1.5 kind of makes sense. It holds Kingdom Hearts 1 and a remake of the GBA game that comes before Kingdom Hearts 2 (also comes with a the cutscenes of another game between 1 and 2). I guess they wanted to keep the naming similar because 2.5 comes with Kingdom Hearts 2 and...a prequel to every game... and a cutscene collection of some weird side game about an AI. They then released a bundle of both of these on PS4 which they named 1.5+2.5. 2.8 they were really scrambling. Because they wanted to release the rest of the games in some way before Kingdom Hearts 3 so that holds a sequel to Kingdom Hearts 2, A standalone demo for 3 and...a movie from the earliest part of the series that actually is a giant pit of questions with no answers which may or may not have been answered by the gacha. No idea.

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

Surely they've updated 3 by now? Couldn't they call it 3.128? /j

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like the idea of these games but the execution was way way more complicated than it needed to be.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

As a huge fan of these games... absolutely. I keep coming back because I love the characters so much and the story arcs within each game can be fairly satisfying, but the overarching plot is a complete mess.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Man I hate it when I want to start playing a new franchise and I need a whole book to figure out what order to even play the games in

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago

To learn Kingdom Hearts lore going in blind you'd need an autistic kid who's hyper-fixated on it, a couple cases of monster energy, and a weeks worth of LSD micro doses.

That should get you up to speed on about 50% of it.

[–] bighatchester@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It all makes so much sense now....

[–] ech@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

Not only are the numbers weird, the games within the series (more than just the main 3) came out as exclusives to a wide variety of platforms. KH has such a bizarre history.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 5 months ago

This isn't even the tip of the naming weirdness this series has.

I've seen an hour long video essay that focused entirely on how they named the games.

[–] FehrIsFair@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Yes. That is correct.

[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

To the point where I legitimately thought it was a mockery of the series. Oof.