I first heard about this game when one of my friends at school mentioned it to me. I was slightly interested, and decided to try it. I've always been a big Disney fan, and I think without the Disney, I wouldn't have bought this game. I was skeptical when I first heard about it, having never heard of Square Enix and thinking that Final Fantasy was a movie....well, anyways, I popped this into my PS3, and I was purely amazed by the graphics, for a 2002 game. They surpass most of my newer PS2 games! I love the characters, and the voice overs are great! Even if you don't like Sora or Kairi or Riku at first, they tend to grow on you. Sora and Riku's friendly competitivness is always fun to watch and play. The only thing I don't really like about the characters is the fact that their feet are a bit...large, and Sora acts more like an 11 year old than a 14 year old.

As for the actual gameplay: Very simple to learn, and once you do, easy to use. Before I got into Kingdom Hearts, my favorite games were the Legend of Spyro games, and I loved the combat system in those. KH uses a similar system, with the simple press a button and hit the enemy. It's not too hard but not too easy, either. Whoever says the battle system is too hard, I'd like to ask them how exactly do YOU play it? Becuase it's simple as anything to me. The only thing I didn't like about the gameplay was the camera, hard to maneuver and often getting in your way while fighting a boss. But that's an easy problem to overcome; eventually I just started to not even notice it.

I think the only game that ever tops this one is the sequal (Kingdom Hearts II, for those of you who couldn't figure that one out by yourselves ;D)

It me again Slagar the cruel. I thought I would give some pointers on how to beat bosses of kingdoom of heartrs II faster and more efficiently. I love this game when it came out 2 or so years ago. For those of you bold enough to try this game on proud mode or any other difficult setting which I guess is an easter egg unlocked my doing normal or hard mode. Here is some tips for killed that annoying boss from the second act (second trip) to Point royal. As long as the boss is hold or touching any of the cursed medalions he is invulerable and blows won't hurt him. The best way to get him to drop coins is to either hit him with his own lance like weapons or blast him with what ever current form of the lightning spell you have. Pick up the coins and return them to the chest. If you are doing this one Proud mode or just wanting a fast battle this helps alot. I also recommend you use the Trinity limit attack as much as possible when at close enough rage and boss coin display reads zero. Depending on what version of the staff donald weaponj is using (shield for goffy) may determine the effectiveness of the attack combo. Also some times its better to over heal rather than to risk having to due the fight over again I suggest you do it when at half health or less. You gain the trinity limit by either leavel up goofy or donald or it is one of the abilities gained from defeating one of the previous bosses. (I will double check on that later) I an not sure about Donald but the guy changed out goffies default shield with on of his stronger ones before coming back I belive it was called likee the guard shield or the save the Queen Shield. (I'm not sure if you can get this super strong shield for Gof at this point in the game). The shield that was used lies in one of chests in Mulan's world. You can get it out of a chest in the Emperor's throne room after defeating the dragon heartless on the second visit to Mulan's world. Use Goffy trinty attack combine with your own weapons and less than about 50 hits will bring done this boss I belive I was about 35 hits was the bosses resistance with the trinity limit. I did not include magic attacks used to make to monster drop the coins those I did not count because they don't deplete the health bars until he's vulerable again. Trinties are multy hit attacks they can do massive to decent damage if used right to each bar of health. When you have a boss like in this game that has 1 to 9 bars of healthy depending on how far your are it makes it easier on you. I know that does not sound that efifcetive but it is. This boss is called the Grim Reaper Heartless. He has 790 hights points when you fight him the second time. You have to fight him also about midway way through the game but he only has about 1/5 to 1/2 That a lot of health for a boss that about 5.2 time what Sarro has in the first game if you do not play the game fairly and use the extend hit points cheats and about double what he had in Chain of Memories which made the game way to easy until you got to Dragon Malificent. I hope this is helpfull sorry if I am miss using your website but I don't have a you tube account so I can't put this information on the actual page which would be alot more convient.

This was a great product to add to our PS2 Collection. Me and my husband have both played this game and it is very entertaining. A nice RPG I would say.

This game is one of the best games I've ever played although it is very difficcult I give it 3 thumbs up!! It captures all the disney characters and their home planets perfectly! Definatly a great video game investment!

I was never a huge gamer, and this was the very first game I ever played on PS2. While I was at a friend's house, my friend invited me to play her brand new game on her PS2, so I decided to give it a shot. I have to say I was hooked on Kingdom Hearts in the first ten minutes. I had doubts in my mind that a combination of these anime characters and Disney characters would actually work, but let me tell you right now, you won't understand how totally awesome it is until you actually play the game yourself! The story is spectacular. The gameplay is great for beginners and advanced gamers alike. And the graphics, although they might not be overly phenomenal according to the standards of the most up-to-date games, are gorgeous. Also, the music is so very enjoyable (especially Simple and Clean by Utada Hikaru, which you hear in the very beginning of the game) that I ended up getting the soundtrack for myself. Furthermore, as I stated in the title of this review, this game is the best game in the Kingdom Hearts series. While it is a little more challenging than its sequels (which, for some of you, is NOT a bad thing), I still believe it has the greatest story and the best kind of gameplay out of the three that are currently out in America. So PLEASE, don't pass this up just because it SOUNDS bad. Give it a chance, and let it amaze you. This is definitely worth your money!