
Thankfully, most of that material has been out in the wild for some time, so people with lives to live and schedules to keep can simply look up what they’re missing on any number of sites.

Getting all of that without use of an FAQ promises a playtime in the hundreds of hours. For players with the completionist urge, the game holds secret boss fights, unexplored stages, and extended CG epilogues hinting at future developments. Even with two of the six games included edited into arrangements of the cutscenes and story beats (they’re boiled down to just movies, essentially) each of the core entries demands between twenty to thirty hours of play just for the critical path. It’s also a hell of a lot of game to play, which would explain the long delay between release and review. Containing fully-remastered versions of Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix, Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded, this anthology is just about the only thing a new player would need to go from neophyte to sage in this ongoing saga. Putting aside the years-long delay of Kingdom Hearts 3‘s contributions to this longevity, the franchise’s continued existence remains something of a minor miracle - who could have predicted that a crossover between Final Fantasy and the characters of Disney would do so well? This unexpected fact is once again fresh in my mind after sinking a truly absurd amount of time into Kingdom He arts 1.5 + 2.5 ReMix.ĭespite the mouthful of a name Square Enix has given it, Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5 ReMix can be summed up in a single phrase - it’s all the Kingdom Hearts that matters. WTF Needing three wikis and a Google doc just to keep track of the plot.ĭespite being around longer than I’ve been an adult, I’m constantly surprised that Kingdom Hearts is still a thing. LOW Nothing that hasn’t been seen before.

HIGH Huge amounts of content, with all the most essential Kingdom Hearts material.
