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Review: Kingdom Hearts – HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMix – Cloud Version – The Worst Way To Play These Games

We put Cloud in your cloud.

We begged for this, you know. We begged on our damn, dirty knees for Kingdom Hearts to come to Switch. Not Melody of Memory, that’s a half-measure. We wanted the full shebang, 1.5 + 2.5 ReMix. And now we’ve got it… in the most cursed form possible, a Cloud Version.

Don’t worry, we’re not going to spend the whole review complaining about this means of delivery, though we probably could. Let’s just take the drawbacks as read; an unstable or weaker internet connection will hamper performance (stuttering, hitching and freezing), introduce significant input lag or, worst of all, simply kick you back to the menu, potentially losing extensive progress. This is far from an ideal way to play Kingdom Hearts, and in truth, we don’t understand why 1.5 + 2.5 ReMix couldn’t simply have been ported to a system that could plainly handle it. Square Enix certainly has the resources, and it’s incredibly disappointing for fans of this series to see that the company simply wasn’t willing to invest the time, effort and funds to make a native port a reality.

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