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KH2 is fanfiction (Revision + Addendum)

A response to khtrinityftw (BTW the REAL trinity is Birth By Sleep + 1 + Chain of Memories).

It contains:

- Yaoi bait: Yeah, there’s a difference between male relationships that fangirls seize on for yaoi shipping and relationships that are actively being written in a way that baits them. Sora/Riku and Axel/Roxas in KH2 was not in any way intentionally written to deliberately draw these fangirls in, Nomura didn’t even verbally acknowledge that he was aware of KH fangirls’ existence until after KH2 was already made. If you compare Sora and Riku’s dynamic in KH2 to their dynamic in 3D, there’s a very vivid difference. One is natural, and the other is true “yaoi bait”.

What is natural about Sora falling to his knees for Riku? Nothing. What did the added AkuRoku scenes in Final Mix add to the story? Nothing. Also “he made me feel like I had a heart” is cringy. 

- Shallow “badass” presentation: This is one of the terms this loser has NEVER defined, nor why it’s so bad, nor how the other games in the series beyond that he will defend at every turn in his never-ending quest to scream into the wind that KH2 is the devil are any better despite having even more blatant “badass” presentations.

Have you looked at a single reaction command? Sora chopping a building in half isn’t a shallow “badass” presentation? It’s all style, no substance, it’s more blatant than anything in any other KH game.

- Flanderized characters plus emo MC (Roxas): Again, no examples of how characters are Flanderized, nor anything backing up his repeated claims of how Roxas, a character with a very legitimate grievance to suffer angst over, is “emo”.

Sora became more idiotic (he wasn’t this dumb in DDD, contrary to popular belief, he was just blissfully unaware and let his guard down) and hostile, constantly taunting and insulting his opponents for little to no reason (contrary to popular belief, he was not like this in the other games), Kairi became a shallow love interest (was better in the manga though but not like she was in KH1′s game, unfortunately), Riku was more sullen, Namine only appeared for brief scenes and had little personality, and Roxas’ angst was really overdone. 

- Gary-Stu MC (Sora): No examples of how he’s a Gary-Stu, or if he is then how he isn’t one in the other games.

Too often he just magically solved the problems of various Disney characters, like Simba. He’s not a Gary-Stu in DDD because he ended up failing the exam after Xehanort rigged it, and his idiocy cost him greater than in KH2.

- Rushed pacing: No clarifications at to what he means and how it’s rushed (if anything, I’d say the pace can be too slow at points), or why he obsessively tries to tear down KH2 to prop up games with unquestionably worse pacing (like KH3, the game whose story barely has anything progressing in the beginning and middle, just the end.)

KH3 connects all of the worlds and is better at not having filler. A lot of things are just brought up and either resolved too quickly (like the “I can’t use the Keyblade!” scene or just dropped (”While you're there, the nature of that world may tempt you to do something dark. You must resist that temptation at all costs!”).

- A large cast, yet 90% of it is the Sora show: So 90% of the game is about the main character you play as for literally 90% of it!? No shit, Sherlock! And once again, failure to define how this sets KH2 apart from every other game where Sora is the main character.

None of the rest of the cast really contribute anything, most are just plot devices to pad out the character count. Kairi didn’t do anything better than she did in 1, Riku’s screentime was mostly spent lamenting about his very existence, HPO did nothing anyone else couldn’t have done, same with Namine, their roles are mostly interchangeable and obligatory. Plus KH2 had a much larger cast of OCs than KH1 + CoM so it's a much more glaring flaw.

Forgot to add a few more:

- Submit your own character: The Organization, as well as Hayner, Pence and Olette.

- Sex scene: Obviously none, but Kairi’s panties are close enough. In no other game was she used for fanservice/sex appeal.

- Dialogue that is either cringe or OOC: There is so much of this I don’t know where to begin.

“That was undeniable proof that we totally owned you lamers!” (This sounded outdated in 2006) “Sorry, “Mommy”, your poopsies are toast!” (Cringe) “Hmph, maybe you should have kept some to yourself.” (This maybe fits Riku, but NOT Sora!) “You gonna cry?!” (OOC, and doesn’t make sense in context. Frustrated Jacob even made fun of this line.) ”I guess you think you can psych me out by saying really random stuff!” (Like the above, FJ made fun of it.) “Tough talk for someone who stood on the sidelines while his Nobody flunkies did all the fighting!” (WTF)

"[Maleficent]’s toast.” (Cringe, doesn’t sound cool in the least.) “Lowlife.” (OOC) “I bet you can’t even fight!” (OOC, just sounds like a prick) “Just give it a rest! You're Nobodies! You don't even exist! You're not sad about anything!” (He says this after meeting Axel, Roxas, and Namine. Plot hole + OOC) “Then stop moping and DO something!” (later) “Why stick around if he’s not even gonna try?” (later) “C’mon, Goofy.” (This is too OOC to be Sora.)

It also has elements of a songfic (KH2 Atlantica).

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One felt organic and added to the story, the other was just convoluted plot point on top of convoluted plot point, in a story that already didn't need more of this crap.