Kingdom Hearts Features from this game that you miss

Well you have to judge them evenly. I mean KH1 didn't even have a critical mode, so saying that it isn't as hard as another games higher difficulty isn't fair. Assuming you played KH1 on expert, you should compare it to proud on the other games.

On another note I would still disagree with you. The difficulty in BBS was the level system being touchy. VS and MF (and to a lesser extent II4) were the only bosses that I felt needed good strategy, even on critical. The difference of just a couple of levels often made the difference between it being painfully difficult and laughably easy.

I liked Monstro. That was some of the best platforming in KH1

 

<3 Sonic Blade forever and ever and ever. Cheap? Yes. Effective? Definitely.

 

How high did you level up? I've only gotten to like level 34 or something. I've only played Critical Mode on that game though, well- I played Terra as standard or proud for a little while.

Kingdom Hearts on Proud was definitely a challenge, compared to the other games' proud modes. But I'm still not sure about Birth By Sleep. Like I said though, I never trained on Birth By Sleep. I just went through the game and looked up how to get good...forgot what the abilities are called. Didn't Kingdom Hearts get a critical mode though when it became Final Mix?

 

I actually capped my level for the plotline at 30. Once I found that to be a good end point with Terra, I used that to figure out how high my level should be based on the battle level of the world. In other words, since the battle level for Keyblade graveyard with Terra was 10 I only allowed my self to reach three times the battle level for everyone else.

And KH1 did not ever get critical, the mode introduced in FM was beginner.

 

How did you avoid accidentally levelling further? Were you playing in Critical, with the No EXP ability?

 

Exactly. I attempted a LVL 1 for BBS, but without bonus levels like KH2 had the game became painfully tedious at the second world. I opted for controlled leveling instead pretty quickly. I explained how I did Aqua and Ven above. Terra (being my first file) I just played by ear. Lock my level until things became a bit too hard, then open it up for training a few levels.

 

I did actually. I thought 3D might reference it.

And on the topic, I miss the ability to get altered scenes. I mean yeah there are some in KH, but nothing major. The closest thing in BBS is Disney Town where you get a different ending depending on which character you play as last.

 

What? You mean Aqua doesn't always get the ice cream?

 

That's right. If you do Ven's story last he gets an ice cream that looks like Mickey's Head and two Kingdom Keys while Terra, if you do him last, gets an earth themed ice cream called Rock Crunch.

 

Doesn't that screw with the timeline though? I thought Aqua went to Disney Town last.

 

On the contrary, Ventus did according to the timeline in the Trinity Report. And when I realized that you can change it, I got the feeling that there's a slight chance that Disney Town wasn't fully canon anyway considering that KH2 said that Pete was banished for something REALLY bad when BBS shows it being for him to "cool off" after something mildly unpleasant.

 

Some people took the scene to be Pete about to attack Minnie, which wouldn't be particularly mild.

Meh, it's Disney. They can't have Pete become a mass-murderer. :/

Thanks for the info about Ven being last. I should probably look through that again.

 

That's true, but even so, it was Mickey who banished him. Anyway, let's try to get back on topic. Not sure how though.

 

The Japanese game said it was a royal who banished him, and the translators took a guess that it was more a Mickey-ish thing to do, so they said "His Majesty" Turns out it was Minnie.

On topic, on topic. Right.

I miss how Sora wasn't an idiot. Yeah.

 

I miss the difficulty. It's back with Critical but it doesn't have the same feeling as the original KH feels.

 

That's because you couldn't just button-mash your way to victory.

 

I know. I hate button-mashing. LS is super-easy even on Critical because I can just Limit Form spam him. Trying the same on Phantom or Kurt Zisa gets you killed.

 

That's more because there isn't a limit form to spam.

 

KHI Sora = Limit Form.

 

So how would you spam limit form in KH1? Just use normal Sora? That's the only way to beat Phantom/Kurt Ziza.