Kingdom Hearts -- I just don't really get why it's so popular

[pharaoh malik]

I have the first two games (Well I have KH & KH2) . I played them both once through and that was that. Everybody seems to love the game so damn much and I just don't understand what I'm missing. I was thinking perhaps I should give it another go or something, and maybe open my mind to it some more.

I guess I just expected to like it since I like the JRPG genre well enough and the KH battle system was way fun . Buuut I don't know, something felt missing to me, and I really didn't understand the whole point of any of it, like the story or why Sora has the power of the keyblade or whatever.

There are likeable parts and I had enough fun to get through both of them, and I love Disney so getting to go explore the other worlds was fun. I guess I just expected to like it more.

So why is this game so popular?
What is it that I'm missing? (Or not missing?)
Do you like the series?


Maybe my problem with it was Donald and Goofy. Really hard to take it seriously when I'm being followed by two idiots the whole gameplay. (Not that Sora is the definition of intelligence, but he is sort of cute and likeable enough.)

 

[pharaoh malik]

EDIT: I accidently pressed quote instead of edit. Ignore this.

 

[Mcupobob]

Its fun and other people have different taste than you. Theres know way you will be able to "Understand" why. It just works for a lot of people.

 

[Rusty Bucket]

I think it's called an opinion. Apparently people have different ones. It's all a bit confusing.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

I always held it to Fad reputation, as well as a questionable marketing gimmick.

Disney was popular, Square was popular, surely a merger between the two would be far more successful.

 

[pharaoh malik]

Well I just found it weird considering I like the genre and all that jazz, and it is highly recommended and what not.

BUT ALRIGHTY I guess it was a bad idea to ask. ;;

EDIT:

@DeadlyYellow: I think that could be a part of it. Thanks.

 

[Space Spoons]

I can't speak for everyone, but I really liked the first game because it was, for want of a better term, magical. The overarching plot, characters and settings all had that irresistible Disney flavor, while retaining Square's unique fantasy elements. It was like going to a Disneyworld park based on Final Fantasy. Pure awesome.

Maybe my problem with it was Donald and Goofy. Really hard to take it seriously when I'm being followed by two idiots the whole gameplay. (Not that Sora is the definition of intelligence, but he is sort of cute and likeable enough.)

One of the main reasons I loved the first Kingdom Hearts was that it wasn't serious. It had all the traits and trappings of a Final Fantasy game without the melodramatic speeches and depressing backstories. Incidentally, this is what killed the second KH game for me. It got too serious, and therefore horrible.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

The gameplay was fun, and it kept completionists busy, (me).

 

[emeraldrafael]

Its FF and disney, together. Thats pretty much equal to win in everyone's eyes.

But you're right, I dont get it either really.

 

[LogicNProportion]

I can't speak for everyone, but I really liked the first game because it was, for want of a better term, magical. The overarching plot, characters and settings all had that irresistible Disney flavor, while retaining Square's unique fantasy elements. It was like going to a Disneyworld park based on Final Fantasy. Pure awesome.

Maybe my problem with it was Donald and Goofy. Really hard to take it seriously when I'm being followed by two idiots the whole gameplay. (Not that Sora is the definition of intelligence, but he is sort of cute and likeable enough.)

One of the main reasons I loved the first Kingdom Hearts was that it wasn't serious. It had all the traits and trappings of a Final Fantasy game without the melodramatic speeches and depressing backstories. Incidentally, this is what killed the second KH game for me. It got too serious, and therefore horrible.

This one. He speaks the truth.

I miss the tagline "You never know, who you will run into next."

Now it's: "Who can we yaoi pair this time around?"

 

[pharaoh malik]

I can't speak for everyone, but I really liked the first game because it was, for want of a better term, magical. The overarching plot, characters and settings all had that irresistible Disney flavor, while retaining Square's unique fantasy elements. It was like going to a Disneyworld park based on Final Fantasy. Pure awesome.

I see. Actually I can sort of see what you are talking about. The soundtrack was really fun and I don't know, in retrospect I did get that sense of disney magic-ness when I was playing. It's been years since I've picked it up and maybe at the time I was expecting something more serious. See -- I'm kind of liking the idea of trying it again because I'm running out of new games to play and money.. haha...

Though I do recall certain worlds driving me nuts. I think I wanted them to be more expansive. Oh. And the gummy ship bit killed me. :|

I might just be being nitpicky! D: Which is awful because normally I love games flaws and all. ;A; ( I mean HELLO, I got into gaming because of Sonic. Ya gotta accept flaws liking that franchise)

 

[Kurokami]

I have the first two games (Well I have KH & KH2) . I played them both once through and that was that. Everybody seems to love the game so damn much and I just don't understand what I'm missing. I was thinking perhaps I should give it another go or something, and maybe open my mind to it some more.

I guess I just expected to like it since I like the JRPG genre well enough and the KH battle system was way fun . Buuut I don't know, something felt missing to me, and I really didn't understand the whole point of any of it, like the story or why Sora has the power of the keyblade or whatever.

There are likeable parts and I had enough fun to get through both of them, and I love Disney so getting to go explore the other worlds was fun. I guess I just expected to like it more.

So why is this game so popular?
What is it that I'm missing? (Or not missing?)
Do you like the series?


Maybe my problem with it was Donald and Goofy. Really hard to take it seriously when I'm being followed by two idiots the whole gameplay. (Not that Sora is the definition of intelligence, but he is sort of cute and likeable enough.)

I didn't enjoy it enough to get through it personally. But I certainly don't not see the appeal, if that makes sense, just not my thing really.

 

[spartan231490]

Well I just found it weird considering I like the genre and all that jazz, and it is highly recommended and what not.

BUT ALRIGHTY I guess it was a bad idea to ask. ;;

No it wasn't, they were being jerks. You have a legitimate question, but it seems the number of trolls on this site has been going up lately, IMO.

OT: I felt kinda the same. I don't generally like jrpg, but I don't particularly dislike it, it's just a meh for me. But all my friends thought I would really really like it and I actually hated it. I could only stand it for about an hour or so, then I gave up and started playing something else. I just couldn't get immersed in it, but I doubt we had the problem. My problem was that it was just too "disneyey". I was really put off by the way they crammed that whole disney friendship thing down your throat, it was like listening to a marathon of all of tea's friendship speaches in a row.

 

[megapenguinx]

Its fun and other people have different taste than you. Theres know way you will be able to "Understand" why. It just works for a lot of people.

Essentially this. One thing I will never understand is why people keep making these threads where they don't understand why game X is popular....

 

[Merkavar]

i thought the space ship bits could have been better.

 

[pharaoh malik]

Well I just found it weird considering I like the genre and all that jazz, and it is highly recommended and what not.

BUT ALRIGHTY I guess it was a bad idea to ask. ;;

No it wasn't, they were being jerks. You have a legitimate question, but it seems the number of trolls on this site has been going up lately, IMO.

OT: I felt kinda the same. I don't generally like jrpg, but I don't particularly dislike it, it's just a meh for me. But all my friends thought I would really really like it and I actually hated it. I could only stand it for about an hour or so, then I gave up and started playing something else. I just couldn't get immersed in it, but I doubt we had the problem. My problem was that it was just too "disneyey". I was really put off by the way they crammed that whole disney friendship thing down your throat, it was like listening to a marathon of all of tea's friendship speaches in a row.

Since you just referenced Yugioh you instantly win.<3

I am new here so I'm easily intimidated I spose. But thank you for answering my question~

I'm wondering if the hype was so big it left me disappointed or something. I too had friends fangirling about it like rabid squirrels so maybe that's what brought it down.

 

[RemoteControlRox]

I think part of it might be that the popularity of the game is a little overblown. The series on the whole seems to have become overrated (not to say that it's a bad series of games, just that sometimes fans get too worked up about it). Back when it first released, I honestly thought it was going to be awful, but it managed to surprise me.

I remember really enjoying the first game, although I did get stuck at some point and never beat it--and then I was relieved that I didn't when I played KH2 and found out that, according to the new plot, the first game was basically just a red herring. Part of why I'm not a fan of the franchise anymore is because things became and are continuing to become needlessly complicated. I've been told another type of being was introduced on top of the Heartless and Nobodies.

Now it's: "Who can we yaoi pair this time around?"

To be fair, that seems to be the doing of the more rabid, crazed fans of the games than it is the developers.

 

[infohippie]

The overarching plot, characters and settings all had that irresistible Disney flavor, while retaining Square's unique fantasy elements. It was like going to a Disneyworld park based on Final Fantasy. Pure awesome.

I've never understood the appeal of Kingdom Hearts either, and what I've quoted sums up why.
To me, anything Disney is a reason to run a mile from it. Disney was great fun when I was a little kid, but it really lacks any kind of complexity or ambiguity in the characters. So by the time I was twelve or so, Disney had really begun to lose it's charm and by the age of fourteen, that kind of thing could no longer hold my interest at all.
Kingdom Hearts actually looks like it could be enjoyable if they cut every last Disney reference out of it first.

 

[wolf92]

I think it's called an opinion. Apparently people have different ones. It's all a bit confusing.

what are these "opinions" you speak of?

 

[pharaoh malik]

Now it's: "Who can we yaoi pair this time around?"

To be fair, that seems to be the doing of the more rabid, crazed fans of the games than it is the developers.

I don't know.... I mean Axel and Roxas did seem pretty canonically homosexual for one another.

Or maybe that was just really intense bro love. *shifty eyes*