REVIEW: Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue is Kingdom Hearts at its best

[The Dark Mamba]

Back Cover was a huge waste of time.

 

[Chaser]

Back Cover was a huge waste of time.

You can understand the subtext in this Kingdom Hearts 3 scene now, you learn the origins behind Master Xehanort's Keyblade, you learn how Xehanort might be able to have perfect plans due to the Keyblade giving him foresight into the future, and for people who play X it gives a unique look into the otherside of some events, such as the big Foreteller fight. Plus the performances by the characters was beyond anything given to us before which made it a really entertaining watch imo, so even though I was let down by how it just ends with no proper resolution, I can't really agree in calling it a huge waste of time.

 

[tiofrodo]

Re: REVIEW: Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue is Kingdom Hearts at it's best

Back Cover is basically two main things:
1. to give more insight and personality/humanity to the Foretellers, which it arguably is very successful at.
and 2. to be a big tease for both the further development in X Unchained and in KH III, which it does more or less painfully straight.

It does come over as a tad rushed though, possibly mostly because Back Cover doesn't even cover the whole timeline of the original Browser-Chi, essentially ending the actual story at Lady Ava's speech to the Dandelions and omitting all further story updates following afterwards, not showing the side of the Foretellers in this remaining period and thus conveniently also omitting one of the few instances where Skuld had contact with the Foretellers, leading to her being completely omitted from the movie.

Maybe back cover have been a episodic thing rather than a full lenght movie when they were deciding what to do with it? Would explain the chapter nomenclature that appears on objects.

 

[The Dark Mamba]

Let me clarify my statements. There was some decent stuff. I liked the portrayal of the Foretellers, MoM, Luxu and I always wondered what Chirithy sounded like. And there definitely was some cool foreshadowing that took place.

But that's it. The movie was sold as an indeph look at X[chi]'s mythology and this movie didn't give me anything. No reveal of the traitor, no Skuld, clunky story telling, and an abrupt ending. And the movie on it's own really isn't all that good. As much as people like to sh#t on the Days and Coded movie, those were way better than what BC brought to the table.

Waste of time. And I'm person whose relatively easy to satisfy when it comes to KH content but not with BC. Now I finished 0.2 bout a couple of hours ago and oh man was that awesome.

 

[Vanitas666]

Re: REVIEW: Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue is Kingdom Hearts at it's best

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From this interview: http://forums.khinsider.com/kingdom...-hearts-hd-2-8-nomura-interview-released.html

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That almost lead me to believe that he will play a major role in KH IV, perhaps as the main antogonist.
I'll be honest and say he got me kinda confused whether he's actually a bad guy or not but I can see him have similar goals as the antagonist from Psycho-Pass (S01) for anyone who have seen that show

Btw, it's kinda funny how I agree with the post above mine about Back Cover (except I still felt rather content with the movie) and still find it to be miles better than Kingsglaive lol, at least this movie had some great characters and the ending actually made me excited for KH III, Kingsglaive made me question my life choices, like what tha diddly have I spent so much time hyping about? Meh, the early trailers were kinda worth getting hyped for I suppose lol.