In the end, despite its flaws, Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories is a good game and is really fun, provided that you have played other games in the series. The plot between floors is very deep, and even though Chain of Memories is not a numbered game in the Kingdom Hearts series, its events are integral to the plot of Kingdom Hearts II. The battle system is fun and boss battles will actually require strategy and planning.
If you skipped Chain of Memories the first time because you didn't want to play it on the GBA, you should definitely reconsider it now. Even if you played the original, there's been enough polishing done to it that it's still worth your time, especially since the whole experience is greater than the sum of the parts.
Kingdom Hearts is a monolithic franchise that needs little introduction. But the beloved franchise almost never was, being developed as a gamble that two ideas could merge into something great.
Kingdom Hearts had these potentials with really deep atmospheres, then KH2 happened with the overwhelming weird informations and different people with tbe same enitity thing. It became overcomplicated series and never explaining anything in one release. Overall it is weirdly structured. Moreover, it is advetised to have Final Fantasy and Disney with original characters. Now it is all about versions of Sora/his friends and on other hand the versions of Xenoheart/his XIII thing.
Literally didn't even care to buy it, 3 was a bug filler as a whole and the dlc is overpriced.
KH2 is a huge improvement over the first. With that said now that I think on it more it completely lost the charm that the original established. The mix of Disney and FF could work, there's a balance that can be found to give it it's own identity, but they went full stupid.
There's something so good, just really good, about seeing the Disney villains sitting at a round table plotting evil things together. I think that the balance was found in the original and they just threw it out the window with CoM and then ran it over with KH2.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "what happens when a remake… just isn’t enough? What happens when a remake… needs a remake. That’s what we are exploring in this week’s Top 10 countdown!"
Following the release of 1.5 + 2.5 on PS4 recently the developer has attempted to minimalise the hectic timeline with a rather amusing result.
