Sora: I could go for some tea! I'm just gonna talk to little che ATTRACTION: TEA CUP BUMPER CARS Goofy: We can't use those fancy moves here Sora:-TRI....angle (sigh) Sorry if I hit triangle again I'll go into rage form... {can that actually happen and you see sora in shadow form trying to crack an egg? xD}
Idk if anyone else feels the same....but the absence of Final Fantasy characters makes if the biggest letdown in gaming for me. Knowing there is none makes it so difficult to keep playing the game. That was the whole appeal of Kingdom Hearts and square enix has completely lost touch with that side of Kingdom Hearts, and seems to have just gone full Disney. I hope there is a fan backlash to this decision so they can get back in touch. No final fantasy characters in the finale? Are you serious? No Cloud and Sephiroth conclusion? Squall? Radiant Garden? I don't even want to play the game yeah its fun and everything but come on man. 13 years. The end of a trilogy...and no final fantasy? That really hurts. Totally out of touch on square's part.
SO, I went into this game blind with only watching a few of the trailers and looking at some videos of forms and such (minus playing the previous games obv) and I was in the 2nd world when I was like "Where the F*** are the final fantasy characters?" and had to google it before proceeding and read Nomura interviews on how the series "dOeSn'T nEeD tHeM aNyMoRe" well let me tell you this Tetsuya Nomura, it absolutely fucking does.
I honestly liked it better without them. I love FF characters but they get ruined in KH. Everything they are, is downplayed and made for kids. It ruins the characters for me, so I was happy they weren't in it. They always felt out of place. Plus tech there was. The whole opening scene in toy box, was about 13 versus, they even said it was.
Look at the secret ending my friend . The next saga will be more Square Enix focused . Nomura went all out with Disney because next saga is gonna be less Disney focused
Andrew Brant Writing was always bad, so that’s not missing. Voices sounded so wildly different from previous games. I’m not sure how to describe it, but the villains’ voices just don’t seem to give off the same ominous vibe.
I have nowhere to post my opinion (maybe I'll make a video) so I will make a list of reasons why kh3 was so disappointing for me. 1. Story A) The plot doesn't really move during the Disney part of the game, so 80% of the game feels like filler. B) They shove all the plot, tie up all the loose ends, and force happy endings for all the characters in the last 20% of the game C) They removed final fantasy characters. We were actually invested in those characters. They were in 1 and 2. It seems like they didn't have enough time so they just decided to not include them. D) The plot actually makes 0 sense. Things just happen and you have to accept them. The whole putting your heart in someone else's heart bullshit is stupid AF. Ok in kh1 it made sense, but in kh3 there's 4 people inside sora at one time and it's obvious the plot is out of control and they're just writing things to write them. E) Maleficent and Pete look for black box the whole game and don't find anything and nothing happens to them. Are they like team rocket now? F) The ending was dumb! Ok, so they show everyone getting their happy ending and hanging out in destiny islands. However, you can't appreaciate any of these peaceful and conclusive cutscenes because there's only one thing on your mind the whole time: "where's sora and Kairi?" I couldn't truly enjoy the ending because that thought was looming over me the whole time. Then, when they finally show that sora and Kairi are safe sitting on the tree, they don't even kiss! AND sora disappears/isnt really there??? You make me wait over a decade and the ending isn't even satisfying. I get they wanted to generate hype for the next game but they have secret ending for that. Like why tf couldn't they just let us have our nice conclusive ending?? 2. Gameplay A) Combat is too floaty. It takes too long to do things and animations take forever to finish. Air dash feels slow. Basic keyblade combos get stale and don't feel good. B) Magic feels broken. Like why would I swing my keyblade at all when I can just cast thundaga into thundaza to clear mobs?? C) Attractions are boring, slow, and overpowered D) Flowmotion doesn't flow? It feels stiff using flowmotion. They could've made Flowmotion feel really flashy which could've added a lot of depth to movement, but it just doesn't work the way you want it to E) fights are too easy, even on proud mode. The enemy and boss design suck. Enemies AI is super dumb. The only superboss fight is slow, repetitive, and boring. F) post game content is lacking. Sure you can do a lot of things, but do I really want to them? Do I really want to find all the lucky emblems? Or get good at the San fransokyo time trials? Give me Olympus coliseum I wanna swing my damn keyblade 3. Small details A) No oblivion or oathkeeper keyblades. These are legacy keyblades. They have been in nearly every game. That's like if they didn't include Shiva or ifrit as a summon in a new final fantasy game. B) Ultima keyblade doesn't look like Ultima keyblade! Ok this might just be me but still! C) you can't hover glide. You have to be moving forward to glide D) no refect or magnet. Legacy spells. I understand they might be broken but there's a lot of broken things in this game. It's their job to balance things Might add more to the list once I think of it
Really solid review and excellent points. I watched someone play it and noticed these exact things. The core gameplay seems stiff and repetitive; action RPGs were in desperate need of improvement and KH3 didn't give that to us.
Ikr, I agree with most of your points. Oh and also, let me add some points and tell me if you'd agree. 1. Why did they had to spoil everything with the trailers? Like, I was expecting some surprises in terms of worlds but got nothing... Meh, the good old days discovering KH 1 worlds when I was 8. 2. No torn pages collecting, instead a one short episode of 100 Acre Wood. 3. No playable Radiant Garden 4. No 2nd visits to world (supposedly they ran out of storage so they could've made the 2nd visits. 5. Too few worlds 6. Why didn't they add Riku's Dark Realm Adventures as a side story like Reverse Rebirth in CoM? Same goes with Kairi's training. 7. And about that training, then they could've developed her character, as she has no development here in this game. 8. The worlds are too long and as I said above, I'd love to be a 2nd visit, then we'd have a more fresh and fluent experience. 9. the game just hyped a lot plot points only to be left unanswered, while they COULD'VE made the story flow with this. 10. More questions, only a few minor answers (and one minor one in an Epilogue). The game's overally good, I still love it, but I can relate to people waiting 10+ years fr a game, only to realize, it's rather decent than great as they imagined and doesn't stand a chance against KH2. And one interesting point, getting the minigame high score trophies is harder than finishing the game on Proud.
No Stop magic, no gravity magic. Whole game end shown in trailer (basically). No keyblade throwing, dual wielding, no chests out of reach until later. I 100%ed worlds the first time through them. Two standard keyblades. 2.8 had deeper, darker levels, which got my hopes up for nothing apparently. Nothing dark or compelling here. *Single white feather falling to the water's surface.*
I literally enjoyed every part of KH3. However, these points are very true. KH3 is good, but I'm pretty sure by bringing back some of the gameplay mechanics, characters, keyblades, etc. It can be better. The question is, will SE listen to us players? I don't know. DLC, maybe?
The story in most games doesn't move along very much in any of the games during the Disney worlds. In kh2 you can literally cut Atlantica, pride lands, agrabah, and Halloween town and lose nothing in terms of the story. The return trip to hollow bastion is a sudden left turn in pacing as it happens shortly after you finish doing 3 worlds of "why are we even here?" And you're now suddenly having a massive climb in pacing after basically a flatline of doing nothing. Then it goes back to a steady pace to then slap the main story on you all at once in the final visit to twilight town. Most everything else just sounds like you had far too many expectations that weren't met. Like you created this mental image of what the game was supposed to be like and since it didn't live up to it, you didn't enjoy it as much. Which is fine, but don't act like that's an issue with the game when that's clearly a you thing. And while I do agree with alot of what you said, what I don't agree with is the act of pretending like something isn't as good simply because it didn't meet your expectations. ~ Saying trailers show too much and then proceeding to say it was better back when you were 8 is very contradictory too. We didn't have easy access to trailers when we were 8. You can't blame the company for that. A KH1 trailer showed off Ansem SoD in hollow bastion and such. Vanilla KH2 lacked post game content as well. It was literally sephiroth, paradox cups that yielded nothing for the player for doing them, and the journal. All KH games lack in the post game content, save for the final mixes because their entire reason for being made was to give the games more content. The ending was foreshadowed the entire game and is 100% in line with Sora as a character in how he's willing to give up everything for everyone. Sure, it's bittersweet, but it isn't without reason or explanation. They didn't "make you wait a decade" for anything either. The game wasn't even confirmed to be a thing until 2013. That just sounds to me like you really had this vision of a perfect game in your head, and when those expectations weren't met, you wrote it off as either bad or dumb. Just the fact you're using nuances like "legacy keyblades and legacy spells" tells me this. A game does not need to pander to each and every individual want of ours in order to be good. Would I have liked oblivion and oathkeeper in the game ? Fuck yes, but not having them doesn't make the game less good. That's just childish to think that way, man.
I'm lvl 22 atm and thusfar I like the game a lot! The only thing that bothers me personally is that you can't run a mile without running into a cutscene. In some parts it feels like i'm just watching a movie with playable parts. But overall the game is a blast and im glad I got it.
@@soracool1234 I disagree. The last arc is a bunch of extremely watered down multi-battles against the 13. There is very little challenge at all during these fights. The Xehanort fight and secret boss are passable, but nowhere near the intensity of bosses the rest of the series has to offer. KH3 is severely lacking in intense boss battles, even without comparing it to FM versions of previous games.
@@majorpain3779 lol what secret boss? All there is is a slightly difficult heartless in keyblade graveyard that you can kill in minutes with the ultima weapons. I hope they add actual secret bosses as dlc because that is just unacceptable
The amusement ride moves where cool at first but I wish you could turn them off there kinda over powered I find myself trying to skip them as much as I can
My major problems with this game is there’s no FF characters. I feel as it was a little rushed, and I wanted the oblivion key. Last problem is there’s no new game plus, I would love to beat the game again with everything I earned
Sorry but... if I have to do a summary of the story to someone i would not even metion the ff characters... they are just useless to me... never missed them in the other title of the serie and also now
KH3 was mediocre at best, didn’t answer any questions at all only left us with more questions, Keyblade War was such a disappointment, the ending was crap, Black Box barely had relevance in this game, Disney Worlds dragged on far too long, loading time is crap, Sora feels so OP it gets boring after awhile, no secret/super bosses, easy as hell, bland voice acting, Keyblade weirders barely interact with one another (Ven and Roxas), and plenty more. A solid 6/10 for me. Such a disappointing game, glad I was never hyped for this game like any other die hard KH fan.
i honestly dont know how this game is getting 9s and 8s from everyone. I'm a huge kingdom hearts fan and this game was a major let down. Would give it a 6 or 7
you are the very first person i have seen to agree with this with me! lol i LOVE KH beat ALL THE other ones but this one just aint hittin for me man! i compare this to Nier aoutomata and its no where NEAR that!
I'm not understanding that either. When you do see someone critique it negatively, they are bombarded with "you obviously haven't played all the games then" as if the only people who could possibly hate it are new commers. I've been there since the beginning, I've played all of them. I hated 3.
Let me just leave this here. :) posted this in another comment. Lets Not kid our selves here this game sucks! Instead of making all the mechanics work as intended they seemed to have just said fuck it. The game game play feels more like a shit storm of ideas. They decided lets just put it in basically a shit storm of underdeveloped mechanics. Also kingdom hearts 2 has better game play over all good story. Kingdom hearts chain of memories had the best concept for game play mixing cards and action worked so well for the gba. birth by sleep had the best story you dont need to play any other kingdom hearts game to understand it!! and kingdom hearts 3 is just GG down the toilet you can add all the mechanics but if you toss out good mechanics that was present in KH2 i just hate that and i liked birth by sleep combat system i didn't see a need for it besides for better magic attacks in kingdom hearts 3 drive from KH 2 was amazing! One thing though KH3 has good heartless design from world to world its nice to see that still present. I hated the attraction things but considering its a disney game... it makes more sense since it was mentioned disney has disney world... guess that could not have been a WORLD TO ITSELF WITH FINAL FANTASY CHARACTERS GOING THERE BIG MISS!!!! instead of annoying press triangle to win bs.
I've been playing the series since the beginning and I've got to say this one was a huge disappointment. The story is rushed and doesn't flow well, it's all thrown together at the end of the game. The combat is too flashy and the rides are out of place with little to no strategy. The disney worlds are there out of obligation and have really no point in the story. The worlds are all very rushed and void of life, just tons of linear narrow paths through nature with not a lot of cool or memorable places. The actual story scenes have bad acting and voice acting and some character models look really bad. I've been waiting for this game for so long and it's just so soulless and rushed with the important story tacked on last minute.
Rei Gisborne yes this! It’s very stupid story even by KH3 standards , there are just needless references to new games that I don’t even know if I want to play anymore.
Actually, I disagree. The game was amazing to me. I think you were just dissapointed because it wasn’t like kingdom hearts 2. The game is going to be different. Also overhyping a game for so long just makes the game seem better then it ever was. The voice acting was always terrible.
I agree, honestly I only liked the end of the game, because that part felt more important and the non disney actors did a much better job to me than the disney ones. Its still not my favorite but the epilogue got me hard. That's my main favorite part. 2 and BBS were still much better for story and actual gameplay.
Agreed besides I'm not mad about like voice acting I'm mad of game length and how it feels like we just played and beat the game with hardly no mental stimulation. Kairi and sora need to fucking kiss already. I'm a dude so I'm not a love story guy but fucking aye if theres no relationship there then dont have them have bedroom eyes for eachother whenever theyre near eachother.. this game was very dissatisfying. Easy difficulty made for a feeling like we just ran through the game like evil.xehanort was just another weak heartless. This game was super disappointing it doesnt capture the nostalgia of either of the first 2 games nor the difficulty.. not character development. No journal hardly. Nothing about this game is replayable for me I will not touch this game again until I find out if theres is story dlc and if there isnt I will touch it only to mail it to my friend so they can have it. I've already beaten the game and amazon hasnt even sent me my preorder DLC code yet.... took me not quite 3 days to finish. Rdr2 took me a fuckin month. Now that's a game
So for most people the biggest flaw is no ffa characters? What about the rushed story/pacing? The lack of any difficulty? Voice acting still the same as 14 years ago (not good) and so on. This game a some big problems but lack of FFA is really just a minor one imho
Honestly I loved the game but I am severely missing a Sephiroth/Lingering Will styled secret boss. Hey I mean we still have dlc coming up probably soooo who knows
@@blimblam7 Lingering will and data org weren't in KH2 just the FM version so yea hopefully we get DLC bosses and KB's, like I want to be able to get the other keyblade wielders weapons. Similar to days where you could get org 13 based KBs.
I love the game. I am a big fan of the series and a KH collector. The game was lacking something for sure. The story was rushed. It feels like the game is aching for DLC add ons to complete it. I feel like Square is just saying the story is complete and will give closure to most things but they’re waiting for fans to demand extra content so they can do DLC’s and get more money. (I will gladly give more money cause it’s totally missing a lot)
I mean this is how all the KH games are. They all feel a bit incomplete. They also said that they are thinking making one big narrative DLC that fits as well as some smaller free dlc, but they dnt have anything concrete at the moment.
They really need dlc wcem just let us fucking free play as riku or one of the other characters instead of repeatedly being put behind that final door type shit . I hate it
LinkinVerbz44 cant help it. being a fan of the series, and as much as I dislike the thought of DLC’s, I won’t be able to resist buying em. 🤷🏽♂️ I am annoyed and mad about Nomura literally focusing on setting up events for KH4/Kh3DLC instead of actually making KH3 great, but it still wont stop me from buying what’s to come. 😅
@@lackofspunk I completely disagree that made money over the first 2 main games most the spin offs re releasing them some ps2 era games actually can be played in hd on pcsx2 so it wasn't hard to do...
This game definitely isn't a 9/10. These reviewers are scared to death to get down votes from angry Kingdom Hearts fanboys. It's a 7.5 at best. It's missing so many elements that made the first 2 main games great.
w3ghe Ok, l hear you. Now listen to me. I love the original Destiny. Just because I love the game doesn't mean I should rate it a 9/10 when I know there are glaring issues with the game that lots of people do not enjoy. You shouldn't let your love of a game keep you from being truly objective. He outlined a host of issues in the video and still gave the game a near perfect score. I know this may be crazy to you... but I just didn't agree with the score and simply commented why. Opinions, am I right!?
@@jy1178 you voice your opinion like it is fact, which it is not. Also, reviews are subjective, of course you need to also say the stuff that others might not enjoy but that doesn't mean you have to give the game a lower score. For example, I absolutely love Breath Of The Wild, but I also know that it has a lot of not so great things in it, like the weapon degrading, but I would still give it like a 9.5/10 'cause all other things, like the feeling of adventure i got from the game, outshine those negative things. And honestly, I think if you've been a fan of KH since the beginning you will probably love this game for what it is, the end to a saga you have loved for so long. And if that's the case you will probably not be as annoyed by some things, or think some things are as bad as others think they might be. So just because you think the game is a 7.5 doesn't mean he can't give it a 9.5.
w3ghe I don’t think he realizes how stupid he sounds. Plus I’m not surprised, people tend to say they like previous games in the series. This is true for pretty much every series.
As someone who has been playing Kingdom Hearts since 2002 and has played and loved every game (with the exception of Coded), I honestly disagree with this 9/10 score. KH3 has a decent amount of flaws, which is a little disappointing coming from a series whose last main title game was near perfect. That being said, KH3 is a great game, just not a masterpiece.....though it did make me cry at the end xP
There you go. Somebody that actually make sense. People say that this is a bad game, which it is definitely not. But it's also far from a master piece like a lot of other people claiming too. The game has a ton of flaws such as music, combat, pacing, awkward cutscenes still etc, but I still enjoyed it. I feel like this game is just missing a lot of the epic and memorable moments that Kh2 strives in and when you compare the two you can easily pick the better of the two
The only part where I disagree is the cutscenes. Many old school fans as myself enjoy those cause they want to see the interaction between Sora & other characters. Besides, you can always skip those.
Because granted, they sure aren't that enjoyable in Disney worlds where they haven't made the full use of the original plot and characters. But in my books, that's a different topic. It deteriorates those few worlds individually, not the concept of cutscenes itself.
@@rase5994 Let's look at pirates world back to back cutscenes, with boating and a crab hunt. We never really got to help jack or anybody til the end because tia dalma sent us off in the crab ship to do nothing useful. We could have gone to the island where jack and will fought on the water wheel and stopped their fight or something, could have arrived earlier in the story before they went over the waterfall, help them get that rotating map. The last cutscene there could have been another ship battle before it, fighting against E.T.C instead of heartless.
@@samuelstratman4906 Your basic point itself is a good one. Sora, Donald and Goofy do get wiped aside for technical reasons. But... 1. While the additions you suggested could've made the storyline more enjoyable, they would've dragged out the timeline of their visit unrealistically long compared to other worlds. And also required adding several more characters, like James Norrington and Sao Feng who just die in the movie. No, it doesn't excuse the wild goose chase of Sora & the group. I'm just figuring out why those additions didn't happen. 2. That's more about the storytelling & not giving relevance for the characters in one, singular Disney world, which is one of the games weaknesses I do sign. But I disagreed with the statement about "stilted dialog & tedious cutscenes", which in my books is not only a different subject, but also highly arguable.
@@TheGuru6447 we waited 13 years for a game and there not going to answer any important questions? Now they expect us to wait for a new game if thats even going to happen, it makes me feel cheated i stayed with this series for so long waiting for 1 more game just for them to go and undo any really story developments that happened like pretty much every character that died comes back in the ending cutscene sora just disappears and we dont even find out whats in the box, and dont get me started with that secret cutscene it had no purpose then just to add more questions into the mix. Xehnort turns good after all he did which i dont think should habe happened lkke he spent YEARS of his life trying to acomplish his goal of recreating the world by purging it of all its light and when his old friend comes up to him and like goes "hey remember when we played chess that 1 time?" Then xehnort was like "YOUR RIGHT THAT SURE WAS FUN LETS TURN INTO YELLOW PIXI DUST AND FADE AWAY, BYE SORA THANK YOU!!!" And then the game ends. KH3 ended in the worst way possible they retconed pretty much everything with q negitive importance and gave us us more pointless questions i dont think i can sit through any more kh games if they cant answer these questions properly in the next game if there even is one.
they already stated it was going to be the end of Xehanort's series, but not the end of KH series. They still plan to do many more. Just with a new bad guy which is probably going to involve the master of masters. Its the only part that would make sense. Plus I love who Luxu is, he's my boy and I'm happy he'll be in more games
basherblast You actually read my mind! I just finished the game and I cried of sadness, anger and dispair I hate the fact that Sora and Kairi just be apart of everybody and doesn't give their good ending because they are meant to be together in peace, I really hope that in the sequel (if there's any) they get back together and bring back the kingdom hearts classic and lovely vibe that made us fans of the series
@@basherblast agreed I'm so fucking angry at this game. I beat it in 28 hours with all cutscenes in not fully 3 days. This game was utter dogshit graphics were good but story was half of what it should have been.
I’m just gonna say this, while the game isn’t perfect just like the many games before this I’m in love with this game. I think the reason why I’m not able to connect with the lesser difficulty in this game is probably from the fact I was never able to enjoy the side content 2FM had. I simply just couldn’t beat them, so while I agree there are parts lacking it was a well worth wait for me. I hope people can understand where I’m coming from.
I agree with most people that this game feels rushed. The thing that bugs me the most is that the game taunts you with big boss battles and never gives them to you. It would have been great have the organization members and other big character boss battles peppered in through out the game. But all we get is big generic heartless battles. That was the biggest let down for me. It makes replying the game a bit frustrating because all I want to really replay is the final battles. Where the majority of the story lies.
I feel you on that, every battle that's not a human was just gimmicky and lackluster. But as a suggestion, if you make a save on a different slot before you get into the fights you will be able to play them over to your hearts content. :)
That's the most disappointing part, I wanted to find a way to do those fights again so I can get better at them, but I guess I'll have to play through the Game again and save once I'm at that Point
If I don't want to use an attraction, but have other situation commands that I want, I usually end up summoning it, then immediately canceling it. That works pretty well.
I liked the game A LOT at first but sadly it degrades in quality the further you progress to where I lost interest entirely. The first world of Olympus was super dense with a HUGE map, lots of collectables to find, multiple paths to reach the goal, tons of mini-bosses, and an epic main boss. Then the worlds get smaller (resorting to the tried and true narrow corridors leading to open spaces or one big area as per Big Hero 6) and eventually it starts to rely on gimmicks and gratuitous mini-games to pad out the world length while having more vacant space with nothing to interact with. It just SCREAMS "budget cuts" which is a damn shame. If the entire game sustained a constant level of quality, this would be game of the century in my books. Anyway, the pirate ship boss fight was the final deathblow that killed the game for me; it was a (wannabe) Assassin's Creed style pirate ship fight with slow clunky controls and you have to be damn near perfect on proud mode or the boss escapes and you lose the fight. Not fun in the slightest.
nope i loved it. Sure its easy but i loved every second of it and im still playing it. Got the ultima 3 days ago and i love how anime you just feel (even if it reminds me of a certain other character)
5 out of 10 for me it was ok not great but ok.🤔 frozen was a lame and over rated world could have had something way better like Coco or Moana or The Incredibles or inside out
The worlds were picked before those movies came out. I do agree though Frozen was the worst world. If you think about Sora, Donald, and Goofy there presence in that world changed literally nothing. They feel completely backgrounded.
Being a massive KH fan and holding it as my favorite video game series of all-time, I can honestly say KH3 was a huge disappointment and is not a good game by a long shot.
For me, the gameplay is the most fun in the series, if flawed. The story though... every hour that goes by after completing the game, I realize how poor KHIII's plot really was.
With Kingdom Hearts 3 having a staggering 8 game build up with about 14 years between main title releases and coming off the heels of KH2.... Kingdom Hearts 3 was a pretty big disappointment. *Spoilers... kind of* 1. Not a single Final Fantasy character in sight. Was really looking forward to seeing what happened to Cloud and Sephiroth post KH2. 2. The last 5 hours or so of the game did not come to a cohesive, fulfilling end. More care should have been put into the way characters came back such as Roxas and Terra. It felt shoe-horned in as if the developers were like "Lol this is what you wanted right?" After their 5 minutes of shine, they don't really do anything once you save them and the plot moves on. 3. The Disney worlds.... they're so boring. They all feel mostly the same (except for San Fransokyo, kind of liked that one). There are 8 Disney worlds, 1 of them being optional, and you only visit them ONCE. Never a reason to go back. Also you won't understand a lot of whats going on unless you've seen the movie. Arrendale is a very good example of this. 4. Most of the Keyblades are pretty boring and ugly. 5. There are only a handful of bosses compared to KH2s roster. 6. There is one secret boss and it has no bearing on the plot whatsoever. 7. Series original worlds are lack luster. No Radiant Garden to explore, Twilight Town is a shadow of it's KH2 self. Disney Castle? Traverse Town? Nope. I'm a huge Kingdom Hearts fan, but there was sooooo much riding on this title and it didn't deliver the epic finale of a plot spanning over 15 years like I thought it would. It's like I was living Final Fantasy 15 all over again.
SuperDuperSonicSpeed opinions my dude. My favorite Disney worlds in the entire series the boss fights were amazing the dialogue was years better then the past games idk what you’re smoking
Gameplay and graphics wise this game is phenomenal. I was blown away during the Olympus level and that was the tutorial level. It’s just so fun to play and look at that the convoluted story doesn’t really matter to me.
@@soracool1234 one being the boss fight was boring another being when sora said wont you miss this place at the end of the world to herc it didn't make much sense
The worlds feel so short and never really let you feel invested in the worlds' plots. Wish they would have gone back to the KH2 formula of revisiting worlds to new events and expanded stories, we had a culmination of all three enemy types and the only big bads turned out weak asf in the Disney worlds. Also, there should have been way to turn off attraction flow or at least customize which ones you allow to trigger. The attraction flows are just big flashy I-frames with damage output. Spoiler: Also, HOW IN THE HECKY DOES TRINITY OVER POWER THE FUCKING X-BLADE?! 😂
Ryan Aita they give you 0 reason to revisit worlds after you beat them. And if you are going back to finish getting 1 of 2 types of collectibles the game has to offer (treasure chest or lucky emblem) it’s usually just a couple you missed and you skip around to the closest check points acquiring them. Then off to another world to 100% it in the same fashion. The structure of each world is more then less the same. The worlds might be bigger in size but they are fucking empty and even more linear feeling. There are no trinity moves to unlock to use to collect rewards giving you a reason to revisit worlds, few of which give you higher tier magic. The game offers no real challenge to people who actually like to 100% everything. The battles are easy as fuck on the hardest mode. No Olympus coliseum. No extremely hard secret bosses. No strategy. So much missing. 100 acre woods? Was a depressing joke with 3 mini games that are literally the exact same fucking thing and done in one area (rabbits garden) Your time beating the game is meaningless if you don’t actually play all the content within the game. I put easily a 100 hours in KH1 getting literally everything you can get and getting to lvl99. This game is gonna be 100% within a quarter of that time. It’s literally a weaker game in every way except visually. My conclusion is that this game is dumbed down for kids who play with fidget spinners and can’t understand basic RPG strategy or complex puzzle solving concepts. You used to be forced to manage items magic and inventory in a way that actually mattered. Now it really doesn’t matter at all you can get through the game with basically nothing. MP drained? No need for ethers just wait for it to cool down and blast them away again. I can go on but I think those are pretty legitimate problems for people who actually care about quality content in a game we waited 14 years for. There should be no significant lack of content like this we should have everything that’s in the previous games and then some. Not a visually pleasing pile of shit. I’d say the only reason your play through is longer this time around is cause you had more cut scenes to sit through lmao cause I know damn well that wasn’t quality game play time.
Bryce Gubernik it actually was . I mean I 100 percented the game around 70 hours . Which is lerfect for me . Revisiting the worlds was a blast especially the Caribbean And sanfransokyo those worlds are huge when fully explored . Final mix will add more bosses and fight content. It between discovering all the lucky emblems , ingredients and materials for ultima weapon the game has plenty of content along with the battle gate . It has just as much content as 1 or 2 before their final mix with actually a little more because of the emblems cooking battle gates and exploration . So yeah learn what you are talking about . Only thing I will agree with is yes the game is a bit too easy at this given point but that is easily patched . It is not like the ps2 games where once they are out the door they are never heard from again until a final mix . There can be countless balance changes made between now and the big dlc patch
Ryan Aita lol learn what I’m talking about? You didn’t prove anything I said was wrong. Lmao if you consider the pathetic excuse of a cooking mini game where you do one action fun well I guess I’m glad you though it was up to par. Literally everything I said still stands. And the fact you’re telling me I have to wait for a final mix of the game I’ll have to rebuy at full price to have extra content is the stupidest thing I’ve ever fucking heard. Sit down
Twilight town is very impressive. It has the same model as KH2 but with peoples it feels more alive. The walls glowing dont bother me at all. I just wish you wont restricted to only main street the forest and the mansion.
I NEVER was so disappointed in any media...not even Star Wars 8 did hurt that much....At the beginning in Toyboy i was like " OMG this is the greatest game of all time, the music, the flow,the love in this world OMG ".....in then .... where is the fcking story ? at NO time you feel any threat during the game....its just a happy company who visits disney worlds....and where....just where are my beloved FF characters ? and NOW the biggest Problem i have with the game . WHY are we playing Sora again? In KH1 and KH2 EVERYONE believed in him, he was the chosen one who could bring piece to all worlds....Now he uses a fcking Gumi-Twitter.... #NOTmySora #Thethirdoneisalwaystheweakest #KH2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>KH3
WARNING: The following comment contains spoilers. ... Still here? Okay then. Pros: Improved voice acting. Gorgeous graphics. Character development for Sora. The villains actually feel like people instead of merely evil psychos. Happy endings for Roxas, Xion, Ventus, Terra, Aqua, Namine and Isa. Character development for Vexen, Ienzo and Saix. Fascinating lore tidbits and lots of stuff to theorize about. Sequel hooks interesting enough to make me REALLY want to know what's going to happen next. Best world storylines so far (though there are still a few hiccups, cough, Corona, cough). Worlds are massive and gorgeous and perfect for exploration. Interesting gummi ship segments. Ultimate Frisbee between Ventus, Lea and Isa (probably my favorite scene in the entire game). SO MANY FEELS. Cons: Game is way too easy, KH3 Proud Mode feels like KH2 Beginner Mode. Overarching story is more disjointed than usual and gets very rushed at the end. Poor explanations on how various characters are brought back (how exactly did Org XIII get Xion? Her heart was still inside Sora's halfway through the game then suddenly it's back with her in the ending with no apparent consequences for Sora and no explanation for how it happened to begin with. Don't get me wrong, I'm ecstatic that she's back, I just wish they had bothered to tell us HOW. Some explanation is better than none). Kairi is even more pathetic than she is in KH1 despite her having training now. No Final Fantasy characters. Not even the RESTORATION COMMITTEE. Attraction flows are seriously OP. As are Keyblade transformations. And grand magic commands. Seriously guys, nerf the combat please, this is ridiculous. For people who have been possessed, Xehanort's vessels (aside from Xion and Terranort) have an oddly large amount of free will. It's a decent game overall, but not as good as I was expecting. It's not the worst game in the series by any means (Re:Coded still holds that title) but it's not the best either. I'd say the game was acceptable but not remarkable. Which is a shame 'cause I had such high hopes for it, and while I wouldn't go so far as to say that the game was a letdown, it wasn't the amazing and epic final chapter that I was hoping for either. I hope they release a Final Mix version to help make the story a little cleaner. Or at least patch it so that they'll let us turn off attraction flows and other situation commands.
7 at best and i HATE to say that , i remember talking to a friend as i neared the end of the carribean, and Saying wow there haven't been any humanoid bosses to this point or Organization member fights and I HOPE they all aren't gonna be in a boss rush type scenario...ANNNNNNNNNNNND i was right, i'll admit i almost shed some tears for SPOILERS terra ven and aqua/axel roxas and xion but it all happen'd so fast the impact of these moments was ruined. This is probably why i feel so indifferent to the game atm. It tried to be more than it could manage within this one game. the combat is fun don't get me wrong, but its all spectacle. when the flashy cinematic nature of the fights is worn thin, then we left with a clunky unresponsive mess that is carried by an insanely powerful,yet unfulfilling, toolbox. This makes the whole experience a 1 and done for me which,again, i hate to say. as a long time fan i am disappointed...
Agreed. I poured literally hundreds of hours into the other games, I played and replayed almost all of them, and somehow I found myself struggling to complete just one 25-hour play through of this one due to my complete disappointment.
Where you guys think it went wrong? I personally think birth by sleep and main stream kingdom hearts mechanics are a miss match i enjoyed applying forms when i wanted not when the game tells me too... I can accept keyblades having their own forms but not at the expense of the simple freedom of using them... Flow motion i actually like i wish there were more incentive to use them versus an option... the story shared between the worlds is "a scary hooded guy does (insert plot)" which is not bad but it missed it for me for some reason and black box...meh I'm not exactly sure if i like the switching keyblades thing but it was nice to sort of "store" forms...
I can't argue with this review other than the needing to know the backstory of the disney film when it comes to a game you're going from the perspective of sora so what may be important to the disney movie isn't necessarily important to the games story
I actually died once on Proud mode during the Twister Titan battle in Olympus but apart from that usually Kupo Coin saves my hide. It's not super easy, the difficulty is OK for the type of game IMHO
The game is phenomenal only nitpicks i have are: - The hardest difficulty feels like a normal mode - an Extra world or two, shit it's been handheld kh games with more worlds - More keyblades, kh 2 had way more. I've waited 10+ years to expect more not less. - no FF I grew up with them in the series might as well have kept them Otherwise, I'm not complaining too much because all the stated could be worked around with dlc. I would also like data bosses as a feature
I think the saddest part about kh3 is that the majority of the fan base find it to be lack luster but don't hate it, yet are being belittled by diehards who can't accept the game's major flaws. Nothing is perfect. Kh3 is fun. But to deny that the game lacks a lot when it comes to plot, difficultly, and content is to do a disservice to the community. If we as a community allow Square to believe KH3 is flawless, then this franchise will die. I'm on already on the fence about ever buying another kh game because of how much of a lack of effort or how much of a rushed project kh3 feels like. And the very fact that some of you are saying wait for a final mix or dlc for it to get better is a problem. I didn't wait 13 years for a dlc pack. I waited for kh3 n I was highly disappointed in the product I got.
I love the game but agree about the difficulty. I remember trying to take on certain bosses in KH1 & 2 that took multiple tries and careful strategy, but in KH3 I’ve maybe died once in my 20 hours of playing so far. It makes me want to go through it again on the hardest difficulty tho
Also cannot stand the cut scenes very much in this game compared to previous games. The acting so sub par and I find myself watching cut scenes more than fighting battles
I've been trying for awhile to pinpoint why this game was a bit of a let down for an avid fan like me. The ending just fell short and the whole game wasnt half as impactful as KH2. Why?
I especially agree with your last points, like the lack of a critical mode. Critical mode represents one of the most hardcore JRPG experiences you can find when it comes to Kingdom Hearts and it demands skill from the player. Proud mode in this game is way too easy up until the final few bosses. Even then, I could just mash X, stock up on potions, and do pretty well. After beating the game I feel no need to go back and get the collectibles or have another playthrough because it's not worth.
Been waiting forever for this game, played it right through when i started in the keyblade graveyard and you end up "losing" i thought it would of been a good halfway point to the game to recoup and you would be revisiting all previous worlds, but nope that was literally the start of the end sequence. They used the final fight scenes for all these convoluted characters to become absolute folly and then they all die happy. It felt like too much characters not even enough time for a plot - this feels like Nomura has decided to get rid of all that we knew to move onto a less complex story. Combat was fun, graphics and characters very accurately designed - even the voice acting wasn't that bad. Played on proud mode expecting to be stomped - was disappointed overall 6/10
Kingdom hearts would never be here without Final Fantasy. Disney fans weren't gamers back in the ps2 days so alot of people played KH because of FF it's just sad that they left them out
So true, the first time you meet Leon in KH1 is memorable moment and being able to fight with FF characters and against them in hades tournament in KH2 made my childhood
Personally for me I thought it was the stupidest decision to write very important, VERY HEAVY canon stuff in handheld games that a majority of people are not going to play. I dunno if that decision was made for Japan since handheld is bigger over there but over here I think it was a horrible idea.
I'm not all the way through the game, but i can only manage one world a day. The KH story has developed so much on its own it feels like it has outgrown the Disney characters. At least in the first games each disney world had a story. You go to this world and something is happening there that they need your help with so it felt lime you had a reason to be there. You could fight actual disney villains at the end too. In KH3 each disney world is just the movie but heartless are shoehorned in so Sora and the gang are shoehorned in. The characters play their role in the movie while you hang back and fight the heartless. (Toy box was a good separation from that but i didn't really like gameplay. Running around a toy store got old really quick) the non-disney stuff was somewhat interesting but I've only played the core 3 games so I didn't know what was going on. Overall i feel like the game was all flash and no substance
Eclipse - agreed! When Sora and Riku make it back to the island, and reunite with everyone and Sanctuary starts playing- that hit me hard. This game left me feeling disappointingly empty.
This is my first kingdom hearts game that I have ever played and it’s fantastic and magical. I just love exploring each Disney world, my favourite so far has to be toy box with the toy story characters. The only issue I have is the long complicated story which I’m trying my best to understand as well as the gummie ship experience and customisation. Overall this game was very much worth buying I only explored 4 worlds so far.
Me before this video: I want this game so bad!! Me after this video: *runs out the front door running to the nearest video game store* MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE
Yeah, I know the feel. It's still a pretty good game, but not as huge and challenging as the ones before. Guess the main focus was to finally end the xehanorc arc, which I'm really glad about, got really tired of this guy XD
I played the game for about 10 hours and here are my thoughts about the pros and cons The reasons are down there but I give this game a overall 7.5/10 and for all the love of the look and style, I 100% give it a 10/10 *Pros* 1. *Graphics are AMAZING* some of the best by far in the series; Every moment, every place, everything was carefully treated with love and you can literally take any picture in any world and it would look picture perfect. Everything in this game is crystal clear and stylish 2. *The cutscenes are not awkward anymore* in the series they usually switch from 2D face animations to full 3D animations during the cutscenes making it look a bit awkward and emotionless, but in this game they took out any 2D lazy animation and replace every moment with full blown 3D animations making the characters seem more alive. 3. *Exploration* like in number 1 they gave the environments more love, meaning everything is made to be in that style and perfectly mimics the disney style and tone; and with that there are hardly any transition screens anymore, every world is a large sandbox and the largest key to playing the game is exploration. 4. *The new special attack moves* In my opinion I loved how they included some of the rides straight outta disneyland. And it's also a great idea for each key to have they own abilities. 5. *The enemies* They look amazing and unique enemies that they really do fit and adapt into their world instead of looking way out of place Cons 1. *Fighting* it's too damn easy, they should've called this game Triangle Land cause the game is literally spoon feeding us all the special attacks, making it feel repetitive and tamed to being OP (Over Powered). 2. *The story* look, any good story can be either complicated or simple as long as it's a good story, in my opinion I think KH has a good story.. the problem is that they forgot the simple rule to for visual story telling... *SHOW dont tELL* . only 10% of the dialogue is human, everything else is just explaining and more explaining and even more explaining with unnecessary information on the side. 3. *Too many cutscenes* I swear this game is just trying too hard to be a movie cause I can't go anywhere unless I have more information and explanation hammered into my skull, I know some of them in necessary for the story to progress but we don't need one every 5 MINS 4. *Space travel* Remember how simple it was in the old games just to get from point A to point B, and a lot of the times you had to fight and blast your way though heartless and nobodies and it was all done Space Invaders' style and was done quickly so you wouldnt feel bored to travel? WELL SCREW THAT TIMELESS NONSENSE, you actually HAVE to travel through rocks and shit and instead of taking 5 or 6 mins to get there you'll probably confuse yourself and get lost or something at take almost 10 to 15 mins in your slow ass ship. I know going through the obstacles make you go faster, and you have the boosters.. but you can only use them 3 times and you have to wait, and it doesn't even make you go that fast anymore.. And I think the game encourages you to stay on the path cause if you don't you're gonna take 50 years to get to your destination discouraging you to explore. Back then getting anywhere was a breeze.. over here IT TAKES FOREVER 5. *No Final Fantasy Characters anymore* the title says it all...
The game definitely slams it’s breaks once you get to the tangled world. Cutscenes seemed too long sometimes, was really hoping for some real boss battles too. The story didn’t disappoint me so much as how long it actually took to get there. It really feels like the only meaningful parts are the first and last 3 hours And i really didn’t like fighting 3 bosses at once. Why shouldn’t Sora have a one on one with terra-xehanort like he did with aqua? Strategizing the boss fights etc.
You can however make it so it automatically goes to the newest attraction or grand magic prompt that pops up so you can ignore what you don't want to use.
So I heard there are no longer any final fantasy characters in it and that makes me really sad. I’ve never really cared about the Disney characters... and to be honest I loved stages that were outside of the Disney worlds like the nightmare before Christmas stage.
I enjoyed the game and played the originals, my only downside was that I felt that the cinematic moves were to overpowered compared to the combat system of KH1 and KH2, I played through proud mode with only 2 deaths throughout the game, I would like to see the next addition remove the cinematic movesets and go back to block and slash actions to make the combat more challenging. I loved the entangled world and the frozen world but the other worlds just didnt do it for me, for one example I felt like there was to much filler in the pirates of carribean world and I hated the tech world so bad I actually skipped cutscenes just to get out of there qucker, The game itself is beautiful and the cutscenes are done very well but it seems like they are trying to appeal to a younger aduience with the nerf to combat, I want the game to be extremely difficult like it was when I was younger but being able to beat the entire game with only 2 deaths on the highest difficulty depresses me. I also think Moana would have made a more emersive world and would have liked to have seen that. The game for me was very nostalgic so my opinion is very biast but overall I would say I would give this game 8/10 for someone who played the originals and 5/10 for someone who jumped in just on this game and never played the originals.
Its a good game... but Why do I feel like KH2 had more content. Why do I feel like a ps2 game has more content than a ps4 game. It is a fun game tho :)
I read a comment somewhere that said this game is a crazy Frankenstein's monster of story and gameplay that is stitched together with no real reasoning and then that monster is thrown onto a roller coaster and just let to go it's course and I feel this is an apt metaphor. I would NOT give this game a 9. Because of many flaws this game would get an 8 at most because of story and the feeling of being rushed (Seriously if you are satisfied with this you are cookoo for cocoa puffs, being satisfied with the fates of some characters is one thing but how some characters are omitted and others turning into the equivalent of team rocket with NO impact whatsoever. The questions this game answers is shoddily put together and are only replaced by a LITANY of many more.) Less than that because of how easy it is (I beat it on proud mode and didn't die once, I did lose have to retry sections in the Carribean after the ship clipped on heartless ships or the freaking rocks), the horrendous gummi sections (KH2 made it actually fun on rails) I didn't have to struggle on learning the basics on how to move straight up or down instead of the angled up or down.
As kh fan, i cried at the end and i really enjoied all the gameplay. But i can give 6/10. What about the story? Too little meat in the fire. For me it is too shallow. Nomura did the minimum. Where the introspection? The dialogues? In previous games you ended up emphatize whit carachters much more. No new characters, no evolution throug the story. Xion in five minutes appears, change side and meet her friends. Roxas? Aqua? Ven? What happaned besides what we saw in the trailer? Nothing at all. NOTHING. Besides, Nomura leaves out all that emotional stuff that i think is the main characteristic of the saga. It can't be a pillar of the serie. If it had been a nintendo game, just named epilogue, i would have appreciated it more. I don't think rappresents what we have been felt during this last decade. I think Nomura rushed all things.
I just wish the "rides" were an unlockable power. Like 1 was acquired from each world visited. And yes, the (triangle, Y) prompts are way, way too giving, making combat a cake walk. It is basically 3 hits then watch fireworks and stuff until its over.
“The narrative can be easily understood by newcomers.” How is that? You won’t know any of the characters that are introduced at the end, nor do you spend time with them UNTIL the end. How is that understood by someone who just picked up this game and only this game?
i enjoyed the story i dont feel it was rushed like ppl say. some worlds story was lackluster looking at you pirates. gameplay was beautiful ride attacks meh could been left out. music was tear jerking literally bawled at intro. ending was heartbreaking really wanted everyone together but i guess if i want kh4 sora has to disappear lol. i give it a 10/10 still wish it wasn't out so i have something to look forward to lol. wish sora was real i really want him as a friend :'(
I found KH3 fantastic! I would have loved a few more of the orginal worlds to be playable, but i had so much fun. Plus the lore wasn't fuined further like DDD did.
KH3 is enjoyable but it was also really disappointing for me. After beating KH3 it makes me want to replay KH2 now honestly. But I need to buy the game for my PS4 because I just don't feel like playing it on my PS2 or PS3. I liked playing as Roxas and I wanted KH2 outfit for Sora which is my favorite outfit for Sora. You can call it bias because KH2 is my first and favorite KH game but I really do miss and love having that outfit. I think it is the best outfit Sora has ever had, hands down.
If I can sum up a comprehensive word for Kingdom Hearts 3 it would be, rushed. The graphics are stunning, and the worlds are big. But they rushed so many aspects of the game. The ending, 100 Acre wood, the shop and customization, and the final boss battles. Everything seems like they were told that moms coming home and started cleaning the house in just 15 minutes. Kairi barely got any story development, there are only 9 worlds to really visit before the final one. I actually like the combat but it’s a bit repetitious, but I don’t care that much it was still the best part of the game for me. The story after having more than a decade to develop, fell flat. I had such huge expectations for this game that were simple to deliver but that were completely glossed over. The times you can play as Riku and Aqua were so refreshing and made combat open up again. But they don’t let you control them after that or have them as party members, WHY?! I don’t know why we couldnt play as Kairi, like it was such a missed opportunity I feel like the story should have been going between Sora, Riku and Kairi and playing as them, that would have been fun and a nice change of pace. The fact that Kairi IS a party member later in the game for just one battle, means that they did actually develop her combat, but the story just didn’t do her justice. My final issue is that there is no replayability to the game. There’s no coliseum, no side quests, no secret key blades, no secret bosses, no strange difficult enemies , no torn pages, no 100 acre wood mini games, and there’s literally nothing to do once you’ve opened every chest in each world. Like you have ZERO reason to ever go back. There’s no new element or skill that you acquire later on that gives you a reward for going back. Everything is handed to you essentially and I keep feeling like I didn’t really do anything. I could have gotten over the loss of the Final Fantasy aspects of the game if they compensated by giving more content in its place, but since they didn’t I can only long for that cut content. Simply letting us play as Riku and Kairi on their journeys would have made the game so much more longer and different. They could have taken them to different worlds and would have expanded on their character development and shown that they are just as important as Sora. But no, everything was just rushed. And that’s what hurts me in the ending, not the ending itself but the journey it took to get there feels unsatisfying, they threw so many happy endings to compensate for the lack of story for most of the game.
I've played every KH game up until now (with the exception of coded) multiple times over. I've sunk literally hundreds of hours into this series over the years, and was so looking forward to doing it again- but after playing it, I found myself barely able to finish one playthrough, let alone a second or third. This game shot multiple holes in the plot by breaking the world's rules with no explanation, and the gameplay is both extremely unbalanced and laughably easy. Obviously Square has the rights to do with this series what they will, but I felt that this game was a great disservice to the characters that I've come to love over the years.
Yeah that's literally my only gripe about this game: Except for Mount Olympus and Big Hero 6, Sora is COMPLETELY inconsequential in other Disney worlds. The Pixar worlds were fantastic, and Sora and co. actually had impact on their stories. But the Disney worlds.... Nothing changes if Sora was never there. The "movie" just plays out like normal. So if you've seen Frozen, Sora just kinda stands to the wayside, not affecting the plot at all, while the whole movie just plays out before you, the movie you've already seen. The worlds guilty of this are: Frozen, Rapunzel, and Pirates of the Caribbean. Those worlds are exactly the same as the movies, without a lot of important details, just with Sora doing his usual thing with Heartless and having absolutely no impact on that world's story.
Kingdom Hearts 1 was more in depth in story and more difficult which is why I think its the best one. I am glad i am not the only who thinks this 3rd was quite a let down, fucking Square Enix, you had 10 plus years to develop a badass conclusion and you blew it.
Huge fan of the series here commenting only on the story aspect of the game (which is the part of KH I have always enjoyed the most). I felt like a nobody during the final two hours of the game; as much as I tried I could not feel any emotion- my heart just wasn't in it you know? The only exception was when Kairi was struck down, but tbh after I defeated Xehanort, I actually forgot that that had happened. That is how forgettable of a character she was. It just feels like a tragically missed opportunity to be one of the greatest games ever, but it's too late to go back now. Use a mega-elixir and move on Square so your future work will be as amazing as most of the work we have enjoyed in the past.
When Nomura said that if he couldn't develop the Toy Story world he didn't want to do the game, he wasn't lying. Toy Story is the only developed world in this game. Everything else is cut scenes. So much disappoint.
Honestly, despite my first impression of the game being amazing, the more that I think about the more I feel this game was just shy of being garbage. For every step forward, it made 3 steps back and then did a backflip off a cliff. I want so badly to love the game but, honestly, I wish I hadn't played it and just left the conclusion of the story to my imagination. Kingdom Hearts 3 not only fails to live up to any of it's predecessors, but it also independently lacks in many areas. Difficulty, duration, story, content, pacing, etc are all major issues that can be explored in depth to realize how much is fundamentally wrong with the game. The first issue is difficulty. I'm not an amazing Kingdom Hearts player, I never beat Lingering Will or Sephiroth or any of those fights, but I have beaten every game on Critical mode previously. Seeing as there is no critical mode, I played Proud mode and, not only did I barely even have to pay attention most of the time, just mashing the X and O buttons and using the attraction moves, I got through the entire story without dying once, which I could do easily just by being careless in random mob fights before. The Organization members, which should have each been powerful bosses, weren't even a challenge fighting 2-3 at a time. Even the final boss was an absolute joke that required no change in gameplay or strategy at all besides "Hit it until it dies". There wasn't a single fight in this game where I even felt pressured to try and, especially on hard mode, that's really disappointing. Not only that, but the difficulty contributed to another big issue in the game: Duration. Duration coming to mean the amount of time a game's main story lasts when played through, Kingdom Hearts 3 fails epically. The entire game was over for me in around 30 hours, even while taking long breaks in the middle of play and taking my time exploring, it felt like everything was over before it began. Not to mention that, unlike some previous Kingdom Hearts games, your playthrough is extremely streamlined, pressuring you to just rush from one world to the next. The aforementioned difficulty issues also contributed to the problem. In previous KH games, I'd occasionally find an annoying boss that I'd have a tough time with or a world that was a little too tough for my liking and I'd go to the previous world and level up for a while. Not the case here, as even while being under many of the level recommendations, I never once found myself needing to take time to power up my party, making it go that much faster, and seem that much shorter. The duration also harshly affects the story, especially in terms of pacing. The story of Kingdom Hearts 3 was something most of us already had a general idea about. Xehanort needs minions, Sora needs friends, they get some, they fight, the end. How that was accomplished, the specific events and interactions, as well as what the ending would be all left us in suspense, and was the main reason the story felt so exciting starting out. We wanted to see reactions when Sora met Ventus, we wanted to know how Aqua, who was shown having fallen to darkness, would be saved. We wanted to see Roxas come back and reunite with Axel and Xion, and we wanted to know how it would happen, with many trailers hinting at Sora needing to give into the darkness to free Roxas and no hints about Xion being given. Well, sadly, none of it went nearly as well as we'd hoped. The premise of going to the virtual twilight town was a major part of the beginning of the story, which is completely unneeded and forgotten later on. We then go to the idea of replicas and getting one for Roxas, which is also largely forgotten. Xion isn't even mentioned (though vaguely hinted at) until she randomly appears on the villains side for absolutely no reason (she HATED Xemnas, there's no reason for her to side with them at all). And Roxas literally deus-ex-machina's himself into existence through the power of love and acts absolutely nothing like his usual self, being monotone and totally reserved without any emotional reaction whatsoever. Aqua's storyline was actually fine, but left us with her being able to shake the darkness just by getting beaten up, something that no other character has ever done. There was a whole lot of Maleficent in the first few worlds and her search for the box, but she then vanishes without a mention until the post-credits. We get the usual Disney stories which was handled MARVELOUSLY well, improving a lot from previous games where Sora was just self-inserted without any kind of coherence to the original stories. The Vexen, Ienzo and crew story of research vanishes the moment they've given enough exposition to Sora, never to be seen again. The time warp after everyone dies and comes back is completely unexplained, as there's no reason Lingering Will wouldn't have appeared the first time. The Ansem and Xemnas suddenly have a change of heart as they die is bullshit, they're practically Xehanort himself and have never shown the smallest sliver of emotion or empathy or, for that matter, anything more than pure evil. Overall, the story goes from "Sora needs to awaken his power" to "Everyone's magically present to fight and the final battle is almost over" before you could even explain the plot of Kingdom Hearts to a newbie. The biggest sin however, is that not only do we not see Axel and Kairi train AT ALL, we don't even get to see them really fight, with both of them being almost immediately defeated in cutscenes without even getting 1 hit in. To build up them becoming keyblade wielders only to immediately turn Axel into a punching bag and put Kairi into an awful damsel in distress role of always needing to be saved and protected, is disgusting honestly. Also, Yen Sid saving everyone? Epic, but begs the question about why he'd never helped before. Finally, the content issues. The number of worlds is abysmal. Kingdom Hearts 1? 13 worlds. Kingdom Hearts 2? 15 worlds. Which you have to revisit multiple times. Kingdom Hearts 3? 9 worlds, with the only returning worlds having entire areas removed from previous games. Not to mention we didn't get to go to Hollow Bastion or Radiant Garden to meet up with our old allies. (Did anyone else want to visit the Usual Spot in Twilight town in HD? I did.). This drastically fed into the pacing issue, as the worlds we had were gorgeous, and well done overall, but just didn't feel like enough. Additionally, adding to areas being removes, there was no Olympus Coliseum in Kingdom Hearts 3, which had ALWAYS been a favorite part of the Kingdom Hearts franchise. Also, though much less important, I wanted to skateboard around Twilight town and that didn't happen. There's also the fact that exactly ZERO Final Fantasy characters appeared in Kingdom Hearts 3, unless you count the sales Moogles, which is plain sinful considering one of the greatest appeals of the game by far is the blending of Final Fantasy and Disney. There's no Cloud or Sephiroth fight, no Squall arriving to help out or fun loving Yuffie. Nor do we even get to see the Seifer gang in Twilight town, which would have been an easy addition to incorporate. The number of Keyblades is absolutely pathetic, with 22 being obtainable in KH2, compared to 13 in KH3 if you include the 3 pre-order only Keyblades. Finally, the fact that the story doesn't contain any fights against the members of Organization 13 before the final battle felt wrong, like something was missing from previous games, in addition to being promised multiple character gameplay, only to play as Riku exactly 2 times. Also, the final battle with the thousands of heartless that all just automatically die by the dozens when hit was a huge let down, as I would have rather fought several dozen heartless at a time. Overall, the game is visually stunning with HUGE improvement on handling the Disney story lines, but the main story line was a sad jog to disappointment. The gameplay is smooth, but entirely too easy. Attraction commands need to be greatly diminished in terms of strength AND regularity, and enemies need considerable buffs to their attack. Also, the amount of AP made available means you don't have to ration it at all, when optimally you'd have to pick and choose abilities to suit you rather than just having all of them. The overall gameplay is a 3/10, the story a 3/10, and the visuals a 9/10, for an average score of about 5/10 for the game. It's not worth actually playing through the game, but just goofing around and watching the cinematics would definitely be worth an hour or two of your time.
Rex 2900 - I agree with most of what you said, the only thing I need to disagree with is the Disney World story telling. Frozen in particular was a bummer to me, it felt like Sora was just ‘there’ watching the story unfold, not really having a part in it. We had very little interaction with the world’s characters I feel- Hans wasn’t even introduced! All we get are a few shots of his back, and then suddenly we’re fighting a wolf-heartless. Elsa wasn’t even in the party! I was super excited to fight alongside her and do some crazy ice combos!
@@ericralph1979 Frozen was the exception among them to me. It felt like Sora wasn't even involved at all. He did nothing relevant to the story at all and barely interacted with any of the characters.
The only reason I played KH was for the final fantasy characters and combat. Without the FF characters I noticed I wasn't as interested, I could care less about the kh story
I was a little disappointed compared to 2. It was great overall. My negatives are not enough old Disney worlds making a reappearance. I liked the Keyblade transformations, but would have liked all of the drive forms to make a reappearance. I liked getting skills from leveling up drive forms as I used them. I liked some of the attacks that were added in 2 and didn’t feel the combos were as flashy without second form or finishers. Unfortunately I’m also not keen on some of the requirements for oricalcum+ because I want the Keyblade but the sledding missions represent the type of game I’m worst at. Which reduces my drive to get it. And as you mentioned the dialogue could be a bit better. Oh. This may just be because it’s been a while, but I don’t remember Sora being so whiny like he was at parts in this one.
The only problem I have with it...and I havent beaten it yet. Is that sora is still the same character he was while literally everyone around him has grown. I get the hero who smiles in the face of adversity but come on
i dunno i get what you mean but i like how sora after all that shit is still a braindead idiot who can still smile after countless bs, but thats maybe just me who knows
I really do love this game, and KDH, I just miss the gothic, dark vibes/ story elements we got from the final fantasy parts in the games. I get that the devs couldn’t cater to everyone, guess I just assumed these things would be staples at this point...
I like the game, but its lacking so much of what made kingdom hearts great. Lack of worlds, don't get me wrong what's there is great and there's lots to do but for a game with a numbered title the lack of worlds just make it feel like another spinoff game. Also where are the final fantasy characters? Cloud, tifa, yuffie, leon, etc. They were key characters in 1 and 2 and it doesn't make sense for them not to be in this game. I heard something about square wanting to go for a more "Disney route" and I get that but if you're going to do that and axe our final fantasy characters then there needs to be more than 8 playable Disney worlds to make up for the lack of final fantasy.
I love everything in this game from.the worlds to the cutscenes and Gameplay but...it was too short. I was waiting for a Moment after beating a certain world that I would go off the path of going to Disney Worlds and be apart of the main story...but we never gotthat. That's what this game lacks.
@Glodwra I actually feel the same in regards to FF characters. For Nomura to say “they don’t need them anymore” is plain bullshit and seems like his bitterness playing in regards to his “leaving” the FFXV project. Which is apparent because of the literal wide focus and showcasing of Verum Rex. When a series about my friends are my power is the main source of strength for the protagonist, you just don’t completely erase their existence, especially on the finale. Not only that, the main selling point of the game especially for when I first got KH1 was that Final Fucking Fantasy characters were in it. The mixture of Disney and FF character was brilliant! It literally is kingdom hearts because it’s the baby of those two companies together. Wakka, Tidus, and Selphie weren’t even at Destiny Islands at all.. remember the other children residents of that stupid island? Supposedly the trio’s friends. The game is severely disappointing... even more so now than a few days ago as realization of all the shortcomings of the game are arising.
