You’ll start off with a set number of cards, but quickly gain new cards to outfit your deck with, starting with simple attack cards and later earning summoning cards featuring classic Disney characters, and other magic cards with various effects. You’ll still run around a 3D space and have the ability to directly attack or dodge enemies, but attacks are dictated by a deck of cards that become fully customizable as you advance. Whereas the majority of the Kingdom Hearts titles are straight forward, button mashing action RPG’s, Chain of Memories took a more unique card battle approach. There’s certainly design lessons learned when it comes to character movement, combat, and camera control that make for a better overall experience here.īut the biggest thing about Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories that continues to stand out is its superb battle system. #PS3 KINGDOM HEARTS HD 1.5 REMIX PS2#But it certainly benefits from coming later in the franchise, released for PS2 after Kingdom Hearts II as a standalone entry in North America and as part of Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix in Japan. Chain of Memories has always been a personal favorite of mine anyways, so I might be a bit biased here to begin with. I think most will agree that Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories ends up being the better experience between the two. But any sort of platforming exercise featured in Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix tends to become overly annoying, and really bogs down an otherwise enjoyable experience. It’s not as frustrating when it comes to combat, since the ability to hard lock or soft lock onto targets is easy enough to perform. You’ll see frustration start to lay in with one of the earliest worlds in the game, Alice in Wonderland, and it never seems to improve as you continue on. The biggest offender continues to be the poor camera control, hamstrung by levels that are too enclosed which in turn send the camera into a stubborn fit more often than not. Still there are issues that continue to plague the original game, especially when directly compared to later releases like Birth By Sleep or the more recent Dream Drop Distance. #PS3 KINGDOM HEARTS HD 1.5 REMIX FULL#The character models in Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix HD stand out in particular, with a makeover that really pops out in HD, full of vibrant colors that help sell you on Tetsuya Nomura’s eclectic character designs more than ever. I was really amazed with how great the original game looks, despite the wooden animations and lackluster voice acting. The two playable titles here both shine in their HD trappings. #PS3 KINGDOM HEARTS HD 1.5 REMIX SERIES#Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days is more of an oddity here, opting to not port the game from the DS version, but instead whittling down the experience into a series of strung together cutscenes that tell the story found in 358/2 Day into a sort of elongated film. Of these two, Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories is the more straight forward port, offering up an HD skinned version of the PS2 release, which was a remake of the Game Boy Advance original. The other two titles featured here consist of Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days. Oddly enough Final Mix, previously a Japanese only release, brought over some content from the original North American release of Kingdom Hearts that wasn’t found in the Japanese version of the game, so now we’ve essentially come full circle with this HD port. Think of this as a director’s cut of sorts for the first game, featuring small content changes across the board. This collection includes the original Kingdom Hearts Final Mix, which marks the first time Final Mix has been made available in North America. I think most fans will find that Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX is one of the better compilations out there, both in overall value with two full games included, and in general quality. Some of those ports have been excellent rebirths, with titles like Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, while others are best forgotten like the poorly executed Silent Hill Collection from Konami. As we close the curtains on this generation of video games, it’s hard not to notice how prevalent HD ports of existing franchises have become.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |