Finally, we get to the part I HATE!I've written about it before, but I can't even fathom how anyone though Atlantica was a good idea. It's a concentrated does of everything wrong with Kingdom Hearts 2.I hate this world, and I hope it they never come back to it in future games.

Welcome back to Port Royal. We're barely hanging on.This is roughly the point where Sam and I start to lose our minds and slowly slip into madness. It's not quite so visible at this point, and we're still able to mostly hold a coherent conversation. But we start making a ton of diversions and side...

While Kingdom Hearts rolls in the background, Sam and I talk about the JRPGs we have (and haven't) played.I want to point out that while Sam seems to have a chronic inability to finish the JRPGs he starts, as of the time of writing, he has completed a single JRPG: Final Fantasy XV, otherwise known...

And now that we've finished with some of the important stuff, we can do nonsense for the next 5-10 episodes.A recurring problem we're running into with this series has more to do with the nature of these long RPGs than any inherent flaw with Kingdom Heart's actual story. Our objective here is to...

It's so refreshing to have cool, interesting conversations about the story.The scenes in the first seven minutes of this episode are all Final Mix exclusive, and that's honestly a large problem. In those seven minutes, so many of the reveals from future games are foreshadowed that the people who...

It's story time, ladies and gentlemen.It's weird to think of how Kingdom Hearts 2 is a product of it's time. I'm not talking about mechanics or how dark its story is (although that's certainly true). I'm talking about how it references other media that, in hindsight, are clearly only to drum up or...

Sam and I stop playing games to talk about not playing games.I appreciate Sam's help in reminding all of us who Christopher Lee is and why you should be worshiping him.Aside from that, it's nice to have a Disney movie tie into the main thread in a way that makes sense without feeling too much like...

Today, we start to get into some of the more confusing aspects of Kingdom Hearts.I love the way they leverage the fact that Tron exists in a computer system in order to write the scenario. The way they smartly link it back into the main scenario through the protagonist's quest for answers was a...

Finally, we're back to talking about story content.It's actually pretty amazing that, after the original Kingdom Hearts, Kairi has a huge problem with almost completely ceasing to be relevant to the plot. Even though she spent most of the first game in a state of limbo, she still does contribute to...

Let's get back to that movie plot!Not much Kingdom Hearts to talk about while we watch The Lion King...