I just related the crown picture to Sora's necklace or King Mickey's seal. I can't really think of what else it would mean.
Maleficent and Hades will probably be the only repeat bosses unless they find some way to resurrect any of the others. Those two are the only ones that seem to have an immortality thing going on and I believe Maleficent may even be somewhat important to the storyline since it is her world that is featured in BBS straight off with Terra. How much of a threat she is though would remain to be seen since yeah, it will be kind of redundant to have to face her again. Maybe we'll get surprised and she won't be such a pain in the next game. In KH2 she was kind of a mockery since the Organization was so much more powerful than her. She wasn't really a threat and in a way ended up twice helping Riku and Sora, which was probably for ulterior motives, such as finding a new castle. If they do include her and Hades again, I hope it has a bit more purpose to it. I'd really like to see them intro some other enemies such as the queen in Snow White or the Horned King etc.
I would place Nobodies more as ghosts that are physical, or in a way Vampires. I don't see them as zombies at all considering zombies are usually pretty dumb and going around for brains. The Nobodies were intelligent and were seeking their hearts back and vampires often seek to return to normal. Also, zombies decay and rot, and the Nobodies also seemed to be more like vampires in that I don't think they really aged and were kind of stuck as how their memory recalled them to look like. As for Heartless, they were more the zombie sort in a way, because they had no soul, consciousness, were just animated darkness that roamed around to feed on Hearts much as zombies just go after living stuff. So though it's not a perfect match, to me that's more of where zombies would fit. Heartless in their way are kind of like parasites that just feed on the living.
Most people don't really have birthmarks seen that don't tend to get removed. Usually they are on the abdomen or upper legs or back or something, not really on exposed areas. It's not really going to be visible for the characters to have them considering most wear full attire and a lot of it. The only people who wore skimpy clothing were some of the girls really. The guys were wearing pants and shirts and some had jackets or cloaks. You'd have to be pretty unlucky to have a birthmark on your face.
I do agree KH2 was an improvement over KH1 though I still love both games. You can tell how much more developed graphically Kh2 was as well and the character designs were better. I do, however, think it was an easier game than KH1 but it was still very enjoyable.
I did say that as part of it. It was both reasons basically but yes, probably more this one than the first. He wants to keep hospitals corporate, which is part of our problem in America with health care but Bush won't consider it. I brought up the other point too because it was a consideration as well that would harm another industry and if that was taken out of the options, the house and senate could revote that and remove the Veto power. He'd have no ground to stand on as to why it wasn't passed. Ah, well. Better to have sick kids and parents who are more broke. Good job, Bush!
300 was great and so were some of the other movies, but V for Vendetta is my favorite out of that list. I <3 that movie.
I liked this movie too. At first I wasn't going to watch it but it cracked me up once I gave it the chance it merited. I'm glad my friends convinced me and dragged me along because it was well worth it.
Well thank you. I really liked the movies. What were your favorite parts of them? And did you read the other books such as the Silmarillion and The Hobbit?
Xemnas looks a lot more like Terra, though his hair is white. Terra's eyes changed yellow at the end of the trailer so I'd say more that Axel is not Terra's Nobody and belonged to someone else. He really looked nothing at all like Terra to me and part of being a Nobody is they carry over some of the features of the person they originally were. It's an interesting theory you came up with so I'm interested in the point where you mean that Axel talked to the Riku Replica. I know he spoke to him to get him to absorb Zexion's soul pretty much and gain power, and briefly for a couple other things, but not sure where you mean. If you did have the theory right, it'd be very interesting to see how that worked out. I can tell you put some thought in it. As it stands though, I'm not sure I'd go with it because I still think Repliku died.
It takes a bit of practice to do. I did it quite a few times before ending with 68 on it. How I did it was to make sure I hit the first ones right away as soon as I see them. Then after you fly out from between the pillars, if you get the red mage sort of Heartless you hit from left to right fast or right to left fast to hit them. It knocks them into other Heartless. If you miss them keep aware and try moving the carpet in a sort of circle to catch the ones that come up. As you go on, you want to hit the fat bandits by knocking the aerial heartless at certain points where you just pass over the buildings where those fat bandits are. After that, the big key is defeating all the ones at the end which if you just make yourself go in a circle you can take out the ring of Heartless in two or three cuts, and then really try to get those last flying crystal ball Heartless. It really just comes down to practice and memorizing where the Heartless show up and also making sure to keep yourself moving so that you can take out two or three of the Heartless at a time with one swing of the Keyblade instead of trying to strike down each one when they are in groups. The more you hit in groups together the better you do and it gives you more time. Good luck with that! It did take me a good 10 times or so to get it too and I know people that spent around 20+ times. It does happen but like everything else in that game, it's a pattern and you have to try to remember it to get the maximum benefit.
Can you say the spot in which Axel talks to Riku Replica, which area it's from and what level Sora or Riku was on for the cut scene, because I'm not sure where you mean. I can think of a couple spots and I don't remember him talking to him after he died in Reverse Rebirth. If you say where it was at then I can watch it and figure out why the theory and debate if it's at all probable. I'm not sure why people think Riku Replica lived after his final battle with Riku, except for the manga which he and Riku never really fought in and it ended all weird.
This is one of the reasons I hate the manga. It took liberties that just do not seem canon to me and border on stupidity at times. In the game, Riku Replica died, clear as day. He didn't just vanish. He died as the Nobodies had. He asked Riku where his heart would go and Riku said probably the same place as mine. He then said "How original" gazed upwards and his form dissipated and dispersed rising darkness and light upwards which pretty much to anyone who saw the scene would say he was gone for good. That is the way I look at it and the silly manga ruined a very sad scene and twisted it. The only reason I can see for it is that they did not want to say he died because the manga seems so childish it can only be made for people who can't take death scenes well. I'm sorry if that sounds insulting but that scene and also the one with Vexen obsessing about pickles...and the Organization duty roster...there are just some things the manga did that just made the Org seem really dumb and watered down from how they were in the game. It also somehow made Sora look dumber and made Riku's dilemmas which were probably more serious than Sora's with his battles with Xehanort's Heartless and his own guilt seem so cheesy. If I offended anyone that likes the manga, I apologize. Riku Replica though is dead. dead. dead. =:( Also, if Zexion could make illusions so well to trick someone who absorbed his soul to gain power, that would be mighty powerful for an illusion. Illusions are deceptions of vision and maybe touch and hearing. He couldn't do an illusion to mask a soul drain and then Riku Replica being made more powerful. Zexion died there. Pretty much the only survivor of the Org from that all was Axel.
What would have been nice is if Nomura had made the games for the PS2 and also then made one for the PSP and the DS and the phone. That way if we all don't have a mobile console, we could enjoy them at home, and if we do have a PSP, BBS was fine and if we had a DS 358/2 days was fine. Not many people here are going to be able to play coded so that was kind of not so great to do either. But in the end, with the PS3, sometime later, the BBS game might be on the website for download so if it isn't something gotten early, perhaps that will happen. Otherwise, yeah, I don't see any way of getting any of these games without an emulator or the actual game systems they operate on. I do feel it kind of makes those of us who really want to play and don't have both portable consoles, or even one in some cases, have to go buy them along with the games. So we are spending nearly 200 bucks just to play a new KH game alone just for one of the portable consoles. =:/ Guess we just have to live with it and really really hope that it lives up to some hype if we do get them. I know I will so if the games suck something is likely to explode on the level of an atomic bomb somewhere in central New York. If that happens it was my brain having a chain reaction with one of the games.
My thought at the moment is that Ven somehow maybe was either injured tremendously or sacrificed his body and his soul/spirit/heart etc went to rest in Sora to be prepared for the future since nothing could be done about the past at the time. This is why when Sora and Roxas split, Roxas doesn't remember his past because the split was done so quickly with Sora returning as a Hearted being again because of Kairi's doing, but also because his memories of Ven were gone. The reasons I feel that way are because I think Terra ended up taking the spirit of Master Xehanort within himself either on purpose or not, and that's why he became named Xehanort under Master Ansem's tutelage and later, realizing he was not that person, he changed his name to Ansem, not remembering who he really was. It also may be true that Master Xehanort had a clone (the dark knight guy) and Terra linked to that somehow, which would explain why Heartless Xehanort looks younger. However, Xehanort did make the Heartless symbol and later Xemnas made the Nobody symbol, which both look like the symbol worn on Terra's belt in the past, just modified of course. If Xehanort's Heartless could enter Terra or Terra took it in willingly to suppress it, and Riku also took it into him for a time, it lends me to think this same thing might have happened with Sora and Ven but Sora didn't remember. I could see Sora not remembering any way because he couldn't even figure out Kairi's heart was within him for a whole game despite me figuring it out long before. =:/ I do not know if Ven and Sora are related really, though to me the facial structures of Ven and Sora look similar. However, even if they were related, there's no way Ven could be Sora's father because he's a teenager while Sora is 5 years old in BBS. Terra really is the only person who'd have possibly been old enough to father him and he'd have had to be a teenager to do so. If at all they are of any relation, I'd wager to say he's a brother or cousin. Of course, we can all be wrong but speculating these events is fun!
Well considering the Nobodies seem to be actually created from Darkness (which does not mean -nothing- since Xemnas's power was Nothingness) and some element form, along with the Mind/Soul, no, I don't think so. Also, Nobodies are intelligent and even the ones that are not higher Nobodies have the Heartless beat in that department. The Nobodies aren't -supposed- to exist as Yen Sid said but then again the Heartless weren't ever supposed to be out of Darkness either but were let out 8 to 10 years prior to the Kingdom Hearts first game main setting by Xehanort and his cronies while working for Ansem the Wise. Nobodies were a result of that experiment. I really don't think they relate but in some minor ways really. Nomura's goal with the storyline seems to focus on what others have, about the importance of the aspects of what makes a person whole, and dividing them up to see what remains. In that way we can see similarities but then again, many people do these things. Otherwise, laying a Nobody and a Nithling side by side, they are pretty different.
This is a good observation and it might hold true if the word "Endless" was indeed what he was calling them and not just describing some endless battle. It makes sense to me and also as others have said, does tie in with how people feel a soul is immortal. I've seen some of the pics for the new enemies and they have nothing really to do with Heartless or Nobodies. Also, the Soulless or Endless if that is what he's calling them, does make sense to me for the names of the new beings that were before KH. If you are right on that, it would be cool. =:)
The reason why Xehanort's Heartless cannot use a Keyblade is because before he uses Riku as a vessel, he was a spirit that could not do so. He had no body and needed one so Riku was manipulated. After that, he could use the Dark Keyblade. As for using the Kingdom Key, he could not because he was a Heartless and therefor to dark and also he had a lot of evil. Riku lost the Keyblade in his moment of weakness because he was filled with fear, anxiety and rage, as well as confusion. So Xehanort's Heartless was bodiless and incapable at first and secondly, the Keyblade had chosen Sora over Riku, and probably could tell Riku was not himself. So there was not an alternate Keyblade for him to use to test the theory because Kingdom Key would only pick someone who was not so dark, like Xehanort's Heartless was, when he took over Riku. That would be my guess to this at the time. He was just never in a position to get one and when he became a Heartless, he was probably not chosen any longer to wield a Keyblade.
Actually the symbol most likely to be the originator for the designs of the Heartless symbol and the Nobody symbol is adorned on Terra's belt I think. It looks the most like them. Here's a picture link that was posted in the BBS section forum by Methol for us to see clearly. http://kh2.co.uk/image.php?view=khbbs/scans/khbbs001.jpg If you look at the second picture that is on the right, you can see a good shot of it. That looks more like the originator for both symbols. The picture Namine drew was just of a crown. I could be wrong but it just reminds me a lot of the Heartless and Nobody designs.
They did ask permission and it was granted. George isn't a weeny about everything! *snickers*
