Since my PC was in the local PC shop for a week, I’ve been playing the Kingdom Hearts collection on my PS5. Well, I say “playing”… I took @Swangtheugly advice and gave up on Chain of Memories and just watched all the cutscenes (barring the Disney scenes) on Youtube. Really god fed up of the card game mechanic quite quickly. Doesn’t help I chose to go to “Monstro” as my first world, and the first boss fight of that world has a gimmick where the floor is acidic and does constant damage and you have to jump around on tiny platforms. Probably alot easier later in the game when you are more powerful but this early on, it kicked my ass, and I just threw in the towel.
Feel slightly vindicated seeing how bad the plot is. I mean, wow, talk about dropping the ball. I guess there are some ideas here that will play out better over time, but really, I thought this was quite poor. Then I watched the 358/2 Days movie that comes with the collection. It was good and bad. I thought in the end it was alright. Obviously very badly paced since it is meant an adaptation of a game you’d play in small incriments over 25ish hours. But y’know, I’d be lying if by the end of I didn’t feel something.
So yeah, after doing what feels like homework, I finally hit Kingdom Hearts 2. I’m about 15 hours into it, and honestly, I’m mostly loving it. Like wow, this is like night and day after the first game. So many of my minor and major gripes have been fixed with this game. Having alot of fun, although even on normal mode I can definetly see how the difficulty seems to just fluctuate, especially in regards to what types of Heartless you encounter in what worlds. Like the T-Rex Heartless you find in the Pride Lands seem to be able to just juggle Sora and ignore his invicibility frames and just destroy half his health in a few seconds.
But yeah, KH2 is a fun time, and I hope KH3 is just as fun as this when I reach it. The Kingdom Hearts lore is certainly getting more convoluted as we go on, but honestly, I can’t say I hate it. I am getting more and more interested in seeing how things wrap up, even if part of me thinks it’ll probably just fall apart.
Anyway, I’m currently redownloading stuff for my PC at the moment. Will maybe move onto Two Point Hospital soon I think. Just thankful for cloud saves, I put 75 hours into Persona 4 Golden so far and after redownloading that, it seems all my save data survived, so I’ll probably return to that soon.
)… It’s apparently for testing their net code. But I gotta say, once you learn the tricks/moves you can do, that’s only half of it. The other half is getting the disc past your opponent. I’m having a blast, even when I lose. 
I’ll play maybe 3 matches. The other day I was laughing so much that I got to coughing. Had to quit.
