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Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

Gologle posted:

In KH2 you had:

Twilight Town
The World that Never Was
(Destiny Islands exclusive to cutscenes)
Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden
Space Paranoid (Tron)
Land of Dragons (Mulan)
Olympus Colosseum (Hercules)
Beast's Castle (Beauty and the Beast)
Port Royal (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Atlantica (Little Mermaid)
Halloween Town/Christmas Town (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
The Storybook of Winnie the Pooh
The Pride Lands (Lion King)
Agrabah (Aladdin)
Disney Castle
(I don't know if this counts as a separate world from Disney Castle, but just in case: Steamboat Willie/Timeless River)

So there were actually a lot of worlds in KH2, so I'm not too worried about there being less in KH3. Unless an actual number gets revealed and it turns out to be like, eight, but until then I'm not worried. Right now I'm guessing the number of worlds will be 13, because come on now.

He's also always very specifically said fewer "Disney" worlds so Im expecting maybe going to Leon/Aerith's home, a straight up Final Fantasy world, as well as Twilight/Traverse town, TWtNW, and Castle Oblivion

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Ventana
Mar 28, 2010

*Yosh intensifies*

Cuchulain posted:

I think Ven uses like, six at one point.

If you meant wingblade, eh those are energy swords, not the same. If we're counting those, Sora and Riku had like 13 of them in the Eternal Session limit. Dividing that by half would still be 6.5 blades per guy :v:

I guess the real answer is Vanitas, who just rides on a tornado of keyblades in BBS.

DanielCross
Aug 16, 2013

Bust Rodd posted:

He's also always very specifically said fewer "Disney" worlds so Im expecting maybe going to Leon/Aerith's home, a straight up Final Fantasy world, as well as Twilight/Traverse town, TWtNW, and Castle Oblivion

We've already been to the Final Fantasy world. Aside from Zack and Auron, the FF characters are specifically stated to be from Radiant Garden.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Oh my god how does Terra remember to breathe he's so loving dumb

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine

Sakurazuka posted:

Oh my god how does Terra remember to breathe he's so loving dumb

A modified Spongebob quote fits perfectly here;

"When you wake up, you will remember nothing but Keyblade Fighting, Keyblade Fighting and Breathing"

morallyobjected
Nov 3, 2012

Sakurazuka posted:

Oh my god how does Terra remember to breathe he's so loving dumb

Terra and his idiocy are basically the reason for everything bad that happens

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Sora gets to quad-wield with the right reaction against roxas.

Manatee Cannon
Aug 26, 2010



terra is by far the dumbest character in all of kingdom hearts and that says a lot

I was constantly blown away by how stupid that idiot was when I first played

Color Printer
May 9, 2011

You get used to it. I don't
even see the code. All I see
is Ipecac, Scapular, Polyphemus...


eraqus is an extremely close second

"xehanort just told me he wants to start a keyblade war just to see what would happen. and then he attacked me. that poo poo's loving crazy. I better.....................do nothing"

later:

"the unversed are on the loose and I can't contact master xehanort. there's probably no connection though. I better send aqua and terra off and then...........do nothing"

Like, he does things later, sort of, but there are critical moments where he should probably do things but (presumably) does nothing.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

drrockso20 posted:

A modified Spongebob quote fits perfectly here;

"When you wake up, you will remember nothing but Keyblade Fighting, Keyblade Fighting and Breathing"
tbh the spongebob quote that most describes terra is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2bWmC0fBTA

Terper
Jun 26, 2012


That would make this Aqua, then

melodicwaffle
Oct 9, 2012

Call or fold?

I mean, is it wrong

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Dang that final fight with Xehanort/Terra was like five times as hard as anything else in the game.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

The Gologle Posting Experience.

<3
You didn't fight the Mysterious Figure, did you? Or Vanitas Remnant? Or Armor of the Master? Or No Heart? Or that loving fourth Iron Prisoner?

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

*Apart from probably the optional stuff I didn't touch

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
Yeah I would argue that Eraqus training Terra for years, seeing that he is dumber than a chair, and still entrusting him with the earth shattering power of a key blade is probably the alpha mistake of Kingdom Hearts.

Ventana
Mar 28, 2010

*Yosh intensifies*
Pretty much none of the bosses in BBS should be a challenge aside from that one, the Final Chapter ones because you fight him again, and the extra stuff. Tbh, that's pretty much all the KH games in a nutshell, where they aren't really supposed to be that difficult till the end if you use the mechanics sorta right.

Btw if you want to do the extra BBS bosses, you'll pretty much need to level up or use EXP zero (which scales up your damage), otherwise you will do minimum damage to them for a while.

toanoradian
May 31, 2011


The happiest waffligator
Yeah, I believe there was a criticism of the games that even in KH2, arguably the best of the lot, there's not much incentive to improve your skills, so to speak. Majority of the bosses you can handle with just attack and healing at far distances. If still too hard, you can grind and power through. The really hard bosses, the ones that require you to shift your playing style are optional.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Ventana posted:

Tbh, that's pretty much all the KH games in a nutshell, where they aren't really supposed to be that difficult till the end if you use the mechanics sorta right.

Play KH2 on Level 1 Critical and learn to give Pete the respect he deserves

Ventana
Mar 28, 2010

*Yosh intensifies*

toanoradian posted:

Yeah, I believe there was a criticism of the games that even in KH2, arguably the best of the lot, there's not much incentive to improve your skills, so to speak. Majority of the bosses you can handle with just attack and healing at far distances. If still too hard, you can grind and power through. The really hard bosses, the ones that require you to shift your playing style are optional.

Fwiw I don't think it's a bad thing at all that KH games are like that. I don't mind having to dig into a game to find challenge if the base systems are fun. As long as there is sufficient challenge to go around (which KH2 does have, with CoR, Data Org, Hades Paradox cup, Terra, everything on level 1).

Fojar38 posted:

Play KH2 on Level 1 Critical and learn to give Pete the respect he deserves

I mean, Pete isn't what's hard on level 1 in his OC fight, it's the other enemies. Especially the ghosts.

Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

Pete's invincible tho.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Ventana posted:

I mean, Pete isn't what's hard on level 1 in his OC fight, it's the other enemies. Especially the ghosts.

Yeah, but he summons them. And while you're fighting his adds you need to be constantly watching out for firecrackers and bowling balls that will kill you instantly.

That's why I like playing KH2 on critical mode at the easiest. Every fight becomes one that you need to execute perfectly because as it turns out all that was making them easy was that getting hit normally doesn't do much damage.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Did anyone actually use the D-link stuff much in BBS? I only ever touched it if I needed a free heal and that dropped off once I had Curaga. Didn't help that during the toughest battles in the game it wasn't available.
I'm just wondering if I missed out on some useful abilities.

SuccinctAndPunchy
Mar 29, 2013

People are supposed to get hurt by things. It's fucked up to not. It's not good for you.

Sakurazuka posted:

Did anyone actually use the D-link stuff much in BBS? I only ever touched it if I needed a free heal and that dropped off once I had Curaga. Didn't help that during the toughest battles in the game it wasn't available.
I'm just wondering if I missed out on some useful abilities.

It's fairly useful early on in the game to gain access to abilities you don't otherwise have but once the game opens up a bit at like the half way mark and you start to get a bit cozier with Command Melding, using D-Links becomes not that important for most people.

the D-link passives though can be pretty great in of themselves, Mickey's Level 2 is just double XP all the time iirc and that's pretty good if you're a grinding sort.

HGH
Dec 20, 2011

toanoradian posted:

Yeah, I believe there was a criticism of the games that even in KH2, arguably the best of the lot, there's not much incentive to improve your skills, so to speak. Majority of the bosses you can handle with just attack and healing at far distances. If still too hard, you can grind and power through. The really hard bosses, the ones that require you to shift your playing style are optional.
II agree but disagree on the optional bit. It's why people remember Demyx and Xaldin as being these monsters. They just ran face first into walls of water/wind mashing X and Triangle and were surprised when it didn't work. At least in the first year or two after release.
Nowadays "Use magic and block more you moron" is something that's kinda expected.

toanoradian
May 31, 2011


The happiest waffligator
Yeah, I bought KH2 straight off when it was still in Japanese, and I played several worlds without knowing what abilities are, so I don't equip them at all. I get as far as...Demyx on Radiant Garden, I believe.

Ventana
Mar 28, 2010

*Yosh intensifies*

Sakurazuka posted:

Did anyone actually use the D-link stuff much in BBS? I only ever touched it if I needed a free heal and that dropped off once I had Curaga. Didn't help that during the toughest battles in the game it wasn't available.
I'm just wondering if I missed out on some useful abilities.

Everything S&P said, though I wanted to add a little detail cause I always liked using D-Links myself.

Every D-Link has either some sort of good passive ability, or some really solid commands to use, except for like Pete's link. Ventus's gives the Haste ability, which is obviously very nice especially for Terra's slow normal attacks. Aqua's has early access to the Mid-level Spells including Magnera and Thundara, useful for pretty much everything early on. Terra/Mickey/Zack give you Auto-Block/Teleport and Attack Deflector abilities, all of which are kinda nice to randomly avoid damage. Snow White/Cinderella have weird names for their commands, but they end up being surprisingly good. Donald/Stitch straight up give you powerful Fire/Thunder commands and are pretty solid on their own.

They each also have really solid finishers. Some are more useful than others but they usually are either as good or better than your normal finishers. Most of them take super long to finish, but they have some cool uses.

They ultimately still fall out of usefulness near the end though. The harder things get, the more you'd be able to do if you could edit your commands, and once you get halfway into the game you can easily make almost anything you want. You can get by with using some of the better D-Link's till the end of the story, or maybe using EXP 0/finisher invincibility in certain situations, but they generally won't help much in extra stuff I think.

When I go through BBS casually, I usually try: D-Link as much as possible up until Radiant Garden, grind for whatever commands/abilities in RG, then sometimes use Donald/Stitch/Peter Pan D-link from there.

Shangri-Law School
Feb 19, 2013

Pete's D-Link is pretty funny.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Any tips for beating Terra in the final chapter of BBS? Aqua is lvl 34 but he utterly destroys me and I hardly do any damage to him.

Amppelix
Aug 6, 2010

Sakurazuka posted:

Any tips for beating Terra in the final chapter of BBS? Aqua is lvl 34 but he utterly destroys me and I hardly do any damage to him.

Well, honestly, mash dodge more. If you use the regular cartwheel at max level, aqua is invincible for the full duration of the move. Then just look for safe opportunities and blast him with like, triple blizzaga or something. Or the surges.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Cheers that did the trick, I was trying to block and counter everything.

Kin
Nov 4, 2003

Sometimes, in a city this dirty, you need a real hero.
Is there an easier way to level up past about level 50 in BBS. It just turns into a massive slog right about there, even with things like mickey's d-link.

Ventana
Mar 28, 2010

*Yosh intensifies*

Kin posted:

Is there an easier way to level up past about level 50 in BBS. It just turns into a massive slog right about there, even with things like mickey's d-link.

Short answer, I think no. Or at least, nothing that makes it really simple and fast; it's always gonna be a slog.

For every character, get EXP chance ability from command melding, and get the Victory pose command from the Mirage Arena medal shop. EXP chance gives 2x exp when in critical health, and victory pose is a command that gives you triple the exp from the last enemy you killed.

For Terra and Ven, I think one of the best places is in Radiant Garden, in the room where you fought the Trinity Armor boss. Use Mega Flares and Victory poses/EXP chance to kill everything fast and get exp. Or at least that's the most common way I've seen people say they grinded.

For Aqua, it's tougher, because the battle levels for her worlds don't change in her story. I think the most convenient method is to go to Deep Space, go to the Machinery Bay room, and kill things until you get to the Big Jellyfish unversed. Kill that unversed with Fire/Fira so that it splits up, and do that until you get to the tiny ones. Once you kill a tiny one and get it's exp, use Victory pose to get a lot more. Do this for each of the 8 tiny jellyfish to get a bunch. If you prepare a deck to do this all right, it doesn't take too long to get a bunch compared to other areas.

You can also try Neverland for Aqua, using the EXP chance and Victory Pose stuff, though I couldn't get a safe/fast/efficient route since fights are more awkward there, especially with the cannons firing about.

morallyobjected
Nov 3, 2012

Ventana posted:

Short answer, I think no. Or at least, nothing that makes it really simple and fast; it's always gonna be a slog.

For every character, get EXP chance ability from command melding, and get the Victory pose command from the Mirage Arena medal shop. EXP chance gives 2x exp when in critical health, and victory pose is a command that gives you triple the exp from the last enemy you killed.

For Terra and Ven, I think one of the best places is in Radiant Garden, in the room where you fought the Trinity Armor boss. Use Mega Flares and Victory poses/EXP chance to kill everything fast and get exp. Or at least that's the most common way I've seen people say they grinded.

For Aqua, it's tougher, because the battle levels for her worlds don't change in her story. I think the most convenient method is to go to Deep Space, go to the Machinery Bay room, and kill things until you get to the Big Jellyfish unversed. Kill that unversed with Fire/Fira so that it splits up, and do that until you get to the tiny ones. Once you kill a tiny one and get it's exp, use Victory pose to get a lot more. Do this for each of the 8 tiny jellyfish to get a bunch. If you prepare a deck to do this all right, it doesn't take too long to get a bunch compared to other areas.

You can also try Neverland for Aqua, using the EXP chance and Victory Pose stuff, though I couldn't get a safe/fast/efficient route since fights are more awkward there, especially with the cannons firing about.

it's maybe not the most efficient way, but I always did Neverland at the top of whatever that mountain area is called that's just one screen away from one of the save points

Cuchulain
May 15, 2007

My tiny godly CoX shall burn forever!

Kin posted:

Is there an easier way to level up past about level 50 in BBS. It just turns into a massive slog right about there, even with things like mickey's d-link.

XP walker and a rubber band.

Otherwise no.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Do you need to get past lvl 50 for anything?

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


Sakurazuka posted:

Do you need to get past lvl 50 for anything?

not really, around 50 is when you'll be hitting the damage caps everywhere that matters.

Ventana
Mar 28, 2010

*Yosh intensifies*
When I first played BBSFM, I tried doing extra stuff around level 35ish with Ven and Terra, 43 for Aqua, and could not make a dent in their HP bars even with all the Fire/Thunder Boosts and strong commands. I just grinded until level 60, and then tried again and was able to do some decent damage.

For what I'd say now: just use EXP 0. If you're setup right, It will scale up your commands so you can always make a dent. Leveling up helps the fights go faster and live a tiny bit more, but I never really felt like it was that much a difference in strategy between mid-high levels and level 1 (unless you're Terra, because you have to be a lot more careful with him at level 1).

Amppelix
Aug 6, 2010

I did everything with Aqua at barely below 50 and that is absolutely enough levels. KH has a super weird stat formula where you will do minimum damage until you cross the defence threshold and then every point of strength will give massive gains, until you hit the damage cap and get nothing again. And that area in the middle is not very large.

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Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Aqua is cool I wish she was going to be the main character in 3.

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