Yeah, I really can't. I can enjoy the gameplay, but if the story and characters are terrible, I will choke. That's why I'm playing, for the story! So I can say, I enjoyed the fight mechanics of FFXIII-2, but I can't play it. rainfall played most of it when I started losing my motivation due to the suck, and she actually did come to dislike the battle system, saying it became very boring, but I can't speak to that. I liked it when I played it.
I can SORT of come up with ways that a direct sequel could work, but I'm not confident. But it would be amazing to see another Game setting, or a future Game setting. Could you make a compelling game out of an AU that's less silly than Another Day? I feel like part of what made TWEWY really work was that we didn't know anyone, and they could play with the fact that Neku doesn't remember anything and no one could tell for days, and play with the tragedies and reveals of each character. Going into a new game already knowing a lot about each character would make it a completely different experience right off the bat, although there are still a lot of unanswered backstory questions for every character.
I'm sad that I doubt Nomura will do anything interesting with the TWEWY cast. I have about 80% confidence that they will be mostly thrown in there haphazardly, say some things that may or may not be IC and/or copy-paste dialogue from their game, Sora will convince everyone that their hearts are connected and undermine the entire driving theme behind the game, and we'll miss all opportunity for a really interesting, unique integration into KH's setting. This is the treatment we've gotten from Disney worlds in KH games ever since the first one; the first one took the Disney characters and interpreted them for KH's setting, but the second one literally just copy-pasted a lot of plot and dialogue. But Nomura has a slightly better track record with interpreting the FF characters, so he might be more willing to experiment wit them... In TWEWY, we have a character whose closed-off heart genuinely equals the downward spiral and destruction of a world. That's chock full of KH significance! I want to see him play with it.
If Nomura does well by TWEWY-in-KH, my confidence in the sequel will go up. Otherwise, I'm not exactly holding my breath for awesome. X3
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I can SORT of come up with ways that a direct sequel could work, but I'm not confident. But it would be amazing to see another Game setting, or a future Game setting.
Could you make a compelling game out of an AU that's less silly than Another Day?I feel like part of what made TWEWY really work was that we didn't know anyone, and they could play with the fact that Neku doesn't remember anything and no one could tell for days, and play with the tragedies and reveals of each character. Going into a new game already knowing a lot about each character would make it a completely different experience right off the bat, although there are still a lot of unanswered backstory questions for every character.I'm sad that I doubt Nomura will do anything interesting with the TWEWY cast. I have about 80% confidence that they will be mostly thrown in there haphazardly, say some things that may or may not be IC and/or copy-paste dialogue from their game, Sora will convince everyone that their hearts are connected and undermine the entire driving theme behind the game, and we'll miss all opportunity for a really interesting, unique integration into KH's setting. This is the treatment we've gotten from Disney worlds in KH games ever since the first one; the first one took the Disney characters and interpreted them for KH's setting, but the second one literally just copy-pasted a lot of plot and dialogue. But Nomura has a slightly better track record with interpreting the FF characters, so he might be more willing to experiment wit them... In TWEWY, we have a character whose closed-off heart genuinely equals the downward spiral and destruction of a world. That's chock full of KH significance! I want to see him play with it.
If Nomura does well by TWEWY-in-KH, my confidence in the sequel will go up. Otherwise, I'm not exactly holding my breath for awesome. X3