Kingdom Hearts is the best game series I have ever played. Although, I still didn’t had a chance to play KH3D. To tell the truth, I think I will be able to play it only in 2014. My family doesn’t have much money. I got my PS2 only four years before, when the price was already very low. That means my parents don’t have money to buy a 3DS and KH3D for me. But I knew various things about the game and saw various videos of it. So, even if hadn’t played KH3D, I will tell the story of how I knew it, write a review of what I think of the new features and say what it means to me.
Let’s start with my story; I first played a Kingdom Hearts game in the middle of the last year. It was Kingdom Hearts 2. I liked it so much, that I got all KH games for PS2, including KH2 Final Mix. One day, after I finished Kingdom Hearts 2 and cried when my Kingdom Hearts 1 copy didn’t worked, I found the KHWiki and saw Kingdom Hearts 3D for the first time. I wasn’t thinking on buying it, I was seeing it just like one more KH game that I would not be able to play. But each time, more and more, I saw how it would be the best KH game until now and desired to be able to buy it. So, an opportunity for me to work appeared (Although, it will be just two years from now, that’s why I still can’t buy it). The money is the main reason I don’t buy other KH games, so, I would be able to buy this one. Then, I found KH13. I don’t know how to explain how I felt when I found this forum. In my city, I don’t know anyone that likes KH, so I don’t have anyone to talk to. Finding the forum was amazing. All that information and people I could talk. I started to enter on it every day, and each day, something new about KH3D appeared. Then I started to enter especially to see what was new on KH3D and definitely decided to buy a 3DS and it, which will be the first things I will buy with my money. And now, two months later, I still don’t have the game or my 3DS, but I’m already planning how I will pay it and how wonderful will be to play it, after so much time waiting.
Now for the review; in my opinion, Kingdom Hearts 3D is the best Kingdom Hearts game until now, and have everything that it’s needed to be the best Nintendo 3DS game. I wasn’t thinking in buying KH3D. But after I saw the first trailers, I immediately changed my mind. It’s the only reason I want a 3DS. Its various new features can make someone keep playing four hours.
FlowMotion is very fun to use, at the same time that it’s useful and powerful. Sometimes, it can really help you get out of a pinch, and it’s very cool to explore the worlds, reaching places that you couldn’t in other ways. As there are poles, walls and rails, and there are various attacks and ways to use it, it doesn’t make you bored (just if you keep bouncing of walls and doesn’t do anything else). For me, it’s one of the best new features of the game, and one of the main reasons I want to play it.
The Dream Eaters are very cute and make the game much more interesting, since there is various things that you can do. You can pass hours raising and playing with them, as well as collecting and trying to see all possible Link attacks. The possibility to give names and change their colors is wonderful. That way, even if you don’t want to change their names, you can change their colors to difference two Spirits of the same type. You can also change their colors to your favorites! I will make a Black and white Meow Wow. Also, there’s cute Spirits, but there is bigger and stronger ones, like Aura Lion. So, people that don’t like cute cats and bats have other options. That was a great idea.
The new selection of worlds is awesome. I liked Space Paranoids in KH2 very much, because I had watched Tron: Legacy some weeks before. When I knew that Tron: Legacy would be in KH3D, I got very happy. The different worlds that Mickey appears make us think how will be Riku and Sora’s reaction when they see him, as well as how that can happen. And what will happen with the Mickeys when the worlds are restored? Also, making less, bigger worlds were a great idea, especially in this games. Know why? It’s cooler to have various areas to explore, that makes you need to have a good memory to remember where you already saw and where you still have to go. Also, as you play each world two times, as Sora and Riku, it’s like there are 14 worlds instead of 7, and larger worlds mean more time exploring.
Link Portals are very interesting. There are various different challenges that you can to complete and boss battles to replay. That, together with the possibility to collect all the Dream Eaters and the Secret Bosses (if the game has some), leaves various things for the player to do even after beating the game.
The Drop and Dive Systems are also great innovations. Drop is a great way to connects Sora and Riku’s story, as well as making it easier to understand. Although, it may be sometimes annoying to drop in the middle of a boss battle and have to start it all over again, but the player could solve this by dropping before it. Dive is a very cool minigame and is a creative new way to travel between worlds, and fits really well into the game’s story.
About the story I can’t say much, just that it looks very involving since it will talk about everyone, since characters from Birth by Sleep to characters from Kingdom Hearts 2. Also, it’s very good that the game will put players on par of the overall story, since some of them (like I) didn’t had the chance to play all the games of the series. Also, it leads to the long awaited Kingdom Hearts 3.
And, for last, the best feature of the game: the possibility to play as Riku. Some players, like me, likes Riku just as much or even more than Sora. So, It’s cool to see that him is finally becoming more recognized as a hero and a main character. In this game, he will have a more important role than in any other game. Sometimes it even appears that he is more skilled than Sora.
To finish, what KH3D means to me; I first played a KH game last year. For that, I’m not a long time KH fan. But that doesn’t mean anything. It’s not the time that you know the series that makes you a real fan, but how you feel about it, how you feel when you play it. For me, Kingdom Hearts is not a simple game series that I like and play to pass time. It is one of the most important things in my life. Even if none of my friends like, even if some people says that KH is something for children, I don’t mind. I will always keep playing it. That’s what Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance means to me: like all Kingdom Hearts series, something very important to me, the only reason I want a 3DS. It doesn’t mind that it will take a long time for I to play it. The important is that I will be able to play it someday and will have much fun with it. It is a dream that will become real, something that will make me happy, that I will keep playing for hours and hours, that I will take everywhere, and that I will tell what happens with me in the game to you, my friends of KH13.
Thanks for reading this. Goodbye!!