I'm mad. And I sort of wish I could undo my pre-orders now.
And the dumb thing, is that I for once didn't get my hopes up for this, because I knew Kairi's track record.
I just... I don't know how you fail so badly. And after Kairi baiting, no less. Like, why the hell would they have Xehanort about to kill Kairi again, and Sora somehow jump into save her... after she defeated him in Re:Mind, and this was supposed to be another time about her getting her vengeance. Can you say regression?
And while I think Kairi training with Aqua is a cool idea... I can't even get that excited about it, because it's what they should have done from the start. Actually, Kairi's training with Merlin should have been fine and she shouldn't have gotten killed. She shouldn't have done as well as everyone else-and maybe she was okay because of everyone else defending her-but she should have been fine. But, no. We decided to go the fridging route.
And I do kind of agree with Hirokey, that... as much as I hate the fridging, at least Kairi messed up for once and now has something she's trying to make up for (so is getting a character arc that way), but she continues to get the slowest slow-burn in the history of the world, it's not fair. She should have been training with Aqua by the end of Re:Mind or something, then. And she deserves to be in this Riku Verum Rex game, probably. But no.
I want to get my hopes up for Kairi in KHIV or something, but I don't even have it in me to do that. Kairi just... sucks forever (even though it's not her fault, but the writers) and I can hardly defend her anymore. Actually, we're all taking her out of Nomura's hands and she's ours now. There.
Also, one could argue that her one line in the MoM trailer made it sound like Xehanort put a lock on her powers or something. I guess that's not true. LOL
I bet Palizinhas is right, that the Mickey thing is the Disney+ show. And the next game is probably Verum Rex with Riku (and maybe Sora. DDD 2.0). But I'm so done with Riku at this point. Joy.
It really feels like Nomura's original plan was to just go to DDD 2.0, but then everyone was pissed about Kairi, so he slapped this together at the last second and it's still awful.
With Aqua being popular, hopefully that'll mean we'll get Kairi screentime (and I guess the Wayfinder Trio isn't going away), but we thought that with Axel in KHIII. So LOL at that.
I think it's cool that it's Nameless Star and not Yozora who's the third key (give me some Kairi and Stella interactions), but given how Nomura is with female characters--and how so far it's amounting to nothing--again: LOL at that.
I'm so sad.