I just finished playing the KH3 base game so here are my thoughts on it.

This game has my favorite Disney themed worlds which makes the usual story structure more bearable than the previous games. The only caveat is that there are sprinkles of KH lore in these worlds and it doesn’t get anywhere until you complete all of these worlds. Still I don’t mind it since I had a fun time. The frozen world sucked ass since it felt like it had the least to do with Sora and friends and more to do with the original Disney story. I feel as though Kingdom Hearts benefits more from having Sora be somewhat of the main focus of the worlds and not the other way around. Big Hero 6 does this perfectly where Sora’s team and Hiro’s team meshes very well and rely on each other for help and improvement. Monsters Inc was cute and awesome playing on the nostalgia of the movie while tying in KH lore with the world beautifully. The scream canisters were sought out by unversed and the organization since it contained negative emotion. That was really clever of the writers to come up with. The Toy Story world had a lot of heart into and it was nice seeing my childhood favs again. I think the themes in Toy Story of abandonment and loyalty bring a unique dynamic to the KH world. Rapunzel’s world was also fun but face similar issues with the frozen world a bit (not to the same degree). It’s very movie focused however the characters of KH do a lot more here to where it feels like they’re all naturally working together which is more to say than the frozen world. Flynn partnering up with Sora gives a direct link for Sora to take part in the overarching Rapunzel story. The pirates of the Caribbean world was neat. I’ll be honest since I didn’t watch the movies I didn’t know what was going on half of the time but the world looked graphically impressive and Sora and friends blend in the best in this universe. It was really cool to see Jack again and sail in this world in an open world way. Also to go back to big hero six, I loved being able to traverse san fransokyo in a Spider-Man PS5 open area type of way. Twilight Town was also neat to revisit. The final act of the game was neat and gave a lot of closure and reappearances in storylines that were cooking for the past decades. Roxas, Shion, Ventus, Aqua, and Terra all return and I felt so happy. The bosses were challenging and fair expect for the Xehanort ones where I struggled keep myself afloat due to bullshit things. It seemed using different forms punished me more than rewarded me since some forms strip you away of the block button at least to my knowledge. The ending of the game was beautiful and gave even more closure with Eraquis being revealed to be inside of Terra. There’s also setup for Sora’s next journey so that’ll be fun to see.

Remind was also good and just elaborated on the ending of KH3 in a Steins:Gate type of way.