Heartbroken

HIGH Beautiful visuals from the entire series.
LOW There’s no meat to the story.
WTF The Frozen song.
HIGH Tom Hanks’ brother voices Woody.
LOW Maybe 20% of people who play will get the satisfaction that I did.
WTF Kingdom Hearts.
Kingdom Hearts II is a really messed up game. It's got awful pacing, the grievous re-usage of almost all the content from the first game, and a narrative so incomprehensible it makes the Star Wars prequels look logical. Still, I'll be damned if I've ever seen a better JRPG combat system. It's like my good friend Tim Spaeth's irrational love of Too Human's combat, except mine is totally rational and sensible. The one area where Kingdom Hearts II really succeeded for me was with it's bosses, which I've mentioned before. It's got all shapes and sizes of boss, and it does them all extremely well.
HIGH Some of the best graphics I've yet seen on the Nintendo DS.
LOW Beautifully-designed bosses you can barely see due to a lousy camera.
WTF The fourteenth member of Organization XIII?
The difference between the original game and its sequel are like the difference between night and day. Every place the first was flawed, the second polishes to perfection. The aspects that formerly irritated and infuriated me are completely gone, replaced by choices that make more sense and enhance the experience.
Frequent readers of this site may remember that I covered the original Kingdom Hearts on PlayStation 2 and gave it one of the lowest scores on the Internet at a time when it was undeservedly racking up accolades and capturing a legion of fans.
The title's narrative is certainly where it shines.
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