So I know that this is supposed to be the Geno forum, but I just beat Kingdom Hearts 3 at 3:30 this morning (Feb 1st Morning now, so a day ago roughly) and I have literally nothing else on my mind but the ending.
I will give no spoilers here, and no one better tag me with the Secret Ending Spoilers either, as I'm currently trying to find all the Lucky Emblems. Some stupid website that was supposed to give me a guide to the Lucky Emblems spoiled a bit of the Secret Ending but I'm going into it mostly blind. I will be open about the Disney Worlds though, as they were all spoiled in trailers.
Things I can say though:
1. This game was a bit of a chore up until it was big boss battle time and all the Disney Worlds were out of the way. Seriously, with only 8 worlds other than Twilight Town and the final area, they ended up padding the worlds a bit. Toy Box was the one that I first felt the padding, but nothing was as bad as The Caribbean where you had to collect 300 white crabs just to move on in the story. Jesus, it didn't take me too long, but since it was literally a break in the action it was extra obnoxious.
2. Not getting all the original voice actors for characters was really unfortunate, it all but ruined Toy Box for me and Phil being a goddamn mime is weird as ****. If you can't afford Danny Devito, don't put his character in the game goddamnit!
3. Sometimes the dialogue is JUST trash. This is coming from a Kingdom Hearts fan who knows it will be some sort of 'heart, light, darkness, no u!' sort of conversation but even then not only are some conversations stiff and not paced well but we get a lot of saying the same thing every 5-10 minutes.
4. When Nomura said that 'KH didn't need FF anymore' he meant it: so far the only FF things in the game I've seen are apparently an end game world, Moogles, and a number of references to FF games where SE strokes it's own ego more. Apparently Noctis is in this game somewhere but I have missed it so far. With the padding and the other issues this game has that kinda ruins the experience of hanging out with iconic Disney characters, having the old Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden crew would have been amazing and bumped this game up big time. Hopefully Nomura realizes that when you found a fictional franchise on certain principles, you can't just remove them.
5. Ironically, where I start to care about the game is when the only Disney characters are Donald and Goofy and we start to mingle and interact with all the unique-to-KH characters in the end game. No spoilers of course, but this is when s*** gets CRAZY and I was pretty much sucked in the entire time as I stayed up until nearly four in the morning to beat the end game.
When you factor all these things in plus the two obvious things that 1. the game looks amazing and 2. the combat is crazy and more fun than ever, I have to give a 6/10 on the Angry Joe scale: Slightly Above Average. Had this game come out in half the time, it may have gotten a better rating, but when you take this long and this is what you come out with? I know they could have done better.
If anyone here has played the game and wants to talk about the end game and the ending, PM me because god I need to theorize badly.
HAHAHAHA A DOLLAR LESS WOW
I was expecting $2.99. Five freaking dollars? I love Plant and all, but compared to a Fighter's Pass character or even a fan favorite, that is just not worthwhile. That's so silly. At least that one leak citing PP's price as far cheaper is definitely fake now, though.
It gives me a bit of hope for misc. DLC, though. If just a character alone is going to be five dollars, that's some big dollar signs for Nintendo and even for some third parties. Geno being playable for five dollars as opposed to $1.50 (or even less, as it'd be ported) for a Mii costume is quite a big difference, especially when you add it all up. I'm very sure he's not in the Fighter's Pass, so with this price point, given third party misc. DLC would likely be even more expensive ($6+ dollars a pop), I can see that being really appealing for Square. Even if Geno isn't the most well-known, he's still a fan favorite, and those six dollars+ per add up fast. It'd probably make Geno as DLC that much more enticing.
Hold up now
PP being $5 is completely fair, and we all had the chance for PP to be free, so if you missed that chance that's kinda on you and not them.
Seriously though, people take for granted the work that goes into just a single character. When you get a new character in a fighting game as DLC, that character has to go through the same process of being made as all the other characters in the game: original concepts, mechanics, gameplay decisions to settle what kind of playstyle that character will have, making the frame data, animations, sound design...etc etc etc. Here is where it gets kinda worse for the developers though: they normally have way less of a budget to work with and also less of a team to make that character, yet they are still under the eye of fan scrutiny because since fans are paying for these after already buying the game, it better be top-quality content. Now of course with most companies who just hold things back from the original release of the game this is no big deal, but for Sakurai who demands that DLC be worked on after launch/going gold it's even more work with less to work with.
Please, don't badger them too much about this. It's not like it's $10 a character when they technically could charge that amount and it would be more fair towards the work they put in, and now we will be getting characters with a stage and loads of music for the same price as PP if you grabbed the pass.
