Kingdom Hearts: Love It Or Hate It?

[Ayen]

I thought it was a good game. The mixture of Disney and Final Fantasy was pretty different but I actually liked it. Oh yeah and Aerith's voice in that game was hot! But I totally didn't expect to hear David Boreanaz as the voice of Squall Lionheart, that was a shocker. But he actually did that role justice. Oh yeah and Cloud's outfit was the best I've seen with him.

I never played any of the sequels though. I saw like the beginning of 2 but it didn't make any sense to me. Is there a game I need to play before getting 2?

[Etheriah]

I think the games are brilliant, and unique. One of my favourite series' that have ever been released for any console.

[Novalia]

The concept of KH appealed to me a lot because when the first game came out, I was young and had never played a FF game before, so all I was thinking was, "DISNEY!". I never got further than Destiny Island. I was young and silly...

When I got older and began playing it again, the idea of Disney and FF still really appealed to me, mainly because I was interested to see whether they'd be able to pull it off. It was a little odd at first, but I loved the idea after a while. While the game sometimes does get a little slow at certain points, I would say that I do "love" this game.

And Kingdom Hearts II is one of my favorite games of all time. They did a great job making a sequel.

[Aesop]

Because I'm new I think appropiate for me to let people know that I am one of the few (maybe 20 people I the entire planet lol...) that hate kingdom hearts. Sorry :/

[Ruhku]

I love KH. Especially that they bought in Sephiroth to fight. Man thats gotta be like the 3rd way on fighting him besides crisis core, VII and dissidia.

[Razael]

I really love the Kingdom Hearts franchise . The first time I played it was when my old friend Desiree showed me the game at her house and I was instantly hooked. I managed to play it myself one day and man, I was absolutely enthralled by the amazing story. To me, it delivers the wonder and magic of a child's story (i.e. Disney) in a more adult manner of complexity, like a more serious RPG (i.e. Final Fantasy).

As for characters, Sora was a great guy and actually wasn't a generic hero. In accordance to that, he spent the entire 1st game doing all of that because he wanted to find Kairi as well as trying to understand why Riku disappeared and why he turned against him. More or less, Sora just wanted to find his lost friends and understand why all of the events happened how they did, which made him a great character who had a good background. Kairi, was mostly a damsel in distress through the first game, but her character was expanded well in the sequel when she took matters into her own hands and tried to go find Sora and Riku, tho she ran into trouble xD. That showed that she became stronger over the 1-year gap. Riku was also a great character in that he made a big mistake in betraying his best friends, but later went through a lot to help and make up for it, showing he really meant he was sorry. Riku was a very dynamic character and probably had the most character development with Sora second.

As a whole, the idea of traveling to different Disney worlds was great as well, sort of like a Disney version of Dissidia, only it was traveling on a gummi ship xD. I would also like to address the presence of certain FF characters: the thing is, they weren't meant to be direct parallels to their original counterparts (Cloud, Aerith, Sephiroth, Squall, Tidus, etc) but moreso homages to themselves as some changes had to be made being it was partly Disney. SE also made this clear before too. I realize some of you didn't like how they were meshed with Disney, but try to think of them as AU versions of them. I more or less see KH as a FF for a somewhat younger demographic. As I said, I really love KH...

HOWEVER, I strongly feel KH was completely derailed when Birth By Sleep came out.

(Forewarning: Partial rant/partial limited critique coming)

Spoiler!

Mind you, I haven't actually played BBS, but I have done my research on the story, setting and watched some playthrough videos of it as well as cutscenes. I won't go on a big, huge tangent, but I feel the introduction of Ventus completely destroyed Sora's character. The way the story flows in BBS does not fit with the original KH/KH2/ReCoM storyline and the overall plot has become far too ridiculous and complex. It just makes no sense to me whatsoever and the character Varitas was just ridiculous as well as this so-called X-Blade. I'm sorry, I mean no offense to anyone who liked BBS, but imo, it deliberately wrote off Sora.

Anyway, as for 368/2 Days and Coded, those were alright, tho I think Xion's character made it a bit too complex.

In all, Kingdom Hearts is a great franchise, bar BBS in my personal opinion. But yes, I do love Kh as a whole.

~ Raz

[ShadowStar Mila]

I never cared about FF being mixed in with disney as a matter of fact not only they did make the game great just being their, wha ti love about their interaction in the game was to see some of them fight in a new battle style not similar to FF, we ge tto team with them all of them in 2 mostly, they had a big part to play in the storyline, and getting to fight sephiroth, they made the game great. I dont see the problem with them being with disney, I enjoyed all of it xD and being able to fight with a few of my favorite childhood favorites cant say anything i hate about it.

[Razberry Knight]

The first game was amazing. Very modest yet surprised you. Chain of memories however was not meant for gameboy advance. Kh2 had refined the style but the story became generic.


And after kh2 they forgotten the point. The visuals and the gamelay continues to improve but the story lacks more and more. Kh3D makes it that apparent. I personally am disapointed with the series.

[seddy-0]

I think this game is really a love-hate thing. i love the fact that the games were made on the ps2 system and loved the story lines. i hate the fact that they made games for other consoles. continuing the story.. so if you didn't have the ds, you were missing a chunk of the game series. if you are gonna make a game series, either make it for all consoles or just one.. don't jump from ps2 to ds, then back to ps2. then to ds some more. and the ending of the second kh game for ps2 set up for a 3rd. that has never been done. instead another ds game was done. and if i am not mistaken, didn't they make one for the psp? if it wasn't for ps2 i didn't pay attention to it because i only own consoles, not handhelds.

[Lightning Cloud]

LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!

Everything from original characters, Disney and FF plus story and gameplay makes it one of my favorite games!