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Hey, it beats the whole FF series...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: May 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

We've all probably seen the commercial for this game. Your probably wondering Disney equals little kids game right? Wrong. I am 16 and I own the game. If a child around 5-7 years old played it, they would be completely lost. So lets see how it stacks up...

Sound (10 out of 10) - This deserves a 10 because of the upbeat theme it had. I liked the "Nice and Clean" theme song it had. Most of the time the characters spoke their lines and their mouths did move along with what they were saying 100% of the time and some games fail in that. It beats the hell out of the FF series. If you enjoyed the theme music as much as I did, go buy the soundtrack at Amazon.com!

Graphics (10 out of 10) I bought this game mainly because the graphics were pushed to the PS2 limits. The graphics were so solid that I could have sworn that I was watching a movie. The little FMV sequences were even pushed further graphic wise, ofcourse most RPG games are. The graphics can't get any better than this.

Control (9 out of 10) - The controls were okay, but nothing special. Ofcourse I think everyone who has played the game can agree that the camera angles could get pretty annoying at times. Another thing is that if Electronic Arts is going to make a game that has a few long FMV sequences they should add a button that can skip a movie that has already been viewed because if you played the game, you know that you can push all the buttons, but you cannot skip the FMV sequences. Other than that this game is very flawless.

Overall (10 out of 10) If you want to rent it, forget it because you will have to bring it back only to have to rent it once more to beat it because this game is really long and may take some time to beat. I suggest if your a hardcore RPG fan, BUY IT don't rent it.

Excellent Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 18
Date: November 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am very sceptical of Role Playing Games (RPGs). I only own one, that being Final Fantasy X. RPGs just take up too much time and are very boring, however I really liked this game. Kingdom Hearts isn't like any other RPG. It is a combination of a platformer like Spyro, Jack and Daxter, and an RPG. Together they produce a perfect game. The game is easily worth the money, because you can get over 50 hours of gameplay out of it. It's characters are a combination of Disney and Final Fantasy characters. All of the Disny characters have real voice acting done by the same people that did the voices in the game. Overall this is a must buy game with excellent graphics. Show your X-box friends what a real PS2 game is like.

Great Game, Counfusing though

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: November 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

All Final Fantasy people out there im sorry but this is one great game, it can get confusing at times, and at first controls are a little awkward, but once you get into its alot of fun. Its a very addictive game and can be played to get everything and become as powerful as possiblwe or you can play through the game and not take extra time to get the secrets. You can beat the final boss even if your under powered. I was under level 50 and beat the game (but now im going back and getting stuff) or you can wait until nothing stands in your way. Its all up to you and your playing style

Overall its a great game

One of Square's Finest Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: December 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Squaresoft has been known for their excellent ability at making RPG's or Role Playing Games. Their venture into making a game with Disney has turned out to be much better than anyone could have hoped for.

For starters, if you enjoy RPG's, this should be looked into immediately. It's got everything one could want and I will now go into detail.

The story goes like this, you are a young boy, Sora, who gets mixed up in some weird business and end up teaming with Donald Duck and Goofy to find your lost friends Riku and Kairi as well as Mickey Mouse. Squaresoft was able to integrate many of the past FF characters, but you will only see characters from FF7, 8, 10. There are plenty of Disney characters, as the game will have you going from one disney world to the next stopping whatever evil is at hand.

Kingdom Hearts is a great visual game, no, not quite as good as say FFX. Some places are well done, but others, like Halloween Town, are a tad bit too small, and will leave some people disappointed. Voice acting is superb, plenty of the original actors return, and a few are different. The Genie for example is not done by Robin Williams, but they were able to have the person who plays the voice of Homer Simpson do it. The main characters are great, and a few are done by major actors and singers. Mandy Moore, Haley Joel Osment, Lance Bass. (who plays Sephiroth, no comment there as I have yet to hear him speak)

The battle system runs alot like Threads of Fate, or for those of you unaccustomed to that, picture Zelda games with battle commands. The AI for your party members is pretty poor, you can set what they will do sure, but it's very limited, and they are not smart enough to know when to run and when to fight. Most of the time, they'll just attack head on, which is great since it enables you to go around behind and get a sneak attack in.

The music is great, typical Squaresoft quality. Disney songs, like Under the Sea are present, but each environment has its own battle theme. The boss music, main theme, and One Winged Angel remix are superb.

The difficulty ranges, for the most part players will breeze through the normal encounters, but some boss fights are pretty tough. Towards the end it will get frustrating, however you only need to be at level 50 to beat the game. Anything over level 70 and you will massacre this game. The mini games present are fun, and doing everything will take a good 50 hours at least. Don't forget to try out Expert mode if you think Normal was too easy.

Well, that's about it. Camera angels are still an issue, though not as bad as some games I've seen, and some old school FF characters would have really helped, like Sabin or Kefka, but it more than deserves the full 5 stars. By doing a few requirements, and then beating the game, you will be prompted with a teaser FMV, that will lead into the Kingdom Hearts sequel. It's worth the cash and then some.

Uhhhhhhh.....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 23
Date: June 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

At first, this game may seem childish because of the 100 or more disney characters that apear in it and the look of the bright grapics and the fact that it is made disney.... The games grapics are great. Somtimes it feels like you are wathing a Disney movie. Gameplay isnt perfect, but it is close to it. With easy to use controls for people who [are not good] at pressing lots of buttons at onece. For the Square fans, there will be a variety of final fantasy characters making apperances. Including Cloud, Cid, Aeris (thought she was dead... maby they finally figured to use a pheonix down on her) , Yuffie, Squall (doesnt look like him though)and lots of others (how very exiting!). The storyline is good and will keep even older gamers glued to the TV. Dont pass this game up no matter what your friends tell you, or what your sick little mind thinks.

Thumbs up to Disney/Squaresoft

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: June 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I played this game at the E3 convention in Los Angeles, and it is truly one of the best Disney games I've played. Visually beautiful, and equally fun to play. The fight sequences remind me of Zelda. The Halloweentown level ROCKS!! In the past Disney has tried very hard to come up with a game that tries to please kids as well as adults, and I often found myself dissapointed. Not with this one though. It's amazing.

LOVE THIS GAME, LOVE THIS GAME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got this game for Christmas 2002 and it rules! It literally has all of the classic Disney characters in it such as Donald Duck, Aladin, Goofy, Tarzan, Alice, Dumbo, and HUNDREDS more. And to make the game extra cool, you get a lot of the good guys to help you beat the bad guys, but you're in control of their health, so if they die, it's your fault(you can give them potions to heal them though). What happens in this game is Mickey Mouse goes missing and Donald Duck and Goofy go looking for him. At that same time, Sora(you) and his buddies want to get off there little island and see if there are other worlds are out there, but unfortunately you lose those buddies on your way. Eventually, you, Donald Duck, and Goofy meet. Together you explore other worlds and try to find your buddies and Mickey Mouse. The game has AWESOME graphics and an interesting story. Another cool part is that you and your buddies are Final Fantasy characters. I LOVE their hair. I really recomend this game for ANYONE, not just kids. Kingdom Hearts rules!

Awesome AWESOME game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: January 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First I must admit that I had never played a Final Fantasy game until I became obsessed over Kingdom Hearts. Furthermore, the only reason I stated obsessing is because it had Disney characters. I don't have a ps2, but I decided I must play this game. Finally, I borrowed a friend's ps2 and began playing Kingdom Hearts, and I was not disappointed. It is a superduper GREAT game.

You play as Sora, and only Sora. You begin by learning the controls and deciding what type of power Sora will excel in. (I chose defense and gave up strength, by the way.) You fight a great shadowy figure, and after it is done, you begin the game. A movie begins, you appear on an island, start collecting items, challenging friends for experience (some of which are from previous FF games), and time passes. The game doesn't seem too interesting at this point, but after about 45 minutes of playing (depending on how long it takes you to find all the items you need, and how many times you decide to challenge your friends and play the mini games), the story begins. Sora's home, Destiny Islands, becomes infested with tiny shadow creatures. Sora runs past them and receives the keyblade, opens a door, and his quest begins. He soon meets Donald the mage and Goofy the guardian, who are from another world. Sora tries to find his best friends from Destiny Islands, Riku and Kairi, and Donald and Goofy look for the source of the darkness and their king, Mickey Mouse. Together, they travel to different worlds (containing different characters from different Disney movies). Sora learns of the evil that threatens to take over worlds and destroy his friends. He is the one who wields the keyblade, and who must save the universe from the evil Heartless.

That is just a quick idea of the story. Sora goes to different worlds, like Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland) and Atlantica (The Little Mermaid), and the story unfolds. Lots of things are in store for the young Sora.

Why did I like this game so much? First of all, it gave me something to do over my winter break. You must be warned that this game does take up a bunch of time. In fact, it catalogues the hours you spend playing it. This game cannot be completed in a weekend (unless you don't sleep and don't collect everything). People have told me that they were able to beat the game in 40 hours (a full time job), but it took me close to 60-something hours to complete it. So, I put a lot of time into the game.

Secondly, it is a fun story that reuses our favorite Disney characters, and you are part of it. You can fight with Tarzan or Aladdin, converse with princesses, fly on the magic carpet, help Pooh out of a tight (and sticky) situation. But there is a quest that you cannot lose sight of. You begin with a few conceptions about what your quest is, but then it's changed. You learn more. You lose trust in some people. You gain trust in others.

The graphics are terrific. They are not the same type of graphics that I've seen in FFX. Since we're dealing with Disney cartoons, the graphics look more cartoon-y. The game play is also different than what I've recently seen in FFX. You only play Sora. Donald and Goofy or whoever you have in your party act independently. They cast their own spells and have control over whatever is in their inventory. You can assign them certain skills, choose which weapons they use and which accessories they wear, and give them potions for their inventory, but that's about it. Also, Sora continually fights. He does not only strike one hit per turn, but can run to his enemies and strike as many hits as it takes to destroy his enemy. Also, if some of the voices of the characters seem familiar, it's probably because they are. Many of the original voices of the characters voice the characters for Kingdom Hearts. Also, celebrity voices, like Haley Joel Osment and Billy Zane, lend their voices to certain characters.

Are their faults? Perhaps. Although Sora receives certain magic spells called "summons" (he can summon Dumbo, Bambi, Simba, Mushu, Tinkerbell, and the Genie), I found it hard to find a use for these summons, since you can't use them when you play the coliseum. There were also times where I wandered around for a long time trying to find what was next, even though I had the strategy guide as a reference. It also took me a VERY long time to realize that you need to equip your skills to use them. And it took me FOREVER to find a silly white mushroom that motioned for the stop spells. Eventually I figured all of that out. Finally, the mini-games... hmm. Some were fun. Some were annoying. The Hundred Acre Wood level was a little slow.

One last word of advice: I think that anyone who plays this game should try to find as much as they can. You are rewarded by a special movie for completing certain things before you end the game.

Like I said at the beginning, this game is awesome. Definitely worth playing. A pity that it's only released on the ps2, but it is definitely a game that would make me want to buy a ps2 system.

Huzzah for Kingdom Hearts!

Absolutely Amazing!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: April 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I must preface this review with two facts: I am legally blind and three of the fingers on my right hand are unresponsive / partially paralyzed. With these things being said, it likely comes as no surprise that I do not play action RPGs very often. They are usually too difficult for me to get interested in. This is what I thought would be the case with Kingdom Hearts, and it accounts for the key reason it took me this long to get it.

But my little brother wanted to get KH2 and couldn't afford it, so I offered to go halves with him on it. Since I play games for their story, I took a chance and picked up KH1 for $30 canadian, expecting to get off of Destiny Island and become hopefully stuck. Yet the moment of frustration has yet to come ... and I am on my way to Hallow Bastion (sp?), which is apparently Maleficent's location. I am actually in shock.

The controls for Kingdom Hearts are extremely easy to use and the options that are presented, such as using buttons as hotkeys for magic and the game remembering the last spell you used manually, makes accessing things 'on the fly' a breeze, rather then a death sentance. Combat, physically, relies on using the B button to smash your opponents to bits, and killing them rewards you with HP balls, MP Balls or Munny (the game's currancy) assuring you won't be desperately grabbing a potion every 3 seconds.

There is an R1 lock-on feature which is great for bosses, large enemies and locking onto hard to spot items (the fish on Destiny Island, for instance). R2 and L2 allow you to rotate the camera, which automatically (unless you switch to manual) follows behind Sora as you wander through the game. I have heard a lot of horror stories about the Kingdom Hearts camera, but I really haven't had a lot of trouble with it. I have noticed during the 35 hours I have played so far that whenever there is super tough platforming, such as the Hippos Lagoon in Deep Jungle, that you are not bombarded by enemies, allowing you the chance to set the camera so you can figure out your jumps. Plus, Sora's jump ability has a nice 'glide' to it, allowing you some control over where he is going.

Each world is very beautiful, with rich vivid colors, excellent voice acting for each character and a decent amount of places to explore without getting hopefully lost. There are tons of disney characters and a fair number of Final Fantasy characters to meet and interact with. Each character is nicely designed and fun to get to 'meet' rather then 'watch' (in the case of the disney characters).

Why do so many people hate the Gummi ship? I Love the Gummi ship!!! I was so scared that it was going to be this impossible thing that was going to destroy the game for me. In reality, it is a spacing shooter mini game. As the game progresses, you can even set up 'warp' options so that you don't have to go through a Gummi level every time you want to go anywhere.

In short, if I can play this then pretty much anyone can. It is definately Worth playing and it has an excellent storyline and very fun gameplay to keep you interested. I would highly recommend this game to anyone who loves Disney, Final Fantasy or a good action RPG.

ZOMG!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: May 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Yes.. It took me a long time to write a reveiw for this game. I got it about three months after it came out. XP

Anyways. This game is amazing, and ranks up as one of the top sellers in it's time that it was released to now. The game is amazing with a great plot, Final Fantasy characters, and disney worlds. In short, a wonderful blend of Final Fantasy meets Disney.

Plot, Sora was an average kid. He wanted to escape to other worlds alongside his friends. Of course, something happens that always messes up those dreams. The night before they were about to leave the island, mysterious beings attacked their island, seperating Kairi and Riku (his two best friends), Sora then had a mysterious weapon called 'The Keyblade' in his hands. Meanwhile, King Mickey had noticed that stars were blinking out, and ordered Donald and Goofy to go find the key, the key to their salvation.... Then you need to play to figure out the rest.

Graphics, the graphics are wonderful. Music, the hit song in this game is 'Simple and Clean' it's very awesome for the introduction, and (SPOILER!) with the video they play at the end, and the slower version of the song brought many people to tears.

Characters, the voices they got were wonderful. They got a number of disney stars such as Christy Carlson Romono (Sorry, I spelt her name wrong.) from Even Stevens and Kim Possible to play Yuffie, and then other famous people to play other voices in the game.

In this game, you go to a number of different worlds in which there are more disney characters to fight along side with. In this game (SPOILER WARNING) there is: Tarzan, Alice in Wonderland, Hercules, Aladin, Monstro the giant whale of DOOOM!, Nightmare Before Christmas (AKA Holloween Town), Atlantica, and Peter Pan. There there are another four words called: Traverse Town, Hollow Bation (Which you get to have beast in your party), Destiny Island (Sora's home world), and the End World.

Each world is different, and each one get's harder and harder. It's a fun game, because you never really do know what to expect next.

Pros.
Graphics
Lots of Disney and FF mixture
the worlds are amazing.

Cons.
Atlantica's music get's annoying really fast.

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