Interestingly enough, I bought the game the first day it was released. I was hyped about the idea, and thought it would work well. After playing it for a while, I got frusterated at it around the Tarzan world, and I stopped playing for a couple years, ha ha ha!
However, about a year ago, I saw alot of the screens for Kingdom Hearts 2 in an EGM, and thought to myself that this game looks so awsome, that I need to finish the first one! I started from scratch on KH1, and was hooked! I completed everything I could, including all the dalmations and the ever-painful Ultima Weapon. In the end, I finished both KH and Chain of Memories (Riku and Sora's modes) about a week before KH2 came out. Needless to say, I was pretty well versed in the series by then.