Diary of a Middle Aged Tekken Scrub

      This is it. As of right now I have finished every Kingdom Hearts game still playable. Watched the trailers for KH4, and the trailers for Missing Link, the Pokemon Go styled game that was cancelled. And watched the parts of the browser game that I can't play. I still have to play Dark Road, and I could also play through that rhythm game, but as KH4 is probably still really far away I can take my time with Dark Road, I'm caught up.           I personally think KH3 is the worst game of the series, It is insanely boring to play. I complained about flowmotion being too strong in Dream Drop Distance, but at least that still had you in full control of playing the game. The Attractions attacks in KH3 are so good, and so boring. Forcing you to basically watch a long cutscene that basically wins the fights for you, that happens so often the game doesn't have time to give you any challenge. Its definitely flashy, especially the scripted ones, but ...

      I first started my blog, as a space to have a creative outlet after leaving twitter behind and keep track of the games I finish so I can feel like I'm making a dent in my games library, but its kinda hard to leave twitter behind when your interests are fighting games and Kpop. So I'm back twitter for the Kpop, it's where the fandom is. Also I felt like my blog started getting way too video game coded, since I started putting down my thoughts on the Kingdom Hearts games. At the same time I also feel like I wronged myself when I go back to read my own blog posts to help me remember my thoughts on the games I've played. And what I have written was either very vague, and not specific. Or I just don't talk about the game I finished at all. Today I plan to right that wrong.      I want to change things so that I do a bit more documenting now. Now that I finished KH3, I went back to see some things in KH1 again, and the walkspeed feels just so incredibly sl...

      Suddenly there's been a lot more fan translations and re-translations of old games coming out. Probably because of how advanced AI and Machine Translations have gotten. And I'm grateful for them, a lot of games that came out in the 90s were just localized so weird, and had a lot of mistakes. Its really cool to see what story the games were actually trying to tell. Even better are fan translations for games that never made its way west.       I even like the releases that gave us the original balance and gameplay of the Japanese games, that America changed to be a lot harder. That carried on for longer than it should have, and sometimes our versions were just way worse games because of it. The ones that come to mind to me are The 7th Saga on SNES, a game in which my mom is currently replaying through. With stat growth changed so much, magic classes were made to just be melee warrior classes but are just bad, and harder to get through.  And so...

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       Alright just finished Dream Drop Distance. That's the 7th game in the series. I'm almost caught up. Basically just 0.2 A Fragmentary Passage, and Watching the KHUX Back cover movie, and then I can finally play KH3.      This game was a lot easier than Birth by Sleep, and plays very similar, replaces the DLink thing with the new digimons thing. And brings back the ability to deflect attacks with your own attack, instead of having to use the block to deflect.  I think that's a big upgrade. The Dlink system was kinda bad, whats the point of using a different command menu, when I already set up my own command menu that I already want to use. It was only good early on, because using Aqua gets you cura as Terra and Ventus early on. When you play as Aqua, there's no good Dlink to choose.      I would say Birth By Sleep is the hardest game since KH1, the series was only getting easier and easier with each entry until BBS, and then BB...

       Just finished 358/2 Days, and didn't think I would have thoughts to put down about  the game, since the game takes place during Chain of Memories. But it's a pretty important lore filled game actually. Considering the reason it took me so long to finally play KHII was because I hated Roxas, and didn't want to play him, a Roxas based game being so good and satisfying to finish is neat to experience. It's so far the easiest game of the first 4 games, but the way the game gets difficult, is more annoying than anything before it. The game doesn't let you edit anything while out of a mission, only in the castle before you leave on a mission. So you may find yourself having to quit a mission to change everything and then go back in. It adds a small layer of friction that is enough to feel frustrating and too annoyed to play sometimes. Not because it made the game hard, but because the mission wasn't possible with the load out you brought.      Th...

         I just finished KH2. For the first time actually. I'm not exactly sure what is different with the Final Mix version, but I have an idea of which boss fights were extra. All of those extra portals in the worlds that just lead to a fight with some random Organization XIII member. And that one fight in [The World That Never Was] against Roxas, that one feels so out of place, with a boss fight right before it, being pretty easy, and the boss fight right after it also being pretty easy. That boss fight was probably the hardest fight in the game.       KH2 was a relatively easy game. You can play through it with little thinking and planning ahead, especially compared to the two KH games right before it. KH1 made me have to think about what I have equipped, what items I'm bringing, and how my spell shortcuts are laid out (that's a Final Mix feature). That game made me think about how to use summons properly. in all of KH2 Ive only used summ...