Expert: Brian Jay - 3/29/2006

Question
I wanted to know if i need to play Kingdom Hearts: Chain of memories, before i play Kingdom Hearts II.  Is it essential to understand?  

Answer
Hey Dan

After some forum browsing and whatnot, it does seem to me that you need to have played CoM before playing KHII ~if~ you wanted to ~fully~ understand what's going on.

However, that dosent mean that you have to go out and physically play CoM if thats your intention.

1) KHII does have a ~brief~ recap of the first two games... and it does include some of the key events of CoM. Probably not the best course of action just to rely upon this.

2) Gamefaqs.com has game scripts and plot summaries for CoM which give a great telling if what happened ingame. These can be found here:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/game/919011.html

ALSO, check out the reference.com plot summary for CoM as well!

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Kingdom_Hearts:_Chain_of_Memories

Only problem with using these, is that they dont show pictures of each of the characters. You might have to google each of them beforehand.

Saves having to buy it I reckon :)

I hope that's helped you, and if you need me for anything you know what to do.




Brian Jay