GioGioChan

So a lot of people talk of how traumatic route D/C is but there's a lot of things i noticed in my point of view.I just rather prevent that this is my opinion and i dont pretent to hold universal truth.

Please before reading this, take care to play the game before.Spoil alert.In my Pov, I see rout A/B as tutorials runs.Let me explain.Act 1 (before the point of no return that is the boss in the flooded city) we learn everything we have to know about the game.

The controls, who and what our characters are and most importantly the place they evolve in.We see different places (the city ruins, the resistance camp, the desert, the amusement park, pascal village, the bunker, the forest kingdom and the flooded city)Those place make us assimilate things with other things, like for exemple The Bunker and Pascal village = Safety (mostly because there's the place you dont have to fight anyone ever in those place in route A/B)But during the act 2 (after the boss in the flooded City) The game makes us understand that the shit kinda start.(9S kidnapping, the machine's strange behaviour, and finally the complete lash out of the machines that start attack the Resistance camp and then the fight agaisnt Eve.

But even then, the simple presence of the bunker makes any serious event meaningless.Even when 9S is infected with the logic virus, we know he'll comes back.Without any memory but he'll be alive.The Bunker gives us a feel of immunity we give to the characters.They can't really die and thats what route A/B makes us understand.So we feel safe, and we're sure they're protected by the plot armor.(After all would they go that far to kill a main character that's very important ?)

And then, when route C/D start, everything we thought knowing about the game and its characters is getting broken under our eyes.When route C/D start, the game almost feels like another tutorial (at least when playing as 9S.) And then were playing as 2B and this shift of character happens often during this part (a bit like the last part of the tower when the games switch from 9S to A2 against Ro-Shi and Ki-Shi)

And then the Virus Logic happened and even then, we still hold that glimpse of hope that they can come back.Memoryless but still alive.And then were proven wrong.The Bunker is betraying everything we thought about it.Its isnt that safe anymore and we have to actually fight in it.

And then as you know the Bunker explode and 2B get infect with the logic virus and then get killed by A2.At the moment The Bunker get destroyed (and by the way almost every YoRHa unit excepted 2B, 9S and A2.) The feeling of safety, of imunity we gave to characters is gone, and its even more noticeable when the first thing to happen as soon as the Bunker is destroyed is 2B getting by the logic Virus. At this moment, we clearly realise that she is fucked.

At this moment we realise that this feeling of imunity we gave to the characters didnt existed.And actually never really did.The plot armor doesnt exist and doesnt protect anyone in Na.

At this moment, we know that the characters arent protected by anything. One shot and its over and its shown in the gameplay too, we dont have to recover our chips in our lost body when we die anymore.

But now i wanna talk about another big point in Route C/D beginning and its 2Bs death.This moment was amazingly executed. If a main character have to die, i kinda imagine it as a lot of flashback, more of his pov and then their death with a big big sad music.And surprisingly we didnt had any of this with 2B's death.As soon as she is infected its a slow and agonising path toward her own death.Its almost a build up for whats coming.We see and hear 2Bs pain, even the game makes us understand and almost see 2Bs pov (the screen's glitching effect, the sound that getting worse).On the other way we have 9S having to join 2B quickly as the Tower is about to emerge which cause an earthquake.(keep this in mind)And then we see 9S reaction and then what he just seen.

The only sound effect we get is a loud "pang" showing us directly what happened.The music cut.And that silence is the most powerful thing of this scene.We can hear the wind, the sound of the Blade and blood and then 2B collapsing.And then we have 9S scream and the Tower emerging at the same time.2Bs death is cold, silent and cruel.No words and no music needed to be played to make us understand how serious the situation is.(I think that if a music played (like we had for 9S death in route A/B) the feeling that something dreadful and horrible just happened would be less impacting)

And in contrast, we have 9S reaction which is loud, angry, emotional and painful to hear.And the fact that the Tower emerge in the moment 9S snap is just brilliant.I could also talk about that parallel during route C/D after beating the Second recovery unit in the flooded city.

At this moment we have a 9S wounded that have to get back to some point where he could be helped starting from the Flooded city.Doesnt that sound familiar ?

We have followed the same thing with 2B.Even their path they take is very similar (it just that 9S go to the resistance camp and 2B the opposite way.(The same position that lay 9S and A2 when the route C/D really start but at this point I think im digging too deep lol-) (Beside it unlike with 2B were you cant use transporters you can cheese this part by using one directly to the resistance camp with 9S)

Its been almost 4 years without any more information about kh and its making me annoyed.Does that stop me thinking about it ? Hell no.

So im goîg to go straight to the point, in the trailer we learn that Sora ended up in Quadratum which is hinted as "another reality." As you know Sora is a Keyblade weilder and one of the first things we've been told about it in kh1 is "If you have a Keyblade, heartless will follow you everywhere".

So why am i yapping about it ? Because it kinda caused what i personally call the "Drakengard effect".What is it ? Its when you bring something from a dimension to another one which create total chaos.

And what are we noticing in the trailer ? A heartless.A big one at that.In another dimension in which heartless aren't supposed to exist.

So how the saga is going to end ? (Since kh4 seems the presumably be the last game) will Sora save his reality and condemn another one ? And if it happened ? Kh might be over but maybe its isnt the end of the whole story.It might just come out as another name (Just like Drakengard and Nier are the same franchise despite not sharing the same name) since after all, the story doesnt happened in a world where Kingdom hearts exist ?