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Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.
16 years ago
踊れ愚か者ども!
Meh... so basically I have a particular hatred for the Kingdom Hearts franchise. Basically I felt that it was one of those series that should never have been touched after the first one... even though they did leave it as a cliffhanger.
Square basically did one of there many impossible things on the course of writing Kingdom hearts: They brought back the lightness that Final Fantasy was known for something that was trampled on by the likes of Final Fanatasys' 7 and 8 and failed in Final Fantasy 10. It was one of those games that started at a very high note but honestly drowned in the current themes of Final Fantasy. The type of themes that... make me wanna kill myself. But I digress.
Kingdom Hearts 2 did something for me wherein I drowned in the hype but it ultimately fail. Mostly due to my incessant hatred of Kasushige Nojima's writing style the style of writing that just rots the brain. Listen if you write something horrible expect to hear from some naysayers. Honestly I've never met a person who could give me an answer to any one of the numerous plotholes written by Nojima himself other than "It should be abstract." Something I like to call "a statement that ends in 'because of reasons.'" If you ever find yourself writing "a statement that ends in for reasons," you have done something horrible wrong. I'll give an example. Ultimecia wanted to compress time, not because she wanted to rule the world (she already had that) not to destroy the world (she already did that) not to get revenge on those who tried to kill her (she already did that) not because she was stupid (she knew how to compress time and use a complex machine to drive the psyche into the timespace continuum without corrosive after effects) not because she wanted to become immortal (after learning how to create things from your mind I think immortality should be cake) not because she wanted to prevent someone for killing her (again everyone is dead) but because of reasons.
See how brilliant is Mr. Kazu.
In any case (wow I could not find myself flaming FF8 in a journal about a Square product) KH2 is a particular hatred for having a convoluted nonsense storyline that can only be resolved through a series of spinoffs. For one thing this shouldn't be this complex of a story. What irritated me about this game was it's incessant need for time filler. Why the fuck am I dicking around with Jack Sparrow if it has nothing to do with the underlying plot. Why the fuck am I in a gay musical in the little mermaid world when this data could have be used for something much more important, like say EXPLAING ALL THE INCONSISTANCIES WHEN THIS GAME TRANSITIONED FROM THE LAST 2! But once again I digress.
I played 358/2 days and to be honest I learned nothing new from it which was once a game that was completely time filler. To be honest there is nothing interesting about Roxas at this point. As a man against universe character he is so bland, so boring, and the only one who seems to be in character. Pinnochio world should have been made specifically to make this character more interesting, because that's what he is in the story. And yet they do nothing, NOTHING but illustrate that fact and not resolve it in the least. Oh sure he gets emotions, but let me remind you that his personality is exactly like a bland Sora. He's like diet Sora, not as irritating, pretentious, heartwarming, or endering like Sora, but somehow a pale imitation. The only thing that makes him interesting is the sheer number of slash fictions that you can write him with.
I mean seriously! Look at Axel! He's fucking ineteresting. Even Xion, the lesbian Sora, was fucking interesting. WHY PLAYING A GAME THAT'S SO BLAND! WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW ANY OF THIS?! HE DIED AT THE END OF KH2! ARGH!
*calms down* With all that I lead you to KH: BBS, but here's the twist. I am actually looking forward to this game. For the first time in a long time I am actually forward to a Kingdom Hearts game. Even though I feel like this franchise has almost gotten milked to the point of MGS. But to be honest I like the premise. I like what's been told about this. And hopefully I can ignore everything that has been said about KH and enjoy the story as a story.
Square basically did one of there many impossible things on the course of writing Kingdom hearts: They brought back the lightness that Final Fantasy was known for something that was trampled on by the likes of Final Fanatasys' 7 and 8 and failed in Final Fantasy 10. It was one of those games that started at a very high note but honestly drowned in the current themes of Final Fantasy. The type of themes that... make me wanna kill myself. But I digress.
Kingdom Hearts 2 did something for me wherein I drowned in the hype but it ultimately fail. Mostly due to my incessant hatred of Kasushige Nojima's writing style the style of writing that just rots the brain. Listen if you write something horrible expect to hear from some naysayers. Honestly I've never met a person who could give me an answer to any one of the numerous plotholes written by Nojima himself other than "It should be abstract." Something I like to call "a statement that ends in 'because of reasons.'" If you ever find yourself writing "a statement that ends in for reasons," you have done something horrible wrong. I'll give an example. Ultimecia wanted to compress time, not because she wanted to rule the world (she already had that) not to destroy the world (she already did that) not to get revenge on those who tried to kill her (she already did that) not because she was stupid (she knew how to compress time and use a complex machine to drive the psyche into the timespace continuum without corrosive after effects) not because she wanted to become immortal (after learning how to create things from your mind I think immortality should be cake) not because she wanted to prevent someone for killing her (again everyone is dead) but because of reasons.
See how brilliant is Mr. Kazu.
In any case (wow I could not find myself flaming FF8 in a journal about a Square product) KH2 is a particular hatred for having a convoluted nonsense storyline that can only be resolved through a series of spinoffs. For one thing this shouldn't be this complex of a story. What irritated me about this game was it's incessant need for time filler. Why the fuck am I dicking around with Jack Sparrow if it has nothing to do with the underlying plot. Why the fuck am I in a gay musical in the little mermaid world when this data could have be used for something much more important, like say EXPLAING ALL THE INCONSISTANCIES WHEN THIS GAME TRANSITIONED FROM THE LAST 2! But once again I digress.
I played 358/2 days and to be honest I learned nothing new from it which was once a game that was completely time filler. To be honest there is nothing interesting about Roxas at this point. As a man against universe character he is so bland, so boring, and the only one who seems to be in character. Pinnochio world should have been made specifically to make this character more interesting, because that's what he is in the story. And yet they do nothing, NOTHING but illustrate that fact and not resolve it in the least. Oh sure he gets emotions, but let me remind you that his personality is exactly like a bland Sora. He's like diet Sora, not as irritating, pretentious, heartwarming, or endering like Sora, but somehow a pale imitation. The only thing that makes him interesting is the sheer number of slash fictions that you can write him with.
I mean seriously! Look at Axel! He's fucking ineteresting. Even Xion, the lesbian Sora, was fucking interesting. WHY PLAYING A GAME THAT'S SO BLAND! WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW ANY OF THIS?! HE DIED AT THE END OF KH2! ARGH!
*calms down* With all that I lead you to KH: BBS, but here's the twist. I am actually looking forward to this game. For the first time in a long time I am actually forward to a Kingdom Hearts game. Even though I feel like this franchise has almost gotten milked to the point of MGS. But to be honest I like the premise. I like what's been told about this. And hopefully I can ignore everything that has been said about KH and enjoy the story as a story.
Now what they did to the character was dissolve him into mush and fused him with Sora to make him "Complete" That effectively ended his existence to the point of a mere fragment that can only show up as a "spirit" of sorts. Sounds pretty dead to me.
even though I never understood why it was so complicated in the first place. This is again one of those things that Nojima never really explained completely. Nami shattered Sora's memories without any real drawbacks other than the occasional dizzy spells. Then she created fake memories and linked them together to make a new change. Again at no point was Sora passed out. If Sora's memores were so easy to link up and destroy why was it so hard to put back together.
Also if those memories were indeed floating into Xion into Roxas then why was it nessessary for Sora to be asleep. If his fake memories were so easy to make, why was it so hard for fake memories that were about real ones to link up to those memories that were lost, if memories were need to be chained in the first place. If it weren't then why was it such a necessary to have them in the first place. It seemed like Sora was functioning properly in the first place meaning that in either case it was unnecessary to kill him off in the first place or to have Sora sleep.
Another thing that I never understood was, prior to end of the Roxas preview in KH2, what the hell was Sora. Was he a disembodied heart? Was he still a heartless? Was he a ghost? Same holds true for Kairi, but still that always bugged me. I mean does that mean Sora is dead, and Roxas is a some kind of gay/bisexual zombie?
Again these things need to be explained.
I don't have a DS so unless I get a new CPU/MB/ram/video card and a 352 rom, I won't be able to tell you bout 364/2 but...
Sora was a) straight.
b) brainwashed.
c) MPD, Roxas when "sleep walking" Sora when awake.
It seems straight forward and mostly complete recitation from psycology materials concerning brainwashing/amnesia studies. Once a memory is destroyed, it takes time, if it ever returns. I'm still missing parts, like that whole time between 1980 and now....
I meant as if you needed all the the pieces or else you wouldn't be able to function. That puts several hilarious and rather... terrible consequences if she had failed.