Even with the great storyline, characters, combat system, and bosses, difficulty and repetition adds rust to this gem.
User Rating: 8 | Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories GBA
For a GBA game, Kingdom Hearts is awesome, hands down. You get to play out battles with some of the wildest, most familiar characters you've ever known. You enjoy some of the coolest fights the console has ever seen with Disney characters. But most of all, Kingdom Hearts allows a variety of abilities and fighting styles that you have the freedom to customize into magic and sheer butchery. First things first, this game's length is satisfactory and your ability to play as Riku after you beat it is interesting, if anything. The problems I had with this game was the amount of skill one needed to progress. For example, it took me hours upon hours of 'training' to get by some of the harder opponents and sheer skill alone cannot get you far enough for anything. The card system is also a bit funky because you panic on finding a Heal card in time or having enough cards to still be able to even swing that little keyblade. Also, cheap moves sparked an obsession with me as I hunted down Cloud cards just to get in those awesome, butt-walloping Omnislashes. Overall, Kingdom Hearts is a worthy, if not the worthiest, game to dominate the GBA.
