I FINISHED A VIDEO GAME OMG

[sincere]

CACKLING

I FINALLY BEAT KINGDOM HEARTS RE: CODED! Saw the secret ending, too.

The entire premise of this game is, literally, that Sora needed extensive training in soul-crushing despair before he could be ready to confront the reality of how much Roxas and Ven's lives sucked.

Roxas is still my wonderful beloved tragic touchy pissy woobie and I love him. (His whole logic behind the final boss fight was literally, How dare you be okay with forgetting things!! FUCK YOU.) Riku and Sora are still inordinately gay together. Kairi is still sadly shoehorned in as an afterthought instead of being a relevant character. Namine and Sora are still tragic and I still OTP them like mad. And for the record, that does not count as thanking Namine either!! The real Sora has to tell the real Namine.

On a related note, I still feel Nomura owes Roxas and Namine (and Xion and Axel) better than "And then they were absorbed into whole people who were not them, and everyone lived happily ever after but they no longer existed, the end." They rationalize so much other nonsensical bullshit, can't he rationalize some nonsensical bullshit justifying Roxas and Namine and Ven all getting to coexist happily in their own bodies, being normal whole people?

Damn you, Kingdom Hearts, for making so little sense, and being so frustrating, and yet giving me all the feelings.

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[temples]

NOW YOU CAN PLAY KH3D.

Although, if you think re:Coded is nonsense, well... :D

[slayerofgod]

What she said. A friend of mine beat it awhile ago and said that it's a lot of fun to play, especially the new flow motion system, but that it retcons the shit out of the earlier games in the series.

To which I replied "So it's like every other game in the series then?"

[rainfall]

It is sometimes very difficult to imagine the storyline progress on Nomura's end.

"Okay so the first game ended with the main antagonist defeated, the worlds all returned to normal, and everything pretty well-settled except that our hero's best friend was stuck in an alternate dimension. The hero is determined to save him and return home with him. The heroine is at home waiting for them. This should be easy to wrap up!"

"But we'll do it in a side story where the hero loses all his memories because a new group of characters working for an unspecified Organization want to use him to secure promotions for themselves. It will also turn out that the hero's best friend no longer needs rescuing, but he'll never know that, and we'll end his game with him in a coma, trying to recover his memories, while his best friend fights off the villain from the first game who is possessing him."

"And then when we come back to the main story, we'll introduce an additional character, and explain that all the people in the Organization are a new type of monster that is threatening the universe and the hero has to stop them, and also make some of them happy, because this type of monster just wants to be human again and some of them are good, so some of them will be absorbed by the hero and the heroine and we'll pretend that was a good thing. At the end, the hero and his best friend and the heroine are all back home, and everything is settled until they get a letter I won't go into details about."

"THEN, THREE MORE SIDE STORIES, ONE OF WHICH TELLS US MORE ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION MEMBERS AND ONE OF WHICH IS A STORY ABOUT NEW CHARACTERS IN THE PAST AND HOW THE MAIN VILLAIN IS STILL TOTALLY ALIVE AND POSSESSING ANOTHER CHARACTER AND HOW THE HERO AND THE BEST FRIEND HAVE OTHER PEOPLE INSIDE OF THEM. THE FINAL SIDE STORY WILL BE ABOUT HOW THE CONTENTS OF THE HERO'S JOURNAL ARE ACTUALLY A COMPUTER WORLD FILLED WITH GLITCHES AND A DATA VERSION OF THE HERO HAS TO STOP THE GLITCHES FROM something something something IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT, AND THE WHOLE POINT WILL BE THAT IN KINGDOM HEARTS III THE HERO HAS TO BRING ALL THE DEAD PEOPLE BACK TO LIFE AND MAKE THEM ALL HAPPY."

I assume that, by the end of Kingdom Hearts III, Nomura's next game will need to resolve multiple time paradoxes, explain string theory, and grant everyone immortality.

[walking_forward]

Congrats on beating the game within a game within a book that's in a game. >>

"Sora's Soraness" Pffth (skyness), that's one way to describe it suppose. Xp

I've long since beaten DDD and let me tell you without spoiling anything it's a combination of...

What the heck. Smart AI pets, can they stay forever! Oh, this is so fun and happy- uh, ehhh! Ouch. Wow, I can't believe they actually went there. Not again, not- oh well it's not that bad. Disney magic beats SE logic! I knew it. Noo! Yes, they went there. Finish Versus, I need KH3 within the next decade (waits for Kh 1.5 localization date). x0

But yeah. DDD has some things you'll be scratching your head over (which is probably a pointless thing to say since it's KH). Though from you guy's comments, I think you might feel very hopeful about certain points that get addressed/more development than previously before. Plus a lot of characters do get attention that might surprise you (you know, for a smaller game like this). But overall it's a fun game that pushes the plot forward and sets up KH3 and what you might expect from it other than saving TAV.