10 Triple-A Video Games You Just Gave Up On

1. Kingdom Hearts 3

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Caught between two camps - those who liberally use the “why would you say something so controversial yet so brave” meme, and those who screech out “THE STORY IS SIMPLE IF YOU PAY ATTENTION” - my statement that Kingdom Hearts was never all that great (but has now grown into a grotesque chowder of nonsense) always gets a passionate reaction.

I can see the allure, of course - teaming up with The Little Mermaid and Stitch to kick the **** out of some blokes sounds like an easy win, and given the phenomenally crafted, stylised visuals of Kingdom Hearts 3, I’d say at a first glance it delivers on that promise.

Yet, after eight or nine hours, you realise that this is effectively just Dynasty Warriors with the lassie from Frozen, tied together with (ironically, given the child-friendly storytelling of Disney) one of the most obtuse stories ever told in gaming.

After cleaving through another four hundred identical bad guys whilst searching for Xeno-plort (who is actually the shadow twin of the forgotten part of a whisper, or something), I realised I was continuing to play through sheer stubbornness, not fun.

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Hiya, you lot! I'm Tommy, a 39-year-old game developer from Scotland - I live on the East coast in an adorable beachside village. I've worked on Need for Speed, Cake Bash, Tom Clancy's The Division, Driver San Francisco, Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise, Kameo 2 and much more. I enjoy a pun and, of course, suffer fools gladly! Join me on Twitter at @TotoMimoTweets for more opinion diarrhoea.