Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories

The two selling points of the GBA original come with having the Kingdom Hearts aesthetic on-the-go (don’t tell me that’s not most of the appeal of this franchise) while being reimagined with beautiful sprite work. None of that applies to this remake, often coming across like a fan mod due to its reuse of KH1 assets while looking worse at every turn. The card game is frustrating to understand, being some weird session of “play slightly higher number than enemy” while also moving and jumping in real-time that kind of works on handhelds but dies in 3D. Just a disaster.

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