Games from the dearly beloved game series have finally made an official appearance on PC (March 30th, 2021) which has been long awaited by fans of the franchise. Originally being released on PlayStation 2, the series has taken a long journey with the games being released across various consoles like the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and more! Although they were playable on PC through the use of emulators, it has now become possible to buy them and play an official version released by the developers.

The games: Kingdom Hearts 1 and Kingdom Hearts 2 Remix editions, Kingdom Hearts 3, and the rhythm game Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory were at first released on the Epic Games Store (EGS) platform (known for games like Fortnite, Rocket League and Sifu). However, like many other games released exclusively on EGS, such as Borderlands 3, Control and Metro Exodus, were later available elsewhere, such as Steam.

The EGS exclusive release was rather controversial, as many gamers are against the company for their practices of securing exclusivity for popular game releases, as well as their marketing tactics of frequently giving away free games on their platform. As a result, there have been a number of gamers who have boycotted buying games on the EGS store, or even using the platform at all. EGS has a dedicated subreddit forum with almost 39 thousand followers who post negative news involving the company as well as posts you might call “hate posts”.

Fans across different online platforms such as Reddit and Steam discussion forums have mentioned waiting patiently for an announcement from Square Enix, the games series publisher. As the 1 year exclusivity period to EGS has now ended since March this year, there is high speculation that the games will soon come to the more popular PC gaming platform, Steam.

Another thing that needs to be taken into account with the potential release on Steam, is that it will hopefully be tested and ready to be played on the Steam Deck, which is the new gaming console from Valve, the creators of Steam. The rollout of the “console” is still taking place, with orders being backordered through 2023. Whilst the appearance and usage is that of a gaming console similar to the Nintendo Switch, it is in fact basically a compact computer which uses the Linux operating system.

How about you? Are you also waiting for the game to come to Steam, or the Steam Deck? Comment below and let us know.

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Disney announced that special Kingdom Hearts suites will appear at the Disneyland Ambassador Hotel in the Tokyo Disneyland Resort. The suites will be available for use from January 6 to April 27, 2022 and reservation opportunities will open November 29th of 2021. The suite life of this crossover will consist largely of decor based on the Kingdom Hearts series, itself a video game franchise combining the universes of Final Fantasy and Disney’s assorted animated filmography. Speaking of which-

Is this the real life? Or Final Fantasy? Gone on for 14+ installments, no escape from finality. Have a butcher’s round our store if you want to give the Final Fantasy VIII Remaster a shot.

Guests will also be given stylised room keys based on the series’ keyblades (pictured above), which many a HEMA (Historical European Martial-Arts) YouTuber has analysed the real-world implications of much better than I could.

The starting price for the Kingdom Hearts suites at the Tokyo Disneyland location begin at 77,500 yen, or $684 according to Famitsu. That’s around £511 for us limeys!

Other fun little tidbits guests can expect from the experience include:

• A Treasure Chest including a “secret” item.
• 2 original themed postcards and paper bags.
• The opportunity to purchase a Kingdom Hearts themed shoulder bag.
• Themed dishes being sold for a limited time based on Kingdom Hearts items!

The menu for said items and more can be located right here, but good luck trying because unless you know Japanese, then Google Translate will be your best friend!

There’s also plans to sell special Wayfinder necklaces pictured below. There are precisely 3 available for pre-order, the Ventus, Aqua and Terra versions.

And if you’re looking for less shilly Kingdom Hearts-related goodness while not necessarily having the greenback to cover the Sora in Smash Ultimate DLC, have a looksie at The Babish Culinary Universe. Cooking YouTube channel, main claim to YouTube fame being the Binging with Babish series where The Titular Babish makes dishes based on your favourite films, tv shows and video games. Lad did a culinary adaptation of Kingdom Hearts’ Sea Salt Ice Cream, but if you’re looking for something marginally more traditional (yet simultaneously more random), then maybe also give Brian David Gilbert’s Very Weird Ice Cream Adventure a go! Did I also mention we have a LEGO City Ice Cream Truck Set!? Probably should’ve started with that one on my Single’s Day blog, lemme tell ya.

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The RPG is making its way to Disneyland Tokyo via its Hotel Suites!

Kingdom Hearts is approaching its 20th anniversary soon and what better way to celebrate than for the RPG series to receive its own special Kingdom Hearts suits in the Ambassador Hotel at Disneyland Tokyo Resort.

Kingdom Hearts has already had a great run-up to its 20th anniversary thanks to Sora finally joining Super Smash Ultimate and the games being confirmed to being available to Switch, and now fans get to experience staying in a suite inspired by Kingdom Hearts!

Kingdom Hearts Suites

The suites will be available from January 6 to April 27 2022 and will feature unique decorations inspired by the Kingdom Hearts series, including a special room key for each suite to be modelled on various keyblades throughout the franchise. There will also be a treasure chest provided in each room that will contain a secret item within each one.

Fans of the Kingdom Hearts series that get the chance to stay in one of the specially designed suites will also be given two original postcards and Kingdom Hearts-inspired paper bags, as well as the opportunity to purchase exclusive merch such as a shoulder bag worth 5,500 yen. There will also be a special Kingdom Hearts inspired food menu featuring a special cake set and a drink with paopu fruits atop to go with the suite that will also be available for a limited time.

So, what’s the price?

Well, to stay in one of these iconic suites, you will need to pay 77,500 yen, or £505, per night for the starting price of one of these suites.

Disney has never been a company to be afraid to put a hefty price on what it offers its guests and these Kingdom Hearts suites are no exception.

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It’s not just Sora you will be seeing more of on Nintendo Switch, but the entire Kingdom Hearts franchise is being added too!

If you haven’t been on the internet for the past 24 hours (after that frightful apocalypse on Monday, it is understandable), then you will have missed the news that Kingdom Hearts fan-favourite and most requested character to join Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Sora, is finally joining the latest Super Smash Bros Ultimate DLC roster.

(I know, we’ll get them next time Wailugi stans).

Yet not only is Sora joining the popular fighting brawl game, but the entire Kingdom Hearts franchise will be added to Nintendo Switch in the near future!

Kingdom Hearts on Switch

Announced by Masahiro Sakurai during the final Smash Direct, the creator of Super Smash Bros said that the games developed by Square Enix are being added to the Switch and will allow fans to follow Sora’s entire story until now.

Fans can expect Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, and Kingdom Hearts 3 to be added to the Nintendo Switch in the near future. Release dates and prices for the games have yet to be confirmed, however, it has been stated they will be cloud streaming games only, so you will be needing a strong WI-FI connection to access these games.

This is the first time the majority of the games will be available on the Switch. The only other Kingdom Hearts game that has made it onto the Switch so far is Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory, and even then, there have been very released on Nintendo of the RPG. The Kingdom Hearts games were also finally added to PC earlier this year and this addition to the Nintendo Switch (along with Sora being finally added to Smash), makes the perfect celebratory event for Kingdom Hearts 20th anniversary next year.

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“Careful. This is the last haven you’ll find here. Beyond, there is no light to protect you. But don’t be afraid. Your heart is the mightiest weapon of all. Remember, you are the one to open the door to the light.”

–  Kingdom Hearts

‘The icing on the cake’ is a phrase that always comes to mind when I play a game that has an ‘epic’ finalé. The best way to top off all the hours spent on menial perfections and alternate story content is to let it all build up so whooping the big antagonist feels like it means even more than what the main story has given you. Strategically, it makes most sense to leave the “last” scene to last, but at some points in the middle or so of your journey, there may be a nasty trick from your favourite developer by giving you that Zelda moment where you slip through a door just for it to seal shut behind you. For me, I typically react to these situations with the standard “I’m not ready” with a follow-up of a quit without saving back to the last time I booted up.

(Obviously, there are exceptions. Not every boss completely locks you out of content.)

I am conditioned, now, to go find out every single optional thing I can do and do them before I’m locked out. It’s jarring, though, to know that I either have to consult a guide just in-case I miss something, which results in ruining the heart of that first run or having to painstakingly find every secret before I’m ready to do main content again. What this leads to is side-content not being completed in nice bunches which count as a break from all the seriousness, but instead completed as they come, which varying from game to game may or may not be the intended way of doing them.

There’s also the tendency for games to provide content after you beat the main story’s last boss, including an optional all-out challenge boss that you have to use all of your game knowledge and extra-curricular training on. You bet these bosses expect you to be capped out in level and have all of the best equipment. 

Isn’t it enticing, though? Knowing that all you’ve earned and prepared for is leading up to an ultimatum unseen?

Here’s my rundown of my favourite no-return points (spoilers) and what they mean for the game and why they’re special to me:

Banora Underground (FF7: Crisis Core)

Starting out with a huge nostalgia bias (sue me) – I never actually owned Final Fantasy 7 for the PS1, however I did own a PSP spin-off known as Crisis Core, which takes place before the events of the main game. I played this game a fair bit, so it’s a shame that most of it is lost now to me through memory. It’s… on my backlog for a replay, though, I promise.

What’s important to me about this point of no return is that it accompanies the totality of a previous point of no return for questing – setting out from Midgar to Nibelheim. Even if you wanted to go tie up all loose ends, some missions are only tied to what is currently happening in the story. This way, this point of no return is more painful to go through because you already know that even beyond itself, there’s not much to return to if it somehow turns out that you can return. Seems like that’s part of the Price of Freedom.

Adventure Mode (Don’t Starve)

The uniquely dark and ragtime vibe of Don’t Starve hits hard, but a fair bit harder when you finally get Maxwell’s Door open. I initially instigated Adventure Mode on complete and utter happenstance after surviving countless days without starving as the game requested me to. Once you’re in, you’re welcomed by the familiar face of Maxwell who gives you another quip like he did at the start of your survival run and vanishes once more. What ensues is a gauntlet of 5 semi-randomised chapters that you have to complete from scratch. And if you die without a means of revival, you’re back to your survival world to do it again.

The door acts as a way for Klei Entertainment to impose a story and gauntlet challenge on those sitting comfortably in their survival worlds in order to shake things up. What this point of no return does well is that it only softly caps you off, you can always go kick the bucket to return to your survival world, however Adventure Mode is such a good switch-up that once you begin it really does feel like a point of no return. Once you suffer through the wicked twisted variants of the worlds, and end upon the Nightmare Throne, Maxwell in tow, another point of no return you might not understand hits you – swapping yourself out to be on the Nightmare Throne means that survival run you are now the character you swapped out for. In most cases, poor Wilson gets trapped and now you’re an insufferable lanky magician. A good way, again, to have semi-permanent consequences to change up your survival world whilst also tying in plot.

The Wall of Flesh (Terraria)

Jam-packed-voxel-based-RPG-shoot-em-up-battler-style-building-boss fighter Terraria has a brilliant way of surprising you with new changes after the first kill of every new boss. Some of the ways you summon these bosses are an enigma to figure out without any nudge in the right direction, but the pieces are sprinkled there – what you’d never be able to figure out is how much a boss might influence the world. As most player’s process goes, they explore the surface and delve a small amount into a random cave, getting sidetracked until they find a chest with a Suspicious Looking Eye to summon the first boss. They summon it, or if they’ve been slow, it comes to them. When they do defeat it, they’re rewarded with money and ore. So, you expect the bosses to work similarly… right? Well, not so much. If you’re like me, the first time you traverse the Jungle and get into a Hive, you’ll set off Queeny without even realising why. Then, you’ll curse the Old Man and get the textline “My Master can only be summoned at night” or get your backside chomped by a Dungeon Guardian, then understand that there’s some actual gate-keeping behind this cool looking dungeon structure. There’s a few puzzles, but nothing comes close to how the Wall of Flesh redefines the game.

How Terraria tells you its world is changing is part of this point of no return. Smashing your first Shadow Orb or Crimson Heart gains you an ominous message in chat… it’s quite a different way of doing things. A chat feed in a single-player experience isn’t common… it’s very MMORPG-style. There’s no screen-shaking effects, cut-scene or pull from gameplay. Even when a huge alien meteorite hits the surface of your nice world it is simply given a small notification. 

When you finally get tired of your guide and sacrifice him to the demons below, you might find that the catastrophic slab of slowly-progressing viscera is a bit too much to stomach, and try to return home using a Magic Mirror… only to realise that you’re not allowed to escape from this fight like you are others. If you’re going to fight the Wall, it’s you or… them(?)

And so… once you do beat the Wall of Flesh, only for you to get the message “The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released” alongside the standard ‘boss has been defeated’ message, you might rope it in with a new quirk. But once Wraiths start pestering you in your home, that’s a spooky wake-up call for every player, working it out by themselves now the game is definitely in ‘Hardmode’.

This point of no return is immensely satisfying, as much as it is challenging. Re-Logic sell you Terraria for a measly £7, so you expect up to the Wall of Flesh to be good enough for content. And the initial release of Terraria had no Wall of Flesh, so it was that acceptable amount of content. But the 1.1 update was absolutely HUGE. This point of no return being added shows that the developers understood that the game had way more it could offer, and that in time it means business.

The Tower (OneShot)

OneShot loves messing with the potential for games to be behind an operating system that can be manipulated. There’s a few other games that do this, but OneShot as a humble RPG-Maker game does it with such a uniquely dreary yet sparkling story accompanying it that it almost feels mystique and detached whilst at the same time directly involving you. The author behind OneShot understands there’s a disconnect between the player and the story yet ropes them in anyways to attempt to involve them and gain sentimentality for once – this is part of the reason the game loves to involve your desktop and file system, too. 

Nearing the climax of you and Niko’s journey you finally reach the bottom of The Tower, where you need to replace the Sun in the form of a light bulb to restore light and warmth to the world you and Niko have been cast into. At the base of The Tower, you are met with the symbol of the red ‘X’, signifying you need to close your game to enter The Tower. It’s a fantastic way of knowing that entering this area is no mere task, considering you haven’t been forced to close your game (manually) to progress previously.

The Descent Into Madness (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

“Here’s Monika’s Writing Tip of the Day!  Sometimes you’ll find yourself facing a difficult decision…  When that happens, don’t forget to save your game! You never know when…um…  …Who am I talking to?  Can you hear me?  Tell me you can hear me.  Anything.  Please help me.  …That’s my advice for today!   Thanks for listening~”

At some point during Dan Salvato’s snowballingly popular twist-shocker dating simulator game Doki-Doki Literature Club!, the club rep Monika takes a break from actual game dialogue to remind you to save your game. Once it becomes even ever-so-slightly apparent that Doki-Doki Literature Club! is less about scoring a high-school romance and more about helplessly spectating as each girl slowly reveals their very very insane deep love for you (which comes with a lot of violent mental baggage as an added bonus), Monika does her signature break to remind you to save. Shortly following – the big main ‘scare’ of hanging out with Sayori happens – and your saves go poof.

“The game’s telling me to save… so it must be important!” Unfortunately, you can’t save anyone very well on your first run of Doki-Doki Literature Club!, even if you try your hardest. That point of no return between the standard game and the glitched re-run is important to set the boundary of the cut-off point. You’re well aware the game isn’t what it’s laid out to be by the Steam Page or impression at this point, but the game won’t let you take solace and see if it’s still being quite classic visual novel in the fact that it has very dramatic and over-the-top-with-violence bad ends.

There’s no better feeling sometimes that being slung into the unknown. Whether it be so you can explore, to face something head on, or to be enticed so much that you’re on your toes with absolutely no idea what’s next, locking the door behind someone is a common thing in horror and a common thing when developers want to set up drama.

I just don’t like it when it excludes me from content. New Game+ is always nice, too, but a lot of the time that makes me have to replay a bunch of story stuff to get back to where the optional stuff is to finish it up.

Not the worst gaming travesty, though. So instead of looking back for what could have been, push forward, with gusto.

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