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Kingdom Hearts 3 is so easy that it is actively hurting my enjoyment of the game (No Spoilers)
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They do.
They're the only thing that needs tweaking. They should work like FF XV summons
Right now you get a Nuke for looking at an enemy
It's a dumb argument. No one thinks everybody needs to brave a critical mode to be able to play this. No one worth engaging with, anyways.
Yeah I'm a little disappointed with the difficulty. I feel like it would be better if situation commands were available way less often. The disney rides are obnoxious.
Also I'm not understanding the defense that kingdom hearts is a kids game.
Like... kids waited over 14ish years for a sequel to KH2? Kids owned every system to play KH on a variety of consoles? Kids follow this super convoluted story?
Also I'm not understanding the defense that kingdom hearts is a kids game.
Like... kids waited over 14ish years for a sequel to KH2? Kids owned every system to play KH on a variety of consoles? Kids follow this super convoluted story?
That's an idoitic argument and the reason why there are multiple difficulties to cater to each group of people. Issue with this game is that the hard mode doesn't feel hard at all.
Having players to force hindering themselves from using available combat mechanics means that the balance is bad.
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Yeah it's pretty disappointing so far on proud. I don't need it to be crazy hard but I do need it to be more than enemies dying because I sneezed on them. Give me the option to turn attractions off on the menu. They're easy to use by accident if you are trying to change forms but didn't notice the attraction popped up. So just let me turn them off completely.
Proud mode has been good so far.
No critical mode is a glaring omission, though, and I'm not thinking it's going to be added for a long time...
No critical mode is a glaring omission, though, and I'm not thinking it's going to be added for a long time...
I don't imagine Square nerfing the game for everyone that badly but maybe they could add MP use for Proud and Critical if it ever comes.
Also KH 1 and KH 2 were wayyyy harder, no reason the difficulty should be so low now.
Yeah, I played on the hardest difficulty and after the first couple of hours once I'd unlocked some new abilities the game was a stroll in the park.
What's with JRPG these days treating players like babies? Decades of experience with video games and they still don't fucking get it?
People like winning, ACTUALLY winning, they don't need you to pat on their head and goes ''you win! you are the best!''.
Let people enjoy the thrill of winning and potentially losing. Don't fucking water out your gameplay.
People like winning, ACTUALLY winning, they don't need you to pat on their head and goes ''you win! you are the best!''.
Let people enjoy the thrill of winning and potentially losing. Don't fucking water out your gameplay.
As someone who thought Spidey was easy on its hardest difficulty, I never felt like I was capable of playing it without paying attention. Easy (once you master controls) is one thing, not requiring any effort is another.
JRPGs were never particularly hard historically. EXP means they can be gamed without skill just brute force.
It's why a lot of hardcore JRPG running circles do artificial difficulty--Nuzlockes, LV1 runs and so on.
I guess my issue was after getting to grips with dodging and countering I only used Spidey's other gadgets as a way of breaking the monotony - I never felt forced to use his entire arsenal.
I'm playing on proud mode and even the little enemies hit pretty hard. I'm on my 3rd world and I've died 2 times so far. I do think the game gives you a lot of powerful tools quite early but I like it, and it make sense this late into Sora's journey. He's relearning his power, not gaining them for the first time. In any case, it's probably too early to tell.
Yeah I felt the same. Proud mode is not hard enough from my experience thus far. Then again, aside from attraction abilities, I use most of my resources including food. Those food provide so much benefits for christ's sake, perhaps too much. I felt like the balancing is off really. I said it before, but they start you off with too much abilities. Couple with things like focus, all the fancy and powerful triangle attacks, flowmotion, food and so on, it's quite a breeze. Plus Sora is much more agile now, don't even need to stand still to cast spells. Did came close to dying once, as I completely forgot to restock potion.
That was definitely an issue, but at least the basic combat loop of attacking and dodging required some level of awareness. I feel the opposite here.
Yeah, I'm finding it to be absurdly easy on Proud as someone who still struggles with the higher difficulties in KH1 and KH2. The game is ABSOLUTELY a joke. I've only just hit Toy STory, but the only time that I've died so far is to a Gummy Ship boss that I challenged a bit too early. Like, god damn.
I remember struggling to beat Birth By Sleep on Proud two or three years ago. What the hell happened?
I remember struggling to beat Birth By Sleep on Proud two or three years ago. What the hell happened?
The lack of context this game has is pretty significant, in a series with rarely context they managed to bring it down even further. It's my only complaint at the moment, but just all these random abilities you get have absolutely no bearing or context in the overall world or pacing of the game. Why can I summon Disneyland rides? Did I miss one of the games that allowed this? I'm just given Keyblades randomly and they have magical powers that change them? It seems so superfluous and random at times.
I still am loving the game, but that is truly a big part of whats bumming me out about it. Also the fact that turning into a big ship was real neat the first time, but then it just gets incredibly old fast.
I still am loving the game, but that is truly a big part of whats bumming me out about it. Also the fact that turning into a big ship was real neat the first time, but then it just gets incredibly old fast.
It is weird how different they approached the difficulty in this one. I didn't put the game on Proud because that difficulty setting was a bit too tough for my liking in the past KH games. Just going through Standard now but I have still died on occasion. That said, I don't play this series for the difficultly, so none of this is detrimental to my enjoyment.
Geez I'm glad I saw this thread—I'm about to start the game tonight and usually I play through normal first. Definitely doing Proud mode now. Hopefully they patch in a harder difficulty in the future
Totally agree. There are other abilities you obtain later that offer no context either. This stuff is just here to be here. I really wish they worked it all in for more cohesive world building.
I've not found the game hard, but, I'm trying to remember what universe Kingdom Hearts 2 was hard like people here seem to be convinced? I remember Birth By Sleep being the first time the series got challenging at all. 2, on any difficulty including Critical (with exception to maybe two fights), was still just a button mash to win. 1 you were fighting the camera more than the enemies.
One example of *thoughtless* easiness in this game: summon spells use up all of your MP (just like cure spells), they fully heal your entire party no matter where they are, AND they do a bunch of damage to enemies. The only "cost" is greater time spent.
If you don't mind dealing with the annoying animations, as far as I can tell there is no reason not to always use summons instead of cure spells literally every single time.
I want a version of this battle system that does away with Keyblade transformations and Attraction Flow and instead gives you a much wider variety of finishers and Command Styles that are closer to the BBS ones (so like a full complement of elemental ones, for example). Let me dial fira-fira-air finisher to unlock Fire Raid, for example.
If you don't mind dealing with the annoying animations, as far as I can tell there is no reason not to always use summons instead of cure spells literally every single time.
It sort of reminds me of Dream Drop Distance, in the sense that there are a bunch of *parallel* systems in the game that don't really interlock with each other properly.
I want a version of this battle system that does away with Keyblade transformations and Attraction Flow and instead gives you a much wider variety of finishers and Command Styles that are closer to the BBS ones (so like a full complement of elemental ones, for example). Let me dial fira-fira-air finisher to unlock Fire Raid, for example.
I keep howling at Donald and Goofy admitting they can't run up walls, but nevertheless, they never fail to appear behind Sora after he climbs one.
What the fuck is this lmfao. That I still love it is a testament to how much I love the characters.
Keyblade transformation is something we know advanced keyblade wielders can pull off
Havent played yet but difficulty is a hard thing to create,
Spiderman is often used as an example as an easy game and a hard game and they had to add an easier mode and a harder mode lol. I feel for developers. That said, I think artificially making the game harder on your first playthrough is a no no. Same with using an exploit to make it easier. Beat the game and then assess it afterwards.
Spiderman is often used as an example as an easy game and a hard game and they had to add an easier mode and a harder mode lol. I feel for developers. That said, I think artificially making the game harder on your first playthrough is a no no. Same with using an exploit to make it easier. Beat the game and then assess it afterwards.
Just throwing this out there, but does anyone think that the two choices you make in the beginning of the game could effect the way we're all perceiving the difficulty? I know very little about the choices and the changes they make, but I feel like I picked a glass cannon build because enemies can do a crap ton of damage to me even on Standard. Some people in this topic make it sound like there's no chance of death at all. I chose Magic (mystic?), then warrior for example.
There's a weird mechanic. I never realized they heal you up too. Pretty over powered!
those choices just give negligible bonus to some stat, nothing that radically changes the difficulty of the game.
None of the Kingdom Hearts games have been hard after KH1. People misremember the difficulties of KH2 and BBS because they lump post-game and the Final Mix superbosses in with the story bosses. That said it gets a little better after the third world.
Thought so.
Had to answer the Phone mid combat and watched them basically fight alone against like 20 enemies or something like that and they simply destroyed them.
Especially Donald was dead every single time in the older games while he is a beast in this one most of the time.
The AI controlled characters aren't dead weight this time which changes a lot in this type of game especially with the shared focus from the enemies.
Also what helps is how good the controls are.
The game is quick and reactive which at least for me is a huge upgrade over the previous games.
None of the older games would be considered hard if we had similar good AI controlled Partners and these fluid controls + interactions with the environment etc
KH2 was already far easier because it was a huge upgrade over the first game.
Despite wanting to play KH3 incredibly badly, and waiting so long for it, I'm kinda glad I decided to wait on playing it, for various reasons.
This seems like something that'll get resolved in the future, just like with KH2. I don't think they'll do a final mix release, probably a final mix DLC.
This seems like something that'll get resolved in the future, just like with KH2. I don't think they'll do a final mix release, probably a final mix DLC.
They don't affect how you level or gain abilities like the previous games?
Where do you see the info for this? Did you test it yourself?
Keyblade transformation is something we know advanced keyblade wielders can pull off
That was only ever depicted as one thing (a means of transportation).
They never did this in combat lol. Never before KH3 could Keyblades transform into yo-yos and whatever the hell the user feels like. It's a neat mechanic, but it definitely pops up from out of nowhere.
In a game where you can double jump and glide in the air, I think keyblade transformations make more sense TBH.