No problem and good luck!
I think the ending where Riku turned to take a blow that could have killed Sora and covered for him, then Sora took Way to the Dawn and retaliated, then after Riku and Sora used their power of Heart with the Keyblade was really cool. Also, the interchanging throughout the battle really of Sora and Riku working together was cool and the Eternal Session Limit was fitting in places. When Roxas said 'looks like summer vacation is over' and accepted his fate to go back to Sora, that was cool. When Riku stood above Roxas and could have killed him but instead thrust Oblivion beside him and let him get back up to declare "I'm winning" ...yeah, the scene with him throwing Oblivion and it just stuck there was pretty symbolic to me. When Riku gave Kairi the Keyblade and she ran off to fight the Heartless, and also when she took her leap off and actually survived falling several feet to join Sora, that was pretty cool. Kairi hadn't done anything and Sora in the former game never let her do anything. It was nice to see her show -some- value finally other than being the healer mysterious girl that is physically inept. When Axel gave his existence up to help Sora and apologized for kidnapping Kairi. It was very noble of him. Even though his drive to get his friend back was extensive and well, it was a -bad- plan to try to get Sora to become a Heartless again, the tenacity Axel had to try to help his friend was admirable. Just about anything Riku did in KH2 really was very cool to me because he was always doing things in the background that did really help out others. He was very honorable though he also had guilt for his weakness. Also, King Mickey did things in the background too and his saving Sora's butt in times of need was honorable. When DiZ/Ansem knew that he was going to die but he also sacrificed himself to make things the best he could which ended up helping Riku and the others. His reports at the beginning were so cold too but progressively later on he became more 'human' again and all he wanted was to see Radiant Gardens one more time. However, even not getting that wish, he made things better. Sora tossing aside pride and all to grab Riku's arm and beg his friend to stay and also to try to cheer him up when he was down and worried about going home. Even if the funny face was childish, it got the point through and he showed he is a true friend and could forgive and that life goes on.
Well, I believe he was very strong if you think about it, but Riku and Sora were also much more strong in that realm than normal too with slicing up buildings, flying through a void of space etc. These are things they normally could not do but in that place they could because I believe...of the power of their wills. Xemnas may not have been such a 'challenge' in the end, same as Ansem in KH, but if you look at the raw scale of what they were 'doing' there, and not just what damage Sora and allies were taking, it really looks like a lot to me. In just about every FF game, the final bosses are made to not be that difficult to surpass and the same holds true in KH games. I think it's just Nomura being nice so that people can watch the secret endings and not have to really have a major effort each time to get through it so they can later watch it again, or perhaps there's some other reason, but it holds true on so many Square games on the whole. I don't think Xemnas was 'holding back' but also Sora and Riku weren't either.
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It's sad they won't release other calendars for well other countries but eh, I get bored and make my own calendars with the KH characters on them for fun per month so I can hang up one for each month and write stuff on it. I guess that will do until they do something so I can understand it or I actually practice more Japanese.
Hmm, well I think the following... Ansem = Ansem the Wise or DiZ. Master Xehanort = Old guy in BBS that is seen. Xehanort/Xemnas - This is the most difficult one. I surmise it is one of two possibilities. 1. It is Terra without his memory after he possibly absorbed the Apprentice's dark spirit, heart into himself and this is why at the end he has glowing yellowish eyes and all. He looks a lot like Xemnas and Xehanort in the picture except his hair is brown. 2. He is the apprentice's form that is in BBS and lost his memory and Ansem found him. It could be likely he is the apprentice since the apprentice may have been defeated a couple or few years before BBS ends, which the ending is approximately 10 years before KH. Leon and Aerith both comment in KH also that their world (Radiant Gardens) was taken 9 years ago and blame Maleficent as having taken over after that time. If the apprentice is the one who is Xemnas/Xehanort, he may at one time have been friends with Terra or related, which would express some of the similar features he has. Either way, the being lost his memory which usually happens after a traumatic experience and I can see it possible with both. Really, it just depends on when Terra actually is defeated because he is also the 'Enigmatic' guy, or I believe that it is his 'spirit' there. Since you can only fight the Enigmatic soldier after defeating Xemnas, it could be that the Enigmatic Soldier is Terra's Heart and Xemnas is the Nobody. The only problem with Xehanort being Terra is the fact that Ansem the Wise makes a statement that he found 'Xehanort' without memories a few years possibly before the collapse of his world by Xehanort's deeds. It really does depend when Terra fell then to be truly him or not. Xehanort's Heartless who also called himself Ansem - I think this is the 'Heart' or spirit of the Apprentice of Master Xehanort's that is seen as the figure in the Dark Riku sort of armor in the trailer. Of course, it could also be that the Heartless was the Heartless of 'Master Xehanort' since to me I think he had different features than Xehanort/Xemnas did. All in all, those are the theories so far I've come up with because there are a few questions I cannot absolutely resolve to say that one is absolutely better than the other one. Most other things though I dismiss. Master Xehanort though is obviously the original 'Xehanort' and whether Xemnas/Xehanort was Terra or the Apprentice and whether the Heartless was the Apprentice or Master Xehanort we can at least verify the 'true' Xehanort in all that. It is also clear that the Heartless 'Ansem' and Xehanort/Xemnas have the same 'scents' because Zexion makes the comment in regards to Riku smelling like the Superior. It's a good quandary in all but out of all the theories, I think the two I posted are the best I can see.
Well, you don't have to...but I just found it easier to do it that way. Then it seems to happen sooner because I wasted all that time maxing them out.
Shhh...it's a secret... <.< >.> *leans in* Yeah, I think he at least has part of his Heart. But...keep it on the low. *runs off into the night*
What he said. Oblivion and Oathkeeper were tied to Sora and thus to Roxas due to the fact that Oblivion is linked to Riku direct and Oathkeeper is linked to Kairi direct. This is why in Deep Dive, Roxas hurls Oblivion at Riku but Riku takes it and catches it. It's also why after Riku gives it back when Roxas is on the ground semi-out cold. They aren't 'fake' Keyblades but they are extensions in a way of the Oathkeeper and Oblivion Keyblades, as the Kingdom Key he has is as well. Roxas, who is probably a part of Ven, was a Keyblade wielder, which does show he had at least a semblance of a Heart. However, he would probably not exist at all if it were not for Sora and those Keyblades were tied to Sora and the other two. So no, they aren't 'fakes'. But they aren't 'all Roxas's' either. Without the connection to Sora, Roxas probably would not have had -any- Keyblade, let alone two that were symbols of such importance to Sora himself.
This really is no different to me than people who try to compare numbers and say there's a solid sequence and so events happen that way all the time etc. A name can be important, which is why parents go through and choose one often that fits a child as they see it, but really, if we look for things to happen, they will. Those with the name K obviously do not all do well in sports or we'd have a lot less people of other beginning letters there. Those with C or D names obviously do not do poor in school just because of the names or else those with A and B names would always be the ones going to Harvard etc. This is what in science would be termed as skewing evidence because if you look to find something, surely you will find it. If you approach something neutrally, you can see things more clearly. I would say this is rather true as in 'sometimes it is correct' because obviously some people with Cs and Ds in names will do poorly in school, but I would also say that evidence would suggest that if I took the time to say students with Cs and Ds in their names do 'well' in school while children with As and Bs as the first initial do not, I could find just as much supporting data. Also, the article suggests correctly that it is a 'psychological' thing so students that are 'told' that their initials will make them get poorer grades or make a correspondence on their own to such rationale will probably do poorer automatically because they believe in it. If kids are told that Ks make them better baseball players...well they will have the ambition to perform better at baseball and put forth more of an attempt. It's a psyche game so that's really all this proves to me; not really that the letters have importance, but some people are 'making' them mean more important things than truly they do to get kids to be a certain way.
http://www.kh-vids.net/showthread.php?t=32662 Go there if you want some directions for beating Sephiroth. I wrote a whole thing out for the Jiminy Journal and within there is a large section on fighting Sephiroth to help people so if you want to check there, it might get you through it. Good luck!
Sora cannot be a 'reincarnation' of Ven, considering Ven is on Destiny Islands at the same time Sora is 4 years old. A reincarnated being is normally someone that comes back from the dead into a new body that is born. It doesn't equate this way in the case with Ven and Sora. I tend to think more along the lines that Ven was hurt/wounded and made incomplete somehow and thus had to merge with Sora, or he made a decision to merge with Sora's spirit in order to help out in the future. Since Sora was a Heartless for only a short time and said himself in KH that he felt the memories 'beginning' to go away before Kairi helped him, Roxas did not end up with any memories. Roxas also was asked by Axel if he had a Heart and I believe in essence he at least had part of a Heart though he had 'no body' which made him a Nobody. He began having dreams of Sora because of his connection to Sora and Namine was messing with Sora's memories. Ven and Sora -may- be related in some way such as being a brother or cousin, because yes, I agree they do look somewhat alike. Also, Ven is an abbreviation of his name that is Ventus or something like that which means Wind. Sora means 'sky'. It's clear that the names of the characters from BBS and those of Kairi, Sora and Riku are all connected but the only one that seems to resemble someone else 'closely' is Ven to Sora, but I am not sure if that is intentional or just the way it turned out. I do think solidly though that Ven and Roxas are one in the same although Roxas is incomplete and therefore a part of Sora now. Also, Namine is -definitely- Kairi's Nobody. If you needed more proof than what exists easily there that the two merged together at the end of KH2, in KH2 when Namine is working on Roxas, Roxas connects to Kairi and Sora speaks through to Kairi because of the connection through Namine to her. They were very connected and I do not see how that point can be disputed. The 14th member may be either Aqua's 'Nobody' or some new female. Namine was -never- a member of the Organization. She was merely a hostage and considered to be less there than other Nobodies because of the state she was in and the fact Kairi never lost her 'body' as the other Nobodies had. Whoever the 14th member is, I am 99.9% sure it cannot be Namine as she was merely a prisoner to the Organization, particularly to Marluxia. I am also 100% sure Namine is Kairi's Nobody and the 14th member cannot possibly be that, with the evidence I posted above.
Hmm...Tifa is definitely one. I like her attitude and all. Another is Terra. She was great too.
You can get final form in TWTNW or anywhere. You just need to level up the other forms and usually after that point, I've gone and used Master Form and it then showed up sooner or later. I've played the game through a few times and have to say it is rather random when you do get it. Sometimes it takes longer than others.
Yeah, the 'Take it easy. It's just a name" is correct because Riku was referring to what they were racing on, which was about naming the raft. Sora was all 'Whoo-hoo!' and being really elated about it. Also, off topic but I so want to know where that Link dancing thing in your sig comes from and want to see the actual video. It's a growing curiosity because it looks amusing.
Very well said and I loved the sarcasm at points. I agree with what you've posted here and got a good laugh as well.
No problem. I do think you are right to point it out. A lot of people really do not know some of the reasons for tensions in the Middle East and how much Europe and the U.S. have been involved. On an interesting note, I saw a trailer for a new movie when I went to see Beowulf 3d yesterday. It was probably exaggerated but at the same time, goes into explaining about why the U.S. went in to aid Afghanistan against the USSR, giving them weapons and such, which did help turn the Cold War more in our favor and also the after effects of that time event did in fact cause some turmoil with relations because the U.S. backed out sooner than the Afghanistan people wanted after that point. Of interest to note, I am not sure whether the movie will have Osama Bin Laden in it, but he was one of the people that was there in the past and was at one time an ally.
Isn't Barry Bonds the one that was also being debated whether he should be indicted into the Hall of Fame for baseball? If so, I believe that might be the point that is being raised here as a notice. People were on the news debating whether he had a right to be given acknowledgment for hitting the most home runs or not due to the fact he was accused of steroid usage. So, I think that's what's being raised here. If I'm wrong, please let us know, UK. I have to say I don't really pay much attention to baseball.
Hmm, yes, probably it would be considered porn to most people. I think anything actually showing 'sex' such as masturbation, sex between two or more people, acts of sex such as grabbing someone's sex parts etc for the most part would be considered porn, whereas if someone or some people are just posed naked or loitering around in the nude, it would be more art. Of course, I realize that it is in the end a total opinion, but that's generally how I separate it. I would not mind if a 'kid' sees naked David or something like that but it would not be a good idea to show them pictures from Penthouse or Hustler. Playboy and Playgirl kind of do pictures most of the time that are tasteful (at least in my opinion) so I am torn whether or not that could be considered art. I can say though that when I was practicing drawing people, because I often start them off in sketches as being 'nude' and then add clothes onto them after, that I used Playboy and Playgirl magazines as well as muscle magazines to get people's anatomy as correct as I could.
Oh wow, this is really cool! I will so get this when it comes out. Simply awesome.
