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Kingdom Hearts III -Re Mind- |OT| So, you have come this far and still you understand nothing.
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Maybe you're right, I might have read wrong.
I'm gonna check as soon as I get a Stat Boost on my Beginner's game.
Okay
What's the reception in Japan? Feel like it matters a little more.
Also wonder if the reviews would be different if the price was lower. Maybe next time they'll reconsider the price. Or not. Lol.
I can confirm that Default stats and 0 defense codes don't remove stat boosts.
The people behind KH have always been fairly good at listening to community feedback. I doubt they'll let the reviews discourage them from adding hard bosses in the future. They might do a bit more content that is more suitable for lower skill level players or not lock story content behind super bosses, but the community feedback for the bosses is so overwhelmingly positive that I think they'll definitely keep that in mind for future optional content.
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Exactly, very few review outlets touched on the lack of difficulty in the original KH3 reviews (Even if they pretend they did in their ReMind reviews)
The team still listened to the community first and made the great adjustments we got
I like boss fights and it was 100% worth the $30 to me. I won't recommend this expansion to those who want story content but I will for people who enjoyed superbosses of 2's final mix and superbosses in general.
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I too had my money's worth on entertainment.
Figuring the boss fights out was very fun. I also expected a Final Mix kind of deal from the start and that's exactly what I got.
Figuring the boss fights out was very fun. I also expected a Final Mix kind of deal from the start and that's exactly what I got.
I think $20 would've been a better sweet spot price wise, but for me, it was worth the $30 for the data bosses alone.
I feel comfortable saying Limit Cut is the most fun I've ever had with this entire series.
I feel comfortable saying Limit Cut is the most fun I've ever had with this entire series.
I'm dead serious when I say they should release one more Limit Cut DLC. Maybe charge $20 for it, and have only 13 new superbosses (7 guardians of light or whatever + characters like Demyx that didn't get a boss fight in III) and VIIR Sephiroth as the Secret Boss.
For people who are mostly playing for story or the characters, it wouldn't be worth it, but they wouldn't even buy it. That's the thing that's missing from Re:Mind, even if you think $30 for Limit Cut is a good price. It was mainly advertised as the story expansion, and the reason why many players bought it. Hell, we mainly had text info and very very small glimpses of footage of the Limit Cut during trailers. We were left to speculate up to release.
If it was clearly sold as a bunch of superbosses for people who love challenge, the disappointment would be much lower.
For people who are mostly playing for story or the characters, it wouldn't be worth it, but they wouldn't even buy it. That's the thing that's missing from Re:Mind, even if you think $30 for Limit Cut is a good price. It was mainly advertised as the story expansion, and the reason why many players bought it. Hell, we mainly had text info and very very small glimpses of footage of the Limit Cut during trailers. We were left to speculate up to release.
If it was clearly sold as a bunch of superbosses for people who love challenge, the disappointment would be much lower.
Personally, I don't think it'd help much where it matters? If you have the pro codes mostly on throughout the base game(where you can't really farm Stat boosts anyway), you can have your stats normal for the limit cut fights anyway.
I did pro code with all codes turned on for most of the base game(took one off for demon tide in KG and dark inferno), and that let me have default stats, zero defense, and no cure turned off for limit cut, and the fights were fairly easy. I did most of them besides like 3 first try. If you're able to do them on proud, I assume you'd be fine?
Well I'm being crazy and thinking about beating mainly the limit cut bosses on critical with all pro codes on, just so I could have the max Pro Code rank on my critical save.
I finally managed to beat
on critical/all pro codes on the weekend finally. He is a very good boss once you learn all his moves, not sure I've ever learnt a KH boss as well as him. Trying out Dark Inferno/Base game MX now and I'll try the other limit cut bosses.
I finally managed to beat
Yozora
I'm glad people are enjoying the fights, but instead of $30 for amazing fights and more garbage story, this thing should have just been the fights for $15.
I think this will probably be a lot of people's final KH purchase.
I think this will probably be a lot of people's final KH purchase.
I think you underestimate fans of the series personally. Being completely honest, I doubt more of the casual fans picked it up in the first place just yet.
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"The "side games" will be the death of KH"
"Not ignoring the side games will be the death of KH"
"KH3 will be the death of KH"
*KH3 breaks series records*
"Yeah well that's because people were tricked into thinking this wouldn't include the side games and would be all about Cloud like KH2, next KH thing won't sell"
*Re Mind was January's #2 US most downloaded DLC with just 1 week, only beaten by Fortnite*
"....KH4 will be the death of KH"
I've been on this ride ever since "KH2 will be the death of KH". Still waiting for it to actually happen. Gotta admit I was too young and missed "KH will be DOA"
Some hardcore fans would buy a $50 Final Mix package. Probably still will when it comes out for next gen consoles.
There's big diffwrence between "i worked hard so that my characters stats are at their limits" vs "i put a cheat to instant kill everything.
Being able to take one extra hit could mean the difference between losing and winning against a tough super boss.
Also, i beat all the other games on critical including the super bosses. Its not my first rodeo.
Beat all Data Fights and currently fighting the Secret Boss.
I am pretty comfortable saying these are some of the best bosses I've played in an ARPG, and the Secret Boss has been so much fun to learn.
Faith in Osaka Team restored, I didn't think these fights would ever be on par with 2FM's bosses but they surpassed them by a good margin imo.
I am pretty comfortable saying these are some of the best bosses I've played in an ARPG, and the Secret Boss has been so much fun to learn.
Faith in Osaka Team restored, I didn't think these fights would ever be on par with 2FM's bosses but they surpassed them by a good margin imo.
Oh, I wasn't implying it was your situation, I've actually seen people saying the super bosses was the first time they had to block in the game, because they were playing on Proud.
Fucking finally beat Vanitas. Props to the Thunder trick. Following that I went to town with Ultimate Form and he was done. He starts throwing in more patterns at this point, was too dangerous to doing it without that.
Who's next? Idk what the easiest fights are.
Who's next? Idk what the easiest fights are.
I don't think the difficulty scales real well in KH3 compared to older titles easy and normal felt like a baby game (which is fine for easy) but proud just felt like normal
Luxord is the easiest, then YMX.
Other than that, is up to how you play the game.
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Standard being a joke and Proud not being much better was definitely a KH2 issue as well. BBS to a lesser extent, too.
I think a lot of people were expecting this to be a final mix like package, but other than critical mode which was a separate update, the main game feels untouched.
Uh oh lol
Well just started doing Xigbar...I have some confidence with him. He doesn't really have any combos and is easy to block so I think I can get him next.
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Problem with Vanilla KH2 was that Limits, Magnega, Reflega and Stitch trivialize the game.
FM did nerf that a bit
While this is true, I'm more thankful that Critical was a free update than resentful that Re:Mind didn't have anything as significant as that.
Though things like Absent Silhouettes were fun as hell, and it would be neat to get something like that.
Hell, you could get through vanilla standard mode by mashing nothing but attack (Which helped perpetuate that old belief that KH was nothing but a button masher).
It says a lot that the most infamous bosses from vanilla KH2 are Demyx, Xaldin and Sephiroth; the three bosses in the game designed to explicitly shut down that manner of play.
Was watching some streams and was happy to see I wasn't the only one having problems with Vanitas' ridiculous second version of his DM. Was absolutely horrible.
Yeah, and unfortunately that kind of ties to the concerns somone had over the critical reception of Re:Mind. KH II was labeled as a button masher (deservedly so), they "rectified" that with BBS, that had you mashing triangle with a pre-planned deck instead of X, but for someone who was indeed only mashing X on Normal, that was already an improvement, and it was indeed considered an evolution of KH gameplay.
Look at how damn long it took for KH to give us more KH II style combat greatness. It's been 84 years.
2 FM only added the Roxas boss fight and some Org XIII cutscenes in the main game, and the mushrooms.
Re:mind add more compared to it lol.
It's pretty much a final mix, they only decided to give some typical FM stuff for free. Add CM, QoL, updated graphics, new keyblades and new abilities and there's not much of a difference.
Absent Silhouettes were a ton of fun as a good challenge during the main game, and the Cavern of Remembrance was the only piece of great level design in the game, but it was really damn great.
It also came with a PS2 remake of a GBA game.
It had pretty good value, all things considered.
Storywise it was pretty barebones too, though, you're right about that.
This is a really weird gotcha.
Most of the 2 FM changes had a similar counterpart in KH 3, but free of charge this time, so I am not really get what you are complaining at. Did you want that critical mode was locked behind the DLC?
I took a glance and...???
Both games added crit
Both games adjusted sora
Both games added keyblades/forms
Both games added accessories/armor
Both games added story content
Both games added additional fights/bosses
Kh2 added theater mode while kh3 added photo mode
...am I missing something? The only thing kh3 didn't add was what, mushrooms?
To be fair, some of the things that KH2FM added are already in base KH3. Mushrooms -> Flans and Puzzle pieces -> Lucky Emblems.
One of these two would make Re:Mind perfect, content-wise, compared to Final Mix:
A "remastered" 0.2 to bring it up to the main game's standards, especially in visuals. This would of course be a free update to owners of the original 0.2.
A new world for story events before the Limit Cut.
In my opinion, of course.
And I'm also happy with what we got, Limit Cut and Secret Boss were the things I wanted the most, anyway.
EDIT: Lucky Emblems are so much more fun than I was expecting. Started the game thinking they'd just be this annoying thing I'd have to do to get Oathkeeper, but now I've already got all 90 and I can't even unlock it before finishing the game anyway. Would be more than happy with at least 30 more, hahaha.
A "remastered" 0.2 to bring it up to the main game's standards, especially in visuals. This would of course be a free update to owners of the original 0.2.
A new world for story events before the Limit Cut.
In my opinion, of course.
And I'm also happy with what we got, Limit Cut and Secret Boss were the things I wanted the most, anyway.
EDIT: Lucky Emblems are so much more fun than I was expecting. Started the game thinking they'd just be this annoying thing I'd have to do to get Oathkeeper, but now I've already got all 90 and I can't even unlock it before finishing the game anyway. Would be more than happy with at least 30 more, hahaha.
It just feels like there's something missing. It's insane to me that after all the hollering they still did not add a collesium or more than a casual nod to FF.
Yeah. A lot of the expected type of extra content in a Final Mix was either already implemented in the main game (Flan Heartless & Lucky Emblems) or came via free update (Critical Mode, new keyblades/forms, new abilities, slight rebalancing) with Re:Mind bringing up the rear in the post game department.
Really, the only thing separating this from the Final Mixes is the lack of recolored heartless, and I'm actually kind of starting to understand why they did that in the first place now, lol
Nomura & Co just wanted to experiment on the combat system/gameplay features with all the portable games past II. The departures from KHII had very little to do with feedback and more just them trying to be a bit more experimental with the lower budget, less risky projects which they knew they couldn't do with the next mainline title, then bringing some of what they had learned (& had feedback from) back to the next big mainline KH that was more in line with II.