Re: 25 or 50 Things About Yourself: Discussion Thread
*flicks on music, stretches arms amidst cracking knuckles*
Alright! Lets get this puppy rolling, you wanted to know my hatred for Kingdom Hearts? Well here it comes, and some of you, it may fuel a sense of hate towards me, and feel the necessity to lash back taking certain cheap shots.(I.E. retard, stupid, dumb ass, faggot and a noob etc etc) Well all I have to say to that is
.bring it. >=) With what I speak about I will gladly defend it and answer back in the ways I too know how. Cool way to start it huh?
Really for such a game its hard to know where exactly to begin, because to my view this game has a lot of issues wrong that its unbelievable.
Lets first though just get it out of the way and tackle the issue of, voice actors, its easy because these are the people whore giving the voice of certain characters that have gained a reputation, made a mark in the gaming community.
Disney of course brings in the big hits because of the name alone of Disney. Really only good voice actor there in my book was James Woods as Hades the guy rocks and is well
talented! So now, they decide with the big hitting names
they bring in the Pop Singers
why? Because they want to sell, sell, sell! They cast Lance Bass as Sephiroth an iconic villain in the Final Fantasy series among some the other big hitters
and they choose this poser? I cant understand him of all people? He didnt even do that great a job! I could think of a good portion of people to fill that spot then him.
Name one would have been Simon Templeman who voiced Kain from The Legacy of Kain series, he has played one Platinum Psychopath he could certainly do a finer job then this and bring some dignity to such a role. Even Michael Bell who also voiced for the same game as Raziel but also has done voicing for Metal Gear Solid 3 played The Fear, Lance Bass had what? One crappy movie out and was just done with Nsync Im sorry looking at said resume I would not see that as good voice acting material.
They also bring in Mandy Moore to play Aerith? Jesus Christ! Again another talentless pop singer who poses as an actor making such an attempt who cannot sing and cannot act to save her life. Why her? I mean god damnit, this person portraying the sweet and innocent flower girl from the slums, which is connected to the Ancients, yeah perfect choice there. *big time sarcasm*
If you wanted a singer, god you could have brought in Seth Macfarlane as he can actually sing ten times better then both Lance Bass and Mandy Moore combined! If you listen to the Family Guy Live in Las Vegas you can see what I mean, as he sings so well with actual melody with four different voices that he portrays.
Or why not just cast Johnny Depp and they can call it gold, yeesh they seem to with everything else. *rolls eyes*(Heh I love taking risks with my opinions
)
Again in my book the only good voice actor on that cast was James Woods, he rules, and the only one on key, you rock Woods!
Now the story. *trembles and shutters* It is certainly a mixture, because it starts out with an element that you know from Square, but you also see that all so common Disney theme of the one person being separated from a assortment of family and has to go at it to find them. I have been though noticing the lack of quality in story with SquareEnix games, Final Fantasy X/X-2 was great proof of that.
Basically all you do going from world to world in that
ship to just fix it and find another piece here and there. In the worlds there is nothing that brings any depth to the already bland story thats going on. You have a hoping moment when you get to the world with Hercules, once you see the red cape, big sword and that spiky yellow haired tweaker having more sever emotional issues that brings all those whiny suburban emo kids to shame to their fake problems with his being you know
more real then theirs!
Yet again, Clouds character seems bout right, still though he seems a bit played down then he is. He goes in and isnt his as we last seen him his heroic self, a kid shows him up somehow!! Along with two characters who seem about as brain dead as a rock. Cloud going up against Cerberus the Three Headed Dog which guards the Gates of Hell smacks him down. Riiiight, this is the guy who fought more terrifying beasts and gone through them all to continue fighting, his die hard attitude seemed to of been removed for some kid who seemed to rip the spirit right out of poor Cloud.
Really the story doesnt even pick up; its still on its flat direct course into further boredom and repetitive nonsense. With the story its easy to follow nothing thats hard to follow, that being the Disney aspect to appeal to the children.
Lets see now hmmm what else could there be? Right, graphics next. Being its Square they generally have nice graphics, its their thing they have gotten it down
buuut with this game it was left empty and just brightness, which made it hard on the eyes. All except those who are always ooo and aww in bright flashy colors and get hypnotized by it. The details of the levels were just plain as already put.
As brought up very, very poorly by bebong of the graphics being apparently smoothest for PS2, which Im sorry I just dont agree with. In this game I wouldnt say smoothest, I would say nice, just not so far. I could easily say games like Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 had much better detail and care put into it, Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 2/Defiance, Tekken 5, Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Juborou.
Music was annoying repetitive garbage that just made me cringe and thats all I have to say on that point.
The gameplay was plain also, there was no strategy required in this game what so ever. It was easy hack and slash, with the bosses it required little to no effort. Which was disappointing it being Square after all, although I also noticed their games enemies getting easy in Final Fantasy VIII, skip IX and into X. The battle system really was nothing special, because it was like playing Dynasty Warriors 4 just with out a cool sword in hand, just a wimpy key.
I never found any use for the apparent Summons they did have in the game, I would but just kind of would shrug at it and continue bashing things again because thats all it needed. I honestly though youd have more control and I had hoped to go I could of removed Donald Duck and Goofy from my team
sadly
I could not and was stuck with brain dead teammates that couldnt help worth their lives.
Leveling up, hm well that too required barely any effort in my opinion because it was just so easy to do it. In my book not a lot of leveling up was really needed being the simplicity of the battle and enemies.
Onto the characters now! In all honesty this end of it really doesnt help, because for Square they have freaking Wakka, the phrase Fozzy the Bear always said after a lame joke or something else. The Muppet invaded. But that one name does not out rule what is wrong with the others. Im sorry but how can you take a game seriously when you have a character a dumb dog looking thing named Goofy in your party running around? You also have a pissant annoying character like Donald Duck running with you, and you well
you just want to go GTA on him and beat the bejesus out of him yourself. I tried
.the game wouldnt let me
*sighs*
In reality of it, the iconic gaming world, the characters of Final Fantasy should in no way be put together with Disney. We have played as the characters, come to a closer bond with them, seen their back stories and gone through their development. They have a real depth a more 3Dimension feel instead of just being 1Dimensional typical hero types like Disney. With the reputation made by the Role Playing Characters its really a disgrace that they are put up next to such Disney characters as Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, and the list of course continues.
Thing is, I knew this game would be dreck and plague the role playing world. But you know what, I did give it a chance, I did. As did my brother, but he couldnt get stomach it and couldnt get himself to go through the Slummy looking area. Yet I managed to convince and get him to play Zelda Wind Waker and he enjoyed the crap out of that. I gave the game a try and I didnt pay for it my brother borrowed it from a friend and somehow I feel I have been cheated of my life for spending the actual time to play it. I feel so dirty actually playing this. This is true fact and sign that its only going to be Dark Times for more role playing games.
Been a gamer since I was five, starting out on Nintendo Entertainment System and been playing since then. In my time of being a gamer, this was one that when I took one look at I knew I would hate, and loath playing it knew it was just going to be the lowest form of games.
Here is my closing to this, a bit from Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope, Just Turned around.
Ben: I was once an RPGer the same as your father. For ten years the rpgers protected the integrity of the old Squaresoft, before the dark times
before the SquareEnix.
I could do more but I just want to wrap this up. Remember, you asked for it! ^_^
How extensive is your collection right now?
and never been washed except a few times when my mother had to forcefully took it away for cleaning? 
