Kingdom Hearts – Chain of Memories

[Infamer]

Is this part big?

I don't like the card system.

I would hate to skip a part.

Or do you think I should play it anyway?

What do you think of the card system?

[mdesaleah]

Big? As in important? Yes, its important. Its the direct continuation of 1 and the bridge to 2 that gives it context. Skip a game in release order, and you're skipping a movie/book in a series and youll miss the context (unless its recoded, that one is pretty nothing for most of it but even it gets mentioned later).

Use sleighs (sonic blade is a good one for most of the game), and have Ethers to refill all your cards when they run low so you can keep using sleighs even more.

I dont care for the card system, but its very easy to break. And the scenes are interesting enough to carry the whole thing.

Beat the full game of Chain of Memories (including check the reward you get after the credits, its also important) and next is 2.

[KuroLionheart]

It's very important story wise but if you don't think a game is fun then you shouldn't force yourself to play it. You can always just get a summary of the story or watch the cutscenes on Youtube if you really don't want to miss anything.

[add]

it's the git gud game of the series.

[mdesaleah]

Originally posted by add:

it's the git gud game of the series.

For beating it once, maybe.

But for doing extras, 3 with Remind and 2 Final Mix are the "git gud" games. Mostly due to their extra bosses.

[Silyon]

CoM is an undeniable slog to go through, even for fans of the game like myself. It has it's important story beats, but in typical KH fashion they only really start happening more than halfway into the game.

It's an important game for the overall continuity and world-building, but it's also the kind of game that can be skipped without affecting Sora's perspective at all. Sora literally forgets the entire game happened, and everyone he meets during it. Thus jumping straight into KH2 is perfectly safe and simply leaves a few lingering mysteries to wonder about.

[mdesaleah]

Originally posted by Silyon:

CoM is an undeniable slog to go through, even for fans of the game like myself. It has it's important story beats, but in typical KH fashion they only really start happening more than halfway into the game.

It's an important game for the overall continuity and world-building, but it's also the kind of game that can be skipped without affecting Sora's perspective at all. Sora literally forgets the entire game happened, and everyone he meets during it. Thus jumping straight into KH2 is perfectly safe and simply leaves a few lingering mysteries to wonder about.

Spoiler marking exists for a reason.

Its not just Sora who's important its also things like the villains, Namine, Riku and Diz especially

[Silyon]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

Originally posted by Silyon:

CoM is an undeniable slog to go through, even for fans of the game like myself. It has it's important story beats, but in typical KH fashion they only really start happening more than halfway into the game.

It's an important game for the overall continuity and world-building, but it's also the kind of game that can be skipped without affecting Sora's perspective at all. Sora literally forgets the entire game happened, and everyone he meets during it. Thus jumping straight into KH2 is perfectly safe and simply leaves a few lingering mysteries to wonder about.

Spoiler marking exists for a reason.

Its not just Sora who's important its also things like the villains, Namine, Riku and Diz especially

I'm not the one that mentioned names or details. Also spoilers for a 20-year-old game, lol.

[mdesaleah]

Originally posted by Silyon:

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

Spoiler marking exists for a reason.

Its not just Sora who's important its also things like the villains, Namine, Riku and Diz especially

I'm not the one that mentioned names or details. Also spoilers for a 20-year-old game, lol.

"Sora literally forgets the entire game happened, and everyone he meets during it."

Sounds like a spoiler to me and probably anyone else who's played the entire series. Especially since its how his story ends here.

Also the age doesnt matter. The games might as well only be a month old since its never been on Steam before

[Silyon]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

Originally posted by Silyon:

I'm not the one that mentioned names or details. Also spoilers for a 20-year-old game, lol.

"Sora literally forgets the entire game happened, and everyone he meets during it."

Sounds like a spoiler to me and probably anyone else who's played the entire series. Especially since its how his story ends here.

Also the age doesnt matter. The games might as well only be a month old since its never been on Steam before

People always seem to forget context matters when it comes to spoilers. Sora forgets is a fact of the story, "memory" being a theme is right there in the title. What he forgets or how he forgets it is the spoiler, and someone that's not played the game has no idea what the answer to those two questions are. Unless you want to mention that content in arguing about what a spoiler is, anyway.

What's more, OP is considering skipping the game anyway. Lots of people do because CoM is straight up not an enjoyable game, boring at best and frustrating if you don't pick up the battle system or fall back on sleight spamming. Which means spoilers become a non-thing as either they skip straight to 2, which gives enough in the cliff-notes to get a decent idea of what happened, or they look it up anyway.

[mdesaleah]

Originally posted by Silyon:

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

"Sora literally forgets the entire game happened, and everyone he meets during it."

Sounds like a spoiler to me and probably anyone else who's played the entire series. Especially since its how his story ends here.

Also the age doesnt matter. The games might as well only be a month old since its never been on Steam before

People always seem to forget context matters when it comes to spoilers. Sora forgets is a fact of the story, "memory" being a theme is right there in the title. What he forgets or how he forgets it is the spoiler, and someone that's not played the game has no idea what the answer to those two questions are. Unless you want to mention that content in arguing about what a spoiler is, anyway.

What's more, OP is considering skipping the game anyway. Lots of people do because CoM is straight up not an enjoyable game, boring at best and frustrating if you don't pick up the battle system or fall back on sleight spamming. Which means spoilers become a non-thing as either they skip straight to 2, which gives enough in the cliff-notes to get a decent idea of what happened, or they look it up anyway.

Your phasing was different.

The part I quoted you is clearly describing the ending, not the beginning/middle.

So still an end game spoiler.

[ShuShay]

My input, as someone who finished it, but not recently or on the upper difficulties:

It's important, but you can get all the relevant story from cutscene compilations on Youtube.

I would still recommend to try it for a little bit regardless. The early game can be less exciting since you have less available to you, and the later half is more flexible (though also more cheesable overall). Many people also like the atmosphere of the game, even during the memory-jumbo of the Disney levels.

There's also a second character (Riku) with a separate campaign after you complete Sora's story. The "worlds" are essentially the same, but the bosses, story, and mechanics are different. You don't even have to worry about deckbuilding.

Either way, engage with it how you want to.

[Giorno]

I don't think the card system is that bad. You can stack the cards in such a way that you're basically attacking like normal towards the end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Sting]

It's important but KH2 will explain the gist of it through the Secret Ansem Reports.

[tommy_lop]

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWA0J9a5AdHUNKxEft0IYXP8MejyHS71&si=IUG6QaboNdTebCa_ I need to redo this 10 year old guy I was still new to youtube and figuring things out. But I am proud of the information prestented here if you have any questions on how this game works, you will find it in one of these videos