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Some time ago, I saw Kingdom Hearts and its sequel in a bin for about 8 bucks a pop. It was buy 2, get one free, so I ended up with Baroque as well, which is its own fucked up little endeavor. (And I say that in a fairly pleased way, but moving on.) There was a point in time where for a few years, every anime engagement I heard of or attended was packed to the teeth full of cosplaying Soras or whatever. The game won awards and it spawned a thousand YouTube channels of people singing the theme song.
It's a cute little game. I don't regret buying it. I've enjoyed playing it. It doesn't produce any particular emotional impact in me.
It's true. It doesn't really resonate with me. I assume it's not really for me. I think the cause of the uproar was that it was a lot of people's first real RPG like Final Fantasy 7 was for a number of others (I ended up with Final Fantasy 6, so I'm a few years off.). So it was good, but for them, it was the best. I mean, power of friendship, keyblade, Cloud's there - and Cloud is pretty much a meme at this point, regardless of his actual characterization in 7, which I find to be almost endlessly fascinating.
The games I played before this were Silent Hill 2, Baroque, and the last games I beat were Fallout 3 and Persona 3. Two of those games are some of the intense games I've played. Silent Hill 2 is intense enough that I'm actually afraid of Pyramid Head while I'm engaged in it (afterwards he just becomes his kind of comical meme that he's been transformed into thanks to the internet, its own endless engagement of speculation on my part - this is going to end up in a paper at some point, isn't it). Anyway, compared to the heavy fare I'd been dieting on up to this point, the bubblegum trappings of Kingdom Hearts are gonna seem a little light, but my opinion on it as objective as I can be is that it's got a solid but lightweight narrative that's designed to appeal to a certain demographic, a solid but unimpressive control system, and fairly tolerable AI. It lets you build spaceships, and those ships have lasers. It has a good soundtrack. It's a good allaround game. Not one of the best I've ever played, but you could do much worse then buying it for 8 bucks if this is your kind of thing.
If it's not, and you're the other type of reader on here that I know of, buy Silent Hill 2 for a Playstation 2. Even if you're not a gamer, it's an amazing representation of gaming done very well.
It's a cute little game. I don't regret buying it. I've enjoyed playing it. It doesn't produce any particular emotional impact in me.
It's true. It doesn't really resonate with me. I assume it's not really for me. I think the cause of the uproar was that it was a lot of people's first real RPG like Final Fantasy 7 was for a number of others (I ended up with Final Fantasy 6, so I'm a few years off.). So it was good, but for them, it was the best. I mean, power of friendship, keyblade, Cloud's there - and Cloud is pretty much a meme at this point, regardless of his actual characterization in 7, which I find to be almost endlessly fascinating.
The games I played before this were Silent Hill 2, Baroque, and the last games I beat were Fallout 3 and Persona 3. Two of those games are some of the intense games I've played. Silent Hill 2 is intense enough that I'm actually afraid of Pyramid Head while I'm engaged in it (afterwards he just becomes his kind of comical meme that he's been transformed into thanks to the internet, its own endless engagement of speculation on my part - this is going to end up in a paper at some point, isn't it). Anyway, compared to the heavy fare I'd been dieting on up to this point, the bubblegum trappings of Kingdom Hearts are gonna seem a little light, but my opinion on it as objective as I can be is that it's got a solid but lightweight narrative that's designed to appeal to a certain demographic, a solid but unimpressive control system, and fairly tolerable AI. It lets you build spaceships, and those ships have lasers. It has a good soundtrack. It's a good allaround game. Not one of the best I've ever played, but you could do much worse then buying it for 8 bucks if this is your kind of thing.
If it's not, and you're the other type of reader on here that I know of, buy Silent Hill 2 for a Playstation 2. Even if you're not a gamer, it's an amazing representation of gaming done very well.
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