Kingdom Hearts Dark Road Is Barely Even A Game
Kingdom Hearts Dark Road has been out for a week and fans are already tired of it.
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Kingdom Hearts Dark Road has been out for a week and fans are already tired of it. Its small amount of release content and repetitive gameplay have given players little to be excited about, even with more on the way.
Dark Road centers on a young Master Xehanort before he becomes the Seeker of Darkness. At the start of his adventure, he travels around Disney worlds with other keyblade wielders, including a young Master Eraqus, to find missing students from Scala ad Caelum. And so far, there isn’t much more to say.
The story is bland and lifeless with what’s been released so far. This could’ve been an amazing opportunity to introduce new characters into the Kingdom Hearts universe, but I couldn’t tell you the names of those who travel with Xehanort and Eraqus even if I tried. There’s very little story progression between hours and hours of grinding away at enemies, and even when we get a cutscene, it’s small amounts of dialogue with no real substance.
The gameplay itself isn’t much better. Using the cards for any type of move gets repetitive and the player gains almost nothing from doing it themselves. There’s an auto feature that picks the best combination, allowing the player to sit back and not do anything. But if you want the experience, you can customize your deck with preferred skills and abilities. However, if you want to improve once making it to higher levels, the only real way to do that is to buy cards.
Buying cards is the only way to make real progress within the game and even so, there aren’t enough to make customs decks with what was released at launch. That gives the player little variety and nothing to work towards as they grind through enemy after enemy in Disney worlds we’ve already seen before. Similar things were said when Kingdom Hearts Union Cross was released, and while the game improved when more content was added, a standalone title like Dark Road shouldn’t rely on that, especially when it’s been hyped up for so long.
Kingdom Hearts is no stranger when it comes to releasing games across multiple platforms and considering Dark Road surrounds the antagonist from the main series, I was hoping for a little more effort. For games that focus so heavily on story, this could’ve been an amazing DLC to Kingdom Hearts 3 and not something half-handedly thrown onto mobile devices. That way fans would’ve had a more immersive experience and while it might have taken longer to produce, it would be worth it if the quality was high. But what we’ve got instead feels more like a cash grab than anything.
Kingdom Hearts Dark Road is barely even a game, let alone something that adds to the Kingdom Hearts universe. This could’ve been a great opportunity to dive deep into the main antagonist that is Master Xehanort and explore his backstory. Instead, we have something that’s flat, repetitive, and the only chance it could improve is with additional content.
Kingdom Hearts Dark Road is available now through the App Store, Google Play Store, and Amazon Appstore.
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