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Gobstoppers12 posted...

The blame for that is on the creators. They decided to put out two big hits on major home consoles pretty close together, then for some reason decided that Kingdom Hearts would be a handheld series for like 14 years.

A lot of people (myself included) played 1 and 2 and loved them, but had no interest in the handheld games. Turns out the handheld games were canon all along, and when KH3 came out literally 14 years after 2, it was full of characters we didn't recognize and story themes we had never heard of before.

You can't jump a major franchise back and forth between stationary consoles and handheld systems and expect everybody to follow it.

Even though they put out the collections and story summaries and whatnot, the games were just handheld games ported to more powerful hardware. A lot of people still didn't care about those games.

The series basically shot itself in the foot by making everything canon. It did the thing that comic book publishers do, the thing that scares people off with hundreds of dollars worth of required reading just to follow the story of the major releases.

It's only been 17 years from KH1.
Anybody reasonable would understand how KH3 needs some basic story summary to refresh older players and let brand new players jump in. Anybody reasonable.