Review of KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! 3

Konosuba has always been regarded as a series known for it's overusage of cheap jokes, X ammount of lewd references and turning what seems to be a serious problem at first, into a whole circus. Kazuma is your egotistical and perverted friend who keeps running his mouth, Aqua is a lazy bastard who's only good to create chaos, Megumin, despite her small structure, knows no boundaries when it comes to making BIG nuclear mushroom clouds and Darkness would do everything if it meant pain, a tier above Kazuma's perverted acts. Add all these ingredients and you've got a formula for a show that racked upa lot of praises within the anime community, making it one of the top shows recommended to beginners. It had been 7 years since season 2 premiered. We'd gotten a very satisfying movie and a series dedicated on Megumin..but it never felt complete; we needed more Konosuba.

And now that's here, i'm not sure what to feel about it. It doesn't feel like the Konosuba i've grown to appreciate. What once was a mindless trashtalking series, now has grown some sort of..character able to have feelings, to think on its own rationally.
This season felt like 2 movies. One, focused about the adventures with Iris, the princess of Belzberg, that also manages to add a few relevant plot points for the future; and the other movie focused on Darkness having to pay a debt because of some issues of her own. That structure becomes a problem because in every movie i've watched, you always have to add some connection between the characters and the person watching: being relatable. There's still nonsense thrown around don't get me wrong but, at times it feels quite forced as if they're being silly for the sake of catering to the theme's show, you can feel that towards the latter stages of the season.
And as a result of that, Megumin and Darkness had their "chip" replaced. Megumin appears to have a crush on Kazuma, she acts way more "lovey-dovey" towards him instead of her "scum of the earth" approach she used to have. Darkness aswell appears the same way, the masochism is no longer her entire character because of the whole series dedicating time to her feelings and overall background of her life. This in turn results in less potential of jokes between the two and, Aqua replacing them 2 as being the only one useless in the party.

Konosuba relies on its characters foolishness to achieve its memorable moments. Once you take away part of what makes them great, it loses appeal. The episodes went by so fast without me ever cracking a laugh. Felt predictable and some scenes were unecessary. It doesn't help some characters didn't have any screentime like Wiz or Yunyun that can add some silly story in the mix.
I've always heard: if it ain't broke, don't fix it! You can see the people who worked on this series gave it their best(voice acting, animation) there's no complaints there but; i question whether this change in character behaviour will pay off in the future. It's watchable but it will never feel memorable as the last 2 seasons, at least to me.