thankfully, i went into kh3 without over a decade of expectations for what i thought this game should be, and i ended up loving it even if it does have a few issues. after olympus the disney worlds feel more like they exist because disney worlds are what kh does rather than having any meaningful purpose, but other than arendelle they're pretty enjoyable to at least play and even if a lot of the big story moments are at the end in a way that can feel slightly disjointed, i found it to all be really enjoyable other than every cutscene for beating an individual boss in the multi-boss fights having all of the action stop for a monologue before the rest of the fight resumed. summons are also not my favorite here, the attraction summons lose a lot of their charm after your 2nd or 3rd world to be honest but theyre entirely optional to actually use so it's not like it really matters. also not a fan of the character portraits in the ui being their character models instead of artwork like all of the previous games (always hate this tbh!) but there's mods that fix that for the most part at least.

this game is definitely messier than kingdom hearts 2 (though not substantially so) but despite that i love the way it all comes together. if this was the grand finale for the entire series as a whole i might be a bit disappointed in its execution, but with kingdom hearts 4 coming eventually™️ i'm very happy with kingdom hearts 3, and more than that glad i let myself take this journey with this series.