Yes, I’m aware that the “summer” is over, but I had to do some big reviews recently (including Ace Attorney Investigations and P3R Episode Aigis), so cut me some slack! The “Summer of Kingdom Hearts” is more of a theme than me trying to get through the ENTIRE SERIES in a few months’ time. However, as my Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded Review will note to you all, my personal belief that the franchise should’ve ended with KH2 remains intact because this latest experience was even worse than the last.
Much as I warned about ahead of time, Re: Coded (the “remaster” of the DS title) was yet another game in the collection that was only cutscenes. The difference between it and 358/2 Days was that these cutscenes…were a true slog to get through, and I was begging for things to be done by the time we got to the final section.
The backstory here is that the game takes place after KH2, and it focuses on King Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Jiminy Cricket as they try to solve a mystery within Jiminy’s journal. Specifically, the “erased pages” (thanks to the events of Chain of Memories) suddenly have...