It hurts knowing just how many people missed such a good story due to such boring reasons. I understand the sentiment but the experience I had playing this game is few that I can compare to. The later half of this game I STILL feel is better than Xenoblade 1's story. I love the cast and charm they all bring together. I admit there are many flaws to drive a person away, but I can easily ignore them for the lore of the game's world, the fantastic soundtrack, the beautiful worlds you traverse, and the absolutely fun and rewarding gameplay once you learn the chain attack's gimmick. Love this game with all my heart.

There are so many things that I hate about some DS games that this game has that should have somehow made me not like this game, but NONE of them stopped this game from being so fucking good. Not only had this game somehow made me go from not liking a character to absolutely loving them, there is not a single character in this game that I feel is not only bad, but even mediocre. The entire cast carries this game, along with the catchy music and the GAMEPLAY man, actually so freaking addicting. When I started this game I could not put it down, I needed to know everything that happens and man was it worth it.

With every Kingdom Hearts there comes flaws that can drive any person away from the series entirely, I feel this game was able to take every single one and somehow made it even worse, when I look back at this game, I remember the "Honeymoon phase" where I had to slowly sink in the critical flaws that shadow this game, where Nomura was trying to finish the story but push away the many charms that made the series as loved as it is was one of the many blows to this game, not to mention the much slower and floatier gameplay that can make Terra's BBS gameplay feel fast, the ways in how some bosses have extremely poor attempts to "force" you to use their many different gameplay features (not even mentioning the disney rides) ruins the flow and fun in most boss fights. That aside from the way how most worlds have little to no relevance to the overall plot, just "disney movie, but sora's there!" Was incredibly disappointing and was yet another blow to what made this series so...different. That difference barely even existing, when the entire premise of Kingdom Hearts was "Final Fantasy X Disney", what an amazing idea it was for the Final Fantasy characters to just not exist at all! Remember Radiant Garden? Well too bad! The story for Kingdom Hearts was never something extremely important or even good for the matter, but everything that happened at the end of the game felt like some sort of fan's fanfiction, and even THOSE would have had better writing, Maybe at the beginning when I first reacted to these "happy endings" I was happy, teary eyed even, but this all just makes the game and series in a whole feels as though there is no weight to any actions. For a game that took several years and engines to finally release, this game felt entirely hollow and soulless.