Sunday, December 31, 2023

Nintendo DS Game Review: Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded

 Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded is another game on the Nintendo DS, much like Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. This one goes back to the Sora group, but with some twists. Instead of following a story of what may be seeing where Kairi went to or seeing where the King (Mickey) is like after KH1, this story follows.. well I think Sora and Riku but in a different way.  Here's what is good and bad about the game!

Positives:

1. Combat- Combat is terrific in this game. It is MILES better than the nonsense that was Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days combat.  However, this game is fluid, great, and efficient in its combat overall. I absolutely found a lot of love with this game's combat overall.

2. Command Board- I liked how it was instituted and how it was different but it works.  I like how you can use a lot of different chips to make things work and can use blank chips just to fill space for whatever you want or need to do.  Overall a fun way to learn abilities.

3. Graphics/Sound- This was also going to be a positive at any point as it is with nearly every KH game.  The graphics, even on the DS, are sound and great. The sound is also a positive and the music is terrific.

Negatives: 

1. Rehashing KH1- Yeah I got super annoyed really, really quickly when I just saw this as rehashing KH1 in at least one time in the game.  I counted it as twice, but it could have been more.  I never got the understanding as to why you would do that or try to rehash Chain of Memories either.  To me that is a major flop on the developers parts.

2. Story- This probably goes with the above, but the story in this game is brutal.  Like egregiously bad.  And I don't like saying that. But this game's story overall was just putrid altogether. I wish I could put it nicely but that's me being nice overall.

Overall Rating: 

5 out of 10. The Rehashing and Story takes away from great combat and a skillful use of the command board.  I don't understand the idea here.  It felt just nonsensical that they would make this game that way.

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