FadedSparkle

This is the generation where I'll stop gaming entirely outside of replaying my physical collection of games until they no longer work. Honestly firetruck everything going full digital. I can live with experiencing most new games through YouTube Let's Plays/Blind Play Live Streams and Video Walkthroughs. And when it comes to movies and television shows I can just watch them all online for free through various websites. My life savings will grow exponentially.

^The above post should be merged into the Missing Link general chat thread rather than the start of its own thread.

If it doesn't come out sometime next year I think it being canceled rather than delayed is undeniable. There's just no way a mobile game is not plotted out to release within a five year time frame.

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3:49 AM Friday, March 28, 2025 (GMT+9) Time in Tokyo, Japan We should have some news or no news within the next ten-twelve hours. Have your choices of celebratory or cheer-up snacks/meals ready. And tissues, plenty of tissues.

It's Dream Drop Distance for me. The foreshadowing it does is just too good.

Kairi's name is misspelled and Riku isn't on the list. The question should also be "Which Kingdom Hearts character do you relate to the most?" not "Which Kingdom hearts character do you related to the most?" Honestly who makes these polls?

The correct and only acceptable responses to the question what are your pronouns are "None of your business." and "My pronouns are fist and face as in mine will meet yours if you ask that irrelevant question again."

The most important thing is that the game is fun to play. If the gameplay system is incredibly sophisticated but difficult to understand it can cause levels of frustration that leaves me coming out the other end of the game not wanting to finish it or not wanting to replay it if I do commit to finishing it. Rarely do I find it actually rewarding and worth my time that a gameplay system is significantly complex instead of simple.

Sora is just the mega kawaii brand of baby faced Japanese female idols. I.E Morning Musume's Abe Natsumi, AKB48's Ono Erena, and Dream's Hasebe Yu. The KH4 teaser trailer has him looking more like a Johnny's Entertainment male idol though.

It's a perfectly fine film. Nothing special, nothing so bad that it deserves the hatred it amassed before its release.

^Nothing across any of the entries in the series has implied there is a limit to how many people a keyblade wielder can bequeath so theoretically the answer is infinite.

^GamersJoint and all the others who built up their YouTube channels off of KH news circa the lead up to the release of KH3 need to find a new thing to report on because currently there is no news for KH and making more and more fake news and speculation videos is just going to make anyone subscribed to them begin to unsubscribe. It would've helped a lot if most of them weren't so young that they couldn't possibly have been fans before the release of vanilla Birth By Sleep (if even then) and pretending they have since vanilla KH1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndrO1tpjakA - I hate that it's actually pretty gash darn good.

If creating a KH trivia quiz what kind(s) of question would you ask. For me I would included the following: Before Kingdom Hearts 3 Sora cried or was mentioned as having cried over just four characters. Which characters were they? The answer is (to my own knowledge) Riku (famous scene in KH2), Roxas (Other famous scene in KH2 it's as much Sora crying over Roxas as it is Roxas crying through Sora), Namine (mentioned to have cried over her as a child in accordance with/in reaction to the fake memories of her leaving the Destiny Islands outta nowhere in Chain of Memories), and Ventus (cries because of him/for him as a child in a scene from Birth By Sleep).

Honestly it would be nice to just be given an estimate on when they believe the game will be ready for release.

Owen, Bret, and Jim.

^x7 - That is an example of why remixes tend to suck.

Good morning all. I believe I accidentally ate a prototype version of Missing Link a few minutes ago that somehow ended up in my cereal. At least that's what the back of my box of Crunch Cereal has led me to believe. Apologies to all for not realizing such a valuable prize was in there sooner and accidentally eating it.

^Arise while it has its moments definitely felt like a game that just barely belongs to the series it claims to be part of. The fact it has its own version of the sphere grid from FFX (even if it seems easier to understand), makes it an instant skip entry for me, but I have watched several Let's Plays. Going back to lurking now.

^Yep. Here's hoping if they do remaster Abyss they don't muck it up. Also hoping they're working on the next game in the series as they've been very quiet since the DLC for Arise. I'll stop talking about the Tales series with this in order to not get myself or anyone who feels inclined to respond in trouble for being off topic.

The timing is appropriate for a remaster of Tales of the Abyss given we're coming up on a milestone anniversary year for it, but I worry they'll do a half-arsed job with it. The newest "remaster" for Symphonia was an absolute disaster. At least Symphonia Chronicles meant you got both Symphonia's PS2 version and an improved version of Dawn of A New World each with dual audio. There was literally no selling point for the newest "remaster" of the first game considering it is really not that hard to get your hands on a PS3 & the Chronicles release for cheap (It's also just disgusting that you can pick up Chronicles which includes Dawn of A New World for cheaper than the new "remaster" which only has Symphonia). The very least they could've done for the latest "remaster" was hire soundalike voice actors to the dub the skits in English so there was actually something new to look forward to even if the game runs poorly by comparison to previous released versions. Abyss already had a pretty lackluster port in the 3DS version. No multi-player was a borderline unforgivable downgrade and you can't do the glitch that lets you get into places early and collect all the search point items easier. Also while the reduced lag from weather effects on the overworld are nice they didn't reduce it nearly enough. Graphics wise the game in its PS2 form was about as good as could be expected for the game's art style, there's only so far they can update them realistically speaking. Aside from bringing the game to current gen consoles and PC the only real improvements I can think of that an Abyss remaster could bring besides them actually fixing the lag from the weather effects are not cutting the multi-player function like they had for the 3DS port, dual audio, getting soundalikes to voice the skits in English, and adding the sidequest indicator they put into the Graces F remaster (because honestly Abyss has a lot of plot relevant sidequests that are easy to miss). In an effort to keep the thread on topic, I must report that Missing Link is still missing.

^Overall I actually prefer the battle system from Tales of the Abyss myself, but Graces is a close second. Story wise I find it serviceable at best due to an overall lack of sense of any real stakes, the childhood arc is cute and the adult and future arcs are at least as good as each other but don't get past the B tier for me. That said Sophie gets one of the best character growth arcs out of the entire Tales series (Up there with Luke, Emil, Carol, and Shirley). Asbel, not so much. The dynamic between him and Sophie reminds me of the one between Reid and Meredy in Eternia (another one where the female protagonist ended up being the one with the better character growth arcs rather than the male protagonist).

^x3 That Kirby plushie looks like nightmare fuel to me. There's something about the watery eyes that make it not look quite right. Also the smile isn't quite right to me either.

For anyone needing something to play while waiting on news for KH4 and Missing Link I recommend picking up the Tales of Graces F remaster. I'm playing the PS3 version from scratch to celebrate that it got a remaster. Game is still very fun and the remaster version has some quality of life features to improve the experience from what I've been able to observe while watching Let's Plays/Streams of it on YouTube and reading on forums about the game.