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#37: Invitation to Nothingness
Character: Xemnas
Source: Kingdom Hearts 2
Nominator: GavsEvans123 (2/5 remaining)

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(Starts at 1:23)

Aesthetics: 5
Dominance: 6
Damn: 6

Final score: 17/30

Remember what I said way back when about really shitty characters having decent scores? Here you go.

Kingdom Hearts is, simply put, cancer in game form. The gameplay is passable if simplistic, but the cameos are tortured, and the writing is a special kind of atrocious. Character concepts are bad and executions are worse. This is what happens when your executive board forces a group of writers to make a massive series out of a mediocre first game that didn't need a sequel. Yet so many people, including some of the people reading this, just keep eating this shit up.

Part of the reason? Squeenix clearly took most of their writing budget and threw it into the SFX and music instead, Michael Bay style. And you know what? It looks pretty good.

There. I said it. It looks pretty good. It's not great, but it's definitely solid. The beginning does a great job of giving the player that "oh SHIT" feeling, and it makes the laser-parry-spam afterward that much cooler. Or, at least it would if technical limitations allowed the lasers to actually be reflected/deflected instead of just ceasing to exist, and if the two good guys' animations could have been faster to match the increasing laser rate of fire.

As with all things Kingdom Hearts, there's a far better (if somewhat tangential) version of this concept (the fight between Ichigo and Byakuya in Bleach Season 2, right before that series went in the shitter), but credit where it's due. Begrudgingly.

...Fuck.
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