Friday, January 7, 2011

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded Review

 
 

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Not long ago the idea of combining Final Fantasy and Disney seemed so strange and foreign that there was no way you could imagine it working -- and yet nearly a decade after its first release Kingdom Hearts is still going strong. Re:coded is the latest entry in the franchise and, chronologically speaking, the first to take place after the events of Kingdom Hearts II. However, that?s honestly a bit misleading -- while there are some hints as to what we may see in a Kingdom Hearts 3, this is mostly a look back that helps to tie up loose ends.

It starts with Jiminy Cricket reviewing his written account the original Kingdom Hearts (which, as you may recall, is mostly empty thanks to Chain of Memories) and finding a new mysterious message. King Mickey orders Chip and Dale to create a machine to digitize Jiminy's journal so they can investigate...only to find that some unknown force has corrupted the journal's data. To help fix this problem they enlist the aid of Sora -- or rather, the data-based version of Sora that lives inside the journal -- to find and eliminate the source of all the bugs, as well as recover the data hidden inside. Even by Kingdom Hearts standards it's all pretty ridiculous, but if you just roll with the punches and don't think too hard, you'll have a good time.


 
 

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