Playing the Kingdom Hearts games in "chronological" order, I played KHII before BBS. While I can recognize KHII is the better and more ambitious game, this has become my favorite Kingdom Hearts game I've played. The Command Deck feels like what Re:CoM could've been if it hadn't sucked, and leveling and melding commands was extremely satisfying. The gameplay wasn't as good as KHII, but the transition from Terra > Ventus > Aqua really felt like a developer-intended progression of the Command system, and by the time the Final Episode rolled around I felt fully in control of the gameplay systems and it just felt GOOD. I love that each playthrough of the three main characters felt almost completely different, even though they visited the same worlds. The story was great, and it was really interesting to see a "prequel" of sorts in the character storylines as well as the Disney worlds (anyone else notice it was more heavily geared towards the early Disney movies?). I had a blast playing this one, and it's one I wouldn't mind revisiting.

Oh, and Leonard Nimoy absolutely killed it as Xehanort.

I HATE THIS GAME EVERYONE IS WRONGENS. FUCK YOU XEHANORT FUCK YOU ERAQUS FUCK THE LIGHT FUCK THE DARKNESS also why are the characters never reveal their parents. I'm starting to realized that they all orphans like thats crazy bruhhh. also terra said "aqua ven ill set this right or something bro possesed by a goofy ass old stupid bald man that has no balls afterwards. I hate the gameplay too I can't stop breaking my mouse because of how stupid it was (I love the shotlock tho) ALSO WHO TF MADE THIS GAME THIS SHIT KEEPS CRASHED EVERYSINGLE MINUTES. I WON'T FORGIVE THIS GAME THIS GAME MADE ME AND MY SISTER GOING THRU STUPID ASS DEBATE IM GIVING IT 0 STAR
oh yea not to mention I love aqua (+1 star)

I absolutely love this game! Getting to play as not just one, but three characters has been every KH fans dreams for so long....

Then KH3 Remind came along and blew it out of the water!

Really hope we get another game like this soon!! ❤️❤️

overal : i've finished ventus story many years ago and i barely remember about it but replaying the game through terra story made me realize how much of a gem this game is.

Terra : my time with terra was a total of 14:40 hours finishing the game at level 33.
i absolutelly love it, through terra perspective i managed to see that despite even the game trying to depict him as a darklord, he is very much a buff cinnamon roll, i love it very much, this game so far is on par with KH2 which is one of my favorite games of all time.
this game is very goofy (HEH) and most times i believe its intentional, i will never take terra having a conversation about the darkness in one's heart with cinderella seriously tho it adds to the cinnamon rollness of this big boy.
this game starts slow but it becomes so fluid and fun that at the final boss you can have the same moveset as him and speaking of ending, man what a tragic tale of a young heart's journey of self discovery turning into a deceiving tragedy. i will be playing the game through time and updating this review as i play through the other perspectives, that's just how i like to do with these kind of games, terra story is a 9\10, if it was so perfect, then why not a 10 ? simple, performance, the Epic port didn't just effed up the KH 2 port but also this one, save as often as you can, i fell to the trap of grinding for a few minutes only for the game to crash on my way to the next area.

Ventus : ven's side of the story was the one i played years ago when i was a kid but being honestly, replaying it felt like playing it for the first time cuz i didn't remember shit from it at all, i was pleasantly surprised at how i enjoyed playing his side of the story, at first it fooled me into thinking ven's side would be more childish because of snow white's world but it actually delve's even deeper into the overall manipulation of the trio. i don't know what's different but ven story felt more straight foward, when i hit cinderella's world i grinded for 30 minutes and was already at level 20, once i hit hercules world i found a grinding point and grinded for a build i found on the internet, once i hit level 36 it was over, i had an op build that was so broken i managed to just steamroll the rest of the game without stopping at all, i killed the last boss by using ars arcanum twice and i was playing on standart. overall while still enjoying my time with ven i started to feel fatigued of the game, it took me 11 hours, and two sessions of grinding 30 minutes each i'm pondering if i should watch aqua's side on youtube, its not that i don't like the game, so far its the second best kh game but my god is it massive.

Aqua : aqua please stop hanging around with couples and children...wait.. WAIT AQUA !!OH GOD EVERYTHING IS PAIN AND SUFFERING!!
That aside, aqua's story only picks up the pace at the end, it consists mostly of aqua goofin around with children and about-to-be-married couples (i see a pattern here..) its almost as if she's the one with the most minor role in this story.

Todas as três rotas deste jogo se unem para nos entregar um dos títulos mais divertidos da saga inteira.

Óbviamente inferior em sua essência ao KH II por suas limitações técnicas, porém o mesmo ainda é um título em que vale apena se aventurar, ainda mais pela rota da Aqua e do Ventus. (Não sou muito fã da do Terra)

A narrativa desse jogo é esplêndida, simplesmente elevou KH para outro patamar. Por se passar no passado, o tanto de furos que eles conectam e fazem com que faça sentido é inacreditável.
A batalha final da campanha do Ventus ainda é uma das minhas favoritas da saga inteira.

I really liked Terra's story, but since that's the one I played first I was kind of disappointed with the other two. Ventus's story was fine I guess, but nothing really stood out to me other than how it ended, and even that just bleeds in to Aqua's ending. I know people like Aqua a lot but her character never really clicked with me, even after playing III and 0.2 so I didn't really enjoy her story that much either. The way the characters' stories intersected and how you could see their effects on the worlds in different playthroughs was cool though, and Square Enix did a pretty good job of segmenting the worlds up so that each character had a few unique areas in each of them, though. As far as gameplay goes it's the same command deck system that the other handheld KH games used which I like well enough and the shotlocks are pretty fun to mess around with, but that's really it.