People have mentioned the video recaps that are included in the game (they’re short!) but since the main characters are catching up to so much of the plot from the games between 2 & 3, it’s not hard to catch up.

I totally agree with you. It ranks way up there for me too. It was such a pleasure and a joy to play, i played almost the entire thing with a big smile on my face. Imagine that, a video game that’s fun?!

Square made recap videos that cover all the games, you can just watch those and then jump in

So does Kingdom Hearts 3 actually wrap up the story of Xehanort? Is it worth playing based on gameplay alone? I’m asking this because I was interested in playing it some time ago but then I saw how people reacted to the story and “I THINK I FOUND INGREDIENTS FOR A RECIPE” and just decided against it. It makes me a bit…

Yeah. I hate that Leia’s last pleas for the resistance falls on deaf ears, according to JJ. You couldn’t give her that? Just say that it worked. We see no indication that the Resistance is in shambles or falling apart or anything. Just say it worked.

As far as I see it, it’s a good game that probably should have spent just a little more time getting some of the rough edges sanded down.

Eps 7-9, while enjoyable suffered from The Last Jedi not moving the story forward.

I think if it had kept on the path laid by Last Jedi it could have been interesting; the conclusion of the Jedi order and emergence of something new under the Force (as started by Luke), final elimination of the remnants of the Empire...basically a universe turning the page with Leia’s death as the final chapter. Rey…

Nooooooo!

I’m now a 100% OT Purist. I have no love for both Prequels and Sequels and I think that the true quality Star Wars trilogy will always be The Original Trilogy especially with TROS having completely screwed up the entire Sequel trilogy.

Okay, stay with me here.

Not calling you a liar, but I have spent more time than I would have liked trying to find quotes from RotJ that support Palpatine threatened to turn Leia to the darkside, and I failed to find anything. This leads me to believe that *if* Palpaptine did make that threat in RotJ, it was minor enough to be forgotten by…

I didn’t say it would be vastly preferable to some hypothetical version of RoS that was well written and didn’t feature CGI puppet Leia with cut and paste dialog. I said that her dying offscreen was preferable to what we got in the actual film. Though even in your version, which would definitely be better in terms of…

I don’t think that the majority of the audience is going to have RotJ memorized, but I do think most will recall that Leia is Luke’s twin sister and would generally expect her to have some force power as well.

Luke and Yoda both acknowledge she’s strong in the force, and Luke explicitly states his intention to train her in RoTJ.  If anything required explanation, it’s why Leia wasn’t a Jedi in Awakens.

“You have that power too, Leia.”

to have this movie The Force Awakens reveal that she had undergone Jedi training before ultimately deciding against being a Jedi to have a kid is a logical

To each their own, and there is a lot to criticize about Rise, but this piece strikes me as unduly harsh for little reason. Like so much AV Club stuff these days, snark for the sake of snark with no real purpose. I am glad Ms. Lourd got to be a part of this if she wanted to be, and I thought the scene was fine.

“Depending on how well you stomached it, Leia’s scenes landed somewhere between being a bittersweet tribute to the character and being a jarring distraction that reduced the character to a depressing puppet who was brought to life exclusively to save Disney the trouble of having to write around Fisher’s death”

Or, and…

The flashback showing Leia and Luke training was arguably one of the only, painfully brief, moments in this dumpster fire of a movie that actually DID make sense and that wast at least lightly entertaining.