Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX Coming to North America February 25, 2013

North American and European Kingdom Hearts fans can let out one big cheer.  Square Enix has announced today that Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX, which was previously only announced for a Japanese release, is now coming worldwide exclusive to the Playstation 3.

The Kingdom Hearts games were released by Square Enix and Disney Interactive to multiple platforms.  They combined the epic history of the Disney characters and movies and melded them with classic characters from the Final Fantasy series.  In the games, you can travel from world to world, revisiting all the classic Disney movies, with the intention to set the worlds right from the darkness that hopes to claim their hearts.

To me, the reason why this series worked so well was because the characters acted exactly as I remembered them from their original stories.  Square Enix did a fantastic job recreating the look and feel of the worlds and the characters that inhabited them.  Many of the original Disney voice over actors reprised their roles for the games, including actors like Jim Cummings, James Woods, and Wayne Allwine.  There were also a ton of special nods all over the place.  For example, Mickey Mouse’s Royal March will play in the background in his castle.  What’s his royal march?  It’s an instrumental version of the Mickey Mouse Club Theme.

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX is made up of the very first Kingdom Hearts game and Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories, both previously released only on the Playstation 2.  A very nice surprise is that Square Enix has promised that they are going to use the Final Mix version of the first game.  That version had a lot of new features and bosses and was never released outside of Japan. To top it all off, a fully remastered HD cinematic movie version of Kingdom Hearts: 365/2 Days is included.

If you’d like to read all the details, you can do it here.

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX is coming Fall 2013 exclusive to the Playstation 3.