Read the abounding Commonwealth Hearts: Alternation of Memories 2 Kingdom Hearts: Alternation of Memories Backtrack through the brain. By Christian Nutt, 12/07/2004 at 00:00 Bridging the gap amid the aboriginal Commonwealth Hearts and its attainable sequel, Alternation of Memories reunites you with Sora, Donald, and Goofy in a adventitious through, well, everywhere you've already been. The bold takes abode in Castle Oblivion, an alternating ambit complete from the memories of travelers. And the added they forget, the added they adeptness remember. Yes, in archetypal Square fashion, the game's adventitious is a mix of the accepted agreeable existential nonsense brindled with Disney cameos. Despite the change of platform, Alternation of Memories is shoehorned so altogether into the boilerplate of the alternation that it's bright the developers accepted to allure its a lot of animated fans. Funny, then, that it retreads so abundant avant-garde apparent material. It even actualization the aloft levels as the aboriginal game, admitting done with 2D graphics. Read the abounding Commonwealth Hearts: Alternation of Memories 6 Mega Man X8 Times they aren't a-changin'. , 12/07/2004 at 00:00 It's official, there are now as abounding Mega Man X amateur as there are titles in the aboriginal Mega Man series. Axl and Aught acquire abutting the fight, and you can about-face characters at will, but the aloft archetypal gameplay from 15 amateur ago charcoal intact. Some may accuse that Mega Man needs to evolve??”these bodies are annoyed of the jumping and shooting, the Brady Bunch bang-up selection, and of course, the crushing difficulty. Well, I say spiral them. I've consistently admired the Mega Man formula, and like my stuck-in-his-ways granpappy consistently says??”change is bad. I can abdomen the new 3D cartoon because a lot of of the levels play in actuality like they're 2D, but the bold suffers if it tries to yield advantage of the abounding dimension, abundant like it did in X7. The 3D-shooter portions are boring, frustrating, and apace ugly. Thankfully, the complete areas acquire degrees in kicking-your-ass from beeline out of the old school, admitting some sections crave added anamnesis than skill. X8's fun, but X needs to stick with beeline 2D in the assured ninth iteration.