Kingdom Hearts: Re:Coded

Now we've come to a kinda underrated Kingdom Hearts game, Kingdom Hearts: Re:Coded. This was the second DS Kingdom Hearts game and was a tiny bit split when it came out. And by split, I don't mean in ways that made people say it was bad, they all said it was good, but they were just split on a couple of things in the game that made them either like or dislike the gameplay in it. But, before I get to that though, let's talk about the story. What's the story?  It, of course, opens with one of those awesome opening scenes again.

It's set after Kingdom Hearts 2 and after the scene where everyone returns to where they belong. But before the after credit scene at the end of that game. That scene took place a year after the main game and this is what happens before that scene and something is going on in Jiminy's journal. Yeah, just in case I didn't say it, Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio was with Sora, Donald and Goofy in Kingdom Hearts 1, Chain of Memories and 2 and he always stays in Sora's hood. But now that he's back at Disney Castle, he's looking at his journal and in one of his journals and he's seeing a mysterious message he never wrote into it that says "Their hurting will be mending when you return to the end." He shows King Mickey along with Donald, Goofy, Chip and Dale. They suggest using a special machine to scan the journal but then something happens. Some kind of block like things appears inside it that machine. They're not sure what's going on but then they get the idea to find someone already in the journal and have them explore the different worlds and repair the data and so they choose Sora. And the whole game is basically going to a few worlds inside the computer as Data Sora and trying to fix the data of Jiminy's journal while also realising a lot more things as well like finding a Data Riku who's actually the journal itself. That may sound weird, but play the game yourself to know what I mean. So let's go over the few problems I have with the game first because, remember when I did my ranking of all the Kingdom Hearts games, I put this game at number 6 and one of the reasons why is because there are some problems. So, let's go over those. Firstly, and probably the biggest problem in this is that the platforming is so bad. I mean, really, really bad. Especially in the System Sector parts and you have to go everywhere and there are these huge walls everywhere and you have to do specific objectives and wages to get out.


And some of these Heartless are so unfair with how strong they are like the Eliminator from the System Sectors as well.

They're supposed to look like the Defenders Heartless and this thing is way to strong. Sure you can beat it and it doesn't kill you instantly, but still. And you also lose too much SP. Another problem I have is the levelling up. Wow, I've had this game ever since it came and I've played it a lot and I'm only on level 35. The amount of experience you have to get and the amount of Heartless you have to fight is so ridiculous. And a lot of the objectives in the worlds here are also hard to figure out on your own. Especially in Wonderland. And now that we have that out of the way, let's get to the good stuff. The story, of course being part of the Kingdom Hearts story, is going to be fantastic, the fighting, while some isn't great, some is and it's a lot of fun when it is. The twists as well are really good, especially when you realise that what's going on is that the real King Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Jiminy are actually in the journal itself too. And the Zero/One Keyblade is one of my favourite Keyblades in the whole series. It's also cool to see these different worlds in a different way. And when I say that I mean because in each world, there are many different objectives and ways you have to do the thing in the worlds like when you have to catch Iago in time in Agrabah or when you have to do different kinda round like things in Olympus Coliseum because it looks different with the round which are called layers and it's cool to go through these different ones. And it's also cool to have Hercules and Cloud as partners for that. And I really like a lot of these bosses and I really like the Score Attack options where you can go back and fight the bosses. I especially like the Data Roxas fight. I already said that that's my favourite fight in this whole game. The voice cast is still amazing and the whole tie-in to the ending of Kingdom Hearts 2 is also great. Watch. You may not get it if you haven't played the games, but still watch this.

I know all of that may seem confusing if you haven't played the games and the people that Data Naminé was talking about were Roxas, Axel, the real Naminé, Xion, Ven, Aqua and Terra. And that secret ending is beyond awesome. It's a tie-in to Dream Drop Distance and it made a lot of people really excited when they saw it then. Especially when they understood that Yen Sid was talking about Sora and Riku doing the Mark of Mastery exam which is what Aqua and Terra did in Birth By Sleep. That is awesome. And even with all those problems I mentioned before, I kinda find this game to be a little underrated. It's kinda hard to explain. So overall, I think that this game, while flawed, is still really enjoyable and another one I really like and love some parts. And, that's my review for Kingdom Hearts: Re:Coded. Thank you all for reading and please go play this if you haven't already and please comment down below to tell me what you thought of this review and forward to my final Kingdom Hearts review next, Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance and then 0.2.