Wow, this absolutely fucking sucks.

I don't even know where to begin.

well for one, this DLC is basically just, "Hey do you wanna replay the final act of the base game and then do a boss rush and then do the most bullshit bossfight you've played in your life? then come get this DLC!"

You literally play, basically the whole final act... again.

Yes you can play as different characters, but what's the point? they are all so weak compared to Sora and you just wanna get through it quickly BECAUSE YOU'VE FUCKING DONE IT ALREADY, so going through as just Sora makes it so much easier. Then you have the bit with the whole group fighting off the heartless and Mickey goes one against like hundred and yes, I do love anime mickey moments, it was still literally just holding forward and watching stuff happen. Still cool, but bruh.

Then once you beat the final act of the base game, AGAIN. You go onto a boss rush where you fight all the organisation members... why wasn't this in the base game? KH2 has this exact thing, and it was in the base game. It's so fucking stupid.

AND THEN, once you do all that what are you greeted with? Yozora, the worst boss fight I ever played.

I didn't actually finish this boss, because after my 15th or so attempt I put my controller down, took a long look at myself and said "you know what? No, I am not going to do this".

Because sometimes in life you just have to say no and stop doing something you hate.

and my god, do I hate this.

I cannot remember the last time a game has brought genuine hatred out of me. Anger? sure happens all the time. but pure hatred. Jesus Christ.

This boss exemplifies everything I despise about Kingdom Hearts combat as a whole. Bosses with super armour, attacks that you can't block or dodge, imprecise controls. everything ugly about the combat gameplay that up to this point had been hidden by flashy moves and actual fun boss fights rears it's ugly head here.

and what makes all these issues stand out is one simple thing about this boss, there is no pattern.

every other boss in these games has a pattern that you can learn and eventually exploit, that is the fun of each of them. This fucker? does things randomly. You cannot exploit any patterns. sure you can recognise certain moves, but you can never predict what he is going to do next, and because he's the fastest fucking thing alive, by the time you realise what he's about to do, he's already done it.

Your only hope in this boss is to spam shit and pray.

I hate this so much.

I hate super armour on bosses. I hate having to be at the mercy of poor game mechanics and imprecise controls. if you're going to make a difficult boss fight then you have to make it so you at least feel like you and the boss are at the same level, and that the difficulty comes from his moveset and not from bullshit mechanics like super armour or HAVING A 5 MINUTE SECTION WHERE HE CAN HIT YOU ALL HE WANTS AND YOU LITERALY CANNOT HIT HIM BACK.

Such shit boss design. AND WHAT'S EVEN WORSE IS YOUR "REWARD"

you get two cutscenes from this final boss, one when you lose and one when you win and you wanna know something funny? THEIR BASICALLY THE SAME FUCKING CUTSCENE WITH SLIGHT ALTERATION.

I... I hate this. so much.

The story told in this DLC, is one third just a retelling of the end of KH3, one third Sora's journey to find Kairi's heart after it was lost at the end of KH3, and expanding on Sora's fate after he disappears.

absolutely none of it feels important. It adds so little to anything and everything, they could not have made this and it would've made no difference to the overall story.

This was so just a DLC for the sake of having DLC moment and I despise it so much.

I am going to try my best, and forget this ever existed.


All I have left is Melody of Memory. and this has honestly just made me wanna be done with this series even more.

Honestly just going to act like this isn't a thing from now on. Just ended with the base game cliff-hanger, the rest will be explained in KH4.