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And this isn’t just 1, this is 1 + Chain of Memories + Days Movie + 2 + BBS + Recoded movie.
2.5 is a collection of 2 HD games and a cutscene movie
Should be pretty obvious why the combination of them takes up 80 gb.
Well the unplayable games, and the games cut-scenes take up 20 GB on top of Japanese voices you couldn't use until this release with switching to international mode
tons of bloat tbh
Meanwhile, the Steam Deck variants are less than 10 GB, with pretty much the same perceivable quality.
Then why not just do what other games have done and offer seperate languages as a free DLC you can download? I am all for localizing things and making it more accessible, for ♥♥♥♥♥ sake I watch my anime dubbed, but if the reason the game is so freakin huge is a couple movies and languages then that's a little dumb.
Wait wait, it has both KH1 and KH2? Well that makes sense, but then what the hell is KH2.8 then? God this franchise really is as confusing as everyone says it is, I just wanted to get into the final fantasy mickey game
Then just look up Release Order and play the series in that order.
If you dont know the order its 1, Chain, 2, 358, BBS, Recoded, DDD, 0.2, Backcover, Union X (dont really need to know everything yet but maybe the beginning), 3, Melody of Memories, finish Union X
Yeah.. About that.. Honestly, you're better off not trying to 'understand' the story and play it for the experience while picking up lore as you go.
There are games like Elden Ring, where there is very little narrative storytelling but there's massive amounts of environmental/item storytelling that can fill in the gaps to give you a nearly complete picture.
There are games like Final Fantasy where it's almost entirely narrative with environmental as a backdrop.
Kingdom Hearts took an Elden Ring style approach and the narrative isn't really explained. The parts that are explained are done so in a convoluted way. The items you get, like Ansem's Report, fill in some holes but not nearly enough to explain what's actually going on. It doesn't get any better by the second game when they add an entirely different group than Sora and the gang vs. the Heartless. The problem with taking that kind of approach is you need to be spot on with your lore. Especially when it was just the first game the lore of the game left virtually everyone stumped.
The movies and such are the game director's way of trying to bridge the gaps in story.
The story still doesn't make sense after them though, lmao.
Kingdom Hearts is not at all like a Souls game in terms of relying solely on items to give most of the story.
Its the opposite. Most of it is given to you in cutscenes like its a FF game. While there is background detail in reports, you don't need them to understand the basics of the story, its there if you want to go into more detail. They are extras for those that REALLY want to know the details. The main story is all in cutscenes, most of them with voice acting.
If this was a Souls game, you'd start in Traverse town, already holding a keyblade, and then an npc would give you some vague directions and then you use what they say and item descriptions to figure out whats going on. No long cutscenes.
It expects you to go in Release Order though and will not completely accommodate anyone who skips around randomly. Thats where the "convoluted" part comes in, since on release most players would skip games due to not having the correct systems for them and then theyd be missing a game's worth of added story and context at minimum. Skip a game, and you suddenly don't know who the main villain is, or what key characters are.
I'm glad you've got your own perspective! Doesn't make mine wrong.
KH doesn't rely solely on items. Didn't say it did.
Analogies, similarities, and metaphors aren't meant to be 1-1 translations, my guy. Didn't say KH was a souls game.
Take everything you read here with a grain of salt. You're on Steam forums, not the Library of Congress.
2.8 contains the following:
And that just leaves Kingdom Hearts 3 + Re:Mind, which is just KH3 and its DLC packaged with the game.
"What is Final Mix?"
Final Mix refers to the updated versions of the games released usually about a year after the original launch. They contain extra content, features, and fixes.
"Why are the titles so confusing?"
There was a *long* gap between Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts 3. During that time, we got 4 different handheld games across 3 systems (DS, 3DS, PSP), a mobile Kingdom Hearts gacha game, and 3 HD collections of the games on PS3, then on PS4. The title for 1.5 was attempting to convey that it contained KH1 and the games chronologically leading up to KH2. Naturally, 2.5 attempts to convey that it contains KH2 and the games leading up to 3. This pattern was broken when they had to remaster Dream Drop Distance, which chronologically takes place just before KH3. It was packaged with a cool KH3 tech demo and called 2.8 to convey that it was the final collection before finally getting KH3.
"What are cutscene movies?"
358/2 Days and Re:Coded were originally fully playable Nintendo DS games. Due to time constraints, the difficulty involved in remaking them for the collection, and their low relevance to the story at large, they were included as HD compilations of only their cutscenes. Kingdom Hearts Union X Back Cover is an exception, as it's actually an original movie to supplement Kingdom Hearts Union X (the aforementioned mobile game).