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This is INSANE.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 25
Date: October 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Kingdom Hearts has been out for a couple of weeks. I haven't been able to find it ANYWHERE. A N Y W H E R E!!!

I'm obsessed with the music. I love the cutscenes I've seen so far. The gameplay looks awesome. Everyone I know who has played it has loved it, and 99/100 of the internet community loves it too (Cept the whiny morons who can't get over the camera-thing).

If you haven't bought this game because you have something against Disney, or against Square, GET OVER IT AND BUY IT! All these billions of people can't be wrong!

(The 1-star rating is for the fact that I only get to see it through other people. I never get to play it myself cause none of the rental places ever have it in, and I haven't enough money to purchase it... not that they're findable for purchase either...)

Square, Why?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 115
Date: August 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love Squaresoft. They make some of the best RPG's, and RPG's are the greatest games. Square has made such greats as the Final Fantasy games, Chrono Cross, and Vagrant Story just to name a few. But it seems that Square is going to sell its soul for a quick buck.

Kingdom Hearts is a poor excuse of a game. Why would anyone put Disney characters in a game that is not made by Disney? Just to make a lot of money. People who buy this game are giving into greedy companies.

Disney ruins Kingdom Hearts, it could have been so good. People say that adding Disney characters makes it better. How? If adding Disney characters to a non-Disney game is good, why not add other little kids characters? Barney, Big Bird, Spongebob? Do you want them to pollute your next Square "masterpiece"? Many people say this is a Final Fantasy game, but in fact it is a Disney game with Final Fantasy characters as "side-kicks".

Why, Square? Why have you chosen to do this. Oh wait, I know! To overflow you wallets with cash! Disney has ruined this game as it has ruined everyday lives. Disney is just stupid. Can you imagine fighting alongside Goofy? Let's hope this is not a start of a trend. But I know it is. So many people will give into this .... What has this world come to?

Jeez, Square is goin downhill

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 35
Date: December 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I loved final fantasy 7. Final Fantasy 8 was pretty good. Then Final Fantasy 9 was the worst game ive ever played. 10 was pretty bad too. But now Square is doing something different. Kingdom Hearts is a way to make money off previous characters. I doubt anyone would buy this game if Final Fantasy characters were not in it.

Lets be honest, its horrible. For once just admit Square made a bad game. The controls are the worst. Whenever you want to manipulate the camera, it goes spinning in the other direction. It took me like 3 hours just to beat this Alice in Wonderland level. And yes, it is a hack and slash game. All I do is hit X and the game locks into things and attacks. Pretty easy. There is no fun factor really.

Cool old Square characters. I can see why they had to add those in. Without Cloud or Squall the game would have been thrown out by most. Now dont just say my review is horrible because you like the game. Most of the reveiwers have not even played it. The plot is probably one of the worst plots ever. You lock doors that seemingly hold the entire worlds existence, and you need to close them before they are opened by the bad people. So the bad people are looking for the 7 princesses to open the ultimate door. Wow that took real genius, not. I bet Square thought of this whole game in one day. ALSO, this is just like all the other final fantasys. Your best friend of member of your party turns on you. Kairi or whatever turns to hate you because he wants your girl. Some witch tells him to hate you because you hang out with donald and goofy, and Kairi is just like "Yea, he should be hanging out with me. But I never want to be his friend again because he was so loyal to me!". Its kinda stupid that we were best friends one minute, now he wants to slaughter me. Well I can tell you that hes just a sad Seifer rip off from FF8.

Now before you go dissing my review, look at the facts I have given you. The only reason this games been gettin mad reviews is because 1)Square made it 2)Old final fantasy characters come back. Just before you go and play it let me warn you. It is NOT a final fantasy. IT IS A PLATFORM GAME. YOU WILL SPEND HOURS FALLING BECAUSE THE CAMERA AND CONTROLS. Now that I have given you this knowledge, do not give Square any more money.

Excellent concept, shoddy gameplay.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 30
Date: April 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has a great idea behind it. Putting characters from two beloved franchises (Final Fantasy and Disney) into a brand-new storyline with a few new, original characters is a stroke of genius, and it works well. The environments are colorful and perfectly capture the fantasy vibe; the original PSone models of old FF characters are brought to the next-gen world with great graphics and superb voice-acting. The story itself is also interesting. So I happily leapt into this game, really excited about the whole thing.

Then, something terrible happened: gameplay. Sora (the main character) moves so clunkily and imprecisely that both combat and exploration are a chore. If battles were turn-based in classic Square fashion, this would be easier to deal with, but they're not. They're done in real-time, meaning that you are never given a rest from the painful controls. No matter how fast I tapped the buttons or moved the control stick, Sora's attacks were always several steps behind my commands. And when I was platforming in the "exploration" segments, his pitiful jumps and tendency to keep moving once I released the analog stick was continually frustrating.

All this wouldn't be so bad if the game was forgiving enough to accomodate the interface, but that isn't the case. Indeed, the difficulty is actually harder than many games I've played with better control schemes. Enemies are whip-quick and surround you in a flash; platforms are tiny and widely spaced; and replenishing items are always in short supply.

Another complaint I have is that the puzzles don't make sense. Unlike better RPGs (Paper Mario 2, for example), where you can analyze the area and figure out what you're supposed to do, Kingdom Hearts gives you no clues. I would have been stumped within minutes if I didn't have the strategy guide to back me up. Like everything else in the game, the puzzles must be done perfectly, with no mistakes, or you have to start over. Seeing as you don't know if something is a mistake or not until you do it, this gets very tedious and frustrating.

Overall, playing this game felt like trying to dismantle a ticking time bomb with no tools, where touching one wire could mean death: stressful, confusing, and definitely not fun. And after a while, it doesn't even matter that the bomb is decorated with beloved characters and bright colors.

Someone go get a bucket, cause I'm gonna PUKE!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 36
Date: December 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First of all,I didn't even want to rent this game cause I thought it looked stupid and insulted everything that was great about final fantasy.I SHOULD have listened to my first instincts,but instead I gave into to so many whining squaresoft
"fans" who said that this really is a great game,you just have to get past the fact that there's disney.HA! I'd like to know how that is possible when everywhere you turn,disney is screamed in your face;the shield has a mickey mouse emblem on it,the sword has a mickey mouse emblem on it,everything has a mickey mouse emblem on it!

What really bothered me the most about this game was all the subliminal messages in it.For example one of the final fantasy characters in the final fantasy world says"Our world is just one tiny peice that is part of something much greater!"OH!I see,so final fantasy is just something insignificant and what's sooo much greater is disney!

This also leads me to ask that if each individual disney story/movie had it's own world,then why couldn't they have done the same for each individual installment of final fantasy?Every final fantasy fan knows that the diffrent stories in the series where always on an epic level,so why does disney treat the final fantasy anthology so unimportantly?By just mixing all the final fantasy characters from diffrent games into one world to call it's own was a slap in squaresoft's face.And just look how they depicted poor cid from ff7!They gave him blonde hair(he's older and has grey hair)plus they got rid of his cigarette and put a twig in his mouth....grrrr!

Of course I suppose disney was the right partner to choose for this project since squaresoft seems only to want to make interactive movies instead of games.By this,I mean the same problem with kingdom hearts was what I saw in final fantasy X; play a little bit then watch a cinema(which you can't skip over either),play a little bit more then watch another cinema!This replays itself over and over and gets extremely annoying.Graphics
seem to be more important than gameplay.

Lastly kingdom hearts is not a true rpg to which it passes itself
over as on the box.It isn't a true rpg in the sense that there is
no turn based battle system;it's an action rpg with free moving enemies and heroes.This tied in with the locking system makes it much more like zelda:ocarina of time than any of the final fantasy series.Why squaresoft chose to do this is a mystery to me
since the game is supposed to tie in with final fantasy.My only guess is that it was probabaly disney's idea,since they see fit to march right in and change every aspect about anything with THIS world!The saying for kingdom hearts is "You'll never know who you'll run into next."I think the saying for disney should be
"You never know what we'll take over next!"

I'd rather eat a bucket full of broken glass than play this disney comercial!!

an assualt on everything square has strived for

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 26
Date: May 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

when i first heard of this game i thought it was a joke.
but square actully went through with it! this has got to be THE worst idea in the video game world.its hard to take a game seriously when goofy is in it. can you imagine, goofy fighting against cloud?! i cant beleave anyone would even consider this game! dont waste your money. if you want a good rpg go with squares other accomplishments and steer clear of disney. [Money] tword disneys next movie is what this is. if you have any sense at all you will pas this game up and not look back

This game stinks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 53
Date: October 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I hate this game. First of all, the characters are all voiced by the same person. Battles invovle an incredible array of boring and trite attacks that get old the first time you see them. The disney characters take away any worth this game might have had, but sadly there was none to take away. This game is worthless.

WHAT IS THIS JUNK?!!?!?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 24
Date: December 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What is this!?!?This is a stupid game!! They gameplay is dumb,ewverything is bad about it! It is only good for ages under 10! If u want good games Buy Grand Theft Auto Vice City,James Bond Nightfire,GTA3,TTT,ect. BYE

cool a** game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: September 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game rule i borrowed the game for about 4 days and i clocked about 50 hours of play and still hadnt finished

the characters are cool because there are lots of characters to speak too and even fight with or against because the evil disney characters are your enemies and the good disney characters are your allys

lots of final fantasy characters make an appearanece
and even sephiroth makes an appearance and so does cloud, aeris, leon, tidus, wakka, and many more and the disney charaters arent losers because they fight very well and you also get to use magic from final fantasy ,

the most important thing is that you are not trapped in battles like in final fantasy where the screen gos blurry and you cant move any where else except the battle but in kingdom hearts you carry on as normal

the graphics is top quality and at the beggining you recieve a final fantasy type video which is top quality and very cool

my advice is that you buy it or live in shame

HOW COULD YOU SQUARESOFT !?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 18
Date: November 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ok, before I start this reveiw, let me just state that I know that a bunch of die-hard kingdom hearts fans are going to nuke my reveiw into the stone age, but here me out, I mean I understand that most of us people that gave this game a 1 star rating just hate it because Disney characters are in it, but also almost all you kingdom hearts lovers say stuff like this in your reveiws: OH MY GOD THIS GAME IS SO GOOD, I PLAYED FOR HOURS AND THE STORY IS SOOOOOOOOO COOL (and/or) CUTE (mostly depending on gender of the reveiwer) but that was no help to people who actually want to look in to this game before buying it will think its good and knows nothing about the gameplay. Now that you have heard me out, on to the reveiw:

I was not fond of the story in this game at all, is it just me or is saving the universe with a key a little fruity? Anyway you are Sora, a queer (double meaning there:) )looking final fantasy-esque kid who befreinds Goofy and Donald and goes out to kill little baddies called the heartless and a council of bad guys from disney movies and save your freinds that you knew before Goofy and Donald,and when yo go to levels the micky mouse symbol is EVERYWHERE even if they dont know micky even exists! Thats the jist of it. The graphics are OK not good though, and the soud is the only thing that was gtruly good in this game, but those arent that important. Now on to the gameplay, this game seems to have good gameplay, but its only a disguise for the truly horrible gameplay it has. for instance Goofy and Donald are programed to follow you so it seems like they are working as a teambut when they fight there stupid AI tells them to attack the closest thing next to it not act strategicly and kill big strong guys or health givers first and they sure dont work as a team the heartless also has a stupid AI when it comes to fighting. Also you can use little combos the game gives you to fight but only extreme button mashing really works later on which I really HATE to button mash (it kills your controller). Oh yes how could I forget, two words decribe the worst part of this game: Gummi Ship. yes even the most fanatic fans of this game can't say the little gummi ship levels are good. in these in-between real levels levels you fly around in somthing a two year old made with building blocks and shoot other blocks. Well thats my reveiw. I'd better get some lepord skins because this reveiw is gonna be sent back into the stone age.

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