funnily enough unlike most people, i actually really loved the story of this game. it has its issues, but as a whole i genuinely think this follows up on the stories of days and BBS well, and sets up for something fucking crazy in KH4 when that eventually happens

this rating is more for the gameplay than anything, because MAN this is a stepdown from KH2 in almost every which way lmao. if the game let me do a fresh playthrough WITH the new combo added in with remind then it'd prolly be closer to a 9-9.5/10, but with normal vanilla ass KH3 yeah no some of the fights in this game are miserable beyond measure. especially near the end, i genuinely hated the 13 vessels and armored xehanort fight

welp time to spend 20 hours grinding to get the ultima keyblade and crack remind over my fucking knee