I played like one hour tops of DDD since I just got me a 3DS, and Im not feeling it yet. Im not sure why. I dont really like this time you have to use one character before it swaps it for you. I like to explore and waste time doing silly things. I cant do that with a fucking clock telling em to speed things up. -_- And I also dont like these monsters a la XIII-2. They are boring. I can already tell I will probably not like this as much as I liked BBS, would love to be proven wrong though.
Drop system was stupid and it makes no fuckin sense at all from gameplay design perspective. I don't know what they were thinking. It doesn't add challenge or fun or fuckin anything.
I agree Dream Eaters are the worst of the 3 main baddies (heartless, unversed). I really don't like the designs of most of them or the colouring.
But hey I have whined about DDD enough anyway. Things I DID like about the game:
-Big open areas and technically impressive in almost every way. Does series justice.
-Some cool ideas with the touchpad for what I remember like using enemies as slingshots ect.
-Flowmotion is kinda cool but ruined by level design not being designed around it.
-Music is great. Minimal recycling of old music. Some great remixes and great original music.
-Sora and Riku are different in good ways. Too bad the shitty balancing pretty much ruins this one.
-Some dialogue, especially Riku.
-Liked the Drop into the worlds.
-Pokemon party members is interesting idea... kinda sorta. Lots of customization tho and that I like.
But the more I think about it the more it is clear it is the weakest of the 4 main titles.