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rionaleonhart) wrote2023-12-22 02:40 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2023-12-22 02:40 pm
Why Does That Train Have A Hat?
Tem and I are currently playing through Kingdom Hearts II! We've just left the Pirates of the Caribbean world. Tem was very unhappy about the effort to render photorealistic humans alongside cartoon characters in PS2 graphics.
Tem referred to Kingdom Hearts Fujin as 'girl Riku', and I'm struggling to process this.
Axel: You can't turn on the Organization! You get on their bad side and they'll destroy you!
Roxas: No one would miss me. (walks away)
Axel: That's not true! ...I would.
Tem: (cocking head to one side) ...do I ship this?
I'm pleased that Tem is shipping Axel/Roxas, because this will enhance xyr experience of 358/2 Days, or possibly make xyr experience of 358/2 Days considerably worse. Either way, I'm looking forward to it.
Roxas's story still breaks my heart. This poor kid. He just wants to spend time with his friends; he didn't ask for any of this!
Can't believe the imperial Chinese army will let a duck, a dog and a foreign teenager join up, but they draw the line at a woman.
That said, I think the most unrealistic thing about Kingdom Hearts is the fact that nobody ever responds to Donald with 'what the hell did you just say?'
Auron laughs quietly after Sora refuses his offer of guardianship. I wonder if Sora reminds him of Tidus.
To clarify, Auron is offering to guard Sora, in the Final Fantasy X sense of being a guardian. He is not offering to be Sora's legal guardian. But, now that I've accidentally put that thought into my own head, I want to read that fic.
I cannot handle Auron urgently calling Donald Duck's name while healing him. I just can't. This was never supposed to happen.
'I see what we're doing,' Tem commented, at the start of Atlantica. 'We're doing the plot of The Little Mermaid. Because that's what we're doing in this game: we're just going through the plot of Disney films, only truncated and worse, and also Donald Duck is there.'
Sora's a little awkward on encountering Ariel again. I think, now that he's fifteen, he's a bit selfconscious about having his nipples out in merman mode.
The animators do really impressive work making the Organization XIII members feel distinct even when they're dressed in identical face-obscuring coats. The animation in Kingdom Hearts is great all around, actually; it's really striking me on this playthrough!
For the benefit of anyone who's interested in videogame animation, incidentally, I'm really enjoying the New Frame Plus Animation of Final Fantasy series on YouTube, in which professional animator Dan Floyd takes a game-by-game look at how Final Fantasy's animation has changed and developed over the decades. He's up to Final Fantasy V, and I'm looking forward to future instalments!
Tem referred to Kingdom Hearts Fujin as 'girl Riku', and I'm struggling to process this.
Axel: You can't turn on the Organization! You get on their bad side and they'll destroy you!
Roxas: No one would miss me. (walks away)
Axel: That's not true! ...I would.
Tem: (cocking head to one side) ...do I ship this?
I'm pleased that Tem is shipping Axel/Roxas, because this will enhance xyr experience of 358/2 Days, or possibly make xyr experience of 358/2 Days considerably worse. Either way, I'm looking forward to it.
Roxas's story still breaks my heart. This poor kid. He just wants to spend time with his friends; he didn't ask for any of this!
Can't believe the imperial Chinese army will let a duck, a dog and a foreign teenager join up, but they draw the line at a woman.
That said, I think the most unrealistic thing about Kingdom Hearts is the fact that nobody ever responds to Donald with 'what the hell did you just say?'
Auron laughs quietly after Sora refuses his offer of guardianship. I wonder if Sora reminds him of Tidus.
To clarify, Auron is offering to guard Sora, in the Final Fantasy X sense of being a guardian. He is not offering to be Sora's legal guardian. But, now that I've accidentally put that thought into my own head, I want to read that fic.
I cannot handle Auron urgently calling Donald Duck's name while healing him. I just can't. This was never supposed to happen.
'I see what we're doing,' Tem commented, at the start of Atlantica. 'We're doing the plot of The Little Mermaid. Because that's what we're doing in this game: we're just going through the plot of Disney films, only truncated and worse, and also Donald Duck is there.'
Sora's a little awkward on encountering Ariel again. I think, now that he's fifteen, he's a bit selfconscious about having his nipples out in merman mode.
The animators do really impressive work making the Organization XIII members feel distinct even when they're dressed in identical face-obscuring coats. The animation in Kingdom Hearts is great all around, actually; it's really striking me on this playthrough!
For the benefit of anyone who's interested in videogame animation, incidentally, I'm really enjoying the New Frame Plus Animation of Final Fantasy series on YouTube, in which professional animator Dan Floyd takes a game-by-game look at how Final Fantasy's animation has changed and developed over the decades. He's up to Final Fantasy V, and I'm looking forward to future instalments!
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I vaguely remember Sora being awkward due to going through some of puberty while unconscious iirc? Like suddenly new body shape what this? Puberty is weird enough, sucks when you don't even have enough time to adjust while it is happening.
The comment regarding Donald Duck made me laugh. I'm so dependent on subtitles it didn't occur to me, but yeah everyone just magically understands lol.
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The correct approach to Roxas! Everything about him is so tragic.
It's true; Sora has outgrown his clothes by the time he wakes up! Must be very strange to suddenly skip a year of growth at that age.
I think it's actually not possible to turn off the subtitles on the first few Kingdom Hearts games, possibly because the developers went 'well, Donald Duck is here; why would anyone turn these off?'