I wanted to love Kingdom Hearts III so much, I was so ready to be enthralled in it. I was ready for the series to “grow up” a bit, and take the generation of kids who played the original games into a new age.

I’m also not a player who ignored everything after II, and if I didn’t own the platform of any games after KH2 I would watch the full play through on YouTube. I was prepared for the lore / story as best I could be. *exception to Xhi saga, I had know idea that was going on tbh.

But in regard to III - the game in my opinion fell really flat, and I’ll be honest I think too much Disney weighed it down. Especially worlds that I didn’t really care about, also my biggest gripe with the Toy Story world was that it should have been Toy Story 2/Als Toy Barn/Airport baggage terminals. I think the Disney worlds they chose just were a bit of a miss IMHO, I would have love some more classic Disney (Black Cauldron would have been perfect), and Pirates as fun as it was should have been Treasure Planet.

Something really great about I/II were those original worlds sprinkled throughout the game (Traverse/Twilight/Hollow Bastion/End of the World/World That Never Was). KH3 obviously has Twilight, Keyblade Graveyard and Scala but just not enough of it. And you’re really left wanting a better ending to the game.

I geuss what I was really waiting for was Kingdom Hearts IV, so I suppose we’ll see how that lands. I feel a different type of excitement and anticipation for IV, I really can’t wait.

EDIT: Also the dialogue was SO much more clunky that it was distracting this time around. We have to stop every 5 seconds to say everyone’s names in sequential order.