Whats the order of this series?

[[AdD]♛K♛ng♛C♛sper♛ ۞]

Someone got a list of the order of all the games in this kingdom heart series?
Order being the order the story pans out.

Seems confusing to a guy who has never played any of these before

[mdesaleah]

1 > Chain > 2 > 358 > Birth By Sleep > Recoded > Dream Drop Distance > 0.2 > Back Cover (and the Unchained X mobile game) > 3 > Melody of Memories.

This collection includes most of these in either game or movie form, but you still need the 2.8 Collection before getting to 3.

[MaChao]

Personally, i will always recommend original release order.
Yes, you will bounce around the timeline here and there, but the overall story / lore expanded horizontally (it got bigger, not deeper) with each released game.
Even prequels will make more sense if you are familiar with the games that were released before them.

It's less that earlier games foreshadow story events and more that later games retroactively expand on events shown earlier, but they often expect you to already be familiar with them.

Simplest example:
Storywise, Birth by Sleep is the first game in the storyline.
However, it heavily builds upon lore and concepts established in games released before, like the whole deal with Heartless and Nobodies, how worlds are connected etc.

[mdesaleah]

Yeah. Release order is what I listed. So just follow that.

(although a correction to the comment above this is that Birth By Sleep is a prequel, but it is not the first game in the timeline. Cause the prequel got its own prequels with the phone game and Back Cover)

[MaChao]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

Yeah. Release order is what I listed. So just follow that.

(although a correction to the comment above this is that Birth By Sleep is a prequel, but it is not the first game in the timeline. Cause the prequel got its own prequels with the phone game and Back Cover)

Ah, you're correct, i forgot about the phone game (Kingdom Hearts χ [chi] ).
The Back Cover movie included in 2.8 is kinda a stand-in for it.

[[AdD]♛K♛ng♛C♛sper♛ ۞]

Thank you guys

[MaChao]

Originally posted by AdD♛K♛ng♛C♛sper♛ ۞:

Thank you guys

You're most welcome ^^
Have fun!

[Everybody do the flop]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

1 > Chain > 2 > 358 > Birth By Sleep > Recoded > Dream Drop Distance > 0.2 > Back Cover (and the Unchained X mobile game) > 3 > Melody of Memories.

This collection includes most of these in either game or movie form, but you still need the 2.8 Collection before getting to 3.

I recommend watching 358 (AKA Days) before playing Chain (AKA CoM) to get a bonus.

[Gokuzu]

I've created a guide with the correct order to follow, so you can enjoy all the games without worrying about missing anything:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3267063835

[mdesaleah]

Originally posted by Everybody do the flop:

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

1 > Chain > 2 > 358 > Birth By Sleep > Recoded > Dream Drop Distance > 0.2 > Back Cover (and the Unchained X mobile game) > 3 > Melody of Memories.

This collection includes most of these in either game or movie form, but you still need the 2.8 Collection before getting to 3.

To be clear this is the RELEASE order. I also recommend watching 358 (AKA Days) before playing Chain (AKA CoM) to get a bonus.

No.

Thats a massive spoiler for things they wont even understand.

You do get some extra card drops after watching 358, but actually watching the film early is massively ruining both Chain and 2 elements.

[Terra]

Originally posted by Everybody do the flop:

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

1 > Chain > 2 > 358 > Birth By Sleep > Recoded > Dream Drop Distance > 0.2 > Back Cover (and the Unchained X mobile game) > 3 > Melody of Memories.

This collection includes most of these in either game or movie form, but you still need the 2.8 Collection before getting to 3.

I recommend watching 358 (AKA Days) before playing Chain (AKA CoM) to get a bonus.

Absolutely not.

358/2 is meant as an epilogue to KH2, despite being set before it. KH2's entire plot is a mystery, where you have to unravel what happened between CoM and KH2. Knowing the answers would make KH2's plot pacing fall apart at best, at worse having 358/2's plot fall apart because you don't have the context playing KH2 gives you.

[MaChao]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

Originally posted by Everybody do the flop:

To be clear this is the RELEASE order. I also recommend watching 358 (AKA Days) before playing Chain (AKA CoM) to get a bonus.

No.

Thats a massive spoiler for things they wont even understand.

You do get some extra card drops after watching 358, but actually watching the film early is massively ruining both Chain and 2 elements.

This.
Days gives a peak behind the curtain of both Chain's as well as 2's central mystery.
And the extra cards really aren't worth spoiling that early for two games.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

1 > Chain > 2 > 358 > Birth By Sleep > Recoded > Dream Drop Distance > 0.2 > Back Cover (and the Unchained X mobile game) > 3 > Melody of Memories.

This collection includes most of these in either game or movie form, but you still need the 2.8 Collection before getting to 3.

wait "KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue" from the bundle is something different from "the 2.8 collection"?

[Everybody do the flop]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

1 > Chain > 2 > 358 > Birth By Sleep > Recoded > Dream Drop Distance > 0.2 > Back Cover (and the Unchained X mobile game) > 3 > Melody of Memories.

This collection includes most of these in either game or movie form, but you still need the 2.8 Collection before getting to 3.

wait "KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue" from the bundle is something different from "the 2.8 collection"?

2.8 is also a collection.

[Terra]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

1 > Chain > 2 > 358 > Birth By Sleep > Recoded > Dream Drop Distance > 0.2 > Back Cover (and the Unchained X mobile game) > 3 > Melody of Memories.

This collection includes most of these in either game or movie form, but you still need the 2.8 Collection before getting to 3.

wait "KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue" from the bundle is something different from "the 2.8 collection"?

No, they're the same thing.

[mdesaleah]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

1 > Chain > 2 > 358 > Birth By Sleep > Recoded > Dream Drop Distance > 0.2 > Back Cover (and the Unchained X mobile game) > 3 > Melody of Memories.

This collection includes most of these in either game or movie form, but you still need the 2.8 Collection before getting to 3.

wait "KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue" from the bundle is something different from "the 2.8 collection"?

Same thing.

You get the collection for 1.5+2.5 (play all the games in the order I listed “release order”), then you play every game in 2.8, then you play 3