Agree with you on Mickey, not as interested there. But I want to know what Aqua did in the realm of darkness, don't you? Especially with her seeing the castle of dreams there and all that. That's what I want to see, what happened there. How did Axel and Lea actually get accepted into the castle, what happened in Radiant Garden that awoke Xehanort's memories. This is definitely worth seeing as a game or movie, one of the two.

For that matter, I want to know why Terra-Xehanort stole Ansem's name and why it seems like having Eraqus' heart didn't do crap for Terra.

Agree with you on Mickey, not as interested there. But I want to know what Aqua did in the realm of darkness, don't you? Especially with her seeing the castle of dreams there and all that. That's what I want to see, what happened there. How did Axel and Lea actually get accepted into the castle, what happened in Radiant Garden that awoke Xehanort's memories. This is definitely worth seeing as a game or movie, one of the two.

I see your point, I'm just getting tired of these diversions and would like the series to end on a high note instead of being strung along for even longer.

That and I'm tired of shelving out money to buy a new handheld console each time, they're getting very expensive.

Nomura has already said that they can't make KHIII while they don't finish Final Fantasy Versus XIII because it's the "Kingdom Hearts team" who will make KHIII, and they are busy with FFvs.XIII. Besides, if KHIII will finish the Xehanort Saga, then it makes no sense to release it AFTER KHIII, since it could very likely introduce new characters or plot points that could conflict with KHIII.
In example, Aqua meets someone else in the Realm of Darkness, and this person has not appeared in any other game before, not even KHIII. Since KHIII is going to be about saving those who are in pain, then it would be pointless to make a whole game about saving people and not saving that person. Whatever the new game may be, I'm sure it's not KHIII. Not yet.

Or they could just not ever create a new character and we can just have Mickey explain what happened with Aqua and him in the realm of darkness with a five minute cutscene.

Well the BBSv2 trailer did show that Aqua encountered atleast one world engulfed in darkness. Maybe there was something else in those worlds too. No idea what Mickey was doing when he went to the Dark Realm and left again. "The period of Riku's absence", wasn't that revealed in Days that he was doing stuff on DiZ's orders and trying to convince Xion to help Sora?

Well, that's what happened between Chain of Memories and KHII, but there's still the period he was absent during KHII, and he left DiZ after he ordered him to destroy Naminé (this scene is only present in the Final Mix). Also, we still have no explanation as to how the Soul Eater became the Way to the Dawn, maybe there's a story in this.

Kind of disappointing that BBS volume 2 isn't under development but KH3 is probably being worked on.

We still don't know if it's in fact KHIII. Nomura said KHIII will be made by the "Kingdom Hearts team", and they are busy with Versus-XIII. I think there's something else being made, and the only options we know are Riku's absence, the King's absence (which seems to be BBSv2), and the Keyblade War. The first one could be the story told on Days or something parallel to KHII, the last one needs all possible knowledge in hi-spec hardware and needs to be told in episodes (and I think it could take some years until we see this game), and while Nomura said BBSv2 was not in production, he could just be hiding information.

SO when do you think the final mix will come out? KH 3D Dream Drop Distance is a main game like KH, KH2 and BBS so that means final mix. I predict maybe December 2013-February 2013.

There's also the posibility of there NOT being a Final Mix. The chances are low given the precedents, but they could also release a Final Mix patch. With this, they could finally achieve an international release for a Final Mix.

That's true too, I forgot about that