lmao I showed my childhood friend this game and he got into it and WAS a teenage BOY in love with Axel lmao. He was his favorite character understandably so and would ONLY talk about him lmaooo
i've always done it. i only really considered kh1,kh2, CoM, and days, to be core games, the rest could just be spinoffs, and days only make into the list because fo the lore, since everything else there sucks.
@@andryduarte9164 can't disagree with you, but it still a bad game, I had high expectations for it, roxas is my favorite character, but the subplots are so messed up and boring due to the missions structure I can never really tell when will be the last mission on that world, and sometimes i just want to advance more on a world because I like it but the game won't let me I need to do missions in other worlds first. also I like the way they made the inventary on days, but I still can't deny that it was a bad ideia making players play a tetris game everytime they want to equip a new keyblade or abilitie.
@@andryduarte9164 also, I think KH is a franchise victim of inovation, KH2 had perfected the formula, from that point on, they had little to improved, only needed to add variety, maybe a fill diferent playable characters with unique magic, drive forms, summons and limits (KH bbs tried to do it, but aside from the ultimate skills they are all very similar on playstyle). instead they tried to completly change the machanics putting the command deck, the missions structure, disney attractions, command styles.
YES😂 Hey sora, you suck and you suck at things...here's a GIANT heartless catch you in the next world👋🏽 oh p.s. you will NEVER catch any of us until we finna die
There were 2 glaring problems not mentioned in this video: 1. No FF characters anywhere even though they had a place in the general story of the KH universe. 2. You don't even fight the Disney villains outside of Davy Jones. You just keep fighting big heartless.
KH1: Starts with some guys on an island trying to discover worlds. You can do races, fights, you go looking for pieces to build the raft. Then you start meeting characters and traveling through planets. KH2: Starts with a boy named Roxas in an artificial city with your friends. You can explore, work, skate, there is an abandoned mansion with an interesting story. Then you unlock Sora and go to explore worlds. KH3: HERCULES
Kh2 is legitimately one of my favorite starts to a game, it’s slow but has a distinctive purpose and overall makes you care for Roxas and his lil group of friends. Kh3: NO TIME, HERE’s HERCULES BITCH
PumpedAaron incorrect inference. This is NOT a perfect world, but also nobody got shot for that. Just because it's not so painful as to *justify murder* , that doesn't mean it's any less of a weird syrupy stupid "literally WTF" cringey and cliché AF line. It is *SO STUPID*
One of the reasons why this one doesn't interest me. I LOVED KH1 and KH2 but that magic in their combat systems doesn't look like it's here at all. Dual wielding and those form/drive changes were so fucking cool. But I look at this one and he transforms into using shit like a giant toy hammer? That's not cool at all. That's fucking lame as hell. This game looks like such a huge letdown.
@@blackphoenix77 At least after the point Ventus came back, sora would have lost this ability anyway. Ventus was the reason he was able to wield 2 keyblades. Or Roxas, i dont remember. And there still are form changes
The more objective qualities like the graphics are ground breaking. The more subjective elements that actually make the game memorable, like the story and the characters, were a tangled, overgrown mess. Kind of have to give it a high score, just because the important shit is too hard to put a number on, even if its more valuable.
Exactly, its like the combat went from being decently mature enough that teens and adults who liked the game had some meat on the bone but still easy enough for little kids to now its like im legitimatly embarassed at fighting with sora bc of how stupid his attacks and keyblades look now
Well good they got rid of drive forms after recently going through KH2 again got platinum and I honestly I hate forms cause it punishes you for using them
@@jlogan2228 KH1, CoM and 2 (even thought i just like 1)even with their stupid things could be appreciated by people of all ages Now everything else looks like calling the fans idiots and leaving they not just made Sora a Patrick Star IQ level, but also made anything like death and other interesting thing in the lore meaningless
Im surprise you didn't mention that theres a cutscene every 5 min, most of the game is you beat a group of heartless then cutscene and repeat, at times it feels like theres more cutscenes than gameplay
The game is like an animated movie. The cutscenes also last way too long. If they didn't have a skip cutscene option, I wouldn't have finished the game. Way too many of them and they aren't fun watching.
I had some moments where I started the game, visited a new world, had one scripted fight against some heartless, then another cutscene, then another scripted fight and another damn cutscene. And after that I searched for a save point and closed the game.
@@breadisrad8647 Exactly, KH games have always been cutscene heavy. In the previous games there would be a cutscene than it would switch to text bubbles that you had to click through. KH3 got rid of those text bubble segments and probably added more cutscene time to make up for it. I actually prefer it that way.
He is more reliable than trying to use Links for a free heal, so there's that. I don't even think he or Goofy died that much in the way up to the final fight, either.@@snowleopard9907
that one was probably the most fun for me, it was just regular childish fun. i wanted to enjoy the big hero 6 world so much but it was too short and honestly a little boring
Does it even really count as a loss when she never even raises her goddamn keyblade to defend herself? When Terranort attacked and when she was kidnapped she just........ stood there waiting to be saved, good god. At least Aqua giving up when looking at the heartless storm was disappointing (and should, imo, have happened after she watched most of the party be slaughtered by it, not before anyone else even really was taken) but SOMEWHAT justifiable since she clearly has PTSD going on from having to fight it off before.
EnglishRosie I get that it would be a stretch to make her equal to Sora or even Lea, but for christ's sake, she trained in a place where time doesn't flow (whatever that means, seems she's lvl 5 by the end), and has nothing to show for it. Make her on par with KH1 Sora or something, plus don't forget she is one of the Pure Lights (which seems to mean nothing really). I never saw her use magic, yet she's supposed to be very powerful with it.
@@harryunderwood8535 Yeah, her being at about the same level as KH1 Sora with a reliance on light magic would have been fine - if anything her and Lea being on equal footing would be fine and make sense since he's used to chakrams and not a keyblade. Lea gets his ass absolutely handed to him because he's a rookie too, but at least he puts up a FIGHT beforehand. Even in the scene where everyone gets dropped he gets knocked out from trying to attack Terranort, not from standing there uselessly waiting to be saved. Hell, it could have been REALLY cool if Kairi surviving the darkness attack on her own was for more than just... holding Sora's hand out of it before she went back to doing nothing. We could have even had her TRY to square off with Master Xehanort but fail because she wasn't well-trained enough. Tbh her not interacting with Riku basically at ALL was a really weird choice too - it seems like in order to quickly shove Sokai in after it had been basically forgotten after KH2 they just dropped any bonds she had with anyone else. She and Riku were FRIENDS, he went so insane during KH1 partly because she was in a coma, she saw through his new appearance in KH2 and stopped him running away from them again... and they don't even talk. Riku's interaction with Sora was completely removed too - he talks about him, but never really TO him that much, and he just became a cardboard exposition machine without his personality. It's not like he didn't have one after he accepted his darkness, he had plenty of personality in DDD, but they just scrapped it and axed most of his screentime. A LOT of other characters got treated well but Kairi and Riku just lost all purpose or personality?
Harry Underwood she still packed the experience on the field that every other Keyblade wielder has. Training is good, but you also learn through experience
Hands down the best part is when Sully from Monsters Inc throws that one guy through a random door and then through another door and another door and then they shread that door
To this day I have never replayed this game, gave it one play through and I couldn’t fathom how I could wait for this game so long and feel such betrayal. I come back to videos like this periodically because I’m still very very bitter lol
I’m in the same Gummi-ship as you lol I keep returning to these vids. It’s amazing how hard it’s been to let go. Feels like all these years later I’m still waiting for KH3 and daydreaming about what the Keyblade War and final battle with Xehanort will look like lol…You’re not alone, fellow old-timer :)
SAME! I thought I was the only one who feels very little drive to replay the game even now! The Disney worlds are such a waste of time, including the repetitive mechanics they introduce. Then there is the main plot which is so uncreative, nostalgia-driven, washed out of emotions and short, that it's hard to believe it's the culmination of a 2 decade long arc of a very complex and emotive franchise!
Could you at least use Magnet? I recall there was a boss who’s main gimmick was that he abused the Aztec gold curse to become immortal, and you had to collect the scattered coins to make it mortal again. The coins were large and low-resolution enough to find easily, and you could pick them up by the barrels with Magnet line spells, but had to be careful since the boss’s attacks would cause you to drop them. That was fun. But f***ing crabs!? 300 of them?! What’s Jack gonna do, deck them in armor and make them fight 100000 lobsters?
God its really hard to watch this video, I was so happy when KH3 came out and I was blinded by hype and and when I saw this video for the first time I was like "NO NO NO MARCUS YOU'RE WRONG" but a few weeks after I finished the game and I watched this video again I thought "Oh no" and I just find it really hard to accept the truth.
And that's why Nomura is focusing this supposed giant DLC on the final parts of the game, because they really are, lke mentioned in the video, the best part of this game.
@@moneeb23returns I guess you can't please everybody. We got what we wanted and the boss fights for the most part were in my opinion enjoyable. It also gave everyone the redemption they didn't receive in the base game and does a much better job of giving context to the initial ending. The story content and number of hours that can be put into it is well worth the 30 dollars. Data Battles and Black Code has also been a great addition.
5:39 "Mickey always feels out of place for some reason." Are you saying 1930s American anthropomorphic cartoon characters _DON'T_ fit in next to anime edgelords? *BLASPHEMY!*
@@epiccarrot88 I think it's just a problem with the core concept. Not that I'm not a fan, but I play it mainly for the gameplay, I've given up on the story. In the words of vinesauce: "Imagine this from my perspective having never played the series. Like, there's this dark anime edgelord on screen, and then there's a cut to Mickey just like 'HO HO!'"
@@warbossgegguz679 I wouldn't say its the core concept but the writing, it takes itself too seriously, dialogue from KH became a meme "light, darkness, light, darkness, stop the hurt" its pain not hurt Nomura!! Jak 2 and Ratchet Deadlocked were kids games that got darker but still had a lot of self aware humor and better writing.
@@supsquark505 That's EXACTLY the feeling I got from these unwarranted long pauses, ESPECIALLY the ones preceeding a collective laughter. Gee, the character acting in this game was so corny, only a few characters escaped, and I attribute that to lack of screen time!
Deadass. I was actually excited for Kairi to see if she was controllable or had sick moments in the game, but it was like Nomura didn't know what to do with her, panicked, and said.. "uhh and then Kairi gets kidnapped by Xemnas, gets killed, and Sora goes to bring her back...the end.."
The funniest part is that Kairi is killed by Xehanort.....and IN THE LITERAL ENDING, he brings her back. So the hook for the next game....was resolved, in the ending, for a completely different hook.
I'm going to go out on a limb with two options which aren't mutually exclusive: - Changing the game engine at some point. This keeps people from working on the game itself, and limits them to the writing. Which runs into: - Waiting on approval for content using other companies' characters. Which now means if you're using those worlds and waiting to get approval, you can't just re-work them and send an update - and if half your game is needing approval, then you're only stuck trying to polish the bits you can work on . . . which leads to those feeling disconnected. To be honest, from what I've heard so far about it (not started it yet), its major sin seems to be not being KH2. Which is weird to me for all the sins heaped on KH2 back when it was popular. ("Who the f--k is Roxas?!" "Eight hour tutorial")
When I defeated Aqua I thought I reached the half way point of the game due to all of the pacing had amounted to literally ZERO major plot points but nope, turns out the last level was next. So disappointed.
Yea you got to give kh1 its credit. It was VERY good and letting you gague your progress like even flying in the gummi ship as you went toward the last worlds and the epic music kicks in and it throws EVERY CRAZY THING IMAGINABLE at you youre like oh yea shits about to go down
@@jlogan2228 the pacing in KH1 is perfect in my eyes. The pacing in 3 was so bad that there’s no way they didn’t realize it was a trainwreck of a plot but they didn’t have time to fix it
@@MagcargoMan @Rafael Meza they actually did not need them to sell the first game either. I mean look at the boxart of KH1. FF characters are not on it. The inclusion of FF characters just appeared in textform on the boxart.
@@buttertoast1146 yep, since my original comment so clearly states that this is a new revelation to me. Seriously though, I knew this since 2006, when the Nobody storyline was way more compelling to me than the lame Disney stories at each world.
@@alejandroserrano7755 I agree about the first one being a great balance. But the best thing to KH to me was always the Disney aspect. I feel without it, the series wouldn't be as appealing as it is. I really enjoyed the Disney parts of the third game except Frozen and Big Hero 6 was sort of disappointing. All the other stuff outside of the Disney worlds was really confusing to me, especially the guys playing chess.
@@kriss007G apparently fujin is on a warriors quest and raijin tagged along(much to fujins umbrage, obviously), but thats all I was able to find out about any final fantasy character in this game.... apparently cloud and sephiroth are both spirits you can talk to in the final world, but I only read that... it makes sense though.
Guess there really is no such thing as a good game, then. No. You know what? This is no different than what happened with, and how I feel about something like FFXV. I still want to play this game and appreciate it in spite of all the obvious flaws. I mean, for one thing, what makes me glad is that this game actually delivered on all the plot set ups it had been building for the past 9 games and gave us a nice payoff, rather than leaving us hanging.
MightyTeek Yandere but there are better games that pulled things off better and left more players satisfied, that didn’t make people wait for a decade or so.
The 300 crabs did it for me. That's the moment when I dropped the game completely and watch a let's play of the final act of the game just so I know how the game ended.
I realised something felt wrong with my beloved Kingdom Hearts when I started skipping cutscenes in the last Disney World during my first playthrough. I literally have never done that before in any game.
I didn't even finish playing the game. I felt like I was going through it was too quick and put it down. I wanted to enjoy this game but never even picked it back up lol
Julio Jaramillo YO EXACTLY. Fuck disney worlds they wete just too childish and straight up filler. I wouldnt have minded it as much if we had a good amount of final fantasy but we had none. This is basically just a disney game. It had literally 0 original worlds and twilight town was fucking smaller then it was in kh2 god knows fucking how. Kh4 better be mostly original worlds and final famtasy aimed at original fans and not new players whre its more mattuee and someone actually dies like come on tell me keyblades from ff worlds woudnt be sharp and badass then the fucking toys we get from kh3. Even kh2 had better badass keyblades
I know this is late as fuck but whatever. I'm on the frozen world currently and one of the main issues I think is that they just go on for way to long unlike the other games were you got to one world you play there for an hour then leave but in this game each world is like 4 hours and halfway through I just want to move on
If they had added a midpoint boss and then had secondary stories to the worlds it would have fleshed out the pacing a little better. I HATED frozen and repunzel because it was just the movie while sora was on the side saying "wow" "oh no"
@@bemiatto67 No not at all, in previous kingdom hearts it felt more like an alternate version of the movie with kingdom hearts things it, heartless, big bosses the world and story would adapt to these crazy new things in it. Kingdom hearts 3 you're watching the movie and sora is just there, nothing different to it at all.
@@RU4REALDAWG thats just how it is, the big profile disney movies arent going to have alot of change but even then Sora was still put in in the best way possible without changing the story. Most disney worlds have their story play out exactly like their movies with changes being Sora. Even then, not all worlds got that treatment. Some worlds like Toy story and monsters inc had a completely original story with sora but like i said that was how every KH game worked. Some worlds were original story, some werent.
The Frozen world was just one big missed opportunity after another. Should have at least included Elsa's struggle with choosing light or darkness. Elsa wants to be good, but she feels that the world sees her as a monster and will never accept her, so perhaps she needs to just embrace that. But they don't even give you that. You can't even go into the town. The entire level is just this endless, empty mountain and everything looks the same. Sora hardly talks to anyone. If you didn't see the movie, you wouldn't know who the hell Hans is. Boss was okay though. I could write an essay about the whole game, but that world just sticks out to me the most right now. We can throw the blame a lot of different ways here. I'd say it was mostly Square Enix wanting to finally get this big project off their plate (much like the half-baked FF15) and Disney being fiercely protective of their newer properties and not allowing the KH team to take many liberties.
Yeah, right, like Disney would have allowed doing that with their #1 animated property at the moment (and it has been since the film's release). The issue with KH3 is that they can't decide which worlds can be featured. It's all up to Disney. I liked the fact they went for all 3D animated movies (apart from Herc and Pirates), as it was the best way to provide an authentic feeling of playing into the movies (and it actually felt as such for all of them), but also they had a missed opportunity with another Tron Legacy world (I get it, it was in DDD, but C'MON it would have looked insane on this gen), which is still regarded as one of the best looking movies ever. And anyways, the biggest flaw of the game is the lack of the movie soundtrack in the Pirates world. That really annoyed me.
I honestly would have really loved to see some parallels between Elsa and Riku. Both having this view of themselves as shaded people who have the potential to be good but are burdened by their own perceived darkness.
I feel like there's just an overwhelming lack of creativity in this game, like the others all had elements that left players with some curiosity or excitement and desire to explore everything but, ironically, the entry with the largest worlds to explore full me with only frustration and boredom
Nomura: No time for Final Fantasy characters because everyone else needs Their Plots resolved. KH3: *Dicks around doing nothing for 80% of playtime and All Plots wrapped up in the last few hours* What the hell?!! Eliminate one of the filler Disney worlds and we would have more than enough time for Radiant Garden and FF characters!!!
@MasterWayneDK58 No, he's not. Some people just can't write. Not everyone in your English class is going to get the same grade. At the same time, not every writer is a good writer.
Hearing about all the issues with the story and voice acting, I decided to play this game in Japanese and what I discovered was that it feels very much aimed at kids. The convoluted story aside, everyone's mannerisms, like the pauses for no reason, and inauthentic happiness feels very reminiscent of Japanese kids anime. It's almost like the English and Japanese versions are aimed at completely opposite audiences.
Not really I can argue a few, but here is the thing... I've become a person that kind of just accepts things for what they are. So it bothers me just a bit when people critique some things as "it sucks" when really its just a different personal trait that it does well. I can say the combat is button mashy, but I recently went into the original KH games, and besides DDD, and Birth by sleep, I can tell you a pretty much just button mashed my way through KH 1 and 2, and I played KH 2 on critical mode. I would have liked more encounters where guard was helpful more but pick and choose. And I liked the characters I felt like they did have personality. I think people need to think more about the song Simple and Clean. With as complicated as things seem in the series a simple gesture may be all that a person really needs. and the dialogue itself may seem cringy to others but I don't feel like it is, I felt like it fits. Again I'm not yelling at him simply saying my piece. He is right about a lot of things but I think I can disagree with his reasons, when it comes down to it, it is personal. But I felt they did a lot with this game and it was fun.
@@chaosdirge4906 Definitely agree with you on those points, this game ultimately had me shed tears and that was enough for me to close this arc. Loose end and the like is super common in every Kingdom Hearts, hell KH it where all the mystery and loose ends started. The "corny" dialogue (I will say because it isn't cringe for me its just the type of corny I can expect from a game aimed at kids or disney fans) has been a staple of the series and it isn't anything new. Plus, some of the themes explored throughout the game are so relatable and deep but I feel people are so focused on over analyzing the game that they forget to really absorb some of this stuff. I have a lot I can say on the subject matter but its as polarizing as the Last Jedi and that creates some very strong opinions that can be hard to have a regular discussion that doesn't divulge into an argument :(.
I tend to like easy games, so I liked kh3 alot, and the gummi ship was fun in this game compared to others imo. It took me 66 and a half hours to platinum, and I enjoyed it very much, but yeah, this game, while it has many flaws, is still enjoyable as a hardcore fan, imo
I really wish they'd use the Disney worlds more creatively and integrate them into the story more. The toy story world is a great example of them actually having the Disney worlds tie into the rest of the story. It's relevant to the things the bad guys are doing and used the disney characters well.
Sora: I want to go to the Realm of Darkness Everyone: Did you unlock the power of waking? Sora: ... *Two worlds later* Sora: I want to go to the Realm of Darkness Everyone: Did you unlock the power of waking? Sora: ... *Two worlds later* Dale: Mickey and Riku are in Trouble in the Realm of Darkness Everyone: Sora go to the realm of Darkness Sora: 😒 Get the reference? But it was really how I felt about the story in-between worlds
Speaking of in-between worlds they missed a huge opportunity with Castle Oblivion/Land of Departure being a playable world with Aqua as a guest party member. At least before that cutscene of her transforming the world you could’ve made your way through the world fighting any heartless or other enemies on the way till you got close enough to the castle. Would’ve been nice even if the world were to have been as small as Twilight Town.
You know why it sucked? It was because the creator was busy multitasking again. This time, he has that versus 13 remake in the works.. he got inspired while messing around with Riku's new hair and outfit. Thinking, "Why do all my Male characters keep ending up like.. Noctis.." Square Enix: "And so it begins.."
I'M SO GLAD I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE. I swear my first thought when I saw Riku was "This... this is Noctis with white hair..." Even his damn outfit is like Noctis'
Lol right? Its funny he says the frozen world was the worst, THAT is where i stopped playing the fucking game. I only did that first section and then after a bit I was like... fuck this
@@RykersRange the frozen world being the worst is widely agreed upon from what i've seen. you can see little pieces of whatever story they actually wanted to tell in that world still there, but disney put their foot down and wouldn't let them deviate from the plot of frozen at all, so you literally just dick around a cold mountain like three times while the movie happens in the background; it's awful
You still have nostalgia over the first games… KH3 is as flawed as the other and as good as well, you just dont notice it because of nostalgia. They all had bs mechanics, dumb and convoluted stories and badly designed bits. KH is a franchise that survives on nostalgia alone
@@Jefstito I never liked the stor that much, but the gameplay was better. Then adding Disney rides and stuff was hot garbage. Also they made the game way too easy. Also they just completely said F the story after KH2 and it shows here. It's just a bad game.
There are elements of Kh1 and 2 that is greatly missing from this game. Totally agree, this game felt rushed and I felt no stress in the combat. And there was a complete lack of emotion in the overall story. This game was missing what makes KH great
Best character by far in this game is goofy. He literally points out every flaw, problem and finds solutions sora sux at knowing what to do - goofy fixed bad guys tells sora can't do something - goofy points out how they did it so... bad guys turn into good guys and donald calls bs - goofy points out axel is a good guy sora realized fire is hot - goofy fix -w -b goofy is best character *add more examples plz*
@@ryancarson6962 Goofy's always been the most perceptive of the Trinity. He didn't suddenly get an endless wealth of street smarts just for this game. Even the wiki points out how unusually intelligent this incarnation of Goofy is.
Right?? One of the most powerful ex-Keyblade weilders finally gets off his ass and does something. It's like he woke up after 6+ games and was like, "Oh shit! I've sent kids into a War for the universe, wtf was I thinking??" It was amazing and hilarious at the same time.
Honestly, that's exactly how I saw it too lol. That's when I really started paying attention, like "oh shit, the lazy old bastard finally got off his ass to do something?! Okay, this is more serious than I thought!".
KH3 should have been the Endgame of the series, it should have been epic we finally get to see how this story ends we should have had a big pay off finally beating Xehanort after all his done (like Thanos) But instead it's like Star Wars rise of Skywalker cheap, forgettable, and lazy I felt cheated beating this game
@@aratwithinternetaccess8381 At least you could play KH 2 blind. Try that with Kh3. Read the "Journal" in both KH2 and 3. You will notice you could understand the plot of KH1 and KH2 by simply reading the unlocked journal entries in KH2, sure you would not know exactly what castle oblivion was, etc, but you would not need to, because those memories were lost to Sora and as such it actually made KH2 more immersive if you played it blind, because you as a player were about as confused as Sora and the interactions between "old" final fantasy characters were quite clear, you quickly understood who your allies and friends were, try doing that in Kh3 without spending hours investigating all the handheld spinoff stuff about Ventus, Vanitas, Terra, Aqua, etc. Aint gon happen
@@yadonkno3320 I wouldn't include endgame on that list. At least that was done coherently except few moments. KH3.....just went wrong and destroyed everything KH2 did with the story.
Aqua was just completely nerved which bugs me the most, honestly. She's my favorite character and I hated to see her getting chewed up like that ALL THE TIME! What the hell, keyblade master who kicked butt all the time and was a fucking goddes in the RoD just completely useless in 3. She should be equal, if not even better and more experienced than Riku, Sora, or ANYBODY besides Xehanort and Sid, really.
Sora is the main character of the series. If she was the protagonist in kh3 the game wouldn't be called kingdom hearts 3 but it would be another spinoff game. Also aqua sucks. She is too kind and boring. Her abilities suck and she isn't tough enough to defeat someone as powerful as xehanort. I sometimes wonder why they even created bbs at the first place. I played bbs one and it sucked balls.
I Loved the game but it just feels ever so slightly rushed out , Things like...... -Removal of all Final Fantasy characters even though they helped Sora out in Both KH1 and KH2. -No Critical mode -No Olympus Coliseum battles -No Sephiroth extra Boss , They could of used his Safer form for this game. -They Turned the book of Pooh into one room with a few Mini games and Removed Eeyor. It's just weird that the ps2 Kh2 game does a better job of giving us a Winnie the pooh world then a brand new PS4 game. You can complete poohs world in about 10 or 15 mins , It just feels tacked on and like they couldn't be bothered to make it a full world again. -Less Keyblades -Some worlds are lacking like Monsters Inc , you barely see any monsters just hazmat guys. Weird when Other worlds are now populated with NPC. -No real Secret bosses - We have apparently been told there will not be a Final Mix edition of this game which means they don't plan to update it like they did for KH2FM , So who knows what the DLC will be ???? - CONSTANTLY hearing Donald say "This looks like a good place to find some ingredients" - Cooking Mini game isn't fun for many players most have complained how there is no practice and how oversensitive the controls are and that sometimes they don't even know what they did wrong. - Story feels kinda rushed and we don't learn much new and still have no clue what the Black Box has inside...... -We only visit the worlds once now for story unlike in KH2 where we had to go back twice. -Original worlds like Twilight town have been cut down and made smaller , it's sad that a ps2 game has a bigger world of Twilight Town then KH3 , we can't even go in the mansion to explore. - Not wrapping up the Cloud and Sephiroth side story. - Seeing Mickey and Riku going to Radiant Garden but we can't - It's like the Higher ups told them to hurry up and cut certain things out to save on dev time kinda like what they did with FFXV. KH3 is missing those little details like for example I would of had Prompto from FFXV talk to Sora about the Photo mode and Ignis would of teamed up with Little Chef Remy at the Bistro. I still enjoyed the game for what it was , but KH2 will always be my favorite personally.
He says they dont need FF characters anymore to sell. I think thats total BS. Its either becauses hes salty he got kicked from working on FF so hes doing a subtle "fuck you" to square or because pixar is a bitch and they didnt want FF in the game as a conduction for pixar to be in it. Or its a bit of both
Totally agree. What originally attracted me to the first KH game and KH2 was the FF characters, I'm so disappointed they're all gone. I'm on the pirates world collecting crabs and I'm just so disappointed with all of it, I can't find the motivation to keep playing but I want to get my money's worth out of it so I want to get to the end.
I always imagined that KH3 would have Sora saving Aqua and Ventus in the beginning and you'd be able to choose between having Aqua, Ventus, Goofy, Donald, Riku, and Kairi (and maybe Mickey) in your party throughout the entire game. Maybe way too hopeful and too many characters but you can't deny that it would be awesome. Maybe youre unable to choose between them at all times but they all frequently join the party through the story (besides Donald and Goofy). At least pretty much EVERYONE is a party member in the final battles.
Not fighting Org 13 members in the disney worlds and there being no FF characters was a huge let down for me. Sora didnt have to fully defeat the org members if they fought in the disney worlds, but fuck, the first 20 hours seemed like a drag.
I have no problems on him hating on spiderman 3 and 1 but spiderman 2? That movie is a fcking classic man. One of the best superhero movies to date. Dont understand why he had to hate it too
I like Kingdom Hearts story ironically because it's preposterous that it even exists. It however legitimately pissed me off when they introduced time travel in the mix in DDD. Old news I know, but you gotta just lay all your shit on the table at one point and press on with the fucking story instead of just throwing more shit into it. It's gotta come to a head at some point. I do however honestly like KH 1 story though, maybe even love it. KH 2 had some awesome game play and some serious moments that didn't feel forced either. The series just needs to end already or evolve into something new, preferably without Disney.
Remove Disney but pay them to keep King Mickey, Donald, Goofy and the Keyblade visual Then make it a original thing + Final Fantasy, contract someone to make good scripts, stay with the good music and make a mature story
I was replaying KH1, doing Proud Mode for the 1st, and KH2 doing critical for the 1st time. It's a blast and its ashamed I found them more fun than KH3s combat. Anyone who says you can just button mash 2 have never played critical mode. The closet I got with 3 was The Carribaen which could have been it's own separate game and I would have been more than happy (seriously I love that world and the exploration). I don't know why 3 got rid of KH2's fast falling.
@@TheSCPStudio no, kh3 just sucks. Kh2 holds up to this day as an amazing game. I have nostalgia for a lot of games I played as a kid that I think are awful these days.
I kinda hated how Sora did EVERYTHING in this game. Like during the final battle there are definitely moments like Riku and his replica or Ven and Aqua saving Terra that Sora didn't really need to be in but he was because he's the protagonist but that just makes the other characters seem really incapable and kinda weak. Then there's the whole Aqua thing. I know it was foreshadowed but you could have thrown a curveball and surprised us, I personally think Mickey should've saved Aqua considering that he was the one who left her there and felt guilty about doing it. Neither Sira or Riku had anywhere near the level of connection or relationship that Mickey had with Aqua and I might've made an exception for Riku. (especially considering he does jackshit) for most of the game. But sora was an expected annoyance. Don't even get me started on Kairi or Roxas
Yeah, specially since everyone mess with Sora and treat him like he's mentally challenge and weak "because power of waking" or something, constantly. I mean, he is extra stupid and ignorant here opposed to innocently naive on 1 and 2. But everyone's on him. Yet he's always saving everyone. The ammount of time he was the one that needed saving vs all he's saved throughout all the games doesn't compare. So everyone acting like he's the lesser of them all while they themselves get their ass kick all the time, need saving or help saving someone else makes no sense.
@@Omizuke First of all power of waking is really important. It is power what allow you to snap from the darkness, and so safely traverse the Realm of Darkness. They were patronizing him, because they did know that Sora wold rush there even without ability to free himself from there again. Secondary, I'm not sure if Yan-Sid really trust him considering that he know some things about past other don't. it is why he try keep Sora from all this until they investigate what is going one. And he in fact was partially correct because as Braig said on beginning of the game, that he expect Sora to fallow all the crumbs as it was planed for him. And he did. Also he needed to be one finish the fight because whole thing was designed exactly for him to forge X-blade. So people would need be finished either by him or his Keyblade. Xehanort would have hard time to pass No Name to his enemies, though he (or Braig specifically as Xehan00b was a stud) could use this knowledge about future to make Sora only one capable to finish the job. That include also what happen in the end. Sadly without understanding who Sora really is, it is hard to notice what is going one, and I totally agree that ending was disappointing. Hopefully DLC would make what happen more clear to people, before final confrontation between Sora and his other half, so Master of the Masters.
@@TheRezro First of all did I wrote that the power of waking wasn't important? Because I didn't, I'm well aware of its importance. But do you honestly believe that THAT it's an excuse for everyone act they way they do towards him. He may lack it, but I believe he has earn some respect with all he has done. Oh but DDD happened and you failed to darkness lets all treat you like crap because you fail us. I don't know if its lost in translation but there doesn't seem to be much empathy even. Hell where would Riku be without Sora right now? Lost to darkness? Dead? And I get Yen-Sid been patronizing honestly, actually I'd expect him to be like that towards everyone, he is much older, much wiser, and more knowledgeable about all this. Although it's like like he hasn't screw up before. And yeah, I don't see him trusting many people or even fully anyone. And yeah, the writing made Sora dumber than a bags of bricks here. (Debatable with DDD?) But the whole treatment seems off. As for the finishing, well yeah, and Xehanort set up or not. It still doesn't change it. Credit where is due. And Sora has proved his worth. There is only so much Xehanort can controll with his planning and if Sora woldn't have been been good at all this he wouldn't have lasted even the first game. So yeah, my problem is his treatment in all this. It might have seem like a fun thing at first, but it get old, really fast. And well, it just hit me that it could actually be a translation thing, where thing would sound a lot different natively. You know, what of those things that "Its not what he said, its how he said it" As for DLC, that whole idea just put me off. This doesn't need to be another FF15 where the rest of the story needs to be told in updated, patches and DLCs. It's not like KH is stranger to extra installments. Portable and such. I rather have a full individual game than an ad don to this one. And I call Master of Masters "Super" Cause Super(bia) and his fortellers Ava(ritia), Invi(dia), Aced(ia), Gula, Ira and Luxu(ria)/Braig. So stand to reason that there is a 7th forteller or the Master of Masters's name is related to Superbia.
@@Omizuke First of, Riku do talk with respect about Sora. He only mostly isn't present there because of Yan-Sid decision. Secondary, no one deny Sora achievements. My point was that what Sora did later, was in fact exactly what Braig wanted him to do, what was also what they try prevent. But they failed and so were forced into battle anyway. Also dude, Final Mix? This is something what KH basically invented and put to almost absurd level. Why you are even surprised? Sorry, but you sound like someone projecting own issues here. As for last part.. lol.. good to know :D Thanks for telling my that! Sora/Superibia.. sound close enough if you ask my ;D So I add my own interesting theory. In KH2 Kairi ask Selphie about own past, as she doesn't remember anything after first KH. Selphie tell her that when was younger, she was playing with boy whose name was Riku, but he moved. Two things: Why she doesn't remember Sora? But also why she think that Riku moved? He and Sora disappeared after land fall in the darkness. You don't say that someone moved if you don't know that was what exactly happened. But now is the thing. Most of characters on isle beside Kairi and Selphie (who are from mainland) are from Final Fantasy X. And here is the thing. There is in this game character called Rikku. She is a tomboy girl, but Seplphie could not know that presuming that it was a boy. In short Kairi memory were implanted after Destiny land fall in the darkness. Both Riku and Sora never really were from there. It is also why Kairi forget them after KH same way as Lea needed time to regain his memory as nobody. But what about BBS team and Xehanort? Well, all of them were Norted, so they just could see illusion. Selphie is important because she is known outsider. Anyway I believe that Master split himself on two, like with Ventus and Vanitas. As such he needed complementary heart. Ordinal plan most likely consider use of Ventus (who is ancient master) but I suspect someone else interfered. I think it was Brain aka the virus guy (I personally think that he is that other guy with two colored eyes, from secret ending). Anyway that is the reason why Xehanort look like Riku, who is other half of Brain same way as Sora is other half of Master. At least such is the theory..
@@WardenKaz Yeah, but complaining is nice. I don´t find the game bad tough. But they could have rushed the story a little less and put a liiiitle less of disney in it. And for that I guess they had nonetheless a pretty good amount of time to do so.
Azrael Strutlokov no they had a good amount of time I agree with you but let’s be fair here, they spent seven years making portable games and a good amount of time making remasters.
They had 5-/+. Well, Between KH1 and 2 it was only 3 years and KH2 is still consider the best. So the whole "It wasn't a decade, they started on 2013" is still more time. As for the portable release. Well yeah, which mean they had more ground work done. They should've focus on making a good closing on this one. And make a good wrap up. They wasted too much time re watching Disney films to rush the bulk of the plot at the end.
The ending is cool but I would’ve preferred to fight them all individually in a kh2 style type fight at the end of Disney worlds especially with the weird ass cuts after you beat each person.
It makes sense that they would come at you all at once because they are all the same person now, they want you dead, and you are in the middle of a war. Makes no sense that they would just face you one on one and not take potshots.
@@andresmarrero8666 Are you trying to justify a poorly executed combat scenario with REALISM IN A KINGDOM HEARTS GAME? Also that's not even how it works, they all clearly display they are the same person as before, the yellow eyes didnt mean much, because non of them became full Xehanort.
@@BaneDane_JB let's see they are vessels of Xeanort's heart and being acting out on his wishes, desires and plans as if they are the same person because they are. They also want you dead, and you are in the middle of a war. Why in the world wouldn't they rush Sora?
I haven't played it, but the game seems to have already died completely after only 3 months. With so many years of anticipation and hype, I would've thought the Internet would be soiling its pants, no matter what the game was like. But........nothing. It just came and went.
@@TheBoxNasty I suppose you're right. But I'm still going to play it, just to see how it all ends. Not that the ending is going to make any sense. I mean, why start now?
@@thefreelancequeen Well, there's too much choice now. Only 10 years ago, when a big title was released, people were excited. But now they seem to take them for granted.
Give it time, I think they purposely made it lacking so they could start adding stuff through DLC and look like they're adding a lot. Even though most will probably be stuff that should've been in the game from the start like with FF15. You can get the "Royal edition" for half the price of the original release and it includes patch, updates and DLC.
*SPOILERS AHEAD* I hated the final gauntlet. It ruined any emotional payoff those scenes should have had by stacking them back to back. INTENSE 3v3 FIGHT > cutscene that attempts to shove in an entire redemption arc into 3 sentences of dialogue > INTENSE 3v2 FIGHT > same cutscene except the character is swapped > rinse repeat for the next 10 characters. There was no flow to it. The few characters who were getting an emotional payoff that you cared about, felt hollow because you just listened to 5 other people spout of how they're totally redeemed now. Doesn't help that depending on which order you defeated the bosses in each segment, it could make the order of events a little awkward. Like I defeated young Xehanort first out of the 3, and his final words definitely feel like they should have been last of the three. Regarding difficulty. The only difficult parts in the entire game in my opinion, playing on proud, were the two final segments of the armored Xehanort fight, and the GOD DAMNED SHIP COMBAT BOSS. And that's super artificial difficulty because that wasn't a case of "dangerous moveset that you had to learn to counter" but rather "the controls in this gimmick fight are super clunky and not at all like the combat that has been in the rest of the game". Whoever decided that an underwater segment for the final boss would be a good idea, should be keelhauled. I thought they had learned their lesson with KH2, when they removed all combat from Atlantis. But apparently not. And now you have floaty air combat on top of that. Air combat that was worse than the air combat in the first game because you're constantly losing altitude, making it super awkward.
I agree I grew super numb to redemptions. Why even bother? Especially cause theyre just gonna be humans again, Sora even says so! No loss, no gains, nothing at all
Considering the alienated mindset of my teenage self, the final battle of KH2 with you + spike haired dude that I forgot the name... fighting the final boss in that white room, flashy effects and all that anime bullshit.. I loved that, lol my only memory of KH. But I used to like naruto and bleach at the time, so.. like I said, alienated idiot. Nowadays, the anime bullshit + disney facade don't deceive me anymore.
Another thing that irked me is that Destiny Islands, Radiant Garden, and the mansion/Yen Sid's tower are all used in cutscenes, yet weren't playable areas. Who made that stupid decision.
I still find it weird that they all still go out on a journey after returning home where their friends and family are. Did Sora and Riku ever even return to their parents again?
Legit the birth by sleep trio was my main investment in the story, I liked the others but the bbs trio was my fave. Seeing no one other than Sora accomplish anything and having everyone get seriously downgraded for the sake of Sora getting to do more made me bang my head against a wall.
I feel like Disney might've had more to say on this game, and that's why the story wasn't up to par. There were no FF characters, seemingly because Disney wanted to plug as much of their merch as possible. The worlds had nothing to do with the story, seemingly because Disney wanted them to remain mostly untouched story-wise. Most of the worlds played out like they were trying to awkwardly remake the movies with massive amounts of their stories left out. There was also a (way too long) sequence for Let It Go that was soooo unneccessary.
Hakon Pyke The attraction flow rides was a no from me. Hated them and tried to avoid using them as much as possible. I’m sure disney tried to enforce them into the game. Also the combat was extremely easy. I don’t think I died once
Heck a lot of people are saying the next one Kingdom Hearts 4 won't have a single Disney tie and in it it's going to be the world ends with you and all the crazy stuff that was at the very end of this game all the time
Hard disagree about the ship battles in The Caribbean, I was worried thinking they were gonna be painfully dull but I think they were very enjoyable, they never felt too slow for me
Different opinion. Enjoyed the Disney worlds, then got to the final serious parts and was very disappointed with the story. Deaths just had no weight or significance anymore.
@@Sraye the plot was darn disappointing and THAT is the fact, at least. No build up (besides finally meeting Aqua/Ven), a lot of cliche, near to zero explanation (wtf was that afterlife shit that somehow made Sora go back in time?!), how tf did Sora even beat half of his enemies while still clearly being weak?
@@turbotrup96 that was to whole point of the build up to bring every body back together and beat org13 i dont know ppl like hating on ganes thees days a game not gonna be perfect but u know dam well it didnt suck
@@blackfoxx3498 The point is they all appeared just like that, because of convenience and nothing else. There was nothing interesting, new or logical written to their come backs. They didn't even SAY anything worthwhile. And what else did the game's plot offer? Nothing, besides the secret endings that still didn't answer questions we had before this game was even released, even though it was supposed to finish the arc FOR GOOD. Unless getting rid of Xehanort (in a meh way) is some sort of writing achievement that's enough to satisfy your wait for this game.
Honestly, your opinion on how they handled aqua is how i felt about the last quarter of the game. Roxas is brought back with no build up or issue. Xion, a character who DOESN'T EXIST, is brought back like it's nothing. They have a good cry over it, but the lack of build up or explanation on how such a character was restored was insulting. Terra being saved so easily(and not being part of the final fight), was also really underwhelming. The first part of the game was a directionless slog, and the last part flubbed what SHOULD have been the best part of the game. This game COULD have been great if they had spent the game setting up the ending moments and building tension, but they decided to play coy and keep it a surprise and it was awful.
I've been told by many that they were brought back because of fan service,fans were angry and want them back resulting them being back with weird complicated ways..
Seriously it’s like they just threw them back in the series and said “here you guys go, they’re back” I’m at the last battle right now against Xehanort but man this final world really bothers me because it should’ve been a really big deal , but they managed to make every part of everything that happened lackluster.
yeah i hated the story in this game. i really liked the story in 2 even though many found it too complex, it really made me want to keep playing to see what happens next. in kh3 i was bored through the entire thing and had to force myself to keep playing. only kh game i had to force myself to finish.
Yeah i felt like they just used crying to give the game emotion. Everyone's together everyone's crying... I felt like it was dramatic without having much feeling
Tokyo team, tokyo team Tokyo team, Tokyo team, bring 'em baaack, boooo osaka, boooo floaty combos, put nomura in an actual writing class, get the guy who writes the script in there with him
Yeah I’m not doing that. A lot of companies are doing that lately where they release the story of a mainline game via dlc and I️ refuse to support it with my money. If I️ wanted an mmo experience, I’d do an mmo.
It sucks because it isn't finished. I mean, for a game 5 years in development, I'm flabergasted at how much MORE content Kingdom Hearts 2 had, it's predecessor from 13 years ago.
I don't think original Lh2 had that much more . But I feel Ike alot of people compare this to Kh2FM which isn't fair fair to compare a basic game to a enhanced remastered edition. It'sike when a new windows comes out and it's buggy everyone compares it to Windows xp sp3 instead of the pre service pack version ect
@@ninjaxsam Good point. Most people probably only played Final Mix, especially all the new fans who bought the PS3 or PS4 collections (or both) They ALL were the Final Mix versions. Or at least KH1, KH2, and BBS were all final mix versions. Not sure about DDD. People just don't realize how much less content KH2 and BBS originally before the Final Mix versions released. In fact, until recently most players hadn't played Final Mix versions though since they hadn't been officially released in North America. The only way to play them was if you could speak Japanese to import them, or to use an emulator and a mod to add English voices and translations to the game. (which is what I did around 2 years ago when I first played KH1 on PC on an emulator.)
@@ninjaxsam actually base kingdom hearts 2 still had way more. So much more depth to insane levels. The only real side content in 3 is cooking (which is pointless) and the 2 mini games per world and the flans (for cooking which is pointless). I guess the classic games could MAYBE be counted but you dont have to play any of them for more than 10 seconds.
@@phantomthief6701 even if there was as much or more content than 2 it would still suck. the combat was so boring it may as well play itself, the boss fights were all lame and required no different strategies, the story was not interesting in the slightest, the voice acting is the worst in the franchise. i was so bored i had to force myself through it. adding more to this game would just make it all the harder to force my way through it.
This is what happens when you sell out on your story, and gameplay to increase graphics, and technical controls. Final Fantasy tanked in the exact same way. We could be happy with flashy, and advanced mechanic if the story and customization were more on par with the original. Put more work into the worlds, bring in more worlds, increase the gameplay length with more variety of side quests not cutscenes with poor delivery. Been really disappointed with Square Enix lately, but at least y'all got DQXI right for the most part.
“Oh we’re here to see if there’s a princess of heart in this world. And if Sora is here, we’re gonna call him a nerd, summon a monster, and run away.” Yep. Basically.
Title: “Why it Sucks”
Video starts: “I didn’t hate it, it improves on a lot”
Classic Marcus
Views it’s all about the views he’s trying to attract anger hungry fans
9/10
It sucks
Max Marriner it’s pretty much the most Marcus thing ever .-.
Well, it's not like he has a series or whatever that all share the same title or anything.
He then immediately proceeds to say that it created a whole lot of new problems. Which can still be a net negative.
Kingdom Hearts 3 was without a doubt the best Kingdom Hearts spinoff put out yet to tide us over while we wait for Kingdom Hearts 3.
Actually, BBS was better plotwise and gave a much deeper feelings, just like 358/2 did.
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Ahahahahaha
turbotrup96 agreed
Don't you mean Kingdom hearts 2'9?
"Now I wasn't a teenage girl when Axel was introduced"
Me, we who WAS a teenage girl who was in love with Axel: *sweating intensifies*
felt this
Let me guess, he had you at "Got it memorized"
lmao I showed my childhood friend this game and he got into it and WAS a teenage BOY in love with Axel lmao. He was his favorite character understandably so and would ONLY talk about him lmaooo
@@kyndallkeys8349axel pulls everyone 😂
Just pretend kh2 was the "true" ending and the message they got from Mickey was just him saying "good job man"
Yeah that's how I view it as well.
What comes after is just such a mess that I can no longer appreciate it.
i've always done it. i only really considered kh1,kh2, CoM, and days, to be core games, the rest could just be spinoffs, and days only make into the list because fo the lore, since everything else there sucks.
@@alucard5841 358/2 days makes the beginning of Kingdom Hearts II so much more emotional
@@andryduarte9164 can't disagree with you, but it still a bad game, I had high expectations for it, roxas is my favorite character, but the subplots are so messed up and boring due to the missions structure I can never really tell when will be the last mission on that world, and sometimes i just want to advance more on a world because I like it but the game won't let me I need to do missions in other worlds first.
also I like the way they made the inventary on days, but I still can't deny that it was a bad ideia making players play a tetris game everytime they want to equip a new keyblade or abilitie.
@@andryduarte9164 also, I think KH is a franchise victim of inovation, KH2 had perfected the formula, from that point on, they had little to improved, only needed to add variety, maybe a fill diferent playable characters with unique magic, drive forms, summons and limits (KH bbs tried to do it, but aside from the ultimate skills they are all very similar on playstyle).
instead they tried to completly change the machanics putting the command deck, the missions structure, disney attractions, command styles.
“If soras here, we’re gonna call call him a nerd, and summon a monster, then run away.”
😂😂😂most accurate thing ever😂😂😂
YES😂 Hey sora, you suck and you suck at things...here's a GIANT heartless catch you in the next world👋🏽 oh p.s. you will NEVER catch any of us until we finna die
finna
There were 2 glaring problems not mentioned in this video:
1. No FF characters anywhere even though they had a place in the general story of the KH universe.
2. You don't even fight the Disney villains outside of Davy Jones. You just keep fighting big heartless.
you fight mother gothel as a huge heartless. that's kinda a disney villain
Anti-Baymax was cool too
@@soy9605 No you don't fight Mother Gothel, you fight Mother Gothel's cloak turned tree for some reason
@@CelioHogane oh yeah you're right. i always associate it with her cause they both have the bushy hair
Ammuze I may be wrong but you do fight evil baymax so that’s kinda like fighting a Disney villain.
KH1: Starts with some guys on an island trying to discover worlds. You can do races, fights, you go looking for pieces to build the raft. Then you start meeting characters and traveling through planets.
KH2: Starts with a boy named Roxas in an artificial city with your friends. You can explore, work, skate, there is an abandoned mansion with an interesting story. Then you unlock Sora and go to explore worlds.
KH3: HERCULES
Kh2 is legitimately one of my favorite starts to a game, it’s slow but has a distinctive purpose and overall makes you care for Roxas and his lil group of friends.
Kh3: NO TIME, HERE’s HERCULES BITCH
@@gdadder I think the prologue was a nice orientation. It's better than being thrown in with no idea where this is going
Hero: It's not the sum of out parts, it's the sum of our hearts.
Sora: YEAH!
Me: What?
Yeah that is so cringey
The desire to finish playing the game left my body when I heard that
Who the hell writes this crap?
Ya know Gen, in a perfect world, people can say that and not get shot
PumpedAaron incorrect inference. This is NOT a perfect world, but also nobody got shot for that.
Just because it's not so painful as to *justify murder* , that doesn't mean it's any less of a weird syrupy stupid "literally WTF" cringey and cliché AF line.
It is *SO STUPID*
Sora went from dualwielding keyblades to spinning around in a teacup.
One of the reasons why this one doesn't interest me. I LOVED KH1 and KH2 but that magic in their combat systems doesn't look like it's here at all. Dual wielding and those form/drive changes were so fucking cool. But I look at this one and he transforms into using shit like a giant toy hammer? That's not cool at all. That's fucking lame as hell. This game looks like such a huge letdown.
I was so disappointed that he can't dual wield anymore. What the fuck?
I’m pretty sure he care anymore story wise. It has something to do with Ventus
@@blackphoenix77 At least after the point Ventus came back, sora would have lost this ability anyway. Ventus was the reason he was able to wield 2 keyblades. Or Roxas, i dont remember. And there still are form changes
Disapoiiiiiinteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed
“9/10, it sucks” is probably the perfect way to sum up my relationship with the kingdom hearts series lmao
Jake Spears what?
The more objective qualities like the graphics are ground breaking. The more subjective elements that actually make the game memorable, like the story and the characters, were a tangled, overgrown mess. Kind of have to give it a high score, just because the important shit is too hard to put a number on, even if its more valuable.
Yup the game is a shit show but boy do I love it. Convoluted mess but I love it
HONESTLY SO ME. “9/10, absolutely loved it, it sucks”
@@pagetvido1850 never been able to sum up my thoughts on the game so succinctly until I read this comment. thank you
Went from going into final, valor, wisdom and master form to spinning around in tea cups, taking pictures of Disney logos and playing mini games
Went from playing several decent to fun 100 Acre Wood mini games to the same shitty game 3 times
Ikr
Exactly, its like the combat went from being decently mature enough that teens and adults who liked the game had some meat on the bone but still easy enough for little kids to now its like im legitimatly embarassed at fighting with sora bc of how stupid his attacks and keyblades look now
Well good they got rid of drive forms after recently going through KH2 again got platinum and I honestly I hate forms cause it punishes you for using them
@@jlogan2228 KH1, CoM and 2 (even thought i just like 1)even with their stupid things could be appreciated by people of all ages
Now everything else looks like calling the fans idiots and leaving they not just made Sora a Patrick Star IQ level, but also made anything like death and other interesting thing in the lore meaningless
Im surprise you didn't mention that theres a cutscene every 5 min, most of the game is you beat a group of heartless then cutscene and repeat, at times it feels like theres more cutscenes than gameplay
The game is like an animated movie. The cutscenes also last way too long. If they didn't have a skip cutscene option, I wouldn't have finished the game. Way too many of them and they aren't fun watching.
I had some moments where I started the game, visited a new world, had one scripted fight against some heartless, then another cutscene, then another scripted fight and another damn cutscene. And after that I searched for a save point and closed the game.
KH2 was the same way and also had some long cutscenes.
@@FlashingFireGames I was gonna say 😂 a lot of KH games are like that
@@breadisrad8647 Exactly, KH games have always been cutscene heavy. In the previous games there would be a cutscene than it would switch to text bubbles that you had to click through. KH3 got rid of those text bubble segments and probably added more cutscene time to make up for it. I actually prefer it that way.
I'm impressed that Donald actually fucking healed me in this game like he was supposed to
On proud mode I used him alot at the ending used him almost like a second heal. I did enjoy tht mechanic at least.
He is more reliable than trying to use Links for a free heal, so there's that. I don't even think he or Goofy died that much in the way up to the final fight, either.@@snowleopard9907
I'm still having trouble with that. Any tips?
@@jonjon140294 trouble with what? You can customize Donald to make him heal when needed.
Ok I'll be honest I also used potions during the ending boss too. But that was the only time. Also ate a full meal.
"9/10 it sucks" is the most kingdom hearts sentence I've ever read
He changed it 3/10
Idc if this comment was sent 2yrs ago
@@SoraTheKeyToEverything I was thinking of getting kh3 but now I’m not so sure about that, I might just get kh1.5/2.5 and kh2.8 and enjoy those
@@albertocovarrubias5782 well if you want to play the games in order 🎶be our guest🎶
@@SoraTheKeyToEverything thx, I’ll do that
@@albertocovarrubias5782 the 🎶be our guest🎶 is meant to be a beauty and the beast reference FYI
Toy story level
Expectations: everybody fights thru waves of zurgs men.
Reality....
Robots after robots after robots
And self advertisement
a least they put effort compare too the other worlds
that one was probably the most fun for me, it was just regular childish fun. i wanted to enjoy the big hero 6 world so much but it was too short and honestly a little boring
I was honestly hoping we got a boss battle against Sid 😂
@@lowhp_comic A part of me wishes it was Lotso the one we had to deal with......
That bear is in due waiting off a beatdown.
The fact that everyone got a happy ending makes all the tragedies of the other games irrelevent whoever died shouldve remained dead
As much as I love Roxas, I completely agree.
And ansem the wise
Exactly!
I love axel, but I want his tragic end to be real
I mean, Sora basically died, though...
Kairi: Trains for year to wield a keyblade......
Loses first fight and gets kidnapped....
SHOUNEN 101 XD
Does it even really count as a loss when she never even raises her goddamn keyblade to defend herself? When Terranort attacked and when she was kidnapped she just........ stood there waiting to be saved, good god. At least Aqua giving up when looking at the heartless storm was disappointing (and should, imo, have happened after she watched most of the party be slaughtered by it, not before anyone else even really was taken) but SOMEWHAT justifiable since she clearly has PTSD going on from having to fight it off before.
EnglishRosie I get that it would be a stretch to make her equal to Sora or even Lea, but for christ's sake, she trained in a place where time doesn't flow (whatever that means, seems she's lvl 5 by the end), and has nothing to show for it. Make her on par with KH1 Sora or something, plus don't forget she is one of the Pure Lights (which seems to mean nothing really). I never saw her use magic, yet she's supposed to be very powerful with it.
@@harryunderwood8535 Yeah, her being at about the same level as KH1 Sora with a reliance on light magic would have been fine - if anything her and Lea being on equal footing would be fine and make sense since he's used to chakrams and not a keyblade. Lea gets his ass absolutely handed to him because he's a rookie too, but at least he puts up a FIGHT beforehand. Even in the scene where everyone gets dropped he gets knocked out from trying to attack Terranort, not from standing there uselessly waiting to be saved.
Hell, it could have been REALLY cool if Kairi surviving the darkness attack on her own was for more than just... holding Sora's hand out of it before she went back to doing nothing. We could have even had her TRY to square off with Master Xehanort but fail because she wasn't well-trained enough.
Tbh her not interacting with Riku basically at ALL was a really weird choice too - it seems like in order to quickly shove Sokai in after it had been basically forgotten after KH2 they just dropped any bonds she had with anyone else. She and Riku were FRIENDS, he went so insane during KH1 partly because she was in a coma, she saw through his new appearance in KH2 and stopped him running away from them again... and they don't even talk. Riku's interaction with Sora was completely removed too - he talks about him, but never really TO him that much, and he just became a cardboard exposition machine without his personality. It's not like he didn't have one after he accepted his darkness, he had plenty of personality in DDD, but they just scrapped it and axed most of his screentime. A LOT of other characters got treated well but Kairi and Riku just lost all purpose or personality?
Harry Underwood she still packed the experience on the field that every other Keyblade wielder has. Training is good, but you also learn through experience
Kairi development are a joke
Hands down the best part is when Sully from Monsters Inc throws that one guy through a random door and then through another door and another door and then they shread that door
Sully is OP plz nerf
It's funny until you realise that org 13 uses portals to get arround and that didn't do anything
You're supposed to...play...the other games.. before hand.
@@BrianWallaceaiaiaiaiaia what?
Sully just fucking yeeted vanitus
To this day I have never replayed this game, gave it one play through and I couldn’t fathom how I could wait for this game so long and feel such betrayal. I come back to videos like this periodically because I’m still very very bitter lol
I’m in the same Gummi-ship as you lol I keep returning to these vids. It’s amazing how hard it’s been to let go. Feels like all these years later I’m still waiting for KH3 and daydreaming about what the Keyblade War and final battle with Xehanort will look like lol…You’re not alone, fellow old-timer :)
Same. It literally feels like the game didn’t even come out
SAME! I thought I was the only one who feels very little drive to replay the game even now!
The Disney worlds are such a waste of time, including the repetitive mechanics they introduce.
Then there is the main plot which is so uncreative, nostalgia-driven, washed out of emotions and short, that it's hard to believe it's the culmination of a 2 decade long arc of a very complex and emotive franchise!
same tbh. @@turbotrup96
Same man. Same
My fiance almost broke when he realized you can't skip the 'Let It Go' part, and he had to play it several times.
“In the Caribbean, you have to collect 300 f**king crabs for Jack Sparrow” 😂😂😂 I felt that
All I wanted was to find the save point lmao
When I played that part, I really couldn’t believe the number I was seeing that was required. I was like what? Why?!
@@milymartin7658 This is where I stopped, the Disney levels finally broke me there. All I wanted to do was save the fucking game but no crabs first...
Donald: CRABS!
Could you at least use Magnet?
I recall there was a boss who’s main gimmick was that he abused the Aztec gold curse to become immortal, and you had to collect the scattered coins to make it mortal again.
The coins were large and low-resolution enough to find easily, and you could pick them up by the barrels with Magnet line spells, but had to be careful since the boss’s attacks would cause you to drop them. That was fun.
But f***ing crabs!? 300 of them?! What’s Jack gonna do, deck them in armor and make them fight 100000 lobsters?
"If Sora is here we're gonna call him a nerd and run away" LMAO
Bro I came into this like “🙄 here we go” and left agreeing with every point 😂😂
That's why I love Cosmonaut so much. I disagree with him alot but he always argues his points so well that I always understand
That's because your not actually a true fan and you think that Frozen story was amazing addition to the game
@@suppercharge1 oh ok or the video was just good but thanks tho
@@dashman8499 agree
Uh bullcrap
God its really hard to watch this video, I was so happy when KH3 came out and I was blinded by hype and and when I saw this video for the first time I was like "NO NO NO MARCUS YOU'RE WRONG" but a few weeks after I finished the game and I watched this video again I thought "Oh no" and I just find it really hard to accept the truth.
And he and you are still wrong
Except they aren’t.
And that's why Nomura is focusing this supposed giant DLC on the final parts of the game, because they really are, lke mentioned in the video, the best part of this game.
@@FIGHTER8max And the DLC was disappointing too. Just redoing the final part again but harder and the story became more confusing
@@moneeb23returns I guess you can't please everybody. We got what we wanted and the boss fights for the most part were in my opinion enjoyable. It also gave everyone the redemption they didn't receive in the base game and does a much better job of giving context to the initial ending. The story content and number of hours that can be put into it is well worth the 30 dollars. Data Battles and Black Code has also been a great addition.
5:39 "Mickey always feels out of place for some reason."
Are you saying 1930s American anthropomorphic cartoon characters _DON'T_ fit in next to anime edgelords?
*BLASPHEMY!*
Dont know what edgelord means do you? Lol
To be fair, Mickey would probably fit in much better if one of two more Keyblade wielders were Disney characters.
@@epiccarrot88 I think it's just a problem with the core concept. Not that I'm not a fan, but I play it mainly for the gameplay, I've given up on the story.
In the words of vinesauce: "Imagine this from my perspective having never played the series. Like, there's this dark anime edgelord on screen, and then there's a cut to Mickey just like 'HO HO!'"
@@warbossgegguz679 I wouldn't say its the core concept but the writing, it takes itself too seriously, dialogue from KH became a meme "light, darkness, light, darkness, stop the hurt" its pain not hurt Nomura!! Jak 2 and Ratchet Deadlocked were kids games that got darker but still had a lot of self aware humor and better writing.
Except he said that Donald and goofy have great chemistry with sora
I absolutely hate the awkward silences in all the cutscenes. It's aggravating and just pads the play time out more.
There definitely should never be a Kingdom Hearts sitcom
Omg yes. And those grunts. The previous games were also slow, but this is a new record
SAME. I felt like I spent a lot of time watching Sora walk up and react to something in cutscenes.
@@supsquark505 That's EXACTLY the feeling I got from these unwarranted long pauses, ESPECIALLY the ones preceeding a collective laughter. Gee, the character acting in this game was so corny, only a few characters escaped, and I attribute that to lack of screen time!
The dialogue was awful in this game
Deadass.
I was actually excited for Kairi to see if she was controllable or had sick moments in the game, but it was like Nomura didn't know what to do with her, panicked, and said.. "uhh and then Kairi gets kidnapped by Xemnas, gets killed, and Sora goes to bring her back...the end.."
and then there was a cool gimmick boss in the new dlc.
Wait isn't that just KH1 a with different bad guy name.
Actually feels more like Nomura just wanted a reason for Sora to end up in the Verum Rex world
@@pmgvictor4625 except Kairi was saved over half way through KH1 and she was just chilling in Traverse Town
The funniest part is that Kairi is killed by Xehanort.....and IN THE LITERAL ENDING, he brings her back.
So the hook for the next game....was resolved, in the ending, for a completely different hook.
Kairi: let me protect you this time
dies shortly after
The only thing I really hated was hearing 'I bet we'll find some ingredients around here' every 5 minutes.
"Hey, that must be a lucky emblem!"
Just turn off the skills or treaure hunting lol
@@zacherywilliams3587 you can't
This looks like a good spot for ingredients
WE CANT LEAVE LITTLE CHEF STILL NEEDS OUR HELP!!!!!
how is possible that a game that was so delayed... feels so rushed?
I'm going to go out on a limb with two options which aren't mutually exclusive:
- Changing the game engine at some point. This keeps people from working on the game itself, and limits them to the writing. Which runs into:
- Waiting on approval for content using other companies' characters. Which now means if you're using those worlds and waiting to get approval, you can't just re-work them and send an update - and if half your game is needing approval, then you're only stuck trying to polish the bits you can work on . . . which leads to those feeling disconnected.
To be honest, from what I've heard so far about it (not started it yet), its major sin seems to be not being KH2. Which is weird to me for all the sins heaped on KH2 back when it was popular. ("Who the f--k is Roxas?!" "Eight hour tutorial")
they scratched their balls the whole time that's why
It wasn't delayed apart from moving from December 2018 to January 2019.
it felt that way cause the game closed multiple conflicts in the final 1 hour, I think thats the reason, for me it was perfect, i cried too much
WHO COULD EVER THINK ABOUT THAT?!
When I defeated Aqua I thought I reached the half way point of the game due to all of the pacing had amounted to literally ZERO major plot points but nope, turns out the last level was next. So disappointed.
Yea you got to give kh1 its credit. It was VERY good and letting you gague your progress like even flying in the gummi ship as you went toward the last worlds and the epic music kicks in and it throws EVERY CRAZY THING IMAGINABLE at you youre like oh yea shits about to go down
BRO SAME, I really liked the gameplay but damn those space missions so annoying
@@jlogan2228 the pacing in KH1 is perfect in my eyes. The pacing in 3 was so bad that there’s no way they didn’t realize it was a trainwreck of a plot but they didn’t have time to fix it
"And if soras here we're gonna call him a nerd and summon a monster and then run away"
I have never heard a sentence i agree with more
Could someone explain why they removed every single Final Fantasy character? Like is there an actually reason or did Square and Nomura just forget?
Because they aren't important on the story currently. Kingdom Hearts can stand on it's own two feet without them.
@@OwNAvenged
but then its not a square x disney anymore, which sucks
Because Nomura was salty after FFXV.
They weren’t important to the end of this saga . They will most likely be back in kh4 since sora is in TWEWY world .
Tech Priest that was never the point of kh . They were there just because it’s cool
Gordon Ramsay voice: “where are the BLOODY Final Fantasy characters!?”
"Where are the f***ing Final Fantasy characters you stupid donkey!"
KH4
They dont need them to sell the game anymore :/
@@rafaelmeza566 They don't need Disney either, what's your point?
@@MagcargoMan @Rafael Meza they actually did not need them to sell the first game either. I mean look at the boxart of KH1. FF characters are not on it. The inclusion of FF characters just appeared in textform on the boxart.
I had never been so hyped up for a game in my life. I was so underwhelmed by KH3’s delivery.
Honestly, it seems like all the Disney stuff just gets in the way of the story.
You just now realizing this? Lmao
@@buttertoast1146 yep, since my original comment so clearly states that this is a new revelation to me.
Seriously though, I knew this since 2006, when the Nobody storyline was way more compelling to me than the lame Disney stories at each world.
Yeah, the first one was really the perfect mix of both worlds. Second one was way more Square than Disney and this one was waaay to much disney
@@alejandroserrano7755 I agree about the first one being a great balance. But the best thing to KH to me was always the Disney aspect. I feel without it, the series wouldn't be as appealing as it is. I really enjoyed the Disney parts of the third game except Frozen and Big Hero 6 was sort of disappointing. All the other stuff outside of the Disney worlds was really confusing to me, especially the guys playing chess.
Rip our Traverse Town/Radiant Garden cast from KH1 and KH2, they will be missed...
😭
WHERE IS LEON GDI, HE NEEDS TO FIND RINOA
They were even in twilight town and seifer was not even mentioned
RIP Dylan, Aelous and Phil voices lol.
@@kriss007G apparently fujin is on a warriors quest and raijin tagged along(much to fujins umbrage, obviously), but thats all I was able to find out about any final fantasy character in this game.... apparently cloud and sephiroth are both spirits you can talk to in the final world, but I only read that... it makes sense though.
*Shigeru Miyamoto:* A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
*KH3:* Hold all my beers.
Jeremiah Dalton a very long delayed game that seemed rushed... kh3
So true. The game felt rushed and unfinished which makes no sense at all.
Guess there really is no such thing as a good game, then.
No. You know what? This is no different than what happened with, and how I feel about something like FFXV. I still want to play this game and appreciate it in spite of all the obvious flaws. I mean, for one thing, what makes me glad is that this game actually delivered on all the plot set ups it had been building for the past 9 games and gave us a nice payoff, rather than leaving us hanging.
MightyTeek Yandere but there are better games that pulled things off better and left more players satisfied, that didn’t make people wait for a decade or so.
@MightyTeek Yandere
Literally no one is complaining about the graphics. Epic fail.
The 300 crabs did it for me. That's the moment when I dropped the game completely and watch a let's play of the final act of the game just so I know how the game ended.
I realised something felt wrong with my beloved Kingdom Hearts when I started skipping cutscenes in the last Disney World during my first playthrough. I literally have never done that before in any game.
I didn't even finish playing the game. I felt like I was going through it was too quick and put it down. I wanted to enjoy this game but never even picked it back up lol
At this point the Disney worlds just are the weakest part of the game. I honestly didn’t care about them at all.
Julio Jaramillo YO EXACTLY. Fuck disney worlds they wete just too childish and straight up filler. I wouldnt have minded it as much if we had a good amount of final fantasy but we had none. This is basically just a disney game. It had literally 0 original worlds and twilight town was fucking smaller then it was in kh2 god knows fucking how. Kh4 better be mostly original worlds and final famtasy aimed at original fans and not new players whre its more mattuee and someone actually dies like come on tell me keyblades from ff worlds woudnt be sharp and badass then the fucking toys we get from kh3. Even kh2 had better badass keyblades
@@joshuakurian7761 Time to put Final Fantasy worlds in the next KH game.
They're the weakest part and yet take up like 90% of the gameplay time, the entire final act is like 16 years of buildup crammed into 3-4 hours :/
I know this is late as fuck but whatever. I'm on the frozen world currently and one of the main issues I think is that they just go on for way to long unlike the other games were you got to one world you play there for an hour then leave but in this game each world is like 4 hours and halfway through I just want to move on
Minecraft Gamer yeah honestly it gets repetitive and ends up getting Annoying
I was really upset that they somehow made Kairi look younger than she did in KH2 it just seemed like they didn’t care about her.
She's never been anything more than a motivation for Sora.
Jonathan Boyle true but that doesn’t have anything to do with the way her character looks
I loved KH 2 Kairi. So much. Now she looks like a 10 yrs old.
LegitPanda81 RIGHTTTTT??????
Same
THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD PLACE TO FIND SOME INGREDIENTS
Little chef will like this 😅
That really tells you something about a long running series when the antagonist goals are still not that clear after 20 years.
If they had added a midpoint boss and then had secondary stories to the worlds it would have fleshed out the pacing a little better. I HATED frozen and repunzel because it was just the movie while sora was on the side saying "wow" "oh no"
Isn't that most of the worlds in Kingdom Hearts in the whole series tho
Just wanted to play as some of the other characters besides Sora, Axel training in a world for instance
@@bemiatto67 No not at all, in previous kingdom hearts it felt more like an alternate version of the movie with kingdom hearts things it, heartless, big bosses the world and story would adapt to these crazy new things in it. Kingdom hearts 3 you're watching the movie and sora is just there, nothing different to it at all.
For me they are the same World but in different season 😂
@@RU4REALDAWG thats just how it is, the big profile disney movies arent going to have alot of change but even then Sora was still put in in the best way possible without changing the story. Most disney worlds have their story play out exactly like their movies with changes being Sora. Even then, not all worlds got that treatment. Some worlds like Toy story and monsters inc had a completely original story with sora but like i said that was how every KH game worked. Some worlds were original story, some werent.
The Frozen world was just one big missed opportunity after another. Should have at least included Elsa's struggle with choosing light or darkness. Elsa wants to be good, but she feels that the world sees her as a monster and will never accept her, so perhaps she needs to just embrace that. But they don't even give you that. You can't even go into the town. The entire level is just this endless, empty mountain and everything looks the same. Sora hardly talks to anyone. If you didn't see the movie, you wouldn't know who the hell Hans is. Boss was okay though.
I could write an essay about the whole game, but that world just sticks out to me the most right now. We can throw the blame a lot of different ways here. I'd say it was mostly Square Enix wanting to finally get this big project off their plate (much like the half-baked FF15) and Disney being fiercely protective of their newer properties and not allowing the KH team to take many liberties.
Yeah, right, like Disney would have allowed doing that with their #1 animated property at the moment (and it has been since the film's release). The issue with KH3 is that they can't decide which worlds can be featured. It's all up to Disney.
I liked the fact they went for all 3D animated movies (apart from Herc and Pirates), as it was the best way to provide an authentic feeling of playing into the movies (and it actually felt as such for all of them), but also they had a missed opportunity with another Tron Legacy world (I get it, it was in DDD, but C'MON it would have looked insane on this gen), which is still regarded as one of the best looking movies ever.
And anyways, the biggest flaw of the game is the lack of the movie soundtrack in the Pirates world. That really annoyed me.
the boss really wasn't that good. it's just red eyes from BBS world of darkness re-skinned into ice...
I honestly would have really loved to see some parallels between Elsa and Riku. Both having this view of themselves as shaded people who have the potential to be good but are burdened by their own perceived darkness.
THIS
I wanted to explore around in elsa's castle too not the labyrinth :(
The game bored me halfway through Olympus I just felt as though the game has lost its heart, no pun intended
I feel like there's just an overwhelming lack of creativity in this game, like the others all had elements that left players with some curiosity or excitement and desire to explore everything but, ironically, the entry with the largest worlds to explore full me with only frustration and boredom
Kingdom hearts 3
90% Disney advertisement
10% Kingdom Hearts
Really though, everything you said was spot on. And it hurts.
agreed, gotta' love that seek out the Disney logo everywhere you go collectible. Certainly no subliminal's in that.
So one day i was sitting on my porch and my bitch wife, god rest her soul...
Funny, I could have sworn that I heard before people were complaining that the human characters are given more focus than Disney.
@GrabberBythePuss that shit bothered me the whole time
Kingdom Hearts 4: 13 seekers of disney.
Nomura: No time for Final Fantasy characters because everyone else needs Their Plots resolved.
KH3: *Dicks around doing nothing for 80% of playtime and All Plots wrapped up in the last few hours*
What the hell?!! Eliminate one of the filler Disney worlds and we would have more than enough time for Radiant Garden and FF characters!!!
and for that we got KH in our FF7 RE, seriously fk Nomura
Serguei Leonardo Afonin Fr. I honestly believe he’s not a good writer.
@MasterWayneDK58 No, he's not. Some people just can't write. Not everyone in your English class is going to get the same grade. At the same time, not every writer is a good writer.
Martyr_Lightsilver nomura can write also he came in very late into this game
@MasterWayneDK58
"compelling characters"
The way you wrote that, makes seem like your not joking
Hearing about all the issues with the story and voice acting, I decided to play this game in Japanese and what I discovered was that it feels very much aimed at kids. The convoluted story aside, everyone's mannerisms, like the pauses for no reason, and inauthentic happiness feels very reminiscent of Japanese kids anime.
It's almost like the English and Japanese versions are aimed at completely opposite audiences.
"- It's not the sum of our parts. It's the sum of our hearts!
- Yeah!"
I just realized how bad this is xD
Yeah it's very cringey
Who writes this crap?
Kings Hearrs has always been cringey. But DUDE 😅
Yeah...
YEAH YEAH
YEAH YEAH
YEAH YEAH
YEAH YEAH
So, as a giant KH fanboy, I gotta say
You’re 100% right.
Can’t really argue on any of your points
After finishing the game, I enjoyed it immensely as a fan, but I think we all can definitely recognize the number of flaws in it.
Not really I can argue a few, but here is the thing... I've become a person that kind of just accepts things for what they are. So it bothers me just a bit when people critique some things as "it sucks" when really its just a different personal trait that it does well. I can say the combat is button mashy, but I recently went into the original KH games, and besides DDD, and Birth by sleep, I can tell you a pretty much just button mashed my way through KH 1 and 2, and I played KH 2 on critical mode.
I would have liked more encounters where guard was helpful more but pick and choose. And I liked the characters I felt like they did have personality. I think people need to think more about the song Simple and Clean. With as complicated as things seem in the series a simple gesture may be all that a person really needs. and the dialogue itself may seem cringy to others but I don't feel like it is, I felt like it fits. Again I'm not yelling at him simply saying my piece. He is right about a lot of things but I think I can disagree with his reasons, when it comes down to it, it is personal. But I felt they did a lot with this game and it was fun.
@@chaosdirge4906 Definitely agree with you on those points, this game ultimately had me shed tears and that was enough for me to close this arc. Loose end and the like is super common in every Kingdom Hearts, hell KH it where all the mystery and loose ends started. The "corny" dialogue (I will say because it isn't cringe for me its just the type of corny I can expect from a game aimed at kids or disney fans) has been a staple of the series and it isn't anything new. Plus, some of the themes explored throughout the game are so relatable and deep but I feel people are so focused on over analyzing the game that they forget to really absorb some of this stuff.
I have a lot I can say on the subject matter but its as polarizing as the Last Jedi and that creates some very strong opinions that can be hard to have a regular discussion that doesn't divulge into an argument :(.
I tend to like easy games, so I liked kh3 alot, and the gummi ship was fun in this game compared to others imo. It took me 66 and a half hours to platinum, and I enjoyed it very much, but yeah, this game, while it has many flaws, is still enjoyable as a hardcore fan, imo
dragon heaven Bitch I’ve played every game, even the mobile one
It's not the sum of our parts...
It's the sum of our hearts
-Hiro Hamada
Kingdom Hearts II. 9
(Throws up)
Yeah
... *YEAH*
And then the bad guy continues to roast them
So nine?
"Here's the shitty fruit scene you were waiting for almost 2 decades. Thanks for your money over the years." -Tesuya "Fuck You Give Me Money" Nomura.
I really wish they'd use the Disney worlds more creatively and integrate them into the story more. The toy story world is a great example of them actually having the Disney worlds tie into the rest of the story. It's relevant to the things the bad guys are doing and used the disney characters well.
Sora: I want to go to the Realm of Darkness
Everyone: Did you unlock the power of waking?
Sora: ...
*Two worlds later*
Sora: I want to go to the Realm of Darkness
Everyone: Did you unlock the power of waking?
Sora: ...
*Two worlds later*
Dale: Mickey and Riku are in Trouble in the Realm of Darkness
Everyone: Sora go to the realm of Darkness
Sora: 😒
Get the reference? But it was really how I felt about the story in-between worlds
That's about the plot in the nut shell yah
Speaking of in-between worlds they missed a huge opportunity with Castle Oblivion/Land of Departure being a playable world with Aqua as a guest party member. At least before that cutscene of her transforming the world you could’ve made your way through the world fighting any heartless or other enemies on the way till you got close enough to the castle.
Would’ve been nice even if the world were to have been as small as Twilight Town.
In justapancakes KH3 in a nutshell video, It felt painfully accurate. Especially the Dialogue between Ven, Vanitas and Sora
Ok i believe you
It's because that is literally 90% of the game.
After that? 10% is the actual game.
You know why it sucked? It was because the creator was busy multitasking again. This time, he has that versus 13 remake in the works.. he got inspired while messing around with Riku's new hair and outfit. Thinking, "Why do all my Male characters keep ending up like.. Noctis.."
Square Enix: "And so it begins.."
I'M SO GLAD I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE. I swear my first thought when I saw Riku was "This... this is Noctis with white hair..." Even his damn outfit is like Noctis'
It didn't suck though.
And Noctis is already a bad Sasuke ripoff. Come on, don't tell me Sasuke from Naruto wasn't the FIRST thing you thought of when you saw his design?!?
@@PikaLink91 his design, definitely. his personality not so much
@@endwalkr 2 pretty emo bois. I think thats a personality trait.
Finally, someone wiped the nostalgia out of their eyes and tells it like it is. I couldn't even finish the game. Some bullshit.
I got platinum on kh2 and then I was like "I will do it for kh3 too".I stopped playing after 25 minutes. Shit's boring.
Lol right? Its funny he says the frozen world was the worst, THAT is where i stopped playing the fucking game. I only did that first section and then after a bit I was like... fuck this
@@RykersRange the frozen world being the worst is widely agreed upon from what i've seen. you can see little pieces of whatever story they actually wanted to tell in that world still there, but disney put their foot down and wouldn't let them deviate from the plot of frozen at all, so you literally just dick around a cold mountain like three times while the movie happens in the background; it's awful
You still have nostalgia over the first games… KH3 is as flawed as the other and as good as well, you just dont notice it because of nostalgia. They all had bs mechanics, dumb and convoluted stories and badly designed bits. KH is a franchise that survives on nostalgia alone
@@Jefstito I never liked the stor that much, but the gameplay was better. Then adding Disney rides and stuff was hot garbage. Also they made the game way too easy. Also they just completely said F the story after KH2 and it shows here. It's just a bad game.
There are elements of Kh1 and 2 that is greatly missing from this game.
Totally agree, this game felt rushed and I felt no stress in the combat. And there was a complete lack of emotion in the overall story.
This game was missing what makes KH great
Best character by far in this game is goofy. He literally points out every flaw, problem and finds solutions
sora sux at knowing what to do - goofy fixed
bad guys tells sora can't do something - goofy points out how they did it so...
bad guys turn into good guys and donald calls bs - goofy points out axel is a good guy
sora realized fire is hot - goofy fix -w -b
goofy is best character *add more examples plz*
NerdyPunk goofy is the MoM
@@ryancarson6962 Goofy's always been the most perceptive of the Trinity. He didn't suddenly get an endless wealth of street smarts just for this game. Even the wiki points out how unusually intelligent this incarnation of Goofy is.
@@JolteOnWisconsin people keep using "MoM" for master of masters but all it leaves me thinking is what the fuck about Sora's mom!
Sora is a shounen main character. He has to be an airhead
So the character that was originally designed to be a derp is the smart one?
The greatest disappointment is the fact that Yen Sid‘s appearing at the end was the most unexpected and therefore best story element
Right?? One of the most powerful ex-Keyblade weilders finally gets off his ass and does something. It's like he woke up after 6+ games and was like, "Oh shit! I've sent kids into a War for the universe, wtf was I thinking??" It was amazing and hilarious at the same time.
his name
spelled backwards
is DISNEY
Honestly, that's exactly how I saw it too lol. That's when I really started paying attention, like "oh shit, the lazy old bastard finally got off his ass to do something?! Okay, this is more serious than I thought!".
Sadly Master of Masters appear only in post credits, even if they hinted him through most of the game. It was odd solution.
Roseline Cioran he came to say that... his name spelled backwards is disney
KH3 should have been the Endgame of the series, it should have been epic we finally get to see how this story ends we should have had a big pay off finally beating Xehanort after all his done (like Thanos)
But instead it's like Star Wars rise of Skywalker cheap, forgettable, and lazy I felt cheated beating this game
Boohoo it’s not the exact same gameplay as kh2. Dude it’s written by The crazy men at Square Enix. The previous games had just as terrible writing.
@@aratwithinternetaccess8381 At least you could play KH 2 blind.
Try that with Kh3.
Read the "Journal" in both KH2 and 3.
You will notice you could understand the plot of KH1 and KH2 by simply reading the unlocked journal entries in KH2, sure you would not know exactly what castle oblivion was, etc, but you would not need to, because those memories were lost to Sora and as such it actually made KH2 more immersive if you played it blind, because you as a player were about as confused as Sora and the interactions between "old" final fantasy characters were quite clear, you quickly understood who your allies and friends were, try doing that in Kh3 without spending hours investigating all the handheld spinoff stuff about Ventus, Vanitas, Terra, Aqua, etc. Aint gon happen
I felt Endgame, KH3, Rise of Skywalker, and GoT season 8 were all adequately disappointing finales That had been built up and anticipated for years.
@@yadonkno3320 I wouldn't include endgame on that list. At least that was done coherently except few moments. KH3.....just went wrong and destroyed everything KH2 did with the story.
@@vkak1 yea me either. Endgame was great
Aqua was just completely nerved which bugs me the most, honestly. She's my favorite character and I hated to see her getting chewed up like that ALL THE TIME! What the hell, keyblade master who kicked butt all the time and was a fucking goddes in the RoD just completely useless in 3. She should be equal, if not even better and more experienced than Riku, Sora, or ANYBODY besides Xehanort and Sid, really.
Sora is the main character of the series. If she was the protagonist in kh3 the game wouldn't be called kingdom hearts 3 but it would be another spinoff game. Also aqua sucks. She is too kind and boring. Her abilities suck and she isn't tough enough to defeat someone as powerful as xehanort. I sometimes wonder why they even created bbs at the first place. I played bbs one and it sucked balls.
I Loved the game but it just feels ever so slightly rushed out , Things
like......
-Removal of all Final Fantasy characters even though they helped Sora
out in Both KH1 and KH2.
-No Critical mode
-No Olympus Coliseum battles
-No Sephiroth extra Boss , They could of used his Safer form for this
game.
-They Turned the book of Pooh into one room with a few Mini games and
Removed Eeyor.
It's just weird that the ps2 Kh2 game does a better job of giving us a
Winnie the pooh world then a brand new PS4 game. You can complete poohs
world in about 10 or 15 mins , It just feels tacked on and like they
couldn't be bothered to make it a full world again.
-Less Keyblades
-Some worlds are lacking like Monsters Inc , you barely see any monsters
just hazmat guys.
Weird when Other worlds are now populated with NPC.
-No real Secret bosses
- We have apparently been told there will not be a Final Mix edition of
this game which means they don't plan to update it like they did for
KH2FM , So who knows what the DLC will be ????
- CONSTANTLY hearing Donald say "This looks like a good place to find
some ingredients"
- Cooking Mini game isn't fun for many players most have complained how
there is no practice and how oversensitive the controls are and that
sometimes they don't even know what they did wrong.
- Story feels kinda rushed and we don't learn much new and still have no
clue what the Black Box has inside......
-We only visit the worlds once now for story unlike in KH2 where we had
to go back twice.
-Original worlds like Twilight town have been cut down and made smaller ,
it's sad that a ps2 game has a bigger world of Twilight Town then KH3 ,
we can't even go in the mansion to explore.
- Not wrapping up the Cloud and Sephiroth side story.
- Seeing Mickey and Riku going to Radiant Garden but we can't
- It's like the Higher ups told them to hurry up and cut certain things
out to save on dev time
kinda like what they did with FFXV.
KH3 is missing those little details like for example I would of had
Prompto from FFXV talk to Sora about the Photo mode and Ignis would of
teamed up with Little Chef Remy at the Bistro.
I still enjoyed the game for what it was , but KH2 will always be my
favorite personally.
@Sally Vee because of how the game (story and gameplay wise) felt, it might actually need that much to rework on some, or half a year Idk.
He says they dont need FF characters anymore to sell. I think thats total BS. Its either becauses hes salty he got kicked from working on FF so hes doing a subtle "fuck you" to square or because pixar is a bitch and they didnt want FF in the game as a conduction for pixar to be in it. Or its a bit of both
@@leonthelionhart15 Well Verum Rex is basically Versus. I count it
@@DreginyReacts i dont, if anything its basically a middle finger to square saying "see, i would of done it better"
Totally agree. What originally attracted me to the first KH game and KH2 was the FF characters, I'm so disappointed they're all gone. I'm on the pirates world collecting crabs and I'm just so disappointed with all of it, I can't find the motivation to keep playing but I want to get my money's worth out of it so I want to get to the end.
Kingdom of hearts summarized darkness darkness darkness darkness light light light keyblade keyblade friendship friendship
I always imagined that KH3 would have Sora saving Aqua and Ventus in the beginning and you'd be able to choose between having Aqua, Ventus, Goofy, Donald, Riku, and Kairi (and maybe Mickey) in your party throughout the entire game. Maybe way too hopeful and too many characters but you can't deny that it would be awesome. Maybe youre unable to choose between them at all times but they all frequently join the party through the story (besides Donald and Goofy). At least pretty much EVERYONE is a party member in the final battles.
Having each one of them as a guest for a single world would have been amazing
Yes. The gameplay has a lack of choices .
Or at least you should get Aqua , Ven, Riku, kairi, Lea as Summons!
Not fighting Org 13 members in the disney worlds and there being no FF characters was a huge let down for me. Sora didnt have to fully defeat the org members if they fought in the disney worlds, but fuck, the first 20 hours seemed like a drag.
This man hates on black Panther, the Raimi Trilogy, and this game.
This man is the bravest creature alive
No, he has to shit on Sonic to get that title. (Not that a lot of people don't, just that a LOT of fanboys manifest when you do)
i respect his opinion but I mean Tobey is the best Spider-Man
Everyone shits on sonjc.
Dat nigga better not disrespect my boy Tobey!
I have no problems on him hating on spiderman 3 and 1 but spiderman 2? That movie is a fcking classic man. One of the best superhero movies to date. Dont understand why he had to hate it too
I like Kingdom Hearts story ironically because it's preposterous that it even exists. It however legitimately pissed me off when they introduced time travel in the mix in DDD. Old news I know, but you gotta just lay all your shit on the table at one point and press on with the fucking story instead of just throwing more shit into it. It's gotta come to a head at some point. I do however honestly like KH 1 story though, maybe even love it. KH 2 had some awesome game play and some serious moments that didn't feel forced either. The series just needs to end already or evolve into something new, preferably without Disney.
Remove Disney but pay them to keep King Mickey, Donald, Goofy and the Keyblade visual
Then make it a original thing + Final Fantasy, contract someone to make good scripts, stay with the good music and make a mature story
I was replaying KH1, doing Proud Mode for the 1st, and KH2 doing critical for the 1st time. It's a blast and its ashamed I found them more fun than KH3s combat. Anyone who says you can just button mash 2 have never played critical mode. The closet I got with 3 was The Carribaen which could have been it's own separate game and I would have been more than happy (seriously I love that world and the exploration).
I don't know why 3 got rid of KH2's fast falling.
Kh2 is amazing. It has an incredible combat system. You feel like a key blade master
You’re literally just jaded by nostalgia.
@@TheSCPStudio no, kh3 just sucks. Kh2 holds up to this day as an amazing game. I have nostalgia for a lot of games I played as a kid that I think are awful these days.
@@guccimalcs agree with the part about KH2. Haven’t played KH3 yet, so can’t comment on that.
I kinda hated how Sora did EVERYTHING in this game. Like during the final battle there are definitely moments like Riku and his replica or Ven and Aqua saving Terra that Sora didn't really need to be in but he was because he's the protagonist but that just makes the other characters seem really incapable and kinda weak. Then there's the whole Aqua thing. I know it was foreshadowed but you could have thrown a curveball and surprised us, I personally think Mickey should've saved Aqua considering that he was the one who left her there and felt guilty about doing it. Neither Sira or Riku had anywhere near the level of connection or relationship that Mickey had with Aqua and I might've made an exception for Riku. (especially considering he does jackshit) for most of the game. But sora was an expected annoyance. Don't even get me started on Kairi or Roxas
Sora is evil so what you expect?
Yeah, specially since everyone mess with Sora and treat him like he's mentally challenge and weak "because power of waking" or something, constantly. I mean, he is extra stupid and ignorant here opposed to innocently naive on 1 and 2. But everyone's on him. Yet he's always saving everyone. The ammount of time he was the one that needed saving vs all he's saved throughout all the games doesn't compare. So everyone acting like he's the lesser of them all while they themselves get their ass kick all the time, need saving or help saving someone else makes no sense.
@@Omizuke First of all power of waking is really important. It is power what allow you to snap from the darkness, and so safely traverse the Realm of Darkness. They were patronizing him, because they did know that Sora wold rush there even without ability to free himself from there again.
Secondary, I'm not sure if Yan-Sid really trust him considering that he know some things about past other don't. it is why he try keep Sora from all this until they investigate what is going one. And he in fact was partially correct because as Braig said on beginning of the game, that he expect Sora to fallow all the crumbs as it was planed for him. And he did.
Also he needed to be one finish the fight because whole thing was designed exactly for him to forge X-blade. So people would need be finished either by him or his Keyblade. Xehanort would have hard time to pass No Name to his enemies, though he (or Braig specifically as Xehan00b was a stud) could use this knowledge about future to make Sora only one capable to finish the job.
That include also what happen in the end. Sadly without understanding who Sora really is, it is hard to notice what is going one, and I totally agree that ending was disappointing. Hopefully DLC would make what happen more clear to people, before final confrontation between Sora and his other half, so Master of the Masters.
@@TheRezro First of all did I wrote that the power of waking wasn't important? Because I didn't, I'm well aware of its importance. But do you honestly believe that THAT it's an excuse for everyone act they way they do towards him. He may lack it, but I believe he has earn some respect with all he has done. Oh but DDD happened and you failed to darkness lets all treat you like crap because you fail us. I don't know if its lost in translation but there doesn't seem to be much empathy even. Hell where would Riku be without Sora right now? Lost to darkness? Dead?
And I get Yen-Sid been patronizing honestly, actually I'd expect him to be like that towards everyone, he is much older, much wiser, and more knowledgeable about all this. Although it's like like he hasn't screw up before. And yeah, I don't see him trusting many people or even fully anyone. And yeah, the writing made Sora dumber than a bags of bricks here. (Debatable with DDD?) But the whole treatment seems off.
As for the finishing, well yeah, and Xehanort set up or not. It still doesn't change it. Credit where is due. And Sora has proved his worth. There is only so much Xehanort can controll with his planning and if Sora woldn't have been been good at all this he wouldn't have lasted even the first game. So yeah, my problem is his treatment in all this. It might have seem like a fun thing at first, but it get old, really fast. And well, it just hit me that it could actually be a translation thing, where thing would sound a lot different natively. You know, what of those things that "Its not what he said, its how he said it"
As for DLC, that whole idea just put me off. This doesn't need to be another FF15 where the rest of the story needs to be told in updated, patches and DLCs. It's not like KH is stranger to extra installments. Portable and such. I rather have a full individual game than an ad don to this one.
And I call Master of Masters "Super"
Cause Super(bia) and his fortellers Ava(ritia), Invi(dia), Aced(ia), Gula, Ira and Luxu(ria)/Braig. So stand to reason that there is a 7th forteller or the Master of Masters's name is related to Superbia.
@@Omizuke First of, Riku do talk with respect about Sora. He only mostly isn't present there because of Yan-Sid decision. Secondary, no one deny Sora achievements. My point was that what Sora did later, was in fact exactly what Braig wanted him to do, what was also what they try prevent. But they failed and so were forced into battle anyway.
Also dude, Final Mix? This is something what KH basically invented and put to almost absurd level. Why you are even surprised? Sorry, but you sound like someone projecting own issues here.
As for last part.. lol.. good to know :D
Thanks for telling my that! Sora/Superibia.. sound close enough if you ask my ;D
So I add my own interesting theory. In KH2 Kairi ask Selphie about own past, as she doesn't remember anything after first KH. Selphie tell her that when was younger, she was playing with boy whose name was Riku, but he moved. Two things: Why she doesn't remember Sora? But also why she think that Riku moved?
He and Sora disappeared after land fall in the darkness. You don't say that someone moved if you don't know that was what exactly happened. But now is the thing. Most of characters on isle beside Kairi and Selphie (who are from mainland) are from Final Fantasy X. And here is the thing. There is in this game character called Rikku. She is a tomboy girl, but Seplphie could not know that presuming that it was a boy.
In short Kairi memory were implanted after Destiny land fall in the darkness. Both Riku and Sora never really were from there. It is also why Kairi forget them after KH same way as Lea needed time to regain his memory as nobody. But what about BBS team and Xehanort? Well, all of them were Norted, so they just could see illusion. Selphie is important because she is known outsider.
Anyway I believe that Master split himself on two, like with Ventus and Vanitas. As such he needed complementary heart. Ordinal plan most likely consider use of Ventus (who is ancient master) but I suspect someone else interfered. I think it was Brain aka the virus guy (I personally think that he is that other guy with two colored eyes, from secret ending). Anyway that is the reason why Xehanort look like Riku, who is other half of Brain same way as Sora is other half of Master. At least such is the theory..
They had over a decade to make this good. I´m pretty sad right now.
Azrael Strutlokov the game started development in 2013. Between kh2 and 2013 they developed all the portable games
@@WardenKaz Yeah, but complaining is nice.
I don´t find the game bad tough. But they could have rushed the story a little less and put a liiiitle less of disney in it. And for that I guess they had nonetheless a pretty good amount of time to do so.
Azrael Strutlokov no they had a good amount of time I agree with you but let’s be fair here, they spent seven years making portable games and a good amount of time making remasters.
Square Enix’s treatment of this series is mostly to blame
They had 5-/+. Well, Between KH1 and 2 it was only 3 years and KH2 is still consider the best. So the whole "It wasn't a decade, they started on 2013" is still more time. As for the portable release. Well yeah, which mean they had more ground work done. They should've focus on making a good closing on this one. And make a good wrap up. They wasted too much time re watching Disney films to rush the bulk of the plot at the end.
16:11
Sounds like she's saying that after she just slept with him or something.
You've just inspired a bunch of fanfiction
@@Pooky1991 Ha! As if the fanfic writers haven't already thought of that.
Ragness10 yeah fanfic writers are hella creative, it’s scary
That whole scene was just fucking awkward.
“9 out of 10, it sucks”
How every kingdom hearts fan feels about 3
The ending is cool but I would’ve preferred to fight them all individually in a kh2 style type fight at the end of Disney worlds especially with the weird ass cuts after you beat each person.
Hopefully New org 13 data bosses as dlc
It makes sense that they would come at you all at once because they are all the same person now, they want you dead, and you are in the middle of a war. Makes no sense that they would just face you one on one and not take potshots.
@@andresmarrero8666 Are you trying to justify a poorly executed combat scenario with REALISM IN A KINGDOM HEARTS GAME?
Also that's not even how it works, they all clearly display they are the same person as before, the yellow eyes didnt mean much, because non of them became full Xehanort.
I agree. They felt kinda nerfed when fighting them simultaneously. No bosses gave me more trouble than riku and clayton from KH1
@@BaneDane_JB let's see they are vessels of Xeanort's heart and being acting out on his wishes, desires and plans as if they are the same person because they are. They also want you dead, and you are in the middle of a war. Why in the world wouldn't they rush Sora?
I haven't played it, but the game seems to have already died completely after only 3 months.
With so many years of anticipation and hype, I would've thought the Internet would be soiling its pants, no matter what the game was like.
But........nothing. It just came and went.
There isn’t really much to talk about for this game. Nothing really happens
@@TheBoxNasty I suppose you're right. But I'm still going to play it, just to see how it all ends.
Not that the ending is going to make any sense. I mean, why start now?
That’s really just an issue with online culture now, things come out, people talk about them, they go back into their fandoms.
@@thefreelancequeen Well, there's too much choice now. Only 10 years ago, when a big title was released, people were excited. But now they seem to take them for granted.
Give it time, I think they purposely made it lacking so they could start adding stuff through DLC and look like they're adding a lot. Even though most will probably be stuff that should've been in the game from the start like with FF15. You can get the "Royal edition" for half the price of the original release and it includes patch, updates and DLC.
Kingdom hearts 2 was the best one of them all. Change my mind
Well, since it is not the last game in the KH series as a whole, this comment might not age well over time!
I can't rly play kingdom hearts 2
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
I hated the final gauntlet. It ruined any emotional payoff those scenes should have had by stacking them back to back. INTENSE 3v3 FIGHT > cutscene that attempts to shove in an entire redemption arc into 3 sentences of dialogue > INTENSE 3v2 FIGHT > same cutscene except the character is swapped > rinse repeat for the next 10 characters. There was no flow to it. The few characters who were getting an emotional payoff that you cared about, felt hollow because you just listened to 5 other people spout of how they're totally redeemed now.
Doesn't help that depending on which order you defeated the bosses in each segment, it could make the order of events a little awkward. Like I defeated young Xehanort first out of the 3, and his final words definitely feel like they should have been last of the three.
Regarding difficulty. The only difficult parts in the entire game in my opinion, playing on proud, were the two final segments of the armored Xehanort fight, and the GOD DAMNED SHIP COMBAT BOSS. And that's super artificial difficulty because that wasn't a case of "dangerous moveset that you had to learn to counter" but rather "the controls in this gimmick fight are super clunky and not at all like the combat that has been in the rest of the game". Whoever decided that an underwater segment for the final boss would be a good idea, should be keelhauled. I thought they had learned their lesson with KH2, when they removed all combat from Atlantis. But apparently not. And now you have floaty air combat on top of that. Air combat that was worse than the air combat in the first game because you're constantly losing altitude, making it super awkward.
I agree I grew super numb to redemptions. Why even bother? Especially cause theyre just gonna be humans again, Sora even says so! No loss, no gains, nothing at all
I hated how everyone was nerfed to make Sora seem more powerful
Yet they constantly talk about how weak he is compared to his KH2 self
@Inchigo Jay
Pretty sure that's a far better feat than cutting down buildings.
Donald and Goofy was buffed.. Roxas was extremely buffed at point that he could beat Xehanort alone.
R.I.P The Guys
finally someone who knows that union cross exists...
Well, sora is the strongest wielder. But i hate that there are so many wielders now.
what pissed me off the most was how often they would spout about damn ingredients
Yeah sometimes they gotta show you all the small details to distract you from the gameplay but can i just say i fucking love the gummi ship area
I'm still missing a few maybe it's the flans
It was fine tbh if it's goofy or sora
But donald ? *i think i've gone deaf*
compared to ff15 ignis "I'd come up with a new recipe", this is better
Thank u.its annoying
“ThiS Lo0ks 1ike a g00d sPoT too FiNd sum InGr3dients”
"9/10 it sucks" - every KH fan ever playing this game
Leveling up to be strong enough to beat Sephiroth and the Olympus colosseum was probably my favorite part of KH
Considering the alienated mindset of my teenage self, the final battle of KH2 with you + spike haired dude that I forgot the name... fighting the final boss in that white room, flashy effects and all that anime bullshit.. I loved that, lol my only memory of KH. But I used to like naruto and bleach at the time, so.. like I said, alienated idiot. Nowadays, the anime bullshit + disney facade don't deceive me anymore.
@@RRRRRRRRR33 "Spike haired dude" = Riku.
"Final boss" = Xemnas
Got it memorized?
Anybody else use the mountain top in Lion King to level up? Lol
@@Ammuze11 lol you sound like axel
I had a gameshark disk and I was level 255 and still got my ass kicked by sephiroth in kh1 but kh2 hes pretty easy.
Another thing that irked me is that Destiny Islands, Radiant Garden, and the mansion/Yen Sid's tower are all used in cutscenes, yet weren't playable areas. Who made that stupid decision.
I still find it weird that they all still go out on a journey after returning home where their friends and family are. Did Sora and Riku ever even return to their parents again?
As a KH fan, this game ironically broke my heart
Why?
@@terrarionaqu5262 because it's dissapointing thats why
Legit the birth by sleep trio was my main investment in the story, I liked the others but the bbs trio was my fave. Seeing no one other than Sora accomplish anything and having everyone get seriously downgraded for the sake of Sora getting to do more made me bang my head against a wall.
Guys, he’s pissed because the game started with Kingdom Hearts II.9
Nope.
@@donaldjgumpofficial5754 r/Woosh
Actually if you played 0.2 you already watched II.9
Ekim ϟ I was laughing for a solid 5 minutes when I saw that 😂
Uhm.. he said he liked that part..
I feel like Disney might've had more to say on this game, and that's why the story wasn't up to par. There were no FF characters, seemingly because Disney wanted to plug as much of their merch as possible. The worlds had nothing to do with the story, seemingly because Disney wanted them to remain mostly untouched story-wise. Most of the worlds played out like they were trying to awkwardly remake the movies with massive amounts of their stories left out. There was also a (way too long) sequence for Let It Go that was soooo unneccessary.
Hakon Pyke The attraction flow rides was a no from me. Hated them and tried to avoid using them as much as possible. I’m sure disney tried to enforce them into the game. Also the combat was extremely easy. I don’t think I died once
That’s basically the KH games though. The worlds were useless
He got kicked off Final Fantasy 15 and making the one after that so he probably had a say of not wanting Final Fantasy characters in this game
Heck a lot of people are saying the next one Kingdom Hearts 4 won't have a single Disney tie and in it it's going to be the world ends with you and all the crazy stuff that was at the very end of this game all the time
@@LD-ji5sz try crown mod once you replay the game
Hard disagree about the ship battles in The Caribbean, I was worried thinking they were gonna be painfully dull but I think they were very enjoyable, they never felt too slow for me
Different opinion. Enjoyed the Disney worlds, then got to the final serious parts and was very disappointed with the story. Deaths just had no weight or significance anymore.
xKeNniii Yeah. I feel the same too honestly. Even the levels like Frozen and Pirates of the Caribbean that I heard would suck, I enjoyed.
I am genuinely surprised that people actually fucking cried over the death. I mean, what even is Kairi's personality
This game felt extremely empty compared to KH1, KH2, BBS and 3D
factually incorrect. maybe its not the content you liked or wanted, but doesn't mean there is no content.
@@Sraye the plot was darn disappointing and THAT is the fact, at least.
No build up (besides finally meeting Aqua/Ven), a lot of cliche, near to zero explanation (wtf was that afterlife shit that somehow made Sora go back in time?!), how tf did Sora even beat half of his enemies while still clearly being weak?
no necessarily in that order, but YES
@@turbotrup96 that was to whole point of the build up to bring every body back together and beat org13 i dont know ppl like hating on ganes thees days a game not gonna be perfect but u know dam well it didnt suck
@@blackfoxx3498 The point is they all appeared just like that, because of convenience and nothing else. There was nothing interesting, new or logical written to their come backs. They didn't even SAY anything worthwhile. And what else did the game's plot offer? Nothing, besides the secret endings that still didn't answer questions we had before this game was even released, even though it was supposed to finish the arc FOR GOOD. Unless getting rid of Xehanort (in a meh way) is some sort of writing achievement that's enough to satisfy your wait for this game.
Honestly, your opinion on how they handled aqua is how i felt about the last quarter of the game. Roxas is brought back with no build up or issue. Xion, a character who DOESN'T EXIST, is brought back like it's nothing. They have a good cry over it, but the lack of build up or explanation on how such a character was restored was insulting. Terra being saved so easily(and not being part of the final fight), was also really underwhelming. The first part of the game was a directionless slog, and the last part flubbed what SHOULD have been the best part of the game. This game COULD have been great if they had spent the game setting up the ending moments and building tension, but they decided to play coy and keep it a surprise and it was awful.
I've been told by many that they were brought back because of fan service,fans were angry and want them back resulting them being back with weird complicated ways..
Seriously it’s like they just threw them back in the series and said “here you guys go, they’re back” I’m at the last battle right now against Xehanort but man this final world really bothers me because it should’ve been a really big deal , but they managed to make every part of everything that happened lackluster.
Xion DID exist, which is why she was able to be brought back, thought the way she was along with with Roxas is underwhelming and disappointing.
yeah i hated the story in this game. i really liked the story in 2 even though many found it too complex, it really made me want to keep playing to see what happens next. in kh3 i was bored through the entire thing and had to force myself to keep playing. only kh game i had to force myself to finish.
Yeah i felt like they just used crying to give the game emotion. Everyone's together everyone's crying... I felt like it was dramatic without having much feeling
Tokyo team, tokyo team Tokyo team, Tokyo team, bring 'em baaack, boooo osaka, boooo floaty combos, put nomura in an actual writing class, get the guy who writes the script in there with him
This comment has *WAY* too few likes.
My 2 reasons to buy kingdom hearts games: 1 the story 2 the fighting gameplay
KH3 is the biggest disappointment in the whole series
I'm kinda worried now that the reason why KH3 felt so incomplete was that we will have to buy DLC to get the "entire" KH3 experience...
You were right, Kevin... you were right...
DLC came out. Definitely still incomplete. KH3 is just missing a good story.
@@CallMeJ. And content. But mostly plot.
Yeah I’m not doing that. A lot of companies are doing that lately where they release the story of a mainline game via dlc and I️ refuse to support it with my money. If I️ wanted an mmo experience, I’d do an mmo.
It sucks because it isn't finished. I mean, for a game 5 years in development, I'm flabergasted at how much MORE content Kingdom Hearts 2 had, it's predecessor from 13 years ago.
I don't think original Lh2 had that much more . But I feel Ike alot of people compare this to Kh2FM which isn't fair fair to compare a basic game to a enhanced remastered edition. It'sike when a new windows comes out and it's buggy everyone compares it to Windows xp sp3 instead of the pre service pack version ect
I agree!! KH2 had wayyy more content.
@@ninjaxsam Good point. Most people probably only played Final Mix, especially all the new fans who bought the PS3 or PS4 collections (or both) They ALL were the Final Mix versions. Or at least KH1, KH2, and BBS were all final mix versions. Not sure about DDD. People just don't realize how much less content KH2 and BBS originally before the Final Mix versions released. In fact, until recently most players hadn't played Final Mix versions though since they hadn't been officially released in North America. The only way to play them was if you could speak Japanese to import them, or to use an emulator and a mod to add English voices and translations to the game. (which is what I did around 2 years ago when I first played KH1 on PC on an emulator.)
@@ninjaxsam actually base kingdom hearts 2 still had way more. So much more depth to insane levels. The only real side content in 3 is cooking (which is pointless) and the 2 mini games per world and the flans (for cooking which is pointless). I guess the classic games could MAYBE be counted but you dont have to play any of them for more than 10 seconds.
@@phantomthief6701 even if there was as much or more content than 2 it would still suck. the combat was so boring it may as well play itself, the boss fights were all lame and required no different strategies, the story was not interesting in the slightest, the voice acting is the worst in the franchise. i was so bored i had to force myself through it. adding more to this game would just make it all the harder to force my way through it.
This is what happens when you sell out on your story, and gameplay to increase graphics, and technical controls.
Final Fantasy tanked in the exact same way. We could be happy with flashy, and advanced mechanic if the story and customization were more on par with the original. Put more work into the worlds, bring in more worlds, increase the gameplay length with more variety of side quests not cutscenes with poor delivery.
Been really disappointed with Square Enix lately, but at least y'all got DQXI right for the most part.
“Oh we’re here to see if there’s a princess of heart in this world. And if Sora is here, we’re gonna call him a nerd, summon a monster, and run away.”
Yep. Basically.
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