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RECCOMENDED!!! | | Alissa Miramar from ummmmmm, no says (21/Mar/2003): | I personally love the game. The mix of Zelda, Final fantasy 8-10, and Disney is genious- likewise, kids as well as adults and tenns can play it and have a good time. The graphics are down-right awesome, and the point of the game is so much fun. My younger sibling who is 6, plays the game all of the time. As do I.
| A very deep spirited game a favorite for years to come. | | Marcel Harding from Columbus, USA says (22/Mar/2003): | This game was perfect. All you could ask for and then some. My only complant is the lenght, it could have been much longer, maybe even a 2 disc set. I completed Kingdom Hearts in 4 days of none stop playing. I would even like to see Playstation come out with a 4 disc set for Kingdom Hearts 2. The game almost consumes you and brings you into the story. You begin to know the characters as if the are alive and playing along with you. The game was just to amazing I can't wait for the sequal.
| Best Game YET | | The freak in the corner from over there. Yes, there! says (26/Mar/2003): | You guessed it, I've got nothing new to say here. Kingdom Hearts rocks mah socks! ^-^ Unlike most people though, I didn`t think, 'Woah boy, Disney characters. Let's see how THIS sells..' Uh uh, I'd actually read a few things about it first. O' course, I didn't think I'd be buying the BEST game EVER thought up. Right when I got to beat palm trees up with a wooden sword I was hooked. Not to mention beatin' the crap outta demon monkeys in the Deep Jungle or killer fish in Atlantica. And did I mention that I have like two new enemies because I've been reading all these reveiws yet? Heck, I've even downloaded ((and memorized..)) the theme song. Oh, and before I stop, am I the only girl who's posted or read something here and DOSEN'T think Riku's hot? Actually, he kinda've scares me..and I think Sora's the better-looking of the two. ((Such a cutie! ^-^)) Maybe I'm a just little weirdo or maybe I spend to much time drooling over and/or playing Kingdom Hearts..oh well.
| THIS GAME IS SOOOOOO GUD | | Alissa from TORONTO, CANADA!! go canada go!! says (1/Apr/2003): | OMG this game rox..i recomend it to any one who like ne game...and if u luv crash bandicoot then ur gonna luv kingdom hearts..its a bit boring wen ur watching the videos in the beginning but then wow its really gud. I also luv the graphics. SO GO AND BUY KiNGDOM HEARTS NOW!!!! uur gonna really enjoy it!! chow! GO LEAFS GO!!
| About the second Kingdom Hearts. | | SlckAero from Long Beach, California says (16/Apr/2003): | Hey i don't think it's about Riku. I know he's in it, but he was the one on the building. Riku doesn't have brown hair, and is not a master of the keyblade. So obviously that was Sora. I heard that it's coming out in November but I'm not sure wut year, but n e hoo that's not Riku. Oh and here is a good tip for beating Sephiroth. TAKE YOUR TIME, BRING A LOT OF ELIXERS. He's hard and hell.
| KINGDOM HEARTS is the best game ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | | Jason from Ontario, Canada says (3/May/2003): | I think that Kingdom Hearts is one of the best games i have played, i have beaten ansem the final boss all four formes, but i am trying to get the secret ending. I have already gotten the ultimet keyblade and searching for the dolmations and trinity's the game has almost all the characters from FF 5,6,7, and 8 and has a hole bunch of disney characters too. I think that every world is amaseing but over all i think that kingdom hearts is truly the light to all our hearts....
The best game ever
| The best game ever! | | Stone cold from Canada says (13/Jul/2003): | This is the best danm game ever, i beated it in 3 days.I like the end because Cloud Finds Aeris again :D i beated the hades cup but the pegasus cup is tu F*cking hard Sephiroth beated me in like 10 secs :P.I hope they make a second Kingdom hearts.
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| | andrew from napa says (18/Jul/2003): | Kindom hearts is the best game ever!!!!!!!!!!If you pass the game at the end you will cry! if your sucked into it but i like the theme song too my favorite world is Never Land becuse you can fly o and if you stuck trying to beet captin hook look out when he says fire! beacuse pirate heartless are in there own ships and they have cannons and they can charge you so watch out my sisters favorite chariter is Kairi and she thinks that Sora and Kairi should be together she said if Riku and Kairi like eachother that would relly suck.
| It's the best game ever! | | Ryan Prestil from Janesville,WI.,U.S.A. says (28/Jul/2003): | I didn't know how good Kingdom Hearts would be when I got it. My friends all liked it, but I thought it looked boring. When I played it, I realized I was wrong- I was hooked! The graphics are super- it's fun to play along side Disney characters. Traveling through the different worlds, and running into characters you recognize is really cool.
You start in your home world (Destiny Island), but the Heartless destroy it. Then you defeat Darkside and you get sucked in a black hole and get warped to Travis Town. You wander around, and at the end of the level find Donald and Goofy, who stay with you the rest of the game. You travel through many other worlds, defeating Heartless, Bosses, etc. At the very end, you fight many bosses before you win the game. It keeps you interested and occupied the whole time!
Kingdom Hearts was complicated at first, but once I got further along, I realized all the things I could do to make it easier. There magic shortcuts so it's easier to do magic, and you can customize how Donald and Goofy fight, so you win more battles. It also helped that I bought the strategy guide. It was a good investment. My mom says playing Kingdom Hearts is educational, since I need to plan strategy and put alot of thought into what I will do next. I was even able to count some of my game time towards a reading contest, since I spent so much time studying the guide!
I would recommend this game to anyone who likes to think while playing. It's not just a fast-action game- there needs to be thought involved, which keeps you interested more than just for the first hour or so, like so many other games. It's a great game and if you're thinking of buying it, I'd say "go for it!"
| Peaches from Bahamas | | Peaches from nassau says (6/Aug/2003): | The graphics on this game are excellent. i loved the music and the endless stages. everyone had something completely new flying with peter pan is the best.i am praying for part 2 too come out,
| I really liked this game! | | skyler martinez from Amarillo TX. USA says (21/Aug/2003): | I think that everyone who has a playstation 2 should buy this game. It was one of the best and first games I bought. But it was very short I beat this game in 3 weeks and did all of the side quest this game was easy game for me,and it was even easy on hard I give this game 8 stars this game was interesting yet it was not very long, if it was longer it would have been a better game.But the graphics were the best. Then there is pepole to fight and this takes about 5 to 10 minutes and that gets boring you know, and that is my review for the game.
| the most creative and original game ive ever played | | rika from california says (20/Sep/2003): | its a great game and has plenty of levels for you to beat and lots of secrets to unlock. The keyblade is such a cool and totally original weapon that can change its power and shape when a different keychain is attached. I've heard that kingdom hearts 2 will b harder and darker and sora will be......oops said too much! anyways i hope that everyone will buy the game and enjoy it as much as i did. *which i did alot btw...*
| for that guy from milwalkee | | daniel from katy texas usa says (9/Oct/2003): | ok you that guy from milwalkee who didnt post his name ive got some imformation for you.They are going to make a kingdom hearts game on the gameboy advanced first thats going to come out in early 2004.After that they are going to make a third one called kindom hearts 2.They all follow the same storyline and are all sequels.So I suggest you buy the one coming out on game boy advanced first.Kingdom hearts2 should come out in late 2004 or early 2005.Thats all the imformation i have.
| okay, but could use some work | | A gamer from pine grove CA usa says (10/Oct/2003): | I am a very hardcore gamer and this game caught my fancy not just because it had a nice box, but because my friends had let me play it. one thing I didnt like was the camera and game controls during batles as the camera doesnt let you get at the enemy you want and the controls are hard to use unless you start off by using the right control stick from the beginning which can get on your nerves in large batles as you have to look at the menu rather than your enemy, one thing you can do to fix this is to make it so that your enmy is frther away than they can get within five seconds as it takes three seconds to cast a spell and two to run. i recomend this if you like 3D platformers and have an understanding of rpg elements, that and you dont mind the plot moving slowly.
| OOH Hearts! | | Sam Waters from Stockton, England says (31/Oct/2003): | Well i thought this one was good it was a mix of Disney and Squaresoft you'd thought they'd never pull it off but they did and came out with a cracking game an adventure story which takes Donald Duck, Sora and Goofy to a world where they have to find all the key holes in different worlds and defeat the heartless once and for all this game also includes disney favourites such as
Tarzan
Simba
Pluto
and many more this is well worth buying
9/10 Kingdom Hearts!
| i have never seen a game so dam good in my life | | kurt from yarawonga australear says (1/Dec/2003): | i love this game you have to get it i just bet hades cup this morning i have got evrey keyblade but not the ultament one i'm stuck on ansem PLEESE!!! HALP i need so tips so could you pleese give me some now do you need to be a higher level then 69 to bete ansem and could someone pleese tell me what is the defrent ending i beg of of you pleese i relly i leon he is soooo cool is the gun blade like the key blade? riku is okay but he curnt bete leon one more thing is it true that ween you bete the final boss not ansem you get to play as him? i don't no wat it meens so could you tell me.
| Totally RULEZ!!! | | Alexa from Stockholm, Sweden but i prefare Zanarkand!! ^^ says (13/Jan/2004): | Hehe.. I don't know the ending yet.. :P
I've just beaten that ugly beast Behemoth.. Piece of cake.. :P
But am i even near the end? Just wanna know... I'm dying too se the end.. Umm wich level do you gues suggesst that i should be? Iäm right now at level 49.. Should i train a little mor or do you think i can handle it? And umm.. Hehe.. What am i against at all? Wich more bosses is in my way? Well Well.. Can't anybody email me on my email.. I really wanna know the end.. Because i'm not really sure if i have the time to win the game before my brother takes it with him back home to his place.. So can somebody please tell me what happens at the end? Piece for piece? I heard itäs kind of sad.. So that's what i wanna know? Whatäs gonna happen? Will Sora and Kairi survive? Plzz Tell me someone.. hehe.. Well.. What i've seen of the game Kingdom hearts totally RULEZZ!!! :P :P :P
My email is: Marzia_X< remove me > at hotmail.com
Email me!! And please tell me exactly what happen in the end.. ^^
Thanks anyway..
And FFX-2 RULEZZ TOO!!
I'm dying for the realese here in sweden.. I have waited 1 year!!
I'm going crazy!! Must have it!! :D
| AERIS AN CLOUD 4EVA | | Aeris strife from new zealand says (26/Nov/2003): | it pretty damn good i could never diss it besides i still the old characters to be in kh2 it will be cool with some new ones if yous dont agree g2g the toilet waiting lol i love kingdom hearts final fantasy 7 and me cloud imean aeris an cloud you no how she looks like me lol now im going hehehehehe kh2 bring it on im waiting aeris exact words "i want to meet you" ff7advent children i want to meet you too to be honest cloud looks gay on ff7advent children it just my thoughts dont test me k im going for real damn im gonna $#< remove me > at ! my paints soon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!last words "AERIS AN CLOUD 4EVA"hehehehehe
| Disney: Must they ruin everything? | | Syyo Sidikari from California, USA says (24/Dec/2002): | The moment I was aware of Kingdom Hearts' exictance, I almost laughed. Squaresoft and Disney...I had never seen THIS one coming. Though, I soon felt impelled to play the game as soon as i was informed that the Squaresoft Character's would be granted voices in the game. Once I got the chance to actually sit down and play the game, I imediately begain to pluck out the pros and cons.
For the most part I found the game satisfactory. The graphics were top notch, the folley art was nigh on target, and the voices were perfect (excluding Sephiroth's N*syncronization). On the matter of gameplay, I believe square really pulled it off. In fact, the reason I even played the game through was becuase of the gameplay. However, I was dissapointed, heavily I may add, in the interest of storyline. Personally, I would shoot myself dead if i had to live amidst a land ruled by Mickey Mouse.
Where to start...The disney characters, in my opinion strike an eccentric, perhaps even unwelcome contrast towards the squaresoft characters. The art style entitled to each differs so greatly it feels, to say the least, awkward.
So, a group of heartless demons emerge from an alternate dimension and slowly vaporize different worlds from the inside out. Seems fair enough, but could it have hurt to have at least one level from a Squaresoft oriented world? Yes, I know in the game it was mentioned that Aeris, Leon, and Yuffie's homeworld was destoryed, but that doesn't mean that there is no Final fantasy turf left at all ( actually, it does, but that's not my point). Could it have hurt to play in, say, midgar, or lindblum or somewhere? I don't know about anyone else, but Playing in one-hundred achor woods had to be the single most embarassing moment of my life.
Yay! Do you know what time it is? Bitching time! The summons were tacky, said simply. THough they were probably placed in the game for some odd type of comic reliefe, It got annoying to cast a summon (an aspect of squaresoft that i usually took as an oppurtunity to absorb some of Squre's creative monster Design)and see bambi frolliking in on a bed of flowers.
And finally, by last personal grudge against the game; Apparently FF9 has become completely forgotten throughout the past few years. Sure, I should probably be grateful that the one and only sephiroth is in the game, and that cloud has a decent voice, but the game lacked SOMETHING that I think would have easily been remidied by an FF9 cameo; Would Eiko not make the perfect Kingdom Hearts character? She's small, enchanted, and irritating. Perfect, I tell you! Now, there would be no better game in existence (in my opinion) if Freya was included as a playable character in Kingdom Hearts.
As you may be reading this, thinking "Can't this stupid Jackass be optimistic for once?", I would like to assure you that I did like the game enough to buy it. It deffinitely is worth playing, and resembles a good point on Squares record (I don't think there has been a Real Time Square game since The Bouncer, which wasn't half as good). Also, I think that Kingdom Hearts is also a good introduction into the world of Real Time gaming for younger gamers, for example, a Devil May Cry for kids.
Bottomline, it's not great, but worth spending time on. But will squaresoft ever come to their senses and make Freya a playable character in real time? Eh, maybe I'll get lucky come Kingdom Hearts II. (You all know they're going to do it.)
| Takes third place for worst game ever made. | | AkaRai from Brownsville, Texas, U.S.A. says (2/Sep/2004): | To all those reviewers saying every section of it rules, give some reasons instead of just blankly stating they do.
Let's start with graphics, many have said this game has good graphics. In truth, it only has *okay* graphics in thw beginning, and ending cinema. The graphics throughout the rest of the game are sub-standard. Square made FFX a good two years before KH, and it had far better graphics than KH. When you consider it was made byt he same company, two years earlier, and has better graphics than KH, it shows they didn't put alot of focus into it.
Next, let's tackle the story. I keep hearing "BRILLIANT STORY OMG" To this I say, shut up. It's a brilliant story if you're 12, and have never heard it before, but believe me, it's been done. It's the story of a boy traveling world to world, defeating a boss in each, with the eventual goal of defeating the main baddie, and rescuing a girl. We've seen this in all of the Mario games, Donkey Kong, Double Dragon, many of the Final Fantasy games, Kung-Fu, Lunar: SSSC, Toki, well.. you get the idea. I could go on for hours. And even the very first Mario accomplished this done-to-death story better than KH. Because at least, back then it was original.
Then you have the Heartless. Could there be a more simplistic, or childishly designed villain? "OMG, they're like.. dark... and destructive... and they have no heart... so um... since they're dark.. and have no heart... they're the Heartless!!!" I could have come up with a better concept when I was 5. Hell, set a chicken in front of a type writer, and it would too.
Next is the actual gameplay. Do you all forget the aggrivatingly idiotic camera? The near uselessness of your A.I. allies? Do you forget how more often you would die because you were trying to heal, or use a spell, then from actually fighting? The whole system was half assed.
Then there are the mini games. Notice you see the outside of the Gummi ship but once, and then only the interior after that? Let's talk about the Dalmations, because that's a prime example of how thrown together this whole game was. Every time we save them, it's the exact same thing. The box opens, and we hear the message "three dalmations have just been sent home." That's great, but why always three? Why not 2, or 4? Why can't we actually SEE them go home, instead of just being given a message? Maybe tell us why they're there, or how they got there? Why can't there be soem variety to it? Maybe we could win them in a battle at the arena. Maybe we could buy one as a rare.
Next, let's look at the voice actor cast. Square/Disney could have chosen professional, established voice actors, who had experience in the voice acting community. Did they? No. They hired pop stars. Mandy Moore, Haley Joel Osment, Lance Bass, David Boreonas, Billy Zane... These people weren't chosen because they had voice acting experience, they were chosen on name recognition. That's another problem of this game, the whole thing is hype.
As to the music... I can't get very technical on this, as really all I have with the music is my opinion, but it sucked outright in my opinion. High pitched, sappy pop music, with lyrics that made absolutely no sense translated into english. "Simple and Clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight..." What? As opposed to "Complicated and Dirty"? And let's not forget the Nightmare Before Christmas world. That movie was a musical, a musical with a score by Danny Elfman, known for such works as Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Men in Black, Beetlejuice, and countless, countless other works. The man is a master. Did they use him for the NBC world? No. That ruined the entire effect of it. They didn't use the original composer of what was made as a musical. It was NBC without a soul.
Speaking of soul-lessness though, let's talk about the big problem. Square bastardized all of the FF characters. Every single one of them was warped, and changed to match their new environment in a way that made NO sense.
KH is a children's game. Deny it all you want, but the game is rated E for a reason. You know how Goofy holds a shield? You want to know why? Originally he was to carry a sword, but Disney said that was too violent, and they never wanted any images of Goofy brandishing a sharp object. Why? Because the target audience is children.
Here's where the bastardization comes in... All the FF games are rated T. The characters, and stories in them are decidedly adult. So why take chain smokers, People who curse compulsively, and mass murderers, and stuff them with Dumbo, Bambi, and Winnie the Pooh? Each and every FF character was completely and utterly changed. All of them. And I can show you a side by side comparison of each and every character, including Sephiroth. I'm just going to cover four big ones here. The fact is, they completely forsaked their stories as well. Each character here has a completely different story, and behaves completely different than they did before.
Let's start with Cloud. What did they do to him that's so aggrivating? Look at his claw, and scarf. They combined him with Vincent. They just took two characters, slapped them together, and pretended they were one. Then, what's with the bandages on his sword? Is it broken? Seems to me that would make the sword completely useless in battle. Sort of like welding steel over the barrel of a gun.
Then let's take Cid from FF7. In FF7 he cursed compulsively, he fell asleep during conversations, and he ALWAYS smoked. Always had a cigerette in his mouth, and a pack on his goggles. In KH? Well the cursing, and falling asleep ar eboth gone. His surly personality is completly non existant here. Costume is barely at all the same. They've made him look 5 to 10 years younger, and instead of his trademark cigerettes... he has a toothpick. Are you getting this??
Next, let's look at Yuffie, I'll be brief with her. They made her shorter, her head bigger, her breasts smaller, her stomach, and hips wider. Then there's her personality. In FF7 she was a thief, that was all she was, and her obsession, and entire purpose for joing the team was to steal their materia. There is NO materia in KH. She displays none of her former personality, and looks insultingly different.
Finally, two characters. Wakka & Tidus. They've been turned from adults, to children. Now you may say "it takes place before the FF game!" aha, but the problem here is, Tidus and Wakka didn't meet until they were both adults. Play the games before you comment on them, really. On top of that little screw up -and the fact that tidus now has a red stick, instead of a crystal sword- there's the fact that he's a dream of the Fayth. As he is a dream, he is without age. The age he was in FFX is the only age he can be, because that was how he was dreamt up. And, if you played FFX you know that if the Fayth die, Tidus ceases to exist. There are no Fayth in KH, so again his presence lacks logic, and completely forsakes his plot.
Now, I know you've read two lines of this, and just decided to click that you didn't like the review without actually taking the time to read it, but I implore you. Read it, and understand that I'm making valid, technical points. If you want more info, or want to dispute it, e-mail me.
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