overal : i've finished ventus story many years ago and i barely remember about it but replaying the game through terra story made me realize how much of a gem this game is.
Terra : my time with terra was a total of 14:40 hours finishing the game at level 33.
i absolutelly love it, through terra perspective i managed to see that despite even the game trying to depict him as a darklord, he is very much a buff cinnamon roll, i love it very much, this game so far is on par with KH2 which is one of my favorite games of all time.
this game is very goofy (HEH) and most times i believe its intentional, i will never take terra having a conversation about the darkness in one's heart with cinderella seriously tho it adds to the cinnamon rollness of this big boy.
this game starts slow but it becomes so fluid and fun that at the final boss you can have the same moveset as him and speaking of ending, man what a tragic tale of a young heart's journey of self discovery turning into a deceiving tragedy. i will be playing the game through time and updating this review as i play through the other perspectives, that's just how i like to do with these kind of games, terra story is a 9\10, if it was so perfect, then why not a 10 ? simple, performance, the Epic port didn't just effed up the KH 2 port but also this one, save as often as you can, i fell to the trap of grinding for a few minutes only for the game to crash on my way to the next area.
Ventus : ven's side of the story was the one i played years ago when i was a kid but being honestly, replaying it felt like playing it for the first time cuz i didn't remember shit from it at all, i was pleasantly surprised at how i enjoyed playing his side of the story, at first it fooled me into thinking ven's side would be more childish because of snow white's world but it actually delve's even deeper into the overall manipulation of the trio. i don't know what's different but ven story felt more straight foward, when i hit cinderella's world i grinded for 30 minutes and was already at level 20, once i hit hercules world i found a grinding point and grinded for a build i found on the internet, once i hit level 36 it was over, i had an op build that was so broken i managed to just steamroll the rest of the game without stopping at all, i killed the last boss by using ars arcanum twice and i was playing on standart. overall while still enjoying my time with ven i started to feel fatigued of the game, it took me 11 hours, and two sessions of grinding 30 minutes each i'm pondering if i should watch aqua's side on youtube, its not that i don't like the game, so far its the second best kh game but my god is it massive.
Aqua : aqua please stop hanging around with couples and children...wait.. WAIT AQUA !!OH GOD EVERYTHING IS PAIN AND SUFFERING!!
That aside, aqua's story only picks up the pace at the end, it consists mostly of aqua goofin around with children and about-to-be-married couples (i see a pattern here..) its almost as if she's the one with the most minor role in this story.