Kingdom Hearts Primer – Kingdom Hearts 2 – Episode 35 – Going Super Cyan

Finally, at long last, THE KINGDOM HEARTS PRIMER CONTINUES!

So, I could make up a whirlwind of excuses for why it took us so long to make another episode of the series, but in truth real life just caught up with us in a big way.

And the moment Sam was free enough to resume editing of the footage, he had some massive computer issues that set us back.

It’s a good time to come back in though, since after this we get to go back to talking about important plot details. On top of that, Tron’s world is one of the better one’s in this game.

Expect more for us soon. We’ll back, and the gravy train isn’t stopping for anyone.

Kingdom Hearts Primer – Kingdom Hearts 2 – Episode 31 – Magic Carpet Ride

Sometimes we make interesting, serious points about Kingdom Hearts.

And sometimes we look at copyright and just say “screw it”.

This is one of those latter times.

Kingdom Hearts Primer – Kingdom Hearts 2 – Episode 23 – De-Rezzed

Sam and I stop playing games to talk about not playing games.

Kingdom Hearts Primer – Kingdom Hearts 2 – Episode 10 – You Missed A Chest!

Welcome to the Beast’s Castle, home of old friends and missed treasure chests.

In lieu of making any meaningful commentary on Beast’s Castle, I’m going to instead talk about a problem I have with RPGs.

Many times in an RPGs, players will see treasure chests in the level while watching cutscenes. This is good because it gives them something to pay attention to while the characters are busy talking about things not relevant to the main plot.

On the other hand, if the scene changes or they end up behind a point of no return, then it feels like the game is teasing them about the chest they missed.

Remember the player’s feelings when placing chests in your game.

Kingdom Hearts Primer – Kingdom Hearts 2 – Episode 1 – Blood Sport

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.