KINGDOM HEARTS HD 1.5 REMIX PS4 VS PS3 SERIES
Having never played the original release, 358/2 Days comes off as a pointless exercise in making the story behind the franchise needlessly convoluted, a problem which has plagued the series since its relatively straightforward original entry. Totalling nearly 3 hours, 358/2 Days follows Roxas, a character who appears in Kingdom Hearts 2, and his origin story as he undertakes missions for Organisation 13, which is comprised of Nobodies who have no hearts and, by proxy, no feelings, yet they want to possess the ability to feel something, which is an emotion in of itself… Confusing stuff, to be sure, and the lack of Disney characters and prevalence of scenes where the characters sit on a clock tower eating Sea Salt Ice Cream and waxing lyrical about their feelings (Seriously, these scenes make up a hefty chunk of the narrative) all serve to present an unsatisfying experience, although you do get trophies for watching it, so there’s that incentive, I guess. Now, 11 years later Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix has been released in the build up to the long awaited Kingdom Hearts 3, reminding older gamers of why they fell in love with the series and introducing a new generation to the magical synergy between the worlds of Final Fantasy and Disney.Īlthough ostensibly a compilation of three titles, the first thing fans should be aware of is that this collection only actually includes two playable games, with the third, 358/2 Days, strangely being a collection of remastered FMV’s taken from the game originally released on the DS. Yet, somehow Square managed the seemingly impossible and my initial fears were soon allayed once I put the disc into my Playstation 2 and found myself immersed in exploring the many worlds I’d experienced visually as a child, this time also populated by series favourites from the FF games like Cloud Strife, Sephiroth and, erm, Wakka and Kingdom Hearts positioned itself as a beloved franchise of many RPG fans.
At the time a stalwart fan of the Final Fantasy series (I eventually jumped ship after FFX) and having grown up with many of the Disney classics, I wasn’t sure as to how well the two seemingly disparate influences would mesh together to form a satisfyingly cohesive whole.
Like many other Square fans, I admit to having reservations about Kingdom Hearts when it was first announced 11 or so years ago.
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