Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts: A Collaboration that Requires Full Integration
The Kingdom Hearts series may be the “Reese’s peanut butter cups” of the video game world now, but there was a time that the serious nature of the Final Fantasy […]
Kingdom Hearts: A Kingdom for EVERY Heart
My favorite part of the Kingdom Hearts franchise has always been the incredible diversity of all of the characters that make it up. Gaming icons such as Cloud Strife and […]
Kingdom Hearts: Unwelcome Detours that Reveal an Unexpected Destiny
While Kingdom Hearts is a fairly linear gaming experience, it doesn’t mean that every item that our missions require or each character we are tasked with helping are easily discovered… […]
Kingdom Hearts: A Reminder About Judging Others
Who remembers the first big decision we all had to make in Kingdom Hearts… making the choice between taking the sword, the shield, or the staff? At such an early stage […]
Kingdom Hearts: Victory Comes to Those Who Prepare
In Kingdom Hearts, I have often found that it is the intentional choices I make BEFORE a mission to prepare for it that determines how it winds up playing out. […]
Kingdom Hearts: Dealing With Closed Doors
Even though each world in Kingdom Hearts is open to us for general exploration, there are still many areas within each level that aren’t designed for us to interact with. […]
Kingdom Hearts: Healing Others, Helping Ourselves
While the real-time combat in Kingdom Hearts is fun and keeps the action lively, replenishing Sora’s health or MP in the middle of combat can be a bit tough to […]
Kingdom Hearts: The Importance of Choosing our “Soundtrack”
Music is one of the defining features of the entire Kingdom Hearts series, and its’ iconic soundtrack does more than provide a little bit of ambience… it changes the way […]
Kingdom Hearts: Becoming All Things to Save Some
One of the design choices that has made the Kingdom Hearts series so popular with gaming audiences across every walk of life is all of the unique worlds it contains […]
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 […]
Finding God in Video Games 