i was going to give this game a 3 for having a pretty fun panel system despite the combat feeling slow, and then they started giving me tedious as hell missions

and then i got to leechgrave and i realized wow this game really ISNT an overhated gem it really is just a perfectly hated experience; bosses have way too much health, a lot of enemies are really annoying to engage with, and the slow as hell combat really stings when this game was the one that followed KH2, one of the smoothest feeling ARPGs of all time; I can acknowledge that my distaste for COM came from me being bad and unfamiliar with the combat system, but I can absolutely not give this game that same credit, this really is just a poorly designed game

this is easily the worst playing game in the series up until this point, which is unfortunate because it's paired with what's probably my best in terms of the story