Do people really not like Terra's Story?

[Arya Stark 1,337]

I finished it last night, and after starting Ventus' earlier today, I found myself wanting to play more Terra. I much preferred his take on everything, his fighting style, his attitude, I just like them a lot more. I haven't touched Aqua's either, but I'm pretty sure Terra's will still win out. I really loved being almost the bad guy as him. It was fun.

 

But then I remember seeing a lot about people not liking Terra's Story, or, at the very least, enjoying it the least out of all three. I am curious why this is, if you'd care to enlighten me.

 

And if your answer contains spoilers for another story, I don't care, just tell me.

[Oli 1,679]

I love Terra's story, but in termns of gameplay I prefer Aqua or Ventus. He just doesn't fit with my style.

[Forever 3,550]

I loved Terra's story! He's my personal favorite of the trio. He's strong both physically and inwardly, and I just can't help but feel bad for him when everything goes wrong-

 

 

 

 

Not to mention, he's the only one I could use to defeat Vanitas's Spirit.

Edited January 9, 2015 by Pandy Monium

[BlankShell 638]

In terms of combat, it's probably his crappy dodging ability (although his attack commands are always my favorite). In terms of story, I guess it's because he just kind of plods through worlds without much thought for the consequences. He's just an angsty teenager for the most part.

 

Personally I like his story, since it's the most direct in the way the plot moves forward.

[The Transcendent Key 12,109]

Oh ho ho, I love Terra's story, probably one of my favorites in Birth By Sleep!  You really get to see how he slowly succumbs to the darkness inside him.  Even though he tries to fight it, in the end, he unwillingly becomes Xehanort's pawn and falls to the darkness.  I believe Terra's story is very good, and it's the side of Birth By Sleep where you most get to see Xehanort.  I never get tired of listening to old man Nimoy's voice, it's just so majestic!  And well, I believe one reason some people hate his story is probably because he's slow at dodging.  Other than that, I really don't know why people hate his story, I think it's just as good as Ven and Aqua's.  Oh well, to each their own.

[Exiblade7 1,917]

I love terra's story! 

[awesomeinmyworld 268]

I personally don't like Terra's story. One reason being that he's my least favorite KH protagonist, but he isn't a bad one. The second is that I find his combat really slow, especially compared to Aqua, Ven, and other KH gameplay. Some of his action commands are cool but his defense commands really bug me, I don't feel like they don't protect me at all. 

[VentusXlll 37]

Mine is Aqua Story.  But I like also Terra and Ventus one. 

[hatok 6,413]

Aqua has the better moves, Ventus has the better bosses

Terra barely explores any worlds he sets foot in, and barely interacts with any characters at all, never mind his finishing move in the air sends him plummeting to the ground

Terra's only real advantage besides pure strength is that the length of his Keyblade ensures he whiffs less attacks

[Arya Stark 1,337]

Aqua has the better moves, Ventus has the better bosses

Terra barely explores any worlds he sets foot in, and barely interacts with any characters at all, never mind his finishing move in the air sends him plummeting to the ground

Terra's only real advantage besides pure strength is that the length of his Keyblade ensures he whiffs less attacks

I really care less about the technical combat things like hitboxes, and I think he explored his worlds plenty. I enjoyed his bosses, exclusive command styles, and storyline.

 

 

 

 

 

For everyone who is proclaiming that it's great, I guess I might have been mistaken.

[hatok 6,413]

I really care less about the technical combat things like hitboxes, and I think he explored his worlds plenty. I enjoyed his bosses, exclusive command styles, and storyline.

 

 

 

 

 

For everyone who is proclaiming that it's great, I guess I might have been mistaken.

I dunno, most of Terra's worlds are like ten minutes long, and his character development is completely lost in translation

He does get some metal as firetruck keyblades though

[Guest]

I finished it last night, and after starting Ventus' earlier today, I found myself wanting to play more Terra. I much preferred his take on everything, his fighting style, his attitude, I just like them a lot more. I haven't touched Aqua's either, but I'm pretty sure Terra's will still win out. I really loved being almost the bad guy as him. It was fun.

 

But then I remember seeing a lot about people not liking Terra's Story, or, at the very least, enjoying it the least out of all three. I am curious why this is, if you'd care to enlighten me.

 

And if your answer contains spoilers for another story, I don't care, just tell me.

PREPARE FOR RANT.

 

I, personally, enjoyed Terra's story the most of the three. it felt more complete and well-done and less to cover up plot holes like Ventus'. It had a bit of deeper meaning than Aqua's did as well, in my opinion. Ventus was just filler, and Aqua was just sort of "there" for me. Until the big fight VeniVani, then locking of the keyblade school, she did basically nothing of use at all. I consider her fight to"free" Terra a failure as it basically made Xehanort's plot easier (Making him blend in more with Anserm's research team via his amnesia, and thus when it came time to make O13, made it more or less easier to do so), and now she just sort of wanders the RoD because Nomura had to make her journey more difficult and find a way to make her not central to the KH timeline in 1/2/every other game pre BBS. Aqua is my second least favorite story, compared to Ven.

 

I have a huge problem with Ven. If anyone has seen my multiple rants on why I think BBS shouldn't be getting any better treatment than any of the side games, though it it, a lot of my reasons for disliking it was the plot holes generated in it. One such is the Dual Wielding plot hole, but that is one I wont touch on today. The one I will, however, touch on, is also the reason I, ironically, like Ven better as a character overall: He faces himself, only powered up with the X-Blade that (Which is a major plothole in itself, more on that in another rant) Even though incomplete/damaged (Which makes no sense, Keyblades aren't suppose to be damageable from what we have seen canonically) somehow then defeats him. He is facing himself with a god-tier weapon. Not only should Vanitias be able to know every skill that Ventus has (A broken heart still learns the same lessons) and had ice skills/enhanced darkness-based abilities granted by presumably a piece of Xehanort's heart (Which is probably how he keeps Vani under control), he should have been able to conquer Ventus easily, yet he looses to Ventus. This falls under Deus Ex Machina-style defeat, something a large portion of this series is based off of (Roxas's higher damage output and faster combos should have meant that he would beat Sora any day of the week, but per plot reasons is allowed to to win and in-cutscene only gets to win via his "connection to the keyblade" and Roxas just for whatever reason not finishing the job.)

 

And it bothers me. Ventus should not be able to win. Even with his advanced skills and abilities, Vanitias literally has basically a 

Mjölnir and can lift it, yet gets beat by a brat with a stick-length sword shaped like a key. As much as I love Ventus and think he is the strongest of the 3, its only due to Deus Ex Machina. He has the strength to defeat himself even when that version can teleport, uses a megaweapon, can deal damage in a 360 degree radius, and most importantly, that version of himself is probably smarter than him due to the chunk of Xehanort that would likely be there, able to guide Vanitias the whole way round on a battlefield. Since he was Ven's master in the earliest days, he would probably know a good chunk about the way he fights, how to counter it, and force victory   Terra's story is far from perfect, however it's less plot-interfering until the end of the story. Until Xehanort takes him over, Terra was actually a good way of explaining how Maleficent got so many of the PoH collected pre-KH1, as it's never explained and isn't going to change the future plot anyway, he may be a bit of a brick in the brain but at least he was doing what he thought was OK and even grew as a character in some stunning ways, and in my opinion is the most tragic of the Tragic Three, in my opinion. He looses his right of a fair trial to be a master, gets tricked into aiding the evil intentions of others, fights for his life, only to loose it, even after reanimating his damn armor and using it to fight the old man, and even farther, doing his best to help Aqua defeat Xehanort, even if it means his death, only for it to fail and Aqua to be lost to the darkness. As far as he knows, since Aqua was alive, Ventus was fine, and now is stuck thinking that his friends are out looking to save him when they can't do a damn thing because Ventus is sleeping like an idiot and Aqua is trapped in the Realm of Darkness, and he has to watch on as Xehanort parades around in his body. That's a whole lot of freaking fun.

 

Pardon the long rant, just my thoughts on it. Gameplay matters less to me than story, and Terra has the(in my opinion) least invasive story of them all.

 

/end rant

[liamaru 294]

I loved both terra's story and his gameplay he offered more of a chellange and he could use darkness which is alway a good thing and Personally i preferred terra out of the trio for variouse reason he was more relatable and more interesting compared to aqua and to ventus to an extent. terra had his struggles with the darkness whilst being minipulated by everyone every step of the way , ven had trouble with his evil half trying to kill aqua every 2 seconds and posses ven to make the ki blade and then There's aqua........aqua was definitely FAR less interesting then terra and ventus TO ME she kind of let the whole ''keyblade master'' thing go to her head and she literally had no purpose in xehanorts plan but meh whatever , oh also terra looked the best in his keyblade armor and his armor has also became extremely iconic.

[NO_HEART_XIII 312]

It's my favorite of the 3. The ending absolutely shocked me. I loved it it.

[Ultimus Grid 546]

I like Terra's story a good deal.  He's my favorite character in general.  All the points of me liking and feeling sorry for him has already been stated by others on here.

Edited January 9, 2015 by Ultimus Grid

[Dracozombie 4,554]

Terra's not a bad character to play as, but he's too slow for my taste. When I'm swarmed by enemies or I need to dodge now, Terra can't keep up. He's built to take a hit, sure, but pure stats only carry you so far in a KH game. In terms of his story, it can be frustrating to see him get constantly hoodwinked by characters the audience already knows are villains (leading to an inaccurate stereotype of being gullible enough to fall for everyone and anything). I either didn't notice or didn't care about his supposed lack of world exploration/character interaction. Then again, most of the characters he does interact with are the bad guys, so maybe for them it doesn't count.

 

In hindsight, Terra's story feels the most complete out of the three. He interacts directly with Xehanort the most, and so has a relatively stronger connection with KH's overall mythos (not that Ventus and Aqua's don't, but Terra's carries the greatest weight). He seems to be the most active of the three. Terra goes to each world with a clear purpose, whereas with Ventus and Aqua it's an abstract "find friends, beat baddies, save buddies" schtick. You get a clearer idea of why Terra's doing what he does. Aqua and Ventus mainly go through the motions of being heroic, but Terra faces actual conflict outside of slaying baddies. The conflict wasn't well-written, granted, as BBS's overall plot is hardly stable, but it's more than Ventus and especially Aqua face.

 

Really, I like each story for different reasons. Ventus is a fun character with his personality and his play style. Aqua is a total wrecking ball when she gets stronger. Even if her characterization within the story itself is lukewarm at best and inconsistent at worse, I really feel like I'm playing as a true hero just walking around with her upper tier magic, helping the various NPCs and utterly demolishing everything. I feel assured playing as her (I mean after she stops being wet tissue paper). With Terra, I get the impression he's a guy who's trying his best. He can't do much besides hit things hard, and damn if he doesn't do that well.

Edited January 9, 2015 by Dracozombie

[Sora96 17,256]

Ventus was awful.

[Robbie the Wise 5,050]

Aqua has the better moves, Ventus has the better bosses

Terra barely explores any worlds he sets foot in, and barely interacts with any characters at all, never mind his finishing move in the air sends him plummeting to the ground

Terra's only real advantage besides pure strength is that the length of his Keyblade ensures he whiffs less attacks

There are other finishing moves besides his basic ones lol.

[hatok 6,413]

There are other finishing moves besides his basic ones lol.

no there isn't

If you use his finishing move in the air, he does a slam, and goes straight down

[Robbie the Wise 5,050]

no there isn't

If you use his finishing move in the air, he does a slam, and goes straight down

That's weird I've never seen that before but there other finishers you can use that won't put disadvantage.

[hatok 6,413]

That's weird I've never seen that before but there other finishers you can use that won't put disadvantage.

You're thinking of the moves you get when you fill the command gauge without using commands that unlock a command style. I'm talking about his normal attacks

Though most of Terra's finishers can't be used in the air either

[Kaweebo 3,617]

It's equally as good as the other stories, imo.

 

I love BBS as a whole. I just don't ever want to have to play it ever again.

Edited January 9, 2015 by Kaweebo

[Robbie the Wise 5,050]

You're thinking of the moves you get when you fill the command gauge without using commands that unlock a command style. I'm talking about his normal attacks

Though most of Terra's finishers can't be used in the air either

So are you talking about his basic combos?

[hatok 6,413]

So are you talking about his basic combos?

yes

[Shulk 8,623]

Personally, gameplay is more important to story for me, and I had some issues with his playstyle:

 

Speed- He's way too slow. I can't stand slow characters in games. His attacks are too slow, too.

Dodging- nonexistent. His "dodge" is plain horrible.

 

Of course, I also found his story to be boring and repetitive. Of the three, Aqua is by far my favorite. I usually speed through Terra's and never look back.