I'm going to be totally honest, Kingdom Hearts Re:coded has all the elements to be one of the best spin-offs of the series, if not the best, but, let's not ignore the elephant in the room, the story is not just bad, it's terrible, how come a PAPER diary was hacked, I mean, HOW?, well, that's the story of the game, it's all about there's a virus in Jiminy Cricket's diary, so Mickey and his friends digitize it and create a virtual Sora and put him in the diary in order to remove the virus... yeah, that definitely made sense somehow in the mind of the person who wrote the plot of this game.
But well, it's not all bad, because the gameplay is extremely good and varied, imagine if you combined the combat system of KH1 + KH358/2 Days + KHBBS, well, the result is this game, and I don't know, it's probably not as great as it sounds, but I liked it a lot because of the good variety it has and because experimenting with different combinations of skills is very entertaining. This is probably the best action game in the entire DS catalog.
The graphics are also quite impressive, and it's simply mind-blowing how it is that even though it's pretty far from looking as good as the PS2 games, somehow Square Enix managed to translate that visual style to a console like the DS that has graphics similar to a console like PS1, this is basically a credit to KH358/2 Days, but that game sucks, so I better give that compliment to this game.
What I liked most about this game is its structure, and is that basically we have to go through the worlds of the first KH, but each world has a new gimmick that gives a little twist to things. I also like how the platforming of the first KH is retaken in a certain way. But without a doubt what I liked the most was that the boss of each world changes the genre of the game, sometimes it is a turn-based RPG, other times it can be a 2D platformer and in others a shoot 'em up, and although these sections of the game are not very elaborate and are barely decent, it is something that gives a lot of variety to the game and that made it very fun, I think that same structure, but better worked could be used to build a really brilliant game.
Conclusion
It was nice to play this KH1 remix. Even though this game has some pretty brilliant stuff, its story and content reuse pretty much overshadow the good experience this one could offer, because come on, nobody is excited to have to go back to Aladdin's world after visiting it in KH1, KHCoM, KH2 and KH 358/2 Days, I mean, we're all pretty sick of it already, and the story being so stupid doesn't help at all, it makes it even worse, that's the only reason why I didn't complete this game, because even though it's definitely a lot of fun and I was having a really nice time playing it, at a certain point I had already seen pretty much everything it was going to offer me, and the story I had already seen before. It would have been better if instead of being a recycling of worlds and music from the first KH, this game would have had completely original worlds and content, that would probably have made this a pretty unique and memorable game.
But well, it's not all bad, because the gameplay is extremely good and varied, imagine if you combined the combat system of KH1 + KH358/2 Days + KHBBS, well, the result is this game, and I don't know, it's probably not as great as it sounds, but I liked it a lot because of the good variety it has and because experimenting with different combinations of skills is very entertaining. This is probably the best action game in the entire DS catalog.
The graphics are also quite impressive, and it's simply mind-blowing how it is that even though it's pretty far from looking as good as the PS2 games, somehow Square Enix managed to translate that visual style to a console like the DS that has graphics similar to a console like PS1, this is basically a credit to KH358/2 Days, but that game sucks, so I better give that compliment to this game.
What I liked most about this game is its structure, and is that basically we have to go through the worlds of the first KH, but each world has a new gimmick that gives a little twist to things. I also like how the platforming of the first KH is retaken in a certain way. But without a doubt what I liked the most was that the boss of each world changes the genre of the game, sometimes it is a turn-based RPG, other times it can be a 2D platformer and in others a shoot 'em up, and although these sections of the game are not very elaborate and are barely decent, it is something that gives a lot of variety to the game and that made it very fun, I think that same structure, but better worked could be used to build a really brilliant game.
Conclusion
It was nice to play this KH1 remix. Even though this game has some pretty brilliant stuff, its story and content reuse pretty much overshadow the good experience this one could offer, because come on, nobody is excited to have to go back to Aladdin's world after visiting it in KH1, KHCoM, KH2 and KH 358/2 Days, I mean, we're all pretty sick of it already, and the story being so stupid doesn't help at all, it makes it even worse, that's the only reason why I didn't complete this game, because even though it's definitely a lot of fun and I was having a really nice time playing it, at a certain point I had already seen pretty much everything it was going to offer me, and the story I had already seen before. It would have been better if instead of being a recycling of worlds and music from the first KH, this game would have had completely original worlds and content, that would probably have made this a pretty unique and memorable game.