What is it with this guy and Keyblades?

What is it with this guy and Keyblades?

The Keyblade he inherited the ability to summon from Terra was the Kingdom Key, which despite Nomura refusing to say it outright, must be special since it is by far the closest KB to the X-Blade, which all KBs are based off of.

When he lost it to Sora he was still able to summon a weapon with a Gazing Eye on it, or at least something related to the KBs with the eye on them.

Then he, possessed by Ansem SoD or not, got his hands on the Keyblade of the Hearts of People, which considering it was powered by six hearts of pure light and also had the unique ability to unlock individual hearts should logically be extremely powerful, like second or third to the X-blade.

Back to Soul Eater in CoM and until the end of KH2, it was either stupidly powerful by default considering the people Riku was able to put down with it, or was always a pseudo-KB and was using the power of his heart. That it took so long to transform into a proper one, over a year, is pretty crazy since there's always supposedly one KB for every heart worthy of wielding them. Riku was dealing with his his darkness stuff, but we have seen plenty of dark KB users at this point, and he certainly wasn't too weak to use one since he was able to temporarily take back his original from Sora in KH1 and used Roxas's Oblivion against him during their fight.

Then after spending all that time figuring out how to summon/make Way to Dawn, he just pulls Kairi's KB out from nowhere and hands it off to her like it's nothing.

THEN, after having ownership of WtD for maybe a few months, he lets it get snapped in half and just tosses it to have Yensid make him a new one in a day or two. What? Yeah I know he left it for Riku Replica, but would a broken KB really be that helpful to someone who can presumably still summon a copy of Soul Eater?

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Nomura and Kojima are the only two japanese directors which legitimately deserve to be called a 'hack'

>Trying to make sense out of KH
Dude, at the end of the day it's just sora saving everyone with the power of friendship
None of the actions of any of the other characters matters, They will always job and Sora will save them without even knowing what is going on

Maybe I'm as autistic as Nomura, but I have a feeling this is going to come up at some point in a future game. Specifically that his current Keyblade, Braveheart doesn't have a Gazing Eye on it like his previous two main weapons. I know there has been no confirmation that any of the eyes except the one on No Name actually work, but still...

>I have a feeling this is going to come up at some point in a future game
Don't hold your breath, Nomura is literally improvising the story, he doesn't care about the story making sense as much as you do

i agree; also doesnt vanitas' keyblade have a weird eye on it too? they never talked about that either right or does it have to do with his xehanort connections or something

A FUCKING CAR KEY

The eye just symbolizes the influence of Xehanort.

After DDD, Riku should've wielded KK and sora, since he failed the test, should've retired to the island with Kairi. Then as Riku and Mickey Job in DARKNESS, sora stumbles upon pick related and goes after them.

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The eye predates Xehanort by centuries though. Xehanort is literally a scapegoat for the real goat Luxu/Braig.

>That it took so long to transform into a proper one, over a year, is pretty crazy since there's always supposedly one KB for every heart worthy of wielding them.
Precisely. Soul Eater became Way to the Dawn when Riku's heart was once again worthy of it.

Way to the Dawn broke because it no longer reflected Riku's heart, hence Braveheart.
Though the details on how he obtained it are a bit unclear...

>he doesn't care about the story making sense as much as you do
Nomura is notoriously autistic about canon

Pic related was a throwaway room you could only see one time in KH1.
17 years later he decided to bring it back as a machine underneath Daybreak Town which may or may not have the ability to shoot people into the future.

And also the smaller version in Hollow Bastion serves some purpose in Apprentice Xehanort's experiments as shown in the Melody of Memory trailer.

There's also that time in 0.2 where Mickey lost his shirt to be consistent with his appearance in KH1's ending.

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It's the same thing. Nomura doesnt exactly care about dates or timelines. Eye = evil, No Eye = free

>Nomura doesnt exactly care about dates or timelines
Wrong

KH3RM > KH2FM

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This is the price for protecting the light

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brainlet take.
Pretending =/= Caring
Nomura pretends to make complex arrangements and timelines while in reality just improvises which whatever is currently needed in the scene. He is the lord of asspulls.

>Precisely. Soul Eater became Way to the Dawn when Riku's heart was once again worthy of it.
I guess that's the only explanation that fits, but I have to wonder what the conditions for it to find him worthy were. Both light side and dark side users can use Keyblades, and even if he was indecisive about what he wanted to do in CoM, by the end he had decided to take a middle path. Hell Data Sora was able to earn a real Keyblade after half an adventure, just how picky was WtD?

Just because you're too stupid to understand a shonen battle anime doesn't mean it's all "improvised"
Especially when it comes to the new arc

>KHfags actually think this was all planned
heh.

What makes it so much better? I have the regular edition of KH3 but I’ve never touched it

ok, but there is still absolutely no justification for kairi to get a keyblade. That was next level retarded

I'm not saying Nomura's some machiavellian schemer who had the entire thing written down 20 years ago

But you'd have to be actually retarded to think it's all just made up on the spot and that he "doesn't care" about the story.
Like, straight lobotomized. Unbelievably dense.
Because it isn't that complicated. There's constant foreshadowing and callbacks. Characters have a bad habit of explaining exactly what is happening and why.

If for some reason you got to this point thinking "it's all improvised nonsense" then you should probably seek medical help 'cause I dunno how you'll continue to survive at this rate.

>I'm not saying Nomura's some machiavellian schemer who had the entire thing written down 20 years ago
You do.

>to think it's all just made up on the spot and that he "doesn't care" about the story.
It is.

If you want to read complex writing that isn't made by a manchild, try a good book.

>no u
Somehow I find it doubtful you've ever read a book yourself.
I mean, you can't even wrap your head around a plot with the complexity of your average children's fantasy book.
It hurts your tiny baby brain so bad you have to shout to anyone who will listen that it simply doesn't make sense and was made up without any thought.

Why are you even here, if not to seek some kind of validation for your dipshit opinion?

I wouldn't go that far personally, since there are things like him admitting the heart moon on the cover of KH1 wasn't meant to be Kingdom Hearts, he just thought it looked cool and later made it that when another writer suggested Xemnas make his version of KH as a glowing light in the sky in KH2.

At this point though I think he's spending a great deal of time on the story to try to pull everything together. You might call them asspulls, but it's still something a lot of people like speculating on and some of the stuff is really clever like giving a purpose to the giant Nobody Marluxia summons in his boss fight in the second game all these years later by making it represent his sister. Was that always his plan? Probably not, but he still made it work well enough that we can't say either way.

Another mystery I'm wondering about is why Xehanort has the nobody symbol on his armor the first time he ever summons it in Dark Road. This would possibly be a "retcon" or at least make some of the stuff we know confusing, but I'm positive Nomura has an explanation cooked up for it.

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i mean a decent amount is made up on the spot at least right. ie the extra scene in kh1 was admitted to having basically random quotes that nomura had to shoehorn in to kh2

>like giving a purpose to the giant Nobody Marluxia summons in his boss fight in the second game all these years later by making it represent his sister
This is the cheapest and easiest ass pull and you unironically defend it. I don't know what's worse, Nomuras writing or the people who suck it all up

The secret video in KH1 was just a concept trailer because at the time, nobody knew if the game would be successful enough for a sequel. So they kept plans to a minimum and focused on just making the one game.
Obviously he still had ideas for the future, and he claims to have always known how KH will end.

But KH1 specifically was written to work as the only KH game. Unfortunately that wound up kind of biting them in the ass when it came to following up on and expanding the narrative. Nearly everything finicky or fucky with the plot/lore stems from some incongruity with KH1's narrative.
Now that Dark Seeker is over I think we're done having to deal with it though.

>Somehow I find it doubtful you've ever read a book yourself.
>says the guy who autistically defends KH writing
rich

I don't think you actually know what an asspull is

I'm actually not "defending" it. I never told you it was good.
I just told you that it wasn't all made-up nonsense.

You're only proving further how dumb you really are.

>Obviously he still had ideas for the future, and he claims to have always known how KH will end.
i have a bit of trouble believing that considering in the kh3 collectors edition artbook forward he talks about how he had to rewrite the ending multiple times and had trouble writing the story this time around...but maybe thats just for some of the smaller details.

i feel like theres incongruities that come from other games as well though, not just kh1. though now that you mention it im having a bit of difficulty pinpointing one so i will have to think about it

This. I prefer 2FM but 3RM is objectively better.

>I just told you that it wasn't all made-up nonsense.
It's not nonssense. At least not for Nomura. He puts very much into representation, scenes, relationships and a overall moral of a story. But they are by no means complex or thought out. Defending this awful writing to such a degree while continuing to insult someone you don't know online in every single post you do, doesn't really make you look intelligent to put it nicely.

Now that I think about it, the game seems to be exactly your demographic and wavelength.
It's ok user, we all grow up. In a couple years when you become 13 you will maybe understand what I meant.

Way to Dawn is so superior to that fucking car key it's not even funny, Nomura's autistic boner for nothing but style is cancer.