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Letsago posted...

I feel like KH1 was also confusing with the whole Keyhole and Princesses plot. The villains want to open the Keyhole because they can release Heartless (and Maleficent thinks they will obey her). So you close the Keyhole, but it turns out that Ansem went through it, and now he's at the End of the World...which you can also reach just by flying there. Ansem can obviously travel between worlds, so why did he have to go through the Keyhole? And more importantly, why is this Keyhole special? Why do the princesses have the power to unlock some random Keyhole that leads to the End of the World?

The game is also kind of vague on what Kingdom Hearts looks like. The thing is, you actually can see the heart moon faintly behind the Door to Darkness. So this implies the heart moon was always meant to be Kingdom Hearts, and that wasn't a retcon (though that particular moon wasn't the real KH, which was a retcon). But if the moon was supposed to be KH, then why does no one draw attention to it? Ansem talks about KH, but because the moon is so faint, and because it's behind a giant door, lots of people probably assumed that KH was inside the door itself.

...yeah, I love KH1 (it's my favorite game actually), but I don't think it's nearly as simplistic as most people claim.

Opening the final keyhole with all of the princesses was needed to make the heart of all worlds/end of the world appear. It likely wouldn't have been there otherwise.