The tale (referred to as the Dark Seeker Saga) begins with three youngsters: Sora, Riku, and Kairi. Japanese storytelling is a little different from Western storytelling, and in my experience, less linear and not as dependent on creating definitive interpretations and conclusions. Storywise, the games continue to weave a complicated path. It has six parts: “KINGDOM HEARTS FINAL MIX”–the original Kingdom Hearts game with additional scenes, updated menus, and camera movement “KINGDOM HEARTS Re:Chain of Memories”–a remake of a Game Boy Advance offering that features a card-based battle system “KINGDOM HEARTS 358/2 Days”–an adaptation of the original Nintendo DS game into a two-plus hour cinematic “KINGDOM HEARTS II FINAL MIX”–“Kingdom Hearts 2” changed to HD with remixed audio “KINGDOM HEARTS Birth by Sleep Final MIX”–a prequel to the first Kingdom Hearts and “KINGDOM HEARTS Re:coded”–a three hour cinematic based on the Nintendo DS game with around two hours of new content to tie Re:coded and the next game “Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance” (on the 2.8 collection) together. Finally, 2.8 came out for the PS4, but as I found out in my earlier review, the plot was hard going without any knowledge of the first six games.īut finally! The new “KINGDOM HEARTS HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX” collection has all of the previous games represented and remastered for the PS4. The games had all come out originally on multiple earlier systems, and the big HD collections 1.5 and 2.5 were only playable on the PS3. So for those of us late to the Kingdom Hearts game, there was no way to play the whole thing on the Playstation 4. So the latest release from Square Enix is a collection of roughly the first two-thirds of their long-running action role-playing Kingdom Hearts series, “KINGDOM HEARTS HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX” which, when combined with their recent compilation of the last one-third “Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue” (of which I wrote here) should get you up to speed on the current state of the Dark Seeker Saga. No matter how impossible things seem…a powerful enough dream will always be enough to light the darkness.” –Terra She made me realize how powerful it is just to believe. “There’s this girl here–her name is Cinderella.