4. Kingdom Hearts II (PS2, 2006)
Nothing puts you in the Christmas spirit like creepy skeletons and nightmarish monsters. Kingdom Hearts II brings the yuletide spirit of Tim Burton’s modern holiday classic, The Nightmare Before Christmas, with the Christmas Town section of the original Halloween Town world.
This time around, you get to jeopardize the sacred holiday not once, but twice! In your first visit, you rescue Santa from the resurrected bug-bag Oogie Boogie, and the second stay-over pits you against a hulking mechanical beast named "The Experiment" that’s terrorizing the poor little elves of Christmas Town. But all the smashing, bashing and macabre mayhem somehow fits in with the true meaning of Christmas, and once more Jack Skellington learns a valuable lesson about letting Santa do his job. Oh, and you get to trash Santa's workshop, too, but then the old man makes you wrap presents. Fat bastard.
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