5th April 2005, 12:41 AM
Well the gameplay aside, Sam seems to me to be pretty much a one dimensional character that, so far, hasn't changed at ALL. A character does need to evolve during a story for it to be a good one... Realism does not equal good story. A story can be good AND realistic, but the latter is not directly responsible for the former. It's must like how my cat CAN be white haired, but he's not a cat BECAUSE he has white hair.
So I assume you got the PC or XBox version? You know, the ones that have online play and can be updated via downloads? If not, you are missing out on a part of the game that could have been sold seperatly.
Back to Kingdom Hearts, it's nice that, so far anyway, they haven't even acknowledged the EXISTANCE of those horrid sequels to the Disney classics... Seriously, Cinderella 2? Lion King 2? The Little Mermaid 2? Those were NOT good ideas at all! I mean, in a tale where people live "happily ever after", how are you going to have conflict? If there's no conflict, what manner of story can you possibly have? What, is there going to be "trouble getting the wedding ready"? Oh my stars! How ever will we cope?! I hate lackluster challenges that pass as stories after a truly epic storyline before that. When you save the world from Sin itself, just running around searching for orbs and a small love story doesn't really cut it. It's like if, in a comic book series for example, they decide to lead up to a massive universe sprawling epic storyline spanning everything they ever did, and when it's all over, they just go back to standard fare beating up of old weak by comparison villians. That's just not going to be enough any more. I really don't care about what happened during Christmas in Beast's Castle after the whole story of him falling in love with a girl and kicking some dashign hunter's arse. I mean, an anticlimax should basically just be wrapping up loose ends, not making up some stupid mini-story that doesn't stack up in any comparison.
So I assume you got the PC or XBox version? You know, the ones that have online play and can be updated via downloads? If not, you are missing out on a part of the game that could have been sold seperatly.
Back to Kingdom Hearts, it's nice that, so far anyway, they haven't even acknowledged the EXISTANCE of those horrid sequels to the Disney classics... Seriously, Cinderella 2? Lion King 2? The Little Mermaid 2? Those were NOT good ideas at all! I mean, in a tale where people live "happily ever after", how are you going to have conflict? If there's no conflict, what manner of story can you possibly have? What, is there going to be "trouble getting the wedding ready"? Oh my stars! How ever will we cope?! I hate lackluster challenges that pass as stories after a truly epic storyline before that. When you save the world from Sin itself, just running around searching for orbs and a small love story doesn't really cut it. It's like if, in a comic book series for example, they decide to lead up to a massive universe sprawling epic storyline spanning everything they ever did, and when it's all over, they just go back to standard fare beating up of old weak by comparison villians. That's just not going to be enough any more. I really don't care about what happened during Christmas in Beast's Castle after the whole story of him falling in love with a girl and kicking some dashign hunter's arse. I mean, an anticlimax should basically just be wrapping up loose ends, not making up some stupid mini-story that doesn't stack up in any comparison.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)