The reasons I hate her:
- it's nearly impossible to like the story of Days without loving or at least "accepting" Xion. I would have ignored her, but she is so "important" - no, lets say "present" - in Days' Oh-so-dramatic plot, there is NO way she can be ignored. I mean: you can like KH I + KH II + CoM and hate Kairi (or else, the Fandom wouldn't be what it is shamisen) and you can like CoM without being a Namine-Fan.
- came out of nowhere and faded away because of her *sobsob* "tragic, but brave" fate (and i seriously hope she stays wherever she is now), without doing anything (good) to the KH universe
- she was nothing new at all: some weird mixture of Kairi/Namine, with bits of Roxas and Replikus Story, some angst here, some nasty-VA-giggle there, tons of ice cream... over all: one of Vexens experiments that went terribly wrong...
- the thing that was mentioned above about pushing Roxas in the "Sora-role". Roxas had an interesting character, having some of Soras quirks, but just more extreme. When he fought against DiZ's hologram knowing that its pointless, constantly woundering about whats going in TT and with him, making his own decisions, being selfish for completly understandable reason (if I were told, that I don't have a heart and to vanish for another girls good I would be exactly the same) and so on... In Days he wasn't as fleshed out as in the beginning of KH II. And Days was supposed to be Roxas' game... He friended Xion as soon as he saw her, making the AkuRokuFriendship thing meaningless to me, her constantly worried about her, ran after her when she vanished etc.
- and she fainted and cried and fainted and sobbed and cried for Rikus help and ran away just to faint a few days later in a bishis arms and being tortured by the bad, bad other members and comforted by her (constantly worried for her safety) friends... poor little poppet...
- Deep Dive with Xion. When I first saw the scene I was like "WTF? Is this for real?" Deep Dive was always Roxas' and Riku's scene, and that Deep Dive feat. Xion was just... wrong, as if Riku was on vacation in the WTNW, accidently ran into Roxas and was told by Xion to "Stop him!"
- the VAing. The Japanese wasn't good at all. Risa Uchida was okay for KH1-Kairi, but not that good for KHII-Kairi and absolutly NOT fitting for Xion. The english one was fitting at some parts (death scene) but sucked at others (DI.scenes)
- the amount of screen time she had - the majority of cutscenes where about Xion, i was SO pissed. Three scenes were showing her lying in Rikus arms at DI. There were so many other scenes, that would have been awesome as a cutscene, but no.... we have to watch three times the same crap. Argh....!ffffuuu (<-- I really wish there would be a Hulk-Smilie!)
- the death speech. It's just pathetic. To me real heroes die silent, without any fame. And when there really is no way for a character to die silent, I like death scenes full of regret (AtW, i might be one of his few fans) or anger and fear. This is what i call dramatic. Not something like the show Xion pulled off.
- the whole RAX-trio - that wasn't real, was it? It was SO forced. And when I see sth like this:
http://forums.khinsider.com/fanclubs...os-better.html
... no seriously, how can anyone fall for this made-up, forced, wanna-be-SRK trio? I know, the KH-Fandom is... quite special in many ways, but liking RAX?
I somehow liked the Roxas-Axel-Namine-Trio. Its more in the background, they where never shown as a trio, maybe it's just my weird Fan-imagination, but it would have been nice to see the three of them together just once.
- And then there is this wierd reason for liking her: "because she is better than Kairi". Whats this? Noone likes Goofy because he is better than Donald. How cheap and superficial is this?
I was so exited, when i read, there would be a game for my beloved DS.
When i first heard about the "mysterios new member of Org XIII", i thought, that someting like that was quite predicable from the start.
When i first saw the face, i thought "Anothe Kairi? This starts to get old, Nomura...", but i thought that she might be okay. I didn't want to judge her just by appearance.
A few weeks later i watched the trailer. And the moment i heard "Who am I?" and "I want to... I wanna be... with you two." "But what would it take for me to be like you?" I was like: ffffuuu
I hate things like this in general, but that was way over the top.
Am very disappointed of Days. Seriously was expecting more. That was our last chance to get to know more about the Org. members. (I hope, they are not brought back in any way in any of the games...)
At least their original names should have been revealed.
And you can't blame the DS for the bad story. I loved CoM. CoM had a good story, interesting characters (the Marluxia/Larxene/Axel - Trio, was so awesome). It was touching and dramatic at some parts, had a gameplay that was not as stoic as in Days where you go from mission to mission to torture the A button (although the gameplay wasn't that bad. thebatman for Panel-system).
I even liked the card system, i mean, the GBA had just too few buttons to make a KH-like-gameplay. And all this with only a tenth of the space of a normal DS-game, on the GBA with worse sound and graphics.
I really am thinking about buying a PSP for BBS, which looks very promising. Days just sucked a lot. Sorry Nomura, you failed. Creating lots of Kairis is sure a way to win naive young fans who don't care about good plot and authenticity, but a lot of older fans with somewhat "higher expectations" regarding plot and originality start getting really upset. At least I got that impression...
I don't hate Kairi, no, actually I like her (Not in the meaning of "OMG! My absolute favorite character!"), she has a promising character and some interesting quirks. Although I can understand when you hate her for being useless. It's true, there were some situations, where she just should have been done more.
Namine is different, I love her. She has her very own power and knows how to use it. Her story is sad in many ways and not that emo and angsty. Of course she is a damsel in distress, but it's bearable. I like how she develops to someone, who learns to make her own decisions.
Larxene is great anyway. And pretty (am the only one, who thinks she is pretty?). I love characters like her, she is a sadist and a femme fatale, flirting and... she is just made to be an antagonist. I like her for being such a bitch! I am not sad, that she died, she was just entertaining as long as she was there.
And Olette is... just love. And she wears trousers. thebatman The HPO-Trio is a REAL trio for me. Or SoraDonaldGoofy. Not something so fake like RAX...
Wow, now I'm feeling better! This club is great...