Kingdom Hearts is a series of action role-playing games developed and published by Square Enix. It is a collaboration between Square Enix and Disney and is under the direction of Tetsuya Nomura. The series consists of thirteen games available for multiple platforms and future titles are planned. The games have been positively received and commercially successful, despite criticism for its storyline.
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Kingdom Hearts is a series of action role-playing games developed and published by Square Enix. It is a collaboration between Square Enix and Disney and is under the direction of Tetsuya Nomura, a longtime Square Enix employee. The series consists of thirteen games available for multiple platforms and future titles are planned. As of June 2019, the Kingdom Hearts series has shipped more than 32 million copies worldwide. A wide variety of related merchandise has been released along with the games, including soundtracks, figurines, companion books, light novels, a collectible card game, manga series and an upcoming TV series. In January 2020, Nomura said there would need to be more time before the next main entry in the series. He added that Yozora would definitely… be involved in the future of the series, in an unexpected and surprising way. The main characters try not to interfere with the affairs of other worlds, as it could negatively affect the universe’s order. Various Final Fantasy characters also make appearances within several worlds throughout the games. They provide the player with a synthesis shop in order to create and purchase items used in the game. In Kingdom Hearts III, the main cast from The World Ends with You also makes an appearance in theseries in Dream Drop Distance, and Kingdom hearts III features characters from Pixar films such as the Toy Story series and Monsters, Inc. The games have been positively received and commercially successful, despite criticism for its storyline. Though the usage of Disney characters is not without restrictions, for example, the response from Disney was that Oswald the Lucky Rabbit would be too difficult to use, with no further clarification or details from Disney.
For example, in Kingdom Hearts II, the character of Oswald would be ‘too difficult’ to use because he was ‘too big’ to fit into the size of the game’s main character. In the game, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are two emissaries from Disney Castle sent to find the Keyblade wielder under orders from their missing king,. Mickey Mouse. The game also features many worlds from Disney films, such as Traverse Town, where he meets Donald Duck and Goofy, and Hollow Bastion, where Riku and Kairi find the Heartless. Though eventually defeating the heartless, the hero is forced to return to the Destiny Islands to find his friends. Though he is eventually reunited with them, he remains at the door and resolute to find them while Riku claims himself as the researcher Ansem. After winning the fight, Sora meets and is challenged by a powerful figure who claims to be Riku’s father, the Chain of Bastion. He eventually defeats the figure and goes on his journey on his first visit to the Kingdom of Hearts: Sometime ometime after the first visit. The story of Kingdom Hearts continues on his return to Sometime Sometime after his first trip to Hollow Bastions. He meets a group of Disney villains whose ability to control Heartless was given to them by Maleficent, who enlists his aid in seeking the Princesses of Heartless, whose power would open the way to all worlds.
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