A Second Chance

Road to Dawn

So, I finished playing KH3. And I have some thoughts...

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I'd give the game 8.5/10. Graphics? Beautiful. Plot? Fantastic. Gameplay? ... sucks. It was WAY too easy - I only died once and that was on those fucking ships in the Caribbean (zero coordination here, folks).

And, the biggest disappointment to me... why did they create such fantastic and deep characters only to barely use them? They definitely gave Sora some depth and maturity which was cool. But they spent SO MANY games crafting Riku into a legit awesome character who's fought off his darkness, yet he's barely in the game. They made us fall in love with Ven, Aqua, and Terra, and there was barely any scenes with them. And don't even get me STARTED on Roxas. The whole POINT of Sora's journey is that he's trying to save him and THEN THEY LITERALLY DON'T SHOW HIS REUNION WITH SORA besides a casual 'hey'??? Cue my eye rolling. What made prior games so great is that the character development was AWESOME. Those games inspired so many people to get into writing, myself included. But there really wasn't any here except for Sora =/

Also, I will be accepting all apologies for people who mocked my hatred of Kairi. I gave her a chance, because there really wasn't a point to hating her before. KH2 Kairi was fine. But this game has officially ruined her for me. My theory was confirmed that she's nothing but a damsel in distress. There's no personality, no depth, no reason to care about her besides the fact that we like Sora and Sora likes her. And to watch just how much Sora does for her, when she does next to nothing in return for him (oh, gee, she grabs his hand in the darkness, much wow)... in conclusion, she still sucks and I was right :P

But the game wasn't all bad. I'm sure in the coming months my opinion will lighten. The plot really was perfection, and though it was easy, the game was a LOT of fun to play. There were also a lot of seriously hilarious moments (Vanitas and Sulley anyone?), and I learned that watching Larxene shit on Xemnas is my new flex. I'm already ready to play it again, so that's a good sign - because when I first finished it, I immediately started KH2 to cleanse my pallet XD

Maybe I'm just being a cynical writer in this review, because as I said - I did like the game a lot. I just can't look past the poor character development, I guess. *shrugs*. But I will say... that epilogue is lit af. Xigbar... what is you doing??

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Long story short, I'll be using a lot of KH3 here, but in my own way. The timeline will be different (longer), and obviously stuff will have to be shifted to make room for Reader. But now that I'm done with the game, I can finally plot the whole series. So yay >:D

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[Land of Departure]

[One Week Before the Mark of Mastery Examination]

The sky above is dark, littered with twinkling lights that are so bright they illuminate the large castle situated perfectly atop the hilly peaks of the Land of Departure. Grassy hills lie just past the castle, the ideal resting place for four young Keyblade wielders as they stare up at the starry sky above.