Best Mini-Games In Kingdom Hearts

Summary

• Unique mini-games in Kingdom Hearts offer fun challenges like Fruitball and Grandstander.
• Flantastic Seven and Mushroom XIII provide creative tasks that require strategy and reaction.
• Games like Hunny Slider and Jungle Slider immerse players in iconic Disney worlds with engaging gameplay.

A Kingdom Hearts journey is not an easy task. Traveling between expressive Disney worlds to eliminate hostile factions like the heartless, nobodies, and unversed is tiresome enough. Some friendly allies also fall into some unique scenarios like kidnapping, abuse of power, invasion, manipulative tricks, money, or boredom. These problems aren’t always solved by just swinging the key, but rather through more creative means.

Kingdom Hearts introduces various mini-games that range from competitions, racing, or timed challenges. A lot of the games are fun in their own way, but the most ideal ones have larger memorable worth and replayability.

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Fruitball

Sweet Sport

Fruitball is a unique game attraction that takes place within Disney Town. It plays like volleyball as fruits bounce around on stage for the participants to spike to the moving goal. It’s so engaging that even the unversed are willing to take over the court and play by the rules.

Not all opponents play the same as they have preferred shooting techniques like Chip and Dale using teamwork to set up fruits for powerful shots. It gets pretty chaotic as different fruits appear in a match like a bunch of grapes that break off into individual fruits after an attack.

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Flantastic Seven

Treating A Challenge

The Flantastic Seven are special harmless heartless that visit multiple worlds. They don’t bother anyone unless approached to accomplish their specific tasks with certain requirements like balancing, timing, and reaction.

The most fun flan would is the Orange Flan since it encourages analyzing and timing. It’s very different compared to other flan heartless since Sora has to explore for hidden flans in the Corona Kingdom Hills before picturing the right poses for points. Since there’s no time limit, there’s plenty of time to study the most ideal camera shots for greater points.

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Poster Duty

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Poster Duty is an odd job that Roxas can apply within Twilight Town. How the job is completed depends on the player’s preferred route. It takes studying the Tram Common area and figuring out the quickest route to hang the posters. It isn’t the hardest task since it gives Roxas a ton of space and routes for job completion, though it does take longer than other odd jobs.

When Sora gets the chance for the job, his aerial abilities can greatly improve his time like gliding. His improved aerials also help him reach higher elevations more easily.

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Mushroom XIII

Heartless Cosplayers

Mushroom XIII are unique enemies who cosplay as their favorite Organization XIII members in different worlds. Unlike the nobodies, combat isn’t the only solution to take them down. They use their powers in relation to their inspiring hero to provide more challenges through strategy and reaction.

The most fun Mushroom is No. 1 since it requires stricter timing for the right reaction command to catch him off guard. It’s similar to the Xemnas fight which rewarded Sora for not mashing the reaction command when they clash on the building. It’s also very amusing to see an enemy use the game mechanics against the protagonist.

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Jungle Slider

Way Of The Jungle

Jungle Slider is the most immersive game that makes the world of Tarzan come to life. It allows Sora to use Tarzan’s iconic traversal through the jungle by sliding through tree branches to collect fruit.

Sora doesn’t slide alone as Tarzan joins to assist his island friend on the wild traversal. Of course, going through the jungle isn’t very safe as it involves some obstacles and forkroad pathways. It has decent replayability with its multiple courses and speedrun timer.

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Light Cycle

Digital Ride

Light Cycle is an on-rails race in Space Paranoids that makes the user drive lightspeed cycles and survive the onslaught of foes on the track. Despite Sora being forced to participate, the action and music help make the challenge more enjoyable. It requires reacting to the shapeshifting track while beating the racing heartless with the keyblade or cycle bike.

Not only was Sora forced to play in his main quest, but Riku as well in Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance. His race felt more like a light cycle match since he could use the bike’s light trails to damage his targets, encouraging him to stay ahead on the track.

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Grandstander

Entertaining The Crowd

Grandstander is one of several odd job that Roxas used to earn money for his summer trip. He must entertain the audience by juggling the ball in the air without letting it touch the ground. How the ball stays in the air depends on the player’s timing with aerials and positioning.

It also feels good when Sora takes on the job himself later in the story. His unlocked skills and keyblades that lengthen aerial combos make the job much easier while being a makeshift training ground to practice juggling strategies.

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Atlantica

Musical World

Atlantica introduces familiar songs from The Little Mermaid like Part Of Your World to original pieces like Swim This Way. They require simple button presses at the right beat or else some characters miss their right cues and lose points. The world saves its best song for last, which is A New Day is Dawning.

After beating Ursula and meeting the final requirements, it uses every button prompt from previous songs like Ursala’s mashing prompt and Sebastian’s interruption prompt. Every underwater ally participates in the final song, making it an fitting finale for the world.

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Flash Tracer

Heroic Course

Flash Tracer is a special course run that tests Sora’s traversal skills. The objective is simple: follow through trails of holographic rings scattered through San Fransokyo. This requires him to run on walls, grind on rails, and use flowmotion techniques to complete each course quickly. This challenge greatly emphasizes the expansive freedom of this particular world.

Not only is this helpful for Sora, but for the Big Hero 6 team as well as they train to take on the strong heartless. His magical techniques help to influence the team with improved strategies to enhance their heroic prowess.

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Hunny Slider

Sweet Race

Hunny Slider is one of Winnie the Pooh’s favorite games since it results in acquiring his favorite food. After running out of honey, Sora thinks the quickest way to quell the bear’s hunger is to ride a pot of honey through Hundred Acres Woods.

The gameplay is very standard since Sora follows an on-rails course, though the changing environments and honey gathering make the experience more enjoyable. Sora doesn’t just only explore the woods for the bear, but all over the book. Pooh’s hunger is a serious issue, making it necessary to break the fourth wall to get his food.

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Struggle

Struggling For Fun

Struggle is how the strongest player prevails in Twilight Town. It’s a one-on-one fighting match that ends in one of two outcomes: when a fighter gets the most orbs before timeout or steals every orb from the opponent.

The most satisfying aspect of Struggle is having the audience react to the fighters hitting each other. It’s more refreshing to face actual humans for competition rather than mindless creatures. It’s also the only moment to face Final Fantasy 6 and Final Fantasy 9 representatives in the Kingdom Hearts series.