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Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX |OT| Press to pay respects
- Thread starter Napalm_Frank
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I'll take a niche Disney reference over another "hooded guy" secret fight any day. It's what they should be doing when they've got SO MUCH to draw from.
Yep, this is a problem with some games. It happened in 1.5 too.
SoraanTribal
Member
I can see that as a good reason to do Disney bosses, but I dunno... I tend to prefer the hooded enemies even if they all look pretty similar, lol. Sometimes you're like, "Who the hell is this story character? I wonder how important they will be later?" ie: KH1FM, KH2FM, and BBS secret bosses.
Seven Force
Banned
Sithlord77
Banned
I started on Critical is this game hard to platinum? What about optional bosses and exploits in the game that make it easy? I generally hate mini games is there a lot of them tied to trophies? Hated the mini games in acre wood on KH1.
I agree with this. I want the best of both worlds.
You're in for a hard time. You might want to do some research on the platinum.
Seven Force
Banned
KH2FM and KH3D aside, they've been pretty good about it. KH1FM had
Xemnas
Young Xehanort.
DS4s work terribly with KHII, but work fine with BBS for some odd reason.
There are lots of minigames.
Exactly. I also love the Data fights and Terra.
I think the KH series has done well with secret bosses. I do think 3D could've had more to go along with Julius though.
TheSlySoul
Member
Finally beat Experiment 221. I am hating Terra's playthrough. Sigh~
Napalm_Frank
Member
I want the return of balanced optional bosses from KH1(FM). A mix of mega heartless, FF, KH and Disney.
I still want Gilgamesh for example as the next FF superboss. I really don't want Sephy to return.
I still want Gilgamesh for example as the next FF superboss. I really don't want Sephy to return.
Fix The Scientist
Member
I never played kingdom hearts 2, how does the pacing and openness compare to something like ffxii? or is to more heavy on story like a tales game?
SoraanTribal
Member
KH2 is absolutely nothing like FFXII in terms of openness or anything like that. It has better pacing than XII though (which has serious pacing/story issues). It's more story heavy in general.
RPGCrazied
Member
No wonder why wisdom form is taking ages to level up, I'm not using magic. lol I've been pew pewing everything. Now I need to go back to the first area of the world that never was and spam thundaga. Finally maxed out Valor.
Napalm_Frank
Member
I'm not an expert on Tales games but the pacing is sooo much better than FFXII, that's for damn sure (well, outside of the beginning that can be a slog). There are a lot of story cutscenes all the time but there is quite a bit of gameplay thrown in there too after you have completed the ''tutorial'' part of the game that takes perhaps something like 2+ hours for first time players.
I still can't believe how bad the pacing was in XII :d
edit: oh, and indeed KH2 isn't exactly an ''open game''. It's very linear in nature even tho you can choose the order you do some parts of the game.
Wisdom actually levels by defeating Heartless in it.
RPGCrazied
Member
I know that, but I must have forgot you can also use magic and not just use the shooting beams from the basic attack.
Seven Force
Banned
Yeah, as far as variety goes, I think KH1FM still has the best lineup of optional bosses.
Really, the only thing BBSFM was missing was a FF superboss. There were optional boss Unversed in the form of Iron Imprisoner and Mimic Master, Monstro covered the Disney angle, and there were at least 4 KH original characters serving as super bosses.
Despite being a really damned cool reference, Julius stands out a little negatively because KH3D has him and no one else. FFS, they could have put those nice TWEWY models to use in an optional boss fight or something.
Buy both. I'm pretty sure 1.5 is a Greatest Hits title now, so even if you're only getting it for KH1, it's still worth it for $20.
Just now noticed that computer
uses in Hollow Bastion requires the six founding member's real names.
That's up to you. I hadn't played KHFM in a while. I think the Final Mix content in 1 is good.
Xemnas
That's up to you. I hadn't played KHFM in a while. I think the Final Mix content in 1 is good.
Wow what the fuck. Nothing I can do besides use ps3 controller huh? Lame.
RPGCrazied
Member
How can I learn glide? A few puzzle pieces in a few worlds requires this.
Level up Final Form.
RPGCrazied
Member
Oh, heh. Don't have that one yet. Just got to space paranoids 2nd time.
You can use the DS4. Its just a minor issue with the west diagonals. Nothing you can't power through
RPGCrazied
Member
How many new ones are there? I think I've only seen one of them, and I'm almost done with the game. Unless I already saw some and didn't think they were new.
I actually kinda liked how the game would just shut up and let me explore 4 large zones without a cutscene, actually.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Not counting the secret ending there are like 7 new scenes. You certainly have seen more than one, there are 3 new scenes before you hit any of the disney worlds for example.
I didn't like that after clearing Holocaust Mountain you would get few lines from Balthier and off you go to Nightmare Forest. Not to mention the story itself wasn't a very good hook.
Regarding the scenes I do wonder why they didn't bother to voice the KH1FM ones. There are like 2 scenes that needed voicing and both only needed Rikus voice to work. And considering Riku sounds pretty close to what he did in KH1 and they had him do new lines for Days anyway it kinda feels wasted.
You've seen quite a few already.
I'd like a mix of cameo and original superbosses. Especially something from Square (preferably a character they haven't used before.)
There's about 6 or 7 of them, and the "new" secret ending.
from what I remember, 2 or 3 close to the prologue, the
scene in Hollow Bastion, (Endgame plot spoilers)
There's about 6 or 7 of them, and the "new" secret ending.
from what I remember, 2 or 3 close to the prologue, the
Chamber of Repose
Roxas and Axel's goodbye cutscene, and the Thank Namine scene during the final boss
RPGCrazied
Member
Interesting. The one I remember was seeing the armor(I think its from BBS) at the end. That was a cool cutscene.
RPGCrazied
Member
Who voices Xenmas? Holy shit he is a good voice actor.
Oh, there's also that scene (which I regrettably skipped over because I forgot when it played)
His English VA is Paul St. Peter. He was also the announcer for Soul Calibur 5.
His Japanese VA is (quite fittingly) Norio Wakamoto
Braig/Xigbar is easily my favourite antagonist in the series for everything he does.
Seven Force
Banned
Xigbar/Braig is more or less the Revolver Ocelot of the KH series and I love him for it.
Napalm_Frank
Member
I know the dude voicing Xigbar really should do more VA work. He hasn't done much apart from KH and minor roles AFAIK and he ain't bad at all.
RPGCrazied
Member
Never heard of him before. Wonder what else he has done.
RPGCrazied
Member
I don't envy you guys doing Critical first time through. I'm doing Proud for all trophies, then later I will do Critical(or try) for my last trophy. Will skip cutscenes to make it faster.
Yeah the continue system can fuck you at times.
MaverickHunterAsh
Member
Anyone have general advice for a big KH fan (played and 100%'d them all pretty much) who's about to tackle the Final Mix content in both games for the first time? I know what to expect in the vanilla games, of course, but is there any pre-planning I should do or anything level-wise to be able to tackle the Final Mix content more easily? I'll probably be playing on Proud (that's what I usually go with and what I played on in 1.5 as well).