Kingdom Hearts
- Kingdom Hearts (2005 on BREW)
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Sora's world is shattered when a violent storm hits his home, and he is separated from his two closest friends. The storm scatters the three to unknown worlds. At the same time, there is turmoil in the Disney Castle. King Mickey is missing, and Court Wizard Donald and Captain Goofy are out to find him. On their travels they meet Sora, on his own search for his lost friends. The three are told of ominous creatures called Heartless, being without hearts derived from an unknown dimension and are the ones responsible for the devastating storm.
The Disney villains, enticed by the power of darkness, manipulate the Darkness to help them gather the princesses of heart, who are needed to open a mysterious final door. Upon discovering the link between the Heartless, the storm, and the disappearance of King Mickey, Sora, Donald, and Goofy join forces and help familiar Disney heroes to save their worlds from the Heartless.
In Kingdom Hearts players step into the very large shoes of Sora, wielder of the keyblade. Sora can attack with the blade, and as he levels up he will gain more attacks that are automatically chained together. Sora can learn magic and put healing items into a quick menu, and both can only be used in real time. Donald and Goofy (as well as an additional character exclusive to each world/disney movie) will follow Sora. Their equipment and AI can be adjusted, but they can not be directly controlled. Defeated enemies will drop many kinds of items including synthesis materials. Sora can take these to the Synthesis shop in Twilight Town to turn them into usable items, accessories, and weapons.
Traveling between each world requires Sora's party to fly through space in a Gummi Ship. The Gummi Ship can be completely customized, from speed and armor to weapons and shape, out of parts picked up from destroyed Gummi Ships, found in worlds, or bought from a store. Larger, more complex ships can be built as the game progresses, and plans can be found from destroyed enemies or from an NPC that will automatically build a Gummi Ship of specific specifications.
Spellings
- キングダムハーツ - Japanese spelling
- 王国之心 - Chinese spelling (simplified)
- 王國之心 - Chinese spelling (traditional)
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- Console Generation Exclusives: PlayStation 2
- Fictional character: Pinocchio
- Franchise crossovers
- Games made into comics
- Kingdom Hearts series
- PlayStation 2 Greatest Hits releases
- PlayStation 2 Platinum Range releases
- Setting: Inside a giant creature
- Video games turned into board / card games
- Walt Disney games
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Reviews
Critics
Average score: 84% (based on 40 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.8 out of 5 (based on 145 ratings with 14 reviews)
The Good
I loved the sound and graphics, the battle system, music, story, almost everything.
The Bad
The only thing that annoyed me was the camera .
The Bottom Line
Well, you just need to get this game if you like Final Fantasy, because... well... it's Squaresoft who makes Final Fantasy, and this is just a brilliant game.
Score: 5/5
PlayStation 2 · by michael mccafferty (2) · 2005
One of the best games I've ever played
The Good
Kingdom Hearts is one of the best games ever to grace the Playstation 2. It is essentially something along the lines of Final Fantasy meets Disney, with characters like Yuffie, Squall (aka Leon), Cloud, and (of course) Sephiroth, as well as Disney characters like Donald Duck, Goofy, Pinocchio, and many more. The game is balanced in difficulty. It's not too easy or too hard. The voice cast is one of the best in video game history, including Haley Joel Osment as Sora the protagonist. There are plenty of secrets hidden all through the worlds, which give the game much replay value.
The Bad
The only real fault that I found while playing this game is the inability to complete the game properly. After defeating the final boss, you get a long cutscene (which can't be skipped) and the credits (which also can't be skipped). After that, It shows the characters with the words "The End" onscreen. The only option is to switch off the console. In other words, you can't save the game after defeating the final boss.
The Bottom Line
Overall, I would recommend Kingdom Hearts to any video game fan.
PlayStation 2 · by J.D. Majors (14) · 2009
And to think, I thought it would be stupid......
The Good
At first, the idea of a disney game with a squaresoft type touch seemed incredibly stupid to me, but after I played this game, I figured out my mistakes.
The graphics are nothing to laugh at. This solid RPG offers enough eye candy to play for hours. I probably could play this game over and over. The characters look amazing, as does the hero. All objects and worlds are created excellently, and the game manages to have a great gfx touch along with a cartoony disney touch.
Playing the game is a breeze. While the camera can get disturbing sometimes, this can be easily overcome using the lock on feature. The game was fast, and barely had any slowing down on my system.
The sound and music is also okay.
The Bad
The only thing I despised about this game was the key thing that you had to use for a weapon. I hated it, but since its a disney game, and they couldn't go off with machine guns, Ill let it pass.
The Bottom Line
I give this game a complete <<<<< 5 out of 5 >>>>>
PlayStation 2 · by ThE oNe (180) · 2002
Trivia
1001 Video Games
Kingdom Hearts appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
Characters
Aside from Disney characters that are not surprise to encounter, you will also encounter several other characters from SquareSoft other games, such as Squall (main protagonist from Final Fantasy VIII), Selphie (a party character from Final Fantasy VIII), Tidus (main protagonist from Final Fantasy X), Wakka (party character from Final Fantasy X), Aerith (from Final Fantasy VII), Cloud (main protagonist of Final Fantasy VII), Sephiroth (nemesis in Final Fantasy VII), and other.
Contest
The secret boss Kurt Zisa in the US version is named after the winner of a contest held by Squaresoft to promote the game.
Theme song
The theme song, Simple and Clean (English) and Hikari meaning "light" (Japanese version), is written and performed by Japan's pop artist Utada Hikaru. After the release of the game's original Japanese version, Hikari was released separately and, according to IGN, sold about 860.000 copies.
Awards
- GameSpy
- 2002 – Best Use of License of the Year (PS2)
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Kingdom Hearts.Com
Square-Enix's Official Site. -
The Kingdom Key
Containing walkthroughs, secrets, media files and much more. -
Wikipedia: Kingdom Hearts
Information about Kingdom Hearts at Wikipedia
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Game added October 2, 2002. Last modified January 16, 2024.