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Kingdom Hearts Community Thread: Now everybody can be a Keyblade Wielder!
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best episode
Not a secret boss at all. Part of the story
RadioJoNES64
Banned
He found a secret mirror in the Snow White area during a replay and that triggered a boss rush. They're all harder to fight variants of the bosses and Copy Aqua is much more powerful. This guy has been spending like an hour trying to get pass three/seven health bars.
badcrumble
Member
Nice - hopefully there's some kind of
nice equipment drop and/or higher bonus level tier for beating it
I'm not holding my breath but it'd be lovely for that to be the case. This is still something KH1 did best, though BBS put in a reasonably admirable effort given the additional complexity it had to deal with.
1)
Yeah, most likely. It should be noted in case it wasn't apparent is that what we're shown is the outcome of what transpired at the end of [chi].
2)
please understand
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
This is why kh at this point shouldnt be staggered releases all these black bars are tempting as hell
Damn. I shouldn't have expected anything more =y
The other one i pieced together. Thank you though for answering my questions. The rest I'll enjoy when it releases later this month!
Reminds me of the Steven Universe thread. About 5-6 new episodes leaked weeks in advance.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
How does that happen
oreomunsta
Banned
Awe, ya'll posting spoilers :<
I've been on GAF for three years, and am now realising that this is the first time that a new KH game is being spoiled in threads.
Must. Not. Look.
I've been on GAF for three years, and am now realising that this is the first time that a new KH game is being spoiled in threads.
Must. Not. Look.
I don't know but this is like the 2nd or 3rd time.
yohoho he took a bite of leak leak
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Lol.....Don't you ever being up anything to do with 4 kids ever again...
But it's the best thing to happen to one piece.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
It had Brooklyn sanji
Seven Force
Banned
Looking at streams of 0.2, it looks like bosses actually have KH2 style revenge values again?
That's actually really great news, at least as far as boss design is concerned.
That's actually really great news, at least as far as boss design is concerned.
badcrumble
Member
What are those?
Hmm no difficulty trophies for DDD. Could they all be earned in a single playthrough on standard or proud then?
Napalm_Frank
Member
The thumbnail hell has already begun even when I have made sure not to click on KH related youtube videos lately.
While not what I'd consider a huuuuuge spoiler I saw
on a video titled something akin to ''2.8 ending!''.
So once again I want to thank Square Enix for this 2 week delay what I'm sure was put in place to boost sales a thousandfold for reasons I will never understand. And of course special thanks to all youtubers who upload these videos without changing the thumbnail!
While not what I'd consider a huuuuuge spoiler I saw
SDG on what I assume was Gummi Ship cockpit
So once again I want to thank Square Enix for this 2 week delay what I'm sure was put in place to boost sales a thousandfold for reasons I will never understand. And of course special thanks to all youtubers who upload these videos without changing the thumbnail!
Yeah the delay is terrible. And what's even worse is that some of us have ordered it online and we won't be getting it on release day.
Everything will be a minefield after the 24th..
Napalm_Frank
Member
Yeah the delay is terrible. And what's even worse is that some of us have ordered it online and we won't be getting it on release day.
Everything will be a minefield after the 24th..
That's why you go digital son.
Can't justify 60 on this digitally. I'm a budget gamer and the physical will cost me 50. Anyway..
So I just finished watching Back Cover. The only thing we didn't really know is... 2-3 sentences out of the whole movie.
badcrumble
Member
Read up a bit to learn about revenge values and: I really wish KH2FM's higher difficulty levels had Revenge kick in much faster. The Sephiroth boss fight would be waaaaay more intense and fun. I suppose it'd make Combo Plus a shittier ability and Combo Minus actually too good, though.
Seven Force
Banned
That would make Level 1 runs even more daunting, though. Some of the most optimal (and in some cases, fairest) strategies for bosses revolve around manipulating the fact that certain attacks don't add to revenge. For example, the combo hits (but not the finisher) of Final Form Firaga don't actually add to revenge, so it's possible to loop a few bosses doing that (You do have to make sure the very last hit is from the keyblade(s) and not the fire; the keyblade will stagger them and make it possible to reset the Firaga chain)
It'd kinda mess with the tempo of KH2FM's Critical Mode too, it'd really only serve to make battles a bit longer.
aspaceman55
Member
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Well shit. Riku is a girl now.
Prologue
Kingdom Hearts is the story of Sora, a 14-year-old boy whose world is shattered when a violent storm hits his island paradise home and is separated from his two closest friends, Riku, a 15-year-old [boy, and Kairi, a 14-year-old] girl. The storm scatters the three to different and unknown worlds.
[At the same time, theres turmoil in Disney castle. King Mickey is missing, and Court Wizard Donald and Captain Goofy set out to find him.]
On their travels they meet Sora on his own search for his lost friends.
Bold parts are omitted
Kingdom Hearts is the story of Sora, a 14-year-old boy whose world is shattered when a violent storm hits his island paradise home and is separated from his two closest friends, Riku, a 15-year-old [boy, and Kairi, a 14-year-old] girl. The storm scatters the three to different and unknown worlds.
[At the same time, theres turmoil in Disney castle. King Mickey is missing, and Court Wizard Donald and Captain Goofy set out to find him.]
On their travels they meet Sora on his own search for his lost friends.
Bold parts are omitted
Well shit. Riku is a girl now.
Just slap an extra K on that shit and retcon that it was Rikku all along
Seven Force
Banned
This forum post has a pretty good write up on the subject.
Gotta love the Osaka team chucking in all these little extra things into 0.2
Edit: Double post, my bad.
badcrumble
Member
I'm super curious to see if the Osaka team's take on mostly-KH2-style combat feels like they have finally mastered enemy/combat design to the extent seen in KH2FM.
Seven Force
Banned
Haha, good to hear. I just loaded up the game myself.
Some quick spoiler-free impressions for DDD and 0.2:
- 0.2 actually runs with an unlocked framerate on the Pro. Not sure if it's 60, but it's definitely higher than 30. Definitely a nice surprise. I don't have a 4K TV though, so I'm not sure what resolution it's outputting/upscaling to. I wonder if they'll target the same thing for KHIII.
- Kinda bummed out that you can't shuffle commands with the shoulder buttons anymore, ala BBS HD.
- God damn DDD looks sexy in 60fps. Can't wait for 1.5 + 2.5
- DDD cutscenes are 30, but I guess they didn't want to run the risk of breaking something and having to rework all of the cutscenes to make sure nothing else breaks. That said, switching back and forth from seeing 30 and 60 isn't as jarring as I thought, but YMMV.
One BBS/DDD specific quirk I still notice has been retained is Aqua homing in on an enemy when you attack while locked on, as opposed to the empty swing Sora would do in the same situation in KH2.
Also, it seems Aerial Recovery is still the BBS/DDD version, where you're locked in place after doing it, at opposed to KH2, where you can control your momentum out of it.
Kairi is a template for several other characters who have more power over the plot than she does. Her importance to the plot was more or less eliminated after KH1 and she was able to become an actual character who didn't need to rely on being a plot device to be interesting down the line and we'll see the culmination of that once she completes her training in KH3.
Aizo
Banned
I really don't like how it feels. Probably the didn't help me trying to dodge one of 0.2's final bosses. It feels robotic. Hope that's not in KH3.
badcrumble
Member
Yes and no. She's a Princess of Heart *and* a keyblade wielder. Theoretically that should make her like a wildly powered-up version of Ventus when she's well-trained, and it definitely makes her central to KH3's prospective plot.
Yeah you unlock themes for completing them like with 1.5 and 2.5
The Backcover theme is the unchained title screen artwork, which is super neat.
Yeah this along with most of the touch stuff in the 3DS version being mapped to triangle and circle really screwed me over in HD. It takes so long to adjust to the new controls.
And yeah i'm so hyped to play the rest of the series in 60fps. It's so smooth.
At the risk of Premature in saying so given 0.2's only a small dose i'd say they've done an incredible job. I'm not sure if 3 will matchup to KH2 Final Mix when it comesout, but they've got that style of play down with a mix of their own stuff/touch (shotlocks)
It feels much differently designed than DDD and Birth By Sleep did and more structured like 2 Final Mix was in in terms of gameplay and it's extremely welcome. I now trust the Osaka team to do a great job with 3. (just gotta hope it doesn't take forever to comeout)
Edit: I really need to stop double posting. My bad again.
Napalm_Frank
Member
So those who have the game already is there some sort of secret ending or something akin to that and if so what do you need to do to obtain it?
If the answer is a spoiler obviously don't answer.
If the answer is a spoiler obviously don't answer.
nothing as far as I know
not that I know of. I have been using Japanese wiki