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| Lestraxil (allister nine) Join Date: May 2009 Location: Khinsider Age: 19 Posts: 4,233
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well your right it doesnt sound kh3-ish to me. hopefully (if on ps3) you can buy some extra features on the playstation network | |
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| Araliya, Crimson & Gildragon's Xion Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: In a dark corner, playing Days again and writing site content Age: 23 Posts: 13,718
Rep Power: 19 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Currently playing: Youkoso! Hitori Bouchi Level: 53 EXP: | Actually, with her being a PoH, she arguably could be the most powerful of them all yet. She purified Sora of being a Heartless for fuck's sake, and the other PoHs held the great Darkness at bay. They just crashed and burned with the PoHs plot wise thus far. Here's to hoping BBS'll fix it, be it by turning them into kidnapped girls again only this time with a reason, if not have them all be kick ass Deus Ex Machina. Quote:
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They just crashed and burned with the PoHs plot wise thus far. Here's to hoping BBS'll fix it, be it by turning them into kidnapped girls again only this time with a reason, if not have them all be kick ass Deus Ex Machina. [/quote] if they were to stop doing that then there would really be no climax to the Story, now would there?(another point) It was more to keep Riku from dying while he protected her all the time. Numbers would've pulled him down eventually. Hence why in the KH2 secret ending, TAV picked up Mickey's Keyblade along with Sora and Riku's.[/quote] Last edited by Smile; May 22nd, 2009 at 06:32 PM. | |||
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And please present your quotes properly. It can confuse people. | |
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| Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Dreaming of a world without you Age: 21 Posts: 208
Rep Power: 1 ![]() Level: EXP: | That's what i don't understand is that there are for all we know is seven pure hearted maidens with the power to reject the darkness. To be so powerful KH wise there pretty useless even minnie has light based attacks to defend herself. |
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| Sidekick | I think SRK would be very interesting. Kairi, I think, is sorely underdeveloped and it would be cool if she could fight in the third game. She's a princess of heart though, which is where it gets difficult. Her heart is supposed to be pure light, as a writer, I'd have a bitch of a time trying to characterize her through conflict. Without a dark side, there's only so deep her character could be. I'm not even sure if she's capable of fighting besides knocking shadows on the head. |
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| | #37 |
| Araliya, Crimson & Gildragon's Xion Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: In a dark corner, playing Days again and writing site content Age: 23 Posts: 13,718
Rep Power: 19 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Currently playing: Youkoso! Hitori Bouchi Level: 53 EXP: | Arguably, PoHs can get pretty nasty. Kairi herself has had several debatable moments in which she was anything but a pure, kind-hearted little lady. It's just that unlike Riku in KH1, the PoHs can't use the Darkness to 'excuse' their behavior - anything and everything they do, is their own fault - at least until a concept arises where they're being "Blinded by the Light", and then expect to see Kairi go bat-shit crazy on Riku's ass. That would, however, land her in the antagonist seat rather than the party-member's seat, but it'd certainly deal with her lack of development. |
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| Sidekick | I suppose it is natural to assume that someone made of pure light would be perfect all the time. Of course, in practice, it wouldn't make sense. Sympathy for characters usually draws from their internal struggles. Darkness is a part of everyone. Without darkness, it is understandable that Kairi is 1-D right now. However, I think that her character can be explored further (as I'm sure it will be) in KH3. Her being a party member would be interesting. In most fiction, our "dark side" is responsible for our strength and ability to survive. In KH, however, strength seems to take the form of both darkness and light. There's no reason Kairi can't fight. |
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| Araliya, Crimson & Gildragon's Xion Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: In a dark corner, playing Days again and writing site content Age: 23 Posts: 13,718
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Even if in KH1 we thought that, for some reason, that's when CoM came along with its "Darkness doesn't have to be evil" concept, which would pretty naturally draw out the conclusion that the opposite is true too - Light doesn't have to be 'good'. Here's to hoping they remember Disney can at times be dark, too, and not mess this up. Quote:
Is there a struggle? Probably not, but again - she's not really a perfect little Princess, and there is a lot they could explore with her - it's just that they didn't. The most attention she gets throughout the games is in KH2 when Donald and Goofy - who probably never spent a while to have a decent conversation with her - try to supposedly cheer Sora up about her being his sweetheart still, when SoKai as a whole is loosely based if we say there's romance there beyond friendship. Kairi being a PoH isn't why she's a 1-D character right now. It's because she's supposed to be SoRiku's yaoi shield, but they forgot that for that to happen, they need to do more than just go 'ya they're together, now enjoy the KH2 reunion scenes and the blatant SoRiku scenes at the end'. Quote:
In KH1, she was a presence, not a character. Everything we truly know about her we got not even from Sora and Riku, but from Jiminy's journal, which doesn't really seem to live up to reality. In CoM, she was unexistent, and I personally find it impossible to believe Namine really replaced Kairi in Sora's Memories. It was more so "in with Namine, out with Kairi", so even then we didn't really learn anything about her. Not like we could say "look at Sora's Memories of Namine - now just switch her with Kairi", because the Memories we did get to see were the ones Kairi fit into the least. And then in KH2, when we finally actually did get to see Kairi, what we got to see was a girl that had a supposed friend of her "take care of himself" despite being missing for two grueling years or so, but she wrote a letter in a bottle to a guy who might not have existed, and the instant she remembers he did exist, 'waiting isn't good enough'. She's portrayed to be rather a selfish, blinded with love girl, and I find that to be rather repulsive. How sad that that's what they chose to show when they finally showed her. My expectations of Kairi in KH3 is that when she gets kidnapped this time, it'll be for a reason better than because Axel was gay for Roxas and a general pedo. If they go beyond that, wonderful, but I'm not holding my breath. Quote:
If they end up having her fight, I'd swallow it. If they end up giving her a Keyblade, someone dies. If they end up having her fight because she's blinded by the Light, I'll adore them eternally and it would certainly explain why it seemed like she and Riku didn't like each other too much - she was naturally rejecting him because she's a PoH and he fell to Darkness. Comes the redemption scene for her we'll get to see her acting a bit weak and fragile and sensitive and going through an actual inner conflict. In short, she'll go with the Light through what Riku's been through with the Darkness - and he's just about the best character in the game, build wise. Again, though, I'll just be happy if they'll kidnap her for a good reason this time. | ||||
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| deviantly funny | kh I:Sora, riku, kairi/sora, donald, goofy BBS: Aqua, terra, ven Days:roxas, xion, axe follow the pattern and see |
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| | #41 | |
| Araliya, Crimson & Gildragon's Xion Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: In a dark corner, playing Days again and writing site content Age: 23 Posts: 13,718
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TAV are a social three-some but they're party loners. And RAX are a social three-some but they're part of an organization that has 14 members. In short - no pattern to follow :\ | |
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| Ta-chan <333 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Drifting...through the breeze that is reality... Age: 17 Posts: 2,577
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| | #43 |
| Araliya, Crimson & Gildragon's Xion Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: In a dark corner, playing Days again and writing site content Age: 23 Posts: 13,718
Rep Power: 19 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Currently playing: Youkoso! Hitori Bouchi Level: 53 EXP: | ...a Keyblade Riku pulled out of thing air, and that meant nothing to Xemnas when he hailed out to the wielders of the Keyblade. Nomura saying Riku handed the 'WtD' to Kairi in Another Report aside since I know that for some reason, people like to disagree with that phrasing, I think the simple context of the scene would show it's not Kairi's Keyblade. Duel Wielding has been done before. Why not have it be done again? |
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| Sidekick | Kairi can be seen as a plot device more than a character. She is largely Sora's motivation and the cause of some tension between him and Riku. Her role as a princess of heart in the KH universe also makes her difficult to relate to. I agree that Riku is an excellent character, from a technical standpoint. It is unfortunate that his role is often "off-screen" or otherwise unknown to the player. This is why I would enjoy seeing Riku and Sora fight side by side for a whole game. And who knows, Kairi might surprise us. The ending of KH2, where they open the letter from King Mickey (presumably), shows them reading it together. This, to me, seems to send a message that Sora's friends will be more directly involved in KH3. While I think Donald and Goofy will continue to be Sora's party members; SRK isn't that outlandish a notion. |
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| Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Age: 16 Posts: 2,836
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Seriously though, I can imagine Xehanort using Kairi for a number of evil plans. One example comes from KH2: "Your're the fire that feeds Sora's anger" - Saix to Kairi "Maybe the darkness has gotten to me too." - Sora talking to himelf in the dark coast line Xehanort could use Kairi to twist Sora into giving into his anger and becoming evil. Or as you have said Kairi could be blinded by the light and try to destroy the darkness. | |
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