The only thing I personally felt...rushed, is probably how everything had to be shafted to the end. And...with how the story's designed, it felt impossible to make Aqua & Ven's rescue a midpoint. It felt like a midgame wasn't even possible. But maybe it's just my gripe with how the KBG played out. Especially with Terranort just...bodying everyone.
But yeah, it kinda seems...stupid to think that there wasn't a reason for KH3 to be released this long. I have my own gripes with the series, but this whole thread just seems like...one big-ass dismissal of the entire game.
I don't even fucking know what this mans means by 'Incomplete' The hell more can people want? More worlds? Cause that's a common complaint on here, which I somewhat understand lol.
If you really want to say where the decline in KH is, then just remember that the Disney aspect of the game had importance. That's been gone since 1. KH3 is...somewhat in the right place, but that's just me not being satisfied with the amount it had compared to 1.
Aqua and Ven being a mid-point was somewhat doable... it really just fell on planning out the story and having a really strong grasp of it. I feel like Nomura didn't have enough time to work on other characters' scenes during the main story and just shoved a lot of it to the end. That way he wouldn't have to create scenarios between Riku/Aqua/Ven etc. probably because if they were all free by the mid-game and he didn't do scenes with them, the fanbase would have gone nuts. So shoving it all at the end was really more convenience for him. Why he did it? I honestly think he did it because of the lost time from changing the engine and deadlines fast approaching. Nomura even admitted that KH3 was tough to do because there was so much to execute and so many things that people were hoping for. I actually feel like KH3 satisfied people's hopes across the board - even if minimally - meaning that every fan got a little something of what they wanted.
I think KH3 was the best that could have been done given the circumstances. The best thing about KH3 to me is that it really does give Nomura a reset and a chance to start fresh. Instead of hanging on to decades old storylines and lore, he can really tighten things up and use what he learned over the years to tell the story better. That's why I'm not coming down on him for future entries yet. If future games come out and he is still creating trios and clones of characters and have dozens of characters that go nowhere, then I will be more critical of him and the series.
thats basically a middle finger to the developer's who bothered putting that stuff in the game for you to play.
you are just projecting now
it makes sense because they told you they do so
thats wasnt a bad thing at all actually, i never said it was.
thats still not an excuse. fromsoftware was able to put out a new souls game every 2 years. and nowhere in SE's history did it take them more than 5 years to make a game
How is it a middle finger to the developers if I don't complete EVERYTHING in the game? I would think it would be more of a middle finger to them if I played an illegal copy of the game and didn't PAY for it. Would it be a middle finger to them if I bought the game then just stopped playing it or never even play it? Once I pay for the game, they shouldn't care what I do with it after.
I'm not projecting about people being pissed. I'm pretty sure that if ReMIND was included in vanilla KH3, people would be mad. Why do I assume this? Because people were mad that ReMIND was basically a replay of the last part of the game with new cutscenes and new playable characters.
Nobodies growing hearts didn't make sense just because the game said so. I think most people playing CoM/KH2/Days wondered how the Organization could be filled with being with no hearts - therefore no emotions - yet they were all colourful and at times emotional (see Axel/Roxas/Xion). Also, the lore was set up that nobodies were created from people with strong hearts. Just because they didn't explain nobodies in full detail from the get-go doesn't mean Nomura can't add to the lore. Do you get mad at JK Rowling because she didn't have Dumbledore immediately reveal that Tom Riddle's diary was a horcrux in the second book?
Just because some other studio is able to do something every 2 years, does that set the precedent for all studios? You don't know what the differences are behind the scenes between whoever does the SOULS games and KH games. One glaring factor that is easy to point out is the DISNEY factor. Nomura doesn't have the freedom to just do whatever he wants, every choice he makes has to be analyzed by DISNEY and approved - that already can be a massive delay. Not just story stuff, but design stuff too. If Elsa doesn't look right, they have to fix it, and so on.
Anyway, I don't think that KH is on the decline. It's actually the contrary. Maybe old fans have become jaded, which I understand, but KH3 actually brought in many new fans that don't have over ten years of waiting and heart ache attached to the series. Most of the new fans binge-played or even watched playthroughs online of the other games and then played only KH3. So I seriously doubt that KH is on the decline.