Ice Cream Beat is an acceptable apology for the Little Mermaid rhythm games in KH2
I always hear people talk about how bad and hard it is, to the point of calling it a significant obstacle to clearing Ventus's story. But I always found it to be pretty nice. Sure, mastering the hard mode maps for prizes gets tough, but not so much the song needed for the story mode.
Ice Cream Beat is an acceptable apology for the Little Mermaid rhythm games in KH2
I always hear people talk about how bad and hard it is, to the point of calling it a significant obstacle to clearing Ventus's story. But I always found it to be pretty nice. Sure, mastering the hard mode maps for prizes gets tough, but not so much the song needed for the story mode.
Oh you have to do it as Ventus?
I did it as Terra and already got the Trophy for getting a fantastic rating on every song so I should be good!
I just did the race, it was abysmal but only took two tries
The other two are just bad, Fruitball feels like RNG.
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Never did finish BBS. Combat was fun, if not a bit grindy if you wanted the good stuff, but you could very much tell you were playing a handheld game with how the worlds were set up.
Never did finish BBS. Combat was fun, if not a bit grindy if you wanted the good stuff, but you could very much tell you were playing a handheld game with how the worlds were set up.
I love KH2, but I'm much preferring this setup of "okay doing each world with each character for a total of three small trips" compared to KH2's "you're gonna have two lengthy trips to each world (and the second time there you'll lock the keyhole)"
One thing I like about the 3-character setup in BBS is that each character visits different areas within the world. There's some overlap, but no two characters have the exact same map to explore.
Ventus seems way weaker than Terra and it's making it kinda difficult even on Easy
Yeah, Terra is the big, tough bruiser character. Ventus is a lot more mobile, but as the weakest of the three you're definitely gonna feel the power decrease early on.
I know for me the first boss for him was infuriatingly difficult.
I failed a couple times on the "countless Unversed" thing in Never Land before I realized, oh yeah, there was some Panzer Dragoon type thing from the tutorial that I never used
Guess I have to do the other scenarios to make any real sense out of what happened there
Xehanort takes over Terra's body, but my mind was able to resist and beat him somehow? And then there was a big engulfing ball of light and the clouds that showed Kingdom Hearts (? The heart moon right?) closed and that's it? Uh, alright
The characters in BBS start to particularly shine when you can get some of their unique commands or use their second-tier command styles. For Ven, that's stuff like Wind Raid, Ars Arcanum, Faith, Salvation, Tornado, and Tornado Strike. And if you can pack your deck with the right commands, the Wingblade command style can put out some nice damage.
I think you can get Tornado Strike for free at Maleficent's Castle after you get Glide. And you can get Superglide at Disney Town by using Glide. But I prefer to meld Glide with Firaga for Fire Glide.
Oh, and a useful tip for all 3 characters. Buy a second copy of Block (or Barrier, for Aqua), and you can combine a mastered copy of Block with a mastered Curaga to make a guard command that heals you when you block hits. Very strong tool for the harder boss fights.
He's considered to be much better in proud and critical mode when enemies are much more dangerous. On easier difficulties when you don't really care if you get hit, that extra agility is basically meaningless
I'm nearing the end of Ventus' story and there's one thing I kinda didn't realize about this game that I find interesting
I had heard this was a prequel to the series that sets everything up and also was somehow related to the "Keyblade War"
and once I got past how silly that phrase sounds I just sorta assumed it was set during that war, and it laid the ground for everything dealt with in the main games
Now I see that that was actually way long ago and this game is only a few years earlier, which now sorta reframes the entire series as this post-utopian thing where everyone is just fighting for scraps
There used to be a thousand keyblade folks, now we're lucky to get like, five
There was this whole grand order with official training, now there's one guy in a tower in the middle of nowhere
Yeah, the worldbuilding is maybe the thing I love most about BBS (narrowly edging out Aqua's personality and Nimoy hamming it up as Xehanort)
It's the very Jedi-esque thing where there used to be tons of these intergalactic guardians, and now they barely exist and are clinging on to survival
Also, I think the mobile game (Kingdom Hearts Unchained X) takes place soon before the Keyblade War erupts, back when there were so many Keyblade users that they had, like, five different orders they grouped themselves into, Harry Potter-style.
I'm nearing the end of Ventus' story and there's one thing I kinda didn't realize about this game that I find interesting
I had heard this was a prequel to the series that sets everything up and also was somehow related to the "Keyblade War"
and once I got past how silly that phrase sounds I just sorta assumed it was set during that war, and it laid the ground for everything dealt with in the main games
Now I see that that was actually way long ago and this game is only a few years earlier, which now sorta reframes the entire series as this post-utopian thing where everyone is just fighting for scraps
There used to be a thousand keyblade folks, now we're lucky to get like, five
There was this whole grand order with official training, now there's one guy in a tower in the middle of nowhere
Yeah, it's very "Star Wars original trilogy jedi" in that there used to be a time when they were everywhere, and now they've pretty much passed into myth.
all this talk is literally the first time i ever considered playing birth by sleep
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What if the Force and Keyblade use is explicitly connected as merely a different type of expression of the same power source filtered through the laws of each reality
And as soon as Sora steps into Star Wars world he's a really powerful Jedi
What if the Force and Keyblade use is explicitly connected as merely a different type of expression of the same power source filtered through the laws of each reality
And as soon as Sora steps into Star Wars world he's a really powerful Jedi
So keyblade use isn't tied to purity of heart, but rather some kind of biological midikeylian count?
all this talk is literally the first time i ever considered playing birth by sleep
I refuse to believe we live in the world where you have not experienced Leonard Nimoy hamming it the hell up as a JRPG Palpatine who is the most obviously evil man alive and nobody realizes it until near the end of the game
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I knew I saw Scrooge McDuck in Radiant Garden before
Like, my Cure is level 3. Should be good for melding, right?
But it's greyed out and won't let me select it on the meld menu. Someone said that was the way to get Cura/Curaga though, right?
Get yourself some sea salt ice cream
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You need another command to meld it with. For example, one of the recipes for Cura is two Cure commands.
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I always hear people talk about how bad and hard it is, to the point of calling it a significant obstacle to clearing Ventus's story. But I always found it to be pretty nice. Sure, mastering the hard mode maps for prizes gets tough, but not so much the song needed for the story mode.
Oh you have to do it as Ventus?
I did it as Terra and already got the Trophy for getting a fantastic rating on every song so I should be good!
I just did the race, it was abysmal but only took two tries
Fruitball is also really bad
Steam Switch FC: 2799-7909-4852
I love KH2, but I'm much preferring this setup of "okay doing each world with each character for a total of three small trips" compared to KH2's "you're gonna have two lengthy trips to each world (and the second time there you'll lock the keyhole)"
It's really snappy pacing
Yeah, Terra is the big, tough bruiser character. Ventus is a lot more mobile, but as the weakest of the three you're definitely gonna feel the power decrease early on.
I know for me the first boss for him was infuriatingly difficult.
I haven't run into him yet but I'll be very happy when I do
I was just going "huh this Braig guy seems very familiar but I bet I saw him from some teaser trailer"
"huh, these two guards at this castle are...oh wait I see what's up"
That was uh
That was something?
Guess I have to do the other scenarios to make any real sense out of what happened there
I'm a few worlds away from finishing Ventus' story and he still feels really weak
I loved Peter Pan when I was a kid, and kinda dislike him as an adult.
Which I guess makes some sense.
no I'm pretty sure he's just shit, was my impression when I played the game like a month ago
I think you can get Tornado Strike for free at Maleficent's Castle after you get Glide. And you can get Superglide at Disney Town by using Glide. But I prefer to meld Glide with Firaga for Fire Glide.
Oh, and a useful tip for all 3 characters. Buy a second copy of Block (or Barrier, for Aqua), and you can combine a mastered copy of Block with a mastered Curaga to make a guard command that heals you when you block hits. Very strong tool for the harder boss fights.
He does like no damage but running over people with Mini does huge damage
I had heard this was a prequel to the series that sets everything up and also was somehow related to the "Keyblade War"
and once I got past how silly that phrase sounds I just sorta assumed it was set during that war, and it laid the ground for everything dealt with in the main games
Now I see that that was actually way long ago and this game is only a few years earlier, which now sorta reframes the entire series as this post-utopian thing where everyone is just fighting for scraps
There used to be a thousand keyblade folks, now we're lucky to get like, five
There was this whole grand order with official training, now there's one guy in a tower in the middle of nowhere
It's the very Jedi-esque thing where there used to be tons of these intergalactic guardians, and now they barely exist and are clinging on to survival
Also, I think the mobile game (Kingdom Hearts Unchained X) takes place soon before the Keyblade War erupts, back when there were so many Keyblade users that they had, like, five different orders they grouped themselves into, Harry Potter-style.
Yeah, it's very "Star Wars original trilogy jedi" in that there used to be a time when they were everywhere, and now they've pretty much passed into myth.
This even does the Palpatine thing of Obvious Evil Man Manipulates Stupid Boy Into Doing Everything For Him
Yes for real
And I loved it
I half-expected Xehanort to just be like "take your Keyblade weapon. I am unarmed."
Also Xehanort sounds great, I didn't know it was Leonard Nimoy until someone in here mentioned it
What if the Force and Keyblade use is explicitly connected as merely a different type of expression of the same power source filtered through the laws of each reality
And as soon as Sora steps into Star Wars world he's a really powerful Jedi
So keyblade use isn't tied to purity of heart, but rather some kind of biological midikeylian count?
Nah.
I refuse to believe we live in the world where you have not experienced Leonard Nimoy hamming it the hell up as a JRPG Palpatine who is the most obviously evil man alive and nobody realizes it until near the end of the game
People look at that guy and confide in him
Guess I'm watching the epilogue on YouTube now