Kingdom Hearts

Okay... My friend Josh recently posted on his blog something that implied that I did not like the Kingdom Hearts video games series... This, in fact is actually quite the oppisite as Kingdom Hearts is one of my favorite video game series... I will now give a brief description... People who actually read this whole post are really good friends as it will probably bore you to death.

On a peaceful group of islands known as Destiny Islands, there lived three friends. Their names were Kairi (Female: 14), Sora (Male: 14), and Riku (Male: 14). As the three kids were maturing, they wondered if there really was more to life than there little island... All they could see was water for miles around... As they pondered the deep thoughts of life, they decided to build a boat and sail somewhere else... anywhere else...

While preparing the boat, Sora (the main character of the story) stumbled across a door that he'd never seen before. It was located in a secret cave that he often hung out in. The door had no handle, and it fasinated Sora... While Sora admired the door, someone came out wearing a hood. Sora didn't see his face, and he didn't comprehend what the man said, "This world has been connected. Tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed. You do not yet know what lies beyond the door. There is so very much to learn. You understand so little."
Sora replied back: "Oh, yeah? Well, you'll see. I'm gonna get out and learn what's out there!"
The hooded man merely said, "A meaningless effort. One who knows nothing can understand nothing." and disappeared."

Sora left the cave... He didn't understand what the man had been talking about... That night (The night before they left on their raft) something very weird happened. Whislt Sora was lying in bed, a portal opened in the skies and tons of creatures called Heartness began pouring onto Destiny Islands. Sora ran out to try and find the raft to see if his friends were there. When he got there, Riku was standing on the dock. A portal appeared under Riku and began to pull him away... Sora tried to grab on, but was seperated from his friend as he himself was also sucked through a portal.

Upon awakening, Sora found himself on a strange world called Traverse Town. His friends were gone and he was alone.

Thus begins the story (with quite a bit left out for the benefit of the reader) of Kingdom Hearts. The game has a very deep and stimulating unique storyline, but mixed into the games own storyline are some interesting other storylines. As you go throughout the game, you will go through many Kingdom Hearts worlds, but also you will go through almost all of the cartoon Disney movies. Disney's Donald and Goofy are your compaions throughout the game, and King Mickey (Mouse) is King over all of the worlds, but not only are Disney characters mixed into Kingdom Hearts... Characters from Final Fantasy are in the game too. Most of the Final Fantasy characters are from FFVII, but there are some from other games mixed in. Quite possibly the most known characters from Final Fantasy, Cloud and Sepheroth, are in both Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 (as well as the gameboy version which is like Kingdom Hearts 1.5).

The makers of Kingdom Hearts did not try to keep it low budget. They went all out! With such known voices as Christy Carlson Ramano, Brittany Snow, Jessie McCartney, Haley Joel Osment, and Christopher Lee. (as well as others) Also, many of the characters from the Disney movies that are in the game have their original voiceovers (though some have cheezy imitations... hey... it can't be all perfect!).

I recommend anyone who likes a good RPG to play Kingdom Hearts... You will love it! I also would recommend this as a good RPG for younger children as it has a good low rating (E), and is reletively simple to play. For people that don't like video games, but would like to know more about it... I have downloaded the scripts from all three games onto my computer and can try to present it in a fasinating way (Though not as good as the game does itself)... If these games were made into a movie, it would probably sell out all over the country...

Now... to those of you that actually read that entire thing (I'm guessing that if you actually read it then you actually like the game) I have recently read some interesting things about Kingdom Hearts... Though I doubt they will ever make a Kingdom Hearts III (after seeing the end to KHII) They are doing something really really cool. They are making a new version of KHII that you can buy with a remade version of KHCoM and might be selling it in the US this fall! But guess what... it gets even better! The CoM remake will be for the PS2 and will be fully 3D with lots of new features added! Also, the remake of KHII will have more stuff on Organization XIII and will further develop Roxas and Axel's friendship... It is really really cool looking. There is a webpage called Kingdom Hearts Insider (you should just be able to google it) that has the information I just stated, plus a lot more... If you are a fan of the game, then you have to check it out!!!