Argh. I've been super invested in the KH series' continuing story ever since I played the original game and I've been onboard with it even up through Dream Drop Distance's relative weirdness, but I am REALLY not a fan of how much they've been blurring and seemingly overcomplicating the story with all this Unchained and [chi] stuff. The games might be fine, and I'll probably mess around with Unchained for awhile now that it's coming out in the west, but really I'm just here for the story... and it's a shame that so much of KH 2.8 and KH III seem to rely solely on Unchained and [chi]. It's like, what about everything else that has been building up in the games 99% of fans have played versus the mobile and browser titles that (comparatively) so few even have any idea about?
Even worse, it doesn't seem as if Back Cover is going to be a summation of all this new story content either so much as it is an alternate look at it, so if you only want to play 2.8 and skip out on Unchained entirely, (it seems like) you're still missing out on a significant chunk of canonical story material and will be going into KH III underprepared.
Then there's also the fact that the browser game, which is still apparently considered its own separate, important entry in the canon despite its story similarities to Unchained, will never be playable outside of Japan. It's like, what are they even doing now? I was all about Square unifying the series' entire story on one platform prior to KH III via the HD ReMIXes, but it seems like they're undermining their own efforts toward that end with Unchained and [chi], neither of which are covered at all on PS4 or PS3 (since, again, Back Cover apparently is its own OTHER thing) and one of which is only playable in one region in the world. It's just bizarre and it feels like they've really lost their focus, and this comes from a seriously hardcore fan of the series.
Ah well, it is what it is. I suppose I can always mess around with Unchained and wait for a story summary when the app's service eventually ends (before KH III's release? After? Who knows...).
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