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[Foxycian]

Peach can tangle with monsters of mass destruction and are like 10 times her size. Sounds better than Kairi fighting some girl back(said girl slapped her aside in the fight scene at that), Xemnas(who she fought back against for couple seconds before Xemnas pushed her shit in and captured her) and Xehanort(who destroyed her and Kairi having to need Sora holding her hand to beat a replica of him and having Sora come in again to help her after Xehanort toyed with her and then once again, embarassed her and was about to finish her off)

Again I never saw peach do anything impressive in cutscenes so I don’t really care what she can do in gameplay, Kairi also does amazing things in gameplay but i don’t really pay much attention for gameplay stuff, what I want to see is what they can do in cutscenes, that’s where their true abilities is showcased in my opinion.

 

[KeyToDestiny]

Again I never saw peach do anything impressive in cutscenes so I don’t really care what she can do in gameplay, Kairi also does amazing things in gameplay but i don’t really pay much attention for gameplay stuff, what I want to see is what they can do in cutscenes, that’s where their true abilities is showcased in my opinion.

She canonically beat those monsters lol. That's how the story moved forward. Meanwhile, Kairi lost basically every fight she's been in save for the fight with replica Xehanort(who again was only beaten because Sora was there)

 

[Foxycian]

She canonically beat those monsters lol. That's how the story moved forward. Meanwhile, Kairi lost basically every fight she's been in save for the fight with replica Xehanort(who again was only beaten because Sora was there)

She canonically Beat those monsters? Welp good for her for putting up a fight, i guess I can say she is impressive, but If she is strong (aside from gameplay) in cutscenes as well then she wouldn’t be getting kidnapped all the time now wouldn’t she? and the enemies Kairi fights are like Anime shounen villains that can destroy a world as was shown by master Xehanort destroying The land of Departure, those villains are on another level compared to the ones peach fought in the video link you gave.

Edit: Lol it seems like this isn’t gonna end anytime Soon, Soo... you can just have the last word, and tbh your reasons that peach is stronger then Kairi is still weak cause again she didn’t show anything impressive besides in gameplay, But Eh whatever makes you feel better.

 

[SuperNova]

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First time being back in the fandom for a long time and well, I can't say that I'm disappointed because I'm not. I had a small hope that Kairi would accompany Riku but its always been pretty clear that the next game was gonna be about Riku and Sora again. I'll probably skip MoM until it drops in price, I love rhythm games but I'm not about to spend 60 dollars on this one.

If I can say anything for Kairi, I think its pretty neat that she's taking initiative and going to train with Best Gir-I mean Aqua. It's the most drive I've seen out of her since KH2 even though KH3 had a couple of small moments in it. Even if its just a narrative excuse for Nomura to shove her into the background again. I always looking more forward to Riku going after his boyfriend anyways.

 

[KeyToDestiny]

She canonically Beat those monsters? Welp good for her for putting up a fight, i guess I can say she is impressive, but If she is strong (aside from gameplay) in cutscenes as well then she wouldn’t be getting kidnapped all the time now wouldn’t she? and the enemies Kairi fights are like Anime shounen villains that can destroy a world as was shown by master Xehanort destroying land of departure, those villains are on another level compared to the ones peach fought in the video link you gave.

Bowser catches her off guard because she's using the bathroom. And all Kairi does is wailing around with a keyblade and getting her ass kicked every time. And Xehanort and his goons don't even come close to the Blooper.

 

[Cumguardian69]

Come talk to me when either Peach or Kairi can tangle with Fawful. I HAVE CHORTLES!

Moving on, Kairi training with Aqua is not a good idea. Aqua got wrecked by Xeantort and got DARKED in the RoD from a mega destruction dark ball of d a r k n e s s and destruction. She LOST HER KEYBLADE (yknow the thing you can summon and desummon at will). Hilarious and pathetic.

If she trained with anyone, she should've gotten on the job training with Master Riku. She's already "close" in universe with him, they both share the same goal (they want to find and recover their boyfriend), and it would be fitting for Riku to train her and others to help rebuild the greatness for Keyblade Society that Scala once stood for.

Aqua has NOT shown the ability to fight her darkness (she had ptsd? Lol) meanwhile Riku wiped C.O's floor with Org members and Ansem alike.

 

[KeyToDestiny]

Come talk to me when either Peach or Kairi can tangle with Fawful. I HAVE CHORTLES!

I see you're a person of culture and taste.

As for Riku training her....he ain't got time for that. When she wanted to come with him, he basically told her she's weak and would get in his way but was hoping she'd have the braincells to realize it. Riku doesn't need a handicap while he's on the other side.

 

[ivaannom]

Finished the game and UUUUFFFF It was so good.

It was really fun and the nostalgia if felt listening the ost while playing was amazing. I remembered a lot of the things i did as a kid playing the previous games.

I never expected the developers would alos make a Sora KH3 model for the game. I didn't expect that. The fight against MX was incredible in Proud.

Sora saved Kairi once again but this time he wasn't able to speak, that's something that MX mentions so i guess Sora knows how to connect through worlds(?)

Anyways the ending hypes the next series. Riku going to the fictional world, Kairi training with Aqua and Mickey going to Scala ad Caelum

And btw when Stella mentions Sora, she uses the honorific '-san'. I don't remember about the twewy gang but until now, no one used honorifics. I guess this is to point that the fictional world is located in Japan, tho she calls it 'Qua-whatever' i forgot the name.

And they changed Yen Sid's japanese voice actor. I don't remember if he passed away or something.

Whatever, i'm more than satisfied with the game.

 

[ivaannom]

Also, Nomura told us in the ending of Remind who were the other 2 pieces. One was Riku, the other Kairi(they showed her sleeping) and the other was stella(they showed the final world). I knew that the other was Kairi but i didn't expect Stella to be the other one.

And wtf Riku, he indirectly called Kairi weak to her face when she said that she wanted to go to xD

 

[kirabook]

Kairi is not my fav and never has been.
But when you treat a character so badly that it really starts twisting the story in ways that makes no goddam sense, it's bad for every other character and every other plotline.

Kairi transforming into Sora to defeat Xehanort who might not be Xehanort and deciding she can't go on an adventure cause she needed to train.

We all know they reuse plot elements all the time. How are they gonna reuse this crap in the future on other characters? Next thing you know, Xion can't possibly go on an adventure. She's a former Xehanort and still needs time to train and recover her mind.

Aqua can't go on the next adventure with Terra and Ven. She has to train Kairi and her mind is still fuzzy from almost being a darkling, it'd be too dangerous to set foot on the outside world again.

Namine isn't allowed to anything. Someone pretending to be Xehanort is hopping through peoples memories banks, what if she gets hurt?

Oh noo, Riku can't defeat Yozora, so he has to transform into Sora to defeat em even though Sora couldn't defeat him (Sora also didn't defeat Xehanort without Goofy, Donald, or Kairi's help) After all, anything can happen in dreams!

Like, yay us! They've introduced another way they can bench characters (specifically the female ones most likely) that seems "logical". Whether you're a Kairi fan or not, this should have you sighing and worrying about your own favorite character and their relevance in the plot. For every character Nomura and team doesn't want to write about, they'll end up just like her probably.

 

[astertide]

well uh this may just be my Kairi-loving side speaking but maybe there's another reason that they want Kairi to train other than to just "get stronger." Maybe Riku will also get into trouble lol and Kairi needs to go find both him and Sora?? Maybe they're purposely splitting up the trio for extra angst and so they can cry when they get back together? Maybe there's a rift in the friendship between Riku and Kairi now?

omg i just imagined riku and kairi fighting over sora
and sora just standing there awkwardly blushing

idk I'm grasping at straws at this point
at least there's new lore for my fanfic then haha

 

[kirabook]

If Riku is in trouble, they'll just send Mickey. Of all the characters available, it'll always be Mickey.

 

[ZeVaine]

I saw an English video of the main ending for the game but... there's also an additional scene after the credits that I've not found a English upload for.

Anyone privy to one?

 

[Cumguardian69]

I saw an English video of the main ending for the game but... there's also an additional scene after the credits that I've not found a English upload for.

Anyone privy to one?

The secret ending was on youtube yesterday but it got taken down

 

[SuperNova]

Guess they should rename the main trio from SRK to Sora, Riku, and Mouse.

 

[Katsagu]

Do we even know if training with aqua means being stuck in one place training like she did with Lea?

If not for all we know, this "training" can be something else entirely. Who knows maybe she even gets a fuckin armor.

 

[KeyToDestiny]

Sora, Riku and Mickey. Like the sound of it. It's what we got against Ansem, Xemnas and Young Xehanort anyways while Kairi was too busy being a hostage haha.

Moving on... i noticed at the post credit scene about Yen Sid mentioning they should inform those from Radiant Garden, Land of Departure and Twilight Town who are looking for Sora to cease their efforts. Radiant Garden is the interesting part because we inow Ansem and his apprentices would have been given the scoop on where Sora could be and how he'd be out of their grasp so I don't think Yen Sid was referring to them. There's another group in Radiant Garden that was also helping to search for Sora and that's the Restoration Committee. They were already made known about the situation from Riku who stayed with them for some time and Cid's been looking into the data for a year and data was given to him by Ansem and his apprentices along with the Twilight Town group so it's clear the committee was part of the joint effort here even having Squall asking Riku about how the others are doing with Riku mentioning their names and none of the committee members showing any confusion to who they are implying they've already met them at some point or were made known about them prior to Limit Cut(it's been a whole year after all)

Point is, I think Yen Sid was probably thinking about the committee while he told Donald and Goofy to go tell the people looking for Sora to stop and give them their badges for trying. So yeah. FF characters still exist.

Do we even know if training with aqua means being stuck in one place training like she did with Lea?

If not for all we know, this "training" can be something else entirely. Who knows maybe she even gets a fuckin armor.

That's also true. They could be traveling to different places off screen and away from the main plot that matters on the other side.

 

[LightUpTheSky452]

You know, it's weird... On one hand, I definitely feel like this game was one step forward, two steps back for Kairi. And that we're somehow back at the "You can't go... because it's way too dangerous" moment of KH1... when it was nice that Re:Mind had sort of had Kairi and SoKai evolve from that moment, with Sora asking her if she was "ready for this" and Kairi responding "yes", and them defeating Master Xehanort together.

But on the other hand... why do I feel like this is the closest we've gotten to KHII Kairi since KHII? Kairi telling Riku she wanted to go with him--and almost seeming like she was about to go through the portal with him until she rethought it--felt like the girl who said, "I'm tired of waiting, so don't tell me to stay behind. From now on, wherever one of us goes, the other follows. Got it?" And even though she took herself out of the mission in the end, at least it was her choice and with drive to go train with Aqua and get better... and then finally stand with Sora and Riku.

Seriously, this feels like KHII Kairi again. To me, KHIII Kairi and Re:Mind Kairi didn't feel like Kairi at all... but somehow, this does. What happened to that girl before now? I know you could say that KHIII was taking that arc forward, but it feels like she didn't even try there. Seriously, what happened? I'm still mad that after all the things she said in text bubble scenes in KHII, she didn't train with her Keyblade at all during the three's mini vacation between KHII and DDD, and just let Sora and Riku leave without her (something that KHII Kairi said she was done with), with no explanation.

I kind of agree with people who said the real Kairi died with KHII Kairi or after KHII. But this was maybe a glimpse of her again.

And I'm starting to ramble here, and probably not making that much sense. But you know what? Kairi's arc as it is now, is... fine (I guess. With her training with Merlin, but it really not doing anything for her--and her then getting killed, and regretting things greatly--and deciding that she needs to train with Aqua to get stronger... that will hopefully go somewhere). But this all should have happened last saga. Seriously, Nomura should have given her an arc post-KHII. And if he wanted this to happen, this could have been it. But with this all only happening to her in the second saga, it just pushes her further and further away from Sora and Riku, and no matter what she's never going to catch up

 

[2 quid is good]

One thing I will say is Alyson Stoner was soooooo much better here of course I'll always hold a little candle for Hayden but if Alyson keeps up this level for future Kairi performances, then I'm so batting for her

 

[Recon]

Inb4 we get a side game of Kairi just training