It is a rhythm RPG, though light on number crunching and role playing. She narrates every step in a 18 year retrospective.ĭespite its relative mechanical lightness, it’s loyal to previous games, both structurally and in minute to minute play. You play through the memories of series mainstay Kairi at a 4/4 pace. It is also a retelling of every single Kingdom Hearts game so far, except the two free-to-play mobile games. It’s a rhythm game, casting players to tap their controllers along to tracks across the series’ 18 year history. Melody of Memory cuts that recurrence down to the bone. Kingdom Hearts has always been re-remembering, revising, and reimagining itself. The last major KH release, the DLC Re:Mind, is a revisitation of Kingdom Heart 3’s ending, showing scenes cut from the original run. Sora revisits his memories of the same worlds, given a different narrative framing. The direct sequel to Kingdom Hearts, the Game Boy Advance spin-off Chain of Memories, is almost a 2D remake of the original game. Furthermore, the games play with the collective memory of the franchise. It forges the vital connections that form the series’ core relationships. In Kingdom Hearts, memory is a metaphysical force. New beings are formed through the combination of memory and matter. Series protagonist Sora has forgotten himself and split into multiple selves, each defined by different aspects of his memories, several times. Even beyond the marketing pitch, the games concern themselves with memory lost, broken, and eventually regained. It’s a nostalgia machine, with a spiky haired, shonen engine. You play through reimaginings of Hercules or Frozen or Sleeping Beauty. From day one, it offered the possibility of revisiting classic Disney worlds as an anime self insert.
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