Not Ienzo

Yes, that's exactly how I feel about it! Funny, I've never talked to anyone about KH who shared SO many opinions with me. That's new and ... kinda cool when you feel understood
I feel similar about Xion, as I mentioned in your latest thread. Days had so much potential it didn't use, overall it felt a little like fanfiction. Again, a bunch of conflicts that were leading nowhere because no "best friend" ever in this series decides to TALK things out. It surely wouldn't be nice to get to hear that one of your buddies is a replica but it definitely would've helped Xion more than ... nothing. Maybe Axel feared she might run off if she got to know it but well, same goes for NOT knowing it, so the result is basically the same but you could've avoided destroying every friendship there is. If it wasn't for the (mainly) loveable characters and the basic setting, KH would probably not be that successful since the writing is (imo) not too good overall.
Yes ... what bothers me is that there was no point in giving Kairi a keyblade at this particular time if she wasn't going to do anything with it. She could've discovered her wielding abilities later to go training then, but this way it was just kinda pointless. And poorly written. I don't want to say she has to be a wielder to be important, there are other ways around it. I love how Dragonball did it, Bulma is a real important character for the series, one that all the other guys, no matter how strong, couldn't live without. She invents stuff they need, bargains with gods, solves problems with her brain and has balls of steel. Kairi doesn't have to suddenly be super smart and invent stuff but she could be useful in other directories, maybe help Yen Sid or purify hearts or whatever. She really should get more screentime in 3, otherwise that scene in 2.8 is pointless ... again.

Why? Because they needed something to calm down the fans a little longer. At least they listened to the complaints and rework the models now, same for YX and Xemnas which I found infuriatingly ugly in the KH3 trailer.

Haha, the Frollo thing seems to bother a lot of people, a good friend of mine also complained about that. I never saw the original movie, so I don't really mind that.
I dislike petting and feeding and caring about animals in games in general. Not all games, I love Stardew Valley, but there are some examples of games that someday expanded their care necessities to a level that makes me roll my eyes. Example: Pokemon. Customization is nice, but being able to cut your Pokemon's hair and dress it and brush it and find out which stupid cake every Pokemon likes is so ... ugh to me. I wanted actual gameplay improvements and not seeing ressources being wasted on something like that. And again, Pokemon forces you to do the petting stuff because it gives you combat advantage if you brush your Pokemon. Uuuugh.

No one is ever being just normal friends in KH. We need drama. If I had friendships like those portrayed in the games, I'd need no enemies but a horrible amount of aspirine.

That and BBS. Well, you can understand BBS after thinking about it a little, but time travel just went haywire. Blaming the whole conflict on "it's fate now, deal with it" doesn't make it better.

I do different kind of stories, first one was an RPG, followed by an adventure game. The latest thing I wrote was a branching path story, similar to Life is strange (with actually different outcomes, yey!). I usually write a story and decide what might be the best medium for it afterwards. It's a lot of fun thinking about that.
What do you plan to write?

I'm looking forward to that! Hopefully you get a new computer soon I need a new cell phone, Ux is eating half of my disk space. Really annoying.

Please not, please not. I'm already a little "ugh" about Maleficent's return in KH3, I simply don't like her because I think she's a boring but annoying villain. I'm happy for the people who wanted to see her, but to me she never felt like an actual threat so it's kinda "oh, you're here ... again". It didn't help that she was brought back in KH2 because people remembered her. KH really needs to find better explanations for some plot points because sometimes it's really "have you been drunk?". Same thing with Riku pulling out a keyblade for Kairi in a "here, go with it"-fashion. Like ... shouldn't keyblades be born out of your heart and stuff and not the ass of someone else?
Uh, 0.2. I understand you because I feel the same. Many people try to argue that "it was too dangerous to look after her" - first of all, Mickey shouldn't have left her in the first place. Second, Riku and Mickey already were in the RoD at the beginning of Chain of Memories, so there was no reason not to take a detour. People act like it wasn't urgent enough - wtf, she nearly fell to darkness TWICE and nearly died in there, how can that NOT be urgent? Ugh. I love 0.2 for its visuals and level design and music and Aqua, but I hate it for its place in the story because it damages more than it helps. I feel like it should never have existed at all even though I enjoy to play it. xD

They planned the Dream Eaters to be heartless and nobodies? I would've liked that better. Ugh, don't remind me of those awful boss fights. And I hated that you had to pet and feed the Dream Eaters because it felt like I was forced to care about them which doesn't help me like them. Not in one bit.
Fantasia was nice, yes. But too much Mickey for me, lol. xD
That's YX for you, totally forgot about that. Love him, he's so savage. XD

I also saw that discussion. I prefer that trailer over the game anytime, people talk with each other, that would've been original. It's quite strange if you think about it that Kingdom Hearts puts such an emphasis on hearts and friendship and you actually never see people ... working together, mostly because of petty reasons ("I don't want him to see me that way"). I loved the ending of KH2 for that because we got to see Sora and Riku working together and actually talking to each other, that was something really new to me which got totally dismissed by BBS.

Uh, wait for Re:ReCom which will be stuffed with awkward "behind the scenes"-retcons. I hate retcons. Like you, I could live with BBS, but the games after that took it up to eleven.

Probably that, yes xD I'm having so high hopes for KH3, I hope I don't hit the ground too hard.

I have learned programming, but I learned languages like PHP and Javascript and C and some others, neither Unity nor Unreal. I probably could teach myself but it would take quite a while and since I like writing a lot more, I'll stick to that. I'm writing the story, the characters, plan the gameplay, how the game shall look, I plan everything on paper and then someone else does it. I look at it and say "oh, I want more red there, it's too crowded, maybe put this or that in" and lead the team. At least it's been that way in my Bachelor studies, I did all the writing and planning, my teammate did the 3D modeling and pictures and the other teammate programmed the game. We made a great team because everyone worked on his / her own but we still stayed in touch about each other's work and helped us out. Sometimes our modeling expert approached me with "Do you want a plant in the main character's room? What does he wear? How does his shelf look like?" and I was like "Euuuh ... like a ... shelf?" xD
Wow, that sounds amazing! Maybe we can work together then I don't know the slightest bit about music so I admire people who do. Do you have some works to share that I could listen to?

Yes. I already hate the basic idea to make a WHOLE game out of a stupid letter and something that could've said in one sentence "Maleficent searches for a book". The whole hurting thing could've been helped by Mickey if Mickey wasn't the forgetful asshole of the century and would've actually told Sora and Riku that there were TAV once who went through shit and probably should be rescued. I didn't play the game itself, only watched the movie and I was glad about that because it bored the hell out of me. The interactions were really nice, but as you already pointed out, not real and no matter how much the movie tried to tell me that Data-Sora had feelings, I didn't care. He simply is not the real Sora and the whole game itself didn't have real purpose.
Yeah, he definitely is.
If DDD had been before KH2, I'd be more forgiving, but I liked the sassy and snappy Sora in KH2 and was quite disappointed about the guy we got in DDD. I hated a lot of things in DDD, especially the Dream Eaters, that the abilities were tied to them and that they were ugly as hell. I mean, they look like the designer's been on crack and not the cute kind of crack but the rainbow star-explosion kind of crack. Aside from the lion I considered okay, the rest was incredibly ugly to me and I would've certainly preferred Donald and Goofy. Plus, the pacing was bad. I've never finished TWEWY so I didn't really get the plot and wasn't too fond of the other worlds and since the villains were not tied into the world's story, I just rushed through the world for my half minute of cutscene afterwards to reach the end of the game where 60% of the actual story took place in like one hour. I like a few points about DDD, mainly Riku and Young Xehanort and the awkward flowmotion system, but that's about it.

Oh yeah, our good ol' Eraqus. I know the game was supposed to go along the lines of "communication failed, mess created", but really? If Aqua had just EXPLAINED Ven why he was supposed to go home and actually taken him home (like, really, did she actually think he would just go after the third time she ordered him to?) where Eraqus should've PROTECTED him instead of trying to slay him it would've been considerably different. And Terra listened to every villain but had zero understanding for his friends ... yeah, great friendship. You are totally right, KH1, 2 and Days did much better in that aspect even though Days was quite awkward to watch. Just a Pancake worded it perfectly "let's eat some ice cream, we are best friends, hahahaha". Oh yes.

That would be so good. I don't think that everyone has to be friends with everyone, so why not?
Yeah, I read that statement ... and it pissed me off. I know that many people like those kinds of statements to let their interpretation go haywire, but I hate those because it sounds like Nomura takes a lot of pride in seeing what a mess his story has become. I'm already angry "Marluxia" is in that timeline in the first place, if he's a clone or a Xehanort of whatever, I'll just freak. Making a character descend from another timeline does NOT help giving him more character and making him a clone or whatever also doesn't.
Please, no more Eraqus, just stay dead or whatever that is, no one has ever mentioned you after BBS, your hurting doesn't have to be mended, so don't appear in KH3.

I study Multimedia Production which is, as the name says, about producing all kind of media content. We make websites, films, apps, games, Storyboards, you can do pretty much anything. I've specialized in Game Design (writing) and plan to apply for a Masters in that field next year.

Coded ... I really hate Coded. The whole hurting-thing could've been a great drinking game. I recently re-watched Re:CoM and Riku's story can pretty much be summarized with "darkness darkness, darkness darkness darkness". Just a pancake did a great nutshell video on that. The rest of CoMs dialogue was sharp, witty and interesting so I can see past that, but DDD was so much glorifying the Riku-Sora bromance while making Sora a complete idiot (he was definitely a lot more perceptive in KH2) that it hurts me to play it.
Oh, yes, the start of BBS ... sadly, I find most of the TAV conversations kinda awkward, they certainly don't feel like comrades who've been training for years. I know it was planned that way, but it didn't really came across to me. Many of the problems in BBS could've been solved if they just relaxed for a minute, sat down and drank a tea. To me, that "unbreakable connection" wasn't transported in the least.

Yes, Lea could be friends with Isa and Roxas / Xion, they don't have to do all stuff together, that would be realistic but probably won't happen. *sigh*
Totally yes. Part of me hopes that Lauriam gets more screentime so we get at least some explanation for him being there and part of me just wants him to vanish and pretend he had never been there. I'm pretty sure Strelitzia is the hooded figure because no one ever dies in KH, no matter how stupid the reason is - I mean, Eraqus was clearly slain and his heart miraculously sneaked into Terra, like HOW? This doesn't make any sense and I smell that it will probably be the same with Streli and the player.
It was indeed quite boring. It somehow reminded me of BBS, just without the cool gameplay.

I don't get that either. Many people think loving a series equals defending every choice made by the creators which I definitely don't agree with. You can love a thing a still see the negative points about it, otherwise you're just being blind. I love KH but I realize it has many flaws and won't brainlessly defend those so I don't get how people ditch the obvious.

Ah, okay. That sounds hard, especially if you're not too much into math. I wish you lots of luck!

It sounds like fun! xD I'm kind of the same way right now, except I look online for the stuff I want to buy for myself lately.

Anything in particular you're dying to have?

You're welcome!

I'm glad to hear you're doing good! Going to the mall sounds awesome! Are you going to buy anything special? Or just hang out with friends?

I love the KH spoofs, they are hilarious and show how many scenes should've been or how people should've answered, haha. xD That would be cool, I actually like him
I have this feeling that the dialogue lines have gotten worse over the years. KH1-2 had a lot of convincing dialogue imo, BBS was ... strange and after that there was a lot of really awkward writing. Starting with "darkness within darkness" to the 0.2 part where Kairi asks Riku where the "old Riku" is and that he's soo much like Sora now. Like ... no? Isn't it kinda natural that you mature after three journeys but except for the part that he listens to his heart more now I don't see any resemblance to Sora. Maybe it's just me but that dialogue was so cringy and immediately followed by some forced way to get "may your heart be your guiding key" into the present timeline. Yeah, Yen Sid surely always said that before important adventures, you see, saving the world in KH1 and 2 was simply not important. Uh-huh. There's a lot of memorable and really great dialogue in the KH series, but I definitely can't find any in DDD and 0.2 ... I'm really curious about the writing in 3. How do you feel about that?

Yeah, that SoD thing always awakens my rage *pun intended* as a Saix fan. I seriously hope I'll get some decent conclusion, I'll freak out if Saix has to die to make way for RAX or sth like that.
I wholeheartedly agree. It still feels odd to have Ventus in the game and I'm still a little pissed about the constant retconning Nomura does because he deliberately leaves holes in the story to do something like this later, but I've come to accept Ventus. His station of Awakening is the keyblade graveyard, Xehanort is really interested in him, he has amnesia ... I can imagine a connection. While with Lauriam ... I consider it plain awful at this point and while I don't want to judge it too harshly yet, I'm definitely not pleased because it feels awkward and ass-pully to me. I actually play it actively and if I wasn't already in so deep in Ux, I would've dropped it months ago because of how bad I partly consider the story. Like really ... five adults who know that the world will go down if they follow their shady master's orders and who will STILL do it because it has to be done and because of "it's fate, can't be helped"? WHAT? Are you dumb? (Sorry about the rant. xD I am fond of the basic idea but the characters in Back Cover act so stupid that I get angry watching it, haha xD)

Yeah, it's a real shame. I always tell people otherwise because I love Digimon so much and there's still people out there who claim that Pokemon had a really great story which only dragged over sixteen seasons without making any remarkable progress. Yeah. Seriously awesome.

You study Math? You must be really smart. What exactly do you study? Mathematics or is the Math involved into some other subject?

Yes, yes you did. XD I reviewed all eight chapters on FF.Net too. I'm glad it makes you happy!

How are you doing btw?

Upon reading your first chapter of your Kingdom Hearts Parody, it's freaking hilarious. I burst out laughing quite a few times. x'D It's so good!

I don't want to see forgiveness. I want to see ... normal reactions to stuff, haha. I'm lost with that in KH, I know, but I would've loved any remark there.
And I'm definitely not happy that Saix is a SoD, it makes me question which parts were actually him in KH2 / Days and which were Xehanort which is quite annoying. *grmbl* I agree, a little back story would be nice. How do you feel about what was added concerning Marluxia? Are you up to date with Ux?

I always wanted to play that, but it wasn't available in my country. Q_Q but we got Digimon World: Next Order now which is also fine. It's definitely better than Pokemon even though I don't like to compare those two.

So, how is it going for you?

Hi! I saw your post in the Writer's Guild! I'm going to be reading your Kingdom Hearts Parody on ff.net. I'll probably comment on it either through the Writer's Guild or ff.net itself. I seen you had eight chapters up already. Also, if you're willing to share any of your serious stuff, I've love to read it. I happen to really, REALLY like fantasy stories a lot. xD

Oh, thanks, that's a nice thing to hear and I can give the compliment right back at ya! :3

That's some interesting way of thinking, lol. I like that. I like Ienzo / Zexion too even though I was kinda disappointed that he didn't get the slightest bit angry in DDD that Lea killed him ... I would've loved to see that. xD I like it when Orga members aside from Roxas and Axel get a little love I'm a sucker for Saix and Larxene, plus Xemnas and his awesome voice. Now I just have to find someone who loves Luxord, challenge accepted ... xD

Ding, ding, ding! Correct Veemon is my favorite Digimon and in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth as well as Digimon World: Next Order you meet a tamer who named her UlforceVeedramon Veevee which is kinda cute considering that thing's a badass beast. xD I really love Veemon as well as Davis plus I like Vivi from FF9 a lot and Vivi from One Piece, so I eventually decided on that name I love to see that people still remember Digimon since it's my favorite anime ever.

Hiya! Thanks for the friend request :3 I'm always happy to connect ^^
Since we're friends now, let's get personal and dig for the deeper meanings of life ...
Why is your name Not Ienzo? One would expect that one would name him- / or herself after a person, it's rare that one names him- / herself after ... not a person. xD

Yes.

I am posting a message to myself. XD

https://forums.khinsider.com/creative-media/214815-mukes-avatar-signature-shop.html#post6483480

Here you go! :)