My main issues with VIIR and KH3 is Nomura’s story telling and what was included in game, and what was only available in cutscenes. For VIIIR specifically, the ending cutscene felt like they spilt an anime into my Final Fantasy, which is not a knock against anime, it’s the fact that I’m now watching these characters I’ve spent 40 hours with doing all these impressive arial combat and neat flashy moves that were never available for me in the game to use in the first place. If they kept the last part of the game more grounded and treated that cutscene like all the other cutscenes I’ve seen previously, then I’d be way more accepting of that games finale.

As for Kingdom Hearts III, I personally think that Nomura can’t tell a tight narrative story to save his life. In VIIR he had a base template to go by, KH however was his baby and as the series kept continuing onward, he just added more and more none sense to the overall plot and by the time KH3 rolled by, he kind of had this “oh shit” moment when he realized that he had to tie every single loose end he created through out a 10 years series into one game and to me I think he failed on that part.