Kingdom Hearts is Awesome!

A while back my super awesome Aunt Kathy asked me to do an awesome about Disney. She probably wasn't expecting Kingdom Hearts (or even knows what it is, but if you do, you get bonus points).

Kingdom Hearts is a video game developed by both Disney and Square Enix. This was a completly unexpected happening at the time. Square Enix makes games that are usually for an older audience (all their games getting a "T" for Teens rating) and Disney is geared for a much younger audience as you know. According to Wikipedia, the idea for Kingdom Hearts came about when producer Shinji Hashimoto met with a Disney executive in an elevator; Square and Disney had previously worked in the same building in Japan.

At first, the game was going to be geared for a younger audience, but Square people knew that the game wouldn't sell well because of who their normal audience is, so they expanded the game and made it deeper.

But what is Kingdom Hearts even about? It combines worlds from Disney and Final Fantasy (Square's main game series)to make one kick awesome game. It starts out in a place called Destiny Islands. you play some kid named Sora who is a new character made for this series. Eventually, Destiny Islands are destroyed by darkness and the scene shifts to the Disney castle where Donald and Goofy reside. King Micky is missing. He left a note for Donald and Goofy that said he needs to find out why the stars are going out. He instucts them to find the one with the Keyblade. Sora, coincidently got the Keyblade when his island was consumed by darkness. Sora meets up with Donald and Goofy (not even wondering why in the world he is talking to a duck and a dog) and they set out together. Sora is looking for his friends who dissapeared when his island did, and Doanld and Goofy are looking for Micky. They travel to different worlds looking for them. They go to many different Disney Movies. They visit Alice in Wonderland, Tarzan, Aladin, Pinocchio, Nightmare Before Christmas, and many others. They also meet up with several Final Fantasy legends like Squall Leonhart (who calls himself Leon in this game), Cloud, and Sephiroth.

This is one of my favorite games. It won several "Game of the Year" awards in 2002 and has sold 5.6 million copies worldwide. There are currently three Kingdom Hearts games out, with three more on the way, a fact that makes me very happy ^_^

To finish, here are some videos. The first is a trailer for Kingdom Hearts 1.



And the second is the trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2 (which is the third game in the series).