Episode 24 and I'm not doing a leak reaction. A lot of people wanted me to farm the Missing-Link material for exposure and I'd rather not — it's stolen, it's not currently in use, and lore-wise it changes nothing. What it did do is confirm the thing I already wanted to talk about: the photorealism in the KH4 trailers isn't a stylistic choice. It's a lore statement. In this episode I work through why Sora and Sigurd keep their cartoon shaders while Quadratum's civilians are greyscale and business-casual, why Sora looks progressively more human the longer he's there — and how that connects to the world-appropriate forms Donald has been magically maintaining for three people across an entire series, which is an insane amount of unacknowledged labour when you actually count it. Then the harder questions: if Sora's proportions physically changed, that ...