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20040125
~ ~ Kingdom Hearts ~ ~
Now having played through the Kingdom Hearts game, though I haven't yet fought all the bosses like Sephiroth, Kurt Zisa, etc. nor found ALL the trinities (I'm missing one), I fell qualified to review the game because I want to be part of those people who review games.
The game is entirely playable, but I felt inconvenienced by the fact that I had to, in the middle of a battle, go through the manual using my right analog button and selecting options through pressing 'X'. How can I be fast enough to select all the options before the enemies get a chance to hit me? Not only that, in trying to select a magic or an item, if I try to jump, I automatically cancel my choice.
It's pretty stupid to put cancel and jump on the same button. How the heck am I supposed to jump and cast magic at the same time? And don't get me started on the camera angle. I couldn't even see what I'm doing because the view is too close to Sora, the main character, or at the very least, his buddies, Donald Duck and Goofy, are too close to me to see anything. When magic and munnys are exploding everywhere, the only recourse I had was just to keep mashing that 'X' button.
If they gave other buttons the ability to fight 'differently,' that'd be great. The triangle for lunging forward, the square for jumping back, etc, while also allowing me to cast greater variety of magic by just holding down different L buttons with pressing the controls. The only option I had was L1 + 'triangle' or 'square' or 'x'. I could assign different magic, but it wasn't fun at all!
If there are going to be only Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, Stop, Gravity, Aero, and Summon, what's wrong with assigning the first class of magic to L1 + any X, triangle, square, circle and the second class to L2 + any X, triangle, square, circle. That way, there's little need to go through the menu to cast magic that I didn't assign, and so the right analog stick can be used to control the camera angle.
The story was okay, not exactly brilliant, and sometimes repetitive. I basically replay, in almost every world, the plot that I've already watched in the movies. Sure, there were some worlds that was unique, like the Hollow Bastion, Traverse Town, and the hard but fun Olympic Coliseum.
I enjoy the game because it was a fusion of two things, Disney and Squaresoft. I got the chance to fight Squall, Cloud, and Yuffie, while also meeting such characters as Aerith and Cid.
The visuals were good, and I enjoy the game. It didn't last very long, and for that I am glad, because it's not an RPG game like Final Fantasy. I would have been terrified to have to play 80 hours breaking my thumbs to fight all the enemies that show up. And also, someone said that it's not an adventure game, and I'm inclined to agree. It's not a game that makes the most use out of the controls. After all, the Devil May Cry was unique in that each button had a different control that makes it fun, that makes you think which to use when attempting to fight a certain boss.
In this case, Kingdom Hearts is basically like a simplified version of Jax and Daxter. All you pretty much do is jump, attack, or spell cast.
Lastly, what was unfortunate was the last few moments that had no caption. The ending sequence, when it changes to a FMV cinematic animation sequence, was not subtitled. So I had no capability of understanding what was spoken in the exchange between Sora and Kairi when they were separated by the worlds after locking the final keyhole to the Kingdom Hearts of the world, or the universe, whatever.
It was great to see Mickey, though he wasn't what I was expecting. Not only was the scene featuring him was short, I had expected him to be wearing that kind of robe and blue pointy hat with two stars and a moon in Fantasia. Or, if not, I expected him to wear the crown of a king, as he is the king of the Disneyworld.
Overall: 7/10
By the way, I'm not a hard-core gamer. So if I've given someone that impression, I apologize. I was just explaining my views of the game, fully articulated by many other gamers' review that I read.
Now having played through the Kingdom Hearts game, though I haven't yet fought all the bosses like Sephiroth, Kurt Zisa, etc. nor found ALL the trinities (I'm missing one), I fell qualified to review the game because I want to be part of those people who review games.
The game is entirely playable, but I felt inconvenienced by the fact that I had to, in the middle of a battle, go through the manual using my right analog button and selecting options through pressing 'X'. How can I be fast enough to select all the options before the enemies get a chance to hit me? Not only that, in trying to select a magic or an item, if I try to jump, I automatically cancel my choice.
It's pretty stupid to put cancel and jump on the same button. How the heck am I supposed to jump and cast magic at the same time? And don't get me started on the camera angle. I couldn't even see what I'm doing because the view is too close to Sora, the main character, or at the very least, his buddies, Donald Duck and Goofy, are too close to me to see anything. When magic and munnys are exploding everywhere, the only recourse I had was just to keep mashing that 'X' button.
If they gave other buttons the ability to fight 'differently,' that'd be great. The triangle for lunging forward, the square for jumping back, etc, while also allowing me to cast greater variety of magic by just holding down different L buttons with pressing the controls. The only option I had was L1 + 'triangle' or 'square' or 'x'. I could assign different magic, but it wasn't fun at all!
If there are going to be only Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, Stop, Gravity, Aero, and Summon, what's wrong with assigning the first class of magic to L1 + any X, triangle, square, circle and the second class to L2 + any X, triangle, square, circle. That way, there's little need to go through the menu to cast magic that I didn't assign, and so the right analog stick can be used to control the camera angle.
The story was okay, not exactly brilliant, and sometimes repetitive. I basically replay, in almost every world, the plot that I've already watched in the movies. Sure, there were some worlds that was unique, like the Hollow Bastion, Traverse Town, and the hard but fun Olympic Coliseum.
I enjoy the game because it was a fusion of two things, Disney and Squaresoft. I got the chance to fight Squall, Cloud, and Yuffie, while also meeting such characters as Aerith and Cid.
The visuals were good, and I enjoy the game. It didn't last very long, and for that I am glad, because it's not an RPG game like Final Fantasy. I would have been terrified to have to play 80 hours breaking my thumbs to fight all the enemies that show up. And also, someone said that it's not an adventure game, and I'm inclined to agree. It's not a game that makes the most use out of the controls. After all, the Devil May Cry was unique in that each button had a different control that makes it fun, that makes you think which to use when attempting to fight a certain boss.
In this case, Kingdom Hearts is basically like a simplified version of Jax and Daxter. All you pretty much do is jump, attack, or spell cast.
Lastly, what was unfortunate was the last few moments that had no caption. The ending sequence, when it changes to a FMV cinematic animation sequence, was not subtitled. So I had no capability of understanding what was spoken in the exchange between Sora and Kairi when they were separated by the worlds after locking the final keyhole to the Kingdom Hearts of the world, or the universe, whatever.
It was great to see Mickey, though he wasn't what I was expecting. Not only was the scene featuring him was short, I had expected him to be wearing that kind of robe and blue pointy hat with two stars and a moon in Fantasia. Or, if not, I expected him to wear the crown of a king, as he is the king of the Disneyworld.
Overall: 7/10
By the way, I'm not a hard-core gamer. So if I've given someone that impression, I apologize. I was just explaining my views of the game, fully articulated by many other gamers' review that I read.
