It's as jarring as it sounds, as you'll often find yourself whisked away at the most inopportune moments - midway through battle when you've finally figured out where you need to go or when you're on the cusp of figuring out a particular puzzle - and, once you get back into Sora's shoes (for example), you'll likely find he's in a different world, at a different point in the story, and you've totally forgotten what it was you were doing. What this means in practice is that you have a time limit of sorts for playing as each character, before being forcibly switched to the other for a while, then being switched back, ad infinitum. Playing into what is perhaps Dream Drop Distance's most important mechanic, this means you'll actually need to play as both Sora and Riku, in their respective sides of the worlds, swapping between the two along the way. To make things even more complex, it turns out Sora and Riku must travel alone - as each sleeping world has been split into two, with two disparate timelines, both sides of a world must be saved before it can wake.
As part of their training, the pair must travel to a number of 'sleeping worlds' to find and unlock each Keyhole to wake them once more - although, with each world now infested with a new threat, the Dream Eaters, it won't be an easy ride. Given that they largely taught themselves to use their Keyblades, the wise wizard Yen Sid believes they'd both benefit from a bit more formal training, especially considering the growing threat posed by recurrent bad guy, Xehanort, who's long overdue for a return (in the upcoming Kingdom Hearts III). Set after the events of Kingdom Hearts II (for more on that, you'll have to check out our review of Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix), Dream Drop Distance sees Sora and Riku gearing up to take their Mark of Mastery exams - a special test designed to teach Keyblade wielders like Sora and Riku all they need to know. Arguably the biggest deal in the whole collection, though, is Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth By Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage - a brand new, short, PS4 engined episode that acts as an extended demo/set-up for the much-anticipated Kingdom Hearts III. Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance HD is a simple remake of the 3DS game of the same name, released some four years ago, while Kingdom Hearts X: Back Cover is a new take on the story of mobile game Kingdom Hearts X from a different perspective. Quasimodo was as stoked as everyone else to finally be getting Kingdom Hearts III!Īs before, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 bundles together two Kingdom Hearts games, and one extended cutscene - although the difference this time round is that two out of three are brand new, never before seen entities, rather than remakes.
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