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[VillageBC]

Is my sound messed up in the Kingdom Hearts Final Mix? I don't recall what it should have sound like, but the game is very quiet. Very low base track, no foot step sounds, no selection sound. Everything is muted, except combat seems okay and when they are speaking.

Restarted all my devices, it just sounds like it's mixed wrong.

 

[Meowster]

I like Naminé and that one girl whose name I can't recall (am I imagining things?) better than Kairi tbh. My hope for III is that they'll actually give her something to do because she's been really boring so far compared to everyone else. But I have barely played Dream Drop Distance so maybe that game is better with it?

 

[gdt]

Beat the tall dude in Wonderland. Now the Coliseum is kicking my ass. Specifically fight 6 with the big dude.

 

[broscientific]

Wow, I really can't believe how terribly designed the 2nd boss fight with Ursula is.
Loaded up everyone with items including several Elixirs and one Megalixir for myself. It's pretty demoralizing to get hit with lightning everytime you try to cast a spell / use an item / etc

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

I like Naminé and that one girl whose name I can't recall (am I imagining things?) better than Kairi tbh. My hope for III is that they'll actually give her something to do because she's been really boring so far compared to everyone else. But I have barely played Dream Drop Distance so maybe that game is better with it?

DDD sets her up. It's up to 3 to follow up or fall completely flat and get shit on(at least by me) for it

 

[paragonpro]

Wow, I really can't believe how terribly designed the 2nd boss fight with Ursula is.
Loaded up everyone with items including several Elixirs and one Megalixir for myself. It's pretty demoralizing to get hit with lightning everytime you try to cast a spell / use an item / etc

Alot of boss fights are exercises in "fuck you do better" like a souls title...except not as fair and some of them with even less margin for error

 

[Napalm_Frank]

Wow, I really can't believe how terribly designed the 2nd boss fight with Ursula is.
Loaded up everyone with items including several Elixirs and one Megalixir for myself. It's pretty demoralizing to get hit with lightning everytime you try to cast a spell / use an item / etc

Are you using Aero?

 

[AlexFlame116]

DDD sets her up. It's up to 3 to follow up or fall completely flat and get shit on(at least by me) for it

Let's hope it's the former. I've been being led on this whole time if nothing happens! It'd ruin the game!

Spoiler

/s

 

[broscientific]

Are you using Aero?

Yes.

Alot of boss fights are exercises in "fuck you do better" like a souls title...except not as fair and some of them with even less margin for error

Yeah. "Roll behind the enemy and get a few quick hits in" except in the case of KH1, rolling behind the enemy doesn't work 40% of the time.

 

[aravuus]

Alot of boss fights are exercises in "fuck you do better" like a souls title...except not as fair and some of them with even less margin for error

Having recently played and finished Bloodborne and Nioh,

yeah

yep

some of the KH bosses are some real bullshit

I feel this way about some of the regular enemies too, though. I've never figured out just what the hell I'm supposed to do when a trash mob starts stunlocking me for like months.

 

[Anoxida]

13 hours in. The world/level design on every single world except for traversetown has been well below mediocre. I really hope there's some good world coming up because this backtracking between 5-6 areas is starting to get annoying. I'm towards the end of atlantica I think.. I really hope it's over soon since I'm not enjoying my time there at all. I'm playing sorely for the story and the bosses at the moment.

 

[broscientific]

13 hours in. The world/level design on every single world except for traversetown has been well below mediocre. I really hope there's some good world coming up because this backtracking between 5-6 areas is starting to get annoying. I'm towards the end of atlantica I think.. I really hope it's over soon since I'm not enjoying my time there at all. I'm playing sorely for the story and the bosses at the moment.

The best world in the game is the 2nd to last one, hang in there.
They are much better in KH2 as well

 

[Spy]

Didn't have trouble on any boss (proud mode) until I got to Ursula. I hate that fight with a passion.

 

[AlexFlame116]

13 hours in. The world/level design on every single world except for traversetown has been well below mediocre. I really hope there's some good world coming up because this backtracking between 5-6 areas is starting to get annoying. I'm towards the end of atlantica I think.. I really hope it's over soon since I'm not enjoying my time there at all. I'm playing sorely for the story and the bosses at the moment.

Just hang on! KH2 is better in my opinion!

Although that really shouldn't be used as a reason to make someone play the series.

 

[Doctor Shatner]

Didn't have trouble on any boss (proud mode) until I got too Ursula. I hate that fight with a passion.

I'm there right now, I forgot how bad Atlantica's BS is, ugh

 

[Tidalwave]

Just hang on! KH2 is better in my opinion!

Although that really shouldn't be used as a reason to make someone play the series.

It really isn't in regards to what he's talking about. Every world becomes flat and boring.

 

[Spy]

I'm there right now, I forgot how bad Atlantica's BS is, ugh

After I finished it up, I haven't played the game since.

 

[badcrumble]

Wow, I really can't believe how terribly designed the 2nd boss fight with Ursula is.
Loaded up everyone with items including several Elixirs and one Megalixir for myself. It's pretty demoralizing to get hit with lightning everytime you try to cast a spell / use an item / etc

Kinda, yeah. Ursula's 100% about using Dolphin Kick to evade a lot of her attacks (not just the one where she sucks you in and bites you). Nearly everything she does has a tell, but the passive lightning attacks that hit you with only about a half second of warning really do suck a lot.

 

[robotrock]

I've only played about an hour of this port but god I'm so glad they got the 60fps

 

[AlexFlame116]

It really isn't in regards to what he's talking about. Every world becomes flat and boring.

Oh whoops. I thought he was talking about the world design in general.

 

[Anoxida]

Just hang on! KH2 is better in my opinion!

Although that really shouldn't be used as a reason to make someone play the series.

Well, there are parts of KH1 that I enjoy and parts that annoy me. I kinda wanna see it through though but we'll see. I'll be taking a break from the game indefinitely when Persona 5 hits. I suspect I'll end up finishing atlantica and one more world then watch the rest of the story on youtube then head back in playing KH2 when I'm done with persona 5. Everyone's saying KH2 is so much better so looking forward to it. I played BBS for about 10-15 hours as well when it first came out and I really enjoyed that but performance + portable controls kinda held me back from finishing it, that shouldn't be a problem now.

Edit:

Oh whoops. I thought he was talking about the world design in general.

I was.

 

[aravuus]

I believe Atlantica can at least be skipped, as long as you do Monstro and Halloween Town.

Now I'm wondering why the hell didn't I just skip it myself on Friday.

Well, there are parts of KH1 that I enjoy and parts that annoy me. I kinda wanna see it through though but we'll see. I'll be taking a break from the game indefinitely when Persona 5 hits. I suspect I'll end up finishing atlantica and one more world then watch the rest of the story on youtube then head back in playing KH2 when I'm done with persona 5. Everyone's saying KH2 is so much better so looking forward to it. I played BBS for about 10-15 hours as well when it first came out and I really enjoyed that but performance + portable controls kinda held me back from finishing it, that shouldn't be a problem now.

KH2 is infinitely better in every respect - level design wise is debatable and depends on whether you like maze-like levels (KH1) or more linear ones (KH2) more. But it sounds like you might enjoy KH2's more linear levels more.

 

[Seven Force]

I always feel like Ursula 2 being hard is some inside joke I'm not in on, because I've never had a problem fighting her at all.

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

I always feel like Ursula 2 being hard is some inside joke I'm not in on, because I've never had a problem fighting her at all.

The first rule of having a generally well accepted hard boss is to have someone say "I never had a problem with her"

Therefore in conclusion Ursula is confirmed a shitty boss

 

[Anoxida]

I believe Atlantica can at least be skipped, as long as you do Monstro and Halloween Town.

Now I'm wondering why the hell didn't I just skip it myself on Friday.



KH2 is infinitely better in every respect - level design wise is debatable and depends on whether you like maze-like levels (KH1) or more linear ones (KH2) more. But it sounds like you might enjoy KH2's more linear levels more.

It's the backtracking that's annoying me mostly. And I dont mean the kind in which you go back to the world later to unlock new shit but actually going back and forth 7 times because the story tells you to. If there's less of that in KH2 then I'm bless. And yeah less mazes = good.

 

[Psxphile]

Wow, I really can't believe how terribly designed the 2nd boss fight with Ursula is.
Loaded up everyone with items including several Elixirs and one Megalixir for myself. It's pretty demoralizing to get hit with lightning everytime you try to cast a spell / use an item / etc

I pretty much just tank it. Throw on every thunder-resistant armor you got up to that point and whale on her. Maybe Aero too if you can afford the MP.

 

[broscientific]

I pretty much just tank it. Throw on every thunder-resistant armor you got up to that point and whale on her. Maybe Aero too if you can afford the MP.

Ended up clearing it just now. Took a break and went and did the Pegasus cup, bought new weapons for Goofy and Donald, swapped out acessories... I guess all that stuff put me over the line for being able to 'brute force' it.

 

[JayEH]

I rely on reflect too much. I need to learn to guard.

 

[benzopil]

Worlds are so small in KH1, backtracking isn't an issue for me at all. Strange that it is for some people.

First time playing, got my Warp Drive just now.

 

[badcrumble]

Worlds are so small in KH1, backtracking isn't an issue for me at all. Strange that it is for some people.

First time playing, got my Warp Drive just now.

It's really just Wonderland and Deep Jungle where it's sort of an issue. They both signpost where you're supposed to go next, but occasionally that happens in a missable line in a cutscene *or* in a conversation with an NPC *or* with the camera lingering on where you're supposed to go next at the end of a cutscene. Atlantica and Agrabah are equally bad about that, but they're also structured in a more linear fashion so that there are areas that are effectively further into the story than others and it's simpler to guess correctly at where you should go next.

KH1 Agrabah remains probably the best-designed world in the series, I think (I really love Hollow Bastion in that game too, but it's trickier to navigate on revisits and it's clearly in a different class from the rest - still, I'd love a final 'dungeon' as complex as that one again in KH3). Lots of verticality, platforming is challenging but not about pixel-perfect jumps like the Deep Jungle hippo room, plenty of puzzles to unlock new approaches to existing areas, High Jump and Glide open up new paths and reveal new chests on revisits, et cetera. So good.

ps I miss the progression-gating of the Trinity abilities, by the way, and that one dude who *liked* that flowmotion basically removes any kind of progression or platforming and just straight up gives you every chest and lets you overpower any encounter on normal difficulty and was like "just don't use it if you don't like it" can s my d

 

[Azuran]

It's the backtracking that's annoying me mostly. And I dont mean the kind in which you go back to the world later to unlock new shit but actually going back and forth 7 times because the story tells you to. If there's less of that in KH2 then I'm bless. And yeah less mazes = good.

KH2 has plenty of worlds like that. I hope you like seeing the same three corridors plenty of times.

 

[Community Forum]

Birth by Sleep is frickin awesome. I had never played it before.

 

[Amherst_Wind]

I need an opinion on game order, specifically if it makes sense to do this: finish CoM, play KH2 prologue, watch Days, continue KH2.
I've played them myself when they originally released in their original release order but someone else is watching me play through it for the first time and I feel like Days would spoil 2, especially the mystery of 2's prologue. Any opinions?

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

Birth by Sleep is frickin awesome. I had never played it before.

Another one joins the church of ventus

 

[bigDdestruction]

I cant believe square never fixed the glitch with the red trinity in oogie boogie's manor. Completely unacceptable.

 

[AlexFlame116]

Another one joins the church of ventus

Come one come all. We have Aqua and some sea-salt ice cream given to you by some odd black haired chick that we just met!

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

Come one come all. We have cookies!

We're trying to get them to join Alex not make them think we're luring them into a van.

 

[AlexFlame116]

We're trying to get them to join Alex not make them think we're luring them into a van.

Fixed it. Is that better?

 

[JayEH]

I need an opinion on game order, specifically if it makes sense to do this: finish CoM, play KH2 prologue, watch Days, continue KH2.
I've played them myself when they originally released in their original release order but someone else is watching me play through it for the first time and I feel like Days would spoil 2, especially the mystery of 2's prologue. Any opinions?

i would just save days after KH2.

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

Fixed it. Is that better?

Sea salt ice cream or bust

 

[AlexFlame116]

Sea salt ice cream or bust

K. Edited it again!

I hope Ventus gets awakened in III and Nomura doesn't decide to either leave it for the next saga or make him a possible villain in KH4.

 

[badcrumble]

I cant believe square never fixed the glitch with the red trinity in oogie boogie's manor. Completely unacceptable.

what? this got fixed with the original final mix release iirc, it reappears somewhere on the ground

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

Fixed it. Is that better?

That's better
Not only will he be woken up but he takes over as true protagonist

 

[MattKeil]

Anybody having screen size issues with Kingdom Hearts I? Just started last night and I've been trying to go find ways to fix the size of it since it isn't taking up my entire TV. Any suggestions?

Check your screen size settings in the PS4 menus. This game takes the screen size setting as a cue for how big to make its display rather than most games, which just use it to know where to put the HUD elements.

Expand it out to the very edges and restart KH and it should fill the screen now.

 

[TKM]

KH1 made me physically ill yesterday. Maybe it's because I just platinum'd NieR Automata and faced a jarring transition. The camera, platforming, and tiny rooms of Wonderland gave me a headache. I don't recall ever having any problems with the PS2 version 15 years ago. Deleted my 0% trophy list and gave up on the game.

4 hours into KH2 today, and the open spaces and freer camera control are much appreciated.

 

[quesalupa]

I've played these games so many times that the 60 fps is a tad jarring. It's beautiful though.

 

[Seven Force]

what? this got fixed with the original final mix release iirc, it reappears somewhere on the ground

1.5 has a glitch where sometimes that particular red trinity won't activate at all.

 

[Strings]

1.5 has a glitch where sometimes that particular red trinity won't activate at all.

iirc, it does work, it's just a crazy pixel hunt.

 

[TalentAlwaysWins]

This franchise is art. This remaster is just perfection. I'm crying

 

[BHK3]

I always feel like Ursula 2 being hard is some inside joke I'm not in on, because I've never had a problem fighting her at all.

I feel like bad level design and hard bosses are an inside joke. Outside wonderland and deep jungle I never had an issue with any level, and the only boss to give me issues was pot centipede.