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pastro243 on 10 November 2008

I got into KH because of the FF appearing in it, but then I saw the disney characters and was like: Oh and it has disney to? great.
So the main atractive to me is FF characters, but after playing the 2 games in th ps2 I wanna now more about Sora, Kairi and Riku



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Godot on 10 November 2008

The Disney characters are what made me buy the game (well, I got it as a gift but I wanted it). I thought it was a RPG starring the Disney character. I was extremely disappointed and pissed when I realized you control the lame Sora which got to be one of the worst video game character of all time. The story of the first game sucked hard but it was really fun to visit the Disney worlds.

The second game started great (Roxas was much better than Sora) but as soon as you would get Sora, that story was kinda forgotten until much later in the game. What made me go through the game was the Disney worlds once again (although they weren't nearly as good as in the first).

By the way, the Disney movies are still extremely popular. People have been growing with Disney characters in the past 50 years. They sure are not forgotten. The Final Fantasy characters are really nothing more than fan-service and way to get Japanese gamers to buy the games.



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BMaker11 on 10 November 2008
axumblade said:
BMaker11 said:
c0rd said:
BMaker11 said:
Only Soriku thinks that the Disney characters are still important, that way his argument of this game either being casual or targeted towards kids can hold weight in his eyes

So the Disney characters are no longer important?

It's likely the only reason KH1 was able to sell so much, and if this isn't corrected, the next KH cannot do as well as the first. It would sell more like the sequel, but that's what I'm expecting, anyway. Nomura isn't really known for making games friendly to the less "hardcore." It's always loaded with complex stories and game mechanics. That's mainly the reason I see it doing fine on HD consoles, since it doesn't take advantage of the Wii's userbase.

I must say, I think KH does have the potential to be huge, if it played to the Wii's strengths. Nomura's games don't really attract new audiences, though, which is the problem (actually, I'd say it's Squre Enix's problem in general).

Despite seeming to disagree with me at first: This, for all that was bolded.

And no, I don't think that the Disney characters aren't important, but many argue that simply because Mickey Mouse is on the front, that means the game is targeted at "casuals". I could have sworn that KH was about a deep, engaging story and tweaked/refined gameplay. But the proponents of KH:Wii always say that this is a "casual" game

 

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Fixed. It was just something a saw someone on Kotaku post instantly made me copy and paste it, because it had my EXACT feelings about the way Nintendo is right now