Now, it seems vital, and playing Kingdom Hearts is an exercise in holding on to those optimistic parts of myself. It's willfully, thoughtlessly cheerful and straightforward, even in the bleakest circumstances. Kingdom Hearts III is a game about growing up, about facing tragedy and death and deciding, y’know what, screw that stuff, we have our friends and we're going to fight. But also because its thematic content, its ideas about friendship and hope and heroism, resonate. I'm invested in these characters and the world they live in. It worked because of nostalgia, sure, and because of the sentimental connection I have with the series as a whole. But for me, every moment, even the absolute dumbest, worked. It might come off as unbearably twee, or naive, or confusing and poorly plotted. I can't tell you whether any of that will resonate with you. I can also report that, at one point, Elsa from Frozen sings "Let It Go" for its full runtime while Sora, Donald, and Goofy look on in awe, and I can tell you I laughed uncontrollably. I was tantalized by the mysteries of the Keyblade, the magic sword/key hybrid that, yes, long-time Final Fantasy creative Tetsuya Nomura definitely came up with on his own.Īnd, like the other games, this one awkwardly mixes in levels that are recaps of Disney movies with an original plot that's like a Final Fantasy game if Final Fantasy was a series about the power of light and friendship. I wanted to learn the fate of his brooding, long-haired rival/best friend, Riku. ![]() When I beat the original Kingdom Hearts, I wanted to know what happened to Sora next. ![]() Something about it fascinated me on a deep, personal level. Sora is just trying to help his friends in a vast, confusing world of anime villains, monsters born of pure darkness, and cartoon characters. It gets more complicated than that-indeed, over the course of nearly a dozen titles of various sizes since, it has gotten a lot, lot more complicated-but that's the core of it. For those who didn't spend their childhood with this series, a rough recap: Kingdom Hearts is primarily the story of Sora, an adventurous and happy young boy who teams up with Donald Duck and Goofy (yes, the Disney characters) to explore a universe full of isolated Disney-themed worlds in order to fight monsters and find their friends.
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