The next Kingdom Hearts game,
Kingdom Hearts Chain Of Memories, is on the Gameboy Advance
and lets just say... The transition from PS2 to Gameboy
wasn't smooth in my opinion. The story goes that Sora is walking down the
path he was taking with Donald and Goofy in the last game
when they come to a crossroad and Sora stops to look at the
night sky. Suddenly, a strange man in a black coat appears
to Sora and says "Ahead lies something you need, but to
claim it, you must lose something dear." When Sora looks to
see where this came from, the man pulls a Houdini and
disappears into the dark night. Once gone, only one path in
front of Sora remains; the path to a castle that has spires
as pointy as Sora's hair named Castle Oblivion.
From here it is non-stop talking.
After awhile it just gets so very annoying. It is
understandable that the Gameboy Advanced doesn't have the
computing power to save its life, let alone show video
explain the plot, but it became ridiculous. Words were
always all over the screen and rarely were interesting
conversations.
The game play could have been better
as well. Cards are used in the battlefield which usually
spells disaster for a game, but this system actually worked
out ok. Button commands are easy and easy to learn and you
get plenty of battles to sink your key into. You will also
be visiting the same worlds as the past game, Kingdom
Hearts, such as Wonderland and the countless others. You
don't fly around in a ship and you do meet up with Donald
and Goofy. The way you navigate about is through the Castle
Oblivion.
We have nothing much more to say
about this game except for the fact that it was average and
nothing revolutionary like the first Kingdom Hearts.
We give Kingdom Hearts Chain of
Memories 3 huge text boxes, out of 5.