Regrettably, Dream Drop Distance showcases the most interesting, heterogeneous level design in the entire series since KH1, only for it to be trivialized by a broken movement system. Enemies are mostly well designed, and the combat system from BBS returns, but without its best features and suffering from even worse balancing issues. The plot retains the series' imaginative charm and introduces interesting new concepts, but loses itself to convoluted, terribly bad writing.