Lmao yeah and that's probably one of my fav worlds tbh.
2 lost a lot of the exploration and platforming from the first one, which is a shame, bcs cavern of remembrance is amazing and there should have been more of that in the base game. Tho the world that never was and hollow bastion are incredible at least, even if t they feel linear too

But for me Kh2 is still better than 1 mainly because how many iconic moments there are

holy s***

putting 3+remind over 2fm solely for the data org + yozora fight

2 is prob the better game though

Yozora kicked my ass repeatedly and honestly was just impressed with the whole fight. That ost....

I feel you, but l do find it amusing most of the best things from 2 weren’t even available to most people until like a decade after it came out. Final Mix is a huge improvement and yeah the Cavern of Remembrance is pretty great. None of it tho comes close for me to getting to scale Hollow Bastian in 1 as this like massive intimidating dungeon and all the story moments that come with that.

it's just so cool

makes me so excited for what's coming next

This guy can be a bit corny but I think he perfectly articulates why I prefer KH1. I almost made a video essay like this myself cause I felt so alone. Thankfully he did it for me.

yea spot on

at this stage of the game, there is no illusion of player freedom since we all know the tricks.
we’re à decade in deep to these s***ty open world games and for every open world game that’s great there’s 15 more that’s awful

on rails can get very boring but in all honesty i’ll take a passionate developer doing an on rails game then another triple a open world game

skimming through it and he make great points, agree with pretty much everything. Need to replay 1

Mulan hallways you def makes some good points here. you tried beating the first one on hard tho? damn near like a Souls game

Now that’s it on PC I’m sure mods will smooth out the clunkiness that people say keeps them from revisiting it more often.

That’s what I kinda like about it. Roll, block, hard weighty hits, some magic here and there. Same sort of patterns. It’s got the things I like about Souls games without the tedious draw backs. Like I said I’m being way too hard on 2, it’s still really fun and will always be huge for me. I was in 5th grade when that came out and it was massive for me lol.

I’d go so far as to say that a truly great narrative in gaming needs to be on rails to some extent.

Even a very good game like Ghost of Tsushima suffered from a lack of immersion if you just sort of f***ed off and did side quests.

I think the left hand power-ups are very cool, but the gunplay itself feels just like you're clicking on things, even the original Doom had a better sense of weight to weapons, the worldbuilding in those games is definitely incredible though and I wouldn't say they're bad overall at all

lol dude clearly free af in whatever he tried to play.

well said

i feel like we’re a few years away from that dream like vision of a truly free game and i’m sure rockstar will be the ones to do it

but for now i still think an immersive story is the best way to approach video games and like u said it involves a good amount of « hand holding »

i think mgs v against its predecessors is a good example of this tension between a great narrative and great gameplay

it has the best gameplay of the series no doubt but it’s obvious it had to sacrifice a lot of story. a lot of people just blamed it on industry drama and that’s real. but at the same time i don’t think people have enough empathy to the dev team who had to figure out how to make this clunky spy game with tons of lore translate into a modern video game experience. i feel like they did really well with the big expectations.

what’s most interesting about that game is that it actually integrated player choice with narrative with the casssette tapes. it was done really well, it’s obvious why he picked a big movie star and the best voice actors in the industry. the cassettes are really good and have a great incentive to make players find them and listen to them since there’s not many cutscenes. also so many people hated the long cutscenes !

i just don’t think players understand what they really want from video games.

the combat in Bioshock feels awful mostly, you’re def right about that

Infinite combat tho

when you first meet the flood

Can I offer Majora's Mask as a counterpoint?

fromsoft is the best developer for the last 10 years

It’s not even like the challenging part is what turns me off though. Like yeah they can be at times of course but I just don’t really find them that entertaining after a while.

Could be just me though

And dark souls too

arkham knight was the best in the trilogy

dark souls series are overrated and the only reason they are good is because of the atmosphere and world provided. everything else is mid

also most videogame writing sucks ass

spoken exactly like someone who is mad they’re so f***ing trash at Souls games