I sure as hell know why I love kingdom hearts, but I don't know why you people really do. I would like you all to explain why you love the series other than "omg ( insert character name) is so haaawt". I'll explain why I love the series.
When I was 7 and I got the first kingdom hearts game, I loved it. It was really hard for me at the time since I had only ever played Mario Kart 64 and some nickelodeon games, but it was really great. I couldn't get past deep jungle at the time, but i still really liked the game. The thing is though, the first kingdom hearts isn't actually what made me love the series, its sequel did that. The first kingdom hearts is a fantastic game and is very nostalgic for me, but the sequel still makes me smile when I play it to this day. I was talking to a friend when I was 8 or so and he told me about a kingdom hearts II. He knew a lot about games because he had a lot of older brothers, but all I had was a 4 year old sister so I wasn't as invested in games as him. He was talking about it and I knew it existed, but I didn't think too hard about it at the time, since I had only heard "yah its gud" about it. I was walking in my local mall a few weeks or months later and I saw a cardboard cutout of the front cover of Kingdom hearts II in front of my local game store. I think thats when I had my first orgasm. I freaked the firetruck out. I was all like WHOA IS MICKEY MOUSE A NINJA WHOA IS SORA A NINJA WHOA WHOS THAT BLONDE KID.I know I bought the game soon after but my 3rd party memory card didn't support that game so several months later I had to buy a newer 3rd party memory card and that ended up working. In the time that the first memory card didn't work though, I actually didn't give a crap that it didn't work. I played the hell out of the game and it quickly became my favorite game of all time. The opening sequence with roxas was so amazingly epic and full of amazing moments made playing through the opening segment countless times worth it. From the diz and namine moments, to the 7 wonders, fighting axel, seeing that firetrucking awesome riku vs roxas scene, and finally waking sora up in that amazingly sad but heartwarming section made it all worth it. Then when I got a working memory card, I appreciated the game so much more. The ansem reveal,the crazy ass combat, the disney worlds(especially tron), the hollow bastion crisis in the middle game, and finally the world that never was made the game my favorite game of all time. The amazing pacing and just story in general of the roxas part is the best first 2-3 hours of any game in my opinion. Really, all of that was what made me love kingdom hearts. The hype i had for it and the game itself(especially ansem the wise and the opening segment) just added up to an extreme love for the series.
Unfortunately the love I have for KHII isn't there for the newer games. Nomura made something amazing out of KHI and II. Nowadays that passion and dedication that went into those games doesn't feel like its there anymore in games like re:coded and ddd. bbs kind of has that spark but I would say that the KH2 and final mix secret endings were even more epic than bbs itself. I give such extreme criticisms towards some of the later games because I love the series so much and I want it to be as good in terms of both story, worlds, and gameplay as KHII. I have little hope that KHIII is going to give me that same firetruck yeah this is the best thing evah feeling that KHII gave me because that spark has been gone so much in later games that it makes me sad.
I sure as hell know why I love kingdom hearts, but I don't know why you people really do. I would like you all to explain why you love the series other than "omg ( insert character name) is so haaawt". I'll explain why I love the series.
When I was 7 and I got the first kingdom hearts game, I loved it. It was really hard for me at the time since I had only ever played Mario Kart 64 and some nickelodeon games, but it was really great. I couldn't get past deep jungle at the time, but i still really liked the game. The thing is though, the first kingdom hearts isn't actually what made me love the series, its sequel did that. The first kingdom hearts is a fantastic game and is very nostalgic for me, but the sequel still makes me smile when I play it to this day. I was talking to a friend when I was 8 or so and he told me about a kingdom hearts II. He knew a lot about games because he had a lot of older brothers, but all I had was a 4 year old sister so I wasn't as invested in games as him. He was talking about it and I knew it existed, but I didn't think too hard about it at the time, since I had only heard "yah its gud" about it. I was walking in my local mall a few weeks or months later and I saw a cardboard cutout of the front cover of Kingdom hearts II in front of my local game store. I think thats when I had my first orgasm. I freaked the firetruck out. I was all like WHOA IS MICKEY MOUSE A NINJA WHOA IS SORA A NINJA WHOA WHOS THAT BLONDE KID.I know I bought the game soon after but my 3rd party memory card didn't support that game so several months later I had to buy a newer 3rd party memory card and that ended up working. In the time that the first memory card didn't work though, I actually didn't give a crap that it didn't work. I played the hell out of the game and it quickly became my favorite game of all time. The opening sequence with roxas was so amazingly epic and full of amazing moments made playing through the opening segment countless times worth it. From the diz and namine moments, to the 7 wonders, fighting axel, seeing that firetrucking awesome riku vs roxas scene, and finally waking sora up in that amazingly sad but heartwarming section made it all worth it. Then when I got a working memory card, I appreciated the game so much more. The ansem reveal,the crazy ass combat, the disney worlds(especially tron), the hollow bastion crisis in the middle game, and finally the world that never was made the game my favorite game of all time. The amazing pacing and just story in general of the roxas part is the best first 2-3 hours of any game in my opinion. Really, all of that was what made me love kingdom hearts. The hype i had for it and the game itself(especially ansem the wise and the opening segment) just added up to an extreme love for the series.
Unfortunately the love I have for KHII isn't there for the newer games. Nomura made something amazing out of KHI and II. Nowadays that passion and dedication that went into those games doesn't feel like its there anymore in games like re:coded and ddd. bbs kind of has that spark but I would say that the KH2 and final mix secret endings were even more epic than bbs itself. I give such extreme criticisms towards some of the later games because I love the series so much and I want it to be as good in terms of both story, worlds, and gameplay as KHII. I have little hope that KHIII is going to give me that same firetruck yeah this is the best thing evah feeling that KHII gave me because that spark has been gone so much in later games that it makes me sad.
Edited by Christopher Sexbang