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yep im with you 1000% of the way esto

My opinion of KH1 has always been that it's greater than the sum of its parts. It's not amazing at any one given thing but when those not amazing things are put together in a single package it becomes amazing overall.

Honestly a kh1 remake with everything improved would be the definitive KH game therefore the cowards will never make it :animeSip:

you have the postcards, Dalmatians quest, trinities, minigames, cups, synthesis, a real sense of progression and leveling up, explorable worlds that to this day people still can get lost in

Which to me is funnily the inverse of KH3, a game which has many individually amazing parts but doesn't measure up when considered as a whole. In my subjective Ottijective opinion anyway.

plus party AI that actually does something

it overall sticks to the things a JRPG should do, but adds in that real time combat to make it still feel fun

It baffles me KH1 still has the best party members

while KH2 onwards, it just focused on the combat

And Donald actually gets all the magic

Kh1 had a lot of things:

which is fine for those types of people but

Story, exploration, characters

Goofy is an actual tank with MP Gift and Donald gets higher order magic and can sweep rounds in cups with thundaga

I mean Kh2 is great but it didn’t need to forget certain things that KH1 did right

unskippable cutscenes that often last for two minutes or more

while even in Proud mode, all your party members die in KH3 no matter how beefy you make them

> I mean Kh2 is great but it didn’t need to forget certain things that KH1 did right
I think Biz hit the nail on the head when he said that fans need to be careful with how they voice their criticism

Because many fans back then complained at KH1's platforming when even though it wasn't exactly stellar, it wasn't absolute garbage as it's sometimes portrayed. But the fierce complaint led to platforming being essentially removed from KH2, until the fans that actually liked platforming complained and led to Square re-adding it to Cavern of Remembrance

Are we forgetting we got perfect platforming in a modern KH game?

0.2

But then like that begs the question to me, like what was the reception to CoR anyways?

Baller

Dont get me wrong, by end game KH2 sora feels amazing
but note "end game"

People loved CoR

like instantly

that theme tho

it was a great blend of movement tech + music + actually hard mobs

even came back as a techno remix in remind