Live Blogs Let's Play Kingdom Hearts: 9 Years Too Late

MousaThe142011-06-04 19:37:12

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.

Comments

angelistoftenshi Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 11th 2011 at 10:08:25 PM

Did you found 4 evidence boxes? The fourth one gave you blizzard earlier. XP

Yeah... I feel like we barely got to know Alice at all! D:
(unless you went to talk to her while she was on her cage, that is.)

X2X Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 11th 2011 at 10:19:41 PM

Um... have you ever watched Alice in Wonderland before? Because that's how the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat were in the film.

Hey, and it's not the Dalmatians' fault that their world was unceremoniously destroyed by the darkness without a second's warning.

She was kidnapped for a reason, Mousa. It was out of everyone's control.

Ah... yes, Lost Jungle. Clayton's there! :D And you start out by... actually, I'll let you see what I mean when you get there.

angelistoftenshi Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 11th 2011 at 10:22:15 PM

It's Deep Jungle, actually.
Sorry, I had to point that out.

MousaThe14 Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 12th 2011 at 6:01:02 AM

I know, X 2 X but I need something to complain about. And I know she was kidnapped for a reason, I'm far beyond that, but the point is "Really? After all that time wasted? Fine!"

And Why am i not allowed to joke about the difficulty of losing 99 puppies? 99 puppies are difficult to lose. I get the context and I understand it perfectly, joke wise it's just fun say "HOW DO YOU LOSE 99 PUPPIES!?"

Hobgoblin Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 12th 2011 at 9:12:54 AM

The evidence doesn't matter for the most part, but getting a Heartless means that Donald or Goofy (or both) start the battle imprisoned and you have to free them by whacking their cage. Getting your evidence lets you skip that.

Fun Fact: A certain scene that you see later in the game changes if you beat Deep Jungle before Wonderland. Nothing major, you just see Snow White instead of Alice.

ManwiththePlan Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 14th 2011 at 9:21:25 AM

Deep Jungle is much less confusing to navigate than Wonderland, IMO, so if you made it through Wonderland, you'll make it through Deep Jungle.