Alright, now that it's officially out in nearly every store, I think it's time to put this up. Let's hear who got the game, and what do you think of it!?
I just got Kingdom Hearts II about 3 hours ago, and I'm loving it. I really don't care about the reviews anymore. This game seems like it's turning out to be a classic, but one of those "the critics say it's so-so, the fans say it's gold" kind of thing. I love the new battle system, and the voice acting is AAA. Despite Seifer's little "I totally owned you lamers!" comment, I still really love his character. Whoever voices him really does a top notch job. As for the voice acting in general and the synching of the mouthing, it's the best VA I've ever heard in a game.
If you haven't picked up your copy yet, do it. Do it NOW.
EDIT: P.S. Axel owns each and every one of you. So...cool!
It gets a lot better, trust me. It actually ends towards the end of Roxas' sequence, and after that it's story heaven. Honestly, this game has the most engrossing story I have ever played, it surpasses that of some Final Fantasy games. For those of you who know about the "thing" about Roxas, it's actually not that big of a spoiler, considering you learn about it before Roxas' sequence ends, which is the prologue to the game (longest prologue ever).
Anyway...I really think by the end of this game I am going to be giving it close to a 10, the story is simply amazing. Okay, back to the game.
I think I wound up getting 4.5 hours in tonight. Yeah, the "intro" is the longest ever, clocking in at about 3.5 hours (you don't see the "KH2" logo until that point). So much of the first part are minigames, but after that you get into the typical tons of battles (almost too many...) that KH has been known for, between a lot of story scenes.
Aerith's lines seem to have been delivered so... blandly, though, oh well. And does Yuffie ever open her eyes?
I knew how I would feel at this moment and my prediction was right. How frustrated and jealous I am right now! To people who have the game: Have you found it as easy as the reviews have said it is so far?
If you want a challenge, go for Proud Mode. I've been dying left and right... at least until I started customizing and went to a world with a lower battle level. Really, though, one boss I was fighting killed me in 2 hits. Definately leveling up before I go back.
I knew how I would feel at this moment and my prediction was right. How frustrated and jealous I am right now! To people who have the game: Have you found it as easy as the reviews have said it is so far?Somegamer
Six hours in and I really was never in danger of dying. I did lose a minigame battle scenario thingie at the 6 hour mark (in the Mulan world) where you had to kill 8 hiding heartless. The hard part is the morale meter (slowly decreases, killing enemies drops morale orbs, but hunting them out fast enough took me 3 tries).
The game is undoubtably better than the first and is slightly more difficult thus far. If your worried about it being to easy, play on proud mode and have your ass handed over shrinkwrapped on a platter. The prologue is important to the story albeit a bit overdrawn. Story and script are great and compelling although theres an occaisonal bad read , cheesy line or poor voice actor (such as the actress voicing Aereth, she's clearly a cyborg). The genral battle mechanics are the same as the last game but at a slighty faster pace, which is good. The only thing I've been dissapointed by so far is the gummiship stages, which are fairly simple and passed with mindless ease. The stages offer no real fun asside from some neat visuals and collection fetishising over gummi blocks and blueprints. Overall, so far, so good though.
i got my copy but i haven't got to play it yet because the wife took it over while i was at work. so i will ask the wife. her verdict the story with roxas is confusing but it keeps her interested, the controls are screwy, presumeably the reaction commands, but you get used to them, and the prologue is to long.
I got it and I find that it's much better than the first. They improved on every aspect that made the first one great. A true candidate for Game of the Year, I'd say. If anyone is unsure of what RPG to get as of recently, I would pick this over any of the "Tales of" or "Suikoden" games. The one thing I didn't like about the first Kingdom Hearts was the tedious Gummi battles. Now the battles are fast paced and fun to replay for the hell of it. I was so happy once I got the transporting gummi piece from Cid in the first one. Now I go back and play battles to collect all the treasure. It's truly wonderful. I may sound like a fanboy saying this but, 10/10. It's that great.
Got it the day it came out [in stores] (Feb. 29th), beat it March 4th (gametime = 23:56), and now I'm working on getting 100% on Jiminy's Journal and BEATING SEPHIROTH! UGH!
I have to say I'm addicted to this game. I've played it til midnight or later for the last week almost. The story (deep, enigmatic, and intruiging), graphics (rich and beautiful), sounds (mainly voice acting & lip syncing), and gameplay are amazingly well done. I'll probably play til I'm Lv.100 like the original KH...
I got my copy the day it came out and I'm now 55 hours in on a normal game. I have the synthesis and mini-game stuff left to do. Sephiroth was beaten in 30 minutes by me. He wasn't much different from his first incarnation in KH(1), which I beat multiple times on hard mode.
Well I just got over 20 hours on it now, but I think I'll start doing som of the mini games and stuff so I can finish it out later on without havign to do it all at the end.
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