Random Thoughts on KH2 (spoilers through to the end)

[jeriendhal]

1) Mickey as Episode II Yoda was mildly freaky, but if you can accept Donald and Goofy as ass kickers, why piffle over The Mouse?

2) I Heart Ansem the Wise. I love hearing Christopher Lee's voice when he's not playing a character that's supposed to be scary. He gave Ansem/DiZ a solid personality, and managed to make a relatively realistic looking human being addressing a cartoon mouse as "My Friend" seem perfectly sensible.

3) And gods, seeing the Sorceror from Fantasia be addressed as "Yen Sid" just made me giggle. A fifty year old inside joke at Disney finally gets put to good use.

4) On the down side, Maleficent was really superfulous to the plot, having nothing to really do except show up at the end to insure the player knows that there is a KH 3 in the works.

5) Oh, f*ck, the final boss fight goes on forever. My hand was aching and I was playing in bloody Beginner mode. Plus it took my at least five tries before I managed to use Riku effectively at that one critical point in the battle.

More later.