Since in Jap𝔍anese there are no ౠinflections for plurals, it could also be referring to "the people you love".

In fact, Japanese texts oft🎉en thrive on ambiguity and it may well be intentional.

The English phrase does seem like a weird choice, but given the themes of KH it's easy to conclude that Mickey is talking about "human relationship" as "what matters mo💝st".

I agree that it comes across as watered𓆉💧 down / less suggestive if read side by side.

I think the key here is that the 🧜first time Riki ventured into the darkness, it was for selfish reasons, whereas this time, he's doing it for s✤omeone else.

Those two statements have nowhere near a similar ꦆlevel of groꦛunding.

For the first one൩, the Devs and publishers have stats and ♒figures, and many Devs have been complaining about exactly that for a long time now. It's not new.

For the second part, one might she y that Xbox has the relevant stats somewhere. But we don't, because they never publish it. And considering that fact, it's very easy to su🐎rmise that these hidden stats don't loo💟k great in the least. Which would explain why the game pass benefits keep getting worse what feels like almost every other month.

Well, except that it has w💦orked, multiple times in fact🤪.

Battle for Middle earth still has peop𝄹le playing it even today, when it's unava💎ilable for purchase.

The old MMO has a dedicated fandom.

People are even nostalgic for EA's💙 old 🎀movie tie-in games.

So, no, saying "✨it never seems to ﷽work" is just plainly wrong.

It's just yet a🐻nother indicator for h🐟ow bad western game developers are today, that they can't win even when it's handed to them.

I admire your effort, but I have to disagree on mul🌳tiple points.

Sora, Donald and Goofy went into castle oblivion to look for Mickey, not Riku nor Kairi. This ෴is said explicitly and I 🐓don't know how this can even be debated.

They're surprised to find Riku (replica) but it doesn't end their ques꧑t. They just assum♚e he's "also there" because he was last seen with Mickey.

The scene with the meteor shower is completely made up. It happened with neither Riku nor Kairi, but is an origiꩲnal Naminé creation. This is evidenced by how she gives Riku (replica)ღ a charm, although Riku never shared a charm with Sora or Kairi.

At every point in the story Sora vividly remember🌊s Riku. That's why he's so perplexed by how Riku (replica) acts towards him. This is also what allows Sora to notice the illuꩲsion.

The real Riku and Sora's real memoriesꩲ of him are Sora's anchor to reality, foreboding later events in the series.

I do agree with you that we should take care with ambiguity in translation, especially when one of the languages lack certain gramma🍒tical features.

The points you make can and should be examined, but it's easy to g🦩et overexcited.

For example, the Japanese version of "don't think twice" in KH3 is explicitly a full on wedding hymn. Interpret it how you will, but 🎶speculation shouldn't be allowed to overtake the "plaintext" of the game.

People who call this "woke" are 🐽telling on themselves.

This is what republicans THINK woke is.

Believe it or not, but the entire point of woke-ness is confrontation with the past. That's why it's so controversial. There's non❀e of 𓂃that in the game.

The game avoids talking about the past like a proud b✃oy🎃 avoids critical race theory.

There are so many unspoken assumptions in this article that, when po𒆙inted out, massively undermine the conclusion.

It's NOT risky to make new gaming IPs. Repeat: it's NOT ꦜa business risk to fina♔nce a fresh game.

Horizon, Astrobot, Ghost of Tsushima, Metaphor, Death Stranding, Genshin, HiFi rush... All of them a fresh, a✅ll of them are selling gangbusters.

The "risk" ste♍ms entirely from CEOs shutting down SUCCESSFUL studios.

All the risk lies in layoffs𒅌, while shareholders celebrate record high salesꩲ.

None of that had anything to do with nostalgia or f﷽ans voting with their wallets.

It's 100% the fault of greedy💦 and incompetent leadership living out their capiꦫtalist dreams.