Kingdom Hearts for the Playstation 2, PS2

While you are traveling from world to world there will be some mini missions that you will be asked to complete. One of the missions has to do with helping the Dalmatians find their lost puppies, with each puppy you bring back to them they will reward you with a gift. Another mission is jumping into the book called Hundred Acre Wood about Winnie the Pooh and his friends where you will be asked to set things right. All of these side missions are mildly entertaining and distract you from all the monotony of saving world after world.

Kingdom Hearts is a tough game to criticize because it is a well thought out and thoroughly enjoyable game. There are some minor camera problems that could be mildly irritating; such as getting stuck inside scenery and the way the camera can jump around gave me a little nausea at times. While the anticipation for each new world is great after actually getting there it could be a bit of a let down and then you’re just ready once again to go to another world. All of the heartless just keep coming after you in an endless supply that makes it very difficult to just admire all of the details of the scenery. Many of the boss characters are too easy to defeat and their routine moves are too predictable. However, these things did not take much, if any, enjoyment away from the game, the camera and the endless bad guys may have been distracting and a little irritating at times, but never in a way that threatened the satisfaction you got from the game itself.

Kingdom Hearts is an action packed, lighthearted, fun-filled game full of all kinds of surprises. The story line is a little campy and sometimes even confusing, but who needs a story in a video game with this much personality. The side games include everything from building your own gummy ship then flying to each new world to jumping inside a book and helping out Pooh. This game requires more hours to finish than most games and even when your finished you can still come back to play your side missions. Kingdom Hearts may be a good game to keep rather than selling it back to the store because you never know when you might wish you had it around again.

Miranda Stites, HeroesOfGaming.com 6/27/05

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