In the interview with Yasune they read English messages from the fans to him, then right afterwards they read Japanese versions of the same messages to him. They also gave him the whole "surprise present" keyblade again.
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Kingdom Hearts Community Thread: Now everybody can be a Keyblade Wielder!
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In the interview with Yasune they read English messages from the fans to him, then right afterwards they read Japanese versions of the same messages to him. They also gave him the whole "surprise present" keyblade again.
You don't even need the multiplayer for those minigames right? Why do you want them to be removed when you're complaining that they erased stuff from vanilla KH2? lol.
I'm guessing they're rebalancing the Arena bosses. Hope they rebalance any minigames too if necessary.
More importantly I hope the blasted minigames aren't required to unlock the high-level Arena bosses.
You think they would add Adhoc play?
It was in the original. It will probably be offline only, but we should share information as accurately as possible.
I'm talking about the Arena versions of two mini-games that can be played elsewhere normally.
Because without multi-player they're redundant and just another thing that needs to be played multiple times in order to advance in the Arena. Which was one of the things I remember not being fond of.
Oh okay. I missed the stream so I didn't know about that. Way too much going on today.
badcrumble
Member
Called it.
Yup. But that means that Armor of the Master and No Heart battles will be easier on PS3 than on PSP.
Agreed (as well as the assorted only-useful-for-multiplayer abilities like Confetti or whatever it was). No reason for the Mirage Arena to contain weird duplicates of both of those minigames if there's no multiplayer.
badcrumble
Member
If they're rebalancing it, the writing's on the wall, but agreed with regard to word choice.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Listening to the interview right now. Personally while trying out the multiplayer would be cool I am perhaps more happy about them tweaking the arena for more single player focus. The ''additional challenges'' sound interesting for faster medal farming.
Re:Coded is 3 hours long. Should be interesting :lol. Also teasing for a ''brand new story'' in Re:Coded that ties to the other titles...
edit: ''the textures for Kingdom Hearts 2 have been totally remade''. That is interesting. I know they did some fixing in KH1 but he makes it sound like they put a lot more work to this one. Dunno if horseshit but I am exited to see how it looks natively on TV. The gameplay demo is a bit of a bummer considering it's supposedly 6 months old build.
Re:Coded is 3 hours long. Should be interesting :lol. Also teasing for a ''brand new story'' in Re:Coded that ties to the other titles...
edit: ''the textures for Kingdom Hearts 2 have been totally remade''. That is interesting. I know they did some fixing in KH1 but he makes it sound like they put a lot more work to this one. Dunno if horseshit but I am exited to see how it looks natively on TV. The gameplay demo is a bit of a bummer considering it's supposedly 6 months old build.
badcrumble
Member
Kinda hoping we can refight the Vanitas Remnant and Young Xehanort battles in the Mirage Arena. Maybe some story bosses too.
The Last One
Member
Someone should ask Square at E3 if the OST for KH II will be improved like in the KH I.5.
90 tracks from KH2 are being remade with a 40 man orchestra.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Also recorded in the US this time it seems instead of Japan. Interesting. I dunno too much about the details how these things work but Yoko did mention in an interview something like that they had problems doing it in Tokyo with 1.5 due to having only a limited time to do it over there and being stretched with the ~70 songs 1.5 had remastered so who knows if there is some reason why it works better this way.
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Actually I can tell you a little more about that. It was a 43 piece string section and then some, including woodwinds, horn section, piano, etc. Brings out the best of the music, especially live strings and piano (with the virtuoso piano stuff in e.g. the boss tracks being performed by a name that most Square Enix music fans would instantly recognize).
He's a Pirate sounds freaking amazing
The Last One
Member
Napalm_Frank
Member
I hope we get a tease of the new music soon. Along with the boxart of course! Japanese release isn't THAT far away.
Tangential, but you know, I stumbled on that very same interview recently, and my mind was blown. I've been a huge TaQ fan since early bemani/IIDX days and it's awesome seeing how his career has developed since he left Konami literally a decade ago now.
Seven Force
Banned
I heard that EXP Zero was apparently getting a 1.5 style rebalancing in BBS HD. Can someone confirm that? I can't get to the interview at the moment.
I haven't heard anything about that, besides 1.5 added EXP Zero for KH1, there was no EXP Zero to balance.
Nah.. I guess the 1 hour or so is basically the re:coded cutscenes and the rest is material created from scratch.
Seven Force
Banned
Nevermind, found it:
Also:
Haha, sounds like they made No Heart even more of a pain in the ass.
He really needs to be harder. The only thing keeping that fight from being my GOAT is the difficulty.
Wait I thought No Heart was supposed to be really hard...
Not at high levels like a sane person would do. On lower ones (My first couple of tries were at level 60) he's an utter buttwipe because you do pitiful (no more than 5 points) damage per hit.
Seven Force
Banned
He really isn't. It's more of a test of endurance if anything, especially when fighting him alone. Makes sense that he'd have to be rebalanced, though. I recall the devs saying he was specifically balanced & designed with multiplayer in mind in BBSFM.
I honestly had a trickier time with Monstro, and that had more to do with getting a reliable lock on the damn whale.
The rope was nerfed in BBS, so I imagine they won't do much else.
Seven Force
Banned
Doubt it. He was already tweaked a bit from the International release to the Final Mix release.
Though I just realized that he should be far easier with a controller now, especially since you can use the shoulder buttons to scroll through commands now.
oh ic. I actually haven't played against him but from the videos and what ppl said it looks quite broken with role+surge
Oh I didn't realize he was in original BBS as well. I thought it was added boss in FM.
Seven Force
Banned
Well, he is... sorta.
The original JP release didn't have him in it, but he was added to the US/EU release of the game, then subsequently added (and tweaked) in Final Mix.
Exact same thing happened with Sephiroth in KH1, funnily enough, right down to the AI being tweaked in the Final Mix.
Before Mirage Arena was confirmed Singleplayer only I wanted Multiplayer because playing by yourself felt unbalanced but with confirmation of them rebalancing it I don't mind multiplayer being cut.
Happy to see 2 getting some recomposed tracks aswell, even if Yoko prettymuch confirmed it before 2.5 was.
It would be fun to go through the rest of the game at that level though if you have the patience.
Happy to see 2 getting some recomposed tracks aswell, even if Yoko prettymuch confirmed it before 2.5 was.
The Mink and Paddington Bear attempted that on 1.5's Japanese release while posting about it on this thread if I remember right, not sure if they ever hit it though.
It would be fun to go through the rest of the game at that level though if you have the patience.
If he keeps blocking Selphie's whip for experience it will take him 333,333 successful blocks to go from 1-100, that would take around 463 hours of just doing that.
I always blocked Tidus' attack. You get 2 EXP instead of one and he attacks more consistently.
Lvl 25 was my record for Destiny Island. Never did it again, because it's a pain in the ass^^
Holy mother of god, that takes some dedication.
badcrumble
Member
My guess is that they'll make him hit harder but they'll lessen the total defense/HP so it doesn't take as long to finish him off.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
Man I remember when I beat Monstro, I felt so proud lol
R10Neymarfan
Member
Even if current gen versions are planned, surely wouldn't announce it now. They want as many people as possible to keep buying the PS3 exclusive versions of these games.
Then they can announce the $60 bundles
Here's hoping Jump Festa 2014 (After NA/EU 2.5 release)
Velcro Fly
Member
Starting my first playthrough of KH Final Mix right now. =)
Blood Diamonds
Banned
God I want KH 1.5 so bad, I didn't want it as bad before but now I NEED to play anything Kingdom Hearts lol.