![]() He was relatable, which is why, quite frankly, you rooted for and fell in love with this little spikey-headed peanut. Hell, in Kingdom Hearts II, he gets rather smug and cocky: he gets into a brawl with the soldiers from Mulan for cutting the lunch line, and taunts Organization XIII member Xigbar with “you gonna cry?”. He’s happy-go-lucky with a taste for adventure, but also grounded and cautious. One of the most charming details about his character was the fact that he’s a fairly normal kid. Unfortunately, it was the way that Sora was written that feels off. He’s now in his thirties, voicing a character he played in his adolescence, so it’s understandable and was easy to overlook after the game got rolling. Sure, Haley Joel Osment’s voice acting is a partial factor, as he needed to pitch himself a few octaves higher for the role, but I can’t say I blame him. The protagonist of Kingdom Hearts III sure looked like our titular hero, but I didn’t feel like I was inhabiting Sora, but a sanitized caricature. It’s a fitting finale for two characters who are incredibly vital to the overall story, but it falls flat due to the fact they aren’t at all present in the other two main entries. Eraqus and Xehanort, the elder statesman of the series, get a grand ending but if you skipped out on Birth By Sleep, you don’t know who these men are. However, it felt like KH3 was so busy wrapping up storylines for the myriad of characters it’s introduced over the past games that the main characters got shafted storywise. I cried my everloving eyes out at the reunion of Axel, Roxas, and Xion, and the reunion of Terra with Aqua and Ventus got me choked up too. Now, there are certain huge payoffs, but as I mentioned in part 1, they all come with the side characters. It’s like watching old Saturday morning cartoons ala Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, ending with a classic “I’ll get you next time,” then suddenly catapulting at breakneck speed into the third act of The Avengers: Infinity War. Sure, villain “team members” like Vanitas and Vexen make little cameos in each Disney level, but there’s never any sense of building tension. After hours of traipsing through the shiny, new Pixar fare, KH3 suddenly decides to shift its attention to the world-ending threat that’s been baring its fangs this entire time.
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