Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

Hold on to your seats boys and girls because this is gonna be a long one.  Out of all of the series I have ever played in my lifetime I'd have to say that Kingdom Hearts is definitely my favorite.  I know most people hate this game because "the disney characters are stupid" or "all the characters are just from final fantasy" but that stuff doesn't matter to me.

I feel like I pretty much grew up with Kingdom Hearts.  I remember getting the original game like it was yesterday.  I remember seeing advertisements on tv for it and begging my mother to buy it for me.  When I was in second grade I remember opening my presents Christmas morning and when I found the one with this game in it I completely ignored all my other presents.  I was so excited to play this game and so was my dad.  So I put it in my PS2 and made it through most of the tutorial.  Then I got to the Darkside boss, and being only 7 years old at the time, I got scared.  I chucked the controller at my dad and ran out of the room crying.  It took me about a year to gain the courage to finally beat that boss.  I think I only got as far as Deep Jungle before Chain of Memories came out for the GBA.  Then a year later Kingdom Hearts 2 came out and had the honor of being my first preordered game.  I remember being extremely upset because the shipment didn't come in to gamestop on time and I had to wait an extra day to get the game.  Kingdom Hearts 2 was the first game in the series that I had actually played all the way through and beaten at this point.  I continued preordering all of the games in the series as they came out but I never played any of them all the way through.  That changed last summer when the release date for Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance was announced.

I made it my goal to conquer every Kingdom Hearts game in the series before I played the latest addition.  I actually had just finished Birth By Sleep so I was already off to a good start.  I continued through each and every game, putting all of my other games on hold until I could start Dream Drop Distance.

Then the day finally came.  I remember waltzing into my local gamestop with only one thing on my mind, Kingdom Hearts.  Normally it takes a lot of courage for me to enter a gamestop due to the fact that I am a girl and I don't want to be hit on by the workers there, but today was a different story.  I successfully made my purchase and excitedly rushed home so I could play with my new pride and joy. I popped the cartridge into my 3DS and sat amazed as I watched the opening credits even though I had already watched it 100 times on youtube.  That was when I became hooked.

At first I was a little confused with the flowmotion controls but after a while I ended up being dependent on them for most battles.  They also made it a lot easier to get to certain areas on the map.  The dive modes gave me a bit of a hard time especially the boss ones.  I feel like the controls were hard to get the hang of and that was usually why I ended up dying.

The spirits were also a fun little addition.  I felt like they were they "nintendogs" of kingdom hearts but I liked that their traits and disposition changed depending on how you interacted with them.  I wasn't too big on collecting every type of dream eater in the game so I liked being able to fully develop mine.  I pretty much had the same team throughout the entire game.  The little mini games to train your spirits were also quite amusing and were a nice break from the regular gameplay.  I also liked how it incorporated the 3DS camera when you viewed your spirits.  I never really did anything with the flick rush games.  Those I found to be extremely confusing so I just kinda pushed them aside.

I felt like the story got a little slow towards the middle but at the end it hits you like a brick!  I know a lot of people don't like that about Kingdom Hearts but I feel that's what makes the games better.  I feel like it makes you appreciate the epic endings more, like its the prize at the end.  I didn't unlock the secret ending or the secret message. (I did however watch them on youtube xD!)  I'm not really a completionist and I just like playing games mostly for the story, and boy does Kingdom Hearts have a doozy of a story.

Honestly, trying to explain the story behind Kingdom Hearts to someone who has never played the game is like trying to teach calculus to a three-year-old,  IT JUST CAN'T BE DONE!  I feel like thats the reason why a lot of people hate on Kingdom Hearts.  They lack the ability overlook the disney characters and get frustrated with the story because they haven't played the games enough to understand it.

Kingdom Hearts is my favorite game series of all time!  Every time a new game comes out it does a wonderful job of impressing me and outdoing the previous installments of the series.  This is the reason why I absolutely cannot wait for news about Kingdom Hearts 3.  I feel like its definitely going to be worth the wait, even if it takes another 10 years to do so!

No More Heroes

So thanks to Hurricane Sandy I had no school today and that meant I could finally get back to my long neglected console games!  So I spent the last hour and a half finishing up No More Heroes.  I wanted to play this game ever since I saw it on Sadie's Gaming Infection (god only know's what happened to that girl) wayyyy back when I was in seventh grade.  Now since the game is rated M my mother of course wouldn't let me buy it because she already thinks I'm a weirdo that I play video games (thats what you get for not getting cable tv for our house for the past 17 years).  So now over the summer I was really bored and ended up watching a bunch of lets play videos and this game caught my eye once again.  So on my seventeenth birthday I finally got my hands on this game and I absolutely loved it!  Whenever I was in a bad mood I'd start up No More Heroes and kill a bunch of assassins!  Hoorayyyy!

There were only two things that annoyed me in this game.  First of all was how long it took you to make enough money to enter these ranking battles.  I absolutely hated the stupid side job missions because they took so long and you got shit pay from them.  I usually ended up doing all the free fight missions (which I absolutely sucked at) and finding the highest paying assassination mission and just doing it over and over until I made enough money for the next ranking match.  This is why it took me sooooo long to finally beat this game because I'd get so bored of side missions that I'd forget about the game for a few weeks.  The second thing I hated was the controls on that damn bike!  I'd be in such a rush to get to these side missions that I'd crash it into walls on multiple occasions and when I'd get back on it I'd be facing the wrong way.  Being the impatient person I am I would try to turn around too fast and would end up crashing again into the opposite wall.

I enjoyed this game overall because there were a lot of different elements to it.  Sometimes I'd get bored and would end up walking around every little area on the map to find extra cash and tshirts in various dumpsters and also finding those lolikov balls.  I remember how excited I was when I unlocked the ability to run faster!  After that I said "Fuck You!" to the bike for a little bit but then I realized that whenever your energy would run out you'd have to stop for a little to catch your breath and I was just too impatient for that shit.  I'm pretty sure that I also got every single one of the weapon upgrades, and all those tshirts.  I beat the game with the "real ending" and surprisingly I only had to face each boss one time except for Bad Girl.  For some reason she gave me a really hard time and it took me like 20 tries to beat her.

So that pretty much sums up my experience with No More Heroes.  Now I just have to somehow acquire enough money to buy the sequel.

Let the Nerdiness Ensue!

So I've been meaning to start this blog for a while now but I felt that there wasn't a good time to do so.  That is, until now, since I'm starting it and all.  So basically this blog will be like a gaming diary so to speak.  I have this big long list (its up to 52 at the moment) of games that I would like to play and eventually beat and it is growing by the day!  This blog is basically my way of keeping track of that (no I'm not going to put that list on here because like I said before I add to it daily).  I figured now would be a good time to start it since I am not in the middle of playing any games right this moment (I literally just beat the elite four in Pokemon Ruby and the credits are rolling as we speak).  So this post is going to contain my list of games that I have already beaten and it will be updated after every completed game (I'm kinda lazy so this "completion" doesn't necessarily mean I beat it with 100% but that I just finished the game in general.)  Future posts will be somewhat along the lines of what I'm playing and my current thoughts on that game.  So yeah lets get started with this shindig. *note that the following games aren't in any particular order until I start adding more.

1.   Super Mario Galaxy
2.   Spyro the Dragon
3.   Kingdom Hearts
4.   Final Fantasy 10
5.   Pokemon Red Version
6.   Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories
7.   Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
8.   Pokemon Crystal Version
9.   Kingdom Hearts 2
10. Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep
11. Final Fantasy X-2
12. Portal: Still Alive
13. Portal 2
14. Little BIG Planet
15. Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded
16. Pokemon Ruby Version
17. No More Heroes
18. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
19. Pokemon Diamond Version
20. Final Fantasy XIII
21. Lollipop Chainsaw
22. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
23. Final Fantasy XIII-2
24. Pokemon Black Version
25. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
26. Final Fantasy VII
27. Bioshock
28. Bioshock 2
29. Fallout 3
30. Bioshock Infinite
31. Fallout: New Vegas
32. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
33. Uncharted 2: Among Theives
34. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
35. Life is Strange
36. The Last of Us
37. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
38. Pokemon Black 2 Version
39. Pokemon X Version
40. Beyond Two Souls
41. Contrast