9/1/2023 0 Comments Sora kingdom hearts 1![]() He's motivated by love and friendship and, y'know, saving the universe from the dark powers that be. Sora may not be the most gruff or tough video game hero, but he's the most earnest. For the sort of hero who always has a smile on his face and a willingness to take on any favor someone asks him to do, Osment portrays the forever-teenager with exuberance. All throughout the series, Osment's performance of Sora has never wavered you believe a kid adorned with 500 zippers could always be this pleasant, no matter what life throws at him. ![]() Over the past nearly-17 years of Kingdom Hearts' debut, Osment's Sora (and to a much lesser extent the character Vanitas, who he also voices) has remained something of an eternal teenager. So there have always been kind of big life transitions behind the major chapters and in the Kingdom Hearts story." "And then for Kingdom Hearts 2, that was like my junior and senior year of high school, you know, which is sort of the end of adolescence and everything. That's a big transitional period for me," Osment says. with Steven Spielberg, so that was definitely a big pivotal moment in my life. "With the first one, I think I started that right after I finished shooting A.I. And at the peak of this moment, Osment was cast in the first Kingdom Hearts, only the beginning of what would become a monstrous sensation of a video game series. Artificial Intelligence (once to be produced and directed under the late Stanley Kubrick)-an impressive lineup of films for an actor who hadn't yet hit puberty. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense (of which Osment landed an Academy Award nomination) and Steven Spielberg's A.I. It started with Forrest Gump, where he played Tom Hanks' son in a small role. Osment, too, was one of the biggest child actors of the era. The two mashed together were an unlikely pairing, but a welcome one, when Kingdom Hearts was introduced in 2002. Final Fantasy had wowed our parents (or kids themselves, if we were old enough) on PlayStation and SNES, while we fell in love with Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and other animated films from the Disney Renaissance. It hit at the prime time for Disneymania and Final Fantasy fervor. | Square Enix/Disney A Winning TrifectaĪsk anyone born in the early 1990s or late 1980s, and Kingdom Hearts was probably some part of their childhood. So learning how to manipulate that and keep the voice sounding young while still preserving the range of emotions that Sora had that was a unique challenge." It all started on Destiny Islands. But early on, you know, I started this when I was 12, and my voice had started to change and everything. I think he's a little bit older now than he was in Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2. I mean, first off there's technical considerations because for particularly early on Sora didn't age very much. "I get that sometimes in live-action projects people get to play a character over a large number of years, but with this, you know, the fact that it's animated. "It is unique in that way," Osment tells me over the phone just weeks out from the release of the long-anticipated Kingdom Hearts 3. And the leap from Kingdom Hearts to its deeper-voiced Sora sequel no longer seems so shocking. Like all those kids, Osment's grown up too-heck, he's 30 now. In real-time what once were fresh-faced kids grow into young adults. ![]() Like the Stark kids growing up on Game of Thrones, or Tony Soprano's kids on The Sopranos. Osment's improbable, almost-lifelong journey as the star of Disney and Square Enix's ambitious RPG series Kingdom Hearts mirrors what we've come to expect with television shows with long lifespans. Haley Joel Osment has spent the better part of his life as Sora, the spiky-haired keyblade wielding face of Final Fantasy and Disney crossover bliss. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.
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