Well after months of playing this on and off I have finally finished it. And it's actually pretty good.
There's a lot I like about this game but also a lot I do really do not like.
To start with the positive, the main gameplay is pretty fun, well the combat is anyway. The swordplay is basic but intuitive and the combination of spells you can do keeps things interesting (when you can actually pull them off). I really liked being able to summon different Disney characters to help me out in battle that was fun. I think the sheer amount of things you can do in the game is cool as well as all the different customisation with the different key blades and equipment you can give your characters.
Now this may not make much sense but I do have a lot more negatives about this game than positives but I still like it quite a bit. For one, the story is just, bad. it is an incoherent mess that reaches new levels of anime stupidity with hearts and darkness and some of the worst dialogue I have ever heard in my life and when you combine that with terrible voice acting like my god everyone sounds so dead inside or monotone in this it's so off putting. I get this is a Playstation 2 game but so much of this game has aged very poorly. The progression system is terrible, when you lose a boss fight it sends you back to the last checkpoint instead of just the beginning of the boss. Most of the time you have next to no idea where the hell you are going because the game doesn't tell you, you literally just have to wander around and figure it out yourself. I raged quite a lot in this thanks to my completely stupid teammates. Your team in this are either a god-send or the bane of your existence, most of the time it's the second one. They die so quickly most of the time and you're left to fend for yourself and then you end up dying. Sometimes they do come in clutch and save your ass and it feels amazing when that happens but it happens so little that you end up hating them. Speaking of dying quickly, the amount of enemies that can 3 or even 2 tap you is insane. You get into a fight and within 10 seconds most of your health is already gone, and thanks to the healing animation being slow as fuck and some of the enemies being fast as fuck you can't even heal half the time so you just end up dying and getting very angry. also the fact that every time you enter an area whether or not you've already been there or not a big group of enemies is always waiting to jump you is so goddamn stupid, like I am just trying to backtrack and find some hidden loot I missed why do I need to fight the same 50 enemies every goddamn time I want to just go to a different location? I hate the gummi ship sections, again, why do I have to do this every time I want to move from world to world, sure you get the warp ability but that's not until like half way through the game, also just what is the point of it? a random space shooter mini-game that is not fun in the slightest just to travel between worlds. Also this is some of the most terrible boss fights and platforming I have played in a long time. The platforming always feels so stuff and a lot of the terrain just feels like it was not designed for this and some of the boss fights I just hated to my core. Also the enemy lock on system is horrific, you can lock onto the enemy you wanna fight but it has almost no difference because if they go off screen then the camera doesn't follow them, it just sits wherever you are, the lock on feels more restrictive than strategic, also all the camera movement is terrible. This game felt like it was going on forever, I thought I was reaching the ending because all the plot threads and heroes and villains were coming together but then the game goes on for another 4 hours -_-.
You may be thinking "Damn girl, you seem to really not like this game, so why did you give it a high ranking?"
Well kind stranger allow me to explain, while yes there is a lot about this game I heavily disliked, there is something special about the rest of it. I hate to say but that Disney magic really is at work here. Getting to play through and see all of the Disney worlds with all of the characters is a real experience. Fighting Disney villains as bosses brings a real special kind of joy that you don't see many places else. And like i said the main combat is fun and while yes this game feels like it goes on forever and I was so goddamn happy when it was over, I had some real fun in the back half of the game when everything was mostly unlocked and I was free to run around the Disney worlds looking for secrets, finding secret boss fights and getting special equipment as a reward for my curiosity. Finding a boss that was really tough and going out and training to come back and kick it's ass was a really satisfying feeling. This game honestly kicked my ass quite a bit, but I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the hell out of a decent chunk of this game. I really hope the sequel fixes a lot of these issues which I'm told it does so, hype to see.
There's a lot I like about this game but also a lot I do really do not like.
To start with the positive, the main gameplay is pretty fun, well the combat is anyway. The swordplay is basic but intuitive and the combination of spells you can do keeps things interesting (when you can actually pull them off). I really liked being able to summon different Disney characters to help me out in battle that was fun. I think the sheer amount of things you can do in the game is cool as well as all the different customisation with the different key blades and equipment you can give your characters.
Now this may not make much sense but I do have a lot more negatives about this game than positives but I still like it quite a bit. For one, the story is just, bad. it is an incoherent mess that reaches new levels of anime stupidity with hearts and darkness and some of the worst dialogue I have ever heard in my life and when you combine that with terrible voice acting like my god everyone sounds so dead inside or monotone in this it's so off putting. I get this is a Playstation 2 game but so much of this game has aged very poorly. The progression system is terrible, when you lose a boss fight it sends you back to the last checkpoint instead of just the beginning of the boss. Most of the time you have next to no idea where the hell you are going because the game doesn't tell you, you literally just have to wander around and figure it out yourself. I raged quite a lot in this thanks to my completely stupid teammates. Your team in this are either a god-send or the bane of your existence, most of the time it's the second one. They die so quickly most of the time and you're left to fend for yourself and then you end up dying. Sometimes they do come in clutch and save your ass and it feels amazing when that happens but it happens so little that you end up hating them. Speaking of dying quickly, the amount of enemies that can 3 or even 2 tap you is insane. You get into a fight and within 10 seconds most of your health is already gone, and thanks to the healing animation being slow as fuck and some of the enemies being fast as fuck you can't even heal half the time so you just end up dying and getting very angry. also the fact that every time you enter an area whether or not you've already been there or not a big group of enemies is always waiting to jump you is so goddamn stupid, like I am just trying to backtrack and find some hidden loot I missed why do I need to fight the same 50 enemies every goddamn time I want to just go to a different location? I hate the gummi ship sections, again, why do I have to do this every time I want to move from world to world, sure you get the warp ability but that's not until like half way through the game, also just what is the point of it? a random space shooter mini-game that is not fun in the slightest just to travel between worlds. Also this is some of the most terrible boss fights and platforming I have played in a long time. The platforming always feels so stuff and a lot of the terrain just feels like it was not designed for this and some of the boss fights I just hated to my core. Also the enemy lock on system is horrific, you can lock onto the enemy you wanna fight but it has almost no difference because if they go off screen then the camera doesn't follow them, it just sits wherever you are, the lock on feels more restrictive than strategic, also all the camera movement is terrible. This game felt like it was going on forever, I thought I was reaching the ending because all the plot threads and heroes and villains were coming together but then the game goes on for another 4 hours -_-.
You may be thinking "Damn girl, you seem to really not like this game, so why did you give it a high ranking?"
Well kind stranger allow me to explain, while yes there is a lot about this game I heavily disliked, there is something special about the rest of it. I hate to say but that Disney magic really is at work here. Getting to play through and see all of the Disney worlds with all of the characters is a real experience. Fighting Disney villains as bosses brings a real special kind of joy that you don't see many places else. And like i said the main combat is fun and while yes this game feels like it goes on forever and I was so goddamn happy when it was over, I had some real fun in the back half of the game when everything was mostly unlocked and I was free to run around the Disney worlds looking for secrets, finding secret boss fights and getting special equipment as a reward for my curiosity. Finding a boss that was really tough and going out and training to come back and kick it's ass was a really satisfying feeling. This game honestly kicked my ass quite a bit, but I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the hell out of a decent chunk of this game. I really hope the sequel fixes a lot of these issues which I'm told it does so, hype to see.