A collection of my Sonic x KINGDOM HEARTS artworks, along with some commissions I’ve made!

I’ve been having so much fun working on these pieces, and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! 🗝️

Ts was hard as a 11 year old and still hard as a 16 year old so I got my dad to beat it for me like the good old days

Personally, I think it’s having playable interludes with the supporting characters in-between Disney worlds. For example, the KH3 Riku/Mickey segment in the Realm of Darkness was likely meant to be longer and playable for more than just one fight. Radiant Garden and Scala ad Caelum were cut from KH3. But narratively, there’s still plenty you can do with the original worlds, especially if you’re playing as characters other than Sora.

(Made the image myself with Picsart)

One of the first looks at the game from Gameinformer December 2001. Was pretty stoked to find this in a magezine I got from my local game store.

From march 2002 KH1 to december 2005 KH2. Chain of Memories novembre 2004.

The graphics and story were exceptional. They are so long too and so well made.

I assume they recycled some parts and had fast decision and feedback take in of KH1.

The graphics are mind-blowing. I assume they did so by focusing on key dialogues to be animated. A lot were text boxes.

Was the team even bigger back then? I assume Nomura and many other could directly focus on it without many other projects.

Disney worlds are quite easy as they have a story they can hop in and they recycled them a bit by coming back.

However, the greatness is overshining and issues. It is such a good game. Impressive what they did.

I am entirely new to the series. I don't know anything about the lore, or characters (aside from Disney, Final Fantasy, and now Sora, Riku, and Kairi.) It's hasn't even been an hour since I've beaten this game. And I am... conflicted.

First, the pros.

The soundtrack is fantastic. Yoko Shimomura my goddess. I knew the soundtrack was gonna be great when I saw her name involved. I heard that piano theme and got nostalgic for a game I've never even played. It's so good.

This game is full of whimsical fun and charm. Definitely feels like a Disney game (in a good way)

I loved the Coliseum. Getting to face off against Final Fantasy characters was pretty fun.

Leon. After getting used to the fact he's called Leon, and not Squall, I've actually enjoyed his character a lot. Much more than a certain blonde man...

Some of the worlds were damn great. Halloween Town specifically being my absolute favorite. Idk how popular that opinion is, but it was definitely the one I enjoyed the most. The boss against Oogey Boogey was fun. The second boss against him? Kinda mid.

Hollow Bastion was great as well. The boss fight against Maleficent was glorious. My personal favorite boss in the game. The fight against Riku... more on that later.

The characters are great. I know I talked about Leon, but i really gotta emphasize how good the characters are. They are full of charm and wonder. Riku annoyed me, but that's okay.

I mentioned the Coliseum, but I gotta reiterate. SEPHIROTH! Such a hard boss, but damn good. I actually shit my pants when I fought him.

The ending was gorgeous. The song 'Simple and Clean' hit me hard with those beautiful visuals. It's stuck in my head!

But when there's pros, there's also cons.

Sora's jump feels really weird. It feels like there's always a delay in it. It messes me up when I'm trying to platform.

The combat was really slow and clunky. I know that by the end it isn't so bad. But for a big chunk of the game, it feels really bad for me. Especially in earlier worlds.

The camera was awkward to maneuver with sometimes. It felt like a detriment at times. Like when I fight Riku at Hollow Bastion. The camera being too close to Sora gave me a couple of deaths.

I said some worlds were great, but it also has its stinkers. Like Atlantica. From the level design, the combat, and movement, it's one of the worst things I've had to play in an RPG. The music was annoying, and the boss fights against Ursula were awful. And it's all thanks to how Sora controls underwater.

Deep Jungle was another bad one. The constant backtracking was really annoying. The vines? Terrible. I did kinda like the Clayton boss. And sliding on the tree was also cool.

I don't know how people think about this, but I personally hated the Gummi ship. It felt really slow to get one place to the other. I guess I like upgrading the ship, but it's still not my favorite thing.

The difficulty spike was pretty bad. Usually, I don't mind when a game is hard. I like me some Mega Man and the like. But with how this game controls, and how awkward it feels battle, it definitely made those spikes more noticeable.

Donald... just Donald.

And the things idk how to feel:

The story is fine. I like interacting with the Disney characters, but they don't really amount to much. Like we help the people of the kingdoms, but you could literally ignore them and nothing would change.

The final boss against Ansem was good at first... but it just kept going... and going... and going. By the time I defeated him, I was exhausted. 7 phased is insane.

Riku as a character. I said the characters are great, but I still don't know how to feel about Riku. I'll know when I play the rest of the games, but the way he turned into an antagonist was... kinda pathetic. I know he was manipulated, but c'mon now. Him and Sora literally want the same thing, you don't gotta overcomplicate it Riku.

Cloud. He looks cool, but him working with Hades kind of left a sour taste in my mouth. Like huh? Even when Cloud was stoic in FFVII, he wouldn't sell his soul to the devil. (He didn't sell it, but made a deal. Which isn't much better.)

Kingdom Hearts is a game with a lot of whimsy. It's fun, and vibrant with a fantastic soundtrack. But the cons really hold it back from being better than it should be. It's definitely aged.

6.5/10. It did leave me wanting more. So the next game I'll be playing, if the timeline is correct, is Chain of Memories.

I’ve never gotten to play the original Chain of Memories, but I pulled my GBA SP out of retirement to enjoy this little gem 💎 I tried playing Re: CoM for PS2 back in the day and got close to the end with Sora, but it just annoyed me so much as a teen that I never finished lol I read the manga for the story, and had already played 1 & 2, so I at least knew enough to fill in the gaps. To this day, it’s the only KH game I haven’t played all the way through, besides the mobile games!

If there are any tips you have for me, please let me know! I’m so excited to play ✨ I’m also looking forward to the collection coming to Switch 2, since I mostly play handheld nowadays! Anyone else getting the collection for S2?

https://myfigurecollection.net/item/3746410

We will see Sora getting a medal along with Han and Luke. This is such a KH type of scene, and going off of this alone, I am thinking Star Wars world will be based on episode 4.

So I’ve played all the KH titles, watched the videos for the mobile videos even. Yet I was thinking over things earlier today, and I came across a question that I don’t really know how to answer with my lore knowledge. Maybe I’m forgetting a part that explains it, but I figured I’d go to the fandom to answer my question.

So Namine is Kairi’s nobody. I know the process of how nobodies are created. When a heart gets stolen by the heartless, it becomes another heartless, then the actual body is transported to some other world and that husk becomes a nobody.

But Kairi’s body was never really lost. We see her lifeless form many times in KH1. Like I know her heart was residing in Sora so that’s why she never formed a heartless, but then where does Namine come into play? Cause Kairi’s body was right there to accept her heart after the Riku fight. I’m a long time kingdom hearts fan so I know some lore stuff is answered with very vague answers, but I’m just curious if I’m missing something.

How did Namine even form into a being is basically what I’m asking.

For Miku's bday, I tried sketching her in Nomura's artstyle! As a KH veteran, I've been studying the style for years. Hope it looks fine!

Now with Coco as our first confirmed Disney world, let's assume we will get 6 more.

Which Worlds would you pick if you could choose? Not which are likely, but which YOU want.

Here's my list:

-Aladdin and the King of Thieves

-Treasure Planet

-Atlantis:The Lost Empire

-Princess and the Frog

-Toy Story (another orignal story again)

- Emperor's New Groove

(Yes I know these are very unlikely and yes I am an unc 😭)