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No need to sound so offended.

I played the original Chain of Memories and found it to be a horrible game system which was only endured for the storyline, which I've already gotten.

The KHFM+ package would have been worth $30/40, because the content in there is actually worth money. The CoM port is not worth $30 it's practically a mini-game and the only possible way to justify the cost of it would be to give it English voice acting, which would automatically make the Japanese gamers want another port of it (KH1/2 both got Japanese re-releases once the English: IE: Actual Disney Voices, were added) which would create some kind of KH2+CoM+FM2(with one more bonus cutscene for KH3... maybe) thing.

Not saying that the release of this game is a bad thing, indeed I'm happy that people get to play it.

But my experience, CoM was a pile of crap and I was willing to pay full retail price for KH2FM with the extra super battles. Call it bitterness on my behalf.

It's a live action card thing where you have to stand on the spot and reshuffle your deck while the enemy is attacking you and work out the values of your three-card moves, making sure you formulate a deck which has three of those cards in a row so you can pull off Ragnarok once you have access to it, but if you need healing you can also shuffle your deck to have the healing card come up.

It takes insane amounts of time, energy and effort to master the game and by the time you do, you really really resent it.

Plus, in order to defeat bosses you need to spend a lot of time going through the dungeons which ARE IDENTICAL EVERY STAGE. By the 8th stage you're so damned bored of the rooms and their ever so slight variations that the game becomes a total chore. Battles which involve Big Bodies are tedius at best, boss battles have an absurd difficulty curve in which beating Vexen or Copy Riku would require near Godlike amounts of skill and luck. Even after learning the card system by heart, you still have to manage to work around "Attack, jump, shuffle deck, switch card up/down, store card" buttons.

I imagine adding a 3rd dimension would make the game slightly more tolerable, but the fact of the matter is it's a BAD game system. Outright atrocious.

Reason I didn't answer your Metal Gear Acid question is because I don't own or want a PSP and thusly have no idea how the game handles. My assumption was that the system was totally and utterly different.

Also, regarding difficulty, I love hard games. BUT. I hate hard games which are hard regardless of my ability. Partially broken game systems which test a gamer's patience to the extreme are not fun for me, and CoM's system tested my patience. Patience which lets me complete Fire Emblem games and call it one of the best games in my life.

I gather Acid and CoM must have similar systems and if that's what you enjoy, cool. I have enjoyed card based systems in the past, but CoM's is less "select the right card for the right situation" and more "holy effing crap, I can't recharge my deck stack while he is punching me in the face. HE JUST ZERO CARDED MY HEAL!" it's too quick and frantic to concentrate on what you're doing, so... maybe stratergy without having time to think about it is my weakness and it annoys me.

Either way, I did complete the game. Just hated it throughout.