Kh 358/2

Double post nrrggh

I'm getting into it now that I've realised your "backpack" isn't your item bag as a whole but rather an unexplained entity available but slightly hidden during missions. Being able to toss unnecessary items out so I can open boxes makes my life so much easier.

It's a damn slow game, though. The story so far is pretty uninspired and even though the Disney worlds exist, they might as well not, because they have no bearing on anything besides being a change of scenery (which only last for the first visit because end up going through the same areas repeatedly for multiple missions.)

I enjoy the doing the challenges but... my partners get in the way a lot. One problematic challenge was Mission 08, Challenge 2: Finish In Record Time / Eliminate the Watchers. My partner would be off killing one enemy and I'd for another but as soon as she realised I was fighting without her she charged in and pushed me out of the way to attack it. And she does pomegranate damage. I'm using Valor 2 which has a ground-combo skill, and when the things would go to the ground she would get in the way disallowing me to get the combo (and thus kill them.) Stupid AI pisses me off more than anything else.

Also, the gameplay is really slow. By this point in any other kingdom hearts game I'd have double jump and a jetpack to make traveling easier and more fun. But not this game. I have haste and Jump Slide, the most useless skill of all.

Overall, I'm not very impressed. It's interesting at best but it doesn't seem like they wanted to put a whole lot of effort into this while they've got their real baby coming out on the PSP (which I'm actually very excited for because I know it'll be A++.) It just seems like something meant to tide fans over until a REAL release. Kind of like Nexon's last patch.

edit: Oh and also there's not enough to stuff to buy and make. When you first meet your merchanting moogle mate he's got all sorts of goodies and synthables but as soon as you buy them... you're done. I've had ONE new item pop up and I don't have two of the four necessary items to merchant it which tells me that's only new item I'm going to see for a while; at least until I start seeing those items drop/in chests. Then maybe another untouchable item will show up. Personally, I'd like to see new items after every big story piece. Since the game splits quests into groups for us (2 -3 intro quests then a necessary and 4 - 6 unnecessary quests) it gives plenty of time for el-moog to restock. I have so much money and so much heart (my posts may not reflect this...) and I would much rather be broke.

Trust me, this game is a lot longer than you think. I'm on Day 322 and I have a bunch of abilities, some abilities that are new to this KH game such as "float" and whatnot. I have a ton of abilities, and those abilities can be linked with so many other panals to give your current abilities various effects. It's so crazy how you can customize your character, although you will never be able to have every ability. They made this game very multiplayer-worthy by having each player use the weapons/abilities/setup they're best with instead of just max everything and having it all at once.

This game is more than amazing for me since I'm a major Organization XIII fan, and this game is meant to expand on their personalities. So those who don't have much interest in that might find it a little slow, but for fans like me who've been dying for this (since they screwed up oh-so-dearly on KH2) are loving every second of it. Also much of the plotholes are being filled up even since the early starts of the game, but many people who don't pay much attention to the KH story don't even realize such plotholes are there to begin with.

Most of the missions I dislike are the "Organization Symbol" ones because they require such precise timing and speed. I recently got Haste from doing challenge missions, and I have Level 2 or 3 Superglide so I'll try them again soon.

Oh, and there is one boss you're definitely going to hate, just hope you don't ragequit or something. I'm not sure if you're the person who hates spoilers or not, so I'll give a hint: "It deals with treasure." Every person I've come across, including myself, loathed this boss a great deal. It's just so tedious and slow it's ridiculous.