Kingdom Hearts
A PlayStation 2 action RPG born from an unlikely collaboration between Square and Disney, where you wield a key-shaped weapon called the Keyblade and travel through Disney film worlds with Donald Duck and Goofy. You play as Sora, fighting shadow creatures called the Heartless across an imaginative mashup of Disney magic and Final Fantasy gameplay. The franchise grew into a beloved epic across multiple platforms and sequels.
Released in 2002, Kingdom Hearts merged two entertainment giants in a premise that shouldn't have worked — a Japanese RPG studio building a game around Mickey Mouse. The gamble paid off: players loved Sora's journey through familiar Disney worlds reimagined as battlegrounds, paired with the franchise's signature real-time combat and leveling systems.
Kingdom Hearts II followed stateside in 2006, cementing what had begun as a novel crossover into a full franchise identity. The series became iconic among 2000s gamers for its balance of accessibility and depth, its willingness to get weird with the lore, and the fact that it made grown adults genuinely invested in Donald Duck's role in an existential conflict.
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