LogFAQs > #908649351

I love the basic structure of the game, but the actual combat just feels so badly wonked out it's a constant detriment to the experience. The command system, rather than encouraging diverse playstyles like you'd expect from something so heavily customizable, encourages spamming the single most powerful moves over and over. Fighting the hardest bosses feels less like you've gotten good at the game and more like you're abusing a bunch of cheap exploits, with no alternative strategies apparent.

And while the story certainly has heart to it and has some great moments, it suffers bad from prequelitis with frequent callbacks to the prior games where they really weren't necessary. They act less as a cool callback and more as a distraction, with importance being stressed on elements that don't fit well into Birth By Sleep's self-contained narrative. It tries to be its own story while also trying to be "the big grand incredible revelation of every single question you've ever had about Kingdom Hearts ever" and those two goals conflict. Not to mention most of the questions really didn't need answering, making the attempts at answering them feel pretty hollow. Why does Castle Oblivion have to have such a super-specific origin story? Why can't it just be a spooky magic castle made by spooky magic bad guys?
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