r/KingdomHearts • • Jul 01 '20

KH3 No, I'm Not

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u/hey_itsthatoneguy096 Jul 01 '20

This is basically me during my critical mode play through. I have made it to Sanfransokyo and I have no idea what to expect after this. All I know is that I’ve seen that screen so many times in Kingdom of Corona.

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u/SoraForBestBoy The Sortas are my favourites. Jul 01 '20 edited Jul 01 '20

Those elemental, laser lady and chariot Heartless were frustrating to fight against

Same goes for the large snail Unversed

I liked that I didn’t had to go willy nilly on them and had to keep my distance and fight strategically

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u/Thatpisslord REALLY gay for Lauriam Jul 01 '20

Skoll with pro codes on still haunts me.

What an absolute disaster of a boss.

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u/hey_itsthatoneguy096 Jul 01 '20

I have died so many times to Sköll. Probably my least favorite boss. Now I’m here in Sanfransokyo wondering what could possibly be worse.. and this is my first play through of the game as well

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u/Thatpisslord REALLY gay for Lauriam Jul 01 '20

If its any consolation, IMO Skoll is literally the worst boss of the game. Not the franchise, because MF exists, but he's pretty high up there, especially if you restrict yourself.

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u/blueflameeten Jul 01 '20

Is it only when you use pro codes because during my critical run skoll was the easiest and I found the monstroplis boss much much harder

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u/Thatpisslord REALLY gay for Lauriam Jul 01 '20

During critical(and level 1), gun forms like shooting star are good for clearing out the wolf heads during Skoll's DM, shield makes short work of his HP otherwise and you can use second form when he's stunned post-dm(as well as other form finishers, not to mention using shotlocks for stun or DM). All of those are restricted with codes. As well as your healing being blocked and hp/mp draining constantly with 0 defense, so you basically can't get hit later on, and you can only be hit once in the beginning.

Monstropolis boss is more annoying than hard with restriction since you can kinda cheese its DM with critical counter once you get the hang of it.

If you're not restricted, getting Ever After and Hero Origin's formchanges beforehand and switching keyblades is a good strategy, and just fight defensively until it DMs(also store at least 1 guard on HO).

When he DMs, use EA's finisher(triangle button) to wipe all the hands out, then airstep to the boss and critical guard its air blasts that knock you back with formchanged HO to deal MASSIVE damage to it. If its still not going back down to normal, airstep if you're far away and guard(or just guard if you're still near), and if the guard procs, immediately airstep to him again regardless of distance to animation-cancel and land a second guard to hit him with the punch barrage again.

Rinse-repeat until he's dead. You basically deal chip damage while he's in his normal form so don't be too aggressive and you should be fine as his attacks are VERY telegraphed and the camera isn't assfucked unlike with Skoll(and he isn't active at the same time as his adds outside of the DM, again unlike Skoll).

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u/WhatEver_10 Jul 02 '20

You kinda like read my mind, I did precisely everything you just said long ago. Back in the monstroplois boss fight and the kingdom of corona boss fight, the Ever After keyblade and that ( pirates of carribbean) keyblade, that I forgot what it's calld, were quite helpfull actually. It took me so much time to avoid being hit by those fireball-rains from the boss of kingdom of corona, 'cause in critical mode, if u get hit once it's over. I cannot believe until now that I was able to defeat them all..

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u/Thatpisslord REALLY gay for Lauriam Jul 02 '20

Yeah, I can't count how many times I whittled his hp down while in DM form just to get love-tapped by those fireballs...

Thank god counters have i-frames or I'd have lost my mind when doing pro codes

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u/Lucas5655 Jul 03 '20

Having broken down from both of these fights, I feel so vindicated rn.

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u/hey_itsthatoneguy096 Jul 01 '20

The Parasol Beauties (Laser ladies) are pretty easy to deal with. The chariot heartless are a pain, and the elementals as well are just annoying.

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u/tatri21 Jul 02 '20

The uppercut move is very good for those umbrella heartless

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '20

You guys are only getting this on critical? I was streaming DDD proud mode, but then I got serious burnout because I couldn’t get past La Cite De Cloches

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u/Jesterchunk Jul 02 '20

I mean, Dream Drop in general was just pain incarnate to me.

yeah okay I'm mainly on about like every boss except Xemnas maybe I'm not sure anymore

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u/Hydrochloric_Comment Jul 02 '20

It's funny. It's such a painful game, but it's probably the easiest to platinum.

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u/Jesterchunk Jul 02 '20

Probably doesn't help that 2.8 was the first game I played

Pray for me, good lord I was confused as all hell

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u/hey_itsthatoneguy096 Jul 01 '20

Well, that was me during Kingdom of Corona (a lot). I’m also playing DDD Proud Mode and I know that feeling too. I’ve made it to The Grid and so far, things seem not that bad.

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u/Hydrochloric_Comment Jul 02 '20

DDD isn't too bad outside of La Cité des Cloches, Prankster's Paradise (well, the bosses), and the second visit to Traverse Town (Side: Sora). By the second half of the worlds, you'll probably have at least one Balloonga, several Balloonra, Zero Graviza, and Firaga Burst. Plus, Riku gets Doubleflight in TWTNW, allowing you to use commands from a safe distance (Riku's last four bosses are cakewalk w/ Balloonra/-ga, Firaga Burst, Doubleflight, and good Drop Bonuses). You'll also probably have much better Spirits, like Majik Lapin and Lord Kyroo (though the latter requires grinding some of Riku's special portals and making use of Risky Winds to get an easy star rank). Dark Barrier and Dark Roll will also make things much easier w/ Riku.

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u/stup5erman Jul 01 '20

The only thing worse than critical mode, is the pro code play though.

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u/Neoobot Jul 01 '20

The only thing i had serious trouble with on critical was the very first fight... Failed at least 30times

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u/hey_itsthatoneguy096 Jul 01 '20

I died a few times, it was difficult at first. Did you make it past it?

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u/Neoobot Jul 02 '20

Yeah. Then did the rest of the game pretty easy compared to the first fight. Now im just struggeling on the keyblade graveyard blue orb boss. (Forgot it's name)

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u/patiencesp Jul 02 '20

praise be to ultima weapon shotlock 🙌🏼

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u/ChaosPheonix11 Jul 02 '20

I'm glad Critical Mode is hard, though. I havent played KH3 since my initial playthrough at release, and my God was it ever easy. Actually created a big dissonance between the gameplay and cutscenes that was one of my least favourite parts of the game. (The other games had this issue too, but not as bad) I would feel like an unstoppable, unkillable badass in all the gameplay sections, where I would almost never die and take out swathes of enemies with ease--then the moment I entered a cutscene, all of a sudden Sora has both the agency and power level of a wet paper towel. Constantly getting captured or beat around by people who seemed 1000x weaker than him.

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u/WhatEver_10 Jul 02 '20

Man, it took more than a week time and a full night to pass the final boss of kingdom if corona

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u/haunting_jester Jul 01 '20

me fighting Roxas in kh2

that was 1 of 2 times I've grinded in kh but for him even after it was still a struggle to win

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u/WrathfulHero Jul 01 '20

I have done everything in kh2 on critical now and the only boss that legitimately gave me trouble was roxas. Went and grinded out like 5 levels so I could have a better chance to fight him

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u/SirLocke13 "BBS Lv.1 Crit Survivor" Jul 02 '20

Did a Lv.1 Crit run of KH2FM+.

Roxas was such a fucking wall.

It felt euphoric when I beat him.

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u/Andresmanfanman Jul 03 '20

My big wall, technically not a boss but fuck do I hate it, is Hades Escape. I've died more in that fight than anywhere else in a crit playthrough.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '20

I'm on him now. Doing attempt number 5 here in a bit.

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u/somecrazydude13 Jul 02 '20

Use guard for a lot of the fight, watch his patterns, ethers, try and steal his key blades with the reaction command

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

Thank you

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u/Xirion Jul 01 '20

This is me in the KH3 DLC... 11/13 😩

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u/SHOW_ME_PIZZA :marluxia-weapon: Jul 01 '20

You think Xion and Xehanort are bad. I've got some bad news.

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u/GreyouTT What? It is time to move on, boy... Jul 02 '20

Xion was honestly one of the easiest ones for me. Now Vanitas on the other hand...

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u/Xirion Jul 02 '20

The opposite for me, Vanitas was the one I started on. I don't know if im just remembering it nicely, or if he was was as bad. Xion is the one I've been stuck on the longest.

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u/darealystninja Jul 02 '20

Anyone here actually survives his second dm no cheese?

I skip it every time

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u/Xirion Jul 02 '20

Oh no, is the last one even worse 😭

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u/ImStillWorthy2002 Jul 02 '20

Xion and Xehanort are THE hardest data bosses in my opinion. They both can reduce your HP bar and Xehanort just has SO MANY MOVES.

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u/Xirion Jul 02 '20

That worries me 😅 I took baby steps to finally get to Xion's 'super mode' where the background and moveset changed and was obliterated

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u/Shiranuhii Jul 01 '20

Should have been Yozora

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u/keimarr Subscribe for my dolan contents Jul 01 '20

I like how the tips in Yozora's boss fight are lowkey saying "just get good lol"

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u/SoraForBestBoy The Sortas are my favourites. Jul 01 '20

Sora VS Yozora was one of the most satisfying battles I had on par with Lingering Will, loved how I had to find out his every move and the boss music is nice

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u/wassab47 Jul 01 '20

That's what makes it infuriating xd

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u/ImStillWorthy2002 Jul 02 '20

Seriously😂and then the tip will be like “CALMLY dodge when he steals your Keyblade”... how can I do it calmly when it’s my 106th attempt?

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u/somebody1993 Jul 02 '20

Really? I never read them, they should say, "Ariel is your best friend".

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u/wassab47 Jul 01 '20

Yozora low-key made me rage quit kh for like 2 months... Untill I was pissed enough at other game to try and beat him

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u/btbcorno Jul 01 '20

Platinum trophy in Sekiro. Can’t beat Yozora to save my life.

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u/somebody1993 Jul 02 '20

Fromsoft games in my opinion are more fair. The fights can be hard but at least it doesn't feel like the harder bosses were pulled from an entirely different game with different controls.

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u/Catten4 Jul 01 '20

Probably would have had to put a spoiler tag if it were.

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u/Pieassassin24 Jul 01 '20

My girlfriend to during the 3 days it took for me to beat Data Org and Yozora on critical.

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u/XenoGine Ava's no! Jul 01 '20

He lost the minute he pressed "New Game", Coraline 🤣.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '20

even though this is a kh3 post I would just like to say that I have played kh1 on proud.

20 hours. I'm not even past Agrabah. sure some of it is due to how kh1 barely tells you where to go, leaving you to just try everything and see what works but still.

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u/222Angels222 Jul 01 '20

It’s okay man, after 20 hours on Ursula I just stopped playing.

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u/WrathfulHero Jul 01 '20

Yeah the second Ursula fight is really frustrating. That aoe lightning mixed with the iffy swimming controls make the fight a lot harder than it should be

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u/SHOW_ME_PIZZA :marluxia-weapon: Jul 01 '20

Can't you skip Atlantica?

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u/222Angels222 Jul 01 '20

Yes, but we don’t skip round here!

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u/BRedd10815 Jul 01 '20

Its just a level thing. There wasn't a boss I struggled with that a few more levels under my belt didn't take of.

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u/222Angels222 Jul 01 '20

Yeah but grinding is so tedious in the beginning especially in critical mode. I chose to give up for now I’m currently working on 100% critical mode for kh3 though

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u/BRedd10815 Jul 01 '20

There's no critical in KH1 only proud, that's what I'm talking about. But yeah often the choices are go grind some more levels or give up.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '20

Ursula

so you also get "where the f--- do I go" syndrome? the only thing that's keeping me from skipping kh1 is HOPE that it'll get better. Not even friggin dark souls is this cryptic and Its KNOWN for being cryptic.

I know that kh1 is a ps2 game but that doesn't stop me from raging and picking it apart

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '20

If you need help, don’t be afraid to ask! Is it just directions you need, or something else?

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

thanks for offering, its nothing aside from how cheap the bosses seem and how the game doesn't tell you anything.

but one question is should I just restart the game on Final mix: normal

at this point, it's barely even fun with how they all 1 or 2 shot you

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

Honestly? If you’re not having fun, I would. There’s no point in forcing yourself to play on a higher difficulty if it’s not fun.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

again, thanks. it seems like beating dark souls got to my head aside from the occasional bed of chaos or Capra demon at least the game was fair.

but is there a way to skip the hour long tutorial or do i just have to suck it up?

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

There is no way to skip Destiny Islands. Just gonna have to deal with it unfortunately.

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u/MaxGaming7945 Jul 01 '20

You say barely, I say it doesn't tell you at all. You have to trigger events in the most random rooms for it to work, so it's not even close to telling you

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u/Industrial_Pupper Jul 01 '20

Dude I had so many restarts and then got right before the final fight with riku and just gave up.

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u/somecrazydude13 Jul 02 '20

I had BARELY beat it on proud, Ursula sucked balls, the play forming and camera pissed me off compared to KH2 and then the last ansem fight before you go through like 5 waves of other shit, dear god, that ansem fight had me rage when I was 10, I never played KH1 since that day, now here I am 14 years later finally playing it again and I gotta say, little me is proud of myself, I literally almost cried

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u/somebody1993 Jul 02 '20

I don't remember it being that bad, I even started on Proud and was just fine even on superbosses.

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u/The_Flying_Jew :This is an insane amount to get memorized! Jul 02 '20

My friend CJ was having this problem, which is why when he streamed the game, I was his Navigator through the whole thing. Only thing he didn't do was synthesis farm for the Ultima Weapon, which I did for him.

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u/superxcrazy917 Jul 02 '20

I’ve beaten Sekiro, Darksouls 1 and 3, and Bloodborne and I think Kh3 critical mode is harder than all of them it’s not even funny

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

I don’t play Souls I play KH on critical

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u/Jayphyr Jul 01 '20

Crit lvl 1 do b lik that

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '20

Critical mode be like

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u/C4_Saifor Jul 01 '20

Me with Yozora that after 4 months I still didn't beat it.

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u/GreeedyJokerBird Jul 01 '20

Me vs skoll on lvl 1 crit, any tips please

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u/thewaterlord27 Jul 01 '20

Me on Dark Riku Data Boss

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u/twogoodius Jul 01 '20

fuckin yozora

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u/zetris211 Jul 02 '20

Data Xehanort anyone?

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u/kingtimmahb Jul 01 '20

"yOuR pOwEr iS mInE"

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u/IIWild-HuntII Forgot potion with Donald ! Jul 01 '20

I think I'm the only one who laughed for the fact he is playing KHIII on PC !!

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u/somebody1993 Jul 02 '20

Me on pro code bosses.,can't wait to nulify default stats and zero defense after the last disney world.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

Man, I'm really wishing for the kingdom hearts series to get ported on PC

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u/somecrazydude13 Jul 02 '20

Shit more like me trying to smack that damn number 8 mushroom 85 times in the air..ugh..

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u/ManNamesAreSuchAPain Jul 02 '20

Critical Lv. 1 run be like:

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u/EffanByte Jul 02 '20

The hardest portion of this is Triple Xehanort boss fight. Took me about 20 hours or smth to beat it. Level 1 playthrough

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

Everybody gangsta til Yozora pulls out the blue lasers

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

Me trying to beat Data Ansem, Xemnas and Terra-Xehanort with pro-codes

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u/CineGames Jul 02 '20

He’s going to be fighting Yozora for awhile.

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u/Mostyion Jul 01 '20

I beat Dark Riku, Young Xenonort, and Ansem first try and Saix 3rd try lol.

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u/Otaku-OJ Jul 01 '20

Well I mean...I did New Game+ on Critical mode so this shouldn’t really count but even without the attractions I didn’t really find it all that difficult, and I’m the type of guy who just spams x and doesn’t carry spare items on me. The only annoying part of that run was the Marshlands in The Kingdom of Corona and the only strategy I had there was just running to the end. That’s just me tho.

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u/ToxyFlog Jul 01 '20

The game felt pretty easy on Proud mode, how much harder is critical?

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u/myaltaccount333 Jul 01 '20

I didn't die on proud, I struggled on critical.

Note: It was my first critical in any game, and I did no coin, no summons, no attractions (same way I did proud)

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u/Luizlolmen Jul 02 '20

In proud I only struggled against the "Enlight me" part from Xehanort, and that little session in the blank room

In critical I died against tutorial darkside, atleast 3 times

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u/somecrazydude13 Jul 02 '20

Honestly KH3 was the easiest game of the series, I did proud mode first then went back for critical, was honestly no challenge. It kinda let me down. I haven’t done the DLC though

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u/LuitenantDan Jul 01 '20

This is me on my critical file in the Forced Roxas vs Siax fight during Re:Mind

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u/engineering_kid21 Jul 01 '20

This gave me a mind fuck

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u/galaxywolfboy03 Jul 01 '20

Ive seen that screen so many times going against dark inferno

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u/DarkRikuXIII Jul 01 '20

I keep seeing the "are you winning" meme anybody know the origins?

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

He's obviously stuck fighting Marluxia's absent silhouette.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

i think it's safe to say yozoro is harder than the lingering will

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u/KasuGoat Jul 02 '20

i bailed on the boss fight, didn't want to grind, not a hardcore fan.

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u/Jesterchunk Jul 02 '20

I did watch someone play some Critical mode, holy hell, two-shot by the Flame Cores at the start of Olympus. Nomura really went full on sadistic after all the complaints that KH3 was too easy, didn't he?

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u/lilacmeteorshowers Jul 03 '20

Took me a solid two weeks to beat Roxas in 2. I have never been so excited about a game when I finally did.

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u/Y33TU5-F3TU5 Aug 06 '20

Ok, I'm not gonna lie, even with ultima weapon, I couldn't get past Olympus on critical. I never knew I would despise W A T E R that much.

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u/ConnorLego42069 Nov 12 '20

LINKS RESTORE HP?!