Kingdom Hearts

Went back to IIFM since my desire to get the Gold Crown is greater than my desire to 100% III.

Beat AS Marluxia and got through the last CoR fight while only in the 50s. Now I just need to do a bit of Mushroom and Data-Lexaeus grinding for get the stuff I need for Full Bloom+s. Also beat up Sephiroth, LW, the other Data fights, and the Mushrooms I haven't done.

This simply means Microbots and Bug Blox are one and the same.

Hiro said it wasn't his microbots though. And weren't they just corrupt data? I don't know because fuck recoded buta dark robot could make more corrupt data

I have no idea, but that's very clearly what they are.

Again Sora Heartless 'unless you count rage mode' is the only Major Villain not to return for the finale

Even though Big Hero 6 would have been perfect for him.

Vanitas is his darkness instead.

So I left The Caribbean after getting Ariel and went to San Fransokyo because I remembered Pirates taking a while to get through and wanted to focus on the ship stuff last.

I know it's been said before, but the world's very short story and boring last battle really sours me on it, which is unfortunate because I really liked the BH 6 movie and was probably interested in seeing this world the most. But the issues I have with it bug me so much that I kind of feel that it's one of the weakest worlds of the game for me (yes, even worse than Arendelle).

Which I guess is why I wanted to get it out of the way...

The main things that stuck out to me:

• The whole city feels like a massive waste of space until you come back after the plot ends. Even if it just turned out to be padding, I would've appreciated more emphasis on exploring it, with the plot having you run around and do miniquests like helping citizens, working with the rest of BH 6, and defeating Heartless for a bit before the giant dino Heartless shows up and moves the plot along.

• The team itself is horribly underutilized, and almost serves as foreshadowing towards the endgame where almost everyone has to either hold the Idiot Ball and be imcompetent or get Worf'd so Sora can save the day. Hiro's friends all fail to do anything competent outside of one or two scenes; they have to be rescued by Sora and are knocked out of fights so Sora and his team can do everything themselves. Even if they couldn't get the party system to work with up to 8 other people, they could've just had them join the party one at a time at certain intervals.^note Though to be honest, the party system as a whole is almost pointless; it just exists to keep Goofy and Donald in the main party at all times so you don't have to worry about swapping them out. I would rather they kept the option to swap them out, at least for the BH 6 world, because that would make room for Sora and Baymax to fight alongside the rest of BH 6 sans Hiro. I mean, sure, it'd be a clusterfuck and enemies would be even easier, but the game is already one of the easiest in the series anyway...

• Hiro himself is regulated to mission control all so that Sora can have Baymax to himself, which is annoying to me. Though admittedly, I set myself up for disappointment since I was hoping that Hiro would have his microbot moveset from Disney Infinity and fight alongside Sora too, as I didn't orignally think about any of the others fighting in the party until just now.
  • Even without the microbots, Hiro could've just been riding on Baymax like usual. It's not like he has to be gone at all, and for the Team Attack they can just have Hiro swap out with Sora for the duration of the attack while Hiro just disappears until the attack finishes.

• The last fight is just a simple aerial battle with Heartless/Corrupted Baymax. I was hoping for a second round where the battle continues like normal, but nope.

Ugh, I was going to save my personal breakdown of the worlds for when I finished my playthrough, but this 'd me too much to hold off on.

Ever wonder how Xemnas' damn sexy "indeeeeeeeeeeeeds" came to be? Paul St Peter here to explain:

Starts with a speech lesson but the Xemnas stuff starts at 4:40.

The final showdown with the Demon Tide is a good candidate for most epic boss fight I've ever seen.

Done. That was beautiful. Not without flaws, like Kairi's damsel-ing yet again and ending on another Sequel Hook; I'd have waited until the beginning of the next game if it was me but whatevs, but on the whole, so, so much more good than bad. I hope I can play it myself one day. I hope it comes to Switch.

Gotta pay off the cell phones game setup with that Sequel Hook.

I’ve just started that game and I’ve been having trouble with Sora stutter stepping, or just coming to a stop if I angle the analog stick a certain way. If some of the online talk is to be believed apparently all the PS 4 Kingdom Hearts games have trouble with the analog stick deadzones on some controllers and apparently KH 3 is no different.

I was wondering if anyone else had this problem and if it’s something I can expect Square to patch or just bite the bullet and buy a new controller.

x5 That’s an amusingly mundane reason.

Edited by SapphireBlue on Feb 11th 2019 at 12:30:28 PM

I had that problem too at first, but then I switched to another controller and it was fine. I think I had the same issue with Soider-Man.

Edited by KarkatTheDalek on Feb 11th 2019 at 3:31:24 PM

So Isa and Lea were in a Two Guys and a Girl trio once too? Has this come up before?

No.

So, I was browsing Reddit and came upon an interesting idea: Someone going into KH 3 having only played 1, 2, and 3D. That person would have just as much context for what's going on as Sora does.

That moment when the KH Wiki is an actual plot point handwave to not explain things to other characters.

Karx's Quest to Plat II

I've killed Sephiroth and completed my Synth notes, so I'm doing minigame stuff. Got over 1,000 points in Grandstander because why the fuck not.

I'm also probably going to go back to KH 2 after I finish KH 3. I have plenty more to do there and honestly I could listen to podcasts and level myself.

He was briefed on the events of Coded, too.

Edited by mythbuster on Feb 11th 2019 at 3:16:16 AM

My guess for the identity of Lea and Isa's friend, the mysterious X, is that she's Elrena. She has amnesia but remembers "four friends and a key", which I take to be the other four Dandelion leaders that were supposed to lead the Dandelions after the Keyblade War.

She also has the phrase "May your heart be your guiding key," burned into her mind. This suggests to me either a Foreteller or a Dandelion leader. I considered Ava briefly since she's noted as being missing, but being fifteen years old makes a Foreteller unlikely.

ASOD also notes that X vanished one day, presumably taken and hidden from him by Ansem the Wise. But that doesn't mean she was never found. And whatever the case, Elrena was somehow still around and kicking in the present to become Larxene.

Like, we never do find out what the ominous purpose for the last four Organization members being chosen was supposed to be, but I have to imagine that Elrena and Lauriam being post-Keyblade War Dandelion leaders had something to do with it. Doesn't explain Demyx or Luxord, though.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Feb 11th 2019 at 4:39:20 AM

Larxene totally wanted to jump Axel's bones in COM too so I could see there being a past there.

One problem with that theory: No one has any idea where Mysterious Heroine X is and her being right there in front of everyone would run counter to that. Also Elrena isn't a Dandelion leader.

All things considered, it's probably Skuld.

Edited by LordVatek on Feb 11th 2019 at 6:44:00 AM

You're thinking of Skuld. Marly and Larxene knew each other because of his dead sister. She was otherwise just a grunt Keyblade Wielder.

It'd be weird if Axel and Isa and Ansem SOD didn't recognize Larxene.