Kingdom Hearts III - Pre-Order Now To Unlock The Magic - January 29, 2019!

[Elcura]

Like...what Kingdom Hearts game is hard on Proud mode the hell is happening? KH Proud mode is like babies first action game there is no challenge after the first few hours, you just have fun doing whatever you want and discovering the game. Complain about being able to spam moves in proud mode like there's any reason not to use whatever you want to have fun? I played this game like I played KH2, I did whatever the fuck I wanted and I enjoyed the hell out of the combat.

If you've literally never played an action game before I can see proud mode maybe kicking your ass, but I wouldn't really bet on it. Critical mode has always been the main draw to see what the game can handle, and I think it'll do fine. Sure some changes are needed but complaining about spammable mechanics in a series about spammable mechanics is asinine.

And what KH was balanced? None of them are, they just have different levels of bullshit. KH2 was probably the most even experience with everything being equally bullshit broken. Reflect and Magnet? Check. Limit Form? Check. Limit moves? Check. KH1 Raid Spam, basically infinite magic? Check. People talk about OP magic in KH3 don't remember never being able to die because you could cast Aero and Cure whenever the hell you wanted AND Goofy kept spamming you with MP Gift.

BBS and DDD are next levels of unbalanced broken bullshit, it's like some people have said, do you not remember how the other games were cause I don't know what you're comparing KH3 to but lots of this is funny as hell to me.

[Prothescar]

My primary, and only real, complaint is that they tried way too hard to add way too much flashy shit to combat. All the form shifts, attraction abilities, MAGIC SPELLS??, etc. being dumped into your triangle button 5-10 times a fight? yeah. I hope that never happens again going forward with the series. Maybe they'll have more relevance in Critical Mode but fuck me there's just way too many context commands imo.

[Gokulo]

My primary, and only real, complaint is that they tried way too hard to add way too much flashy shit to combat. All the form shifts, attraction abilities, MAGIC SPELLS??, etc. being dumped into your triangle button 5-10 times a fight? yeah. I hope that never happens again going forward with the series. Maybe they'll have more relevance in Critical Mode but fuck me there's just way too many context commands imo.

I was so annoyed with this especially because I didn't figure out until like mid game that you can shuffle between commands and don't have to use them in the order they appear...

Anyway, other games in the series being unbalanced is not enough reason for me to not say this one also is, lol. God forbid they try to improve anything

[Kaslo]

Yeah, no. You don't need to know or try to break anything. The game does it for you itself. Attractions might be annoying as hell but they let you clear almost any encounter without a risk of getting damaged. Magic is overpowered in general, I didn't use Firaga that much, but Thundaga 2-3 casts to clear out anything around me before it even moved.
Food I didn't even use once until I was doing plat post game to get exp bonus, can only imagine how much more op I'd make me.
And the secret boss not being any challenge was just so disappointing...

Oh, this was also my first KH I played and completed on pride. On my first try! And not even once I felt I played on a hard difficulty level.

But, previous games didn't reach their gameplay peak until FM so I'm ok to wait and see what changes.

In general I enjoyed the experience, I platinumed it, which I do rarely and had fun. But I'm not blind to how poorly balanced it is.

Spoilers: Magic is overpowered in every KH game, but the average player doesn't use it.

[Katlan]

Just gonna say. Not to add fire to the flame, but I think a lot of people are bringing up good points and its hard to get past the white knighting in this thread

[Alkar]

They may be good points but they apply to the entire series not KH3 specifically.
Going into a vanilla KH release expecting challenge and continous plot exposition is silly, you go in for the flashy combat and the Disney fanservice.

[Vaspinne]

My primary, and only real, complaint is that they tried way too hard to add way too much flashy shit to combat. All the form shifts, attraction abilities, MAGIC SPELLS??, etc. being dumped into your triangle button 5-10 times a fight? yeah. I hope that never happens again going forward with the series. Maybe they'll have more relevance in Critical Mode but fuck me there's just way too many context commands imo.

This I can understand. Being able to cycle through finishers with L2 and just ignoring the ones you don’t want to use (hi2uAttractions) definitely helped

[Tyrath]

All I want is an option to turn off Attractions.

[Elcura]

And to enlarge the mini-map. Things I hope they eventually patch either at or before Critical Mode.

[AoE]

Is it still circle to jump because that annoyed me that I couldn't change that.

[Daydreamer]

Is it still circle to jump because that annoyed me that I couldn't change that.

Yes. Once I finally got used to it and got my plat, I had a hard time unlearning it for other games.

[Obsidian]

The only Situation commands that really annoy me are the Attraction ones. The rest are either magic (quick to execute and busted) or the form shifts which are cool for the most part. Do sort of wish the forms were more joined to the actions you take instead of the Keyblade you're using (like BBS), but oh well.

I'm not done the game yet but gotta say I don't love a lot of the keyblade designs I have. I've seen the Ultima keyblade which looks dope but most of the rest so far are... meh.

Edit: Also the gummi ship controls are kinda weird when it shifts from regular flying to the rail-shooter perspective (flight controls inverted makes the rail sections really awkward). And B/Circle for Aerial Recovery stuff instead of X/Square is something I'm still not used to.

[Vaspinne]

Yeah, kind of wish they had some more designs like Oblivion and Oathkeeper and Lionheart and etc. Going through some of the more intense cutscenes with the Toy Story keyblade or the PotC keyblade really diminishes the mood of the scenes lol

[Rooney]

They should have just defaulted to kingdom key for the cutscenes. And yes, some of the newer designs looked silly. I feel like KH2 did a much better job at making sure the things actually looked like keys of some sort while still giving them themes from the worlds.

[Tyrath]

Def would rather have custom blades than kingdom key in cutscenes. My Ultima Weapon looks amazing in the final cutscenes.

[Tyrath]

Part of the rushing I do have issues with though.

Endgame spoilers

Spoiler: show

Felt like in KH2 the Org members got a larger spotlight. Each one had their own gimmick battle and so on. They seem to be rushing to get them all in in this one right at the end. I hate how they keep getting grouped up in fights and only one of them gets special shit for their fight.

[Gokulo]

In other good news, The Story So Far is coming to Europe. Good I held back from buying 2.8 recently

[Melena]

In other good news, The Story So Far is coming to Europe. Good I held back from buying 2.8 recently

Also restocked in the states. Shit jumped to almost 100 bucks on Amazon

[Tyrath]

77 hours to plat.

Now to await DLC

[Koyangi]

LOL

Saying Proud mode is so easy would be like Lebron James saying Basketball is easy. Just because you're "excellent" in Action/Adventure style games to that degree (and Critical) doesn't mean others are. What's to say anyone else else can't have fun playing the game on a lower difficulty. You sound like some of those people who raid hardcore in Mythic Raiding in WoW and shit on others who simply enjoy the game doing Normal raiding, maybe a little Heroic raiding, yet they still have a lot of fun.