From one of my favorite level, to what is easily my least favorite….
It’s amazing how quickly I can go from singing this game’s praises to groaning at how bad it is. Atlantica is, if anything, a microcosm for all that is wrong with Kingdom Hearts 2.
- While easy and otherwise inoffensive, there’s nothing engaging about the musical segments. They’re nothing more than fluff.
- The scenario is some of the most vapid writing I’ve seen from any Kingdom Hearts world. Not only is it blatantly coping from the first movie, but it does so in a way that almost directly contradicts the “character growth” that the people in the world underwent in the first game.
- Facts revealed in this scenario (like the world *above* the sea), make me wonder just why we needed to blend in with the undersea world at all in the original Kingdom Hearts. Why not just land above the sea and interact with the people there.
If we never revisit Atlantica in another Kingdom Hearts game again, it’ll be too soon. It’s clear that nobody knows what to do with it.
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