This is the big one, ladies and gentleman. For most of you out there, this is where Kingdom Hearts jumped the shark. Fortunately for you, Sam and I are here to explain the plot, make some bad jokes, and occasionally let a good joke or two slip into the mix.
It’s really tough to go through this tutorial/intro segment of Kingdom Hearts 2. As I said in the primer, for the story Square Enix wanted to tell with this game, it was necessary to introduce Roxas in a low-impact, mundane way, and do it early. That said, this is, was, and has always been a really rough segment of game to go through.
Not because it’s particularly difficult. It’s the tutorial, and generally pretty easy. However, it’s 3 hours long and unless you know what’s going on in the lore through outside sources, not much here will make any degree of sense to you.
It’s disorienting, and I understand that it’s intended to be. But for people who just wanted to play as Sora again, the anger they must have felt makes sense.
A shame really, because Roxas is easily one of my favorite characters in the series once we get into who he is and what motivates him.
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