I'm still at the beginnings of this game but the review gives me no hope for the remaining experience I'm gonna have. I only just left the first world and am getting so pissed off with the constant tutorial pop ups and boring cut-scenes. They really overdid it. I'm gonna stick it out though (hopefully) to the end.
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videogamedunkey: Kingdom Hearts 3 (dunkview)
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I'm finding some KH fans in this thread have been more reactionary than anything. You look at the discussion of this video in the KH reddit, which consists of thousands of fans, and not just the few hundred that seem to be on ResetEra, and they had a pretty measured discussion about this video. Most were pretty sensible and the conversations surrounding the video were more interesting because they engaged a bunch of topics as a result. Hell, a lot of them basically agree with the criticisms.
The kind of defensiveness you see in this thread I think is just a serious problem with Era and the communities here in general. The quality of discussion surrounding games here is just weak in general.
I don't know about KH fans but I'd agree with this. People form into little cliques of shared opinions and every time someone counters that opinion, everyone jumps in together to shit on that person.
Actually that's a different voice actor who does Mickey Mouse there.
The new official VA for Mickey is Bret Iwan. He's done the voice of Mickey for the later Kingdom Hearts games and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
The one in those wacky animated shorts is Chris Diamantopoulos. It's the only series where he voices Mickey. But I really really like him more than the official one.
I agree. There is always one majority, which drag down the discussion by trying to put the other side in its place. Not with arguments, but just by pretending, that the others position can't be taken seriously.
God the writing is so bad...
I totally get him on the 'wooden/robotic dialogue' bit. When replaying KH2, I never felt the Twilight Town kids were friends, they just pretended they were, they were basically "bored-together" till the end of summer.
And yeah, for a while, I feel the Disney stuff is just a darling and adorable cash-in to watch anime characters enjoy a bideogame version of some shounen sunday morning cartoon.
lol don't avatar quote me. I love a LOT about the series, but I sure as hell don't come back for good plot (yadda yadda journey>destination). The series has so many great building blocks, but the story it ultimately told was such a let-down of convoluted pieces haphazardly and arbitrarily fitting together. The story would have totally benefit being way more simplified (less WOULD REALLY BE more).
For such a big property for Square Enix to "Square Enix it up" with Disney worlds (a brand ironically better known for way tighter and cohesive story-telling), I'm honestly surprised they let the reins on this go as much as they did....
I totally get him on the 'wooden/robotic dialogue' bit. When replaying KH2, I never felt the Twilight Town kids were friends, they just pretended they were, they were basically "bored-together" till the end of summer.
And yeah, for a while, I feel the Disney stuff is just a darling and adorable cash-in to watch anime characters enjoy a bideogame version of some shounen sunday morning cartoon.
lol don't avatar quote me. I love a LOT about the series, but I sure as hell don't come back for good plot (yadda yadda journey>destination). The series has so many great building blocks, but the story it ultimately told was such a let-down of convoluted pieces haphazardly and arbitrarily fitting together. The story would have totally benefit being way more simplified (less WOULD REALLY BE more).
For such a big property for Square Enix to "Square Enix it up" with Disney worlds (a brand ironically better known for way tighter and cohesive story-telling), I'm honestly surprised they let the reins on this go as much as they did....
I think the problem is that the new guy just doesn't sell KH mumbo jumbo.
I'll be honest, I haven't liked the new official voice actor's take on Mickey since I first heard him on an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse that my lil sister was watching. It just sounds off to me. Like I know that replacing Wayne Allwine or Walt Disney was going to be a difficult task, but I just didn't like Bret's take on Mickey.
But when I saw the newer Mickey Mouse shorts I really warmed up to the voice and portrayal of Mickey. I thought it was an improved Bret Iwan at first until I found out that it was someone different voicing Mickey there. So from then on I was a big fan of Chris's version of Mickey and I wish that Disney would use him more often.
Downright savage beatdown to a game that fully deserves the vitriol. I have to laugh at people arguing in this thread about the score, "but...but...the polish and visuals!" as if having good production values should alone(debatable even there given the voice acting/direction) start a games score at some decent mark, despite having atrocious storytelling and braindead "watch the pretty lights" gameplay. A movie can have astounding special effects yet be rightly panned for failing in every other regard, why is it so hard for gamers to get over that hump in their minds?
Comparing TLG to KH3 is astronomically laughable, TLG is the game of this generation that won GOTY for it's year from major outlets like Edge and Easy Allies. Nothing Nomura has done or ever will do will ever come close to sniffing Ueda's masterpieces and positive influence on this industry.
That metascore is going to drop, lots more reviews to come including Edge's which will undoubtedly drop it. This game might get a few mentions on GotY lists but it ain't topping any major outlets.
I thought dunkey wasn't supposed to be taken seriously?
Anyways, it's clear that this video is just an opportunity for people who already didn't like the series to come here and basically be annoying
Anyways, it's clear that this video is just an opportunity for people who already didn't like the series to come here and basically be annoying
May I ask a related question here; as a huge Disney fan but someone not into anime or the final fantasy games etc is there enough here to enjoy?
I really want to play through the Disney stuff and was tempted to do so and try and ignore the story outside of that
I really want to play through the Disney stuff and was tempted to do so and try and ignore the story outside of that
It'll fall all the way to the low 80s and then all you dumb fanboys will feel REALLY stupid!
The Disney stuff is very front-loaded. Once you clear the last Disney story you can pretty much just ignore the rest of the game.
Thanks buddy
Shows how clueless I am I actually thought the entire game was set within Disney 'worlds' pretty much
My point was that his dismissiveness in the post I was responding to, talking up it's metascore and sales, is even sillier considering that that score is going to drop and really isn't that impressive in the first place.
Yeah, 80 is just a critical Failure. You sure showed us!
I'm sure fans and SE will just stop making these games you hate so much as soon as the meta hits 80.
I disagree to an extent. Nimoy was amazing. And Osment and Gallagher can pull it off easily. I'd say the issues are more on the Disney side than KH side.
But previous Mickey was also great at it
The all time worst performance is still Aerith in KH2
You don't sound biased at all.
Clearly all the people enjoying this game are just morons in denial. No I can't actually think this is a good game obviously.
An 85 isn't impressive?
No because it will soon drop to 80! That means it's trash like Tales of Vesperia and Pokemon Lets Go. Just you wait!
Edit: I am actually surprised that Let's Go scored that high being the weakest Pokémon entry for me.
BRB Making a video about how it's actually a 1/5 game
The video was hilarious but I wouldn't use it to inform my opinion of Kingdom Hearts.
Tbh feels like both the fans and haters are getting super out of hand in this thread
Tbh feels like both the fans and haters are getting super out of hand in this thread
I mean I don't put too much stock in Metascore anyway admittedly. I love Travis Strikes Again and that's has a score of 67.
But acting like an 80 isn't good is just bizarre. Just reeks of already having a chip on their shoulder and wanting the game to fail. Which is just petty.
You gave weight to the metacritic and used it as a means to dismiss another poster, it clearly means alot to you to throw around that number.
You can like the game all you want, we all have things we like despite them being trash in so many ways.
An 85 isn't impressive relative to general industry scores for games that have high production values and aren't broken messes. Nor do I put much weight into metascore itself outside of extreme highs and lows(even then 90+ games have been hype fueled trash).
What's weirder is that KH consistently scores around 80+, I believe the 3DS version of DDD is the worst at 75. With KH2 the highest at 87
I don't know why "Ha! It's getting an 80 as always!" Is a "gotcha"
80+ is a good score worth bragging about. To pretend otherwise it's just dumb
Edit: My mistake. Lowest one is rightfully Re:Coded with 66. A score I completely agree as its the most uninspired and mediocre game in the series
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His reviews are more or less his actual feelings on the matter.
The video is the topic on the thread, so the actually annoying people are the ones trying to shit on people agreeing with the contents of the video.
I find this vitriol against KH3 to be misguided. Its story isn't more convoluted than your average long running shonen manga or anime. It's dialogue no more stilted than your average jrpg. It has been constantly compared to an idealized version of the first two games, a fight which it cannot ever win. Honestly? It's just another Kingdom Hearts game through and through, warts and all. All things considered, it's the first game by the Osaka team for a home console and their first full game for the HD era. And as far as base versions goes...it's one of the better ones? I totally get not liking, but it seems a game so innocuous and in some ways unremarkable (it's just more Kingdom Hearts) that this raging hate feels misplaced in a industry like this. I find the story pretty fucking stupid, my brain shuts down everytime they mention time travel sleeping worlds and some such, I'm mostly there for some characters I've been following for years, Yoko's music and some batshit insane Nomura antics.
It's a serviceable game, perfectly in line with the rest of the series, targeted mostly to people who have been following the games through the years. It has an AAA budget, but it's kind niche in its own convoluted way. Some of the reactions from youtubers, streamers and seriouscritics just seem to be a bit disproportionate, petty, click baity and ultimately unwarranted.
It's a serviceable game, perfectly in line with the rest of the series, targeted mostly to people who have been following the games through the years. It has an AAA budget, but it's kind niche in its own convoluted way. Some of the reactions from youtubers, streamers and seriouscritics just seem to be a bit disproportionate, petty, click baity and ultimately unwarranted.
There seems to be a lot of level headed KH fans here who agree that the story is shit.
Still, it's not like there's only a minority of fans who think the opposite. I should know, I'm friends with a few of them.
Anyway, I don't disagree at all with Dunkey's review. I'm not even sure why people are mad at it. It's his opinion and I share a couple of those views as well. The amount of vitrol for the review in this thread is hilarious as hell though. Really want those who wrote some of the posts to try and say it out loud to know how embarassing the posts was.
For the record, I'm enjoying KH3. I was prepared for the story to be a disaster but it's terrible how the cutscene voice acting, pacing and editing and bloody Gummi Ship mechanics are still stuck in the PS2 age.
Still, it's not like there's only a minority of fans who think the opposite. I should know, I'm friends with a few of them.
Anyway, I don't disagree at all with Dunkey's review. I'm not even sure why people are mad at it. It's his opinion and I share a couple of those views as well. The amount of vitrol for the review in this thread is hilarious as hell though. Really want those who wrote some of the posts to try and say it out loud to know how embarassing the posts was.
For the record, I'm enjoying KH3. I was prepared for the story to be a disaster but it's terrible how the cutscene voice acting, pacing and editing and bloody Gummi Ship mechanics are still stuck in the PS2 age.
I just completed the Monsters Inc world and am listening to this now, this is a bit hyperbolic but it's so on point!!!! Its hilariously true.
In all honesty I dont understand how any establishment could have given this game an excellent review. In all honesty the worst parts of the game trample the little good the game does. Combat while fun cant erase the asinine story we're being told. On top if it, they've taken every cliche about terrible anime and incorporated it into the game. The long pauses during conversations, the lifeless script, it's truly dull a hell.
This game in my opinion is a 5/10 for me
It's the main Mickey voice actor as always. The previous Mickey Mouse voice died in 2009.
Wow. I've been out of the Disney loop for a very long time.
The last thing the previous Mickey voice actor did was Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. He voiced him from 1977-2009. After that it's been the same guy voicing Mickey other than the Mickey shorts which are weirdly voiced by some other guy.
The craziest thing to me is how, during DDD, they introduced time travel for one plot point and everyone was rightfully annoyed. And then KH3 went fucking crazy with it, ignoring all semblance of typical time travel paradox logic and just made up their own rules. Every other character was like "I'm uhh... from the past lol"
I really hope that the next arc of the story is able to shed the baggage of this entire arc and tell a compelling tale without half the fuckery Nomura wrote himself into with this.
I really hope that the next arc of the story is able to shed the baggage of this entire arc and tell a compelling tale without half the fuckery Nomura wrote himself into with this.
I think nothing he says isn't true. The integration of Disney worlds into the KH mythos is worse than ever. The way the Disney worlds are used feels lazy and uninspired, and I am fully ready to blame Disney for SOME of that. The cutscenes (which are not a problem in frequency for me) are just too long and poorly written. The combat is kinda repetitive and could be a lot better if the difficulty was tuned and enemies had better tells.
...and yet after all that I think I still really like it. Polish and presentation flair go a long way in a game like this, and I'm sure I will never replay it again except for maybe the FM version...but there's something to be said for the way it just makes you feel kinda happy.
I will say the plot doesn't really feel THAT confusing.
...and yet after all that I think I still really like it. Polish and presentation flair go a long way in a game like this, and I'm sure I will never replay it again except for maybe the FM version...but there's something to be said for the way it just makes you feel kinda happy.
I will say the plot doesn't really feel THAT confusing.
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Huh. This explains a lot, always thought the Mickey short voice and Kingdom Hearts ones were really different and it confused me for quite awhile.
Haha, that was a great video. Seems like more of the standard nonsense that Square Enix puts out these days.
Great review and hard to disagree with most of what he said lol
The game was fantastic for me tho.
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The game was fantastic for me tho.
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Argh, this review took a potential nice moment away for me :/.
I admittedly didn't watch Dunkey's video, but by reading many posts here, it seems that he presents many valid points? Also this post is also not for disagreeing with him (even if I myself find this game exceptional amazing in many aspects), but the following happened:
I only have few friends that are into gaming, and all of them were never into KH (they never played one and have no idea what it is about) because they think it's too childish and so on. I didn't mind because everyone should consume what they want and think what suits to them.
After KH3 released, one friend suddenly told me that KH3 seems to get praised a lot and that the game looks interesting to him and he is making thoughts about to buy the game sometimes later.
I was actually excited when I heard that. I was happy that someone I knew wanted to give the series a fair chance. And if he would enjoy the game, I would in addition also have someone to discuss about the series.
However, that friend saw Dunkey's review now and refuses to buy the game. Not only that, he is shitting on the game even if he's repeatedly telling me that he has no idea what the games and the gameplay are about.
I'm not mad at Dunkey, I'm mad at my friend that lets himself influence or manipulate so easily.
I have no problem with reviewers, but I have a problem with people/reviewer-fans that take everything what is being said as fact and are not capable to form an own opinion or doing critical thinking. On top of that, some of these people are also finding enjoyment in attacking and shitting on the series and fans, as if disliking the game is objectively correct (because their reviewer said so) and if you like it you're abnormal.
(In general, not only KH-related)
I admittedly didn't watch Dunkey's video, but by reading many posts here, it seems that he presents many valid points? Also this post is also not for disagreeing with him (even if I myself find this game exceptional amazing in many aspects), but the following happened:
I only have few friends that are into gaming, and all of them were never into KH (they never played one and have no idea what it is about) because they think it's too childish and so on. I didn't mind because everyone should consume what they want and think what suits to them.
After KH3 released, one friend suddenly told me that KH3 seems to get praised a lot and that the game looks interesting to him and he is making thoughts about to buy the game sometimes later.
I was actually excited when I heard that. I was happy that someone I knew wanted to give the series a fair chance. And if he would enjoy the game, I would in addition also have someone to discuss about the series.
However, that friend saw Dunkey's review now and refuses to buy the game. Not only that, he is shitting on the game even if he's repeatedly telling me that he has no idea what the games and the gameplay are about.
I'm not mad at Dunkey, I'm mad at my friend that lets himself influence or manipulate so easily.
I have no problem with reviewers, but I have a problem with people/reviewer-fans that take everything what is being said as fact and are not capable to form an own opinion or doing critical thinking. On top of that, some of these people are also finding enjoyment in attacking and shitting on the series and fans, as if disliking the game is objectively correct (because their reviewer said so) and if you like it you're abnormal.
(In general, not only KH-related)
Man, Dunkey is so set on being an angry YouTube critic personality these days. The majority of his criticisms are 100% valid but making a point of saying that they threw away the story from the previous games and also making a point that the characters are spouting nonsense exposition at you is contradictory. The stuff they're regurgitating at Sora through the campaign at awkward moments are them retelling the many games that weren't KH1 or 2.
I miss the Dunkey that would find the fun and comedy of the game and make fun videos with that. I don't think he's a particularly good critic.
I miss the Dunkey that would find the fun and comedy of the game and make fun videos with that. I don't think he's a particularly good critic.
Honestly up until the end of the game I was feeling the same way and then it felt like the bottom fell out from underneath it.
I watched his KH3 stream lol. He went way worse into it on stream haha. Leffen is great.
I like KH3 but I can appreciate the ribbing. He seems to hating on the design in general. He expected a more open world game.
I completely agree with this review. Some things are polished but Donald looks like trash, the voice acting is terrible and poorly paced, gummi ship combat isn't fun, the main combat is too easy. I've tried to keep an optimistic outlook for FF7R but squeenix just can't make a great AAA title anymore, they've proven this with ff15 and now KH3. The only quality games they've made in recent years were ones they published.