Kingdom Hearts III

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  1. StudMuffinOP
    Feb 24, 2019
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Game was beautiful in every aspect with mind-blowing graphics and beautiful soundtrack. I did however expect a lot more considering the wait though. Don't get me wrong I loved the game, I just expected more but that's just me. It did answer questions that I've had with the series and it also did make me question more about it after watching all the secret endings. I was just hoping for a more.. dramatic ending and ***SPOILER*** I thought this was the end of Sora's journey.

    The multiple trailers in my opinion did ruin a lot of my experience with the game considering the fact that I knew what was going to happen next but that was completely my fault on watching them.

    I did enjoy the game-play but some of the action commands didn't really seem to fit in some spots but easy fix to that is to not activate them. They just felt more like cut-scenes if anything during battles, especially the summons from previous games also.

    All in all I loved the game and I'm expecting to do a second game-play on a higher difficulty as I found Standard Mode to be fairly easy. The only reason i'm giving an 8 is because I just expected a little bit more from the worlds and the trailers shown. The secret endings definitely made my jaw drop and definitely felt some nostalgia after most things got answered throughout the game. Looking forward to the next DLC(considering one possible theory from one of the endings) or the next installment of the game. Lets just hope it doesn't take as long as it did though.    … Expand
  2. Spedattack
    Feb 11, 2019
    6
    After over a decade of waiting the result is a big disappointment. First, let me get the good things out of the way. The visuals are breath-taking and amazing to be hold. Classic scenes from Disney films are in some ways even better looking in this game than the films. The first half of the game is a blast to play, and you're given some cool abilities to experiment with. Some of theAfter over a decade of waiting the result is a big disappointment. First, let me get the good things out of the way. The visuals are breath-taking and amazing to be hold. Classic scenes from Disney films are in some ways even better looking in this game than the films. The first half of the game is a blast to play, and you're given some cool abilities to experiment with. Some of the mini-games are even surprisingly fun to play. This is where my praise ends unfortunately.
    The biggest problem with the Kingdom Hearts series has always been the ever increasingly convoluted, and at times, ridiculous plot. While the game tries a little bit more to make sense of things(especially for those who didn't play the spin-off games), the series has already dug itself into a hole that it can't climb out of at this point. The ending raises more questions than answers and feels rushed. While not as bad, it was a lot like the Mass Effect 3 ending. The whole plot just feels like it was rushed, and that they just wanted to move on to the next game. The performances are either hit or miss even with those who have reprised their roles, and the dialogue is extremely sub-par.
    The game does not become challenging until the very end. I said before that I enjoyed the first half of the game and loved the new abilities, but after a while the fun runs out because of how easy the game is. The whole game I died only twice, that's how easy this game is. The game also feels too short for a game that was a decade in the making.
    Overall, this feels awfully rushed for a game that was a decade in the making. While its not a bad game by any means, its extremely disappointing for someone who has been playing these games since the beginning.    … Expand
  3. bcount23
    Feb 8, 2019
    6
    As a long time kingdom hearts fan I am extremely disappointed. This game is very boring with long drawn out cutscenes. The gameplay is the only reason I kept playing
  4. KGBProjekt
    Feb 21, 2019
    6
    This game is just fine. It promised to close the Dark Seeker Saga and it did, but it feels rushed in so many ways: Many missing characters, many characters with no voice actors, scenes with no rhythm or coherence, missing Final Fantasy characters, very few worlds, terrible pacing, missing worlds shown in trailers (like Mysterious Tower)... Another problem is that if you saw all theThis game is just fine. It promised to close the Dark Seeker Saga and it did, but it feels rushed in so many ways: Many missing characters, many characters with no voice actors, scenes with no rhythm or coherence, missing Final Fantasy characters, very few worlds, terrible pacing, missing worlds shown in trailers (like Mysterious Tower)... Another problem is that if you saw all the trailers like many did, you pretty much saw everything the game had to offer. Nothing less, nothing more. That was extremely disappointing.
    But it's still fine, it plays nice, combat is flashy, maybe too easy, and there are too many mini-games and gimmicks IMO. But if you want some kind of closure, you'll get it. It just doesn't do much else than that, it could've been so much greater. KH2 feels way more larger in many ways than this one, and having more than 9 games building up to this game, maybe the expectations were too high.    … Expand
  5. Naedeslus
    Feb 18, 2019
    7
    Kingdom Hearts III has a strong opening, Sora is supposed to be weaker and while if you never played any game outside of KHI and KH II you will be a bit on the ‘lost’ side but the story so far didn’t feel overly complicated. It felt like it was taking it very safe as if they wanted it to be open to new players rather then giving those who have been a part of the Dark Seeker Saga since theKingdom Hearts III has a strong opening, Sora is supposed to be weaker and while if you never played any game outside of KHI and KH II you will be a bit on the ‘lost’ side but the story so far didn’t feel overly complicated. It felt like it was taking it very safe as if they wanted it to be open to new players rather then giving those who have been a part of the Dark Seeker Saga since the beginning.

    This isn’t overly a bad thing at first, the overall plot remains the same but there are noticeable pacing issues with the story. After the first two worlds, one being a very good world and a fan favorite and the other feeling too stilted and cut back from its inception in Kingdom Hearts II, the story takes a serious backseat. No longer are they really worried about taking out the main antagonist, instead Disney takes over. It’s obvious Disney probably paid Square Enix a lot to keep to the source material.

    It’s a shame because the other games didn’t really have this issue. Sure they usually followed the plot but they always worked in the overall theme of the games into the plot. The stakes were high, here it doesn’t even really matter that much. Don’t get me wrong, the Disney worlds are fun but a lot of them felt like filler.

    The other games, while having this issue to an extent made them quicker. You could do them pretty fast and get on with the story, sure you had to return to them but by then, you don’t’ feel like they’re overstaying their welcome. Their pacing was perfect, especially in the second game. The story does pick up at the last act but by then it feels like a lore dump. Here is where new players would feel the most lost because it waits to the actual last 4 hours or so to get good and it gets really good. The problem is, it should’ve built these moments up. The middle section of KHIII feels like a huge missed opportunity and I’m still wondering what Nomura was thinking. To be honest though, the last 4 hours are fantastic and well worth trudging through 18 hours to get there.

    So the pacing is pretty bad but how is the rest of it? The voice acting is top notch and so is the music. While I did miss the theme of the series, Simple and Clean, the new theme songs are actually not bad! They’re not as memorable as Simple and Clean or Sanctuary but they’re enjoyable. The remixes of previous games are great as well.

    The gameplay is fun but there are some issues. Sora is supposed to be weaker. You’d think that normal difficulty would present some sort of challenge, but it doesn’t. I didn’t grind at all, just fought enemies as I saw them, and it wasn’t hard at all. I died maybe 2-3 times and that was at the final bosses. I usually don’t mind easier games and tend to play them on easy mode if I find they’re too much of a struggle but here Normal felt like an Easy mode. I’d hate to see how easy Beginner mode really is. Even if you’re bad at games, Normal probably is the way to go since it gives you so many tools to win.

    There are these summons called attractions. While at first, they seem fine enough but there just isn’t enough of them and sometimes they feel like immersion breakers. I avoided them after a few times. They made the combat too easy and there really should be an update that lets you turn them off for the entire game. The combat is fun but I found the combat in KH2 better, mostly for reaction commands. Here it’s flashy but it didn’t have the great moves the second did. It does have super moves you can use but it could’ve used more. After using the same ones for most of the game it got a bit old. It would’ve been nice to have more to use. Still, not a bad combat system and I did like it.

    The worlds are a bit too big as I stated before. It would’ve been nice to have them cut off about an hour of content in the worlds. Some of them felt too open for their own good and the pacing hurt because of it. While this is a weird request but I feel if they had done this they could’ve expanded on the worlds that actually were too short.

    All and all, the pacing is pretty bad, the combat is easy but is it worth it? Yeah. It’s fun. That’s what’s important. It’s a good game, it’s just not the best in the series. If you’re a fan, play it. If you’re not, this won’t change your mind. If you never played a KH game before? I’d recommend playing a few and then checking this one out.

    All and all, it’s in a weird place review wise. It’s closer to a 7.5 than an actual 7 but still, it could’ve been better, but I don’t’ regret my purchase. I did enjoy it despite its flaws.    … Expand
  6. Donut_Addict
    Mar 8, 2019
    4
    This game feels like a game that no one wanted to make. While the entire kingdom hearts storyline is confusing on its own to end things like this feels more like a push to remove older fans to bring in the newer fans.

    In KH1 and KH2 you traveled to a bunch of Disney worlds to fight of the ever increasing threat of the heartless. This spans multiple games and each one had a unique story    This game feels like a game that no one wanted to make. While the entire kingdom hearts storyline is confusing on its own to end things like this feels more like a push to remove older fans to bring in the newer fans.

    In KH1 and KH2 you traveled to a bunch of Disney worlds to fight of the ever increasing threat of the heartless. This spans multiple games and each one had a unique story with some of them following the story of the movie (In KH2) in KH3 they continue to follow this formula but do so in a way that seems to ignore Sora. I felt as though the game wanted to showcase the best that Disney has to offer, but by making sure they and only they can be in the spotlight.

    The gameplay itself is the most refined part of the game with fighting feeling really good and whacking bad guys over the head feeling even better. I just never felt a good reason to be doing it. The story was lackluster, the character's motives were dull, the music and voice acting all took a huge nose dive.

    I started this review by saying this feels like a game no one wanted to make. The absence of squareenix characters seems to make this more of a Disney project than a combination of Square and Disney. It just didn't complete the experience that many people were waiting for it. They gave us a decade of backstory and build-up to end with this that feels more like "Your time is up. Make way for the new." This is idea is even reflected in the games when Disney classics are basically trying to be pushed away and out of the spotlight for the new ones like Frozen and Tangled (two of the worst worlds because of issues earlier stated.)

    This game accomplished what the greatest threat in the game series has been trying to do this entire time.

    Kingdom Hearts 3 is heartless.    … Expand
  7. Trillidan
    Mar 8, 2019
    3
    Speaking objectively, as a non fanboy, I appreciated the looks and the smoothness of play within the game. I played the original Kingdom Hearts back in the day, skipping every other Kingdom Hearts game between the first and this one - the third. So, I was excited for this third game expecting that in the year 2019, that the game would be bigger and better than the original released 17Speaking objectively, as a non fanboy, I appreciated the looks and the smoothness of play within the game. I played the original Kingdom Hearts back in the day, skipping every other Kingdom Hearts game between the first and this one - the third. So, I was excited for this third game expecting that in the year 2019, that the game would be bigger and better than the original released 17 years ago - nope.

    First issue, was the story. How stupid and convoluted was this moronic story? Extremely. It's a joke. The voice acting is subpar, and every cutscene is cringy, with awkward pauses between speaking characters. I literally had to skip every single cutscene. Not to mention the loading screens... Then they just cram every boss battle at the end of the game, so that you literally fight everyone of these guys clones, one after the other, killing them one by one. Why introduce these characters, building them, only to remove them in the most anticlimactic way?

    Second, was the choice of worlds, and how short the overall game is. There is really just eight full worlds, with them being Olympus, Twilight Town, Toy Box, Kingdom of Corona, Monstropolis, Arendelle, The Caribbean, and San Francisco. It's amazing that with all the Disney stories they had access to, these are the places they chose.

    The game just feels so much shallower than the first game, and to be sure of this, I went back and played the first game to see if it was maybe nostalgia, and perhaps I was mistaken, nope. In the original game there were no less than 13 worlds - Destiny Island, Traverse Town, Wonderland, Olympus Coliseum, Deep Jungle, Agrabah, Monstro, Halloween Town, Atlantica, Neverland, and Hollow Bastion.

    Anyways, I'd save my money until it's time for a sale. I wouldn't play for than $30 for this game. It's too late for me, but perhaps I can save you some disappointment, and at least $30.    … Expand
  8. RedLOL
    Jul 14, 2019
    7
    Kingdom Hearts III is a beautiful and fun game to play.
    Maps are bigger than ever, the cutscenes look amazing and the combat is outstanding.
    But when compared to the previous main titles, it clearly lacks heart. It lacks moments that make you feel related to any character at all. This review will talk about three main topics: - The gameplay. - The audiovisual aspects. - The story. -    Kingdom Hearts III is a beautiful and fun game to play.
    Maps are bigger than ever, the cutscenes look amazing and the combat is outstanding.
    But when compared to the previous main titles, it clearly lacks heart. It lacks moments that make you feel related to any character at all.
    This review will talk about three main topics:
    - The gameplay.
    - The audiovisual aspects.
    - The story.
    - The game design.

    -- Gameplay --
    Kingdom Hearts III's gameplay is basically one of its brightest spot, in my opinion. However, it still presents critical flaws. The main flaw is that the combat is way too fast paced to be considered enjoyable. The game experience is about button mashing and doesn't take any strategy at all. Critical mode came up to help by bringing difficulty to the game (proud was way too easy), but it feels like every victory is pretty much random, that I got lucky I didn't get hit by any of the speed-o-light attacks.

    -- The audiovisual aspects --
    Utada Hikaru did another outstanding, wonderful job once more. Delightfully satisfied with their performance on songs. Graphics seems good, but not so good considering today's (and maybe all-time Square's) standard. But what bothered me the most is that Sora's voice actor, Haley Joel Osment, sounds younger than he did in Kingdom Hearts II.

    -- The story --
    Kingdom Hearts III's story is the second worst aspect of the game, according to this review. Most of the game seems hollow. Important characters's complex stories are solved in plain 20 minutes of cutscenes and 5 of gameplay. The only good things about the story is the end of the game, which is not really that good considering 10+ years of story comes down to 1 hour of solution; and that Donald and Goofy are way more participating this time, joining Sora in every moment, be it critical or not, along the story.

    -- The game design --
    And we've just arrived at the worst aspect of the game. Twilight Town, once a super important world that showed up in Kingdom Hearts II, is now a mere short, quick place you don't get to interact much with. Actually, there's a lot of places you don't get to interact much with in Kingdom Hearts III. For example, you have a huge Port Royal in this game. The whole town is in the game, and it looks amazing! But all you have to do there is to collect some crabs. Seriously, I wanted to do way more than collecting crabs.
    In Kingdom Hearts III, you have no sense of growth at all. Sora starts overpowered, jumping and spinning around like a Dark Souls III boss, and, at the end of the game, Sora is still overpowered with some few really new stuff. I got myself thinking that Sora would do just fine to go to the end of the game just the way he was in the beginning of the game. Kingdom Hearts II starts with a simple and slow 3-hit combo and finishes with combos that makes you think "Hey, I grew up from this game!", but this feeling is completely absent on this game.

    -- Verdict --
    Kingdom Hearts III is a good game, but a huge letdown for long dated fans of the series. It seems good and it feels average to play, but it can't touch hearts. It's not a game I'd feel joy to play through it again.
    7.4/10.    … Expand
  9. vexiolator
    Jun 25, 2019
    1
    Graphics: outstanding (the only thing that's good about this game!)

    Gameplay: floaty, not engaging at all, too "easy" with mindless button mashing even on highest difficulty setting. Story: absurd, MC doesn't serve any purpose in the Disney worlds. The storytelling people pay ludicrous amount of money for starts only after roughly 20 hours! What they had to do was just upgrade KH2 with    Graphics: outstanding (the only thing that's good about this game!)

    Gameplay: floaty, not engaging at all, too "easy" with mindless button mashing even on highest difficulty setting.

    Story: absurd, MC doesn't serve any purpose in the Disney worlds. The storytelling people pay ludicrous amount of money for starts only after roughly 20 hours!

    What they had to do was just upgrade KH2 with better graphics and insert more story. Yet they decided to make the battle mechanics even more confusing and completely remove FF characters as if they and their worlds never existed in the KH universe. Totally disappointed with this garbage.    … Expand
  10. 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!
  11. 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
  12. Criticzuck19
    Jan 29, 2019
    6
    Going into this, I was hoping that I could finally get it. FINALLY I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LOVE THE SERIES SO MUCH! But wait.. I don't really care about final fantasy characters.. and wait.. I don't really care for Disney much either.. and wait.. I haven't liked a single kingdom hearts game to this day.... Well this is awkward... Anyways.. after finishing KH3, I can officially say IGoing into this, I was hoping that I could finally get it. FINALLY I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LOVE THE SERIES SO MUCH! But wait.. I don't really care about final fantasy characters.. and wait.. I don't really care for Disney much either.. and wait.. I haven't liked a single kingdom hearts game to this day.... Well this is awkward... Anyways.. after finishing KH3, I can officially say I cannot and will not ever care about this series. Is KH3 fun? Sure! Is the story okay if you ignore HOW MANY TIMES THEY GO ON AND ON ABOUT DARKNESS AND HEARTS?! NO! The story is a convoluted mess no matter how you choose to convince or receive it. Good luck hearing about any of the characters because it's almost as if they don't want you to care about them. Always being wrapped in a convoluted mess of a lore and story / world building. It's frankly a mess. The combat while fun gets mundane, you won't ever care about the next cutscene because... "Wait.. what's going on?? And why???" O.o
    For fans of the series, hey more power to you, but I can't say I'm here for the party. I'm just here to wait till I can sell it for a decent chunk of coin. Sorry, SE. Hearts, darkness, hearts, darkness, hearts, darkness, hearts, darkness, hearts, darkness, Disney, hearts, darkness, hearts, darkness, hearts, Disney, darkness, hearts, darkness, hearts, darkness, hearts, darkness... The end.    … Expand
  13. bothersomeboy
    Mar 4, 2019
    0
    The biggest disappointment of all time. I wish I could rate it lower. Nomura released this game unfinished. He rushed it out for a quick buck and it shows. It's lacking content the previous games had. The story has plot holes big enough to drive a bus through. I cannot believe I waited 13 years for this. This was a middle finger to everyone who has ever enjoyed a KH game.
  14. Keizert
    Feb 24, 2019
    7
    Kingdom Hearts 3 is the latest installment in the Glover franchise, where you play as Glover.
  15. Trunks252
    Feb 13, 2019
    7
    Kingdom Hearts III is a good game. I can't say it's great or even satisfying, though.

    In my eyes, the first game is almost perfect. It had a simple story, strategic combat, and was a stunning crossover effort that worked against all odds. KH II and BBS were a step down, but still great games. Everything else...well, let's just say they lost touch with what worked so well in the first    Kingdom Hearts III is a good game. I can't say it's great or even satisfying, though.

    In my eyes, the first game is almost perfect. It had a simple story, strategic combat, and was a stunning crossover effort that worked against all odds. KH II and BBS were a step down, but still great games. Everything else...well, let's just say they lost touch with what worked so well in the first game.

    I actually have a lot of praise to throw at this game; most notably the beautiful visuals. Stunning is a good description, and one I would have used often. The game also ran amazingly well and felt very smooth. Basically every technical aspect of this game was very well done. Music and sound is top notch, as always.

    The gameplay was mostly fun, although combat had issues. Calling it a 'button-masher' would be too harsh, I think. But I got that vibe. The forms and keyblade designs from the main worlds were rather disappointing, too. I miss the Valor, Wisdom, Master type transformations from the second game. I also had issues with the Frozen and Monsters Inc. worlds, which were underdeveloped and a little boring. I will soon be starting the end-game content, which looks promising.

    The story, as convoluted and weird as it was, actually came to a mostly-complete conclusion. Every character received their moment, and all sub-plots I could remember were wrapped up in a neat bow. Unfortunately, these moments all happened within a couple of hours and weren't given enough time to gel, so the impact on me was minimal. In fact, the entire end portion of the game felt rushed and often focused on pointless sections instead of giving me more neat battles or plot-payoff. Basically what I want from future games is a much simpler plot. These characters are great...just do something less convoluted with them. I mean, this is Disney. What would be wrong with going back to a classic good vs. evil plot?

    Also, I want Star Wars, Marvel, and Square worlds in the next one. I can dream, I guess.

    To sum up, I think this game is good. Definitely worth playing. But...not completely satisfying for a final installment in a story-arc. Final Fantasy is missing altogether, as are several game modes or side quests I thought were obvious (arena or Sephiroth battle?). Overall though, I would recommend this game. Just keep the expectations in check.    … Expand
  16. Kenmei
    Feb 11, 2019
    5
    I feel like people are viewing this game with nostalgia-tinted glasses and are glossing over some major problems that came about with it. Firstly, the story is convoluted at best, and horribly written and paced at worst. Just because you played the game when you were younger and had great memories of the first two games in the series, doesn't mean that the game itself is super hard toI feel like people are viewing this game with nostalgia-tinted glasses and are glossing over some major problems that came about with it. Firstly, the story is convoluted at best, and horribly written and paced at worst. Just because you played the game when you were younger and had great memories of the first two games in the series, doesn't mean that the game itself is super hard to follow and, even the most diligent of KH fans who have played all the games that came out between 2 and 3, have to admit that the story is extremely hard to understand. And the stuff that is easy to figure out are very bland. There's so much content that the story has tried to force down your throat that anyone who claims they know what they're talking about with this game without having done a masters course about it, are probably lying. It doesn't help that Sora is about a dumb as a bag of rocks, and he makes it hard to root for him. This game has the same problem that I had with a few of the Tales games recently in that just because the main characters spout about love and friendship literally every conversation, doesn't mean they have a lot of depth and are fun to root for.
    I'd say the most redeeming quality the game has is the combat system that is fluid and fun, even though changing from attack to magic is a bit tedious. It's still the fun action-RPG style that I remember from KH 2, even if a few of the mechanics from that game were taken out of this one. I wouldn't say this does enough to save the game though.
    I'd say a lot of people will feel obligated to finish this game based on their history with it, not realizing that there were 3-4 full length games that were relased between 2 and 3 and have no idea what is going on at the beginning of this game. Just because people may feel like nostalgia pushed them towards playing this, doesn't mean it has the same magic that the first two did. Its a shame that the series ends on a very cookie cutter ending, stuff you could have seen coming from a mile away. Its, frankly, not a well written story and did nothing to draw me in. My play-though just consisted of me trying to get through it because I felt I needed to finish it after having waited 13 years since KH 2. However, my fun factor was severely lessened by how bad the story ended up being in the end. I'd say the biggest factor I'd say to people looking to play this is not to let nostalgia dictate how much fun you have with this. It's certainly not up to the quality I would have hoped to see here from this last game in this long running series.    … Expand
  17. SilverStone
    Feb 14, 2019
    0
    As a die hard KH fan. Let me tell you this.

    It's a 30 hour game. 28 hours are Disney. 2 Hours are Kingdom Hearts. Without ANY kingdom hearts charm in them.

    DISNEY SIMULATOR 2019
  18. spizer511
    Feb 7, 2019
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So I beat the game a few days ago, clocking in at just over 28 hours. And that was even with several hours spent running around doing random side quests on previous worlds and/or galavanting in the much improved gummi ship experience.

    I enjoyed the game. Most of my gripes come from the quality bar set by such amazing titles as the Dragon Age series, Horizon Zero Dawn, Noir, etc. Where much like KH3 these titles were in production for 6+ years and the amount/quality of game they pulled off in such time was simply breathtaking. KH3? Again. I enjoyed, but compared to these other titles it is/was woefully found lacking.

    Prepare for the game:
    Either replay all the prior games or find a good 30 minute summary on Youtube. You'll appreciate about 90% more of the game that way.

    Pros:
    - The game knows how to make fun of itself.
    - If you enjoyed the other games, you will enjoy this game.
    - Every character and scene is drastically improved with the new implementation in the Unreal engine.
    - Only 10% of the cutscenes appear to be pre-rendered in lieu of using the in-game models.
    - Battle system allows for as much or as little strategy a you feel like. Though, get used to blocking and counter-attacking if you hope to be prepared for the final boss.
    - Donald and Goofy in battle appear in their most competent form to date!
    - Most of the worlds feel HUGE. And this is mostly a good thing, with only a few exceptions.
    - Zipper-fetish is still strong in the series.
    - Moogles are still adorable.
    - Little Chef is cute.
    - Theme parks rides are kinda fun.
    - Simba rules.
    - Customizing your shortcuts is KING.
    - My Gummiship featured a Shiba Inu and then a Corgi... **** win, mate. :D
    - Dialogue entirely voice-acted!
    - Some of the non-original voice actors are spot on!
    - Cutscenes are skippable... Which is good because.

    Cons:
    - Half of the game is cutscenes and not game play.
    - You have to listen and watch segments of the Frozen soundtrack (Which, if you look up interviews, you will find that the directors of the game thought would be a great thing that fans would want...). But don't forget, you CAN skip them.
    - The cutscenes that happen in-world have almost nothing to do with the plot of the overarching game. Which would be fine, except...
    - The agency feels forced. You show up, bad guys are being bad. You help the good guys out... And in return... Get a keychain for your keyblade (which isn't a part of the story, it just kinda happens). Beyond that? You learn more about the expanded definition of "heart", "love", and what they mean.
    - The cut scenes suffer from the same awkward pacing and weird pantomime caricatures as the rest of the series.
    - Several times throughout the game, the cutscene dialogue is... awkward. "Sora. Donald Goofy."
    - Many of the characters feel poorly representative when compared to the source material.
    - Some of the voices are just, just awful. I'm looking at you Mickey and you Xehanort (RIP Leanord Nemoy, they couldn't replace you).
    - And Pirates of the Caribbean which is... Kinda terrible on all fronts. I did enjoy the variety of the underwater battles, but everything else, including the cardboard cut outs of the characters felt poorly executed. What do you mean you haven't recently seen the movie that came out in May of 2007?
    - They did as little as humanly possible with Big Hero 6.
    - Plot devices/holes such as Replicas and Time Travel... Except for when it's inconvenient and you just need a character there.
    - Kairi is still 1 dimensional, but really important for some reason.
    - Sora has not matured at all from the first kingdom hearts, he's simply more powerful. His parents, er... Buddies, Donald and Goofy constantly have to correct him in the same manner as KH1.
    - There are references to FF characters, but aside from the Moogle? Not a single NPC pops up. No Cloud. No Yuffie. No Waka. No Sephiroth.
    - The backstory lore included with the game is woefully inadequate. If you have nothing else, it'll be just barely enough. Ultimately though, the game goes so far as to suggest to you just before the "final dungeon" that you should use your in-game "gummi phone" to read up on all these dozens of characters who've been thrust upon you... Ya know, in case you didn't spend hundred of hours replaying Kingdom Hearts - 1.5, 2.5, BbS, 358/2 Days, 3D and Re:Coded.
    - Kingdom Hearts, the entity is still... Murky in definition. There's been several iterations formed by different things (some are the hearts of people, the main one... I think. Is made up of the hearts of the worlds (aka anything that supports life that isn't people), and at the end of the day the one thing you can really accept it as being is "a vast source of power."

    Lesson:
    Play it for a good time, for nostalgia, and to enjoy the beautiful new graphics. Though as with the other games, do not play as a drinking game (using the words "heart" or "darkness" as a prompt will likely land you in a hospital).    … Expand
  19. ziv741
    Feb 14, 2019
    6
    As a fan of KH series this game is a big disappointment

    -The game is too easy even on the hardest difficulty -There are no Final Fantasy characters -Only two original worlds (and Twilight town is even smaller than in KH2) -Combat is just broken all you have to do is press X to win -There are no secret bosses or anything like the coliseum only boring mini games -Too many boring mini    As a fan of KH series this game is a big disappointment

    -The game is too easy even on the hardest difficulty
    -There are no Final Fantasy characters
    -Only two original worlds (and Twilight town is even smaller than in KH2)
    -Combat is just broken all you have to do is press X to win
    -There are no secret bosses or anything like the coliseum only boring mini games
    -Too many boring mini games that no one is going to play
    -There's nothing to do after you've finished the story

    6/10    … Expand
  20. jaredwallace91
    Feb 9, 2019
    5
    This game is a mess. No new features or updated graphics really justify the long wait for the game. It plays like a game from 2010. Fortunately, I don't play Kingdom Hearts just for the gameplay, but for the story instead. Unfortunately, the worlds that take up 3/4 of the game add absolutely nothing significant to the story. Even worse, each world is bogged down by hours of cutscenes, I'mThis game is a mess. No new features or updated graphics really justify the long wait for the game. It plays like a game from 2010. Fortunately, I don't play Kingdom Hearts just for the gameplay, but for the story instead. Unfortunately, the worlds that take up 3/4 of the game add absolutely nothing significant to the story. Even worse, each world is bogged down by hours of cutscenes, I'm left wondering why there is even gameplay at all

    Nostalgia goggles are mostly driving the fun experiences I have while playing. If I were a new player to the series, I would have serious doubts about my decision to play this game.    … Expand
  21. flowergirl4151
    Feb 12, 2019
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Kingdom Hearts 3 is decent, not good, but mediocre at best. Why do I say this?
    - Game is a breeze through (even on Proud Mode)
    - Lack of Final Fantasy Characters
    - Floaty Combat (KH 2 and KH1 was not like this)
    - Twilight Town is smaller than KH2's version.
    - 90% of the soundtrack has been re used with only a few original songs they made.
    - Broken and Overpowered Disney Attraction ride attacks. Way too flashy and annoying.
    - Voice Acting is bad. There seems to be a pause every time the characters talk to each other.. not to mention the constant anime sounds these characters make which is also extremely uncalled for. The character Riku, now sounds like a robot whenever he speaks. It's just really terrible since the voice actors have a lot more potential, but the script they are given forces them to talk like that.
    - Confusing story that created a whole bunch of more plot holes.
    - Not to mention the ending was terrible and unsatisfying.
    - Kairi's character is still poorly developed. She was training throughout the entire game only to be captured and then murdered by Master Xehanort. If you couldn't tell, she's basically the "Damsel in Distress" throughout the entire KH series. It just shows that Nourma had no idea what to do with her character.
    - No motives for why the baddies are evil in the first place. But when you defeat them, they turn into good guys and are simply "misunderstood". The game tries to make you feel bad and feel sympathetic for the characters despite committing mass genocide in worlds.
    - Trailers pretty much spoiled most of the intense parts.. so it really lost that feeling of dread around the end of the game.

    5 years for this? I love the Kingdom Hearts Franchise but this one feels like it just doesn't belong. Hopefully Kingdom Hearts 4 will fix most of these problems.. but seeing this... it may not ever return back to it's roots as it once was.    … Expand
  22. Thilus
    Apr 7, 2019
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Unfortunately, this is not the game I've been all waiting for. It's still Kingdom Hearts, but there are many things that make it less than what I expected.

    First of all, the gameplay feels dated. It's very similar to Kingdom Hears 2, but KH2 was released in 2005, and games have changed since then. A lot.
    Secondly, the pacing is dreadful. The game plays very slow (though it's rather short at 30-35 hours), and truth be told nothing worthwhile happens for the first number of hours. As Sora we visit some worlds, but it feels pointless. The visits don't seem connected to the main plot apart from the fact the Organization wants to gather 7 princesses of light to counterbalance the 13 darknesses and... that's it. Going through each level is mostly tedious. In the meantime there's a bunch of cinematics that bring nothing new to the table in terms of plot.
    Thirdly, the combat system is both dreadfully dated and incredibly easy. I feel like the game plays itself. I had absolutely no trouble with any fight, and I'm really bad with the controller.
    Last but not least, the fact that I coudn't save the game whenever I wanted to triggered me a little. Why? Because the periods between the save points can be really long. At one point I wanted to stop playing, but I had to watch a cinematic, then there was an action scene, then there was another cinematic, and then another action scene - with no save points. I mean, WTF?! I had to spend another half-an-hour with the game before I arrived at a save point. Come on, that's just lazy development.

    All the above-mentioned issues make KH3 a disappointment for me. I've waited so long for this, and what we received is sub-par - a nostalgia trip wrapped in a pretty candy wrapper, but with a sour inside.    … Expand
  23. GoggleCandy
    Feb 21, 2019
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A half-baked cash in that feels like a rushed mess in order to clean up all the story arcs over 10 years in order to make a new series of games. The charm is gone, the fun combat is gone and replaced with pressing X until the next amusement park ride shows up. Oh, and thanks for an Ice Labyrinth that means nothing and is literal padding instead of say exploring the environments of Frozen. Glad Kairi got to be a true keyblade hero and showed your trained skil-oh. Nevermind. Dead for the sake of weak story necessity. I'm beyond disappointed in this 'final entry'.… Expand
  24. prevbean
    Feb 23, 2019
    0
    First let me say this game came out wayyyyy too late. KH2 came out in what 2005? So now you have all these spin off games leading up till now that the majority of people didn't care about making the story a complete mess.
    I miss having the mystique of having Final Fantasy characters in the game yet they're absent from this game? I mean come one that was one of the factors drawing people    First let me say this game came out wayyyyy too late. KH2 came out in what 2005? So now you have all these spin off games leading up till now that the majority of people didn't care about making the story a complete mess.
    I miss having the mystique of having Final Fantasy characters in the game yet they're absent from this game? I mean come one that was one of the factors drawing people to the series in the first place, I don't care if they had too many characters already in the game get rid of some of the disney crap.
    The game doesn't have any charm as 1 or 2 and people giving this a 10 are what's ruining the game industry these days.    … Expand
  25. SexyMango
    Feb 1, 2019
    4
    This last chapter Is just really underwhelming, the dialogue is cringy and the acting less then uninspired, especially the non-Disney bits. The audio is sub par with sometimes characters talking for minutes with no background sound effects or music. And the cutscenes .... every 30 seconds a cutscene lasting forever. I’m getting MGSIV flashbacks.

    The costumes and items you get are again,    This last chapter Is just really underwhelming, the dialogue is cringy and the acting less then uninspired, especially the non-Disney bits. The audio is sub par with sometimes characters talking for minutes with no background sound effects or music. And the cutscenes .... every 30 seconds a cutscene lasting forever. I’m getting MGSIV flashbacks.

    The costumes and items you get are again, very uninspired. Who approved the toy story skins?

    The enemies are out of place. In the last main games they were following a theme. You go the Agrabah, all the heartless are going to be Arab looking and using fire or something like that, you go to visit Jack Skeleton and the monsters are all spooky and **** KH3 just keeps throwing random **** at you 80% of the times.

    And the worlds ? They are just tunnels for you to pass through and never look back. No place you cannot reach without a new ability or some thinking. Even opening the chests feel like a letdown... both in appearance and content... great, other items that I will never use since the game is way to easy.

    The gummy-ship mini game that is forced upon you every time you want to reach a new location , while not my favourite bit in the past, now is just a tedious mess. The couldn’t have used a worse perspective for it even if they tried. You have no idea how distant the bullets are from your ship but again, just keep going up and down randomly and you can proceed, no skills involved.

    Most of all there isn’t enough Disney.

    And lastly, I think the new art style is just bad compared to the old, hand painted one. Sure, you didn’t get fancy lights and shaders but if you play the remasters they still look fine after many years and they are still quite charming. This one is already looking less the ideal at times, like Mickey Mouse face looking like a cheap 3D cartoon made for the Tv

    Sorry for the wall of text but no of my friends play games and I needed to vent    … Expand
  26. JustMangel
    Feb 17, 2019
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Antes de empezar a hablar del juego, quiero aclarar que he jugado a todos los anteriores (salvo los que solo estaban disponibles en consola portatil, aunque haya visto esa parte de la historia en videos)

    SPOILERS

    Lo positivo
    -Banda sonora: un KH sin buena banda sonora no es nada. Esta no es una excepción, aunque personalmente me quedo con la del KH2 (mi favorito de la saga)

    -Graficos: sinceramente, son unos graficos increibles, disfrutables aún más en una PS4 Pro. Es un juego nítido y el gran contraste entre personajes propios de la saga y los de disney se ha desvanecido.

    Mundos: hay gente que se ha quejado de este aspecto pero a mí por lo personal me ha agradado mucho. Hay mundos que no me han gustado mucho (como Frozen) pero de otros me han parecido muy interesantes y curiosos (Toy Story, en especial los juguetes)

    Nuevas dinamicas: el hecho de poder correr por las paredes, poder realizar diferentes combos y la facilidad de cambiar entre llaves espada y preajustes (magia, objetos, vínculos) me han parecido interesantes.

    Negativo
    -Dificultad: Este punto va de la mano con el siguiente, pero creo que es mejor separarlos. Sinceramente me ha decepcionado la facilidad del juego. Salvo alguna vez puntual (sobretodo al usar la antiforma sin querer y teniendo a Donald muerto) y en el jefe final, no he muerto ni una vez, pese a tener la máxima dificultad, yendo a un nivel inferior al recomendado del mundo y finalizando el juego al nivel 37. Me suena haber leido algo relacionado con que, los sincorazones y demás enemigos básicos no iban a ser tan faciles de derrotar como otras y, pese a que aumentan, tambien aumenta el arsenal de ataques. Y es que, cada 2 ataques, te sale o un comando de atracción, o un comando de Donald o Goofy o un comando de los personajes del mundo (en mundos como Toy Story luchas 5 personajes, algo excesivo).

    -Infantil: Y es que, pese a ser un juego con nuestros ídolos de la infancia, es un juego demasiado infantil, hasta el punto que da rabia (el momento de buscar a Olaf es insoportable). Si habeis jugado al juego, seguro que la frase "There might be some ingredients around here" de Donald la tendreis taladrada.

    -"Desarollo" de los personajes: Lo pongo entre comitas porque es insultante decir que hay una evolución. De hecho, salvo Sora y alguno más, los demás no se desarollan en absoluto. El ejemplo perfecto es Kairi. Tanto en el KH2 como en el KH3 da indicios de que quiere luchar, no depender de Sora siempre, algo que es bueno, ya que no solo daría algo de interés a un personaje que es más plano que una tabla de planchar y que su razón de existir es que está enamorada del personaje principal, si no que daría un referente femenino en una industria en la cual cada vez más mujeres pueden sentirse orgullosas de poder sentirse integradas. El resumen de su participación es, un par de escenas con Lea/Axel (alguna emotiva como la que le recuerda a Xion), estar entrenando durante mucho tiempo para que al final no derrote a ningún enemigo (ni siquiera a un mero sincorazón básico) y que Xemnas la rapte, para que luego Sora se sacrifique para rescatarla. Los demás personajes son o bien un carismático enemigo convertido en heroe para pasar a ser un peón payaso en KH3 (Lea/Axel), alguien que tenía encanto y ser intigrante según muchos a ser alguien plano y aburrido (Riku), o bien alguien que no varía ni un matiz ni cambia durante la saga (Aqua, Ventus, Mickey...)

    -Villanos: Simplemente son rídiculos. Xehanort es el ejemplo perfecto para ilustrar este punto. Aparece, le derrotas, revive, vuelve a aparecer, muere.... A más a más, sus motivos para ser los malos son estupidos. Salvo Xemnas en KH2, los demás son malos por curiosidad o por conveniencia del juego. Y eso por no hablar del refrito de otros villanos de la organización XIII.

    -Historia: Pese a que la historia de esta saga es simple, es adictiva. Luz contra oscuridad, buenos contra malos, el clasico duelo. El caso es que el final de este no me provocó nada. Me emocionó más ver a Xion, Roxas y Axel/Lea en la torre que ver a Kairi llorando por Sora. Y es que intentan venderte un final mediocre que, si se hubiese hecho trágico, la saga ganaría mucho más. Pero no. Ponen a todos felices salvo en un segundo donde miran a Kairi llorando. Llamadme simple, pero yo preferiría o un final feliz ( sin Sora muriendo ) o un final donde todos lamentasen el fallecimiento de este (aunque seguro que revivirá sabiendo como funciona esta saga, más aún tras lo visto en el final secreto).

    -Desaprovechado: El resumen perfecto para mí es este. Usan mecanicas como las de Riku y Aqua para una batalla, los personajes no interactuan antes de la batalla final, y juntan 3 jefes en un combate cuando, si los hubiesen puesto por separado después o antes de juntarlos sería mas entretenido.

    Lo recomiendo solo para los fans hardcore, no para alguien nuevo a la saga.    … Expand
  27. IFeelScammed
    Feb 12, 2019
    0
    A complete and utter mess of a game.
    I loved KH1 and KH2 - never bothered playing the others after it because they weren't that good and were just milking the franchise.
    Would have preferred a continuation from the second KH game, but no it's a convoluted story thanks to the abundance of stupid additions from these worthless other titles that shouldn't even be considered canon.    A complete and utter mess of a game.
    I loved KH1 and KH2 - never bothered playing the others after it because they weren't that good and were just milking the franchise.
    Would have preferred a continuation from the second KH game, but no it's a convoluted story thanks to the abundance of stupid additions from these worthless other titles that shouldn't even be considered canon.

    Gameplay mechanics have been dumbed down for little kids. Even proud mode is still easy, all it does is increase HP and dmg values of enemies. Spamming abilities that most of the time have no relation to the environment/world they're in. Only world that does this is Toy Story with the rocket...

    The worlds are less in number, most of their stories are really shallow and rehashed - poorly executed scripts and voice acting included. At one point I was laughing at Jack Sparrow's performance and facial animation - it was just too awful to take seriously.

    This game is simply overhyped trash dumpster fire, and hardcore fans are going to dribble and drool over it because they're a bunch of biased SJW white knights. We all know Disney told Square Enix what to do, Disney is completely out of touch with everything now and Square Enix hasn't made a good game in years... so I don't know why I was expecting anything good to come out of this.

    Vote this down if you want, you're part of the problem though. These games are bad because you rate them high and give them money. It's really sad to see the entertainment industry fall further and further from their roots.    … Expand
  28. BusyOrc
    Feb 14, 2019
    6
    This game isnt bad, but its disappointing. It tries so many new things to be like other games and ends up failing at it. It was fine with its combat but often than not you summon a disney ride by accident.
    The story is all over the place, I was glad to hear some context to the story but it got to the point where ot was just asinine.
    At the beginning I expected it to be corny and campy,    This game isnt bad, but its disappointing. It tries so many new things to be like other games and ends up failing at it. It was fine with its combat but often than not you summon a disney ride by accident.
    The story is all over the place, I was glad to hear some context to the story but it got to the point where ot was just asinine.
    At the beginning I expected it to be corny and campy, but this game took it on a whole new level. It was to a point where it was just creepy.
    The story isnt really complicated, its just a mess putting it together in this game. Graphics are good and so is the music. I had some gliches here and there like I was able to glide before I was supposed too.
    Overall if you were someone who just picked this game up and were under the age of 15 you would enjoy it, if you are over you would have to be poorly educated not to see the flaws in this game. The game feels like it was done with the idea "eh good enough" rather than the team putting their hearts into it.    … Expand
  29. Failbell
    Feb 10, 2019
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Frankly this doesn't hold a candle to the previous mainline titles of the series, and perhaps, it doesn't hold well even against the mobile spins-off either. There are plenty parts of the game that look fantastic. In fact, I would say the overall combat and look is definitely an improvement. That sadly is about as good as it gets.

    Pros:
    - Graphics are fantastic.
    - The Gummi ship system.
    - Overall Combat.
    - The final boss was fun.
    - Music is nice as always.
    - Keyblade transformations were a good improvement from form drives.

    Cons
    - Game was too easy on Proud mode even for casual players.
    - Post game content is basically non-existent. Only 1 secret boss.
    - Serious frame drops even during bosses.
    - Story pacing was terrible. Most gets "wrapped up"(use that phrase very lightly) in the last hour.
    - Many main characters could have had zero screen time, and the plot would have never changed.
    - Attractions are frankly unneeded. I admire the attempt though to try a new formula.
    - A couple of the "worlds" like Twilight Town and 100 Acre Woods could have been removed without consequence. They both are missing 90% of their worlds from previous titles.
    - The villains are more like set pieces or background noise in all the worlds minus the final world.
    - Multiple plot points just left unanswered for certain worlds.
    - No Final Fantasy characters. They would have gotten rid of Moogles, if it wasn't already known as the shop owners.
    - The "black box" was never once answered.
    - Maleficent and Pete both make appearances. Could have been cut, and not a single thing would have changed.
    - The final world introduces the 13th darkness, whom basically shows the scale of power that everyone on the good side has. Which is nothing apparently. Basically everyone gets wrecked in about a 2-3 minute cutscene. Same person then gets beaten in an easy boss fight after a couple deus ex occurs without any context/explanation at all.
    -The final world is just a bunch of deus ex machinas.
    -The other "heros" literally do nothing for 98% of the game.

    Basically I hate to say this, but buy this game when it is at $30 or less. Kingdom hearts 3 did not feel complete, but instead It feels like everything was rushed, and they never play tested their boss fights. I sadly rate this game 5/10 for a game that felt like someone who made a rough draft and hit print instead of polishing it up. The entire time will feel like did anyone try to read the script to check for mistakes?    … Expand
  30. bladex
    Feb 3, 2019
    5
    you can sum this game into 3 words DISAPPOINTING AND SHORT!

    after all these years waiting and what do we get treated with? terrible combat, under 10 worlds, pointless game mechanics and a SL of damn cut scenes. it took me literally under a week to finish this that's how short it is! i'll run down why exactly this game fails hard the battles: pretty much button mash and wait for your    you can sum this game into 3 words DISAPPOINTING AND SHORT!

    after all these years waiting and what do we get treated with? terrible combat, under 10 worlds, pointless game mechanics and a SL of damn cut scenes. it took me literally under a week to finish this that's how short it is! i'll run down why exactly this game fails hard

    the battles: pretty much button mash and wait for your power moves than use them that's it.

    pointless game mechanics: don't even bother cooking you don't or will ever need the extra bonuses it gives you.

    if you ever expect to craft the best equips you won't be able to because the game never gives you the gems you need until later when you won't need the gear.

    lame winnie the turd level: don't even know why this is in the game if i wanted to play annoying puzzle games i'll download them on my phone!

    AP is practically given to you: in kh2 you had to strategize what you wanted to spend your AP on which abilities welp not in this you get so much AP and gear that triples it for you that you can have every single ability you want..

    the level design: every level is pretty much the story run until enemies appear , kill them than continue while finding chests along the way. there is hardly any exploration whatsoever. and every level is so damn small you'll just breeze right through them.

    ship building pointless now: what i loved in kh2 was how you can design your own ship in this there are actual hubs you can fly through and you get to choose what shoot em up battles you want to do...but they even managed to stuff that up you see there are these crystals and if you get them all they unlock uber OP ships where how many parts, weapons and other stuff you can have on them don't matter.

    cooking is pointless: you can collect ingredients and do stupid mini games to unlock meals you can eat that give you boosts to your stats...but you'll never need them the game throws so many powerups and abilities at you during battle you pretty much just sit there and push X!

    what i liked
    ==========
    - graphics look great. runs perfect on the PRO
    - toy story level was well designed (pretty much the only decent world in the whole game)
    - was fun exploring the sea in potc level too bad there wasn't more of it.
    - the space hub was a nice touch but felt empty still

    what i hated
    ===========
    - the attractions make it too easy
    - too many team moves that cheese battles
    - your keyblade special moves are too OP
    - the frozen level and it''s lame singing (yes it's in there) thankfully you can skip cut scenes though
    - the sled part in the frozen level
    - the pirate race
    - winnie the turd level and it's lame AF puzzles
    - cooking...waste of time
    - battles pretty much button mash X
    - too many mini game levels
    - too many cut scsnes
    - you never get the gems you need at the right time making crafting annoying.    … Expand
  31. syi
    Feb 2, 2019
    5
    Kingdom hearts 3 is a decent game, but nothing more. the combat is uninspired and criminally easy thanks to the edition of attractions. the story suffers from horrible pacing. This kingdom hearts game is the shortest and has the least amount of content of the mainline series. The only redeeming quality of this game is it's graphic fidelity and the gummiship is fun and interesting now. TheKingdom hearts 3 is a decent game, but nothing more. the combat is uninspired and criminally easy thanks to the edition of attractions. the story suffers from horrible pacing. This kingdom hearts game is the shortest and has the least amount of content of the mainline series. The only redeeming quality of this game is it's graphic fidelity and the gummiship is fun and interesting now. The ending makes no sense in the context of the series and basically amounts to a joke between old friends.… Expand
  32. SSLT00333
    Feb 2, 2019
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First of all I'll be honest after completing the game I have no idea what the story was about ended up just skipping a lot of the later half of the cut scenes they seemed to come along every five minutes and i literally cant remember the other half outside of vague impressions.

    The basic combat is ok you get attractions way to much and the combos a so bland it gets tedious. movement is the worse though Sora is so slow until you get the skill that attracts you to the enemy you are targeting but that doesn't help much.

    The 'worlds' are pathetic outside of the graphics which are well done. they are basically paths for you to go through during the main quest once you've visited once there is pretty much nothing else to see the only exception being he Caribbean but while there a some small islands to explore, you'll only get a couple of chests and an enemy encounter or two.

    You'll see no characters from Final Fantasy, why? because they weren't need to sell copies.

    Really can not think of much else, i will say what there is of the game give the impression that the company just wanted to do the minimum required to get the game to past fans and rely on that to move copies. It seems to have worked as a lot of people seem to love it , not really sure where that is coming from at all.

    To conclude this glorified rant the game is worth buying for like 20-30 pound wouldn't recommend it for any higher. the main issue is the obvious potential wasted because square put the least amount of effort they possibly could with out pissing of fans. The game could have so much more.    … Expand
  33. Caleskaige
    Apr 10, 2019
    6
    Overall boring game. Long and drawn out cutscenes, The characters feel like they are dead inside. The gameplay kept me playing, that's it.
  34. ZivPeri
    May 1, 2019
    5
    For a hard fan of this franchise, who thinks KH 1 & 2 are the best games he ever played, because from many, only those really touched his heart...
    I was really disappointed from this game, will list the pros & cons :
    Pros: - Best graphics ever, Donal, Goofy & actually everyone looks so good , its Amazing - Pixar movies, yeah their in the game and they really get the atmosphere right,    For a hard fan of this franchise, who thinks KH 1 & 2 are the best games he ever played, because from many, only those really touched his heart...
    I was really disappointed from this game, will list the pros & cons :
    Pros:
    - Best graphics ever, Donal, Goofy & actually everyone looks so good , its Amazing
    - Pixar movies, yeah their in the game and they really get the atmosphere right, with the voice actors, the movie's narrative & themes. really nailed that
    - Combat & Characters evolution, Companions has depth , combat has beautiful look & feel
    - Fun to play, character agility & Environment interaction paste are good, flow feels natural
    - Funny, makes you laugh, or at least smile
    - Gummi ship is now in open world , so it's nice addition

    Cons:
    - REALLY flat main plot, lacking the special KH charm
    - Music is so bad & unemotional, just a filler in the BG without any meaning, while previous titles gave meaning to each character & special moments with deep touching themes
    - Characters are overpowered leaving the many abilities not meaningful, unnecessary & unused. in previous titles you wanted to get that firaga spell so you'll get over a special boss fight/challenge
    - Lack of FINAL FANTASY Characters & original worlds. HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT !!!
    - Title became a money maker, the game leaves you with a bad taste of greed, clearly instead of focusing in the KH magic, and giving a closer for 15 years fans, they just tease you for the next title with Sora keep looking a way to get all his friends back together. really shaming !!!
    - Worlds don't have a second coming plot & motivation, you just pass them once and then finish the game.
    - No challenge, i died only twice, once in guumi ship mission, and once in a special world mission when i couldn't figure out the goal in the first time. if you don't die at all in the final act.. then something is wrong here, the game is incomplete
    - Mini games sucks !!!
    - Shaming vintage mini games no one cares about, and even if you'll pay me i won't play them
    - Photo mode & Mobile phone - no one needs this s**t in KH, it only makes the atmosphere weird and out of place. KH used to be story of magic , not tech ...

    The game isn't that bad, and easily worth a 7 score, but for KH fan its an EPIC FAIL !!!
    so my score is 5.

    I'm quitting this franchise for good ...    … Expand
  35. 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.
  36. Melopahn
    Feb 14, 2019
    4
    Story - Oh man, I can’t come up with a proper way to explain how bad this story is! The easiest way to describe it is, this game was never intended to have a story this long when it was first made the writers weren’t expecting to come back a dozen more times with story updates, and it is obvious. The game has a great mechanic for this in the “Disney” franchising as they can just have theStory - Oh man, I can’t come up with a proper way to explain how bad this story is! The easiest way to describe it is, this game was never intended to have a story this long when it was first made the writers weren’t expecting to come back a dozen more times with story updates, and it is obvious. The game has a great mechanic for this in the “Disney” franchising as they can just have the disney element of any given world add a new chunk of story and dialogue that is self contained and will be solved within that same world. The problem with this is that the story is heavily reliant on a movie that many players have probably scene. Its best described by “Video Game Dunkey” as “Watching a Disney movie where someone fast forwards through the story and stops at a few select scenes, but the in game characters tell you what you missed”. Im going to go so far as to say this game is the absolute “Worst Video Game Story Ever”. - Straight up 0/10

    Game Play: Side - We will be splitting this in to two parts, side and main content. For the side content I am talking all things not combat and story involved. The game has a major amount of things to do that come off as mini games or optional events. The returning champion here is the “Gummi” ship, a portion that plays like a starfox style rail shooter in SPACE… Vastly improved from the previous games, this is now a free exploration shooter similar in feel to bring the classic “asteroid” into a modern 3D game. Exploration, leveling, bosses, missions and hidden secrets (not all that secret) it’s more flushed out, but its also “required” if you want the Ultima weapon and a Platinum trophy. I know this will effect some people but im fairly neutral to this, it features the hardest boss fight in the game and is not bad but its just not Kingdom Hearts and it kind of impacted the level of immersion you could feel with the actual game. The smaller side and mini games are vast but not as flushed out. You have; Cooking with Remy from Ratatouille, snowboarding in Arandell, Playing Superman 64 in SanFransokyo (who would try to replicate Superman 64 what were you thinking). Dancing with Rapunzel, Mech combat in Toy Story, bejeweled in 100 acre wood, Sailin the Carribean. They range from tedious to fun with the most personal joy coming from being a pirate and the gummi missions. Sadly they were all a little too easy and had some simplistic and one dimensional mechanics and just lacked substance.

    Game Play: Main -
    No major complaints, it is quite enjoyable, flushed out, and involved despite using almost 2 buttons exclusively. The effects and flow of the combat is nothing to scoff at and many developers are far behind KH3 when it comes to fluid combat. The issue is… it’s too easy. Playing on “Proud”, as hard as it gets, i ran into no combat issues. It wasn’t until the very end i realized i had never died in the game. You have two things that trigger before you die that prevent death and full heal your character. It makes everything just a little too easy. In previous titles there was a plethora of Post game bosses that got quite difficult and even when playing the remakes they stayed hard. Despite this in KH3 there is one secret boss post game and he is a laughably easy event. I clicked through the warning window and came out victorious on my first try with 0 preparation and 30 levels below max level of 99. I wasn’t using the ultimate keyblade and still didn’t even use have to use both of the life saving options the game hands to you. 6/10

    Sound/Music - The majority of the songs are popular Disney songs that you’ve probably heard a billion times. You also have the characters saying the same 2 or 3 lines constantly while exploring and within an hour of being in any zone i resorted to turning the sound off in favor of something less repetitive. The Classical pieces from Square Enix were nice and usually only used for one scene giving some redemption. 3/10

    Level Design/Graphics - Beautiful and flushed out, most every level was a wonder to explore and quite beautiful to look at. The promise of the levels being giant and sprawling seems true at first glance but the mini map dictates to you that it’s not actually much larger than the previous titles and with the update to the speed at which Sora can traverse the levels it ends up coming out pretty equal to KH2 in just how big it actually feels. As a whole this may be the truly best part of the game and i hope the design team gets some praise internally cause their hard work shows and it was worth it. 9/10
    In the end, everything felt unfinished. The vast array of mini games and change ups in game play were ok at first but by the end everything was kind of a let down because there was no challenge or substance. it was like they put everything into expositing the story at you and it just wasn't a good story.    … Expand
  37. hwdstener312
    Feb 15, 2019
    0
    >recycled boss battles;the ice boss is basically scar,and the norts feel almost the same
    >new ragdoll mechanics make the "hard" battles feel like a copy paste of barebones wait and attack
    >all organization bosses come at the end of the game, instead of being consistently delivered like in the previous games >characters interaction , aside from the badies, is bad and bland. ventus and    >recycled boss battles;the ice boss is basically scar,and the norts feel almost the same
    >new ragdoll mechanics make the "hard" battles feel like a copy paste of barebones wait and attack
    >all organization bosses come at the end of the game, instead of being consistently delivered like in the previous games
    >characters interaction , aside from the badies, is bad and bland. ventus and roxas just gaze t each other like for 5 seconds... AND THAT IT. it feels like octopath traveler tier of scam
    >ending is absolute garbage
    >Aqua and Riku got the samus other m treatment: full of insecurities and constant PTSD that feel forced and out of pace
    >the important cut scenes at the climax of the game are stupid, almost everyone stands still while something else happen
    >lack of content and mediocre post game
    >only one optional boss so far, and it is a generic buff heartless with wait and attack kind of boss    … Expand
  38. pokeguy34
    Mar 3, 2019
    0
    Complete and utter trash. Less content than a PS2 game, worlds are largely empty or full or mindless fetch quest filler, reused tons of old music, stupid story that retcons older games, bad floaty combat, extremely easy, not worth the 13 year wait.
  39. DarkCrowI
    Feb 6, 2019
    3
    Too much Disney is the best way I can describe the game, most of the fans of this series are probably in their 20s or 30s and this panders to pre-teens to late-teens, there are almost no worlds compared to previous games, the game is too easy, the cutscenes are too long, the dialogue is painful, and the game feels like several steps backwards.
  40. EddieMaiden
    Feb 14, 2019
    5
    No final fantasy lore at all.
    After 10 years we've all grown up by now, and the cringe and stupid anime story doesn't work anymore.
    There is a lot of work on this game but no sustance.
  41. Luxxes
    Feb 13, 2019
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I made a promise to myself that i would not skip the cut scenes no matter what.
    But sadly, i failed at tangled and Anna's how to build a snow man bit because it was unbearable to watch.
    The dialog was slow and i could not bother to watch a story I already knew. I also hate the fact that there's a HD ier version of Sora like in the 'Let it go' song and some other parts that I could not care to remember.
    Still salty that they did not bother to explain why Roxas looks like Ventus. All they did was make Axel joke about it by saying " Sorry we're late. Had a couple of plot points that needed ironing out"
    And the ending was a disaster. If Nomura wanted to make FF15 then he should just do it. I don't see any reason to bring Sora into this.
    Kairi was useless than ever and the game created more question than they could answer.
    I felt so rip off that I rush my way to getting the Ultima Weapon just to make up for that.
    I still enjoyed the game play even though it was not as challenging like in KH1 or 2 but i could not say the same thing about the disappointing story.    … Expand
  42. Brandondwn
    Feb 19, 2019
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I am not trying to ruin anyone’s view or time with this long awaited game, but overall I was pretty disappointed with Kingdom Hearts 3. Let me start with what I loved.. the game is beautiful! So awesome to see these characters in a better graphical engine. I really enjoyed Keyblade having forms, added bonus attributes and an ultimate attack. The gummi ship stuff is actually worth doing and fun this time around, in the past it’s always been such an annoying thing to rush through to get to the next world, it’s fantastic here. Now.. what I thought was bad. Well the rest of of the game haha. The controls for most of the game are so, so dated up until you get better mobility abilities. Worlds for the most part weren’t fun as they were in the past, they’re cut up in slices or given some half assed version of what came after the original story. Given the large gap in time between games most of the voices aren’t the original people due to contracts, other work and just not wanting to do it again (or ya know being dead! Thanks for taking so long Nomura..) A lot of the world’s feel pointless concerning a goal so it makes the game drag as what you want from III is the original content wrapping up. The end was obviously gonna be predictable, but there’s so much crap you have to go through to get to that point and even characters in the game say stuff that made it seem like a huge waste of THEIR time lol. END stuff, not happy about something that happened to a character, not happy about more vague stuff being thrown in and still some stuff not even being answered (so they can make more games… Expand
  43. N1ghtwing
    Mar 11, 2019
    6
    Kingdom hearts 3 is disappointing in every way. There are three pillars that kingdom hearts has stood on, story combat and music. All three of core tenants don't come anywhere near the previous titles. Of these three the first one you notice being lacking is the music. The opening theme that sets the tone and the anticipation for the journey your about to go on is disjointed and soundsKingdom hearts 3 is disappointing in every way. There are three pillars that kingdom hearts has stood on, story combat and music. All three of core tenants don't come anywhere near the previous titles. Of these three the first one you notice being lacking is the music. The opening theme that sets the tone and the anticipation for the journey your about to go on is disjointed and sounds terrible. There is no soul or passion from it, Utada's stellar vocals are there but they are dragged down by the awful techno music accompanying them. This music does not inspire you and get you desperate to step into this world, it's annoying and you just want it to end. On it's own this theme is heart breaking when compared to the previous opening themes that were some of the greatest songs to grace video games; theirs a reason why kingdom hearts has an orchestra that performs its music. The other background music is not good none of it is memorable; why is frozen the only world that has musical numbers in it? It was weird and subtracted from the enjoyment of the world not add to it. There is still no background music during most cut scenes, it's weirdly quiet.
    Combat is dumber than any of the previous entries in the series by far. Even on proud mode there is no challenge at any point. The previous games in the series were all difficult and challenging in the best way possible. The camera is moved much farther back to try and show the increased scale of the levels but it destroys the close, personal, tight feeling of the combat. You can no longer make out individual characteristics of the different heartless they all look about the same because they're so far away. With that you can't really see any choreographed moves to let you know when an attack is coming from the smaller enemies. Just because there are disney characters in this game doesn't mean its solely for children. The attractions are overpowered get out of jail free cards that go on far to long and don't fit with the gameplay. I would suggest never using them if you can do it. The key blade forms are cool at first but don't hold a candle to the forms of KH2. They reduce your options and remove your ability to guard in most cases, this screams how they don't want it to be about strategy at all. It's all about it being easy and looking cool unearned. You could level up your forms in KH2 which made it addicting to use them as much as possible to make base sora even more powerful, now everything is handed to you. It was possible to miss final form entirely in KH3, now the developers make sure you'll never miss anything. A perfect example of what was and how much worse the combat is now is the rush of heartless battles. Both KH3 and KH2 have them, but KH3 doesn't want you to worry about it or stress over it, it's all for fun and to look cool. There isn't a counter of the impressive amount of heartless that you have to kill in the battle just a health bar of constantly spawning small groups of heartless while your surrounded by cosmetic heartless for the illusion of this being more. You don't even have to kill them on your own the developers don't want you to be overwhelmed and give you an attraction that is a free end this fight button. There is no more strategy in the combat, no more grind, or fun. You smash X until all the bad guys disappear. The game gives you an endless amount of cure usage if you want it, there is a skill that let's you use cure when your mana is recovering. It's worth 0 EXP so it's obviously optional but that's what the difficulty you had the players chose at the beginning is for. I don't want to set a game on the hardest difficulty and see that it's not suppose to be a challenge and if it's too hard you can turn on easy mode at any time.
    The story is also a disappointment, this is spoiler free so don't worry. It tries to bring everything together from the previous entries and it should be commended for that, but it does it horribly in a rushed fashion. Every lingering plot that was made to be a big deal is solved quickly and easily with no lasting impact on anything. Riku's arc over multiple games is no longer special or cool because everyone comes out of the darkness unscathed, why did you have such a problem at all Riku, everyone else was fine with minimum help and time. For a lot of questions answered there are more brought up about how exactly everything is working out, nothing new that happens is ever really explained. The big villains from the previous games no longer feel intimidating. The final fantasy characters have been removed completely and they were needed to balance out the disney happiness and love filled plot that gets a bit much at times. Now there's no Cloud to bring a little darkness to these happy disney worlds which was the original appeal of the games.
    Any fan of the series should go into this game expecting disappointment from every direction, that way the letdown won't affect you to much.    … Expand
  44. meiwaku
    Feb 12, 2019
    5
    As a huge fan of kingdom hearts, Kingdom Hearts 3 was massively disappointing. The lack of final fantasy characters was a huge disappointment that left me wondering if Leon, yuffie, and the other major final fantasy characters decided they had enough and just abandoned their fight against the heartless. The interactions between Disney characters and Final Fantasy characters was a joy toAs a huge fan of kingdom hearts, Kingdom Hearts 3 was massively disappointing. The lack of final fantasy characters was a huge disappointment that left me wondering if Leon, yuffie, and the other major final fantasy characters decided they had enough and just abandoned their fight against the heartless. The interactions between Disney characters and Final Fantasy characters was a joy to watch and made the previous games charming and unique. In this game, most of the Disney worlds were pointless and a waste of time. In previous Kingdom hearts games the Disney characters and the main plot were meshed together and moved the plot along. In this game it feels like the main cast is just randomly walking around in the background while the poorly paced Disney stories are played out. The meaningless adventure in each world takes up a chunk of the games play time, and the game then wraps up massive story plots in the last few hours of the game without fleshing them out more. This game was my childhood, and I expected them to go all out with this game. The lack of secret bosses, the smaller and emptier worlds, and the removal of final fantasy characters all felt like huge missteps that were done for no apparent reason. The difficulty was also way too easy compared to past games. Kingdom Hearts 3 feels like a shell of its former self. This game makes me question who exactly this games target audience was, because it definitely was not for the core fans that played through the previous games. The visuals were amazing and the combat was also fun and interesting. If the difficulty weren't so easy the combat could have been the best in the series. Unfortunately most of the interesting combat options are pointless since you can just mash one button and beat the entire game. I'm giving this game a 5 because certain moments in the game were able to make me feel the nostalgia of playing a kingdom hearts game. The visuals were also incredible. But, by the end of the game I was thoroughly disappointed.… Expand
  45. Finn95
    Feb 18, 2019
    4
    Pros:
    -Outstanding OST, as usual.
    -Visually breath-taking. -Aesthetically very pleasing, especially in certain battles. -Playability is alright. Not excellent, but still good. Cons: -Game's too easy, even in Hard mode. Sora is OP from the very beginning. -Small number of worlds, and many of them are terribly SMALL or unbalanced. Twilight Town isn't half as big as it used to be.    Pros:
    -Outstanding OST, as usual.
    -Visually breath-taking.
    -Aesthetically very pleasing, especially in certain battles.
    -Playability is alright. Not excellent, but still good.

    Cons:
    -Game's too easy, even in Hard mode. Sora is OP from the very beginning.
    -Small number of worlds, and many of them are terribly SMALL or unbalanced. Twilight Town isn't half as big as it used to be. 100 Acre Wood is a worse joke than it usually is. And most of them are plagued with minigames that feel like they're filling the empty space the world should have.
    -Lack of keyblades to choose from. There are just a few and they all come from Disney worlds, except from those you receive from pre-orders and the sort.
    -The treatment some characters get is HORRENDOUS. I want this review to be spoiler free, but to name a few: Kairi, Vexen, Roxas, Vanitas, Xehanort, Saix, Xion and Naminé are either inconsistent, invisible or completely forgotten throughout the whole game. Which is supposed to be a game that brought them together.
    -The final hours of gameplay are horribly written. Seriously. It's all pure eye-candy and fan service. Most things happen without an explanation. Kingdom Hearts has had plot and storytelling issues before, sure, but this one takes it to a new level.
    -Maybe too many cutscenes. I'm not complaining, though, but they also add to that "filling space" feeling.
    -No Final Fantasy characters. Not a single one.
    -On the whole, the game feels incomplete.    … Expand
  46. Enderzt
    Feb 12, 2019
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is a huge disappointment as a long time fan of the series. Nomura and the Kingdom Hearts team really wrote themselves into a corner by requiring this one game to act as the sequel to 5 different games at the same time. They then took this impossible task a step farther by using KH3 to setup for the next saga they envision in the series. They wasted a bunch of game time on a Black Box red herring sub plot. THEN they decide to only start resolving the games major plot points in the last 1/4 of the game. THEN they use the games endings as a chance for sequel bait instead of giving fans a real ending after years and years of waiting. They had so many years to work on this game, and they had so much game-play time to devote to wrapping up all their loose ends. Instead they decide to do it at breakneck pace at the end of the game then undercut themselves with a cheap cliffhanger.

    Because of this they don't earn any of the payoff moments they try to setup. Do beloved characters from the franchise reunite? Yeah, then the next group of 3 reunite, then the next, then this characters has a change of heart, then this Deus Ex Machina saves the team, then the next Deus Ex Machina happens, ect. It was like they had a checklist of things this game needed to resolve and reference then decided "Lets put this all in the last 5 hours of the game at breakneck pace so all the moments fall into each other and make a mess"

    The Disney worlds have less relevance to the main plot than any previous game in the series. The games canon reason for going from world to world is to regain lost experience. Its a fourth wall breaking reason to go gain EXP from killing heartless. Instead of Micky and Riku going back and fourth between Yen Sids Tower and the Realm of Darkness for 14 hours of the story, they could have found Aqua in the first hour of the game. Maybe she has fallen to darkness and is able to escape the realm and starts terrorizing planets with heartless so people will feel her pain, loss, and loneliness. Then Sora's mission begins to take on story relevance as he is running into Aqua, Mickey and Riku on the worlds he visits. He isn't strong enough to beat her as he is and needs to be bailed out by Riku and Mickey. It explains why heartless are all over the Disney worlds he visits, and further shows Sora isn't strong enough to save anyone yet. Halfway through Sora, Riku and Mickey manage to save Aqua and wake Ventus with her help. Now that Sora has learned the power of waking from Ventus, he is able to use the Replica given to Ansem the wise and wake Roxas. Now halfway through the game 3 major goals have been achieved, and then the second half of the game can be saving Terra, Xion, and Namine. Now reunions can be spread out through the game instead of one after another cheapening their emotional impact. It allows game time for the characters that were reunited to really talk with each other and interact for more than a single cut scene. In 30 seconds of simple brainstorming I was able to make a more compelling story than what we got. How can a team of paid dev's and story tellers be so bad? Why did Sora recognize Xion? Why wasn't it Roxas or Lea, whose hearts are far more connected to hers than Sora's? Why was there never a scene where Terra and Riku talked? Why did Roxas and Namine never have a scene together after the ending they had in KH2.

    The troubled Dev cycle really shows throughout the game. It becomes really apparent when there is an amazing set and moment broken up by incredibly inept story telling, missing sound effects, inconsistent CGI and animations, music, and missing chunks of story. Going through Arendelle and The Caribbean is like experiencing a fever dream. Characters appear out of nowhere and huge plot points are completely glazed over. Anna talks over her own singing in a headache inducing moment, Elsa gives a nice long exposition dump to save screen time for her to do a full shot for shot recreation of "Let it Go". Flynn randomly gets off the boat during the lantern scene to... do what? The twins aren't in this version of Tangled. Whats the importance of the satchel? We are never told anything. In previous Kingdom Hearts games if a Disney story was being retold they did a good job shortening the story and retelling it without a lot of exposition. You can follow the story on those worlds without having even seen the movie the world was based on. Can't do that in KH3. If you never saw Pirates 3 you will be totally lost with the story of that world.

    The final fights with the 12 seekers of darkness are ridiculous. If you kill one of the 3 or 4 bosses you are fighting everything stops and you have a nice long 3 minute cut-scene, before the fight starts up again like nothing just happened. It like they intended them to be 1 on 1 fights like KH2 but changed their mind and grouped them all up. Made it very confusing.

    5/10 will not be continuing the series. Poor Sora    … Expand
  47. Arkeden
    Jan 28, 2020
    4
    I’d honestly give Kingdom Hearts III a 5.5/10. Definitely wait for the Final Mix to come before buying this game as it’s like FF15, half completed and hella easy. Sure, KH3’s graphics and scenery are absolutely stunning. And sure, the music is absolutely amazing! However, beyond that it is an honest let-down and disappointment in the story, in character development, and in playability. ItI’d honestly give Kingdom Hearts III a 5.5/10. Definitely wait for the Final Mix to come before buying this game as it’s like FF15, half completed and hella easy. Sure, KH3’s graphics and scenery are absolutely stunning. And sure, the music is absolutely amazing! However, beyond that it is an honest let-down and disappointment in the story, in character development, and in playability. It just feels rushed and uncompleted (ironic for a game 5 years in the making). For starters, Square Enix cut MANY things from the game. Tetsuya Nomura stated that there would be well over 90+ hours of content, when in actuality; it’s closer to 35 -45 hours of content. You literally spend 2/3's of the entire game traversing Disney worlds and goofing around which none of it matters in the slightest and doesn't really do anything at all to progress the plot or the characters (Note: you can clearly tell which worlds they spent far more time and resources on than others. Some worlds, only get one tiny little area). On that note, the worlds that people actually wanted to fully explore in all their 4K HD glory were basically reduced to just backgrounds for cut scenes and for the plot (Realm of Darkness, Land of Departure, Keyblade Graveyard, The Final World, Scala ad Caelum, and to a lesser extent, Twilight Town). Then, all the major plot points and major stuff happens quickly and almost back-to-back in the last 1/3 of the game. Before you know it, you're fighting the final boss out of the blue and the games over. Heroes and Villains fly in and out of the story so quick that you just might miss them if you blink. The reunions of 1) Aqua, Ven, and Terra; and 2) Axel, Roxas, and Xion; are completely rushed. Basically, they are brought back at the last minute for fan service and to make sense of the plot before moving on. Hell, don't even get me started on the characters. The dialogue exchange and voice acting is good in certain places, but is often just cringy and awkward. Any many of the characters don’t even have much of a personality *ahem*…Kairi *ahem*. Speaking of which, the characters: Kairi, Lea, Riku, Aqua, Ventus, Terra, and King Mickey are now weak and useless. In fact, the Disney characters in the worlds you visit are significantly more powerful than they are. Minigames are another problem. Minigames are supposed to be fun and enjoyable challenges that offer additional rewards when added to a game for optional playability. However, that's not the case when multiple minigames are pushed into the main story and are required to progress said story. Furthermore, Square Enix made the game insanely easy, even on hard mode. Fights required little-to-no planning or preparation. I never even died once on hard mode or had to retry an encounter. Going to attractions, I understand that attractions were supposed to be cool and epic, but not when you get like three prompts for an attraction every single bloody fight. It got annoying and boring rather quick. I only used the meals once, in the final battle. I didn’t even need to use the meals because everything was too easy. Lastly, the game mechanics are still clearly broken. You can still easily button-mash X/A to win the game. Also, a player can obtain 99 Moogle Post Cards within 1 hour for only 5,000 Munny; they can easily obtain level 99 within an hour; and they can easily and quickly get 999,999 Munny.

    *sighs* Look, it’s an okay game. It’s fine to like a game and it’s fine to dislike a game. There are many people who liked KH3 and many who didn’t. It has good and bad qualities. However, you do have to recognize and realize all of its flaws and shortcomings. Because many of us who are long-time hardcore KH fans and who grew up with the series will tell you, KHI and KHII were are significantly longer and better than KHIII.    … Expand
  48. Giltian
    Feb 26, 2019
    5
    I would like to start off thinking my self as a Kingdom Hearts buff. I understand and know most of everything that has taken place in the Kingdom Hearts series from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep all the way until now. I may have not played every game But i have made sure to understand the story from the games I could not play.

    The biggest let down of this game is something that was    I would like to start off thinking my self as a Kingdom Hearts buff. I understand and know most of everything that has taken place in the Kingdom Hearts series from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep all the way until now. I may have not played every game But i have made sure to understand the story from the games I could not play.

    The biggest let down of this game is something that was introduced into Kingdom hearts II. which was the Drive system. That system felt good. I thoroughly enjoyed the system. The Keyblade form changes were unique and felt good. but the dual wielding aspect of Kingdom Hearts II should have carried through to this game for Sora. Another thing disappointing was the fact the game left out some trademark Keyblades that been apart of Sora's arsenal in both Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Heart 2. I will not name names. but they are missing none the less.

    While I understand the game requires to tie up a lot of Xehanort story lines, we seen not a single Final Fantasy character. this in my opinion made the game feel less Kingdom Hearts. The lack of Final Fantasy characters such as Yuffie, Leon, Aerith, Tifa, Cloud, and many other Final Fantasy characters has left the game feeling incredibly hollow. We didn't even here a mention of them. what is worse is we didn't even go one of the most recognizable Worlds in hollow Bastion or would be renamed after all the missions in it were completed Radiant garden.

    The one thing i will give the Gummi ship is that it is rather enjoyable by comparison to its iterations from Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2. Free roam there are some missions you can do to break up the world hopping but its a dash of fluff. there are a few achievements to be gained from this part of the game its again fun.

    the biggest issue i had with all the worlds was once their stories was done, that was it. there was a few times i would go back for the flan Side quests. But more often than not i didn't go back unless it was to collect all the treasures or lucky emblems. and once you get one of the best Keyblades for farming synthesizing materials. it comes from one of the first two selectable worlds and i cannot remember but at any given time it always felt like there were only two story worlds you could travel to at a time until you completed the pairing. which is not a bad thing as both Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II did this. and the fact there are only nine worlds and Ten if you consider the book of Pooh a tenth which short lived and was almost meaningless to the game. Kingdom hearts one didn't have nearly as many worlds or places you could travel to like Kingdom hearts II did. But Kingdom hearts III further behind the previous incarnations. with only 9 worlds to explore and the final stage really doesn't have much to explore in it. which is hugely disappointing.

    one of the highlights of this game has to be its combat and traversing systems. most of the attractions commands are novel at best. use them a couple of times before they where out their novelty. But the combo attacks with Goof Donald and the unique world companion are some of the most unique and great additions to the game. The days of burning through your entire MP reserve are now gone when utilizing combo attacks. one of the best implementations. i cannot say how this makes me happy as someone who would never use the combo attacks from the prior games with out feeling like i was left out in the wind due to MP resources being eaten away. the Keyblade form changes fantastic most are great that i have used. there is one that i find to be rather annoying but that is a story for another time. great system. i just feel its going to be left behind like the rest of the other systems.

    glaring aspects that cannot be ignored overly long cut scenes at the end each world. I appreciate all the dialogue and exposition. but it when it detracts from the game play thats a negative. I almost felt in some cases i was playing Metal Gear Solid 4 with all the Cut Scenes. and yes they were valuable to the main story. While they did tie up the Xehanorth Saga, they still didn't wrap it up like a bow like they needed to. The end of this game felt incomplete.

    one of the best revisions to one of the more long lasting traditions was the synthesizing shop. the you get new patterns of providing new synthesizing materials is excellent fantastic change.

    for a game that has been in development since 2013 and has been anticipated since 2005 for Japan and 2006 for the rest of the world. and took nearly thirteen years later to reach the hands of the audience this game shows how flawed it really is. a lot of the feeling that made Kingdom Hearts Kingdom Hearts just is not there anymore. its an unfortunate tale of dragging a convoluted story out too long over too many platforms. The anticipation for this game and the expectations were a let down. I spent 70+ hours on this game. at least i got my moneys worth out of the game.    … Expand
  49. Oker
    Feb 15, 2019
    5
    Recycled boss battles;the ice boss is basically scar,and the norts feel almost the same. Sorry fanboys, grow up.
  50. gwensmelons
    Feb 10, 2019
    0
    Absolute trash. There is nothing this game does above average and the narrative is like listening to infants empathizing with their imagination. Did they write this garbage by putting all the movie scripts into a blender, emulsiphying it, and then try to pour it down our throats? Disney, please leave video games alone and get out of the industry.
  51. Troxartas
    Feb 16, 2019
    3
    KH3 is the successor to a huge franchise, that sadly fell short of the greatness it could have been. On the whole the game looks amazing but it is riddled with many things that make it an unsatisfying experience to veterans of the series. And lets face it, the game was meant for fans of the franchise as its complicated story thats been playing out for over a decade is far from welcoming toKH3 is the successor to a huge franchise, that sadly fell short of the greatness it could have been. On the whole the game looks amazing but it is riddled with many things that make it an unsatisfying experience to veterans of the series. And lets face it, the game was meant for fans of the franchise as its complicated story thats been playing out for over a decade is far from welcoming to new players.

    The game has a series of movies that use pics and scenes from previous entries to tell "the story so far" But in my opinion this is just bad story telling. Nuggets of the past experiences should be told through the story, not in a movie you need to watch before starting the game.

    On the subject of the story the KH story line is rather sparse. Sora and friends are gearing up to beat the big baddy Xehonort and his 13 darknesses, and well thats pretty much it. Sora is sent to visit Disney/Pixar worlds not to protect them from the heartless or anything, but just "to reclaim his lost power" Meaning the game is literally saying, "just level up for the final boss." This makes Sora's visits to the worlds less meaningful, he shows up and partakes in a loose telling of the movie he is in but had no true stake in it. Organization 13 members show up to spout exponential nonsense before buggering off, and only serve to keep Sora on his task of "Leveling up". There are also less worlds than previous entries, and though the worlds are much bigger there filled with a lot of empty space. The world also has many "invisible walls" that make what looks to be a massive open area nothing more than a series of corridors and square rooms.

    Then there's the combat, which to me was one of the games biggest problems. (and in a KH game combat is like 90% of the whole thing) Its simply too damn easy, the new console power allow for hordes of baddies to wipe out but the game turns fights into elaborate cut scenes taking the player out of the action. Attraction flow attacks were the worst offender IMO as they were usable in just about every skirmish and had the power to destroy all enemies in the area. I also found an acessory in Herc's world that allowed Sora to use the Waterza finisher that is a tier 4 spell capable of wiping out any enemy that didn't flat out absorb the element. Even in Proud mode the game was incredibly easy, enemies seemed less threatening than previous entries and more like punching bags to mash the x button to. Past entries like KH2 had a proud mode/critical mode that were a real challenge, forcing players to think before acting rather than KH3 that lets you win by spamming attraction flows and such.

    Finally the ending was very unsatisfying to me. KH3 was to be the final chapter in the "Dark seeker saga" and it didn't really deliver the answers fans wanted. There are also parts of the story one can simply miss, for example in one area there was a dialog between Sora/Namine (the only interaction between them) that can be completely missed mainly because the design of the area and thing you are supposed to interact with were hard to see.

    Finally since the game took so long to make many of the original voice actors have aged beyond the characters, making them sound very off. Other voice talents such as Lenard Nimoy and Christopher Lee passed away, leaving their rolls to be filled by new actors who sound quite different than the previous game. I know this wasn't something they could avoid its just Sad. Another issue they could have avoided is the exclusion of the Final fantasy characters. They played a big roll in past entries but aside from moogle shops and some easter egg appearances from the series's monsters/summons all the FF characters are just gone, which is a huge blow to the game as part of its original charm was that the characters could exist along side of the disney/KH crowd.

    On the whole KH3 was disappointing on many many levels, with its lack of challenge and story that seemed rather hollow. (the KH story not disney/pixar world story) the game just let me down over and over again. DLC is rumored to be coming but to me that's just bad. This is a AAA title and if DLC is the only way to get more closer or story it's hard not to see it as a cash grab. The game took way too long to make to be what it is, and that, is truely dissapointing.    … Expand
  52. gigacorona
    Feb 17, 2019
    2
    As someone who was a fan of pretty much all the games leading up to KH3, I'm sad to say this has cured me of the series from now on. I might play kh1 and 2 again but everything after that really has no reason to exist anymore.

    If you have never played any kingdom hearts games before this might not be a bad game for you, its production values as far and graphics and animations are    As someone who was a fan of pretty much all the games leading up to KH3, I'm sad to say this has cured me of the series from now on. I might play kh1 and 2 again but everything after that really has no reason to exist anymore.

    If you have never played any kingdom hearts games before this might not be a bad game for you, its production values as far and graphics and animations are superb, and while the combats absurdly easy that does mean literally anyone can play it. You won't have any idea whats actually going on but that might be for the best, just enjoy the Disney as best you can.

    If you have played kingdom hearts games and liked them before now, this game should be an insult to you directly proportional to the number of games you have actually played in the series so far. The resolutions of the various plots that have been built up for years at this point are so forced and aimless that it is beneath the level of fan-fiction. This plot ruins and wastes literally everyone involved in it be they heroes or villains. And with no meat to the game play to back it all you are left with in this game is a pretty coat of paint.

    Normally I'd feel like saying something generous about how you might be able to enjoy this game and you shouldn't feel ashamed of that, but let me just say this - if you have been enjoying the story of kingdom hearts up till now despite its many many issues , then this game really should not be for you.    … Expand
  53. Solko_o
    Mar 28, 2019
    3
    The easiest game I've ever played. It can be ok as a cartoon movie, but absolutely boring as a game. Just for kids. Terrible waste of money.
  54. Kasvin
    Mar 2, 2019
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game that i hyped for the past decade is a let down.

    Yes, the graphics is amazing, the scenery is beautiful, every visual detail of the game looks amazing. None of the other predecessor could top it, even KH 2.8.

    But the combat and story is a total letdown.

    i'll compare my KH3 experience to KH 1/2.

    1. In the predecessors, when you land a hit on the enemy, will stagger them and open up a chain of combos. However, in kingdom hearts 3, they do not get interrupted majority of the time and you'll just get knocked back instead, taking heavy damage. It feels as though i'm being penalized for swinging the keyblade around.

    2. Guard is severely under-powered. Guarding in KH1/2 usually will stun the enemy on a successful block, allowing counter attacks and provides long invincibility frames. However, guarding in KH3 doesn't help open up a combo and instead, counter attacking after guarding will lead back to point 1., taking hits simply cause you cant even stagger with a counterattack. In KH2, You could cast reflect mid combo to protect yourself as a form of mid combo guard but with the removal of reflect spell in KH3, they should had made it possible to guard mid combo, similar to Limit Form. Yes, It is a good upgrade that you can use guard midair now.

    3. Removal of reaction command. Reaction commands was the essence that is what gave Kingdom Hearts 2 the depth of combat and environment interactions. Quick dodging a Neoshadow's dive, counter dashing a Soldier, grabbing claymores breaking Sai'x out of berserk mode, riding a whirlwind to launch into the air. You name it.
    Just a comparison in the similar fight of Saix in KH2 and 3.
    On 2, i can block his attacks with consecutive blocks or simply glide around to avoid, grab his claymore and break him out of berserk.
    On 3, I'm forced to run around casting magic on Sai'x in order to damage him simply because i had no way of landing a hit without being flung into the air and no way of breaking him out of berserk.
    The lack of RC dulled the fighting experience and added annoyance instead.

    4. Magic Abuse. With the melee being so difficult to hit land hits some times, as mentioned, i"m forced to spam magic. To put it bluntly, magic is overpowered here, able to deal heavy damage from a safe distance, just pop those ethers. Nice addition to make run casting possible.

    5. Attractions and Links. If you played KHBBS or KH2, I'm 100% sure you'll never use a summon or Link for fights in KH3 too. Attraction is too overpowered and broken with the long immunity time frames and heavy damage potentials.

    6. Form are locked to weapons. It locks out the flexibility of the form to use. The different mechanics deters me from using any other keyblade other than Kingdom key and Starlight.

    7. No way of recharging focus bar in combat without refocuser or focus orb.

    8. Lack of optional bosses. There's only 1 in this game. KH2 had 15 optional bosses and BBS had 5 at least.

    9. Shallow boss fights mechanics. The fights are just a bunch of barrages of attacks which some are so difficult to dodge or block that you become a punching bag.

    10. Lack of movement abilities till late game. Don't talk about flowmotions cause those are situational. Glide is received near the end of the game and Air Slide is ineffective in combat and replaced with Aerial Dodge, meaning getting into an encounter means moving slower. What happen to Quick Run from KH2's wisdom form growth ability?

    Now onto content and story

    1. So many worlds could had been part of this game. Radiant garden, Land of departure, Disney Castle could had been many of the potential worlds.

    2. If you have never watched the movies, some of the stories makes no sense and some has no follow-ups.

    in Frozen, they mentioned Anna went back to the country to find her true love, Hans, but if they have never watched the movie they would never had known the guy trying to kill Elsa was even him.

    Hayner/Olette/Pence agreed if there were any progress regarding details about Roxas, they would contact Sora, and yet, after the cutscene where they rescued Ansem the wise, they act as though nothing happened.

    Why did Flynn tried to walk away with the crown? The Stabbington Brothers never existed in this story.

    Lingering Will was fighting Terra-Xehanort and suddenly he disappear for the rest of the game as though he never appeared to begin with.

    Riku Replica sacrifice his new body and left it for Namine, but Namine was revived using the body delivered by Demyx so what did he sacrificed he body for?

    What happened to Demyx and Vexen? i know Vexen became Even again so what happened to Demyx who just up and vanished after delivering the replica body for Namine?

    Where are all the Final Fantasy characters? what happen to Cloud and Sephiroth? 3. Earning the Ultima Weapon is way too easy and low time consuming compared to KH1/2. 4. Lacked too much contents. KH2 had load of minigames and rewards unlike KH3.    … Expand
  55. somebody123
    May 24, 2019
    7
    The game is pretty good but Kingdom Hearts 2 was more challenging in my opinion. I always play these games on Proud Mode and KH3 was the most easy in my opinion. Sora is extremely over-powered in this one, most of my losses in the game were due to Mini-Games. The difficulty is a bit disappointing in my opinion.

    But I felt like game brought out the most of what I like about the series,    The game is pretty good but Kingdom Hearts 2 was more challenging in my opinion. I always play these games on Proud Mode and KH3 was the most easy in my opinion. Sora is extremely over-powered in this one, most of my losses in the game were due to Mini-Games. The difficulty is a bit disappointing in my opinion.

    But I felt like game brought out the most of what I like about the series, which was the crazyiness of the battles, it really feels like a cartoon or something.
    The thing that impressed me most was the graphics and cutscenes though, a lot of them feel exactly like the movie, it might be the best graphics i've seen, at least in terms of cutscenes.

    Its a good game but not the best in the series in my opinion.    … Expand
  56. XStarr_Lordx
    May 7, 2019
    5
    The game's story is very boring and bland. The dialog is stiff and emotionless. Combat is okay. I just found myself mashing the attack button until I got the Keyblade's powerup. I barely used any of the spells or potions.
  57. dimasok
    Feb 4, 2019
    0
    Absolute garbage. None of the charm of the previous KH games, dumbed down and floaty combat, no minimap, a cop-out conclusion, **** boss fights, no post-game, invisible walls all around made even worse by the expanded vertical corridors that showcase the limitations in all of its inglory.

    This is an abomination. It wasn't worth waiting for or the development hell. FFVIIR is doomed too    Absolute garbage. None of the charm of the previous KH games, dumbed down and floaty combat, no minimap, a cop-out conclusion, **** boss fights, no post-game, invisible walls all around made even worse by the expanded vertical corridors that showcase the limitations in all of its inglory.

    This is an abomination. It wasn't worth waiting for or the development hell. FFVIIR is doomed too under the horrible direction of Nomura.    … Expand
  58. Kingdomlanelove
    Feb 15, 2019
    1
    I’m giving this game a one 1 of 10 because of the music and graphics. Other than that, this isn’t a good kingdom hearts game. The plot unravels in a very poor way, and the interactions in cut scenes seems weird and robotic. The gameplay is too easy, with too many options that hinder the experience. Also, they introduce story elements in this game, that are never explained. It’s not theI’m giving this game a one 1 of 10 because of the music and graphics. Other than that, this isn’t a good kingdom hearts game. The plot unravels in a very poor way, and the interactions in cut scenes seems weird and robotic. The gameplay is too easy, with too many options that hinder the experience. Also, they introduce story elements in this game, that are never explained. It’s not the pay off that kingdom hearts fans deserve.… Expand
  59. Trabanto
    Mar 7, 2019
    4
    It's not the game everyone was waiting for. There is so much interesting things, but everything seems unpolished. Gameplay overall is just frustrating. Combat system is unresponsive and limited to clicking X and Triangle or using magic which is basically OP, while it COULD BE so much more. The decent part of it is "flow" and airdashes but it's just worthless in most cases.
    Most of the    It's not the game everyone was waiting for. There is so much interesting things, but everything seems unpolished. Gameplay overall is just frustrating. Combat system is unresponsive and limited to clicking X and Triangle or using magic which is basically OP, while it COULD BE so much more. The decent part of it is "flow" and airdashes but it's just worthless in most cases.
    Most of the game is cutscenes. The funny thing is that you basically move forward 2 steps and you get a cutscene. Then you fight aaaaand another cutscene. Storytelling is awful - unnecessary complicated without any straight goals. Feels like a mashup of scripts written by different people. Even if you are up to date with KH story you will feel uncomfortable.
    The good part of the game is climate and well-representation of disney/pixar worlds. Characters looks and feels like they came from these famous animations. Graphics changes according to the world you are in. Above that you have some really well designed levels as well as really bad ones. Either of them have a lot of unused areas, like it wasn't even finished.
    I would rather wait 2-3 more years for this game to came out than play it in this state.    … Expand
  60. Rimbeldi
    Feb 26, 2019
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Soy un fan aferrimo de la saga KH, gracias a el me introduje en los videojuegos cuando era un crio y aun con toda la espera, todo el hype que tenia este juego, creo humildemente que no nos mereciamos algo asi. Para aquel que quiera discutirlo dejo mis razones:

    1. Tras una saga de 11 juegos (contando los de movil), hemos vivido una aventura unica, que sin Sora ni hubiesemos empezado, el final que hemos tenido ahora no hacen merito a lo que se merece este por todo lo que ha hecho o provocado y ha tirado a por un final abierto para poder seguir teniendo una excusa para seguir comprando mas juego del siguiente arco y seguir traduciendo tus emociones y nostalgia en dinero, muy descontento por un final tan bello lleno de insatisfacción.

    2. Es un videojuego muy "mainstream" y solo hay que fijarse en los mundo utilizados para el mismo, mundos como Toy Story que la gran mayoria hemos visto a una edad muy joven y que tenerla en KH era casi un gancho para jugarlo, o Monstruos S.A. que tiene el mismo dilema que Toy Story, pasando por Frozen y esas escenas de 'Let it go', Enredados y como no Piratas del caribe que ya hemos visto en KH2. Todos estos mundos son los mundos cliche a mi parecer que todo el mundo o ha visto las peliculas o ha escuchado hablar de ellas y han obviado otras alternativas como El libro de la selva o Planeta del tesoro entre otros. Otro motivo mas para pensar que es un juego dirigido para masas y no para fans.

    3. La desconexion de los personajes Final Fantasy ha sido sin duda una de las cosas que mas me ha decepcionado. En KH1 el primer mundo que pisamos (obviando Islas del Destino) es Ciudad de Paso, un mundo donde conocemos personajes de FF muy representativos y que todos hemos cogido cariño tanto en KH1 como en KH2. En KH3 se desconecta totalmente de estas relaciones y de hecho el primer mundo que pisamos es el de Hercules y desde alli hasta el final del juego 0 personajes FF una total pena habiendo visto a estos personajes desde el principio de la saga para que luego en el final de la misma ni siquiera les hagan mención.

    4. Aun recuerdo cuando de pequeño en KH2 despues de las cinematicas y todo lo demas, podia jugar con Riku en mi bando y tener un limite con el. Esa sensación de epicidad y satisfaccion me hicieron erizar la piel. Llega KH3 y tras el entreno de Kairi, Riku siendo maestro, Axel/Lea volviendo del entranamiento con Kairi y con los recuperados Ventus y Aqua. Ni un solo comando de accion ni nada por el estilo, una simple zona de peleas contra otros personajes y arreando. 0 comandos 0 evolucion, Kairi no hace literalmente nada cuando podemos jugar, Lea lo mismo ni un misero comando de accion con Ventus o Aqua, nada de nada.

    5. No diré que todo el viaje de Sora ha sido inutil pero vamos a analizar a los enemigos y al mismo Sora. Basandonos del 0 al 100, en KH1 Sora llega al 30, 40 de su poder por asi decirloy consigue derrotar a Ansem. En KH2 Sora es capaz de transformarse y llegar a controlar dos llaves espada, ademas de las invocaciones y los limites, ademas de tener comandos de accion con la mayoria de personajes de KH2 digamos que llega a un 60 70 de su poder. En 3D DDD todo su poder se va a la mierda y en KH3 va a recuperarlo, solo es capaz de transformar su llave espada y usar invocaciones, mas algunas de esas atracciones. Tras visitar todos esos mundos gana llaves espadas, invocaciones y se a enfrentarse a las 13 oscuridades, si me tiras de las orejas te dire que el pico de poder es de 50 como mucho y SOLO con esto es capaz de vencer a toda la organizacion, y a Xeanorth. Entonces tanto viaje, tantas movidas, tanto problemas y tantos jefes para que al final el Sora de KH2 sea mejor que el de KH3, eso se traduce como insatisfaccion por mi parte.

    6. KH3 es un juego muy 'lineal', me explico, en anteriores entregas como el KH2 los mundos los ibas a visitar dos veces, y entre tanto tenias que ir a bastion hueco o sino pasabas por villa crepusculo, luego habia la movida de Tron, luego otra vez Bastion Hueco y ibas alternando entre mundos Disney y FF o cosas de la trama principal y eso era variedad. En este KH3 tu empiezas en un mundo, ACABAS ese mundo, y luego va otro y luego otro y luego otro y asi hasta que llegas a la batalla final. La sensacion de visitar estos mundos mas se traduce en "vamos a pasarnoslo cuanto antes para llegar al final", ya esta, nada mas, Villa crepusculo casi casi esta de adorno y a los mundos Disney solo tienes ganas de volver para completar los coleccionables o farmear, nada mas. Totalmente desilusionado en este aspecto.

    7. Es un juego monetario, no resolutivo. En todo su aspecto KH3 no es mas que un juego que acaba un arco pero no una historia y esto es un grave error.

    En definitiva, no era lo que los fans que llevamos la saga en la sangre necesitabamos. Hay gente de que se queja que hemos madurado para KH cuando es KH el que no se ha adaptado a sus fans y se ha centrado en publico nuevo juvenil.    … Expand
  61. familia123
    Feb 19, 2019
    0
    Pra mim é um game de emo com um personagem ridículo e uma história rasa e sem graça, não gostava dos antigos e não gostei desse ultimo, passo longe dessa comédia em forma em game
  62. Mandulum
    Feb 23, 2019
    6
    Haiku Review: A convoluted / story makes enjoyment lost / At least it's flashy
    Favorite Thing: The cutscenes are incredible and the combat is super flashy (though a little too much at times).
    Least Favorite Thing: I understood the story about as well as I understood Donald with the subtitles off. Bonus: I really disliked the combat at the end of the game. It was nothing but constant stun    Haiku Review: A convoluted / story makes enjoyment lost / At least it's flashy
    Favorite Thing: The cutscenes are incredible and the combat is super flashy (though a little too much at times).
    Least Favorite Thing: I understood the story about as well as I understood Donald with the subtitles off. Bonus: I really disliked the combat at the end of the game. It was nothing but constant stun locks.

    Date Completed: 2019-02-21
    Playtime: 28h
    Enjoyment: 6/10
    Recommendation: If you're been following along closely you'll no doubt play it. Anyone else, don't bother. You'll just be lost.    … Expand
  63. excalibro
    Mar 8, 2019
    7
    I wanted this game my whole life too. I loved the trailers of it. And the excitement had me stoked to finally see my boy get his happy ending.

    It ties up the ends it needs to, but I feel like there was something missing. I liked it, but I didn't love it, and ten year hype can't ever live up to what I hoped for. I still recommend the game. But it wasn't the finale I hoped for. Still.    I wanted this game my whole life too. I loved the trailers of it. And the excitement had me stoked to finally see my boy get his happy ending.

    It ties up the ends it needs to, but I feel like there was something missing. I liked it, but I didn't love it, and ten year hype can't ever live up to what I hoped for. I still recommend the game. But it wasn't the finale I hoped for.

    Still. Have to admit. While some of it was bland, when it finally gets to the Kingdom Hearts portions, and not the Disney? That's when I had the most fun. It's just a lot of pushing through Disney to get there.

    Overall though? Good game. Get it.    … Expand
  64. camaro123
    Mar 9, 2019
    4
    I've waited 13 years for kingdom hearts 3. I have to say it disappointed. The story is crammed into the end few hours of the game. The Disney worlds seem so utterly useless to the overall game other than to retell the story in most worlds. The voice acting / direction is actually horrendous. The anime sounds mixed with the long pauses between lines made me want to hit the skip button onI've waited 13 years for kingdom hearts 3. I have to say it disappointed. The story is crammed into the end few hours of the game. The Disney worlds seem so utterly useless to the overall game other than to retell the story in most worlds. The voice acting / direction is actually horrendous. The anime sounds mixed with the long pauses between lines made me want to hit the skip button on many cut scenes. The game play was fun, but overly convoluted. I would have liked a tighter combat system. it was almost impossible to perform any sort of block move against the heartless when there was so many on the screen. The bosses at the end of the game should have been spread out throughout the game with a final conclusion at the end, but manly of the worlds leave you to usually fight a large heartless as the boss. After it got exhausting and unexciting. Returning characters seems like huge plot hole. but its more like the director just decided i want all these characters back so their back with some dumb reasoning behind it to justify their return. While i guess they did resolve Xehanort's story-line; i was left with more questions than answers at the games conclusion. It just simply wasn't a satisfying end to a game I've waited so long for.… Expand
  65. viroodiem
    Feb 10, 2019
    0
    Utter Disney garbage that is infecting and dragging down a company struggling to remain relevant.

    While a well made Action role playing game affair (and after its development cycle it had better be) it amounts to a convoluted mess trying to wrap up a fever dream collaboration between Square Enix and the single most evil corporation to ever exist in all of human history. The result is    Utter Disney garbage that is infecting and dragging down a company struggling to remain relevant.

    While a well made Action role playing game affair (and after its development cycle it had better be) it amounts to a convoluted mess trying to wrap up a fever dream collaboration between Square Enix and the single most evil corporation to ever exist in all of human history. The result is pure abomination from its narrative driven focus.

    Haphazardly thrown together Disney themed set pieces to button mash away at endlessly, much the same as its precursors and the only mildly better PS4 bretheren Final Fantasy XV. Once you peel away the nostalgia for the previous games you see it is little more than an carbon copy of other, better games of which even its prior installments produced better.

    Literally not worth anyone's time and attention but due to the utter brainwashing of a generation into Disney addled zealotry, Square Enix could have rolled out the shiniest polished lawn cigar and the adult aged children that were given Kingdom Hearts on previous consoles as a surrogate for parenting will cheer along gleefully chomping down every nutty bite of this mediocre cud. More over attacking anyone who suggest that it is anything less than flawless and the greatest thing to ever be created.

    So terrible it does not even justify a score and anyone suggesting it is great needs to be psychologically evaluated.    … Expand
  66. AngryThespian
    Feb 9, 2019
    5
    NOT TYLER, CHRIS!!!!--- As an avid Kingdom Hearts player since the beginning I feel that this game doesn't live up to the decade and a half wait between main-line games. The game, while beautiful lacks the gravitas that the originals had, the story is compelling but muddled. The voice acting is dreadful (especially Mickey), and sub=par for what the hype built to. However, the single mostNOT TYLER, CHRIS!!!!--- As an avid Kingdom Hearts player since the beginning I feel that this game doesn't live up to the decade and a half wait between main-line games. The game, while beautiful lacks the gravitas that the originals had, the story is compelling but muddled. The voice acting is dreadful (especially Mickey), and sub=par for what the hype built to. However, the single most infuriating aspect of the game is the overuse of cut-scenes. Cut-scenes almost feel as if they are being used as a crutch in this game to extend an otherwise short game, and the frequency of said cut-scenes destroys any natural flow that the game has. As someone who still to this day plays the originals continually I expected more, a lot more, from this game.… Expand
  67. LonelyistMonk
    Feb 2, 2019
    2
    I have played every Kingdom Hearts game released on anything other than a phone and loved about all of them. Each Kingdom Hearts before this tried to change up the gameplay with some new mechanic which would result in a flawed but incredibly fun experience. Kingdom Hearts. However. Kingdom Hearts 3 attempts at adding new mechanics are void of fun after the first hour and only work toI have played every Kingdom Hearts game released on anything other than a phone and loved about all of them. Each Kingdom Hearts before this tried to change up the gameplay with some new mechanic which would result in a flawed but incredibly fun experience. Kingdom Hearts. However. Kingdom Hearts 3 attempts at adding new mechanics are void of fun after the first hour and only work to detract from the game. It feels as though you hardly get to fight normally due to the surplus of special attacks that are constantly being thrown at you and trying to ignore these extra attacks will only result a slow tedious battle every time. The gameplay is filled with gimmicks. half the time your off doing something stupid like piloting the Gummi ship, piloting a pirate ship, collecting items to progress, riding a mech, dancing, or watching 10 years worth of cutscenes, which brings me to my greatest complaint. Kingdom Hearts has always had incredibly directed cutscenes with really memorable moments. KH3 failed to deliver entirely and the cutscenes feel weird and forced.Very upsetting to see considering the last KH game they made, although flawed, was very enjoyable.… Expand
  68. ToDenied
    Feb 8, 2019
    1
    Waiting more than ten years for a new successor to Kingdom Hearts 2 was already hard for me, but getting disappointed like this was just too much. I expected a game similar or even better than Kingdom Hearts 2 but the lack of content and bad story telling are nothing more than a bad joke. Without watching the movies first most worlds storys are confusing as hell ( especially Frozen andWaiting more than ten years for a new successor to Kingdom Hearts 2 was already hard for me, but getting disappointed like this was just too much. I expected a game similar or even better than Kingdom Hearts 2 but the lack of content and bad story telling are nothing more than a bad joke. Without watching the movies first most worlds storys are confusing as hell ( especially Frozen and Pirates of the Caribbean) . In addition to that they cut out a lot of stuff that made the precursor so good like the arena of the olymp or secret boss fights like Sephiroth or Terra. At the end all I can say is that I rather play Kingdom Hearts 2 for the 10th time than one more run of Kingdom Hearts 3… Expand
  69. Sneyks
    Feb 23, 2019
    0
    This game doesn't even know what its even want from you. story confessing all flash and no substance.
  70. Stoikil
    Feb 12, 2019
    4
    It only works if you have the factor of nostalgia, the conversations are horrible, the exposure of the story is horrible.
  71. khfan
    Feb 2, 2019
    4
    As someone who has played previous entries in the series more times than I'd like to admit, I have to say that I am sorely disappointed in this game.

    I tried to write an in depth review in here offering my critiques, but apparently 5000 characters is no where even close to enough to cover it, but I've done my best to shrink my massive list to 3 general catagories. First, and the    As someone who has played previous entries in the series more times than I'd like to admit, I have to say that I am sorely disappointed in this game.

    I tried to write an in depth review in here offering my critiques, but apparently 5000 characters is no where even close to enough to cover it, but I've done my best to shrink my massive list to 3 general catagories.

    First, and the smallest, is the lack of any difficulty whatsoever. Barring the final battle, not a single fight in this game was memorable. They were so easy in fact, that I'd even go as far as to say it was a disservice to certain villains. Enemies who we fought throughout the series and who required some strategy or forethought in previous entries are complete pushovers here. This unto itself isn't necessarily game breaking however, as this could potentially be remedied in a later patch with the inclusion of critical mode.

    The second issue however, is a more complicated issue, and it is that of the gameplay itself. Some mechanics are unbalanced, and I frequently felt as though the game was registering my inputs way earlier than it should (for example, I would stop attacking in order to dodge or block, and Sora would continue with his combo for up to 3 strikes! This didn't prove to be too much of an issue given how easy the game was overall, but if the game had actually been on the same difficulty level as say BBS, this would make gameplay needlessly irritating). Other abilities, namely the attractions, are ridiculously overpowered. It is essentially an I-WIN button that pops up every 10 seconds or so, and cannot be turned off. Fortunately you can choose not to use them by cycling through your proc abilities with the L2 button, but adding an 'off' button would dramatically improve the quality of life for players who feel they make the game too easy.

    The third, and most glaring issue for me, and the one which ruined it for me, was the complete lack of narrative cohesion throughout the game on both the small scale (the individual Disney worlds), as well as the large (the over arcing story). I won't go into too much detail here, as I don't want to include spoilers.

    The individual Disney worlds have awkward moments that you will not be able to follow unless you've seen the movies (Tangled, Frozen), and are overall simple and lazy copy-and-paste versions of the movies.

    Even more troubling and game-breaking is the over-arcing story, which is rushed and crammed in to the last few hours. The writers do a poor job of explaining what exactly is happening, to the point where it seems (and I still believe they did) break their own world rules.

    I don't know where the game I've waited to play for so long is, but this certainly wasn't it. And were it not for the fact that I made the mistake of purchasing a non-refundable digital copy, I would be seeking a refund- something I have never done in my entire gaming life.    … Expand
  72. ZeroSigma
    Feb 6, 2019
    4
    Boring story without any conclusion, lame worlds, stupid dialogues, silly mini games, awkward dumb jokes, no FF characters,long unnecessary cutscenes and the game lost its charm.
  73. ukas121
    Feb 2, 2019
    4
    I started playing Kingdom hearts when i was 7 i have played all the games 2 or 3 times. I waited for this game for so long as did many other superfans but its sad to say its a mediocre game and awful compared to KH 2. The main problem is that this game was made for pure fanservice. Other problems include character motivation are changed, dialogue is horrible and wonky, game doesnt know itsI started playing Kingdom hearts when i was 7 i have played all the games 2 or 3 times. I waited for this game for so long as did many other superfans but its sad to say its a mediocre game and awful compared to KH 2. The main problem is that this game was made for pure fanservice. Other problems include character motivation are changed, dialogue is horrible and wonky, game doesnt know its own lore, gameplay is boring mainly because there is no challenge you can just spam X and triangle and you will win every fight even on proud. Only good things in this game is the graphics, the voice acting and the worlds are beautiful. I love this game series and its sad to say that Kingdom hearts 3 was a failure in my eyes and it makes me very sad. I know some people wont agree with me but that is okay. You have the right to have your opinion and at the end of the day im just some random guy on internet who is very disappointed and sad. Please Nomura dont let this series die.… Expand
  74. ChrnoToddy
    Feb 2, 2019
    0
    Toy Story world is a flop. No dual audio, no portuguese subs. 10 years for this? Why Square.
  75. popdod
    Feb 9, 2019
    2
    It's bad. Most of these reviews are long time fans who give every KH related game 10/10 and probably plenty who haven't even played it. The major review sites know the fan base is extremely cultish and can't handle criticism, so they inflate the scores to avoid a backlash and not piss off Square Enix and Disney. They're all businesses and are dependent on the gaming public and goodIt's bad. Most of these reviews are long time fans who give every KH related game 10/10 and probably plenty who haven't even played it. The major review sites know the fan base is extremely cultish and can't handle criticism, so they inflate the scores to avoid a backlash and not piss off Square Enix and Disney. They're all businesses and are dependent on the gaming public and good relations with gaming companies (for early access) to survive. I fell for the hype, caught up on the story, then played it and, well, pretty much everything I was going to type here is better summed up in videogamedunkey's review. Waste of money and hours of my life. Maybe it's kind of fine if you're a kid or have the mental maturity of one. You can even see in the user reviews that the KH fans are downvoting all of those who score less than 8 (yellow and red) and upvoting the 8+ reviews (green).… Expand
  76. cas514
    Feb 22, 2019
    4
    KH3 makes me so scared for the Final Fantasy 7 Remake. This game is just so awful and thats coming from someone who loved Kingdom Heart 1. The writing is awful, the story is so messy and confusing no matter how much exposition they cram in to explain this convoluted plot. The worlds were boring and repetitive and i didn't even care to return to any of them. I struggled to get through this,KH3 makes me so scared for the Final Fantasy 7 Remake. This game is just so awful and thats coming from someone who loved Kingdom Heart 1. The writing is awful, the story is so messy and confusing no matter how much exposition they cram in to explain this convoluted plot. The worlds were boring and repetitive and i didn't even care to return to any of them. I struggled to get through this, not because it was difficult but because i just wanted to stab my ears off anytime someone mentioned hearts or the importance of friendship. The attempts to modernize the game by adding twitter like load screens and the gummiphone were so half baked and so lame, if they wanted to modernize KH they should have spend more time updating the story telling and gameplay to todays standards. Also where was the sound effects department when it came to the cut scenes? i noticed this in the trailer and thought it was just a stylistic choice, but no there is simply no SFX in the cutscenes which makes this game feel even more hollow and empty like the Nobodies or what ever tf they are called. The combat was flashy and varied for those who didnt just want to button mash to get through a level but the one thing that angered me to no end was the disney attraction summons, they were so frequent and annoying, that i felt someone strong armed Square to put them in to promote the park which didnt work and they were not fun to use. Also WHERE THE HELL IS LEON and the rest oft the FINAL FANTASY CREW. Did KH forget that FF was the reason alot of gamers bought the game in the first place?

    Yes the visual and animations were great and the gameplay is solid and pretty to look at, thats why i cant give it a 0, but pretty graphics don't make a game great. I know the kids that play wont understand this concept because all they care about is graphics. I never thought i would say this about a KH game but I really hate this game, it was so hard to get through this. Tetsuya Nemura should not go anywhere near FF7 remake. Im afraid this man is an amazing character artist but a hack video game director.    … Expand
  77. artardmoshea
    Apr 22, 2019
    7
    I wanted this game to be a simple hack and slash game with cool boss fights and a fun story, that was what the original Kingdom Hearts was to me and I loved it.

    This game really misses the mark on all points: If you play it as a hack and slash type game, it's just boring and doesn't play very well, you really have to dig into the systems and figure out all the moves and magic, once I    I wanted this game to be a simple hack and slash game with cool boss fights and a fun story, that was what the original Kingdom Hearts was to me and I loved it.

    This game really misses the mark on all points:

    If you play it as a hack and slash type game, it's just boring and doesn't play very well, you really have to dig into the systems and figure out all the moves and magic, once I did, things became much more interesting, I really wish the game was a bit harder at the start to force me to get to know it better at the start, I really didn't discover how deep the combat could be until the end of the game.

    The boss fights were really too easy right up until the end and the camera is not very good especially in the boss fights and the game really suffers for it.

    The story is completely incomprehensible, I watched all the backstory movies but there is just too much going on to follow anything. The Disney worlds and characters are well done, I found Mickey's voice a little off at the start but I got used to it quickly.

    There is a good game here, but it's buried pretty deep and I'm not sure it's worth the effort unless you are already deeply invested in this series.    … Expand
  78. Dog4life
    Feb 6, 2019
    2
    Great visuals and charm.

    Awfully simplistic combat that requires 0 skill nor t actics. Bad fps sections. Camera controls are still really bad. Most substories are very predictible.

    very disappointing
  79. normalguycap
    Feb 15, 2019
    3
    Kingdom Hearts 3 is a mediocre game, but it’s a bad game by Kingdom Hearts’ standards. It’s all style and little substance which permeates every aspect of the game. It feels rushed and tawdry. It feels like it’s there to merely hit checkboxes. Ultimately, the game is deeply unsatisfying, filled with nonsensical choices, and recycled assets and ideas.

    The story is weak. Characters are    Kingdom Hearts 3 is a mediocre game, but it’s a bad game by Kingdom Hearts’ standards. It’s all style and little substance which permeates every aspect of the game. It feels rushed and tawdry. It feels like it’s there to merely hit checkboxes. Ultimately, the game is deeply unsatisfying, filled with nonsensical choices, and recycled assets and ideas.

    The story is weak. Characters are less than one dimensional and Sora has been flanderized into an idiot. Try to describe some members of the organization, their personalities and goals. Nobody is relatable. Nobody is a threat. Nobody has any goals that they stick by except for the final villain but he’s so passionless in this game and the stakes are so unclear that all tension is reduced to nothing. Most things technically get explained like ticking off a box, but it’s disappointing and boring with entirely too many words. With the amount of plot the game has to resolve, it does so in the most dry, expository way. It’s framed flatly, spoken robotically and there is hardly any emotion from anybody.

    The gameplay is stylish, shallow, and can be divided into two pieces: exploration and combat. Exploration is passable, but there is little interactivity and things to find compared to previous games. Mainly you find treasure chests and take pictures of Mickey Mouse heads, that’s it. Some are creative and fun, but most are tedious because some of the levels are too wide and cluttered. Sora, Donald and Goofy can sometimes indicate when you’re near one, but only a few and I’ll be damned if I’m scouring an entire city looking for small things.
    The game attempts a lot of genre hopping and each world usually has one extra type of gameplay involved. There is cooking, shooting, rhythm, collection, sailing, bust-a-move puzzles, platforming, and rail shooting sections. It does none of these things well and most of it isn’t engaging because it’s too simple or controls badly, but the combat-oriented ones are passably fleshed out.
    The combat takes minimal effort to do impressive looking moves but the limited amount means they get old and dull quick. The canned animations are a substitute for actual skill and depth. There is very little customization to be had as you can equip almost all the skills without adding boosts so the RPG elements are mainly a façade.

    The game is far too easy. Even on its hardest difficulty it offers no challenge until a weird difficulty spike at the very very end but this is more due to the controls not being as tight as they used to be. The combat is too chaotic and inconsistent with many allies and lots of unthreatening mobs. Particle effects either obscure the whole screen or are a laughable puff in the wind. Contributing to it and new to the game are attractions which are hyper moves that take the form of Disney classic amusement park rides. There are only five and they are entirely too strong and too common. Eventually I started skipping enemies because it was so boring and I had no incentive to fight other than seeing the story end. That's a death knell for your game when you have no incentive to fight.

    The music is a complete disappointment. Some of the Disney tracks are okay if you even notice them, but the rest are merely remixes of previous game’s themes. Kingdom Hearts 3 brings nothing significant of its own to the table. Compared to the works of genius the previous games were, this is a travesty. Voice acting and sound are mediocre at best, except for Xehanort, he’s awful.

    Kingdom Hearts is known for its crossover elements between Disney and Final Fantasy. Some final fantasy characters were significant to the plot and offered bonus gameplay opportunities. Part of the fun was the mystery of who you would encounter, when, where, and how. What combinations would we find? All final fantasy characters are conspicuously absent with no explanation.

    There’s more, so much more that is weird about this game, but I’m tired. Maybe this is my fault, because I did expect strides to be made in the same vain that Kingdom Hearts 2 did for Kingdom Hearts 1. But is that really so much to ask for in this series? After how long they had to make this game, is what we got really what everybody wanted? Could they have done no better than this with all the power and weight Square Enix and Disney can throw around?

    Kingdom Hearts 3 has all the check boxes of a standard triple AAA experience; it looks fine, plays like a spectacle, tries to be epic, but it’s grossly unsatisfying and at times, boring. For being the resolution to a story 17 years in the making, it’s a failure. As an action/adventure/rpg game it’s slightly below average as it tries to do everything rather than focus on a few things to do well. It’s unfortunate how little this game carries its own identity. I’d avoid this game or wait until it's cheap.    … Expand
  80. The_Help
    Feb 23, 2019
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. These reviews are all paid for and are incorrect, not to mention read the same. This is by far the most disappointing game in the KH series.

    If you choose not to fight every enemy that spawns you will be mainly watching 5min cut scenes every 20 seconds of gamplay walking (ToyStory is where you'll feel this really kick into high gear). in total my game has 18 hours saved and I watched every cut scene (theres 10.3 hours of cut scenes). This means that I spent 8 hours playing a game and basically a whole day watching an animated movie in which the plot isn't explained, but seems forced in the last 2 hours of the game.

    The visuals are an amazing improvement however the game chucks gimmicks and tries to distract you from poor game design. For instance reaction commands that aren't cohesive, worlds that are one or two rooms (theres a few of them). Worlds where you do the same thing continuously (I had to climb Elsas mountain 3 times before I could get to the top), the most exhausting end game tasks in any game ("lucky symbols or mickey shapes that blend into the world or can't be seen unless from certain angles are nothing like trinity symbols in kh1 etc.) and the least amount of "boss battles" in of the main games.

    I literally thought I was a third - half the way finished the game when suddenly it ended. This is a waste of money and im sure the producing studio will feel proud they wasted 2 days of my life in a game with zero nostalgia, painful cut scenes and minimal play after being a die hard fan for 17 years.    … Expand
  81. Yoogurette
    Mar 5, 2019
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I've been looking forward to this game for years... I've played almost every part of the series and can definitely say that this is the most disappointing game of them all!
    The fights are too easy and I get that they don't want to frustrate any kids playing this game, but that's what lower difficulty levels are there for. Think of your grown-up fans, please.
    Speaking of kids: Kingdom Hearts is a game for kids, but fans of the franchise started playing almost 20 years ago. The series has to be balanced especially when it comes to the story-telling.
    Boy, oh boy, the story is soooo bad. The first 20 hours into the game lack everything! You stroll through worlds without a real objective, nothing ever seems to be at stake. Sora is supposed to learn a power of which nobody really seems to know what it is, but Mickey and Riku apparently have it. Their storyline is far more interesting, but half of it happens off screen and the bits that are shown are spinning in circles. Same goes for the movie-stories in the worlds. I don't want to see the whole Frozen-song re-animated!!! Show me more about Riku or Kairi or get on with the freakin' story alltogether. There is no feeling of progress and at the end it seems so rushed and confusing. First, they explain everything they plan on doing and all of a sudden everybody dies, then they don't and we seemingly travel back in time, but not to try a different approach this time, no, we are saved by a higher entity that appears out of nowhere. Then people that were believed to be lost show up and nobody knows how they did it, not even the characters themselves. And here comes the biggest logical error in my opinion: Xehanort explains how he needs 13 darknesses and 7 lights. So wouldn't it make sense to avoid bringing him 7 lights??? Why do we try to get 7 lights and do all the work for him? For a long time, I was honestly convinced that Master Yen Sid is secretly a pawn of Xehanort. It makes no sense.
    Way to go, SquareEnix, after screwing up the storytelling in FF15, you also ruined the story of KH.
    I could go on and on, but I don't want to lose another day to rage on Kingdom Hearts.
    I love the previous games, they did a great job, especially with Birth by sleep. That was a game that managed to embrace an older audience as well.
    I don't get how people love this game... I am so unsatisfied with everything... despite the looks, the graphics are great and that's why this game gets 1 and not 0 points.    … Expand
  82. OldWhovian
    Feb 27, 2019
    1
    Definitely in the boat of being heavily disappointed with this game. To put it simply, to me it's the FFXIII of the KH series.

    The combat is painfully easy even on Proud (and downright boring on Lvl 1 runs due to how you have to abuse the mechanics). I've gone through some fights just tapping cross and occasionally triangle without moving and came out perfectly fine. The addition of the    Definitely in the boat of being heavily disappointed with this game. To put it simply, to me it's the FFXIII of the KH series.

    The combat is painfully easy even on Proud (and downright boring on Lvl 1 runs due to how you have to abuse the mechanics). I've gone through some fights just tapping cross and occasionally triangle without moving and came out perfectly fine. The addition of the Disney rides was reprehensible. I have to intentionally skip over them every time they show up as a command because they give you free wins.

    The pacing is pretty bad. There's only a handful of times that I have been able to go from fight to fight without sitting through a long winded cutscene that ends up being meaningless. It got so bad I had to start skipping some of them because I found myself looking at my phone anyway. That's not even to mention some of the strange pauses during the dialogue that feel super unnatural. I honestly asked myself at one point, if they wanted to make an interactive movie, why didn't they just release it on Netflix?

    The gummy portion being open exploration is almost a nice addition.. until I realized that, in space, I can't point my ship straight up and down. So when I'm hunting items...I have to slowly spiral up and down to change my elevation. It's 2019, flying controls should not be this bad. Especially if the main/only open exploration is centered around them.

    The amount of minigames is way too high. If they had focused even 20% away from this I feel like the gameplay could have been improved.

    Also not a fan of the cooking meals thing. I didn't get KH3 to play Monster Hunter, especially when the buffs are unnecessary as Sora is OP. In fact, the design of the game makes me question why I got it at all.

    I have had more fun grinding forms in KH2FM than I have had at any point in KH3.    … Expand
  83. peskygnome
    Mar 1, 2019
    3
    I am a long time kingdom hearts fan waited 13 years for this game and the combat system wasn't what all that great kinda to easy. Also after finishing the game and all the stuff that is going on in the game it does not feel finished like hey were going to cut it off halfway in the game and release the other half in dlc and give you the harder mode with it again things that should be in theI am a long time kingdom hearts fan waited 13 years for this game and the combat system wasn't what all that great kinda to easy. Also after finishing the game and all the stuff that is going on in the game it does not feel finished like hey were going to cut it off halfway in the game and release the other half in dlc and give you the harder mode with it again things that should be in the game at the begin of launch.… Expand
  84. JakubN
    Feb 23, 2019
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A lazy mess of a game. The gameplay cares more about being flashy then any sort of sense or skill, the execution is poor to the point that the 'acting' looks terrible and amateurish despite being cg, and there really isn't a story to speak of. The 'story' is a short and directionless pile of random tropes with another short and directionless pile of random tropes standing in for Sora. What makes it all the more tragic, is that the game had some good ideas and a LOT of potential, but it's clear that Disney cared more about advertising to you and protecting the image of every one of their properties in a blind fervor then making anything decent and it cost this game any sense of identity.
    As mentioned before, the game is really short, but while disappointing, it's also kind of a blessing as it spares us more awful cutscenes that butcher the characters we've grown to love -heroes and villains alike. The most disappointing part of the game has got to be Kairi. Anyone who was looking forward to her being a keyblade wielder after kh2 will be disappointed as she spends the whole game training only to do nothing in the final fight and be damsel-in-distressed and partly fridged. By the end this game felt like a betrayal of everything the past games have built up...
    As a game, it is sub-par. As kingdom hearts 3, it is downright terrible...
    For those interested, a quick list of my complaints about the game;
    terrible writing including
    -tropes for personality
    -out of place comedy
    -0 subtlety or quiet moments -everything is overdone
    -sora understands nothing
    -tropes for events
    -sora's forced mc syndrome
    -terrible character motivation
    -and much more
    poorly remaking Disney films wholesale
    only sora plays any major role anywhere
    the utter departure from the darker themes of kh for sunshine and rainbows
    unexplained, unaddressed random deus ex TIMETRAVEL in the final battle
    villeins constantly showing up only to talk with the mc and be cryptic
    maleficent constantly showing up to be inconsequential and hype the NEXT game
    all villeins -including past final bosses- being utterly un-threatening
    really short
    all worlds being one and done
    flowmotion is interesting, but clunky and pointless
    attractions show up all the time and can't be turned off
    loading screen fake-twitter
    no skill required for battle
    hyper protectiveness of Disney ips getting in the way of the story (like donald calling every princess randomly strong like 3 times)
    missing the point of almost every story told
    no connection between worlds by plot and nothing being accomplished
    each villein getting a redemption scene upon loss, even ansem
    buzz gets lectured to about friendship despite being absolutely right about sora
    awful directing, scenes go on far too long often
    Constant and overdone use of the sparkle effect
    dire lack of ff characters
    general lack of polish on everything but the graphics
    and a lot more that i can't think of off the top of my head.    … Expand
  85. Mburestam
    Mar 3, 2019
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. As a long time die hard fan of the series, this is one ot the worst installments to date. What was supposed to be the epic end of the Xehanort saga turned out to be a very cheezy, happy and cheerful rush to get this story out of the way in order to further the later added lore and build expectations for the next game.
    The game consists mainly of cut scenes, some of which look horrible and were probably made for ps3 while others are stunning but long.
    KH3 is way to easy, features absolutly no fun boss fight, no extra boss fights, some final fantasy characters but not to the extent that we would like to see ( im talking moggles but no sign of cloud, sephiroth etc. ) The end boss fights were bundled together with no regard to the individual stories of the org. XIII members and the hardest "extra boss" is just a heartless with extra steps.
    I am very disappointed as i expected a way darker kingdom hearts with a thought out story, instead i find myself annoyed with countless pointless minigames and frustrated with the way such a story is built and hyped for 13 years only to be shrugged and rushed off like this.
    The Kingdom hearts story never made sense but it never made sense in a way that makes sense. Kh3 just doesent make sense even with kingdom hearts logic.
    The fighting system is good but not great, the way magic flows out of Sora looks stunning.
    Form changing keyblades are a great idea and fun for a few minutes but i miss the drive system of KH2 and the option to control myself when and how i would like to change my form. The excessive use of **** disney rides shoved down my throat is just annoying.
    The worlds look good but many follow the original disney movie to the letter making you sit through just a remake of the movie rather than original fun story and where there are many options to present a boss character from the disney world, kh instead gives you another heartless boss fight.

    In short, Disney probably **** this game up the way they did with Star Wars and other franchises by breathing down Nomuras neck. It looks great but plays horribly. I was a fan since 2002 and have loved every game up to this point. Never again, i am very sad.    … Expand
  86. Fubuism
    Feb 8, 2020
    7
    Battles are great, but kinda on the short side compared to the first 2 and the story get more complex, a must for fans.
  87. Nick_Da_Nasty
    Mar 2, 2020
    9
    It’s lives up to the name but the voice acting dialog is a bit cringe worthy at time. Game play is smooth and graphics are good
  88. The_BlueRose
    Sep 14, 2019
    7
    Tras años de espera por fín llega KH3 con una gran expectación por parte de todos.

    Un apartado técnico apabullante y la promesa de terminar una saga acaban ofreciendo una experiencia agridulce en su apartado jugable y narrativo. La historia se desvía totalmente de lo acostumbrado y relega a los miembros de la Organización XIII a meros espectadores de lo que está sucediendo. Creando    Tras años de espera por fín llega KH3 con una gran expectación por parte de todos.

    Un apartado técnico apabullante y la promesa de terminar una saga acaban ofreciendo una experiencia agridulce en su apartado jugable y narrativo.

    La historia se desvía totalmente de lo acostumbrado y relega a los miembros de la Organización XIII a meros espectadores de lo que está sucediendo. Creando una historia vaga centrada principalmente en la exploración de los nuevos mundos por parte de Sora y compañía con ningún objetivo claro en estos, salvo el conseguir el Poder del Despertar.

    La baja dificultad y un mayor numero de enemigos hacen que la camara, ya de por si no muy buena, se haga peor. Quedándonos con lo BONITO que es el mundo y los efectos de luces y partículas.
    Los mundos por lo general son más grandes, pero algunos de ellos como San Fransokyo o Arendelle son bastantes planos y con una clara falta de variedad.

    El final de la historia tampoco llega a culminar una saga que, tras jugar a esta entrega, sabemos que continuará con una nueva historia. En un combate final plagado de cinemáticas sin sentido y una falta de personalidad por parte de los villanos. Dando a entender que por muy malo que seas siempre hay una luz en tu interior.    … Expand
  89. Empyrea
    Jan 31, 2021
    9
    I think this game would deserve an 8'5. It seems thought-out and polish. Graphics are good, the plot got really messy after the first Kingdom Hearts and they messed it up, so don't worry much about it if you don't follow the plot; just defeat the baddies and enjoy the new Disney worlds, which is the essence of this game. A bad thing from this game is that it hasn't autosaved and it shouldI think this game would deserve an 8'5. It seems thought-out and polish. Graphics are good, the plot got really messy after the first Kingdom Hearts and they messed it up, so don't worry much about it if you don't follow the plot; just defeat the baddies and enjoy the new Disney worlds, which is the essence of this game. A bad thing from this game is that it hasn't autosaved and it should have because when you finish a world there are many dialogues and you can't save. This would be my main complaint. It took me almost 31 hours in normal difficulty, fighting with almost every enemy I found and I only died once (in fact twice if I count the time that an item saved me) at the end of this game. Be adviced that the final battle is long and it is the most difficult. If you are used to games I'd recommend you to play in normal. If you are new with games try easy and if you are a pro or you want to spend time leveling your team, try the difficult level. To sum up, a must have game if you played and liked KH1 (and 2 too) and like Disney movies. Specially recommended for teenagers in my opinon. P.S: Don't waste your time looking for the Mickey mouse symbols. I finished the game with only 24 out of 90. They say that in normal difficulty you can see a secret ending if you find at least half of them but I took a picture of all the symbols I found and I'm still far from that achievement. I think I'll watch in youtube directly.… Expand
  90. Femto90
    Nov 12, 2019
    10
    Game is great, i don't know why i listened to the haters and let them influence my decision for so long. Now that i got it and played it, the game is fantastic.
    The combat is much more similar to KH2 than it is to the handheld games which is good.
    The story while slow in the first half, delivered on every front during the second half and wrapped up all loose ends for this Saga while    Game is great, i don't know why i listened to the haters and let them influence my decision for so long. Now that i got it and played it, the game is fantastic.
    The combat is much more similar to KH2 than it is to the handheld games which is good.

    The story while slow in the first half, delivered on every front during the second half and wrapped up all loose ends for this Saga while also teasing the next arc of the series which is shaping up amazingly well and i am beyond excited for the next KH game.

    Music, no comment. As always KH music is awesome.

    Graphics, better than ever.

    Level design of maps also better than ever, they have the openness and verticality of DDD maps but the complexity of KH1 maps, so it's literally the best in the series.

    Nomura is a goddamn genius, i loved KH3, can't wait for the DLC and the next KH. I am sorry SE, for doubting you and Nomura. **** the haters for delaying my enjoyment of this fantastic game.    … Expand
  91. frederik1478
    Jul 25, 2021
    7
    A good ending for franchise and I hope it will be,
    I love the Kingdom hearts franchise is the closest to my heart but I think this is a good place to just ended ,the Combat is not the best the serious but not the worst is a child of birth by sleep Kingdom hearts 2 body feels more like birth by sleep floaty kind of movement I'm not a fan of the world , I really love the ending and I will    A good ending for franchise and I hope it will be,
    I love the Kingdom hearts franchise is the closest to my heart but I think this is a good place to just ended ,the Combat is not the best the serious but not the worst is a child of birth by sleep Kingdom hearts 2 body feels more like birth by sleep floaty kind of movement I'm not a fan of the world , I really love the ending and I will say this is the third best kingdom hearts game,
    I loved it enough to get a Platinum trophy    … Expand
  92. kelonne
    Aug 27, 2019
    7
    Kingdom hearts iii is so so. I have played every title in the series.
    Kingdom hearts Iii story is somewhat boring, predictable. Story is a summary of many snap shots of the original movie/ story point jumps here and there (you probably wont understand if you haven't watch the movie before). Kingdom hearts iii explained and connect the gap between the series before.
    Story related game    Kingdom hearts iii is so so. I have played every title in the series.
    Kingdom hearts Iii story is somewhat boring, predictable. Story is a summary of many snap shots of the original movie/ story point jumps here and there (you probably wont understand if you haven't watch the movie before). Kingdom hearts iii explained and connect the gap between the series before.
    Story related game mechanics is interesting and new (robot riding in toy story, ship fight in pirate of the Caribbean) but very limited.
    There are a lot of mini games (optional), too many.
    There is not even many character from final fantasy series (compared to before, Cloud, Leon and so). I had this strong feeling this is a Disney only game.
    No arena and the fight with the must have legendary enemy Sephiroth is no more.
    Play till a point that I have to force myself to at least complete the story. Re-play value is low.
    Kingdom Hearts iii definitely doesn't worthy of 10/10 however it has many strengths and good improvement, definitely more than 5/10. My score is yellow region 7/10.    … Expand
  93. Nackzx
    Dec 2, 2019
    10
    This is my first Kingdom Hearts game and im totally surprise. The game is so much fun with so much variety. I want to play all other games to. Only thing is that sometimes characters a present in the game that were in the Game 1 or 2. So it would be nice to have some background story, but overall i love the game.
  94. soorena505
    Aug 20, 2020
    10
    the best jrpg game story of kingdom hearts 3 is special & so goOd graphics with different worlds
  95. Mancin_D_Lucas
    Feb 14, 2020
    7
    the game is very pleasant, the disney worlds are finally full of details, the fights are pleasant, shame about the plot set aside until the end and then all in a hurry.
    Ridiculous level of difficulty.
  96. Nosri
    Apr 7, 2020
    10
    After Re:mind. It’s my second favorite kingdom hearts game. This what I wish from the start, the characters gathered, cutscene after every world and fun gameplay that enjoyed it in every second. Finally this game delivered what I want. Looking forward
  97. DatPhoenix
    Dec 5, 2019
    10
    Honestly: played nearly every game this year (including all goty contestants this year) and this game still is my Goty of 2019. The game got a giant undeserved **** from people who either overhyped the game for themselfes or have not botherd to play all the other games first. That is the equivelant to watching endgame without having watched a Single mcu movie (or if it comes down only theHonestly: played nearly every game this year (including all goty contestants this year) and this game still is my Goty of 2019. The game got a giant undeserved **** from people who either overhyped the game for themselfes or have not botherd to play all the other games first. That is the equivelant to watching endgame without having watched a Single mcu movie (or if it comes down only the other avengers movie) and then being upset that you didn't get the full scope of the game. Well no s*** Sherlock. The game basivally did everything it promised to do. Finished up every open story thread nearly perfectly while only leaving a few newer ones open to set up the next saga. It came full circle in the end (not gonna spoil it but people who have played the game know what i mean) and while there sadly was a lack of FF characters i must say: it still worked because the game was so full of Original characters that there was literally no room for more. Not without the Story having to suffer from it. Also they will probably get added via the remind dlc so there is that. The worlds felt disconected from the over all story because this time they dealt more with certain themes that would get relevant in the end and not with pushing the story itself like in the other games. The combat was basivally KH and over all Action rpg heaven. The gummiship was actually fun this time around as well. So over all an awsome game. It would also be rated way higher if there weren't certain critiques giving the game a low rating for having "too much zippers." Stuff like that ruins not only their credebility but also the one of the newssite they are working for. Was the game perfect? Hell no. No game is perfect. Not even games like breath of the wild or Persona 5. It is a very fun and enjoyable game though and should satisfy even Hardcore fans though IF they haven't hyped this game up for themselfes like it should be basically the second coming of Jesus. Nuff said.… Expand
  98. DezJade
    Feb 28, 2019
    6
    Kingdom Hearts to video games is as Harry Potter is to books and ATLA is to tv shows for me- as in, it's a defining part of my childhood that has irrevocably shaped who I am as a person. I've played every game and been obsessed with the series since the first game when I was eight years old. That being said, I knew going into KH3 as soon as it was announced back in 2013 that I needed toKingdom Hearts to video games is as Harry Potter is to books and ATLA is to tv shows for me- as in, it's a defining part of my childhood that has irrevocably shaped who I am as a person. I've played every game and been obsessed with the series since the first game when I was eight years old. That being said, I knew going into KH3 as soon as it was announced back in 2013 that I needed to keep my hopes realistic. It's impossible for it to capture that same magic as when you're a kid and this proves true for almost every sequel and/or reboot made years later.

    Even with reasonable expectations, I was still disappointed in KH3.

    Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed it, I still cried at the beginning and at the end of the game. To be succinct, here's a list of my pros and cons:

    Cons:
    The combat. Way too flashy, as I'm sure many critics have said before. The game was far too easy. The attraction rides were stupid and unexplained and just...dumb.
    The story. Ridiculously convoluted plot. If this was the first game in a series (no prior established fanbase), the reviews for it would be far lower and a big chunk of this would be due to the insane story. Again, this is coming from someone who has played all the games and understands everything. I get it; doesn't mean it's still not stupid.
    The characters! This is what happens when you try to force a ridiculous plot: you bend and break the characters to fit it. This game did not FEEL like the others. For example, Sora, Riku, and Kairi's friendship is a huge part of the series and has been since the first game. But honestly, they barely interact in this! Riku has very little personality, Sora is just full of sunshine to the point where (with all the foreboding evil taking place at the same time) is almost unnerving, and Kairi is by far treated the absolute worst in this whole game. Even XEHANORT, the VILLIAN of the whole series, is treated with more compassion and dignity than Kairi. Kairi should be the coolest character in the entire game! Not only is she a Princess of Light, but she also wields a keyblade! They had a huge opportunity to make her a big-name character, setting her up to star in future games, but no. They went back a thousand steps and turned her into this no-personality damsel in distress who literally only exists to further the half-baked plot.
    The disney was also a huge let down too. Were the worlds beautiful? Sure? Was it awesome having multiple party members? Yes! But other than that? The words weren't that big, and most of the areas blended into one another. They weren't interactive in the same terms as the very first game (think of everything you could do in each area of each world. Wonderland alone was, literally, a wonder land, fun to explore to find secrets!). The worlds just felt like tasks you were supposed to get through to move on. You didn't get the chance to bond and learn from the characters (beyond the quick forced interactions). If you didn't watch the Disney movies, you'd have absolutely no idea what happened as you played the game. Rapunzel goes from saying Flynn to Eugene; what the heck is going on with Davy Jones? You're out of luck if you haven't watched the films, but hey, it's just as silly and unexplained as the rest of the game. We didn't get to really immerse ourselves in the world because all the stupid organization members no one cares about kept showing up to be annoyingly vague and mysterious on purpose. There were basically no Disney villains in this game, and the heartless were not catered to each specific world so honestly the whole experience was just very...disappointing, particularly compared to the other games.
    WAY too many cutscenes. You literally play for a minute before a 10 minute cutscene is triggered. I LOVE Kingdom Hearts but even I was tuning out for most of these because they were so stupid and boring and just plain unnecessary. Like what was even the point of Maleficent and Pete? They contributed absolutely nothing to the game. Honest to God you could cut 75% of the cutscenes from this game and not take away from anything at all. So much of this game was just unnecessary. They really needed an English Lit major on their team to go in and read their script and cut away all the unnecessary bs.

    Pros:
    The graphics. It really is a gorgeous game.
    The versatility. Sora being able to run up buildings and dive deep underwater was nice.
    I liked the magic. Though I prefer how it was set up in the first game vs the others. I really liked the effects too; because able to slide on the ice after using blizzard, Sora reacting to getting burned, etc
    Nostalgia. It's KH. I'd take a bad KH game over no KH game. I'm still ticked off about the game (don't get me started on the 100 acre wood), but all in all, I'm glad I played it. It's okay.    … Expand
  99. Kostas101
    Nov 21, 2021
    8
    Traveling to different Worlds and making new friends, this is pretty much how I see Kingdom Hearts. It's worth to mention that this was my first Kingdom Hearts game, but I did read a summary of the lore and the previous games, and I can safely say that I understood the story... or some of it, but unfortunately the story is indeed overly complicated and it didn't click with me, so I knewTraveling to different Worlds and making new friends, this is pretty much how I see Kingdom Hearts. It's worth to mention that this was my first Kingdom Hearts game, but I did read a summary of the lore and the previous games, and I can safely say that I understood the story... or some of it, but unfortunately the story is indeed overly complicated and it didn't click with me, so I knew from the get-go that I shouldn't expect great story writing. The best things about the game are the magnificent worlds, gorgeous visuals, spectacular music and enjoyable gameplay mechanics. In the end I was left satisfied, but there is some wasted potential here.… Expand
  100. Dementor187
    Jul 26, 2019
    10
    It was an experience. I've played the kh series ever since I first played the first one when I was 5 and I fell it love with it.
    This game is better than kh2 and kh2 FM, kh3 took what kh2 lacked and made it better.
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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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