This game kinda means the world to me.

3 by extension does too but there's something in that cold mysterious almost endless seeming hell walk that Aqua is on that really sits in my spirit, especially more around the holidays where I feel like my depression and anxiety can end up spiking quite a bit.

Cause I would frankly say that this whole short journey is about depression. This is a story about feeling like a complete and total failure. It's about feeling like you have no one, constantly grasping for some kind of grand connection but not being able to tangibly hold onto anything really around you, constantly doubting the reality you once could trust. Your foundation is shaky, you're rocky, you're falling apart at the seams but you still keep walking because what else are you supposed to do?

Your world has been stripped from you, everyone you once knew is gone or lost, all you can do is keep moving and keep pushing on, hoping to find some way out of the hole in your soul.

Creeping doubt, self destruction, pain, it's all constantly there. The way Aqua's self doubt and own self destruction is physically manifested especially clicks with me. Constant situation after situation, exhausted but unable to truly rest, looking for any rescue, any break.

It's rough out there.

Honestly Fragmentary Passage has been the first Kingdom Hearts title in a long time for me to show legitimate promise. Though it may be a glorified tech demo for what KH3 was to become, it's a sign that the KH team seems to understand that a no frills combat system coupled with a more focused view of the lore is what makes this franchise interesting.

There isn't much to love about Fragmentary Passage, but there isn't a lot to dislike either in its ~two hour runtime. It's pretty, scored well, plays well, and honestly thats all I wanted out of it before I start the third mainline game.

de longe o jogo mais imersivo com a melhor ambientação da série kingdom hearts, consegue passar perfeitamente a solidão e tristeza que a aqua ta sentindo, simplesmente me deixou pensativo ao longo de toda a gameplay como ela conseguiu ficar por tanto tempo perambulando no realm of darkness sem perder a sanidade pq eu teria me matado depois de 1 dia naquele lugar. a gameplay é um "protótipo" de kh3, bem boa e apesar de eu ter me frustrado muito jogando no critical mode ela é bem satisfatória e responsiva. ia dar 4.5 por ser meio curtinho mas colocando aquele secret episode do bbs na equação vai um 5 por toda ambientação e imersão maravilhosa desse conjunto.

Aqua💙

Kingdom Hearts in unreal engine is beautiful. Feels awesome to play. The magic is incredible. Very wow indeed.

Short, sweet fragmentary passage, a beautiful little journey; loved it. 5 stars no prob gg is what I’m feeling at present. Might relax and take a step back from it later once the emotions have settled, but that was so cool, and the hype is, finally, now very real for KH3.

And..also…the very little flowmotion in this felt much, much better to me than in DDD. It is more deliberate here; I think that may be my issue with it in DDD— it’s too fast, says the olden timer.


Bonus nice feelings gained from this game: I switched the color theme on my Xbox to blue, so the achievement notifications were blue— a small, yet very satisfying little union with this beautiful game and with Aqua💙.

A very nice tech demo for KH3. It just fiils in some story about what happened to Aqua between KHBBS and KH3.
The visuals are very nice, the areas are big and the combat and movement are all very smooth. All magic is fun to use and experiment with, and they found a way to use the style change work quite well (one of the best features of KHBBS imo).

It does well everything it intends to do well, I just think that the dialogues and the story could be a bit more well written. They are still passable tho.