Ty’s Weblog

There is news coming from TGS about three new Kingdom Hearts games. One of them is a mobile phone game, so I doubt I’ll end up with that one. The other two are for the DS and PSP, which I’ll certainly end up picking up. No solid info on when these might be released, or if they will even make it to the US. I’m working on the assumption that they will for now. I’m very excited, and I know Xander will be too.

I found a little more coverage from IGN.

I finally finished Final Fantasy XII tonight.  What a great game.  It really took the Final Fantasy series in a new direction.  I was worried that I wasn’t going to like a lot of the combat system, but they really did do a nice job with it.  They story was outstanding also.  These games take me a lot longer to finish than they used to, but at least they are good enough to be worth the effort.

Next up: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Wii.

About 11 months later, we are done with Kingdom Hearts II.  It was an amazing game.  Playing only with Xander sure extended the amount of time the game took.  So did having to complete the Journal in order to see the “secret movie” at the end.  Like the first one though, it was worth the work.  We completed the game last night, and were well rewarded.  I sure hope that they make a Kingdom Hearts III, but even if they don’t they did a great job with the ending on this one, so the series does feel complete with this ending.  Xander is having a great time playing Chain of Memories on his DS currently.  I think I’m going to let him take a shot at the PS2 games once he is done with it.  Great stories, great characters, great game play, great boss battles, great ending.  What more could I ask for in a game?

Well, we are about 11 1/2 hours into KH2 now. I’m loving it! They really improved on the original game.

We finally got through the prologue, which seemed a bit long to me, but I’m hoping it pays off later in the game.

Combat is greatly improved over the original, with a lot more for the player to do than just press the X button over and over.

I’m looking forward to Friday when we can start playing it again.

The Gummy Ship sequences are greatly improved also. I find myself going back and playing those mini-games, where I mostly skipped them in the original Kingdom Hearts.

The story is outstanding so far. I’m really enjoying it. We’ve been to several worlds and I’ve been motivated to continue through each one.

Xander and I got in about 2 hours of Kingdom Hearts II tonight. It was a lot of fun. The start of the story isn’t anything like I expected. We’ve not played as Sora at all yet. It’s still been fun though, and the story is coming along. I’d hate to be playing it without having playing through Chain of Memories, though.

Ctr+Alt+Del pretty much sums it up. I should be picking up a copy today. I’ll start playing it tomorrow afternoon, since this will be a with Xander game and he’s only allowed to play on weekends.

We’ve been looking forward to it for quite a while now.

Ultima 5 Lazarus has been realeased. It’s a remake of Ultima 5 using the Dungeon Siege engine. I’ve not gotten it installed yet, but everything I’ve heard about it had been great. So you you like that kind of game (and own Dungeon Siege) it’ll be worth checking out.

Bethesda Softworks has announced the development of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. No other details yet, but I’m already excited.

GameSpy follows up yesterday’s, KHII preview with a preview of Chain of Memories.

GameSpy has up a quick preview of Kingdom Hearts II. It gives brief descriptions of two demo levels they got to play recently.

Sadly, it’s still not due out till Winter 2005. Chain of Memories for the GBA should be out some time this year.

At Xander’s request, I’ve started playing Kingdom Hearts again. Even after all this time, it’s still one of the best games I’ve ever played. It’s a wonderful combination of action RPG with the Disney and Square characters. The story is wonderful. Heck, I even own the soundtrack, which Xander and I enjoy listening to on the way to school.

I’m looking forward to Chain of Memories coming out for the GBA later this year, as well as KH2, hopefully early next year.

Yes, I’ve started playing EverQuest again. We’ll see how long it lasts this time.

A demo has been released for Deus Ex 2. I’m bittorrenting it right now. I plan on giving it a try when Xander is down for his nap this afternoon.

Blue’s News has a list of other mirrors.

Square Enix and AOL announced today that music from Final Fantasy VII - XI are avaliable on Radio@AOL and Radio@Netscape from now until April 2004.

So now we know what I’ll be listening to for the next few months. Sorry iTunes. I’ll be back to you later.

The patch for ToEE is finally out. I know what I’ll be doing tonight! I’ve been holding off on actually playing this for a while now, because of all the bugs. Hopefully this will get the game into a playable and enjoyable state.