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What Kingdom Hearts Games Do You REALLY Need to Play Before Kingdom Hearts III?

MonsterVine: "I’m here to tell you which games you really need to play, which games you can skip, and what order you should do this all in."

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NecrumOddBoy1900d ago

All of them, as the story spans across the entire series and although this is "III," it really is the 9th main game.

The game does a really good job explaining the story and the dialogue doesnt pretend you "just know" so they use names often and get granular. I am 4 worlds down and working in the 5th. This is a really awesome game.

Araragifeels 1900d ago

Well I don't believe that you need to play KH: Recorded (even though is canon to the story).

gamer78041900d ago

Did you play the one on Panasonic phone exclusive to Japan :). U can have a lot of fun just playing number three, it recaps fairly well.

Traecy1900d ago

None the stories are dumb,the gameplay & graphics is where KH1,KH2 & 3 shine including Birth By Sleep.

IanTH1900d ago

100%. I love the game. I played 1, 2, Birth by Sleep and 358/2 Days. I understood basically NONE of the story. I watched a couple "the story so far" summaries before I got KH3. It is dense, sure, but it is done needlessly and it makes the game worse for it. People can barely understand the core motivations for things because who the hell are all these people, and what do these terms even mean?

I got KH3 on launch day. The gameplay is great! Visiting the worlds is fun. The dialogue, especially in the beginning, made me cringe aloud multiple times. It is mostly back to being an uninteresting story that isn't actively bad, so I can more easily ignore what goes on between gameplay sessions. I mean, that's not my preference, but Nomura (or at least the translators) didn't give me much choice lol.

Play the games for the gameplay. Save yourself and just try to lightly follow along with the story. Having played those other games, I feel no better off in terms of knowing what is going on than if this had been my first game of the series :-p

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Final Fantasy XVI Has Finally Given Donald Duck A Worthy Opponent

For a long time, it's been widely accepted amongst Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts fans that Donald Duck is the most powerful mage ever to exist, mainly due to his use of the stupidly powerful Zettaflare spell towards the end of Kingdom Hearts 3. This spell is one step up from Teraflare, a spell which was used in Final Fantasy XIV that was so powerful that it completely wiped out the base game, giving the developers a canonical reason to let them bin everything and start again from scratch.

Now you're armed with this information, you can see how it was pretty surprising for Donald Duck of all characters to bust out Zettaflare and establish himself as the most powerful character in Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts lore. However, now that Final Fantasy XVI has arrived and delivered a whole new cast of characters, a new challenger has arrived to provide Donald with some much needed competition.

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Final Fantasy's Strongest Canonical Magic User Is... Donald Duck?

Final Fantasy features many strong characters, but an unlikely character from Kingdom Hearts is able to cast ​the most powerful spell ever seen

gold_drake344d ago

that was pretty amazing, not gonna lie, i might have shed a tear or too, just cause of pure awesomeness.

he was already my favourite disney character and one of my favs from KH and then to see that amazing spell too. aah so good xD

FGHFGHFGH344d ago

Final Fantasy's strongest magic user is Donald Duck, who never appears in a final fantasy game.

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This Kingdom Hearts Boss' Unpredictability Gave Me Sekiro Vibes

Kingdom Hearts is filled with otherworldly boss battles, but only one stands out like a phoenix dancing with ethereal grace across the night sky. Before we embark upon a discussion concerning Kingdom Hearts' exceptional boss battles, it may be prudent to first reflect on the evolution of the criteria for appraising video game bosses. This criterion has undergone a major metamorphosis over the past decade; one that owes much to the profound influence of From Software and its iconic Souls series.

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-Gespenst-356d ago

"Yozora is much more than a grueling secret encounter; he is a reflection of what Kingdom Hearts' bosses should be"

No thank you. If every boss in Kingdom Hearts was like Yozora, the series would be unplayable. That's not to say that they shouldn't include such challenges, but making them fundamental to the game would be too much. And don't say that this is what the From Software games are, because Yozora is absolutely harder than most of the bosses in those games. He is waaay faster, has a ludicrous number of abilities (and does them in random order AND can chain most of them together), and punishes you severely if you make a mistake. On top of that, you have to survive this onslaught for a really long time because of how much health he has. It's borderline too much - for me at least. Still, it's a stunning battle.

OMNlPOTENT355d ago

I agree, while I do really enjoy the Yozora fight, I think it's far too difficult to be anything more than an optional boss. However, I do believe that there should be more bosses that are in the same weight and size class as Sora, as the majority of those in KH3 were the best fights. The giant heartless bosses just aren't as enjoyable.