My thoughts on Re:Mind and KH3 now

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So I'm fairly sure most people by now know of my opinions on KH3, even (wrongly) taking it to mean that I dislike the franchise at large which couldn't be further from the truth at all. I love KH. I dislike KH3. It's not an oxymoron. With that said, let me put down my thoughts on Remind first:

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I'm glad I didn't purchase this straight away. I knew there would be a small amount of story content, no longer than 3 hours at most, but I didn't expect so much of it to be such a brazen rehash. It's pretty bizarre and unflattering comparisons will be made weeks, months and years down the line.

On the other hand, the Guardians team up fight and Mickey's set piece (which was sorely needed as this character had been progressively decaying as a badass since 2006) are easily my favourite moments in the entire series.

One part (and the only part) of remind I actively disliked was how Lingering Will just broke apart. Sora really had no right to be there let alone fight, they had already made one off playable sections for everyone else, this filler would have been so much more palatable if we had been fighting as Lingering Will, just the sheer emotional impact of that would be far better than what we got. But I digress, I felt like it was a cheap way for such a legendary character to go.

The FF characters immediately brightened up the scene they were in. Yuffie and Cid alone have vastly superior VA and animations than any other character in the whole game bar perhaps Demyx and MoM, maybe Larxene too. Super fun and super refreshing, they themselves make the case for why they should have been in the base version.

It's amazing how well Nomura is able to write a character that's already fully formed rather than ones that are still getting there.

I (obviously) haven't played the data battles and even if I did have the dlc it would be unlikely for me to do so as that's not really my type of thing. However from the snippets I've seen a lot of work was done for them and they seem to surpass KH2, which should always have been the aim for KH3 in all aspects.

If you enjoy boss fights this dlc is your money's worth. If you're playing for literally anything else I'd advise youtube is your better friend this time around.

 

As to how Remind makes me feel about KH3, it makes it feel fun. Whereas before it was depressing to sit and think about the positives and negatives, now I can do so with a much more lighter feeling than previously.

I still personally feel KH3 has one the worst plots in the series, Remind doesn't really fix or exacerbate that, but it also now has my favourite moments in the series too and this level of fanservice was truly warranted after KH3's snoozefest of a finale where the only thing of note to happen was the final world and a KHUX moment. Not to detract from that, as that was a great set piece, but it was surrounded by a lot of mediocre stuff, especially in hindsight. It's amazing how far the correct characters being playable for certain fights will take you.

so tl;dr my thoughts on KH3 base haven't changed but I have a vastly more positive feeling to it now. If that even makes sense.