How I discovered KH was a few years back when I was around seven (I'm now 14), my best friend came over my house, and he brought over some of his PS2 games. We were playing through them all 'till we came across his KH2. I was like "Woah, this game has Disney, and spikey-haired characters from japan! Let's play this!" (I had no what anime/manga were back then lol) So, I was hooked on this game, so we played this all day, and we got to the part where Roxas meets Kairi, then my friend had to leave. I thought; "I have to look this game up, and find out more!" So, I looked up the game, and I bought all the games that was already out which was KH1 2 and CoM, I even saved up for a GBA to get CoM! And ever since then, I became a devoted fan to KH by buying and playing all the games, and systems they were on, and keeping up with the story and all that. And the rest is history! http://kh13.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/happy.png If it wasn't for my friend, I probably would never have found out about KH, manga/anime, and get the inspiration to make my own manga! He'll always be in my heart, and he's my brother... from another mother! lol

 

So, what's your story? How'd you discover KH, and why were you interested in it?

My story is in another thread about this.

My story is in another thread about this.

 

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i saw a commercial

Well, when I was six I first saw trailers for Chain of Memories. Then, a few years later, I saw trailers on T.V. for Days, and then I recognized the name "Kingdom Hearts" and I looked stuff up about it. Later I made a friend who happened to love Kingdom Hearts, and we both got Days, which was awesome. The end.

my brother brung it from his friends how when i was 7 and it was kh1 i really enjoyed it but he had to give it back then i started crying

Rob is right.

before kh1 come out my friend told me about a game called kingdom hearts he said it has disney and final fantasy characters in it i wasnt to sure if the game would work until he finally come over with the game and i loved it :wub:

Edited June 11, 201213 yr by goodman2008

My cousin introduced me to it via Days.

A friend came over with it and I played it when the first one came out.got hooked on it on the first look. kinda like true love... that never goes out

I first got into the Series when my older brother got Kh2 from Blockbuster for me to play on my Ps2. When I read about it having Disney characters, the keyblade, heartless, etc, I go into playing it. Have been a fan ever since Kh2's release.

My cousins introduced it to me when I was younger, and later my younger sister bought days. I played through it and really enjoyed it. I think what got me hooked was when I bought recoded and then found out about dream drop distance.

trailer for days. afta that i became a fan

I was at my cousins house sometime right after the first Kingdom Hearts game came out, and she let my little brother have a level. He got to Wonderland, and then it sort of died off and we completely forgot about its existence until about 2008, when the same brother and myself got into a say-the-most-random-thing-you-can-think-of contest. He had the upper hand, when I suddenly had this vague memory of jumping onto giant mushrooms. I yelled "SORA!" and my brother did this HUGE double take, after which we sat in silence for a moment. He asked me if I remembered who that was. I said yes.

 

Needless to say, I won the contest.

 

The next week I saw my cousin, and asked if she still had the game, and if we could borrow it. She said I could have it. We played through it, mutually agreed that it was poetry, and are now huge fans. BEST COUSIN EVER!

My friend told me about it. Played it 3 years later. Loved it ever since.

Before the release of Kingdom Hearts, I owned a copy of Final Fantasy X. I do not know if America had it, but in UK-land, FFX came with a bonus disc called Final Fantasy Beyond. Essentially it shown all the Final Fantasy games, the behind the scenes stuff, interviews with the actors of Tidus and Yuna, etc. What caught my eyes were the trailers of Kingdom Hearts. There were a couple and I thought it was turn-based. Turns out it was action RPG, which weird me out because I'm so used to and still in love with turn-based RPGs.

 

Anyway, when it came out, I rented it from Blockbusters. I loved it, waited until Christmas and got it as a present. Became a fan from 2002 to 2006. The release of Kingdom Hearts II made me bitter and 358/2 Days made me outright angry. Fell back in love with Birth by Sleep and stuck with it since. I played Final Mix+ with an English Patch and I liked KHII much more in its FM+ incarnation. Sure, a lot of design flaws are there, but a new difficulty and extra scenes, drive form, etc. made the game much stronger.

 

I have a love/hate relationship with the series as a whole. But then, relationships are like that?

i played the first kingdom hearts since christmas 2002 all the way through re:coded what i discovered is that there are Disney worlds in it and is my favorite thing to discover and the disney characters, sora and his friends and all that.

I had known about Kingdom Hearts since the day it was released. I didn't have a playstaion at the time of it's release though, so I forgot about it. Then about 7 years later I saw a commercial for 358/2 days on tv. I could finally check the series out because I owned a DS. After playing through 358/2 days I was hooked and I have followed the series ever since.

i saw the comercial for the first game...i loved it stopped whatever i was doing to watch it...addicted ever since it first came out

I don't remember how old I was but I do remember that I bought KH1 off my brothers friend, im pretty sure my brother said that there were disney characters in it and it caught my attention.And after i started playing it I immediately fell in love with the game! and Kairi

I never got CoM for the gamboy though and Re.CoM wasn't released in Sweden, So later I found out that Kingdom Hearts 2 had been released for the PS2, and my birthday happened to be around.... so I asked my mom if we could order it in time for my birthday, which we could and it happened to arrive before my birthday so I was like "Mom can I play my game?" and she was like "Hell yeah, son" Okay, she probably didn't say that... But! I did get to play it and i was a very,very VERY happy little viking.And the rest is somewhat history.

My best friend introduce me to KH when I was 11. Then my first KH game was COM for GBA when I was 12, because I was more inteerested in hanheld gaming. By playing COM first, I didn't understand it much until I play KH1 a year later and loving it. By then, I have loved the series ever since.

My story is in another thread about this.

 

tutti frutti. ^This pretty much.

Saw it in Playstation Magazine around 2001 and being a fan of FF and Disney I was interested in it. I got KH1 on the NA release day ten long years ago and have loved the series ever since.

in 2008.A friend of my brother lent KH to my brother.Him,that is stupid,don't liked the game because of "disney characters",then,i took the game for me

Edited July 6, 201213 yr by Roxas_Wagner

I don't even know. I just picked up Days and fell in love^^

Basically my mom bought KH1 for my cousin as a christmas gift and asked me if I though he'd like it, I just looked at the cover and said "ew who would like this game about some spiky haired kid with big feet running around with donald and goofy with a giant key" Little did I know though that when I actually picked up the game some years later that I would be playing it and playing it again having a hard time putting it down haha. After that I kind of stopped playing KH though until Days came out, and that only furthered my love for the series and really got me back into it. So yea.

I remember the first time I got into Kingdom Hearts, was when I saw a Disney 411 commercial that talked about Kingdom Hearts 2. It looked really cool, so I asked my parents to get me a Kingdom Hearts game, and they picked up the gameboy version of Chain of Memories. To be honest, I didn't really like Chain of Memories only because it was for the gameboy and its not like the console versions of Kingdom Hearts or the commercials and I was like wtf.

Then around I think 2006-2007, for Christmas my dad got a PS2 slim, and a football game. Of course he's the only one that would play the football game haha, so my mom said I could go and buy a game. I went to the store and found Kingdom Hearts 2, and when I played it, I was mesmerized. Only problem was I didn't have a memory card, so I always got around to the part where I got to be Sora, and traveled to maybe 1 world, 2 if I stayed up late, before I turned it off and had to start all over again. Eventually I went to get a memory card, and my parents were generous enough to even get me another game, Kingdom Hearts 1. And eventually I played both games, beating the second one first, and then the first game. I had to do some reading and replaying before I understood what happened between the first and second game, and that's right when I started to focus on the story of video games as well