I remember XV being universally praised when it came out, then later down the line, the actually critical and objective reviews started gaining some ground and people started realizing that they initially loved it because it was so shiny, new, and anticipated. The same thing happened with XIII as well, which is now…

Yeah, you’re right that he’s shown in his original for the first 2 Dissidia games. I totally forgot that KH2 came out well before Dissidia. I guess the new one justifies the change by having him plucked out from his future somewhere.

That’s fine then if it’s just random choice or the popular pick. Admitting that they were picked that way would at least be consistent. It would completely go against Inhert’s justification that they picked it because it’s his most recent canon appearance then, which didn’t make sense to me.

Right?! The games already come with faceless armies written into the stories and limit break attacks to replace musou attacks, and chocobos to replace horses! Gah, how has this not been made yet!?

That would be fine if every other character in Dissidia was plucked out of the story from their most recent appearance, but that’s definitely not the case. Otherwise, Cecil would be a much older king and Noctis would be, well... Anyway, I just want some consistency is all. Cloud and Lightning get to enjoy being their…

Man, Nomura sure loves his design for Cloud from Advent Children. Seems like it’s become his default for cameo appearances, from Kingdom Hearts to Dissidia... A shame because I always preferred his original design for Cloud in the SOLDIER uniform.

“Okay, we’ve got to tie a bunch of shit up in a relatively limited amount of time, so let’s cram a ton of exposition into a tiny space, dig as many plot holes as we possibly can on our way to the other side, and assume that dialogue in the vein of hokey high-for-the-first-time-on-weed-philosophical-ramblings will…

Ah man, I’m totally late to this discussion! My best moment was the final battle of Final Fantasy IX. 3 members of the party were wiped out due to a combination of status effects I didn’t account for and big damage, except for one lone little Vivi in critical health and with a doom counter ticking away. When he got…

So the dialogue is bad and that’s why it’s good? I think I understand. Like the power of its nostalgia overcomes a person’s objectivity! Is that Kingdom Hearts!? Or is it... light!? I think I’m close, but it still makes little sense... Just like Kingdom Hearts!

Sounds like dumb fun that I might pick up on sale a year from now. I think I can settle for “The Fast and the Furious” of gaming as the descriptor. Transformers is a little too cruel of a comparison. I think the most accurate though would be Bleach! Sets up a straightforward and fascinating world, and the ruins it by…

Even if you did play every previous game twice, you would still be lost. No one truly understands Kingdom Hearts. There are people that think they do, but they are wrong!

So conflicted by this news.

I feel so many things whenever I hear this song: the dread at finding out there was even more to this fight, the panic when she knocks the party’s HP to 1, the adrenaline when I use that to pull off a limit break, and the immense satisfaction when it’s finally over!

Yeah, it’s crazy how experimental they are and I can’t believe Shoji Meguro makes them work as well as they do!

I’m a big time game soundtrack junkie, collecting albums and obsessively following composers, but I was getting so tired of every game sounding the same, copying each other and movies with grand sweeping orchestras (which sound great, but I swear every Tales of game has the same tracks - sorry Motoi Sakuraba...) when…

So I’ve heard. It’s on sale for like $15 so I might consider it, haha

Hmm, maybe I might have seen that and been more interested in Jude if I had actually chosen to play his path first. I just ended up finding him so insufferable in the Milla path that I opted not to start over with him.

Having never finished this when it first came out, and my only other experience with the series being completing Abyss, Graces F, and Xillia, I can easily declare that Vesperia is easily the best of the bunch.

It’s sad to see how far Final Fantasy has fallen, but there are still some Japanese studios that get it!

Yeah, so much of the supporting cast doesn’t get the attention they deserve. But if they could magically get me to care about Luna or their love story, then I would give them a standing ovation. That would take a miracle worker.