Kingdom Hearts: Taking Time in the Midst of the Battle to Heal
In most of my modern gaming adventures, my characters have the ability to “auto-heal”, and by simply getting out of combat for a few seconds they are able to catch […]
Kingdom Hearts “Melody of Memory”: A Matter of Timing
There are very few games that are as perfectly set up for a rhythm-based spinoff as Kingdom Hearts, and “Melody of Memory” makes good on that potential with an exploration […]
Kingdom Hearts x Super Smash Brothers: Shining the Light Wherever We Go
After years of exclusively being found in the Kingdom Hearts series of games, fans were shocked and delighted to see Sora finally appear in another title as a playable character […]
Kingdom Hearts: Coping With the Inflexibility of a “Save Point System”
Unlike most modern titles that typically allow us to save our game anytime and anywhere that we want to, Kingdom Hearts sticks to a rigid “save point” system that forces […]
Kingdom Hearts: Gummi Ship Blues
The gameplay in the Kingdom Hearts series is broken up into two segments… the fun part where we get to run, jump, and fight bad guys, and the less enjoyable […]
Kingdom Hearts: The Wayward Souls with Messy Backstories Chosen to Save the World
At the center of the Kingdom Hearts’ story is a group of damaged, flawed, unlikely heroes… some of them were “Nobody’s” searching for a body and life of their own, […]
Kingdom Hearts: Unwanted Delays or Intentional Development?
While Kingdom Hearts often allows the players to decide the order in which we explore some of the worlds it contains, we can’t simply go straight from Traverse Town to […]
Kingdom Hearts: A Mission Designed for a Trio
One of the core themes in the Kingdom Hearts series is teamwork, and as Sora embraced his destiny to confront and defeat the darkness that was threatening his world he […]
Kingdom Hearts: Hope for the “Nobodies”
The “Nobodies” that impede our progress in the Kingdom Hearts games are a truly tragic group of opponents. They are beings who are made up of a body and soul, […]
Kingdom Hearts, Sora, and an “Unqualified” Protagonist
On the surface, Sora looked like a very unlikely protagonist when we’re first introduced to him in Kingdom Hearts… he was small, young, had no combat skills to speak of […]
Finding God in Video Games 