Kingdom Hearts: 2.5


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About the Game

Kingdom Hearts 2.5 is the second bundle of the series as Square Enix were doing their best to put all the games into one platform. The bundle was once again developed by Square Enix and it was released in 2014 for the playstation 3 which is where it stayed. The game was heavily praised for remastering three old games and making them look clean with reduced loading times and overall polished. The Kingdom Hearts 2.5 bundle was released in other bundles such as Kingdom hearts 1.5 & 2.5. The same extended bundles were also released in a new bundle called Kingdom hearts: The story so far (1.5,2.5 +2.8) and finaly it was inlcuded in the Kingdom hearts All in one bundle (a bundle which also included Kh3). The all in one bundle was released for the rest consoles such as Xbox,Pc and switch as cloud. The game's ps2-ps3-ps4 version have graphical changes and better loading screens.

Whats is Kingdom Hearts?(no spoilers)

Kingdom Hearts is a series of action role-playing games developed and published by Square Enix. It is a collaboration between Square Enix and Disney and is under the direction of Tetsuya Nomura, a longtime Square Enix employee who is known for working on final fantasy vii. Kingdom Hearts is a crossover between Square Enix and Disney based in a fictional universe. The main character Sora, and his friends Donald Duck and Goofy journey around various Disney , Pixar and originally designed worlds.They battle the heartless and various creatures of darkness in order to save the world from the darkness. Throughout their Journey they make new friends along the way, characters from the disney world they visit and various final fantasy heroes. The series consists of thirteen games , and with the release of Kingdom hearts III in 2019 and The Remind DLC 2020, the game finaly concluded it's first saga known as the Xehanort Dark arc. After the events of the Remind DLC (2020), the game released Kingdom hearts Melody of memory which prepared th stage for the next game. In 2022 Kingdom hearts 4 was revealed alongside a new app game . The series are well received from the public although sometimes its beeing critisize for its bizzare story telling. The main issue of the series was the fact that all the games add to one story, however they re split to multiple platoforms such as Ps2,psp,ps4,Android,gba and the Ds. Square Enix though realised the mess they made and the remastered the games and released them as collections for ps4 and xbox. A wide variety of related merchandise has been released along with the games, including Cds with the soundtracks of the series,multiple figurines,plushies,clothing ,companion books(guides,artbooks), light novels, a collectible card game, manga series(by Akira Amano) and potentially an upcoming TV series.

What is the 2.5 Bundle

Kingdom Hearts 2.5 is a bundle that was released in 2014 and combined three different games.

  1. Kingdom Hearts: 2 Final Mix
  2. Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
  3. Kingdom Hearts: Re:Coded
Three games that were previously released in three different platforms such as Ps2, Psp and the Nintendo Ds. The bundles made a fantastic job in bringing all the games of the series into a single platform, for everyone (who had a ps3 at the time) to enjoy. The Bundle includes two games, Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix and Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep that the player can play on and Re:coded which is not playable but instead is in the form of a movie. To elaborate the game Recoded had their cutscenes remastered with additional new scenes in order to fill in the playable sections.

The games were reviewed as individuals and thus the game will direct the viewers to each game individually.
The reviews go as follow:

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded is the cinematic remaster version of Kingdom hearts Coded, a Ds game released in 2008. The game takes place right after the events of Kingdom hearts 2 and plays an important role as the heroes trying to find the solution behind messages found in Jiminy Cricket's Journal such as "Thank Namine." The heroes King Mickey, Donald and Goofy found a way to digitize the journal but it becomes corrupted which prevents the heroes from making any progress. The heroes solution was to create a digital Sora known Data Sora and travel into the data world in order to fix the journal. The release of the game was heavily praised for fitting a game of Kingdom hearts into a hand held console, which played very close to the original games and was very different than the Game boy advance version. On the other hand, the series were yet again met with negative critisism on how important game lore was found in yet another different console. Furthermore, the game's story was also critisize for being very different than the stories told in the past.Recoded which is found in the remaster bundles, tell the story of the game through cutscenes that were remastered from the Ds with the inclusion of new ones that were fully voice acted.

Final Thoughts

Overall Kingdom hearts 2.5 was game that came up with possitive reviews and manage to complete the remaster Bundles set, as 6 games were succesfully released in 2 remaster bundles 1.5 and 2.5 . Overall this bundle includes two games that both last approximately 30+ hours each and a 3 hours movie . As mentioned above the same bundle can obtain in all the other platforms in the form of a different bundle which itself included other games and other remaster bundles.
if this bundle is in your interest, it is highly recomended to purchase the All in one bundle or the story so far, which includes many other Kingdom hearts games unless the reason of purchase is for personal collection!

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