i still think about this game and I played it nearly a decade ago

this is mr. sekiro. he have sword and go clang clang. he can't die. he kill bad person and big monsters. he get bigger sword that glow red. monkey throw poo poo at him. his only personality trait is shinobi. he is lovely.

hatsune miku did a rlly good job on this one

the first time i ever played this game i went to the side of the cliff at firelink and saw some interesting looking textures down. a message said path ahead. i died. i now have extreme trust issues. i spent 8 hours dying trying to find a way to fight 4 kings before realizing i had to kill a dog to get a ring to do the fight. i broke a controller and cried 5 times throughout anor londo.

Solid 9/10

nomura: heres a $40 dlc thats just the kh3 ending but you get to play as other characters

me: 10/10

you can put cat ears on aqua and make her the catgirl she shouldve been from the start

the game has time travel its so fucking stupid. who thought any of this shit was a good idea. i hate this its one of my favourite games

This is the greatest game of all time. Nothing compares to it. What other game can merge serious and philosophical themes in a disney kids game? Only one man: Tetsuya Nomura.

The first few hours of this game is some of the finest storytelling in gaming. You open up as this completely new character right off the bat named Roxas. Who is thi guy? Why is he important? Where is Sora? What is happening? Where is this town? What are those white heartless? Who is Axel? Questions just keep piling on and on without any sort of answer until Twilight Town completely deconstructs and reality crumbles down on Roxas as this mysterious boy returns to Sora. This is how you open your fucking game. There's so much mystery to rope you in and trap you. The more you play the more you want all the secrets of this game to be revealed.

The story is dumbassdere at its finest. Nothing makes sense, this game has not only thrown logic out the window entirely but has picked up its mangled corpse and beat it to a bloody pulp. Nomura doesn't even know what logic is, if Nomura thinks something is cool, he is going to shove it in the game, its some fucking Twin Peaks shit. I live for it. Nobody can explain what the fuck any of this shit means. Its beautiful. The game can still be really heavily emotional like Roxas vs. Sora being maybe the most heartbreaking boss fight in all of video game history. The themes in this game touch upon morality; is what Sora doing really right? Xemnas has no ability to process the consequences of what he is doing, his only motivation is to gain something that was ripped away from him. Themes of existentialism: the nobodies entire crusade to collect the drained hearts of the heartless to create Kingdom Hearts and free them all from their curse of existing while non-existance. It contains themes of depression as Roxas and Sora both go through their own internal conflict throughout. The story is perfect and I will not hear otherwise.

The gameplay is beyond fun. No game has ever felt this sleek to me. Everything I do command Sora to do, he does instantly; no clunkyness or unresponsiveness. The games fights flow so well- most boss battles can make 15 minutes feel like 4 with how fast paced and constant everything is. There is so much variety in boss fights with it forcing you to utilize every fighting style. and adapt. Bosses can be both extremely fast paced huge boss vs. Sora relying on using magic and killing the boss as fast as possible or slow methodical fights where waiting for openings instead of relentlessly attacking is preferred. The game has it all. Don't even get me started on Lingering Will. Every enemy and boss in this game is unique, they all have their own personality and abilities to learn and adapt to.

Overall this game fucks. I love it.

this game is rough but a very nice foundation for the rest of the series. giving it a 10 because i still really enjoyed it outside its flaws and think what this game has to offer outweighs the stuff i dislike.