I don't really take app games very seriously. I usually leave serious, high quality portable gaming to my Nintendo 3DS and think of app games as a sort of pleasant, brief diversion, but I have been surprised by the quality of the app.
KH Unchained X stars you as a random keyblade wielder set back in a time before the events of Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep as you and your peers are fighting a force of darkness encroaching on the world of light. The battle systems involves collecting and leveling up medals with different stats and one of three types of weapon classes (blue for magic, red for strength, and green for speed) that are each based off of an existing Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, or Disney character. The medals are used to attack Heartless during the main missions (called "quests"), and the battle system ends up operating like a simplified version of KH Chain of Memories. Medals, or medal exchange currency, are rewarded for logging in or completing quests, but, naturally, there's an option to purchases medal packs with actual money, but I have yet to find this a necessity in the 2 1/2 months I've been playing the game.
The story is very, very light. Most of the stories are just brief rehashes of Disney movies and the main story progression cutscenes are about 100 quests apart. The slow to non-existent story progression reminds me a lot of KH Re:Coded. However, I have personally gone through about 300 quests and still like the style of the game. I think the pacing of obtaining and upgrading medals, obtaining and upgrading keyblades, and acquiring in-game currency to perform those actions to be nicely paired with the rising cost of each action coinciding very well with the growth of the AP bar. There are also certain events that cause the cost of actions to temporarily be less than normal. At the higher level quests (I'm at quest 300), I find I can complete about 5 quests before I need to leave my AP to recharge, which takes about an hour.
It is simply a surprisingly well made, high-quality, nicely balanced mobile game with very cute animations and graphics. If you're a Kingdom Hearts fan, than it will soon become you new favourite idle mobile diversion. Just make sure that you don't enter into it expecting an epic adventure on the scale of Birth by Sleep. For those that aren't Kingdom Hearts fans, thankfully, no storyline knowledge is required to enjoy this cute, little game.
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