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Grrrr... Roxas

I think it's mostly because how much I hated doing the first part of 2,
and how many times I've had to do it.

So the whole time i'm just like "BAAAAHHH"

Nah, I just often got the idea that starting a new game would be an AWESOME IDEA

but I never got very far, so it was always just TT TT TT TT

I would if I owned it haha


crying

i always just rent it

Yeah, I fall into the "Roxas is better than Sora camp", mostly because I find relentlessly cheerful characters irritating. xD

But I totally know what you mean about starting a game so many times that you grow to hate the beginning, and KH2 had an excruciating beginning scenario to begin with.

KH and I had been arguing since CoM but we formally broke up after KH2.

This is my problem with the series now-- it doesn't know what it wants to be anymore. I finished KH2 and it was worth it for the experience of the boss battles and the wonderful graphics and voice acting, but I'm not interested in the series any longer. I can't take the simplistic morality of Disney characters AND a deeply philosophical storyline about the nature of the human soul in the same game. Having morally ambiguous characters like Axel, who are simultaneously sympathetic and disturbing, creates suspicion about Sora's treasured light/dark dichotomy, which... well, it's a bad idea to impugn the morality of your preteen protagonist and yet continue to craft the game's events around same. KH2 was for me like buying, say, Elmo's Letter Adventure and finding cognitive dissonance in the methods of Elmo's letter collecting. lolz

KH2 tries to talk about too many different things, but can't seem to get the hang of doing so coherently.

I tend to think that Nomura will say that things are open to interpretation just to excuse the shounen-manga-esque inconsistency of his storylines and characters. xD

For instance, Axel's character in CoM-- a sadistic, amoral and manipulative villain, who feels even more reprehensible than the "real" antagonists at times-- is great, but he's completely different from the character we see in KH2, where he's still manipulative and violent, but also jealous, desperate, and pitiable.

But my main problem with KH is simply the unintentionally conflicting moral perspectives. One is more realistic, the other is simplistic; if the villains were the ones with the simplistic outlook it'd be fine, but it's the hero, and I can't buy that because I think a black and white view of reality is ridiculous, especially when the hero's best friend has conquered both and uses them to kick more a** than him. It vitiates Sora's moral authority and makes him a boring protagonist, a character with whom I feel I have to be patient, like a frustrated older sibling. I don't really want to spend my free time playing a game with a main character who makes me sigh wearily, is all.

None of this reflects on people who DO still like KH by the way, it's just that I have a critical nature and I like to think about why I don't like stuff.