Can someone please explain to me what Kingdom Hearts is and why anyone cares? Cause it looks really stupid.
Well for me, I played the original when it came out more than 16 years ago. It's cheesy and over the top, but it's hard to explain how comfortable it makes me feel. It's pure nostalgia, but it works. It's weird. It's good.
Beyond that, when you play on the harder difficulties, it has some of the most difficult, original, and fun boss battles of any action RPG ever made.
I can see why people wouldn't be interested in it if they didn't play it during the original era. I'm actually surprised how many fans are still around and excited. But here I am.
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Can someone please explain to me what Kingdom Hearts is and why anyone cares? Cause it looks really stupid.
- It's an action RPG series in which you're basically an offshoot of a Final Fantasy character whose party members consist of a semi-rotating cast Disney characters like Goofie, Aladdin, Simba, etc.
- It's a series in which you visit the worlds of various Disney movies such as Alice in Wonderland and Tarzan and then sort of participate in events native to that "world" (and, being Disney, which, now includes Star Wars and Marvel, is all sorts of fun crossovers).
- It's got an absolute mind**** of plotline across multiple games that gets people hooked.
- It's got a pretty fun battle system. It's not "Souls", but if you grew up playing games like Secret of Mana it's basically the natural successor to that kind of combat system.
- and it's a series which aside from HD remasters and handheld sidestory games(which themselves only add to the convolution of the overarching story), skipped the previous gen and for which people have been waiting for a new "main line" game since 2005.
You either love it or you don't. In its heyday though it was one of the most popular series on the PS2 for a reason. There are games grounded in realism, and there are games that are no worse consumed on LSD. This is the latter.
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So it's been 3 years since Square announced the FF remake and like.. no update. Nothing. Cone of silence. Its been 3 ####ing years!
Rumour from April is that Square Enix ripped the game away from the subcontractor and basically threw out all the assets. It's now being developed internally, but since they are effectively starting over, I'm not surprised that they don't want to highlight a lack of progress.
At this point, I'd bank on it being a PS5 launch title at best.
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15 minutes in and Nintendo may have the best presentation already.
Daemon x Machina - 2019
Xenoblade 2 Expansion - September
Pokemon Let's Go - November 16th
Super Mario Party with games that leverage multiple Switches - October 6th
Fire Emblem Three Houses - Spring 2019
Fortnite - Available Today
Overcooked 2 - August 7th 2019
Killer Queen Black - 2018
Hollow Knight - Available Today
Octopath Traveller - New Demo June 14th
Nintendo did say the event would be overly focused on Smash. But lol @ people on Reddit losing their #### because Nintendo delivered exactly what they promised.
Fire Emblem looks amazing. Sad they pushed it back to spring 2019, but understandable since it would have been buried under Smash and Pokemon. Also, Pokemon and Smash released three weeks apart. If you're going to get your kid a Switch for Christmas, I suggest doing it before November.
Well OK, both would be fine but if they are going to pick one, there hasn't been an Advance Wars game in 10 years...They have had 3 Fire Emblem main series games since then.
Hopefully I can get in on the beta to try it out. If they can keep griefing to a minimum it could be a fun experience, but I'll probably stick to offline when it becomes available.
You get to play as either a male or female and there's dialogue options.
My all-time favourite historical setting, can't wait! ...though my fears after seeing all that red attacking that Athenian light blue was confirmed after reading an article post-trailer; you're Spartans. Stupid meathead Spartans, I want to be Team Athens all day.
Given all that Spartan red vs. Athenian blue, I'm wondering if this will take place during the Peloponnesian War; 400 years before the setting of Origins. Considering Origins is called...Origins, I would've assumed it'd take place shortly after that game finished. But maybe that's the reason why there was no hint at all about anything Brotherhood-related in the Odyssey trailer; this is pre-Brotherhood age now. I have my doubts on that, but we'll see..
EDIT: History nerdness aside and strictly talking gameplay, I hope naval is better than it was in Origins. That was the first time I disliked naval gameplay in an AC game. Its Greece; there's literally thousands of islands. Naval needs to be good, not the chore it felt like in Origins.
I guess the combat might have looked similar? But obviously the setting and the scope, scale, and amount of content are much greater. I never played Ryse but I heard it was the typical type of launch game: great graphics, some cool ideas, but not fleshed out and light on content.
It was pretty cool, smooth and had beautiful graphics. Similar in that the gameplay and AI look really similar on this actually, too.
My all-time favourite historical setting, can't wait! ...though my fears after seeing all that red attacking that Athenian light blue was confirmed after reading an article post-trailer; you're Spartans. Stupid meathead Spartans, I want to be Team Athens all day.
Given all that Spartan red vs. Athenian blue, I'm wondering if this will take place during the Peloponnesian War; 400 years before the setting of Origins. Considering Origins is called...Origins, I would've assumed it'd take place shortly after that game finished. But maybe that's the reason why there was no hint at all about anything Brotherhood-related in the Odyssey trailer; this is pre-Brotherhood age now. I have my doubts on that, but we'll see..
EDIT: History nerdness aside and strictly talking gameplay, I hope naval is better than it was in Origins. That was the first time I disliked naval gameplay in an AC game. Its Greece; there's literally thousands of islands. Naval needs to be good, not the chore it felt like in Origins.
I love that setting as well. Should be sweet. Although it probably means I should play Origins now
Given all that Spartan red vs. Athenian blue, I'm wondering if this will take place during the Peloponnesian War; 400 years before the setting of Origins.
According to this article that is when it takes place.
Odyssey, set primarily in and around 431 BC during the Peloponnesian War, is the furthest back, some four centuries earlier than 2017’s Origins, which took place in Egypt just before the turn of the millennium. Odyssey’s action is set before the founding of the assassins’ brotherhood, though AC buffs will recall that there were some assassins, like the Persian Darius cited in Assassin’s Creed II, who precede Odyssey (Darius is right before it).
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Nice! So weird how they'd name their big return game "Origins", then immediately jump 400 years before that the next year. But I'm not complaining...save for the fact we're Spartan, not Athenian. But for a game where you're basically a war machine, choosing the city state historically famous for being warriors makes sense I suppose. And the fact they won that war in the end.
