With Kingdom Hearts III finally out, it's time for us all to look back on what has been a varied and eccentric journey through what many consider to be the most convoluted video games narrative of all time. We know that most people throughout the internet are going to be focusing on trying to tell everyone exactlyꩲ what is going on and what pieces of story they hope will eventually be resolved by the time the credits roll round, but we decided that we wanted to take a look at the gameplay instead, something many people don't talk about much!

Yes, we're going to take a look at all of the companions that Kingdom Hearts hands to the player throughout the many games in the series, the characters from Disney and Final Fantasy that the player can have with them while they're take on the darkness. Obviously, some of these people are going to be better than others, which is why we've put them in this list for everyone to take a look at. We know that we all have our favorite characters, but that doesn't mean they made the best gameplay companions throughout the Kingdom Hearts series!

So, we think it's about time tha⭕t we got started and took a look at all of these characters, so thওat people new to the franchise can make sure they only end up using the best companions possible!

25 Ping

Anyone who has ever seen Mulan will know that Ping is not known for "his" ability in combat, as it's actually just Mulan attempting to get by in combat while pretending to be a man! Yes, Kingdom Hearts proves that they often like to stick to the mꦆovie over making good gamepla🌃y, as Ping trips up while fighting and is unable to take on enemies the same way that other companions can!

Thank☂fully, it doesn't take long before Ping is out of the picture and players can forget they ever had to𒈔 deal with them!

24 Peter Pan

As any fan of the first game can tell you, the guy has quite possibly the smallest attacking item of any character in t🎉he game, with his minuscule knife doing very little physical harm. Okay, maybe he's worth having around for the magic that he can sort you out with, right? Wrong! Yes, that's right, this guy doesn't even have magic spells worth using, as Donald wi🦄ll likely have much better version of the spells by the time people get this late in the game! Do yourself a favor and forget about this one.

23 ಞ Jack Sparrow

He may be one of the greatest pirates ever to sail the seas, but that doesn't mean the guy can hold up well when he's placed against monsters made entirely of darkness! Yes, believe it or not but we didn't think that this guy's sword skills actually came in handy that much while playing through the Kingdom Hearts series, which was a worry, because we were really excited🃏 when we found out that they were getting this franchise inv﷽olved. It had so much to offer, but it just didn't work out!

22 Tron

Okay, so for this one, we're not too sure if our judgement has been clouded by the fact that the entire Tron level in Kingdom Hearts was genuinely difficult to get through. If you ask us, it was pretty clear that they were only doing it 📖in an attempt to drum up publicity for the movie, and it just ended up being difficult to get through. Really, it's a setting with such potential, but the team struggled to deliver and we were left wanting more fꦛrom the character and from the world.

21 Simba

This is more of a complaint that this guy was only a summon more than anything else, but𝐆 to be honest, we don't think his summon offered that much either. For a lot of people, this is a guy that has been with t🅷hem since childhood, a character that embodies a strong father, someone that we can all stand behind. Despite that, they relegated the poor guy to support rather than making him a team player, and that was what really annoyed us!

20 🙈 Jack Skellington ♎

Seriouslyꦡ, we think this guy should've been one of the strongest people on this list, considering he's so well acquainted with the afterlife and all things spooky. If you ask us, they should've made this guy seriously powerful, but instead he ended up being pretty average in power, offering very little in the way strength or magic. Not only that, but he ended up being really annoying, which is definitely in character, but we thought they could've at least made him a little easier to stand...

19 Aladdin

You would think that a man who has lived on the streets, who seems to have lived on his curvy sword, would be able to bring quite a bit of attack power to the team, but apparently not! The fact that they didn't make Genie, the far more interesting character in the Aladdin worಌld, the party member will always be a mystery if we're honest. Imagine how great it would've been having him run around and shouting quips as he punched the darkness down with his comically over sized fists. It writes itself!

18 Leon

Of all the characters in Kingdom Hearts, it was always going to be the ones from the Final Fantasy franchise that weren't as well received. They just can't compete with the Disney characters! Sure, Final Fantasy has a lot of hardcore fans, but we've all already seen♋ them in video games before. We know what they look like in a fight. However, they could've at least compensated for this by making them stronger or tougher, but they didn't bother d▨oing this for Leon, a decision we will never understand.

17 Mulan

So, this woman is obviously much better than Ping, and that is always going to be an improvement, but even then she's not bringing loads to the table that can't be found anywhere else! We can only imagine that Mulan probably wasn't one that the designers put 😼a lot🌠 of design time into, despite being one of the Disney characters with quite an interesting narrative arc. It might be smarter for them to think about that for the next time, right?

16 Rapunzel

When we found out that this character would be making her way into Kingdom Hearts III, we were all too bothered about her inclusion, but we have to admit that we ended up being pleasantly surprised! Utilizing her hair in a way that only her character could makes her a worthwhile addition to the team, one that proves she has a lot more strength hidden under the surface. If somebody had told me the main character from Tangled would prove to be a great companion in Kingdom Hearts III, we wouldn't believe them.