Dagesh Lene

Now that the Dark Seeker Saga has reached its conclusion, I thought it would be fun to rank some of my favorite things that the saga gave us (some of these lists may include spoilers for Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind). Best Games Top 10 Bosses Top 10 Heroes Top 10 Keyblades Top 10 Music Top 10 Villains Top 10 Worlds But these are just my personal favorites from the Dark Seeker Saga. What are yours?

It's no secret that there were many things about Kingdom Hearts III that left fans feeling disappointed. However, from everything we've seen and heard, it looked like the DLC, Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind was going to address many of those issues. Did it succeed, or did it drop the ball? This review will be split into two parts. The first part will be my review of Re:Mind. The second part will be my thoughts on whether or not Re:Mind fixed the big issue I had with Kingdom Hearts III. EDIT: I somehow accidently trapped part 2 of my review within part 1, and I have no idea how to fix it. So, if you're looking for it, that's where it is. Part 1:

That's a really good guess! However, they said that the title is eight letters, and "No Heart" is seven letters. So, it is probably something else.

I don't think that there is one that I find the most interesting because they all have interesting things in them. That being said, I gave my vote to Ansem's Report from Kingdom Hearts 1 because it's actually mentioned at the beginning of the game and it gives you backstory on who Ansem is and what led him to become a villain (until he was revealed to be Xehanort's Heartless in Kingdom Hearts II that is).

I love that new artwork of Sora and Kairi with all my heart.

I love how into it the director is getting in Concert Video Preview 2.

I gave my ranking some thought, and I switched some of the movies around. These are the changes that I made to my ranking:

Now that the Skywalker Saga has finally come to a close, I thought that I'd give my ranking of all nine movies, as well as a brief explanation for why each of the movies is where it is.

In the Nomura interview in the Kingdom Hearts III Ultimania, Nomura was asked who the seven new black pieces that Eraqus places on the chessboard during the epilogue are. The Q&A went like this: So, unless Nomura is not telling us the truth, it seems that Ava will indeed be one of the seven darknesses in the new saga. As for how she will get there, who knows? I don't think Luxu did anything to her, at least not in a way that would prevent her from reuniting with the others in the Epilogue, since he said, "I guess Ava didn't make it after all," after looking around for her. And when accused of excluding her, he said, "Ava had her own mission, and she carried it out." If I were to make a guess, in trying to defy the Master of Masters, Ava actually did exactly what the Master of Masters intended for her. She will probably continue to try to defy the Master of Masters in the new saga. She may even ally herself with Sora and the others. However, she will eventually be brought into her master's ranks once again, whether she is convinced to join him or she is forced to.

For me, good completion awards can be anything from secret endings to concept art, just as long as it's more than just an achievment you unlock that declares that you did it. That being said, I personally think the best kind of completion award is something that can be used in game (such as a powerful weapon or a special item). This also means that I would either like the game's levels to be replayable or like an option to carry over everything you've unlocked into a new game so that you can use your new unlocked prize in every level in the game.

The things I am most excited for are the new story content and the bosses that will be a part of the new story. I'm not as excited for the new boss battles against the seekers of darkess as others are, but I'm excited to see what the boss fights against Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, and Vanitas are like, and the new screenshot of the fight against Ansem just makes me more excited for it.

I'm glad that Kingdom Hearts III is getting some recognition. I'm a bit disappointed that it was only "Gold" and not "Platinum" for "Best Soundtrack", but I'm happy that it placed in four categories, especially that it was "Platinum" for "Best Role-Playing Game". I honestly wasn't expecting it to do this well.

I always thought that Cloud's story was wrapped up in Kingdom Hearts II. I always thought it was implied that Cloud eventually defeated Sephiroth. After all, Sora did say that Cloud went somewhere else to defeat the darkness inside him. In my opinion, the only thing that they could possibly do is show Tifa find Cloud again, but I don't think that's necessary.

The new Re:Mind trailer that was shown at the State of Play revealed a lot of new details. One of those details is that there is going to be three new stories/episodes, which are listed like this: The additional story: Re Mind Limitcut episode and 13 boss battles Secret episode and boss battle I don't know for sure what each of these stories/episodes will include as far as story content, but if I were to make a guess based on what we saw in the trailer (as well as what we saw in previous trailers), I would say that this is what is included in each of them: Re:Mind The story follows Sora as he experiences each of the battles in the Keyblade Graveyard from the other guardians' perspectives in his search for Kairi I think that this is when we will get to play as the other characters in the new scenerios that Nomura talked about, and these new scenerios can either take place before Sora arrived (which I think will be the case with Aqua and Ventus' battle) or after Sora left (which I think will be the case with Roxas, Axel, and Xion's battle) I think that the last fight Sora will see before finally finding Kairi will be the battle between the guardians of light and the Replica Xehanorts in the sky, which I think happened while they were trying to close Kingdom Hearts and Sora, Donald, and Goofy were at Scala ad Caelum, but I don't know when it happened since Master Xehanort absorbed the replicas after Sora, Donald, and Goofy defeated them, but I do have two ideas: Maybe the guardians of light fought the Replica Xehanorts at the same time that Sora, Donald, and Goofy were fighting them, which means that, whenever the Replica Xehanorts teleported away from Sora, Donald, and Goofy, they were actually teleporting to the other battle against the guardians of light Since the Replica Xehanorts are replicas, maybe there were more Replica Xehanorts made that challenged the guardians of light I think that the final boss of this new story will be the boss that we see Kairi fighting in the trailer, which looks like armored Xehanort with the thirteen Keyblades that forged the X-Blade hovering behind him Limitcut Episode This is the one episode that I haven't the slightest clue as to what will happen during it, but maybe this will be the episode where we see the cutscene of the conversation between Young Xehanort and the Master of Masters This might also be when we see the cutscene of the conversation between Xigbar and Luxord and when we find out how Xion returned Basically, I think that this might be an episode that reveals extra story that none of the guardians of light were around to see Maybe those cutscenes are rewards for beating the data battles; for example, you might unlock the cutscene of the conversation between Young Xehanort and the Master of Masters for beating Young Xehanort's data battle or the cutscene of the conversation between Xigbar and Luxord for beating either Xigbar or Luxord's data battle Secret Episode I think that the Secret Episode will follow Riku as he tries to find out what happened to Sora, but I don't think that he will be the only one looking for answers, just that we will follow his search for answers I don't know if Raidiant Garden will be playable, but if I were to make a guess, I would say that it isn't and we just see the Final Fantasy characters in cutscenes However, maybe I'm wrong and Radiant Garden is a world that is explorable in the Secret Episode; after all, it wouldn't be the first time in the series you could explore a new world in a Secret Episode By the end of the episode, I think that Riku and Aqua will go searching for Sora in the Realm of Darkness (and maybe some of the other heroes will join them), and somehow Riku will end up finding his way to the world that he appeared in in the secret ending, which means that by the end of all of these new stories/episodes, I think we will probably know how both Sora and Riku got to where they are in the secret ending But these are just my thoughts. What do you guys think these new stories/episodes will include?

Ok, I never thought I'd say this, but this DLC just might make Kingdom Hearts III my favorite Kingdom Hearts game. No, really. No trailer has ever made me squeal so much in my life.

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Kingdom Hearts III was definitely leagues above the other Kingdom Hearts games when it came to its visuals, and the character animations are no exception. The characters had so much life in this game, and it's one of the things I love about it.

I'm a big fan of BbS too. I think it is right up there with the numbered titles. However, I do like the numbered titles a bit more. It is really close though. That just goes to show how good all of these games are.

I agree with just about everything you said in this video. I do think that Kingdom Hearts II is the best game in the series overall, but that doesn't mean that it is my favorite. Kingdom Hearts II does have a strong story, a perfect ending that makes me smile every time I watch it, and the best combat in the entire series, which makes it the most fun out of all of the games in the series to play. However, I think that Kingdom Hearts 1 has better world designs and a better story. It uses the Disney and Square-Enix characters perfectly (after Kingdom Hearts 1, the Disney and Square-Enix characters started to become less important to the overall story as the Kingdom Hearts series started to become its own thing, which isn't a bad thing, I just liked how well they were integrated into the story in the first game), and it makes the Heartless actually feel like a threat (something that I don't think any of the games that followed managed to do except for a few moments, such as the Battle of Hollow Bastion in Kingdom Hearts II and the multiple battles against the swarms of Heartless, Nobodies, and Unversed at the Keyblade Graveyard in Kingdom Hearts III). In the end, I love all of the games in the Kingdom Hearts series, but Kingdom Hearts 1 is my favorite for being exactly what Square-Enix wanted it to be: a cross between Disney and Final Fantasy.

No matter what you think of the rest of the game, I definitely think you can agree that it has amazing visual design.

I didn't mean that it was unexpected that Roxas returned at all. I knew that he was going to return, as I'm sure most people, if not everyone, did. The unexpected part was when he would return. And even if we knew that he would return in that scene, the characters didn't, so it was unexpected for them at least. I'm not saying that it makes the most sense out of everything that could have happened, but I think that it does make some sense.

That could definitely work. However, I personally still think that the way Nomura wrote it makes sense. Because of the story that Nomura was telling with Riku Replica, I think that the story would have had to be rewritten in order to give Riku Replica the same closure that he got in the game. Riku Replica sacrificed himself to provide a vessel for Namine, keeping his promise to protect Namine, and at the same time, defeated his past evil self. True, the Replica was just left there until the Keyblade War was over, but where would they have put it? I suppose Nomura could have added a brief scene of them putting the Replica under an archway or something like that, but then we wouldn't be able to take selfies with the empty Replica laying facedown on the ground, which was a highlight to many. As for Roxas, Nomura wrote the story so that Roxas' return was unexpected, and if the Replica at the Keyblade Graveyard was used for Roxas, I think that it would lose some of it's unexpectedness. Also, I don't think that Ansem the Wise and Ienzo sent Roxas to the Keyblade Graveyard. I think Roxas automatically went there once his heart returned to him since he shows up the moment after his heart leaves Roxas. And, as Roxas said, a connection was the only thing he was missing in order to become whole again, and that connection also led him back to his friends. Basicaly, I do see your point. However, I can also see why Nomura did it the way that he did, and I think that it still makes sense the way that he wrote it.

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Not long after I finished Kingdom Hearts III, I made a post on this site called "Rewriting the Story of Kingdom Hearts III [SPOILERS]". I am not the only person who made content like this, and even if people didn't post their own versions of the story, many of them did talk about how they would change certain parts of the story. I was originally planning on releasing a "Final Mix" of my original post after I played the Re:Mind DLC, but I decided not to do that anymore for two reasons. First, looking back on the story of the game, there isn't much I didn't like about the story except for Sora fading away at the end of the game. The cliffhanger ending combined with the foreshadowing for the next saga really made it seem like this wasn't a finale but just another game in a larger story. I have since made peace with the fact that Sora faded away, especially after seeing that it was foreshadowed since the beginning of the game when Xigbar appeared before Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Hercules in Olympus. So, while I am still not a fan of the large amount of foreshadowing for the next saga, there wasn't really any major story beats that I would change outside of when they happen in the game. Second, I don't think many people fully understand how difficult it is to write a story. Rewriting a story using the power of hindsight is much easier than writing a story from scratch. When you rewrite a story using hindsight, you use a story that has already been written and alter the parts that didn't work while keeping the story as close to the original as possible. You are able to do this because you know what parts of the story worked and what parts didn't based on how the audience responded to the story. However, when you write a story from scratch, you don't have the benefit of knowing what parts of the story worked and what parts didn't. You have to guess what the audience will like while also telling the story you want to tell, and you have to find the right balance between the two. In conclusion, writing a story is hard, and acting as if you could do it better isn't giving Nomura the credit he deserves. In fact, Nomura himself revealed to us how hard it was to write the Keyblade War scenes in Kingdom Hearts III. Writing a story isn't as easy as asking yourself, "What would please people the most?" and writing that. You definitely should keep in mind what will please your audience the most, but knowing what that is isn't as easy as it sounds, especially since you will never know for sure how your audience will react until you release your story. This isn't to say you should never be critical of someone's story and give suggestions for improvement. People will never learn if all you do is praise them. And there probably are people out there who could write better stories. However, acting as though writing a story that would make your audience happy is easy is not realizing just how difficult writing a story that pleases your audience can be.