Blood Diamonds
Banned
your faves fucking tried itNomura did the art for Utada Hikaru's upcoming cover album
Note the Command menu at the bottom.
its over
kh 3 theme incoming
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Kingdom Hearts Community Thread: Now everybody can be a Keyblade Wielder!
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its over
kh 3 theme incoming
Isn't Ventus = inside Sora
Terra = taken over by Xehanort?
Die wasn't the right term btw
I can not wait to hear what she cooks up for 3.
At the moment they're gone, but it's pretty likely they'll be bought back in 3 as some of the Seven Lights. (or for Terra one of the 13 Darknesses depending on how things go down)
Stardust_Comet
Neo Member
Nomura did the art for Utada Hikaru's upcoming cover album
Note the Command menu at the bottom.
Did I read that right? Is one of the commands called "sing"?
So the entirety of KH3 really will be a musical after all? I guess Nomura has to put his rejected FFXV concepts somewhere.
Stardust_Comet
Neo Member
Makes perfect sense, because we all loved those musicals in Atlantica from KH2.
Or we're getting a High School Musical world.
Wasn't it confirmed that she wouldn't do a KH3 theme? But well... that was many years ago.
SolidSnakex
Member
It should be noted that she isn't making a comeback right now. This is just an album where famous artists will be singing some of her hits. Shiina Ringo, Ayumi Hamasaki, Bonnie Pink, and Maliyah Kato are some of the attists.
I also thought this was the case. Thank god I've been incorrect, love her songs in KH1 and 2
Stardust_Comet
Neo Member
So that explains why "sing" was in the commands in the corner.
Stardust_Comet
Neo Member
But didn't he come back as a heartless? So there should still be a nobody of him lurking around out there.
Plus his pelt was in the Beauty and the Beast world, you never know what could happen if another heartless got to that.
Do you wake up and ask yourself "what is a creative way I can be wrong today?" People die. That first dude you meet in treverse town? He's dead. Most people taken by the heartless are dead. Not my fault you aren't paying attention.
If we're gonna play this game, can't be as wrong as you re: lightning dodging and saving. :V
Not my fault I had a working copy of the game.
Andrefpvs
Member
I've been thinking lately and I really hope Dream Drop Distance HD happens, and that it is a true Final Mix-like improvement to the game.
I say this because DDD is the only KH game that left me with a weird taste in my mouth after finishing it. I felt like it could have been so much more. You could definitely notice how rushed it was, and how the overall design lacked the polish to ensure every of the game's systems was properly balanced (especially Flowmotion, which destroyed the platforming in this game -- a side effect of this is that every treasure chest gave unremarkable items, due to them being easily reachable. It also made most fights too easy, due to how overpowered it is).
I also feel like the game could benefit from a few extra scenes or at least a restructuring of the narrative in the last world. Anything they could do to better explain wtf was going on there would be a plus.
The lack of post-game activities, with only one (disappointing) secret boss being available in the original DDD, could also be addressed.
Also, as a more shallow reason, I'd really like to have every KH game in my trophy list
I say this because DDD is the only KH game that left me with a weird taste in my mouth after finishing it. I felt like it could have been so much more. You could definitely notice how rushed it was, and how the overall design lacked the polish to ensure every of the game's systems was properly balanced (especially Flowmotion, which destroyed the platforming in this game -- a side effect of this is that every treasure chest gave unremarkable items, due to them being easily reachable. It also made most fights too easy, due to how overpowered it is).
I also feel like the game could benefit from a few extra scenes or at least a restructuring of the narrative in the last world. Anything they could do to better explain wtf was going on there would be a plus.
The lack of post-game activities, with only one (disappointing) secret boss being available in the original DDD, could also be addressed.
Also, as a more shallow reason, I'd really like to have every KH game in my trophy list
badcrumble
Member
I've been thinking lately and I really hope Dream Drop Distance HD happens, and that it is a true Final Mix-like improvement to the game.
I say this because DDD is the only KH game that left me with a weird taste in my mouth after finishing it. I felt like it could have been so much more. You could definitely notice how rushed it was, and how the overall design lacked the polish to ensure every of the game's systems was properly balanced (especially Flowmotion, which destroyed the platforming in this game -- a side effect of this is that every treasure chest gave unremarkable items, due to them being easily reachable. It also made most fights too easy, due to how overpowered it is).
I also feel like the game could benefit from a few extra scenes or at least a restructuring of the narrative in the last world. Anything they could do to better explain wtf was going on there would be a plus.
The lack of post-game activities, with only one (disappointing) secret boss being available in the original DDD, could also be addressed.
Also, as a more shallow reason, I'd really like to have every KH game in my trophy list
FlowMotion is only really overpowered on normal difficulty - it's pretty *underpowered* later in the game on Normal and pretty much the entire time on higher difficulties.
It's also so poorly integrated into the rest of the combat (part of the BBS design is that normal melee attacks, movements, and special Command Deck attacks can be cancelled smoothly into each other for an unbroken combo - FlowMotion attacks can't be cancelled out of) that on higher difficulties FlowMotion is actually incredibly dangerous to use, but for the stupid reason that it completely opens you up to enemy attacks (it's not like a tactical risk/reward thing, which would be good design; it does shit damage and you have to stay the fuck away from walls so you don't accidentally activate it).
Like much of the rest of DDD's new systems, it's very obviously tacked on to BBS's much better thought-out systems and doesn't mesh well with them at all.
The problem, though, is that while a fair amount of the systems stuff is fixable, DDD's *content* problem is much tougher to fix, and I'm not sure it's actually worth it.
Andrefpvs
Member
Yeah, I played the game on Normal. I guess I learned something new today!
But, of course, I expect all of their systems to be properly tuned for every difficulty from Normal to above. It really is noticeable how badly FlowMotion is implemented.
Btw, what do you think of the other points I raised? Would you like to see a Final Mix-like version of DDD?
Edit: That stealth edit!
It would definitely require resources, and if that would detract from KH3's development, then I wouldn't want it.
But otherwise, I'd really like to see a non-mediocre version of this game. As it is, it just exhales wasted potential.
Napalm_Frank
Member
I might sell my body on the street for the Kingdom Hearts 2.5 art book.
I hope it's as great as the BBS limited edition artbook.
badcrumble
Member
I'd like to see it, but I kinda just want the systems fixed (I've posted elsewhere in this thread about how all of that could be done with a relative minimum of effort). It can be a pack-in with some other game; I don't want nor need to see it get a ton of additional content.
And to be fair, both BBS and DDD suffer on higher difficulties anyway, as you start barely doing any damage to boss enemies. KH2FM's Critical difficulty remains the best 'challenge' difficulty in the series because enemies deal more damage to Sora *and* Sora deals more damage to enemies. It's a risk/reward thing.
I'd definitely love to have seen it done right the first time around, and I'd love to see a "fixed" version for consoles. It's just that when I think about what I want the bigger resources required for asset creation and developing new experiences devoted to, I'd much much rather see them go toward getting us KH3 sooner, getting us BBS Vol 2, or getting us something totally new.
badcrumble
Member
Not really. It's fun. Plus you get to be right so many times.
I might sell my body on the street for the Kingdom Hearts 2.5 art book.
I doubt botty's body is as good as an art book. 😋
Well, it won't have Ven art.
fyi, I went to the gym twice this year.
Picking up packs of Disney Infinity figure doesn't count.Well, it won't have Ven art.
fyi, I went to the gym twice this year.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
thats a great avatar botty
I should get around to writing that guide soon.
Orrrr I could just copy-paste my old posts and edit those...
*flushes down the toilet*
Orrrr I could just copy-paste my old posts and edit those...
Well, it won't have Ven art.
*flushes down the toilet*
�� i would never.
Thanks!
Hoping you drop Lana Del Flop for a roxas avatar when the time comes
Blood Diamonds
Banned
excuse me
william_557
Member
never played bbs and pretty sure i skipped cutscenes when i played kh2 all those years ago...excited to replay kh2 (watching everything) and playing bbs for the first time!
Napalm_Frank
Member
I have some wonderful Ventus avatars for you both when the OT rolls :3
Napalm_Frank
Member
It will be relatively humbe OT though. Personally I don't like the ones where the OP is too bloated (exeption being the legendary MGS4 OT and that's just because it was friggin MGS4). I'll somewhat mirror it to what Paddington did with 1.5 OT but try to keep it... simple and clean you might say.
Still need to decide the OT name from the suggestions. Also the absolute biggest question I need to ask myself is if it will be ''II.5'' to stay true to Nomuras artistic vision and piss people off or ''2.5'' like common sense tells me
Use the one that's on the box.It will be relatively humbe OT though. Personally I don't like the ones where the OP is too bloated (exeption being the legendary MGS4 OT and that's just because it was friggin MGS4). I'll somewhat mirror it to what Paddington did with 1.5 OT but try to keep it... simple and clean you might say.
Still need to decide the OT name from the suggestions. Also the absolute biggest question I need to ask myself is if it will be ''II.5'' to stay true to Nomuras artistic vision and piss people off or ''2.5'' like common sense tells me
Napalm_Frank
Member
But the box has both II.5 on the cover and 2.5 on the spine! :d
I just want an excuse to use II.5
Use the one on the disc.
try this
Are we talking about the PAL region one? If so that really disappointed me, prettymuch everything minus character renders was in the Ultimania I already owned.
It was silly of me to expect new material though so I suppose it's my fault for setting myself up for disappointment.
Which I do way too often
This is perfect, but yeah it might be a bit spoilery. KH2 is 8 years old but I forget there's folks that will be playing it for the first time in 2.5
I think that strays just a little bit too much from the " but it was me Dio!" meme/joke, good attempt though.
compromise, have Ansem as both names
It will be relatively humbe OT though. Personally I don't like the ones where the OP is too bloated (exeption being the legendary MGS4 OT and that's just because it was friggin MGS4). I'll somewhat mirror it to what Paddington did with 1.5 OT but try to keep it... simple and clean you might say.
Still need to decide the OT name from the suggestions. Also the absolute biggest question I need to ask myself is if it will be ''II.5'' to stay true to Nomuras artistic vision and piss people off or ''2.5'' like common sense tells me
Odd, I envisioned the 2.5 OT to be reminiscent of something out of the late renaissanceyou know: grand ceilings, massive archways, stained glass, maybe a few biblical references here and there. Though maybe Coded being included in the package should keep things, humble. I'll love it either way!
My suggestion for the OT's name is...
Kingdom Hearts II.5 OT Nomura's Paradise Lost
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