Trivia / Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

• Dawson Casting: In the remake, 19-year-old Haley Joel Osment as 14-year-old Sora. The game is supposed to be set almost immediately after the ending of Kingdom Hearts, and the GBA version just reused archive audio of Osment's prepubescent voice from that game, but the remake was created and dubbed after Kingdom Hearts II, and even though Osment's voice had already deepened by then, the dubbing team didn't bother to cast a voice double for Sora, leading to some serious Vocal Dissonance if you play the games in chronological order.
• Dummied Out: The Jungle King card is in the game but cannot be obtained outside of hacking.
• Flip-Flop of God: Nomura stated in an interview that Nobodies do not age (with the exceptions of Roxas and Naminé). Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep appears to contradict this with Ienzo, who was in his early teens when he became a Nobody yet appears in his 20s as Zexion.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Square-Enix seems to prefer re-releasing the PlayStation 2 remake over the original Game Boy Advance version, pretty much confining the original version to the latter system.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.":
  • The Diamond Dust and One Winged Angel Keyblades are in this game. They actually came from Final Mix, which nobody outside of Japan saw without importing it (at least until 2013 and the HD I.5 ReMIX).
  • The Neoshadows, who only showed up in the original game in the secret ending, but were limited to a secret cutscene, and similarly to the above Keyblades were introduced as actual enemies in Final Mix. They return in this game.
• No Export for You: The PlayStation 2 remake wasn't released outside of Japan and North America until five years later when the game was remastered for the PlayStation 3.
• The Other Darrin:
  • The GBA version of the game features high-level staff voicing the Organization, except for Axel, who was voiced by professional VO artist Keiji Fujiwara. For the more fully voiced PlayStation 2 remake, Fujiwara was retained for Axel and other professionals were brought in to voice the rest of the Organization.
  • In the Re:Chain of Memories version, Alyson Stoner plays Kairi instead of Hayden Panettiere.
  • Corey Burton voices DiZ in lieu of Christopher Lee in Re:Chain of Memories.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Deep Jungle was intended to have made a return, but it had to be axed because Disney lost the license to Tarzan. All that's left in the game is a (Dummied Out) King of the Jungle Keyblade card.
  • The Dive to the Heart was planned at some point. It presumably would've served as the gameplay tutorial, which is instead a normal conversation and fight in Traverse Town.
  • End of the World was initially planned to be a world as well.
  • Marluxia was originally planned to be female, hence his pink hair and feminine appearance. It was decided that having the only two female members of the Organization conspire to forcibly overtake it had too many Unfortunate Implications, so the gender was changed.
  • Before the release of the game, Derek Stephen Prince stated on his MySpace blog that Christopher Lee had reprised his role as DiZ for Re:Chain of Memories, but this ended up not being the case, as Corey Burton voiced him instead.

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