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Message: [QUOTE="Yousef, post: 160310, member: 963"] You’d be surprised just how common of take this is, all parts of it, so I’ll respond to each. This is the huge division point in KH story discourse as a whole. It’s basically one of those things where just because an explanation exists, does not make it a good one. From my experience as a longtime insider of the fandom, KH fans seem incredibly hung up about the fact that an explanation exists at all, but rarely, and I do mean rarely address the fact you need to play an (in my opinion of course) incredibly mediocre game to “get” the story of KH2. This argument also tends to completely disregard writing quality. A narrative connection existing doesn’t absolve it of criticism, nor does it protect it from the fact that the characters might be annoying which leads me to…. I’ve a similar complaint here but from a different angle. I personally don’t find the characters poorly written in the sense theyre annoying or what have you, but that they’re just really, really lackluster and are not expanded upon at all. It’s cookie cutter writing at its finest. Now the time to somewhat tie this back into the topic at hand, because turn based games tend to actually have more time to expand on the plot. I actually noticed this in Yakuza 7 by the by, even if I wasn’t too wow’d by the story. Turn based RPGs just have more time to develop their cast and I ultimately see that as a win. He did. More than thrice. KH1, KH2, KHDDD, KHRecoded and KH3 sora all talk like five different people despite literally the entire series being managed by Nomura. Simply how. At the risk of going “full KH hater mode”, I’d actually have to make the argument that KH1 (the game most fans dub as simple) is only simple by comparison. If KH1 existed in a vacuum, the story would still be really, really bizarre. It’d actually be worse in a vacuum because it took until the “final mix” rerelease for them to actually elaborate on things “Xehanort/Ansem” did. I’ll stop the KH talk now. [/QUOTE]

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