The title animations for each kingdom are spellbinding: however much the person or people responsible for these is getting paid, it isn't enough.Īnd, on more than one occasion, those things were subsequently explained - because Kingdom Hearts 3 can't decide how it should bring players up to speed. On more than one occasion I paused a cutscene to look up a wiki because someone had referred to a name or a plot development I couldn't recall. I've played and finished both previous numbered entries, as well as PSP spin-off Birth By Sleep and Dream Drop Distance on 3DS, and still I was left flummoxed at times. That a five-chapter recap - briskly told, for a change - is essentially required reading says even more. That several specialist sites and YouTubers have felt the need to produce their own 'story so far' says a lot. It soon becomes apparent that this is a game for anyone who's embedded themselves in Kingdom Hearts' tangled lore for the better part of two decades, or else those who've been playing catch-up in the long lead-up to the launch of this chapter-closer. 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.
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