The Kingdom Hearts series is pretty expansive now, with a game on practically every single console - couldn't possibly do multiplatform releases, oh no, you have to buy a whole damn new console if you want to play the next instalment - and an ever expanding universe. There have been dramatic changes in gameplay and themes, as well as a shift away from both Disney and Final Fantasy characters towards entirely original content. Unfortunately I'm not one of those moneybags who can afford to keep up with Square Enix's schizophrenic platform decisions - seriously, are they just using KH to pamper to people? Because you surely can't have a current game series with independent instalments on competing platforms - and so I'm not as well versed with the universe as I might have been previously.

However, I would still wager a guess that I liked Kingdom Hearts better when it was a simplistic, in your face metaphor for the goodness and the power of heart and all that other corny bulltrout. Sora might not have been the most lovable of characters, and Kairi is a complete ditz in the original game, plus Riku is unnecessarily standoffish with his "best buddy", but overall the first Kingdom Hearts game was a light hearted jaunt through Disney worlds in order to save them from darkness. Sounds pretty good to me.

The second game started this completely whack bulltrout with the introduction of Nobodies and I feel that the series has just become more and more insane as time goes on. Judging purely from the naming scheme, you've got random as trout like 358/2 and Dream Drop Distance. Birth By Sleep is just smurfing creepy sounding. Honestly I don't really know what is going on.

I just miss the youthful naivety that the series as a whole seemed to exhibit. They honestly thought they could perform planetary exploration on a wooden raft.