Kingdom Hearts (PlayStation 2, 2002)

I bought KH and KH2 at the same time with the intent of playing them back to back. I'm still in the middle of KH with over 24 hours logged, (some of those are idle hours, though, like when I have to answer the phone lol). I'm a casual gamer, and I love this game. It's challenging enough for an older player like myself, yet still fun for the kiddos. I thoroughly enjoy the story line and the characters are endearing.

A couple things that I noticed during play:

First thing that gets me really peeved is the camera angles. When you HAVE to make critical jumps off narrow ledges, most of the time you have to jump blind, even after lining Sora up in first person mode. It's very frustrating.

The next thing that is mildly frustrating is the lack of stores/ability to purchase potions. When you are fighting really tough baddie-laddies and you have to share you potions between the three characters, you can really go through them and where can you restock?? You can't unless you're in Traverse Town. At one world, I had to run around all the rooms and kill all the baddie-laddies again just to collect potions which were few and far between... and I'm sitting on over $5000 munny!! ~grrr

Last thing I don't like about the game is the stupid Gummi ship. I ran through the tutorial, I read the strat guide... I still can't figure out how to upgrade the ship. And flying from one world to the next is dreadfully boring and tedious, I cringe whenever it's time to travel. Travelling could've been done a little better. Even an evade option to quickly get you to the next world would've been cool, (like what they did on Jade Empire).

Despite my complaints, this still is a very good game. Very addictive play. *looks at laundry piled up* I highly recommend it for any age and for any level of gamer. I'm heartily looking forward to playing KH2, where I hope some of the above issues are addressed. :)