And uhhhhh yeah Coded may sound interesting on the surface, but it's really...it's bad. Poke Erica about it, she can tell you why it's bad better than I can. But yeah.
An excuse to complain about Re:Coded? I AM HERE.
Though I am interested in what Re: coded is like. The only thing I've heard about it is that it's about a fake Sora that gets changed into data or something (Sora in Data form or some shit? idk), but that's really about it. Seems interesting, though.
Everything you need to know about Re:Coded:
Jiminy finds an extra page written into his KH1 journal that was messed with in COM.
Mickey digitizes the journal which turns out to be glitched, so he has the Data Sora inside of it "debug" the glitchy parts to find out what is wrong
Data Sora relives KH1 which is the THIRD TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED FOR US THE PLAYERS
Mickey, Donald, Goofy, etc. are sucked into the journal to help. Maleficent and Pete invade it too for some reason.
Data Riku is there? And is the one who sucked them into the journal somehow? And then Data Sora has to fight him to reboot the journal which will destroy all of Data Sora's memories because he's just a character in the journal but he's Sora so of course he does it to help everyone
The reset means they discover Castle Oblivion in the journal data, added by Naminé and---
- ALL OF THE ABOVE (20+ HOURS OF GAMEPLAY) IS 100% IRRELEVANT BECAUSE ALL THAT MATTERS IN THE END IS:
- Naminé left a data copy of herself in the journal to explain that the real Sora needs to rescue the BBS characters, which is what Mickey conveys to Sora in the letter Sora gets in the ending of KH2.
- Then in the secret ending you see Sora and Riku at Yen Sid's house ready to take the Mark of Mastery Exam in KH3D... a scene that is stupidly not actually included in KH3D so that game has no context at the beginning because of it... since just about no one bothered to complete Re:Coded.
- I guess there's also a scene in the 2.5 HD version of Re:Coded that alludes to the fact that Maleficent is searching for the Book of Prophecy (something from KH chi) but we don't really know what this means yet. It's just confirmation that the browser game that's only available in Japan is getting hinted at in the rest of the series so it's now canon to the series.
And still more worthwhile than Re:Coded
- That's it. That's the entire plot.
Honestly not even the like 3 hour movie version in 2.5 is worth your time. You will never get that part of your life back. Just read a summary, even though at least two paragraphs of any summary are completely irrelevant to the overall plot of KH. Seriously.
Like, it's not even really the first time this has happened in KH. Most of the side games kind of "reset" by the end of them because they're inserted to the timeline after the fact, so of course they can't stray too far from the canon presented by KH1 and KH2. But even with those games... COM is important to the events of KH2 and even if Sora "forgets" all of it, Castle Oblivion, what happens
in Castle Oblivion, and even the dead characters from Castle Oblivion are all important in future games. Riku remembers everything so COM is still very relevant to him. In Days, everyone may forget who Xion is, but you learn so much about the Organization's goals, the nature of Nobodies, and even Xion is still relevant in KH3D (and probably future games). But Re:Coded? None of the new characters exist at the end of the game. They are completely irrelevant to the Kingdom Hearts series as a whole, and literally everything important about the game can be conveyed in about 2 minutes of cutscene. It. Is. So. Pointless.
I love KH so much but I get so angry thinking about Re:Coded. And for the record, I was fine with
Coded. A little cell phone game that was released in episode format where the climax of the story hinted at the new game BBS that had just come out? Cool! A 30 hour game with terrible controls (compared to BBS, whose battle system it appropriated... or even Days which was another DS game), awful graphics, and a story that gets reset to the point where a whole 2 minutes of it is relevant to the overall story? hahahahha hahaha ahahaahah....... *sighs very deeply*