And I got side tracked with a thread I wanted to make instead...
Awesome. I had a low two days when it comes to writing, so I'm trying to make up for that now.
Most of what I want to complete in Reverse/Rebirth will is just the D-Report and the only hitch there will just be making sure I encounter the Neoshadows on the last floor to finish the Heartless section since the only other one I'm missing is a boss. Yeah, I'll probably just rush it at this point. I'm going to try to get more revisions done today before I head into work. I've been really slacking on a few things lately, so maybe I'll spend today getting my ducks in a row or something.
Do it. Its better to have a bit more of a challenge and finish something faster rather than get tired of it. Like, I feel I could’ve stuck around in the Witcher 3 much longer, but I felt I’d reached a point that I was just satisfied enough to just leave it there, but still far from sick of it. I’m definitely not a completionist at heart, is what I’m saying I huess
I may have to do the same. Duel mode and the extra slieghts breathed some life into Riku's part of the game, but I've been playing this game a bit excessively, and I feel it's wearing me down. I can gain a few good levels here still, but I'm frankly high enough in level to probably finish the game by this point. So I'm just going to gun it myself I feel. Especially since I vaguely remember Destiny Island and Twilight Town giving Riku the worst decks.
A lot of people, especially nowadays, just don’t really give ideas too much thought and just latch on to whatever confirms their preconceived notions the most. It’s lame, but it’s there. I know it’s hard, considering they’re a pretty vocal part of the fandom, but they’re still a minority and most people I feel still make their own minds on things. It’s really best to just ignore them. Yeah, starting from Halloween Town, the worlds get really huge, up until the last floor. Honestly, Halloween Town was the last world where I actually did every room and cleared them of the Heartless - beyond this point I just gunned it.
I've honestly been pretty upset all evening from the anti-BbS video, not because "oh how dare he mock a game I like!" as much as I'm just kind of disappointed that people feel like he made a strong argument. I mean there are some strong arguments contained in the video, but half the time he glosses over the real problem areas so he can use a dumb meme and then goes on tangents over other points that either prove he just never paid attention, or just hypocritically can be applied to one of the games he's using as example of how they do it better. I mean, I was expecting to have my foundations rocked and instead, I'm kind of just dumbfounded that so many fans latch onto this half baked argument. I feel like this video has diminished both my respect for KH fans and just people in general. In CoM news, I only got through Wonderland this evening. I even managed to make it through the boss fight without any real upsets despite him being built to wreck your deck with all his high level cards. I feel one of Riku's saving graces has always been his access to a higher jump than Sora, so whereas Sora sometimes has to deal with the table gimmick, Riku can just jump up there and smack this heartless in the face. I'm now in Halloween Town, and grateful to have a far better deck than I've had for the last few worlds. I can even Dark Aura spam if I wanted to. Unfortunately for me, unlike Wonderland which was short, this place is huge and the tedium is really starting to set in on Riku's quest. Not that Sora wasn't reaching that point by world 8 himself. I feel like I should have gotten farther in, but oh well. I need to get through this areas so I can finally start the real fireworks of Riku's quest. I'm also a bit disappointed that Nomura didn't give Riku and Mickey Halloween Town redesigns.
I think I’ve acthwlly seen the video you linked? But yeah, I see the “there used to be just one Keyblade” argumen thrown around a lot and it’s just dumb as hell. Like, even in the first game we have three Keyblade wielders. How does everyone forget that? And like, it’s the whole point of the series that it’s not the Keyblade that makes Sora special, but the fact that he’s so empathetic that his heart can literally connect to everyone. It’s like prople’s power fantasies got in the way of what was in the actual text
What really kills me, is that he's whining around about multiple keyblades being around and just fan guessing why Riku, Mickey and Sora all have one, though blatantly ignoring why Kairi had one in KHII, but then turns around and whine about the chosen one trope and how retconing this hurts KHI and how Keyblades were unique but he's kind of forgetting that all went out the window with the Deep Dive trailer anyway when we introduced the fourth keyblade wielder, Roxas, which he'a also glossing over. Basically his argument is that he hates the retcon about how Sora got the keyblade because he personally liked him (when he first played this as a 10 year old, his own admission) because Sora was chosen by the keyblade which made him a hero in his eyes because he was a good guy, and then having the revelation it was due to having Ven in him hurts all of his character growth in KH1. The issue I'm having is that his own explanation of how events went down in KH1 is largely misinformed, which is causing the whole issue. He figured the whole thing about Riku getting the keyblade was because Riku used the power of darkness to steal it for example. Now he's basically whining because he liked the game better when it had KH1's simple plot and basically feels all the added lore ruined the series. So it's kind of getting hard to watch his story rant because it just feels like whining at this point. I think what bothers me the most about people giving KH2 a pass on the plot is that it's the game that actually started all of the "expanded lore" nonsense he's actually complaining about, but he's kind of ignoring the fact KH2 sort of ends with more questions than answers because "well all the bad guys are beaten, day is done!" nonsense. I also kind of find it amusing that he's been outright ignoring CoM as though it never happened, which tells me he's a console scrub when it comes to the franchise. Now I'm in combat and I feel like the hypocrisy is kicking in. So he's basic argument is that KH2's combat is fun and all oiptions are viable, fair enough. He then slyly mentions how the real joy is how the special FM bosses all make you step back and play the game more like Dark Souls (at which point my own elitism kicks in because the footage he used was from easy peasy DSIII) and this somehow retroactively makes you like all the other main story bosses better when you apply this logic. Okay, whatever. Now he bitches about how overpowered the Command Deck is in BbS, and claims it's so overpowered it completely negates all the other combat options, but then, you reach end game and meet up with all the final/post bosses because they are all designed to punish you for abusing the command deck, but then some are just too easy to take out. I'll give him the fact that BbS enemies have finnicky stagger though and well, Unknown in this game is like the poster child of cheap and unfair bosses in the series. So again, he's making some valid points but missing the fact that some of his logic can be applied to KH2's combat which he likes better. I'll give him kudos for his epilogue though, which largely is just him saying that just because he hates the game, soesn't mean that other people shouldn't like it either and says that all people have different needs and tastes. So kudos for trying to stay classy I guess, but I don't feel his arguments were really that compelling and he sort of glosses over the flaws of other entries. Again, I'm kind of amused that he never even brought up Chain of Memories, and I feel that alone invalidates a lot of his arguments when he makes bold claims about the "real direction" of KH established in the first two console entries. His argument just feels kind of juvenile, though I feel he does have a few points, just not argued very well. Kind of annoyed this is the video that is convincing people to hate on BbS, not because I disagree with him, as much as I was expecting a more solid argument I guess. I feel someone who gave a more compelling argument about something is this guy: I'm not a fan of KH2's combat, but I feel this guy addresses my issues with it, and even though this video is largely a defense of the gameplay mechanics, it's actually really eloquently made which is a more compelling than "BbS's plot is retconning my childhood and combat is too easy because I can spam one button moves"
That's honestly interesting, because Caddicarus was also confused when in 3D (he played it before BBS) everyone says it like its obvious that Riku was the one chosen by the Keyblade first and only after playing BBS did he get an explanation, but all the while I was like "but this was flat-out stated in the first game and is the whole plot of the first Hollow Bastion arc". In his defense, though, his KH "marathon" was spread over like a year or more even (that and he's still in love with the series despite acknowledging its flaws, so he's more easiliy forgiven in my book ), I think this might be an issue for the younger fans actually. Back when we had to wait years between games, we had a lot of interviews and stuff to stew on, we could replay the games ad nauseam, and now people just get these sexy collections and maybe just... don't read into it enough? Idk. I've always felt that particular detail of the overarching plot was a very important plot point that's pretty much impossible to miss, but then again, I don't exactly come into this with the same perspective as those people. If you think those trophies are ridiculous, just wait until you get to coded Some of them are legit the stuff you mentioned in your message as "at least they didn't ask for xyz"
