Age group question!/The parent factor.... oy..

[m4tt]

I'm 22, I love Kingdom Hearts. Hell, I play pokemon games too.

[eternalshiva]

Playing the game is different from the show ;p I liked the first one that came out on N64. I worked in a daycare and played it with the kids way back then ;p heh I know its not THAT old but it feels like it

[Vermachtnis]

My parents thought the same exact thing. Then she watched me play it a week after I got it and I was at the end (my clock was 47:30 something). She said "How did Disney come up with something as dark as this? How is this rated for little kids," It was great.
I don't get the FF1-6 thing though. FF4 and FF6 are really complex games. There is no way a kid is going to understand what is going on in the storyline or let alone know what a Demi-God is.

[Jalbrean]

Old school Disney had some very dark themes throughout it's animated features. It's the new overly cute Disney that wouldn't be able to come up with anything like Kingdom Hearts. ;>

[eternalshiva]

Yeah, The Black Cauldron is dark and so is Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. But the Black Cauldron takes the cake in dark and scary and lots of kids have watched them back in the 60s when it first came out (or 70s... it's old and I don't know the date) Yeah, cutie-modern-daisney could of NEVER have been able to come up with KH by themselves, they needed a good smack from Square to do that ;p

The earlier FF are more of a basic RPG... especially the first one, I was bored to tears with it. The second is a bit better and tad bit harder... four and five also but six was the best one out of the bunch... maybe five also now that I think about it.

[Azure]

I'm only sixteen, but my parents did go on about KH being a kiddy game when I got it. I thnk my dad actually said something like "Isn't that for six year olds?" Yeah right
I'm gonna still be playing FF into my 20's, or even 30's ^_^

As for anime, I don't get to see much of it over here, but I guess I do tend to watch the more kiddy ones, which are the only ones we get (Pokemon, Card Captors, Yu-Gi-Oh, Monster Rancher) and even some of these have darker themes underneath. But I own GW, Akira and X/1999 on DVD which most definatly *not* kiddy anime

[Heartless Guardian]

I'm 15, and KH was a great game to me. Definantly not for kids though, I mean, some of the later battles and the extra ones, one really has to train up for. And you Can brat Sephiroth before lv. 80. I did it al 79 (lol).
As for parent problems... They play more games than I do, and that's seriously saying something. They show me alot of the new games that come out.

[Gene Ohm]

my dad thinks all anime is p0rn x)
as for games, hes against them but dosent try to stop me playing most of the time, now im at uni i rarely get to play anyway - the only tv is in the living room and the girls in my flat are scary soap addicts, nuff said?

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[fire_of_avalon]

Originally posted by Garland
Little kids and RPG's were never meant to mix. Little kids wouldn't have the patience. Little kids would take ages to figure out the system, if in fact they figure it out at all. Kingdom Hearts fools parents into thinking it's a kid's game by putting Micky Mouse and co into it. If the exact same game (gameplay and challengewise) were offered with a more mature cast of characters, noone would think for a moment that the game was suitable for kids. They'd realize it too complicated.

I disagree, I've been playing FFII,err IV (sorry, still not used to calling it IV) since I was six. True I didn't finish the game until years later, but I still loved it and played it whenever I got the chance. So

[Shayo]

ya i agree with fire of avalon, I played final fantasy seven when i was like 5 or six and i beat it before the age of seven, of course i had to share the game with my older brother, and when i wasnt playing it, i watched what he did and i learned the battle system quite easily

oh and i'm 13 today

[Mo-Nercy]

My parents don't like me playing any sort of games. Except for Dynasty Warriors, cause they like the idea of me learning about ancient chinese history. But anything else, games are for kids. I get pretty cheesed, it hasn't stopped me though

[Aerio]

I think RPGs help kids expand their vocab personally :P lol its a weird way of looking at it but its true...im 13 and i read in the 98% on the DRP test out of the nation and i know a ton of words i learned from context in RPGs...they're more fun than books and I rented KH once and got pretty far and it was pretty fun game the most disney like part i remember is the begining when they're in the disney kingdom...then it becomes more...serious?

[Rye]

My parents though that too. It's much than a kiddy game... I love KH. It's not dark, but not overly cute. I think it was beautiful.

[Ashi]

Actually, my mother approved of KH more than all the other games I play because it looked less violent and had all sorts of familiar characters.

Believe it or not though, my parents played video games with us all through my childhood up till now. And they do agree on some of the anime I watch isn't for kids.

[Rostum]

My sister of 18-years-old loved the game, I loved the game, and quite frankly my parents don't care what games I play.