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As someone that vastly prefers melee combat, I still consider KH2 is the best. I have more fun fighting mobs in KH2 than i ever had in KH3 still
Really??? One thing I instantly felt as soon as I played Kh3 for the first time, was that mob fights were vastly imporved on from kh2. Just based on how many more enemies could be fought at once and the size of the battlefields in kh3.
Sure you can get sniped from off screen in kh3, but as long as you keep moving and using crowd control magic you can usually avoid stuff like that.
^Absent nailed what I wanted to say right on the head, especially the pedestal part. If anything's "heartbreaking" to me here, it's KH2's fall from grace for, apparently, being what it's been for over a decade.
I mean, as a counterpoint to "KH2 Sora gameplay doesn't feel like KH3 Sora gameplay", the expectations the game's systems has on you the player isn't the same in both games either? The game's not being unfair expecting you to move at speeds/in ways that you're not capable of/that it hasn't provided for you. You're not playing as KH2 Sora, fighting enemies that behave and move like KH3 enemies, yanno? (...Assuming I'm expressing myself correctly.)
In short, KH2/KH2FM is a lovely, fun, enjoyable game from the mid-2000s (whatever that decade reads as) and you're selling it short just because it doesn't live up to the standards set for KH3.
It's less about me expecting a game from 2006 to be on par with a game from 2019 and more about me remembering the game being WAAAAAY faster than it was, and it actually being pretty slow.
Idk if you've ever played the devil may cry series, but DMC 3 came out around the same time as KH2, and I've always loved both games. DMC 5 came out the same year as KH3 and you can ask anyone who has played DMC 3 and DMC 5 and they'll tell you that DMC 5 is on a whole other level combat wise from DMC 3. That being said, DMC 3 still feels fun and fluid and fast. Playing kh2 felt like playing an Atari game after I've been playing kh3 for so long. It was just jarring how great the difference in speed and fluidity was.
I never understood why people placed Kingdom Hearts 2 on a high pedestal. The game was above average but nothing revolutionary. Kingdom Hearts 1 had the luxury of introducing the concept of mixing Disney with other properties so it could stand above other games during its time. When you compare two things it is very important to understand the context of how and why it happened. The time period and the industry at the time are the foundation to those games.
Is KH2 weirdly regarded as the best KH game by a majority? Perhaps.
Is it fair to compare a 2019 game to a 2005/2006 one and say that the new one plays better?
I mean it should play better. It has to or else something is VERY wrong.
I think a more fair discussion is how the story was treated and executed between the two entries.
PS: I also think that KH3 plays WAY better than 2 but I really don't agree with the idea of bringing KH2 into every discussion and comparing it to a new and innovative game from a decade later.
You're right. In most cases it isnt fair to compare games from different decades in terms of quality.
But there's exceptions to every rule, and what's so crazy to me, was that for damn near half of my life I thought KH2 was one of those exceptions. Realizing now that it isn't, just messed with my head.
It's completely my fault because I guess I made myself think the game was greater than it really was.