Whoa when was this explained?
I fell like playing KH2 after watching Days is a better experience than otherwise. You start much more into the characters, specially as you play with Roxas. The beginning might have annoyed me a bit if I have gone from CoM to KH2, but coming from Days it is just superb.
I think the build up to 2 is more interesting than dumping it onto people and experiencing the plot twist. With the build up approach, you learn more about the world and character motivations at more steady pace and KH2 ends up being the dramatic conclusion to a lot of what CoM and 358 setup. Whereas with the mysterious approach, you're given a mystery that isn't even solved until you play the other games.
Yeah, again I feel like I should emphasize from the perspective of playing 2 before Days existed, KH2 Axel made no sense and felt like a completely different character apropos of nothing coming off of CoM where he was a ruthless villain.
100% true
That's perfectly on point. I understand that some people who played them in release order may disagree, but many of them had time to digest the story and talk about the game between releases. If you are beating one KH after the other in 2019, Days > KH2 is just a better experience.
Have a guide ready when you need it. A huge flaw of KH1 in my opinion is that it is terrible with telling you where you need to go at moments, and part of me believes it was intentional so they could extend the game time by forcing you to explore the whole world to figure out where the next cutscene is. Atlantica and the Tarzan world were especially notorious for me and getting lost.
The Tarzan world has a lot of pointless meandering, but nothing is as egregious as the part in Atlantica when the game shows you to grab a dolphin, but it's not the one in the section it teaches you this, it's over in the next section.
Manual is better, it still adjusts automatically when you attack, but it doesn't actively fight you like it does on auto.
The part at the very beginning where you pick and give up "path of the warrior/guardian/mystic" actually influences your starting stats and what order you learn all the passive abilities as you level up. The personality questions determine the EXP requirements for leveling up, based on what the voice tells you afterwards. Dawn = level up quickly, then slowly after 40. Midday = baseline. Night = level up slowly, then quickly after 40.
Yeah, according to people who spoke with customer support, they didn't expect demand for the collection to pick up around KH3's release.
Do not.
Try pushing the lancers away from the fat heartless and deal with them first. Make sure you react with triangle against the lancers if they rush into you, which grants at least one easy kill. The fat ones you always get from behind. Start circling them whenever they are facing you to avoid being targeted. Be careful when they have their purple aura on as they get faster and better at targeting. I find it easier to be always on the move against them than trying to defend against their attacks.
You end up learning your way through trial and error. One of the final fights in Olympus will be a great practice to become better with crowd control (took me a couple of tries yesterday to realize that sometimes you should stay away from the ruckus and assess the situation).
