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I played Kingdom Hearts for the first time Pt. II
a year ago
Thank you everyone who commented on the last journal! It was a lot of fun to write, and it makes me glad you liked my lil spur of the moment sillyness <3
A few quick things before I continue
-I noticed a few people haven't played Kingdom Hearts before reading these. I'll make sure to add spoiler tags to anything I believe are spoilers.
-I'll try to keep each game's review consistent in length, but sometimes I'll have a lot more I want to say about one game than the other. Sorry <3
-These are all my thoughts and opinions, but I do like to exaggerate for the sake of being a silly billy. If you want more clarification on a point I brought up, please don't be afraid to ask and I'll go into more detail without the sarcasm, heh.
-I feel so bad for people who went straight from one to two. The first hour of this game must have made absolutely zero sense to them.
-I know some people don't like how slow KH2 is to start, but I actually don't mind. I like Roxas and enjoy seeing him actually live a normal happy life for a little while, plus the very concept of someone stealing a word, as well as the line "that was undeniable proof that we totally owned you lamers" made it hilariously entertaining.
-Still don't know why Roxas has a completely seperate body than Sora. I thought nobodies were literally the bodies left behind when the heart left. Shouldn't Roxas have appeared right after Sora became a heartless for a bit in 1?
-"Looks like my Summer vacation's over." *sobbing*
-Dude, form changes are so freaking COOL! They change your moveset, animations, how you engage enemies, all in really cool unique ways, AND they can be leveled up! They're probably the best, like, anime transformation powerup I've seen pulled off in a videogame, and that's coming from someone who plays a lot of DBZ/Naruto games.
-Pirates? Tron? LION KING?!? Wait what do you mean that last one isn't required to beat the game?
-It's kinda crazy how the summons from KH1 recognize Sora in KH2, like Mushu, but I thought the people Sora summoned in KH1 were, like, the last survivors from their destroyed world. If they remember Sora, do they also remember a reality where their world was destroyed?
-If someone could mod KH2 to where you only play as Lion Sora, that'd be great.
-I love Maleficent. No complex goal or motive, just evil and loves flaunting it. Pete is such a simp lmao.
-Sora kills a LOT of people in KH2. Not just the nobodies (which you can argue whether or not that's killing, I guess), but the pirates in the Pirates of the Caribbean world too.
- So, the villains want Sora to kill heartless to make/summon (idk?) Kingdom Hearts, because heartless killed by the keyblade gather in Kingdom Hearts, leaving Sora in a weird position... can't he just, like, use a different weapon? Sora and Donald and all of your other friends defeat heartless without an issue with their weapons. Hell, Sora only had a wooden sword for a bit at the end of KH1 and he still had magic that could beat them. Does that count?
-Wait, if Namine is Kairi's nobody, how... is she existing... right next to her... what? Does Kairi have two bodies???
-Yall, the first two KH games make you think Sora is more worried about Kairi, but when they finally reunite, Sora just, like, awkwardly returns a hug that she gives him. Then Sora finds Riku and literally collapses to his knees sobbing. These two kids are so gay for each other lmao.
-Oh wow, Riku is now stuck with the appearance of a villain who traumatizes him in exchange for the ability to help his friends. That's a pretty big sacrifice to undergo. I guess he's really redeemed himself- oh no, he's back to normal. Nevermind, I still hate him.
-Literally the coolest final boss, even if all I'm doing is mashing triangle. I love how Ansem/Xemnas are just like "fuck, these kids are powerful, better turn into a boat dragon."
-Riku and Sora believe they're stuck forever, and they're just chilling on a beach talking about how much they care about each other. Me and who?
-I was told several times how ass I was at playing this game, so maybe I'll give it another try sometime. Maybe the story will make more sense then lmao
-Overall 8/10
-A story that actually makes sense?! Sign me up.
-Ventus is llike Sora but with a backstory. Terra is like Riku but better in every way; more sympathetic, believable, etc. Aqua is like... no one! A unique character, and probably my favorite in the whole franchise now.
-Going to all the different worlds as three different characters is so rad. Seeing the different stories from different points of view and from different points in time, hearing about how the other characters are doing, etc. Reminds me of Sonic Adventure and I love it.
-I wasn't a fan of going from "level 1" three times in a row, but I love how you end up with three completely different builds at the end anyways. They all start fairly similar and end up feeling totally different with unique skills, movesets, link summons, etc.
-Big fan of the ability roulette thingy you have. Instead of having to navigate a menu to use the spell/skill/summon like in the older games, you press up/down on the D-pad and then Triangle to use an ability. Feels much better to use, especially in an action-y game like this.
-They even brought back the anime transformations! There's, like, a bunch more now! It's a different mechanic, sure; some you need to use different finishers and abilities to activate after a combo, others have a meter you fill to pick your tranformation, now requiring RNG to level them up, but aaaaaah it's still so cool <3
-Terra gets to throw hands with Peter Pan. This grown man is beating up a floaty child with a sharp stick. That will never be funny.
-*Aqua hears two women being mean* "There's darkness in this house" *Summons keyblade with murderous intent* 10/10 game, 10/10 character.
-Pete was being a naughty lil guy, and they BANISHED HIM TO A DIFFERENT DIMMENSION as a form of time out. Shit dude and I thought my parents were strict.
-Pretty grindy game. I know it's a port of a handheld game, and handheld RPGs tend to be grindy in general, but it's kinda abrupt how I go from decimating armies to suddenly struggling a lot in the very next world.
-The bosses in this game are HARD. Like, deceptively hard. Again, I can press Triangle once or twice and an entire group of powerful enemies are dead, but the bosses don't give you any breathing room. It's like Dark Souls. I clench up everytime I use Curaga.
-[url=https://x.com/Therounddraolf/status.....59650326967]Oh look, that asshole Xehanort is summoning Kingdom Hearts again. [url]
-I like the plot because I can follow along with it, but seeing the climax three times made me realize how much I'm sick of "Darkness" and "Light." Like... what are they? Good and evil? Good and bad emotions? Those are concepts, yet they're also, like, real tangible objects. Are they a source of power, like the Force?
-Wait, I just remembered, Ventus had his darkness like, surgically removed from him. How?!
-Why does Venitas look like evil Sora? The two aren't connected, right?!
-And why does Ventus look IDENTICAL to Roxas? Like, they're practically clones of one another! One just wears edgier clothes.
-AAAAAAAAH MY POOR BRAIN
-9/10
-Yeah I stopped watching about an hour in and just listened to a recap. All it explained is how Maleficent and Pete escaped. Otherwise, it's just a weird retelling of KH1 right?
-Namine is such a fun name to say :3
-"It's Riku! They put bugs in him!" I liked that line a lot more when I didn't have context.
-It's really messed up how this magic computer of theirs can, like, basically create life. They made a conscious, sentient, intelligent person (digital Sora), used him to perform a task, and then just shut him off forever. That's really messed up and makes me uncomfortable just thinking about it.
-Movie/10
Part 3?
A few quick things before I continue
-I noticed a few people haven't played Kingdom Hearts before reading these. I'll make sure to add spoiler tags to anything I believe are spoilers.
-I'll try to keep each game's review consistent in length, but sometimes I'll have a lot more I want to say about one game than the other. Sorry <3
-These are all my thoughts and opinions, but I do like to exaggerate for the sake of being a silly billy. If you want more clarification on a point I brought up, please don't be afraid to ask and I'll go into more detail without the sarcasm, heh.
KINGDOM HEARTS II
AKA the one where shit gets real.-I feel so bad for people who went straight from one to two. The first hour of this game must have made absolutely zero sense to them.
-I know some people don't like how slow KH2 is to start, but I actually don't mind. I like Roxas and enjoy seeing him actually live a normal happy life for a little while, plus the very concept of someone stealing a word, as well as the line "that was undeniable proof that we totally owned you lamers" made it hilariously entertaining.
-Still don't know why Roxas has a completely seperate body than Sora. I thought nobodies were literally the bodies left behind when the heart left. Shouldn't Roxas have appeared right after Sora became a heartless for a bit in 1?
-"Looks like my Summer vacation's over." *sobbing*
-Dude, form changes are so freaking COOL! They change your moveset, animations, how you engage enemies, all in really cool unique ways, AND they can be leveled up! They're probably the best, like, anime transformation powerup I've seen pulled off in a videogame, and that's coming from someone who plays a lot of DBZ/Naruto games.
-Pirates? Tron? LION KING?!? Wait what do you mean that last one isn't required to beat the game?
-It's kinda crazy how the summons from KH1 recognize Sora in KH2, like Mushu, but I thought the people Sora summoned in KH1 were, like, the last survivors from their destroyed world. If they remember Sora, do they also remember a reality where their world was destroyed?
-If someone could mod KH2 to where you only play as Lion Sora, that'd be great.
-I love Maleficent. No complex goal or motive, just evil and loves flaunting it. Pete is such a simp lmao.
-Sora kills a LOT of people in KH2. Not just the nobodies (which you can argue whether or not that's killing, I guess), but the pirates in the Pirates of the Caribbean world too.
- So, the villains want Sora to kill heartless to make/summon (idk?) Kingdom Hearts, because heartless killed by the keyblade gather in Kingdom Hearts, leaving Sora in a weird position... can't he just, like, use a different weapon? Sora and Donald and all of your other friends defeat heartless without an issue with their weapons. Hell, Sora only had a wooden sword for a bit at the end of KH1 and he still had magic that could beat them. Does that count?
-Wait, if Namine is Kairi's nobody, how... is she existing... right next to her... what? Does Kairi have two bodies???
-Yall, the first two KH games make you think Sora is more worried about Kairi, but when they finally reunite, Sora just, like, awkwardly returns a hug that she gives him. Then Sora finds Riku and literally collapses to his knees sobbing. These two kids are so gay for each other lmao.
-Oh wow, Riku is now stuck with the appearance of a villain who traumatizes him in exchange for the ability to help his friends. That's a pretty big sacrifice to undergo. I guess he's really redeemed himself- oh no, he's back to normal. Nevermind, I still hate him.
-Literally the coolest final boss, even if all I'm doing is mashing triangle. I love how Ansem/Xemnas are just like "fuck, these kids are powerful, better turn into a boat dragon."
-Riku and Sora believe they're stuck forever, and they're just chilling on a beach talking about how much they care about each other. Me and who?
-I was told several times how ass I was at playing this game, so maybe I'll give it another try sometime. Maybe the story will make more sense then lmao
-Overall 8/10
BIRTH BY SLEEP
AKA my personal favorite-A story that actually makes sense?! Sign me up.
-Ventus is llike Sora but with a backstory. Terra is like Riku but better in every way; more sympathetic, believable, etc. Aqua is like... no one! A unique character, and probably my favorite in the whole franchise now.
-Going to all the different worlds as three different characters is so rad. Seeing the different stories from different points of view and from different points in time, hearing about how the other characters are doing, etc. Reminds me of Sonic Adventure and I love it.
-I wasn't a fan of going from "level 1" three times in a row, but I love how you end up with three completely different builds at the end anyways. They all start fairly similar and end up feeling totally different with unique skills, movesets, link summons, etc.
-Big fan of the ability roulette thingy you have. Instead of having to navigate a menu to use the spell/skill/summon like in the older games, you press up/down on the D-pad and then Triangle to use an ability. Feels much better to use, especially in an action-y game like this.
-They even brought back the anime transformations! There's, like, a bunch more now! It's a different mechanic, sure; some you need to use different finishers and abilities to activate after a combo, others have a meter you fill to pick your tranformation, now requiring RNG to level them up, but aaaaaah it's still so cool <3
-Terra gets to throw hands with Peter Pan. This grown man is beating up a floaty child with a sharp stick. That will never be funny.
-*Aqua hears two women being mean* "There's darkness in this house" *Summons keyblade with murderous intent* 10/10 game, 10/10 character.
-Pete was being a naughty lil guy, and they BANISHED HIM TO A DIFFERENT DIMMENSION as a form of time out. Shit dude and I thought my parents were strict.
-Pretty grindy game. I know it's a port of a handheld game, and handheld RPGs tend to be grindy in general, but it's kinda abrupt how I go from decimating armies to suddenly struggling a lot in the very next world.
-The bosses in this game are HARD. Like, deceptively hard. Again, I can press Triangle once or twice and an entire group of powerful enemies are dead, but the bosses don't give you any breathing room. It's like Dark Souls. I clench up everytime I use Curaga.
-[url=https://x.com/Therounddraolf/status.....59650326967]Oh look, that asshole Xehanort is summoning Kingdom Hearts again. [url]
-I like the plot because I can follow along with it, but seeing the climax three times made me realize how much I'm sick of "Darkness" and "Light." Like... what are they? Good and evil? Good and bad emotions? Those are concepts, yet they're also, like, real tangible objects. Are they a source of power, like the Force?
-Wait, I just remembered, Ventus had his darkness like, surgically removed from him. How?!
-Why does Venitas look like evil Sora? The two aren't connected, right?!
-And why does Ventus look IDENTICAL to Roxas? Like, they're practically clones of one another! One just wears edgier clothes.
-AAAAAAAAH MY POOR BRAIN
-9/10
Re:Coded
AKA the skippable one-Yeah I stopped watching about an hour in and just listened to a recap. All it explained is how Maleficent and Pete escaped. Otherwise, it's just a weird retelling of KH1 right?
-Namine is such a fun name to say :3
-"It's Riku! They put bugs in him!" I liked that line a lot more when I didn't have context.
-It's really messed up how this magic computer of theirs can, like, basically create life. They made a conscious, sentient, intelligent person (digital Sora), used him to perform a task, and then just shut him off forever. That's really messed up and makes me uncomfortable just thinking about it.
-Movie/10
Part 3?
Also they did Coded real dirty. The actual game was fun, having your level ups let you activate more of a circuit board that had a built-in cheat system if you wanted to use it, and ever world played totally differently, such as Olympus Colliseum being an actual RPG with Cloud and Hercules as party members. Otherwise uh... yeah the game was actually kinda unnecessary. Have fun with KH3 if you decide to play it!
That does sound really neat, but I guess they can't port DS games to console for whatever reason. Maybe I'll give it a try in the future.
And I will! I started it recently, but only played for about 30 minutes. My PS5 made everything bright pink for some reason lmao
Oh they'd have to probably rebuild the game from the ground up, like they did with Re: Chain of Memories. I just think they decided against it since 358/2's main draw was the online play, and rebalancing that probably would have been way more effort than it would be worth, since it would also involve reworking each organization member plus the secret characters. For Re: Coded... honestly there was no draw, so them not remaking it is actually totally fine, it just sucks cause each world playing differently was a fun gimmick!
Honestly I'm not surprised, KH3 just seems to have problems with it. For me it crashed every couple of hours with no warning for awhile. Hopefully it'll fix itself!
So I wanna say that thinking of Light and Darkness like the dark and light sides of the force is absolutely the best way to think about it, that's really all it means. They're just sources of power that draw on different emotions and concepts.