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storm-driver · 1 year

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i'm rewatching a bunch of the kh3 promotional trailers bc i'm trying to document how the advertising team for KH sorta sucks and it's what led to an overall negative reception for kh3's release (not hating kh3, just making observations on how it was marketed).

and i've discovered something.

i somehow missed the re:mind trailer that showed off yozora and the whole secret boss ending, as well as the guardians of light fight entirely, and that actually made me enjoy re:mind way more than i would've.

i was someone that watched every single kh3 trailer leading up to release, and to say i was expecting the stuff going on in the base game was an understatement. i actually predicted and theorised on a lot of stuff that happened based solely on the trailers we had gotten, and i was right in a lot of it. replicas being important, xion being the last vessel they needed, lingering will being connected to namine.

and at the time, i was a little underwhelmed by the release, despite enjoying it a lot. however, the game loses the luster if you already know where it's going to go, and the trailers fed people so much that by the time you got to the actual game, you just had to make your own hype be the fuel for enjoying it.

however, because i had only watched a single re:mind trailer, and i only saw portions of it, i didn't know what was gonna happen at all. i knew roxas was playable, but that was really it. maybe i saw scala, nothing else. nothing that made me ballistic like the kh3 trailer's did.

unironically, not watching the trailers and letting the game present itself to me organically without the pre-establishing influence of marketing made it so much more enjoyable.

it's kinda remarkable.

#kingdom hearts #stormy weather #i have my fair share of issues with kh3 as a game but nothing that sways me from enjoying it #my issues are almost entirely because the marketing team was INTENTIONALLY being deceptive as shit with what they were showing us #i could go into detail but we'd be here all day #if anyone's interested id go off on another post but only if people wanna hear it #i know a lot of people dont like the bad rep that surrounds kh3 and i dont wanna bash anyone for loving it despite the flaws #hell I love it despite it all myself #but im a journalism major and writing articles about the stuff you're passionate for and wanting to see improve is baked into the job #today on storm discussing funny disney game

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