It's Theatrhythm but Kingdom Hearts and with some twist to the gameplay to make it different and action-ey.
I have to say: it works pretty well!
The game's existence could have been just a simple excuse for a re-cap and that's it, peace and love.
But nope: it's another piece of an over-convoluted puzzle that this goddamn franchise is.
When I thought the hype around of KH III would have been justified, all it took was a still on-going gacha and the announcement of this to fully confirm there was no escape.
I have to say: it works pretty well!
The game's existence could have been just a simple excuse for a re-cap and that's it, peace and love.
But nope: it's another piece of an over-convoluted puzzle that this goddamn franchise is.
When I thought the hype around of KH III would have been justified, all it took was a still on-going gacha and the announcement of this to fully confirm there was no escape.
This review contains spoilers
FICTION IS REAL WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN I LOVE KINGDOM HEARTS it’s a decent rhythm game and KH music is fantastic. There’s some weird omissions, how do you not put anything from the Fantasia world in the music game, a lot of music from 3 getting shafted, no Gummi Ship music, regardless there’s lots of great stuff here. Story mode was fine, harmless cliff notes of the series and a good excuse to play everything on offer. Don’t think I’ll be rushing back to replay songs like crazy but by god it’s a Kingdom Hearts music game you’d have to try pretty hard to make it bad.
I am by no means a rythm game player, I've tried Osu like once or twice, and played a fair bit of Beat Saber. It feels kind of unfair to say this is my favorite rythm game of all time but I mean yeah it is. I don't love how they did the KH3 stuff, and I'm not the biggest fan of some of the map designs. The story relevance it has on the franchise can probably be summed up in like one paragraph. Still, I had a lot of fun with this, and am pretty close to the platium. The track selection is great, I love how they have different teams, and I think that the way the gameplay works is mostly pretty clever.
Getting the platnium trophy was a fucking slog, and personally I like when my Rhythm games have a throughline to keep songs going so the world mode was nice. Killing 100,000 enemies for the final trophy was a ordeal, the final session taking 3 hours playing on the hardest difficulty to get the remaining 14,000ish left after getting all other trophies, to the point I was dozing off while playing
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The gameplay is a neat idea that is weird at first, but feels good and makes sense once you get used to it. I like the structure of the challenges (way more straightforward than in Theatrhythm) and I think the difficulty ramps up at a reasonable pace.
However, I hated the ending so much and it dragged everything down for me. They have Kairi on the front cover, but you can only play as her for 1/3 of the final level, and then she gets her ass kicked embarrassingly in a cutscene, so you can fight Xehanort as Sora. Again. And then the epilogue is to setup that she probably won't be in the next game?! Square truly hates Kairi so much, I don't understand why they can't just let her be a character that does stuff, like Axel, or Leon, or Riku's Meow Wow.
However, I hated the ending so much and it dragged everything down for me. They have Kairi on the front cover, but you can only play as her for 1/3 of the final level, and then she gets her ass kicked embarrassingly in a cutscene, so you can fight Xehanort as Sora. Again. And then the epilogue is to setup that she probably won't be in the next game?! Square truly hates Kairi so much, I don't understand why they can't just let her be a character that does stuff, like Axel, or Leon, or Riku's Meow Wow.