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Have purchased a used copy of Kingdom Hearts. Have succeeded in reinforcing that I suck at video games - although, since I hate Kairi, losing the race in the beginning to Riku is not actually worrying me. Have also thoroughly succeeded making myself seasick from the shifting viewpoint.

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Ahh, Kingdom Hearts. My first RPG, so I have a soft spot for it like whoa.

Do you have a good walkthrough? 'Cause, you can make it easier on yourself depending on how you answer the questions at the very beginning of the game. If you didn't know how to tilt the odds in your favor, you might find it helpful to go back and do so while you're still at a point where it won't be horrible to catch back up to where you were.

I don't really like resorting to walkthroughs because it feels like cheating, mostly because I've never actually finished a full computer game in my entire life without obtaining a cheat book or something. I bought a PS2 about 8 months ago as soemthign I can entertain myself with, but I massively suck at everything. XD

Mind you, it hasn't stopped me from doing looking up a walkthrough online because I couldn't find one item, so I looked it up and once the nausea subsides, I'm going back just so I can clear this scenario/level/whatever you want to call it, then will stop for tonight. But gaming it to produce better odds for me feels a bit like cheating. I'll probably never make it through, but oh well. That's familiar to me. :)

But if I can just stop feeling like I'm going to throw up, life will be so much better. :P

XD Nah, it's not cheating - there's just three leveling-up difficulty settings. I've been using the easiest one in my current game because I'm playing it with a kid friend of mine who has no patience for long leveling sprees. ;) All it means is you don't have to pour as much time into leveling as you might have otherwise.

And hey, for all you know you already have that setting. Do you remember what 'time of day' your adventure began at, according to the very very first part of the game?

Heh - honestly, I don't remember. :D

I've never met anyone who liked her...tho' the humanitarian in me says she could stay around as Riku and Sora's gardener or something :P I luv kingdom hearts from the opening song to the end :okay so my sister actually beat it,and she's already beat 2 as well: i've been meaning to go back and finish but afraid of becoming addicted again...

I love the way Sora jumps. I often make him jump for no reason whatsoever.

Riku has not endeared himself to me yet. I think I've got a major thing against his giant rubber waders.

And Kairi's head is too big.

I like Kairi, although that's probably due to the fact that in my head she's gone from potential girlfriend to faghag.

I'm pretty much playing Sora as ten years old and still in the "girls have cooties!" stage. XD He makes much more sense to me that way.

Sora jumps like a frog X3

Mannn I suck at that game.. I rarely can play though since it's my bro's... but sometimes these kind of games wear on me and I start feeling like I've been in a car for too long x____x;

I suck at Katamari Damacy. :D And get seasick if I do it too long.

I decided to try an RPG-type game, for once since I can't do combat-heavy button-mashers because my RSI flares up and makes my wrist hurt badly. If I like it, I'll look for others.

*cough* KH is a lot of button mashing. >>;

It's sort of halfway between a (very light) action game and an RPG. A true RPG is turn-based and mostly involves picking action choices from a menu rather than active combat as in KH. I have a friend who can't do the twitch games for a somewhat similar reason, though, and she can juuuuuuust handle KH. Standard RPGs, though, are no problem for her.

It's been doing OK so far. I tried SOul Calibur II once, and twenty minutes of that absolutely killed my wrist.

I stayed on the beach at the island and killed a bunch of those things that, since I used to read The Maxx, my brain persists in calling "Isz." Leveled up there to 7, then got bored and went through the door. I'm in Traverse Town now, and doing some more random leveling. :D

Oh, I remember the seasick-shifting perspective of that one. Oy. Never managed to finish it - the endless sequence of helpless and mostly brainless women needing rescue by manly heroes pissed me off too much.

If you decide to try other RPGs later, though, I've got plenty of recs. :)

I also suck at videogames so don't feel bad! Kingdom hearts gets more fun when you actually get to where you can smack on the bad guys. I got through a lot on my own, but for some of the harder stuff I gave the controller to my boyfriend to play. I ended up stuck in Atlantis though.

Oh god, Atlantica (and Neverland, to a somewhat lesser degree). As if navigating in two dimensions wasn't bad enough...

Oh yes. ( I didn't do neverland.) Atlantica was like upppppppp, dowwwwwwnnnn, bump into a bunch of stuff, grunt in frustration and pass off the controller.

Ug. I shall endeavor to stay away from games where I navigate in 3D.

I have that motion sickness thing with videogames also. I can't tell if it is because the games are really too wobbly or if it is because I am (shudder) old now.
It's probably the stupid wobbly games. X(

I goofed and posted this three times :P

:D I noticed that if I'm hungry, the seasick thing gets real bad real fast.

I finished Marathon and Marathon 2 on the Mac; I might have asked my brother for some hints, but probably didn't cheat otherwise. I finished Halo on the Mac (years after it came out on XBox and the PC) without cheating. I finished Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance on the XBox, and did it the hard way: I didn't learn how to use a shield (ouch!) the first time through. I had to refer to cheatsheets to get through Silent Hill 2. I finished the next Baldur's Gate without cheating.

I recently bought a PC so that I could play Half-Life 2. After an initial attempt, I have yet to go back to it. See, it made me seasick. And it's not even all that wobbly, plus I thought it was peripheral vision that primarily contributed to seasickness, and at the time, I had my monitor rotated to portrait mode.

I really should try it again....

Hey, I got motion sick, too!

Also, Kairi is annoying.

since I hate Kairi

:< ...well, okay, in KH1 I can understand, I didn't have much of an opinion on her in that one, but. ...I like making the ":<" face. So there.

Also, you picked probably one of the worst possible game series for someone who says they suck at games and has wrist problems that flare up with button mashing. >D;;

Also also: ...wait, you play video games?

I play video games badly. I own about five, and I have yet to get very far in any of them, despite having had them for almost a year. I know myself, though, and only buy games used.

Frankly, I've gotten farther in KH than I have in any other game not counting the poker game, because that's not constructed to be a game with a goal other than playing poker, and the button-mashing in KH is nothing compared to Soul Calibur II. SCII is nothing *but* button-mashing, while in KH I get to run around a lot and look at things and every so often get a long cut scene in which I do nothing but sit and rest my hands. My forearms hurt worse than my wrist, and I've got 4.5 hours of gameplay on it. 20 minutes of SCII had me in serious pain.

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