I cheated a little and included friday's and saturdays's play into a single post. Reason being, GRADUATION WEEKEND! from high school anyway. so then my month long romp through last gen awesomenss will go unhindered by such things as school at least.

I last left off in Disney's idea of China, a land of dragons apparently. Well Mulan/Ping was pretty helpful and it also showed off some pretty cool tagteam moves that were opened up in this sequel. Like the 1st game it fell along the lines of the movie it was based on except in short order abridged styling. Didn't get the montage that made the movie fun to watch tough, so i never saw anyone make a man out of anyone else. expect for mushu passing mulan off as a guy which counts i guess then...

Moving on.

What was the most annoying thing though was these Centaur guys w/ giant spears. They can charge at you, spin their spear round like an attacking shield, and have a high level of health. They were a pain in the balls to fight. Whiped out the fancy valor form to make them more manageable. It really goes to show how much combat has been amped up since the first game. If anyone who didn't play the first game, tried this one, they would have deffinatly found it difficult going.


Bastard centaurs w/ spears.

Anyway aside from those jerks, i came to realize that even Disney went as far to insult sian women, showing how surprised the captain is when he discovers mulan is a woman and not a guy who he was becoming attached to it seemed. Now i'm not going to agree with disney here, infact any race of women can be pretty hot imo. but it was pretty hysterical the expression on the captain's face was when he learned the truth. Wish i had a pic of it to show.

After clearing Chinaland, I stopped @ beast's castle. Well ovrrun w/ heartless it seems. and one of the organization XIII guys was trying to get Beast's nobody by turning him into a heartless. He also showed off how he inspired Christian Bale's acting style, being very gruff to everyone to sound threatening that is. I wished for a rendition of be our guest however, which i never got.

The final boss here was really fun, being 2 stages. first off a poltergeist like heartless that possessed parts of the ballroom and attacked through them. and 2nd being this huge heartless modeled after beast somewhat. He wasn't impossible or anything like that but he was fun to fight. What pissed me off though, was the lack of a new keyblade to use. I mean wtf all that and nothing to show for it in the end?

I'll stop here and note on how the gummi ship levels have improved over the first game. gone are the annoying fetch quests from the original as well as the bland levels presented. Now we got these fancy old school 2d shooter inspired levels with enough bullets and things happening to maybe impress a vet of Treasure game, for at least a solid mini game anyway.

Got to Olympus Colosseum next. Here I ran into Auron from Final Fantasy. Pretty cool imo. Pete Showed up again plotting along side Hades. other things to note included super fat heartless returning, and an easy fight against a guitar wielding orgXIII member. Pete was a pretty fun boss to get around to fighting. But not as much fun as Hydra was. One of the reaction commands that you could use if you got on it's back involved phil throwing an urn at you which you promptly smashed into the hydra vai "the urninatior" Such a clever pun usage.

After all that DIsney Castle showed up and i had to stop for the time being. So later today i might be able to get in some play time and clear it as well. Exceeded my hopes and got through 3 worlds though. Maybe i'll clear 1 and a 1/2 today pending on graduation shenanigans.