what the fuck is this?
>>743385374my exact reaction god this game was such a letdown, even if the data fights were great the game as a whole is so mid, genuinely see myself replaying DDD before touching this game again.
>>743385604im really really trying to finish it but the story is so bad bro
You have to know mobile gacha lore to understand what the fuck is going on here. It's worse for KH4 because the entire backstory and all new characters are from the mobile gacha
>>743385374It is e mysterious legion and fight off the Tide of Heartless.
>>743385374I watched like a 3 hour long recap of the mobile game and I can tell you it has something to do with the mobile game maybe.
why is this game so bad?
I miss Squaresoft
just finished it>they don't tell you what the box is>kingdom hearts is a doomsday switch that resets the universe>literal who's introduced at the end to start a new story>kairi is fucking dead but actually in another universe and sora fucks off to go find her>ice cream for everybody>except (You)
khux(cucks)kino
>>743390696the black music at the end really sells this
>>743385374Kh can be pure nonsense some times.
>>743385374selling out
>>743393019>some timesMore like nearly all the time.
In the leadup to Kingdom Hearts 3 Square ran a raffle where you could get your in-game name in KHUX into KH3. There were only like 200 winners out of tens of thousands of players. Here it's the spirit of Ephemera calling on the power of the Dandelions to assist Sora in a Raid Battle against an overwhelming foe, the same way the Unions used to in the Age of Fairy Tales.If you're surprised that Kingdom Hearts 3 makes references to the other games in the Dark Seeker saga I don't know what to tell you.
>>743394743retard
>>743395687Lmao seething fucking loser
>>743393019>>743393163What's the most sane part of KH-specific lore? Because I can't think of shit. Even as far back as 1 it was a fruitcake plot.
>>743395687You can cry all you want, but it won't change what happened.
>>743394743my name made it in, I was really glad. You had to opt-in to the contest. I think it was also 300, not 200, and maybe Japan got their own raffle.
>>743396317Lucky. I tried myself, but no dice. The in-game contest events were REALLY heavily weighed towards whales and I wasn't comfortable with paying that amount to try. Oh well.
>>743394743These kind of competitions always amuse me, because if it's a "help contribute to the game" the people who win either have zero actual ideas or the most absolutely retarded ideas imaginable, both making you question why the fuck they even entered. In cases more like this: it's either usernames you can tell are going to personally pain them years later or if it's for something really terrible they'll regret having their name attached to later: Their fucking full name. It never ever seems to work out.
having that shit in the actual game was cringe and everything about it was cancer
I got that it was supposed to the top players of the mobile game but it COMPLETELY took me out of the scene. What a hacky idea.
>>743396936It's usernames. I'm usually a proponent of the argument that games don't age, because they're often made agnostic of the capacity to change and so the player should be able to experience the entirety of the game in both 2006 and 2026, but things like this DO date a game. Like OP had no idea what the fuck was going on until it was explained, and this was an event in KHUX, not part of the main story. So watching a cutscene summary on Youtube wouldn't help with that either.
>>743385374that is me inseminating (You) a female woman
>>743387668>game that can't be played anymore (I don't know if anyone has even bothered to attempt making a private server) is going to be integral to understanding the 4th gameOn one hand, this is why mobile gaming is a mistake. On the other, I get to know more about this cutie except Literally Me isn't the main character now that it's her time to shine, FUCK
>>743397429Nomura kind of fucked up her character after confirming Strelitzia and Lauriam are brother and sister, because then it was just brocon/siscon "onii-chan..." while removing her shyness and connection to the player, which is what got her killed. There was a point where Lauriam teased her about having a crush, but I doubt that aspect of her will show up in any way in KH4.
>>743395926My brother was a huge KH1 and 2 fan but got so pissed when mainline games got ported onto shitty handhelds. The plot go fractured between multiple shitty ports and it got too hard to follow. Shame.
I'm still mad about KH3. But not as my sister quitting the series entirely over it. She didn't even play any of the side games or study up. So I guess that's how normies who went from 2 to 3 felt.
>>743397286It's not even that. Even if you played it at launch you would have no idea what's going on if you didn't play the gacha kusoge, which 99.99% of people didn't.
>>743385374the darkness
>>743398432Even playing chain or memories, birth by sleep, dream drop distance, and days you still won't know what the fuck is going on here and even when you do it's put together in horrible way that you just feel sick trying to play it.This is coming from someone that loved 1 and 2. These fuckers jumped ship so hard they flew in to the fucking sun.
>>743398616Yeah but back then the event was more recent, so explaining it wasn't that far-fetched. >"It's an event from the mobile game"The reaction to that would be "Oh." But the problem with dating things like that is that this type of art isn't consumed and destroyed, it persists. Imagine 25 years later someone plays through the series and gets to this point in KH3 and has no idea what's going on, and looks it up and finds>It was from an event in a Kingdom Hearts mobile game. The event ran in 2018, and the game shut down in 2021.That practically makes it an in-joke that future players can never be privy to.
>>743398616Honestly it extends beyond his one tidbit, too.>Mystery Girl X is implied to be a UX character after never existing in any prior game before the gacha; integral to Ixa and Lea's backstory>basically everything with Braig actually being one of the major characters from the UX plots, complete with a quote that makes zero contextual sense to anyone who didn't play it and is explicitly a warning alarm for everyone who did>ending is Braig bringing back a bunch of characters from UX with absolutely zero explanation for who they were or why and everythingAnd Back Cover, the movie stuff covering UX plotlines on the side, does help contextualize a couple things but even that is just one piece of the bigger puzzle despite how it got advertised. Like, there was shit happening in KH3 that was Japan-only UX references at the time even, if you weren't fiending for discord groups and specific Youtube channels early-translating, some shit just "happens" in 3 and you had to wait a while longer in English to find out where the fuck that came from.
>>743398951The whole Guilt debacle still weighs on my mind today.
>>743385374I thought that it was the credits starting but unfortunately the game persisted to torture me for another few hours.
My favorite parts of Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 were the early game sections with no Disney characters. Just hanging out with friends with a mystery of something dark and incomprehensible looming over your carefree summer days spent with friends.Any JRPGs for this feel? I usually only play western RPGs
>>743399937Yakuza
>>743399937The first Trails in the Sky. Everything after that becomes more standard jrpg faire but the first game is 90% chill, 10% political intrigue
i wonder if anyone's name from the mobile game from /v/ made it in here
>>743395926>>743398267Never Forget how these Fuckers censored Pirates of the Caribbean.
>>743385374Keyblade oldfags pop out of their graves and reverse-asspull the villains.
>>743402961/v/ didn't play the mobile game back then. This was waaaay before the proliferation and popularity of gacha games. If it came out nowadays yeah you'd bet there'd be like a general here or something./vg/ played it though. Niche games appeal to enthusiasts, not casual players.
>>743390304It's really not. The only thing that I thought was too gimmicky was the Disney World rides being overpowered. The new gummi ship game was a massive improvement over the past two. You get a bunch of simple Game and Watch games bundled as collectables. The world was beautiful and gave you the option to take selfies in it.I do wish Twilight Town was more of the town. The Frozen world was the low point by far since the crew was barely involved with the plot at all. This was likely a last minute change since Larxene was randomly able to conjure an ice labyrinth out of nowhere, despite being a lightning chick.Pirates was the best world. Ship fights were fun as fuck and everything was god damn beautiful.
>>743390639No, Kairi is actually dead but Sora has "the power of waking" which with some clever use becomes "the power of bullshit' which allows Sora to literally rewrite reality. You can't use this power without consequences, though and after using it one last time to revive Kairi, Sora gets "banned from reality" and literally kicked out of it and he ends up in a "world of fiction ".
>>743385374what a souless ui
>>743404095Iirc it gives you the option to customize it a bit.
>>743404054>which with some clever use becomes "the power of bullshit' which allows Sora to literally rewrite reality.That's because sleep and death are similar states of being. It's meant to be used to wake people up, even from magical comas. That's it. But you can force it to work on dead people too. When Sora did that he caused a time paradox, which made the universe very very mad at him.
>>743386223I've tried like 3 timesAlways get burnt out by the Frozen world...
>>743404337Why the fuck would you retry from the beginning instead of just resuming your original playthrough you absolute retard?
>>7434040432's starfox levels and medals were far superior to whatever they were trying in 3. 1 is irredeemably bad.>>743400153Seconding this but please please please drop the series after Sora no Kiseki concludes. Don't even play Sora 3 despite it being incredible because the world building will make you want to continue the franchise.
>>743404476i forgotti man..
>>743404337It took me 4 attempts to beat it.This game really tests your tolerance for bullshit
>>743390639>kingdom hearts is a doomsday switch that resets the universeThis is already known, it is explicitly stated in KH1 that the Kingdom Hearts already reset the universe once, and Ansem's stated goal is to undo the reset and bring back the old universe.
>>743403182Damn
I will never understand the people who cry about 3 but suck 2's dick. Both games are equally disappointing coming off 1
>>7434072622 Disney Worlds still try to acknowledge the Mouseketeers, 2 has more gravity in gameplay compared to 3 which is the floatiest in the series, 2's biggest gameplay sins are RC commands and Forms outshining Magic and Summons, but 3 has so much mechanical bloat that nothing shines.2 had a sense of finality, 3 like BBS and DDD and Coded opens more questions than it answers.
Kingdom Hearts 3 is honestly better than Kingdom Hearts 1 and it's not even close.
>>743408743BAIT
>>743390639>kingdom hearts is a doomsday switch that resets the universespoiler that you retard
>>7434072622 has autistic speedrunners sucking it off
>>743385374>what the fuck is this?kingdom hearts by tetsuya nomura
