Thread 718974445

It's been many years since the last game and it's an old franchise from another era of gaming. Final Fantasy isn't as relevant. Disney is not what it was in the 90s. It's still around, I suppose. But what's there to talk about? 1 and 2 have been dissected to death. The rest of the games are middling in quality. the story is not worth digging into.

Because it’s gay as fuck

>>718974445 (OP)
Waiting for some fucking info. Goddamn.

>>718974445 (OP)
I wonder where this guy is now.

>>718974445 (OP)
the lead up to KH3 was met with literal dogshit between it being shit on release and the gachaslops

same with FF threads constantly having threads about muh jenovaroth before 7R raped it, and 8 died by proxy

>>718975047
8 threads died by proxy*

>>718974445 (OP)
3 ruined it, it fucking killed the franchise and what is left is cope from youtubers and trannies

>>718974445 (OP)
Xehanort the FORT is literally me.

>>718974445 (OP)
Do you want to talk about KH or do you want to talk about e-celebs
>>718975031
Japan
>>718974682
The core audience aged out of the series and video games in general. The series peaked in popularity nearly 20 years ago with 2.

>>718974445 (OP)
Because there hasnt been new news about the franchise for years, and we wont get any new news for years more.

Discussion slows down when there is no new content being fed into the community.

>>718974445 (OP)
If Missing Link came out you'd have a thread every other day discussing some new shitty plot thread that released from it. But that'll never happen. Its cancellation heralds the end of KH, and we might all be better off for it.

>>718974445 (OP)
6 years since the last one with no new game in sight.

>>718974445 (OP)
Pretty much what other anons said
The cancellation of Missing Link is a bit grim, but 4 allegedly still is being worked on, so whenever Squenix feels like starting the hype cycle on it we should see discussion pick back up
What I’m really curious about is whether they’ll be able to get Gen Alphers interested in KH when FF already struggles and is more accessible narratively
In any case, the one place where KH discussion will always be alive no matter what happens is speedrun autist circles, so in the time between hype cycles that’s the best you’ll get

>>718974445 (OP)
Kingdom Hearts was always just the Xehanort Saga and KH3 treated the end of said decade-long saga as a speed bump on the way to KH4. More time was wasted on set-up for future garbage than was spent on the plot that had already been built.
Why should I expect the next saga will be treated any differently? Why should I even consider getting invested?
Also the base game's combat was shit and so were almost all of the bosses.

>Hard to stream due to Disney/Square music problems
>People watch streamers nowadays
>No streamers no publicity
>No publicity no audience
I like RPGs but that's just the way the keyblade enters the lock.

>>718974445 (OP)
People only talked about it to hit on chicks. Once women caught wind about it, the men stopped as well.

>>718974445 (OP)
1. There hasn't been anything new to talk about in years
2. Fanbase are faggots and not worth talking to

>>718974445 (OP)
no games. also the series peaked at 2 don't (you) me

>>718974445 (OP)
This recent vid explains why.
https://youtu.be/P88VToc9AeY?si=8myKlu1d-sDt62wd

>>718978867
Pretty much this. It also was only really relevant in the mainstream during the peak of the 00s with hot topic edge culture meeting the more family friendly disney shit that marked every millennials existence growing up. KH4 will be the litmus test for how much gas is left in the tank before they put it out to pasture or only do exclusively mobile shit to appeal to the zoomers/gen alphas.

>>718981064
>reminding me that Just a Pancake finally gave up the ghost
Why would you do this to me

>>718974445 (OP)
Does dressing up as Roxas make you better at cooking Takoyaki?

>>718974445 (OP)
I dont wanna derail the thread but the guys face makes it look like anime Donald Trump

Console exclusivity for 2 years for KH3 was pretty retarded too but that's par the course for Square Enix. Not to mention the other games still stuck on the 3DS and whatnot.

>>718974445 (OP)
the proper question is why should you still care about the series

>>718974445 (OP)
That little freak is going to absolutely hoover up the snatch in Japan.

>>718974445 (OP)
Cause whether fags on here admit or not KH3 was sold as the fucking end of this franchise, and it either needed another director to take the fucking helm and rebrand it or just fucking die, but nah instead KH3 is basically Part 1 and KH4 is Part 2 which will actually be the midway point of the Darkfaggot Arc and yadda yadda bullshit.
Like anon here has a good point >>718976014
in bringing up Gen Alphers interest in this franchise. Why would they bother with burdening themselves with all the bullshit this franchise offers and get themselves in a convoluted story thats already pissing of OG fans and not get into some other shit that doesnt have baggage. Not to mention general interest in Disney including fucking Star Wars that everyone used to be hyped about is also fucking dead in the water cause Star Wars(along with Marvel) is a brand that is fucking dead in the water. I'll always have fond memories of this franchise especially for those first 3 games but I wouldnt recommend any newfag to get into this franchise. Waste of fucking time

>>718974445 (OP)
Not much new to talk about, aside from their latest side game getting cancelled.
>>718975002
God I hope they don't completely butcher Elrena's personality.

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.

Those dozens of games in-between that were side stories but were actually necessary to understand the plot of the game and then delivering trash that was KH3 was what killed any interest in the franchise. Even if you watched the hour long summary of what happened on youtube, you'd feel ripped off because it didn't live up tot he hype it was promising. They dragged it out as long as they could and when they were suppose to deliver they fell flat on their faces.

>>718974445 (OP)
KH3 was trash. Disney slop.

>>718983384
KH3 had pretty solid gameplay and the worlds were amazing, with Arendelle being the only low point. I wish they paced the team getting their bros back better to give them more time in the spotlight, but I'm still happy with what was there.

Sora...

>>718983774
To this day his words have never been rebuked

I went in to this thread expecting a Chibi discussion, but you are actually discussing videogames
OPs stealth thread was too subtle

KH4
>Replaced the villain from KH1-3 with comic relief Marvel quipping mobile gacha character who appeared in 2 cutscenes in the actual games for 6 minutes and 36 seconds
>Organization XIII is replaced with mobile gacha characters who have cardboard one dimensional personalities and appeared in 1 cutscene for 2 minutes and 55 seconds in the actual games
>In order to understand backstory you need to play mobile gacha (WHICH IS OFFLINE NOW)
>Another mobile gacha that was supposed to contain crucial backstory got cancelled
>QTEs
>Strong woman representation
>Unreal Engine 5
>Nomura is retiring and giving away the franchise to literally who
IT'S OVER

>>718983875
There really isn't anything to discuss about the guy since he left his easy $80k job to move to japan to teach english "and work another job".
Dude just handcapped himself with the cost of yen and his college degree debt

square mismanagement. no kh4 trailers, missing was cancelled and nomura wasn't allowed to comment about it

>>718974445 (OP)
It reached the same fate as other long running franchises with convoluted storylines. Nobody wants to jump into a series where you need to play a bunch of games + spinoffs including mobile garbage just to understand the story. Meanwhile, the series only bleeds fans as people get older and lose interest.

>>718984280
Why not focus on a new protag and setting? KH2 should've been the end for Sora and co.

Been playing KH3 for the first time and enjoying my time.
Fuck you /v/

>>718974445 (OP)
When your series becomes more convoluted and require more effort to get into than one piece, you know you fucked up

>>718983714
The biggest sin kh3 committed was honestly not having an oc world or a break from the mostly meaningless disbey shit(I know Sora learns some thematic lessons there about sacrifice and what not but there really was no plot significant reason to be there.)
Ideally kh3 would probably go like this.
>0.2 as the destiny island/twilight town intro stage equivelant.
>finish the first 4 disney levels and maybe fight the organization members in some of them.
>save aqua and make the realm of darkness an actual level as the midpoint section like the return to traverse town and hollow bastion.
>finish the disney worlds while aqua recovers
>after that aqua wakes up is ready and you save ventus(doesn't have to be a world)
>endgame, but this time make either scala or the keyblade graveyard a world.
Hell just having 0.2 somewhere in there would probably make the pacing a lot less fucked.
Kh3 was just disney worlds back to back from start to finish.
The realm of darkness was one of the most fun worlds to go through in the franchise and I am sad that we didn't get a cool oc world where the team has the freedom to design it anyway they want.
Hell the small portion of scala you got to explore scala mogged everysingle disney world that was in 3.
I blame square's greed for wanting to squeeze out one extra collection for 0.2 not being the destiny island/roxas intro of 3.

Wasn't Roxas supposed to be Ventus?

>>718985413
Roxas was Sora's nobody but looked like Ventus due to Ventus acting as a bridge for their hearts. Same way Vanitas looks like Sora. Still, one of Nomura's most confusingly executed ideas.

>>718985752
>Roxas was Sora's nobody but looked like Ventus due to Ventus acting as a bridge for their hearts
BBS and Days lean really hard into the idea that Roxas is Ventus with how he seems to have a heart. Would've been a cool way to bring back Roxas as a protag again.

>>718984363
Unfortunately I think it's far too late for kingdom hearts. A "fresh start" will not change the public's perception of how convoluted kingdom hearts is.

>>718974445 (OP)
Took decades to release 3, was exclusive on the Epic gay store, was the worst game of the series and unreal stutter slop. Haven't released anything since, just the music game.
Back at its peak they released a lot of spinoffs trying new things, the main games were great and they remade games from GBA to ds and ps3

>>718983384
They tried to cram every single impactul story moment into one 30 minute segment at the very end in the Keyblade graveyard. And half of them were the "deaths" of a bunch of retards who literally had all already died so why waste time trying to make these moments emotional?

It is the most atrociously paced segment in any video game ever. Just absolutely stunning how shitty it was.

>>718988256
There's still Nobody May Cry.

there are threads and discussion on it every hour of everyday

kh haters have kingdom hearts derangememt system man, just cant go 5 minutes without trying to convince people its bad