Kingdom Hearts 2, Part 1
After the three hours it took me to finish Tales of Legendia earlier today, I finally got around to playing Kingdom Hearts II. The game opened, like the first one did, with a music video; I very much preferred the music from the first game. All the same, it was a fun video with lots of sparkly shiny pretty animation.
Anyway. After the music video, a kid with spiky brown hair (though slightly less spiky than Sora's, admittedly) woke up. Unlike Sora, he was actually in his bed rather than on a beach with the tide coming in. Probably a better place to sleep, I think. His room was filled with pretty sparkly unidentifiable things and uncomfortable-looking, star-shaped furniture.
He then met up with his bestest friends, who actually turned out to be a gang. They were blamed for stealing -----, and their rival gang was telling everyone they stole -----. In fact, however, their own ----- were stolen, and somebody even stole the word -----. This, of course, didn't phase the young gang for a second; words get stolen all the time in this abstract world.
Kid 1, who seemed to fancy himself the leader, wanted to have a rumble with their rival gang (led by Seifer. *Mental groan*). Player character - who I later learned is named Roxas, 'cuz he like totally rox - wanted to clear their names before they rumble.
The good guy gang went out and talked to people who thought they were thieves, and then they ran into Seifer and his lackeys from FF8. Vivi of FF9 was with them, so I naturally assumed they're harassing the poor kid, but no. He was FRIENDS with the bastards, and he'd apparently lost the ability to speak coherently, if at all.
Actually, I didn't find that out until later. And it's probably not important anyway. So, Roxas pretended that he was going to beg for the rival gang's forgiveness in an idiotic feint that only Seifer would fall for, and then took about five minutes choosing one of three weapon that appeared out of thin air.
I think I should mention that the weapons were made of foam. The kiddy gangs have rumbles with foam toy weapons. I chose the star, hoping that I could at least poke Seifer in the eye with the pointy bit.
Well, Roxas kicked Seifer's ass, unsurprisingly. Then, suddenly, a shiny silver guy swooshed by. I mean, really swooshed. It was fucking awesome - until I realized that I was going to fight that thing. I knew I'd never hit that fucker.
I was right, of course. After chasing the swooshy thing down, Roxas pathetically swung at it with his foam sword, and missed every damn time. Then the Keyblade popped out of nowhere.
Now, much as I love this game - and the one before it - I find the Keyblade utterly bizarre. It's a sword that's not only completely blunt, it's round. But it's metal, so at least it's better for thwacking enemies than foam toys.
The Magic of the Keyblade allowed Roxas to finally thwack the swooshy thing, and thwack it he did.
And that's all for today, because I'm far too lazy for this. I shall return someday - i.e., whenever I feel a bit snarky after playing KHII.
Anyway. After the music video, a kid with spiky brown hair (though slightly less spiky than Sora's, admittedly) woke up. Unlike Sora, he was actually in his bed rather than on a beach with the tide coming in. Probably a better place to sleep, I think. His room was filled with pretty sparkly unidentifiable things and uncomfortable-looking, star-shaped furniture.
He then met up with his bestest friends, who actually turned out to be a gang. They were blamed for stealing -----, and their rival gang was telling everyone they stole -----. In fact, however, their own ----- were stolen, and somebody even stole the word -----. This, of course, didn't phase the young gang for a second; words get stolen all the time in this abstract world.
Kid 1, who seemed to fancy himself the leader, wanted to have a rumble with their rival gang (led by Seifer. *Mental groan*). Player character - who I later learned is named Roxas, 'cuz he like totally rox - wanted to clear their names before they rumble.
The good guy gang went out and talked to people who thought they were thieves, and then they ran into Seifer and his lackeys from FF8. Vivi of FF9 was with them, so I naturally assumed they're harassing the poor kid, but no. He was FRIENDS with the bastards, and he'd apparently lost the ability to speak coherently, if at all.
Actually, I didn't find that out until later. And it's probably not important anyway. So, Roxas pretended that he was going to beg for the rival gang's forgiveness in an idiotic feint that only Seifer would fall for, and then took about five minutes choosing one of three weapon that appeared out of thin air.
I think I should mention that the weapons were made of foam. The kiddy gangs have rumbles with foam toy weapons. I chose the star, hoping that I could at least poke Seifer in the eye with the pointy bit.
Well, Roxas kicked Seifer's ass, unsurprisingly. Then, suddenly, a shiny silver guy swooshed by. I mean, really swooshed. It was fucking awesome - until I realized that I was going to fight that thing. I knew I'd never hit that fucker.
I was right, of course. After chasing the swooshy thing down, Roxas pathetically swung at it with his foam sword, and missed every damn time. Then the Keyblade popped out of nowhere.
Now, much as I love this game - and the one before it - I find the Keyblade utterly bizarre. It's a sword that's not only completely blunt, it's round. But it's metal, so at least it's better for thwacking enemies than foam toys.
The Magic of the Keyblade allowed Roxas to finally thwack the swooshy thing, and thwack it he did.
And that's all for today, because I'm far too lazy for this. I shall return someday - i.e., whenever I feel a bit snarky after playing KHII.