Kingdom Hearts Sanctuary

By: SCEE, SquareSoft
Genre: Action Role-Playing
Release Date:
JAP: March 28, 2002
USA: Sep 16, 2002
EUR: Nov 15, 2002
Players: 1 Player

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Summary

A trio of friends live on a small island known as the Destiny Islands, one of them have no idea how she got there, its then they decide to build a raft and leave their home to seek out Whom they are why they came to be on the island.
Before their Journey can Begin, a series of events occurs seperating the three friends, Sora a young cheerful boy ends up in an unknown place, alone and confused he is chosen as they Keyblade master, thus the story truely begins.
It is said, that the weilder of the Keyblade can defeat the Heartless and lock special keyholes, although it choses its master it can also pick more than one.

Game Ratings

Gamespot: 8.2
Gamerankings.Com: 86%
Gamespy: 84.0%
IGN: 90.0%
Official Playstation Magazine: 90.0%
PSM Magazine: 80.0%
Play Magazine: 90% Overall: 8/10 or 82%

Credits

Director: Tetsuya Nomura
Concept Design: Tetsuya Nomura
Main Programmers: Hiroshi Harata
Kentarou Yasui
Map Planning Director: Takeshi Endo
Event Planning Director: Jun Akiyama
Battle Planning Director: Yuuichi Kanemori
Technical Art Director: Akira Fujii
Character Modeling Director: Tomohiro Kayano
Animation Director: Tatsuya Kando
Background Modeling Director: Masahide Tanaka
Art Director: Takayuki Odachi
Menu Director & VFX Supervisor: Tomohiro Ishii
Texture Director: Takeshi Arakawa
VFD Director: Syuuichi Sato
Music: Yoko Shimomura
Sound Programmer: Hitoshi Ohori
Supervising Dialogue Editor: Teruaki Sugawara
Sound Editor: Chiharu Minekawa
Movie Director: Takeshi Nozue
Co-Producer: Yoshinori Kitase
Producer: Shinji Hashimoto
Localisation Team General Manager: Akira Kashiwagi
Localisation Directors: Kazuyoshi Tashiro
Localisation Directors: Ichiro Nonaka
Localisation Specialists: Amanda Jun Katsurada
German Localisers: Tet Hara
German Localisers: Marcus Wehner
German Localisers: Josef Shanel
French Localisers: Laurent Sautière
French Localisers: Jacques Martine
Italian Localiser: Alessandro Mantelli
Spanish Localiser: Eduardo López Herrero
Localisation Assistants: Mai Morofushi
Satoko Kondo
Tomoko Sekii
Seikoh Hokama
Production Manager: Koji Nonoyama
Production Assistant: Eri Morimoto
Production Executives: Hisashi Suzuki
Youichi Wada
Executive Producer: Hironobu Sakaguchi
Opening Theme: Utada Hikaru
Theme song (Simple and Clean): Written by Utada Hikaru
Theme song (Simple and Clean): licensed by Toshiba-Emi Limited

Voice Actors
Voice Actor (Sora): Haley Joel Osment
Voice Actor (Riku): David Gallagher
Voice Actor (Kairi): Hayden Panettiere
Voice Actor (Ansem): Billy Zane
Voice Actor (Squall): David Boreanaz
Voice Actor (Aerith): Mandy Moore
Voice Actor (Cloud): Steve Burton
Voice Actor (Yuffie) : Christy Carlson Romano
Voice Actor (Wakka): Dee Bradley Baker
Voice Actor (Sephiroth): Lance Bass
Voice Actor (King Mickey Mouse): Wayne Allwine
Voice Actor (Donald Duck): Tony Anselmo
Voice Actor (Hercules): Sean Astin
Voice Actor (Hades): James Wood
Voice Actor (Aladdin): Scott Weinger
Voice Actor (Genie): Dan Castellaneta
Voice Actor (Tidus): James Arnold Taylor

Disney Interactive
Senior Producer:Peter Wyse
Associate Producer: Pat Larkin
Localisation Manager: Sonoko Ishioka
Voice Director/Casting Director: Ned Lott
Senior Artists: Mary Ann Ramierz
Ken Christiansen
Consulting Artist: John Loter
Vice President, Console: (Dan Winters
Marketing Manager: Stephanie Yoshimoto
Marketing Director: Bob Picunko
Vice President, International: Sanjeev Lamba Sr. Vice President and General Manager President: Steven Finney
Jan Smith
Senior Producer: Emiko Yamamoto
General Manager: Shuji Utsumi

Square Europe
Managing Director: Yuji Shibata
Deputy Managing Director: Tomohiro Yoshikai
Marketing/PR Assistant Managers: Abbass Hussain
Stéphanie Jounau
Chief or Production Department: Katrin Darolle
Assistant Manager IT and Technical Support: Alex Moresby
Assistant Localisation and Production: Yuko Tomizawa