Clouds at the beginning of Kingdom Hearts games
I've just noticed smth abt the clouds that always appear at the beginning of Kingdom Hearts games, in the opening cutscenes: they foretell the end of the game.
Spoilers below!
KH BBS: Motes of light, falling down in the darkness.... sounds a lot like Aqua, Terra, and Ven's tragic fate at the end of the story
KH FCP: The ocean in the daytime, and likely on the Destiny Islands of all places! abs accurate given Aqua ends up here at the end of the game.... even if she isn't ultimately saved. So close to the light, yet so far..... which is also reflected in the bubbles coming up from the deep and the panning of the camera towards the surface, perhaps signalling Aqua's fall to darkness in KHIII?
ALSO ALSO ALSO, who gave Luxu permission to gatecrash the beginning of this game?!? It was him all along and I didn't realise at all.... * facepalms *
The openings are SO TELLING IN HINDSIGHT it's insane - for the next KH game I wanna write down my immediate thoughts afta watching just the opening cutscenes and compare it to after :D
KHI: Dark clouds, reflecting not Sora's journey necessarily but Riku's
Even from the very very beginning there's been such an emphasis on Riku as a main character in the story.
KH CoM: Doesn't have one, but does show the sky in this unnamed world in the opening cutscene. Starting in light, but ending in darkness....
KHII: did not realise it has water instead of clouds! Then again, water has a reflection, just like Roxas and other nobodies are a reflection of their other....
KH 358/2: Doesn't have one but starting off w/Where the Nothing Gathers is p telling :P
[KH Re:Coded doesn't seem to have one at all at all? don't own games tho so please do correct if you do]
KH DDD: Above the clouds, a dreamy atmosphere... but also darkness and a reference to Xehanort's plot and how Sora almost looses his heart to darkness
KHIII: a sunset, perhaps signifying Sora's path to Quadratum at the end of the game?
KH MoM: Replays a mix of all existing intro sequences, which is cool
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You could probably absolutely do this for the KH official logos too - there's so many details in there I haven't noticed before.. lmk if you'd like me to make a post abt that also!
Didn't do KHχ etc bc they don't seem to have the same types of opening, but there's surely smth there too
Hope you enjoyed - lmk what you think!
