you know, just in time for everyone to already be beating rebirth

but let me have this

i did think about buying rebirth but then i had to buy a brand new laptop so...... perhaps i will wait a little longer

also my god that final run of bosses from the shitty motorcycle fight with the giant robot to "here fight these weird harbinger ghosts who also fuse into a fucking bahamut and megaflare your ass and THEN fight sephiroth"

truly felt like tetsuya nomura heard me talking shit about sephiroth and said "oh you want to talk smack about my favorite blorbo? Perish"

HIGH FIVE (i just played it late last year)

the ending is so

kingdom hearts

slrkgdgdrg

i'm not even complaining i was just laughing while it also kicked my ass

it's so ridiculous

lmao literally what i said

i love it okay my 12 year old heart like

o we back

I was like ah final fantasy is back... inexplicable ending

when i played the first time and whispers showed up i was like

"oh i'm in a destroyed city in a floating abyss fighting weird shadow monsters and a looming giant shadow? the music is orchestral and weirdly light-hearted? and sephiroth is here???"

this is just kingdom hearts

who let org 13 in and why are they angstier

and then my sister literally texted me the same thing

lrkgdgdrg IT IS

and we're using the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP to SAVE THE UNIVERSE so

bahamut specifically made me laugh bc like

to fully throw shade at my high school age self, i did fully plot out and start writing a kingdom hearts 3 in the long void before we got that

when I saw the whispers I was like "ff13 music?!"

ff13pilled

there IS a lot of ff13 vibes too which i enjoy

and had it planned that sephiroth's remnant trio would be recurring baddies that used evil versions of the final fantasy summons as bosses

so, Validation

fuck yeah good job kid you

also god watching that final cutscene like

man, they are really just fine with everyone who never touched ff7 originally having Zero Clue what is going on, huh

i talked to my sis about that

Not that she's everyone but I only played OG a few years ago, and she never did

and i asked and she was like "oh I'm so here for it"

"i played all three KH and this feels more like they know what they're doing and it's pretty and the battle system is fun so who cares"

me like is this what your consumer testing told you too lmao

yeah if you consumed kingdom hearts you have to be ready for nomura to just be Doing Shit

me waiting for tifa to be like

your heart left your body and it's been living inside me we have to put it back

retconning it so cloud is just zack's nobody

WHEEZE correct

sephiroth is yet another manifestation of ansem from 1

sephiroth got norted

yes

sidebar when and if kingdom hearts 4 ever happens (please don't be another 13 years) i am quietly hoping we rope the remnant trio in

they were fun villains! advent children was good!!

imagine a side storyline where they're running around trying to bring sephiroth back so we can do our bananas OP sephiroth secret boss fight

and also you can make loz cry like the pathetic manchild he is

honestly

i'd be here for it

KH is at it's best the goofier it is

sora and ash ketchum shaking hands not having aged in 20+ years

he's allowed

instead it looks like it's gonna get even weirder and more high concept but i guess we'll see how it goes

as is probably obvious i was always more of a KH person than an FF person if i had to pick

ff7r was really good tho! as someone who was comparatively down on the og

everyone is beautiful and queer

just how i like it

except hojo

hojo is rancid and entirely too heterosexual