Actually, I don't agree with that. Riku in the 2nd battle there seemed to be pretty at ease and was winning Roxas. Roxas was losing and shouting he was winning even before Riku changed. Roxas also was a more 'ferocious' combatant while Riku was just trying to get him captured. So really, Riku's fighting methods were fine against Roxas in the end for what he was trying to do. He only changed forms because he wanted to capture Roxas alive and not mess him up. He realized he could not possibly take Roxas down without them both getting seriously hurt so he made a critical choice which would win. Also, Sora never really 'won' Riku alone in a one on one fight except in the Island spars and when he was messing around in LoD, which he was attacking Heartless at the same time as Sora and doing cheesy combos, and didn't look the least bit worn out. The only fight he had with Riku himself as himself was done with Goofy and Donald. The second fight was Ansem. This is not to say that I think Riku is 'superior' to Roxas or Sora, but to say he is definitely on par with them and can hold his own versus them. All 3 fighters are very impressive and have their areas they are gifted in and I don't think I can say one is better than the others.
I believe Roxas had his heart or at least some connection to it more than the other Nobodies did. Axel did comment on it and I do think Axel himself was somewhat 'empathic' being able to feel other people's feelings since he could not just feel his own obviously. Also, the way Roxas acts around others shows he had it. He was pretty emotional and angsty at points which a Nobody would just be 'faking' being angsty, but he didn't seem to be. There was no one really there to 'show' or be 'fake' in front of at times. His determination to also seek out Sora and find out why he was having the dreams he was also shows that he was not just a regular Nobody. I believe he did indeed lose his 'body' when he left Sora, but also have theorized quite strongly, since he looks just like Ven, that Roxas was Ven's spirit. He had no memories because of Sora's short tenure as a Shadow before Kairi fixed him. So yeah, I think Roxas is really a disembodied Ven that emerged and had for some reason 10 years before gone into Sora in BBS for some reason. He looks too much like Ven, including his hairstyle, to dismiss the connection. Also, he had 'Light' powers, which to me would suggest he still had at least a portion of his Heart.
Yeah for all of a minute or two. I mean showing the sides of the others such as Riku and King Mickey who were obviously doing things on their own too. Sora's side got shown and we get to see more of Roxas but eh, Roxas wasn't as cool to me as Riku and King Mickey are. Still, I am glad to see what I can of more story issues than just Sora's side. I'd toss Kairi in there too, but she really didn't do much in any of the games. I just meant I'd have wanted to see more of Riku and King Mickey's sides, and being able to use them more in a game that wasn't just CoM. It seemed like both did things we may never know unless it's included in Coded...which to be honest, annoys me, because it's on the lowest quality game.
Sadly, a lot of FF characters have similar facial features etc, especially with FFX and looking back at other former characters. Tidus to me resembled Squall and Zell smashed together having similar features and also clothing. Yuna looked a lot like Dagger and Rinoa and well Rinoa and Dagger looked a lot alike in some ways. Kairi's face does look like Yuna's and she's also short and slender like that. Auron's demeanor reminded me of Vincent and he wore predominantly red. Sometimes also the facial features of characters are close in KH as well and I can't tell if it's deliberate or not such as Xemnas and Terra. Unless characters tend to look different as in exaggerated features, they can resemble each other a bit too closely.
Really, yes I see where you are coming from in the similarities, but there are many people that use 'elements' as power focuses etc and names in characters. It can't be copyrighted really. Now if Aang came out with a giant key weapon that locked and unlocked stuff, well, there would be more of an issue.
I'd say it was Riku or Axel. They both have tude, actual fighting capability, know how to be sneaky when they have to, and know how kick *** and forget names because they aren't worth mentioning. Of course, then there is Batman, who also is the same. Rah Batman.
No one needs cheats to beat Sephiroth. Really, you just need patience and determination. He moves in patterns you can come to predict and do things to counter. It takes a while but can be done. Also, I would suggest the first time playing through, to raise your level to fight him. Then you can always play again and take him out in the level 40's because by then you have his moves down.
I would have liked to see the option of also playing as Riku as well, instead of just Sora, so as to get his side of the story too. It might have also been cool to play as King Mickey too since he was also doing separate things.
Sora was not the intended Keyblade wielder to begin with. It was Riku. Also, Terra is a really tall person compared to Sora and his name coincides with Riku's more because it means 'earth' and yes, Riku's name means 'land'. Kairi's means sea. I doubt that Ansem the Wise gave 'Xehanort' his name and instead perhaps it was about the only thing that the person with no memory could recall so Ansem just assumed it was his name. Terra may be 'Xehanort' or the apprentice may have been. However, I really am not seeing a relation with Terra and Sora at all. To me, even with similar hair and blue eyes, they still don't look alike. It's also very obvious that Ven and Sora were connected somehow because Ven later is separated from Sora as Roxas. Later he rejoins with Sora, and even Axel asked Roxas if he thought he had a heart. Roxas was at least what remained of Ven after whatever happened in BBS to make him decide to merge in spirit with Sora. Terra being connected to Sora seems a bit hard, considering all there is to show Ven = Roxas.
I think either Terra was Xehanort/Xemnas or the apprentice of Master Xehanort was. There are reasons that support either side really. I do think the 'Heartless' Ansem was either Master Xehanort's or the apprentice's heart. It does get more and more confusing as we go but this theory is a good one so far along with the one about the apprentice. I believe either of these will be the right ones in the end.
It'll be over sometime soon. I can't imagine that this will go on that long. As I said before, they do have a lot to think about and this affects so many people so if it goes on for that long a time and both are stubborn, something will happen to change. I guess for a season we all just suffer through it and hope rational decision will prevail sooner or later.
I consider that the friends I truly care about and family caring as well to be 'love' as well. The only real differences are the 'extra' feelings that go with sharing sex with someone else which is what makes 'relationship' love different. I think with all of these types of love there is a commitment attached to it and an understanding that you will put up with more crap from them because at the same time you and those other people care for each other deeply and meaningfully. The base emotion of love is there in parental love, sibling love, paternal/maternal love, true friendship love etc. Just we add extra depth that separates them such as parental love, you love your parents because they are that and provide for you, give you things and teach you how to survive. Sibling love is that you protect each other, watch over each other and do things together and can tell each other secrets etc. Paternal/Maternal love is loving your children and taking care of them, etc. Friendship love is feeling that friend is very close to you and although not related by blood, they might as well be and sometimes they can be more trustworthy when siblings are ornery. So, really, love to me exists on all these levels and it just depends where that love is aimed at for how it will be. People can be dumb with any kind of 'love' really. Think about how hurt we could be when we were growing up and someone would say he/she is your best friend one day and the next is off with someone else. It kind of hurts. I would even say there could be an obsessive love with the other forms of love too. People have 'fought' over friends to keep them, fought with siblings and parents etc to get attention and keep the 'feeling' alive, and some people fake connections to others just to believe it's there. It was a very good point to bring up because a lot of people, especially when they get in a relationship, try to downplay how important these other types of 'love' are and to me they are equally important. Just because someone you know for a month or year is having sex with you, shouldn't make you forget these other people or even place them as so much more important. Life just feels more complete if you can have each of those elements in your life and some balance. Also, I definitely consider adopted parents to be pretty 'real' parents when it comes to loving them as being in that place. After all, anyone can 'have' a baby unless there's some health risk. It takes a lot more to raise a kid effectively.
I agree, those German voices for Riku, Sora and Xemnas were really done well and did sound like their English counterparts. That was really cool to see. I don't like the 100 Acres characters in themselves that much because they were always 'overly' cute to me and just well, I could never pay attention to the shows of Pooh at all. I needed action and things blowing up I guess. However, some of the mini-games in the KH games were fun and the cuteness wasn't so bad. To me, their voices were fine though Piglet's did seem off.
About the only thing we commoners can do to prevent WW III from happening is to ourselves try to become active in government and motivate others to start caring more too. To initiate moves to get 'better' leaders in office in each country is important. However, that takes a lot of time and also trying to instill different paths of importance to country leaders. Unfortunately though, I think at this point we have to just accept the possibility for WW III is there over the horizon someday and to just try to ensure we do our parts to make it less deadly than it could be. There will always be friction between nations and leaders that will instigate things with others, pushing buttons. Communication though is important. Never before have 'common' people been able to so easily talk with others of other countries and get to know the regular others who aren't always so much different, even if we get taught otherwise by elders that are xenophobic. If we hold that to us and see that we the regular people do have common grounds and interests, we can at least understand who will be responsible for bad outbreaks and someday perhaps we can do the things necessary to prevent further mass occurrences. The only suggestions we can go with is truly to communicate with others around the world, get over our own biases and understand that the older people that are in charge won't always be there so we should be ready for a change. We also have to hope those we do elect to offices, for the countries that even have that option, we choose the best people we can with interests towards global peace. Perhaps more of us with the thoughts also need to start getting into offices of power as well. The more we work on understanding each other, the better we can see that the hatreds, xenophobia, fears, and prejudice of those older than us that have had these feelings from their forefathers etc, and we can dismiss these notions, the stronger we may be even if such an outbreak happens. We may be the ones who need to pick up all the pieces and say 'enough is enough'. I can't think of a way to 'stop' it from happening, but at least we can make ourselves comprehend the state of things and become a newer and stronger people if we endure.
The trailer at the end of KH was to show events in the very beginning of KH2. The fight between Roxas and Riku was also shown in KH2 to a bit more detail. Perhaps in 358/2 days we will see a bit more of what happened in the two fights between Roxas and Riku but the trailer itself was for KH2 to show 'another side, another story' which was pertaining to those two characters because they aren't shown in Sora's side of things.
You stole mah cookies! I was going to conduct rigorous experiments on them! Testing how they um...affected performance in daily activities or something using me of course as the guinea pig.
I think at least 3 of us have asked what this poll is for and still have no answer so I guess it's just vote for your favorites. At least I hope so.
Doing the race 99 times and the fight 99 times really was beneficial to the game too, if you wanted to waste your time doing so. The potions were a big save on munny later on so that you could afford to suit up your characters with all the gadgets and weaponry easily. Also, the pretty stones he had were worth it too because they were worth 30 munny each which gave you 2790 munny to begin with. The other cool thing was that the events raised your level and tech points early on. The game really was a lot easier if you wasted time on DI first doing that.
I'm pretty sure we wouldn't all be drinking breast milk any way and as someone else suggested, it would be in the form of a shot for the specific required nutrients or there would be pills manufactured. If I had cancer, I'd try it. Why not? At that point, as others mentioned, what's to lose?
Hmm, these cookies are scrumptious. I wish I could find out why they make me laugh so much and yet I'm not getting a sugar high. I should conduct scientific experiments on them, if I could stop laughing. Oh well!
