Kingdom Hearts 3 (review)

Hello everyone, I bring you good news today and it's about the long awaited Kingdom Hearts III video game for PS4 and Xbox One.

Before starting with the main theme of this post I would like first to give a brief explanation of the game Kingdom Hearts for those who do not know even this great game.

Kingdom Hearts is a game of the action role genre, developed by teamwork between Square Enix and Disney Interactive Studios, under the direction of Tetsuya Nomura. This game features extensive voice dubbing as it includes many Disney and Final Fantasy characters.

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The protagonist of this game is called Sora and his main objective is to find all his friends, which will take him to different worlds where he will meet many Disney characters and Final Fantasy.

Note that Kingdom Hearts has sold the incredible number of 12 million copies worldwide, with 2 million copies in the PAL regions, 5.6 million copies in North America and 3 million copies in Japan among other goods such as , Action figures, soundtracks, card games, books, among others. In addition each game is adapted to manga and to a series of novels and probably to the anime.

The list is extensive of all games and adaptations has had this great video game and that is why I will only limit myself to show the first that came to market and the last that is to come this 2018, probably for a next post show all the adaptations Of this video game.

The first delivery arrived on March 28, 2002 in Japan. Sept. 17 arrived in North America and on November 15 appeared in European stores and to this date has been fifteen years among us with many sequels due to its great success.

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Kingdom Hearts (22/11/2002)

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The story of Kingdom Hearts begins with the Keyblade. This is a weapon that chooses its bearer and can be used for good or evil. The keyblade can draw its strength from light or darkness and is the bearer.

This sword had several bearers who decided to use their weapon to save the different worlds from the dark, but also others chose to try to reduce the worlds to ashes by means of the powers of the dark. The former bearers of this sword of both light and darkness, faced in a macro war called War of the Sword Keys.

The final goal of ambós was to control Kingdom Hearts, the place where the hearts of all those who had lost it remained.
It is said that Kingdom Hearts has a huge force, so it is of vital importance for both light and dark supporters.

The war ended with thousands of dead by both sides, and it was a mysterious key-sword that managed to end the conflict: the X-key sword. This key-sword had an immense power, but at the end of the battle was reduced by 20 pieces, Specifically 7 light and 13 dark.

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The beginning.

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300 years after the terrible war, in a world called Tierra de Partida, three young people were quietly living: Terra, Aqua and Ventus. All three had the gift of wielding the Keyblade, and Terra and Aqua were about to be examined for the title of Master of the Sword Key.

Master Eraqus was in charge of supervising the progress of the 3 youngsters, and on the day of the test he invited Master Xehanort to get a better view of the Terra and Aqua exam. After finishing the exam, only Aqua was able to obtain the title of Master, because Terra had problems to control the darkness during the test.

Nevertheless, Master Xehanort was interested in the other two, for on one hand he felt an interest in Terra for yielding to the darkness, and on the other he hid a mutual past with Ventus.

It turns out that when Ventus was a little boy, he was Master Xehanort's apprentice, but the master mistreated him and divided his heart in two, thus separating a complete part of darkness, which he named Vanitas, and another of light. At that moment the two were in a world called the Isles of Destiny, and Ventus was about to die because of the division of his heart. Nevertheless, he managed to overcome the rupture thanks to a child who at that time lived in the Islands of Destiny; Sora. This allowed Ventus to stay in his heart temporarily to survive.

More detailed history here.

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Start of the game.

The game begins with our protagonist called 14-year-old sora in Destiny Islands, Sora had two great friends, Riku and Kairi, and all three had in common an astonishing curiosity to know other worlds. In the end they agreed to build a raft to be able to escape from Islas del Destino and to know other places. The night before he left, the heartless people arrive at Destiny Islands, and in the midst of all the chaos Sora saw as Kairi stayed within his heart (even though at that moment Sora was not aware of it) and Riku vanished in the dark.

Sora in front of the impotence and the enormous threat of the heartless, managed to brandish the key-sword. The key-sword has the virtue of releasing the hearts that the heartless have consumed, thus Sora obtained a weapon of extreme effectiveness in front of the heartless.

However that was not enough to get them expelled, and Islands of Destiny was apparently destroyed by the heartless. After that, Sora woke up in a world called Ciudad de Paso, where all the people who have lost their home are supposed to go.

There he meets Donald and Gooffy, magician and knight of King Mickey respectively. The two had been searching for a key-sword following orders from their King, their mission was to accompany the key-bearer by different worlds, and close the locks of each world to prevent the heartless could penetrate him. Sora accepts and the three visit numerous worlds in search of the locks and also of Riku and Kairi (since Sora does not know that it is inside its heart).

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Explanation of the video game.

The Kingdom Hearts video game contains role elements and hack-and-slash elements. In addition to its main mission has many secondary searches available that provide benefits to the character.

Npc of missions.

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Sora is accompanied by two companions called Donald Duck and Goofy who are controlled by the CPU that help our protagonist in this great story.

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Its combat system works with an auto target and has a real-time combat consisting of physical attacks, magic and calls also allows use of help item during combat to heal yourself or colleagues.

Character menu.

Here we can see all the information of our character such as the team, skills, status, etc.

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On the screen we can see its green color bar and its magic blue color, attack commands, magic, item and invocation.

The game has a store where you can buy help items.

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Spells.

• Blizzaga
  

  
  It is an ice type magic capable of freezing several enemies at once.

• Thundaga
  

  
  Multiple attack to stun several enemies.

• Aeroga
  

  
  It is a wind barrier to send your enemies flying.

• Reflectga
  

  
  Is a barrier that makes Sora invincible and does massive damage when under enemy attack.

• Block/Guard
  

  
  Allows you to block and deflect attacks.

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  Other versions of the game: Powerful combos:
  

  • Ars Arcanum
    

    
    Extremely fast burst attacks.

  • Ragnarok
    

    
    Attack combo in air followed by projectiles following the enemy.

  • Flowmotion
    

    
    Skill that can only be used in enclosed spaces.

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  Okay guys and explain a little about what is the Kingdom Hearts video game and proceed to the main news.

  After a long time without receiving any information about Kingdom Hearts 3, Square Enix has decided that it was time to give the fans a future of the worlds that we can visit.

  The worlds that we can visit are the world of Hercules and Toy Story and I have here some images of it:

  
  
  
  

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  Hercules

  

  

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  Well guys this is the information I wanted to share with you, I hope you enjoyed the post and if you have not played Kingdom Hearts I recommend you do it already and enjoy this great saga, see you in my next post. :)

  Kingdom Hearts 3 NEW GAMEPLAY

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