Kingdom Hearts 3D’s Reality Shift Moves The Action To The Touch Screen

Seems interesting at least. I’m totally hyped for this game so yah…

It takes a Pro to play with the stylus in hand  ^_^

The one thing I worry about is if the touchscreen use will break the flow of the combat. The things I’m seeing make it look like it could, but TWEWY was able to pull off fast paced combat with buttons and stylus so we’ll see.

… Do not know if want. This looks far too gimmicky for my tastes. Warning: A total nerd is going to get WAY too TL;DR about silly cross-over games now.

When I first heard about the “Reality Shift” mechanic I was expecting something more. My reaction to this video was pretty much just “How is this attack a more attractive alternative to simply wailing on the enemy using regular attacks?” The attack that was now revealed as “Holy Rope” was something I was at first excited about because it looked like a regularly occuring mechanic, meant to be a way for the player to trace a route and then have Sora or Riku dash lightning quick through the stage… an easier way to handle the high speed I’ve heard this game features. Now, that I find out that it’s restricted to a single level on the game… I am dissapoint.

Kingdom Hearts 2 had the problem where you had so many options, yet the simplest were ALWAYS the best option. Hammer the attack button and occasionally the triangle is all you need because of the strength and speed of your reular attacks.  Spells, drives, the special summon attacks, the team-up attacks… you almos NEVER used them because you didn’t have to, button-mashing was more than enough to take you through the fights. That is my greatest fear with this feature- that it will end up consuming so much time and effort in return for damage that I could do much quicker and simpler by just hammering the attack button, that it just goes unused.

Still, I hope I’m wrong. I think that Days did a good job of giving the player options that actually MATTERED in the long run, that made choice of what attack-panels you picked important in the long run, and while the D-Links in BBS mostly went unused (save for the XP-enhancing ones, Mickey fo’ life witches) the Shoot Locks were useful without being overpowered and building your own commands could result in broken set-ups, but the set-ups were still somewhat limited and personal,  so they felt more involving than KH2′s abilities where you could just equip darn near everything and crush the opposition utterly. What I’m saying is that I hope they keep on the trend of engaging battle systems, rather than the overly glitzy and simplified slog that was Kingdom Hearts 2.