Kingdom Hearts III

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  1. Jollyraffy
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    A boring, unbalanced and slow videogame. A part from a few, all the voice actors sound like damn robots, the dialogues are horrible and the general pace of the game is too slow.
    The combat system, something I hoped would make me like this game a bit is bad.
  2. Not_too
    May 12, 2023
    0
    All of Nomuras creations have been blantant abominations from a story standpoint and KH3 is no exception. I dont understand how anyone over the age of 12 can consider this nonsense story to be enjoyable.
  3. MaddieStrange
    Apr 3, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Kingdom Hearts 3/10, and it would probably have been 2 if I hadn't come up with that opening line. It was, monstrously bad, failing across the board in level design, individual stories, characters, overarching story and gameplay. It was a culmination of all the games up until this point, and the way they did that was by cramming every bad part of the previous games into this one.

    KH1, combination Hack'n'slash and JRPG. KH3 is not a JRPG in any way, shape or form. They removed the interesting command deck they'd nearly perfected with Birth by Sleep and Dream Drop Distance, but they kept the barren, too big areas and the rail-grinding and wall-running. No character building, no use for the magic system, no difficulty unless they decide to artificially inflate it with massive HP and attacks that do absurd damage, which has admittedly been a failing of the series since KH1.5 and 2.5 introduced their secret bosses. Bosses like Sephiroth, Reaper and Kurt Zisa were fun, they required thought and strategy and changing around your abilities. Not so with the formula for powerful bosses they've crafted since. I thought they'd kind of gotten the hang of it again after DDD introduced Julius which was a boss that made us use the environment and certain useful commands to our advantage, but no, KH3 decided to make all its ReMind bosses boring and artificially aggravating.

    Now let's look at the story. So, they begin with the three heroes of the KH series each embarking on a mission. Sora needs to reawaken his power, Riku needs to save Aqua and Kairi needs to train. Now, considering the fact that they'd made 2 good games with branching, interconnected stories (BBS and DDD), why did they not think "Let's let the player swap between these three?". Let Kairi run around some new Disney worlds that Sora had never seen to get stronger and have her own adventures. Let Sora revisit his old friends while trying to get over his mental block (characters that spring to mind include Cloud, Elsa, Jack Skellington, Ariel and Beast. And have Riku coming to terms with the darkness inside him while exploring the dark worlds.

    What we get instead is Kairi removed from the story for 90% of the game, Riku going through his own stuff in cutscenes apart from a couple of gratuitous gameplay sequences, and Sora traipsing through flat out copied and pasted Disney films with Sora and Co sloppily photoshopped in! Then we learn that Sora's story is irrelevant because the power was inside him all along (Barf) and then he DeusExCaliber's Riku and saves Aqua (Dumb) and then it's straight onto the final fight which manages to tie up the Nobodies and Apprentices storylines nice enough, but fails to be either interesting or fun beyond those fights.

    Much like KH as a whole, they go too big and flashy without enough meat on any given section or story beat to be remotely entertaining. Huge worlds, huge fights, dramatic set pieces chained together and a combat system which basically boils down to "look at this pretty **** pirate ship/explosion/fiery lion, aren't the ps4's graphics amazing!?"

    How, in the name of Zeus, Genova, Calypso, Hades and every other god featured in this god-awful game, can the studio have spent a decade making it and have it still feel rushed. Granted, Disney didn't help since I imagine they insisted the game followed the scripts of their stories, and I'm almost tempted to say that I enjoyed the Toy Story world minus the unnecessary size and length, but the love of all that's sane, why did Disney feel the need to have the Frozen soundtrack shoehorned in?

    In short it was a poor climax to a declining series made even worse by gratuitous Disney masturbation.    … Expand
  4. Crimson9
    Dec 13, 2022
    3
    What people have to realize about Square Enix at this point is that the audience that they cultivated while making actual good games (FF7,8,9,10) has probably grown up and aren't really their audience now. Their audience now has grown up on the garbage Square Enix makes these days, and probably also consume the constant stream of anime trash that is coming out of Japan lately.

    So it    What people have to realize about Square Enix at this point is that the audience that they cultivated while making actual good games (FF7,8,9,10) has probably grown up and aren't really their audience now. Their audience now has grown up on the garbage Square Enix makes these days, and probably also consume the constant stream of anime trash that is coming out of Japan lately.

    So it makes sense that these people can view this steaming pile of garbage as a good game.    … Expand
  5. SideOrderoLemon
    Dec 2, 2022
    4
    With an amazing and exciting beginning that draws you in, Kingdom Hearts III quickly dives into squandered opportunity and monotonous gameplay that zombifies into just mashing the X button until you win. What it gets right with visuals and spectacle it flops with ridiculous one-dimensional characters and an over-arching plot that ultimately leads to nothing. The writing devolves into basicWith an amazing and exciting beginning that draws you in, Kingdom Hearts III quickly dives into squandered opportunity and monotonous gameplay that zombifies into just mashing the X button until you win. What it gets right with visuals and spectacle it flops with ridiculous one-dimensional characters and an over-arching plot that ultimately leads to nothing. The writing devolves into basic plot devices and constant repetition of "hearts," "darkness," "light," and not much more than that. Traversal has gotten a huge upgrade with way more methods of movement, and the worlds themselves feel way more alive than previous entries, but inevitably falls flat in certain areas. A disappointing finale to the "Dark Seeker Saga" of the series that most definitely will lead to just another dark void of repetitive nothing.… Expand
  6. Godudu
    Aug 16, 2022
    0
    This is the most cringe thing i've ever saw in my entire life. This franchise was good when the players were still children. But now it is way too annoying. Dialogues are so so bad, that ive skipped all of the end game sidequests. Gameplay doesnt make up for it too. Very repetitive. The only good thing are the enemy designs.
  7. GHOST998
    May 27, 2022
    0
    Devil May Cry is better....................................................
  8. datboijupiter
    Feb 24, 2022
    0
    all the new KH "fans" will say "It LoOkEd So GrEaT" cause that's how easy it is to appease morons low expectations from something that was once great. the storytelling in this game and pacing sucks the Disney worlds you find out you visit are pointless and a cashgrab waste of time. the leveling and skills feel like garbage and after the Disney worlds it felt like horrible fan fictionall the new KH "fans" will say "It LoOkEd So GrEaT" cause that's how easy it is to appease morons low expectations from something that was once great. the storytelling in this game and pacing sucks the Disney worlds you find out you visit are pointless and a cashgrab waste of time. the leveling and skills feel like garbage and after the Disney worlds it felt like horrible fan fiction conclusion written by someone with downs on their deathbed. if you want a decent Kh experience play 1 & 2 main titles that was developed by a team that actually cared about the game. KH3 plaquettes to the bottom of the barrel reddit morons that really don't care about the game in its entirety they only care about if the particular character they like the most does the things they hope it does in the story and aligns with them. Kh3 is a smoking poop pile hopefully everyone that worked on this conclusion is ashamed and Nomura should get 0 praise for this conclusion if anything it only shows incapability to complete a series... to which they didn't even finish the series because the game feels like one big preview for the next game . its like the entire game is just priming you to get through this so your can pay for the next thing. the series is dead the company sucked it dry and now they're beating a dead horse and people will never know what actually makes the game good. Square enix is a POS comany and they will destroy all their good original IPs for the sake of "MoNeY' but really did they ever love these titles to begin with ? or only claim they do? because the work put into them is horrendous and anyone who says different is probably a lvl.1 scrub that wasn't even alive when the original was made and has 0 knowledge of what merit is and as long as something visually looks good everything else goes out the window circling back to appeasing morons with naturally low and crappy expectations of what makes something actually good. STOP GIVING SQUARE ENIX MONEY THEY ARE BRAINDEAD AND ONLY WANT YOUR $$$$$$$$… Expand
  9. Zer0xl
    Nov 20, 2021
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Combat for the entire game is trash it's just slow but it gets better after the game ends and you get the new combo modifiers. the delivery of the story is meh-to-ok.
    Bosses are, for the most part, bad.

    In the end i would prefer ddd or even worse, KHUx over this in my tier list.    … Expand
  10. Moriquendi
    Nov 20, 2021
    0
    Después de 20 expansiones
    Después de 50 juegos para otras plataformas
    Después de 100 juegos sin traducir en España y sin parches post lanzamiento!!
    Después de Generar humo entre ps2 y ps5 llega Kingdom heart 3 con contenido aun mas infantiloide y con un argumento insípido.
    Llega tarde y lo hace mal.
  11. DevilSurvivor
    Nov 19, 2021
    4
    Massive disappointment for a game so awaited as this. I had just come off of playing the collections as well to get me hyped for it.

    In the end what I got were some of the worst disney worlds to date, the complete removal of all final fantasy characters which to me are more interesting than disney ones, awful gameplay mechanics filled with minigame sections and mindless photo    Massive disappointment for a game so awaited as this. I had just come off of playing the collections as well to get me hyped for it.

    In the end what I got were some of the worst disney worlds to date, the complete removal of all final fantasy characters which to me are more interesting than disney ones, awful gameplay mechanics filled with minigame sections and mindless photo collection...

    The music was by far the worst soundtrack in the series. There was only ONE good song and it was in the final world, everything else felt like generic orchestrated rehashes of old ones or new ones, and you can tell so easily that most of this work was given to Yoko Shimomura's assistants and not her.

    There was no passions, and only in the final stretch of the game can you feel some semblance of character development and story progression, but too little too late, by then I had already bored myself to death. No amount of Roxas and Xemnas story fulfilments will make up for how bad the game is.

    And the other problems that started with Birth By Sleep? Still present. Combat is floaty, you're better off spamming attraction flow than you are actually using your keyblade, the transformations just make everything feel like a button masher rather than a skill based game, bosses continue having random revenge values where they just instantly counter you out of your combo... Infuriating game, and truly a huge disappoitment compared to 2. They should've ended the series after 358/2 Days.    … Expand
  12. Chanui
    Nov 5, 2021
    3
    It is my genuine opinion that tetsuya Nomura is a terrible writer and should not have been used as the director for this game. There is an irritating dichotomy between the simple stories presented by the Disney franchises in the game, and the overwhelmingly convoluted story that Nomura has fabricated for the rest of the game. A YouTuber once astutely mused that "kingdom hearts is aboutIt is my genuine opinion that tetsuya Nomura is a terrible writer and should not have been used as the director for this game. There is an irritating dichotomy between the simple stories presented by the Disney franchises in the game, and the overwhelmingly convoluted story that Nomura has fabricated for the rest of the game. A YouTuber once astutely mused that "kingdom hearts is about using Disney characters to lure you into playing a fan fiction written by a monkey" and they're right. The story is ridiculous, the dialog from characters is not believable, and there are so many loose ends that are not tied up.
    Honestly they could have just spun together another quick story as to how the Disney characters are connected, gone with the same brilliant visuals and this game would have been an all time classic. Instead we get a confusing mess of a story, cringy dialogue cutscenes, and inbetween that we have good gameplay. It's extremely frustrating because you can feel that the game wants to be great and could have been in the hands of literally any of pixars writers, instead we are stuck with Nomura the washed up fogey because japanese studios value tenure and respect over actual ability.    … Expand
  13. samstylle
    Oct 18, 2021
    0
    Terrible bad made !!!!!


    Rush game

    Short story A few maps and world Lack of world
  14. NicoCC
    Aug 17, 2021
    2
    MAJOR LET DOWN! Producers and writers should all be fired!

    I wish I could give it an 8 as it is not a bad game but the team let corporatism get in the way. People "forget" to write a story for humans in order to appease the corporate IP, all in the name of PROFIT! It is pathetic and it ruined this game. The whole game was a huge advertisement for Disney. The Disney stories were    MAJOR LET DOWN! Producers and writers should all be fired!

    I wish I could give it an 8 as it is not a bad game but the team let corporatism get in the way. People "forget" to write a story for humans in order to appease the corporate IP, all in the name of PROFIT! It is pathetic and it ruined this game.

    The whole game was a huge advertisement for Disney. The Disney stories were rewritten to fit in Sora; it's so pathetic and lazy. And so the reality is that the KH story was left to the last 10 hours of the game and it was such a confusing and nonsensical story.... straight garbage! Again, what a pathetic team of producers and writers!

    Oh and what made it even worse is that they let their customers pay for the fact that the writers were complete trash, by having them pay for a DLC (Re:Mind) which didn't actually add to the story at all.

    What a bunch of sht stains the people at Square Enix are! I'm never buying a game from them ever again!

    Moving on...

    Level design was good. Music was okay. The battle command system is so overwhelming I literally forgot about about half the options available. I ended up beating the game with magic and basic attacks. Summons? What are those? Focus? Huh? Multiple keyblades.... never alternated between them, not once.

    And why is ultima weapon reserved for the end of the game? So that we don't get to enjoy it thought out the game? Also, I got all the lucky emblems and all the treasure chests.... where was the reward?

    And finally, why is Sora a pathetic weak child? Shouldn't he have grown up and be battle hardened by now?

    Anyway, a 2/10 is well deserved!    … Expand
  15. Snodog
    May 10, 2021
    0
    The game is very good. A great addition to the Kingdom Hearts Franchise. Even a good enough ending if they choose to make it that way. I had a great time playing the game, and it was well worth my money. If you’re a fan, it does a good enough job with the plot threads. With a story this convoluted and full, you’re not going to make it perfect. My major gripe with the game is thatThe game is very good. A great addition to the Kingdom Hearts Franchise. Even a good enough ending if they choose to make it that way. I had a great time playing the game, and it was well worth my money. If you’re a fan, it does a good enough job with the plot threads. With a story this convoluted and full, you’re not going to make it perfect. My major gripe with the game is that they just kept going and going. It’s not bad if the content isn’t the same stuff over and over again. Hearts, friends, darkness, light, Sora, Riku, Kairi, etc etc. There’s nothing that made me go “Wow, that was unexpected!”. It’s grand, its epic, its heart warming, and all that good stuff. What I’m saying is its solid and what I say next are just things that bug me personally. So lets get to it.

    Sora is such a **** in this game. He dies like 3 times (who knows its hard to keep track). He can do absolutely NOTHING on his own. Sora was chosen to wield the keyblade because he was optimistic and always knew there was hope. If it wasn’t for half of the cast, it would be a completely different story that ended much sooner. Sora was a badass in Kingdom Hearts 2. He kicked the **** out of the head honcho of the Organization, and when he and Riku were fighting Xehonort, it was Sora leading the charge. The story could have been about any one of a number of people. He isn’t the badass that had the confidence to take on anyone who threatened his friends. Like, why is he crying? Why is he pleading with people? Why is he so reliant on the people around him? I get that this story is about friendship and hearts and yada yada but Sora wasn’t such a whiny wuss in the other ones. He was always up for the challenge. It’s annoying, i dont want to play as the crybaby of the group. I would have much rather been Aqua in this game.

    Next, they just love stacking despair at the end of the game. Oh no, sora is dead and all the bad guys are strong. Oh no, they took Kairi. Oh no the odds are 2 against 1. Oh no they killed Kairi. Oh no kingdom hearts is open. Oh no the bad guys win. Oh no the bad guy is 13 bad guys. Like, quit having me overcome the odds that Sora was ready to give up on 3 hours ago. It was just boring by the end.

    Other than that, spot on and a great addition to the Kingdom Hearts Collection.    … Expand
  16. Near
    May 10, 2021
    1
    This game has all the worst part of the franchise. The art direction is ok, but that's about it. The game is slow, boring and dumb. The cutscenes are the worst thing, their direction is completely off, music is all over the place, volume track is just wrong, sometimes you can't hear what they say, the audo track itself is not always in sync with the animation, I don't know how this kind ofThis game has all the worst part of the franchise. The art direction is ok, but that's about it. The game is slow, boring and dumb. The cutscenes are the worst thing, their direction is completely off, music is all over the place, volume track is just wrong, sometimes you can't hear what they say, the audo track itself is not always in sync with the animation, I don't know how this kind of stuff has just been accepted. It's not a quirk of the KH series, it's just bad direction. The lines are also kinda bad, Nomura can't write for **** he should just stick to character design.

    On top of that, the story itself is just bad as it desperately tries to make sense of the many spinoff games that for some reason HAD to be relevant for the whole plot.

    Gameplay wise it doesn't get better. It tries to mix together all the stupid gimmiks from the other games, making it shallow. They just had to take the gameplay from KH2 and paste it on KH3, I don't know how they were able to mess it up so bad, but then again, looking at BBS and its super-bosses, I don't know why I'm even surprised at this point.    … Expand
  17. Sarscov19
    Apr 25, 2021
    1
    A short recaptive and subjective review:

    Kingdom hearts: ambitious new concept with disney flair incorporated in the story Kingdom hearts II: New game mechanics, square enix and disney characters that fit well together. Kingdom hearts three: LOOK AT THE DISNEY, DISNEY GOOD HAHAHA SEE THERE IS FROZEN NOW. SEE, SEE???? AND LOOK AT ALL THE DISNEY ATTRACTIONS!!!! YAY DISNEY. oh and there    A short recaptive and subjective review:

    Kingdom hearts:
    ambitious new concept with disney flair incorporated in the story

    Kingdom hearts II: New game mechanics, square enix and disney characters that fit well together.

    Kingdom hearts three: LOOK AT THE DISNEY, DISNEY GOOD HAHAHA SEE THERE IS FROZEN NOW. SEE, SEE???? AND LOOK AT ALL THE DISNEY ATTRACTIONS!!!! YAY DISNEY. oh and there are also some guys from squa ennis or something.    … Expand
  18. chiat88
    Apr 11, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 3 over 10. Huge minus marks for the greed to hint on future release without completing the story.
    Spoiler ahead.

    I don't mind bad ending. As long as you tell the story good.
    Why splitting the big villain story one by one but mixing them in a single fight? What sorcery is this? It feels the other one cannot blend into the same story.

    So much effort to dig the gold, yet so little content to let the players feel the money they spent is worthwhile. Yes I am talking at you, the stupid Re Mind DLC, bringing more confusion to the already confused story.

    It definitely is not a good sequel, at least not being the worst one.    … Expand
  19. davinu
    Apr 7, 2021
    1
    Such a terrible experience. The story is definitely the worst part of it, Nomura really needs to calm his own ego and re-learn how to make good games.
  20. jinv
    Mar 10, 2021
    2
    After DDD, the story here becomes even more stupid. In addition, no FF characters and combat system changes where you wonder which noob at Enix had this idea. Once again Enix typically puts more emphasis on the graphics rather on the story and gameplay. KH is a Disney/FF crossover, they don't even seem to understand that.
  21. andreamiles12
    Dec 7, 2020
    2
    Just not good.. I waited so long for this too. The most generic story telling with flat/ extremely safe dialogue. I think they forgot that most of their audience has grown up. There's also too much fighting in the beginning that it feels like you're grinding.
  22. OBrien1510
    Nov 24, 2020
    3
    This is a game made for children. This is clear but it's also for this reason that I'm not sure whether I have any right to get angry about it. I loved the old KH games, and those were games made for kids.

    However, regardless of the target market this is just a plainly bad game. I'm not even going to mention the story (The story revolves around the idea that Sora has inexplicably lost    This is a game made for children. This is clear but it's also for this reason that I'm not sure whether I have any right to get angry about it. I loved the old KH games, and those were games made for kids.

    However, regardless of the target market this is just a plainly bad game. I'm not even going to mention the story (The story revolves around the idea that Sora has inexplicably lost all his powers and needs to spend 30 hours of gameplay to get them backs so he can fight Xehanort. Great.) because 1. It's KH so it's not going to make sense anyway and 2. I couldn't even bring myself to finish the game which is what makes me to saddest of all. When I was a kid I had a piece of paper with the countdown till the release of KH2 and I would mark off the days every single day until the game finally released. To this day, KH1 and 2 are 2 of my favorite games of all time but KH just feels so far removed from the core series that I don't even feel any sense of nostalgia when I play it, it's just unrecognizable and unfortunately not in a good way.

    My absolute number one issue with the game is the combat, or lack thereof. KH1 and 2 didn't have incredibly deep combat systems but they worked, they posed a challenge on higher difficulties and overall they were just fun. I played KH1 and 2 a couple of years ago and at age 20 something, I can still enjoy the combat. The combat in KH3 is insulting honestly and this is where the target market of the game really shines through. If you want it to, 80% of combat boils down to waiting for a command prompt, then you press one button and get a mini cutscene or weak mini game and suddenly everything on the screen is dead, and there isn't nearly enough variety in these mini cutscenes so they get stale after about an hour. I refused to use these special attacks at all after a certain time. Even without the special attacks, I didn't die a single time during my 10 or so hours on Proud difficulty. I'm an experienced KH player but certainly not some KH prodigy. The game is just too damn easy and it's clear the game was balanced for children.

    I have similar issues with some of the world and platforming. Half of the time it barely feels like I'm doing anything. I'm stuck on a rail system and I press a button or move a stick once every few seconds. It's incredibly brain dead. But that's what the game eventually boils down to, once you strip away all the visuals the game is a essentially just a series of glorified qte's, from the combat to the platforming. Even the cutscenes are a qte because you can believe I'm trying to press the skip button as fast as possible.

    Visuals. Look fine I guess. Again, the visuals went in a different direction from the originals (which is to be expected between generations of consoles) but Sora's character model has some weird plasticy look to it, almost like you're constantly stuck in Toy Story and you're still using Sora's toy costume. He doesn't quite look like Sora anymore.

    Plenty of other people have mentioned this also, but there are no Final Fantasy characters. They've just been simply stripped from the game, presumably because kids in the 6-15 range have no idea who Cloud or Sid is these days. Ok that's fine whatever, the game is made for kids. What does bother me, is that this decision more than any other is a complete middle finger to OG fans of the series. The only reason to remove the FF characters is because they require resources and kids these days won't recognize them so why bother putting them in the game? Screw the OG fans right?

    Positives: I genuinely find it difficult to find any positives. We actually finally got a KH3 so I guess that's a positive right? Even if they KH3 we did eventually get is a pale imitation of legendary games from the PS2 era.    … Expand
  23. EndoryIsANoob
    Oct 10, 2020
    0
    Worst game in the series! It doesn't deserve to be called Kingdom Hearts! Stupid story, boring gameplay and it is worse than KH2 in every aspect of the game. If you're a KH fan, don't buy this game!
  24. ajsupreme89
    Sep 1, 2020
    2
    This kingdom hearts game has the best graphics, the biggest worlds and the best particle effects. That's literally all good I can say about this game. It brings nothing new to the table and all its good at is reminding people of the past games of the last 10 years including the music and the characters TALKING about what happened.

    It's seriously, without a doubt, the most boring title I    This kingdom hearts game has the best graphics, the biggest worlds and the best particle effects. That's literally all good I can say about this game. It brings nothing new to the table and all its good at is reminding people of the past games of the last 10 years including the music and the characters TALKING about what happened.

    It's seriously, without a doubt, the most boring title I have ever played. Nothing interesing happens until the end, the characters act like puppets on a string and nobody acts like they have any experience what so ever on anything! I forced myself to play it through because I desperately wanted to know how the story goes on, only just to end with the main villlain redeeming hi self, on the basis of " why the hell not?!" All my Investment in previous titles were a waste of time, since nothing in this game has consequences, existing things get retconned and characters just straight up LOSE their personalities. The characters were the biggest waste. They have been replaced with puppets immitating the voices of the real people. This game destroyed my love for the franchise.    … Expand
  25. tstempert
    Jul 21, 2020
    3
    Convoluted and ruined story from the first kingdom hearts, unenthusiastic and simple yet messy game play. The only saving grace for this game are the graphics and the Disney characters although the choices of some of the Disney worlds and characters were very lack-luster.
  26. Chulian13
    Jul 20, 2020
    0
    The game totally failed to give what it was expected, it was mediocre and story wise bad, really bad. There are just some things they should have added, more exploration of twillight town, seeing radiant garden and destiny islands and more original worlds and not so many disney worlds that just were a copy and paste.
  27. Vanta77
    Jul 15, 2020
    2
    Lets face it Kingdom Hearts has never had an amazing story but every single game until 2010 has been incredibly and beautifully woven, people say they never made any sense but they totally did.. Until after 2010 when Dream Drop Distance came out, which introduced Time travel and a new phone game which carried on the mediocre storyline additions and Kingdom Hearts 3 is a sequel from THAT,Lets face it Kingdom Hearts has never had an amazing story but every single game until 2010 has been incredibly and beautifully woven, people say they never made any sense but they totally did.. Until after 2010 when Dream Drop Distance came out, which introduced Time travel and a new phone game which carried on the mediocre storyline additions and Kingdom Hearts 3 is a sequel from THAT, not KH2.

    This game is not for newcomers since the devs expect you to have played DDD and KHUX. I got my brother into playing Kingdom Hearts to my surprise and he ended up loving KH1 and KH2, got bored with BbS and jumped into KH3 and hasnt played it since it came out - Mind you i did not express frustration to him, he just said that he really disliked the bad pacing and the boring empty big corridors of worlds with nothing in it. And that is exactly how the KH worlds are post 2010: Empty large towery areas with barely anything to do but open chests etc

    Now the positives are definetly some to KH3, the graphics are good although the character models are downgraded, Kairi looks like an alternate 10 year old version of the super cool lookin KH2 version which appeared older and more realistic. But ok the battle system is amazing as usual, too floaty but still fun as always. Some character were way better written and more lively than others. One of the few characters i liked were Axel,Demyx and Vexen. It was exciting every time they were on the screen, they have the best scenes in the game along with Vanitas and the Monster inc characters imo The Unversed was a nice addition to the Monsters world and was very fitting. My favorite world by far, i ended up liking Tangled also, but not much else.

    Conclusion i loved playing the first 10 hours of the game, kinda like FFXV. Then i feel like they rushed the game too much and the terrible story addition starts at the end of the game, while every single character comes back, even the ones you thought were dead. And now everyone is alive and no one can die which is a bummer. I personally feel the series ended with Kingdom Hearts 2, nothing happens after that because its just overwriting money grab with hardcore Disney restrictions and alternate timelines/time travel and unneccessary conviluted story additions.

    They pressed every single character in the series into one soup just like Pirates of the Caribbean 3 did (the worst one) and ironically its the one we are forced to watch in this game. If you want to play good Kingdom Hearts games they are plenty but they all happen before 2010, you will see notable difference in quality if you exclude graphical changes for the PS4.    … Expand
  28. aujam253
    Jul 4, 2020
    0
    *An absolute mess of pacing, story-telling, writing, character-development and every other skill required to communicate an idea.* Few worlds stand out as charming (Toy Story and Big Hero 6) and when the game forgets to talk to you about hearts/light/darkness/vague metaphor device 4 and just lets you run around and hit things then there is fun to be had.* While the Pirates of the Caribbean*An absolute mess of pacing, story-telling, writing, character-development and every other skill required to communicate an idea.* Few worlds stand out as charming (Toy Story and Big Hero 6) and when the game forgets to talk to you about hearts/light/darkness/vague metaphor device 4 and just lets you run around and hit things then there is fun to be had.* While the Pirates of the Caribbean is an unwanted revisit when it allows you to explore islands with Goofy and Donald I found myself wishing that was more of the game. Worlds are all visited and left in one sitting with no narrative reason apart from "Sora you are weak get stronger" (that's the plot btw).*

    *Sora controls very awkwardly, the first thing I noticed when playing the game was Sora can even run in a circle with stuttering and skiing all over the place.* Gummi ship has been expanded into an ugly semi-open world map.* There is a lack of content and most of your playtime will be filled with endless upon endless cutscenes.* Most of which are boring. I skipped the second half of all of the Frozen cutscenes because it was just a retelling of the movie with no bearing on the rest of the game.* When it's fun, it's quite fun. But when it's not, which it very often isn't - it's awful.*    … Expand
  29. Gmaster1998
    Jun 18, 2020
    0
    This Game is Bad and a waste of time the Name of the Game shoud be kingdom Disney Disney Edition this is Not an an actual kingdom harts Game Its simply unfinished
  30. JumboJenkins
    Apr 30, 2020
    4
    An absolute mess of pacing, story-telling, writing, character-development and every other skill required to communicate an idea. Few worlds stand out as charming (Toy Story and Big Hero 6) and when the game forgets to talk to you about hearts/light/darkness/vague metaphor device 4 and just lets you run around and hit things then there is fun to be had. While the Pirates of the Caribbean isAn absolute mess of pacing, story-telling, writing, character-development and every other skill required to communicate an idea. Few worlds stand out as charming (Toy Story and Big Hero 6) and when the game forgets to talk to you about hearts/light/darkness/vague metaphor device 4 and just lets you run around and hit things then there is fun to be had. While the Pirates of the Caribbean is an unwanted revisit when it allows you to explore islands with Goofy and Donald I found myself wishing that was more of the game. Worlds are all visited and left in one sitting with no narrative reason apart from "Sora you are weak get stronger" (that's the plot btw).

    Sora controls very awkwardly, the first thing I noticed when playing the game was Sora can even run in a circle with stuttering and skiing all over the place. Gummi ship has been expanded into an ugly semi-open world map. There is a lack of content and most of your playtime will be filled with endless upon endless cutscenes. Most of which are boring. I skipped the second half of all of the Frozen cutscenes because it was just a retelling of the movie with no bearing on the rest of the game. When it's fun, it's quite fun. But when it's not, which it very often isn't - it's awful.    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#23 Best PS4 Game of 2019
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#11 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2019
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#89 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2019

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 88 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 81 out of 88
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 88
  3. Negative: 1 out of 88
  1. TheSixthAxis
    Jan 30, 2020
    80
    Kingdom Hearts III doesn’t go in the direction some RPG fans will no doubt have been hoping for. It’s unashamedly over the top in just about every way, from its barmy story and stunning presentation to its huge cinematic battles. There’s plenty of depth here too, though you’ll need to find your bearings first.
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  2. Gamersky
    May 31, 2019
    85
    There is no doubt that Kingdom Hearts III will make long term fans moved or even cry. As for those new to the franchise, I believe they also can be satisfied because of tons of classic Disney elements and solid combat system, even though they could barely understand the main story.
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  3. Riot Pixels
    Apr 20, 2019
    73
    If you like animated movies from Disney and Pixar, and you want to relieve some of the key moments, welcome to Kingdom Hearts 3.
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