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Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue |OT| May our hearts be our guiding key
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Benzychenz
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Napalm_Frank
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It's hard to say just yet but probably not very, yet. It does add a few things that are much more interesting than anything in Coded. It's possible the payoff will happen after KH3 doe.
RadioJoNES64
Banned
They're actually listening? Aww yeah
DangerMouse
Member
Well said.
It sets up things that will either be answered in KH Unchained X or KH3. Really it just poses more questions and gives incite into characters from the mobile game.
Glad I planned on waiting to do Critical mode lol
Eh, damage taken isn't real issue. They need to fix once more and second chance.
Also I wouldn't say no to KH2 Sora playable. his dodge, glide and reflect will work much better than against the bosses.
Napalm_Frank
Member
The negativity (or rather critique) is one of the reasons they seem to fix stuff doe.
Always speak up on stuff you don't like, especially if it's games you care about.
Nose Master
Member
Patch notes getting me hype. Also, Riku is fucking lapping Sora in DDD. Do you have to wait for them both to get to a certain point to progress? Beat the 3 second tier worlds as Riku but he can't move forward, and Sora is still messing around in Tron.
Chaserjoey
Member
You can progress when Sora finishes those three worlds.
they are out in JP version. Don't think it's out on Western version yet.
badcrumble
Member
For real. I'd love to see KH 0.2 turn into KH3's Episode Duscae equivalent, honestly.
Nose Master
Member
Figured. I laughed when I got High Jump, when you can jump cancel flow motion wall jumps over and over to get wherever you want.
Chaserjoey
Member
No trophy and that's impossible. You'll have to flowmotion at least once.
Nose Master
Member
Looks very grindy. Level 100, get all items, get all commands, get a dumb amount of medals in the shitty card Colosseum, all powered up boss refights, etc.
Chaserjoey
Member
Actually it's cumulative for both characters so it just needs to add up to 100. You could have a level 54 Sora and a level 46 Riku and get that trophy.
Seven Force
Banned
Ooh, downloading the patch now. Critical Mode damage being buffed is fantastic news; Part of what makes Critical Mode great in KH2 as opposed to every other implementation is the fact that the damage floor for Sora is actually raised, compared to every other difficulty. I might actually replay 0.2 just to see what changed.
Okay yeah, that shouldn't be happening. Seems like they need to adjust the properties of that attack to properly trigger Once More.
Yeah this is what I was thinking.
Perhaps the series sitting out an entire gen was kinda worth it ?
Because it feels so fresh and exciting to have KH back up to current tech.
Seven Force
Banned
Oh my god, they unfucked Critical Mode. She deals KH2FM level Critical Mode damage now. They're actually listening.
Chaserjoey
Member
How fast you can air guard after 1.02 patch
Have they removed streaming restrictions?
Could be that they've made it deliberately really hard to the point where it feels somewhat cheap. 1) It's the Realm of Darkness. Some of the monsters there are supposed to be super-powered & extremely hard to defeat, so there's a story-related reason to make it hard. 2) To add a bit more (artificial) length to 0.2. It isn't the longest thing ever so they might've been more willing to make something cheaper than it should be just so that it would take people a bit longer to beat/master.
or (saying this as someone who hasn't played 0.2 yet so I'm not sure who/what all the bosses are) 3) I'd wager a guess that almost all of these enemies are taken straight from KHIII and since Aqua doesn't have all the tools that Sora has/will have when he fights them, they might feel a bit cheap with Aqua's more limited move set.
no I used capture card.
Chaserjoey
Member
Drat. I dislike the blocked recording popping up every time I go back and forth into that section. FFXV had their recording restrictions lifted a month after release so I guess this one will life sometime in Feb then.
They might remove after a while I guess.... The game just came out in the west so..
Chaserjoey
Member
After the FFXV leak, they brought in the restrictions for the endings of games which is why 2.8 has it (though with capture cards people still got around it). Since the game is out world wide I was hoping that with this patch they would have dropped it but oh well.
papertoonz
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yeah, a good amount of my problems with 0.2 combat can be chalked up to aqua move set being not that great
i really hope osaka team makes normal combos useful
I don't think it's that simple. DDD has the superior combat system in comparison to 1 and while flowmotion kind of makes some of the more traditional level design obsolete since you can just spam flow-motion wall jump to get everywhere, at least I found many of the worlds are still better than the straightforward stuff found in 2 and even with the overpowered flowmotion moves that demolish the usefulness/mandatoryness of abilities like Glide, there are still some pretty fun locations (like the huge room with the rails in Traverse Town) and some more complex level design that isn't made completely worthless even with flowmotion. + I loved the Fantasia world more than almost all worlds in 1 & 2
What difficulty are you playing on? From what I remember, flowmotion is a bit overpowered at first but it loses it's usefulness later on (especially on harder difficulty levels), since it leaves the player so vulnerable + flowmotion attacks end up being really weak compared to stronger commands & perhaps even Sora's normal attack combos. I mean, I guess if one can really master using flowmotion to the point where they can break the game & use some cheap tactics to beat everything, it might be overpowered, but I'd imagine for the average player flowmotion can often be more of a hindrance for how vulnerable & relatively weak it actually is. At least for me, there are probably more times that flowmotion moves/attacks got me killed rather than being the key to victory.
peronmls
Member
the lag after guard counter blast is gone now. You can guard again right away or cartwheel out.
nice! i hope this comes out very soon for NA.
Seven Force
Banned
That's debatable. 1 is definitely a far more stilted and clunky game overall, but it makes up for that with superior game balance and enemy/boss design that actually factors Sora's capabilities into their design. Pretty much every boss in DDD consists of mindlessly whacking away at them until they die. KH1 offers far more options, like parrying/teching for potential openings (Riku-Ansem is free to parries and techs, especially from heavier keyblades), using elemental weaknesses (Maleficent and Captain Hook get wrecked by Stop, Xemnas gets a literal headache from Gravity Spells), etc.
3D's is definitely more fluid because of the Command Deck, but there's not as much thought put into it's overall design in relation to the enemies in the game and it suffers from that in the long run.
HoopzBarkley
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So how is backcover?
DarkLordMalik
Member
Good to know I wasn't the only one. It seemed to fail and then execute at a different time for me.
The patch already seemed to be out for places like New Zealand/Australian English version, so I assume that US/EU will be getting it very soon as well.
Chaserjoey
Member
Australia here, no patch yet. Will restart PS4, see if that jump starts it.
Just click Options on the game and Check for update
Chaserjoey
Member
I've done that like 6 times already.
interesting. I don't know if gamersjoint has Aus or New Zealand version but he seems to have patch
https://twitter.com/thegamersjoint/status/824514851972091904
Chaserjoey
Member
He should have the NZ version. If it's rolling out at a set time, then it might be 90 minutes out from Aus though since they're two hours ahead.
Then there's no patch. Restarting the PS4 will make no difference.
I guess I can somewhat agree with bosses having better balance in 1 vs. the tools available, but I still find that a majority of the time DDD is more fun to do battle in than 1 (especially against normal enemies), even if it fails to capitalize on its improvements as far as enemy designs go.
I don't see why this is a surprise. The KH teams have always been very good at listening to feedback (as far as gameplay goes, storytelling doesn't seem to get such treatment) even if the "fixes"/changes haven't always been perfect. They just haven't released these games on modern platforms with support for patches, so the changes have been made between subsequent games or even between localized releases (the western versions often getting some balance updates after something was too weak/powerful in Japan) and not small patches after release. And I'm sure they are taking full advantage of 2.8's release and using 0.2 as an Episode Duscae like demo they gather feedback from to improve KHIII proper.
Chaserjoey
Member
I've had experiences where doing the manual check for a patch didn't work but restarting the PS4 kickstarted a patch.
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