These are some of if not the hardest boss battles in the entire franchise, very clearly intentionally so, and I didn’t even have a hope of fighting them on normal difficulty below level 90. Don’t even try these battles if you’re not at or near the upper limit of Sora’s strength.
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Unfortunately, they’re relegated to a single cutscene and some additional dialogue options that set up the true meat of this DLC: 13 boss battles based on digitized information of characters Sora has already fought in his quest to acquire information I won’t spoil here. Leon, Yuffie, and Aerith have been important parts of past Kingdom Hearts adventures but were absent in 3, so seeing them felt like a sign of great things to come. Hoping the second portion, the “Limit Cut” episode as it’s labeled, would offer some concrete and fresh character and story moments to satisfy a hunger the year-long wait for this DLC had caused, I was initially thrilled by the inclusion of forgotten Final Fantasy characters. I kept waiting for something big to happen that would deepen my understanding of them, but it ultimately lead nowhere revelatory – even worse, sometimes actually raising more questions than it answers.īy the time Re Mind’s more story focused endeavors ended, I was left questioning why I needed to see that retread at all. While I liked that originally, these new portions add very little to my enjoyment of sequences I’d essentially seen before.
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Without spoiling any of the original story (which I quite enjoyed as I mentioned in my original Kingdom Hearts 3 review) or how this new version shifts it, a few new fan service-y moments are introduced into a stretch that already felt like fan service personified. While the DLC starts on a far more interesting note, seemingly set to investigate the tantalizing and lingering mystery of the black box several characters are searching for all throughout KH3’s main story, it instead pivots to offering essentially a director’s cut of Kingdom Hearts 3’s final hours.Īnd it feels… superfluous. Lasting about four to five hours, most of it cutscenes, Re Mind revisits the end of Kingdom Hearts 3’s campaign, offering some further insight into character moments and motivations as it fills in the blanks of some of Sora’s journey.