I grew up with Kingdom Hearts. Probably like a bunch of people my age I played Kingdom Hearts a lot growing up. It was one of the first games I had for PS2 and one of the only ones I had for a long while. Games were damn expensive. Still though since it was either Scooby Doo: Night of 100 Frights or Kingdom Hearts to play I didn’t have a lot of choice but damn was it a choice. I had a hard time playing since the first bosses were hard for an 8 year old me. I asked my mom for help a lot… Made it even nicer once I was able to really start playing better myself.
I slowly got better at it and I beat the game all the way through myself a bunch. I even went and tried to 100% the game! It really captured my kid imagination. I drew pictures of my favorite heartless and played pretend at being a keyblade wielder. The biggest thing though was seeing more games coming out soon.
Chain of Memories got commercials on TV but I didn’t have a GBA so I missed out on that game. Kingdom Hearts 2 though I saw the trailers through TV and I knew I had to get it! So for my tenth birthday that's the biggest thing I wanted, and I got it! I was given KH2 and I played the shit out of it. It was confusing though because I missed out on COM. I really didn’t know that it would introduce a ton of new characters and super plot important things would happen in it. Still enjoyed KH2 in spite of all that. I would play both games constantly over the years.
But time went on and no KH3 in sight… New games would come out but on systems I didn’t own. So Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 became almost entirely the only ones I would play fresh. I still have an attachment to them now. I have played the others but they don’t hit the same. The original games like make me feel things I don’t know how to describe. So really the only point I have is that sometimes it's good to remember how things made you feel with fondness.
