newcomers True

Probably one of the higher ups who is thinking ten years behind and you can’t go against the boss so they tried their hardest It really was a poor idea though Not even existing fans wanted that feature

I imagine the Missing Link team was trying to get things like the gps gameplay to work this whole time and it simply wasn’t all coming together, taking too long to develop, and the plug had to be pulled

For sure It’s the people at square making it difficult Disney would probably be happy with anything that makes money

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💯 lmao Classic out of touch oji sans refusing to accept their idea is just bad

Yeah I honestly think this was part of it It was chasing a 2015 era mobile game trend Before botw came out which caused the domino effect of genshin the gacha botw clone Like we now have this just announced today as well This is even using the same time period inspirations as missing link but with the trends that are popular now Genshin-like characters Missing Link was not going to be able to compete at all The higher ups should have realised that sooner instead of dragging it out, but from what I know of JP corporate culture, they were probably being stubborn old men about it until they were forced to accept it was a waste of money and time

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Lmao I wasn't going to at first

yeah bro wrote a novel lol

for sure

like yeah okay man they're gonna see this post

LOL truly I laughed at that part

I think they just didn't know what to do post-kh2

Right? It's a shame

yeah at the end lol

for sure lol it's been interesting to see also "I hope this reaches Square Enix some way, somehow. This is not a suggestion. This is a warning. " this is very dramatic and I doubt square reads kh13 forums lol. I do hope they do more with Kairi in KH4, but we also don't even know what's really going on with anybody else, either It's a bit early to go into full-blown doomerism, I think We can make negative predictions for KH4 all day, but it's probably not very productive to do that

and while I love Xion, I also remember when she was hated and all we had was days

Namine hasn't really been relevant since chains, is the thing

lol dw and yeah like, it's really not that he singles out Kairi. It's across the board that he fumbles his female characters in some way Even Aqua, who is the best written, has some problems especially in KH3 (honestly I feel every character was handled badly in some way in KH3, not just Kairi) Honestly, I don't expect perfectly written women from Japanese games written by men lol. But there is also far worse out there and Kairi isn't that by a longshot, imo. The biggest problem to me is they simply don't give her enough time on-screen.

Just speaking my thoughts about that post

Women don't have to be as physically strong as men, raw animalistic strength is not the only kind of strength that matters or the only value or trait that matters. Many of the disney princesses highlight that. It's odd OP brings up the disney princesses but can't see that. Cinderella's value as a character isn't her beating up armies single-handedly but who she is as person, and how she overcomes the crappy situation she was dealt.

OP is thinking their subjective opinion is objective I hate mary sues and over-powered female characters I like Kairi and Botw/Totk Zelda, regardless of how much some sections of the KH/Zelda fandoms pile hate on them endlessly, because I prefer someone who feels relatably human with insecurities, flaws and has to struggle before they succeed, rather than someone who flawlessly overcomes any problem in their way immediately