Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Broken"

Compliments:
-Looks great
-Good for hardcore KH fans
-Combat system works

Complaints:
-Grinding to find the right cards is horrible
-Same game done again
-Very short


I was expecting a lot more out of Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, but as the game progressed the more i grew to hate it.

KH Chain of Memories takes the 1st version of the game for the PS2 and remakes it using a different combat system and a different story surrounding memories from the first game. All the same characters and levels return, but the levels are scaled downed to GBA size. The levels look very good, but they are very small and are easy to pass through. The biggest flaw with the game involved with level design is that each door opens with a card with a certain number on it. For example, the door to advance to the next room will only open if you have a card with a 2 or less of value. The flaw here is that as you advance you will never have the cards you need and you will have to grind through boring battles for hours in order to find the ones you need. After every battle you get a card that can be used to open doors. I hated this part of the game and really brought down my fun with the game.

The story here revolves around a castle where Sora and his allies enter in order to restore their memories of the events from the first PS2 game. Other than the memory twist the story is the same as the ps2 version just scaled down to one tenth the size. The story was serviceable, but long text dialog will take up most of your time playing in the game.

Battles are fought in this game also using a card system, and you must build your decks a la yu-gi-oh or other games of that nature. The combat works, but eventually you will get bored with it.

The graphics and music in the game are both great. The music is authentic to the first game, and the graphics are vibrant and bright, even though the levels look like cardboard cutouts.

Overall I really enjoyed this game in the beginning, but as I progressed I grew to hate this game. I would only recommend it to true Kingdom Hearts fans.