It's an incredible collection of some truly great games, but each game has it's own issues that should be noted. Keep in mind, that I don't give a single tit about story in a video game, so my review is based purely off of game-play elements. It also likely saved me dozens of hours across my many play-through of each of these games.

KH1----Mostly issue free. My game did crash once in Hollow Bastion. I also have a friend whose game would crash when he was moving while opening his menu. This is otherwise and incredible port of one of the greatest Action RPGS of the early 2000s.

KH: Chain of Memories:----Yuck. This is a clunky mess that absolutely should have been left in the prospective that it was originally designed for. You have to continuously remind yourself that it's a GBA game made with recycled pieces of KH1. I can imagine that this game rules for people who played it on it's original platform, but going from the previous game, to this, was quite a jarring experience. Also the targeting button is different, so have fun getting use to that.

KH:358/2 days: Unfortunately this one is just a bunch of cinematics, and not a port or a remake of the DS game. So if you like movies, this one is something. You also have to watch it, if you want to get 100% in Chain of Memories, so keep that in mind.

KH2-----Perfect. One of the greatest games ever made. Especially on Critical. I can't express to anyone, just how much I enjoyed this game. I honestly want to play through it again, even though I just spent the last month playing these games. But the target button is back to where it was... So that was fun to relearn again XD

Birth By Sleep----As a casual game to play through once on each character, It's pretty good. It can be a little bit clunky, and the way you unlock abilities is a bit obtuse, but over all, I enjoyed it until I started going for everything. As a game you are trying to get all the achievements for, it's pretty abysmal. You basically have to do everything, and I mean EVERYTHING three times. This means, dozens of games of Command board, High scores on all the mini games, some of which are absurd. The arena is particularly difficult due to it being originally tuned for multiplayer on the PSP, yet there is no multiplayer feature available in this port, making all the challenges over-tuned for a single player experience. Have fun doing all that 3 times...

And finally we have RE:coded, which unfortunately again, is just a collection of cinematics.

So yeah, it's good time, so long as you're not a masochist like me. Completing everything in KH1 and KH2 is totally worth it, but I'd only recommend doing casual runs of the other games.

If you're an AMD user with newer cards, DO NOT buy this game. Stay well away from the PC version! It's been broken for over a year on the Epic Games store, and chances are, an official fix will never see the light of day. I can't even refund this bad port because it was purchased elsewhere. The games are great, but Square Enix is not. Negative review until the day they actually decide to do something about it.

Roxas my Beloved

Real talk this series and games takes a bit effort to get into as a long time fan I have tons of experience, but for people new to the series they are funn.


Alsooo I SPENT 200 HOURS FOR ALL THE ACHIEVEMENTS ACROSS ALL THE GAMES AND ITS WORTHHHHH ITTTTTT

I've replayed all these games countless times over but I've never had as much fun with it as I have now they're all playable on Steam Deck. Fantastic package that (like with many JRPGs) really shines on a portable console

Bad port; crash hell but YMMV.
I only bought this because I've been wanting to get into KH for *over ten years*, and I accepted the challenge (just barely; add another factor in like having to use Epic and I'd hold off longer... lol~). Using an NVidia GPU so I didn't expect to be absolutely bummed out but I've still found problems.

In one of the games, my entire save file for the game was corrupted for some reason after playing a certain amount of time, so my menus would glitch and the game would crash every so often (crashes increasing in frequency over time). Loading up an older save from before the issues began would present me with broken menu graphics like in the newer saves, and plentiful crashes.
The same thing happens when starting a new game. PC turned off and on again; verified integrity of files yada yada done that and more it's the port and you know it's the port.

This is going to be a rough journey. If there's any other way you can experience this, don't give your money for this method. I may update the review if I find more terrible things worth noting, or I may not.

-Update-
Confirmed that the issue in this specific case I found first was in the save file after all. Wiping the game to start fresh allowed me to start a new playthrough, with no clear bonuses or anything, so yeah. I found where one of the problems is, but I don't expect anyone to do anything, and entire save files (all your saves go into a single .png file - one file per game... yes .png; don't question it) will continue to be corrupted without warning.

Still crashes when talking to the FFX kids. On 7800xt

sora

This is my favourite game franchise of all time and I WILL get every single achievement.
One of my first games I ever played and I still love it to this day. I started KH2 every year I went to school in the last week of summer vacation, I played EVERY KH at level 1, from KH1, to the DS games, up to recently, where I finished KH3. This franchise truly is my dearly beloved, it is that simple and clean.

I need more points to get that expanded profile display, so if you can spare an award, I would appreciate it a lot.

May your heart be your guiding key <3

At this moment, this is not worth the price at all. I have played the Epic version with no issues, so it is quite surprising when I am barely a few hours in and the amount of crashes I have experienced is baffling. So far in KH 1 if you try to pause it will make you crash. How they messed up a PC port of a game that already has a PC port is beyond me. Wait until it gets fixed and at a sale before buying.