(edit: oh hurrr i didn't see Jaina had responded to this too, but well. now you've heard it from two people XD)
YAY AWFUL--i mean what.
the manga is definitely to be taken with a grain of salt, i'll tell you that. it's lovely and hilarious and i love it to death, but if you aren't already familiar with the games it can be a bit puzzling; they do things a bit out of order and throw in extra stuff. it's great for expanding on headcanon but i wouldn't recommend it as a staple canon source. also a lot of the scanlations are dodgy at best--but i've done some scanlations of the later manga compilations and i'm kind of a snob about them. XD there are novels too, but again, the translations are dodgy and kind of hard to find. i'd be happy to link you to the ones i've done if you're interested, but they're for KHII and some of the other compilation games.
if you've played KHI then my recommendation is definitely to play Chain of Memories before KHII--it takes place in the interval. i played KHII before CoM and i got about a third of the way in and i was like, GOSH THIS MIGHT MAKE MORE SENSE IF I PLAYED THE OTHER GAME FIRST. and whaddaya know, it did. 358/2 Days comes after CoM and before KHII as well, but that's getting into other consoles and messy things like that. frankly i could natter on about KH all dang day so if you wind up befuddled or just want a synopsis or something instead of going through all the compilation games you're definitely welcome to ping me.
either way i'm done moving now so i'm available to play and i will look for an opportunity to hit up Roxy soon!
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YAY AWFUL--i mean what.
the manga is definitely to be taken with a grain of salt, i'll tell you that. it's lovely and hilarious and i love it to death, but if you aren't already familiar with the games it can be a bit puzzling; they do things a bit out of order and throw in extra stuff. it's great for expanding on headcanon but i wouldn't recommend it as a staple canon source. also a lot of the scanlations are dodgy at best--but i've done some scanlations of the later manga compilations and i'm kind of a snob about them. XD there are novels too, but again, the translations are dodgy and kind of hard to find. i'd be happy to link you to the ones i've done if you're interested, but they're for KHII and some of the other compilation games.
if you've played KHI then my recommendation is definitely to play Chain of Memories before KHII--it takes place in the interval. i played KHII before CoM and i got about a third of the way in and i was like, GOSH THIS MIGHT MAKE MORE SENSE IF I PLAYED THE OTHER GAME FIRST. and whaddaya know, it did. 358/2 Days comes after CoM and before KHII as well, but that's getting into other consoles and messy things like that. frankly i could natter on about KH all dang day so if you wind up befuddled or just want a synopsis or something instead of going through all the compilation games you're definitely welcome to ping me.
either way i'm done moving now so i'm available to play and i will look for an opportunity to hit up Roxy soon!