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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.

We know the "for some reason" on why the games were on handhelds and it's why the combat for KH after 2 sucks ass. The team behind 1 and 2 is called Tokyo Team. They were stuck on a project called Versus XIII and consistently pulled from that game to help push out the clusterfuck trilogy of FFXIII.

This would leave KH without a game for a very long time so the Osaka team was created to make KH games to continue the story. Since they were a team of newbies, they made handheld games. It's also why the combat for every KH from BbS and on is trash. They were all made by Osaka team. Including KH3.