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GAME: Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance

Zac wrote:

YuYuUrameshi wrote: B-List? HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME IS NOT B-LIST! Frankly, it is the best animated Disney movie of all time. I like that movie a lot myself but it isn't exactly unfair to call it B-list. It isn't one of their revered classics or anything.

If the talking gargoyles and their extremely out-of-place humor had been omitted from the movie it would've made it a lot better. They did a pretty decent job of keeping the story together without some of the other important characters from the novel.

And maybe you should try Mass Effect 2 for yourself and form your own opinion. 2 is a meaner, darker game. It's a bit like Empire Strikes Back compared to 1's A New Hope. 3 is an even bigger improvement on combat mechanics, shooting is tighter with a greater variety of weapons/armor and abilities.

Have you seen what several prominent critics have stated? How many articles on major websites have articles claiming that Final Fantasy should completely revamp how they make games by ripping off bioware? FF maybe one of my favorite franchises but I am not going to play an FF if they removed everything I love for boring cover based first person shooting.

The Kotaku review for Xenoblade list "Its a wi game" as a major detraction for the game. Sure lets just jack up the budget tens of millions more and guarantee that the game is a major money loser just so it can slightly look better.

When people say they want to make it more like a Bioware game, they don't mean "boring cover based first person shooter" (which, by the way, is not any game made by Bioware), they mean they need to evolve. Bioware used to make games that were top down RPG's, games that had really great stories but lackluster combat. Over time they've evolved to the point of a game like Mass Effect. The reason people play is the same, the story, but the combat sections have turned from lackluster to fun (the old games had their moments with good strategic elements, but I feel the bad outweighed the good). The lines are blurring on what makes a game an RPG, hell the latest call of duty has more RPG elements than Final Fantasy XIII

It's ironic because FF13 sold more than any Mass Effect game did... shouldn't we be saying Bioware should take some tips from Square-Enix in this case? Bioware's hardly some paragon. I think after DA2, ME, and TOR... (i.e. after EA snatched them up) they're hardly people to aspire to. Ironically, their 'lackluster' days as you put it were their prime years.

Then again, if you don't like FPS games Mass Effect won't do anything for you. It's hardly a case of 'now it's fun' and clear cut when it comes to combat.

I actually liked this game a lot. Way more than the other handhelds at least!

I didn't really like the dream eaters aspect, as party members. It was fine I guess, but I just didn't care to change and train them at all. I just liked naming them random Disney and Final Fantasy references. But I had the same reaction to it overall as I did to the FFXIII-2 monsters - I just didn't give a crap.

I really enjoyed combat though, the Flowmotion and Reality Shifts aspect. For one, I thought it was neat that Reality Shift was different for each world, and mainly that the touch screen was actually used for something (usually it's just a map, unless I am forgetting it's other uses in previous KH games). Flowmotion was a fun addition to combat. The only thing I didn't like about it was it could become too easy to spam masses of monsters with it. If I was in trouble all I'd have to do was use "Shock Dive" over and over to win. Actually the game was pretty easy overall. Hopefully Critical mode will be harder, cause Proud was a piece of cake. I was only level 36 when I beat both stories, and I beat those last boss groups with ease, I feel I could have been lower. (What level was everyone else at the end?)

I liked how Dropping worked... sort of. I thought it was cool when I dropped as Sora during my first boss fight. I thought it'd be exciting to be tossed back into the battle when I came back (I just needed a couple more hits and was dying myself). And then I came back to find I had to restart the fight But I enjoyed doing the stories simultaneously much more than how BBS worked. It made it feel much less repetitive.

The stays in the worlds were a little short and I felt like Riku and Sora were merely bystanders half the time. They didn't feel truly incorporated in some worlds, like The Grid. But once I got to the end of the game, I thought it was worth it. I really enjoyed those last parts. spoiler[That part where Riku answers the three questions on Destiny Islands made me feel like a little kid again playing KH for my first time :3] As for the plot having "little bearing on the overall series" spoiler[ isn't Sora falling into darkness, and Riku becoming a master pretty important? That alone made it feel more important than the entirety of 358/2 Days]

And before I forget, I would like to say how much I LOVED the Fantasia world! Maybe cause I was in orchestra in middle school and we watched Fantasia in class like every other week, but it was so fun to travel through those worlds, with the music in the background and all the voices removed, really made it feel like I was in Fantasia.

False, this is only the case in Japan, globally FF13's numbers are not even that good, even for a game in a franchise that has been built up for decades longer than Mass Effect. Man, even your numbers now are skewed by your anti-west soapboxing. Dear god man, you ever going to step off that soapbox?

Looking at www.vgchartz.com, the games break down as follows:

Correl wrote:

Looking at www.vgchartz.com, the games break down as follows:

I just wanted to let you know, but you'd have more credibility making random numbers up than posting anything from VGChartz. So, those little comparisons of yours are completely worthless.

This coming from someone well acquainted with individuals in the video games industry and localization offices.

According to your acquaintances, where would I get more reliable sales figures?

As for future properties that Kingdom Hearts can crossover into, why hasn't any characters from Shonen Gangen showed up since Square Enix owns that magazine? I would love it if characters from FMA and Soul Eater were to show up since it is the magazine's most popular and more well known titles.