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Author-Man posted:Vanitas is such a hilariously over the top emo concept but they manage to do a good job of not going too overboard with it, like they did with the Nobodies in Kingdom Hearts 2. Yeah it's in this game, Re:coded and 3D. It lets you jump immediately to the set command by hitting left. Always do this with Cure. ALWAYS.
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mastajake posted:And that's not even him looking his most menacing. In fact, that's on the lower end of his spectrum. Yen Sid has just seen way too much poo poo to really be happy any of the time.
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Oct 17, 2012 05:35
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Honestly he's still mad about that one time Mickey stole his hat and flooded the place.
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Oct 17, 2012 05:56
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Glazius posted:Yen Sid has just seen way too much poo poo to really be happy any of the time. 
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Oct 17, 2012 13:54
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Opening this thread with the giant game case cover... you instantly get the feel of a game that's practically FF7 for a younger generation... oh but wait there is a hardcore Mickey Mouse in the lower right corner in dark robes in poo poo, probably going to get all serious about killing things and existential stuff you have no idea about but with gratuitous mention of love and friendship. When Kingdom Hearts first came out, the game was like "You got Disney in my Final Fantasy!"... which now it seems that the Final Fantasy side has taken over more... I wonder how it'll play out in this game.
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Oct 17, 2012 15:18
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horroricane posted:Opening this thread with the giant game case cover... you instantly get the feel of a game that's practically FF7 for a younger generation... oh but wait there is a hardcore Mickey Mouse in the lower right corner in dark robes in poo poo, probably going to get all serious about killing things and existential stuff you have no idea about but with gratuitous mention of love and friendship. If you played any KH game after 1 then you already know how to answer this question 
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Oct 17, 2012 15:59
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I think the big reason KH1 feels more Disney is because the Disney villains took more prominent roles in the plot. Otherwise it's pretty much the same hearts/light/darkness/friendship stuff being fed to us.
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Oct 17, 2012 16:28
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I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it's actually Final Fantasy that's being influenced by Kingdom Hearts. I mean it's the only series they ever made that actually rivals FF in popularity (and it also happens to be the first time Nomura was directing).
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Oct 17, 2012 17:25
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horroricane posted:When Kingdom Hearts first came out, the game was like "You got Disney in my Final Fantasy!"... which now it seems that the Final Fantasy side has taken over more... I wonder how it'll play out in this game.
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Oct 17, 2012 18:36
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Terper posted:Which is pretty funny, considering the KH Originals are all actually Disney-owned, and SE has no claim on them. Some of them can be found in some of the Disney Parks too, as these horrifying photos show.    Odd they don't market it more at Disney, considering that it's just a big fat paycheck for them to say "yeah, you can use these characters".
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Oct 17, 2012 18:47
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Pesky Splinter posted:Some of them can be found in some of the Disney Parks too, as these horrifying photos show. I went to the massive Disney Store in Times Square, and they didn't have a single KH item. I've seen some things here and there at Disneyland but nothing as terrifying as that. Hopefully I can go to Tokyo Disneyland some day and eat Sea Salt Ice Cream!!
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Oct 17, 2012 18:59
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:I went to the massive Disney Store in Times Square, and they didn't have a single KH item. I've seen some things here and there at Disneyland but nothing as terrifying as that. Hopefully I can go to Tokyo Disneyland some day and eat Sea Salt Ice Cream!! No lie, I actually kinda want to try that. It sounds like it has a half-decent chance of being delicious.
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Oct 17, 2012 19:40
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I'm pretty sure Sea Salt Ice Cream was actually a thing before Kingdom Hearts 2, but then it was in Kingdom Hearts 2 and that sort of overshadowed everything else; you can't do a google search for the term without it being almost entirely Kingdom Hearts stuff. You know, Disney, you could have, like, hired a guy and put a wig on him or something, like they do in the American Disney parks for characters like Aladdin or Cinderella.
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Oct 17, 2012 23:52
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The reason Sea Salt Ice Cream exists in KH is because Nomura loves the stuff. S yeah, it's real.
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Oct 18, 2012 01:18
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Pureauthor posted:The reason Sea Salt Ice Cream exists in KH is because Nomura loves the stuff. S yeah, it's real. right, you can apparently get it at Tokyo Disney Sea and that's where he got the inspiration for it in the game
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Oct 18, 2012 01:41
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Pureauthor posted:The reason Sea Salt Ice Cream exists in KH is because Nomura loves the stuff. S yeah, it's real. Yeah that poo poo's tight. Sea salt ice cream is actually really tasty in real life, if you can find it.
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Oct 18, 2012 01:55
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I'm about to fly to Europe for the next week. I prepared two updates (Radiant Garden is a two-parter) and am gonna try and upload them while I'm there. Hopefully I won't have to wait until November! After that, I'll be updating regularly again.
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Oct 21, 2012 13:42
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I'm guessing thats a no to the Metroid Prime vids.  lol
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Oct 21, 2012 15:39
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In today's update, Terra is ambushed by the people he least expected... Disclaimer: that may not actually be what is happening in this picture Terra Part 7-1: Radiant Garden Youtube (w/ Full Commentary) I'm gonna upload the Blip.tv mirrors when I get back to the States. NEW WORLD:  A beautiful, floral castle town that is brimming with life. The castle is home to Ansem the Wise, a benevolent ruler who is beloved by his subjects.
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Oct 23, 2012 22:42
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This is getting SERIOUSLY meta with that Disney town pass. And actually genuinely funny: "He...Told me to take two adults."
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Oct 24, 2012 01:16
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The boss fight at the end is one of the best in the game, but I remember it giving me a really hard time during my first playthrough. I guess that's what I get for choosing Critical difficulty after a few years of not playing a Kingdom Hearts game, though. 
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Oct 24, 2012 02:38
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Magnega is the best way to deal with prize pods, I find. It tears through them like tissue paper, especially when combined with other commands while they're stuck in place. I never noticed that thing about the Unversed having facial expressions. That's pretty neat! Tigger may cheat, but he is not the worst offender when it comes to cheating at command boards. A good rule of thumb is that if there's more than one character besides you on the command board, one of them will be an idiot who always loses and the other will be a cheating fucker. In Terra's defence, it's not his fault he keeps helping the bad guys. It's just that he has Kain-esque levels of susceptibility to mind control is all. I actually think that's a nice touch here; no one is really entirely in the wrong or in the right, and all of their actions make sense when you play the story from their perspective.
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Oct 26, 2012 01:30
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Author-Man posted:Tigger may cheat, but he is not the worst offender when it comes to cheating at command boards. A good rule of thumb is that if there's more than one character besides you on the command board, one of them will be an idiot who always loses and the other will be a cheating fucker. You can't stop me 
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Oct 26, 2012 02:11
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Author-Man posted:no one is really entirely in the wrong or in the right, and all of their actions make sense when you play the story from their perspective. Except for Mark Hamill sending a guy with the mental fortitude of a toddler to go confront evil without any supervision at all.
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Oct 26, 2012 02:16
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You mean Van didn't run off on his own? I thought that's what Aqua said, that he ran off to look for Terra without anyone telling him to. ...Unless I'm missing something from another part of the story.
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Oct 26, 2012 04:21
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Charlett posted:You mean Van didn't run off on his own? I thought that's what Aqua said, that he ran off to look for Terra without anyone telling him to. ...Unless I'm missing something from another part of the story. I think he was talking about Terra.
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Oct 26, 2012 04:36
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whowhatwhere posted:Except for Mark Hamill sending a guy with the mental fortitude of a toddler to go confront evil without any supervision at all. You'd think part of his training would include classes on 'Detecting Evil 101'. Edit: Of course, given that Eraqus is still chummy with the most Obviously Evil Dude ever, I guess Terra didn't have much to lean on in the way of guidance.
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whowhatwhere posted:Except for Mark Hamill sending a guy with the mental fortitude of a toddler to go confront evil without any supervision at all. Eraqus is really not very good at his job.
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whowhatwhere posted:Except for Mark Hamill sending a guy with the mental fortitude of a toddler to go confront evil without any supervision at all. Well as we learned from the end of this video, Aqua was sent to keep an eye on Terra. We will learn a lot more about that later.
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Oct 26, 2012 10:20
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I have words I want to say about Aqua once we get to her side of the story.
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Oct 26, 2012 10:22
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Both Terra not being quite as stupid in the first few worlds and Eraqus at least telling Aqua to keep an eye on him are kind of moot points considering the rest of the game though. No one is going to believe it was just a hunting accident if you later go on a killing spree.
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Oct 26, 2012 15:35
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Can you D-Link with the other Keyblade kids when they're right there fighting beside you? It's pretty great to actually have allies with some muscle, either way.
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Glazius posted:Can you D-Link with the other Keyblade kids when they're right there fighting beside you? I will totally try this when I get home, I hadn't even thought of that! Anyway, on with today's update! This guy  This motherfucking guy He rules. You will agree with me after watching this update. Terra Part 7-2: Radiant Garden Youtube (w/ full commentary) (Blip coming soon) NEW CHARACTER:  BRAIG: A suspicious man who seems to know a lot more than he is letting on. One thing is for sure, he has something to do with Xehanorts See you guys back in the States
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Oct 27, 2012 22:06
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The prequels were better-written and more believable than this game.
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:the best character's introduction EDIT: Also I forgot to mention this, but Terra's theme song (the one that kicks in around 14:57) is probably my absolute favorite song in the entire series. It's just so powerful and tragic. melodicwaffle fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Oct 28, 2012 |
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Oct 27, 2012 22:45
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Hell, I'd vote for Xehanort. I always had trouble fighting Braig. Eventually, I figured out that the best way to beat him is to never attack directly. If you just keep your distance and reflect all of his attacks back at him, the fight becomes painfully easy. All you've gotta do is keep patient and you won't have any trouble. And then Braig ends the fight by bunny hopping away. This game is so drat hard to take seriously sometimes. Is it just me, or are the subtitles almost always wrong? I'm guessing that's a Final Mix thing? Or is it a problem with the translation patch?
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Oct 27, 2012 22:54
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whowhatwhere posted:The prequels were better-written and more believable than this game. This game is the prequel. Unless you meant the original console games, KH1 was handled the best I think, given that it hadn't introduced all the "story" the current games are trying to juggle.
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Oct 27, 2012 23:09
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KH1 story works because of its simplicity. At its very heart (no pun intended), it's a very basic story of light vs darkness. The antagonists' plans are clear - both Disney and original, the protagonists' motivations are clear, and the plot is fairly straight forward. The problem came about with SE thinking that the more "complex", a story is, the better and deeper it is. And it's that kind of thinking that makes the rest of the games in the series such a clusterfuck. Same for things like Dissidia, or the latest Final Fantasies, and their ilk - where they seem to believe that making something more obtuse, makes it a better story. Anyway, this game does suffer somewhat from the usual things that prequels do, in that they have to ham-fistedly come up with explanations to explain the status quo of the games that comes chronologically after. On the other hand, they plain don't give a poo poo about even trying to make the pretense of Xehanort being anything other than a bad guy. And it's glorious 
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Oct 27, 2012 23:36
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So... Braig already has powers of Space before becoming a not-person. If I understand right, there are other characters like him in BBS too, right? Do they also already have their elemental affinities? Oh, actually. Since KH1 made a really big deal of Light vs. Darkness, I guess you're not supposed to sensibly entertain the idea that a character can have both light and darkness in them and remain okay. Terra doesn't seem to be handling things so well.
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HoneyBoy posted:This game is the prequel. I was referring to the Star Wars prequels (which were mentioned in this episode), sorry.
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