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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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angelistoftenshi Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 7th 2011 at 6:48:48 PM
Well, I like occupying scan 24/7. (Unlike in FFX, where either a character occupies it or they don't, which means I have to interchange my characters all over again just to see their HP, and bless me if none of them have it yet...)
Believe it or not, occupying scan is kind of useful in this game. Just saying.
Hobgoblin Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 7th 2011 at 7:04:19 PM
You have no magic in your soul. D; *cries and runs away*
X2X Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 7th 2011 at 7:02:27 PM
Um... the 99 puppies were scattered across the worlds when the Dalmatians' home was lost to darkness. :|

Also, angel's right about Scan. Besides, you're not at the point where you'll start getting overly useful attack and auxiliary abilities and Scan's pretty cheap, so I'd say just equip it and keep it.
MousaThe14 Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 7th 2011 at 7:18:24 PM
Okay Hobgoblin, tell me why I have no magic in my soul
nomuru2d Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 7th 2011 at 7:27:36 PM
Calm down, the whole miss-each-other bit only goes on until the boss fight. Also you don't HAVE to have Scan on, but you'll get plenty of AP for other abilities as you level up, so you might as well stop complaining and leave it on.
ManwiththePlan Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 7th 2011 at 9:05:20 PM
You lose 99 puppies because DARKNESS!
suspiciouscookie Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 7th 2011 at 10:00:25 PM
Hunny. Munny, hunny. Hunnymunnyhunny. Mmmmm.
twilightgamer92 Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 8th 2011 at 7:54:21 AM
Think they spelled it "munny" because Winnie the Pooh spells honey "hunny." Also the way you react to barely missing Donald and Goofy makes me think you're at the end of An American Tail and you just keep missing your dad.
MousaThe14 Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 8th 2011 at 2:31:36 PM
Twilight, I was already told this yesterday. Thanks for the clarification though.
Nyperold Since: Dec, 1969
Jul 15th 2011 at 3:14:40 PM
Heh, yeah, I prefer certain things to be automatic like that. Or at least have it to where I'm not using resources I could be using for other things. It's why I never trade Star Pieces for the Peekaboo mask and just have my Goomba pal use Tattle when I encounter an enemy whose HP I can't see yet. It's why it's kind of annoying that I have to learn an ability that lets me find my party members' XP To Next Level in Dragon Quest IX; I could've had something useful in that slot on the skill tree instead of something I should have by default.
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