every year around the holiday season i play kingdom hearts 1(nostalgic value). This year i started late and find that i'm having to fight through the game without enjoying it at all. i also find that since i chose the leave at night path and i never leave destiny island without being at least a level 15 i'm having to continually b eat the living daylights out of poor little selphie. what i'm sayin is i need to get this game done but i was wonderin if anyone else had any different techniques to beating this game quickly.

I appreciate your devotion to Kingdom Hearts, but if you aren't enjoying the experience then perhaps you shouldn't be doing it at all. Video games are meant for enjoyment, so if you aren't having a good time then what's the point? You could chose to play on a save file you already have if you wish to get the gameplay side of nostalgia, and the Kingdom Hearts cutscenes are here on KH13.com. If, however, you still want to play through the game, I would suggest that you chose the shield while in deep dive due to the fact that when you have a higher defense rating your blocks of moves used against you are more likely to score you tech points. Getting all of those extra tech points makes it faster and easier to level up. Plus, you can look up the right answers to the questions the islanders give you in deep dive to make the game easier on you and make you level up faster.

_{I agree. Games are made so you can have fun. If you're not having fun at all, you should stop playing it for a while... Maybe stop with this play it once a year, and rather play it when you miss the good feeling that playing KH has? And you can choose easy mode, block the attacks to get the tech points, which surely will help you to level up faster. You need to have a lot of items to heal during boss battles, than you do not need to die and rewatch the scene... Although I think KH1 is a little hard to "beat quickly".}