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Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories

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Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories

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Combine different cards for new abilities, spells, combo attacks, and tactics
Use special cards to summon familiar characters from the original Kingdom Hearts
Travel through interactive environments as you unlock doors and find treasures
Meet over 100 of your favorite Disney and Final Fantasy characters
Prepare for battle by raising your attributes through an innovative game system

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Kingdom Hearts: Chain Of Memories delivers an unsurpassed gaming experience to players. Watch as new high-quality movie sequences show you an incredible new story -- where Disney and Final Fantasy characters meet! The heroes of Kingdom Hearts - Sora, Donald and Goofy - have walked into a room that took away their powers and magic! To get them back, SOra will go on a series of unique card duel -- where she'll summon characters from the popular Final Fantasy games!

List Price: $ 19.99 Price: $ 75.00

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121 of 131 people found the following review helpful

SUPERB!!!, December 26, 2004

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This game is so much fun it is difficult to express how happy I am having spent my money on it.

Graphics: 10/10. The graphics are absolutely incredible for being on a GBA. I've been playing Chain of Memories (CoM) on my Nintendo DS and often thought "wow, this DS does have good graphics..." just to remember I was playing a GBA game! In particular, the cinematic cutscenes could easily be N64 quality.

Music: 8/10. Original themes from the original Kingom Hearts. Well transposed to handheld, but nothing exceptional.

Story 9/10. If somewhat linear and not extremely original as the first Kingdom Hearts, CoM presents a genuinely sweet and enveloping story. Grown ups and kids should love it both, each one capturing and apprciating some of the sides of the story the other would not.

Gameplay: 10/10. This is where the game is actually great. It manages to insert a "card game" into a live action brawler. In combat againsty the heartless you command Sora through cards you collect and buy during the game. The cards can be combined to create enhanced effects and to deal major damage on your enemy. You will find out that creating a well balanced deck is vital to sucess. One suggestion: you have 3 possible decks you can keep at the same time, make one for normal heartless duels, and custom make another for boss encounters.

(One of the coolest combos is using 3 Cloud evocation cards.)

Finally, you will be exploring and shaping the worlds you explore through "map cards." In fact, every time you reach a door you must open it with a "map card."

These map cards are found as loot after duels and deciding which variety will affect the sort of "area" you will end up in and its contents. This adds a lot of fun and strategy to the game.

Bottom line:

A MUST BUY FOR ANY GBA OWNER!!!

Moreover, if you like at all Final Fantasy or Disney, you need to have this game.

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful

Absolutely stunning GBA game..., June 8, 2006

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Handheld games are usually given second class treatment when it comes to big name franchises. The games are usually thorwn together quickly with low production values. Kingdom Hearts is the complete opposite.

This game plays, sounds, and looks beautiful.

The voice acting is done superb, the music and sounds are sharp and the graphics are awesome. I cant believe the high quality of the full motion videos in this game. I didnt think a Gameboy was capable of this quality.

And this aint no short romp through the enchanted lands of Disney. The main story took me 18 fun hours to get through. Plus there is a second complete game, with a new character and abilities, once you beat the main story.

And this second game is full with a new story and dialogue. This is pretty much unheard of...

Thoguh i must admit that some of the boss battles in this game will have you ripping your hair out. While the card battles and card collecting is addictive and fun, it can be annoying when some bosses have stacks of the best cards in the game...

All in all this game is a pure gem from its quality packaging and to its superb graphics and gameplay. Whether youve played Kingdom Hearts for the PS2 or not, every Gameboy owned should pick up a copy of this game.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful

Worth playing just to see the ending!, April 15, 2006

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I have played all the way through Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, and even though I had a hard time while playing it, it was worth playing it just to get to the ending scene.
Although this game is very difficult and the card battle system is highly annoying, through all of my frustration... Making it to the end of the game was very rewarding and made it all worth it!
For those of you who have played Kingdom Hearts for the PS2 and are going to play Kingdom Hearts 2, this game is the one that links Kingdom Hearts with Kingdom Hearts 2. In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, the whole story explains what happened to Riku after the events in Kingdom Hearts, and it shows what happened between Axel, Sora, and Namine before Kingdom Hearts 2. So why isn't this game KH2 and the new one for the PS2 Kingdom Hearts 3? Well, it's because this game isn't a true sequel to Kingdom Hearts because you play through all of the same levels as KH1, and by the end of the game Sora loses all of his memories, so it's as though the whole thing never happened. (Dont act like that's a spoiler, play the game for ten minutes and it tells you that it's going to happen.) But it's worth playing to find out what happened between Sora, Axel, and Namine in the past.

For those of you who haven't played the original Kingdom Hearts, or dont own a PS2, the game is worth playing because of how cool the KH series is, and since it's not a true sequel and has a story of it's own... You dont have to play Kingdom Hearts to enjoy it.

Although this game's battle system is very annoying and hard to work with, the game has an amazing story and great graphics!
Making it to the end of the game and seeing the breath taking 3D ending cut scene makes all of the frustration that you felt while playing through certain points in the game all worth it!

Pros: Great game with a great story!
Amazing 3D cut scenes throughout the game make it a pleasant gaming experience!
It's amazing that the GBA is capable of such Great graphics, and PS2 quality cut scenes!
Game contains the KH theme song, "Simple and clean" which plays during the credits after you beat the game!
The voice acting, while limited, is still very good.
A great game for people who like Kingdom Hearts, but dont own a PS2.
The story for Riku's mission is very deep and explains what happens after Sora's mission ends, so it's kinda like you're buying 2 games in one!

Cons: The card battle system is very annoying, and takes alot of getting used to.
Leveling up is hard because you have to collect gems that fall from your fallen enemies to gain experience!
Because of how you level up, you have to run around, or roll under other enemies on the field in order to get at the experience gems!
Leveling up is also annoying because of the fact that you need alot of CP (Card Points) to increase the size of your deck, so you're always having to upgrade your CP which makes it hard to find time to upgrade your HP (Health Points)
Sometimes you'll get so frustrated while playing that you will feel like turning it off, and never playing it again!

50/50: You have to unlock The Soul of Rebirth option if you want to play as Riku and find out what happened to him after KH1, but Riku's mission is so much fun and so much less annoying to play than Sora's mission so it's well worth the trouble of beating the game as Sora to unlock it.
While there are no cut scenes during Riku's mission, the cut scene at the end of Riku's mission in nothing short of awesome!

Overall: Although this game can be very annoying at times, and even drive you crazy! The game has a great story, and even when you're most frustrated with it, you'll find yourself wanting to play it just so you can see what happens next. On top of that, this is one of the only GBA games that I've ever seen that has 3D graphics anywhere in the game! Sure there have been other GBA games with some 3D, but not this kind of 3D! I'm talkin' PS2 quality 3D! The game itself isn't 3D, so dont get the wrong idea... But the cut scenes that take place during certain parts of the game are. So if you've got the money, I recomend buying this game. Yes, it really annoyed me at times, but the amazing ending made it all worth it for me.

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