This is where Kingdom Hearts fans get their first opportunity to play as Kairi. After this battle and subsequent character moment with King Mickey play out, it's time for the Re Mind story's final battle, which proves to be the DLC's most aggravating moment. It's a moment that's nearly ruined by horrendous camera angles, but it's a fun battle on an epic scale nonetheless. Players take the roles of the various Guardians of Light, switching between members back and forth as they face off against multiple Xehanort copies. But this ultimately proves to be the backdrop for some tedious puzzles before the story finally starts to kick into something resembling a climax.įor a while, it's a solid climax. This is where players can finally take on different Heartless and Nobodies to level up while also exploring the world. It's a chance to journey through more of Scala ad Caelum, the main game's final world. It's about two to three hours into the DLC before players should expect to see anything else new. In the end, it just feels like running on a treadmill.
The lone addition is the ability to play as other characters in the fight, but even that novelty wears thin quickly. There doesn't feel like there's any advancement here. Worse yet, players don't even earn XP for defeating any of these bosses, so they can't even level up as they go along. It plays out like a poor director's cut and for many players, it's hard to even tell what's new and what's been rehashed. Kingdom Hearts 3 players, did you enjoy that gauntlet of boss fights at the Keyblade Graveyard near the end of the game? How would you like to do that again? No, that's dumb because you paid for new content? Well, too bad, because you're playing these fights again! Yes, after well over 15 minutes of narrative tablesetting and a few introduction fights, players are tossed right back into the Keyblade Graveyard and tasked with going through the exact same fights a second time and watching the exact same cutscenes again, with a couple of extra tweaks added in. That involves time travel, because if there's anything that will simplify the Kingdom Hearts storyline, it's time travel.īut beyond the narrative implications, the time travel element also paves the way for one of Re Mind's most unwelcome "additions." Deja Vu Sora must find the scattered remnants of Kairi's heart in order to put her back together.
He's convinced that finding her is a simple matter of revisiting an old ally, but he quickly learns that it's not that easy.
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Players will recall that Kairi was crystallized and seemingly killed by series antagonist Xehanort, who is now on his third voice actor following the tragic passing of previous voice Rutger Hauer. Re Mind's story immediately follows the events of the main story, with Sora vowing to embark on his journey to find Kairi.
But the downright repetive nature of treading old ground is where Re Mind just gets infuriating. That can be forgiven, because lord knows the entire series lore feels like a broken jigsaw puzzle anyway, so this is par for the course. The Kingdom Hearts story feels messier than ever. It said, "A year from now, you're going to look at that and you're going to laugh." And lo and behold, the voice was right. When I originally wrote this, I heard my own voice calling out to me from the future. Amazingly, the game manages to make sense of the story." One of the biggest challenges for Kingdom Hearts III is attempting to make sense of everything, tying together all of the characters, plot points, twists and turns, and various events from the sequels. There's been so much said about the complicated nature of the overarching plot across not only the two main games, but all of the spin-offs, that mocking it has practically become schtick. Let's travel back in time (because KH3 and Re Mind both love to dabble in time travel) to last year and look at this chunk of our original review: "To say the Kingdom Hearts story has become convoluted would be putting it mildly. (Warning: There are light spoilers for the main Kingdom Hearts III story, so if you haven't played it, skip the rest of this review and come back later.) Time traveler's remorse So a year later, here comes Re Mind and I am here to say that I take all of it back. It even concluded in an open-ended fashion that doesn't specifically spell out a happy ending, but does imply that one eventually comes for the series' main character. I thought the game did an admirable job of tying up a great series of loose ends. I liked it more than most, having gone into the game with low expectations and walking away feeling satisfied.
Last year around this time, I remember sitting here and writing the review for Kingdom Hearts III.
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