Slow buildup, but worth the wait – KINGDOM HEARTS Uχ Dark Road Review

This is a game that I was only vaguely interested in for the longest time. Really, I only kept it to log on each day and collect some jewels. Lots of times I considered simply deleting it. But now, I’m really glad I kept it. The story itself starts very slow, and if I’m totally honest, feels pretty generic and dull for the first couple hundred quests. The gameplay starts off simple, with very little enemy variety. But at right around the 20% completion mark, everything suddenly shifted. The difficulty increased in ways that require actual strategy, characters have better writing, cutscenes are far more amusing, and the ‘go here, kill this’ plot is beginning to build up to something bigger, which I appreciate. It’s also really exciting whenever a boss is hidden with a question mark; they’re usually a pleasant surprise, and a few of them were pretty tough to take down. This is the best advice I can give you; save up, say, about 10,000 or more jewels, then on one of their medal deals with a guaranteed 6* partially powered medal from a small pool, splurge and buy a ton of them. That way, you can use them to all power each other up to unlock their special attack bonuses. You can get some ultra powerful medals this way that’ll save your hide in later levels. Avatar boards that include several Cid 10 medals are also DEFINITELY worth it. I think my only complaint is that it took so long to become a more enthralling experience. But if you do hold out and stay patient, it does get better. It just takes a really, really long time, unfortunately.
Review by TimeSeer6 on KINGDOM HEARTS Uχ Dark Road.