KHDays Why is Days generally disliked?

[Abyss 13]

To be honest, Days was one of the few KH games that I actually got to play (the rest I just watched walkthroughs), but despite that, I felt Days was definitely one of the better DS games out there (mostly graphic-wise), and generally had an interesting story.

So I'm wondering, to those who dislike Days, what about it did you dislike? (Don't worry, there were a handful of aspects I didn't like either lol)

[Setting Sun<3 196]

DAYS IS THE BEST GAME IN THE SERIES.

[AJTREY 70]

I disliked the fact that there were the same worlds over and over again, and the combat system (the panel system) was not cool at all.

[Blake 776]

Most people don't like the repetitive missions and some bosses are RIDICULOUS *coughleechgravecough*. I didn't have a problem with the missions till the last couple before the plot kicked in. And people no like Xion, they thought she was a plot device in Days that "magically" wasn't brought up in KH2. That's what some people say I really like Days too. Its underrated ;_;

 

*Edit, Jim reminded me, Neverland controls like butter on a waxed floor. It also took too long to kill anything without magic.

Edited July 31, 2012 by Ztar

[Jim 2,990]

Oooh, I feel like ranting about this so here goes:

• The game play was crazy repetitive and got really boring after a while.
• The normal heartless that spawned all over the place had WAY TOO MUCH HP. I mean seriously! In this game, I was lucky to find a heartless with less than one HP bar! Most had like 2, 3, or even 4! They took forever to kill, but if you moved them too far from their spawn point, they just go "lolno!" and disappear, forcing you to fight them back at full HP.
• The panel system got kinda annoying.
• That one boss in Neverland. 'nuff said.
• Oh, and Leechgrave. Don't forget Leechgrave. He can go...somewhere else.

Edited July 31, 2012 by Jim

[The Kingdom Hearts Otaku 44]

Don't get my wrong I love this game the one thing people most is that everything it set in missions, and the panels. Thats what people say the hate the most but other then that I love the story it was one of the filer games that tied in alot from the other games

[wayfinder823 477]

Oh, answering this is simple, and I can do so in one word:

 

Xion.

[Protoman 1,974]

if people think Days is the best game square enix has failed in making this series

[Fates Chance 60]

I'm a big supporter of this game. but i big dislikers of this game seem to blow a few things out of perportion.

 

yes, the bosses were hard.----so were the bosses in kh1 kh2 and bbs and no ones complaining about that.

 

yes it was repetative---but it only was if you let it be. you didnt have to complete all the missions only the required ones. And that was the plot. The game was about roxas life in the organization, and those repetative missions were a part of his life. it also set the mood for roxas. He asks himself several times "What am i doing here? whats the point of all this?" if he was doing something new every day thats purpous was obvious, would he question it?

 

then theres Xion---the biggest dislike for this game seems to be in my opinion the most selfless, caring, and self sacrificing character in the whole game. So people say she was an after though, an add on. to be quite honest, EVERYTHING AFTER KH1 WAS AN AFTERTHOUGHT!!! there wasnt suppoused to be anything after KH1. they didnt expect it to be so succesful. But xion wasnt an afterthought. Theres evidence of her in kh2 in Namines drawings, and there really cant be very much more since every one forgets about her.

 

But really, the bad things about this game arent as bad as people make it out to be. yes it has bad points, but every kh game did. but it also has its good points too. also, if you dont like it, DONT PLAY IT!

 

that simple.

[hatok 6,413]

Days is an above average DS game

But a pretty abysmal KH game.

The story was terribly structured, and badly translated, Xion is pointless. Nothing is added to teh story, nothing is explained except for entirely new plot points that didn't need to exist in the first place.

The gameplay was a significant downgrade over all previous KHs, the panel system was incredibly limited, and made most magic pointless

The game wasn't well balanced for single player, despite the fact that it's impossible to play the single player IN multiplayer

The bosses were pretty lame.

The Disney was dramatically downplayed, to the point where the stories were completely pointless

The Organization was pushed to the sidelines in a game that was meant to be about the Organization.

For that matter, Axel, and even ROXAS get pushed aside for Xion

No new enemies, just recolours of previous ones

Most of the game was skipped because Roxas decided to sleep for like a year.

There's more, and there are unique reasons for everybody

 

I'm a big supporter of this game. but i big dislikers of this game seem to blow a few things out of perportion.

 

yes, the bosses were hard.----so were the bosses in kh1 kh2 and bbs and no ones complaining about that.

Because the bosses in this game AREN'T hard, they're just designed to be annoying by exploiting flaws in the game, such as the targeting system.I didn't find any of the games particularly hard, but the other ones were significantly more fair

 

yes it was repetative---but it only was if you let it be. you didnt have to complete all the missions only the required ones. And that was the plot. The game was about roxas life in the organization, and those repetative missions were a part of his life. it also set the mood for roxas. He asks himself several times "What am i doing here? whats the point of all this?" if he was doing something new every day thats purpous was obvious, would he question it?So if I want to enjoy the game, I have to purposefully decline myself from most of the content? And I would not call the things Roxas does unique, or interesting, in any way.

 

then theres Xion---the biggest dislike for this game seems to be in my opinion the most selfless, caring, and self sacrificing character in the whole game. In other words, a Mary Sue So people say she was an after though, an add on. ​And an unneeded one, that was poorly executed and didn't amount to anything new in the plot to be quite honest, EVERYTHING AFTER KH1 WAS AN AFTERTHOUGHT!!!A sequel is not an afterthought. Days was an afterthought, KH2 and CoM continued the story in notable ways there wasnt suppoused to be anything after KH1. Which is why it ends with a cliff hanger, and has a secret cutscene of Roxas and Riku fighting they didnt expect it to be so succesful. Yeah, who would expect Disney, a ridiculously popular cartoon franchise, and Square Enix, a ridiculously popular RPG franchise, to sell? But xion wasnt an afterthought. Theres evidence of her in kh2 in Namines drawings, No there isn't. None of the drawings reference her ever. and there really cant be very much more since every one forgets about her.Which makes it meaningless.

 

But really, the bad things about this game arent as bad as people make it out to be. yes it has bad points, but every kh game did. but it also has its good points too. also, if you dont like it, DONT PLAY IT! I paid money for this game, in the expectation it would be as good as previous KH games I loved. That's the silliest, most flawed argument. Days isn't so bad that it's unplayable, but as a KH game it was a crushing disappointment.

 

that simple. NO

 

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[AntonioKHT 449]

I hated the gameplay of this game, it's somewhat... terrible. the way magic is limited, and I didn't enjoy those different Keyblade combos.

I liked the story though, it's not that bad, but the game IS repetitive. Completing the missions again is tiring...

I don't remeber the name of that, but those mission that you have to collect Org emblems before they dissapear is FRUSTRATING! It's an awful game and mission.

It is a good DS game, but not a good KH game. You can't even compare it to other games of the series.

Roxas's story was so sad that really touched me (I was a little depressed while I played o.O) but those missions tired me...

[Fates Chance 60]

The big dislikers* sorry.

 

Ok, if they were to make a remake: on the 3ds or ps2, with better graphics, more cutscens, more expanding of the plot lines in the other worlds, and more interesting less repetative missions, but the same story, what would you think of it then?

Edited March 9, 2013 by Mystics Apprentice

[Protoman 1,974]

But really, the bad things about this game arent as bad as people make it out to be. yes it has bad points, but every kh game did. but it also has its good points too. also, if you dont like it, DONT PLAY IT!

 

 

I hate this argument.

 

One, if you need to know if you're going to like a game, you need to buy it. You see, different people obviously have different opinions on the game. If you want to form one yourself or someone recommended the game for you, you're kind of getting it blindly. Going by your logic, the person would have had to know everything about the game before playing it.

Even if it was newly released.

 

Ok, if they were to make a remake: on the 3ds or ps2, with better graphics, more cutscens, more expanding of the plot lines in the other worlds, and more interesting less repetative missions, but the same story, what would you think of it then?

 

The thing is, we're not talking about a remake. We are talking about the game that has already been released and is right in front of us. Who knows if the remake would be any better? We haven't gotten it and we probably aren't getting it. Edited July 31, 2012 by Protoman

[Fates Chance 60]

One, if you need to know if you're going to like a game, you need to buy it. You see, different people obviously have different opinions on the game. If you want to form one yourself or someone recommended the game for you, you're kind of getting it blindly. Going by your logic, the person would have had to know everything about the game before playing it.

Even if it was newly released.

 

 

ok, revision- if you bought it, played it and didnt like it, sell it, trade it, or give it to a friend as a birthday present who really wanted it. then, it is not in your possetion and you dont have to play it.

 

and it was hypothetical. just wondering what you would think of the game if the main problems people have with it were fixed. food for thought.

[dusk 910]

I agree what Proto and Hatok said

 

And I kinda hate it how plots of disney worlds doesn't make any sense and it doesn't have any effect although you visit on them

 

Story is most of time very boring rambling and everything intresting is stuffed on final 30 minutes.

 

Game really doesn't explain what happened in organization, more like what happened to roxas

 

You could play as other org. members, but everyone felt kinda same.

[Fates Chance 60]

I agree what Proto and Hatok said

 

And I kinda hate it how plots of disney worlds doesn't make any sense and it doesn't have any effect although you visit on them

 

Story is most of time very boring rambling and everything intresting is stuffed on final 30 minutes.

 

Game really doesn't explain what happened in organization, more like what happened to roxas

 

You could play as other org. members, but everyone felt kinda same.

 

thats was the story. what the whole game was about: roxas time in the organization. so you cant really complain about that.

[hatok 6,413]

One, if you need to know if you're going to like a game, you need to buy it. You see, different people obviously have different opinions on the game. If you want to form one yourself or someone recommended the game for you, you're kind of getting it blindly. Going by your logic, the person would have had to know everything about the game before playing it.

Even if it was newly released.

 

 

ok, revision- if you bought it, played it and didnt like it, sell it, trade it, or give it to a friend as a birthday present who really wanted it. then, it is not in your possetion and you dont have to play it.

 

and it was hypothetical. just wondering what you would think of the game if the main problems people have with it were fixed. food for thought.

 

By the time I got around to trading in Days, it was next to worthless. I have no friends overly interested in KH.

And I would never subject someone I call a 'friend' to Days.

Maybe my enemies?

[dusk 910]

thats was the story. what the whole game was about: roxas time in the organization. so you cant really complain about that.

 

Yes I can

 

Most of time it's just about Rucksack, Axel, Xion getting fat by eating tons of ice cream and talking about the most boring subjects

[hatok 6,413]

thats was the story. what the whole game was about: roxas time in the organization. so you cant really complain about that.

 

It's supposed to be about the ORGANIZATION

We should see Roxas interact with the Organization.

But no, we learn nothing new.

Everything we learn about Roxas we learn in KH2.

Everything new comes from Xion.

And considering she gets erased by the end, that essentially means nothing happened.

See, the thing is, if Roxas' time in the Organization was actually interesting, then that would be great, I'd enjoy that. But I didn't need a game dedicated to how he slept a lot, at ice cream a lot, and lost his imaginary friend.

[Fates Chance 60]

By the time I got around to trading in Days, it was next to worthless. I have no friends overly interested in KH.

And I would never subject someone I call a 'friend' to Days.

Maybe my enemies?

 

ok, thats a bit melodramatic.

Edited July 31, 2012 by Fates Chance

[dusk 910]

Have said this once so I just quote myself

 

All Hail hatok!!

 

[Fates Chance 60]

It's supposed to be about the ORGANIZATION

We should see Roxas interact with the Organization.

But no, we learn nothing new.

Everything we learn about Roxas we learn in KH2.

Everything new comes from Xion.

And considering she gets erased by the end, that essentially means nothing happened.

See, the thing is, if Roxas' time in the Organization was actually interesting, then that would be great, I'd enjoy that. But I didn't need a game dedicated to how he slept a lot, at ice cream a lot, and lost his imaginary friend.

 

ok, you cant say we learned nothing new, we found out more about roxas personality, his friendship with axel, and the secret reports revealed alot about the organization. we found out why he can duel weild, and why he sought out sora, and why he wanted to leave the organization. we found out somethings about riku, and why Namine had problems restoring soras memory.

 

And one of the stories that days is is roxas time in the organization. you know, what nomura said or who ever it was. the story of the kings absence, roxas time in the organization, and i cant remember what the last one is. the story was not about the organization. it was said that the story was about ROXAS' time in the organization.

[dusk 910]

we found out why he can duel weild,

 

Yes because everyone wanted to know that..

We could have just assumed that he was badass, but no..

 

And there wouldn't have been problems with Namine restoring Sora's memory if there wouldn't been Xion, so she was just excuse for that...

[Fates Chance 60]

Yes I can

 

Most of time it's just about Rucksack, Axel, Xion getting fat by eating tons of ice cream and talking about the most boring subjects

 

well then i dont know what game you played. cause it was about alot more than that. about friendship, and who roxas was as a person, and, about how roxas affected soras restoration. and some of there conversations were stupid and boring but i bet if someone documented the conversations that you and your friends had, they would find some of the topics stupid and boring as well. but alot of their conversations expanded the plot and served as comic releif. some were funny, some were sad.

 

so again i wonder what game you played or how closely you paid attention to it.

 

Yes because everyone wanted to know that..

We could have just assumed that he was badass, but no..

 

And there wouldn't have been problems with Namine restoring Sora's memory if there wouldn't been Xion, so she was just excuse for that...

 

i was giving exaples as to why we didnt learn nothing from the game.

[dusk 910]

well then i dont know what game you played. cause it was about alot more than that. about friendship, and who roxas was as a person, and, about how roxas affected soras restoration. and some of there conversations were stupid and boring but i bet if someone documented the conversations that you and your friends had, they would find some of the topics stupid and boring as well. but alot of their conversations expanded the plot and served as comic releif. some were funny, some were sad.

 

so again i wonder what game you played or how closely you paid attention to it.

 

I always pay attention to plot and really think meaning of all things they say, but I didn't find anything sad nor funny about those conversations

And I can say that alot of conservations with my friends may be boring to other people, but do you know what:

 

VIDEO GAME is supposed to be e-n-t-e-r-t-a-i-n-i-n-g, it's worst mistake what you can do with video game if player feels bored or if characters talk about boring and meaningless topics, which doesn't entertain the player

Edited July 31, 2012 by dusk