What better then to review KH2?
I warn thee, there will be spoilers. AVERT THINE EYES MORTALS!
Practically the first thing I noticed was the camera. It actually doesn't seem to be glued onto Sora's shoulder now! Or Roxa's shoulder for that. This makes Cama very happy. >w<
I've heard a lot of people complaining about the 6-hour-ish opening scene with Roxas. That was the best part of the game for me, up until the second half of Sora's story. It actually hinted at a deeper plot (other then, Go there, fight that thing, watch a bad remake of a scene you saw a million times in a Disney movie). Twilight Town is absolutely the best world in the game, aside from The World That Never Was. So many minigames. @___@
And Axel! It had so many scenes with Axel!
My only problem with it is that Roxas is an incredibly slow runner. >>
And everyone that didn't have voices in the first game now have voices! Joy!
Now for the bad part;
Once you get start playing with Sora, the game goes downhill. At least for me it did. I always hate the "Main character wakes up and finds out he never existed, and no one remembers him" plot twist. So much angst. *gonk*
That, plus once Sora leaves Twilight Town, anything that might have been a deep and engrossing story get thrown out the door. For the next 20-something hours you are expected to replay through a bunch of Disney movies. Without the musical numbers and pretty animation.
Quite frankly..it all feels tacked on. .___.
Like in the Lion King world, there was so much they could have done with the story.
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And wouldn't a heartless version of the Stampede that killed Mufasa not have been incredibly fun?
Atlantis however, was surprisingly fun. Nothing like killing giant Squid people with song. >w<
The Gummi Ship is definitely improved too. I still haven't figured out how to build ships yet. *lazy*
Until the second half of the game...KH is insanely easy. The 1000 Heartless challenge is a joke. With the Reaction Commands you can beat it in five minutes. If you want a challenge, and decide to ignore the little green triangle, like I did...you'll still be disappointed. The heartless..whatever they are..are pretty weak, and release a lot of HP balls when you kill them. .___.
I wish they'd kept the Behemoths in. >>
I suppose this is one of the reasons that, to me, [SPOILER!] Axel's death felt cheap. I mean...a thousand Dusks? That wouldn't have been much different the 1000 Heartless challenge. Axel didn't have to do the dramatic, "Sacrifice self to save the heros" thing.
Now, if there'd been a few of those Thorn things that you fight at the beginning of the game...>>
That's it, I'm tired of typing tonight. Let it be said, despite my pessimism, I still love Kingdom Hearts 2.