Yeah I might try one of the newer Final Fantasy games. To be honest I kind of just... gave up on the FF series after around... 10... or 10-2 or... I don't even know. I think it was around the time they started trying to make MMO versions and the entire concept of engaging/interesting characters sorta fell out the window.
The whole mashup idea I don't even really care about, like I said, I could skip the cut scenes entirely and just outright ignore the story, it's the general game mechanics and design that interest me. Especially of KH2 (the first one was more heavily centered on jump quests as a means of progression, rather than as a means of side questing).
I think the only thing I've played that comes close, outside of the Zelda franchise and the two Mega Man Legends games (both of which have terrible jump mechanics) was Dawn of Mana... which was boring with an irritating color scheme. Sort of like comparing Blue Dragon Awakened Shadow to MM Legends, the former being tedious watered down repetition compared to the later.
Birth By Sleep was a decent prequel, some parts I didn't like as much as KH2, but at least it had the same general game play mechanics and style. They took out the Gummi Ship stuff though which was pretty disappointing and the sticker system was a more boring version of the puzzle system. The board game thing was kind of fun though, as was the battle arena thing. BBS felt really short though and playing as the three different characters, even though they have slightly differing maps, just feels like replays of a very short game.
I kind of wish they had made a proper version of Chain of Memories, basically strip out the goofy card game mechanics and put in a proper KH combat system... but even then it'd probably just wind up playing like KH 358/2 Days or Re
oded.
Probably I'll wind sticking with code hacking KH2 for more playability to tide myself over until next January.
Nobody is talking about AngryJoe getting publicly lynched on his twitter by KH fans daring him not to review KH3 unless he played all the titles first? (He also made his impressions about it btw)
Seems kind of dumb all around. Kingdom Hearts 3 doesn't really need a "review" in the first place and the only real reason most people would even be looking for one is to try and see some more game play footage before its official release. Most of which has been pretty incomplete and misleading from what I've seen so far. Like the trailers where they show six or eight of the new summons all within the span of about 20 seconds, that's some pretty misleading game play I think. Also kind of stupid because it'll make people unfamiliar with the franchise think that it looks too busy/messy.
