KH 1.5Follow

From what I read 1.5 only has KH1 and CoM as playable games, and 3 hours worth of HD cutscenes from 358/2 (which apparently have trophies for sitting through the whole thing ). Since it's not KH1 and 2, I'm gonna wait until the price drops before I pick it up.

I never played KH at all, so I might pick it up.

DO IT.

The good news is KH2 fixed the camera complaints with KH1. KH1 Final Mix (rerelease, new content, etc) copied KH2's camera controls. It was previously never released in the US, but now KH1.5 has the Final Mix version of KH1, so it's the corrected camera.

Buy KH1.5 and enjoy the better control system when playing KH1.

Yeah. KH1-2 make sense. Mostly. Once you get into the others the story starts to spin out into the realms of complete insanity. (I'm still trying to wrap my head around just WTF happened at the end of 3D.)

Somewhat related, I have a question. What the heck is the point of locking a world? The games make a big show of having you do it but I don't recall if they ever explained why, or what it actually does.

IIRC, the worlds themselves have hearts, and the keyhole is the access point to it. The keyblade has the ability to close that portal, so the heartless can't get in.

So I burned out on FFXIV, and I picked up KH 1.5 because my existing to-play pile for the PS3 alone wasn't large enough. The game is gorgeous. You can definitely still tell that it's a game with upgraded textures (the environment's shapes are often more angular than a new game's would be). But it actually just makes it more endearing to me.

But the colors are just beautiful, and they work quite well together.

Definitely recommend it for anyone looking to replay 1 or CoM.

Sora didn't have an auto-attack. If you flew off a cliff, it's because you told him to attack. Smashing X isn't always the best plan.

I liked the play on the Disney worlds. I liked the idea of the Disney villains teaming up with the heartless. I liked seeing the stories change due to the sudden presence of heartless. Because it didn't play out the same. Sure, major plot points remained important (like the Cave of Wonders and the Lamp for Alladin). But what happens in the Cave, how Jafar gets and uses the lamp, etc. all change.

Sure, Jack gives up on Christmas and you stop the Hunter dude from killing all the Gorillas. But the other side of things is that those worlds would have fallen into Darkness without Sora's help. And that's the point - keep those worlds going strong, and make sure they remain too significantly unchanged, in the wake of the Heartless attacks.

It's kind of like the Star Trek prime directive. You need to stop the other alien force from destabilizing the natural development of those worlds without too greatly changing their path yourself.

I think your problem is that you were focusing on a sub-plot and getting angry it wasn't the main plot, to be honest. Finding Riku and Kairi was not the main plot of the game. It wasn't even Sora's main plot, to be honest. Sora's main plot was seeing the worlds, experiencing new things, meeting new people, and dealing with becoming the keyblade master.

The plot of "Find Riku/Kairi" was part of the impetus to get him moving on that quest, sure, but it wasn't really the main quest. Eventually the two converge, but the Disney world stuff is the primary story plot for most of the game.

The Disney Worlds drive the story of the Villains-using-heartless, and together they serve as the primary antagonist for most of the game. The keyholes are directly linked to the main quest of the keyblade master.

Afterwards, the Riku/Kairi-based plot arc is in place to help transition you onto the next world. And that makes perfect sense. But it was never really the main plot.

If you just weren't interested in the main plot arc of the game, that's fine. But I think it's problematic to pick a subplot and elevate its importance for purposes of a game critique.

As for the Disney plots, I don't really see the problem, to be honest. Sure, many plot aspects were very similar. And all of them were predictable in a certain sense.

But they weren't really predictable because of the Disney aspects, they were predictable because the good guys were going to win. For the most part, the villains were more blatantly the villains than in most Disney films (I don't think any of them weren't established as the villain for all players at the start of the world).

But that's why it's told from the perspective of Sora and the gang, not from the characters of the world. Sora doesn't know what happens - it matters to him.

I dunno, I don't think the stories being "spoiled" matter that much.