Why Kingdom Hearts 3D is a True Sequel to Kingdom Hearts 2

Kingdom Hearts 3D is finally, at long last, a Kindom Hearts title that will win over more than just the die hard fans. The game takes the series back to what made it great on the PS2, and adds to the formula.

[user5467007]

They better do a HD collection with this and other games on for the PS3/PS4 before Kingdom Hearts 3 comes out

I don't see why they made it so you need to play this game to understand the third one. So you have to buy a 3DS to understand a game most likely coming to the PS4.

[--Onilink--]

Well, if you think about it, judging from how square works these days, there is very little reason to think it would come exclusive to a console. If they do exclusives, its usually for handhelds, and they dont go with a console until it has a big user base. But if it turns out to be a console exclusive(which i doubt), they will probably wait to see which console is doing best in japan

[Hisiru]

@NBT91
I agree with you. Kingdom Hearts 3D is one of the best games I played this year and it really explains a lot of things about the story. I hope we will see an HD collection before we get KH3.

[taquito]

Kingdom Hearts is already available in HD for free if you own the original and have a halfway decent pc

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

pcsx2 is a near perfect emulator and makes ps2 games look better than some ps3 games!

[NBT91]

You probably don't to be honest, the 3DS game goes into pretty good detail of what happened in previous games, who the new characters are and such. There are flashbacks, detailed character bios, chronicles of the past games (including BBS, a PSP exclusive).

So I imagine they will do the same thing with KH3, especially if it happens to be the final entry in the story arc.

I will say though, if you are looking forward to KH3, you do owe it yourself to play through KH3D, its a really good game for the series. Definitely the best handheld one IMO and arguable as good as KH2 (I say arguable, because its pretty short)

[IAMvideogames]

Yes, it's really nice for 3DS owners, but for the console only players, I have a feeling that Square Enix will have a "fill you in" cut scene at the beginning of KH3. There is something similar at the beginning of KH 3DS.

[user5467007]

Yeah but the amount of games that we've had since KH2 has been ridiculous. Many people were confused when they played KH2 without playing Chain of Memories despite the fill you in intro cutscene....and that was one game

Think what it's going to be like for KH3

[wishingW3L]

I was one of those confused people. When I started playing KH2 I never understood why Sora was sleeping, who was Roxas and Organization 8 because everything was explained in the GBA spin-off. KH is a real mess man, I have never seen any other developer making such a mess with a franchise.

[NBT91]

No. The reason people were confused in KH2 was because it deliberately missed out a lot of stuff. The game took place around a year after Chain of Memories, during that time 358/2 Days took place which released some time after KH2. so even if you did play COM, chances are you still were not totally sure what was going on in KH2.

[Lucretia]

Birth by sleep is def alot better tho. such a good game. glad DDD is great tho, thought it was gonna be another crappy nintendo Spin off like 358/2 days, chain of memories etc

[kingofe3]

It's not a spin off, it's a sequel. The only spin off I can call is re:Coded and that's only in terms of importance of story. Unlike that game all the other games are not spin offs. If that's true, then Birth By Sleep is also a spin off because it's on a handheld.

[KingOptimusOrigin111]

But isn't Birth By Sleep the prequel to the whole Kingdom Hearts series.

[kingofe3]

@KingOptimusOrigin111 Yes, it is. As Chain of Memories is the sequel to 1, 358/2 Days is the intertwine between 1 and 2, and 3D is the sequel to Kingdom Hearts 2.

All of these games are important to the story, so I don't know why people consider some of them spin offs.

[KingOptimusOrigin111]

Yeah I don't understand it either.

[Lucretia]

i see where ur getting at. but ur sorta wrong. Events do take place after KH2, but its not a sequel, or not a full sequel.

birth by sleep was dubbed a prequel by nomura, it it essential to the main story. funny thing is all the other spin offs most of the time arent even needed. DDD is needed yes, but coded, 358/2 days etc wasn't needed.

Production value wise, story wise Birth by sleep is a full game.

man this mess is square's fault haha

[YoungPlex]

Sorry, but BBS was not a better game than DDD, in my honest opinion... Don't get me wrong, BBS is a great title and an excellent spin-off, but DDD truly feels like a sequel and picks up right were part two left off; it's also a bit longer and has a lot more to do and definitely looks better graphically, especially due to the 3D effect. I would actually recommend this title to anyone that missed out on all the spinoffs, due to the fact that it recaps all the previous entries via journal logs, which tells people what happened in the previous stories.

If your ready for KH3 and want to know what happened in all the previous KH games, without playing all of them over, then KH DDD is right for you and it also leads up to all the events that are going to happen in KH 3.

This has become one of my favorite titles on the 3DS and is worth having if you own one. Look at the sales, it sold quite well in its first week in the US, past 200k and has already and reached damn near a third of a million in total sales worldwide; so obviously fans of the series are all over it!

[Xperia_ion]

Kingdom Hearts 3 should be on a boardgame.

[DEATHxTHExKIDx]

Every KIngdom hearts game is nesscary there not spin offs they all have story revelance(Except maybe KH:recoded). If a person just played went in and played KH3 without playing BBS(pre quel to the series) and KH3D(set up to KH3) I guarante they would be a little lost. So hopefully for New and old players they make a KH HD collection. They are all connected to the conclusion KH3.

[Muigi]

I used to want a hd remake...then i downloaded pcsx2...it makes ALL the games look like a hd remake of course only if your computer can handle it tho

[adamant715]

No. It is obviously not.