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So I've been in the mood to play a Kingdom Hearts game after all the E3 KHIII hype.

Having played both 1 and 2 multiple times on multiple consoles (PS2, PS3 and PS4), I thought I'd play the one KH game that I've never tried before.

My track record of completing the spin-off games are terrible though, mainly because they are inferior to the mainline games in every conceivable way.

CoM/Re: CoM is one the worst Action RPGs I have ever played with a plot that may as well not have existed. I did agonizingly beat both versions though (I was younger so I was more tolerant of these things)

358/2 Days was so boring with all its filler missions and I actually fooled myself thinking it would get better and played on for a while before I said no more and dropped it. I watched the cutscenes in 1.5 + 2.5 HD and that was more than enough.

BBS is easily the best one I have played from the spin-off games but it is not a very good game either. Everything felt like a poor man's KH1 and 2 and not to mention having to play as 3 different characters really dragged and soured the experience for me. The Disney worlds had a lot of potential but felt very limited and small.

Re:Coded is probably one of the weirdest and most unpleasant games I played. Didn't take long for me to drop it.

Given all that I have gone through with the spin-off BSes I'd say putting off from playing DDD till now was warranted. So then here I am, after all the E3 KH hype and giving the last remaining KH spin-off game a shot and abhoring every minute of it like always.

Here is my take on the game from playing for about 3 hours.

+Absolutely stunning graphics for the 3DS
+Great use of 3D function on 3DS
+Dream Eater system looks like it has potential but I can already see it has a lot of unnecessary fat that could have been trimmed to make the system more enjoyable to use.

-Camera ****ing sucks. The first boss fight against the Hockamonkey (or whatever) had me fighting the camera more than the boss.
-Enemies are HP sponges like in 358/2 days and that makes the battles a drag and not fun.
-Drop System is annoying. I actually got dropped right in the first boss fight and had to do it again.
-Maps are unnecesarily big yet devoid of any soul. I thought no way can Notre Dame turn out bad. Boy was I wrong. It was worse than Traverse Town.
-Character models are terrible and even more so when I'm forced to play as KH1 Sora and Riku.
-Most importantly, I hated almost every minute of the game I've played so far.

So should I continue and fool myself like I did with the previous spin-off games thinking it would remotely match the mainline game or should I just axe this playthrough and just wait till KH3 shows up at my doorstep next year?