Our journey with Chain of Memories ends here!Talking after Sam finished editing this episode, he mentioned how surprised he was that the story wrapped up so quickly. In the very same game that Riku faces the angst over what he's done and the darkness in his heart, he kills Ansem and resolved to use...

Now that Sora's out of the way, Riku can finally take center stage.The strangest part of Riku's role in the grand story of Kingdom Hearts is that he and Sora almost trade places in terms of their narrative arcs.In the first game, the most significant plot twist is that Sora was never meant to wield...

This Phantom Promise just keeps hurting...In this episode, Sam makes a comment that if Sora went off and took a beach vacation somewhere, it's possible that the Organization would end up killing itself without his help. There's more truth to that than we'd be able to get into with Chain of...

Do you constantly find yourself staring at your friends back, wondering exactly what knife would be best suited for plunging into it? If so, call your doctor right away, as you might have Chronic Backstabbing Syndrome.It's amusing to watch Sam ask all these questions as we go through the series....

This room looks familiar...Kingdom Hearts has this problem of building up a ton of cool premises that could lead into really fascinating philosophical and sociological musings... and then dropping them like lead weights before they've really had time to develop. Worse, they often just refuse to...

This game is just filler.One thing that we point out in this episode is just how strange the script sounds when delivered by these voice actors.I don't fault the actors themselves, or even the voice direction. The actual performances aren't bad at all. When you hear them in other games, with better...

Today, we rediscover how much filler is in this goddamn game.Since we don't have much to say regarding the events of the story, I'm going to instead talk about why I personally don't care that AtRiley didn't include any of the individual world's storylines.Not only are they filler, but they follow...

Welcome back to the Kingdom Hearts Primer. This time, we've moved on to Chain of Memories.Thanks again to AtRiley for allowing us to use his cut for our purposes.There's not much to say about the overall story yet, because even in a story that's largely build-up to Kingdom Hearts 2, most of the...

Welcome to the next installment of our Kingdom Hearts Primer. This time, we cover the game that begat many of the concepts that confuse the hell out of people trying to get into Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.We hope you look forward to this as much as we look forward to presenting it, with the...