What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Theodric]

Given that plenty of people prefer the aesthetics of darkness to the aesthetics of light, tying darkness to 'evil' at every turn risks becomes rather stale quite quickly. Perhaps now that the self proclaimed 'supreme deity' is out of the picture the game will be a bit bolder in terms of allowing the aesthetics tied to darkness to be at the forefront more often in a positive capacity.

I couldn't get into Kingdom Hearts, personally - I though the story was even more contrived than Endwalker.

[AziraSyuren]

Given that plenty of people prefer the aesthetics of darkness to the aesthetics of light, tying darkness to 'evil' at every turn risks becomes rather stale quite quickly. Perhaps now that the self proclaimed 'supreme deity' is out of the picture the game will be a bit bolder in terms of allowing the aesthetics tied to darkness to be at the forefront more often in a positive capacity.

I couldn't get into Kingdom Hearts, personally - I though the story was even more contrived than Endwalker.

It's definitely pretty stale in KH but we're way too late into the series to try to subvert it. It helps a lot that one of the main characters is the only known person in the history of the universe to use darkness without being corrupted by it.

KH's plot is definitely extremely contrived and it's a series you mostly enjoy for the aesthetics and characters rather then the story itself. It's much closer to its Disney origins than Final Fantasy ones in that regard. You're not going to get anything particularly thought-provoking unless you dig 8000 layers deep and make interpretations of the story that would cause even Carl Jung to blush.