YMMV / Kinect: Disneyland Adventures

• Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game: General consensus is that this game is best enjoyed for its entertaining vignettes featuring beloved Disney characters rather than its gameplay.
• Heartwarming Moments: The character interactions tend to be really adorable, especially the hugs. Even villains who don't like getting hugged are surprisingly friendly towards the protagonist.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm the following year made the game's erasing of Indiana Jones Adventure and Star Tours from the park pointless (although the remaster at least restores the Indiana Jones ride's main safety sign back to what it is in real life, yet the Star Tours one stayed blank).
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: The remaster was criticized for not adding any new content besides the traditional controls and improved graphics. One reviewer explicitly mentioned the lack of Frozen characters in the park.
• Memetic Mutation: The Snow White character model and her voice lines in the remaster were used in a parody video ridiculing Franklin Clinton from Grand Theft Auto V.
• Narm: Taking photos with characters in the 2017 version. The original release tasked players with physically replicating the pose demonstrated, but since Kinect support was dropped, your avatar just instantly snaps into place like a statue.
• No Problem with Licensed Games: Although the fact that it uses Kinect makes it debatable for some—although the remaster renders it optional—this game does have the feel of the famous park and the company's characters down to a T. That and it's also an open world Kinect game, with a decent (if a bit cumbersome) control system that actually makes it work, helping to make it stand out as one of the better-rated games for the sensor.
• Porting Disaster: The Xbox One and Windows remaster, despite adding 4K, HDR, and traditional control support, suffers from technical and performance issues, some of which are holdovers from the original release such as textures popping in and inconsistent frame rates. In addition, some critics and players say that the HDR dims the game's brightness too much.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Want to explore a gorgeous and accurately-recreated virtual version of Disneyland whenever you want? Then you have to stand and put up with a motion-tracking sensor to do so. Thankfully, the remastered release makes the sensor optional. Definitely one of the stronger cases of YMMV for this trope here, because some people actually prefer to play the game with Kinect, and some of the mini-games (especially the dancing ones) are not as enjoyable with traditional controls.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Some of the normally traditionally-animated characters don't translate well to the third dimension. Most of these characters look rather plastic in their transition to 3D computer graphics; Br'er Fox, Pinocchio, Cinderella, the White Rabbit, and the Queen of Hearts are especially bad. On the other hand, Stitch is rendered more realistically than most of the characters and looks creepy as a result, especially in the remaster where you can actually see the irises in his big dark eyes! Tigger, on the other hand, looks fine... except he has two rows of teeth for whatever reason.
• Unexpected Character: Splash Mountain being in the game isn't necessarily a surprise, but being accompanied by its main characters who inhabit the park with associated dialogue and sidequests? That's a whole other story.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The presence of Captain EO Tribute, Big Thunder Ranch, the original entrance of Disney California Adventure, and Tangled in Fantasyland places this game squarely in 2011. It's gotten worse with the makeover of Mickey's Toontown post-Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway, and it's going to continue getting worse when Splash Mountain gets rethemed to The Princess and the Frog. Not to mention the sign for Star Tours is still blanked out when Disney now owns the Star Wars franchise. There's also the fact that the fast travel system is called Fastpass, which has since been replaced by Disney Genie+ and the pay-for Lightning Lane system.

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