Never played these games but heard the gameplay is good. All I know is that it's cringey.

Never played these games but heard the gameplay is good. All I know is that it's cringey. Any tips since I'm playing in order?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Watch Days AFTER 2.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Watch? It's a movie?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah.
        Days and Re Coded were originally DS games but were repurposed into movie-cutscenes that get you the general plot. Re Coded is utter filler and not worth watching.

        Really? I heard it's bad but I want to at least give it a chance.

        Take it with a grain of salt. Don't expect a fricking novel out of it but if you take it easy and enjoy the ride, it has a couple of moments that are pretty well done. Then it becomes everyone's favorite trainwreck by BBS.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          There are some excellent moments, I agree, but I think those are all contained in 1+2. If you stop there then it's worth playing for the story. But I sure as hell wouldn't like KH III 10% as much as I do if I was in it for the conclusion of the story and not the fun gameplay.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Re:Coded story is pure filler but the actual gameplay is among the best of the non-numbered games though

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Play Days on the nintendo DS first with zero context to any of the other games. In fat you probably already know too much.

      Don't listen to this, thing. Days is not a movie. Play the game. It's fricking called 358 days and these anons are pissed and surprised that it's long and want it to be only three hours long. You know they have no brain.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Is Days worth playing. I'm in the middle of 2 and it's pure fricking kino. I'm also not a homosexual like OP and don't care about what's cringe so I had a blast with what I played so far

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Days is worth it for the story, the gameplay is a mixed bag and a pain. Do you have a DS/3DS?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Do you have a DS/3DS?
          Have both

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        358 Days / 2 is divisive because the structure is extremely methodical. You wake up, you chat with some folks in Organization XIII, you go on a mission, you probably have a story cutscene at the end, you go to bed. They really make being trapped in an interdimensional cabal feel like working at 7/11, up to and including having the dude who calls out every other shift who needs you to cover, the shift lead who doesn't really give a shit but still plays favorites, and the girl you can't tell if she's flirting with you or is going to poison your lunch in the break room.

        It also controls like ass. You have to play for an hour or so to unlock the ability to control the camera with the triggers rather than the touch screen, the platforming is finicky even by KH standards, the stealth missions are garbage, and if you thought KH1 had repetitive level music this is 10x worse. But it's also the most heartfelt and expressive game in the series, with characters who are too emotionally stunted and lack the vocabulary to tell each other how much they value each other's company, and so often end up blundering from one tragedy to the next as Sora dismantles the organization offscreen. The story is worth experiencing and the game is the best way to do so, but I hesitate to say the game is worth playing.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Days had potential to be great but it felt flat when it came to execution:
        >game is split across missions and each mission usually restricts where you can go, so generally you have access to like 3-4 rooms (of course, plot-related missions usually give access to much wider range of rooms)
        >there are only 3 types of missions: world exploration (happens only once per world, probably the most interesting ones), "kill X number of Y Heartless" (most common and boring ones) and collect medals (usually the fastest ones but also the dumbest ones because almost everytime you get cucked from 100% them by not having some movement ability that you get later into the story)
        >panel system is nice but the balance of it is wonky - I like how you can't be Superman and bring everything to each mission, but some panels are outright garbage and you're just wasting space by even bothering with them
        >magic system is the most unique one in the series because -ra/-ga upgrades actually do completely different stuff instead of just having higher numbers (an example would be Cure being one-time heal, Cura being regen spell and Curaga being AoE healing zone); sadly, in Days you have limited amount of times to use Magic and Ethers work in such a way that they restore one/two stocks of each Magic type you brought to mission (so bringing 3 Fire and 3 Fira is more efficient than bringing 6 Fire because 1 Ether would restore 1 Fire and 1 Fira in former case but only 1 Fire in latter case) plus you need to waste valuable panel slots to slot in items like Ether
        >each Keyblade has its own combo, but like 80% of combos suck and very often you'll use Keyblades for their raw stats (to spam either Magic or Limits) - IIRC the best Keyblade combos were the ones with strong air finisher due to good crit modifiers
        (cnt in next post)

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I enjoyed the panel system, I wish more RPGs had something of that ilk.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Days had potential to be great but it felt flat when it came to execution:
        >game is split across missions and each mission usually restricts where you can go, so generally you have access to like 3-4 rooms (of course, plot-related missions usually give access to much wider range of rooms)
        >there are only 3 types of missions: world exploration (happens only once per world, probably the most interesting ones), "kill X number of Y Heartless" (most common and boring ones) and collect medals (usually the fastest ones but also the dumbest ones because almost everytime you get cucked from 100% them by not having some movement ability that you get later into the story)
        >panel system is nice but the balance of it is wonky - I like how you can't be Superman and bring everything to each mission, but some panels are outright garbage and you're just wasting space by even bothering with them
        >magic system is the most unique one in the series because -ra/-ga upgrades actually do completely different stuff instead of just having higher numbers (an example would be Cure being one-time heal, Cura being regen spell and Curaga being AoE healing zone); sadly, in Days you have limited amount of times to use Magic and Ethers work in such a way that they restore one/two stocks of each Magic type you brought to mission (so bringing 3 Fire and 3 Fira is more efficient than bringing 6 Fire because 1 Ether would restore 1 Fire and 1 Fira in former case but only 1 Fire in latter case) plus you need to waste valuable panel slots to slot in items like Ether
        >each Keyblade has its own combo, but like 80% of combos suck and very often you'll use Keyblades for their raw stats (to spam either Magic or Limits) - IIRC the best Keyblade combos were the ones with strong air finisher due to good crit modifiers
        (cnt in next post)

        >Limit spam is real and it's where most of your damage will come from when you run out of Magic - I honestly hate how big the reliance on Limits is in Days, even if increasing HP threshold is supposed to stop player from spamming it
        >if you expecting the story to cover the entire Organization XIII and develop characters even further, then I have sad news for you - game is centered around Roxas, Axel and Xion while other Org members only get spotlight in few co-op missions and their dialogues with Roxas are very cardboard and caricature of their CoM/KH2 selves; the plot in general isn't bad and works well for a standalone game but then KH3 ruins everything that was good about Days' plot
        >Challenge missions are not fun - even if you do understand what kind of build you need to bring for mission, some of them are just not fun to 3-emblem and you'll have to retry them many times to actually get lucky and not frick up
        >the HP sponge factor in this game is real, but that's not the worst thing about it - if enemies move way too far from their spawn location, they'll disappear and respawn... with full HP (and now you remember that Magic is very limited, Limits have increasing HP threshold and most of combos suck); trust me, you will hate enemies like Sapphire Elegy because of that
        >for some moronic reason there's limited amount of loot you can carry, so sometimes during farming you wouldn't be able to pick up any more (which forces you to rush with clearing mission's objective and crying about all those wasted mats)
        >the game was designed to be multiplayer KH... but multiplayer sucks, especially since all you can play with friends are the same exact story missions (but this time with even more bloated stats based on # of players) that already tired you out by now and some characters have garbage stats and weapon combos; at least now you have an excuse to use party-wide magic spells like Curaga or bring Mega- items
        (cnt in next post)

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        [...]
        >Limit spam is real and it's where most of your damage will come from when you run out of Magic - I honestly hate how big the reliance on Limits is in Days, even if increasing HP threshold is supposed to stop player from spamming it
        >if you expecting the story to cover the entire Organization XIII and develop characters even further, then I have sad news for you - game is centered around Roxas, Axel and Xion while other Org members only get spotlight in few co-op missions and their dialogues with Roxas are very cardboard and caricature of their CoM/KH2 selves; the plot in general isn't bad and works well for a standalone game but then KH3 ruins everything that was good about Days' plot
        >Challenge missions are not fun - even if you do understand what kind of build you need to bring for mission, some of them are just not fun to 3-emblem and you'll have to retry them many times to actually get lucky and not frick up
        >the HP sponge factor in this game is real, but that's not the worst thing about it - if enemies move way too far from their spawn location, they'll disappear and respawn... with full HP (and now you remember that Magic is very limited, Limits have increasing HP threshold and most of combos suck); trust me, you will hate enemies like Sapphire Elegy because of that
        >for some moronic reason there's limited amount of loot you can carry, so sometimes during farming you wouldn't be able to pick up any more (which forces you to rush with clearing mission's objective and crying about all those wasted mats)
        >the game was designed to be multiplayer KH... but multiplayer sucks, especially since all you can play with friends are the same exact story missions (but this time with even more bloated stats based on # of players) that already tired you out by now and some characters have garbage stats and weapon combos; at least now you have an excuse to use party-wide magic spells like Curaga or bring Mega- items
        (cnt in next post)

        >it's also a mystery to me how BBS wasn't designed to be a multiplayer KH game yet implemented multiplayer content much better and was actually had some OC modes to play with friends (instead of just reusing existing stuff) - Command Board / Disney Town minigames / Mirage Arena missions were also available offline but PvP mode was really fun with friends
        Overall, Days had some very interesting ideas (panel system / magic system / Keyblades having their own unique combos), variety of playable characters in multiplayer is amazing and the plot in vacuum is okay, but the execution was poor and could really benefit from full-fledged remake. RE:Coded suffered from absolutely filler plot but the gameplay itself was fantastic (maybe outside of minigames, some of which are up to your tastes) and if you're looking for fun KH game for the sake of gameplay and not plot then I'd rather recommend playing RE:Coded instead of Days.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        read the manga instead.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What and

      Here's what you need to know.
      >KH1 on either proud or standard
      >Go emulate CoM on GBA instead of playing Re:CoM
      >PLAY KH2 BEFORE DAYS
      >Play KH2 on Critical Mode; DO NOT LISTEN TO moronS TELLING YOU TO DO A LV1 RUN FIRST
      >The Days Cutscene movie is shit. Either read the Days manga via your manga piracy site of choice or emulate the DS game; it's weird but has some really fun ideas
      >Play BBS on standard or proud, avoid crit like the plague, KEEP SEPARATE SAVES FOR EACH CHARACTER OR YOU'LL HAVE TO PLAY THEM AGAIN
      >Re:Coded is great, but story irrelevant. Either Emulate the DS game (you should) or skip it entirely
      >when you get to 3D/Dream Drop Distance, play on Standard or Proud, YOU ONLY GET ABILITIES FROM DREAM EATERS SO RAISE A WIDE VARIETY OF THE FRICKERS
      Have a good time, OP. This series is stupid, but it's a good kind of stupid.

      I would say KH2 on standard is fine, just dont do a level 1 run like they said
      KH1 Proud is ideal because it increases the challenge and tension for a lot of fights, but for a casual play standard is fine

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    if you don't care about the story then kh2 first (kh1 is good but a bit outdated).

    if you do want to follow the story then by release order (from top to botom basically)

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    dont let this shit touch you(r heart), you will end caring too much about it.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you're not liking a game, drop it. It will negatively impact your comprehension of the story, but I've followed the story all the way through and it's fricking garbage, not worth playing some shitty spinoff you're not enjoying for it.
    Play at least II on the highest difficulty available. Less important for the others, but I would still recommend I on the highest difficulty as well.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Really? I heard it's bad but I want to at least give it a chance.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Sure, do give it a chance, I love the series. But there are some pretty different games in there. It's not worth playing something you're not liking for the story. The conclusion won't be worth it, trust me.
        If you do enjoy all of the games, then that's obviously better.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No idea. Only played 1 and 2 and travesre town in CoM. 1's still the best, except shitty gummi ship sections. 2's are way better

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Read a guide for the first game's initial choices since they're shitty and can frick you over in the long run if you don't know what you're doing. Re: CoM is an awful piece of shit so you should just emulate CoM (or play it on the actual hardware, it's a really good game) and watch the Re cutscenes on youtube. The second game is perfect, no real tips there, just remember that magic is great and curaga isn't your only spell.
    Also the story is actually quite interesting if you play it in order, you might end up actually caring about the characters

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    pick the wand in 1

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Enjoy the ride.

    Finished playing this HD collection like a month ago and it was great.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Kinda wanna stream my first playthrough tbh, I dont want to make stupid decisions and a chat will help.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      decisions?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      have a nice day

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I dunno, I feel like I might frick something up or miss something important?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Frick off, homosexual.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      holy shit just have a nice day

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Take a deep breath when you start birth by sleep, it's a fricking rollercoaster with no seat belts

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >it's a fricking rollercoaster
      And by that you mean Terra's route, because Ventus and Aqua are fricking snorefests

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Any tips since I'm playing in order?
    yeah stop after the first one, they turn to shit

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Here's what you need to know.
    >KH1 on either proud or standard
    >Go emulate CoM on GBA instead of playing Re:CoM
    >PLAY KH2 BEFORE DAYS
    >Play KH2 on Critical Mode; DO NOT LISTEN TO moronS TELLING YOU TO DO A LV1 RUN FIRST
    >The Days Cutscene movie is shit. Either read the Days manga via your manga piracy site of choice or emulate the DS game; it's weird but has some really fun ideas
    >Play BBS on standard or proud, avoid crit like the plague, KEEP SEPARATE SAVES FOR EACH CHARACTER OR YOU'LL HAVE TO PLAY THEM AGAIN
    >Re:Coded is great, but story irrelevant. Either Emulate the DS game (you should) or skip it entirely
    >when you get to 3D/Dream Drop Distance, play on Standard or Proud, YOU ONLY GET ABILITIES FROM DREAM EATERS SO RAISE A WIDE VARIETY OF THE FRICKERS
    Have a good time, OP. This series is stupid, but it's a good kind of stupid.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Play the games in any order. Video game stories are fricking godawful.
      Honestly OP? Cringe fricking game choice. Play literally anything else.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Solid advice, only real change I'd make is not bother with proud. Playing on normal is fine especially if you're not used to that style of combat, and then you can replay on critical mode if you really want to experience the glass cannon horseshit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >>Go emulate CoM on GBA instead of playing Re:CoM
      There is nothing wrong with Re:CoM and in fact plays better than CoM if you actually know how to multitask on screen with your cards while moving.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Savor the gameplay as much as you can. Its hard to go back after you've experience the mechanical freedom that 2 has and then delved into the pure unga bunga of BBS and 3.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Frick it. I'm raw dogging it. I'm doing kh1 first blind.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/fX1aXiK.jpg

      Never played these games but heard the gameplay is good. All I know is that it's cringey. Any tips since I'm playing in order?

      just do what this guy

      Here's what you need to know.
      >KH1 on either proud or standard
      >Go emulate CoM on GBA instead of playing Re:CoM
      >PLAY KH2 BEFORE DAYS
      >Play KH2 on Critical Mode; DO NOT LISTEN TO moronS TELLING YOU TO DO A LV1 RUN FIRST
      >The Days Cutscene movie is shit. Either read the Days manga via your manga piracy site of choice or emulate the DS game; it's weird but has some really fun ideas
      >Play BBS on standard or proud, avoid crit like the plague, KEEP SEPARATE SAVES FOR EACH CHARACTER OR YOU'LL HAVE TO PLAY THEM AGAIN
      >Re:Coded is great, but story irrelevant. Either Emulate the DS game (you should) or skip it entirely
      >when you get to 3D/Dream Drop Distance, play on Standard or Proud, YOU ONLY GET ABILITIES FROM DREAM EATERS SO RAISE A WIDE VARIETY OF THE FRICKERS
      Have a good time, OP. This series is stupid, but it's a good kind of stupid.

      said and you'll be good.
      and yeah to echo what he said, critical on KH2 is fine for a first playthrough but anyone saying to do level 1 is actually moronic due to how much harder it is for someone who isnt good at the game or new to it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's shit, just fricking play 2 and forget the series exists.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Play KH2 on critical difficulty and skip all the cutscenes. The combat in 2 is the only thing redeeming about this game.

        Barry? Barry, is that you?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          RENT FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Barry? Barry, is that you?

          no, he would tell you to skip this series and play FFXV and/or Forespoken

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        KH1 is the only good one

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      have fun. pick the staff and shield. dont be a casual.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Play KH2 on critical difficulty and skip all the cutscenes. The combat in 2 is the only thing redeeming about this game.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pick the staff and drop the sword in KH1 since magic is really strong in that game.
    Pick the proud difficulty if you want to see the secret ending without having to collect all the collectible items in the game (or just watch it on Youtube if you don't want to I guess).

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Play every game on Critical difficulty (Proud in KH1) if you actually care about gameplay at all. Any setting lower and they are mindless button mashers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The command deck games are still button mashers on Critical.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The only games that matter are 1&2
    1 has a simple plot and gameplay loop, though its level structure is pretty confusing
    2 is the definitive KH game with arguably the best difficulty range of any ARPG, you can blitz through it or you can struggle with a plethora of postgame bosses
    I've heard good things about Re:Coded but I never got around to playing it myself
    If you (somehow) get hooked on the plot also play 358/2 Days, Birth By Sleep, and 3

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Play 1, RE:CoM, 2 and never touch the series ever again.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    2 is still one of the best combat systems in a video game
    3 is fun

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Kairi is pretty and her boobs smell good.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I'm playing in order
    You are not gonna make it bro. KH1 and 2 are good but all the others not so much.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      CoM and BBS are lesser but still good, and 3D and 3 have their moments
      Though a lot of that does depend on how into to the story and characters and shit you get, upper-mid gameplay can still be a total slog if the framework stringing it along repels you

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why didnt they remake 358 bros?
    I actually enjoyed the Mission/Hunting based gameplay applied to KH.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because normies wouldn't get it. Then they would slander it to no end.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Actual reason is "if we'd spend too much time on properly remaking Days, it'd take time from KH3's development and we don't want that" - same reason BBS remaster cut online content from Mirage Arena (and probably same reason RE:Coded wasn't remade). And it's probably too late to go back and actually remaking Days and RE:Coded, especially since Nomura has only one dev team now (there's also mobile shit but those guys can't make console KH games).

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The story is stupid but 2 has a legitimately great pay-off with the third act that makes up for a log of the crap of playing through 1, CoM, and most of 2.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    KH2 is the greatest game of all time

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      hi joel

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      wtf? it's march, why are you still black?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nice Artoria poster, handanon.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Black men having sex with Saber

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just try not getting too invested in the story and you should have an okay time. You're either going to hate or love Re:COM's combat.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you don't like the gameplay of Chain Of Memories just watch the cutscenes on YouTube. 80% of your playtime will be spent rehashing events from the first game you played right before this. The plot is somewhat important and the voice acting is pretty good so I think you could just watch the cutscenes from the PS4 version if you're not feeling up to playing the game itself.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Play the games in the order of the release date. There's an All in One Package for the PS4. hopefully KH4 in 2025

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    don't actually play re:com it's garbage

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >All I know is that it's cringey. Any tips
    Yeah. have a nice day, troony.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I played through Re:CoM and Riku mode was kino, what the hell is everyone's deal with it? The final boss was also incredible in Re:CoM

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >RE:CoM Riku mode
      Because Duel system casualized Riku Mode, and it was already pretty damn easy in GBA version to begin with (pre-set decks, instant deck reset, all boss cards are added with no cost, AP being the best level stat available) - the fact that you can easily proc it (just use the card of same value) and then just spam your entire deck (and even instantly reset it because lmao it's Riku Mode) with no penalty to eventually win the Duel and deal insane amount of damage is stupid. Especially since there's no limit to amount of Duels you can proc.
      At least Riku vs Riku Replica in GBA version was a challenging fight, but in RE:CoM version there are none.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    KH1&2 are the only games that matter. Rest is filler garbage or complete dogshit.
    >b-bu-ACK!
    Osakagays need not apply.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    GET UP ON THE HYDRAS BACK

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    im still mad at kingdom hearts 3.

    it was mid. so mid

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      every game has been mid since like 2011

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    358/2 Days and KH2 should have been switched in this order, it makes Roxas's story even more tragic. A tear always comes to my eye when he says "my summer vacation is over". The first trilogy is kino, I remember KH1 being one of the first media I ever interacted with that had a bittersweet ending and not everything was fine in the end. It becomes too convoluted later.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The numbered game shave the best gameplay, 1 is a bit rough around the edges due to being the first game but is still solid as hell, 2 is the best game in the series hands down and the series plummets straight afterwards.
    If you're not having fun during CoM (wouldn't blame you, total shift in gameplay) I recommend you just skip straight to 2. You lose out on a lot of context but it's really enjoyable piecing the blanks together, 2 starts with a drawn out mystery that's only really effective if you -haven't- played CoM or Days yet.
    Plus honestly it gives 2 a big of a rpelay factor when you revisit the game some years later after playing CoM and Days since the entiro storyline hits differently. It's how I experienced the games myself when I was younger, playing 1 then straight to 2 and not getting CoM until years later.

    It's a fun rabbit hole. The display of someone's unhindered and unhinged fantasy with this good of a presentation is rare and couldn't possibly be made anywhere outside of Japan. It really is a bizarre and enthralling experience. A true wild ride. It's a miracle it happened in the first place.

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