ConcubinaryCode: Kingdom Hearts 3 discussion thread

ramon. 01.30.19	probably the best musou of 2019 so far
BigPleb 01.30.19	Is this game worth it? Never played any of the titles in the series. Accessible?
InFiction 01.30.19	I loved 1 and 2, hated most of the side games though. I should be excited but I honestly don't think I care anymore.
Kompys2000 01.30.19	Can't wait to play these games so I can tell you all what idiots you are for liking them
ConcubinaryCode 01.30.19	If you've never played any of the other games the story will be bizarre and nonsensical to you. But as far as fighting monsters in Disney worlds its pretty fun.
botb 01.30.19	Square released 5 short videos giving the cliff notes of the other games which without I would have been so confused I probably wouldn’t have continued haha. But here’s the first https://youtu.be/WuDUeMwYols
Slex 01.30.19	I'm like 8 hours in and I am so so in love with this game
BigPleb 01.30.19	Is it an RPG?
guitarded_chuck 01.30.19	>probably the best musou of 2019 so far musou is not a word change my mind
botb 01.30.19	Also 5’s music was fine but after you got the ability to listen to older games’ music I totally just did that
ConcubinaryCode 01.30.19	^yea
Hendoi 02.01.19	Just beat the game a couple of hours ago. I think its on par with the first game as my favourite but it was way too easy even on Proud mode. Kind of a shame that twilight town is reduced to a tiny hub area & that there is almost no final fantasy representation at all. Also where the fuck is critical mode???
Hendoi 02.01.19	The overall non-Disney story is the usual garbage but the gameplay & exploration is really damn good. (spoiler: wish we could've gotten more of the world where you fight with xehanort)
dimsim3478 02.01.19	"it was way too easy even on Proud mode." fark, this was my main hang-up with II (dont have final mix so havent played critical mode). makes me a bit less hyped for III. :(
Evreaia 02.01.19	"that there is almost no final fantasy representation at all." Been like this since Birth By Sleep. Anyways, I replayed most of them in anticipation of 3. I used to love these games, but after replaying I only liked 1. Decided to skip 3 because of that.
Hendoi 02.01.19	I shit on the game a lot but honestly this was one of the best experiences I've had playing a video game. Really fun & amazing game despite its flaws (might be one of my all time favourites)
Hendoi 02.01.19	make sure you don't reach level 40 before the end of the game though if you want a challenge I guess
Tundra 02.01.19	Havin a jolly ol time with it, nearly at the end now, my only issue is that its a little too easy
Tundra 02.01.19	Think for my next playthrough I'll doing kingdom key only run or intentionally underlevel myself, it really is easy, can count on my two hands the amount of times I died on proud
Hendoi 02.01.19	but half the fun is all the different keyblades you can use. You could just use the zero xp ability on sora or set it so your team mates don't heal you...
Tundra 02.01.19	There was a trophy in kh1 called unchanging armor where you couldnt change equipment during the whole game, i think they should have kept this trophy for 2 and 3, it was such a fun challenge (I got the platinum trophy on kh1 but not kh2), this is why i say kingdom key only, cause i wanna replicate that for the challenge
ConcubinaryCode 02.01.19	This game sorely needs crit mode agreed. I bought that moogle coin at the first world and haven't used it yet. The combat has tons of systems and intricate ways to combo but some things like attractions trivialize mob fights. Food is op as hell too and you can always buy it because munny pours from bushes and barrels in this game. Still terrific and fun though. I've got two more worlds before I beat it.
Tundra 02.01.19	okay, I take back what I said before, just took me an hour to beat the finale... died like 20 times
pjquinones747 02.01.19	im trying to avoid spoilers here because im only like three hours in but the intro phase seemed a LOT more rushed than the first two. less mystique. i think a lot of that has to do with the lack of mystique surrounding the lead-up. sora didnt get into any particular funny business following 2 so it was kinda like a flat drop-in.
botb 02.01.19	Totally agree with you PJ, found the opening to be very underwhelming but luckily it’s followed by debatably one of the coolest worlds
ConcubinaryCode 02.01.19	How's the ending tundra? I'm super stoked
Slex 02.01.19	Just got to San Fransokyo (which is the world/story I've been looking forward to the most) and yeah god I love this game so fucking much. Some serious flaws but it's just a spectacular blast
Hendoi 02.02.19	Toy Box & Olympia are my two favourites, they're all amazing though.
Slex 02.02.19	I thought Toy Box was a huge disappointment tbh but yeah Olympia is definitely my favorite so far
Hendoi 02.02.19	Really? Damn I thought it was the best part of the game.
Slex 02.02.19	The world was significantly smaller than the others I've played so far, the enemies are boring, no Zurg, Square had so much lore to work with and didn't use basically any of it. The characters and team up attacks are great but I thought it was a huge missed opportunity otherwise
Hendoi 02.02.19	Weird I thought the size was fine & that it was one of the best designed areas unlike San Fransoyko which was a huge boring cityscape with no cool set pieces or things of importance.
Slex 02.02.19	I just got to San Fransokyo and I really hope yr wrong lol, it was the world I was most looking forward to
GhostB1rd 02.02.19	How are the party members? In KH1 they were nearly equal fighters to Sora and actually did damage according to their stats, in KH2 they were nerfed to hell.
Hendoi 02.02.19	Sorry Slex hopefully you enjoy it more than I did. The party members are fine but it doesn't really matter since its nearly impossible to die.
GhostB1rd 02.02.19	Why? Do enemies not do any damage or is Donald just really on his healing game this time around?
Slex 02.02.19	The latter lol
Funeralopolis 02.02.19	So I never played a KH game until yesterday and decided to try KH1, the camera is so nauseating and unbearable I just can't do it anymore...
Tundra 02.02.19	You get used to the camera, in KH1 camera is worst on Monstro and Peter Pan worlds lol
Slex 02.02.19	It's a heavily Japanese PS2 launch title, a shitty camera comes with the territory lol
ConcubinaryCode 02.03.19	Depends if you're playing the Remix or og version. The og ps2 version had you move the camera with the shoulder buttons.
ConcubinaryCode 02.06.19	Beat it. Solid af game. There are some major flaws but nothing that hampers the experience that much and a solid way to end the saga. 4/5
Mongi123 02.06.19	Disney stuff was great as usual, gameplay was awesome and it for beautiful but I was so let by the story. The writers took no risks at all and it was just deus ex machina central at the end like jeez.
Mongi123 02.06.19	Like when something horrible happens storywise they can’t take a risk and just stick with it. They gotta make it “happy” no matter what. Like jeez not everything has a happy ending! Lol
ConcubinaryCode 02.06.19	One huge highlight of the game for me was the animation on some of those Disney worlds. It's insane how much detail they put in that aspect of the game. I wouldn't be surprised if they spent a big size of that dev time on that because yeah, it wasn't spent on the writing. Some plot threads were just completely forgot about too. Did you see the secret epilogue? Wtf
Tundra 02.06.19	"Did you see the secret epilogue? Wtf" the epilogue is fine but the secret ending straight up pissed me off, the Colosseum, FF characters and other mandatory things to put in are absent as well, also it seems the horde enemies barely attack you sometimes, the difficulty is a serious lacking part of the game
ConcubinaryCode 02.06.19	That secret ending is what I was talking about. The one in the patch. The missing coliseum is such a lame absence too. They have a Hercules world in the game.
Mongi123 02.06.19	The fore tellers thing had me intrigued so I’m hyped for KH4 whenever it comes, but goddamn they seriously took the safe way out and deus ex machinaed Kairi alive again. So disappointing.
Tundra 01.09.20	"it wasn't spent on the writing. Some plot threads were just completely forgot about too." Just think about this, Birth By Sleep was a stretched out and rich game with so much lore and amazing character development, we spent so much time with Terra, Aqua and Ventus over the 3 campaign modes, same goes for 358/2 with Roxas, Axel and Xion, how long do they spend on these characters in KH3? literally not even 2 hours, this is why KH3 was such a disappointment, they squandered these side characters to such a point, it is unbelievable, as a big fan of the series, I am not excited for KH4, KH3 was their chance to win over the entire KH fanbase, and the blew it.