Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-226878-20150620044214/@comment-25555436-20150628125725

ChishioKunrin wrote: And you don't necessarily have to play them in order of the timeline, but it probably helps to, I guess. Basically, I've gone like this so far...


 * Looked up a video with all the important scenes of Re: Chain of Memories and watched that. Finally got a better grasp of what went on between KH1 and KH2. Were there reports in CoM?


 * Also, apparently, Chain of Memories takes place during 358/2 Days.


 * Started playing Birth By Sleep, starting with Ventus, and I fully intend on reading every report and report-like text that I find because these report things are treasure troves of information in every game.

-I think only in the PS2 remake (the original was for GBA).
 * On the fence about Re: Coded. Apparently that game isn't important?

-It's the other way around. 358/2 days begins right before Chain of Memories, develops as it goes, and then keeps going after CoM ends. It lets us understand what Roxas did back in the XIII and it's pretty good on it's own (it's available in NDS, probably 3DS too. There are cutscenes that don't appear in KH1.5's Theater Mode). But god, that ending....it was so beautiful....and then "who's going to share ice cream with me?" -__- .....

-IIRC (been like 1 year since I finished that game's FM version) you didn't get every report with 1 character. You got different reports with each of the 3. They mostly explain about the Unversed, the Heartless's discovery, and Xehanort's plan for back then.

-Yup, it's completely unimportant, a filler done to test a modified version of BBS's combat system on the NDS. As for KHX, it's about what happens before and during the Keyblade War....but it's got no story, so it's not worth playing it if that's what you wanted.