It was an interesting concept for kingdom hearts but not at all good. The whole taking back memories was just replaying all the Disney worlds but it's boring as hell. The battling is kind of nice but all the other gameplay was just opening doors. The card system is hard to master when you realize you have to have to line all your obtained cards nicely in order. Doing abilitys Is hard to do but the summons were nice enough. I ended up diching the game after finishing the first few worlds because i got my ass beat from the first main boss and realized I either have to grind the hell out or get good in order to handle the next one. Meh game

Not giving this a rating since I only played for a few hours. This game's combat is just weirdly unsatisfying, mainly I find that getting card breaks feels not fun, and actively makes me not want to learn the gameplay, along with making this already convoluted and weird combat even weirder in how combat is paced, having odd bursts of using cards instead of just more flowy combat that I felt when I played KH1.
I love deckbuilding, and from my short time playing and making some decks, KH:ReCOM still hits that mark in making fun preperations and decks. In general, this game has interesting concepts, but it just hurts to play, albeit it might just be me unwilling to rewrite my muscle memory after playing KH1. I'll just watch cutscenes and move on to KH2, don't think I'll revisit this game.

This is a truly interesting game. I have not played a game like it before, but i think that might be for good reason. this game makes you care about too many things during a battle at once. and when it becomes easier for part 1 nothing you learned really matters you just stomp most fights. and part 2 fixes this by removing the most interesting park of the game, the deck building, and not even letting you edit the order of the cards. and part 2 is mercifully short but feels like an absolute slog for good parts of its 10 hour ish runtime. Like most KH titles the music, story and character design is all very good still, though a lot of the most fun storytelling happens in the 2nd part which is a little frustrating.

So I’ve played this twice, and had VERY different experiences.
The first time was in my first kingdom hearts full series marathon.
It started out great, cool story, but the gameplay was… eh. I liked it, but after a time it got grating. And I made the mistake of watching the Disney world cutscenes.
DO NOT WATCH THE DISNEY WORLD CUTSCENES. THEY ARE LITERALLY JUST THE PLOTS OF THE RESPECTIVE WORLD IN KH1. NEVER WATCH THE DISNEY WORLD CUTSCENES. EVER.
I stopped playing after a while and just watched the cutscenes before moving on to kingdom hearts 2. Didn’t even touch the Riku stuff.
Then I played it again.
On my second kingdom hearts full series (eventually, I stopped in the middle of birth by sleep. I’ll finish eventually!!! Just when I have access to my ps5, so probably in the summer LMAO), I played on regular difficulty, skipped all the Disney cutscenes (but not the other stuff, that’s really good), and pushed through the tedious combat. But then I eventually… started to like it? And then I started to… love it???? Turns out once you get a proper build going, this game’s combat is really fun! It’s just the deck building part I hate. In any case, beat the game, feeling good, I start playing the Riku stuff and FALL IN LOVE. It removes all of the deck building AND DISNEY CUTSCENES. The story is also really cool and I love Riku as a character. Seeing Mickey and Riku becoming besties gives me life.
Anyway, big up this game, it’s good, maybe I’ll play it again sometime. Definitely the marmite of the series though.

Ta bom, boa tentativa em me fazer deixar de gostar de Kingdom Hearts, mas não foi dessa vez

Chain of Memories pra mim foi um susto, iniciei no jogo já sabendo do sistema de carta mas não sabia que ele ia ser tão chatinho de pegar o jeito, e isso me deixou um pouco chateado no início porque de fato eu não tava gostando do que o jogo tava me apresentando em questão de gameplay, só que com o tempo eu fui pegando afeto pela história, fui pegando o jeito que o jogo funciona e ai já viu né.. meu coração foi conquistado mais uma vez.

A história disso aqui cara é.. eu não consigo nem botar em palavras, ela vai ficando melhor cada vez que você joga, e quando você sente aquela vontade de dar uma pausa, acontece alguma coisa na história que te aguça a continuar jogando. E é claro que aqui tem os laços emocionais lindo de ver com os personagens, tem muita coisa que vai te fazer chorar também e tem os toques perfeito da franquia.

Eu recomendo DEMAIS jogarem Chain of Memories apesar de eu não ter gostado de sua gameplay, sua dificuldade contra os bosses é sim injusta e muitas das vezes irrita mais do que deveria, mas com o tempo você vai se adaptando e manjando mais da criação de deck, a única dica que posso te dar pra fazer sua gameplay ficar melhor nesse aqui é não achar que ele é um spam de ataque que nem é nos outros, nesse aqui tu tem que pensar e montar suas habilidades então jogue com cautela