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I like how the first two posts are "2 steep 4 me" and "DANG LOOK AT DEM PRICES." Excellent contrast.

I'm used to paying ten bucks a pop, so I think I'm in the former camp on some of those. Depends how much content you're getting for $19.

The new stuff is either really hit or kinda miss. The new Shrouding Dark Cloud and Squirming Evil are both less powerful than they used to be. Which is a shame in Squirming Evil's case because otherwise it sounds great, but it doesn't put me on edge the way the old one did. If I could combine old SqE's drums with new SqE's violin... Sigh. But then there's The Deep End and Disappeared, which are both sthoethjgegiejhyhgd HOLY CHRIST. Forze Del Male is all right. Not perfect, but it works. If they'd messed that up, I might have to kill them.

...Ok I admit I've only listened to fight songs so far big whup wanna fight about it THE ANSWER IS NO YOU DON'T 'CAUSE I HAVE THE FIGHT MUSIC.

I think you meant CoM is to KHII as 3D is to KHIII.

But yeah, there are quite a few important revelations in 3D, and it kinda ties all the dangling plot threads up in a neat little bow in preparation for KHIII. I'd say you'll be slightly more lost going into III without 3D under your belt than if you played II without playing CoM. That, and it neatly summarizes the rest of the series thus far, in case you missed anything else like Coded, 358/2 Days, or Birth by Sleep.

Of course, if you're short on cash, you could just watch these videos, but you're still missing out on the fights. Especially the endgame fights. Them's some good fights.

All the fly honies be on my as-yet-unspecified genits

I'm gonna say about 11-20 hrs. I kind of exploded through it, haha. I prefer to save the hardcore collecting for subsequent play-throughs, or the postgame when it's an option; usually I just want to absorb the story at first. My first file's probably getting closer to 60 hours now, if I had to guess. (Link portals, man.)

DRIVE A CAR

Everyone who said Richard Epcar has a hit out on them now

Use your last moments wisely

[/undisputed #1 Billy Zane fan on KH-V]

A lot of ideas have flown around, but no solid answer has come out yet. Some say his ego clashed with their budget, others say he was just too busy to come back to the series; still others say he was kicked out the door when Epcar was cast. There's also a rumor that he was blacklisted several years back after featuring in a Turkish film damning the U.S. occupation of Iraq, but I can't dig up anything to confirm that.

Looking for his Twitter atm. This might be it. I dunno, there are a few dupes, and I'm bad at Twitter.

20,000 times.

...YOU THINK I'M JOKING?

NO REALLY, DOST THOU TAKE ME FOR A JESTER? I WILL PLAY THIS GAME UNTIL I DROP DEAD FROM EXHAUSTION.

Look I'm just really f#%king excited about finally getting to fight Final Mix Xemnas ok

KH1, Hollow Bastion. In its entirety. The level is sprawling and beautifully designed, the music is a masterwork, the twist at the start makes things interesting in that opening stretch, the bosses are grand and exciting, and the plot hooks are some of the most memorable in the series. The first visit was a many-hour venture, but learning to navigate the place never felt like a chore, and I took great pride in finding all the treasures and unlocking the shortcuts through the castle. I've scarcely enjoyed a game in history more than I enjoyed Kingdom Hearts during the Hollow Bastion segment. To this day, I'll still go back to a save in the Rising Falls and play through the whole thing, just to take it all in.

Ok, I'm assuming there are more people crawling around in these scenarios than in the games, since they're all pretty much ghost towns if you take KH too literally. That said, Traverse Town. It'd have the most hustle and bustle, and I like big cities full of people. Not to mention, the shopping must be great~

As far as BbS, I think that was still a fake. Master Xehanort later admits that his plan in Birth by Sleep was the wrong way to go about it. Granted, since a X-blade was technically forged, it may be that the Kingdom Hearts seen in BbS superficially resembles the real one. But there's no way of knowing yet.

I highly doubt the series is going to end without us seeing the real deal. It'd be awfully anticlimactic. Whether anyone will actually use its allegedly awesome powers is quite another matter.

Hahaha dude holy hell my music thread is still stickied When's the last time you cleaned that section

...Actually, that kinda makes sense. Kinda. It'd be nice to have it confirmed, but it satisfies for now.

Suddenly those two huge, eloquent paragraphs of mine seem very small and full of hot air.

Thank you.

All right, now watch the last minute or so and tell me it wouldn't hurt to get smacked with that giant metal rod.

Remember kids: It doesn't have to be sharp to take your head off.

Wait, so who's a non-dark user who makes dark corridors? Only ones I can think of are Org. members, Xehanorts, and DiZ.

Either way, maybe it's a higher-level dark power that he lost when he, er... de-Ansem'd, for lack of a better term.

...Christ in hell are those two halves of an ice cream sandwich

Just the one, and not so much wild flailing.

...Axel is friends with Vexen? He took the veterans out to push Saïx up the ladder, that's the point I was making. He knows where his loyalties lie, and precious few things can make him stray from that. That's what makes Days such a heart-breaker for him; eventually, he's put in a position where he either has to let his friends, and potentially himself, die, or fight them to make them quit. When he fought with Roxas, it's because he felt betrayed, like his friend was no longer there. And even then, he couldn't keep up the façade, and eventually came back around and helped Sora out of a tight spot.

Spoiler

What exactly are we defining as an "edge?" I guess charging into the enemy headquarters to save a kid from getting assimilated and mocking a dude who could probably take him out with one shot don't count. Seems this mysterious "edge" is thus far defined by the aspects of his character that wouldn't, shouldn't, and didn't stick with him. If so, then yeah, he's lost his edge, and I'd say it's a good thing. Who in the world would he be killing now? Isa? What'd be the point of that?

Lea is unlike Axel; this much is true. He's supposed to be like that. Axel was never who he was to begin with. KH3D marked a return to being care-free and reckless, like the good old days back in Radiant Garden. If you just dislike Lea as a character, that's one thing, but for what reason exactly? Because he's not acting like his counterpart? That doesn't sound fair; there's no point or motivation for him to continue being that person. If he continued being cold-hearted and ruthless when there is no longer a cause for it, that would cheapen his character.

As for the issue of flaws: Comparatively speaking, Lea doesn't get that much screentime, so his character is not in showcase enough to really dig deep into it. That said, I'd say it's pretty reckless of him to, y'know, charge into the enemy headquarters, especially when he hadn't got his Keyblade yet. He's damn lucky it turned out how it did. He even sounds anxious to leave after he's done showboating, which shows he knows what kind of trouble he's got himself into. Bet money that recklessness will get him, and likely many other people, in trouble in KHIII. The 'Norts are going to use Isa as bait and Lea's gonna fall for it. Bet. Money.

To the only example given: He wasn't shocked by it, he just had an "Oh yeah duh" moment. Can't blame a guy for forgetting. As for the rest... Despite this smelling suspiciously of a burden of proof fallacy, I'm gonna have to try that. But I brought up the scenes from the endgame more to discredit the notion that Sora hasn't learned anything from his experiences, or that he hasn't lost his naïveté. He couldn't have connected with those people or earned their trust the way he did unless he'd felt their pain. He knows what's at stake now.

"Is that what Frollo told you? Trust me, looks can be deceiving. A good friend sees you for who you are, no matter what face you wear."​

"So sad. The cost of yielding to the darkness."​

"You could write a book about that."​

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"Are you what's trapping him in that nightmare? 'Cause if you are... I'm what nightmares fear!"​

Doesn't sound like a whiner to me.

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The precious few times I find him talking about the dark having a hold on him, he immediately follows it up by affirming that it's in the past, that there are things and people in his life he can trust to keep him from going off the deep end again. 3D Riku exudes confidence, to a degree that he's able to impart wisdom on others in several worlds, and to wade through an abyss to rescue his friend. In fact, he talks about Sora more than he talks about himself or the dark combined.

He kept saying that. But did he really show it? I posit that it was lip service. It's easy to think you've overcome a problem when you're fresh out of beating the hell out of it and you think you've found a workable solution. Reality is rarely that simple. And just to nitpick: KHII wasn't him "accepting" the darkness, it was him getting drunk on it to beat somebody.

I'm not gonna keep rehashing the confidence/ambition point. If KH3D doesn't show he has it back, nothing will.

I will count the actions of someone deliberately and knowingly helping to orchestrate the complete erasure of several people as more cruel than the actions of someone who doesn't know any better being sent to kill someone and then backing off when more information comes to light.