Kingdom Hearts Re:coded

Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded is a remake of Kingdom Hearts Coded that was released for Mobile, only in Japan. The game takes place after the events of Kingdom Hearts II, when Jiminy's Journal (where the events of…

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Puzzle Role-playing (RPG) Action

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded is a puzzle developed by Square Enix 1st Production Department, released 7 October 2010 on Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.

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What Kingdom Hearts Re:coded is

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded is a puzzle game developed by Square Enix 1st Production Department and released in 2010. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded follows the story of Donald Duck, Goofy, Jiminy Cricket, and King Mickey in Disney Castle after the events of Kingdom Hearts II. Jiminy Cricket was attempting to organize what is known as Jiminy's Journal after completing his adventure with Sora when he noticed a line that said "Thank Naminé". Looking further he discovers a message in the journal that he did not put there that states "Their hurting will be mended when you return to end it." King Mickey digitizes the journal and takes it in the simulated world in hopes of finding out more. He awakens Data-Sora on the digital version Destiny Islands and asks him reenact the contents of the journal in an attempt to…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Kingdom Hearts series

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded is the 23rd of 63 entries we hold in the Kingdom Hearts series. It arrived 9 months after Kingdom Hearts Reversi. The next entry was Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix in 2011. Its critic score of 69 is 11 points below the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Kingdom Hearts II at 90.

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How it was received

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 68, across 64 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 15 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 20 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded launched on 7 October 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Super Meat Boy and Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Super Meat Boy, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition.

Cheats and codes

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