Kingdom Hearts

With lovable villains, heroes, and recognizable characters from Disney, Kingdom Hearts has one of the most interesting, intriguing plots I have ever seen. And it's a great game to play. Through Kingdom Hearts 1 + 2, as well as RE: CoM, you play as a teenage boy named Sora. He weilds a mysterious weapon, called the Keyblade. The Keyblade has the power to open, that's right, doors, or anything with locks.

At first I was a little skeptical. 'What the heck is up with the key blade?' I would ask myself. Apparently it's also one of the only weapons that can kill evil creature, called Heartless. Sora , and a bunch of Disney characters, go through many levels, fighting heartless, and making friends.

That was Kingdom Hearts 1. Kingdom Hearts RE: Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts 2, and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days focus on, in addition to the heartless, the Nobody. Thirteen especially powerful Nobody's make up an organization, called Organization 13.

And quite frankly, they are one of the only villains I've ever genuinely enjoyed fighting. They are cool, their powers are cool. The only thing I would change about them is the fact that all they talk about are hearts, kingdom hearts, the key blade, and emotion. That gets a little annoying, but I still love them.

The Disney characters used in the game were ones that were loveable, interesting, and I think the game producers captured the characters attitudes quite well. The characters included:
Aladdin, Genie (Aladdin), Stich, Jack Skeleton (The Nightmare Before Christmas), Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean), Simba (Lion King), Hercules (Hercules), Zeus and Hades, and many more.

Also, you get to fight against Pete, which was a refresher for me, because I kinda forgot Pete existed. And, most importantly, "King" Mickey. Oddly, the game makes him a happy go lucky warrior, who for some reason seems to stalk Sora. However, King Mickey does make me very happy, in one way: He moves like Yoda. And Cloud. You know. He's like Yoda, from Star Wars, and Cloud, from Final Fantasy, combined, into a tiny package.

In Kingdom Hearts, you fight the Heartless, and the Nobodys. The Heartless are creatures made from when the darkness in ones hearts (think all of the bad thoughts you've thought) taking over the person's body, and converting it into a tool of destruction. When the Heartless attack a human, unless the human escapes them, the Heartless will then take that persons heart and corrupt it. The only thing left over from the incident are two hearless, and the empty body of the human. In this way, the Heartless spread. The most important thing to know about a Heartless is that they attack on instinct.

The Nobodys are made when a strong willed person becomes a Hearless. The body/shell left over from the attack begins to move of it's own accord. While Nobody's cannot make other Nobody's (they cannot take other's hearts), they are considerably stronger than Heartless, as well as being much more intelligent. They can formulate, prepare, and carry out plans. And they do have plans.

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep follows three Keyblade weilders, as they embarck on their mission to find Master Xehanort, who was a Keyblade master. They knew that his disappearance foretold bad things. According to the Ansem reports, reports from the man who's apprentices made the Heartless, and Nobodys, tell of a Keyblade weilder who saves the world from Darkness (I think that's Sora), and a Keyblade weilder who brings Darkness and Chaos to it.

So, the three Keyblade masters set out, to find Xehanort. The game is unique, because there's a new fighting style, and you get to play as three different characters, each one with a different plot to follow. The three weilders are: Ven, Terra, and Aqua. Ven looks remarkebly like Roxas, and many people think that they're connected. Nobody really knows anything about Terra and Aqua, though.

There are also new enemies. Called Unbirths. There are many theorys of how they are made, but nobody knows for sure...