The music for Kingdom Hearts covers a wide spectrum of emotion and tone. It’s whimsical, charming, exuberant, forlorn, sinister, and just about everything else in between. The common factor to all of it however, is that it’s always dramatic. In each case it has a sense of grandeur and wonder that few, if any, other games have been able to match. Perhaps that’s part of the appeal of the games, in that no matter what they have you doing, the experience always has a sense of magnificence to it. And unlike a game like God of War, which is also grand in its sensibilities, the feeling changes over the course of the game and I suspect it’s due in no small part to the music.
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