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[fuckyeahkingdomheartsseries]

Kingdom Hearts celebrates its fifteenth anniversary today. 

It initially released on September 17th, 2002 for the PlayStation 2 in North America.

[bs-fangirl]

KH Memories...

My favorite memory will always be the Hallow Bastion fight with Riku, the solo round when he’s been fully possessed. We all know the one, it follows the very long and unskippable cut scene when Sora discovered that Kairi is a princess and her heart is inside him.

My friend and I were stuck on this battle for at least a month. We got together every weekend to try for a few hours but made no progress, other than memorizing the long-ass cut scene. We just kept dying.

Finally, the morning of a sleepover at her house, I woke up before my friend and decided to give it a few more tries. The third time I fought Riku, I beat him.

I paused the started of the next cut scene and went running into my friend’s room, jumping with excitment and screaming at her to wake up because I had finally beat it. 

It was a long fought and well-deserved victory. We watched the cut scene and then cooked a delicious breakfast to celebrate our win. 

Thank you, Kingdom Hearts, for the memories <3 

[drkhaze]

TV Commercial for Disney & Square’s Kingdom Hearts

Happy 15th Anniversary to Kingdom Hearts’ U.S. Debut! (9/17/2002)

[angel-with-a-pipette]

My sweetest KH memories aren’t even memories, to be honest. It’s more like something I’m currently feeling for the series.

You see, I played KH1 and KH2 back when KH2 released (or a year later at most). I loved the games so much and I was heartbroken over the fact that I wouldn’t be able to play the future games since they started releasing on other platforms (I was just a teenager and my parents couldn’t afford an entire console for just one game - and I would never ask them for it, either).

I took a long involuntary break from KH then - I was always low-key aware that new games released, but I can’t even tell you the last time I played the games (somehow, I manage to obsess over the game without replaying it that many times xD).

And then 1.5 released and I was HYPED. I had bought myself a PS3 and my body was ready. Sadly, my mind wasn’t. I was in a bad place and while it helped me in the beginning, I never even finished my first KH1 run on that disk, didn’t even start CoM and probably only half-heartedly watched Days. I was aware of the fact that 2.5 released a year later, but I was broke and things didn’t look up in general. I tried to find solace somewhere else and it helped for a while.

In 2016 I remembered Kingdom Hearts once again. I finally got 2.5 and decided to finally play through all of the games on those two disks, starting with Birth by Sleep.

I fell in love with the series all over again.

I’m an adult now. What once was black and white and simple for me now is nuanced, gray and more complex. I saw Terra go through his hardships and saw myself in him. I saw Aqua’s behavior and recognized something I have been through before. I felt for them, cried for them. I finally played Chain of Memories, finally got to know Riku for real and not the antagonistic picture of him my teen self has painted so many years ago. I understood him, I cried for him, I felt incredibly proud of him when I saw him succeed.

I played KH1 and 2 again and felt the same way I did when I initially played the games. I hated most of the worlds of KH1 and was still charmed enough to be drawn to the game. I crushed on Roxas all over again, feeling like my 16 year old self that had had her crush back in the day. I fell in love with Sora and his huge heart again, his compassion, his cheerfulness, his character.

I have made the transition from teenager to adult, without the games being constantly at my side. I didn’t grow up with them, but I got to experience them two times - as a mere child (because let’s face it, I was a child back then) and as an adult. Both times were similar and yet so different. Thanks to new life experiences, I got to appreciate every character and to understand their motivations, something I wasn’t able to when I was young. I got to fall in love with old characters again and fall in love with new characters for the first time. And believe me, I fell very hard :p

I’m still partly in a bad place, but Kingdom Hearts helped me a lot this last year. Currently, there isn’t a lot of joy in my life, but this series has given me back some of it. The music can calm me down if I feel especially anxious. Being able to be excited for Kingdom Hearts 3 and seeing the excitement that other fans have for it, how we all can’t believe that this game is finally becoming a real thing, it’s an indescribable feeling. I can honestly say I have never felt this kind of anticipation and excitement for something before.

Thank you Kingdom Hearts for being an amazing part of my life.

[loveisnotoveroverover]

Sweet memories about KH - 15 years later

- Kingdom Hearts has been the first fictional thing that made me cry ever, I was a mess in the end and it was very unsual for me at the time

- It’s also been the reason why I started collecting keys, a 15 years old obsession now (and it doesn’t stop)

- It’s been my first PS2 videogame and I clearly remember the excitment for this new consolle and this new story I was going to be part of; it’s a beautiful memory but also very nostalgic in a melanchonic way... it feels like KH Traverse Town theme, if you know what I mean

- I dearly love everything about Kingdom Hearts I, its 120 hours spent on PS2 and the 50 on PS4

- I felt like a God when I managed to forge the Ultima Weapon #dontJudgeMe

- The End Of The World theme makes me want to cry every time

- But my sweetest memory related to KH is this one: I was in Traverse Town and my cat Nala was acting very strange, meowing like crazy... it ended up she was giving birth to her 3 beautiful kttens <3 I managed to keep one for me... and I called the black kitty Kairi, of course! (Then I’ve been told he was a male but you know what, it fitted so he’s still Kairi nowadays)

- Thanks Squaresoft Enix and Disney, you’ve created an universe that always feels like home to me.

There are many worlds, but they share the same sky - one sky, one destiny.

[superfluousstuckupitude]

Favorite Memory of Kingdom Hearts:

The moment when I saw Sora break dancing

[fuckyeahkingdomheartsseries]

I implore you all to share your favorite Kingdom Hearts memories or Kingdom Hearts 15th anniversary posts by using the hashtag #KHXV. I’ll be tracking it and going through the tag throughout the day and reblogging my favorites.

[drkhaze]

“You’ll never know who you’ll run into next…”

Happy 15th Anniversary to the U.S. debut of Kingdom Hearts! Thank you Disney, Square and Tetusya Nomura for a timeless classic.