Ok KH Era, someone help me out...
I'm a big fan of the series that hasn't played virtually any of the recent installments. I've played Kingdom Hearts, Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts II, and 358/2 Days, but it has been almost ten years now. I have not played Birth By Sleep, Coded, DDD, 0.2, or watched the Chi cinematic. That said, I do own the 1.5+2.5 collection on PS4, as well as the 2.8 collection, so my plan is to catch up before KHIII drops.
My plan is this: I am familiar with the KH-CoM-358/2-KHII storyline and consider it somewhat self-contained, so I'm just gonna leave it alone or watch a recap video to refresh. It always seemed to me that BBS onward was when the lore started to expand and set things up for KHIII, so I was going to start there, then watch the re:Coded cinematic on 2.5, play DDD, watch the Chi cinematic on 2.8, then finally play 0.2.
Does that make sense?
BBS --> Coded --> DDD --> Chi --> 0.2