Gameplay wise it was the best hands down. As for story it answered a ton of questions that we've had since KH2
THIS! One of the many things I loved about Kingdom Hearts 3D is that the whole series suddenly made sense. Certain "plotholes" we pointed out in KH2, COM, and so on are now filled and make perfect sense. It's almost as if Nomura planned the whole series after all (I know he didn't, but dang this game did a good job connecting everything together)
With that said, yes, Kingdom Hearts 3D has actually become my favorite Kingdom Hearts game. Is it my favorite video game of all time? Well, I don't know, it's one of those things that's hard to think of. It's like when people ask "what's your favorite movie?" It's downright impossible to narrow it down to one.
But I will happily say that Kingdom Hearts 3D is my favorite Kingdom Hearts game. The voice acting and writing was fantastic, the plot twists were unexpected (I'm SOOO glad that I was able to steer clear of spoilers because it was SO worth it coming into the game without knowing anything), the gameplay was great, just about everything was great.
I think it also brought back "the magic" that many felt was lost after Kingdom Hearts 1. I'll admit that there's a certain nostalgia around Kingdom Hearts 1... yet, I was able to gain that same "magical" nostalgia feeling while playing this game. A lot of it is because it truly is a 10th anniversary game. Down to the fact that you have all the previous forms of Xehanort come back and even in the scenes with...
Young Xehanort showing Sora through Traverse Town and we see Donald, Goofy and Pluto when they first arrived in Traverse Town in KH1. Also the last dive mode for Riku when he dives into Sora's heart and you see images throughout the entire series really brought a lot of nostalgia to me.
I got excited for what I was going to see in each Disney world because I didn't really know what to expect since none of the worlds were returning worlds (well, some are but the world designs are so different that they feel brand new)
I also loved the idea of having the tutorials skippable, or having flashbacks that you can choose to view or not, and then adding the chronicles for new players.
I pretty much love everything about this game. I literally have NO problem with this game right now. I mean, I'm sure I'll be able to find nitpicky complaints as time goes on, but right now I can say with all honesty that this is my favorite Kingdom Hearts game.