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OutPhase · 2006-04-13, 14:42

So, my brother and sister got the game. I have noticed something: This game is almost begging to be MSTed. With sure voices and dialogue, it'd be hard not to make fun of the cinemas. One of the people for Organization XIII sounds like he's really high, puberty kicked Sora in the throat with no mercy, and other stuff, y'know? *snicker*

I would play it, but the epilogue turns me off. I don't want to play as Roxas. He's such a faggy-boy and I want him to burn in hell. There's another reason: my sister threatened me to leave the PS2 at home instead of taking it to my dad's overnight.

Zero Shinohara · 2006-04-13, 17:14

I actually found Sora's voice to fit the character pretty well (US version, that is. Haven't played the JP), specially since in the game's timeline it's passed a year since the first game.

Pipp-ORK · 2006-04-13, 19:06

Yeah, Sora's voice is okay, but I prefer his KH1 voice. :P In KH2 he sounds kinda like he has a sore-throat, or something.

Haha, when you first began playing as Sora (after the Roxas thing), I was all, "YES!!!"

;-; <------ Tears of JOY, man, JOY.

DarkCntry · 2006-04-14, 01:42

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Originally Posted by Pipp-ORK

Yeah, Sora's voice is okay, but I prefer his KH1 voice. :P In KH2 he sounds kinda like he has a sore-throat, or something.

Haha, when you first began playing as Sora (after the Roxas thing), I was all, "YES!!!"

;-; <------ Tears of JOY, man, JOY.

Mind you, Sora's voice is still Haley Joel Osment, so I guess it's equally as fitting that seeing as Sora aged, so did Haley Joel.

StarCreator · 2006-04-14, 11:07

I would have preferred they actually hired an actor that has already had a voice change rather than Osment - if I recall, the JP voices never changed, as Sora already had a post-pubescent voice. Osment sounds almost exactly like him now, too - but I wish he had always sounded like that.

iceyfw · 2006-04-14, 19:28

ouch when riku got hit on the side from ansem.

i hope there is a kh3.. =

ruchik · 2006-04-15, 06:36

in spoiler tags just in case....an actual interview with nomura.

Spoiler for for secret ending:

After the ending, there's a secret movie this time, too. What exactly is the movie trying to tell?
I actually have a solid idea on what the movie's setting will be in my head. In the previous game's secret movie, I wasn't even sure if I would be making a sequel or not, so some parts of it were quite vague. But this time I already have an idea my head where I think "This is it."

Around the end there was a scene where a character that's not Sora (Kairi) held a keyblade, so does that mean they have the nature to be a Chosen One?
I wonder? There are still more backgrounds of the keyblade that haven't been revealed. I'm still going around that, so I can't say anything much about it. But it's true that scene is hinting something.

The secret movie had something to do with keyblades, too.
Yes. I wanted to hide the faces of the people who showed up in there.

Did that scene happen in the future or in the past?
I would at least say it's an episode in the past, but.... Hmm, how should I say this? It's in the past but you can also think it's in the future, something like that.

Does that mean the players know of these people?
I just haven't drawn their faces. (laugh) I can't hide their faces with black hoods like in KH:FM's secret movie, too. Who knows what kind of grudges I'll invite if I just change the hood's colour. (laugh) That's why I chose armours. First I only drew the atmosphere and the rest is done by the staff. But FF12 has Judge in armour so I made a more heroic design for them.

Who are the 3 armoured people? (In a More Recent Interview)
Those 3 are completely new people who haven't shown up at all. In fact, I've already thought of their names. Back when I was making that movie, I only had their settings but now I've even drawn their faces to give myself a clearer image of them.

The king, Sora and Riku's keyblades were there, too.
It's to show that those three armoured people aren't them but that doesn't mean they don't have connections. The words "Keyblade War" that showed up in the middle were to implicate that there were fights between Keyblades. Most of the puzzles in the first KH have been solved in KHII but there are many things about the Keyblade that haven't been revealed yet. A line from the previous game's Ansem Report #8 appeared in the movie but that is to say "It means this but it's not explained yet."

Does that mean you already have a plot for KHIII?
Hmm... I have an idea but it can't be helped because my team are planning to work on our next different title. So we're not working on KHIII now and we're not planning to work on it for some time, too. I have a plot in my head but I'm not sure if it'll be released to the world or just stay in there.

wsheit · 2006-04-15, 22:44

Hey...I just started playing KH2 tonight and I need an answer about the difficulty levels.

I'm not sure whether to stick with hard or switch to normal.

I played the original KH on hard but never finished it....I got stuck around the point where Beast fights with you...it just got to the point where tons of leveling seemed necessary...that or uncanny playing skill. So I don't want a difficulty that will prevent me from playing the game.

That said, I've heard a lot of reviewers saying that KH2 is too easy. In fact, one review talked about how they button-mashed on normal without looking at the screen and often found that they'd won fights. I like some challenge and don't mind some leveling. I play most games on hard and breeze through them....as I've heard some say, "hard is the new normal."

It would seem I should just go with hard, right? Thing is (swallow pride), I'm having some difficulty with the first boss on hard (pride mode). Now...the game doesn't give any opportunities to really level before this, so my guess is that future difficulties can be eased with some leveling. Still, should I stick with hard if I'm having difficulties here? Is normal as easy as reviewers say?

MODS: I'd put this in the KH2 thread, but it reeks of spoilers....even stuff that isn't in spoiler boxes.

Nightengale · 2006-04-15, 22:56

Having trouble with the first boss even on Proud?

Even though Sora's somewhat easier to use compared to Roxas, I'd say you're better off playing Easy or Normal. While this game does indeed need less of a levelling compared to KH, it all boils down to how good you are with action games and your reaction time.

And the only reason this game looks somewhat easier is due to Forms and Single button reactions. If this game has multi-button reactions, it'd be way harder.

wsheit · 2006-04-16, 00:02

hmm.....nevermind...I just realized that you could make enemies respawn by leaving the area. after 5-10 minutes of leveling, he was nothing.

Mods...I guess you can close this....sorry for the bother

Zero Shinohara · 2006-04-16, 00:38

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And the only reason this game looks somewhat easier is due to Forms and Single button reactions. If this game has multi-button reactions, it'd be way harder.

Though not much of a challenge, that happens on Atlantida. Still pretty fun to beat.

iceyfw · 2006-04-16, 00:51

awesome... but where did you the informationfrom?

SweetHoney · 2006-04-16, 01:03

Must say Kh2 is WAY better than number 1 and Riku is to die for in Kh2 Also like to say Roxas was ok but after a while he got annoying as for the secret ending a field of keyblades looks nice

@Tia. Nice Riku avatar guessing you like him to Yay another Riku fan ^^

Zero Shinohara · 2006-04-16, 01:03

Yeah, definetly awesome.

Even it's a small light of hope, it's bette than nothing, right fellas? :P

OutPhase · 2006-04-16, 09:42

Earth day, Day one, Razer's log:

Due to my laziness to use a mod to play IIDX, I played KH2 for three hours. I am not past the part of playing Roxas, or as my siblings and I dubbed him, "Faggy boy". I am grateful for being done playing Faggy boy, and perhaps the game will go uphill from this point onward. There are too many cinemas throughout the game, and I am forever grateful
for the "Skip scene" option, for it has saved me much time.

The new Gummi Ship challanges are quite fun this time around instead of annoying. I am amazed by the work they put into traveling from world-to-world for the sequel. I am greatly impressed by the improvement.

End transmission.

Renesis-C · 2006-04-16, 10:20

Just Finished the game. Thoughts:

1) Like the reviews online have stated, the battles have losed a bit of their spark from the first KH1. I'm not exactly sure why, there's alot more going on screen, more abilities (less magic and summons though, but i didn't use them much in no.1 anyway), enemies are not as "push over" as the reviews suggest (not hard though). I think for hardcore fans (i.e me and I guess everyone else here) this small thing won't matter, like, it's not as if the battles sucked. I'm also not sure about the whole camera issue, In both 1 and 2, i'd never needed to adjust the camera. Ever.

2) AWESOME, I repeat, AWESOME story. This alone kept me going late into the night. It was well worth the initial confusion to continue and beat the game.

3) Animations. In game was probably just a step foward, Opening and Ending were pretty giant leaps. Thumbs up.

4) Gummi ship is ALOT better than before.

5) Liked how the characters "grew" and not just Sora (i.e Cloud).

The awesome and the very intriguing plot alone made this game one of my favourites ever. But it didn't go as high up on my list as i would have hoped, that's because of the battle system and the linear way in which the game plays (alot more linear than in Kh1 and that was linear too).
Still, I have no regrets pouring 27 or so hours into the game (I did most of the side quest stuff, but not every single one) and would happily do it again.

Sadly I didn't get the secret ending (so i have no idea what the last few pages of posts are on about). But, I hope there is a KH3, because it's such a great idea (disney vs square-enix) and it'd give the makers a chance to get everything perfect, not to mention how awesome it'd be on PS3.

Kaito · 2006-04-16, 10:35

This game is still not out yet in the Netherlands. I believe we have to wait till the end of october. I want to play it so bad.

Zero Shinohara · 2006-04-16, 10:41

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There are too many cinemas throughout the game, and I am forever grateful
for the "Skip scene" option, for it has saved me much time.

OH MY GOD, THAT WAS THE BEST IMPROVEMENT EVER!

Seriously, having to go through the entire scenes when you die just SUCK. Example is

Spoiler:

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Sadly I didn't get the secret ending (so i have no idea what the last few pages of posts are on about). But, I hope there is a KH3, because it's such a great idea (disney vs square-enix) and it'd give the makers a chance to get everything perfect, not to mention how awesome it'd be on PS3.

Youtube amazing is, young padawan. Just do a search and you'll find a lot.

sinistral · 2006-04-16, 18:25

Completed KHII yesterday. I am very glad to play Proud Mode because it seriously sucks trying to get 100% for the Jiminy's Journal(collect this number of shard/stone/gem).

Thought that it didn't really close the story, thus opening a path for a sequel.

StarCreator · 2006-04-16, 20:06

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Originally Posted by Renesis-C

Like the reviews online have stated, the battles have losed a bit of their spark from the first KH1. I'm not exactly sure why, there's alot more going on screen, more abilities (less magic and summons though, but i didn't use them much in no.1 anyway), enemies are not as "push over" as the reviews suggest (not hard though). I think for hardcore fans (i.e me and I guess everyone else here) this small thing won't matter, like, it's not as if the battles sucked. I'm also not sure about the whole camera issue, In both 1 and 2, i'd never needed to adjust the camera. Ever.

I personally thought battles were -more- dynamic than before - there's a level of interactivity that wasn't there before. In the first game, battles were little more than mashing the X (or O for imports) key - even the added specials in Final Mix were little more than randomly-activating tack-ons to standard combos. KH2 had a much larger degree of variety - not only with the interactivity prompts, but with the ability to use different attacks within combos - I had fun coming up with custom strings, alternating between the X (O) and Square keys to keep things from getting boring.

2006-04-13, 17:14	Link #142
Zero Shinohara I'll keep walking. Artist Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: This is FLORIDAAAAAAaaa Age: 37	I actually found Sora's voice to fit the character pretty well (US version, that is. Haven't played the JP), specially since in the game's timeline it's passed a year since the first game. __________________ Sometimes I look back and think to myself, "how the hell did I manage to screw this up?"

2006-04-14, 11:07	Link #145
StarCreator HnK founding lunatic Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Maryland, USA Age: 41	I would have preferred they actually hired an actor that has already had a voice change rather than Osment - if I recall, the JP voices never changed, as Sora already had a post-pubescent voice. Osment sounds almost exactly like him now, too - but I wish he had always sounded like that. __________________ * StarCreator * Hikari no Kiseki

2006-04-15, 22:44	Link #148
wsheit Combating Spoiler Scum Join Date: Nov 2003 Age: 40	Specific KH2 Non-Spoiler Question.... Hey...I just started playing KH2 tonight and I need an answer about the difficulty levels. I'm not sure whether to stick with hard or switch to normal. I played the original KH on hard but never finished it....I got stuck around the point where Beast fights with you...it just got to the point where tons of leveling seemed necessary...that or uncanny playing skill. So I don't want a difficulty that will prevent me from playing the game. That said, I've heard a lot of reviewers saying that KH2 is too easy. In fact, one review talked about how they button-mashed on normal without looking at the screen and often found that they'd won fights. I like some challenge and don't mind some leveling. I play most games on hard and breeze through them....as I've heard some say, "hard is the new normal." It would seem I should just go with hard, right? Thing is (swallow pride), I'm having some difficulty with the first boss on hard (pride mode). Now...the game doesn't give any opportunities to really level before this, so my guess is that future difficulties can be eased with some leveling. Still, should I stick with hard if I'm having difficulties here? Is normal as easy as reviewers say? MODS: I'd put this in the KH2 thread, but it reeks of spoilers....even stuff that isn't in spoiler boxes. __________________

2006-04-16, 00:02	Link #150
wsheit Combating Spoiler Scum Join Date: Nov 2003 Age: 40	hmm.....nevermind...I just realized that you could make enemies respawn by leaving the area. after 5-10 minutes of leveling, he was nothing. Mods...I guess you can close this....sorry for the bother __________________

2006-04-16, 01:03	Link #153
SweetHoney ~Nanchatte Renai Scanlator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Australia Age: 30	Must say Kh2 is WAY better than number 1 and Riku is to die for in Kh2 Also like to say Roxas was ok but after a while he got annoying as for the secret ending a field of keyblades looks nice @Tia. Nice Riku avatar guessing you like him to Yay another Riku fan ^^ __________________

2006-04-13, 14:42	Link #141
OutPhase Lord Chairman God King Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Do you really give a damn?	So, my brother and sister got the game. I have noticed something: This game is almost begging to be MSTed. With sure voices and dialogue, it'd be hard not to make fun of the cinemas. One of the people for Organization XIII sounds like he's really high, puberty kicked Sora in the throat with no mercy, and other stuff, y'know? snicker I would play it, but the epilogue turns me off. I don't want to play as Roxas. He's such a faggy-boy and I want him to burn in hell. There's another reason: my sister threatened me to leave the PS2 at home instead of taking it to my dad's overnight.

2006-04-13, 19:06	Link #143
Pipp-ORK Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2006	Yeah, Sora's voice is okay, but I prefer his KH1 voice. :P In KH2 he sounds kinda like he has a sore-throat, or something. Haha, when you first began playing as Sora (after the Roxas thing), I was all, "YES!!!" ;-; <------ Tears of JOY, man, JOY.

2006-04-14, 19:28	Link #146
iceyfw Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Age: 35	ouch when riku got hit on the side from ansem. i hope there is a kh3.. =

2006-04-15, 06:36	Link #147
ruchik Member Join Date: Jan 2006	in spoiler tags just in case....an actual interview with nomura. Spoiler for for secret ending: After the ending, there's a secret movie this time, too. What exactly is the movie trying to tell? I actually have a solid idea on what the movie's setting will be in my head. In the previous game's secret movie, I wasn't even sure if I would be making a sequel or not, so some parts of it were quite vague. But this time I already have an idea my head where I think "This is it." Around the end there was a scene where a character that's not Sora (Kairi) held a keyblade, so does that mean they have the nature to be a Chosen One? I wonder? There are still more backgrounds of the keyblade that haven't been revealed. I'm still going around that, so I can't say anything much about it. But it's true that scene is hinting something. The secret movie had something to do with keyblades, too. Yes. I wanted to hide the faces of the people who showed up in there. Did that scene happen in the future or in the past? I would at least say it's an episode in the past, but.... Hmm, how should I say this? It's in the past but you can also think it's in the future, something like that. Does that mean the players know of these people? I just haven't drawn their faces. (laugh) I can't hide their faces with black hoods like in KH:FM's secret movie, too. Who knows what kind of grudges I'll invite if I just change the hood's colour. (laugh) That's why I chose armours. First I only drew the atmosphere and the rest is done by the staff. But FF12 has Judge in armour so I made a more heroic design for them. Who are the 3 armoured people? (In a More Recent Interview) Those 3 are completely new people who haven't shown up at all. In fact, I've already thought of their names. Back when I was making that movie, I only had their settings but now I've even drawn their faces to give myself a clearer image of them. The king, Sora and Riku's keyblades were there, too. It's to show that those three armoured people aren't them but that doesn't mean they don't have connections. The words "Keyblade War" that showed up in the middle were to implicate that there were fights between Keyblades. Most of the puzzles in the first KH have been solved in KHII but there are many things about the Keyblade that haven't been revealed yet. A line from the previous game's Ansem Report #8 appeared in the movie but that is to say "It means this but it's not explained yet." Does that mean you already have a plot for KHIII? Hmm... I have an idea but it can't be helped because my team are planning to work on our next different title. So we're not working on KHIII now and we're not planning to work on it for some time, too. I have a plot in my head but I'm not sure if it'll be released to the world or just stay in there.

2006-04-15, 22:56	Link #149
Nightengale ~Night of Gales~ Author Join Date: Dec 2005	Having trouble with the first boss even on Proud? Even though Sora's somewhat easier to use compared to Roxas, I'd say you're better off playing Easy or Normal. While this game does indeed need less of a levelling compared to KH, it all boils down to how good you are with action games and your reaction time. And the only reason this game looks somewhat easier is due to Forms and Single button reactions. If this game has multi-button reactions, it'd be way harder.

2006-04-16, 00:51	Link #152
iceyfw Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Age: 35	awesome... but where did you the informationfrom?

2006-04-16, 01:03	Link #154
Zero Shinohara I'll keep walking. Artist Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: This is FLORIDAAAAAAaaa Age: 37	Yeah, definetly awesome. Even it's a small light of hope, it's bette than nothing, right fellas? :P __________________ Sometimes I look back and think to myself, "how the hell did I manage to screw this up?"

2006-04-16, 09:42	Link #155
OutPhase Lord Chairman God King Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Do you really give a damn?	Earth day, Day one, Razer's log: Due to my laziness to use a mod to play IIDX, I played KH2 for three hours. I am not past the part of playing Roxas, or as my siblings and I dubbed him, "Faggy boy". I am grateful for being done playing Faggy boy, and perhaps the game will go uphill from this point onward. There are too many cinemas throughout the game, and I am forever grateful for the "Skip scene" option, for it has saved me much time. The new Gummi Ship challanges are quite fun this time around instead of annoying. I am amazed by the work they put into traveling from world-to-world for the sequel. I am greatly impressed by the improvement. End transmission.

2006-04-16, 10:20	Link #156
Renesis-C Senior Member...? Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia	Just Finished the game. Thoughts: 1) Like the reviews online have stated, the battles have losed a bit of their spark from the first KH1. I'm not exactly sure why, there's alot more going on screen, more abilities (less magic and summons though, but i didn't use them much in no.1 anyway), enemies are not as "push over" as the reviews suggest (not hard though). I think for hardcore fans (i.e me and I guess everyone else here) this small thing won't matter, like, it's not as if the battles sucked. I'm also not sure about the whole camera issue, In both 1 and 2, i'd never needed to adjust the camera. Ever. 2) AWESOME, I repeat, AWESOME story. This alone kept me going late into the night. It was well worth the initial confusion to continue and beat the game. 3) Animations. In game was probably just a step foward, Opening and Ending were pretty giant leaps. Thumbs up. 4) Gummi ship is ALOT better than before. 5) Liked how the characters "grew" and not just Sora (i.e Cloud). The awesome and the very intriguing plot alone made this game one of my favourites ever. But it didn't go as high up on my list as i would have hoped, that's because of the battle system and the linear way in which the game plays (alot more linear than in Kh1 and that was linear too). Still, I have no regrets pouring 27 or so hours into the game (I did most of the side quest stuff, but not every single one) and would happily do it again. Sadly I didn't get the secret ending (so i have no idea what the last few pages of posts are on about). But, I hope there is a KH3, because it's such a great idea (disney vs square-enix) and it'd give the makers a chance to get everything perfect, not to mention how awesome it'd be on PS3.

2006-04-16, 10:35	Link #157
Kaito Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2006	This game is still not out yet in the Netherlands. I believe we have to wait till the end of october. I want to play it so bad.

2006-04-16, 18:25	Link #159
sinistral SOS団 Join Date: Oct 2004	Completed KHII yesterday. I am very glad to play Proud Mode because it seriously sucks trying to get 100% for the Jiminy's Journal(collect this number of shard/stone/gem). Thought that it didn't really close the story, thus opening a path for a sequel.