Oh yeah, Roxas, the Matrix has you *bad*
Apr. 13th, 2006 07:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rallamajoopThe copy of KHII Lisa ordered came in on Monday.
The Bad: Somehow, we've accidentally wound up with a copy in Japanese. Which means that I've been making Lisa pause after about 3/4 of the dialogue to fill me in on just what exactly is going on. Not all bad though, I've always been something of a backseat KH fan (played an hour or two of KHI, got bored with the battle system, gave up and took to watching most of the rest over her shoulder). Also, the game keeps freezing on us, which is seriously not cool. But on the upside: real Japanese voice actors! How can you argue with that?
The Not Even Remotely Bad: This game is on a special kind of crack. In the years since KHI it has grown up, discovered boys and learnt to *angst*. At least half the plot hasn't come close to making sense, yet I am loving every moment to bits. Seriously - KHI may have been pretty good, but the sequel is blowing us away. There's just so much more *detail* - the plot is that much more complicated, the animation is seriously impressive and the storytelling has taken a huge leap forward. The characters seem to have a lot more freedom to interact, comment on their surroundings - even just chatter to each other; there's this great feeling of being inside the story that we haven't gotten from a game since we finished FFX. Even the tackier Disney stuff is less annoying. And there is just so much new stuff to like about this game - Roxas! Namine! Axel! Auron! Grown-up Sora running around in clothes that don't fit anymore and forcing us spend the first half hour or so staring at his knees! The Steamboat Willy section! And we're not even up to Pirates of the Caribbean yet.
And to think we were worried it wouldn't live up to its opening sequence. Words cannot express the depth of our squee.
The Bad: Somehow, we've accidentally wound up with a copy in Japanese. Which means that I've been making Lisa pause after about 3/4 of the dialogue to fill me in on just what exactly is going on. Not all bad though, I've always been something of a backseat KH fan (played an hour or two of KHI, got bored with the battle system, gave up and took to watching most of the rest over her shoulder). Also, the game keeps freezing on us, which is seriously not cool. But on the upside: real Japanese voice actors! How can you argue with that?
The Not Even Remotely Bad: This game is on a special kind of crack. In the years since KHI it has grown up, discovered boys and learnt to *angst*. At least half the plot hasn't come close to making sense, yet I am loving every moment to bits. Seriously - KHI may have been pretty good, but the sequel is blowing us away. There's just so much more *detail* - the plot is that much more complicated, the animation is seriously impressive and the storytelling has taken a huge leap forward. The characters seem to have a lot more freedom to interact, comment on their surroundings - even just chatter to each other; there's this great feeling of being inside the story that we haven't gotten from a game since we finished FFX. Even the tackier Disney stuff is less annoying. And there is just so much new stuff to like about this game - Roxas! Namine! Axel! Auron! Grown-up Sora running around in clothes that don't fit anymore and forcing us spend the first half hour or so staring at his knees! The Steamboat Willy section! And we're not even up to Pirates of the Caribbean yet.
And to think we were worried it wouldn't live up to its opening sequence. Words cannot express the depth of our squee.
