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I don't understand why I have to continually remind people that the point of comparison here was to the other FF characters in KH, who all have obvious differences between them. The question was how this situation differs from those characters, and my stance was that I don't think there's much...

Well, obviously when I type an essay on it it can only be "overthinking" - I went all out knowing exactly how silly it makes me look - but what I'm attempting to do is to lay out the things that are completely second nature for me to naturally think, namely: "IP law is fake", which I was told...

So... in order to talk about this, I have to ask some pretentious and annoying questions. These are half-rhetorical. But hear me out, and seriously think about all of this: What does it mean for two characters to "literally" not be the same character? In what quantifiable sense? Is it something...

Absolute basic "the map is not the territory" theory is not disingenuous. The points you're making are not only irrespective of everything I've said, but also quite literally the thing I was trying to deconstruct in the first place, in which case I've already devoted many words to this subject...

Maybe there's a misunderstanding here, but what I was saying is, "despite being legally distinct, I see no functional reason why as players we can't acknowledge Yozora as a version of Noctis, because it's supposed to be obvious that that's what he is, and so the way we engage with the games has...

I can't get behind the school of thought that "gameplay" and "story" should be separated in the first place - saying the story scenes are not part of the game seems regressive in terms of how we think of videogames - BUT, obviously DDD itself often DOES separate them, to its major detriment. I...

Yet I so often see people say that the KH versions of FF characters get their personalities all wrong - I don't always agree, but I can see it with KH Aerith (except in CoM). And certainly Tidus, Setzer, etc. stretch any sort of connection at all. Every FF character is always said to be...

He literally is Noctis though. I am not seeing the quantifiable difference.

And to be clear I wouldn't describe Verum Rex as being "subtle"... "Yozora" is literally "Noctis Caelum" but in another language. The only people who are supposed to see him and not think "oh, that's Noctis" are Square Enix executives, so I don't see why we should pretend otherwise.

Hmm, yeah, it might be very possible that Nomura already wrote scripts for ML that are meant to tie in with KH4... ergo one being delayed delays the other one. So which one is the problem game?

I just don't see why Versus 13 and its cast don't count as FF characters but Cloud does. It's not like the KH versions have ever been particularly faithful to the characters they're based on in the first place; Yozora is much closer to Noctis than, say, KH Setzer is to FF6 Setzer. There's no...

I know what you meant, because it's what everyone means, but I disagree with this common narrative. But... as I've said before... which of these is the plot more substantially engaging with Final Fantasy: 6-year-old Tidus being a minor character on Destiny Islands, or the introduction of...

"Conventional" means "conventional". Marvel and Star Wars are certainly unconventional compared to the usual KH Disney world, but not solely, or even largely, due to IP law. Why even that could be read as "leaving Disney behind" is beyond me (in that case, KH has already done that several...

They didn't say that, they're saying it wouldn't have conventional ones. I do hope the game commits to its premise as much as possible, whatever that means for it.

I don't think I agree with the exact wording of any of these responses, but I would agree that KH already makes romance in general a very ambiguous thing, so it's just not the kind of story where I could see them talking about this stuff in detail, even in a game about blood (I doubt any of our...

This is absolutely the way. The original trilogy is also the thing that is actually, like, influential and important to Nomura and Final Fantasy and also culture at large. I think it would feel disingenuous to pretend otherwise in KH...

You could get by doing whatever you want, but I think KH3 was written extremely aware of what was in Back Cover and what wasn't (entirely because it's a work they actually released that you can buy and watch). Luxu, the box, and even MoM are specifically Back Cover things (pretty sure they all...

There ARE other series with story bits in awful gacha games, some of which are dead. You could say those aren't as "required", but I'd argue neither is UX, yet. The hope is just the nvidia leak pulls through and Re:UX gets made before it becomes important. But I wouldn't be surprised if Square...

Well, it is a business model entirely designed around making the "game" part moot.

That's exactly what I think happened. A lot of people have assumed "Magia and Aegis" are the names of Yozora's buddies, but I'm 90% sure it really was just supposed to be Donald and Goofy's "toy names", hence why they just mean Magic and Defense, and also hence why that line was cut because it...