So, probably
the biggest ‘we knew what it was from the moment the trailer started but we
didn’t care because it was awesome’ moment at this year’s E3 was the long
overdue announcement of Kingdom Hearts III, which will be coming to the
Playstation 4 and Xbox One sometime in the future. The Kingdom Hearts series
has long been one of my favorite gaming franchises, and with the apparent
conclusion to the saga forthcoming, I’ve prepared these brief descriptions of
the earlier games, as well as my opinions on each entry. It has been a long,
strange road for Sora and company, as well as for fans of the series- but with
the third main game finally on its way, let’s take a look back at Kingdom
Hearts.
Kingdom Hearts (2002) (Playstation 2)
The original
Kingdom Hearts marks the beginning of what must be one of the strangest
crossovers in fiction (Squaresoft’s particular brand of RPG with settings and
characters taken from Disney films), but the original Kingdom Hearts made it
work, and kicked off a series that has become even larger than Square’s own
Final Fantasy was at the time.
