Kingdom Hearts (2002 Video Game)
10/10
Only in our hearts may we find the true light...
20 February 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Kingdom Hearts makes one good rival for the master pieces of Final Fantasy, and Lunar 2:Eternal Blue Complete.(PS1) There are many reasons but there are some bad thing sin the game.

The reason is that square has combined FF with Disney to create a whole new story. How the game starts is with you on your island (There's also a prologue) trying to build a raft.

Who would've thought the idea of building a raft sets you on a quest two save the heart of your love, and save your friends heart befor3e it gets swallowed by darkness? I wouldn't have.

But let me tell you, the quick pace battle system is really fun, and easy to get into. However, the battles maybe a challenge, since the cameraing is so bad.

You visit over six Disney worlds including Tarzans Jungle, Wonderland, and even Monstro. The story and the game isn't that long, and the game takes about eighteen hours to beat. But it's still enjoyable.

\/MAJOR SPOILERS\/~ The characters are great. Disney and Square really out did themselves working on Leon, and Sora. The villain Actually turns out to be Malifacient. (Sleeping Beauty) And the true villain is the mysterious Ansem.

~ The music in the game is actually not as bad as you would expect. Every world you visit the music changes, so you don't get that annoyed with the same battle song.

The graphics are very impressive for a Disney game. The beginning and ending clips will take your breath away as you watch these highly detailed clips.

Sadly, there aren't as many mini-games as there are in FF VII. (PS1) But there are acouple. And they're pretty good they go from tree surfing, to hitting weird blops to get secret items.

The game lets you create items like your Ultimate weapon. But you need a lot of certain items. And then you can make them.

One disappointing thing is that there is only three shops in the whole game. But they get new items every world. The shops let you buy many things. There is an Item shop, an accessory shop, and a Gummi Ship shop.

There are tons of items in the game. Including classic items from FF like Ethers, Hi-Potions, X-Potions, etc. Then the game has it's own unique items. Such as Fire Arts, Torn Pages, Black goo. The list is much longer but I can't remember many...

The game's weapons are really cool and clever. You can only get two weapons in the game. A wooden sword and the Keyblade. However, you can put different KeyChains on the Keyblade to change it's form. (In other words there is actually 22 weapons.) Your good friends Donald Duck, and Goofy... Goofy are able to get several Weapons including they're own Ultimate Weapons.

Unlike traditional RPG you don't have a world map. Well, actually you do. But it's not the way you think it would be. The map shows all the worlds you can go to, and the number of enemies in it. Then you select the world you want to go to, and you fly in your ship to it.

You can buy upgrades to your ship at the gummi shop. The upgrades let you use radar, transformation, and even rocket boosters.

The leveling up system is very clever and simple. But you can only reach level 100. And your HP can only reach up to 99.

The game let's you equip your abilities. And they go from Strike Raid, to Arsarcanum. The game even has abilities that aren't even for battle. Such as the ability to glide. (Shared ability)

You can equip special abilities to everyone. Such as High Jump, which let's everyone jump really high. There's also Mermaid kick. Which let's you swim super fast under water. (Very handy at Atlantica.)

And after you beat the game if you got all keyholes, and Dalmatians then you get to watch the secret ending which leads into a KH2. Overall, KH deserves a full 10/10.

KH 2 comes out March 2006!
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