SolidSnake

Personally, I think it'll be Daybreak Town. If he said it's somewhere you wouldn't expect, then he can't be referring to Destiny Islands, since EVERYBODY would be expecting the game to start there. My personal theory is that perhaps it'll begin with a flashback of Kingdom Hearts X (chi) at Daybreak Town, with a tutorial similar to KH2 that could last 30 mins-2 hours. With some new character we'll probably never see again. Then once it's over, it'll transition to Sora at Destiny Islands. Just my two cents

I personally can't choose. I LOVE what they did with Lazy Afternoons (I was worried how they were going to pull that one off), which turned out to be BETTER than the original, Desire for All That Is Lost was an amazing one as well. As was Darkness of the Unknown Phase 2 GAAAHHH I cant choose

This is nuts! It's blasphemy that we have to wait two months for such an epic collection when we could be having it NOW! Why do this to us Square Enix?? Well, this better not happen with KH3. Or else sh** will get real nasty.

Thank you all for the warm welcome!! Yes, I am a MGS fan. I strangely grew up mastering the games aha, like it was one of the only M-rated games my parents didn't care about me playing back then. But yet I can't get myself to platinum these games on PS3 these days...... Anyways, I guess I'll see you guys around? Aha again, thank you all for the warm welcome. Appreciated Lots!

Hi, my name is Domenic and I'm 16 years old. Huge Kingdom Hearts fan and will ocassionally check here for updates or to chat about my favorite gaming franchise.

I know I probably won't win the contest, mostly because I am a longtime reader like yourself and just recently joined, (Fingers Crossed, knock on wood I do win by some strange chance) but I do like stories!!! I'm sorry that this is a long story and wasn't exactly the short paragraph you were looking for, but I hope you read it and enjoy! Anyways, my story begins in Summer 2012. My best friend, Nick, was highly anticipating the release of Dream Drop Distance. He would come over my house everyday during that Summer and he'd watch all the trailers over and over aha. He wanted to get me into the series, but for some reason I just didn't see it in the beginning. Then suddenly, in one faithful day in July, he lent me a copy of the first Kingdom Hearts for PS2. At first I didn't really play it, but whenever he asked if I played it I would tell him "yeah it's pretty good". I did that for like a week or so and felt bad, so I decided to give the game a shot. Nick had already done Destati and Destiny Islands for me, so I was just roaming Traverse Town my first time playing..... Lemme tell ya, it was actually more fun then I was expecting. That same night, my little cousin Tommy was over and was watching me play. He said he saw trailers of the game and it looked "okay". Then, as I save the game after the Leon Battle, My grandmom knocks on the door and informs my dad that my brother and cousin had gotten arrested because him and my cousin Jimmy snuck out and ran over some dude while they were drunk.... I won't forget that night, everybody was up all night worrying. so much that we even went to Church that morning. All I could think of was the Traverse Town theme playing in my head, it was so catchy at the time. Anyways, it took me the whole month of August 2012 to beat KH1. Over time, the story of the game just kept on drawing me even more and more into it. No game's done that in A WHILE. Also, for me, it was one of the hardest experiences I had playing a video game. I found just about every boss hard. I found the collosseum match in the beginning of the game difficult, that lion head at Agrabrah made me go nuts, and it took me about a week to beat the first Ursula battle in the cave. Then somehow, during my first try fighting Ansem-Riku, I beat him on my first try. All I remember saying after I beat him was "whew, good battle". The moment afterwards killed me, where Sora freed his heart to bring Kairi back. I was speechless during the rest of the Hallow Bastion World. Then fighting Final Ansem was so exciting for me, I NEVER felt any more of an excitement fighting a boss. I only died once (inside the darkness saving Donald). When I beat the game, I was just like "Wow. That game was long, and it was incredible". I was yearning for more and to see where the story was gonna go. I was hooked to the series. Before moving onto playing Kingdom Hearts 2, news had broke out that my mom had liver failure. Things for me were a bit depressing at the time. And just for some odd reason, every time I went to 100 Acre Wood, I'd think of her and cry. I still don't know why, just something about Winnie the Pooh reminds me heavily of my mother. I don't live with her or see her much, so putting two and two together made me feel really depressed. I actually quite liked the Winnie the Pooh stages (despite not being able to beat them for a while), they were a nice break from fighting heartless 24/7. Whenever I was in the hospital room and mom was talking away to somebody else, I would just watch KH2 trailers and get hyped to play that soon. I used to show it to my brother all the time, and he'd just never like it. I don't understand why he doesn't like KH. He never even tried the game and thinks it's terrible..... Now back to my adventure playing through the games, I already bought KH2 before beating KH1, so I got to playing that once the whole moms liver failure thing began to settle down..But then an issue occurred to me: My PS2 was breaking my discs with the circle scratch. It took me two copies of KH2 to realize that. I didn't get to play the game/continue the game for a month or so, until Nick, my best friend, sold me his ps2 for $40. It costed me $80 to get to play KH2. And in the end, it was worth it. I thought it was incredible my first time playing it. I loved EVERYTHING. I didn't get to play Re:COM until later on after I beated KH2, (and I did research important bits of the story before I got to Soras Awakening) Seeing the moment where Goofy "dies" chocked me up quite alot. I was like HOLY SH** I GOTTA KEEP PLAYING (I was playing it late at night on a School day!) And that final boss battle took my breath away. Amazing Music, and an overall amazing battle. I was very content. Now I was like "Well what do I do now?". So I decided to play BBS, after my friend Nick just lent me his copy of the game (he didn't like it). I found it to be pretty good, and it took me a while to beat all 3 of their stories. I started off with Ventus, then Terra, and then Aqua. I liked Ventus' story the most for nostalgic reasons, but I did like Terra's too. After I beat Ventus' story I eventually bought DDD, 358/2 Days, RE:COM, and Re:Coded (which I never beat, datascape felt like a waste to me). My time playing these games were nostalgic, I would play them waiting for a friend to get home from school at their house, in school in the bathrooms, and in-bed every night. Also during this time, my friend Sal was watching me and Nick get into the series and he eventually got into it too. We were all Kingdom Hearts fans, and it was probably one of my fondest times hanging out with the both of them. During sleepovers with Sal, he'd play Vanitas' Final Boss theme in his basement while we would always get popeyes or Guzzlers (some kind of juice Rite-Aid used to sell), and we'd always talk about KH. One time he even bought us a Sora and Roxas necklace. Amazing times. It's so weird to think that those are my last fond memories of hanging out with Sal. He was one of my earliest childhood friends, and seeing what he turned into just hurt. (Long story short, he got caught up in the wrong crowd) Me and Sal would also just listen to Lazy Afternoons all the time in his room thinking about what we were gonna do the next day. It was just so calm and relaxing. Great times. I can also remember when I was stuck at the Colliseum, Nick came over and tried helping me with it. I remember Nick jumping up in Goofy's voice saying "WE DID IT!" in a goofy voice aha..... Those were great times. Me and my friends Nick and Sal were great friends in 2012, for probably the last time, because of Kingdom Hearts. If it wasn't for Kingdom Hearts, I don't think 2012 would have been a good year for me at all. I don't think me and my friends Nick and Sal would have ever been as close as we were that year. It affected my life in so many ways. Me and Sal became closer friends then we were at the time, me and Nick had a really awesome interest in common which helped us with making our gaming youtube channel, and we all had one general thing we loved. We used to always compare each other to characters and stuff. Nick and Sal looked at me as Sora because of my upbeat attitude and brown long hair, while Nick was more like Riku since he was more built, and Sal was more like Roxas or Ventus since he had the hair like theirs. We even used to call each other those names sometimes. You could say, Kingdom Hearts is what tied all three of us together for one last time. Before one of us would break lose...... And fall into the darkness. Me and Nick though, are still best friends and do fun things together all the time. But without Sal, it just isn't the same. Of course right now, things aren't really like that anymore. They all moved onto liking different things, and I can't really consider myself friends with Sal these days. But I never gave up on KH. I'm still hooked on it. The feeling I had playing the first and second games were just amazing. Unforgettable experiences in my book. The rest of the games had mass nostalgia to them, but none of them could top what KH1 and KH2 did to me. (DDD comes close to it though) I will always love Kingdom Hearts. I eagerly await Kingdom Hearts 3 and cannot wait to see more gameplay or trailers coming from it. I STILL check youtube every morning and every night for updates on Kingdom Hearts. I've never been so hooked onto a game series my entire life. I've listened to the soundtrack everyday since 2012. I still fantasize about going on an amazing Keyblade Journey that involved saving my friends (including Sal). Heck, I have a life-sized keyblade hung up in my room! I keep trying to go out as an Organization XIII Member or Sora for Halloween but either I don't have the money for it or my dad always thinks the costumes are too girly. I'm 16 years old right now and I want to go out as Sora from KH2 BADLY. I got all of the physical features down to go out as him, all I need is a darn costume! Anyways, before I get off-topic, I guess the reason why I feel I should have a japanese version of the game, is because I pretty much love Kingdom Hearts, and I would love to do a walkthrough or Lets Play of the game on me and Nick's Youtube channel. We both love the series but I have such a passion for it that I hope having a japanese copy would help get Nick back into the series like we used to be, and help tie bonds together with Sal for at least one last time..... Anyways, if you actually read this entire thing, thank you. This was actually a really good way to post my experience playing the games and how it's affected my life in the most glamorous of ways. I hope you decide who the winner is wisely and have a nice day. Good luck to everybody who has posted!

I'm just hoping somebody uploads all cutscenes from KH2, BBS, and Re:Coded from 2.5 in English. All I've been seeing is Japanese versions It's sad, the Re:Coded cutscenes actually looked good and I don't wanna spoil myself too much from watching the Japanese cutscenes.......