Disney and Square Enix joining hands, and you slipping back without warning into a rebuilt childhood.

First thing, the gut pick, when the community decides on pure instinct: Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix lands right in the middle, neither ahead nor behind. But look at the criteria and the picture warms up, still on few votes, so take it as early signal. On the wish to experience it fresh for the first time, it sits ahead of 84% of games, its finest line. Attachment and desert-island companion follow, around 70%, ahead of two thirds of titles. Only the art style stays average. There lies the nuance: it does not win the room on first reflex, but the moment you talk memory and bond, it climbs.

In the action-RPG landscape of its era, it is a thing apart. An unlikely crossover blending snappy combat, Disney worlds and Japanese melancholy. Few games pull on that emotional thread the way it does.

So, for whom? For you if you love games that stay with you for years, the ones you dream of reliving with a blank slate. Much less if what you want first is a visual punch or the title everyone picks without thinking.