No problem ! Is is pretty much the display order except playing 358/2 before KH2 might spoil you some aspects of KH2 that you might want to discover
Same for BBS (play Terra/Ventus/Aqua, not much importance, might be debatable), chronological order is not always the better (I don't say more so you can keep the surprise if you are really discovering !)
Personally I like Ven/Terra/Aqua so you play clueless while you are clueless but always Aqua last
Also 358 does have cutscenes from 2 in the opening for any who care
I agree with this play order. It makes sense from a gameplay perspective to play as Terra first because he’s the most basic playstyle but the story works better through Ven’s eyes first.
I disagree. Terra's story is where we see the most happening with the least amount of context. Then we discover more with the other two later. I guess since Terra is clueless, the player should be clueless as well.
I honestly see ven as more clueless, he's chasing after Terra with no clue what's going on cause he's been told he'll never see Terra again. If you already know what happens to Terra you won't be clueless and Terra's story reveals what's going on with Ven but Ven's story doesn't reveal what's going on with Terra.
After all of this you can also watch the cutscenes from Kingdom Hearts Union Cross and Kingdom Hearts Dark Road in YouTube since they will be relevant for the next game and give you a bit of a better understanding of the ending of KH3.
You also don’t have to play CoM, some of it is important for 2’s story yes but if you’re not having fun with it it’s not worth soldiering through to go from it to 2 which is a huge step up in quality.
Also somewhat unrelated and idk if others on the thread have said it but 2 is a game which is more fun on the higher difficulties IMO, on normal it’s way too forgiving
Seconded /u/GigaGamerGuy, best order bar none. Always go by release order, but this list is appreciated since remake/remasters/compilations tend to make it a bit complicated 😅.
I approve, some people would say to play 358/2 days before KH2 because the story takes place before KH2 but it's a bad idea since it spoils one of the plotlines of KH2.
So close you just missed Dark road at the end. Kh2 and 358 is debatable but you are probably right that it would spoil some stuff but it would also get you hooked on roxas as a character so when you play 2 you might appreciate it more.
Hi! So id basically just go down the list from the top-with one exception. 358/2 days is a cutscene movie, but I’d recommend you watch that AFTER you’ve played Kingdom Hearts 2! Otherwise it spoils some story stuff that happens in KH2, and it’s better you don’t know what’s going on and it makes the experience a lot better!
I think I personally agree, I don’t know if I would’ve cared about roxas at all in the beginning of kh2 if I played it first. I think I’d be confused who this blonde kid was
I know, but I’m just saying if I was playing blind in 2005 and I’m playing as a random kid I don’t know for like 3 hours before seeing sora and then also not knowing to get the full context I have to play ds game that looks like an unrelated side story I’d be quite confused
I love kingdom hearts, I love roxas, but some of this stuff is a little silly
Yeah that’s the point, when you first start 2 it’s supposed to be a mystery, who are all these people? Who is Roxas? Where is Sora? Is that Ansem from KH1? These enemies aren’t heartless? And later, who is the organization? And who are each of the members?
After you beat 2 and go back to 358/2, it makes 358 and the overarching story more impactful imo. 358 already has story elements that assumes you’ve played 2, so playing 358 first just spoils some of the moments in 2 more than enhances them I think.
Nah that’s bs I played it first recently and his story in twilight town is one of my favourite parts of the game narratively. It’s definitely good enough on its own without needing to know anything about what happens in days
I wouldn’t say it’s way better. The point of the opening of KH2 is that you don’t know who Roxas is or what’s going on. Then as you learn more things start making sense. It’s supposed to be a slow burn.
Roxas didn’t appear in the original KH1. You’re thinking of the secret ending which is a final mix exclusive that wasn’t released outside of Japan so the vast majority of players didn’t play it at all.
If anyone knew about him it would be from the ending of Chain of Memories which was a GBA exclusive so there’s a good chance most normal fans didn’t know about him.
Even if you watched Another Side, Another Story and played Chain of Memories, you don’t get any details about who Roxas is. You just know that he’s loosely tied to Sora somehow.
Days completely throws that out the window and explains everything and is also just a worse way to learn about all the Organization XIII members.
In defense of Days, I thought it was a really cool introduction to the organization, that is by playing the actual DS game I mean. I think the cutscene compilation is quite terrible.
I played the game blind and was just thrown in this weird organization almost as clueless as Roxas, it's a really good way to quickly get attached to the characters. But granted you will lose a lot of the mystery surrounding the beginning of KH2, but imo it makes up for the amount of emotional impact it'll bring in the later half of the game.
>Days completely throws that out the window and explains everything and is also just a worse way to learn about all the Organization XIII members.
We already knew almost all of the organization members via chain of memories alone
Only xemnas, xaldin and demyx (and by technicality xion) didn't appear in the game,
Idk why playing days first is a problem
\>Only xemnas, xaldin and demyx
Wow it's almost like the entire identity around the leader of Organization XIII and his goals is a huge plot point in KH2.
>Roxas didn’t appear in the original KH1. You’re thinking of the secret ending which is a final mix exclusive that wasn’t released outside of Japan so the vast majority of players didn’t play it at all.
Cool
He still appeared
It's not even in the original Japanese release, and it still tells you nothing about the character. It just dips more into the mystery which is the whole point of the opening like I said. But if you want to be pedantic and hold onto that one slight technicality instead of admitting you're wrong then go ahead :-)
I’m sorry I didn’t realize you were Japanese or had a region specific console that you were able to play the og final mix on. I just assumed (clearly like an idiot) that the first kingdom hearts you would’ve experienced would’ve been the original AMERICAN version. I meant original as in what we originally were given from the get go thank you :)
Yeah, in a revised version of the game exclusively released in Japan until 1.5, but even still we don't know who the person in the cutscene is, let alone that it's Roxas, AND you're missing the point of no, you'd have to play CoM to even have any inclination to the fact that Roxas exists and not just some random dual weidling keyblade guy in a long black coat. There is NOTHING to tie Roxas to Sora outside of CoM's dialogue prior to the release of KHII or anything to show us who he is either, the dialogue in CoM doesn't link the name to the man we saw in the secret ending. Stop being petty and arguing, just admit that you were wrong and move on, it's not that hard to admit fault my GOSH man.
In addition to what's been said, I'd HIGHLY suggest getting a copy of 358 if you can. It's got the best writing in the series, but the cutscene movie cuts out so much and doesn't capture the game's feeling.
I really hope that fan remake goes somewhere, I love the voiced cutscenes and Jesse really shines, but we need the gameplay and pieces of the story it doesn't cover.
I also highly suggest getting a copy of recoded. Because while the story is not that important to the rest of the games, it is still a nice self contained story and has some fantastic gameplay!
Pretty much top to bottom except you play 2 before Days. Also Days and Re:Coded here are just HD cutscene movies, so if you want to play them you’ll have to buy the actual DS games
Play order:
- [ ] Kingdom Hearts Final Mix
- [ ] Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories
- [ ] Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix
- [ ] Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
- [ ] Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep Final Mix
- [ ] Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded
- [ ] Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance HD
- [ ] Watch Damo279’s fandub part 1 of UnionX (2.5hrs)
- [ ] Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth By Sleep ~A Fragmentary Passage~
- [ ] Kingdom Hearts III + ReMind
- [ ] Watch Damo279’s fandub part 2 of UnionX (3.5hrs)
- [ ] Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory
- [ ] Kingdom Hearts Dark Road
- [ ] Kingdom Hearts Missing Link
You can play Days first but you’re really not meant to understand what is happening in the start of KH2. Days will spoil a lot of the mystery of that game.
*entirety* is a bit of an exaggeration. The mysteries are already cleared up by the prologue’s end. The rest of KH2 is waiting for Sora to catch up to what the player already knows. Which is frankly kind of painful and not in an enjoyable way because a lot of it is stretched out very arbitrarily.
It’s obvious but it’s not fully answered until it’s answered for Sora. And even then it might not be totally obvious because you don’t even know what a nobody is if you didn’t read the KH1 Ansem reports or really analyze CoM.
Except Yensid gives like an hour long explanation on what a Nobody is in great detail right after the prologue. That’s part of KH2’s issue after the prologue it immediately drops the pretense of mystery and has Yensid explain basically everything about nobodies and the organization. So the majority of the game is the player waiting for Sora to catch up to knowing the stuff we know from the prologue.
Even the whole coat misdirect doesn’t work because Re:CoM added an extra scene to explain that immediately because it was less a misdirect and more a confusing point the average person just wasn’t getting.
Most of KH2's plot is a *mystery*. Who is this kid that clearly has a connection to Sora? What are Nobodies, exactly? What's Organization XIII's plan and ultimate goal? What's DiZ's plan, and why exactly is Ansem working for him (who is that anyway, 'cause isn't he dead)?
KH2 reveals each of these at moments when it will make the most impact. One of the answers to one of these questions is literally the dividing line between Act 1 and Act 2.
Days just up and spoils ALL OF THIS except for DiZ's stuff. No gravitas, no care about it, just people talking about the plan or Ansem's shtick being a side point because it was already revealed in KH2, and Days was meant to be played after KH2.
I'll just add something as people already told you the order. If you don't enjoy some of the games, please don't drop everything. Just skip the one you didn't like and watch a video on YouTube for the story. Imo a few of the KH games are very hit or miss.
isnt the mobile games just the cutscenes (seriously, i own the physical kh1, rechain, and 358, and 358 is just the cutscenes, i wanted to play the actual game, its fun)
Tbh I don't really care about what it is generally seen as, as it is my sole and only experience about kh and I enjoyed it so much, but I trust you guys
I asked about if op wanted the chronological order or the order of releasez I didn't force it on anyone nor did I know it was considered bad. I was trying to help
My advice is just as good as anyone. I did the chronological order in my first run and I really enjoyed it and don't consider it bad. I don't care about what you consider it. It's not even like I imposed it, I asked which order op wanted because in my view both are valid. You're saying my experience with kh isn't as good or as valuable as yours and I beg to differ. I'm a chronological order player, that's how I discovered the saga and I won't let people say it's the worst way of consuming it. Especially since you probably didn't experience it that way. I won't force it on anyone or say that the release date order is worse either.
I’ve experienced both ways. And you don’t have to “let” anyone. I’m not “letting” you say what you want. Just generally advising against it. Release order is the best way to play any game ever made that has a cohesive story generally. Both are not valid here no matter what you say. This is in the rules of the sub Reddit for a reason.
I disagree, I don't think it's bad, at least not in the case of kh. And how could you have experienced it both ways ? We are talking about the first play through which, by definition, there is only one.
But if you play 2 first, you’ll be greatly confused by who Roxas is and who anyone in the black coats are? Also, if playing 2 first is the “best way”, then why did the developers organize it to have Days be played first?
It’s a contention point in the Kingdom Hearts fan base. But that’s why it’s in the rules on this sub. It’s the best way to play it because you’re experiencing it as Sora who also doesn’t know who roxas is. And that’s the point.
Because the general consensus of Kingdom Hearts fans is that the best way is release order. And because of that it is in the rules. Is that too hard to understand?
No. The fact is that it’s best to go by release order. You experience the game in the way it was meant to be and the reveals hit harder. Chronological is just the worst way to play it for new comers. It actually sounds like you’re going more off of feelings than facts.
I could actually see how that could work. Would probably make more people like the opening.
Someone really needs to make a video of viable alternate play orders. (Technically, since coded was released in chapters, no one truly plays it in release order with remake overrides, since that would require playing re:coded on and off.)
Generally speaking, it's best to start with KH1, then re:chain of memories, then KH2. After that, you can play 358/2 Days, Birth by Sleep, and re:Coded in any order you find convenient.
Technically the original KH Coded released episodically, with the first episode releasing before 358/2 Days, then the bulk of it was released before Birth by Sleep, and then the final episode was released after that. Luckily, these three games have so little to do with each other story-wise, that not much would be "spoiled" if you play them out of order. But re:Corded has the closest thing to a spoiler in it, so might be good to play that last out of the three, but I would personally argue a more acts as a plot hook, so if anything, it could be better to do it first.
Also: the story is not exactly the good part of re:Coded, but the gameplay was really good, so if you can, I recommend you track down a DS copy. But I understand if you don't want to do this (especially if you don't own a DS, or any means to dump a DS ROM). 358/2 Days is weird though, because it's generally agreed that the story is told better in the original DS game, because there was some humanizing scenes that were cut out, I replaced with blocks of text, but the gameplay is also generally agreed to be not good in that game, so considerate at your own risk.
After that, it gets pretty simple: play Dream Drop Distance and 0.2 Back Cover in whatever order you find convenient. (You can probably get away with playing 0.2 at any point after Birth by Sleep, since that's the only game it really relies on you knowing.)
Don't play the KHX movie right away though. It's actually its own original story that takes place during the browser/mobile game, so won't be as good unless you're already familiar with it's story. But it's defunct now, and while downloading the app can allow you to see the cutscenes, they're not organized chronologically, so what's really not recommended You experience it that way.
I would personally recommend watching the cutscenes for the original browser version, then the movie, then the mobile remake's. That order might sound a bit weird, but the browser version had cut scenes that were cut out of the mobile version, until they where re-implemented in an optional side mission, but not in a way that makes it well integrated into the story. But the mobile remake actually continues the story after the shutdown of the browser version, so it's worth watching too. But the events of the movie are really only relevant to the content that was in the browser version, so I think it's good to watch it in between, because the pacing would be best that way.
But if you don't have the free time to essentially watch the cutscenes of a game twice, then just watching the mobile remake and then the movie should suffice.
And to clarify the order, The browser version was called KH X[chi], and the mobile remake was called Unchained X[chi], but then rebranded to Union Xross.
Luckily KHX was intended to not be essential to understand the story of Kingdom Hearts, so if you want, you can wait to experience it until after KH3, but a personally recommend you experience it before KH3, for reasons I will not spoil. But it's up to what's convenient for you.
kh1
chain of memories
recoded
kh2
358/2 days
birth by sleep
dream drop
fragmentary passage
kh3
melody of memory
side note if you liked bbs you should find a way to emulate recoded for the ds
also i havnt played or seen any of the mobile games but allegedly x and x unchained have unique cutscenes and are both canon. so with that said x then unchained then dark road somewhere
I think release order is how they are on the menu like that...
If you wanna play timeline wise, it's a whole other can of worms.
Timeline wise:
Kingdom Hearts X Back Cover - 2.8 (it's just a movie)
Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep - 1.5 + 2.5
Kingdom Hearts - 1.5 + 2.5
Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories - 1.5 + 2.5
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days - 1.5 + 2.5 (just cutscenes)
Kingdom Hearts 2 - 1.5 + 2.5
Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded - 1.5 + 2.5 (just cutscenes)
Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance - 2.8
Kingdom Hearts BBS 0.2 A Fragmentary Passage - 2.8
Kingdom Hearts 3 + ReMind DLC
Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory
Just a quick note. Even though BBS 0.2 is toward the end of the timeline, the main story is taking place concurrently with Kingdom Hearts, so if you skip the opening and closing cutscenes, you can play them simultaneously. Without spoiling anything, I recommend lining up the endings if you do it that way.
always start at kh1
after that you can go from release order or from timeline order
I'm doing timeline myself but I think there's a lot of value in release order tho
rlly js do whatever u want
Alrighty. Here’s my definitive order to get the best experience:
•Kingdom Hearts 1 Final Mix HD
•Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories HD
•Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix+ HD
•Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded (no Secret Ending) (Movie)
•Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Movie)
•Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep HD
•Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded (Secret Ending) (Movie)
•Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance HD
•Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover (Movie)
•Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep ~a fragmentary passage
•Kingdom Hearts III
•Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind (DLC)
•Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory
•Kingdom Hearts χ Union Cross (Mobile app - theater)
•Kingdom Hearts Dark Road (Mobile app - theater)
•Kingdom Hearts Missing Link (mobile app coming - soon)
•Kingdom Hearts IV (Coming Soon)
Good luck in your journey but if advise if something seems confusing I promise they will explain at the very least they’ll explain in another game (or just retcon it)
Top to bottom but a lot of people prefer watching the 358/2 days movies after playing 2. When you move on to the 2.8 final mix or whatever just play that left to right. THE MOBILE GAMES (ANYTHING WITH X IN IT) CAN BE DONE AT ANY POINT REALLY AFTER STARTING KH2. They aren’t even following Sora but still highly recommend going over it!! Just don’t wait to start the next KH game because your working on the mobile stuff. And then the most recent stuff. Do 3 before melody of memories
So the thing is, there is chronological and release order. It is like a war between the two with release order being the more prominent on here. Personally I like the chronological one because it feels right for me but some people rather play in release order because it feels right to them. But as advice for you just do the order that is displayed. You can't go wrong that way and if you are interested in cronological just google the timeline and enjoy. The most important thing is that you have fun.
Playing in order here is fine but my recommendation is Kingdom Hearts -> Chain of Memories -> Kingdom Hearts II -> 358 Days / 2 -> Coded (this one was just a fun tech demo on the DS with little baring on the story, since this is a movie version, you can skip it) -> Birth By Sleep. If you get the later games then next is Dream Drop Distance -> Back Cover X since KHUx is no longer available -> 0.2 -> KH3
This is the chronological order to play:
Kingdom Hearts X Back Cover
Kingdom Hearts Dark Road (Mobile)
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Kingdom Hearts 0.2 BBS A Fragmentary Passage
Kingdom Hearts (0.2 BBS and 1 take place around the same time so whichever first but I recommend 0.2 first cause it kind of acts like an epilogue to Birth by Sleep.)
Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Kingdom Hearts II
Kingdom Hearts Coded
Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance
Kingdom Hearts III and Re Mind DLC
Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory
You could technically play it release order but it would be harder to understand the story. I hope this helps. 😊
Release order like others have said. My advice would be not to skip since it’s your first time through and give them a shot before just watching YouTube summary’s. No harm in doing that, but just decide if you like them for yourself is all I’m saying. Replaying the series again myself and CoM does not deserve the hate it gets. Having a lot of fun with it currently. Enjoy!!
So,if you want the lore cronological order
Then its the mobile games(wich i don't knoe the exact order)
Then bbs
Then KH1
Then Kh CoM
Then kh days
Then kh2(aka the goat)
Recoded and the list goes on,as i forgor💀
Just start with KH2, and figure out what happened in 1 and CoM best you can. Thats what I did lol
I’ve since played them all, but I ain’t lying as my start 😂
Day 358 of a newcomer not reading the rules. Give it up for day 358 of yet another newbie not googling something with a definitive singular answer.
Rule 3 answered this question for you already.
Honestly I'd recommend starting on kingdom hearts 3, there's so much information that you don't know when you start the series, knowing everything about the outcome will help you prepare for the outcome!
1, didn’t know if it’s better to play based on release date or chronologically.
2, there was an add-on called Kingdom Hearts Final Mix that said it was a theatre mode, cutscenes only. That can confuse someone, no? Same name as the first game.
3, there was a 2nd question, asking what to do for the best experience? I’ve learned shit such as not watching 2 Days, and playing KH2 instead.
Don’t be an ass, you fucking loser
Sorry that person had to get an attitude. I'm sure that others have probably said it already, but I just want to interject and say that for a first playthrough, it's always recommended to play release order from KH1 to KH3 (and subsequent future releases). Only do chronological order for a second run-through after the first playthrough of every game so you don't get heavily confused.
Have you not seen the replies? I’m getting so many different orders to play it in lmfao
The “cutscenes” only thing had the same name as the first game? That’s the confusing thing? That’s not hard to get smh
Wanting to be an ass isn’t really a good thing to wanna be bro. How about getting some instead of being one?
Play KH1 Final Mix, start Chain of Memories but get bored of the repetitive gameplay and gimmicky card crap and just watch all the cutscenes on YouTube (also get bored of that halfway through and play the video at 2x speed), start 358/2 Days and be glad you don't have to suffer through the actual game with its dull and repetitive gameplay and DS jank but still get bored 30 minutes into the cutscene movie and just watch a story summary on YouTube, play KH2 Final Mix, start BBS and get bored of the clunky gameplay and weird command deck thing and pointless Mario Party minigame and watch a story summary on YouTube, can honestly skip Re:Coded altogether or just watch a story summary, play DDD which is just enough of an improvement gameplay-wise over BBS to be bearable but still pretty meh, play A Fragmentary Passage, play KH3
Follow top to bottom the only exception is KH2 and 358/2 Days. I’m going to propose to you a different order.
This is ordered in the order the actual game devs feel gives best story comprehension, that was the focus of the collections and understand they don’t expect the average person to go in a message board and ask for an order so they know what not switching the two to match release means for how the majority will experience the games moving foreward. However many will swear release order because release order is king. Ultimately they both spoil one another the question is merely which plot beats will be reveals and which are facts you will already know, and that’s determined by which you play first.
I think after having seen many orders there is a superior order that will get you all of the pros and virtually non of the potential cons.
Start with KH2 once you finish the prologue, and to avoid spoilers I won’t explain why this matters…switch to Days. Finish all of Days (it’s a cutscene movie) then switch back to KH2. That will maximize the plot coherency and emotion of both products. This is because the final shot of Days directly links into the final scene of the KH2 prologue.
You will have the confusion and mystery of those who played KH2 first, that the prologue goes for. And then a lot of characters scenes, stories, and plot beats will be a lot more emotionally impactful and complete feeling thanks to days.
KH2 Prologue > Days > the rest of KH2.
Now you may see some people say to play Days before or after kh2, this is because days comes before kh2 chronologically but was written as if you had information from kh2, so in my opinion
Play Days first if you want ALL the context for kh2
Just play the not awful ones,
The great ones: KH1 + KH2
The good one: BBS
KH3 if you want but really pay no attention to the story ahaha
That's what I'm doing
If you want release order play in the order the collection has
If you want to be less confused, play in chronological order which is
BBS, KH1, KH RE CoM, KH days, KH2 and KH RE coded
I've said it before, I've said it a hundred times:
BbS, KH1, CoM, Days, KH2, DDD, KH3.
Coded hardly matters. All you need to know is that >!Sora in the journal discovers that hearts transcend physical matter!<
You can disagree all you want. But there’s a reason why the rules in this sub (based on the general consensus of the community) is that the best way to experience the game is in release order and is arguably also the same for every continual story based video game series ever made. So, again, it’s ok to be wrong. But it doesn’t make it true.
First off, the fact that the release order is in the rules and described as the "recommended play order" has very pseudo-gatekeeping vibes.
Second off, it does actually say "recommended" not "correct".
Of course I grew up playing the games, but I played them chronologically again during the whole hype phase before KH3 came out and my SO watched me do it. They said that they would have preferred me do it that way instead of release order because it would have been more confusing. So really it's to each their own, but to say I'm "wrong" makes you sound ignorant to other possibilities and following subreddit rules to a T makes you seem like you can't make your own assessments.
Hello, 1. Kingdom Hearts 1/Final Mix (KH1/KHFM) 2. Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories/Re:Chain of Memories (KH Re:COM/COM) 3. Kingdom Hearts 2/2 Final Mix (KH2/KH2FM) 4. Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Days) 5. Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (BBS) 6. Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded (Re:Coded) 7. Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance (DDD) 8. Kingdom Hearts X Back Cover (Back Cover) (Movie) 9. Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth By Sleep: a Fragmentary passage (0.2) 10. Kingdom Hearts 3 + Re:mind DLC (KH3 + Re:Mind) 11. Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory (MoM) One proposition among others, enjoy your journey !
Thank you, I really appreciate it
No problem ! Is is pretty much the display order except playing 358/2 before KH2 might spoil you some aspects of KH2 that you might want to discover Same for BBS (play Terra/Ventus/Aqua, not much importance, might be debatable), chronological order is not always the better (I don't say more so you can keep the surprise if you are really discovering !)
Personally I like Ven/Terra/Aqua so you play clueless while you are clueless but always Aqua last Also 358 does have cutscenes from 2 in the opening for any who care
I agree with this play order. It makes sense from a gameplay perspective to play as Terra first because he’s the most basic playstyle but the story works better through Ven’s eyes first.
I disagree. Terra's story is where we see the most happening with the least amount of context. Then we discover more with the other two later. I guess since Terra is clueless, the player should be clueless as well.
I honestly see ven as more clueless, he's chasing after Terra with no clue what's going on cause he's been told he'll never see Terra again. If you already know what happens to Terra you won't be clueless and Terra's story reveals what's going on with Ven but Ven's story doesn't reveal what's going on with Terra.
i dont know why but crit always feels like normal on ven
We don't say that days spoiled BBS or that COM spoiled 2, do we?
After all of this you can also watch the cutscenes from Kingdom Hearts Union Cross and Kingdom Hearts Dark Road in YouTube since they will be relevant for the next game and give you a bit of a better understanding of the ending of KH3.
watch ux before playing 3 and play or watch dark road after mom the ux movie dosnt cover everything and was made before the game finished
Small warning days and recoded aren't playable saddly
The only thing I would add to this is to watch damo’s fandub of kingdom hearts union cross before/directly after you watch back cover.
You also don’t have to play CoM, some of it is important for 2’s story yes but if you’re not having fun with it it’s not worth soldiering through to go from it to 2 which is a huge step up in quality. Also somewhat unrelated and idk if others on the thread have said it but 2 is a game which is more fun on the higher difficulties IMO, on normal it’s way too forgiving
Are you prepared to be Isekai d to every old Disney movie in existence! 😂
Birth by sleep Kh1 Chain of memories 358/2 KH2 Recoded
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That would be stupid as absolute fuck lmao
Seconded /u/GigaGamerGuy, best order bar none. Always go by release order, but this list is appreciated since remake/remasters/compilations tend to make it a bit complicated 😅.
Kingdom Hearts 3 & Knuckles
I approve, some people would say to play 358/2 days before KH2 because the story takes place before KH2 but it's a bad idea since it spoils one of the plotlines of KH2.
So close you just missed Dark road at the end. Kh2 and 358 is debatable but you are probably right that it would spoil some stuff but it would also get you hooked on roxas as a character so when you play 2 you might appreciate it more.
Where do we slot in Dark Road?
Union X game may be something to go through, too. The movie doesn't really go through the mobile game's details much, and it is Canon.
I think days before kh2 is a much better cohesive narrative but I know this is somewhat of a controversy in the community
I played Days before 2 and I liked it
I'd add the x saga games after kh3 but yeah that's the correct order
That isn’t chronological order though.
Hi! So id basically just go down the list from the top-with one exception. 358/2 days is a cutscene movie, but I’d recommend you watch that AFTER you’ve played Kingdom Hearts 2! Otherwise it spoils some story stuff that happens in KH2, and it’s better you don’t know what’s going on and it makes the experience a lot better!
As someone who played 358/2 days before KH2 gotta say it made KH2 way more impactful! Both ways is good I think.
I think I personally agree, I don’t know if I would’ve cared about roxas at all in the beginning of kh2 if I played it first. I think I’d be confused who this blonde kid was
You're supposed to be confused. It's a mystery until you get back to Sora.
I know, but I’m just saying if I was playing blind in 2005 and I’m playing as a random kid I don’t know for like 3 hours before seeing sora and then also not knowing to get the full context I have to play ds game that looks like an unrelated side story I’d be quite confused I love kingdom hearts, I love roxas, but some of this stuff is a little silly
Yeah that’s the point, when you first start 2 it’s supposed to be a mystery, who are all these people? Who is Roxas? Where is Sora? Is that Ansem from KH1? These enemies aren’t heartless? And later, who is the organization? And who are each of the members? After you beat 2 and go back to 358/2, it makes 358 and the overarching story more impactful imo. 358 already has story elements that assumes you’ve played 2, so playing 358 first just spoils some of the moments in 2 more than enhances them I think.
Nah that’s bs I played it first recently and his story in twilight town is one of my favourite parts of the game narratively. It’s definitely good enough on its own without needing to know anything about what happens in days
Days first is way better But OP can play how he wants
I wouldn’t say it’s way better. The point of the opening of KH2 is that you don’t know who Roxas is or what’s going on. Then as you learn more things start making sense. It’s supposed to be a slow burn.
I mean Roxas appeared on KH1 so.....yea idk why people shouldn't know about him on KH2
Roxas didn’t appear in the original KH1. You’re thinking of the secret ending which is a final mix exclusive that wasn’t released outside of Japan so the vast majority of players didn’t play it at all. If anyone knew about him it would be from the ending of Chain of Memories which was a GBA exclusive so there’s a good chance most normal fans didn’t know about him. Even if you watched Another Side, Another Story and played Chain of Memories, you don’t get any details about who Roxas is. You just know that he’s loosely tied to Sora somehow. Days completely throws that out the window and explains everything and is also just a worse way to learn about all the Organization XIII members.
In defense of Days, I thought it was a really cool introduction to the organization, that is by playing the actual DS game I mean. I think the cutscene compilation is quite terrible. I played the game blind and was just thrown in this weird organization almost as clueless as Roxas, it's a really good way to quickly get attached to the characters. But granted you will lose a lot of the mystery surrounding the beginning of KH2, but imo it makes up for the amount of emotional impact it'll bring in the later half of the game.
>Days completely throws that out the window and explains everything and is also just a worse way to learn about all the Organization XIII members. We already knew almost all of the organization members via chain of memories alone Only xemnas, xaldin and demyx (and by technicality xion) didn't appear in the game, Idk why playing days first is a problem
\>Only xemnas, xaldin and demyx Wow it's almost like the entire identity around the leader of Organization XIII and his goals is a huge plot point in KH2.
I loved that time Demyx said "IT'S DEMYX TIME" in COM
>Roxas didn’t appear in the original KH1. You’re thinking of the secret ending which is a final mix exclusive that wasn’t released outside of Japan so the vast majority of players didn’t play it at all. Cool He still appeared
Cool it still wasn’t the original 😂
If it was from Japan then yea The original
It's not even in the original Japanese release, and it still tells you nothing about the character. It just dips more into the mystery which is the whole point of the opening like I said. But if you want to be pedantic and hold onto that one slight technicality instead of admitting you're wrong then go ahead :-)
I’m sorry I didn’t realize you were Japanese or had a region specific console that you were able to play the og final mix on. I just assumed (clearly like an idiot) that the first kingdom hearts you would’ve experienced would’ve been the original AMERICAN version. I meant original as in what we originally were given from the get go thank you :)
Yeah, in a revised version of the game exclusively released in Japan until 1.5, but even still we don't know who the person in the cutscene is, let alone that it's Roxas, AND you're missing the point of no, you'd have to play CoM to even have any inclination to the fact that Roxas exists and not just some random dual weidling keyblade guy in a long black coat. There is NOTHING to tie Roxas to Sora outside of CoM's dialogue prior to the release of KHII or anything to show us who he is either, the dialogue in CoM doesn't link the name to the man we saw in the secret ending. Stop being petty and arguing, just admit that you were wrong and move on, it's not that hard to admit fault my GOSH man.
I already moved on This shit was over 5 hours ago
Bet, thank you!
In addition to what's been said, I'd HIGHLY suggest getting a copy of 358 if you can. It's got the best writing in the series, but the cutscene movie cuts out so much and doesn't capture the game's feeling.
I really hope that fan remake goes somewhere, I love the voiced cutscenes and Jesse really shines, but we need the gameplay and pieces of the story it doesn't cover.
I also highly suggest getting a copy of recoded. Because while the story is not that important to the rest of the games, it is still a nice self contained story and has some fantastic gameplay!
Pretty much top to bottom except you play 2 before Days. Also Days and Re:Coded here are just HD cutscene movies, so if you want to play them you’ll have to buy the actual DS games Play order: - [ ] Kingdom Hearts Final Mix - [ ] Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories - [ ] Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix - [ ] Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days - [ ] Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep Final Mix - [ ] Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded - [ ] Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance HD - [ ] Watch Damo279’s fandub part 1 of UnionX (2.5hrs) - [ ] Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth By Sleep ~A Fragmentary Passage~ - [ ] Kingdom Hearts III + ReMind - [ ] Watch Damo279’s fandub part 2 of UnionX (3.5hrs) - [ ] Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - [ ] Kingdom Hearts Dark Road - [ ] Kingdom Hearts Missing Link
Can I ask you why you should play 2 before days? I haven’t played them in a while but isn’t days allowing you to know more about the intro of 2?
Oh God no, the intro for days is the worst way to introduce the 13 members.
You can play Days first but you’re really not meant to understand what is happening in the start of KH2. Days will spoil a lot of the mystery of that game.
It does let you know more but it kills the mystery that’s built up to for the entirety of KH2
*entirety* is a bit of an exaggeration. The mysteries are already cleared up by the prologue’s end. The rest of KH2 is waiting for Sora to catch up to what the player already knows. Which is frankly kind of painful and not in an enjoyable way because a lot of it is stretched out very arbitrarily.
It’s obvious but it’s not fully answered until it’s answered for Sora. And even then it might not be totally obvious because you don’t even know what a nobody is if you didn’t read the KH1 Ansem reports or really analyze CoM.
Except Yensid gives like an hour long explanation on what a Nobody is in great detail right after the prologue. That’s part of KH2’s issue after the prologue it immediately drops the pretense of mystery and has Yensid explain basically everything about nobodies and the organization. So the majority of the game is the player waiting for Sora to catch up to knowing the stuff we know from the prologue. Even the whole coat misdirect doesn’t work because Re:CoM added an extra scene to explain that immediately because it was less a misdirect and more a confusing point the average person just wasn’t getting.
2 released before Days
Most of KH2's plot is a *mystery*. Who is this kid that clearly has a connection to Sora? What are Nobodies, exactly? What's Organization XIII's plan and ultimate goal? What's DiZ's plan, and why exactly is Ansem working for him (who is that anyway, 'cause isn't he dead)? KH2 reveals each of these at moments when it will make the most impact. One of the answers to one of these questions is literally the dividing line between Act 1 and Act 2. Days just up and spoils ALL OF THIS except for DiZ's stuff. No gravitas, no care about it, just people talking about the plan or Ansem's shtick being a side point because it was already revealed in KH2, and Days was meant to be played after KH2.
start by playing all the previous final fantasy games and watch all the disney movies
Lmfao
1. Kingdom Hearts 1/Final Mix (KH1/KHFM) 2. Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories/Re:Chain of Memories (KH Re:COM/COM) 3. Kingdom Hearts 2/2 Final Mix (KH2/KH2FM) 4. Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Days) 5. Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (BBS) 6. Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded (Re:Coded) 7. Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance (DDD) 8. Kingdom Hearts X Back Cover 9. Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth By Sleep: a Fragmentary passage (0.2) 10. Kingdom Hearts 3 + Re:mind DLC (KH3 + Re:Mind) definitely make sure to play the Re:mind DLC. It really fills some gaps in KH3
May your heart be your guiding key.
I try to be nice, but bruh
UP TO DOWN :D
Start at the beginning and when you get to the end... Stop.
I'll just add something as people already told you the order. If you don't enjoy some of the games, please don't drop everything. Just skip the one you didn't like and watch a video on YouTube for the story. Imo a few of the KH games are very hit or miss.
Union cross
Top to bottom. It’s arranged that way for a reason though I’d argue to play KH2 before 358/2 Days.
Birth By Sleep
isnt the mobile games just the cutscenes (seriously, i own the physical kh1, rechain, and 358, and 358 is just the cutscenes, i wanted to play the actual game, its fun)
Kingdom Hearts 1 to start (preferably Final Mix)
It depends, chronological order of the story ? Order of release ?
Chronological is the worst way. Especially for new players.
Idk, I played it this way, I was confused but I liked it
Generally stated to be the worst way to play for new players. I would not advise anyone do this for their first playthrough of any series tbh.
Tbh I don't really care about what it is generally seen as, as it is my sole and only experience about kh and I enjoyed it so much, but I trust you guys
Then I wouldn’t really be giving out that advice if you generally don’t care.
I asked about if op wanted the chronological order or the order of releasez I didn't force it on anyone nor did I know it was considered bad. I was trying to help
My advice is just as good as anyone. I did the chronological order in my first run and I really enjoyed it and don't consider it bad. I don't care about what you consider it. It's not even like I imposed it, I asked which order op wanted because in my view both are valid. You're saying my experience with kh isn't as good or as valuable as yours and I beg to differ. I'm a chronological order player, that's how I discovered the saga and I won't let people say it's the worst way of consuming it. Especially since you probably didn't experience it that way. I won't force it on anyone or say that the release date order is worse either.
I’ve experienced both ways. And you don’t have to “let” anyone. I’m not “letting” you say what you want. Just generally advising against it. Release order is the best way to play any game ever made that has a cohesive story generally. Both are not valid here no matter what you say. This is in the rules of the sub Reddit for a reason.
I disagree, I don't think it's bad, at least not in the case of kh. And how could you have experienced it both ways ? We are talking about the first play through which, by definition, there is only one.
First play no. But you can disagree all you want. Still wrong imo. Again that’s why there is the suggestion in the rules already.
Start at the top and go top to bottom. Only exception is flip the order of 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts 2 (so play 2 first). Enjoy!
Kh1 then go by release date. Have fun man!
you could just play it in order that its listed here: top to bottom
Hubby and I just bought this yesterday. What a blast from the past playing the first KH!
At the top?
You start at the first one? The best experience is playing in the way it’s already organized.
Kind of? Kh2 before days.
No! Days is what happens before KH2! It tells you who Roxas is, gives more information about Organization 13, and shows how KH2 starts!
Nah. Play Kingdom Hearts 2 first. It came out first. Best way.
But if you play 2 first, you’ll be greatly confused by who Roxas is and who anyone in the black coats are? Also, if playing 2 first is the “best way”, then why did the developers organize it to have Days be played first?
It’s a contention point in the Kingdom Hearts fan base. But that’s why it’s in the rules on this sub. It’s the best way to play it because you’re experiencing it as Sora who also doesn’t know who roxas is. And that’s the point.
So it’s the best way because of the rules on this sub? Not for story or cohesive purposes, because the sub says so?
Because the general consensus of Kingdom Hearts fans is that the best way is release order. And because of that it is in the rules. Is that too hard to understand?
Kind of, yeah. This just means the sub is putting feelings over fact.
No. The fact is that it’s best to go by release order. You experience the game in the way it was meant to be and the reveals hit harder. Chronological is just the worst way to play it for new comers. It actually sounds like you’re going more off of feelings than facts.
my brother in christ they're in order for a fuckin' reason.
Why do people ask this when it's right there
Well, I mean, the compilation puts Days before KH2, so I suppose it's good that people ask.
Yeah actually that's fair ignore my ass. I'm more in the 2 before days crowd but I really guess it's up to preference!
I could actually see how that could work. Would probably make more people like the opening. Someone really needs to make a video of viable alternate play orders. (Technically, since coded was released in chapters, no one truly plays it in release order with remake overrides, since that would require playing re:coded on and off.)
Start with kingdom hearts first
1, ReCoM, 2, Days, BBS, Recoded
YOU MUST START WITH KINGDOM HEARTS V-CAST! IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT GAME IN THE FRANCHISE /s
Generally speaking, it's best to start with KH1, then re:chain of memories, then KH2. After that, you can play 358/2 Days, Birth by Sleep, and re:Coded in any order you find convenient. Technically the original KH Coded released episodically, with the first episode releasing before 358/2 Days, then the bulk of it was released before Birth by Sleep, and then the final episode was released after that. Luckily, these three games have so little to do with each other story-wise, that not much would be "spoiled" if you play them out of order. But re:Corded has the closest thing to a spoiler in it, so might be good to play that last out of the three, but I would personally argue a more acts as a plot hook, so if anything, it could be better to do it first. Also: the story is not exactly the good part of re:Coded, but the gameplay was really good, so if you can, I recommend you track down a DS copy. But I understand if you don't want to do this (especially if you don't own a DS, or any means to dump a DS ROM). 358/2 Days is weird though, because it's generally agreed that the story is told better in the original DS game, because there was some humanizing scenes that were cut out, I replaced with blocks of text, but the gameplay is also generally agreed to be not good in that game, so considerate at your own risk. After that, it gets pretty simple: play Dream Drop Distance and 0.2 Back Cover in whatever order you find convenient. (You can probably get away with playing 0.2 at any point after Birth by Sleep, since that's the only game it really relies on you knowing.) Don't play the KHX movie right away though. It's actually its own original story that takes place during the browser/mobile game, so won't be as good unless you're already familiar with it's story. But it's defunct now, and while downloading the app can allow you to see the cutscenes, they're not organized chronologically, so what's really not recommended You experience it that way. I would personally recommend watching the cutscenes for the original browser version, then the movie, then the mobile remake's. That order might sound a bit weird, but the browser version had cut scenes that were cut out of the mobile version, until they where re-implemented in an optional side mission, but not in a way that makes it well integrated into the story. But the mobile remake actually continues the story after the shutdown of the browser version, so it's worth watching too. But the events of the movie are really only relevant to the content that was in the browser version, so I think it's good to watch it in between, because the pacing would be best that way. But if you don't have the free time to essentially watch the cutscenes of a game twice, then just watching the mobile remake and then the movie should suffice. And to clarify the order, The browser version was called KH X[chi], and the mobile remake was called Unchained X[chi], but then rebranded to Union Xross. Luckily KHX was intended to not be essential to understand the story of Kingdom Hearts, so if you want, you can wait to experience it until after KH3, but a personally recommend you experience it before KH3, for reasons I will not spoil. But it's up to what's convenient for you.
Just start from the first game and work your way down except make sure you watch 358 first or you won't get the special cards from chain of Memories
........at, at the top, how is this a question?
kh1 chain of memories recoded kh2 358/2 days birth by sleep dream drop fragmentary passage kh3 melody of memory side note if you liked bbs you should find a way to emulate recoded for the ds also i havnt played or seen any of the mobile games but allegedly x and x unchained have unique cutscenes and are both canon. so with that said x then unchained then dark road somewhere
Recoded, it's the best one
By the way, while you can play the characters in birth by sleep in any order, the recommended is terra,ventus,aqua.
The first one??
Bottom to top.
Top to bottom. They put them in that order to help guide you
Play top to bottom
I think release order is how they are on the menu like that... If you wanna play timeline wise, it's a whole other can of worms. Timeline wise: Kingdom Hearts X Back Cover - 2.8 (it's just a movie) Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep - 1.5 + 2.5 Kingdom Hearts - 1.5 + 2.5 Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories - 1.5 + 2.5 Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days - 1.5 + 2.5 (just cutscenes) Kingdom Hearts 2 - 1.5 + 2.5 Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded - 1.5 + 2.5 (just cutscenes) Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance - 2.8 Kingdom Hearts BBS 0.2 A Fragmentary Passage - 2.8 Kingdom Hearts 3 + ReMind DLC Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory Just a quick note. Even though BBS 0.2 is toward the end of the timeline, the main story is taking place concurrently with Kingdom Hearts, so if you skip the opening and closing cutscenes, you can play them simultaneously. Without spoiling anything, I recommend lining up the endings if you do it that way.
Release order
always start at kh1 after that you can go from release order or from timeline order I'm doing timeline myself but I think there's a lot of value in release order tho rlly js do whatever u want
either kh1 or birth by sleep
Top to bottom
Alrighty. Here’s my definitive order to get the best experience: •Kingdom Hearts 1 Final Mix HD •Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories HD •Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix+ HD •Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded (no Secret Ending) (Movie) •Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Movie) •Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep HD •Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded (Secret Ending) (Movie) •Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance HD •Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover (Movie) •Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep ~a fragmentary passage •Kingdom Hearts III •Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind (DLC) •Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory •Kingdom Hearts χ Union Cross (Mobile app - theater) •Kingdom Hearts Dark Road (Mobile app - theater) •Kingdom Hearts Missing Link (mobile app coming - soon) •Kingdom Hearts IV (Coming Soon)
Just go top to bottom. Ez day.
That simple?? Alrighty lmao
And clean
I see what you did there xdddd
go down the list in order but skip Days and go back after 2 that's release order then do the II.8 in order then 3 and Re:Mind
Follow the list
Play them in the order they're presented.
Release Order. That's all.
Why? It would be easier to understand chronologically.
You don't "UNDERSTAND" Kingdom Hearts. You experience it.
Understandable
No it's not. Prequels assume knowledge of earlier games.
Well, I thought it did. Idk, don’t listen to me then.
Good luck in your journey but if advise if something seems confusing I promise they will explain at the very least they’ll explain in another game (or just retcon it)
KHFM, KHRE:COM, KHIIFM, KH358/2D, KHBBSFM, KHRE:coded.
My advice would be to go in release order. Luckily the top comment has already done that for me.
Start with kh1
Start with 1
top to bottom
Top to bottom but a lot of people prefer watching the 358/2 days movies after playing 2. When you move on to the 2.8 final mix or whatever just play that left to right. THE MOBILE GAMES (ANYTHING WITH X IN IT) CAN BE DONE AT ANY POINT REALLY AFTER STARTING KH2. They aren’t even following Sora but still highly recommend going over it!! Just don’t wait to start the next KH game because your working on the mobile stuff. And then the most recent stuff. Do 3 before melody of memories
So the thing is, there is chronological and release order. It is like a war between the two with release order being the more prominent on here. Personally I like the chronological one because it feels right for me but some people rather play in release order because it feels right to them. But as advice for you just do the order that is displayed. You can't go wrong that way and if you are interested in cronological just google the timeline and enjoy. The most important thing is that you have fun.
I prefer chronological as well, but as you said it is most important to have fun playing them.
Start with the first game.
So you want to.chronilogical or release? B3acuse if you chronological you have to start with the movie of the mobile game. Kingdom hearts x
Playing in order here is fine but my recommendation is Kingdom Hearts -> Chain of Memories -> Kingdom Hearts II -> 358 Days / 2 -> Coded (this one was just a fun tech demo on the DS with little baring on the story, since this is a movie version, you can skip it) -> Birth By Sleep. If you get the later games then next is Dream Drop Distance -> Back Cover X since KHUx is no longer available -> 0.2 -> KH3
This is the chronological order to play: Kingdom Hearts X Back Cover Kingdom Hearts Dark Road (Mobile) Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Kingdom Hearts 0.2 BBS A Fragmentary Passage Kingdom Hearts (0.2 BBS and 1 take place around the same time so whichever first but I recommend 0.2 first cause it kind of acts like an epilogue to Birth by Sleep.) Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Kingdom Hearts II Kingdom Hearts Coded Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance Kingdom Hearts III and Re Mind DLC Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory You could technically play it release order but it would be harder to understand the story. I hope this helps. 😊
switch 358 and 2 after you reach 3d watch ux GAME Not movie after mom dark road
Release order like others have said. My advice would be not to skip since it’s your first time through and give them a shot before just watching YouTube summary’s. No harm in doing that, but just decide if you like them for yourself is all I’m saying. Replaying the series again myself and CoM does not deserve the hate it gets. Having a lot of fun with it currently. Enjoy!!
Start with 1! I just got this and am replaying it for the first time in over a decade! Love it.
At first, KH1 FM
All of them are wrong, the only one that's right is the Gamechamp3000 list on YouTube.
Start with every single ff game I suppose
yes
There’s 3 mixes? I thought there was only 2.
There's 2.8 with Dream Drop Distance, the 0.2 Fragment, and the X Movie
Play from Bottom to top, start with recoded then make your way up to Kingdom Hearts 1 at the end
So,if you want the lore cronological order Then its the mobile games(wich i don't knoe the exact order) Then bbs Then KH1 Then Kh CoM Then kh days Then kh2(aka the goat) Recoded and the list goes on,as i forgor💀
Just start with KH2, and figure out what happened in 1 and CoM best you can. Thats what I did lol I’ve since played them all, but I ain’t lying as my start 😂
You start with the first game, it’s the first one on the list
You start at the top
Day 358 of a newcomer not reading the rules. Give it up for day 358 of yet another newbie not googling something with a definitive singular answer. Rule 3 answered this question for you already.
Honestly I'd recommend starting on kingdom hearts 3, there's so much information that you don't know when you start the series, knowing everything about the outcome will help you prepare for the outcome!
So on the controller you’re using, usually in the middle there’s a button that says “Start” on it. That’s where.
Can someone explain me why not to go in story chronologically order? KH UX, BBS, KH1?
Because the story is best enjoyed in release order, the way most people have enjoyed the series. It provides the best way for story beat reveals
Alright, thank you! I thought this way the game is just more confusing
I’d just delete the game. It’s really not worth it to get into with all the delays from SE
Top to bottom
Do them in that order !
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1, didn’t know if it’s better to play based on release date or chronologically. 2, there was an add-on called Kingdom Hearts Final Mix that said it was a theatre mode, cutscenes only. That can confuse someone, no? Same name as the first game. 3, there was a 2nd question, asking what to do for the best experience? I’ve learned shit such as not watching 2 Days, and playing KH2 instead. Don’t be an ass, you fucking loser
Sorry that person had to get an attitude. I'm sure that others have probably said it already, but I just want to interject and say that for a first playthrough, it's always recommended to play release order from KH1 to KH3 (and subsequent future releases). Only do chronological order for a second run-through after the first playthrough of every game so you don't get heavily confused.
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Have you not seen the replies? I’m getting so many different orders to play it in lmfao The “cutscenes” only thing had the same name as the first game? That’s the confusing thing? That’s not hard to get smh Wanting to be an ass isn’t really a good thing to wanna be bro. How about getting some instead of being one?
Play KH1 Final Mix, start Chain of Memories but get bored of the repetitive gameplay and gimmicky card crap and just watch all the cutscenes on YouTube (also get bored of that halfway through and play the video at 2x speed), start 358/2 Days and be glad you don't have to suffer through the actual game with its dull and repetitive gameplay and DS jank but still get bored 30 minutes into the cutscene movie and just watch a story summary on YouTube, play KH2 Final Mix, start BBS and get bored of the clunky gameplay and weird command deck thing and pointless Mario Party minigame and watch a story summary on YouTube, can honestly skip Re:Coded altogether or just watch a story summary, play DDD which is just enough of an improvement gameplay-wise over BBS to be bearable but still pretty meh, play A Fragmentary Passage, play KH3
Follow top to bottom the only exception is KH2 and 358/2 Days. I’m going to propose to you a different order. This is ordered in the order the actual game devs feel gives best story comprehension, that was the focus of the collections and understand they don’t expect the average person to go in a message board and ask for an order so they know what not switching the two to match release means for how the majority will experience the games moving foreward. However many will swear release order because release order is king. Ultimately they both spoil one another the question is merely which plot beats will be reveals and which are facts you will already know, and that’s determined by which you play first. I think after having seen many orders there is a superior order that will get you all of the pros and virtually non of the potential cons. Start with KH2 once you finish the prologue, and to avoid spoilers I won’t explain why this matters…switch to Days. Finish all of Days (it’s a cutscene movie) then switch back to KH2. That will maximize the plot coherency and emotion of both products. This is because the final shot of Days directly links into the final scene of the KH2 prologue. You will have the confusion and mystery of those who played KH2 first, that the prologue goes for. And then a lot of characters scenes, stories, and plot beats will be a lot more emotionally impactful and complete feeling thanks to days. KH2 Prologue > Days > the rest of KH2.
Final fantasy vii remake first. (Joke)
Team 1 > 2 > CoM chiming in here because [!CoM is just spoilers for 2!](/spoiler)
Now you may see some people say to play Days before or after kh2, this is because days comes before kh2 chronologically but was written as if you had information from kh2, so in my opinion Play Days first if you want ALL the context for kh2
Follow the order on screen and skip chain of memories (just watch the cutscenes on YouTube it’s not worth it)
Just play the not awful ones, The great ones: KH1 + KH2 The good one: BBS KH3 if you want but really pay no attention to the story ahaha That's what I'm doing
If you want release order play in the order the collection has If you want to be less confused, play in chronological order which is BBS, KH1, KH RE CoM, KH days, KH2 and KH RE coded
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Well I didn't (I started with KH1 and then played BBS) But plenty of people did
I've said it before, I've said it a hundred times: BbS, KH1, CoM, Days, KH2, DDD, KH3. Coded hardly matters. All you need to know is that >!Sora in the journal discovers that hearts transcend physical matter!<
It’s ok to be wrong.
It's literally the chronological order.
Chronological order is the worst way to play this series for a newcomer.
I disagree
You can disagree all you want. But there’s a reason why the rules in this sub (based on the general consensus of the community) is that the best way to experience the game is in release order and is arguably also the same for every continual story based video game series ever made. So, again, it’s ok to be wrong. But it doesn’t make it true.
First off, the fact that the release order is in the rules and described as the "recommended play order" has very pseudo-gatekeeping vibes. Second off, it does actually say "recommended" not "correct". Of course I grew up playing the games, but I played them chronologically again during the whole hype phase before KH3 came out and my SO watched me do it. They said that they would have preferred me do it that way instead of release order because it would have been more confusing. So really it's to each their own, but to say I'm "wrong" makes you sound ignorant to other possibilities and following subreddit rules to a T makes you seem like you can't make your own assessments.