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well, they can now, at least, they were added as costumes for the custom mentor variants of goku and vegeta

honestly though we shouldn't have had to wait this long for something that's conceptually so simple, especially because all of the new costumes are extremely basic things that should have been options from the beginning, and we're STILL missing a lot of the costume variants the customizable characters have, like how krillin has his namek armor now, but kid gohan doesn't

in their defense, chibi-robo isn't exactly the most clear game when it comes to conveying to the player how to progress the story, mainly because the devs wanted the player to explore the house and figure out what to do on their own so that they can encounter all of the sidequests along the way, they struggled with chulip (a very similar game that shares a lot of the same DNA) when jon and arin played it for similar reasons

there's no way to skip the text outside of purposefully just not reading it, at least, and no way to make it display any faster, either, so it wouldn't be possible to blame the game for not telling them anything in the moments where it does

i'd still like to see them return to do the rest of punch-out wii at some point, i was holding out for that for a few years before accepting they'd never return to it, but i don't think the game is compatible with the show in its current state, both in the way games are handled and the format of the show necessitating longer episodes instead of the 10-15 minute segments we got when they were last playing, it's not a game that would work well for that at all

another comment mentioned this, but they tried playing it relatively early on during the jon era and scrapped the episodes because neither of them were having fun

arin didn't like the game and jon said he was gradually realizing why that was as they were playing, saying neither of them were being funny and it was just quiet and uncomfortable with obvious tension between the two of them, citing the intro and the waterfall climb as just being slow and annoying with nothing really happening

someone showed me a screenshot from one of those speedruns that shows yes, you do get both tickets in the postgame

my wager is something akin to a modernized version of dragon sim with roguelite elements, being able to recruit characters and boost/reduce your stats and earn items through events depending on where you choose to go

they said it's a "TV Anime Series" in the English subtitles, it's not just a one-off special episode

i regret to inform you that alice was fired years ago

you actually CAN get into his room

if you reset the game and reload your save file after viewing the judgment sequence on a pacifist playthrough and repeat it again, you can get different dialogue where sans suspects you know more than you're letting on and tells you a secret codeword to tell to him if you view the scene again, eventually resulting in sans giving you the key to his room, promising to reveal "the truth". the big reveal is that there's absolutely nothing of interest in sans's room, and he's just pranking you across time and space. but in reality, the actual thing unlocked from this is a key in sans's room that opens up the workshop behind their house, which contains a potential reference or two to deltarune

especially when you have people who have absolutely no interest in dragon ball beyond the ideas they made up about it in their heads being very insistent that abridged is the only true/acceptable/good/etc way to experience the series, and that it's the true dragon ball canon because they think very lowly of the original series

TFS themselves hate this idea, especially since abridged is based entirely on their love for the series, and like half of the jokes fall flat without prior knowledge of dragon ball, but people insist upon it anyway because "the series would be so much better if this joke was canon, so it is to me!"

people have also clung to the fact that abridged didn't create the joke originally, which no, they didn't, but the fact that kaiserneko even regrets how far they took the joke in retrospect and seeing how people have responded to it, it's apparent that it's very deeply tied to the joke and how much it's been spread as absolute fact

basically, the only real exceptional thing about him was that he survived as long as he did, but he is also a noted coward that would absolutely avoid any fights he knew he couldn't win, in a very non-saiyan fashion

even saying he was part of the team is being generous considering how vegeta just seemed glad to finally be rid of him

as one of the biggest raditz fans out there, this is something that's always bothered me, but at the same time, I've come to accept that it's far too late to really do anything about it at this point

besides the fact that raditz is incredibly weak and couldn't live up to the modern power standards of the series, he's also a pathetic excuse for a saiyan because of how much he goes against their core values (despite hyping himself up as a saiyan constantly), being an absolute coward who isn't above deception and running away from a fight, it'd be really hard to change these aspects about him as a character without just doing a complete 180 on the anti-goku that he was designed to be and turning him into someone else entirely

doesn't really help that fandom misconceptions (the strength of the saibamen compared to him, as an example) would also make it really hard to sell the idea of his return to a lot of people outside of nostalgia pandering towards an audience that couldn't care less about him, he has effectively just been made into a very large joke, with a few of the video games even suggesting bardock might actually hate him

even canonical opportunities to make something more out of him like dragon ball minus and the granolah arc flashbacks largely just ignored him entirely outside of where it was absolutely necessary, it's obvious they want nothing to do with this character anymore both in and out of universe

i mean, that's kind of how things always were, to be fair, the entire saiyan race weren't even in the top 10 of frieza's army

goku and vegeta have always been noted to be absolutely exceptional monsters, with both of them surpassing (almost) anything a saiyan had previously done in-universe in the same arc the saiyans were introduced as a concept, the series has never really done anything to make saiyans as a whole be super powerful outside of pure hype that is never backed up with what actually happens in the story

the last game they did, pirates carnival, even had content up to water 7 in it originally, if they didn't remove those from the localized version of the game we could have heard 4kids franky

it's because the edits themselves are much more well known and widespread than how the story was written around them (or ignores them almost entirely afterwards), and the misguided belief in general that 4kids never at any point EVER addresses death as a concept in any of their shows, despite being completely untrue

very few people these days have actually watched the 4kids dub in general so it's easy for these rumors to spread with no one disproving them

it was never a fusion monster in the original series anime, no

because 4kids consistently did paint edits of the cards in people's hands and fields though the card would sometimes appear as one in the english dub, because it was a fusion monster in the real TCG, but sometimes they forgot and it was still a normal monster

first thing i could think of was MGS, but MGS2 specifically

the lore implications of what would happen in-universe after raiden dies in MGS2 are already heavy, but then you have it hammered in by literally hearing rose's panicked gasp and final breath as she dies instantly after calling out for him on the mission failed screen, the patriots were not bluffing over their threats to get raiden to cooperate by holding her life hostage

the bigger issue of blue as it was originally presented was always that the existence of the form almost entirely invalidates the story of the movie and reduces the stakes even further with how safely and securely they're able to just stomp golden frieza as a total repeat of what happened on namek, it also just kind of ignores the whole ordeal of unlocking super saiyan god in the last movie by instantly introducing a new stronger and infinitely superior transformation the next time we see these characters. resurrection of F has an issue of constantly downplaying the idea that anything happening even matters with how any threat or consequential action is instantly negated, and blue was a part of this, especially with vegeta just stepping in completely fresh and just as powerful to beat down frieza after goku gets shot

doesn't help that the forms (and vegeta getting SSG, for that matter) were achieved offscreen and they were the first super saiyan forms to not really have any kind of grand reveal or buildup, it just happens, i used to dislike blue a lot for this reason because it felt like pure marketing bait, which it kind of was, just like the entire movie, but like everyone else who still cared about DB going into super I've gotten used to it by now

it's funny seeing people get angry about marcus and RE0 because "okay, this is too stupid", meanwhile it's what i love about this franchise and it's what i want more of

for RS3 specifically, there's 137 worlds, however some of these worlds are locked behind either skill requirements or premier membership, there's 132 freely accessible worlds for members

each world can contain 1500 players, making for a total of a theoretical maximum of 205,500 simultaneous players online in RS3 across all 137 worlds, or 198,000 for all members in general, the likelihood of this actually happening currently is zero but feels like a good incentive to look into hosting new servers in the future if the player numbers will actually increase

it'll likely be reintroduced during a future halloween event and obtainable through a different method

i will always remember how after the pilot some people were totally convinced that this was just going to be a factor in future episodes if the show got picked up and that they'd have to make pim happy again

i'm really glad the show doesn't work that way

especially since this'd be basically punishing people that didn't contribute in any way to the current state of the game's economy for no real benefit, there's no good way to spin the idea of forcefully deleting the entire game's history to try and "fix" it

they haven't said the exact specifics of what's going to happen to the items being removed from sale yet, but they did say that there will be a grace period before the changes go into effect for people to use their items before they're deleted from the game or converted into something else

all proteans are listed as being part of the affected items, so they will be affected by this in some way, we just don't know how yet, whether they'll be nuked from banks or converted into a different item

to be fair, alice was removed from the game entirely already a few years ago because of (iirc) EU laws in how they're not allowed to have a mascot potentially incentivizing purchases, she hasn't even existed as an in-game NPC since 2021

it's not here in the post but the michael richards at the laugh factory reference is my favorite one, that was the only one i immediately recognized when watching the episode

I remember getting irrationally mad at The Witcher 3 because it won too many awards at the 2015 game awards, and Undertale and MGSV, the games I'd actually played and heard of, didn't

I refused to engage with Attack on Titan during the debut era of the anime because I got irrationally annoyed over seeing it everywhere on Tumblr, and having it be recommended to me by everyone I knew at the time, and I've maintained this decision ever since, ended up doing the same thing for MHA later

I also got SUPER mad back in 2015 when The Witcher 4, a game I'd never even heard of at the time, basically sweeped the Game Awards which left me feeling like Undertale and MGSV got snubbed, and refused to engage with it afterwards

almost all of their post-original series revival attempts have been post-9/11, so i don't think hasbro sees it that way, oddly enough, they're more confident in it than a lot of their other IPs

i remember they capitalized on the ninjas even harder with them effectively being the face of the franchise during the 2000s run, that's how i remember it growing up, at least

basically any hasbro property in the last 30 years that isn't transformers or my little pony, they clearly want to capitalize on their other brands with how many times they've tried to revive GI joe, as one example, but literally nobody is having it and it always fails until it's time to try again in the new decade, even transformers and MLP are largely coasting on nostalgia pandering for when both of them were at their most culturally relevant, because that seems to be all hasbro is good for now

yakuza/like a dragon was also very much this pre-0, even sega was ready to give up on it because the games weren't selling, even with dead souls having been made specifically for western audiences, and sony had to push for the localization for 5 themselves because of how catastrophically that game failed

it's either that or kingdom hearts 2 for a lot of people

6K5NKEDR, NA

absolutely, honestly i would always build up a backlog of his LPs to watch after they concluded, but after the super mario 64 DS LP i fell off from his channel completely, i always said i'd go back and watch his stuff again because he was playing a lot of games that interested me over the years, but i never actually did

seeing kingdom hearts be announced as his next LP is what finally brought me back after all this time

if he could have done this, he would have, the passing of the torch mindset that goku had in the buu saga wasn't a factor here at all, he didn't surrender because he wanted to make gohan into his successor as the earth's savior, he quit because he knew he had absolutely no chance of defeating cell and that gohan was the only one who could pull it off

goku went all out and gave it everything he had, and cell outlasted him even with him heavily holding back his true power, goku never could have defeated him

"Build an army, trust nobody" is finally an accurate tagline for a Fire Emblem game

i forget how you're supposed to get the ending exactly, but professor oak tells you that it's time to release pikachu back into the wild, and you say goodbye to it, leaving it in the forest where you first found it to go back to the other wild pikachu as it sadly waves goodbye to you

but in the end, after the credits, it comes back to you, and the game continues endlessly from there

I didn't see it mentioned but one of the ones that always sticks out in my mind is Ken Penders talking about how he didn't get to tell the story about how Sonic in the Archie comics was too slow to take Sally Acorn's virginity, and that one of his OCs (Geoffrey St. John) did it before he could

goofy says that "his majesty banished pete to another dimension" in KH2, yes

it's suggested that it's at least minnie's original home world, since she was described as the princess of that world, while the others are just visiting on an assignment

Not really because it's funny or anything, but "Aqua... Ven... One day I will set this right." and its follow-up in KH3 will always stick out to me for being such a good moment for Terra's character, and being one of the few moments in BBS where Jason Dohring knocks it out of the park with his voice acting

honestly i still think it'll happen just so they can say "we released something KH related this year", similar to what they've done four times now already, the xbox version of 1.5+2.5, the original PC release on EGS, the switch's cloud versions of the series, and the steam release were part of, or all of, our "content" for 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2024

it would significantly ruin the impact of having riku as a party member if he died as easily as the other ones do, plus as was mentioned in other comments, he has special immunity during the final xemnas fight because of the part where you can play as him, otherwise he'll always stay alive at 1 HP

riku, auron, and simba also have their cure abilities only take 99 MP instead of everything they have, so they're able to use it twice before going into MP charge

we don't know how specifically mickey was able to reach sora in his heart, or how he knew to contact sora specifically, unless it's just something like "he sensed he was a potential keyblade wielder", but he did the same thing for riku when his heart was banished to the realm of darkness, so it's apparently just something he's capable of doing when he feels like it, same with the weird astral projection thing he does in chain of memories and nowhere else

mickey is weirdly omniscient in the earlier games which doesn't seem to have carried over into KH2 and onwards where he has more of an active presence, outside of where it's required in 0.2 for the sake of consistency

mickey had somehow been watching over sora from the beginning, he's the voice speaking to sora during the dive to the heart segment and he was more or less aware of everything that happened during his journey during the first game

you can just make a new character with a new email address, or if you have a jagex account with the jagex launcher, you can make up to 20 characters using the same email address

just be aware that characters under a jagex account do not share progress or membership with each other, you will start from the beginning of the game every time you make a new character, it's just for being able to easily switch between them

as of right now, no, there is not an option to have membership apply to multiple characters, you are expected to pay for an individual membership for every character you create, and that's how it's been since membership was initially released

they did float around the idea of having a membership option that applies to multiple characters when they were surveying responses to potential changes in membership's price and options at the beginning of this year, but i'm pretty sure all of those proposals have been almost completely thrown out now because of the massive negative backlash towards jagex suggesting things like "enhanced player support" and better account security options being locked behind a paywall, and in-game advertisements being a thing

because of how heavily utilized alternate accounts are for both RS3 and OSRS, and jagex accounts literally letting you tie multiple characters to one account, i wouldn't be surprised if it comes back up again, but unless something changes behind the scenes it'll probably come with yet another base membership price increase

i don't think the game is in a healthy enough state to consider RS4 right now, honestly, like I can see these experiments being a pathway to it, similar to how RSHD and EoC was an intermediary between RS2 and 3, but there's a lot of issues they need to tackle with the current game and player retention before they can realistically do RS4 and not have it fail at launch

that's the plan, if these items actually end up being phased out of the game, it was said that a final DXP event will be held before they're fully removed so that everyone who has any leftover dummies or proteans will have the opportunity to put them to use

this is correct, square cannot use KH characters without disney's approval, but disney is allowed to do anything they want with KH without having to involve square (although they still respect nomura and his wishes in some instances, like how he was unsure about sora in smash bros, and cancelling the KH animated series from 2003 so there was no clashing with the games)

they look different because it's not the same model

the HD version of KH1 reuses the DDD model of sora, and re:CoM uses the original KH1 model as a basis, idk if it's the model being entirely reused or if it was updated a bit as part of KH2 though, since re:CoM heavily reuses assets from KH1 and 2

sora actually has a couple of new voice clips in the GBA version of CoM, always wondered if they're just alternate/unused takes they had laying around

either way i wonder how jarring it must have been in-universe for donald and goofy to see sora go through puberty and have his voice drop in the span of like, a day

it was like that in the series, yeah, the blue sky in the movie was an intentional design choice since the florpus hole and the invasion wouldn't have had the same visual impact if the sky was already dark and red the whole time before then

Yeah, I know their food is overpriced in general, but it's ridiculous they think $10 for 2 wraps is meant to be a deal with what you're actually getting, just two small tenders in a tortilla

Honestly that's the worst thing about it cause I've never had anything like this happen to me ordering from this store before, at worst they'll just forget an item and even that's only happened twice

And the other wrap and the two sandwiches I got with this were all fine

True, a bit too crunchy for my tastes

Damn you're right, I didn't even see the phone until looking back at the scene again now, just when Kris's body grabbed it later

Still though, everything about it seems odd in how Kris behaves "on their own", and I'm not sure if it's actually them in control of their actions without the soul

i can personally confirm this to be the case

i foolishly tried beating the fight a few times with the shadow mantle before viewing the credits, and i had to keep restarting the game to reload my save file because losing would just play the normal ending cutscene

i wasn't allowed to retry the fight upon dying until after viewing the credits and returning to my save before the boss fight

this is like a badge of honor to be recognized enough to have your show be reference/joked about by the simpsons or family guy in a completely ignorant manner, zach has truly hit the big time now

of course not, it's a joke

clearly this means they're going to shove summons into the magic menu like it was in KH1 originally /s

I watched that playthrough for the first time a while back, and it's one of the best examples of something I found incredibly infuriating about the Jon era, and it's basically every time they get into a "game design" discussion, there was like an entire episode that got derailed by it but thankfully they went back to business as usual immediately afterwards, it was the whole "I think you should analyze everything" discussion where Jon just wanted to enjoy Kirby for what it was rather than trying to find a deeper artistic meaning or "purpose" to it, and both of them complaining that Magolor detracts from the game because he interrupts the gameplay with his story and presence whenever you complete a world

Whenever there was a disagreement regarding game design, it's easy to get the impression that Arin comes off too strongly with his opinions to where Jon just kind of gives up on his own point and says "well yeah maybe you're right actually", especially because this was the beginning of the "games are art actually" indie era and Arin loved acting like he knew objectively what makes a game good because he watched Jonathan Blow or someone else talk about it and discrediting whatever went against that or his own personal tastes

It's not, though, Verum Rex and Verum Rex: Beat of Lead (the game we "play" in KH3) are two different games, with Beat of Lead being a "demo" of Verum Rex in-universe

100 BILLION DOLLARS

Potentially licensing issues because Square doesn't actually own the character, Disney does, so they don't have the freedom to keep it available forever, none of the KH crossovers that were in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius ever returned after their availability period before the game was shut down either

some of these screenshots kind of reinforce my thinking that there was a very good reason SE's been silent on the game's development, that it's still too soon to really show anything off, especially since nomura himself admitted the game was revealed very early in development to avoid leaks, and that we shouldn't expect any news for a while because of that

i feel like we're still a ways off from getting the proper showcase people have been demanding, much less any release window, as disappointing as i'm sure that is to imagine that we have to wait even longer for any "proper" news on the future of KH

I feel like Aqua's own interpretation of events (which Maleficent lied to Ven about, and she managed to overhear it) is what people remember happening for some reason, especially since she hammers it in that she's supposedly "seen what Terra's done" in the worlds they've been to when he didn't actually do anything, he barely even interacted with most of the cast of characters up to that point, and his direct actions involve protecting Cinderella from the Unversed, and attempting to do the same for Snow White but scaring her off instead

to be fair, BBS WAS originally planned to be a PS2 game, it was just moved to the PSP because they wanted to take advantage of its features like wireless multiplayer

There is a hidden Reaction Command in that fight, but it's tied to Sark, once the MCP reaches low enough health to enter phase 2 of the fight, being too far away from Sark when he's active will spawn a wall in front of you, which you can use a Reaction Command on to knock him out instantly

Pretty much just taking the best from Ultimate Tenkaichi too, then, that game had an original story with your created character while also featuring an adaptation of the canon story alongside it as a separate mode, rather than mashing the two together like Xenoverse does

That game also had transforming hair and animated tails, amazingly, although it was likely because it was an impossible to remove feature of the created characters rather than an accessory, and all characters were Saiyans that obtained Super Saiyan as part of the story

We did get the Grid outfits for Sora and Riku in Dream Drop Distance, and Riku technically has an alternate appearance in Halloween Town in Re:CoM

Honestly I kind of wish they'd do it more, even if they don't have to it's fun to see the different costumes, it was one of the things I loved about The Carribean in KH3

seconding this one, when i was going through the franchise a couple years ago with some friends, they had heavily hyped up RPM as the greatest PR series (mainly because they grew up watching it and I didn't, but also because of the general sentiment the community has towards it), i didn't really think it was anything super spectacular like people made it out to be and it's not even in my top 5

honestly yeah, people give them way too much credit for issues they could have completely avoided, toei's lack of care for legacy content is universally consistent for all of their properties because they know people are just going to buy it anyway and are too prideful to allow fans to do the work for them

allegedly fans tried to submit restored versions of the broadcast audio that they had spent a lot of time putting together to toei for dragon ball z to fix the decades long issue of extremely poor audio quality in the home releases, all because toei threw out the original audio masters, only for toei to turn them away, as just one example

says it's invalid

That was directly stated by Nomura, that the game was revealed extremely early into development to avoid the game's existence being spoiled by leaks, and that we shouldn't expect any news about the game for a while.

I know that was said back in 2022, but I still feel like people are getting too far ahead of themselves in believing we'll get a proper game showcase and release date any day now, especially since we still haven't heard anything about Missing Link.

Finally got a look at this post, and yep, it downloaded just fine and runs in DOSbox, thanks so much for helping to archive this!

Thank you, I'll be looking forward to getting a better look at this

No one knows what happened to him, his online presence completely vanished in September 2020 and he's never been seen since

His journal entry in KH2 (and Re:coded) outright say he's a "SOLDIER", but similar to how it also mentions that Sephiroth was "once revered as a hero", it's hard to say what's meant to be canonical to KH and what's just fanservice (even if they got it wrong)

There's a lot of conflicting information about these characters in KH, honestly, Sephiroth's journal entry suggests that he used to be a hero, similar to his role in FF7, but at the same time we're also meant to believe that Sephiroth is just a physical manifestation of Cloud's darkness. Similarly, SOLDIER is referenced in Cloud's journal entry, despite the events of FF7 being a complete impossibility to have happened in the KH universe

I don't think there's any real way to make perfect sense of the information we're presented with for all three of these characters

There's pretty much the entire Steam Train backlog, with Dan playing PC games with Ross and other people, at least until Arin had to take over Dan's spot due to scheduling problems and potential burnout.

Dan also played through multiple old point and click games (Space Quest, King's Quest) by himself a long time ago, back when they experimented with doing solo episodes for both Dan and Arin

I never thought this, but I did think Setzer was Axel in disguise, which is a lot more unreasonable in retrospect

The most frustrating thing about this game to me is that it contains a lot of original lore they made up specifically for this game, with the entire back end of the game being centered around it... And then the game just ends abruptly with no real conclusion, since the actual storyline of the series was interrupted by said arc. And despite the obvious sequel hooks that were set up to continue the story, because this game never got a sequel, absolutely none of it is followed up on, so none of the questions proposed in this game (mainly everything surrounding the "Great Observer, Lantis", who Shikoutei and Shaco are both tied to and reference) are ever referenced in any other SK media, because it was never canon in the first place.

Doesn't help that where the canon storyline ends in this game is also extremely unsatisfying, just stopping immediately before the first round of the Shaman Tournament. They even put Hao in the ending as a teaser, and let you obtain the Spirit of Fire as a secret Spirit, so it makes me wonder if they actually had more planned for a sequel, and it just didn't get greenlit.

3 tickets, yes, but I was mainly wondering how many replies were in those tickets before a new one was filed.

How many times did you get the typical bot response back from them? I just got a reply back saying they "reviewed" my case and insist they're still right from the bearded guy "Trust and Safety" account, so I'm still trying to push for being unbanned

Discord historically operates on a "guilty by association" thing where the reporter is banned alongside the person who actually violated the ToS, this has been a known issue for years and they've done absolutely nothing to resolve it. You can even report a server, leave the server, and still be caught in the banwave because as far as Discord is concerned, you were in the server and you're guilty too.

It just goes to show how terrible their system is that it doesn't function at all, it never really has, and it's just been getting progressively worse with time.

Ouch, $70... That's the first time I've ever seen it for sale, too, that's annoying. I may pick it up myself in the next couple of months, though, assuming it remains available, cause it's in my price range.

They will try, apparently, but I'm not sure if it actually does anything in the end.

What I remember reading when filing a complaint this morning was that they said that they're not actually obligated to force Discord to do anything, just to try and reach a mutual agreement between the user and the company, and that the company is entirely within their right to refuse what is being requested of them. It does, in theory, reduce their score if they refuse to cooperate, which makes them look worse in terms of consumer trust and satisfaction, but ultimately that doesn't amount to anything currently, they're still sitting at an A+.

You can see on their complaint page for Discord that they're still being fed the same bot responses we've been getting this entire time, and there isn't much they're doing (or are required to do) to prevent it.

Giving this a shot, since I've got nothing to really lose. Hopefully it actually does something.

Do you mean wait a few days between sending new support tickets? Or does this also include replying to the automated messages from Clyde to keep tickets open?

Very true.

I made this version of sage back in 2022 before we knew anything about Sage in GVH besides that they existed, so it's less changing their passion and more just not being aware and doing what I wanted to for the sake of the story

mia was always designed as naomi's sister, and that's what she was always intended to be, the only reason it was said otherwise was to avoid potential legal issues

this happens pretty often in metal gear, ironically amanda and cecile got off better than meryl did between MGS1 and 2, where the previous game's ending was mostly ignored, especially because of V at least acknowledging what happened to them in-between peace walker and GZ. both of them are pretty conclusively written out in GZ's backstory tapes, and amanda is mentioned again a couple of times in TPP.

amanda was intended to return to mother base after the inspection once she finished her current assignment in cuba, which obviously couldn't happen, and cecile was sent home because there was no reason for her to stay. there wasn't really a reason for diamond dogs to link back up with amanda after the attack either, since there was no demand for a PMC in the region. outside of that, she was the one who helped strangelove retrieve the AI pod from lake nicaragua, and would have been the one that requests for you to kill chico when he's spotted in africa, if that side op didn't end up getting cut from the game.

cecile was also based on a real person who no longer worked at konami, so it may have been an issue to continue using the character with her likeness and name

she fulfilled the purpose she needed to of representing the medic's lingering desire for revenge and memories he couldn't let go of, beyond that, there isn't really more that could have been done with her after her betrayal and defeat in peace walker.

they were also smart in remembering she's the only person that's directly interacted with zero in years, and having skull face use that to his advantage to find him. he's lucky paz didn't die or else his plan never would have worked the way he wanted it to, at least in terms of getting his revenge against zero

it's heavily implied that the second bomb was stuffed inside of her vagina, it's never explicitly stated but we can see the medic reaching inside of somewhere below her waist in TPP's version of the bomb removal cutscene, and it's described as "a place they'll never look" by skull face

it's explained in one of the GZ tapes that they removed most of her organs to make room for the bomb in her stomach, she would have died very soon after even if she didn't explode because of that

late response, but yes, this is known to be the case, nomura stated it in an interview in the KH3 ultimania

“In order to change those [properties] into a game, contracts must be made with each company separately, and there are cases where other game companies already have contracts, so although the Disney Group has indeed added those [properties], incorporating them into KH isn’t so simple,” said Nomura. “That’s also the reason Mickey is in only one scene in KH1. At the same time, another company was releasing a game that had to do with Mickey, so though we were denied his usage, we persisted and eventually got ‘as long as you only have one scene, from far away, as a silhouette, with him waving his hand or something’. Since we had to make the best of the biggest [and only] chance we had, that’s why that scene appears that way.”

Big Boss also consistently aims with his right eye in Peace Walker, and Venom does the same in Phantom Pain, it's clearly an intentional design choice

it's only been two days and all the naysayers in the replies are wrong, lol

since they're bringing back snake vs monkey I want to be optimistic for skateboarding to return in the future as well

I remember when this wasn't a hot take, cause KH2 wasn't universally beloved back when it came out, especially since we didn't have access to the fixes and adjustments final mix made

yes

it did, technically speaking, wonder if that was intentional from the people working on the movie

hopefully

yeah, but for fighterz and xenoverse 2 to get mods like that, it took several years

granted though once sparking zero modding gets to that point, it'll be insane, just gotta wait it out

if he's not in the base game he'll probably be added as part of the daima DLC since he's a major character in that series