motherfucker talked about getting over the barriers and the game couldn't even get over the barrier of being competently written

lone wolf is the peak of this entire franchise

halo 3 is still my favorite halo for personal childhood reasons, but i earnestly believe this has the best campaign of all the games i've played. feels like the pure refinement of what bungie had been seeking since combat evolved, without any of the weaker moments that those campaigns possess

i should not have trusted the plan LMAO

there are few things in any games that bring me the exuberant joy and whimsy that the warthog run at the end of this game

even now, playing it makes me feel like that starry eyed kid who first laid eyes upon this game all the way back in the late 2000's, completely boggled as to how a game like this could even exist

crazy how that one new combo + the addition of oathkeeper and oblivion almost fixes every single problem with vanilla kh3 and makes it arguably even more fun than kh2

anyways this dlc fucking rules and basically fixes any issues i might've had with the og version of 3's finale (which i already quite liked). the redemption arc is... complete

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

estelle is very much like myself in a lot of ways: brunette, stupid as fucking shit, and loves joshua a lot

that ending scene between the two of them made my bones fucking shatter i genuinely think being stabbed would've hurt less

giving this game a 7/10 not because it's a 7/10 experience consistently, but because depending on what area, enemy, or boss i'm fighting the game alternates between being a 10/10 or a 4/10

DLC's fucking rule though, which helps raise it a little bit overall

was fun cooping them with my bestie :)