smells like burnt toast

[hogo]

im sure most of you have seen the newest RPG for PS2, Kingdom Hearts. After seeing some of the stuff on it i naturally thought it was going to be a RPG for my little sister, kinda geared to young kids. So naturally my little sister bought the game. Played it all this week (i've spent a week w/o GTA3 ) and somehow talked me into playing it... well i played... and played... and played and about 3 hours and 55 minuets later i decided i should get some sleep. Needless to say this game is fukin awesome, its so different from all those other RPG's where u wait for your turn to attack. Id go into detail but im late for school... anyone else have a revelation about this game, or even played it for that matter?

[Troll King]

Awesome voice cast, except for one choice:


Lance Bass as Sephiroth?

The baddest ass of Final Fantasy bad asses being voiced by a member of n*sync???

[Bluedandy]

Holy fuckshit, TK, please tell me you are kidding.

[Annux]

im thinking about getting that game, give me a review

[Troll King]

Kingdom Hearts vocal talent list

[Annux]

Doesnt tell me much about the gameplay or the plot.

[Puppet Master]

this is the best game EVER!!!!!!!!! i played it at friends house for 12 hours straight . its very long too

[Puppet Master]

Originally posted by Annux
im thinking about getting that game, give me a review

you play as Sora the keymaster and travel with Donald Duck and Goofy to worlds based on disney movies like Alice in Wonderland, Tarzan, Hercules, etc. Donald and Goofy are trying to find there king (mickey mouse) who is missing and they need help from the keymaster (Sora). Sora is just a kid (14?) was chosen to be the keymaster and is trying to find his missing friends. Along the way you interact with Disney characters and Squaresoft characters like Merlin, Jack Skellington, Cloud, Sephiroth, Tidus, etc.

everything about this game is AMAZING! some parts are hard but once you start playing you wont wanna stop

[Blast]

My roommate plays this game 24/7. I think it makes him pretty dorky. From my limited view of it, it looks like any other rpg, where you fight people by using weird spells and shit, except Donald and Goofy follow you around instead of other weird-looking effeminate people that look like the main character. Considering all you guys play Subspace, I've found a better game for you than Kingdom Hearts. Believe it or not, it has a higher uselessness to addictiveness correlation than Subspace, and additionally, it also has a higher unimpressiveness to addictiveness correlation. That means, it's not any fun, and your friends will make fun of you for it, but you won't be able to stop playing, either. Yeah, I'd suggest you buy the little-kid game Animal Crossing. You do nothing in the game but fish and catch bugs and talk to other animals, but I can't stop playing the shit. I just paid off Tom Nook for my house expansion. Now he's building me a basement!

[Louis XV]

Goofy is my hero.

goof4lyfe

[k3vin]

hey, if the commercial is on every other commercial break on some channels, its gotta be good, right

[jiu jitsu]

i have a few questions as well as a few remarks...

first off, i worship squaresoft, but i hate disney

so, it came to me as confusion when i saw this game... one of my friends (who also worshipped squaresoft) told me to check this out. i didn't realize it had anything to do with squaresoft at first

soooooo i had a lot of ambivalent feeling watching the trailer. it was pretty cool watching all the ff characters coming back in a single game, something i had wanted to see since i played my first 2 ff's. but then i saw disney characters. and it was extremely awkward.

this leads to my questions... i'm thinking about buying it as well. however, what kind of infusion did squaresoft and disney make? the possibilities blow my mind, but as i was watching the trailer it seemed to me that squaresoft was taking almost a backseat to the disney characters. so what kind of distribution is it? come to think of it, i actually didn't see a single ff character

and what about the storyline? i read the summary but where do sephiroth and co. come in? because if it's anything like any of the mario series storylines i won't even consider buying it.

[Troll King]

Tidus, Wakka, Selphie, Cloud, Sephiroth, Squall, Cid (FFVII) and Aerith (Yes, she lives!) are all in it.

If you worry about the Disney aspect of it (for whatever reasons you mistrust Disney,) you have to respect that both Squaresoft and Disney are known for their excellent production values in everything they produce. The Disney characters and Squaresoft characters are integrated into the plot, though there is more of an leaning towards Disney as they the settings for the games are lifted straight from their movies. The Disney influence helped to provide this game with the best vocals for any video game to date, featuring well known actors such as Haley Joel Osmond, Billy Zane, James Woods and Dan Castellaneta (voice of Homer Simpson).

The game feels a bit more like the Secret of Mana series more than Final Fantasy in terms of charm and gameplay structure. In fact, the musical score was composed by the same guy who did Legend of Mana. Gameplay is an action / adventure style which combines Mana's three member party (two controlled by CPU) while the actual combat more resembles the later Zeldas than SoM.

The plot is at first reminiscent of Enix's Dragon Quest VII, in that you start off on a lone island with your childhood friends wondering if there are any other worlds out there. Eventually a crisis occurs and your island gets consumed in shadow, and you and your friends get ejected into other worlds. Meanwhile, in another Kingdom, Donald Duck, the court magician, reports to his Royal Rodent, only to find that M-I-C-K-E-Y is M-I-A, off to find a cure for the shadow consuming all the different worlds. That leads him and the Captain of the Guards, Goofy, to find him, but first, they have to find a certain child of destiny (your main character). The cause of the shadows is of course, a combination effort from all the Disney villains, and your job is to go from world to world and save them from the infection of the shadows. Meanwhile, several "Princesses", female leads from various Disney films (I place that in quotation marks because Alice from Alice in Wonderland hardly qualifies as a princess) are kidnapped by the same villains for some evil purpose.

The integration of characters from both Squaresoft and Disney is done very well, with the Squaresoft characters doing more cameos while Disney characters become temporary party members (and occassionally, Summoned creatures as well). The three new characters, Sora ("you"), his friend Kairi, and his best friend Riku, an older stronger, and darker friend, while being new, carry on some of the older FF character types' traits. Riku, for example, will probably remind you of Kain from FFIV, and Kairi with Tifa from FFVII. Sora is probably most like Zidane from FFIX (which was an underrated game and oddly has no cameos in Kindom Hearts). The Disney characters are inserted into the plot in ways that make sense, so it's not like you walk into an inn and the Seven Dwarves walk by nonchalantly whistling Hi-Ho (or even Lali-ho). As more or less constant members of your party, Donald and Goofy might seem like a weird combination, but their interaction does have a certain chemistry and even the most jaded player can't help but chuckle every now and then at their antics.

While the Disney label might make you think that this game is geared towards younger children, you're half right. The plot elements contain a subtle bit of darkness that feels more like FF, and the game isn't extemely easy as one would expect. That is to say, it isn't difficult either. The game is great for people who are new to RPGs. Kingdom Hearts is a good game, but I wouldn't place it as one of Squaresoft's best. It does have a certain amount of charm that appeals to many people, even those who aren't Disney fans.

[Yoshiba]

my favorite rpg is tony hawk

[Wreckless MiG]

beavis and butthead do u 4L