So, to explain my angle with Kingdom Hearts 3, I’m going to put out my Kingdom Hearts Credentials ™
Played:
Kingdom Hearts Kingdom Hearts 2 Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep
Have Some Familiarity With:
Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories …I watched the segments of Dream Drop Distance that contained TWEWY characters? I know Sora failed his Mark of Mastery exam but Riku didn’t.
I deliberately ignored all the STUFF YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE KINGDOM HEARTS 3 stuff because, really, I can’t see it helping. Kingdom Hearts is meant to be baffling.
I let the ‘don’t touch the play button’ trailer playthrough once and was baffled by the chess game and assumed it must be from a game I had missed. Then the actual intro happened and I learned it was just presumably new canon. Okay.
Also I wish Kingdom Hearts didn’t have so many silver haired characters. It’s hard to tell them apart. To be fair I should probably just assume that 90% of them are Xehanort.
I chose the balanced/attack options! I always used to go with the sword, so figured I would follow tradition.
I thought it was cool to get to explore the parts of Olympus that aren’t the Coliseum: actually made it feel like a new world for the most part (Phil having no speaking lines may have also contributed, since often lots of Phil).
More Riku and Mickey hanging out is always fun. This is also another case of “ah, here is plot I missed” since Riku knows about Aqua.
Also hell the combat is so much more complicated now. Not bad complicated, but it’s systems from like every other KH game ever. I am terrible at flow motion and will probably never use it unless necessary. (Note to self: come back to this at end of game and see hoe accurate it was.) Also that air dive thing up the rubble was really hard to pull off.
The main thing I’ve noticed about the far sharper, cleaner graphics are that Sora looks so THIN. EAT SOME FOOD, SORA. I’m collecting ingredients; clearly the reason for this is to make food and thus make Sora look less like a breeze would bowl him over.
The part where you play as Riku really brings home that Sora has lost all his power again, and here’s Riku flinging around thundaga and curaga.
Remember when Sora was super special as the only person who could wield the keyblade? (Well, there was the Riku situation, but just those 2.) (Originally I typoed keyblade as keyboard. Naturally I corrected it, but it’s funny enough that I added this note.)
I think there must be actual Sora/Riku shippers on staff. There’s no way they don’t know how every piece of dialogue about eachother sounds.
Yen Sid is such a downer. I BLAME THE BAD THINGS IN THIS SERIES ON YOU, MASTER YEN SID.
Meanwhile, Riku and Mickey replay Birth by Sleep. WHO WILL WIN AT FRUIT BALL? TRULY THE IMPORTANT QUESTION OF THIS GAME.
Sora has a mobile phone! AND JIMINY CRICKET HAS GONE TO MOBILE JOURNALING. The world has truly ended. I guess this explains Sora’s bizarre hashtag loadscreen posts. How does everyone have Sora’s mobile number anyway? Sora didn’t even know he had a mobile.
Ah yes, I did miss the bit of game where they presumably gave some form of explanation for some of the Org 13 crew now being back to who they were before the whole Heartless/Nobody thing. …Actually, it’s Kingdom Hearts. Maybe they just didn’t give an explanation beyond “PEOPLE LIKE THESE GUYS, HERE YA GO”. But I missed Sora and Roxas interactions? Must… root out…
I hope there is a third part to this story where Kairi is following Namine’s heart, but just ends up at like art college or something. Damnit, Namine, be more involved in the main plot, and less with art!
And now I’m up to the same point as you, I think, so I shall hold this post here.
I found the gummi ship thing incredibly disorienting… then I realised it was because it had separate controls. I would like developers who give inverted horizontal control options to just carry that across new settings that also require the same sticks. Surely I’m not going to use normal controls in one area and inverted in another? I get really turned around without inverted controls lol.
(PS: Had a few issues getting Life is Strange 2 to update, though it’s done now. Put that one on the backburner til after KH3, but I’ll come back to it and comment/stat share/all that fun.)
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Played:
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts 2
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep
Have Some Familiarity With:
Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories
…I watched the segments of Dream Drop Distance that contained TWEWY characters? I know Sora failed his Mark of Mastery exam but Riku didn’t.
I deliberately ignored all the STUFF YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE KINGDOM HEARTS 3 stuff because, really, I can’t see it helping. Kingdom Hearts is meant to be baffling.
I let the ‘don’t touch the play button’ trailer playthrough once and was baffled by the chess game and assumed it must be from a game I had missed. Then the actual intro happened and I learned it was just presumably new canon. Okay.
Also I wish Kingdom Hearts didn’t have so many silver haired characters. It’s hard to tell them apart. To be fair I should probably just assume that 90% of them are Xehanort.
I chose the balanced/attack options! I always used to go with the sword, so figured I would follow tradition.
I thought it was cool to get to explore the parts of Olympus that aren’t the Coliseum: actually made it feel like a new world for the most part (Phil having no speaking lines may have also contributed, since often lots of Phil).
More Riku and Mickey hanging out is always fun. This is also another case of “ah, here is plot I missed” since Riku knows about Aqua.
Also hell the combat is so much more complicated now. Not bad complicated, but it’s systems from like every other KH game ever. I am terrible at flow motion and will probably never use it unless necessary. (Note to self: come back to this at end of game and see hoe accurate it was.) Also that air dive thing up the rubble was really hard to pull off.
The main thing I’ve noticed about the far sharper, cleaner graphics are that Sora looks so THIN. EAT SOME FOOD, SORA. I’m collecting ingredients; clearly the reason for this is to make food and thus make Sora look less like a breeze would bowl him over.
The part where you play as Riku really brings home that Sora has lost all his power again, and here’s Riku flinging around thundaga and curaga.
Remember when Sora was super special as the only person who could wield the keyblade? (Well, there was the Riku situation, but just those 2.) (Originally I typoed keyblade as keyboard. Naturally I corrected it, but it’s funny enough that I added this note.)
I think there must be actual Sora/Riku shippers on staff. There’s no way they don’t know how every piece of dialogue about eachother sounds.
Yen Sid is such a downer. I BLAME THE BAD THINGS IN THIS SERIES ON YOU, MASTER YEN SID.
Meanwhile, Riku and Mickey replay Birth by Sleep. WHO WILL WIN AT FRUIT BALL? TRULY THE IMPORTANT QUESTION OF THIS GAME.
Sora has a mobile phone! AND JIMINY CRICKET HAS GONE TO MOBILE JOURNALING. The world has truly ended. I guess this explains Sora’s bizarre hashtag loadscreen posts. How does everyone have Sora’s mobile number anyway? Sora didn’t even know he had a mobile.
Ah yes, I did miss the bit of game where they presumably gave some form of explanation for some of the Org 13 crew now being back to who they were before the whole Heartless/Nobody thing. …Actually, it’s Kingdom Hearts. Maybe they just didn’t give an explanation beyond “PEOPLE LIKE THESE GUYS, HERE YA GO”. But I missed Sora and Roxas interactions? Must… root out…
I hope there is a third part to this story where Kairi is following Namine’s heart, but just ends up at like art college or something. Damnit, Namine, be more involved in the main plot, and less with art!
And now I’m up to the same point as you, I think, so I shall hold this post here.
I found the gummi ship thing incredibly disorienting… then I realised it was because it had separate controls. I would like developers who give inverted horizontal control options to just carry that across new settings that also require the same sticks. Surely I’m not going to use normal controls in one area and inverted in another? I get really turned around without inverted controls lol.
(PS: Had a few issues getting Life is Strange 2 to update, though it’s done now. Put that one on the backburner til after KH3, but I’ll come back to it and comment/stat share/all that fun.)
-timydamonkey