My thoughts after beating Kingdom Hearts
This was a game I briefly played on the PS2 but never finished.
The gameplay and overall aesthetic were largely awesome. Hollow Bastion and the End of the World were fun challenges, and I enjoyed the loop of building up magic through attacks, casting spells, and rinse and repeat. The core gameplay was great enough that I’m down to try out KH2 sometime this year.
However. the level design was often quite bad, especially in early levels. Maybe I’m just a baby gamer, but some levels involved a looooot of backtracking and were extremely unintuitive regarding what you were supposed to do. Honestly, it felt like a tactic just to make the game go on longer.
Also, holy fuck, the number of boss fights at the end was horrible. Like, they were largely fun, but there were too many of them, and it was starting to drive me crazy with thinking I was done, only to find out their was yet ANOTHER fight.
Despite those issues, it was still a good time. I’d recommend the game but with some major caveats that the level design and ending are very very frustrating.
Did others who played this feel similarly? what’s everyone else playing? now that I’m done with KH1, I’m bouncing between Aoe Escape 3 and Mega Man Legends.