And there’s still no love for Final Fantasy VIII... I mean, I’m glad there’s IX (the best) but VIII is so out there it needs to be experienced to truly understand! New generations must know and study why it's so polarizing!

It’s Persona, so I must have it. Whatever it is. I was even ready to settle with Persona 5 Racing if it came down to that!

I really loved the “I have nothing to prove to you” moment at the end! Oddly enough, I love it as much as the moment in Winter Soldier where Batroc taunts Cap about being more than just a shield and Cap puts it away for a hand-to-hand fight, even though they go completely differently, hahaha

I think you’re right about fan backlash being pretty quick, but I can’t remember reading any negative reviews for them from other gaming sites in the lead up to its release. There would be some parts that say, “Yeah, it’s a bit linear, but if you’re a fan, you’ll love it!” for most impressions, I think.

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