Kingdom Hearts III

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8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 2513 Ratings

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  1. PrinceWulf
    Jul 19, 2020
    9
    Soundtracks, dialogue, gameplay and character interaction is spot on, especially for those that cleared Re:Mind content. My score does reflect Kingdom Hearts 3 without Re:Mind content. Counting Re:Mind, I would've most likely given 10.
    Now that that is out of the way, new gameplay mechanics made the game very enjoyable. World exploration surpasses every previous title in this series.    Soundtracks, dialogue, gameplay and character interaction is spot on, especially for those that cleared Re:Mind content. My score does reflect Kingdom Hearts 3 without Re:Mind content. Counting Re:Mind, I would've most likely given 10.
    Now that that is out of the way, new gameplay mechanics made the game very enjoyable. World exploration surpasses every previous title in this series. Mostly because world size is easily double, if not triple larger. You would think high def graphics would ruin such game but it turns out it still fit the genre. Story as usually great with some amount of confusion every now and then. Can't go without that.
    Reason it's not 10 out of 10 lies in some story elements, but nothing major.    … Expand
  2. kevon24
    Jul 18, 2020
    8
    Kingdom Hearts III is SUPER good on some aspects, and pretty bad in others. Graphics, OST, Gameplay and animations are EASILY 10/10. Not even ONE critic. Re:Mind adds a lot to all of these aspects too.

    However, the story and the pacing of the game is plain terrible. Specially if we take into account the fact it was a "conclusion" of sorts. Re:Mind fixed some of this and explained a few    Kingdom Hearts III is SUPER good on some aspects, and pretty bad in others. Graphics, OST, Gameplay and animations are EASILY 10/10. Not even ONE critic. Re:Mind adds a lot to all of these aspects too.

    However, the story and the pacing of the game is plain terrible. Specially if we take into account the fact it was a "conclusion" of sorts. Re:Mind fixed some of this and explained a few other things, but it's still a mess. KH plot after KH2 is super weird, and KH3 is no better.    … Expand
  3. 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
  4. FindersFees
    Jul 12, 2020
    7
    Waited years for this game to only have a story in the last 15 minutes, fun gameplay with way too OP super moves, no FF characters.

    Excited for KH4 hopefully it's better,
  5. Sus1216
    Jul 11, 2020
    8
    Muchos años esperando esta tercera parte. Muy disfrutable de principio a fin con un sistema de combate parecido al 2 añadiendo nuevas técnicas y combos. Los mundos son mucho más verticales y grandes que nunca y muy coloridos. Los nuevos mundos con Frozen o Toy Story están muy chulos y se ven mejor que las propias películas. La banda sonora sigue estando a un nivel altísimo como en todosMuchos años esperando esta tercera parte. Muy disfrutable de principio a fin con un sistema de combate parecido al 2 añadiendo nuevas técnicas y combos. Los mundos son mucho más verticales y grandes que nunca y muy coloridos. Los nuevos mundos con Frozen o Toy Story están muy chulos y se ven mejor que las propias películas. La banda sonora sigue estando a un nivel altísimo como en todos los juegos de la saga. En cuanto a la trama, que ya lleva siendo una fumada desde la segunda parte y que se ha ido liando cada vez más, creo que hasta antes de la parte final está todo bastante correcto, pero en el clímax todo se acelera junto con combates caóticos (pero chulos) contra dos personajes a la vez. Y lo que va pasando no se explica bien o directamente no se explica, es todo muy porque sí. Aun así, no quita que me emocionará con el final del juego y soltara un par de lágrimas. Muy recomendable si eres fan de la saga.… Expand
  6. Vaeu
    Jul 9, 2020
    8
    First KH game and III was a lot of fun. The gameplay is aesthetically pleasing and diverse, the fabricated storylines are interesting and overall it was fun exploring the different worlds Disney-Pixar have created.
  7. GhostGaming400
    Jul 8, 2020
    8
    Great game but needs work once I’ve gotten into the KH series and bought a PS4 just to play it the Kingdom of Corona and Arandelle felt like a movie world and Twilight Town didn’t felt like a world at all mostly and 100 acres felt it didn’t exist the gameplay is fun, the music is great, the graphics are awesome, story needs work

    Pros: Great Gameplay Cool Keyblade Transformation Fabulous    Great game but needs work once I’ve gotten into the KH series and bought a PS4 just to play it the Kingdom of Corona and Arandelle felt like a movie world and Twilight Town didn’t felt like a world at all mostly and 100 acres felt it didn’t exist the gameplay is fun, the music is great, the graphics are awesome, story needs work

    Pros:
    Great Gameplay
    Cool Keyblade Transformation
    Fabulous music
    Good Graphics

    Cons:
    Game too short
    Story was meh
    Worlds are kinda short
    The Bosses in some worlds needs to be better

    The conclusion here is it’s a great game not the best or terrible game and not the conclusion we all hoped for    … Expand
  8. SpeedFist
    Jul 6, 2020
    7
    STORY:
    if you haven't played all the kingdom hearts games now available on PS4 then the story will make no sense. However if you're a hardcore fan you might be disappointed with the pacing, a good chunk of the game is spent messing around in disney worlds that don't have alot to do with the story and 2 of which are just copies of the movies. However after a while the game's story really    STORY:
    if you haven't played all the kingdom hearts games now available on PS4 then the story will make no sense. However if you're a hardcore fan you might be disappointed with the pacing, a good chunk of the game is spent messing around in disney worlds that don't have alot to do with the story and 2 of which are just copies of the movies. However after a while the game's story really takes off and gets interesting, but thats because they stuff alot of the important moments at the end and because of that the end game gets very long.
    GAMEPLAY: Before all the updates had been added the gameplay felt very lacking because of how easy the game was even on proud mode and how there wasn't any real reason or ability to use creative combos, couple that with the lack of good bosses made the gameplay very boring, however with the new updates the game gets alot harder if you choose Critical mode and the new abilities added makes the game a joy to play through, unfortunately if you want some fun boss fights you have to wait until the end or buy the re:mind dlc which does include some amazing bosses.
    PRESENTATION:
    the game looks and sound great with some of the best music i've heard in games, though the frozen world does get a bit tiring to look at because of how the world uses the same color the entire time. Also the voice acting can be a bit of a mixed bag.
    Overall I had a good time with the game but as a long time fan I felt frustrated at the story for spending so much time doing nothing when we should've been getting to experience big story moments earlier in the game and the lack of fun and interesting boss fights (excluding the endgame) in the base game made me not enjoy it as much as I hoped.    … Expand
  9. Renflexx
    Jul 6, 2020
    7
    Excellent graphics, excellent soundtrack and audio. The fighting is amazing, although too flashy sometimes.
    Although it totally fails to its prequels in terms of pace and dialogue.
    KH 1 and 2 are 9 or 10 out of 10. This one failed too much after so many years. Square Enix, focus more on the story and places that the niche of the series would like to see more explored instead of flashy    Excellent graphics, excellent soundtrack and audio. The fighting is amazing, although too flashy sometimes.
    Although it totally fails to its prequels in terms of pace and dialogue.
    KH 1 and 2 are 9 or 10 out of 10. This one failed too much after so many years.
    Square Enix, focus more on the story and places that the niche of the series would like to see more explored instead of flashy combat system and open world thats always the same over and over (like frozen).
    P.S The dlc made it slightly better.    … Expand
  10. 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
  11. leochacha
    Jul 1, 2020
    6
    Good graphics and music. Fun, but flawed, gameplay. (the cracks grow as the difficulty rises) Mess of a story. In my opinion the story is too simple for veterans and too convoluted for newcomers. The game really hinges on you caring about the characters, so if you don't it will be a huge drag. It takes a very specific kind of person to love Kingdom Hearts 3 and I'm one of them. But I amGood graphics and music. Fun, but flawed, gameplay. (the cracks grow as the difficulty rises) Mess of a story. In my opinion the story is too simple for veterans and too convoluted for newcomers. The game really hinges on you caring about the characters, so if you don't it will be a huge drag. It takes a very specific kind of person to love Kingdom Hearts 3 and I'm one of them. But I am not blind to its faults.… Expand
  12. RaphaelNc
    Jul 1, 2020
    9
    Acompanho KH desde o PS2 e posso dizer que foi um final digno para saga xeharnot. Apesar de sua gameplay não ter me agradado como no segundo jogo, no geral foi um ótimo jogo ! Obrigado Square enix, vcs me fizeram lembrar dos meus tempos de garoto quando ficava horas e horas jogando os primeiros jogos da série
  13. PeterPersona
    Jun 27, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Excellent game the combats are excellent the story is like in the movies. Excellent Game!… Expand
  14. illuvatar_1st
    Jun 25, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A great game to end all previous 11 games. although we thought.Its refreshing seeing the same worlds we know and love being Massive sandboxes were you can go where ever u want, see NPC left and right and have new Pixar worlds appear for the first time.

    Music is amazing and well suited all the way. the cut scenes and the CGi cut scenes a 10/10 and story to end the saga a 10/10. hover DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME IF U HAVE NO IDEA OF THE PAST 11

    game play combines all the good from previous titles , balances them and introduce new ways of game style    … Expand
  15. MyGaMe1
    Jun 25, 2020
    8
    Beautiful graphics , fast game play , i loved how they managed to capture the spirit of the worlds that we were visiting and use the exact same visual style as the movies themselves. For example Toy story world looks so realistic and detailed , just like the movie does , when you start at Olimpus , you have the same art style as you can see in Hercules from 1997. I loved that. Its hard forBeautiful graphics , fast game play , i loved how they managed to capture the spirit of the worlds that we were visiting and use the exact same visual style as the movies themselves. For example Toy story world looks so realistic and detailed , just like the movie does , when you start at Olimpus , you have the same art style as you can see in Hercules from 1997. I loved that. Its hard for me to say anything about the story. I didnt get it. I finished the previous games , but i had the same problem there as well. So i just found my self skipping every cinematic , just because even after i watched them , i was really confused what was the actual story and what are we doing. But at the end of it , i didnt even care , i was just enjoying the worlds and the game play , the two strong points for me.… Expand
  16. cremadiscampi
    Jun 24, 2020
    7
    The graphics are good, especially in certain levels of the game.
    The soundtrack is great (Kingdom Hearts always deliver good music).
    The story is mediocre. The gameplay is pretty fun, but a downgrade from Kingdom Hearts 2 apart from some small details. The game definitely feels rushed and incomplete and the DLC doesn't really fix it. It's not the best game of the saga, but an ok game    The graphics are good, especially in certain levels of the game.
    The soundtrack is great (Kingdom Hearts always deliver good music).
    The story is mediocre.
    The gameplay is pretty fun, but a downgrade from Kingdom Hearts 2 apart from some small details.
    The game definitely feels rushed and incomplete and the DLC doesn't really fix it.
    It's not the best game of the saga, but an ok game neverthless.    … Expand
  17. Shenic
    Jun 24, 2020
    8
    The graphics are stunning, the soundtrack is amazing and the gameplay is fun and dynamic. The story is good, but some Disney worlds feel like just marketing, they lead nowhere. The lack of Final Fantasy characters is also disappointing. Nonetheless, very fun to play.
  18. EdgarMttz
    Jun 22, 2020
    8
    Kingdom Hearts 3 sigue deleitando mundos y atracciones a pesar de una variedad de mundos de disney y atracciones que son demasiado sin amor. Incluso si el juego no necesariamente está a la espera detrás de la larga espera, los fans de la serie obtienen una conclusión digna y el título al menos todavía ofrece una sólida experiencia RPG de acción para los participantes laterales.
  19. WolrenankSpike
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Definitivamente no es el mejor juego de la saga, pero es de los mejores juegos del año y un gran KH.
  20. SWFan523
    Jun 21, 2020
    8
    Really enjoyed this game. Tons of fun moments in Disney's best worlds while also bringing the Xehanort Saga to a satisfying end.
  21. Shapiro94
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This game was what we were all waiting for KH fans, I fully recommend this game
  22. ChumaGG
    Jun 21, 2020
    7
    no es una joya pero es bastante divertido.

    la jugabilidad es repetitiva hasta el cansancio, puede que despues de los primeros 3-4 mundos ya no sea nada novedoso. la historia esta fumadisima, pero aun asi es bastante buena, pese a todos los agujeros argumentales que tiene. el apartado grafico pese a ser bastante... mhe... encuentra la forma de aprovechar lo poco que tiene    no es una joya pero es bastante divertido.

    la jugabilidad es repetitiva hasta el cansancio, puede que despues de los primeros 3-4 mundos ya no sea nada novedoso.

    la historia esta fumadisima, pero aun asi es bastante buena, pese a todos los agujeros argumentales que tiene.

    el apartado grafico pese a ser bastante... mhe... encuentra la forma de aprovechar lo poco que tiene (TEXTURA,S COLORES, PARTICULAS, ETC) para que todo se vea con ese tono de fantasia que queda bastante bien.

    y sin duda la unica razon que hace de este juego una experiencia bastante divertida pese a todas sus carencias, es el factor nostalgia, si cresiste con disney te va encantar jugar esto. punto.    … Expand
  23. karay123
    Jun 20, 2020
    9
    Waiting so many yeras for that title, excellent battle system and combos, fascinating story to the very end.
  24. ERRORCODE-20
    Jun 19, 2020
    6
    Kingdom Hearts 3 has some of the worst dialog and writing ive ever witnessed in a game. But its combat is a bit fun despite being completely braindead.
  25. 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
  26. AndreyCloud
    May 4, 2020
    7
    Compared to all the other game in the franchise, this has to be one of the worst sadly. I love Kingdom Hearts and all the other games thus far with the exception of Re:coded. This game felt too Disney, and not enough of the story we all know and love. I felt like I was constantly in a Disney world when I really wanted to pursue the main story line and I got most of it in the last 4 hoursCompared to all the other game in the franchise, this has to be one of the worst sadly. I love Kingdom Hearts and all the other games thus far with the exception of Re:coded. This game felt too Disney, and not enough of the story we all know and love. I felt like I was constantly in a Disney world when I really wanted to pursue the main story line and I got most of it in the last 4 hours of the game. This game felt too short and not fulfilling enough for me at all, compared to kingdom hearts 1, 2, Dream Drop, Birth by Sleep is was a big flop. Sora felt looked like he was 2 years younger instead of older, literally no one grew in age like they did from KH 1 to 2, and some complicated plot elements flopped in the end. Overall I wish this game had more engaging plot elements of finding and helping more characters like Roxas, Xion, Namine, Ventus, Terra, but in the end it all just happened too fast and for a majority of the game I was stuck playing dumb mini games in Disney worlds. Don’t get me wrong, the Disney worlds were fairly well designed, but felt more meaningful in the other Kingdom Hearts games when we actually did things relevant the story in-between, like going to Twilight Town, Traverse Town or Hollow Bastion. The only reason I still give it a 7/10 is because it’s still very beautiful to see all the characters reunite and see a long story come to some kind of happy conclusion. Just felt like it could have been way better for a franchise that has been so good up to this point.… Expand
  27. ExtraMayo
    May 3, 2020
    9
    Never really understood why people considered this game was a disappointment I thought it was pretty good overall and it gets amazing towards the end if you haven't played yet definitely pick it up.
  28. 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
  29. paulocentr
    Apr 27, 2020
    10
    Amazing, beautiful, exciting and challenging ar onde. A must play game for every console owner, played the entire trilogy all king games and Worth every single minute
  30. holamigos
    Apr 12, 2020
    10
    This game had it flaw but even if I look at the graphics I didn’t get bored. This game has fun gameplay, great graphics and saga concluded perfectly. I know the storytelling is bad in someway but, I like it actually. deserves 10 imo!
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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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