#kh 0.2

[starlightwayfinder]

[separatethingy]

0.2 was the first ps game I ever played. I still haven't 100% it tho

Cause of this dingus.

[baldgonia]

aqua 0.2 sprite redraws

[kitkat-the-muffin]

Ok I made another but this time it’s cause I’m too lazy to do anything else today

[cabletownart]

Episode 9: 0.2 Birth by Sleep | No Sad Face Podcast

Pat and PJ talk about 0.2! The shortest game but one of the longest episodes! time dilation

The email for those too lazy to write it out is nosadfacepodcast(@)gmail(.)com. Remove the parentheses.

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Credits: Our art was done by Espurr Roba, the video was edited and our theme music was composed by David Russell. For more information, please go to https://linktr.ee/nosadface or nosadface.com

[dreamsy990]

SPONTANEOUS MINI REVIEW BECAUSE I REALIZED THAT I HAVENT FUCKING TALKED ABOUT FRAGMENTARY PASSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok so. i actually really liked this one!

so uh. if you witnessed that incredibly long thread i made yelling about kh3 you will know that i. am not a fan of the look of modern kh. i think its kind of uninteresting compared to the delightfully cartoony style and just generally i dont like more realistic looks to games that already had a unique visual identity.

so im here to say that i think it works for 0.2! im a good way through kh3 and i dont think it works well there and ill get to that when i eventually review that game but. in 0.2 i think the new style fits the more dark tone very nicely, and the enviornments are absolutely gorgeous. like i came out of ddd thinking absolutely nothing could top symphony of sorcery in terms of world design and was proven wrong. the realm of darkness is my new favorite kh "world". for my mutuals who havent played kh, look at this!!! its absolutely gorgeous

and the environments are actually my favorite thing about this game. besides being beautiful, theyre also delightfully trippy and unsettling. theres a section where you have to climb up a seemingly never ending staircase, and every time you reach what you think is the top you hear aquas worst thoughts. a lot of the areas are twisted, destroyed versions of worlds seen in bbs. its very dark (fitting, for the realm of darkness) and honestly its a treat to just walk around admiring the view. the visual storytelling is as good as kh ever gets.

i briefly mentioned aquas thoughts a minute ago so ill bring them up again, her commentary adds a lot to the desolate atmosphere, and this game really feels like a character study. it shows her desperation, her worst thoughts, her hope despite everything, and its just genuinely good. i havent been able to say that about khs character writing since like. days. its GOOD.

i am. not a fan of bbs' writing. i think its got a good underlying concept with absolutely terrible execution, and it makes me wonder at times if the things i like about it were intentional or not. but this game takes the best written character of bbs and gives her more depth than they ever could before. i can say with confidence that aqua is one of the best characters in the series, and a lot of it is because of this game.

the tone here is very gloomy, but thats not really a complaint because the game is so short. the depressing atmosphere isnt too much to bear because youre barely in it for more than 2 hours. and i think that run time is EXACTLY long enough. it goes for exactly as long as it needs to tell the story and still give a moment to breathe.

as for gameplay. im not the biggest fan of the updated system. i like to think im open to change with kh's combat. i think the command deck has potential and the card system in com was fun and i actually liked days' panel system. but something about the way this new version of the system feels to play is just. unsatisfying. hits dont feel like they have any weight to me, and spells feel inconsequential despite being more grandiose than ever. its just not as good as it was before, and like its a sort of half assed replacement of reaction commands. the way they incorporated style changes into it was okay, but again its not as satisfying as it was in bbs. but maybe it was just satisfying in bbs because the rest of the combat there sucked

tldr, the things i care about in a game (writing and visuals) were fucking spectacular, but the gameplay definitely had room to improve. also if i ever have to fight a darkside again ill throw up and cry! 8/10, though im tempted to raise it to a 9 for the environments alone

[sweetpuppea]

hi I'm SO normal about this part actually. anyway realm of darkness real.

(timestamp and transcript under cut)

audio is from tma episode 143, starting about 12:50.

There is another world, a world of still and

quiet darkness, where no heat touches and death cannot find you. You might

wander beneath that empty sky of void forever and never see a light to guide

your way. No left, no right, no up or down, only forward into the crowded,

shivering gloom. For that night is not empty, far from it. Things move there:

the sounds of shuffling, scuttling, crawling. A scream. The fall of gentle

stagnant raindrops that chills you as you try desperately to know if that is the

sound of the storm or something out there? It is a world of the fear of

darkness, and as I began to see it, I felt again that celestial terror

[a-crack-in-the-universe]

The fuck when you realise that Terra lied to Aqua in KH 0.2. She asked him if he was safe and he said that he thinks so. But in reality he was actually imprisoned in the Guardian and being tortured. :'(

Poor Terra.