I lent my copy to a friend to try. He doesn't keep up with games so he just got a PS2 and is working his way through the Square RPGs which is all he really goes for on consoles. But of course talking about it made me want to play it again so I had to bust out my burned copy of Kingdom Hearts Final Mix, which is Japanese only. Definitely adds a new layer of challenge on an old game. I know everything I have to do in the worlds but I don't know what any of the abilities or items are, haha.

I want the new Kingdom Hearts games to come out more than anything. But of course, it'll probably take a couple of years to be released in Japan, forget US translation. Which brings me to a topic that's been bubbling in the back of my head for a while: Square-Enix is a bunch of ****ing douche bags. Okay, maybe not, but they're at least a little annoying. I just don't understand them. Think of how many games they're devloping right now. Count them in your head. Yeah, it's a lot, isn't it? And you want to play them, don't you? Too bad. None of them will be out this century. I can't imagine that their resources aren't stretched to the breaking point. Imagine if they focused their devlopment on less games at once. We might actually get to see some of them in our lifetime. Of course they have no reason to rush. No matter when they put out their games, as long as their company name is on the box, or better yet, (and i know this sounds crazy) the words "final" or "fantasy" somewhere in the title, it'll sell a billion copies in a day. Devlopment cost recouped. Instantly. But I still can't help but hate them a little for making us wait so long.

But then again, maybe I'm just bitter because they won't release the Kingdom Hearts Final Mixes in America. I mean, seriously, what the hell. In case you don't know, the Final Mix games are basically special editions of the American Kingdom Hearts games (which have more content the Japanese versions), translated back to Japanese with even more content added in. The latest one, Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix + even had a second disc which had a 3D remake of the GBA game, Chain of Memories. Come on! You don't think anyone would buy that? I'd buy two! How much effort would it take to hire a company to translate the game into english? They don't even add any voice work to the Final Mixes. Seriously, it would just need to have the text translated. Why is this game not out?

Square-Enix, I hate you.