Kingdom Hearts

I remember hating Captain Hook in the original GBA version of Chain of Memories, but I dunno if that's a shared opinion or if I just really sucked at fighting him. 😅

"Don't worry, Lucian, we'll make it through this."

No I had a hard time against him too. The hardest fight for me in that game though was Repliku 4. Youch!

Xaldin's way easier when you know what you're actually doing and figure out his DM can be avoided.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?

Young Xeanhort in DDD is almost on par with his Bonus Boss version outside of doing less damage with his moves.

NicoB thinks Zodiac Aqua is the worst boss in terms of difficulty out of all of them, though, and he defeated the likes of Story Xaldin on his first try, too. He also has PTSD from Vanitas Remnant, and can't get Evil Haley Joel Osment out of his head.

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I think Zodiac Aqua is probably the hardest boss. She's got that horrible, nonstop rushdown attack style that BBS and DDD are so fond of, but they tried to make her moves have actual counters like a boss that's actually well-designed like Lingering Will, so you can't even meet her cheap attacks with cheap attacks of your own.

Zodiac Aqua is the most BS boss since you have to go through a Boss Rush just to fight her, not to mention having way too much health for a fight that has way too few windows to attack. And that stun lock can piss off all the way.

Don't catch you slippin' now.

I'll be honest, when I played Re:Chain on PS 4, I beat Hook on my first try. But that's not to say that the bosses after the 6th floor were a pain. I died multiple times to Ursula, Vexen, final Repliku, Larxene, final Axel, and the first two Marluxia fights. (Yet I never died in his final form) The ones with actual slights and reloads are the hardest to beat.

Edited by DokemonStudios on Aug 20th 2018 at 9:04:08 AM

In my most recent playthrough of RECOM, the only time I was defeated after unlocking Lethal Frame was when I was fighting Marluxia and kept using the Shadow Card to increase all cards by 1... including 0s. Once I figured that out, beating Marluxia was child's play. But then I reverted to my normal deck for the Final Boss fight and died a couple more times, but never enough to make me grind.

Qui odoratus est qui fecit.

While I was able to defeat the other organization members with Lethal Frame, I could not use Lethal Fram in his second form because you can't hit him at all.

Yeah, that's why I had to forgo my Lethal Frame deck for the Final Bosses. Plus, there was that attack where he made you Card Break his stack or it was game over, too.

Qui odoratus est qui fecit.

Whirlwind to the Void? Yah, that attack is annoying as hell.

I always have a hard time whenever I have to fight Riku for the final time in both KH1 and Re:CoM, personally. Took me a week to defeat each. For comparison, I needed two-and-a-half days to beat Terra-Xehanort. Although that was nothing compared to Demyx, which took me six months to beat (I hate him so much that I pretty much Rage Quitted after so long; and I did not made that one up).

Edited by dave_the_assassin on Aug 21st 2018 at 6:43:53 PM

Hope: "Let's go. We'll be together." Lightning: "I only know... that soon, we'll be together."

I never had a problem with Riku,then again I recall being stuck on Hollow Bastion for ages so I may have been the right level to face him

New theme music also a box

Nah, it's not WWTTV, It's just called Doom. It's not so bad if your deck has a ton of 0s in it.

I just kept finding myself low on cards late in the game because once I was out of cures and my Elixirs got broken, I started using sleights to get damage off, and that didn't help things.

Qui odoratus est qui fecit.

Being able to switch decks between Marluxia 2 and 3 would be great.

I'm pretty sure you can stop lock him with Lethal Frame so he can't actually get a Sleight off.

Edited by unnoun on Aug 21st 2018 at 4:09:40 AM

Sounds right, yeah. But maybe that was the point. They knew people would invent sleight decks and wanted to make sure you actually put the things you learned from the game to use for both stages of the final boss.

Though also, considering the first phase was lifted directly from the GBA game, it stands to reason they probably simply didn't want to hit the undo on that or change it up. Still no reason why they couldn't just give us a chance to change decks between, but still.

Qui odoratus est qui fecit.

So one of the things I just realized I hate is the Union Cross/Chi Union Leader theme naming.

Mostly that there isn't one.

Ephemer/a describes something fleeting and intangible. Sorta reflects how we the player meet him and then he vanishes for the rest of the browser plot. But then he's back in Unchained/Union Cross so I guess that's dropped now?

I actually sorta like Skuld's name, as a Norse Valkyrie Goddess of War, who rescues the souls of heroes who die in battle. I actually do think the part where she saves the Player at the Graveyard really works.

Then there's Ventus. For wind. Mmhm.

Then there's the character named Brain. I thought it would be Blaine, which would be a real name and means the color yellow. There's already characters like Dilan and Even and Lea, which are sorta almost like real names.

But instead it's Brain.

Then we have Strelitzia, after the 'Bird of Paradise' flower. Sorta reminds me of the bit in Chain of Memories where there's a doll of memory in a bird cage.

And finally there's Lauriam. I can't even find an etymology or meaning for it, the closest is Laurian which means "from the laurel trees" but. N is not m.

Anyway. None of these names have any kind of theme in common.

Not like Sky, Land and Sea, or Water Earth and Wind, or the seven deadly sins.

Everything about chi and its various confusingly-titled installments has been dead to me for ages, honestly.

Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.

...I mean, I would say the same and was going to if not for Ray Chase in Back Cover in general, and Case of Luxu in particular.

I mean, the music is great for starters, but.

There's just something I honestly love about how batshit ridiculous the concept of seeing the future by ripping your eye out and sticking it in a keyblade is.

Like, at what point did he actually know that would work?

And it works for me especially because it's legitimately creepy and weird.

I love Body Horror, I love multitemporal plotting and Meanwhile, in the Future… and San Dimas Time bullshit.

If I have a complaint, it's that there's too many of the eye, when the scene implies it to be singular. I know they didn't come up with it until after they'd already put the eye in a bunch of places, but still.

Although I'd also be good with the Master of Masters just being covered in those blue slitted eyeballs. Dozens of eyes. Get freaky.

All in all, the Master of Masters and Case of Luxu is very much My Shit, #aesthetic, 11/10.

Edited by unnoun on Aug 23rd 2018 at 5:43:27 AM

Master of Masters is so good.

I'm also really into the part where they talk about how the traitor is the one who bears the sigil, since we the audience know from DDD that it has to be Luxu, but the characters have no idea and continue to fracture themselves. Mmmmmmm, just let me slurp up all that sweet sweet dramatic irony, mwah!

Both dramatic irony and sticking eyeballs everywhere are good, yes. I also appreciate that the Agrabah chapters generally portray the guards as basically decent people who want to protect the citizens, despite their animosity towards our favorite thieving hobo.

In this keyblading business, you learn that there are times you just gotta trust your heart. And his heart said that his eye was an asshole and wanted it evicted from the body.

Edited by rikalous on Aug 22nd 2018 at 11:51:43 AM

Now that you mention it, there's someone else I'd have to ask the question.

How did xehanort knew that discarding your body allows you to do time-travel ?

"when you stare too long into the abyss, Xehanort takes advantage of the distraction to break into your house and steal all your shit."

I mean, Yen Sid knew it too, so apparently that's just established bullshit.

Also, like. I mean, Young Xehanort has a medal, so I'm guessing his bullshit is in the Book of Prophecies somewhere. Which Xehanort sounds like he's read, what with quoting it directly, even though having both the Master's eye and the book is the one thing the Master told Luxu not to do.

Well, that and opening the box. Xehanort wants to do that too I guess.

It's not just that Xehanort has the script, he's also stolen the camera to retroactively make sure the story is about him.

Edited by unnoun on Aug 23rd 2018 at 5:18:39 AM

MoM's non-participation in the plot is really frustrating.

Edited by MarkIV on Aug 23rd 2018 at 11:22:32 AM

Life is more fun with infinite MP.

Why would he need to, if everything is already going the way he saw it?

> There's just something I honestly love about how batshit ridiculous the concept of seeing the future by ripping your eye out and sticking it in a keyblade is.

straight out of North mythology,Odin cut out his eye for wisdom or something

New theme music also a box