One Of The Best Scenes In Kingdom Hearts Comes From Its Worst Game
As an unironic Kingdom Hearts enjoyer, I’m pretty used to defending some of its more unsavoury elements. Atlantica in Kingdom Hearts 2? Not that bad if you don’t take it seriously. Dream Eaters? They’re fun for one side game, come on. Attraction Flow? A godsend if you’re playing on Critical Mode. Re:coded? I might need a minute.
Ask any Kingdom Hearts fan and we’ll all say the same thing - Re:Coded is the lowest point of the entire series, bar the gacha crap of Union X and Dark Road. It’s overlong, makes little to no impact on the overall story aside from one detail at the end, retreads the same paths we’ve already walked down a million times before, and doesn’t even star Sora, instead giving us a data recreation of him.
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If you skip one Kingdom Hearts game this is the one, which is exactly what I tell people going through the series for the first time. It’s a real shame that 90 percent of Re:coded is so skippable though, as one late-game scene is not only the highlight of the whole game, but one of my all-time favourites in the entire timeline.
Towards the end of the game, Data-Sora sacrifices his memory to help restore Jiminy’s Journal, leaving the character who considers his friends and memories to be his power a blank slate. Mickey takes him to Castle Oblivion, the setting of Chain of Memories, where Data-Sora meets Data-Roxas, who makes him revisit the worlds using the cards from Chain of Memories to test him and see if he can handle the pain of losing everything that matters to him.
As Sora goes deeper into Castle Oblivion and into memories that are sort of his own but might as well not be, Roxas continues to taunt him and suggest that he fights
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