![]() It's an opening line that will cause as many to roll their eyes as to rub their hands. ![]() As one takes his turn, he asks the other the immortal question, "Have you heard of the ancient Keyblade War?" The tone is set in the very first scene, which adopts the time-honoured tradition of representing the battle between good and evil as a game of chess between a man dressed in black and another in white. Our big-shoed hero, Sora, needs "the power of waking" to sort out regular villains Organization 13 - who with their ostentatious zips and hooded black leather trenchcoats look ever more like Dementors in a fetish club. Availability: Out now on PS4 and Xbox Oneįor all its intricacies, the underlying story is a fairly simple one.This is a game that should really have a spring in its step - this is Disney, for goodness' sake - but it's constantly burdened by its own knotty history. After all, it has two mainline entries and roughly half a dozen spin-offs' worth of narrative threads to pull together and tie up. To a point, its aggressive investment in its story is understandable. But then Kingdom Hearts 3 is, in the modern vernacular, a lot: from the dazzling pyrotechnics that accompany many of its special moves to its extravagant, indulgent final act, restraint is not in its vocabulary. ![]() If that sounds like a lot for a game of around 30-40 hours, that's because it is. Overwrought, unsatisfying storytelling takes the shine off a gorgeous and ambitious finale.īy my reckoning, there are 238 cutscenes in Kingdom Hearts 3. ![]()
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