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*Spoilers for the walking dead season 3*

Seriously this was genuinely one of the things that I was looking forward to most and they don't even fix it, I use to think they couldn't make them circular because of the restrictions of the ps2, but now I'm starting to think Sora enjoys being uncomfortable and starches his clothes every morning.

I live in the UK and so we got it a few days before America, didn't really make much difference though seeing as my mother booked us to go on holiday during when it was released and so I had to spend four days after the release knowing that my pre-order was sitting on the doormat at home, calling out for me. It was a 12 hour drive home each way though including ferry and so during that time though I managed to get in some serious playtime and completed days and re:coded while I was there (to my horror the day before I left I realised that my copy of birth by sleep was missing and I basically spent that whole night crying. Anyway, I got back from my holiday and on the drive home I had been dying for a pee, but there it was in all it's glory, my brand new copy of Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance, with just about a centimetre of packaging paper between me and it. I decided to rip open the packaging paper, take out the game and watch the opening cinematic while I was sitting on the toilet, and may I say I do not regret that decision at all, the moment I saw all the Keyblade wielders  standing at the Keyblade Graveyard I knew that this game was going to be freaking amazing.

  So I got off the toilet (extremely relieved and excited to play the game with empty bowels) and began actually playing the game, and may I say what a game it is. It takes quite a while for the story to pick up, but when it does, bloody hell it does. Nomura seems to finally be interested in giving us a few answers rather than giving us unanswered questions. During the Disney worlds the story seems to have more content in Sora's side of the story, but at the end that just gets turned on it's head and Riku suddenly becomes the hero of the story. I loved how in the game you get to see how much of an idiot Sora really is because you never really get to realise it before this until you compare him to Riku ("What's your name?" "Dream eaters!!!" "That's a weird name").

I also love the new addition of the world ends with you characters, they seem to lighten up the mood a lot in the dark and dreary Traverse Town with the way Shiki is all flirty with Riku and he is just clueless, and just how much of an idiot Beat is. The only negative thing I can really say about them is that I think Neku's character developed a bit to quickly, he only really remains a hardass for the first few minutes of the world and then suddenly he's just like "YAY I'M SO HAPPY EVERYBODY'S MY FRIEND". The world that I was really looking forward to seeing the most though was The Grid and I feel a little let down, I loved Space Paranoids in Kingdom Hearts 2 and I loved the Tron: Legacy movie, but somehow I just thought it was really boring.

  I like how there's a steady shift of power between the flowmotion attacks and Combat commands because it really keeps the game fresh rather than just having you bouncing off of walls for most of the game (to be honest I probably still wouldn't have gotten bored of it). At times I liked the idea of more wide open areas so that you could use more flowmotion attacks but at times I just found myself sprinting for the nearest wall because all of my combat commands were loading up and I had to quickly get rid of the enemies. There are loads of people saying that they don't like the drop system but personally, I love it, I'd usually drop just before a boss battle, kill a load of dream eaters and rack up a load of drop points until I drop back to the other one and become basically indestructible and destroy the boss.

  I thought that having spirits as your new party members was a great idea, especially being able to pet them, although when I first started playing it I found myself making weird cutesy noises until I remembered that I have family members in the other room who would probably be able to hear me, so then out of embarrassment I just left them alone for a while. I thought it was cool how badass some of the last dream eaters you can make are and it was an epic feeling just beating down the final boss with two freaking huge ass dinosaurs at my side.

  I decided that I was going to attempt, for the first time to go for 100% completion this time, but I came to a difficulty somewhere down the line, when I realised that I was going to have to collect all of the dream eaters, which would mean that I would need friends which, unfortunately, I don't have...naaaaaaah, I'm just kidding, but the only friend of mine who is a Kingdom Hearts fan can't afford a 3DS right now and so I'm kinda stumped. I did however manage to find all of the chests with a lot of help from decimo's guides (thanks A LOT by the way) and I beat all of the special and secret portals which took a hell of a long time seeing as you have to keep dropping between Sora and Riku if you want to get them all.

The secret ending, message, and the stuff in the credits however is now wishing that I could time travel SO THAT I COULD ALREADY HAVE GODDAMN KINGDOM HEARTS III (DAMN YOU NOMURAAAAAA)

Overall this game is definitely my second favourite Kingdom Hearts game however it doesn't even hold a candle to Kingdom Hearts II

Why does Kairi have to fight, I mean did you see her in KH2, it was just like she was waving the keyblade around and hoping to hit something. Why doesn't Yen Sid just take up his keyblade again, because, come on, he must be pretty damn bad ass with one and if we're ever gonna get to see the chance to see him fight, this is it.

doesn't matter, I got them all and got myself a brand new shiny trophy

Never mind, in immortal words of Beat "I gots this yo"

Now in American English:

I have not spoiled myself for Kingdom Hearts 3D yet, but I was just wondering if they used any of that punk music in the soundtrack [on The Grid?]. They probably didn't, but if they did, then that would be firetrucking amazing!

The only thing there that's more correct is that I didn't put Kingdom Hearts 3D in capitals

I'm going to use a quote by Jim Jeffries
"I'm not scared of dying, because I'm an atheist. I won't even know I'm dead. You know why? Because I'll be f**kin' dead"

That pretty much sums up my feelings although I am terrified of death, probably because I can't really understand the concept of just not existing, I think of it more as just seeing, hearing and feeling eternal darkness and still being concious of time passing by.

I guess I don't believe in religion because to me it just seems a bit like blackmail, the one thing that humans can never really know what awaits them on the other side and there are multiple different groups offering salvation and yet you can never truly know which ones are right or wrong and it's basically just like flipping a coin to see if you go to hell or not. And I guess me being atheist is sort of like me making my own stand against these things, taking a risk just to prove that I'm not going to blindly follow anything.

Sorry if that last bit causes any offence

I know it's been around for like 10 years now but still, some minor spoilers. When Rinoa is hanging off the garden they're all just like 'omg Squall y u no go help Rinoa' and use peer pressure to get him to help her when that's just stupid because there are other people dying around them as well. And then when there's no one else in need of help and squall just wants to go to help Rinoa they're all like 'omg Squall that's just plain rude listen to Edea' to be honest they're all just stupid

people who own that place: so you guys are projecting some stuff huh? you want a screen or something
square:no no its fine we'll just use this uneven wall with a door on it, it's cool
guys who own it: really? but people wont be able to see it will they?
square: no no really it'll look epic trust me
guys who own it: are you sure, i mean we've got a couple in the back
square: NO!! WE'RE TRYING TO RUIN THE EXPERIENCE FOR ALL OUR FANS, CAN'T YOU JUST LEAVE US ALONE

to be honest I didn't find xions death all that sad, I think it was after in the scene where roxas gets defeated by riku and the last scene where he's in the fake twilight town are the saddest. The first because you just think all he wanted to do was fulfill the last wish of a friend he couldn't remember and the second because, if you'd played KHII you knew that it was the beginning of the end

lol jk i love all the side games, it gives the story depth, i don't see why anyone would want a wafer thin plotline

I don't care how sad it may sound, but my biggest fear is that i die before the end of the xehanort saga. Kingdom hearts has just become such a huge part of my life and I don't know what i would do without it

i know it might sound a bit random but at the bit where sora's fighting ursula i swear it's kh1 riku fighting him, maybe the disney enemies are going on the offence and attacking destiny islands

the first time i played through kh1 i thought chernaborg was impossible, but now every time i play i'm just like wow, was i really cool?
but then again back then i had no idea what aeroga did