Kingdom Hearts (2002)

Who will win? Some guy who hates everything from a Final Fantasy game, or one kid with a key that nukes based on MP damage? You decide! I'm told Traverse Town is still the "start" and that Wonderland will be the difficulty jump, but I still don't see it. It's too late to change difficulty anyway.

This game is both "I am mashing this button" but also at the same time "mashing will just get you killed". It's especially prevalent in swarms where just mashing means the Shadows or Soldiers behind will ambush you, even if Donald and Goofy as additions are there to, quote on quote, help (Holy shit Donald your MP is not unlimited). That being said, Ripple Drive? Busted. Leon dies in like 8 strings from it, Guard Armor took like 12.

Sora's smile killed somebody.

Hindsight is 20/20 but I feel like I should've picked Proud. I know I literally just left Destiny Islands but the punishment I've been getting is minimal, and I don't think the game counted on me being 100% run meaning I'm farming to get items = I'm constantly overleveled. Oh well.

Ripple Drive is insanely good. Literally just NUKE a set of enemies with a finisher, even better than Stun Impact. Think it's also because I have more MP from picking staff but goddamn.

I like how the game teases you with "LOOK AT THIS GUY WHO BECAME A THING YOU'VE NEVER SEEN" only to just be surrounded by Shadows mooks instead. Also the townspeople are just suddenly gone with the wind when they showed up in the first district. Are they hiding or have they already become Heartless..... suspicious.

Despite a whole hour of play, in the grand scheme of things, I didn't get much done in KH1. Lot of grinding to Level 10 to make 100% completion easier later. The quicker I get to level 40 the better, and farming off of XP dumps from Wakka or Selphie is the earliest opportunity without going insane smacking shadows later.

Why did 7 year old me have so much trouble with Riku, he is physically incapable of dealing with a jumping Sora. It's like he's secretly terrified, or maybe people are just reticent to jump in combat

I got beat in the race because of one mistake, and I kept restarting until I won just to get a stone to sell. Farming these would actually be insanity, because it really isn't that much and there are better places to get monies later.

Random stranger I have no idea what you're talking about I just wanted this mushroom please stop making fun of me

Been so long since I played this, it's time to board the nostalgia train. Already started tearing up when I saw "Starting a new journey may not be so hard, or maybe it has already begun". All it takes is that and Shimomura music and the tear ducts star to flow. Dearly Beloved especially. SIMPLE AND CLEAN IS THE WAY THAT YOU'RE MAKING ME FEEL TONIGHT

Chose FM difficulty, Staff/no sword, and the adventure begins in the dead of night. If I recall I never fully explored using magic as like a combo thing in this game.

Fuck your Blitzball Wakka, I'm built different.

I can't believe I spent 30 min beating the crap out of Tidus and Selphie i.e. two kids just to farm XP. The three-on-one fight is fun though.