Kingdom Hearts
Tags: good versus evil

Plot synopsis:
A young boy of 14, Sora and his friends Riku and Kairi dream of visiting outside worlds away from their home on  Destiny Islands . So they decide to build a ship to sail out of there, but the night before Sora has weird dreams about darkness and light. He wakes up not knowing if their real or not. When awoken Sora sees a whole bunch of heartless on the Islands. He tries to fend them off, but is to late and Sora's world is completly engulfed into darkness. While this is happening, King Mickey Mouse leaves to try and discover on the dark forces that are growing in the universe. He has his friends Donald and Goofy go and find the keyblade wielder, who is chosen to fight off the darkness.Sora finds himself at a completly different world called Traverse Town where he meets a man named Cid who runs the Accessory Shop. Sora later bumps into a brooding man named Leon, who can't believe that a kid is the chosen one. Leon and his friend Yuffie tell Sora all about the keyblade an how it's supposed to fight off the darkness and save other worlds. Cid, Leon, Yuffie and Aerith all lost their world too. While Leon explains exactly what the keyblade does, Donald and Goofy are looking around Traverse Town for the Keybalde weilder, and to their surprise they happen to fall right on him....literally. When this happens a gigantic heartless appears and Sora, Donald & Goofy fight it off. Sora says that he needs to find his friends Riku and Kiari. Donald had no interest in this, but had their own agenda on finding King Mickey.Sora, Donald & Goofy bord the Gummi ship which can take them to different worlds. The first world they land in is  Wonderland.  Sora and the others find themselves to big for the place and drink a shrinking potion to be able to move around. They then find themselves in the middle of an unfair court hearing on a girl named Alice. The jude was a Queen who kept screaming "off with her head!" Sora decides to try and help Alice by finding evidence to prove her innocense. But the Queen of hearts wouldn't listen and locked up Alice and sent cards on Sora. Sora fights off the cards, but when he tries to help Alice he sees that she is gone. Sora then has to fight off a heartless called the Trickmaster. He defeats the heartless and see that Alice is no longer there, so he decided to pack up ship.On their next stop at  Olympus Coliseum Sora, Donald & Goofy all meet a little goat man named Phil. Phil is the trainer of the legendary Hercules and Phil tells Sora that if you wan't to be a true hero you have to train and work hard. Sora then bumps into Hades, who gives Sora an entry pass into the Coliseum. Hades has a couple of other things he want's to enter in the tournament, like Cloud and his hell hound Cerberus. Sora battles Cerberus and beats him. He then talks to Cloud and tells Cloud he will one day find his light and be able to pass through the darkness.When traveling in the Gummi Ship, they see a jungle looking world. Sora wants to land there just in case if Riku and Kiari are there, but Donald says they should keep going. After much arguing between them they land in the  Deep Jungle  where they are attacked by a lepord named Sabor. Tarzan the jungle man, saves the gang and leads them to his freind Jane's camp sight. They alos meet a man named Clayton who seems to like hunting things a little too much. Tarzan helps Sora defeat heartless who were there trying to harm the gorillas. They also see that Clayton tried to hunt some gorillas himself. They confront Clayton and fight him and a stealth sneak heartless. After this Sora seals the keyhole and apologizes to Donald about there squable from earlier.Stoping at Traverse Town to learn more information about the journey, Sora, Donald & Goofy run into Riku who seems to be acting really different. After a short conversation Riku leaves without another word and leaves Sora confused. But Sora now knows at least one of his friends are okay.

Review: Like most other Square Fans, I was extremely skeptical when I first heard that the RPG legend would be teaming up with Disney, of all people, to produce a game.
Square has once again shown its talent for creating magical RPGs.Kingdom Hearts is truly a stunning accomplishment and may very well be the game of the year for 2002.
The biggest problem with Kingdom Hearts is that many gamers are bashing it because of the inclusion of the Disney characters without even playing the game.
Kingdom Hearts has to be the greatest video game from Disney Interactive and Squaresoft.
A lot of people groaned when they heard the words "Disney" and "platform game" put together when this game was first described, although a lot more interest was spawned when people heard that several Final Fantasy (the best game series ever) characters would be appearing.
When September 17, 2002 came, I ran out to get my copy and have been enthralled by this game's beauty, charm, and playability.Kingdom Hearts features two stories, one, about a boy named Sora who is looking for his friends who have vanished.
You'll meet all sorts of cameo appearances from Disney films and SquareSoft's Final Fantasy games.
The games play like the Legend Of Zelda series, with real-time battling, you control Sora while the other two characters support you.
You'll face classic bosses from the movies, such as Captain Hook and Jafar as the Evil Genie.The graphics of this game are gorgeous, looking like an animated Disney film itself.
I have always been a fan of both Disney & video games like Final Fantasy!
This PS2 video game is great, and is also a Disney game you can all enjoy, and won't be ashamed to buy or mention to anyone that you played it.
It combines Final Fantasy like characters, the game play and storyline and puts a Disney like storyline and characters in it.
If you like this game, you'll like all the Final Fantasy titles, and of course, Kingdom Hearts II..
Kingdom Hearts is by far the best video game I've ever played.
When I first played Kingdom Hearts, I was astonished with the graphics, the plot, the game play and the story because it was very well written and very well published, and you can also travel into different worlds in the Gummi Ship!
I simply love this game, its challenging in some parts, sad and its shows that the heart is the strongest weapon of all.I like how they added all the Disney characters and their evil villains and you have to fight them.
So I swallowed my pride and since I'm 23 by default I'm not a big Disney fan so I thought eh I'll bare with it...This game has once again brought me back to Disney, while not as hardcore as before I don't loathe it now, and proves to me when Square puts it's mind to it they can make any septic eat their words.I love the Graphics in Kingdom Hearts, The Square characters look like you'd expect lifelike and edgy.
Kingdom Hearts exudes a pure child-like sense of wonder, amazement, and mystery that I have yet to find again in gaming 16 years later..
here is my music tribute for kingdom hearts just because it is a damn good game, i am a rapper and work with a backing singer, we are from the UK and are on Facebook, my name is KAOS RAIN and my backing singer is ELEKHTRA, we have tracks all over the internet, and we have fan pages that you can join and like, please feel free to leave likes and comments, thank you, also i have grown up playing kingdom hearts and also all of the final fantasy games, Square Enix are genius creators for creating masterful games like these, so big respects to them for putting all their hard worked effort into making the best games for our entertainmenthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRSeOe7M_aA&feature=related.
I never doubted Kingdom Hearts ever since I heard of it (I was about 9 when it came out though- I heard the word Disney and screamed for joy) I played it and it was even better than I thought it would be!
Even if you aren't a little kid or extremely familiar with Disney or Final Fantasy, you'll like this game, simply because of its great story (which somehow seems to borrow a lot of philosophy from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" - especially closer to the end).
I have since gone on to play Final Fantasy VII, X, and X-2, since Kingdom Hearts features characters from these games - and these are great games as well.
It's the best game I played and I know a lot of people would love it too!
When I first bought this game I wondered what a game that mixed Final Fantasy and Disney characters would be like.
The mix of SqureSoft and Disney worked out perfectly and Kingdom Hearts proved both fun and challenging from start to finish.
If you love or like Disney or Final Fantasy you will love this game.
I would hate for anyone to brand it along with the 'family values' brand of Disney movies, because he game really does take a closer look at the best allegorical elements of early Disney films, and the symbology used in the Final Fantasy series.
This game mixes a final fantasy like story line and wonderful graphics into a game filled with memories of our childhood in Disney form.
It's true that it isn't as challenging as some, nor as complex as others; but in storyline, character development, pure graphics content and especially music score, Kingdom Hearts rates a 10.The plot develops beautifully as it goes.
Hardly as predictable as some people might claim, it is engaging, with characters who hold your interests and enough options to tweak to keep your interest peaked.Kingdom Hearts does exactly what it purported to do: it combines the best of the Final Fantasy worlds with Disney - and makes you take it *seriously*.This is one I'm going to play again - and if you haven't played it yet, you should..
The game tells the tale of Sora, a 14 year old who, along with his friend Riku and Kairi, dream of going to another world, fed up of being stuck on their island.
I'm glad Disney came up w/ it and I hope that Kingdom Hearts 2 will be just as good if not better...
First thoughts when I heard the words Disney and Squaresoft."Oh my god no!"But, as I watched the preview for Kingdom Hearts on the bonus disc in Final Fantasy X, my faith in Squaresoft (sorry...Square Enix) was quite suddenly restored.
Playing through the game I found, that even the most annoying Disney characters (Donald and Goofy) can grow on you, and you even find yourself in awe of what Square Enix have done with their own characters.
The graphics are beautiful, the gameplay is excellent, the choice of weapon is unique, (name me three more games that have the hero fighting with a giant key) the worlds are all different, (Halloween Town rules) the storyline is engaging and the characters are addictive.Buy this game, you would never regret it, don't dismiss it just because of the word "Disney." Its a game for everyone from 2 to....God only knows.10/10*****/*****.
It's also a great game you can play in front of children and they'll get a kick out of all of the Disney characters you interact with in the game (our 2 year old loves it!).
When you have Disney animators recreating their beloved characters and scenes from their animated films, with an excellent storyline and the best voice acting in a video game you get a must have RPG.
But besides that i think its a really good game and although i am disapointed at how long the game is(i still havent finished it!) I liked the charecters, and how all the disney original voices were in it.
It's great for kids, video game fans, Disney fans, and anybody who is young at heart!I just hope they make the sequel soon!!!!.
This Is the Best RPG game I have ever played in my life.This game has a sad ending(I will not spoil it) and it is so fun and so funny(I love Donald!).This game has the best graphics,best gameplay and the best animation.The people who says that Disney messes everything up are idiots.Disney doesn't mess it up,it supports it!This game does not have a speck of blood,and none of the characters say any bad language.(including dumb,stupid,dork,geek,etc.)If I were a ESRB rater and I would have to rate this,I would rate this "Everyone".I rate this 10/10.If it were possible,I would rate this a 20/10.I have the song "Simple and Clean" stuck in my head!.
If you like Disney and Final Fantasy, you will love this game!!.
This is a rather odd game, you play in a universe where Disney characters and Final Fantasy characters live.
Kingdom Hearts boasts many favourite characters from both the Final Fantasy franchise from Squaresoft, and from many of the Disney movies.
Adventure with Sora, Donald and Goofy through the kingdoms (taken from Disney), while searching for King Mickey.The graphics are stunning, gameplay is simple enough for my 6-year-old son, yet challenging enough for an adult (with normal and expert play modes to change the difficulty).This is a game that I would highly recommend..
This is a game that delights in bringing the magic of disney and the playable fun of final fantasy to life.
A great game feauring many Disney characters and a dash of Final Fantasy characters..
Thankfully, many Disney heroes and a few Final Fantasy ones will help Sora, Donald and Goofy on their journey which spans several worlds.
KH's story is quite good, championing themes of friendship and love without feeling cheesy or preachy.The game play is standard button-mashing, but there are tons worlds to explore.
I now await the 2.5 remix of the game, to play KHII.Sora is my favourite character (yeah, big surprise) he relates a lot to me and I really think he's a great protagonist.
But in games released AFTER the Kingdom Hearts series, those characters are considered bad.
This is my second-favorite video game of all time (my first is the sequel, Kingdom Hearts 2).
I rented this game when it first came out and I thought I got quite far the characters that I got to meet where: Squall (FF8) Selphie (FF8) Aeris (FF7) Cid(FF7) Yuffie(FF7) Tidus (FFX) Wakka (FFX) Alice in Wonderland The Queen Donald Duck Goofy And a character that looks like Sephiroth but isnt (hes the one Sora is playing with on the island) it might just be me that thinks that.I defeated the monster on the town where I might all the above characters except Alice and The Queen.
Kingdom Hearts is a great game about this kid named Sora trying to find his 2 lost best friends Riku and Kairi.
The storyline is very original and it is amazing how Square and Disney have worked together to incorporate some of the most beloved Disney characters as well as Final Fantasy characters into one well-rounded game.
Kingdom Hearts, although it's nothing new (we're taking Disney characters everyone and their brother recognizes combined with certain Final Fantasy characters only fans will know of) is kind of fun but easily forgettable.
When I first bought Kingdom Hearts, I thought it was going to be the coolest game in the world, but instead It was horrible.With no Rpg like final fantasy, it's horrible, and they took the coolest final fantasy characters and mixed them into a pile of rubbish.
Anyone who plays this game can tell you that this game is great, you get to fight all these villains Disney and new alike and get to enjoy the story which includes Final Fantasy characters like Leon, Yuffie, Cid, and more.
You will find yourself immersed into a great game with many worlds that bring the story to life, filled with great battle sequences, and loving characters.
Kingdom Hearts makes one good rival for the master pieces of Final Fantasy, and Lunar 2:Eternal Blue Complete.(PS1) There are many reasons but there are some bad thing sin the game.The reason is that square has combined FF with Disney to create a whole new story.
Anyone who decided not to play Kingdom Hearts because of the Disney characters is missing out on one of the best RPG's, heck one of the best games on PS/2.
The ending was great which signals Kingdom hearts 2 which comes out march 1 2006.I cant wait to see the sequel to this unlikely but fun game.
If had a PS2 when Kingdom Hearts came out and didn't buy it because of the Disney characters incorporated into it, you're an idiot.
Kingdom Hearts has a great storyline that keeps up well with the game.
I like the characters like Goofy and all the Final Fantasy characters, but the best characters are Sora and Riku created solely for the game.
Kingdom Hearts is a great game with a plot line that is really good and surprisingly dark at times.
Fans of fighting games where you beat people up might enjoy this game because you have a "keyblade" which you use to fight these monsters called "Heartless" away, and the game isn't really one of those turn based games where you have to wait for an enemy to attack (often being a fifty/fifty chance of HP getting low), this game is actually a game where you can block attacks and hit as many times as needed (just so long as you know what you are doing).The game is also for the Final Fantasy fans everywhere who love the series and have played all the games because the people who made this game cleverly added some characters from various Final Fantasy games to Kingdom Hearts.
For example there is a world where you fight Hercules and Hades has basically hired Cloud to kill you (something like that really).So if you are getting bored with all the other RPG games I would recommend Kingdom Hearts: it has an intriguing story line, familiar characters, and game play that you are sure to enjoy..
I thought it would be like final fantasy, accept with Disney characters, I didn't think too much on it, I always knew Disney was trying to get into Japan's pockets and get their anime, but my god I didn't expect them to make a game like this, of course square did all the planning, but the fact that Disney was with them, doesn't change.
This is definitely a high budget game, I know Disney supplied the money, and square worked their magic, the graphics are amazing.
Getting everything in the game just to see the secret movie at the end is well worth it, and if you have a high speed connection, download deep dive, which is another secret movie that comes with the special edition of Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix, the video is a masterpiece of its own, the graphics are insane.
The game play was good too, I'm glad they didn't do the usual final fantasy like battle sequences; I hate them greatly, for they take up time of play and you get attacked practically every 5 seconds, or once an hour when you need to be attacked, very bad system if you ask me.
The ending really got us, it was a cliff hanger like no other, but keeping us waiting, hoping for a sequel.I loved every second played of this game, if Final Mix was available, I would be all over it as well.
Overall this game is beauty at its best that you can control with your ps2, and don't be surprised if Kingdom Hearts comes around.
In a bizarre yet briljant move, Disney and Square Enix joined forces to create a game that combined the magic of Disney with the dark anime storytelling of Final Fantasy to create Kingdom Hearts.
Sora, a young boy who is the perfect cross between a Disney and a Square anime character, loses his home world in an attack by dark beings known as the Heartless, and teams up with Donald Duck and Goofy to save various Disney worlds from said beasties, with the help of a band of Disney and Final Fantasy characters and a strange weapon called the Keyblade (which literally looks what it sounds like).
It was a crossover between Disney and Final Fantasy which may sound kind of weird at first, but doesn't sound as weird once the player gets into it.Story - (May contain spoilers but I tried my best not to spoil important things) Kingdom Hearts opens with a teenager named Sora who lives on an Island along with his friends Riku and Kairi.
3: The Gameplay is the best of the Kingdom Hearts games just so cool the boss battles the side quests the Characters i was abit Suspicious about the Disney characters at first but now i love Disney again the Final Fantasy characters are cool as well.
It has all the Disney characters and worlds that have been around for a long time, some of its own characters(the wonderful Sora, Riku, and Kairi) and of course you've got my favorites, the Final Fantasy characters(Cloud, Squall, Yuffie, etc.) I just have to point this out, Sora and Kairi's romance has got to be one of the sweetest loves I have ever seen.
Kingdom Hearts is a great game until the climax.
It mixes the world of Disney with the world of Final Fantasy (and other 'original' Square-Enix characters), giving it the guarantee of a vast fanbase; it has a little something for just about everyone.
I'd never played a Final Fantasy game, and the idea of Disney characters in it made me fear for my reputation.
Kingdom Hearts reignited my faith in Disney, though I can't say for sure exactly how much plot was thought up by Square-Enix's side.