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

ZackFair Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 26th 2011 at 5:09:28 PM

I think Riku's only helping you out right now because he needs Pinnochio and I'm not sure, but the last time Sora saw Riku was in Traverse Town when he was just being his usual self.

Watch as Riku becomes a bigger prick.

angelistoftenshi Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 26th 2011 at 5:21:47 PM

Mousa, you are also inside the bowels of a Space Whale, so why wouldn't that thing be there too?
If you must know, it's a heartless. Heartless appear everywhere.

X2X Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 26th 2011 at 5:55:55 PM

Ah, the Parasite Cage. Have fun.

It's not that Riku has confidence issues. He's an Anti Villain who's pissed at Sora for allegedly forgetting about him and Kairi to go on adventures with a duck and a dog. As Zack said, he gets worse. Much, much worse.

Also, anyone in this series who isn't above the age of 15 is short. Sora is only about as tall as Aerith's waist if you look closely. And it isn't until II that he's barely taller than Goofy and Yuffie.

And on the subject of space whales, Jecht gives his regards.