Finished the game. This has to be the biggest bullshit story I've ever witnessed. It was so bad, unbearable at times. And no, it didn't finish or conclude anything. There was just more and more bullshit put on top of all the other nonsense at the end. This was my last Kingdom Hearts game. I hope there will never be another Kingdom Hearts game. I should have stopped after Kingdom Hearts 2. I still dearly love Kingdom Hearts 1+2, two of the best games ever made. But it got worse with every prequel/spin-off they released. And then they tried to make sense of all the utter shit in KH3. Heck, this game builds more on the story of some fucking mobile game than it does on Kingdom Hearts 2. They really fucked this series up. It's beyond saving. Square-Enix should just build on the great gameplay and make a new franchise out of that. But we all know there will be a Kingdom Hearts 4 and probably 10 more spin-offs on 20 different platforms. What a waste.
I was reading your post thinking that you were not familiar with the series at all, and it made sense, but then you wrote "KH 1 and 2 best games ever made" and and suddenly it made no sense. whether it's short memory or humongous amounts of nostalgia, every game in the series is extremely dumb, cheesy, nonsensical etc. in terms of writing/story.
take KH1, when I played the game again recently it felt like the dumbest disney shit plot mixed with edgy brain-dead anime teens I've ever seen or read, but clearly I had a different opinion when I played the game as a 13 y old.
now that doesn't mean they're bad games, I think KHF2 is easily the best game in the series and 3 doesn't even come close, 1 is generally terrible but I can see the charm of disney worlds and the nostalgia making people enjoy it more than they should.
I finished 3 recently, since, well, I've played most of the games in the series - almost ashamed to admit it - and wanted to see how it ended. this "first saga" at least. I will probably play the future games too, it's kind of the typical cycle of "I know it's trash but I can enjoy trash, and sometimes (rarely) the trash turns into something good", which applies to not just games but different medias as well.
3 had it's moments, especially in the ending, even though it was incredibly rushed (and yes, dumb, but again, that's a KH trademark) but main issue was that I didn't really enjoy many / if any of the worlds, simply because I was waiting for the big finale, for the "shit is going down" moments, and that took forever to happen.
meaning, the finale Nomura thought of, the finale they made, wasn't long or detailed enough so they had to put 40 hours of filler worlds instead of 20 into the game. maybe they didn't have enough time (ironic, I know), or run out of good ideas, or who the fuck knows.
also, thank god for critical mode, which makes the combat system not a mindless button mashing fiesta.
edit : one last thing,
kind of amusing was the fact that the most important bits of the whole story and the future sagas after Xehanort were in a shitass browser game no one played and later were "summarized" in a dumb movie, which still didn't explain shit. Oh yeah, LUXU reveal HOLY FUUK MY CHAIR JUST EXPLODED
wait, WHO? Let me google dive into all the wikis and understand why I should care first then rewatch the omega secret movie and pretend to be shocked at the plot twist. masterful *claps*
that being said, that reveal was
foreshadowed very very subtly.
