Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories | 
| From: Square Enix
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  202 reviews
Sales Rank: 1123
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5 x 5 x 1
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 90417
Model: 662248904177
UPC: 662248904177
EAN: 0662248904177
ASIN: B00068O278
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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 |
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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!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 197 more reviews...
 SUPERB!!! December 26, 2004
Rocco (USA)
114 out of 128 found this review helpful
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.
This is Going To Be A Really Awesome Game! November 16, 2004
James Harden (USA)
42 out of 53 found this review helpful
I have played and beaten the first game of Kingdom Hearts and it was truely awesome. But if you think that It'll be the same as the PS2 game...you are wrong! Instead of running around and slashing at enimes you run around and choose card to play. For example, you have a number of cards in your hand, you and whoever you are fighting play a card at the same time. Who ever has the higher card attacks as much damage as shown on the card. Donald and Goofy are not with you in this game but you can summon cards with them on it and they will help you for a brief time. You can also use other cards such as Genie, Bambie, and all the others. Although the screenshots may seem like their from the first game they are not. Sora is on the path where the first game left off. A hodded mad comes and tells him up head is a mansion with someone inside that is very dear to Sora. But to get to that person Sora must loose something very important. As Sora wanders throughout the mansion memories come back to him. Such as Neverland, Wonderlan and Halloween Town. But he finds at the end is up to you to find out. So play the game! It is going to be truely awesome!!!
Good game, good game! December 7, 2004
33 out of 40 found this review helpful
Okay, this game has awesome graphics for being on a GameBoy Advance. I mean it's pretty hard to get the same grahics on a GBA compared to a PS2. The reason why I say this is a good game is because of:
1) Kingdom Hearts was a good game, plus it had a ending that made you crave for the second one.
2) It ties together the KH1 and KH2.
3) Because it has a new battle system that I haven't seen at all.
4) It isn't the easist game that you can beat in 24 hours but you can beat it in a while (I like those kinds of games gives me some thing to do!)
5) Also you see old friends and new faces!
Okay those are the reasons I like this game, I am looking forward to the second Kingdom Hearts game to (Get to beat up Auron from FF10) Unfortunatly it won't come out for it least another year around Christmas time *sigh* what a pity. Well that's about it! Bu-bye!
Absolutely stunning GBA game... June 8, 2006
Carmilla
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
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.
 Am I even allowed to review this game? January 11, 2005
K. Ostrowski (Burlington, MA United States)
19 out of 51 found this review helpful
Let me start by saying that no, I have not played all the way through this game, and from the looks of things, that might never happen. However, I have played a large percentage of this game, and I feel I am in a position to tell you, honestly, a few things about it.
This game revolves around how Sora, Donald and Goofy, after their adventure in the first Kingdom Hearts, enter a place called Castle Oblivion and are very nearly destroyed/controlled by something called "the organization." All of Castle Oblivion, according to the required tutorial character near the beginning, is one huge territory where everything is ruled by cards.
Joy.
Now, for those who have never played another RPG, let me say that card-based battle has a reputation for being just plain bad. I don't like it, and chances are you won't either. Squaresoft has added some minor improvements to their card battle system that makes it bearable for most of the game, but only because I was a fan of the original and felt I owed it to the franchise to play this game.
So as I progress through the game, I discover that Sora is reliving (with some significant differences,) memories of his journey in KH1. Each floor of the Castle represents a world Sora has visited in the past, and for a while, that's that. You go back over the same territory, which is a little tedious depending on how well you remember the first game, while Sora and the others say depressing things about how much they've forgotten. Ultimately, the story takes a couple of nice turns near the end, but you hardly have any time to enjoy it.
This game, however, suffers from some pretty massive gameplay issues. First, it tries to be both an RPG and an action game and fails pretty miserably. The first Kingdom Hearts did RPG level gaining properly, allowing you to get upgrades for HP, MP, AP, defense power, attack power and special attacks. This game gives you HP upgrades, and a type of unweildy special attack called a "sleight" that forces you to arrange your cards in a certain order, which, even if you manage it, you wind up losing one of your cards for the rest of the battle. They also allow you to upgrade your "CP," which is short for "card power," and influences how many cards of what sort you can have in your "deck." Each card type costs a certain amount of CP if you want it in your deck, so, the more CP, the better.
In theory.
I think you may already begin to see an issue here. No strength upgrades means that later battles against stronger enemies with more health quickly become tedious and what's more, the bosses are very poorly designed. After the first boss, the bosses are all either MUCH too hard or so easy as to be tedious. Hades is very hard, Maleficent is hard, Hook is MUCH harder than anyone has a right to be as are the final forms of Riku and all the organization members, and virtually every other boss in the game is so easy, I could practically beat them in my sleep.
Normally, making one boss enormously harder than another is a big no-no for video games. I seriously doubt anybody but six or seven gamers out of everyone in America will EVER beat Axel, much less Marluxia, a person I have only once gotten past the first (of four no less) health bar of.
The original Kingdom Hearts was at least new gamer friendly with a difficulty setting to allow less experienced gamers to learn the game's story and appreciate its characters without banging their heads against a wall. This game doesn't even have that.
Is this game worth playing? Are you looking for a challenge? If so, you may find one in this game. I haven't screamed at a game so much since Earthworm Jim 1. I think I may keep playing this game every so often just for humility's sake, but I don't expect to ever find out what happens to Sora at the end of the castle.
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