KINGDOM HEARTS III + Re Mind (DLC)

[h1]1[/h1] I don't think I've ever been more disappointed Every aspect of this game is begging to be criticized: • A mere ten worlds of which three are purely story related & non-combat/gameplay, another world is simply a single large square area • The story for each world was completed after a single visit; KH2 set a precedent for two visits to each world, & this game failed to deliver • Reused content (Twilight Town & 100 Acre Woods) was stripped down significantly, they became small maps with very little gameplay in them • Questionable disney content, they had a plethora of disney & pixar content to choose from, yet the story for the Toy Story & Monsters Inc worlds were non-canon, the Frozen & Big Hero 6 worlds were extremely cringe (your audience has aged 15 years since the first release, don't treat them like children) • The story direction was already pre-determined (& well written up to that point) by all previous titles in the series but they still made an attempt to make things seem "deeper" by having Sora go to limbo & do some very basic time travel • The game as a whole, particularly the end-game sequence, felt more focused on cut-scenes rather than gameplay content, the final boss fight didn't have a dramatic build-up or epic combat sequences like its predecessors • Gimmicky combat mechanics, reaction commands were replaced with attraction commands, which are basically no-skill abilities with ~20s of iframes - yet the DLC content included reaction commands via Roxas so it was possible to bring that mechanic into this new engine • The awkward social media loading screens & gummiphone related content - this is a fantasy series, don't try to force real-world media into it • The first part of the DLC content was just redoing the end game sequence with a few extra cut-scenes, & the entire story related to that felt unnecessary • Flowmotion - who asked for this? • Trivial mini games, some of which can be completed within 2s • Dumbed down synthesis that felt like it was almost non-existant • The entire gummi ship system, flying around with full control of movement seems cool at first, however the issues become apparent after a minute of gameplay: the ship cannot travel directly up or down or even close to those directions, leading to having to spiral up/down to explore, when speedrunning/replaying the game the gummi ship system has no meaning whatsoever yet you still have to sit there for about a minute flying in a single direction each time you need to unlock a new world, the no-skill combat & simplified scoring system made every single gummi fight feel exactly the same • Jarringly substitute voice actors (Xehanort, Aerith, Woody, Elizabeth), it is sad that Leonard Nimoy passed away, but they could have at least hired a Leonard Nimoy impersonator to do the voice acting for the main antagonist of the series, instead of a guy that can't decide if he wants to be high pitched or not • The quality assurance team that clearly voiced none of these issues to the dev team This game will forever be a blight on the Kingdom Hearts series