Welcome once more to sunny Sapienza, where we take on Landslide.The more I play both these Bonus Episodes and Elusive Targets, the more impressed I am with how effortlessly IO Interactive re-contextualizes the same maps from the story missions in ways that still feel fresh, new, and interesting....

We start the Disney worlds... and the parts not really relevant to the primer.First things first, I said that Eddie Murphy did the voice of Mushu here. That was completely wrong. It's a soundalike.Sam and I have talked for a very long time about how we're going to tackle these Disney worlds. In a...

Finally, we have arrived at the game proper.I must say, as someone who has played this game countless times, I really appreciate the scenes they added in the Organization XIII chambers for Final Mix.In the original release, most of the Organization members hardly get any screen time before Sora...

It's too dangerous to go it alone...Outside of the complications I had in finding the location of the thumb drive, there's no much to this target. Honestly, I might have even been able to get Silent Assassin if I had been more careful in walking out without getting spotted by the staff manager.The...

Roxas's last day of summer vacation has come and gone, so now we go some tutorial bits with Sora. :)It makes sense that we would have some sort of introductory sequence for Sora since there's a change in protagonists. That said, since we already had a 3 hour long intro as Roxas prior to that, as a...

Today, we look for a deceptively simple solution to the problem of The Blackmailer.This was a lesson in how to be more effectively experiment with NPC routines without openly exposing yourself to unnecessary danger when performing Elusive Targets. Even with the single attempt, it is important to do...

Five episodes in, and we're finally finished the intro to the game. Good thing we aren't playing, or that might have been another five or so episodes.I've said it before, but I really feel that a lot of the anger people have for Roxas has much more to do with the overly long intro than anything...

We question our life choices while Roxas investigates the seven wonders of... oh thank god.Not much to say here as most of this episode consists of filler, nonsense, or retreading old ground.Still, we made some bad jokes in the meantime. That's almost worth it. :)

Today, we watch teenage children beat the stuffing out of each other in a legally sanctioned blood sport.We erroneously say it's been two years since the events of Kingdom Hearts 1. This is a lie, it has actually been 1 year in Kingdom Hearts time.Aside from that, we spend most of this episode...

I don't have the budget to render an introductory paragraph.One of the fun things about doing this Primer series with Sam is that even when I'm telling the complete truth about what's going on or the reasoning behind some character's actions, the answers can often be so outlandish that he still...