Portable Battle Systems

[griever]

Has anyone noticed that the battle systems for the portable games tend to involve a much larger number of skills than KH or KHII?

This isn't including passive support abilities like fire boost or last chance, I'm talking about skills that have a battle animation.

KH:BBS and CoM are the best examples, having a huge array of attacks. Admittedly, many of these skills are very similar to one another. For example fire, and thunder surge. But it interests me, because I would think that with the hardware of the PS2 available, Nomura would have wanted to pour the juice into the PS2 games...

Anyone got a better reason as to why this may be? Or any thoughts on whether it's a good or bad thing?

 

[Ruran]

Well with BbS, even though it's on a hand held, it's a newer game so stuff has been advanced that allowed flashier looking attacks I suppose. Also I think the reasone that BbS characters had a much larger array of attacks was because they were trained Keyblade weilders and I think Nomura wanted people to see what it was like seeing people who've been training for a long time as opposed to Sora (and Riku). CoM used a card system so it needed more variety. Re:Coded seems to be using a little bit of every thing from all the previouse games so we'll probably continue to see a larger array of skills in future and main games.