tutti frutti. Another forum reminded me of a question that I had asked myself when I first got into the KH series. What was your original thought about the KH series? For me, when I first saw the advertisement and publicity for KH1, my first reaction was that it was never going to work with Disney and Final Fantasy coming together for a game. But after I played KH1, I, much like everyone else here, fell in love with the series. Despite how youg got into the series, what your first game of the series what, or even when, what was your first reaction to the series? Good, bad, random responses are welcome.

My first reaction was along the lines of, "I love this song, it's so cool! *o*" besides that, I found it pretty neat-o when I saw all the Disney characters *didn't know what FF was back then*.

Well I think I remember seeing some commercials a year or so ago, more or less, and didn't really think that it was anything cool. Then I was in the library at my school and I checked out a KH manga and I enjoyed it. I checked the other ones that they had out and checked them out over and over and over again. I also got my friend to read them and she got hooked too. And so now it's one of the coolest video games ever for me and my friend lol

when i was younger my initial reaction to the advertisement was "i have to get that game" playing it for the first time was awesome, it was the only thing i played nonstop and practically still is. KH till the end!

lol When I first saw the KH1 commercial(Riku and Sora fighting in Hollow Bastion) I got it confused with Ape Escape(characters looked similar to Sora and Riku), but that's another story as I explained it in other threads. When my cousin came over to my house he had KH. When I was watching him play, I was actually scared because of the heartless(don't know why). Anyway, years later I got KH1, played it, got scared because I played at night(plus the heartless), shook it off, and got into the game and I loved it.

I was still pretty young when I saw it, so my first reaction was, "Oooo, Disney!"

But when I actually played it, the story was what really hooked me.

When I first saw it I was only 10 so the whole notion of saving hearts sounded 'uncool' to me. But a few years later my brother rented it from the video store and I played it and thought it was awesome!

I got it for my 15th birthday. Heard there was a video game out that mixed FF and Disney and thought: ooohhhhhh gotta have it! So now I'm 22 and still playing a game in the series nearly every day

Um...If I remember correctly, I didn't really like the Kingdom Hearts series. I first saw an advert for Kingdom Hearts COM, I didn't even remember the name of it later on, but all I saw were disney characters looking really angry in the form of cards, with a young boy, looking pretty badass holding a Key based weapon. I didn't really think that it could be good.

But later, a few months or a year, my school was selling the Kingdom Hearts manga. And I think this was my first manga as well. So I bought the series and thought it was amazing. Then I googled it and found out it was a game series, so I went out and bought the games and just...fell in love with it.

The first time I saw it I was like this looks really gay. I guess I proved myself wrong.

I'm not sure really. I was introduced to KH in my cousin's house and that's when I first saw KH. I didn't know about it till then and I thought it was really good when I actually got my own copy and started playing at my house. The music was awesome and the cutscenes were really good along with the characters and plot.

To be honest, I thought it was the dumbest thing on the planet. Granted I was 5 and i wasn't the brightest crayon in the box. Then I played KH1 and I was immediately hooked.

I knew the game since 2003 but I never tried to play it because I thought the game was stupid and childish. Then I saw a fan comic about the game that made me curious to play it but back then we don't have a PS2 so I never bought the CD. Even when we bought the console, I never tried to play the game. When my sister started playing the game, it got me curious to play and yeah, I got hooked instantly.

My initial impression was pretty bland as I recall: yay a new video game. I must have gotten it as a present, but I knew hardly anything about it before I started the game.

I was six, my Grandma gave me KH1(this was the year it came out) I saw Mickey Mouse on the cover and wanted to play it badly.

 

It was fun because I was looking all over for Mickey (the only reason I actually played the game at the time) and the characters in the game were too.

 

Though it took me 3 years to beat the game. 6 year olds don't have the best eye-hand coordination.

only only reason i even found out about kingdom hearts was just pure luck i went over to my cousins to vistit her and when i got there she was playing kh she had just got to the colloseem and i was looking at it going whats this about then she just said disney and final fantasy put together so i went and looked at the box and read the back then she got stuck on the barrels to enter the games in the colloseem so i said id take a shot at it at first i was a little confused about what to do but when i figured it out i flew throw the level after that had to get the game for myself funny part is my cousin still hasnt completed kh1 her older brother has and hes done kh2 as well cause borrowed my one but shes still stuck inside monstro and this was six years ago when i found kh

My first reaction was meh it's ok. Probably because my friends are the ones who convinced me to get chain of memories, which was my first kh game. Anyway I played through sora's story then riku's and I loved playing as riku so that side of the game got me interested in kh...so without reverse rebirth I probabaly wouldnt be playing kh at all.

I first saw KH at a friend's house bout 2 years ago. It was KH2, I thought it was pretty 'interesting' so my friend let me make my own file. I was hooked instantly. Then a few months later I was at the library and saw KH2 on the sale cart, for 4 bucks. i bought it, and basically only recently got the first game......

i also have chain of memories(GBA), 358/2 days, re:coded and hoping for a psp so i can get BBS

I was a huge KH fan even before I completely knew what it was. I saw commerical for the first one, but I didn't know it had Disney in it. It just looked cool. I was about 6 or 7 at the time. My sister was 7 or 8. We went to buy a game at Walmart, and at the time my sister wanted Shrek the videogame. I was like "NO!!" And pointed at Kingdom Hearts and said i wanted that one. My dad got mad and said to pick just one, but me and my sister kept fighting over which game. So we ended up getting no videogame because of my dad. A year and a half later around my birthday I see Kingdom Hearts:CoM for Gameboy. I told my grandma thats what I wanted for my Bday even because I thought it was the first. Played it almost completely through, then lost my GB with it in it. Forgot about the series, then saw commerical for KH2 and then I went out and bought KH1 and KH2. Been hooked every since. I own every game besides the final mixes and the original coded and orginal Chain of Memories.

The first time I played it was at my sister's friend's house, and I was fighting Selphie. Once I beat her, I got it the next day and played it everyday and couldn't wait till the Second one

LOL I can relate to what Rob said as far as First Thoughts go.

My first thought: "What's this weird kid doing with Disney characters?"

 

I'm dead serious. That was my first thought when I saw the game for the first time at GameStop.

I wassssssssss just on the internert and i saw some videos about it and i ignored it cuz it didnt look cool. a few yr laters i found the videos again and i started watching out of boredness and now i am hooked (obsessed maybe o.o) . I just want a ps2 to play kh1 and2 and com. thats how i found out about kingdom hearts.. ;o

tutti frutti. Not that I am downing the KH series in anyway, which would be a crime on this site to the highest extent, but I find it funny and interesting how gamers ignore a game and some time later come back to that same game and it's among the best things in the world, next to sliced bread. Too bad all games can't be that way in their own right.

I was 7 or eight...

 

Merry Christmas!

 

Thanks! Ooo, what's this? Cool, my first PS2 game.

 

Hmm, this is fun!

 

Stupid Riku, he's too fast, I can't beat him in a race!