5/5 ★ – mavg87's review of Kingdom Hearts.

Re-play. After years of playing the remaster on the last couple console generations, I went back to the original hardware for this play through. Is the first KH perfect? No. The gummi ship is still boring (including the awful, legit broken “Gummi Garage”), the dialogue is still silly and makes no sense half the time, and the camera can still be clunky to control… …BUT for me this game will always be a masterpiece. I still love the JRPG action combat, finding every treasure chest, collecting all the Dalmatians and trinities, synthesizing every item, and beating every optional boss. I have so much nostalgia and reverence for the imaginative worlds, characters, and music it’s easy for me to overlook every flaw. For me, the original PS2 version is still the best to play (even though I do also enjoy the additions and refinement of the Final Mix and remastered versions).