Alright, I am currently beginning my Run of Kingdom Hearts 1. Mind you, I will be using a guide to find Dalmatians and Trinity Marks. The main purpose of this run is to do a beginning to end story analysis, as it were, that anyone can comment on. So, I will not be imposing any weird limitations on myself.

To begin, I picked Expert mode, cause I'm hard core.

I picked the Warrior and gave up the Guardian.

I went with slow leveling early, and quick leveling later in the game as well. With that, I'm off to finish the dream and Destiny Island.

To begin, I remember how clique the dream dialogue is, bout getting closer to the light your shadow becomes larger. But regardless, it's a rather effectiv use of it, so it doesn't bother me at all. It's also been a while since playing, as I got beat by Darkside right off the back.

Damn me for trying to reflect those damned energy attacks on expert when I'm this out of practice I guess. Well, I hate losing, so time to re-load and kick his ass.

And after 5 tries, I beat him without getting hit, and only give him time to launch one volley of energy balls at me... God I feel dirty he was able to beat me so much before I mopped the floor with him. I guess I just needed to get use to the deflecting attacks with my sword bit again.

Anyway, the music was really fitting there, and the monster was awesome looking, I forgot how well designed the creatures in this game were. I'm quite enjoying this run through.

I'll keep my destiny Island anctics to a minimum, but I grinded to Level 6 just to kick Riku's ass, because before I reloaded I had a score of 0-30, and I was embarassed. Though it was fun beating the living out of Tidus.

I do notice something odd though. After getting the Mushrooms and all that for your trip on the raft, it's easy to see that Kairi is more attached to Sora then Riku. She brings up how Riku seems to have changed, then makes the 'joke' about leaving without him. She proceeds to ask Sora to never change. I think part of Kairi's attachment to Sora is the fact he hasn't changed much in recent years, and she's grown attached, in part, to the familiarity, the constant in her life. Just a random though, and I doubt it will bear much on the overall plot.

Beat the first boss in Traverse town as well. A couple of things to note however. First off, Leon and co. seem to know about King Mickey. Outside of that, theres not much to note outside of that, other then this is when Sora learns ever so little about the multiple worlds, and that he was chosen by the Key Blade, and the group of enemies knows of the Keyblade and seem to want to use Sora. Off to adventure!