Games reviewed… eventually
The Kingdom Hearts series sure has gone in some weird directions over the years. Even though the core games in the franchise have stuck with a simple action-JRPG formula, the developers over at Square Enix have certainly never shied away from playing with a plethora of different gameplay ideas in their other releases. Series veterans … Continue reading Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory
I’ve been waiting for this game for so long. The level of excitement I had going into Kingdom Hearts III was almost scary; Kingdom Hearts II is my favourite game ever, and the series has been consistently a set of games I return to, so to say it had a lot to live up to … Continue reading Kingdom Hearts III
Ahh, finally! It’s been a long while but with this game I’ve arrived at a Kingdom Hearts game that I’ve not played before. Kingdom Hearts III really isn’t far off now. We’re in the home stretch. Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth By Sleep -A Fragmentary Passage- (PS4 [reviewed], Xbox One) Released Jan 2017 | Developed / … Continue reading Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep -A Fragmentary Passage-
Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance is something the series has needed for so, so long. A sequel! An actual, honest-to-goodness sequel designed specifically to lead into Kingdom Hearts III! The madmen at Square-Enix finally did it! Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance (3DS, PS4 [reviewed], Xbox One) Released Mar 2012 | Developed / Published: Square Enix … Continue reading Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance
Even for fans of the franchise, Kingdom Hearts Coded may not be a game you are familiar with. It’s probably because it saw quite a niche release, as a Japan-only episodic mobile phone game. Released 2 to 3 years after coded, this version of the game is, like re:Chain of Memories, a full remake. This … Continue reading Kingdom Hearts re:Coded
If there’s one thing the labyrinthine lore of Kingdom Hearts needed, it’s a prequel. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (PS3, PS4 [reviewed], PSP, Xbox One) Released Jan 2010 | Developed / Published: Square-Enix Genre: Action RPG, JRPG | HLTB: 26 hours 10 years before Kingdom Hearts we join Terra, Ventus, and Aqua, three young students … Continue reading Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
The gap between Kingdom Hearts II and III was spectacularly long. To tide us over in that interminable wait, Square-Enix decided to release a plethora of interquels, prequels, and semi-sequel things, in turn creating a vast and labyrinthine miasma of plot. 4 years after Kingdom Hearts II this process began with the awfully-titled 358/2 Days … Continue reading Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
Here’s some complete honesty: this is my favourite game of all time. I happily acknowledge its problems but it is tied too deeply to specific childhood memories for me to think anything less of it. Permit me a bit of a waffle about it. Kingdom Hearts II (PS2, PS3, PS4 [reviewed]) Released Dec 2005 | … Continue reading Kingdom Hearts II
It’s weird sequel time in Kingdom Hearts land! Let’s check out Re: Chain of Memories, the oddball interquel released to tide us over while waiting for Kingdom Hearts II. It sure is something! Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (GBA, PS2, PS3, PS4 [reviewed]) Released Nov 2004 | Developed: Jupiter / Square Enix | Published: Square … Continue reading Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
I really bloody love Kingdom Hearts. Square-Enix and Disney’s weird, weird mashup game series somehow ticks all sorts of boxes for me. I have some fantastically clear memories of when I first discovered this series and sitting down with this first entry. Still, it’s been rather a while, so I figured I might replay the … Continue reading Kingdom Hearts
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