That was awesome.
Yes, I’m a Kingdom Hearts fanboy, but Kingdom Hearts: Dumb Name is completely badass.
You get to play the secret movie from KHI. I still can’t believe that Roxas and Blind-folded Riku were in that secret movie, by the way. I know the Final Mix showed more, but even in the original release, they had more planned out than you might think.
But seriously, although there’s a small cop-out to make the DS game possible to exist without introducing massive continuity errors, the last few hours are non-stop Kingdom Hearts fan heaven. Like Riddles said, while the mythology is a bit obtuse, it’s actually quite fascinating once you wrap your head around it.
So that being said, it’s important that you are very familiar with the Kingdom Hearts I/II/CoM entire plotline before you attempt to get any pleasure out of this game. Let me just tell you up front, however, that it’s absolutely not a throwaway game: questions will be answered, and hearts will be broken.
*grumble grumble* stupid heartbreaking Kingdom Hearts *grumble grumble*
Although, if you don’t want to bother playing any of the games, let me sum up the entire series for you in one simple phrase:
…It’s true. Ooo! I just found more content after the credits roll. Flavour text for the win.
It’s been a bit of time now since I wrote that title, but I’m going to keep it there because it’s an honest reflection of my excitement the MOMENT I beat the game. Also, I didn’t mean to say “badass” off the top as an explicit nod to the Theme Week. I guess I’m just that awesome. It’s 4am and I need to sleep so suck it!
Glad to hear it gets so good near the end, I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve played, though Uncharted and Brutal Legend have now supplanted it as gaming priorities.
It was the same with me, but I was away from home last night so I only had my DS. Suffice to say it picked up enough momentum to convince me to finish it off before continuing with my dear Eddie.
I just started playing this this morning, and so far it’s all been great except the control scheme. Apparently it was designed for the same 3-handed monsters who were the target audience for the N64 controller.
I liked the opening, though. I’m glad the had the recap, since I didn’t really remember any of the Organization XIII members from my KH2 playthrough.