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Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX |OT| Sora is Everyone... in HD
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Shadow Ranger
Member
Played it last night. The game looks gorgeous! The camera is just as terrible as ever and so far the music is nice with no themes jumping out at me as massively different. Wish I had a better sound system, though to appreciate and hear things more clearly. Currently getting owned by the armour boss. It's trickier than later games on the hardest settings just because everything is so severely limited (no Block for starters) but a little grinding will help.
I was also getting a little confused in Traverse Town. I just finished DDD the other day so was navigating it assuming it had the same layout and save spots. And of course, trying to Flowmotion everywhere...
I was also getting a little confused in Traverse Town. I just finished DDD the other day so was navigating it assuming it had the same layout and save spots. And of course, trying to Flowmotion everywhere...
No no no. I never want to see Agrabah again. It's been in SO many of the games.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Dude they can't just leave Aladdin 3 unused. Think of the outrage.
Dreamer RD
Member
Trigger hunting in Deep Jungle is the worst thing in KH1 :\
If you wanna go direct to video releases lets go all in with the slew of Tinkerbell movies.
I would like to see them expand out from the same old franchises. Maybe Atlantis, Darkwing Duck and Gargoyles to start.
The Xtortionist
Member
Shadow Ranger
Member
Tiana and Repunzal, please.
There have been ghost towns in every installment sadly. Kingdom Hearts 1 is probably the best offender when it comes to it as there's ton of things interact with and the world doesn't feel as lifeless/dead imo.
I really really hope they do make worlds more populated but I'm not getting my hopes up.
And yeah, that's going to be especially important with 3 and a bunch of characters having keyblades. Another way they could do that though is just do multiple scenerios with different characters in each ones party.
I'm not sure if I'm in the minority here, but I really enjoy Kingdom Hearts 1 for its simple story and it feeling like a fun adventure. The pacing of the story feels perfect to me and I love it, it's a timeless adventure that I can play again and again.
I did like II for revisiting worlds and doing extra stuff in their worlds a second time, but it never really sat well with me like the original did in terms of pacing.
Birth By Sleep I also really enjoyed and it got me hyped up for the next installment and mysterys being solved......
Then DDD happened
but but but but dont you want to see a cars world where sora and co have been transformed in to race car versions of themselves?
I agree for the most part though. Pixar worlds (as in the environments) are interesting but their casts and storylines don't suit something like Kingdom Hearts where there - like in the old Disney films - are clear good/evil factions (with obvious heroes and villains) with stories easy to fit in to a game focusing on these aspects.
Something like The Incredibles would be fine though. One of the only examples off the top of my head though.
useyourfist
Member
Mine came yesterday from shopto but I missed the postman and chose the signed for option...so I gotta trek to the post office today to get it.
Does anyone remember how long it took to complete the first game as not sure if il have time to complete it before GTA
Does anyone remember how long it took to complete the first game as not sure if il have time to complete it before GTA
Shadow Ranger
Member
Took me 27 hours the very first time it came out. Much less if you go for the Beginner and skip a bunch of stuff.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I can't stand this anymore... I NEED THIS GAME. 24 MORE HOURS!!!!!
edit: I just hope this game won't frustrate me enough to break a controller or two :3...
edit 2: this was 30fps right?
edit: I just hope this game won't frustrate me enough to break a controller or two :3...
edit 2: this was 30fps right?
Haeralis The BRave
Banned
I'm on Proud Mode, about to seal the Hollow Bastion keyhole and I'm 15 hours in. A lot of those hours were the tournament cups, so its probably shorter than that.
Yeah it's pretty short. I also remembered it being longer when I was young. At least it's paced well. Some worlds were really short though, like Neverland.
badcrumble
Member
It's the best of the Disney worlds in the first game, though (the main town area opens up more and more as you get more movement/traversal abilities, and the Cave of Wonders feels genuinely dungeon-y in a nice, familiar way). But yeah Agrabah in KH2 isn't really anything special.
Aladdin and the King of Thieves is so much better than Return of Jafar. It's actually an extremely goddamn good adventure movie like the first one. I'd honestly be totally down for seeing it in KH.
nephilimdj
Member
picked it up today but way to tired to play it, luckily weekend is only 1 day away hooray
Saiyan-Rox
Member
I never want to see Atlantica ever again
no say it with me "the little mermaid levels aren't really the little mermaid levels aren't real"
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Listening to this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVSGMYAsCxE&list=PL2FFE386842EA290F
Can't handle the hype...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVSGMYAsCxE&list=PL2FFE386842EA290F
Can't handle the hype...
So playing through Kingdom Hearts 1 for the first time, thought I would post my impressions.
Played the first hour of the game so far, it starts off pretty slow. There is also something janky about the controls, they are not that smooth but its a PS2 game so I'll give it a pass. Hopefully it picks up soon, haven't "left" the island yet, just finished gathering the second set of supplies.
Played the first hour of the game so far, it starts off pretty slow. There is also something janky about the controls, they are not that smooth but its a PS2 game so I'll give it a pass. Hopefully it picks up soon, haven't "left" the island yet, just finished gathering the second set of supplies.
badcrumble
Member
If you don't count the assorted mandatory KH1 rehashes in Chain of Memories, Agrabah has been used three times (KH1, KH2, 358/2 Days).
That's as much as Halloween Town, and *less* than Olympus Coliseum (which appears in every single game except for Dream Drop Distance).
I wouldn't call it too terribly overused, but I wouldn't mind more new worlds, of course.
That's as much as Halloween Town, and *less* than Olympus Coliseum (which appears in every single game except for Dream Drop Distance).
I wouldn't call it too terribly overused, but I wouldn't mind more new worlds, of course.
Napalm_Frank
Member
As long as they get their act together with the Coliseum and make it more like KH1 I am perfectly fine with it appearing again. Way more happy with that than stuff like Mirage Arena or something. It's tradition at this point :lol.
One of the best songs of the series. Certainly one of the most iconic. KH2 orchestral theme is great too but they literally used it ONCE with the menu trailer of KH2 if you idle on the main menu. Outside of that AFAIK they never have used it. The KH1 orchestral theme they have used a bunch of times in different trailers and even DDD opening so it kinda even has the status of a theme of the whole series.
Long wait till tomorrow. If it doesn't arrive tomorrow I'll pay the post office a friendly visit.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
That's quite sad actuallyGot my copy from banned site. 8 years ago, I thought my first PS3 kingdom hearts game would be Kingdom Hearts 3.... ah well.
Shit...What difficulty? Sword/staff/shield?
badcrumble
Member
Yeah, KH1's Coliseum is still the best version of that idea. Great prizes, multiple ways to play the cups (with more rewards for doing so), plenty of experience, multiple great boss fights.
That the KH2 Paradox Cups give you no in-game rewards at all for completing them is ridiculous, especially the hard-as-shit Hades Paradox Cup.
Also, I can't remember, but isn't it true that either the KH2 tournaments or the BBS tournaments don't let you gain experience for battles fought?
Napalm_Frank
Member
KH2 doesn't give. I still ain't sure what the point is of those orbs.
SirMossyBloke
Member
I had the same issue with staff and shield, dusk levelling. What I did was hit him until he got his flame on, then hid around the side of the fireplace away from him. When he lost his flame and goes back for more I'd run up behind him and give him a few wacks. Takes a while but it worked.
badcrumble
Member
This is reminding me just how much I hated vanilla KH2.
Yeah, the lack of experience (and just getting 'points' for minigames) is deeply annoying.
Kingdom Hearts II is filled with tons of minigames that you have to complete for journal completion and which give you NO REWARDS WHATSOEVER for doing them. Especially redoing all of Roxas' summer-job minigames and skateboarding all over the different worlds for absolutely nothing of value. At least give Sora some synthesis materials or AP Ups, goddamn.
MikeJAMoran
Member
No, but I got a message saying it's been shipped out.
I've got Prime, though, so they tend to send it out the day before.
Is this remidied in Final Mix?
Napalm_Frank
Member
FMII still doesn't give you rewards for most of the minigames, but the super not-secret ending only requires you to beat the Lingering Will, all the Data battles and all 13 mushrooms. On critical. A complete journal is still required on Proud.
I said "screw that noise" and just muscled through the bosses.
I agree anything new generation I feel will be a bit too much.
Old Star Wars stuff ok, more old school Disney stuff yes who cares if this generation kids cant relate KH is not for them its for us KH players that grew up loving the game.
badcrumble
Member
I could see a journal completion trophy happening.
silver.tongue
Member
If I'm lucky, my copy gets here tomorrow.
It's been sooooooooo long though.
Most people going with Staff and leaving Shield behind is that it?
Or is it Staff and Sword?
It's been sooooooooo long though.
Most people going with Staff and leaving Shield behind is that it?
Or is it Staff and Sword?
Haeralis The BRave
Banned
You can manage taking the Staff since it gives +2 extra MP, but whatever you do DO NOT get rid of the Shield on Proud.
Personally, I prefer to take the Shield since it gives much better abilities much earlier.
badcrumble
Member
Final Mix adds a lot of great and rewarding new stuff, but it doesn't fix the existing unrewarding shitty stuff. As far as new content (i.e. new stuff to play, not stuff like Limit Form) it basically tacks on a bunch of new boss fights, some fantastic postgame stuff and the Crown Puzzle, but the stuff that vanilla KH2 half-assed remains half-assed. Doesn't matter, because KH2FM is still fantastic with all of the new additions.
I have played through the game before (several times) but yeah it took me until Traverse Town to readjust to the controls. You are still in the tutorial area, basically.
badcrumble
Member
It doesn't help that the camera controls freeze when you're climbing trees and that happens a bunch on Destiny Islands. The camera gets easier to play with later on, IMO, but you mostly have to get used to using lock-on and right-stick clicks to redirect it and recenter it - the stick controls for when you need them are great but the game's still a little bit primitive for great two-stick character/camera control to be a thing.
Agrabah was also in Re:Coded.
