So in preparation for Kingdom Hearts coming to PC finally in checks roughly ten days or so, I've been playing GBA COM, the other game I own a copy of.

(Thank you Squeenix for finally letting me give you my money without having to cave and buy a Playstation; finally I will be able to play the numbered titles for myself---)

I think I got my copy of COM used at a convention years ago back in the before times when conventions still happened? Don't remember exactly when.

(I'd been trying to get into KH for years. I guess I just needed the right circumstance to point me to exactly where to start. Terra is a good boy and I am still deep in that hell and happy here.)

But I'd wanted to get through COM so that when the collection comes to PC I can compare it to RE:COM gameplay-wise.

And I finished it tonight!

Impressive little thing.

Granted, I grew up on handhelds, so I'm more used to them, but.

The gameplay was really quite fun, even if it took a minute to get used to.

My only real complaints are that the enemies that block you from the front are a pain, and that 100 Acre Wood is a very slow floor and a little tedious... like I get it's supposed to be the quirky mini game world but it's veeeery slow...

I'm also super impressed with how they managed to compress Simple and Clean for the end credits song and it sounds really good.

Not to mention, they didn't have to put in the (what I hear are basically animated gif-style) cg cutscenes, but they did, and they also looked very good for what the GBA was capable of.

But yeah! I did it~

So when the collection comes to PC I can play the series in proper order maybe and then compare GBA COM and RE:COM.

Should be fun. ^^

GBA CoM was a traumatic experience for me, OOF. I remember being parked outside my first period math class in high school, praying for more HP drops as I ran into yet another barrel spider.

But I am oddly fond of it for that reason.

(mind you, I was playing it in Japanese, because that's all that was out at the time, and boggling over trying to properly romanize Marluxia's name)

Ah, yeah, I can only imagine trying to figure out some of those names before they had official romanizations... Organization XIII this is a rhetorical question because I know why but why are you like this...