Kingdom Hearts Yesterday I came across a great recipe idea. Take a few final fantasy parts and throw them into a big blender, to give you a few Disney films and throws finally a few pages of story into it. Kingdom Hearts comes out.
Something like that was the idea must be born of a collaboration between Disney and Squaresoft, and in 2002 for the Playstation 2 in the form of the game "Kingdom Hearts" is manifested. Whether this recipe idea is not only unusual, but delicious, we check at once.
The protagonist Sora
The Story your take on the role of the boy Sora, who lives with his friends Kairi and Riku the elderly on a small island. The three friends believe firmly that may be their world is not the only one and dream of one day to visit other worlds. One night, attacked the island of shadow creatures and destroyed, it will bring to separate from your friends in a strange city again, and since holding a keyblade. After a short time you hit the mage Donald Duck and Goofy the Knight, who are in search of her missing King Mickey Mouse. The last command should they received from The same has been to the bearer of the Keyblade to protect them. Thus, it makes you together in search of Sora's friends and the King. It flies its agent rubber-Jet from world to world, and sealed it before dark to keep them from total annihilation. In the search for the source of the dark invaders, the so-called heartless, you learn more about the background and the true mastermind behind the great disaster. To be banished at the end together.
Gameplay - Final Fantasy X Disney The gameplay is strongly reminiscent of Final Fantasy with a slight influence on Disney.
you control Sora through the various 3D worlds via analog stick. Here you will encounter again and again to defeat the Heartless applies, there is also already the first difference to final fantasy series on the struggles will be played turn-based but not directly in the game world. As a remedy for evil to you is your keyblade, numerous spells, incantations, and of course your friends to the site.
the beginning of the game, you have to choose whether their change rather passively, aggressively or want to work with magic, accordingly, your stat points easily.
Enter the battle in a group of three, usually you have Donald and Goofy on your side, but you can usually a resident in each world character to take, such as Tarzan and Ariel.
Anyone spell closer look immediately notice the similarities to Final Fantasy, this one knows all of fire, water, lightning and ice to Gravitas and Aero are all represented. They can lie down for the battle on three shortcuts to select them in the battle quickly. The "spells" that we know from final fantasy are included, but are called "reputation" and call as the name implies, bring an ally. This can, for example, Simba from The Lion King. To further support
there are plenty of items that the inclined final fantasy players might well be familiar.
Summon Simba
a Heartless is defeated, he can usually fall green life spheres, which regenerate HP, yellow money balls fall increase your wealth, leaving a few experience points you can gain levels. After a successful Level Up is either more life, more mana or more attack power. In addition, you learn new skills now and then you can equip for AP points, including blocking, analysis, etc.
run The fighting, after a short adjustment period, liquid from the foot and great fun.
Beautiful: In each world you will meet on new enemies, the setting is adjusted and other skills and have attacks. Thus there are in the jungle of apes and Tarzan heartless in Atlantica fish and jellyfish defeat. This provides a lot of variety and makes the battles much more exciting.
Every now and then adapts to the way of your movement in the current world, so it floats around in Atlantica as a merman or flies in Petar Pan's Never Land through the air.
All in all, the control is very successful and is loose from the paw. The only drawback is the targeting of opponents, which is sometimes very tricky, as the complicated selection of items in combat.
As Merman in Atlantica
from world to world - Familiar faces Your primary responsibility is the key slots of the different worlds to find and seal. Here, visited her many scenarios familiar from Disney films, but also creations made by Squaresoft. Here you meet all sorts of course, familiar faces from the various films was a usually a little back to the "carefree" childhood, because who among us has not seen the movies then. In addition to the Disney characters you meet also known to many faces from Final Fantasy, including Cloud and Sephiroth.
On your travels you visit include Atlantica from Ariel, in the jungle from Tarzan, the Never Land of Peter Pan, Agrabah Aladdin and many more. In each of the worlds you are experiencing a mini story that eventually leads you to the key hole in the world. Here waits Squaresoft typical, at each end of a boss to you, obvious is not it: These three
These are usually the bad guy from the movie in the current world and who would not previously Ursula from Ariel or Jafar from Aladdin on the nose . give
being rewarded new weapons, a new more powerful keyblade, magic and more coordinates to new worlds. This motivates and by the many different settings and voltage is all about variety.
In Halloween Town
sound and synchronization If you stop by the intro of the game, which I think fits really not a bit after the game, viewed from the musical side, Squaresoft has done a very good job. The music of the different worlds is usually directly from the Disney movie and fits like chalk and cheese. It was very well integrated into the game and highlights the excellent atmosphere of the different settings. What all the conditions for a while may also interfere, so düdelt such as Atlantica permanently Ariel typical music and can pull in two to three hours, then quite nicely on the nerves. More music and sound effects match by Squaresoft known and familiar quality.
The game was beyond even translated into German and German speakers are the same and most of the time lent their voices to the roles in the Disney films, with a few exceptions. The speakers are all very well and give much trouble, can can see, hear or so. give only drawback, a few of the sayings of the Goofy and Donald in the fight on its own have not been translated into German, which does not really bother, however, is angry because the three sets could also have been able to translate them.
The Hundred Acre Wood
The graphics - Final Fantasy is in colored
The graphics can be seen for quite Playstation 2. The worlds are very diverse and detailed design. The effects of magic fit and are very similar to the final fantasy model. The characters are lovingly modeled and animated the faces beautiful. Rather can not say about the graphics. However, today in 2010 still quite respectable. It is reminiscent in many respects to final fantasy, just a tick more colorful.
The cutscenes are mostly very nice rendering sequences are therefore also in the usual Squaresoft quality. But the sequences in game graphics are quite well done and animated.
only drawback, in the transfer of the game in the European area has anyone built crap, we will be punished with ugly little thin black bars top and bottom of the screen.
The Gummiversum?
So I called the universe between the planets. For travel between the worlds their disputes with your own spaceship, which is made of rubber blocks. Yes you heard right, a spaceship made of rubber.
it is felt that this shipyard in the rubber to your heart's desire to upgrade rebuilt with new rubber bricks, or even design a new rubber ship. It turns out However, very tricky, because the editor is very user unfriendly. New rubber bricks you collect either in boxes that you find on your way around the world or in the kids' game that must be completed between the worlds. It travels from one world to another so begins a little mini-game which is somewhat reminiscent of Space Invaders. You fly with your rubber boat and you need your way through asteroids rubber sheets and rubber or other rubber boats to shoot. These can occasionally fall back rubber stones that you can collect. The whole thing is pretty meaningless, however, as you can each track in the game with your standard contest ship. Well, and why the universe must consist of rubber I have not really understood. There is always something to smile when Sora a "protective rubber" refers.
The Gummiversum in all its glory
Side Quests
Also next to the main story that you rushing through the worlds, there is some work to do. In the course of the play will get her so-called "Trio Techs," these are the only actions to Sora, Goofy and Donald can run together. Signals are places where this technology is possible through a colorful icon. This will enable you to reach new places, or to grab boxes and rewards.
are also all 99 Dalmatian puppies from "101 Dalmatians" disappeared, and your job is to look at the various worlds and bring back to their parents. As a thank you reward the lucky dog parents repeatedly with items, spells, and concludes with a collection of rubber blocks.
If that was not enough to work, has demonstrated the possibility of its strength at any time at various tournaments in the arena of Olympus. Here many powerful enemies waiting for you including Cloud, Hades personally and Sephiroth. There
Another "optional" thing is now, in the course of the game, you can always find more lost pages bought a book from the Merlin from a dealer. If you bring the sides back you are allowed in the "100 Acre Wood" and meet there many mini-games with Pooh and his friends. Unfortunately, this is the one really sloppily staged, often the stories and reasons why there is now to do something very senseless and overall, this part of the game just terribly bad. Who can do without the Secret Ending may safely skip this place. Otherwise, here, "Eyes Wide Shut".
fight in Agrabahr
Difficulty - Leveling, leveling, leveling?
not precisely this. I personally can defeat no great friend of never-ending level passages just so my main character to the next boss, to then enter the next level passage. This, fortunately, in Kingdom Hearts, at least on normal difficulty, not necessary. Those who bravely defeated all opponents stand in his way and not simply turn over runs, has at least until the end no problems and have in fact not at all levels. Towards the end draws the game again but it remains powerful in some levels is not, but apart from that is the difficulty for a Squaresoft game very moderate. But take Imagine Ursula care, the woman is evil!
One of the bosses
Conclusion: Who likes a good story, if you like Final Fantasy, who is a Disney is a fan and he likes even a Rollenspielchen play counts This title is not over. All others on the cases some of the points must definitely take a look. The game is varied, the battles are exciting and fun make to the end. The graphics are impressive and catches the Disney universe very well. I would recommend it most warmly. For the ultimate Disney opponents However, this title is nothing.
Kingdom Hearts gets to me 4 out of 5 fox paws
Good 2 know:
- Who does not have Playstation 2 but the story still finds interesting can read the whole thing, it is a manga series appeared, everything was handled in the first part of the Kingdom Hearts series happened.
- The game has a Secret Ending of need to unlock it with all Dalmatians bring back the master Hadescup the Olympians and complete the mini games * * trembling in the Hundred Acre Wood.
