AbstractA role-playing game like no other, this bizarre meeting of characters features Disney favorites like Goofy and Donald Duck, as well as an assortment of more combative personalities designed by FINAL FANTASY mastermind, Tetsuya Nomura. Embarking on a quest to find lost allies, you'll battle vicious boss characters and wily enemies in real-time combat. Boasting astounding graphics and endless territory to explore, KINGDOM HEARTS is a true one-of-a-kind that players of all ages can appreciate.
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Full descriptionTwo major storytellers join forces in Disney and SquareSoft's collaborative action/RPG known as
Kingdom Hearts. Beginning on an island paradise, the game follows the exploits of a14 year-old boy named Sora as he travels across multiple worlds searching for the whereabouts of his long lost friends. Designed by the renowned Square personality Tetsuya Nomura and voiced by A-list Hollywood talent,
Kingdom Hearts combines more than 100 familiar Disney characters including Mickey, Donald, and Goofy as they encounter familiar
Final Fantasy icons like Cloud and Squall in their ongoing battle against an evil relentless force known as The Heartless. As an added bonus for American gamers,
Kingdom Hearts also features an expert difficulty setting and additional hidden boss battles.
Editorial reviewSource:
AmazonEver wondered what would happen if the worlds of
Final Fantasy and Disney collided? It’s an odd concept to be sure, but from the most schizophrenic of acorns the mighty gaming oak of
Kingdom Hearts has grown. Legendary role-playing game makers Square have been given unprecedented liberties with the entire Disney universe and have created a game featuring everything from
The Nightmare Before Christmas to
The Little Mermaid. This is odd enough in itself when you have characters as disparate as Tarzan and Donald Duck teaming up, but becomes majorly freaky when Square thrown in a variety of their own characters such as Cloud, Squall, and Aeris from the various
Final Fantasy games. But this incongruity has one side benefit in that the storyline behind the game is by necessity rather vague, which seems to have stopped Square from filling three CDs full of their usual New Age whining about Mother Earth. Instead they’ve spent even more time on the graphics, and the end result is a quite stunning 3-D cartoon.
As for the gameplay, it may come as a surprise to learn that it doesn’t actually feature, as all the Final Fantasy games do, turn-based combat. Instead it's essentially a scrolling beat-'em-up-cum-platformer with exactly the kind of complicated Square-style knobs you’d expect. The game may be a little shallow, but it’s an impressive artistic achievement and to be quite frank any title that allows you to magically summon Bambi out of thin air to attack evil demons of the underworld has got to be worth some sort of recommendation. --David Jenkins
Final Fantasy-style role-playing in Disney environments;Over a hundred Disney characters;Guest appearances by characters from the Final Fantasy series;Gorgeous, animation-style graphics;Real-time combat.
