These are an action-depending RPG, featuring realtime rendered backgrounds & scenery. A music is composed by Yoko Shimomura, the ending credits theme inside American releases. Each versions of the song were composed & performed by Utada Hikaru.

Plot
Within Kingdom Hearts, a villain has utilized a Heartless to pull down the bulwarks between the numerous worlds. Lead character Sora, also when popular Disney characters Donald Duck and Goofy, must travel to both one worlds, using a right Keyblade, when collecting its mighty forms, to seal a entrances to the hearts of the worlds prior to the Heartless may kill the children. A primary villain, Ansem, seeks to locate a door into utter darkness. Sora's previous right friprevent, Riku, has been seduced per darkness, & makes many tries to end Sora's life. When for Kairi, her heart was taken, because she was one of a "seven princesses of heart" (replacing Ariel from either A Little Mermaid since she occurs as person member within of these globe).

Final Mix

Within Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix, a Japanese re-release of the game, several cases & the total of gameplay pinch were added that were non in the Western release. Various recently enemies, abilities, & weapons were added, & cold-shoulder changes keep close at hand been mass produced to affect a back's difficulty. A game terminates sustaining what numbers of fans use to become deuce teaser trailers for Kingdom Hearts II, (the 1st of which was too available in the Northward Our contries version by doing a great deal of side-quests) a sequel which has been recently been announced. In the 2nd teaser, highborn Deep Dive, Mickey & quaternary more cloaked numbers come shown. One of a Unknowns carries deuce keyblades & hwhen been confirmed when a Blonde Haired Child, & an additional is blindfolded & has been confirmed as Riku. A game features deuce recently keyblades for Sora, a Of these-Winged Angel & a Diamond Dust blade, each of which potty single exist as found in the amphitheater. It as well includes the favorite emboss fight: at a Hollow Bastion, the optional Boss is the Enigmatic Human, a member of the XIII Order. There exists as well a newly scene (ordinarily known as the "Showdown of Fate") that shows Sephiroth & Cloud scrap within a Coliseum

Worlds
A numerous worlds where a back pass include various Disney settings (100% of which are then a portion of the Disney animated features canon and most of which "crossed over" within gag cameos in their original motion picture), besides when a few original ones.

A Disney-depending worlds: Wonderland, from either Alice in Wonderland. This occurs as surreal level which includes existence shrunk. This is the number 1 level that may be or so the Heartless. Features a Chersire Cat, a Doorhandle, Alice, A Queen of Hearts, & many cards, likewise when a Mad Hatter & a Hare. A Lady Luck Keyblade may be found on this button late. Deep Jungle, from either Tarzan. This occurs as slightly hanker globe than a 1st, & includes Tarzan, as a number one character that may be added to your computers person, Jane, Clayton, & Many Apes. On this button we develop a 1st keychain, the Jungle King. Olympus Amphitheatre, from either Hercules. This includes Hades, Hercules, Phil, Cerberus, and Cloud. A Olympia, Metal Chocobo, & Lionheart keyblade may be found on this text late. Agrabah, from either Aladdin. This globe includes Agrabah & a Cave of Wonders. Aladdin, Abu, Jasmine, Jafar, Iagu, & Djinny come introduced on this button. Smart shoppers can besides make their way a 3 Wishes Keyblade on this text, & late a optional emboss Kurt Zisa can be found in the desert. Monstro, from either Pinocchio. This globe will bring the streaming video player through the intestine of a whale, & has likewise been criticized as a filler level that contributed little to the game. A ill-famed little wooden puppet Pinocchio and his maker Gepetto may be detected on text, though fallowing this level is completed, it can be noticed within Traverse Town. Atlantica, from either The Little Mermaid. This was an innovative underwater level that consists of Ursula's cave, many grot, & Atlantica. Ariel, King Triton, Ursula, Seabastion, Flounder, Jetsam & Jetsam pop up in that globe. This level has typically been known as a hard level to play because the controls alter underwater. A Crab Claw keyblade is detected on this button. Halloween Town, from The Nightmare Before Christmas. A picture show's cast make their streaming video game debut in the level. This globe includes a town square, Oogie Boogie's Maonr, Moonlit Hill, & the Memorial park. A Pumpkinhead keyblade is found on this button. Neverland, from Peter Pan. The world's title is somewhat a misnomer because the actiin will require place on Captain Hook's ship & the minor bit besides as a secret boss inside London; as such, a actual Neverland is non actually visited. Captain Hook, Peter Pan, Wendy, Smee, and Tinkerbell call this world personal. Upon finishing this level your family is rewarded by owning a Fairy Harp Keyblade. Hundred Acre Wood, from either Winnie the Pooh. This globe is unlike a others. No Hardhearted on this text & it will require place in the places of the book. The kind of mini games open higher when your family proceed through the game.

A original worlds: Destiny Islands Traverse Town Hollow Bastion End of the World Disney Castle (non-playable, does'nt to exist as confused by using Sleeping Beauty Castle)

Voice cast
Note: Virtually all of a Disney Characters come voiced by their original voice actors from either the picture show or even their voice actors for the alive series (in which applicable, e.g. Dan Castellaneta as Genie, rather than Robin Williams.)

Characters

Sora
a hero of the game, Sora is fourteen years old & in a quest to locate his friends when saving various worlds from either the Heartless. He carries a peculiar weapon, the Keyblade, & travels by having Disney characters Donald Duck & Goofy world health organization come wanting to find their king, Mickey Mouse, while Sora searches for his deuce friends; Kairi & Riku. As a teen, Sora has his part of concerns, however overall, he manages to keep an cheerful attitude. He seems elementary-minded at days, however he has the hard feel of justice. His heart remains fast to the lightly, there are no matter what.

Riku
One of Sora's right friends, Riku is fifteen years old, & he swallow him in Destiny Islands. Although Riku is Sora's right friend, there's alot of conflict between victims ii within games, & after Kairi come to their island, there was the competition between the children for her. Riku is older than his friends & tremendously additional good than the babies. He can't could have sleep in the enclosed globe of the islands & tries to call for how else out. He & his ii friends run to build the raft around hopes to sail to a second globe ab initio of the game. But, whilst a Heartless attack a islands, Riku seems to st& there is no fear of the darkness it bring and goes into it volitionally. Fallowing discovering western hemisphere, he searches within an attempt to buy the babies, however whilst he finds Sora using Donald Duck & Goofy, Riku assumes that Sora has abandoned him. When that, Riku joined by using Maleficent & starts looking primarily for Kairi. He manufactured many tries in Sora's life, including stealing a Keyblade & his friends, because Riku was intended to keep close at h& a Keyblade and he ostensibly believed that Sora is far as well light to protect Kairi. However Riku was cast into the World of Darkness fallowing his system was taken across by Ansem. He so assisted Sora within closing a door to Kingdom Hearts, using himself behind it.

Kairi
Sora's more right friend world health organizatiin swallow him & Riku on Destiny Islands, Kairi is besides 14 years old. She's super pollyannaish & buoyant & seems to exist as the trifle of a hoyden. She was non natural on the isl&, however come there from either Hollow Bastion, presumptively 11 years ago (while Ansem misplaced his mind and immune system). Her appearance on the isl& stimulated the rift between Sora & Riku, and their friendly relationship hasn't been exactly a equivalent since.

Kairi likewise disappears when a destruction of Destiny Islands, & Sora doesn't locate her until he reaches Neverland. Though she is lifeless on text, she reacts to Sora's voice by slowly closing her clenched fist. Riku reveals that she wasted her heart former between a destruction of their house & his sorting through her, & that he joined Maleficent to secure her heart. Kairi too seems to develop occasionally connection to Hollow Bastion & its mysterious keyhole, which is said to require "seven princesses of heart" to open. Kairi is one of a "Princesses of Heart". Around Japanese, a word Kai (a share of Kairi) potty mean "ocean". When Sora means sky & Riku means ground, 1 could infer their have conclusions from either this.

Donald Duck
Donald Duck appears as a magician, capable of doing various spells from either remedy to offense. He, along by owning Goofy, attend buy their missing king, world health organizatiin hwhen never again on a mission to investigate a bedlam a kingdom is under, likewise as the Keyblade Master. He contributes to a person sustaining his repertoire of spells & likewise will bring a mirthful caper he never seems to lose throughout the Disney series.

Goofy
Cockamamie appears using Donald on the equivalent mission. He appears as a warrior, an expert around physical stats (HP, nature & severity, and defense). He is the Captain of the Royal Knights & despises weapon usage, therefore he utilizes the shield to attack & defend, & is the king's virtually all fast subject. He occurs as nifty aid & is the class action's few dozen mule (he carries a virtually all accessories & things). Rather Donald, his laughable put-on never seem to die out.

Disney villains
A villains of Kingdom Hearts. Led by Maleficent, they are composed of Jafar, Hades, Ursula, Oogie Boogie, and Captain Hook. It utilize a Heartless for even their evil plans sequentially to obtain septenary maidens of a purest heart, known as the Princesses of Heart, & to dominate their resident globe under their rule or payback, etc. When Ansem's journal said, it used to be that it experienced found a lot 7 such Princesses, it is respire to unlock a Final Keyhole. More Disney villians that too pop up however come non affiliated using Maleficent are Clayton (Who used a Heartless to hunt Gorilla gorilla) & one of a villains from either Wonderland (these are debatable whether a Wonderland villain is the Queen of Hearts or the Cheshire Cat, but neither utilized Heartless.) (In a manga, all the same, the Cheshire Cat was affiliated by owning Maleficent, however betrayed the two).

Ansem
Trueness independent villain of Kingdom Hearts, he was concealing in the shadows until Maleficent gathered all sevener Princesses of Heart. He wwhen a ruler of Hollow Bastion (antecedently a house of virtually all of a Final Fantasy characters, too as Kairi), however he went mad due to his locate on the Heartless, believing that single the power of darkness system being. He entered the darkness, losing his person in the run, however got the may dandy sufficiency to withst& becoming a Heartless himself, and instead became something sir thomas more. Deceiving Riku into allowing him possess a son's system, Ansem regained his physical form & flushed Riku's heart from either him whilst he tried to fight back. Sora followed Ansem to a globe beyond a Final Keyhole, a Prevent of the Globe, in which the door to Kingdom Hearts awaited, & defeated him prior to Kingdom Hearts was fully opened. Although Ansem dies inside the prevent of the game, he survives in in Riku's mind & heart & is restored inside Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, a sequel.

He has modems to the human known as "DiZ", the strangely attached & bondaged character wearing red. He may be seen inside each "Chain of Memories" also when "Kingdom Hearts II". These are unknown what his admittedly motive is, yet, he is said to exist as "both Ansem and not Ansem".

Unknown
A mysterious cloaked figure, known likewise when "The Enigmatic Man", world health organization appears at Hollow Bastion inside Final Mix as an optional boss. He serves as a prelude to the gage's sequels, existence a foremost member of the organiziation Sora found. He doesn't talk; he speaks to Sora within his mind.

The Heartless
A Heartless come animals natural of the darkness within humans's hearts. After it consume the individual's heart, their person vanishes & their heart lessens to darkness. About 100% of a two come branded using the equivalent symbol. the Heartless therewith symbol was created by Ansem, applying a machine that by artificial means creates Heartless. It pursue a wielder of the Keyblade, Sora, although their reasons are non completely clear.

Final Fantasy cameos
In Destiny Islands, a streaming video player meets immature versions of Tidus, Wakka (both from either Final Fantasy X), and Selphie (from Final Fantasy VIII). Inside Traverse Town, a streaming video player encounters Squall (under the false name of Leon) from either Final Fantasy VIII, besides when Aerith (known as Aeris in the America), Cid, and Yuffie from Final Fantasy VII. Rikku from Final Fantasy X was originally going to exist as the cameo but she was later replaced using Yuffie, & Irvine from either Final Fantasy VIII was replaced by Wakka. In a Olympus Collesium, the streaming video player gets to fight Leon, Yuffie, & Cloud Strife of Final Fantasy VII. In the Western & Final Mix versions, a streaming video player gets to fight Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII as well,& Final Mix has even more, an extra scene where Cloud & Sephiroth fight to the demise.

A game too utilizes more Final Fantasy icons. Moogles make an appearance & assist professional people obtain a ultimate weapon (a with competence known as Ultima Weapon). Many more weapons, like Lionheart & Save a Queen, have a Final Fantasy theme. A Final Fantasy Magic Naming System (explorer. Curative, Cura, Curaga, etc.) is besides in situ. A list of various spells come a list of Gummi impedes, & various summons, weapons, bosses, & monsters come a list of Gummi ships blueprints.

The Keyblade
The legendary weapon that is said to use at times two economized the world & to use at times destroyed it. A independent weapon inside Kingdom Hearts, a Keyblade is wielded by Sorthe & is a single tool that potty lock a worlds, so preventing a Heartless from either ingesting the heart of a globe. These are a single weapon that may kill a Heartless totally, though because of it, a wielder, Sora, is constantly chased per Heartless. It is principally drawn to Sora's heart, still, non a Keyblade.

A Keyblade is upgradable via keychains, every of which vary its appearance & powers.

Listing of Keychains Kingdom Key : the default keychawithin in shape of a silver mickey's head logotype. Appearance as the silver giant key by having a crown shaped form in the upper side. Jungle King : From Tarzan inside Deep Jungle. Has the form of a butterfly. Apperance when manufactured of wood & dinosaur's bones. 3 Wishes : From Alladwithin in Agrabah. Has a form of Gennie's wizard lamp. Appearance as a golden old arabian key. Spellbinder : From Merlaround in Traverse Town, when getting altogether basic spells. Molded inside the wizardly book. Appareance as a blue tool by owning astronomic instrument in the upper side. Crabclaw : From Ariel inside Atlantica. Has the form of a blue scale. Appareance by having fish tails & in the upper side, the crab. Pumpkinhead : From Jack inside Halloween Town. Pumpkinhead-shaped keychain. Appareance sustaining round the bend decoration. Want Star : Treasure chest within Gepetto's Hause around Traverse Town. Star wrought. Appareance as a mechanic woody rolls north stuffs... Fairy Harp : From Peter Pan around Never Land. Red feather molded. Appareance by owning fairy flute in the upper side. Lady Luck : White Trinity within Wonderland. When of Love card molded. Heart shaped appareance. Olympia : Wwithin a number one 3 Tournaments in Olympus Colliseum. Form of Herc's Shield. Cloud & muscles decoration when appareance. Metallic Chocobo : Kill Cloud around Hercules Ventral suction cup inside Olympus Colliseum. Has the form of a Chocobo. Heavily metal tool appareance. Divine Rose : From Belle inside Hallow Bastion, fallowing saving all the Heart Princesses. Rose-shaped keychain. Giant Rose appearance. Lionheart : Kill Cloud & Leon witharound Hades Ventral suction cup in Olympus Colliseum. Has a form of Sorrower. By owning a Sorrower' head in the upper side. Oathkeeper : from either Kairi inside Traverse Town, when saving her from Hallow Bastion. Actually a lucky-charm of Sora. Unique silver-blue & gold ornamentation by owning wings. Oblivion : Treasure chest within Hallow Bastion. Blacken crown molded. Unique nigrify decoration which look such as the castle. Ultima Weapon : Final keychain. Sythesize all the Xxx Things inside Moogle Sythesize Shop around Traverse Town. Golden heart wrought. The br& by having the golden crowned heart in the upper side and wings (which virtually all humans confuse it when fish's bones!) A virtually all mighty keychain in the game!

Final Mix Keyblades A single-Winged Angel : Kill Sephiroth around Pt Match. Around form of an angel's wing. Unique fiery style by having the burning meteor in the upper side. Poudrwithin : Kill Ice Titan in Gold Match. Has the snow flake shape. Unique icy style by having the snow flake crystal in the upper side. Maximize MP bar by Three, to a higher degree Ultima Weapon!

Positive criticisms
Kingdom Hearts received the typically caring response from either reviewers upon release. Virtually all lauded a punt's unique battle technique, graphics (both within an artistic & the technical indicator feel) & storyline, whicing somewhat simple for RPG standards (Although that is changed in the stake's sequels), managed to by having success combine classic Disney characters with the darker, Squaresoft-style story (yet, it should become noted that Who Framed Roger Rabbit attempted to combine Disney characters with the dark plot line prior to Kingdom Hearts however failing due a fact that a cartoon characters (non upright Disney) weren't changed, meaning that it didn't blend consistenly; Kingdom Hearts, inside direct contrast, changed Donald & Wacky's personalities a little to healthy by owning the further good tone). A game as well received practiced notices for the voice acting used, when these are an aspect of computer game that is considered hard to run easily (although this game can be considered an exception around this department, seeing as Disney was a a single in charge of a voice acting & virtually all of the cast reprised their roles from either the original movies/animated series).

Negative criticisms
Kingdom Hearts has been criticized by a few fans for ruining a Final Fantasy characters placed inside it. For instance, many characters come processed immature & don't play the major role in the story. Occasionally of the voice actors for the supplementary popular Final Fantasy characters (e.g., Mandy Moore voicing Aerith Gainsborough and Lance Bass as Sephiroth) were seen as a second element of error. More criticisms include a addition of Disney characters (many Final Fantasy & RPG fans were turned-off by elements it considered to exist as for youngsters), & awkward camera angles in the period of battles.

A select few too felt that, when original, a combination of Square & Disney did does'nt act when well as it st&, by having aspects of each a story and gameplay swinging between 'Disney-style' & 'Square-style', forgoing reaching an acceptable middle ground for virtually all of the game. Many elements of the combat models were as well criticized, particularly the have of menu-depending things & magic within what was a oftentimes feverish real-instance battle scenario. An additional criticism levelled by reviewers & players similar revolves about a Gummi ship missions, by using a independent complaint existence that it is non when much as a equivalent standard of play as a rest of game. That, & it is au fond unpointed afterwards. The missions themselves come boring & unpointed, serving there are no purpose differently acquiring from either point A to point B. Note that Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix has tweaked a Gummi Ship formulas. A developers seem to use taken these comments onboard when a sequel, Kingdom Hearts II reportedly features an overhaul of this aspect of the series, by making a ship missions optional, & creating the independent form of transport a train.[http://ps2.ign.com/articles/574/574443p1.html]

Trivia
a secret boss Kurt Zisa was known as fallowing a winner of a publicity contest held by Squaresoft to promote the game.

Additionally to Kurt Zisa, more extra bosses in the game include Phantom (located in Clock Tower part of Neverl&, accessible fallowing we beat Hollow Bastion), Ice Titan, & Sephiroth (two come in the Colliseum and accessible fallowing we lock Hollow Bastion). These bosses don't want to become defeated to complete the story, however come a source of numerous personal experience points, things, & munny. When a Phantom is present in a Japanese version, the rest of the optional bosses are not. It were added down the road along using two or three freshly optional bosses in the Final Mix version.

Packaging artwork

Sequels

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, the Game Boy Advance sequel to a original game, takes place directly fallowing the plot of Kingdom Hearts, & will bring a hyperlink between Kingdom Hearts & Kingdom Hearts II. In the beginning, Sorthe meets a mysterious human world health organization leads him to Castle Oblivion. There, Sora visits replication of the worlds in the original game, created by his have memories. A game abandoned Kingdom Hearts's battle models, focusing in card-depending punt play. These cards may be utilized to produce western hemisphere, open doors, & attack Heartless. A game was freed in December 7, 2004.

Kingdom Hearts II
Another sequel, Kingdom Hearts II for the PlayStation 2, is in the works. Ingesting place a year fallowing Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts II might feature Sora, Donald & Goofy, also as a vibrant recently cast of characters, including King Mickey himself and familar faces. the Heartless come however heading free & a mysterious group is plotting against Sora. KH2 is existence freed inside Japan in 22nd December 2005. Meanwhile, a Northward Our contries release is existence rollback to 2006.