I actually replayed it last year, I still like it better. 3 has a lot of QoL features that I'd miss, it made the platforming bearable, but I still like 1 better. KH1 is more than the sum of it's parts, KH3 isn't.
I still need to finish KH3, but I will say a lot of KH3 really feels like it was made by a very large team that didn't talk to each other much. (I'm like 15 hours in)
I can agree with that. It's a gorgeous game with a lot of good ideas, but none of those ideas seem to mesh at all. KH1 and KH2 felt more like everyone was on the same page and working towards the same goal with the same mission. Sure 1 is rough around the edges now, but I'd only really add a single mechanic from KH3 to that game: the flowmatic traversal stuff. Outside of that KH1 is a ton better.
How many times has X given it to ya? I love watching streams of this game, they're very random with certain things so stuff is unique. I have beaten Claire A, B and Leon A so far. Knowing how to path your way through the game is a lot of challenging fun.
I would love to know how many mechanics they made for KH3 that didn't make it into the game.
My issue with all the mechanics is the combat. So much of that stuff is totally useless or incredibly situational. I've never really used the flowmatic combat stuff simply because it's too annoying to get going. I've used the focus shoot thing, but only sparingly and only at the start of a fight. There's just too many moving parts in the base gameplay loop at this point.
It's....fine? It's not a bad level by any means, but out of all the levels in the game, I felt the least involved with the "plot" & its characters. Plus aside from seeing the ice palace, there's not really much that makes it feel like it's Frozen, but more "generic ice/snow level".
I'm playing it now and frankly it's just whatever. It feels like they needed a frozen level and added a quick frozen level.
I will just say this.
I figured that out pretty quick, it's just that the level itself feels kinda ehh. For the more recent movies it feels like we're playing through the movie itself instead of through a world based on the movie. Frozen-world has been the peak of that so far. We're just kinda there, along for the ride.
It felt the most "let's show off how well the game looks & how close we can have it seem to the original film". Tangled had that same feeling, but at least you actually teamed up with both its main characters & I felt involved with helping them out and fighting the villain.
EXACTLY. So many moments were just "hey, it's the exact same scene from the film, isn't that nuts the PS4 looks so similar to the movie!?" & kinda why I couldn't help but feel like Sora was a bit fanfic-y with the fact he just felt inserted into the plot.
Toy Story was the perfect KH level and Monsters Inc was also really good.
I can see why they did, it's a good opening. That said, they totally wasted the titans like that. Plus I still miss the Colosseum from KH1. Sure there wasn't much of a story there, but it was a thing you could do on little time and have some fun with.
Story wise it makes sense, I just find it empty. The Titans also disappointed. I think the Colosseum is the best part of 1.
Thanks to nostalgia goggles and not having watched toy story 1 against since toy story 3... it already looks like toy story 3/4 to me in my memories :3
Yeah, it's great storywise. It's just a bit of a waste. They took 3 end game tier boss characters and made them bosses 1 and 2.
For me it's pretty much 6,7 and 10. Then in another bracket is 4,8 and 9.
When he's monologuing to Shigechi he sounds appropriately cold, calm and robotic, as Kira should. I have to get to last nights ep, but I'm liking him so far. Kira doesn't get emotional till a scene further down the line that I cannot wait to see dubbed.
