Is the writing as cheesy as I've been told?

[Quadsword]

I don't know anything about this franchise beyond watching my brother play Kingdom Hearts 2 on the PS2 way back in 2004. Not that I mind cheesy writing, I'm just curious.

[TheOneManFoxOffice]

Yes.

[Broseidon, King of the Brocean]

worse.

[I AM BAYTOR]

It is lethal if you are lactose intolerant.

[MeltingPotOfFriendship]

Originally posted by Quadsword:

I don't know anything about this franchise beyond watching my brother play Kingdom Hearts 2 on the PS2 way back in 2004. Not that I mind cheesy writing, I'm just curious.

Yes, it's cheesy. It's an old PS2 era game. Question answered #closethread and mark as "answered. If you want cheese, play "Extermination". It has that "cheesy" console launch-game feel in terms of game-play and dialogue.

[Quadsword]

Originally posted by I AM BAYTOR:

It is lethal if you are lactose intolerant.

Honestly, this is just making me want to play the game more lol

[Silyon]

Most of the game's story is literally "power of friendship" anime bs, and taken seriously instead of played off as a trope. Hell, Sora's catchphrase is litterally "My freinds are my power!"

The writing is 100% high quality cheese. I'd say Swiss cheese, for the occasional gaping plot hole or moments of fridge logic. But in true anime fashion, it does manage to touch on some deep and dark topics from time to time, as well as deliver amazing one-liners.

[MartFassage]

It's stuff that I adored as a kid but I now tend to skip, but it's definitely worth forcing yourself to sit through at least once to understand the lore and construct a better thought out storyline in your own head, since Square doesn't know how to do that with KH.

[MeltingPotOfFriendship]

Originally posted by Silyon:

Most of the game's story is literally "power of friendship" anime bs, and taken seriously instead of played off as a trope. Hell, Sora's catchphrase is litterally "My freinds are my power!"

The writing is 100% high quality cheese. I'd say Swiss cheese, for the occasional gaping plot hole or moments of fridge logic. But in true anime fashion, it does manage to touch on some deep and dark topics from time to time, as well as deliver amazing one-liners.

Also, the voice acting is spot on. I'm glad they got actual VA/CA's to do the voice-work and not just dragged a net around the office like other pubs have done and used whoever was there that day.

[Director Bison]

The Premise of Kingdom Hearts is that this is a universe where Disney and Final Fantasy characters both exist, and no one draws attention to this, and everything is played straight. That undoubtedly will lead to cheesy things now and again, but I'd say it's only about as Cheesy as you remember any of these characters being in the first place. Despite all of these characters being from completely different stories, for the most part everyone is still in character. The Genie from Aladdin doesn't change his personality just because there is anime style characters around, Winnie the pooh is still 100% Winnie the Pooh, Sephiroth's presences is as Menacing as you'd expect from him. James Woods as Hades is as great as he always is.

Kingdom Hearts' existence is Cheesy, but it all still works if you are willing to indulge your inner child.

[Director Bison]

Originally posted by Silyon:

Sora's catchphrase is literally "My freinds are my power!"

No that's not "literally" his catchphrase. Sora says that One time at a pivotal moment in the story, That's an iconic quote, but saying something once does not make it a "catchphrase"

Axel has a catchphrase, Got it memorised?

[WhateverWorks]

You beat the Final Fantasy version of the KKK with the power of friendship and Disney. The writing isn't phenomenal. People mainly like it because, for the time it was made, it has a very fun and addictive gameplay loop to it.

[medion_no]

Its Disney teenager stuff....

[Medaci]

The writing is terrible, it's a kids game after all, but the main appeal of the game is everything that isn't Disney and while it may be cheesy, it's worth it to endure for the insane combat.

[Terra]

KH1 is a simple coming of age story in a non-standard cosmology. Boy goes on an adventure, fights a witch who turns into a dragon, befriends a talking duck wizard and a dog knight. Simple, fun, endearing.

Everything past that is where it gets crazy. It's still pretty simple as long as you play in release order, but it's definitely being written freeform 1.5 games at a time, and it shows. It's still fun though.

[Scipo0419]

Originally posted by Silyon:

Most of the game's story is literally "power of friendship" anime bs, and taken seriously instead of played off as a trope. Hell, Sora's catchphrase is litterally "My freinds are my power!"

The writing is 100% high quality cheese. I'd say Swiss cheese, for the occasional gaping plot hole or moments of fridge logic. But in true anime fashion, it does manage to touch on some deep and dark topics from time to time, as well as deliver amazing one-liners.

You know some of the one-liners are great when you quote them word for word on your replay after 15+ years.

Literally just got past the prologue last night and quoted Ansems "This world has been connected" speech. Probably because I often have "One who knows nothing, can understand nothing." pop into my head on a near daily basis