did kairi actually use her keyblade and not just hold it
when she got struck down at the end i said to myself “aw come on, really” she finally got a keyblade in kh2 then 3d ends with her walking through the door and you think, alright now she gets to fight. and then she did nothing, what a let down
i will say some nice things, when emphemera showed up i wasn’t expecting to be as excited as i was. and when all the reaction commands with usernames appear, that was cute. i liked that. since it’s meant to be an end it’s nice that they tried to bring everything up so i could see past the fact they basically shoved everyone in at the end.
but on that note, i am kind of bemused at the lack of any new, original characters. i get that it’s closing out a series and basically every character is a version of someone else. but like, no one at all? unless yozora counts as new
no radiant garden as a playable world was a let down, especially since it shows up a bunch of times in cutscenes so the model was clearly there. no square characters too beyond statues of cloud and aaron and the shop moogle. i am scratching my head at that choice.
no new 2d animated worlds, that’s a shame (unless you count the elephant from winnie the pooh) idk if they just used up all the ones they wanted in previous games or what, but seeing one with these graphics would have been nice. or even just some returning worlds, like when sora was retracing other characters’ steps and could have visited one of those worlds.
i would have liked the chance to play as more characters, even if just for one battle like with riku. they were right there, just give me that. allow me to let kairi defeat 1 (one) enemy.
also i am still digesting how the ending started playing out like a nod towards a further adventure a la kh1 and 2’s, but then that’s all apparently resolved off screen (!!!) and then sora disappears. like i guess sora found kairi but also thanos now disney owns him and that’s why he disintegrates. i am digesting this but it’s not going down well. it’s not even a potential sad ending that’s the sticking point, it’s that it just happens in such a rush
there was stuff i liked, and stuff i wasn’t satisfied with. but utada hikaru’s new tracks for the game slap, it made me emotional at the end
anyway the mysterious test subject lea and isa talk about is ava from chi/back cover and the next series is going to be traveling through video game worlds instead starting with the world ends with you and verum rex as an original world. that’s my theory, i don’t stand by it at all
