Kingdom Hearts II KH improvements

There are some very simple explainations for this:

1. Final Fantasy is not dark, I don't even GET how you call that "dark" but whatever, opinion and all (some explaination or justification would be great). So in regards to comparing FF with KH, its like saying their vague implications were simply made VAGUER. Come to think of it, most of the truly "dark" story that comes from any of the Square Enix/Soft titles comes USUALLY from the creativity of its fanbase. How terribly odd. :\

2. Lame lines are lame because of oversensitive US localization in regards to rating. Memorize it, despise it and ponder when localization/rating will get a goddamn clue. Then again...it could just be that the script writer in both languages really need to get back in touch with writing script....always a possibilty but then again we have the Ansem reports to compare to. :\

3. Franchise aging....rarely do fans want to voice or accept this, but sometimes the company just can't keep its promises or pull its metaphorical weight when coming to reproducing a successive "good game". Unless the team REALLY plans for it, then successive games aren't as good as the "original". Case and point, Disney integration was poor and the FREAKING MAPS WERE SCANT (WHAT HAPPENED TO MY OLD HOLLOW BASTION SE?!). The only "well integrated" worlds were the "KH exclusive" worlds and there were only 2.5 of those (Twilight Town + World That Never Was + Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden -which only counts as half because it SHRUNK-).

4. Slight tangent that I think should be addressed: No more Sephiroth cameo, he has no purpose (and if someone says he's "cloud's darkness" I don't care, the reason is getting progressively lamer_ and really, lets give another "ultimate extra boss" spotlight time to some other candidate because Sephiroth was a pretty lame "villain". Personally I'd like to see an Ultimecia, Chaos, Sin Whale or ANYTHING besides the guy with wings coming outta his caboose. -And this "evil guy with silver hair" is starting to irritate me with his wretched personal theme song.- >_>

5. Someone make Kairi take some self-defense classes, buy a taser or learn the fine art of DODGE/RUN/OTHER METHOD TO AVOID CAPTURE, I swear if she gets captured ONE MORE FREAKING TIME.

 

all they need to do to improve kh is make sure sora has the same color hair on the manual the front cover and the back of the box..

 

Kingdom Hearts would rock so hard if it was 50-50 between Disney and FF

 

I definitely agree with you when it comes to the Disney integration issue. In the last game they had much, much more to do with the central plot, what with the seven princesses being stolen and all of that. However, in KH2, sitting through the Pirates of the Carribean world was so boring. I was watching the cutscenes thinking, "If I wanted to see this, I would have watched the movie." The only Organization Members that showed up in Disney Worlds were Demyx (which didn't count because that was Olympus Coliseum and all you did was destroy the water dancers) and Xaldin. I think if all of the Disney Worlds had been like the Beast's castle, what with Xaldin invading, it would have made for a much better plot.

KH2 has some better aspects, though, such as the camera angles (I'm currently re-playing both KH and KH2 and the camera angles in KH are excruciating) and the fighting techniques. I thought the action commands made the battles a lot cooler and more interesting, as well as the Drive modes.

One more thing that does bug me about KH2, though: Uh, please be creative and don't bring old antagonists back to life (such as Oogie Boogie and Maleficent). That's just redundant.

 

I think that they should make some FF worlds. I mean I really couldn't think of any but that would deffinatley be different in the game.

 

it could be better if they focused even more on the FF type story and less on Disney. Or maybe find a way to mix it together as they did with Mickey and Riku being friends. Like maybe Disney villains making alliances with the other Square Enix type characters.

 

sounds like a cool idea ^^

 

From what I've gathered about Square Enix so far, they'll find some way to make the nonsense in the game come together with all of the important parts of the series. We'll have to wait and see.

 

Thanks :D But that wuld just pure pwn if it happened. WOO! I'm so excited for the next KH game! I mean the one that will continues KH2's story.

 

My friend, Final Fantasy is not DARK!? Am I hearing you correctly? FF not Dark? One word...FF7. That was some scary ****!

And Trogdar, I agree, KH is a good game, but RPG wise, It ain't no KOTOR.

Hero wise: In KOTOR, I CARED about what happened to my party members and crew. They had very engaging back stories. And the ability to affect the very plot with your choices was the DEFINITION of RPG!!

Villains: Malak was a truly evil guy! Unlike that hack bad guy Xemnas, Malak had real malice and malevolence about him. You got really pissed when he blew up Taris and Dantooine. And he was a HARD final boss. I was getting my *** handed to me, and I had to rely on my Force Powers HEAVILY!! That is a final boss.

As for Sephiroth, If they bring him back, him and Cloud better have a meaning to the story.

 

Yes you are hearing me correctly I rather think the fan-fared FFs are actually rather childish (and would it hurt to have some "role shifts"? I don't want the same simpering female archtype/romantic interest to be my healer! And that same female character GETTING CAPTURED...ALWAYS CAPTURED!). Being a clone is a far cry from being dark, being the "villian's" tool is also far from being dark and having ONE party member KILLED is not tragic. You want dark, try cannabilism coupled with the insanity, try genocide without Oedipus complex, try world-wide nihilism instead of some "mystical item of destruction the size of a tennis ball", try having the entire interactive cast SLAIN in ways worse then a sword in the back (ie: being eaten alive, brutalized and murdered, EXPLODED, etc.). But then again I could be wrong, but I guess that's just my own opinion; and yes this is from ONE GAME. I don't think I missed any of the big points, but I'm only human.

But I agree even more with the character development, or the characters in general, I hated most of them or just wasn't made to care. They could have easily done a better job. (Actually I think it was the fans themselves that even made the Organization interesting AT ALL.)

As for the Sephiroth I say they should move onto the next villian, I mean they wouldn't want to appear to be milking a certain character would they? c_c