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Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance |OT| Sora is Everyone in Every Dimension
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Napalm_Frank
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You can find him in other worlds with same HP he had when he escaped. I saw him at fantasia and pinocchio worlds.
I understand that Yen Sid uses magic to send them into some kind of dream state (When they're at Destiny Islands. Then when they're in the water Sora/Riku unlock the keyhole to the Dream Realm. However, the story is so disjointed, it comes off confusing and as if it is missing scenes.
vagabondarts
Member
I love the graphics in this game. Still getting used to all the systems and controls. Just got to the Hunchback of Notre Dame level.
I really don't like the switching between characters.
Liking the dreameaters stuff a lot more than I thought I would.
I really don't like the switching between characters.
Liking the dreameaters stuff a lot more than I thought I would.
Oh, I understand what you're saying now. Yeah, I can see what you mean.
nintendoman58
Member
I'm on the final world with Riku after a long scene with Sora.
...Why do I have this weird omnious feeling that I'm going to end up having more questions than answers in my near future with this game?
Gak! The instant you put time travel in any story. Things can get messed up, really fast. And they did. I...I honestly don't know what's going on now. All I know is that Sora's watching his past with this unamed guy that showed up a lot.
...Why do I have this weird omnious feeling that I'm going to end up having more questions than answers in my near future with this game?
nahh Marios an everyone game. This really does look like a kids game
Napalm_Frank
Member
Now I am interested. How exactly does this game look like ''kids game'' if Mario doesn't?
Oh just you wait! It gets worse! And
guy is actually semi introduced in BBS
Seven Force
Banned
You haven't seen anything yet. It gets worse.
Story's been ass for a while.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Honestly as much as KH2 and spinoffs are ridiculed for confusing plot it's never really been too hard to understand. DDD is first time I actually had to pause a few times to start thinking what the fuck was going on.
CookedChocobo
Member
What's the easiest way to farm Link Points for Dream Eaters?
I'm at the end of the game, and not having Once More is kinda annoying...
I'm at the end of the game, and not having Once More is kinda annoying...
This one does start getting crazy right as you finish the regular worlds.
I did at least enjoy all of them which isn't something I've ever said about any KH game. 1 came closest but Monstro counts and can die in a fire for that terrible platforming.
I am really disappointed about the camera though.
I did at least enjoy all of them which isn't something I've ever said about any KH game. 1 came closest but Monstro counts and can die in a fire for that terrible platforming.
I am really disappointed about the camera though.
toddhunter
Member
I feel like not reading the spoilers is actually spoiling yourself... Because reading them makes me understand the game even less.
They're still relatively lifeless, but the design and scope are really a lot better, not to mention new.
Feel pretty lifeless here too. Really big though
Napalm_Frank
Member
Buy water barrels from moogles and use them. Usually I got around 50 LP per barrel.
CookedChocobo
Member
Seven Force
Banned
Water barrel minigame seems to be the fastest way. Doesn't take too long and you can get a few hundred LP in 6-7 minutes.
Skelterwild and Flowbermeow has the Once More Ability, I believe.
I agree with this notion. No matter how convoluted the story would get, I always had some kind of grasp on it. But now with
Time travel
grind in the last world for a bit, or go on a treasure hunt. You'll have like 300+ after about an hour. Or you could just play the balloon, or water minigame.
I guess we can hope for a comeback in 3. This build-up better be executed properly, and on a huge scale. I wanna see it all come together in an "epic" fashion. Possibly letting us play as the others in several segments of the game.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Even better: the rules for time travel they made up make no friggin sense and it seems there are at least 3 different ways of time travel now (door in KH2, leaving body behind and whatever the fuck Xehanort uses). Seems like they have different rules for each type since YX still has his body. I'm so friggin lost with this game.
Seven Force
Banned
I didn't mind how
it was used in KHII, because it had nothing to do with the main plot, and was really only a means to have a Steamboat Willie world.
But giving time travel to a character that was already complicated as it is? (And completely just making up the rules for it as they go along?) Yeah, that was an awful, awful idea.
But giving time travel to a character that was already complicated as it is? (And completely just making up the rules for it as they go along?) Yeah, that was an awful, awful idea.
toddhunter
Member
Xion deserves to be in a good game. Would love to see it work. One more shovel of bullshit to make it happen isn't going to hurt.
To be honest, KH2 was pretty damn empty too. Lots of really big areas just like in KH3D, but no characters living in them. Remember Radiant Garden? Lol. I think in general we all have some idealized image of Disney worlds in our head which feel more populated than they really were.
brucewaynegretzky
Member
Every KH game is pretty empty. Even the towns, which always feels weird. You usually have to enter houses or shops to find people. Only on the second world in KH3D, but it doesn't really feel different in that regard, and it will never come near the emptiness of Re: Chain of Memories.
Napalm_Frank
Member
My guess is
Sora, Ven, Kairi, Riku, Aqua, Mickey, Lea are the 7. Terra is definately on the other team as Terranort. Then there could be Vanitas taking Soras place. No idea who the rest of the 13 are. Young Riku could be one.
My memory's hazy, but that may actually be true. I don't know what it is, honestly. Something's off between the handhelds and the home versions. Could it be the FF characters? The whole 1000 heartless thing did make KH2 feel wider on the scale though.
Yep. It's all fan-service at this point.
Completely forgot about Vanitas. He needs to return too! Same with Terranort. Assuming Sora saves Ven and Aqua early, it'd be nice to control them and have them fight off some of the Darknesses.
I think it's a matter of scale and the lack of expansion. When KH2 came out, it was bigger, prettier, and more detailed compared to KH1 in every possible way. This set a sort of expectation on the direction the series would grow in terms of worlds and presentation.
But now we're here 7 years later, and it hasn't been the case. The entries immediately after KH2 felt smaller, emptier, and more compartmentalized. So even though KH3D has more or less returned to the same world size as KH2 more or less, it feels worse off because there's been no real progress in growth. The fact that there are only 7 worlds in KH3D, and that the story seems to still be stuck in filler they're making up to prolong the story makes the experience feel even more lacking at this point.
That's how I feel the direction of the series has taken a hit. It's not just about size, but it's just that it feels the series is stuck in a loop without moving forward now.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Yen Sid is a complete troll. He seems to escape his own tower when Maleficent appears in KH2 and
doesn't concider Sora a master for some complete bullshit reason lol
Well said. Story-wise, progression has felt a lot more slower. Rather than getting the whole amount of plot in one game, we're being fed quarters to KH3. KH3's gotta be huge then; it has the responsibility to wrap up/tie-in everything laid before it.
brucewaynegretzky
Member
So how often are you guys playing with the 3D on? I found I had it on for the majority of the first 6 or 7 hours, but now I go back and forth. Always on at the beginning of a new world though.
bigDdestruction
Member
i cant quite remember, but did riku replica die in KH COM? i dont think he did and i kept hoping he'd show up again in future KH games, also what happened with laraxene, marluxia, demyx, and luxord? Shouldn't they have been with axel's group in radiant garden? Or am i missing something?
Napalm_Frank
Member
Yes he died.
Marluxia and others didn't become nobodies at the same time/place as the original 6 members and probably aren't from Radiant Garden with the exception of Lea and Isa.
njean777
Member
It wont, they will pull a Lost and still leave question unanswered.
Quick question: Is Traverse Town the only place you see TWEWY characters? Their story ended so quickly and I felt like it wasn't really over with.
Didn't Riku destroy the Replica in COM? After the campaign with Sora. Larxene, Marluxia, Demix and Luxord all joined sometime after the originals became nobodies. They weren't doing research there originally. Not sure why Axel was in the lab there.
*Yep, Napalm's got it.
WrenchNinja
Member
I dont understand why he decided on this whole parallel split world bullshit instead of rashoman style of birth by sleep.
Yep
Did you beat the game yet? Cause if you did
One world is the dream realm, and the other is Sora's dream. Think Inception.
Seven Force
Banned
I think the implication is that Isa/Saix and Lea/Axel were unwilling subjects to the heartless experiments that the apprentices + Xehanort were conducting. KHII's journal says that the apprentices kidnapped residents of Radiant Garden to use for their experiments, and in BBS, Lea and Isa were seen trying to sneak into the labs during the credits.
njean777
Member
Wow, can somebody explain to me with what the heck was going on with them?
I have no clue why they were even there. I remember something about Joshua sending them to separate worlds...or something along those lines...
WrenchNinja
Member
No Im in muskateer world.
I dont even know what to say to that given everything Ive seen so far.
Though it does explain why
rikus worlds have been following the movie plots more
I don't think it is ever fully explained why they are there. Joshua, who is basically
god
Which kinda makes sense if you can recall the plot of TWEWY.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
I love how different Prankster's Paradise is for Sora and Riku. It was a definite improvement after largely visiting the same basic areas for the first few worlds. The world definitely had a great sense of scale, even if the boss fights were kind of easy. Sora's version was kind of weird. I died several times against regular enemies, but then beat the boss on my first attempt.
There should be a thread dedicated to strange ways to defeat bosses. I want to know if anything tops the way Sora defeats that boss.
Seven Force
Banned
I'm still a bit confused as to what exactly I was doing there.
Was I dropping Monstro on top the boss? The bubble just popped before I could even discern what I was supposed to be doing.
I'm warming up to the Dream Eater growing now that I know how to get LP efficiently. In the end, it's really not that time consuming. You can easily get, like, 40-70LPs in (less than) a minute for each three DEs you have in your party and especially the lower-class DEs level up really fast later on in the game. And I have to now disagree with Duckroll's "it doesn't support your combat style" criticism. There are certainly Dream Eaters that support certain kind of character builds (i.e. the owl gives you some stronger spells + magic boosts & stuff).
Now I definitely like 3D more as a game than BBS, even though I still prefer BBS's leveling up & melding of commands. The combat is just so vastly superior, the levels are fun to explore (I don't feel they are that empty, since Nightmares pop up everywhere, though it would've been nice to have at least an area or two with a couple of NPCs), the graphics are a step better and the OST is perhaps the best one in a KH game yet.
Now I definitely like 3D more as a game than BBS, even though I still prefer BBS's leveling up & melding of commands. The combat is just so vastly superior, the levels are fun to explore (I don't feel they are that empty, since Nightmares pop up everywhere, though it would've been nice to have at least an area or two with a couple of NPCs), the graphics are a step better and the OST is perhaps the best one in a KH game yet.