Nova Crystallis

Well unfortunately that’s true, you can read on the Wikis to understand what’s going on or you can just watch someone on YouTube do a let’s play. Honestly, at first the story didn’t need the side games, but when they started opening them more and more, the side games became pivotal to the storyline. It’d be best for you to try and catch on those whole while you can.

Unreal Engine renders hair very badly…it looks so fake and poorly textured…oh well, I don’t own a console to play this so whatever.

Well, thanks to the compilations on PS3 and PS4 you can have nearly all of the side games (at least their stories) on the same console. But it’s true that it’s really anoying how the main storyline got scattered through the series even in the mobile titles…

You could but where’s the fun in that? At the very least buy 1.5+2.5. 2.8 insists of a movie, a small prologue for KH3 and a game whose only relevant contribution to the story was the final world. All this can be seen on youtube

I feel ya, I 100%ed 1,2,chain of memories, half of Birth by Sleep, that 358/2 days game for the DS and started Dream Drop but honestly got soooo booorrreeeddd of going to THE SAME PLACES over and over and over and over, i gave up on the series.

Honestly all this series ever needed was 1,2,3 and Birth by Sleep, the rest imo are honestly a waste of time, development, money, and story. 358/2 was the beginning of me not caring anymore because of how dull and repetitive the gameplay and locations are, which is funny because I suffered through Chain of Memories/re:coded which is literally a re-port of the first game with some new story added ( I know it takes place after 1 and before 2 or something, but it literally just goes over the events of 1 again.. only with a new terrible combat system with cards…)

Kinda pisses me off I need to either play or watch the other games on youtube to fully understand 3 because i really don’t want to lmfao.

Okay, so Nomura recycled Noctis’s design into Riku? I mean it looks good and all but it feels a little lazy.

Short answer is no.

Do you remember playing KH2 without playing Chain of Memories first? Do you remember wondering what Sora’s promise to Namine was, who she was, how he knew her, who the pink haired dilly in the opening was, why only half the Organization shows up despite Sora never encountering them, etc? There’s a very strong chance that the entirety of KH3 will be that way.

I believe the average person is going to have this problem because I do not believe the average person played most, if not all of the side games because they didn’t realize they were continuations of this mess of a story. But KH3 is being built heavily off of the events of Birth By Sleep and Dream Drop Distance in particular, and they’re convoluted as shit. Unchained also has a lot of important information but god knows nobody’s played far enough into that one so we’re all gonna be lost. 358/2 Days is significantly less vital but one of the characters is supposed to be important…ish. Allegedly. Fragmentary Passage is just a prologue to KH3 really, not all that important tbh. Truthfully it’s just a glorified tech demo. And Coded is probably the only complete throwaway entry. I don’t think it has any key information in it except for what was in the bottle at the end of KH2, which by the time you play KH3 is irrelevant anyway since they deal with that in DDD.

There’s a pretty good chance the story is going to be shit if you didn’t play them because there’s gonna be a lot of totally random plot points thrown at you that you’ll be expected to understand. But, the silver lining is that I did play them, and based on what I played I can tell you that there’s a pretty good chance the story is going to be shit anyway. Seriously, even having played them all, the story still makes like no sense anyway. The series really went downhill over those side games imho. I’m sure it’ll be fun, but the story really has no chance.

If you want to catch up, you could play the 1.5/2.5 collection for PS4. It has KH1, CoM, KH2, Days, Coded, and BbS, and the 2.8 collection has Dream Drop, Unchained (partially), and Fragmentary Passage. So for around $100, you get all nine games (Days, Coded and Unchained are just cutscenes). Of those, you could probably get away with just playing BBS and DDD in order to get a full gambit of the story. BBS is actually pretty decent (despite being convoluted as shit), and I’d recommend it anyway. DDD was trash though imo. If you wanna know that story, I’d recommend watching it on youtube if you don’t wanna drop $40 bucks on it. Otherwise, if you’re looking for just a quick catchup: Everyone is Sora. Everyone else is Xehanort.

After XV’s bust, KH3 is the spiritual redeemer of XV.

I don’t agree with people always telling me “this game isn’t for you” every time I ask for change in the game industry.

Well, they took Noctis from him. He’s just claiming back what is rightfully his.

Okie dokie? I’ve found those are all flaws too. Didn’t ruin the game for me though. Anyway your complaint here seems to be the defensive fanbase of XV. (Kinda like my problem is the overly harsh critics of XV) (By the way as a fun sort of aside (Which is totally a bait if you want to discuss it with reason) XIII sucks terribly and is the worst FF I’ve ever played)

😛

Thanks for this.
To be honest, I was done with KH2 at a pretty young age and just forgot about KH after that. When I saw all of those side games coming out I thought they were just appetizers for fans waiting on KH3, so I didn’t care much about them (especially since they were out on multiple consoles, I knew I wouldn’t be able to play them anyway).
But I can see I was wrong and it kind of pisses me off because I can see this pattern Square Enix is using for most of their games. We talked about that, it’s called “Milking”. It means that I have to spend more money to play games I don’t really care about just to “understand” the main plot of the upcoming KH3, the only one I’ve been waiting for.
I saw some Let’s play on Youtube for a few side games and.. gosh I can understand why you got bored playing them, as I was already bored watching them. What I’ve found to be pretty sad is the vanishing of the entire Final Fantasy part of the game that made me love the KH series in the first place.

If I have some leftover money, I might consider getting the compilation before KH3 gets out.. but shame on you Square Enix, shame on you.

I’ve been watching a full recap of the entire storyline on Youtube and even the guy narrating it is confused on a lot of stuff. This is indeed convoluted AF, wow. I didn’t know it went THAT far. I wouldn’t be able to come up with plots like this, even with drugs involved.
As for the FF part of the game, it seems to be completely gone in KH3 from the few trailers I’ve seen. It’s sad because this relationship between Disney and FF was the reason KH was born in the first place. The building blocks of this franchise. Now it’s just become something else entirely.
I remember how hard it was to beat Sephiroth in the Coliseum, and how thrilling it was. Are we doomed to miss the old days ? 🙁

The moment they announce it, I swear I will pre-order collector edition with a quickness. And I don’t care if it cost 400 dollars. I got the money. I cannot wait. My dream. My love. My heart… My kingdom heart.

lol

google lost soul aside.

I wouln’t even call it a fault considering it’s intentional.

you may be right…as it stands it looks kind of off.

You have the right to think it looked better before but it still has nothing to do with the engine. The unreal engine can surpass the quality seen in ps2 cutscenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riQ6iHnGvQk
The development team just decided to go with a different artistic direction. They’re not aiming for something that looks like the CG cutscenes.

You can say the same for Sora when the first KH came out.