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 […]
Kingdom Hearts: Grappling With “Goodbye”
At multiple points in Kingdom Hearts we are given access to “guest characters” who join our party and help us out for a little while, but they don’t get to […]
Kingdom Hearts: A Default Difficulty Setting Dilemma?
I tend to play most video games on their default settings, but when my young daughter wanted to play Kingdom Hearts with me I chose to drop the difficulty level […]
Kingdom Hearts: Playing the Waiting Game
The Kingdom Hearts franchise launched over twenty years ago, and as a major fan of this series since day one it has always felt like the wait for the next […]
Kingdom Hearts 3: Setting Ourselves up for Disappointment?
The tremendous success of the first two titles in the Kingdom Hearts series placed an even larger amount of pressure on Kingdom Hearts 3 to be one of the greatest […]
Kingdom Hearts and the Body of Christ: A Beautiful Tapestry Built From Diversity
On paper, the entire concept behind Kingdom Hearts doesn’t sound like it should work. Square Enix, the developers responsible for crafting serious gaming narratives like the Final Fantasy series decided […]
Finding God in Video Games 