Kingdom Hearts
Cross-overs rule.I mean, what could be better than seeing your favorite characters from two entirely different worlds together in one movie/comic/video game? You know what's better? actually getting to control them.
That's not what you're getting with this game though, oh no, but let's not get ahead of things, since this is only the preliminary review, or preview as some would have it.
Kingdom Hearts was released in 2002, when it was hyped beyond belief, not only because of the fact that the theme song is sung by Utada Hikaru, but mostly because the game combined the worlds of Squaresoft, meaning Final Fantasy solely (I'd like to see some other Square references in the sequel), and Disney, an unlikely combination, unless you look at it from the obvious fact that they're both Money-grabbing Companies that like to squeeze every last penny out of their devoted fans with merchandise, goods and crap.
So they spawned this game. You play Sora, another meteorological phenomenon that seems to turn up everytime Tetsuya Nomura designs someone, and you are an original character not affiliated with either the Final Fantasy or Disney Universe and are therefore very much the property of Square and not to be abused by Disney.
Sora has two friends, Riku and Kairi. Their greatest wish is to travel to other worlds and see what is outside of their very confined living space, and when a mysterious Dark Portal appears, Riku doesn't think twice to get inside and he disappears. Kairi also vanishes, and soon Sora finds himself to be The Chosen One (how many of those have we seen already?) and he has to rescue his friends and make sure every separate world STAYS separate and doesn't mingle with others, by the actions of the Evil Heartless.
The bad guys are all Disney Villains, some of them actually voiced by their original and official voice actors. James Woods is here to voice Hades for one, which is great, and one of the advantages of having an actual license like this.
At their head is Malificent, the Evil Godmother from the Snowwhite movie, who commands the Heartless (or so she thinks) and generally muck things up.
So you set forth as Sora, with your nifty Keyblade (it's a Key AND a Sword! I can't think how many times I've needed one of those, and there's NEVER one around!) and are soon joined by Donald and Goofy as well as miscalleneous Disney Characters to beat the shit out of evil demons and stuff.
I have both the original Japanese version as well as the LIMITED EDITION Final Mix that was released in Japan a year after, and features the English Voice cast, with Haley Joel Osment (Sixth Sense) as Sora, and Billy Zane (Titanic) as Ansem, whose role I will not spoil because he is behind everything. And THAT would be a spoiler!
I will be playing the Final Mix version, because it's bigger and better and I'll be damned if I'm going to play them both. I'll probably give separate scores at the end though.
Are there any trademark Disney quotes I can finish this post on?
Don't think so.
Too bad.
posted by Ingen! @ 11:33 AM
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