A Classic Game Gamers Need to Play Kingdom Hearts starts off with the fourteen year old boy protagonist Sora who has lost his friends Riku and Kairi to the darkness which destroyed their island, called Destiny Islands. After being set adrift and landing in Traverse Town, Sora finds out from Leon, a mysterious swordsman, the darkness was from the Heartless and the only way to destroy it is through the weapon called the Keyblade, which is in his possession. Along with the Keyblade, Sora meets two companions; Donald Duck and Goofy, who were sent to find the Keyblade, joins him on his journey. Eliminating the Heartless was not the only thing the Keyblade could do, it could open the gate to different galaxies. With this, Sora set on this wild adventure to find his friends. Kingdom Hearts is a video game that is classified under the genre of an action RPG. RPG is an acronym that stands for role playing game. A traditional role playing game includes a menu based combat system, a central quest or storyline that flows through the game, and levels or character statistics that a character can gain and build up throughout the game. An action game, however, usually consists of a real time battle combat system. Kingdom Hearts accurately combines the two genres into its game style. Unlike most role playing games that have a menu to choose certain attacks from, Kingdom Hearts is a button masher that can issue attacks with the different buttons on the controller which makes it better at interacting with the player than other role playing games. To make up for the missing menu, Kingdom Hearts has a unique selection menu to use the various items and spells the player unlocks during the game. The menu is easy to navigate through with the arrows on the controller. A key part of a role playing game is the central quest or in other terms, the story line of the game. Kingdom Hearts has a pretty straightforward story line that the audience of any age could figure out by simply just paying close attention to the dialogue. Sora is this upbeat protagonist who wants to finds his lost friends and save his world along with all of the other worlds from the Heartless with his companions. The game's plot also includes fitting back-stories that add up nicely to the whole of the story without many contradictions for those who seek it. Another exclusive feature that sets Kingdom Hearts apart from other role playing games, the characters that the player interacts with. This game has two of the more recognized game makers and storytellers, Disney and Square Enix, collaborative efforts. Each company incorporates their own characters into the games. Disney's princesses, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy, play more of the major roles in the game. Square Enix includes the characters played in Final Fantasy, also a role playing game, as minor characters that help Sora along in his quest. Kingdom Hearts appeals to many of the different qualifications that makes up an action role playing game. On the action genre side, it includes the battling with the buttons on the controller rather than a menu. As a role playing game, it still has a selection menu that the player could use the items the player collects throughout the journey. It has an easy to follow plot and exclusive characters the player can discover throughout. Overall, all gamers and non-gamers alike should play Kingdom Hearts for its symbolic game style.