Napalm_Frank
Member
Hey! Without pokemons we might have missed Shimomuras masterpiece of KH series.
I just wish there was option to beat your Dream Eaters when they steal all the cookies and cakes ment for the other pets.
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Kingdom Hearts Community Thread: Now everybody can be a Keyblade Wielder!
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Hey! Without pokemons we might have missed Shimomuras masterpiece of KH series.
I just wish there was option to beat your Dream Eaters when they steal all the cookies and cakes ment for the other pets.
Well you can only do it in the Dream World so there is that.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Does Nomura come off to you as a man that wouldn't retcon everything to have his way with gameplay?
Napalm_Frank
Member
Have I already made a megapost how fuckin terrible the balancing in DDD was? I should but I don't even want to remember. 50% of the combat mechanics down the drain and no fucks given.
Flowmotion made combat either a joke or frustratingly difficult when all of sudden you ended up on an invisible grind rail with little HP left. And with your magic and skills coming from Dream Eaters, you'd have to either go with some poor skills and rely a ton on Flowmotion, or you'd know the secret handshake and find the Dream Eaters with the skills you wanted, making a lot of the game a joke.
That skill Riku got that let him teleport to his target came in handy during a certain boss fight, though. "Ha! You have been pushed to the far end of the area, now I will pelt you with fireballs as you try to-" *teleport* "-or you could do that."
That skill Riku got that let him teleport to his target came in handy during a certain boss fight, though. "Ha! You have been pushed to the far end of the area, now I will pelt you with fireballs as you try to-" *teleport* "-or you could do that."
Napalm_Frank
Member
Kingdom Hearts is such a shitty series. Just bring me a gun and Ill shoot myself.
Accually dont I want to play 1.5 first bring me after.
Accually dont I want to play 1.5 first bring me after.
badcrumble
Member
Losing ability leveling/combining and the Command Board minigame in favor of Dream Eater harvesting and lots of touchscreen pokemon-petting minigames was pretty much the worst. Also, the Drop System is terrible.
If BBS is the MGS3 of the Kingdom Hearts series, DDD is the MGS4. Or possibly the Peace Walker.
Yeah, FlowMotion should either *only* be stuff like rail grinding, shouldn't let you infinite-chain the wall jump, or yeah, should be limited only to when you're in a special state instead of being usable literally anytime there's a wall nearby.
Napalm_Frank
Member
And Days is Portable Ops.
KH1, 2 and BBS had final mixes, MGS 1, 2 and 3 had special editions.
I think you cracked the code! Lets pray MGSV doesn't suck for all our sake.
This post pretty much sums my feelings up as well. KH1 was so much innocent fun... What the hell happened?
I'm kind of glad to see some hate for Flowmotion. The very first moment I got to use it, I knew it'll completely destroy the level design. Someone said "at least it's better than KH2's" way back when - I disagree. Nothing wrong with a linear design. Everything wrong with what we got in DDD.
Goddamn it I hated that stuff. I would have liked the pokemon system WAAAY more if all the abilities stayed with me. Maybe give a smaller amount of abilities to learn. At least then collecting those guys would have been somewhat interesting. Also they should have killed off the random system of feeding the guys and the minigames, and just give a plausible amount of whatever the ability points were called in battle.
Goddamn it I hated that stuff. I would have liked the pokemon system WAAAY more if all the abilities stayed with me. Maybe give a smaller amount of abilities to learn. At least then collecting those guys would have been somewhat interesting. Also they should have killed off the random system of feeding the guys and the minigames, and just give a plausible amount of whatever the ability points were called in battle.
The whole idea of 50hz games in the PAL region (up until PS3/360/Wii gen) blowed my mind when I found out. I'm so glad that's over, FFX wont be the same without a moonwalking Tidus though.
Kingdom Hearts is a joy to play in 60hz now compared to playing it with borders and at 25fps. A boss battle with an extremely underleveled Sora feels about as fast as a normal boss battle took on the PAL version.
It explains quite a lot about how it turned out. Seems like there might have been quite a few conflicting design decisions between Nomura and the team during its development.
Kingdom Hearts is a joy to play in 60hz now compared to playing it with borders and at 25fps. A boss battle with an extremely underleveled Sora feels about as fast as a normal boss battle took on the PAL version.
Dear god why, DDD could have been such a better game.Finally got to see that interview where Nomutra said he crammed infinite-walljump-abuse FlowMotion into KHDD over the protestations of the Osaka Team who correctly pointed out that it destroys the level design and said that it's the future of the KH series.
Ugh, it makes so much more sense. I knew the Osaka team was better at game design than that.
It explains quite a lot about how it turned out. Seems like there might have been quite a few conflicting design decisions between Nomura and the team during its development.
badcrumble
Member
Well, that and it was clearly rushed. The game's levels and bosses etc. are pretty good, the actual normal-combat moveset is pretty good, but so much other stuff is unfocused and the game feels so much smaller and shorter than a full KH game like 1/2/BBS.
Paddington Bear
Member
I leave for a week and now Napalm hates KH.
Napalmu!!!!
Shame it's pretty much only the few active members talking about shit.
because of obvious reasons, obviously
WeaponKnight
Member
No it's not stop lying.It is!
(I don't play with Japanese dubs if I can help it.)
Because of the Wii U port, duh.I wish
Yup.
Napalm_Frank
Member
I'm already the top poster in here by a large margin because of my bullshit. I should just shut up and let this thread die mwahaha
Nah man Naaaaaaah!
Napalm_Frank
Member
Napalm_Frank
Member
Some kind souls has been uploading some 1.5 song remixes if you guys are interested.
Dive into the Heart
Destiny Islands
Bustin' Up on the Beach
Night of Fate
Traverse Town
Shrouding Dark Cloud
Precious Stars in the Sky
Blast Away!
Deep Jungle
Having a Wild Time
The Deep End
Squirming Evil
Destiny's Force
Forze del Male
Guardando nel Buio
Disappeared
One-Winged Angel
Dearly Beloved
Dearly Beloved (358/2 Days Version)
Vector to the Heavens
Lord Of The Castle
Ugh. I just want to see what they can cook up with KH3 when they go for a full orchestrated OST right from the getgo. Kingdom Hearts 3 needs to be forged and with it the door to the console war unlocked!
Edit: Some more.
Neverland Sky
Hollow Bastion
Scherzo di Notte
End of the World
Fragments of Sorrow
A Night on Bald Mountain
Dive into the Heart
Destiny Islands
Bustin' Up on the Beach
Night of Fate
Traverse Town
Shrouding Dark Cloud
Precious Stars in the Sky
Blast Away!
Deep Jungle
Having a Wild Time
The Deep End
Squirming Evil
Destiny's Force
Forze del Male
Guardando nel Buio
Disappeared
One-Winged Angel
Dearly Beloved
Dearly Beloved (358/2 Days Version)
Vector to the Heavens
Lord Of The Castle
Ugh. I just want to see what they can cook up with KH3 when they go for a full orchestrated OST right from the getgo. Kingdom Hearts 3 needs to be forged and with it the door to the console war unlocked!
Edit: Some more.
Neverland Sky
Hollow Bastion
Scherzo di Notte
End of the World
Fragments of Sorrow
A Night on Bald Mountain
WeaponKnight
Member
This... this is amazing! Imagine what we will get with Happy Holidays! and The Other Promise *drools*
NHarmonic.
Member
I'm gonna start a Critical run on DDD, don't want to let this KH-vibe die...
DDD on critical is not very well ballenced imo. But have fun!
Blood Diamonds
Banned
This thread is alive only because of the KH Days hate
:c
like any time the thread is close to dying somebody says "Hey you know how much Days sucks?" and then it picks up from there.
just kidding
I think
Napalm_Frank
Member
I wonder if Critical in DDD is as badly designed as BBS. DDD is the only game I haven't tried it.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Maybe they'll go super lazy mode and just use the one from Drammatica album :lol.
Edit:sorry for the double post I need some sleep >_>
Speaking of, Days is really, really bad. Doesn't even deserve to exist, just like Xion.
NHarmonic.
Member
Speaking of, Days is really, really bad. Doesn't even deserve to exist, just like Xion.
You Heartless Human being u_u
i bet you cried your eyes out when Xion vanished into memory pieces u_u
Napalm_Frank
Member
No need to when we all know Nomura will retcon it anyway. He has already started!
NHarmonic.
Member
You mean, Blank Points? I don't know if they will bring Xion back, it's not that clear after all.
but, but Roxas... and Xion.. T_T
yeah, it was just fanservice, japan really loves the Organization and nomura has a thing with the number 13
However i can't hate it, i really enjoyed it, but that's me and my awful taste (i know it) so whatever.
Roxas can go fuck himself and Xion... well, Xion is alright, but she was a useless character that was created "just because." She was the character they made up just to spice things up a bit because they didn't know how to otherwise make a compelling story out of a bunch of already boring characters.
People can love it all they want, I'm just saying I think it was a very pointless cash in that everyone could've saved money on. SE on making it and the fans on not buying it.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
All you haters can't deal with this:
Blood Diamonds
Banned
>: |
So who is your favorite KH character anyway, Groof?
Donald, probably.
But if we're speaking original characters, I did like Aqua quite a bit. Larxene was a fun one as well. KH1!Ansem was fun before he became what he became, picking on 14 year old kids and being all holier-than-thou. That's about it, I guess.
R10Neymarfan
Member
IMO they actually ruined "The Deep End" in the remastering.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Xigbar is automatically the best character for having the best battle quote in all the games. ''R for reload!''
I don't hate Roxas or Xion at all. They are just mostly stuck in the shitty game. But hey we can hope for Youngblades sake Roxas+Xion get their own good game someday so he doesn't need to suffer this :lol.
I'd like to agree but from the Disney characters I have to give Goofy a slight edge for a few reasons even tho I am much more of a Donald nut outside KH.
My favourite characters are probably pre KH2 Sora (+Donald, Goofy), post KH2 Riku (tho I did like him as a villain in KH1) he is especially good in DDD and CoM. By far my least favourite major character must be Xemnas.
I don't hate Roxas or Xion at all. They are just mostly stuck in the shitty game. But hey we can hope for Youngblades sake Roxas+Xion get their own good game someday so he doesn't need to suffer this :lol.
I'd like to agree but from the Disney characters I have to give Goofy a slight edge for a few reasons even tho I am much more of a Donald nut outside KH.
Do tell.
Every Finn is man, we get weekly Donald :lol
I also think Donald's the best one. Out of the original characters, I'd normally probably say Sora since he's just all-around a likeable guy, but I didn't like him in DDD at all. And I loved Riku in DDD, and thought he was pretty awesome in KH1 and KH2 too. So Riku.