I got the first 40 percent or so in, and was absolutely regretting my decision to play these games. This is where it got good, right? Trudging through the disney levels which are disappointingly cleaved from the original stuff, poor soulless retreads of their source materials' stories for the most part. This was the only one I played through fully as a kid, and my favorite parts were way shallower than I remembered. The inkblot disney world, NBC and such. Wonky voice acting and music just being absent during cutscenes making this seem extremely shoddy for an extraordinarily budgeted and IP drenched series, which I figured had been sort of improved in the 2nd game. But not so much until you dig into more and more of the KH-specific stuff. And I felt that the games were best enjoyed years apart as they released, since you have enough time to drift away from it and rediscover the combat in it, as that was its primary strength beyond the wild novelty that had worn thin by the 2nd title(chain of memories).

As I pushed on, it did improve in presentation, though still was a bit of a slog. I would say it formed sort of a wide U shape curve with a spike in the middle if I were to graph my enjoyment of it.

Overall, it does feel like if you absorb the whole series this has the possibility of that swing upwards in the middle being the turning point for where the games get good, or at least better. I'm hoping so, because I'm so far deep in my sunk cost fallacy that I will refuse to quit my goal of playing all of them.