Finished the first game a few years ago and would like to continue. My question is:
should I play the other titles in this order? Are there ones that you would recommend skipping at a first run to avoid potential burn-out?
Finished the first game a few years ago and would like to continue. My question is:
the release order for those titles are:
1
Re: Chain of Memories
2
BBS
358/2 and Re:Coded are movie summaries
Swap 358 and 2, other than that you can just go down the list.
CoM > RECoM
This. If you can, just emulate the original game boy advanced version. It's genuinely a way better experience.
>game conveniently lists the games in order as you should play them
>still act like an autist and ask if you should play the games in order
You're a special kind of moron
No it doesn't.
The only reason 358 is above 2 is because it was included in the first collection, since otherwise they would have had to bundle 1 and 2 together and then the other collection would have just been BBS and two movies.
358 is meant to be played (or watched) after 2.
It can really go either way. There isn't any major spoiler in Days for 2 except arguably finding out what's wrong with Riku
Playing Days before 2 answers pretty much all the mysteries the latter sets up before you even begin to play it.
I guess it doesn't matter if you don't care too much about the story, but then at that point why even play Days at all?
Yeah, but it's one collection now so why not move it around?
I feel like in an ideal world we would have gotten 1.5 with remastered 1 and 2 and CoM as a movie and then 2.5 with remastered BBS and Days with Coded as a movie.
That would have been ideal to experience the entire series without much tedium.
Or they could have just rebalanced GBA CoM to not be so long.
And actually remastered Coded.
No matter how much rebalancing you do I feel like it'd still be pretty hard to convince people to replay the game with Riku, which is a shame cause his story actually sets up a lot for 2.
Skip right to 2 then go back to play the others if you're curious about some characters/plot details, their gameplay really sucks by comparison
2's opening is better not knowing anything going in too
>their gameplay really sucks by comparison
>implying BBS' gameplay sucks
>>implying BBS' gameplay sucks
Well its overrated.
Re:Coded used the command deck better.
BBS is very unbalanced in which the basic birch commands you get at the beginning of the game are the most useful because they have i-frames and late game enemies/bosses just constantly throw hitboxes at you. Most of the "late game" commands you spend time trying to get are garbage and just make you die.
It sucks, man. It's fricking trash. 3D isn't much better.
BBS' gameplay doesn't get good until the last few levels
All of the levels prior to Neverland fricking suck and have bullshit level scaling. Once you discover Magnet+Thunder/AoE combo it just becomes a walk from boss fight to boss fight.
>But the end-game is good
Yeah but the first 80% of the game sucks.
Days and Coded are so fricking boring as movies
Everyone shut the frick up and listen,
here's the official playlist:
>KH1
>COM on GBA, play it you dumb b***h
>KH2
>Birth by Sleep
>Coded on a DS emulator shut the frick up it has the 2nd best gameplay and combat in the series you dumb Black person just play it
>358/2 Days is the biggest piece of shit ever just watch the movie frick you homosexual ass Roxas Enjoyers his game is a legit 5/10 and I seethe daily about it
>DDD
>KH3 and that demo who fricking cares
>Melody of Memories
But multiplayer....
>there are users on this very website that have sank time into Days' multiplayer
Holy shit.
Re:COM kind of sucks, especially if you play it right after KH1. I would recommend playing the original on GBA instead, though that can still get tiresome after a while.
Don't play/watch 358/2 Days before KH2, Days assumes you've played KH2.
Play it in the order shown, but swap 358/2 Days and KH2. They're ordered like that because of some frickery with the remakes originally being released on two separate discs.
Also, Days and Re:Coded are movie summaries in the collection. Either get a DS Flashcart, install CFW on a 3DS, or emulate them; they're both pretty good for different reasons.
Play in the order listed except play KH2 before Days.
This, if you play Days before KH2 it ruins half the tension of the intro on a first play
And the heart wrenching despair of a second play
OP I GOT YOU MAN
>Watch Chain of Memories story on Youtube (because game is garbage)
>Play KH2
>Watch 358/2 days
Don't skip any of them, homosexual.
Play/watch in release order.
Understand that after KH2, the series (both gameplay and narrative) takes a bit of a dive because a lot of them were for handhelds and had to accommodate for the new platform.
After you're done with this collection, you buy II.8 and play 3D and 0.2 Fragmentary Passage
Then you buy KH3 with the DLC and play that.
just play 2 and stop
>Barely played first KH around the time BBS came out, and just looked up plot summaries and ending videos.
I pretty much know like 80% of the story and events. Just never had interest in playing it.
Just wanted to share.
Play KH --> CoM --> KH2 for a nice trilogy.
Then play the others to have everything sublime and mysterious about the series ruined and shit on. Gameplay's still fun though. Birth By Sleep gets an honorary mention since it was almost KH3.
BBS is shit with the worst superbosses in the whole series and a story that could have been entirely avoided if the supposed "friends" had a 1 minute conversation
Play KH1, then watch all the CoM cutscenes on Youtube, then play KH2 and stop there. Anything after KH2 sucks shit. I would know, I played them all because I’m a complete fool that hoped for some kind of halfway decent payoff with KH3.