Huney
The thing that stands out to me most about this game is the localization. It absolutely nails the gay discord shitpost goblin vibes so well that I swore for sure it was natively English. Outside of that, it's a game with really good writing, lots of endings, and really good writing. Really good writing. My favorite games are the ones that can make me laugh really hard one minute and make me feel like I'm about to vomit the next. This is one of those games.
2019
2003
Bitches will tell you it's dogshit intentionally and not understand that a director can have creative ideas on how to mess with the player and also work with a studio that has no idea what video games even fucking are. Did Yoko Taro decide to lock the one ending that matters behind absurd completionist nonsense to punish completionists? Yeah, maybe. The soundtrack is definitely jarring and uncomfortable on purpose. Did Lord Emperor Taro-sama decide with his holy heart to have an unusable camera and to give the dragon a magic attack that blasts your speaker every single time and to make 50% of all fucking enemies completely immune to any kind of magic or any interaction with the core gimmick of the game? No, I think those decisions come from Cavia sucking at making games. A very interesting game held down by being borderline unplayable garbage.
This could honestly have been called Kingdom Hearts 3 and people wouldn't flinch that much. It's not the peak of the franchise or anything, but ya know what! It's pretty great! It's not as fast and fun as 2 but the flowmotion system makes things feel smooth enough to still be fun. Also, c'mon. TWEWY. I'm easy to please here.
Hey why do they drop the G slur so many fucking times that's kind of weird right
Hey why do they drop the G slur so many fucking times that's kind of weird right
Okay the gameplay is a little braindead and the map design is SUPER "mid budget studio"-core and I have a few rubs about how the final ending goes thematically but on the whole. Shit dude, he did it. Yoko Taro was able to hold back on his hateful urges just long enough to make a really deep, engaging, I'll say even beautiful game. The characters are great, the gameplay while previously mentioned a bit simple is still fun, the music is unbelievably beautiful. This one was really worth my time. Kinda wish I got to choose Gestalt though. just for funny
2005
Honestly, I wouldn't have that much an issue if the series just stopped here. Probably my favorite Kingdom Hearts entry and honestly one of the best games on the PS2. The story has a lot of the silliness you'd expect from Kingdom Hearts but it's not to the point that it's too far gone and completely impossible to understand. The gameplay is just incredible, I love doing flippy anime boy shit so much. My only issue is that it doesn't have enough Larxene.
2012
2021