![]() ![]() Another highlight also takes its inspiration from the past, though - the even further past, in fact, with the Timeless River section adopting the black and white styling of Steamboat Willie and even turning Sora's companions back into their original character designs. All three of those are excellently realised, and boast characters and mini-plotlines which tie in superbly with the movies which inspired them - in fact, Pirates of the Carribean is one of the highlights of the game, and we also hugely enjoyed the uniquely stylised Tron "Space Paranoids" environment, although we're not sure how many people in KH2's target demographic will have the slightest concept of what Tron actually is. As you'd expect, the game draws in a variety of new environments taken from Disney properties which weren't covered last time around - most notably Tron, Mulan, and Pirates of the Carribean. So - that storyline, characters and environments stuff, then. The Gummi Ship sections in the original game were most definitely broken, and they have been comprehensively fixed - gold stars all round. The ugly, Lego-brick construction of your ship in the first game has also been improved, and this time around it's actually fun collecting parts to upgrade the ship and then trying out your new creation. In the first game, these were utterly dreadful they have been improved beyond measure in KH2, and now take the form of an excellent 3D space shoot-'em-up which draws many cues from Nintendo's Starfox series. The developers do, however, win a significant positive mark for the other form of combat in the game - the Gummi Ship sections, which take the form of a space combat game played when you transition between different worlds. This is a game all about characters, environments, and storylines, and given that, the slightly weak combat can be forgiven - especially since we'd far prefer to see a game like this err on the side of being too easy, rather than being too frustrating. That being said, Kingdom Hearts II - like many of Square Enix' games - probably isn't a game you're delving into for the combat system anyway. ![]()
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