Πέμπτη 15 Ιανουαρίου 2015

Kingdom Hearts 3: Expectations, predictions and general stupidity

 So now that we have 2015 I decided hey let's have my first important article be in the spirit  of my first important article and since I wrote I was going to write the article you are reading right now, I thought it was a good idea , but now I have made a huge run on sentence for no reason whatsoever without saying anything important and should probably stop. Before we begin let me be crystal clear: HOLY SHIT FUCKING MAJOR SPOILERS ABOUT EVERY FUCKING KINGDOM HEARTS GAME, MANGA,SONG, KH AMV ON YOUTUBE AND  FANFIC IN THIS AND EVERY PARALEL UNIVERSE WHERE KINGDOM HEARTS IS AVAILABLE. Cool? Cool, let's begin.

 Let's start with the most unimportant thing about Kingdom Hearts 3, it's multiplayer. Yes multiplayer.  It is entirelly possible that there will be no multiplayer on KH3 and I will be absolutely ok with it. However if they  are going  to do multiplayer I expect the very polished multiplayer from Days. I want a plethora of characters that are unique in their powers depending on the KH canon. I want the Seven Lights and the Thirteen Darknesses and Donald and Goofy and DiZ playable in an arena to fight to the death or clear a mission. I DO NOT want to bring Sora covered in some armor and be forced to fight against the kid in Japan  that has played this game for 3000 hours and has unlocked an ability that is unavoidable ,kills me and deletes my bios. Also, and let me be clear on this, if you are going to take development time out of your main team to have them develop the multiplayer is unacceptable, unless you are making Call of Duty( where the main team makes the multiplayer therefore should not make the main story).Every gamer would prefer to play a really polished singleplayer and no multiplayer, rather than an okay singleplayer and okay multiplayer , unless you are playing Call of Duty.

 Now, for maybe the most important thing about KH3, the possible Marvel and Star Wars worlds. Okay maybe not the most important. People are divided on this: Many thing that this would be a bad thing and screw up the story, other things that it would be a fun addition. I am on the second camp. I know we are going for a pretty serious story, but a couple of fun breaks will follow the Kingdom Hearts tradition. Marvel world is easier to make in my oppinion. I want a battle with Galactus alongside Micky, Wolverine and Spiderman. It needs to be Galactus really. I don't want to fight someone worthless like Dr.Doom. This NEEDS to be a HUGE fight! Star Wars will be harder to explain. This is a much stricter story. It depends on whether or not you want a sequel( will get into that later). You don't want to blow your load with episode six being your main story and be stuck with not new story later if you want it, and at the same time episode one won't allow for a possible prequel of the world.So my proposal: Star Wars Episode 3: Reveng of the Sith. Fine story,good final fight in the end. I do realize that including this world  would be a reach saying that the Heartless caused the fall of Skywalker and are behind the Dark Side , but really we had stupider things in this franchise. Actually what I suggest is go full balls to the wall with this story. Make Anakin one of the 13 darknesses. His eyes are yellow when he is evil(or succumbs to the Dark Side if you will), fitting the theme of the Xehanorts. And it will be FUCKING FUN!

 Alright serous talk now.  We get on the story. In kingdom hearts the story is 80% of the game.  What do I expect from KH3 story wise? Closure. Yeah I said it.  I want this saga to end. I certainly don't want this to be the final KH. This story needs to end. Not because it is stupid. I love it so far. But staying in the same story for too long is like having a huge run on sentence in your article. You get nowhere without saying much. The Xehanort story line is great but we have danced around it since Birth. Classic KH saga lasted one game and Organization 13 saga lasted 3. With KH3 the Xehanort saga will be on 4. We move away from it.  There are many good stories you can say from here.  But to explain this I must  talk about something else.

 The Seven Guardians of Light, because of course they are seven. I made this joke before twice already once on my last KH  article and once on my Sonic Battle  LP. The good guys must collect the seven Dragonballs/Chaos Emeralds/Dwarfs (wait what?) to win. Well here we are again: Xehanort will use his 13 clones ( because of course they are 13) or Darknesses to destroy the seven  Lights whether those are Seven keyblade wielders on the good side or the princesses of the heart. So who could this Seven Lights be? Obvious Lights are Sora, Riku , King Mickey,  Lea and Kairi. Semi-obvious choice is Aqua. She is stuck in the Realm of Darkness and in Kingdom Hearts if you haven't been in the Realm of Darkness you are almost not considered a main character.We are stuck with an empty spot. Mickey considers Ventus as accesible, but his soul(or heart or whatever) is stuck inside Sora, which does make him the most accesible of my theories. My second theory is that Roxas or Xion will come back. Lea was killed too  and came back , along with the rest of the Organization XIII. However with Roxas and Xion it's a little more complicated. Last and probably least possible of my theory, Yen Sid used to be a keyblade master. While improbable because he has retired ,he could just put his heart forward to reach the number and essentially sacrifice himself.  Of course they could come up with a new character but I highly doupt it.

 Some of you probably realized where I am going with this.I mentioned two types of people in need of some sort of saving( Aqua not really included). I would not hate it if you decided to make a saga just saving Ventus or saving Roxas and Xion ( but that would feel against  some of the things that Kingdom Hearts has preached). I know I would love a prequel set around Mickey during a time he wasn't that super keyblade badass. All those possible  stories are unconnected with the Xehanort saga. They are also don't sound as good as the possible story of KH3.  I would personally not mind KH3 be the last KH game, but I would love more games.

 What else I expect is  unimportant really. In my oppinion if those really do come back we may have the one of the best games ever. As in universal top 10s everywhere. Ok maybe I am exagerating. It's going to be cool thought. Very cool.

Πέμπτη 1 Ιανουαρίου 2015

2014 Retrospective

 Its the end of 2014, so every Youtuber worth their salt makes top 10s and game awards videos for 2014.But since I only have 15 subs as of time of writing I just get to make this retrospective. Basicly   this is going to be a small subjects only about games and about stuff I didn't get to talk about or just look at what I have said this year. If I had to give this year a title I would say it was the year of suprises. I was suprised to leave behind Sega and Ubisoft, I didn't like the new Quantic Dreams game, found the new Call of Duty interesting and the best game I played this year was a Zelda game.

 Firstly let's start with some bad news. I no longer care about Sega. Yes that is coming like three months after I did an article about how cool Sega is I have to say that. Why am I saying that? You know why: Sonic Boom. I am the kind of guy that actually likes most of "Sonic friends" that people seem to dislike so much. And I am also the kind of guy that actually likes the unique Sonic games because they were an effort to give something good, it just was a bad idea with an okay execution. But with Sonic Boom we are looking at the same mistakes that we were looking at with Sonic 06. In an effort to hit some kind of date, Sega released two unfinised games.I thought we left that shit behind guys. I thought you learned your lesson.Apparently not. I am no longer willing to go through the motions. I was willing to get the 3DS Sonic Boom before the release and then I found out what happened. Sorry Sega but now I am on the other side of the river. If you do make a good game that I will back IT up but that is all.

 The company I am not sorry to leave behind is Ubisoft. You know why! All this shit this year. We don't deserve this. Sabotaging Watch_Dogs for PC, lying about piracy statistics , the Unity turnbuckle  and of course going full EA with their Uplay. Once again the Great Prophet got it months before it happened. All that shit for what? Overhyped WD , broken AC5 or (the apparently) good Far Cry 4? I am seeing it now, Uplay will be overpriced and full of bugs. You know,writing this paragraph is suprisingly easy because I don't need to explain myself. Every gamer gets angry at what I am saying. You already agree with me. Fuck Ubisoft.

 Lastly I guess my game of the year game, even thought it's a game from last year:Legend of Zelda Link Between Worlds. I am absolutelly astonished I actually had to say those words, more than once, in public. I don't like LoZ games. Why is a story for another time or even never to say the truth.But why I loved this one is simple to explain. It is fun, the story is good, most of the dungeons are very fun to explore and there is little to no downtime between them. And most importantly the new mechanic: walking in walls. No that wasn't a typo. I mean inside walls. During the first  dungeon Link gets the ability to merge in walls. This completely changes the way you see the world and tackle puzzles. It is one good mechanic that is done incredibly well thoughtout the game , with puzzles designed with that in mind. And here is the key: When I said that to Metax he answered among the lines " OH like Portal!." That was when it hit me. It is like Portal, and I LOVE PORTAL.Don't get me wrong I am not saying that this game is only good thanks to that. I mean it has combat which Portal lacks, and the story is very good but Portal has that . I love it. There was quite a lot of time since I was as happy to play a game.

 So that is it. This year was good year in my book.Sure it had some shit in it, but I had fun. But let's face it. 2014 is nothing compared to 2015. In the first two months alone we are getting instand classics like Funk of Titans, an extremely accurate represantation of Greek mythology and very good looking gameplay. I don't even want to throw up now.