Kingdom Hearts III

 Xbox One
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8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 597 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 466 out of 597
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  3. Negative: 93 out of 597
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  1. Eduar_hm
    Apr 2, 2020
    1
    It's boring, it s very simple and repetitive. It is very linear and I see the use of the rocket unnecessary to reach the following nivels
  2. LTOWNSLEY
    Jan 29, 2019
    4
    It's pretty rough-- this game plays like we all never left the PS2. It lacks innovation from the games that followed. The combat system doesn't feel updated-- but feels really close to the original two games. The graphics are in this weird in between stage where it looks like they tried to update what they started working on for the current generation. The UI looks like a ps2 reshell. ButIt's pretty rough-- this game plays like we all never left the PS2. It lacks innovation from the games that followed. The combat system doesn't feel updated-- but feels really close to the original two games. The graphics are in this weird in between stage where it looks like they tried to update what they started working on for the current generation. The UI looks like a ps2 reshell. But the worst thing about this game is the story and the dialogue. The story is a convoluted mess-- and don't even think of playing this game without replaying the previous one. It's not going to refresh your memory nor get new players caught it. Once you're in the game, it's a struggle to know what's going on--and who everyone is. It's insanely convoluted. Going from Red Dead 2 to this only made it more apparent. They really needed a proper team of writers for this. And if the story wasn't bad enough, the dialogue pushes it over the edge. The characters have weird, unnatural pauses when speaking. And their dialogue is written stilted and unnatural-- and no amount of acting could save it. There are also moments when you feel like characters should speak-- but they're mute instead. That said, the worlds are beautiful and it was nice to have a conclusion to the series. But this wasn't the conclusion it deserved. Nostalgia can carry a game far-- and that's certainly true here in KH3's case-- but it wasn't far enough.… Expand
  3. Broyax
    Apr 8, 2020
    0
    Attention, c'est du lourd ici, du doublement lourd puisqu'il faudra se taper le double effet lourdingue (et doublement pas cool) d'une part d'une Finale Fientasy typiquement **** et d'autre part de l'univers débilitant (et débile) du Disneycon totalement Disniais !

    La niaiserie compte donc double ici comme au Scrabble mais l'ennui et la bêtise comptent triple (effet bonux imprévu). La    Attention, c'est du lourd ici, du doublement lourd puisqu'il faudra se taper le double effet lourdingue (et doublement pas cool) d'une part d'une Finale Fientasy typiquement **** et d'autre part de l'univers débilitant (et débile) du Disneycon totalement Disniais !

    La niaiserie compte donc double ici comme au Scrabble mais l'ennui et la bêtise comptent triple (effet bonux imprévu). La présentation reste néanmoins très semblable à une quelconque fientaiserie avec ses graphismes en plastique, sas airs ahuris, ses dialogues idiots et son histoire plein de grenadine et de marshmallows.

    La musique super niaise et super horripilante ne peut pas être mise en sourdine, sauf à tout couper et se retrouver avec un jeu entièrement muet ! on me dira que de toute façon, on ne comptait pas s'éterniser, surtout avec ces combats à bourrinage obigatoire et ces boss hauts, très hauts (n'importe quoi !) la mythologie grecque récupérée et bafouée, abêtissante et bien sûr, les points de sauvegarde réservés à des endroits précis, à l'ancienne comme dans tout jeu de rôle japoniais de pacotille qui n'a de rôle... que le nom !

    Bref, du classique finalement pour une daube très habituelle chez **** avec le con-cours ici de Disniais, Pixarlard et con-sorts...    … Expand
  4. BeachBhaal
    Sep 15, 2019
    4
    This is the worst KH game I've played in the franchise. I'd go into details but instead I'll just say what I liked and the reason I haven't given it a lower score. The graphics and art are generally pleasing - even when combat is a confusing splash of colors - it looks pretty. Otherwise this game was trash, I played to the end + extras and wish I hadn't wasted my time
  5. Arkeden
    Feb 18, 2019
    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
  6. energystorm
    Feb 2, 2019
    0
    pff feo en xbox el control de lo peor es por eso que esta franquicia deberia quedarse en la ps porque no pudieron adaptarlo
  7. TheDava
    Feb 25, 2019
    3
    A convoluted and painful disappointment. The new Disney worlds are just redos of the movie plots, only way worse, the loose ends in the Kingdom Hearts franchise itself are handled very vaguely and inconsequentially. Going through the story was absolute suffering. As a longtime fan, I was just frustrated for most of the scenes.

    Combat-wise, the game is okay. It feels worse than Kh2, put    A convoluted and painful disappointment. The new Disney worlds are just redos of the movie plots, only way worse, the loose ends in the Kingdom Hearts franchise itself are handled very vaguely and inconsequentially. Going through the story was absolute suffering. As a longtime fan, I was just frustrated for most of the scenes.

    Combat-wise, the game is okay. It feels worse than Kh2, put bluntly, and it often muddles you up with all of the random, intrusive Y-button commands. Many enemies don't telegraph nearly well enough for you to be able to handle combat in a balanced way. You either need to just spam attack and hope or always be blocking. That said it still feels okay, but in the end, its kind of a messy jumble of a bunch of the game's mechanics mashed into one system.

    Honestly, the thing this game does passably is the way the Pixar worlds' plots are handled. They actually have unique and new storylines that don't just mirror the movies, and give you a nice feeling of having a new experience with an IP you know.

    As a whole though, the worlds felt shallow, and by the end of the game, you sort of realize they were essentially just time sinks put in the way of the plot of the game. I actually don't remember if there was ever justification for going to any of the Disney or Pixar worlds, they were just our only choice.

    I'm also expecting a money-grubbing story DLC in a few months, so at least we have that to look forward to...    … Expand
  8. ultima67
    Mar 3, 2019
    0
    This game was complete garbage and a waste of time. Looks like a PS3 game and plays worse than a PS2 game.
  9. Stoikil
    Feb 12, 2019
    3
    It only works if you have the factor of nostalgia, the conversations are horrible, the exposure of the story is horrible.
  10. loserkid182
    Feb 23, 2019
    0
    Es una realidad que cualquiera que haya puntuado con una nota superior al 7 a este juego, o le han pagado, o no ha jugado mas de 2 horas.

    Vamos a empezar por lo básico, han pasado 13 años desde la segunda entrega, son una realidad muy dura para un juego que parece haberse realizado en un año deprisa corriendo. Empecemos por lo ÚNICO bueno de esta valiente basura de juego, los    Es una realidad que cualquiera que haya puntuado con una nota superior al 7 a este juego, o le han pagado, o no ha jugado mas de 2 horas.

    Vamos a empezar por lo básico, han pasado 13 años desde la segunda entrega, son una realidad muy dura para un juego que parece haberse realizado en un año deprisa corriendo.

    Empecemos por lo ÚNICO bueno de esta valiente basura de juego, los gráficos/fluidez del juego. No pega tirones en casi ningún momento, va super fluido y los fps son constantes. Aun con todo eso, es el primer juego que en mi ps4 pro se ha "cerrado inesperadamente" cosa que no entiendo, ya que no corre los mejores gráficos del mercado ni mantiene una cantidad de enemigos en pantalla desorbitada(salvo en el final). Esto es lo ÚNICO en lo que parece que han dedicado mas de un mes de desarrollo.

    En lo que a los combates se refiere, un gorila con unos bongos conectados a la consola serian capaces de pasarse este juego. La CONSTANTE aparición del comando "triángulo" es como poco UNA BROMA DE MAL GUSTO, un combate consiste en aporrear el botón X hasta el momento que aparece la opción del triángulo, que son como 2 segundos de combate, después de eso, aparece como 2 o 3 veces mas, en caso de ser un combate largo evidentemente, en caso de ser un combate del montón, termina al momento y a continuar la historia.

    La construcción de escenarios es una vergüenza, literalmente en boca de Tetsuya Nomura íbamos a tener menos mundos por que los que teníamos iban a ser mas grandes y mejores. VAYA TOMADURA DE PELO,los mundo NO son mas grandes, y lo peor de todo es que son lineales,hasta había mas desarrollo en ciudad de paso en el KH1 que en cualquier mundo de esta mie*** que llaman juego.

    Lo poco que salva el juego son las cosas secundarias, como el hecho de las referencias a versus XIII, el cactilio y el tema de las fotos y la cocina. Aun así, donald y goofy se encargan de que este juego hecho para niños de 8 años sea mas fácil cada segundo que pasa y te dicen cada medio paso lo que tienes que hacer o donde buscarlo.

    Los personajes. Madre mía, como explicar esto sin ponerme a insultar a nadie. ES LA PEOR CONSTRUCCIÓN DE PERSONAJES DESDE ESCUADRON SUICIDA. Al empezar el juego, evidentemente vuelven a robarte tus poderes para justificar que seas un inútil otra vez, cosa que no me pareció mal, pero SORA TIENE YA 15 AÑOS O 16 O YO QUE COJ*** SÉ, POR QUE PARECE QUE TODO EL MUNDO HA MADURADO MENOS EL, HASTA EL MALDITO GOOFY PARECE UNA PERSONA ADULTA. No hay manera de justificar que sora sea igual de infantil que Ash Ketchum, no solo sus respuestas, si no su manera de interactuar y todo, es VERGONZOSO. Axel ha pasado de ser el mejor personaje de la franquicia a una especie de pobre patán que no sabe ni que está haciendo, ojalá le hubiesen dejado muerto. La justificación de los elegidos de la oscuridad es lamentable, muchos de ellos están ahí por que no hay prácticamente mas que relleno en todos los juegos que hay entre el kh2 y el kh3, y como no querían alargar el juego presentando personajes nuevos, PUES POR QUE NO!, HAGAMOS UN REFRITO DE LOS ENEMIGOS QUE YA HEMOS MATADO 35 VECES, Y POR QUE NO, REVIVIVAMOS ALGUNOS SIN ABSOLUTAMENTE NINGUNA JUSTIFICACIÓN, TOTAL, TAN SOLO HAN PASADO 13 AÑOS!!!!. Voy al siguiente punto por que aquí podría estar 1 día entero y me duele el corazón y nunca mejor dicho de estar escribiendo esto sobre algo que ha marcado mi juventud.

    La historia. Tampoco voy a hacer un drama de esto, KH es una saga con una historia que no da para mucho más, tampoco era lo que más me gustaba de los anteriores, pero antes al menos se justificaba por el desconocimiento de lo que ocurría, pero por ser algo concretos, los mundos de disney son prácticamente como ver las películas, enredados y frozen son un claro ejemplo, no haces nada mas que ver la película en tercera persona, es como si sora viese las películas, no aporta NADA. y ya para ir al siguiente punto, el final es insultante, con el final del kh1 LLORÉ la primera vez, la mezcla de emociones y música es muy bonito, aquí ni siquiera te saca una sonrisa.

    Pero sin lugar a duda, lo peor de todo el juego, es su duración, no alcanza ni las 50 horas jugando despacio, y mas de la mitad son cinematecas que NO CUENTAN NADA. El juego es así, un combate contra 3 pringados, cinematica, 2 combates, cine*, cine*, cine*, un combate que no aporta nada, 3 cine* y así las 50 horas.

    Ah cierto, no hay acto de presencia de NADA relacionado con Square, es disney 100%, ni un solo personaje de FFantasy, TWEWYou ni nada. PATÉTICO.

    Hacer está crítica me duele muchísimo y ha sido la única razón de crearme la cuenta en esta página, por que ver como medios y niños puntual este juego como un 10 es DOLOROSO    … Expand
  11. Achtlos
    Feb 11, 2019
    1
    Terrible Voice direction, with actors reading straight from queue cards with no understanding or interest in the context of the Characters words. Incomprehensible and unengaging story line. Graphics and animation is nice, maybe also try Skylanders and Starlink if this is your taste. The fighting is "press A rapidly until you win". The larger maps spaces are empty in reality. You can tellTerrible Voice direction, with actors reading straight from queue cards with no understanding or interest in the context of the Characters words. Incomprehensible and unengaging story line. Graphics and animation is nice, maybe also try Skylanders and Starlink if this is your taste. The fighting is "press A rapidly until you win". The larger maps spaces are empty in reality. You can tell the visually impressive set pieces were created at a very different time to lots of other parts of the game.. it's fractured development is blatantly obvious. this game is only for KH fans.… Expand
  12. zerolag
    Mar 7, 2019
    0
    this GAME ITS TRASH, awful camera, terrific system combat, the graphics look 2010 . Don buy and save money for better games. A lot of years for developement for get this garbage.
  13. davinu
    Apr 7, 2021
    1
    Such a terrible experience. The story is definitely the worst part of it, Nomura really needs to calm his own ego and re-learn how to make good games.

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#48 Best Xbox One Game of 2019
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#20 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2019
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#22 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2019

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. GameCritics
    May 29, 2019
    80
    It doesn’t quite reach the level of quality found in Kingdom Hearts II (which I don’t particularly think is fair because I don’t like to compare a sequel to its predecessor when said predecessor was one of the best games ever made), but I find it hard to believe that any fan of this series would walk away from Kingdom Hearts III unsatisfied.
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  2. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Mar 9, 2019
    80
    Inconsistent but entertaining, packed with likeable, iconic characters. [Issue#225, p.72]
  3. TheXboxHub
    Feb 20, 2019
    70
    Kingdom Hearts III is a fitting conclusion to this Dark Seeker saga; and by fitting, I mean a hodge-podge of ideas and sub-plots that don’t always seem to work but still manage to muster something pretty decent.
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