This is my 75th blog post on gamespot, which merits no actual value in truth it really more just indicates that I've wasted a fair deal of my life and gamespot's data space. of course this isn't my actual 75th post its just the 75th post that i've felt is not terrible to delete. So, I bought kingdom hearts and kingdom hearts 2 recently (along with bioshock in a later purchase upon sale of killzone 2) and I have to say Kingdom Hearts 2 is terrible. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed Kingdom Hearts and even Chain of Memories (which I have a copy of the original GBA version) and I love the story, despite it being told in a manner meant for some one much younger than me. I could even overlook the abysmal camera system in the first game and their misplaced idea that an annoy enemy is the same thing as a challenging enemy. But the second is truely irredeemable.
Certain worlds, such as port royal (the Pirates of Caribbean world,) shouldn't have been put in the game, partially because the style with which the world was crafted doesn't at all fit with the rest of the game (in any way), and they seem to be lacking voices provided by actors who originally played the characters even though some of the dialogue was exactly the same as the movie. The censorship on the English version of the game was also quiet annoying, which leads into my next complaint; being that this was turned into a kids game. The method of editing the fighting styles of donald and goofy were next to entirely removed from the game. The management of items and abilities was never much of a developed system but no improvement was made on it what so ever. I couldn't have imagined them being able to ruin the combat system from the first game (not that it was great, but rather that it is so simple) but some how they managed to make it worse and even more simple. Annoyingly one of the best mechanics in the first game (the MP system) was well degraded in transfer. All of these problems (and many more) has made playing this game a chore. I do enjoy playing bioshock very much. Playing it on hard without vita-chambers might have been the wrong idea to try on the first play through.
-Inseter
