Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-226878-20150620044214/@comment-26018514-20150628172439

LiveandSound wrote: 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.
 * Possible light spoilers*, if you Know an overview of CoM and 358/2 you should be OK. possible light KH 2 spoilers.

Live is correct(I have only played CoM and 358/2 and beat both games, god I wish I could find a poster of the Final image in CoM, Riku and Sora with their Keyblades... :P), 358/2 begins shortly after Roxas is "created"(KH1 I believe), continues on to describe the entire story of his days in Organization XIII, during which time(like day 52 it either starts or ends, idr which) the events of CoM have Sora and Riku killing off like half of the organization(at least the first time... I've never played KH2), 358/2 then continues on to day 358...ish, at the very end of it he meets Riku at the clocktower(which is a scene shown in KH2) and forces Riku to transform into Ansem to defeat him, somehow loses his memories(presumably used to wake Sora post CoM and 358/2 shenanigans), and seemingly starts over with no memories of the games events, suddenly shown to be friends with kids he met on a mission in the game.