A game that gathers the best of the Final Fantasy series and Disney with an excellent story that will keep you on screen
User Rating: 10 | Kingdom Hearts II PS2
Sora is back and he has grown up, with Donald and Goofy by his side again you’re in for an adventure, a whole new adventure with the characters from the first game and some new, (Squall Leonheart, Cloud Strife, Uncle Scrooge, Jack Sparrow and much more) and if anyone ever though that mixing Final Fantasy and Disney characters was a bad idea. They were wrong, because that exact combination is what makes Kingdom Hearts II so beautiful and original, just like what happen with the first Kingdom Hearts, with a story that will make you want to keep playing, wondering what will come next and the thrill of having an objective that’s keeping you from advance but at the same time fun to do like a battle with a boss that you can't defeat but is fun to fight and the enjoyable victory, relieve and satisfaction after the epic battle into the even the smallest piece of story that resorts an effect on you to keep moving or wondering if there’s any secret of some sort in that area or what was the real meaning of that cut-scene or the piece of story that will make you go to even into the most improbably place looking for a secret or a way to advance in the story. Kingdom Hearts II is game with an awesome game play, good graphics excellent story to keep up with the game principally when the Drive Forms enter in scene a new system that lets Sora transform into more fighting, spell casting or balanced forms witch will help beat up the Heartless or the new type of enemy Nobody, witch are the other half of the Heartless. The other new system is the reaction command that lets you defend your self or attack an enemy with just a press of a button the triangle button when the time is right and the timing is right. Returners are the Summons witch are some helpful allies for a limited time and the time is the Drive Gauge witch can be levelled up to allow more Summon time and Form time since both deplete the same Gauge but the same Gauge can be recover by beating up Heartless and Nobodies. You can count with Chicken Little, Stitch and more. The Gumi Ship as returned too, now with more options and an improved battle system as well, this time it will be more fun to travel from world to world, you will got new worlds to explore and some already known such as Hollow Bastian, new comers are Pride Land from Simbas world (not available as a summon this time), Port Royal from Pirates Of The Caribbean and more. Another thing that is new is Trinity Limit now used for battle as Donald and Goofy gain certain abilities that when equipped allow you to do more Limits that can be useful. -------As you may guess you will not start with all this abilities in the beginning since you start to play with Roxas a mystery kid that will be revealed as you move forward on the game. Kingdom Hearts II is definitely a worth paying game that only as one down side, the game is to short it only got about 30-40 hours of game play compared to the first delivery of the series that got about 50-70 hours of game play. Still a most enjoyable game and a easy one, a well narrated and complex story that requires more attention (mostly if you didn’t play the first title).Surely an awesome game to play with many hours of fun. Now the wait for Kingdom Hearts III begins