1.5/5 ★ – Nicolai10's review of Kingdom Hearts III.

Oh Boy, this game is bad… But first I’ll say the things that was enjoyable, the graphics are really good (specially in the caribbean), the gameplay is visually appealing with all the attractions and form changes, you fight Davy Jones and Hercules’ Titans(i like to fight against Disney characters), I enjoyed the scene of Woody roasts Young Xehanort and also the one where Sully throws Vanitas. The new tracks are good. And that will be the positive stuff. First I’ll explain why I think that KH3 has the worst combat of any kingdom hearts game in the all in one collection(excluding Re:CoM). The attractions are broken and they’re stupid, they deal a crazy amount of damage, they last a long time permiting to restore the MP and using is a guaranted win in normal fights. Everyone seems to agree with the stupidness of the attraction, but there are more broken things in this gameplay. The form changes and team attacks are a cheap way to deal massive damage, they are too easy to get and there aren’t consequences to using it. Unlike the drive form and limits in KH2 where they cost drive gauge and mp, the form changes and team attacks cost absolutely nothing; you only have to fill in those three arrows, which in most cases they’re filled up with three attacks. Also you can spam the magic without consequences cuz the game prevents you from running out MP with any spell except cure, even more the game rewards you by giving the option to use a stronger version of the spell you spammed at the cost of nothing. And there is the shootlocks, a way to get rip off three health bars from the bosses before you ran out of focus gauge, and in normal battles you get pretty easily your focus gauge charged up cuz the enemies once you defeated is the only thing aside munny that can give you are the focus orbs. To be fair all kingdom hearts have a broken mechanic like reflect in KH2 or ballonra in Dream Drop, but there are still plenty of options to use in those games. In KH3 if you don’t utilize the broken mechanics the only thing left is the x button. The game with all of these mechanics carries you throw out the game and play it is not fun(even on critical mode) and I felt like I am not accomplishing something. SPOILERS AHEAD The story isn’t good either but at this point is expected even so this isn’t an excuse to defend mediocrity. The characters at this point are flanderized, Sora is a dumbass boy who doesn’t understand anything like in dream drop, donald and goofy are way stupider than before saying the obvious things, even Axel now only talk to say:”get it memorized”, and do nothing more. For the other characters, Kairi is still irrelevant without a trace of any personality, Riku(one of the best written character in the series) doesn’t do nothing, i guess that the writers said his arc was finished in dream drop so no personality for Riku in this game, the birth by sleep trio are just there, they don’t aport nothing and I could care less about them. Xion and Roxas appeared just to fill the fan service. Finally we get the motivation of Xehanort, and is the classical cliche I want to rule the world, so that's the reason of all these stupid games, an old ass man with no personality wants to destroy the world and then rule it, I kinda dissapointed, it would be better if they keep with the nonsense pretencious stuff that they wrote back in dream drop. Also the Disney worlds are insignificant yet again, but this time is in an insult way, they are not relevant in any way even if an organization member show up they don’t do nothing, they could easily fix this issue with Sora actually learning in these worlds how to regain the power of waking, instead of using another freaking deus ex machina. Speaking of that, the amount of situations in which some things are resolved because yes, it's ridiculous and outrageous. Why can Sora use the power of waking? Because yes, Why Aqua doesn’t have darkness anymore, despite being consumed by it? Because yes, Why can Sora revive and then time travel to the moment before the guardians died? Because yes, Why can Sora time travel to revive Kairi? Because no. This laziness from the writers, exasperates me, and then they try to focus on giving a scene to each member of the organization to redeem them, why will they do that?, the majority of the organization are lame ass characters with no personality and just evil, that's not how the things work, I couldn't care less about these freaks who want to be Xehanort or are a version of Xehanort. And one more thing, this game is supposed to be a conclusion to the Xehanort Saga or whatever is called, and it just feels like teaser for the next game, nothing concludes in this game, now they have to find Sora in another stupid adventure, even freaking Xehanort apperears again in the mobile game. One last thing, I HATE those freaking stupid Intagram posts in the loading screens, why do you do that? It 's so cringey..