I'm about to finish KH and...

[Laleeta]

Hello everyone!
I had some time off during this long week end and I picked up KH once again hoping to finish it at last.


25 hours later I'm almost done and I'm receiving KH2 tomorrow !
Anyway, my question is: I’m not planning on buying Chain of Memories, will this refrain me from understanding the plot in KH2?

If Chain of Memories is indeed needed to understand KH2 can one of you quickly highlight the most important points please?

Thanks in advance!
*runs back to her PS2*

[revarai20]

I'm sure if you played Chain of Memories, it could help in a way to find out what would occur in the second game but do whatever you want..

[-Arcana-X-]

If you want to watch vids on COM on Youtube, fine by me.
But it's better that you are playing it so the story sticks to your mind better.

Congrats on finishing KH!

[True_Darkness]

I enjoyed Chain of Memories. If you can get it used then by all means do so since it will be cheaper that way. But it isn't manditory to have played through it. It IS useful to know what happened though.

[roxas994]

It isn't needed but personally I would definitely consider trying to track down a copy of CoM if you can.

[marluxia demon]

ide say it is kinda needed sinc youll be wondering sum things at the beggining of KH2 like....well i wont spoil it but in my opinion ts kinda needed but do what ya got to do^_^

[Xsora5X]

ive beat kh1 and kh2 but never played com. ive pretty much heard thye story of com in articles and other stuff.

[ngc50]

Well you can go to google and type "Chain of Memories script," or like Arcana said you can just watch the scenes on youtube.

[Morningstar]

I played CoM after KHII.

It's much less confusing this way.

[Organization_42]

I did the exact same thing that you did Laleeta, only I went on Wikipedia and read the whole plotline of Chain of Memories first. Technically you don't have to know the details, but if you want to understand who Namine, DiZ, and Axel are, and why Sora, Donald, and Goofy are asleep at the start of KH2, it's good to know what happened. Here is the link to the Wikipedia article, and you can also watch video clips on YouTube or KH-Vids of Re:COM. Just make sure you click on the ones with English subtitles.

I would write out a summary for you, but I tend to give blow-by-blow accounts that go on for pages and pages.

[gungonX]

Many people have stated, if you haven't played Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, it won't affect your ability to understand the story of Kingdom Hearts: II. However, if you want to dive right into the midst of it all, and get heavily involved within this beautiful story, then by all means purchase it! In my opinion, it adds to the excitement, that is Kingdom Hearts.

[Laleeta]

Well first of thank you for the quick replies

To sum things up a bit playing CoM isn't necessary in order to play KH2 but it helps a bit here and there. Believe me if I could I would play it but buying a Game Boy Advance just for one game is a bit too much for my already strained budget

Well then I'm gonna have to read the wikipedia page (thanks by the way ^^) and find some videos on you tube maybe.

If there are some details about CoM that you think I must know before playing KH2, please feel free to share them !

Anyway back to my PS2, thanks again everyone

[Pika Popper]

Well the thing you should remember is that half of the Organization members have been killed by Sora.
One was killed by Axel.

And Sora went to sleep at the end of the game.

[Hyrenking]

It seems like everyone and their grandmother has a GBA, I borrowed one from my friend and bought a used copy of the game from some gamestop somewhere... I wonder if you could find a Rom... Nah...

[Pika Popper]

You can actually use roms.

All you have to do is get a R4 for the DS then copy the rom into the R4.

After that you can play it.

I learned that on this one site. I don't have an R4 though. I wish.