Almost 9 Years Later, Kingdom Hearts II Brought Me Back

A look at Kingdom Hearts II (and Final Mix), and how it has aged since it was released.

"What were you doing when Kingdom Hearts II was released? I don’t mean things like “playing Kingdom Hearts II,” I mean your general life routine? What were your days like back then? What did you worry about? What did you look forward to? Whatever your answers, you are undoubtedly a different person in many ways, because that game was released almost nine years ago." -PSLS

[TheLyonKing]

It's sure going to he one big trip down memory lane when 2.5 remix come into my possession.

[3-4-5]

I want to play KH 1.5 & 2.5 Remix so bad.

I've never played these games but they look fun.

Problem is, I'm not buying a PS3 just to play these games.

It would be cool to release these on XB1 as well along with KH3, so to expand the audience and maybe introduce the series to people who may not have played it before.

[Serrafina]

Well, My friends and I were wondering what was for lunch since it was released back when I was in school.

[Snookies12]

I hadn't even realized it had released yet. I was just in a store when I saw it on the shelf... I swiped that game up as fast as I could, lol.

One of the only games I 100% completed. I was usually too impatient back then to do everything in a lot of games.

[scark92]

I remember seeing the adverts.. and thinking negatively about it.. the song was catchy I always remember thinking but would never admit it to anyone, but a game with Disney characters would not be my cup a tea... but one day a friend of mine found a KH2 disc on a wet street and this was at the time it came out and gave it to me.. I was playing something when he gave it to me so I stopped playing and decided to pop in KH2..
The game is now among my favourite of all time.

Beautiful game.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

Finding things is almost like fate.
When Scarface came out on PS2, about a week later I found a copy of the game, in a plain white plastic bag beside the curb a few streets away. It was nowhere near any shops so no idea where it had came from, no chance finding who had dropped it so I took it home.
What an awesome game that was too!

On topic, I have never played a KH game, I'll try this one.

[scark92]

Haha I loved Scarface, my Scarface disc does not work anymore unfortunately! Yeah sometimes I do see finding it as fate, as the game means so much to me!

[knifefight]

What was I doing when KH2 was initially released?

I was worried about college finals, college bureaucracy, college tuition, and what the hell I was going to do with a liberal arts degree. So ah...lotta college.

The HD remaster is going to make a lot of people happy with waves of feels.

[George Sears]

I was 16, I was actually working with my dad. He is a contractor so we were working on a new store that was being built on a shopping mall. I was pissed because I wanted to go to EB Games (now Gamestop) to purchase the copy I pre ordered along with the Limited Edition strategy guide. Pissed because I had reserved the game on another shopping mall.

Anyways, I was so desperate of buying the game that I ended up going to Babbages (now Gamestop -_-) on the shopping mall that I was working. We got back home around 9 PM. I rushed to my room, got that bad boy out of the disc, so the CG intro; after that, magic.

[Paprika]

Just hearing the theme song makes me nostalgic.... almost sad! Its like another life, I hope kh3 will feel the same as this did all those years ago!

[T3mpr1x]

I was in high school! Let's see, it was Christmas break. I think I may have had an LG VX9800, also known as the "V," as my cell phone at the time. Man, I thought that thing's camera was the SHI!, because it was 1.3 MP and had a manual focus switch (it was really a toggle between macro and infinite focus). I never did get around to playing these games, though.