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Kingdom Hearts Community Thread: Now everybody can be a Keyblade Wielder!
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It should end with a fistfight between Braig-fully-converted-into-Xehanort and Sora, going through stages reminiscent of the final areas of previous games while Braig slowly recovers his true self. In the final phase, he and Sora wearily trade punches as a somber acoustic version of "It's A Small World" plays, and on his deathbed Braig finally dies as himself, his last words an obnoxious catchphrase taken at random from his earlier dialogue.
Then, in Kingdom Hearts IV, he'll replace Jiminy Cricket.
Seven Force
Banned
Oh my God, he is.
I'd assume it's in the same bubble of reality as the actual planet the Lilo and Stitch movie is on (Hi another Earth), and that the aliens can't actually cross into other worlds flying through space. You just visit a small section of that contained world, just like all the other Disney worlds. Abstracted for gameplay purposes.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
nomura is such an aqua stan :")
Napalm_Frank
Member
Dragon Quest Heroes has better KH character models than KH3. Minus ugly Toriyama designs ;3
Seven Force
Banned
Played a bit of KH3D's final boss rush and holy shit I don't know how this slipped my mind but this game runs like ass. Like, I recall there being a lot of frame drops and such when there's a ton of effects on screen (Which is literally 90% of the time at this point), but I completely forgot that it gets so bad that there's input lag in some cases. The Young Xehanort boss fight is probably the worst offender that I experienced tonight. (And I can recall a notably horrific one at the game's halfway point with Sora as well.)
Man, I hope 2.8 fixes that, because there's some neat boss encounters that completely get fucked over by the frame rate tanking.
Man, I hope 2.8 fixes that, because there's some neat boss encounters that completely get fucked over by the frame rate tanking.
Napalm_Frank
Member
60FPS shouldn't be too much to ask from a PS4 exclusive port of a 3DS game.
RIGHT?
RIGHT?
R10Neymarfan
Member
I wonder if the game would be PSVR compatible? I mean they already coded the 3D so mine as well put it towards something then just plain ditch the 3D because it looks like it won't even be an option for the people that have it.
Seven Force
Banned
I wouldn't bet on it.
To be honest, I'd be fine with 30 as long as it's actually stable.
Right. But only in the menu and certain mini-games.
What's that? You want 60fps locked in gameplay!? LOL!
Next you'll be wanting to remove black borders during cutscene. Crazy gaijin.
Napalm_Frank
Member
oreomunsta
Banned
You can even transport your Dream Eaters over to a friend's house to challenge them to a Dream Eater faceoff using special plushies.
I think the plushies are called Adriimos
Blood Diamonds
Banned
how about kh unchained vr? or just kh unchained?
most of the dream eaters looked lame, i hope they don't come back
Napalm_Frank
Member
I probably gush about KH1 too much but it still has the best monster designs IMO. I did like the nobodies in 2 doe.
Unversed are kind of boring version of heartless I give you that. I do like a few of the designs, Flood and all the Princess world bosses from the top of my head.
Dream Eaters I dislike the most ''for some reason'' but I gotta admit outside of some lil too over the top colors they have ok designs for what they are.
edit: btw correct me if I have shit memory but are we really like 7+ games deep in an RPG series and still have no real spider enemies? How is that possible? I guess we have the Barrel Spiders but they have 4 legs so they don't count! KH3 needs some cute spider heartless :3
Unversed are kind of boring version of heartless I give you that. I do like a few of the designs, Flood and all the Princess world bosses from the top of my head.
Dream Eaters I dislike the most ''for some reason'' but I gotta admit outside of some lil too over the top colors they have ok designs for what they are.
edit: btw correct me if I have shit memory but are we really like 7+ games deep in an RPG series and still have no real spider enemies? How is that possible? I guess we have the Barrel Spiders but they have 4 legs so they don't count! KH3 needs some cute spider heartless :3
Honestly, this is the only interesting Unversed:
And conceptually it's really...silly. Aside from the boss heartless, it was kind of underwhelming to see the lack of world influenced enemies roaming road -- granted it makes sense since they're supposed to be spawning from Van.
And conceptually it's really...silly. Aside from the boss heartless, it was kind of underwhelming to see the lack of world influenced enemies roaming road -- granted it makes sense since they're supposed to be spawning from Van.
Nah, I'm with you. I'm generally pretty okay with the other KH games, but the original is on a whole new level. It's seriously one of the best games I've ever played.
Apart from being a cool concept for monsters, the Heartless have awesome designs that gradually go from cute shadow things to really cool monsters like the Wyverns and the Invisibles.
Nobodies were pretty cool, and the way they were animated was genuinely pretty awesome, but they took away from the threat of the Heartless, the Unversed were all just Not!Heartless, and the Dream Eaters were all too wacky and cutesy looking.
Napalm_Frank
Member
I'll wait for the PS4 ultimate collection with Spellican plushie.
I'm glad that they actually got James Woods to voice act for it. Wouldn't be nearly as entertaining otherwise.
Napalm_Frank
Member
I shed a tear when James Woods sounded so old in the Re:Coded scenes 
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I hope he returns for KH3. One last time. He was by far the best Disney villain in KH2.
.I hope he returns for KH3. One last time. He was by far the best Disney villain in KH2.
Yup.
More than any of them I love KH1's Coliseum since it felt like the purest essence of the FF/Disney crossover. You had fights against all the FF characters in the game and several characters from Hercules, plus it was cool to have a purely combat oriented world. None of the iterations from the following games have been as good, even though KH2 had the awesomeness of Auron as a party member.
EDIT: The last battle of Terra's campaign when
Xehanort walks away after stealing Terra's body and starts gloating, only for the armor to get back up, and Rage Awakened kicks in
People rip a lot on the original elements of the series overpowering the Disney stuff (and they're right), but a lot of them are really cool, though I'd say only the KH1 original worlds only ever really meshed well with the Disney style, while stuff like The World That Never Was and the Keyblade Graveyard are cool and interesting, but feel really out of place.
Seven Force
Banned
I was just thinking about this moment the other day, and it really is a Top 5 (Hell, maybe even Top 3) moment for the series. The way Rage Awakened kicks in, the way that it mirrors the KHIIFM cutscene, the fact that you're technically playing as one of the most infamous bonus bosses in the series, etc. It's enough to make people forget how obvious the plot twist beforehand was.
SoraanTribal
Member
Ugh, I feel like there's something wrong with my Reflect and/or game. I'm having problems with some of the Absent Silhouettes... in particular Lexaeus. I know he's one of the easier ones, but I'm having issues Reflecting his 3 combo stone attack. I can never get the second one up fast enough even with spamming Reflect. I watched some videos, and other people's Reflect can be basically spammed really quickly back to back, but mine won't let me and it's very frustrating. The upgrades to reflect just make the radius wider, I think. I still only have the base one, though. Any idea what's wrong?
oreomunsta
Banned
It's ok... Kingdom Hearts fans are used to forgetting parts of the games' plots :]
This doesn't really answer your question but if reflecting isn't working for you, you could always dodge roll out of the first two stones then dash the third.
SoraanTribal
Member
Yeah that's what I've been doing for the first phase until he gets to 30k power, then it's harder for me to dodge those for some reason. I know I just need to "git good", but it's still annoying why the Reflect isn't working like what I saw in some videos. Wonder if it's just a timing thing and I'm just spamming my button for reflect so it isn't working right.
Thanks though.
Yeah i'm really looking forward to doing that Xemnas fight again with no (well we can only hope) framedrops. It was more tame than the KH2 one, but I absolutely loved it.
Funny you mention that. You'll never guess where they're bought up again.
Chi/Unchained
icwutudidthar
Oh that's awesome. One day i'll get to doing a level 1 run on BBS. Yeah I was in my 40's with Aqua with MF on Critical and it was so time consuming and tricky in 2.5, even at that level. I did it after a couple of attempts, but I think that was because used to the pre-nerfed MF. I ended up cartwheeling with Aqua so much I leveled up in the middle of the battle lol.
This and the second they did a throwback to the SoD KH1 darkness line was when I lost it. The whole moment was just amazingly perfect.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
oh... haha... i guess i would know that IF THEY BROUGHT THE FUCKING GAME OVER
I HATE SQUARE ENIX
SoraanTribal
Member
Yay, I beat the Absent Silhouette of Lexaeus and Larxene. For some reason, my Reflect problem wasn't happening today when I tried it, oh well. I did change keyblades, but I don't know if that could have affected it somehow. :S Lexaeus was pretty easy and fun. Larxene was a bit more challenging and took quite a few attempts to learn the pattern. I wish this game had been on PS4 because I had a really amazing kill on her and I would have liked to upload it.
For some reason, my Reflect problem wasn't happening today when I tried it, oh well. I did change keyblades, but I don't know if that could have affected it somehow. :S Lexaeus was pretty easy and fun. Larxene was a bit more challenging and took quite a few attempts to learn the pattern. I wish this game had been on PS4 because I had a really amazing kill on her and I would have liked to upload it. Yay, I beat the Absent Silhouette of Lexaeus and Larxene.
Nope... instead we have the least flashiest kingdom hearts games on PS4 to stream/record.
SoraanTribal
Member
Yay...
Although to be fair, DDD is fairly flashy (flowmotion! lol), but there's really not many fights that would be entertaining for me to watch or upload. I didn't care for the extra boss in that game personally.
On the subject of extra bosses, I hope KH3 has a ton of them like KH2FM. Kind of doubtful, but it'd be cool.I'm not sure if the games' licensing agreements would prevent it, (considering the series' relationship with digital distribution) but I could see bonus bosses being a fairly believable route for DLC to take.
Yay...
Although to be fair, DDD is fairly flashy (flowmotion! lol), but there's really not many fights that would be entertaining for me to watch or upload. I didn't care for the extra boss in that game personally.
Everything in Dream Drop Distance is significantly less flashy than the other games, from what I have observed. Faith or, as card enthusiast like to call it, holy is a good example of how non-flashy Dream Drop Distance interprets abilities.
I guess it's to go with the fast-paced feel of Dream Drop Distance.
Flowmotion is a neat concept on paper, but it really needs to be toned down and/or give less invincibility frames, etc. so you aren't encouraged to spam ONLY that and nothing else.
edit: Actually what am I saying this is a franchise where you spam dodge roll ad infinitum
edit: Actually what am I saying this is a franchise where you spam dodge roll ad infinitum
SoraanTribal
Member
I enjoyed Flowmotion despite it being too easy to spam. It was just fun to use and that's why I liked it, lol. I'm not one of those people who hated Dream Drop Distance - I liked a lot about the game, but my biggest annoyance was just the dream eater bullshit. I didn't like collecting them or how the abilities were tied to them. I'd rather just have Donald/Goofy or no one at all (like BBS being solo was fine). I'm replaying Kingdom Hearts II FM right now and I had forgotten how small the worlds feel and empty they are. I know the worlds in DDD were still fairly empty, but I had much more fun exploring them than I am in KH2. It's a shame more of KH2 (and the series in general) wasn't like the Cavern of Remembrance. Oh, despite my enjoyment of flowmotion, it did break all the traversal progression, though. Getting high jump was pointless in that game.
Same. Including the Dream Eaters as party members was a bad idea, and they should have just followed the BBS model of a solo character with occasional guest characters, if not world specific party members. It was especially frustrating trying to acquire new skills after how simple and fluid BBS' command melding was.
SoraanTribal
Member
Yep yep, same here. If Donald/Goofy couldn't have been in the game as party members, they should have just done solo characters with occasional guests. Everything about the dream eaters was frustrating to me. That's the main reason why I have never replayed DDD which is a shame because I enjoyed a lot about the game.
I do plan on replaying it on the PS4, though. BBS' command melding was amazing and so f'n addicting. I absolutely loved it.Most of them were overdesigned messes of color.
They made acquiring new abilities a huge chore.
They replaced Disney characters as your permanent party members.
The last one is the biggest sticking point for me, anyway. I would rather team up with Quasimodo, Quorra, Neku, and Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey than a penguin made of clouds.
Your second point is more of an issue with the developers choosing to make ability growth/learning that way. And your as far as your last point goes... I agree, but I think it was more of a compromise since we haven't had party members in any of the non-numbered games outside of a few instances in BBS and Days. This was the first time we had party members we could stick with throughout the entire (spin-off/side) game.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Only a few weeks until the KH event! I hope in the surely happening interviews Nomura will be hit with hard questions such as:
1) How is the development going?
2) How awesome is UE4 (not compared to Luminous obvs!)?
3) How do you decide the worlds you choose to implement?
4) Frozen world was just announced. What are the reasons for you choosing this particular world based on the biggest Disney moneymaker in years?
5) Who in the world could these two characters playing chess be?
1) How is the development going?
2) How awesome is UE4 (not compared to Luminous obvs!)?
3) How do you decide the worlds you choose to implement?
4) Frozen world was just announced. What are the reasons for you choosing this particular world based on the biggest Disney moneymaker in years?
5) Who in the world could these two characters playing chess be?
Andrefpvs
Member
1.5 + 2.5 will still come to PS4 if you believe!
Can't forget the One Question No One Ever Asked:
6) Does Disney ever tell you what you can or can't do?