Leave it to Nomura to make us feel bad about mistreating Dream Eaters. If you know, you know.

I honestly feel like Birth By Sleep should've been in this collection instead of the first one, because it makes more sense.

What you get in this collection is one game, a really short prologue game that sets up for KH3, and a movie for a mobile game.

The real content is really just on Dream Drop Distance, because it's an important part of the story, which unfortunately doesn't mean it's any good to begin with, because the quality of the story REALLY starts taking a nosedive here.

I'm not joking when I say you should get this collection on a sale, the original price is not worth it.

Game has a defect, preventing it from running on advanced AMD cards.
I was promised a patch, the same day I purchased it...
I waited for a patch...
.. six weeks pass...
.. it never came...
.. Steam denied my refund (I had < 2 hours)

Do not buy this if you own an AMD graphics card.

You've been warned.

Also, your refund policy sucks for this specific circumstance.

Waste of time and money.

Me? I am already half Xehanort.

I would like to preface this by saying that I love Kingdom hearts. Dream Drop Distance is one of my favorite games in the series and I love it a lot. I would reccomend it in a heartbeat but not this version. This version of the game crashes constanly and its become very infuriating to continue. For the first few days it didnt crash at all but it has now gotten to a point where it crashes roughly every 30 minutes. I have tried various things to stop the crashes (Redownloading the game, lowering and uping frame rate, turning off EVERY program, running as adminirator, etc.) but nothing works. DDD doesn't have an autosave and its left me doing the same things Over and Over and Over again. At time of writing this I haven't played 0.2 and haven't watched the movie but I hope those don't crash this often. Get this game on a console and not here.

I'll recommend this for Dream Drop Distance, although it is most definitely overpriced for what's offered in the package, especially compared to the first collection which is an infinitely better deal. For sure wait for a sale on this one if you're not buying the whole Integrum Masterpiece (you should be doing this instead).

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance fixes a lot of what I disliked about Birth By Sleep. In place of the 3 characters that all had separate progression and forced you to play the story 3 times over, you just have Sora and Riku, and while they do have to each go through the worlds separately, they actually share what's important, Abilities, Dream Eaters, Items, and Equips. The maps they play are mostly the same, but with different routes that you play through, and in some cases, entirely different areas altogether, which is nice. The Flowmotion system is an enjoyable expansion to the movement system and the maps accommodate for it, being much more wide open, vertical, and platforming oriented. It eliminates the challenge of a lot of potentially cool platforming with how you can basically infinitely keep air, but it's fun to fly around maps and explore looking for hidden treasures. The effect is has on combat can be questionable though, there's a lot of times where you'll want to dodge or jump out of the way of an attack just to trigger a Flowmotion animation and eat a hit instead. The combat is overall a much better experience than BBS, it shares a lot of the same systems in the Deck, but without the annoying Form changes that accompanied every move in the previous game, and enemies aren't nearly as annoying with long strings of death combos or bizarre defense jumps that make things exceedingly tough to kill from one area to the next. The Dream Eater system is fun, it's a little creature raiser minigame that lets you fight alongside former enemies and utilize their abilities and attributes, while they aren't nearly as good as Donald and Goofy, they're at least better than having nothing at all like in BBS. I don't mind the Drop system either, it could potentially get in the way during a long boss fight or enemy encounter, but jumping in and out of characters makes for a mostly enjoyable experience.

0.2 A fragmentary passage is... something. It's only a few hours and very obviously a tech demo for Kingdom Hearts 3, but it doesn't really feel good to play. You play as Aqua in this one, sans Ventus or Terra, and most Birth By Sleep mechanics are here, minus the Deck system, which really leaves a lot to be desired as you only have your basic moveset that's given to you and nothing else through the game (minus one form change that you unlock about halfway through). I get that the developers probably didn't want you managing too much in a few hour long experience, but with things like the Wardrobe system in place, I feel like they could have done something gameplay related instead of just throwing some cosmetics at you and calling it a day. Aqua feels really strange to control on the ground, where all the previous games had very snappy movement, there's a strange step delay whenever you turn too sharply, and it feels really bad moving around and getting where you want to go. The combat however is neat for what little is on display, spells have elemental effects and can interact with enemies in cool ways and can trigger powered up super attack versions of themselves if you use them often in an encounter, and the form change system is integrated much better than BBS, and you now manually trigger them instead of them happening automatically. The problem is that there's so little of it and everything else. There's something like 6 basic enemy types and 4 bosses in the whole game, and even being as short as it is, the variety gets old fast, some of the enemy types are downright obnoxious with their homing projectiles, and the big heartless blob bosses have poor tells for some of their attacks, leading to some frustrating fights.

The movie that was included seems pretty asinine. It seems like it covers a story that's only halfway over, you get some character drama from some new faces who you don't really care about at all, and then it's over, leaving you with a bunch of mysteries and questions that will probably be answered in 3.

DDD:
Really enjoyed it! Miles better than BBS, has very fun combat and pretty expansive and cool Disney worlds. The pet stuff I wasn't that into but I pretty much ignored it the whole game and managed just fine. It was really cool to play as Riku properly in a KH game, the drop mechanic is super super interesting. Any longer than the 20hrs it took me to beat it and I would have lost interest though. Would love to see it expanded upon more.

0.2:
Pretty nice, must've been really cool to play when this game first dropped but now that 3 is actually out it's pretty unnecessary to play I'd say.

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I love kingdom hearts but this port is ass DDD gameplay sucks even if the port wouldn't suck and constant cutscenes freezes that occur for like a minute the 1.5 + 2.5 are great ports but this is just not worth the price 0.2 is like 2 hours long and DDD is a very boring game even worse then BBS