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. 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.
The story of the Game is simple, since this is side game and a love letter from the series to the fans. To elaborate, Kingdom hearts III ended the darc arc which consisted of eleven games, so this game's goal is to sum up the entire story in
relaxing form. Before the game there were only a few ways of learning the story, these were:
The gameplay of Melody of Memory comes in four forms and three difficulties. Begginer, Normal and Expert are the three different difficulties and the difference is on the amount of enemies appearing and the ammount of life the player
lose when missing a note. The players controls a pre existing team of three heroes, and they can choose to add items and start the tracks. The heroes will always move forward on a pentagram and there are enemies waiting on the players way.
The enemies are always placed in a position where when following the rythm of the song can tell the players when to press their buttons.
The Normal gameplay has the player press multiple buttons. X, L1 and R1 are buttons that have the heroes attack, Triangle is a quick time event that appear once in a while, and circle is used for jumping. Holding circle allows the player
to hover up in the air. These are the buttons the player has to press whilst in normal. Keep in mind that if the main character attacks with X and there are more enemies that follows, the player will have to press either L1 or R1.
Basically the three attack buttons,(x.L1,R1) cannot be pressed at the same time. For example when two enemies are near the hero, double pressing X wont hit the enemies the second time. The secondnd gamestyle is called the one button press.
Basically the entire gameplay changes for the player to only use 1 button, most common being X. Its up to the players to choose which button they press from the ones mentioned above. Commands that use Jump or triangle or double press are simply done
with that 1 button of their choise . Even in the case of floating, the players dont have to manuver left and right as this is done automaticaly, and in the case of having mobs for the party to attack, they will do so
since the button is still being held down. If they stop holding it down in order to repress it, they will most likely gonna be hit or quarantee a miss.
Certain songs have a very different gameplay. Instead of wlaking in on a pentagram, the team instead floats in the sky. While the team floats, there is a video in the background playing . The Pentagram is instead replaced with a single line that has various of
buttons that are approaching the player. These songs are usually character development, the Oppening intros of the past games, and special songs that took place within their respective titles such as Kingdom Hearts III: Frozen:Let it Go and Little Marmaids:Under
the sea.
During the main story campaign the option available is the normal gameplay, but the difficulty it's up to the player. They can control whichever team they wish, given the fact that they have unlocked them all , however keep in mind that if they players use One
team, the experienced gained is only for that one team alone. If they clean eleven worlds with one team and then swap teams, the new team will be lvl 1. These teams are the classic trio, the twilight gang, the BBS team and riku with the dream eaters. They all
play the same though but use their own unique animations and skills. During a level the players can use items such as, potions, mega potion, exp boost and last but not least a Mickey summon, which allows Micky to join the team and earn more points when
he is the one hitting the enemies. In certain maps, one of the three heroes(NOT the team Character) will be replaced with a Disney hero. For example, playing the Olympus song might replace Donald or Goofy (given the player uses the main team) with Hercules.
The game is unique to each genre and series and thus all the collectables acquired are based on Sora's journey. There is an option available known as museum where the players can see their unlockables. The first
option available in the museum is the Collection. Collection is an archive that on it's own is seperated in various categories. The first option available is Key Art Cards. These are arts that were used as
covers for the games, and art designed to advertise the game. There's more than 60 Arts to be collected and they all look amazing, with the design of Tetsuya Nomura. The second type of art is Story scene Cards. These
are pictures taken directlt from within the games themselves. Whether they re rented CGI cutscenes or scenes within the games engine. There's approximately 130 pictures. The next set of collectables are Character Cards.
These are cards that depictions all the characters met within the game in all of their forms. With a quick glance everyone can see the changes the main Hero Sora and his group went from Kingdom Hearts(2002) all the way to kingdom
Hearts III:Remind (2020). There is a total of 321 cards for the players to acquire. The last type of collectables that can be found within Collection is the Keyblade Cards. As the name Suggests these cards all depiction
a keyblade transformation. To elaborate in each adventure Sora goes, a type of unlockable usually is a keyblade that resembles the world he had just visited. These 125 cards showcases each one of these blades.
The second option available within the Museum is the Story Archive. The more the players proceed with the main campaign of the game, the players unlocked cutscenes of the worlds and the story of events of certain games given
that the final level of the given entry is finished. For example, beating Anem who was the final boss of Kingdom hearts 1 will give the entire sum up of the game. In every cutscene Kairi describes the story as she knew them. This section
also includes the moments from this entry as well. To sum up, Story arvives are all the cutscenes triggered within the game itself.
The third option available within the museum is the Theatre. As mention above, there are certain songs that also consist of background animation. For example playing the theme of Sora, instead of walking on the pentagram, the heroes
fly while theres a video of Soras Journey throughout the games. Most likely not everyone can enjoy the video when there are quick events happening. Theatre mode allows the players to spectate that video without having to worry about missing
timing a note, as there are no notes to begin with.
The fourth otpion available within the museum is the Jukebox.Very similar to the theatre mode, this option allows the player to listen to the song, without having to play. There are no enemies attacking the players so they can sit Back
select a track and enjoy the music. Theres a total of 143 Songs.
This is a video showcasing and reviewing the Game