So… Kingdom Hearts III is out, and I’ve been both waiting for it, playing it, trying to play it, and yeah… I’m at Toy Story world, and I’ve been wanting to talk about it, so here are my thoughts.
Proud mode is way too easy, at least before the latest patch. Not sure if that has changed or not. There are way too many cut scenes that go on too long, and you end up going to multiple locations/worlds one after the number, at first, without the luxury of saving first. I could have maybe saved at the Gummi Ship map, but it wasn’t apparent from the get-go, so this complaint is still some-what valid.
The gameplay is frantic, sort of confusing, and some of Sora’s abilities take away from combat in a “Jesus take the wheel” kind of way. You summon attractions all of the time, and change your form when prompted to… because why wouldn’t you? It sucks… but it’s tactical. Worst case scenario, it gives Donald Duck time to revive, and cast Cure onto you.
Apparently, Square Enix really wanted everyone to care about the Kingdom Hearts games that are NOT the numbered Kingdom Hearts games. I lost interest in the PS3 collections, I never played the KH games that were on GBA, DS, 3DS, PSP, and PS4. I’m including the PS4 because they had a collection called 2.8 which included a short story that was included inside of the Kingdom Hearts 3 engine, that many people called a ‘Demo.’
Even if you bought a PS3, missing out on the small game they included in Kingdom Hearts 2.8 that was exclusive to PS4, fans would have missed SOMETHING if their only current gen console is The Xbox One.
Aqua, Terra, Ventus… Lea? One guy in this game was only in a dream? Re: coded was apparently important as well. What is going on? Apparently there was also a Japan only browser game? *sigh* Kingdom Hearts 2’s opening covered almost everything you needed to know about the GBA game, but in KHIII… that’s just not the case.
The original Kingdom Hearts games came out in 2002. Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories came out in 2008 but Kingdom Hearts 2 came out before that one in December 2005. I mention the PS2 games while leaving out the GBA original of Chain of Memories, because PS2 was where the series started, and the previous game Kingdom Hearts 2, lived.
I’m sorry, but this direct sequel took too long, 14 years, with too many games that were not Kingdom Hearts III in-between. Also, I am a different person than I was when KHI and KHII came out. I haven’t even seen every Disney Movie in-between… so yay to spoiling myself on Big Hero 6?
I should also note that I had the game since it launched at 11pm the night before after playing much Resident Evil 2 remake. One of the reasons I previously said that I said ‘trying’ to play KHII was because on X-Box One, I had that whole ‘If your X-Box One is online it looks like your system doesn’t work anymore’ problems yesterday. I was playing an annoying mini-game when I did get the game to finally boot only for my roommate to plug the router back in, and mid-dancing/sighing at a mandatory mini-game, BAM! no more playing Kingdom Hearts.
Expect more thoughts on Kingdom Hearts III in the days to come.
Lately, the trend has been bring back this or that show or movie that was popular, but do this or that to it. 1980’s Ghostbusters got an all female group, 1990’s Power Rangers had their casts become even more diverse and extreme, and the 2000’s Teen Titans became chibi’s and extremely dumbed down. Each one of those, probably should not have happened.
When Jason David Frank of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers talked about how the new movie did not do well, he said that they should have made a movie with the original cast, because that was the only time people were really cheering in the audience.
The problem with Rebooting Buffy The Vampire Slayer… is the fact that that show was very progressive for a 90’s/00’s show… and well… it lived on through it’s comics to this very day. Black Slayer? Kindra, who was awesome. Lesbians? Two… but one fell into the bury our gays trope. Gay guy? Andrew was fabulous! Sexy men? Every darn season. wait… that doesn’t count as progressive? Huh.
Certain shows can be softly rebooted, such as Star Wars where they can include old cast members in the original’s world… where they just… well… keep dying every movie. Buffy is one of those given the mythos.
Getting back onto the major subject at hand is… ThunderCats continued on past the original show just like Buffy did. There were comics… a lot of them. Lion-O even fought Superman… but who hasn’t? Seriously… he’s sort of a bad person.
Reboot was… soft rebooted? It was just terrible though, and is more of a Code Lyoko reboot under the guise of being a reboot of the original 90’s show, as it threw just way too much of it out, and what was left in was just neutered and did not answer any of the questions that the cliff hanger at the end of the show asked.
While not a reboot but an adaptation all the same, Deadpool did extremely well considering that it was not in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 
I searched Gargoyles on reddit on a whim after watching Star Trek Deep Space Nine’s episode and… THEY ARE MAKING GARGOYLES FUNKO POPS! WTF?! Apparently, you can even 
*sigh* I’m a little down today, because right after making this drawing, I checked my reddit post I did in a Dead Rising board over my brony version of Dead Rising, and yeah… well… people did not really like it, and someone made sure to spell it out that it was just poorly drawn.
Before that, a friend said that she thought that the Kittyhawk commission was weird to her because Flounder was definitely a dude. At least me and her were able to come to the conclusion that Flounder, in general, is weird… considering that he is not actually a flounder, or any other real fish.
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