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Skies of Arcadia is definately worth buying. The exploration in it is so refreshingly different compared to a lot of other rpgs ive played. Its pretty engrossing but the battle system got on my nerves. You can basically change your weapons type (elemental etc) mid battle through a range of colours but this means there are quite a few enemies who need fought with a specific weapon type and youll find yourself having to switch through a few turns whilst inflicting no damage before you actually get around to actually pummeling your foes. Minor annoyance though. If you can get it at a reasonable price, bag it.

Yeah im lookin forward to playin Okami too. Too bad about clover i like viewtiful joe.
Kingdom Hearts 2 isnt total shit. There are some nice touches here and there but I have played through most of it (just to get to space paranoids) and even if the battle system wasnt boringly easy, the level design is so shoddy and reliant on the brand names and eye candy scattered around that it would ruin it on those grounds alone. The battles are pretty and I love the active time event bits where you have to hammer a button quickly to make cool stuff happen but every other monotonous level where the fodder just teleports out of nowhere to be killed can be won by hitting X. And not even in a rythym, literally just tapping X until its over. If this game wasnt full of disney and FF characters I bet it would get bad scores from a lot more people.