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Kingdom Hearts .0

Kingdom Hearts 0

The following is based on a real event that happened to me a few days ago. No one should have to play what I did, but I should tell my story to anyone who wants to know about Kingdom Hearts. I'd gone to a local game store that sold new and second-hand PlayStation 2 games which was good. Seeing as I wanted to stock up on some old classics I sold years ago. I found many games including both the Kingdom Hearts games for the console. I bought both games and got back home.

I checked on the two disks, considering they were used. Both games were fine but then I noticed something with Kingdom Hearts II, drawn on it was an oval which I guessed represented the number "0" under the title and also there was no instruction booklet. I just considered that the shop owner marked the disk to show it was pre-owned as I'd seen this before.

I started up the game and everything looked normal and I played the game like normal until I reached the first time I could save. As I pressed save game I notice slot 4 had a file in it. The game had been played for 2 hours yet already was at The World that Never was with no munny and level 99. This was strange considering I do not have a Kingdom Hearts II saved game on my memory card. I tried to save over it but the game wouldn't let me so I just saved in slot 1.

At first I was confused but then I considered that this was just a glitch in the disk. I didn't take any notice to it since the game still ran smoothly with no hiccups. I continued on with my game but every time I saw the save or load menu I could always see that strange save file staring back at me, like it wanted me to play it, and my curiosity was growing every time I saw it.

Eventually a few days ago I finished Kingdom Hearts II and, usually that'll be that, I'd put the game down for a while before thinking about going back to play it. However, I was still interested in that file. It never appeared on my memory card, it was just there.

Finally I gave in I decided to finally see if it was just a glitch, however, it turned out to be a saved game. At this point I was completely baffled, isn't the same supposed to be saved on the memory stick? I should of just turned off the PS2 and gone back to the store to check but I felt that as I was here I'd press on anyway, I wish I didn't.

I appeared at the start of The World that never was, everything was normal. I had Goofy and Donald in my party and of course I pressed on battling foes that I encountered, seemed pretty normal as I played through until I reached Roxas.

As soon as the cut-scene showed Roxas the game started glitching up, the screen would shake or black out for a millisecond. Then came the fight. Everything was normal, except the music, which played backwards, which again I thought was another glitch.

Thinking this as just a minor glitch I fought Roxas as usual beating him and getting the cut scene as normal, however when Roxas was supposed to say, "You make a good other" there was no voice over and the test said, "We all fall into darkness someday" and then the scene faded to black.

I stared at the blank screen waiting for something to happen for a minute or two until some text appeared telling me to restart the console, I hesitated for a while unsure about what was going on, I could have just stopped and forgot about playing but I wanted to continue onwards, so I did what the game told me.

When the menu came to the screen the background was black, Sora was nowhere to be seen and there was only one option, "Play."

Now this was there I was thinking to myself that this was a hacked disk, what normal person would do would be to take the game back to the store and ask for a refund or replacement however for some reason I wanted to see an ending, I felt I was going to get an answer if I reached the end, I pressed play and the screen cut to black.