Product Description

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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4648 in Video Games
• Brand: Square Enix
• Model: 662248904177
• Released on: 2006-06-15
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Game Boy Advance
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .15 pounds

Features

• 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

Customer Reviews

SUPERB!!!
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.

Absolutely stunning GBA game...
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.

A great sequel!
The game, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, is the bridging gap between Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2. It offers a new storyline, a new battle system, and a new look at the series, including cut scenes that match the graphics of the original Kingdom Hearts.

In Chain of Memories, Sora comes across a crossroads. A dark figure in a hooded trench coat appears, and says that Sora has much to gain, but in order to gain something, he must lose something in return. Sora turns around to face the figure, but the figure vanishes, and suddenly, the figure appears, now floating above one single road, the crossroads now gone. Sora follows after the figure, coming across a disfigured castle named Castle Oblivion. Inside the castle, Goofy, Donald, and Sora meet up with the figure once more...

In Chain of Memories, Sora is reliving all of his memories, in a way. None of the characters, apart from the hooded man, Donald, and Goofy remember Sora, no matter how hard he tries to make them remember. The first world they go to is Traverse Town, where you are taught the basics of control Sora in the game, and of how the battle system works. The battle system is made up of cards. If the card has a Keyblade on it, you attack. If it has fire, a snowflake, or lightning on it, you use magic, and so on and so forth. If you get a character card, the character who is featured will attack the enemies for a short amount of time, while Sora in unable to use any of his attacks. Also, you are able to make combo attacks by combining three cards, almost always gaining you a quick victory, especially again the defensive enemies.

The storyline is not a complete remake of the original. It's entirely new, just with similar characters and areas. In the game, you must reach the top of Castle Oblivion, and defeat the boss. After you complete the game for a first time (spoiler), you can replay the game with another storyline, using Riku and King Mickey as main characters. (spoiler)

The graphics are amazing. The isometric view really makes the game a lot easier in the overworld, and the side view for the battles makes it easier to go in and attack. Also, the opening cut scene has, as I said, graphics that match the original, including a small clip of what happened at the end of the last game.

The music is awe-inspiring. The makers of the game have recreated the scores from the original Kingdom Hearts, giving it a wonderful feeling of the past. Remember "Dearly Beloved"? You can hear it again. Including new music just for the game and new areas.

This game is great, though it might take a few tries to get used to the card system, but overall, it's a great game that came out in time for Christmas. I suggest that you put it onto your lists. And parents, if your child is a RPG-freak, get them this game. They'll thank you for it.