Not gonna lie, I forgot links were even a thing.

I'm running Critical Mode with:

Even at Lv1, while Bizkit047 did express some issues, he did beat Dark Inferno at Lv1 on Crit without taking any damage, so it's definitely doable.

Oof my experience has been literally getting sniped left and right. Specially by the actual nobody snipers

Internet: KH3 is way too easy

You forgot to add that Critical Mode can make the player work harder than before, and screaming out of frustation and dying a lot. Basically, made look KH3 like an horror survival game.

6:47 That's quite the impression.

I havent finish critical mode but so far the difficulty feels right. I have to learn enemy pattern which makes the combat more fun and engaging. Boss fight have the been the highlight so far. My only issue is that normal enemy can snipe you off screen from a distance and some enemy have little to no wind up to their attacks so it hard to predict or to react in time. I hope they fix(change) enemies behaviour. Also just my two cents lv 1 mode in kh has never been fun. Its not a series that needs it.

I am very happy CM was added and it warrants another playthrough for me big time. But I think I may wait until the extra DLCs are released. That way itll feel like a proper Final Mix, with the extra difficulty, secret episodes, new keyblades, new drive forms, etc.

Really good review and I think you hit it right on the head with saying Osaka team is out to make an rpg and have been since BBS. Things probably won't be like 2FM ever again and I'm fine with it I think the games are perfectly fine and 3 is great critical made me love it even more.

One thing i noticed about critical mode and NG+ was that they added MOAR enemies if you decide to bring over your keyblades

I love it because I can use the ultima weapon from the start of the game and see it in all the cutscenes New game plus was a great idea in one of my playthrough as I actually talked about the potential of it coming to kingdom hearts 3 so glad it did

I only recently finished my Critical Mode run for this game and I had a lot of fun. My initial run (Proud) was already fun because of the power fantasy I can deliver but this gives the challenge aspect of fun.

Critical mode made this game 100x better to play, and that new dlc will make it 1000x better when its out lol

I agree.

I didn't think critical mode on kh2 was as easy as you said, especially the last few bosses. Roxas, xigbar, saix, and xemnas fights were all difficult fights that I actually had to learn on my non-level 1 kh2 critical mode. There were so many other boss fights in the 2nd round of kh2 worlds that were pretty difficult and I had to actually figure out how to play the game instead of mashing through, like grim reaper in port royal, experiment in christmas town, and xaldin. Maybe I'm not as good at the game as you, but I personally had to learn the fights unlike a normal playthrough where I literally just button mashed my way through the game.

What you said about the situation commands, it also applies to the other difficulties thanks to that update we got. Trust me, I've seen it in Proud Mode.