Posted 14 February 2012 - 11:05 AM
.....wow.....ok, well a few things to talk about then....
Looks like there's gonna be much more of a focus on Lea than I originally thought. We'll probably see random snippets of him throughout the game, then he'll make a bigger appearance towards the end.
I did notice we didn't see any more of Maleficent, though. Odd. Maybe she won't be playing as big a role as previously thought.
Well we see Braig is back, too (has to be Braig, no way that's Xigbar.) So that's cool. And he's still cracking jokes at Sora for looking like Ven...
Seems like Young Master Xehanort is much more powerful than I initially thought. It at least is made to appear that way. The appearance of Master Xehanort in his older incarnation is confusing though. Even more confusing, why were he, Xemnas, and what APPEARS to be Ansem SoD (he was in a Cloak, so it could be a Riku memory, which is plausible because we have seen a Riku copy in a Cloak earlier in the game) in Where Nothing Gathers.
So it looks like The World That Never Was still...is. We saw the ruins of the city later on in the trailer and a couple scenes take place there. Or it could be that TWTNW has become one of the Dream worlds, fallen to sleep after what happened with Xemnas.
Let's sum up the flashing images towards the end of the vid...Ven's darkened Keyblade armor with a Nightmare symbol on the visor, then Ven's normal armor on the floor of what appears to be an Awakening Station, a shot of Namine that turns into Xion facing Sora, Riku and Kairi standing in the ruins of TWTNW which replaces them with Aqua and Terra respectively, a figure on a Cloak with two large Heartless-like red eyes, the Guardian in some purple location reaching out, then Sora sitting asleep (similar to Ven) on a seat high above in Where Nothing Gathers, and we see the rest of the seats filled with people in Cloaks.
The first couple of things make me firmly believe now that Sora will take a Dive to the Heart. Maybe face a Nightmare of Ven's armor and meet Xion, they go back to TWTNW in some form, someone had mentioned the red-eyed figure might be Vanitas, but we already saw him earlier and he was in his form from BbS, which makes sense. If he did come back, he would still have that connection to Sora through Ven's heart, so he would still have Sora's face. No idea what that could be.
So, yeah. A lot new to take in, but again there's only one true way to find out. Wait for the game to come out.