10 Times You Secretly Made The Game Harder (And Didn't Even Realize)

Kingdom Hearts is mostly a linear experience, so there aren't that many ways in which you can affect how the game is going to play out.

This said, there is a secret choice in the game's intro where, depending on the options you pick, you might end up making the game a lot harder for yourself at specific stages.

In the tutorial on the island, Sora's friends ask him three questions about himself. They ask him what he desires, what his goals are, and other personal things that don't seem to do anything other than to provide the intro with some flavor text.

However, in reality, the answers you give secretly impact how fast, or how slow, Sora will level up at different stages of the game.

If you picked the first option in the dialogue the most, Sora will level up faster early on but slow down significantly in the final stages. The middle options make for a balanced experience, and the third options make you level up slower first and faster later.

The game doesn't mention this to you, seeing as the slower EXP gain can make the game harder in the early or late stages, it's pretty useful to know this ahead of time.