Birth By Sleep - Quickie Review

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Originally Posted by mudah.swf

Nerf Sora? In a series where you get screen-filling attacks and can eventually murderize the shit out of rooms of enemies in a minute or two? Blasphemy.

God I love final form.

[Nique]

Finally got to the part where the plot starts devouring itself.

To me it's a mess from the get-go, so I'm kind of curious which point you're referring to at this point. And also, yeah the reports are basically the best part of the storytelling in these games.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Nique

To me it's a mess from the get-go, so I'm kind of curious which point you're referring to at this point. And also, yeah the reports are basically the best part of the storytelling in these games.

I started with Ventus, whereas most everyone else seemed to start with Terra, so maybe there's a lot of dumb in Terra's that I haven't seen, but for the most part it works in that basic jRPG plot sorta way.

Anywho, the point where the plot starts to go very blegh is when the whole kyeblade thing gets brought into it and it's all downhill for Ven's plot from there.

Aqua's plot works so far, ignoring the especially stupid scene with Kairi I just had.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Nique

Welllllll...

Vanitas is Ventus' 'evil Kirk', then they combine back into regular Ventus, who combine with a young Sora. Sora un-combines and turns into Sora and Roxas who is basically Ventus. Also Sora is cloned and turns into Xion. Xion combines again into Sora, Roxas combines again into Sora. Sora is possessed by something like 4 or 5 different people here...

Did I miss anything?

Originally Posted by NonCon

The part where they all have sex.

I doubt sex is even a part of it, I think it's one of those fetishes that is so pure that all of these people being turned into each other and combined into themselves and divided from each other and combined into each other again is like, for the guy writing this shit this is like the pinnacle of eroticism; mere sex is far too cheap and unfulfilling to hold his attention.

[Donomni]

Originally Posted by NonCon

Anywho, the point where the plot starts to go very blegh is when the whole kyeblade thing gets brought into it and it's all downhill for Ven's plot from there.

Chiblade. Like the greek letter.

I still can't believe Nomura used AN EVIL SORA CLONE OMG as the final boss for Ven. I mean, that's pretty close to being as dumb as that one scene in Numbery Doo Boogaloo.

Aqua's plot works so far, ignoring the especially stupid scene with Kairi I just had.

I don't mind it that much, although they could've made why Kairi can use a Keyblade less... I dunno, blink-and-you'll-miss-it?

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Donomni

Chiblade. Like the greek letter.

Subtitles when Xehanort was explaining it said "Kye".

I don't mind it that much, although they could've made why Kairi can use a Keyblade less... I dunno, blink-and-you'll-miss-it?

My main problem was the storytime/legend nonsense as she was leaving.

[Ryong]

Honestly, the parts of the game that I just ignored because they were so overwhelmingly stupid all involved Sora, Kairi or Riku. They're 5 they shouldn't talk like that.

[Darth SS]

I want to like Kingdom Hearts more than I do, I want to say it's the greatest video game series of all time, I really do. But this would completely ignore how unbelievably ass backwards and confusing the plot of these fuckers have. There's like...18 assholes that can wield keyblades now? After such a big deal was made in KH1 about Sora having a keyblade?

Y'know what's really impressive to me though? I think there's been 5 Kingdom Hearts games now, and I don't think there has been a bad one made yet. THAT is impressive.

[Kim]

Numbery Days was pretty bad.

[Nique]

It had a lot going for it though. Multiplayer was a good decision (although I have never been able to try it). The version of the 'deck' system they used was interesting, although selecting commands was pretty awkward.