I can’t believe the crap articles I had to sift through throughout my reading this week. Every game website seems to be jumping on the bandwagon to talk about Kingdom Hearts III this week. There was one.. that seemed to have been repeatedly plagiarized and reworded throughout video game and tech journals… that was thrown off by the amount of Disney that’s now gonna be in Kingdom Hearts????? That’s literally… that’s the… that’s what Kingdom Hearts is??? Anyway, I couldn’t find anything remotely important or intelligent so I had to move on from KHIII “updates”.
I never had a PS3. I jumped from PS2 to Wii to PS4, so I never got my hands on the remixed versions of Kingdom Hearts that conveniently put literally all the games together for me. But!!! The existence of these totally cancels out the arguments from last week’s reading about fans ~losing~ interest because they had no way to play the spinoff games!!! They’re right there!!
In a perfect world, they would have been released in the same platform to begin with, but that’s business I guess. And also they made the graphics waaaay more advanced, too, obviously, with the leap as early as 2002 to a version with 2013 graphic capabilities. If I had a PS3, or my PS4 had backwards compatibility, I would 100% buy both half titles right now. But I’m left to my fading memories for now~
Speaking of fading memories, that article about 2.8 that claimed it was a desperate release.. that Square was getting a big head and releasing “pretentious” games… uggghhhhh. Not to be biased, but no. He complains about the lack of familiarity in a franchise he left behind 11 years ago……. and then complains about the too familiar style to the one he left 11 years ago????????????? Do you want it to be the same or not? Like, buddy, you got paid to play the game in advance to review it, first of all, which makes me think you probably play enough video games to have the means to play 1.5 and 2.5, which means you didn’t have to be condescending in your review of a character you are unfamiliar with but fans will ~idk probably lmao~ be familiar with, which means shut up. I want KHIII to hurry up as much as the next fan, so to hear that the game was rushed to be released…. when it was literally delayed…. and it pushed back the KHIII date even further.. Do these video game journalists do any research at all before writing their un-nuancedly biased trash articles or do they just wing it?
I felt that this trash article was important, though, because it seems to encapsulate the mindset of a lot of casual “fans” that complain about the expanded production of the franchise. Don’t get me wrong, actual fans complain about that, too. We’re all impatient. But the condescending, ~edgy, holier-than-thou tone and his blatant uninformed information present throughout the article made hardly any substantial arguments, yet he still tried to argue. That’s a side right? He cares enough to be a dick?
This one article annoyed me so much that I never got to my next point in my readings of the week, so I guess I’ll have to push it back. I was gonna discuss how the short continuation game in 2.8 is a continuation of what is regarded to be the best game of the franchise, but that I will save for next week maybe.