Goodbye, Scam Enix. For Now. – KINGDOM HEARTS Uχ Dark Road Review

Alright, maybe the name was a bit harsh. Your game isn't a scam, is it? No. At least, I hope nobody up there is trying to let it be. But, y'see here mates, a few months ago, I started to play your game. I thought it was pretty okay! I signed in through Facebook, and linked my email up to my account- fairly simple stuff. So, my phone was fairly recently reset from factory new, as its iOS had been broken. As a result, I had lost a good number of things I didn't save to the cloud- but one of the few exceptions was your game data. Or so I thought. I've had this installed on my newly reset phone for a bit now, and haven't really touched it- but y'see, when I just tried to log into my account- the account I've used for months, and actually sunk some money into, and more or less thoroughly enjoyed playing your game with- when I tried to log in with Facebook, I got the message, "No account linked with this profile." I'm sorry, what? You mean to tell me my character, Locke, who was around story mission 53 or so, who I had bought a couple of booster packs for (namely, the Cloud Strife one), the character that I had used to help my friend out in this game- doesn't exist anymore? He's just gone? Poof? Nothing? Because, I don't know about you, but I was fully set up with that character and that account. I had a Facebook and email connection all figured out and linked together. And yet, you mean to tell me, when I try to log in with my account, I have no character used with it? Well that's just mental! Excuse me mates, but I'm not having that. I refuse to pay you another penny, or even play your highly monotonous, and hardly rewarding game any longer. I was like, "Oh alright, I guess this system kind of works," what with your character's upgrades mainly revolving around having good medals- which, let me tell YOU, the reader here, they're quite hard to come by unless you shell out some serious cash for a game on a phone- it's just not worth it. I'm sure you there at Square Enix and so on will have a good laugh about this, as you rake in more money from other people- but I mean, really? Really, mates- I liked Kingdom Hearts- at least, 1, 2, and DDD. Those were alright- they were fun. But this? ANOTHER pay-to-win "mmorpg" (which, honestly, isn't a proper mmorpg- it's more just a turn-based rpg with a story that progresses with missions, and your movesets are limited to A) the amount of times you can attack with the keyblade you're using B) what kind of moves you equip to that keyblade via medals, both of which can just be upgraded by shelling out your dosh) on the bloody appstore? ANOTHER Pay2Win quest? I was willing to give it a chance, and I did- I gave you lot a solid chance, and you blew it. You blew it, mates. Now, I'll tell you (the person interested in playing this) that this game isn't the worst choice of a guilty pleasure of a Pay2Win game out there. But it's clearly not the best. I'm only giving it 1/5 stars, because they've failed to keep my account on record, and now my hard-earned money I put into this is just gone with the wind. My progress in the story, my medals, my costumes, all gone. I have nothing, even though my game data was SUPPOSEDLY saved. I don't know how, and I don't know why, but it is. I can't just not access my character, it just straight up does not exist anymore, evidently, because when I tried using the linked Facebook account, it said there was no character linked to it. Maybe it's Facebook's fault, but in retrospect, it was Square Enix's fault to trust Facebook in the first place, which is a fault in their own judgement. Maybe I'm just the one guy who "slipped through the cracks," but I'll be honest: I'm not just gonna stand for that, mate. I spent good money on this game- if I hadn't spent anything, I could've cared less. But I did, and now I regret that decision, because now I lost my money's worth, and my time spent on this game. Again, I could just be the odd one out, and this was just a freak accidental loss in data- but I'm still a person, and Square Enix still took my money, and now I have nothing to show for it. Hopefully it'll either go towards Kingdom Hearts 3, which I seriously doubt it will, or it'll just end up in some bloke's paycheck and he'll blow it on booze as he destroys his life with his rampant alcoholism, just as some people will waste their money on this game. Tl;dr, My account disappeared after I spent good money on this game, and I have no reasoning or closure as to why. This game is just another Pay2Win game you'll find on the App Store. Not very compelling to play, aside from the base urge to upgrade your character, and a mediocre non-canon storyline. I don't think I'll bother with it again, but I'd at least like a refund. I played it, I used its content, but it ultimately just vanished into thin air, leaving me without anything I purchased, or any way to actually recover it. Locke is done for. Long live Locke.
Review by Zikashamiri on KINGDOM HEARTS Uχ Dark Road.