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xp: there's a trick with his guts if you don't want him to resurrect to full. It disappears after turn 10. I think there's a half AP story thing coming up soon (tomorrow night?) which would make retries easier, or you could press on with the story when that comes (nothing in the main story references Agartha, unlike the other three EoRs).

I now have more playtime in KH2 than it took me to beat KH1, and I still seem to have quite a bit of game left! This is better than KH1 in pretty much every way. The worlds have much better area design, have a lot more meat to them, and coming back later for more story stuff means you get a lot more development. Some of them are kinda meh on the first go around, but improve with round 2. Pirates of the Caribbean, for example, was super lame. It was just the movie's plot, and not delivered in a particularly interesting way. At least they tried something fun with round 2. Beast's Castle was a good area the first time, but I liked the way they mixed in the overarching plot for R2 a lot. Coliseum is a lot more interesting here than it was in KH1, and having Auron as the bonus character here was genius. This game does great with the FF characters in general - in the first game, they were more of a fun bonus (other than Leon), but here they're really worked into the plot well. I love it. Only flaw is Aeris's lame VA. Even YRP are integrated in a neat way. I can't believe KH3 would just get rid of the FF characters.

The main story is solid, and I'm following it better this time than before when I hadn't played CoM, but I think Org 13 is probably a bit too big. They could've cut a few members without losing anything in order to give us more memorable recurring villains. I'm still not entirely sure who Xemnas is - it kinda seemed like it was just Xehanort going by a different name? I dunno. Kinda lame that pretty much all of them are guys, too, especially after KH1 gave us a few female villains. Having more Mickey involved with the main plot is cool at least.

Best part of the game so far is Timeless River though. Everything about that part was just amazingly cool. I love how little of this game I remember, and that was a perfect surprise. The combat is also still very good. I like the Forms, though some of them are less interesting than others, and leveling most of them up feels like a pain, especially Limit form, which feels like I can only get 2 XP every time I transform...
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