I LOVE the games, i just recently finished the first one and i started the second one and my friend told me that chain of memories is basicly like a 1.5 in the series so im like -_- ugh, so i stopped playing and took that whole night to go on youtube and watch all the cut scenes in chain of memories so i understand a lot more now, but i really want to buy com cause i want to play it and i feel cheated. I hate all the games on different systems too, as stated above ^
but over all its a really great game :D
haha and yes it did have a lot of cutscenes and like a small amount of actual game play