The God of War series has always had the uncanny ability to keep me captivated in its universe. I credit this mostly towards the flexibility the subject matter has. The violence is over the top, the story is dramatic, and there are enough bare-breasted vixen to open the most epic of burlesque houses. Yet, something I think people forget is that these are accurate descriptions of the gods of the time. The embracing of the human form in its most natural and sometimes carnal form are made center stage. The customs and common practices of the people made up the stories and idiosyncrasies of their gods, with focus es on  heroism, reverence for your bounties and life, grandeur, and sexuality. There's very little room for further bastardization, but plenty for development. Hell, there are like 2 dozen tales of Zeus raping people, and in one case he turned into a swan and had sex with a beautiful woman for the sole purpose of making a beautiful baby daughter, and then to possibly have sex with said beautiful daughter in the -possibly near or distant- future.  I'm not sure of the exact accuracy of the latter claim, but I doubt anyone nowadays is going to take the time to bitch me out about it. Times have changed, the religious of our day are too busy staring into their grilled cheese sandwiches looking for miracles to realize that this shit works i n cycles.
    Anywa ys , I think if anything I think it's great to keep these characters alive. I mean seriously, think about how much of a badass

     I remember I owned the strategy guide to Kingdom Hearts before I even owned the game. I'd sit in the back of choir class, and read up on all it offered me, poring over the stained-glass art and the simplistic, yet striking design of the Heartless in all of their incarnations. The story was simple, a boy named Sora lives in a world where he hangs out with his friends all day at their bitchin', tropical fortress of solitude, and by night, restlessly lays in bed wondering whether he will go snorkeling for blue tang or go on a bender over some magical starfruit. Either way life is perfect for him, and then shit hits the fan, he loses his friends, his family, and that awesome pirate's booty cove he had. The pacing was great, you were on the island long enough to get really accustomed to it, and then everything gets completely jacked. You come to bear a sword-like weapon shaped like a key which has crazy transcendental properties, then you got to hook up with Donald and Goofy and traveled to different worlds, trying to find your friends and Mickey, and saved the goddamned universe! It was an original, yet simplistic story that had a remarkable amount of depth. When they teased a sequel, I was perfectly content with playing nearly the same again. Give me more worlds, more magic and awesome, more allusions to both Final Fantasy and Disney and I'd be set. The two are a remarkable pb&j fit. 
     Yet, with Kingdom Hearts II I felt like they shafted a lot of what made the first game so special. It was an improvement in all ways, save for the story. They had a good mixture of both franchises, and the obvious choice(in my eyes) was to continue with a good thing with the sequel. The whole Organization XIII thing just added a lot of needless plot, and lame characters, in this case an order of incorporeal dudes and dudettes in raincoats, who are said to be without emotion, but clearly aren't, which was said to be the difference between them and humans. So, in my eyes, that kind of throws a lot of what they have to say and do into the "bullshit" pile. Granted, it does shed some light as to why they have yet to accomplish their goals,