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Kingdom Hearts Community Thread: Now everybody can be a Keyblade Wielder!
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badcrumble
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Very few of the assets looked the same anyway, especially for Agrabah. The only times that returning Disney worlds have genuinely felt like rehashes were in Re:CoM and 358/2 Days, I feel. KH2 repeated a few worlds but they were totally redesigned, weren't the same maps whatsoever, and so on.
Napalm_Frank
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I like how Scar, one of the most popular Disney villains by far, is like the only one who doesn't have a high quality model in KH2. Compared to something like Shan Yu who does and is definately bottom of the barrel Disney villain.
Pride Lands is IMO anyway perhaps the worst implemented Disney world in KH1/2. If we don't count KH2 Atlantica that is a totally different beast of course. The Lion Form is pretty cool tho but the way they implement the plot just doesn't flow at all.
Pride Lands is IMO anyway perhaps the worst implemented Disney world in KH1/2. If we don't count KH2 Atlantica that is a totally different beast of course. The Lion Form is pretty cool tho but the way they implement the plot just doesn't flow at all.
badcrumble
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The second visit is especially hilarious because it's straight up like "hey Sora there's a giant Heartless out on the Pride Lands" and then you fight it and then it's over. Not even really a second chapter.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
I sometimes forget Pride Lands existed. I mean, you would think everyone would remember it because it's fucking Lion King and Kingdom Hearts but... the world is just kind of there. The fight with Scar isn't even good lol.
But how can you forget Farm Rock?
Blood Diamonds
Banned
I always used The Farm That Never Was.
Yeah, I guess that makes sense...
So they did...damn
Napalm_Frank
Member
Yeah. I guess the best place is TWTNW. It should still be quite fast with Gullwing.
On the top side Master Form is very easy to level up in FM.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
in KH 2 FM, can you still use a save point to travel to the overworld while in a drive form so that the drive gauge is filled up completely?
Napalm_Frank
Member
Yes.
Best trick
Blood Diamonds
Banned
Fuck yeah, I spent a lot of hours grinding for those Drive bonuses.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Around Tuesday I think. It's usually few days before release.
Gold: win all Data Battles
No, the best trick is going to Timeless River and leaving for Disney Castle to instantly refill your drive gauge and immediately go back for more form grinding.
Napalm_Frank
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That's only good for Summon leveling tho
.And Wisdom I guess tho those damn car heartless are too tanky.
Valor and Limit form at the Agrabah XIII Mushroom. Master Form at Cavern of Remembrance orb thingies/Gambler Nobodies+Drive Converter (thank god it's easier in FM. I remember Master Form leveling being pretty ass in vanilla). Wisdom at Timeless River/TWTNW and Final Form at Yen Sid's tower.
Seven Force
Banned
Trophy list for 1.5 wasn't revealed 'til someone got the game a day early and posted pictures of the trophy list. The same's probably going to be the case for 2.5. I've been replaying all the optional battles in KH1FM and fighting Re:CoM's final bosses in anticipation. I'm really curious to see if No Heart ends up being even harder than in the PSP version or if the singleplayer balancing nerfed them somehow.
While I'm on the subject, Xehanort in his prime and using the No Heart armor should totally be one of the 13 Darknesses. That'd be a hell of a battle to see in KHIII.
While I'm on the subject, Xehanort in his prime and using the No Heart armor should totally be one of the 13 Darknesses. That'd be a hell of a battle to see in KHIII.
Tumblr is a bit of an oddball. You don't see 8 year olds using Tumblr, which is my point about not knowing the younger demographic.
That's only good for Summon leveling tho
And Wisdom I guess tho those damn car heartless are too tanky.
Valor and Limit form at the Agrabah XIII Mushroom. Master Form at Cavern of Remembrance orb thingies/Gambler Nobodies+Drive Converter (thank god it's easier in FM. I remember Master Form leveling being pretty ass in vanilla). Wisdom at Timeless River/TWTNW and Final Form at Yen Sid's tower.
Valor, Limit and Wisdom are pretty easy at timeless river actually. The black hole room has a lot of easily farmed heartless, though your suggestion for Limit form is probably better since it's less likely to be interrupted.
The changes to the BBS bosses are what I'm looking forward to the most. And armored Xehanort in some form is basically guaranteed for 3.
oh. better trick. never thought of that. was it good farming?
Yeah the trophy list will probably pop up a couple of days before release when someone gets a early copy and they post it/people start streaming the game.
I'm really looking forward to giving that battle a try. I never actually attempted to get up to No Heart in Final Mix so it'll be fresh for me.
badcrumble
Member
I just don't want a no-equipment-change trophy again. So lame.
Apart from that, as long as difficulty trophies stack, I can handle whatever. Though BBS Critical is such a boring slog.
Apart from that, as long as difficulty trophies stack, I can handle whatever. Though BBS Critical is such a boring slog.
Seven Force
Banned
No Heart is probably the closest the Osaka team's gotten to designing a boss as good as Lingering Will. It's still nowhere near as intricately designed as that fight, but it's head and shoulders above Mysterious Figure. The only issue (and this goes for Armor of Eraqus too) is that they have ridiculously high defense stats because they were designed with multiplayer in mind. I assume Mirage Arena being rebalanced for single player includes adjusting their stats as well. Going by the latest trailer, No Heart already seems to have gotten a health nerf. (From 9 HP bars to about 7 and a half)
This video has a pretty good explanation of No Heart's attacks. I never actually noticed until now that nearly every attack he has involves a different Keyblade transformation. That's pretty neat.
Not really an indication of anything, one of the early KH1.5HD trailers had that very noticeable bit of frame dropping during the Firaga Burst sleight (something to do with alpha transparencies, I think), but it was fixed for release. However, there are a few instances of frame drops in other areas though. Cinema sequences, mostly.
That, or just go into any area w/ npcs. That too will reset the Drive meter (the Agrabah shopkeeper's room, the mountain village in Mulan, etc.)
I see No Heart as MX's "this isn't even my final form" power-up for the final battles, not as a separate character. Unless you're suggesting it's going to be a Lingering Regret or something. Actually, looking at it makes me think of Nobodies... and, well... we never got an answer on whether MX had one after he released his heart to claim Terra.
Napalm_Frank
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With Limit Form you can level much faster if you don't actually hit anything since every time you hit something with your limits your form gauge decreases much more compared to when you don't hit anything (thus you can use more limits). In Agrabah the XIII Mushroom doesn't move at all or attack you so you can just go to a corner and start throwing Strike Raids at walls. There is a save point next room so you can easily refresh the gauge when it's running out.
As for Valor the trick is when you probably are leveling forms you cannot even kill the mushroom thus you can just whail at a single target without it dying or fighting back. Also you can do the fastest amount of hits just repeating square+as many normal air combos as you can without anything interrupting.
Timeless River is the best place for Wisdom before TWTNW. After you gain access there it's easier to do there immediately after the Roxas boss since right at the castle entrance since it becomes a room that separates a party (meaning your form gauge refreshes if you enter there in a drive form). There are tons of low HP heartless and no tanky ones like the cars.
Seven Force
Banned
The reports in BBSFM describe No Heart as a data reconstruction (akin to the Data Org. XIII, I guess) of Xehanort in his prime wearing keyblade armor. Considering
Young Xehanort is supposed to be gathering different versions of Xehanort across time, and the stretch of time between his teenage years and becoming an elderly keyblade master is one that hasn't been touched on (and hasn't really needed to, admittedly), I don't think it's too much of a stretch to see some form of Xehanort pulled from that time frame.
badcrumble
Member
I hope that No Heart is a part of the new Organization, yeah. We definitely need to get some characters that aren't just reprises of people we've already fought previously.
Napalm_Frank
Member
The real question is Will KH3 introduce any new original characters that are not Xehanort/Sora or somehow awkwardly linked to them.
badcrumble
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The real question is Will KH3 introduce any new original characters that are not Xehanort/Sora or somehow awkwardly linked to them.
Yes.
they'll turn out to be linked to them in KH4 though
you got mail on a sunday?
Napalm_Frank
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Pence plushie?
badcrumble
Member
That was issued after BBS, right? If I recall correctly, it doesn't include Re:Coded, DDD, or [chi].
Re:CoM has some severe frame-drops and they are constant. Especially when using Riku+Mickey and I can recall a fire spell that drops the frame-rate as well. It could be Firaga Burst (under certain circumstances) but I really can't recall.
No, that came out in 2007, after FM+
http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/Kingdom_Hearts_Original_Soundtrack_Complete
I am actually considering getting it as well.
The Kingdom Hearts OST Complete is great, picked it up a couple of years after it released. Great Collectors item, has prettymuch every track from 1, Re:CoM and 2 Final Mix, takes a bit to rip the songs off of the CD's if you wanna play them on something else though, it has around 9 disks all up from memory (with a key piece of artwork, which is neat)
And yeah it seemed like from the video its defense stats were rediculously high (though attack didn't seem too bad until the later phases) and had a multiplayer focus so it's safe to assume that's probably gonna be nerfed a littlebit more than HP bars being lower for Singleplayer Mirage Arena.
Sounds like fun. I know I enjoyed Lingering Will because of how well designed it was so playing the Osaka teams attempt at something like it should be great.
And yeah it seemed like from the video its defense stats were rediculously high (though attack didn't seem too bad until the later phases) and had a multiplayer focus so it's safe to assume that's probably gonna be nerfed a littlebit more than HP bars being lower for Singleplayer Mirage Arena.
I might be slightly off on this, but I believe the way to own pretty much all KH music* (soundtracks excluding arrange albums, covers, etc obviously) would be
- KH OST Complete which covers 1, 2, their Final Mixes, and Re:CoM, which is inclusive of the slightly re-done recurring songs (Agrabah, Pooh, etc. for example)
- KH BBS+358/2 OST - which covers, surprisingly enough, BBS (+ Final Mix) and 358/2 Days (Vector to the Heavens and Dismiss omg) as well as Re:Coded
- KH DDD OST - Dream Drop Distance
And then the 1.5 and 2.5 soundtracks would supplement the above collection by providing updated versions of tracks where applicable. Which is confusing to think about since you could say BBS and DDD provided updated versions of KH2 which provided updated versions of KH1, and now KH1 and KH2
and maybe BBS
*edit: Not counting Chi.
Yeah i'm prettysure that's it. You could go for the KH1 and KH2 OSTs instead but they don't include Re:CoM and Final Mix/Bonus Tracks and I don't believe they got any induvidual or other album releases up until the HD ReMIX OSTs. (which even then the Final Mix tracks wouldn't be the original arrangements)
I probably should grab 1.5 and 2.5's OSTs when I have the money so I can finish up my collection of KH music
I probably should grab 1.5 and 2.5's OSTs when I have the money so I can finish up my collection of KH music
Until 3 and Chi's OST come along, and then whatever comes after it @_@
Kingdom Hearts 1 FM actually did get an individual release for its tracks (all five of them).
Ah. I stand corrected then.
I do my form grinding throughout the main game, so it doesn't change much, but that's good to know.
This reminds me that I forgot to write that mini-guide for the extra bosses. Alas, for Guild Wars 2, Mario & Luigi and Smash have captured my attention.
Ah. I stand corrected then.
I do my form grinding throughout the main game, so it doesn't change much, but that's good to know.
This reminds me that I forgot to write that mini-guide for the extra bosses. Alas, for Guild Wars 2, Mario & Luigi and Smash have captured my attention.
[chi] is like four tracks. DB chi version, Daybreak town theme, Daybreak battle theme, and a cutscene track.
that saxophone always gives me such good vibes
Not in my experience. I just completed Proud runs of both Sora and Riku. Game runs like butter most of the time. Honestly, the worst moment was during a game-generated cut-scene in the Destiny Islands card world.
Yes, but they still count under the definition of soundtrack, which is music that's played in an official product in some shape or form.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4omhSErUHNA DDD had so much good music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxaPhpdHRqU Shouldn't overlook Sekito and Ishimoto's contributions either.
JS. coded and days didn't get stand alones so it will be lumped.