And so along comes the second title in
Kingdom Hearts' never-ending flood of side-games, this time on a console I have absolutely no interest in owning. As mentioned in an earlier review, I was only able to play
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep on a PSP lent by a buddy at college, and have since purchased the remaster contained within PS3's
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX. There are, I am certain, other good games on the system. Great games. Amazing games. But for the life of me, I cannot bring myself to care about it, and so I suspect this will be the one and only PSP review we'll see on here for some time. Perhaps my other Worldly Weekend retrospectives will eventually lead me to cross paths with Sony's handheld once more, but for now, I'm afraid you'll have to make do with this one article.
Regardless, I dub
Birth by Sleep as a side-game with some mighty hesitation there, and that's for two reasons: a)
Birth by Sleep is absolutely essential in comprehending the
Kingdom Hearts story from here on out, and b) it's easily the series' best since
Chain of Memories; actually, that probably remains the case. Not that it doesn't fumble in that typical
Kingdom Hearts manner -- that, and while I hate to keep dragging the PSP, I heavily question its existence on the platform -- but we'll get to those problems when they come. For now, let's get into the good stuff.
