It included characters from the absolutely phenomenal cult classic The World Ends With You, which was rad. Dream Drop Distance brought the flomotion controls to the series as seen in Kingdom Hearts III, as well as smoother vertical platforming. It’s a solid game, with fun mechanics and a wonky story that felt like it was all going to be filler but actually featured some integral plot points. This game gets a lot of hate-some deserved, and some because for some reason, when 2010 rolled around, the video game community and the Kingdom Hearts community all of the sudden decided they were gonna be hypercritical. Of course, the remastered and Final Mix versions are the definitive ways to play, so feel free to assume that's the version we mean. Just base games released in the U.S., to clarify. So we thought, there are a nice, crisp 10 games in the series (not counting the many re-rereleases and remakes), and that makes for a nice, clean listicle of the 10 best Kingdom Hearts titles of all time. With the long-awaited Kingdom Hearts III ReMind DLC-which promises new worlds, Keyblades, playable characters, modes, and story updates, both through the $30 DLC and a free update-out January 23 for PS4 and February 25 for Xbox One, the fan forums are overflowing with hype. With one of the most blindly devoted fan bases (I am damn well aware that this includes me), it's one of few series that rarely catches hate from its own fans. Whether we all love Kingdom Hearts for the emotional, nostalgic storytelling, the fact that we’ve grown up with it, or because we like trying to explain the ass-backwards plot to no avail, one thing's for sure: This franchise is an exception. For all intents and purposes, these games shouldn't work, and yet they've charmed a whole generation by cramming Final Fantasy into Disney fluff. Kingdom Hearts is a weird science experiment with a twisty plot and ridiculous narrative “dont's,” and yet it remains my, and many others', favorite game series.
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