Games you wish had been better than they were

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Kingdom hearts Chain of memories

Oh man, you just reminded me about the original Kingdom Hearts' item use system. If you didn't go out of your way to tell your AI partners NOT to be completely stupid, they'd waste all your items on themselves and let you die a horrible death. It was especially annoying at the beginning of the game, when you don't have any healing spells and can't afford more than two or three potions at a time. I'd give Donald and Goofy two potions each, in the hope that they might, I dunno, HEAL THE KEYBLADE BEARER, YOU KNOW, THE KID UPON WHOM THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSE DEPENDS, but no. They waste them all on each other within ten minutes, and then promptly die anyway. THEY can resurrect themselves after a few seconds if they get KO'd. I most certainly CANNOT. The rest of the game was pretty much awesome, though.



And as long as we're on the subject:

Kingdom Hearts II.

I know I bitch about this game a lot, but seriously, it sucked. Real bad. I had high hopes for it, and Square/Disney Interactive just dashed my hopes violently against the jagged rocks of reality. Especially when I found out that Sora can't fly (the stupid limit break/whatever gauge ability doesn't count) anymore, and that Goofy survived.

Oh, and Atlantica. All of it. But that goes without saying.

The only redeeming qualities of KHII were the gummi ship builder and the new ability to program your sidekicks to use their health items ONLY ON SORA.