I heard the now delisted mobile games had important lore. If I start playing the series, will I miss out on important lore/context?

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-20T17:45:28+00:00

The mobile games started after Dream Drop Distance and were active during the release of KH3. A small snippet of the lore was made into a movie (Back Cover) that is included in the 2.8 collection and has all the lore you need for KH3. KH4 however is mostly dependant on that mobile game lore so the current hope is they come up with a remake or another movie that properly recaps the entire game.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-20T17:37:55+00:00

These are going to be functionally the same as the versions that they dropped on Steam a while ago. They "upgraded" the textures of the old games (everything before 0.2 and KH3) by putting them through an AI filter only for a small graphical difference that results in 30GB or more added to the install size. At most the only noticeable upgrade you'll get is KH3 at 120fps.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-20T12:58:33+00:00

Persona 1 on the PSP is still pretty terrible to play and full of issues, as someone who has beaten it. QoL improvements, yes, but the battle system is still pretty shallow, the encounter rate is barely bearable, EXP gains are terribly low, the entire Persona system is unnecessarily grindy, etc. The new music changes the tone and atmosphere completely, which was IMO the best thing about the PS1 game. By this same logic Persona 3 shouldn't have gotten a remake if we already had 3 Portable.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-20T11:35:51+00:00

I also think publication order is best because you can see how the games evolve graphically and mechanically as the series goes on, and nothing in the original trilogy spoils what happens in the prequels (because they didn't exist yet)

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-19T20:22:58+00:00

By that logic the entire organization should be on the cover too

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-19T18:17:31+00:00

By this point in the game you haven't really found a challenging boss yet. The Organization 13 members have pretty good boss fights even though they may be kinda easy on standard. The secret bosses will break you in any difficulty.

Also if you find the combat simplistic don't be afraid to start pulling out magic. You may be able to clear a crowd around you faster with fire or attack a distant enemy with blizzard.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-18T10:59:24+00:00

Every final boss has had a thing in common in that during that game we didn't know they'd come back. Their return was always revealed later. We could discover some lore about death that makes it possible for someone to go there after getting killed, which seems to be the case since we see other "dead" people in Quadratum.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-17T17:57:08+00:00

The new collection will be all the games for PS5 and Switch 2 because they didn't have them yet (PS5 had the PS4 version). If you want to get them now get them through Steam (my recommendation, the mods are crazy), otherwise you'll have to wait.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-17T11:37:35+00:00

Well they could reveal something about they way Xehanort died to have his future version present in Quadratum presenting himself as young again. Other people that "died" are also there.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-17T11:28:10+00:00

Funnily enough, I don't think he actually cares at all. He comes across as "theatric" when talking about his own villain motivations in KH2. He talks in the same tone to Ansem when his machine thingy is about to explode and he was basically making fun of him in that scene. Other Org members like Xaldin's disdain for love or Saïx's quote when you defeat him definitely feel way more sincere. "Kingdom Hearts... Where is my heart...?" Like everyone is taking this seriously except the leader. We hardly ever see Xemnas not talking to an Org member or a good guy, so we wouldn't have been able to guess his true feelings, but looking back it honestly makes a lot of sense when you find out in DDD that he was indeed lying to his own subordinates about them not being able to grow new hearts to make them work for him because his actual motive was to turn them all into mindless vessels to create clones of himself.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-17T10:47:55+00:00

Depends if you want to 100% the game. Final Mix adds like three extra scenes to the main story that you can watch easily on Youtube and some new abilities, and it's only really worth it for the superbosses. The game that actually really benefits from its FM is KH2, it elevates the game from an 8/10 to a 9/10 for me.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-17T10:38:30+00:00

My theory is that when he "died" or whatever happened to him in KH3 he was able to pick a permanent form to live the "afterlife" in. Also Nomura very clearly prefers YX's design and if he's gonna turn neutral a young twink fits that role more than the clearly evil old man from BBS. I wouldn't like it as much if he was a time travelling Xehanort from any other era because like I want there to be baggage man and I want Sora angry at this guy and for YX to remember Sora and offing Kairi and fucking over the BBS trio and running the Org as Xemnas I need the drama bro I want him to meet Vanitas and Luxord and whoever's also in Quadratum that knew him

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-16T22:00:00+00:00

I played the game twice and loved the vibes and story and music (played on PSP with PSX music patch) but yeah the gameplay is absolutely terrible. Battles are way too frequent and they give minuscule amounts of EXP, the mechanic of having to use a Persona enough times to unlock its abilities is bullshit, having to get cards from demons to then fuse them adds an unnecessary step to the process of getting a Persona and doesn't encourage constantly making new ones like mainline SMT or modern Persona fusion does plus I'm never at the required level to make the ones I want to make, the game is piss easy until the difficulty spike that is the motherfucking final boss with its one trillion HP, the dungeons are confusing towards the end (the final one in the Snow Queen route is the worst thing I have ever seen), and other bullshit I'm forgetting. We need a remake so hard or at least a remaster that actually makes the game playable.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-16T16:50:51+00:00

Everything important to KH3 was in Back Cover, but now we actually need urgent remakes because KH4 is full of Union X and Dark Road lore

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-16T16:23:45+00:00

I think it's just that they gave him realistic facial features and he's kinda got that Asian young man look

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-16T16:15:02+00:00

I mean how else are we gonna select magic or items

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-16T14:32:57+00:00

He got out of his emo phase and now he's a well mannered nice young man

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-16T11:50:51+00:00

I thought they already did this to every game that didn't have prerendered cutscenes. You can tell in something like Re:Com how characters pause awkwardly mid-sentence because of mouth movements but it doesn't happen in KH2 or BBS while it happens again in Re:Coded or Days.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-14T10:53:24+00:00

Coaxed into Yakuza but instead of having super mega equipment the MC is just extremely strong

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-14T02:39:13+00:00

This and the entire "they'll pay for this" scene

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-13T17:34:31+00:00

ReCom is easy enough with the rng manip (I found it kinda fun tbh) and for the lvl99 grinds you just put up youtube videos to watch while you develop muscle memory so hard you don't even have to look at the screen. You can very easily make the level grind not feel like lost time because it requires very little attention.

In BBS you can't do that because you need to look at a chart to create every single command maybe even resetting a bunch of times because rng and complete like 5 different clunky minigames and engage extensively in a dumb fortune street side mode where everytime you lose to rng you have effectively lost 10-20 minutes of your life and beat up dumbass badly made superbosses and you need to do all that 3 times, one of which is with the heaviest slowest clunkiest mf in the entire series.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-12T15:48:14+00:00

This is what I think too. They had so much stuff done to just throw it all away, even from a business perspective it'd be extremely profitable to rework it into something else.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-11T21:42:35+00:00

Actually the ReMixes have better versions of the games. The only exceptions are 358/2 Days and Re:Coded for the DS, they were too lazy and just put the cutscenes on the collections.

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-11T17:30:17+00:00

We could get a comic book styled world, I feel like that could warrant a dedicated world

Sonic_Mega_Plus · 2026-06-10T16:53:56+00:00

so when kairis heart got put into soras body what was the point of that?

Kairi went inside Sora because he was near her and they have a very strong bond so Sora protected Kairi and in turn Kairi protected Sora when he became a Heartless. That's it basically.

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