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Kingdom Hearts - Re: Coded is out! Dream Drop Distance trailer is in!

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  • Sangheili91Sangheili91 Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Honestly,
    Zack
    wasn't too bad. I'm using Terra on Normal, and didn't die once. Do you fight him again where he's tougher, or are people just having a harder time with him on higher difficulties?

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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Did you know your config settings don't transfer over when you start a new character? I was wondering why there was so much slowdown and muted colors during Ven's story mode.

    Also, I wasn't imagining things: Aqua does jiggle during cutscenes.

    It isn't DOA bad, just a bit surprising considering how tight-assed Disney has been with the KH series. Originally they wanted her outfit modified for NA on account of her back being bare (even though like 80% of Disney girls dress the same way).

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  • chevluhchevluh Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Oh, her outfit has been modified, actually, and for all territories, it shows less of her back now compared to the preview versions.

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  • GilderGilder Aw snap Macaroni PartyRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Oh my god, you guys weren't kidding about Terra's last boss. Holy shit, I think after the first lifebar all of my hits came from blocking or countering.

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Okay this final Ven fight is fucking unbelievable horseshit.

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  • GrimthwackerGrimthwacker Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I finished the Castle of Dreams with Ven yesterday, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around the awesomeness that ensued:
    I just beat up the cat from Cinderella with a magical key/sword hybrid that spews fireballs and whirlwinds all for the sake of getting a pearl to finish up her pretty pink dress so she can go to the ball and meet Prince Charming.

    Game. Of. The. Year.
    As limiting as the Command Decks are at the beginning, once they open up and you have more room to merge and mix skills together the combat becomes deeper than any other game in the series, which is great. Right now I have Aqua rolling with a trio of decks based off of FFXIII combat roles (Commando for primarily physical attacks with a debuff spell or two mixed in, Ravager for pure offensive magic and Saboteur for chiefly status-inflicting spells like Slow, Bind and Poison), and it's amazing what you can do with the right tools for a given fight. Great stuff.

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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Gilder wrote: »
    Oh my god, you guys weren't kidding about Terra's last boss. Holy shit, I think after the first lifebar all of my hits came from blocking or countering.

    Blocking and countering was the only way I was able to survive the fight as well. Are these games really marketed for kids? Some of these battles reach DMC levels of hardcore.
    chevluh wrote: »
    Oh, her outfit has been modified, actually, and for all territories, it shows less of her back now compared to the preview versions.

    And yet Ariel gets away with a clam-shell bikini. Disney hypocrisy at its finest.

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    This board game might be more fun if the computer didn't obviously cheat.

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  • PureauthorPureauthor Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Yeah, but the goal in the board game isn't to win (that's a nice extra).

    It's to snag as many sweet Commands and experience points for those commands as possible.

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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Wait, so the board game does give you rewards you can use in the actual game?

    Dammit, I was hoping it was just a separate addition I didn't have to mess with.

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  • PureauthorPureauthor Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I got Ragnarok as a Shotlock the first time I played.

    In case you don't know, Ragnarok owns faces.

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Got around to continuing a bit.

    Seriously, I'm lacking so much in decent commands for Terra. It's all magic and nothing else, and I don't want to farm because if I overlevel the rest of the game would be too easy. Stupid drops. Ah well. Hope I'll finish Terra's story quickly and can move on to Ventus - I don't like playing Terra all that much...

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Drascin wrote: »
    Got around to continuing a bit.

    Seriously, I'm lacking so much in decent commands for Terra. It's all magic and nothing else, and I don't want to farm because if I overlevel the rest of the game would be too easy. Stupid drops. Ah well. Hope I'll finish Terra's story quickly and can move on to Ventus - I don't like playing Terra all that much...

    Thats what the command board is for. You can level up your commands and get new ones. Doesnt even matter if you win too.

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Drascin wrote: »
    Got around to continuing a bit.

    Seriously, I'm lacking so much in decent commands for Terra. It's all magic and nothing else, and I don't want to farm because if I overlevel the rest of the game would be too easy. Stupid drops. Ah well. Hope I'll finish Terra's story quickly and can move on to Ventus - I don't like playing Terra all that much...

    Thats what the command board is for. You can level up your commands and get new ones. Doesnt even matter if you win too.

    I guess... it's just that I'd rather not spend more time pimpin' out Terra than I did Aqua, if only because if there is an epilogue, I fully intend to not play it with Terra. And the command board takes a while. But I think there's no other options, really, if only to not bore myself to death by using the same basic commands forever...

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  • YamiNoSenshiYamiNoSenshi A point called Z In the complex planeRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    You got Mario Party in my Kingdom Hearts!

    Also, the voice acting is... subpar.

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  • SwashbucklerXXSwashbucklerXX Swashbucklin' Canuck Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I like the board game. :-p Also, I am addicted to melding commands. I like this game, because I went from going, "Oh, it's an analog stick, not a mic," with my new PSP to pwning faces with Zero Graviga within a few hours.

    And (early boss fight):
    The magic mirror fight was so suburbly creepy. This is what Disney/Squeenix mashups should be like.

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    So I'm fighting
    Eraqus. Most of his attacks are pathetically easy, but he has one that's really annoying - the straight stab once, and again, and again and again, and again. Because if you miss your dodge there, you're in for at least three stabs (it usually doesn't actually lift you in the air enough for the Air Counter until the third) - which in my case, it's basically game over

    I'll need to play it more careful, I think...

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  • GilderGilder Aw snap Macaroni PartyRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Gilder wrote: »
    Oh my god, you guys weren't kidding about Terra's last boss. Holy shit, I think after the first lifebar all of my hits came from blocking or countering.

    Blocking and countering was the only way I was able to survive the fight as well. Are these games really marketed for kids? Some of these battles reach DMC levels of hardcore.

    They're way too intense for required battles. Like if that was an arena fight I'd understand, those are supposed to be difficult. But this was a required battle on standard. That was probably the hardest story fight since Larxene or whatever her name was in CoM.

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Gilder wrote: »
    Gilder wrote: »
    Oh my god, you guys weren't kidding about Terra's last boss. Holy shit, I think after the first lifebar all of my hits came from blocking or countering.

    Blocking and countering was the only way I was able to survive the fight as well. Are these games really marketed for kids? Some of these battles reach DMC levels of hardcore.

    They're way too intense for required battles. Like if that was an arena fight I'd understand, those are supposed to be difficult. But this was a required battle on standard. That was probably the hardest story fight since Larxene or whatever her name was in CoM.

    The fact that Terra handles like an elephant doesn't help, I figure. Because Aqua's last fight was really, really easy (tip for bosses: Triple Blizzaga is wonderful for a one-slot spell).

    In other news, caved down and went for the command board. I must be the unluckiest son of a bitch ever - I only managed to set down three commands in 15 turns. Friggin' dice :P.

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  • MattakuevanMattakuevan Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Ok, so I finished both Terra and Ven on Proud mode, starting Aqua tonight. But first I have a question regarding Ven's ending:
    Ok, so what the fuck does Vanitas have to do with Sora really? Hurr hurr has the same face, but what is the actual connection? We see Sora does exist in Terra's timeline since hes running around with little riku on destiny island... so what the hell is up with Vanitus?

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  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I think it's mainly for shock value.

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  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Ok, so I finished both Terra and Ven on Proud mode, starting Aqua tonight. But first I have a question regarding Ven's ending:
    Ok, so what the fuck does Vanitas have to do with Sora really? Hurr hurr has the same face, but what is the actual connection? We see Sora does exist in Terra's timeline since hes running around with little riku on destiny island... so what the hell is up with Vanitus?

    Could be...
    Sora's heartless? I mean, his nobody somehow went back in time maybe he did too.

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  • ZierathZierath Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Ok, so I finished both Terra and Ven on Proud mode, starting Aqua tonight. But first I have a question regarding Ven's ending:
    Ok, so what the fuck does Vanitas have to do with Sora really? Hurr hurr has the same face, but what is the actual connection? We see Sora does exist in Terra's timeline since hes running around with little riku on destiny island... so what the hell is up with Vanitus?
    Remember that bit at the very beginning with Ventus, on Destiny Islands?

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  • Sangheili91Sangheili91 Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I just fought
    Peter Pan
    and after I beat him, it said I learned Bladecharge or something. But I can't find that anywhere in any of the menus. There was a similar thing earlier where I learned something but couldn't find it. What's up with that?

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  • ZierathZierath Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I just fought
    Peter Pan
    and after I beat him, it said I learned Bladecharge or something. But I can't find that anywhere in any of the menus. There was a similar thing earlier where I learned something but couldn't find it. What's up with that?
    Stats->Command styles.

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  • GilderGilder Aw snap Macaroni PartyRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Yeah for some reason they don't put it in the menu where you edit commands, even though you can get to both abilities and finishers from there. It's not very convenient.

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  • PureauthorPureauthor Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I kept unlocking new command styles and trying to find them in the Ability/Command menus.

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Yeah I really wish they were more clear on the command styles. Like having in the ingame commands show some sort of indication for what they link to or something like that.

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  • Vincent GraysonVincent Grayson Frederick, MDRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    This board game might be more fun if the computer didn't obviously cheat.

    What do you mean? I've played it probably a dozen times now and only lost once. If anything, the computer is fucking stupid. I've won at least one or two games because the computer bought one of my tiles when I was near the "finish" button and the profit bumped me to the "win" score and I won in the next turn.

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  • TeyarTeyar Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Blarrhghglahghbgl! I keep hearing about how BBS is the most technically thought out and combat-fine tuned KS game ever made and then I KEEP REMEMBERING HOW ITS ON PSP ONLY.

    Why do you hate playerbase so, Kingdom Hearts?

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  • MarioGMarioG Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Zierath wrote: »
    Ok, so I finished both Terra and Ven on Proud mode, starting Aqua tonight. But first I have a question regarding Ven's ending:
    Ok, so what the fuck does Vanitas have to do with Sora really? Hurr hurr has the same face, but what is the actual connection? We see Sora does exist in Terra's timeline since hes running around with little riku on destiny island... so what the hell is up with Vanitus?
    Remember that bit at the very beginning with Ventus, on Destiny Islands?

    I thought it was that
    Ven's heart enters Sora so that he becomes a part him and that includes his dark side Vantitas and would also explain why Sora's nobody looks like Ventus.

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  • GilderGilder Aw snap Macaroni PartyRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    So for the secret ending do you just have to do it on one file, or all of them? Do you have to have at least one clear file for each character that meets the requirements is what I'm asking I guess.

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  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Gilder wrote: »
    So for the secret ending do you just have to do it on one file, or all of them? Do you have to have at least one clear file for each character that meets the requirements is what I'm asking I guess.

    oh look! I found the answer!

    in your post, even!

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  • GilderGilder Aw snap Macaroni PartyRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I figured it would be that, so I guess the system data just looks for 3 files that meet all the requirements. So now I have to debate whether or not I should restart Terra down the line on Proud to lessen the requirements. Hmmmm.

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  • Vincent GraysonVincent Grayson Frederick, MDRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Jesus fuck. Seriously? So on "normal" not only do you have to get everything the game has to offer but you need to do it in all three stories?

    Fuck that.

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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    So what happens if you have one clear Normal, Proud, and Critical save for all three characters?

    Which is what I plan to do.

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  • Sangheili91Sangheili91 Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Holy hell, I want to kill something. I'm on what I'm pretty sure is the last boss with Terra, and I've had my ass handed to me numerous times. ON FUCKING NORMAL. Once I had him down to his last bar of health (it took what seemed like forever to get to that point), and that gave me hope, and I was all NO WAI I'M GONNA WIN and the game was all HAHA NO YOU DON'T BITCH

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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Stack up on Cure spells and potions, stick to blocking and countering.

    Shot Lock when
    he starts tossing boulders at you

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  • The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Yeah, shotlocks are broken as fuck. Especially Prism Ray. I shit you not, I killed
    Vanitas in Neverland

    with two rounds of that stuff. On Critical, no less.

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  • PureauthorPureauthor Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I don't think Terra gets Prism Ray. But he does get Ragnarok, which kills things good.

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