Monday, April 17, 2006

What I've Been Doin'

can be summed up in two words and a Roman Numeral.

Kingdom Hearts II

Kingdom Hearts is a series of Video Games that are in a crossroads between different Disney and Final Fantasy Worlds. The first game had an original character named Sora teaming with Donald Duck and Goofy as he visits different worlds to use the magical Keyblade (Sora's weapon) to seal of the world's so that they are protected for the evil Heartless. Most of the world's that he visits are taken right from Disney movies like Never-Never Land, Beast's Castle, Halloween Town, and Wonderland. Along the way you meet various characters from Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and X. It was a really fun game with some cool twists.

The second game was on the Game Boy Advance and was called Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memory. While this is a sequel to the first game, it felt like I was playing the same game again since you go back to the same worlds. The twist is that everyone has lost their memories, so nobody remembers Sora and Sora has forgot them too. I did not find the game that fun, so I never got around to finishing it.

So in a great marketing movie, they named the third game Kingdom Hearts II. This is definitely the third game in the series, since apparently the KH: CoM ended in a cliffhanger that this game eventually picks up. This game has the same problem as the first one in that it is billed as a Disney/FF crossover but it takes a long time for the story to start. In this game I spent 4 hours before I even got to play as the main character!!! The highlights of this game were visits to Port Royal from Pirates of the Caribbean, the Computer World of Tron, and the Disney Past of Steamboat Willey. I really enjoyed the game which is why I spent more than 40 hours playing it over a week and a half.

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