358/2 Days Is Square trying to make a point...?

In 365/2 Days, you perform recon mission to different worlds to assest what happens there and how the denizens live out their daily lives. Alot of these same things you examine in the story of 365/2 Days you can see in KH and KH II. So by making these recon missions where you try to use some manner of brain power to figure out why they designed things out of the oridinary inton the game, does anyone think Square-enix has some animators feeling under appreciated?

Who else pretty much figured things out in KH II and KH before they ever did 365/2 Days? That's another point I'd like to make. So, what does anyone think?

 

i think it was more just something to do to take up days for the game

 

I don't know, I think there were some clues, but we didn't really see them at the time. Take Tinkerbell, when she and Roxas first met. She almost immediately tried to get Roxas to help. She didn't try to fight him or anything, just 'asked'. We later find out, in BBS cutscenes, that Tinkerbell has met/talked to Ven.

 

I think they're just trying to make connections, so you can later go back and say "Oh yeah, that's what he's talking about," or some such thing. Kind of like the Harry Potter series, where you wonder how much J.K Rowling thought ahead. It's the same kind of thing, and it might be a way of keeping the story writers and animators entertained while working on the same clip for days.

 

I think it just something put it to help you get fermiliure with the backgrounds you play on

 

I don't know, maybe it might be the animators, but I think that's not really the case. I think recon missions might actually be for those people who've never played Kingdom Hearts to learn more about the worlds and how to navigate through them, or some parts are actually important to the story. Otherwise, it may have just been there to take up space or extend the game.

 

I was figuring it was likely at least someone else could have picked up on the fact there's claw marks in Beast's Castle, ergo they were created by the Beast. But The investigations led me to believe they were made in fighting off the Heartless and not just out of Beast's infinite rage as in the movies. I think some of the Recon missions were made to seperate the game worlds from their respective movies.

Also, it adds a bit more story to the plot than just going to collecting Hearts and tracking down certain Heartless. I think everyone here has really made their point well thought out. Good thinking. I suppose there was truely no real answer to the question after all.