Critical reception of the Kingdom Hearts series

Generally reception of the Kingdom Hearts franchise has been high and posotive and has gained the series of games a cult following. Many gaming sites, shows and magazines have praised the series for its innovation and great rpg style. Even X-Play had a Kingdom Hearts special right before Kingdom Hearts 2 was to be released.

Idea reception
When Square and Disney announced trying to hybrid a game between Final Fantasy and the Disney franchise of films and merchandice many were confused and a lot of articles and fan responses believed this idea would horribly backfire. But to many's surprise the series did in fact take off hightly grossing money, as it was one of the top three highest grossing games the month of its release.

Kingdom Hearts
Reception to Kingdom Hearts was very posotive. IGN named it the best game of 2002. It was also listed in an IGN poll to be the 22nd best PS2 game ever made. But the issues with the game still remained such as many criticised the Gummi Ship aspect of the game to be pointless and boring, while the main issue focused on with complains was the camera angle making it hard for players to manuver around. But overall the game has earned very high reviews.

Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix
Surprisingly in the areas released the reselling of Kingdom Hearts with some new features did very well. The Unknown battle and other extra features became very high news.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memmories
Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memmories recieved mostly mixed reviews. While the story was highly regarded and the playable Riku's story was adored by fans, the card based battle system was very highly criticised. Also at its initial release on the Game Boy Advance many fans were distraught with having to buy a new system for the sequel. Neverless the game sold well with 1.5 million copies being sold worldwide.

Kingdom Hearts: Re: Chain of Memmories
Re: Chain of Memmories however criticised for the card battle system, recieved surprisingly high reviews. And sold a large amount of copies in North America and Europe where it was sold as a stand alone title.

Kingdom Hearts 2
Kingdom Hearts 2 has recieved numerous awards and high ratings. It tied with Resident Evil 4 for best game of 2005. In the higly regarded Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu it recieved an almost perfect rating being a 39/40. The game also recieved a 9.5/10 in the north american game informer magazine. G4 awarded it best soundtrack and best voice work. But the gameplay aspect of the game was criticised as many did not like the AI system or the fact that the game was so much easier than its predecessor but still commented it was fun. It remains the highest selling game in the franchise.

Kingdom Hearts 2; Final Mix
The Final Mix of the second game was highly regarded and all the features were praised by fans. Many in other regions of the worlds hoped for the game to be released in North America and PALs regions but sadly this did not come to be. The battles against the old Organization members and against Roxas was especially regarded.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
(warning this game has not been released in north america) When the game's demo was released it was highly praised as being fun and way better than Chain of Memmories its predecesor in the hand held platform. In Japan it has recieved very high reception and in North America Game Stop has held many preordered copies. It has sold 397, 000 copies in the last week of May and June.

kingdom hearts: coded
Unreleased

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
(Warning this game has not been released) The demos for birth by sleep have been highly recieved by fans. the game though not released has a high following of fans who look for any new info they can find.