RPGamer writes: "Being a massive fan of the Kingdom Hearts series, I was extremely excited when Chain of Memories was first announced for the Game Boy Advance. I borrowed the game from a friend to try it out first since it seemed to be such a departure from the main series. I didn't really enjoy it and, to be honest, never really understood it either. The difficulty and changed battle system turned me off and I never picked it up again. I actually hoped that it would be remade as a more classically styled Kingdom Hearts game for the PlayStation 2, although I passed off that hope as impossible."
Kingdom Hearts merchandise might get a little ridiculous at times, but Square Enix has revealed one that makes perfect sense - a deck of cards based on the ones used in Chain of Memories.
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!"
