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
  2. Mixed: 38 out of 597
  3. Negative: 93 out of 597
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  1. cerb747
    Jul 6, 2023
    10
    I am speechless this game is a beautiful masterpiece that I would recommend to anyone this game is fun unique and amazing!
  2. neomoonsevin
    Apr 9, 2023
    10
    Awesome game I like the KH series I played most of them in the past great game great graphics
  3. jakebayne2002
    Dec 23, 2021
    10
    my favorite game !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  4. Utb76X
    Jun 26, 2021
    6
    If writing and dubbing drowned in a less childish The game would have looked much better! If gameplay if story and cutscreens a little less lukewarm (characters not related at all to the game) could have done much better.
  5. narto
    Jun 8, 2021
    10
    Kingdom hearts 3 es un juego muy completo, variado y divertido. Su jugabilidad es la mejor de la saga, sus graficos hermosos, la historia es interesante, sin embargo, es muy molesto que las cinemáticas sean tan largas, pero igual la historia no es lo mas importante en un videojuego.
  6. 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.
  7. Daigo19
    Feb 12, 2021
    9
    Muy colorido y recalcan elementos de los anteriores y los remasterizan, espero su version para PC
  8. BeeSting1
    Jan 1, 2021
    7
    Story is confusing as ever, but everything else is mostly good.

    Pros: - everything looks amazing. Characters, environment, and everything - disney story and characters are true to their movies - the ending is really good. Wraps up the saga nicely - combat is cool. Lots of abilities, and very flashy - recap theatre summarizes the past games for new comers Cons: -    Story is confusing as ever, but everything else is mostly good.

    Pros:

    - everything looks amazing. Characters, environment, and everything

    - disney story and characters are true to their movies

    - the ending is really good. Wraps up the saga nicely

    - combat is cool. Lots of abilities, and very flashy

    - recap theatre summarizes the past games for new comers

    Cons:

    - Sora is still very childish and doesn't seem to have grown up despite all the **** he's been through

    - some very childish worlds and themes. OG audience is now late 20s and into 30s. Not really suitable for us.

    - combat at the beginning is super easy

    - story is too metaphorical. Really hard to understand

    - too many villains introduced. Too little character development of the Org 13 members for me to care enough about each one.    … Expand
  9. Endory
    Oct 10, 2020
    10
    Kingdom Hearts 3 is the first true attempt for the franchise as a current gen HD title and was developed with the Unreal Engine 4.

    The game continues the story of the franchise and serves as a closure to the "First Phase" of Kingdom Hearts. It is by no means a perfect game and also has its negatives when you look at it critically like some level designs, pacing of the story and some    Kingdom Hearts 3 is the first true attempt for the franchise as a current gen HD title and was developed with the Unreal Engine 4.

    The game continues the story of the franchise and serves as a closure to the "First Phase" of Kingdom Hearts.

    It is by no means a perfect game and also has its negatives when you look at it critically like some level designs, pacing of the story and some gameplay mechanics.

    But all in all I really enjoyed what I get. A 3rd full game with Sora where you are companied from Donald and Goofy just like the first and the second game. The Graphics and animations are really well made. And the soundtrack is thanks to the composer Yoko Shimomura great as always.

    If you like Action RPG's, Disney or Anime, you should give Kingdom Hearts 3 a shot. You might like it. :-)

    Since it is a continuation of the story though, I would recomment to play "KIngdom Hearts: The Story so far" first and then come to this title.    … Expand
  10. JohnyKreic
    Jun 22, 2020
    7
    This game has an acceptable number of levels but with long duration that it becomes tedious to play.
    If you are a new player you will NOT understand the story well
    It has more cinematics than decent gameplay
  11. SuperK27
    May 17, 2020
    7
    The game is visually beautiful, but the writing in this game is very dumbed down quite a bit which becomes a distraction, the ending was great but not fully satisfied as you need to purchase DLC to finish the ending which isn't ideal. Combat, pace, music, free roam, and graphics are all but fantastic!
  12. Pattyballs
    May 9, 2020
    5
    Combat is the only saving grace of this game but other than that it is a mess. If you want to just poorly rehash some Disney movies than this is the game for you.
  13. 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
  14. kyle20ellis
    Apr 7, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers. The game is overall quite an enjoyable experience, provided you know what you're getting yourself into.

    Starting off immediately following the events of the previous game, we find ourselves quickly put into action (after the series' regular setup of CG J-Pop music videos and stat-development selection) in a hybrid Prologue/Tutorial in Olympus, greeted by    This review contains spoilers. The game is overall quite an enjoyable experience, provided you know what you're getting yourself into.

    Starting off immediately following the events of the previous game, we find ourselves quickly put into action (after the series' regular setup of CG J-Pop music videos and stat-development selection) in a hybrid Prologue/Tutorial in Olympus, greeted by Hercules and an absolutely exhausting screen with the words "Kingdom Hearts II.9" written as the most blatantly tongue-in-cheek meta-commentary this game pulls.

    Having plenty of experience with KH1 & 2 and zero playtime on any of the other games, I knew that obtuse plot details and callbacks to obscure concepts would be the norm in this game, and they are indeed endless. Having heard my fair share of terrible dialogue and plotting, I knew before even installing the game that my experience would be substantially elevated if I just chose not to care about how serious Kingdom Hearts takes itself. There are many moments of levity, of course, with even a few jabs at how ridiculous this all is. While this self-criticism is a great way to get exasperated listeners like me to crack a smile, there is a big difference in acknowledging a problem and doing something about it.

    Sora, our returning spikey-haired hero, is at the center of all these plot contrivances. It is very fortunate that they play Sora for the dumb but competent type (aka Goku), or else I feel that he would have become sick of the plot halfway through the second game and wheeled off into the sunset in his Gummi Ship. Haley Joel Osment again reprises his voice role, bringing a more mature sounding Sora while maintaining his friendly demeanor consistently through the game. Sora is joined of course by Donald and Goofy, and a highlight of the game is how most of the interactions among the three play out organically and as if they have known each other through all the past trials. For nearly all of the worlds, Sora and Co. are simply observers of truncated movie plots, only interacting with other protagonists after the elusive Organization XIII creates problems while studying each world.

    One of the stronger points in the game would be how good the writers were at melding the ethos of Sora’s enemies with the plots of the movies he journeys through. Do the Toys in Toy Story have Hearts? Is Rapunzel’s Heart of pure light threatened by her captivity or protected? The highlight of this being that the Organization does not realize that the heart inside of Davy Jones’ black treasure chest is his literal heart, not his “Heart.” Since most of these Disney stories are about good vs evil, it is interesting to see the clever ways the writers weave their original light vs dark story into the ones we’re familiar with. If only the main plot wasn’t a bunch of inconsistent, pedantic garbage.

    What is Kingdom Hearts? What’s the difference between a Heart and a soul? These questions that are fundamental to the main characters’ motivations are never sufficiently answered. At this point I’d rather them not be answered because any explanation would probably raise even more questions that I’d rather not think about.

    World design also varies in quality. None of the maps are bad but some (looking at you Monstropolis) capture the feel of the source movie but fall flat as exploration and combat opportunities go. Each world brings something new to the table though, and it is very clear that the developers were trying to give as much variety as possible. The implementation of parkour and wall-running add some great verticality to the levels that makes the environments feel more natural.

    The music in this game is, of course, exceptional. Yoko Shimomura returns with fantastic compositions and accompaniment, creating a sonic aesthetic that is always emotionally on key and captures the spirit of the Disney worlds with grace.

    Playing this game on a first-run Xbox One showed me that this game follows a trend in AAA game development: new games are meant to be played on the newest consoles available. While I have seen performance issues noted on the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X, I had several instances of frame drop and long load times, with a couple instances of shoddy textures and animations.

    These final couple hours are in stark contrast to the other 75% of the game where we galavant around in Disney movies getting **** all done until it’s suddenly just time to push the plot into high gear. The Disney worlds almost seem like an afterthought compared to the gravitas of the much darker final battles, where everyone gets serious and so much happens in so little time (Terra was actually Ansem’s dark guardian this whole time! Roxas is back! Two Rikus die! Ancient keyblade masters appear for backup and then disappear for no reason!) that it is clear that no one really knows what is going on...but I roll with it anyway.    … Expand
  15. 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
  16. Engue
    Dec 27, 2019
    6
    Basically everything about this game is top level. Combat system is simple but fun; Music is wonderful and fits perfectly into that setting; Graphics are great; But it is far away from perfect in my opinion. It has way to many cut scenes. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.... if the story wasn't kind of boring... And the worst thing about this game - which made it the worst gamingBasically everything about this game is top level. Combat system is simple but fun; Music is wonderful and fits perfectly into that setting; Graphics are great; But it is far away from perfect in my opinion. It has way to many cut scenes. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.... if the story wasn't kind of boring... And the worst thing about this game - which made it the worst gaming experience I've had in a really long time - are the dialogues and the writing in general.... Oh my god... I never played a game that's story is so badly written.... It feels like a 10 year old kid wrote the script for this game. So bad... SO BAD.
    Suggestion: If you're considering to play Kingdom Hearts III, skip the freaking cut scenes. They are dumb as hell, they make no flippin' sense and they are way too long...    … Expand
  17. TANGYFATNINJA
    Dec 4, 2019
    10
    Best KH game don't @ me. Looks amazing and plays great. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  18. AlexKidd
    Oct 31, 2019
    5
    Not a very good game i'm afraid. There's more cutscenes than actual gameplay, the controls are just as clunky as the original game and the story is completely ridiculous. The graphics are nice though.
  19. 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
  20. Warwom
    Aug 17, 2019
    10
    I am a big fan of Kingdom Hearts, it is easily placed in the top 3 of the best episodes.
    Good job Square Enix !
  21. Kiloa
    Aug 17, 2019
    10
    Best Kingdom Hearts with KH2, great gameplay ideas.
    Absolute fun especially since the critical mode.
    10/10 !
  22. Rogam
    Aug 17, 2019
    10
    10/10 because it's a very good game that deserves to be played.
    I love the worlds of the game.
  23. Dementor187
    Jul 26, 2019
    10
    This game had almost everything I wanted the only thing lacking was extra bosses but we are getting them soon cant wait.
  24. Roxas23
    Jul 26, 2019
    10
    There’s still a little bit of content missing, but overall it’s a very big game.
    I’m waiting for the DLC.
  25. Elmerne
    Jul 26, 2019
    10
    I am a big fan of Square Enix, thank you very much for Kingdom Hearts III ! You are the best !
  26. Crystal76
    Jul 26, 2019
    10
    A real surprise, I was amazed by this game and all that surrounds it. An indispensable.
  27. XboxLegacy
    Jul 25, 2019
    10
    First Kingdom Hearts coming out on Xbox ! Thanks Square Enix for thinking of us too !
  28. Luska
    Jul 25, 2019
    10
    Best Kingdom Hearts with KH1 and KH2.
    Many Keyblades with different effects. Gameplay is the high quality of the title.
  29. Weboom
    Jul 25, 2019
    10
    Finally a good game coming from Square Enix, it does not happen often so 10/10 to encourage.
  30. Erma
    Jul 25, 2019
    10
    A fascinating game, I took great pleasure in playing it and finishing it.
    Special mention at the gameplay.
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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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