Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded

[TWOxACROSS]

Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded is the DS remake of the JP-Only title made for cell phones.

The story takes place after the events of Kingdom Hearts II, where Jiminy Cricket and King Mickey are archiving the Jiminy Memo of Sora's adventures. While leafing through the journals, they find a mysterious message...

"Their hurting will be mended when you return to end it."

To make heads or tails of the message, they enter the journals into a database, only for it to become corrupted, with some of the information rendered unreadable. They then task the Data Sora to go through the digital journals, removing bugs and investigating the the meaning behind the mysterious message.

It looks like it will use a combat system very similar to Birth by Sleep, using normal attacks and Dodge Rolls while magic and special abilities like Strike Raid are used with the cool-down system. Although the gameplay seems to take several different turns, since just from that video we see the normal KH gameplay, a turn-based encounter system, some Mario-style platforming, stealth, and some rail shooting-esque events.

[Cookies]

If it's Kingdom hearts, I want it. But not 358/2 days because that was kind of a lame side story.

[TWOxACROSS]

Hey, I loved 358/2 Days. I wanted to know why the hell Roxas left the Organization, and what they told was incredible, and made me like Roxas even more.

As for Re:Coded, I'm rather excited, because it looks like a great amalgamation of such different styles rolled up into one. Plus, I always loved their representation of digital mediums in Kingdom Hearts, so it'll be cool to see a game built around that digital styling.

The only thing I'm not keen on is the lame portrait conversations. I hate that I would've rather just had the in-game models with speech bubbles, like in the old days.

[MMSMB]

This game looks awesome, I will definitely get it

[TKG09]

The plot looks lame compared to the other KH games

[Cookies]

I can't help but wonder why squeenix seems to think we need a recap of the story in between each real installment.

On a side note I like the idea of having some more platformy bits like KH1.

[TWOxACROSS]

It's not exactly a recap, Data Sora is just going through the same worlds. This is sort of like Kingdom Hearts 2.5, in the way Chain of Memories was Kingdom Hearts 1.5.

Coded actually sort of sets up what's to happen in the third game, as the events of this game give hints as to what that letter is that Sora, Riku, and Kairi received at the end of Kingdom Hearts II.

[Cookies]

It's not exactly a recap, Data Sora is just going through the same worlds. This is sort of like Kingdom Hearts 2.5, in the way Chain of Memories was Kingdom Hearts 1.5.

Coded actually sort of sets up what's to happen in the third game, as the events of this game give hints as to what that letter is that Sora, Riku, and Kairi received at the end of Kingdom Hearts II.

Ahh awesome, I just meant that it's annoying going throught the same levels all over again, although in both games they were completely different.

[ArgyleNinja]

So...Re:Coded is to KH2 what CoM was to KH1?

[TWOxACROSS]

Pretty much. An in-between game that will help explain some of the stuff that will probably be questioned in Kingdom Hearts III (Whenever it's announced/released).