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MousaThe142011-06-04 19:37:12

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This game's pacing sucks

My friend is letting me borrow is PS 2 so I can play Kingdom Hearts. I am tired after all these years missing out. I am always late and miss out on everything and I hate having to tune out when everyone but me in my posse is talking about Nobodies, Axel, Roxas, and whatever. I want to be involved.

But how badly do I want it? I tried this once before. The game's pacing sucks. The unskippable cutscene was painful to watch for a third time and so is having to go through this whole beginning part. I mean really, how cheesy and sad sounding can you get? Ominous Latin chanting while you stand on the stained glass images of our useless Disney Princesses? Dark little critters trying to kill you even though they look kind of adorable? A giant monster thing that's a pain to beat even though it isn't hard to fight? And of course the voiceless text that tries to sound all deep in ominous.

And to think after all this long boring stuff is done, I'll have to go through more long and boring stuff (fetch quests, training fights with that Wakka guy form F Inal Fantasy VIII, and cutscenes) that are all mandatory before Sora is subsequently thrust into the Disney world and the real game begins? Am I supposed to be used to painfully long cutscenes by now becuase I haven't played a game with any (Except arguably Tales Of Symphonia but that was fun so I let it slide.). Perhaps I need to be a Square Enix fanboy in order to appreciate the dullness. Well sucks to be you (and me) Squenix, I've ever played a Final Fantasy game in my life, it's what happens when you're born in 1992 and your first console is a friggin Nintendo64 and your first game is Banjo Kazooie(Awesome game, perhaps I should go back and play that instead of this...).

So here I am once again dark room with no rhyme, reason, or even context. I have to choose my destiny or something, which means how I'll be playing the game. Decisions decisions, do I go Tank, Fighter, or Wizard? I pick magic becuase I like ducking behind stuff and firing spells rather than getting into the grit of the action. Which means I sacrifice the power becuase sacrificing the shield is stupid. Why would a Squishy Wizard give up defense? I mean you could be a Magic Knight but you wouldn't last and being a Glass Cannon ain't useful.

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X2X Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 8th 2011 at 6:42:42 PM
You'll be back before long. :P
suspiciouscookie Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 8th 2011 at 6:44:54 PM
I like being able to choose magic because seriously, more MP means more Cure, and more Cure means being able to survive the final boss.
Hobgoblin Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 8th 2011 at 6:44:53 PM
He'll be back. They always come back. >:3
HekirekiNoMakai Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 8th 2011 at 6:58:39 PM
Sorry Mousa, I have to agree with these guys, KH will draw you into it's web again.
angelistoftenshi Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 8th 2011 at 7:20:17 PM
What are you even talking about? What does getting magic after certain battles have to do with anything? If you don't need it until a certain point, you don't get it.
Do you like overeleveling your characters too much?
SomeColorMage Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 8th 2011 at 7:29:51 PM
The stat differences you pick at the beginning are fairly minor (unless you choose to drop the staff, as -2 AP sucks), it mainly effects which abilities you learn through levelling. I actually like the staff ability order, as offensive magic is much more useful early game and you'll get most of the magic focused abilities early, and once enemies start building up ridiculous resistances to everything except Gravity (and some will even resist that, ugh), you start really building up your physical attacking abilities.
Enlong Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 8th 2011 at 8:39:05 PM
Mousa? Are you still here?

Because, if you are, then you should know this is the absolute most hilarious time to quit the game for this particular reason.

Because, you see, that cutscene you just paused so that you could write this rant? Immediately after that cutscene, you learn your first spell. Like, I'm not even kidding. You stopped immediately before you would've learned Fire.
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