Kingdom Hearts 2

[burgundy]

Yeah, its been a couple years since I played the original Kingdom Hearts so I guess I forgot about the amount of cutscenes. I am also playing this game on normal difficulty right now, so that may have something to do with why it doesn't seem like I am fighting that many enemies. I am starting to regret that I didn't put the game on Proud mode right away.

Proud Mode doesn't have more enemies (or actually, it doesn't seem to have any more enemies than it should) but it will seem like it since they kill you with shocking regularity early on.

[WTFer]

I didn't play the first, but I'm playing KH2...and it's pretty blah. Production values are awesome. Some of the music is great. But when it comes to actually playing, it's suuuuuuuuuch a bore. The combat is retardedly easy and the game is almost as linear as a rail shooter (but a lot less exciting).

so how linear is it?
I remember seeing some import reviews way back saying the levels were larger & more open?

[Rocca]

Proud Mode doesn't have more enemies (or actually, it doesn't seem to have any more enemies than it should) but it will seem like it since they kill you with shocking regularity early on.

I would say yes. Either certain battles have more enemies or just more health per. foe, but they sure as heck feel longer.

[NeoZeedeater]

The important question about this game: how's the TRON area? Does it let you use light cycles?

[burgundy]

Yes...and the light cycle sequence is making me want to go back in time to prevent my own conception.

So I'm only partway through Tron...but I think it's really ingenious how it's been worked into the story. It's not a regular "world."

[NeoZeedeater]

Yes...and the light cycle sequence is making me want to go back in time to prevent my own conception.

Because it's difficult or because it's shitty?

[bbobb]

Because it's difficult or because it's shitty?

It's horrifically shitty. I'd like to meet the person that came up with that crap and punch him right in the face for ruining the light cycles.

Just finished up the game myself. My final impressions...

meh.

It had it's moments, but in general I didn't like this game nearly as much as the first. Sure there were more worlds, but boy did they start to get old later on. Some of the boss battles were cool, and on the flip side, some were ridiculously frustrating in their setup (I'm looking at you Luxord battle).

And the story... for the love of god, next time how bout we make it a little less convoluted? I think I'd get into it a bit more if they focused the story and development on a couple main bad guys... not the whole fucking organization and it's 8 or however many members. Cut those members down to 1-2 and give me a reason to care if I'm fighting them or not. And I still don't get the whole fucking shit with nobodies and nobodies that are normal and such and such. All in all, it could have been great, but it's just mediocre.

[burgundy]

This is not a mediocre game. Unless the last half is the worst thing I've ever played.

[George]

Are you serious, you fucking F-Chan. You listen to a majority of your disney movies in Japanese? It's news to me.

Yes, I'm the head for Max Anime but even THIS boggles me.

I don't have any serious preference, but the script was made with japanese speaking in mind, and it just irritates me to see all this gesticulating with off-sync english. I'm not bugging the fuck out about it, I'm just saying an option to turn the japanese dialog on would have been nice.

Rock your face, buttsauce.

[Partialartist]

It's horrifically shitty. I'd like to meet the person that came up with that crap and punch him right in the face for ruining the light cycles.

Just finished up the game myself. My final impressions...

meh.

It had it's moments, but in general I didn't like this game nearly as much as the first. Sure there were more worlds, but boy did they start to get old later on. Some of the boss battles were cool, and on the flip side, some were ridiculously frustrating in their setup (I'm looking at you Luxord battle).

And the story... for the love of god, next time how bout we make it a little less convoluted? I think I'd get into it a bit more if they focused the story and development on a couple main bad guys... not the whole fucking organization and it's 8 or however many members. Cut those members down to 1-2 and give me a reason to care if I'm fighting them or not. And I still don't get the whole fucking shit with nobodies and nobodies that are normal and such and such. All in all, it could have been great, but it's just mediocre.

I'm only at the PotC world, but I'm inclined to agree. Everything is so random and disjointed. I don't care much for the action and the camera. I especially don't care for the fact that Goofy and Donald will BOTH waste a potion on me when I don't need it, or could heal myself. Those things aren't cheap(relatively yes, but not when you're trying to get equipment. The prize for the first tournament should help, though). And could the other story characters attack more than once a minute?

All said, I'm still playing it. The characters, boss battles, style, polish and little details keep me interested. Plus the Gummi Ship missions. Now those are fun.

Is there any point to keeping Guard on? I'm on Proud, and haven't used it at all, because it's too hard to time with all the enemies coming at you, you can't cancel into it, and it doesn't seem to give any real advantage. It just bounces off, and the enemies continue their attacks. The horsemen and the cars suck. Still I've been able to get through most of the enemies without using summons or drives. I had to remember to use the drive in order to level it up.