You can start at later waves if you start a private server IIRC , but then you need to fill the party manually not matchmaking <| sep |> There are actually a ton of novels I can ' t remember if there are any for ReCoded , but all the other games have a couple . They ' re sort of canon , in that the author was a scenario writer for Days . They do contradict the games in places , but overall they add a lot of neat and very unlikely to be contradicted detail . Yen Press has released KH 1 CoM compilations they ' re each a couple of JP light novels combined , and KH 2 volume 1 is coming next spring . I got mine off of Amazon I really like the translations , especially compared to a lot of officially localized light novels I ' ve read . also has partial translations for a lot of them that haven ' t yet been officially translated .