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If you defeat Maleficent in Hollow Bastion before chasing Pinocchio in Monstro, a set of alternate cutscenes will play out as you progress through the rest of Monstro. The cutscenes where Riku talks to Sora in the first chamber of Monstro, and the cutscene where he talks to Maleficent are both edited out of this sequence.
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When coming up with a name for the game and eventual series, the developers were attracted to the name "Kingdom" because, to Nomura and his team, the game's iconic premise of the different Disney movies' stories being rendered as "Worlds" for the player to visit reminded them of Disney's theme parks, such as the Magic Kingdom and Disney's Animal Kingdom, which are segmented into different "lands" or areas for visitors to explore. However, Square had difficulty in securing the name "Kingdom" alone, so they decided to add the word "Hearts" to it because such entities played an important role in the lore of the game and series.
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Disney heavily restricted the use of Mickey Mouse in the game especially as the central character like Square initially wanted. This was because Disney was nervous about the success of the game and did not want its possible failure leaving a black mark on the company and its mascot. Tetsuya Nomura stated that these contractual restrictions went so far as to have Disney allow Mickey to only make a minor cameo appearance (such as "in the background of a crowd" as Nomura put it). Spoiler:Nomura and his team got around this by having Mickey have an extremely important but brief role at the end of the game in the form of Mickey helping Sora close the Door to Darkness so no more Darkness gets out of it, separating the two. King Mickey even appears mostly in silhouette in this scene. When the first Kingdom Hearts became a humongous success for both Disney and Square, the former allowed the game developers to feature their mascot in a much more prominent role in the franchise from then onward.
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According to series composer Yoko Shimomura in a KH Ultimania interview with the game's sound team, they believed the operatic song "Destati" was "cursed":
"In the beginning and ending of the game, there is a song with a chorus. That chorus is a phrase that expresses the dark side of Kingdom Hearts, and it was used in several songs. However, once we tried loading the chorus data in when we were creating the songs, something bad would happen. The worst thing that happened was when the electricity to the building was cut off. (laugh)"
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Sora, Kairi and Riku's ages at the chronological time of this game's story are all stated in the PlayStation 2 release's instruction manual. Specifically, Sora and Kairi are both 14, and Riku is 15.
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Kingdom Hearts' international release is the last game by Squaresoft released outside of Japan to have their logo and name adorned on its case before the company merged with Enix to become Square Enix in 2003. The Japanese version of Final Fantasy X-2 was last game ever to feature the Squaresoft logo in any region.
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During "Dissidia Final Fantasy NT: Behind the English voice cast" with Steve Burton (Cloud Strife's English voice actor), Steve explained the reason why he got the role for Cloud, was because of a guy from "Square" who's in charged for the voices of the characters, was watching a movie of him in "The Last Castle".
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A number of Gummi Block Blueprints use the names of characters and enemies from the Final Fantasy series.
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During a Q&A session at MomoCon 2015 with the creators of the popular cartoon series Gargoyles, they revealed that the show was considered as one of the worlds in Kingdom Hearts. However, some unfortunate circumstances caused the inclusion to be halted after some team members left Disney.
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A red Trinity can be found in Halloween Town that must be collected before Spoiler:Oogie Boogie is defeated, otherwise it will become impossible to collect and the player will be unable to get a 100% completion rating in Jiminy's Journal. The red trinity is located Spoiler:inside Oogie's Manor, which disappears when Oogie is defeated. This was later fixed on the Final Mix release of the game by relocating the Trinity to the ground.
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In 2022, the animatic pilot was uploaded online by its director Seth Kearsley.
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