Summary

Summary? Worlds are being consumed by darkness (kind of like the Nothing in Neverending Story) and 14-year-old Sora has to stop it, as the Keybearer. The game is a huge crossover pulled together with original ideas and characters. A massive crossover AU if you will.

Strength

It draws on pre-existent Square-Enix characters and Disney characters. This was part of its draw from the beginning. And they do it *well,* to boot. It might be toned down for the kiddies but the overall theme and morals are quite dark. You go to Squeenix for the compelling characters, you go to Disney for the conflict. And it works wonderfully.

Weakness

The camera. Oh, God I hate the freaking camera. It drives me up the wall. And, by now, some of the graphics are dated. Wonderland looks like consecutive boxes with flat walls. Goofy and Donald's AI isn't particularly peachy-keen, either.

Summary

This is a very original idea. Combining Disney characters with Final Fantasy characters. The end reult is a very good RPG. The characters are memorable, the music is great, and it has a very good storyline. If you love Final Fantasy, and love Disney, then this is the game for you.

Sound

Great. These game features voices who actually played in Disney movies. This also has my favorite Boss theme in an RPG.

Gameplay

You play as the main character; Sora. The problem is, you can only play as him. You get two Disney teamates; Donald, the magician, and Goofy, a guardian. As you visit other worlds, you can swap one of these two teamates for the Disney character of that world. Battles are fun to do and are in real time. Unlike most RPG's, you can see battles coming. You can either fight or avoid them.

Summary

I played about 2 hours of this game, and was hooked. It has just about everything an RPG fanatic could want. An interesting storyline, a great cast of characters, and dazzling graphics. It proves that new wave role-playing games don't have to suck. For anyone who owns a PS 2, and has been longing for a quality RPG, then Kingdom Hearts is for you.

Sound

The sound was also very nice. The soundtrack had a number of original melodies along with quite a few familiar ones. Most of the music was good, but a few tracks had a tendency to be repetitious. The voice overs were probably one of the best features of the game because all of the actors and actresses were very convincing in their roles. The Disney characters sounded astonishingly like the original ones from the movies and cartoons. They even included cameo performances from some of the people who did the voices from the more recent Disney movies.

Gameplay

The gameplay for the most part was well done. The story, while a bit dark, was very interesting and developed well throughout the game. Most aspects of the combat engine were great due to the real-time battle mode. I did however find the camera angles in battle a bit annoying, because sometimes the camera was to close to your characters when you fight, making it difficult if not impossible to see the enemies. You can adjust the camera angles in battle, but this sometimes makes a bad situation even worse when an enemy is closing in on you. This basically my only complaint. The characters were also great. I loved how they teamed Final Fantasy characters with Disney characters. Because of this,it has something that that both young and old will enjoy.

Summary

Anyone over the age of 12 should be ashamed to enjoy this game. With that said, this is one of the most well made games on the ps2 platform. The concept of the game seems childish at first, Disney charactors like Donald duck and Winnie the Pooh in the same game as Leon and Yuffie, but once you start it, you really can't stop. The things that square games such as FFX lacked, were good strong charactors, and for love of pete, better voiceovers. Kingdom hearts makes up for this by using real, professional voiceovers, and charactors (most of whom we are already familiar with) who are accually interesting, and plot driven. That was all thanks to Disney. Square knows how to make gameplay, Disney can make real conflict. Here are a few things i didn't like too much, if you don't have a problem with them, go and buy the game right now, it's worth the money. 1.Goofy and Donald Though their charactors were surprisingly pretty good, they were almost pointless as to the gameplay. They weren't customizable enough. They died easily. You should have been able to control them. 2.Gummi ships I don't know how to explain why i didn't like them, i thought they were extremely unnessicary, and pointless to customize. The flight combat was lame-o. 3.Corny moments Though Disney added some magic and life to the charactors, as is expected they also Disney-fied them. You'll see. Once again, other than these things, the game is very fun, and takes a decent ammount of time to finish. Enjoy.

Sound

Phenomenal. Authentic voiceovers and very nice music.

Gameplay

Easy to learn, and challenging to master later in the game. It becomes more in depth the further in the game you go

Summary

A great game that everyone should play. A kind of predictable storyline because it takes place mostly in disney worlds. So if youve seen the movies then youll have a good guess what happens. I was always really surprised at how well they told the story. Now that its at a $20 price. Everyone should pick this up.

Sound

Great voiceovers. Only a few times where the dialouge is not spoken. The only thing i have to complain about is that they picked Lance Bass to be sephiroths voice. the fu**ing most evil villain ever.... played by lance bass. WTF

Gameplay

The battle system is great. It is in complete real time, using magic, items, and attacking, all in realtime. I also like that you can completely control your characters actions. I only wish you could customize how Goofy and Donald act during battle more.