Well for a more serious problem is Sora's character, especially in KH3D. He's too gullible and stupid in that game.
Some of it was justified, though. I mean, 3D was the first time that Sora was ever really to enjoy world visiting, without it (at first) going on simultaneously while something periling was. Naturally he was going to enjoy that.
And I think that he didn't freak out about the Ansem and Xehanort stuff because they were in the dream worlds, so Sora at first probably didn't even think they were real or a true threat to him.
I also get the sense that Ventus's personality effected Sora's in this game a
lot. There are some hints to this, and it's even one of the things that the Xehanorts wanted to worry Sora with to pull him into the darkness.
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@Wonderful: You've gotta keep in mind, however, that as awesome as Coded is (and I think that it really is, and it has some of the best writing, dialogue and humor that we've seen in this saga to date), that neither of those are the real Sora and Riku, so any real development they got in the game isn't really applied to their real incarnations that much, sadly.
Another thing about Coded and Dream Drop Distance are their abysmal treatment of the female characters. The fact that there's no Data Kairi--when by all accounts there should be--is just ridiculous.
And even the whole Data Naminé plot point really bothers me now, because we have an entire game about how Data Sora and Data Riku are saved and brought back numerous times, and how "they shouldn't have to go away", but what does Naminé get?
Oh, yeah: she appears for one scene to be little more than Miss Exposition, and states how "I'm only data meant to pass along a message. I shouldn't exist right now in this Journal at all. And now the record of me will disappear," and it/she does. We get no one fighting for her right to exist within the Datascape, no one complaining about her getting reset or how "it isn't right or fair", but gosh darn, our two golden boys sure get the better treatment.
As for Dream Drop Distance, they literally keep Kairi out of the game--in a way that makes little sense--to try and have a "shocking" secret ending. She shows up for five seconds at the end of the game with no dialogue, and is barely even referenced before that.
Aqua and Xion are hardly any better. We have Sora see or remember both of them two to three times, but Xion has one line of dialogue. One: "Riku, what do you wish?" And as for Aqua, she only says Ven's name.
Also, it just really bothers me that Hayden Panittiere came back to voice Xion in this game and not Kairi. I'm glad for the Xion thing, but I'm so sick of Kairi getting like no dialogue. This has been a continual problem since KHII.
By far, though, Naminé gets it the
worst in Dream Drop Distance. She is in one scene: count it, one scene, and with absolutely no dialogue.
Naminé: you know? The girl who until this point was the most important KH lady, and always had something to say or do, and in a lot of ways is the person who always tells our heroes what they need to do?
But the real kicker? It isn't even Naminé that we see! It's Xion! Which means Naminé isn't even in this game once, is never once referenced, and she doesn't even get shown in the cool credits at the end, like everyone else does. -sigh-
And as for how some people thought we might get a different type of secret ending to what we usually get? Well, I don't think at first it
was confirmed to be a secret ending we were getting in Coded HD at all. Just a new scene. Plus, Blank Points isn't really as mind screwing and sequel baiting as some of the other secret movies, and is really just a closure thing, so something like that could have happened again.
...Upon rereading my words, Wonderful, I feel like it sounds like I'm lashing out at you. I'm so sorry about that! That's not my intention at all; you seem like a really cool person (that I'm enjoying debating with, actually), and I'm not mad at
you at all. Rather, I'm mad at this series' continual bad treatment of its female characters.
Which is why I, personally, think even amidst all the moments of
good characterization we get, it hardly stands on its own, because it is mixed within a
mountain of bad.