I know there’s a while yet, but when you reach the Cavern of Remembrance, will you talk about the glitches surrounding the area?
I ask because just here last week playing my most recent playthrough, I decided to tackle CoR before finishing all worlds. That is to say I left Pride Lands 2 and Olympus 2 be, since they are, after all, optional worlds. After defeating Roxas I stopped progressing the story to get Final Form and level 3 Glide, as well as grinding the other forms to master, and left for CoR before approaching the Castle.
Aside from the obvious reason of needing Glide to cross the final ‘Mineshaft’ route, I chose this point in the game to tackle CoR because there’s an invisible wall preventing you to enter the Nobody hallway before you beat Roxas, for some reason.
Anyway, I made all my way to ‘Garden of Assemblage’, touched the Computer control watched Data Axel, Demyx and Xaldin portals show up, I hadn’t faced any of the Absent Silhouettes yet, and I walked out of the Cave the way I came.
Later on, after I had finally beat Pride Lands 2 and Olympus 2 I returned to Hollow Bastion to do the MCP fight and all that. On my way from town to the study I ran past where the secret entrance appears in the ‘Restoration Site’ however that entrance wasn’t there. Whether or not that was because I left the way I came IDK. But, stupid as I was, I did not save my game at the ‘Postern’ as I entered the Cavern to fix that mistake.
I made it to the ‘Garden of Assemblage’ again and noticed that the secret door
was in fact open, so I shrugged and left that way. When I spawned at the other side of the door, the door was not open, meaning I saw through the wall, as I realized that I was falling through the floor, quickly used an Arial Dodge to see if I could get up, but I could not get high enough to spawn the Morning Star Heartless I would be able to limit to safety, and so I just watched as Sora fell endlessly.
It was only about an hour of playtime I had lost, so I quickly made it back to that story point again, but this time I decided to ignore the missing entryway as I was on my way to fight the MCP. After the fight I returned to see if that fixed it, but no, the entryway was still missing. Maybe it's just a special scenario glitch I discovered by completing CoR too early for the game to handle. I have known since 2007 that this doorway is glitchy, but I have never seen it be this glitchy before.
Maybe some extra testing will fix it, or maybe I’ll just learn a bit more about what happens. Like maybe if I hold left whilst exiting the cave I can enter a safe zone, similar to what Bl00dyBizkitz found in this glitch-exploitation video. From 11:30 on.
[video=youtube;urwuRb9GqV8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urwuRb9GqV8[/video]
Update: Yesterday I sat with my camcorder and decided to experiment a little with CoR.
I filmed everything I did, and picked 15 screenshots from that, but since I can only post a maximum of ten on this post, i chose the ones I feel best show what happened.
Standing in front of the the place where the shortcut should be. Playtime is 26:27.
At the entrance of 'Garden of Assemblage'. The only time passed is the three minutes it took to make it through CoR. Playtime is 26:30.
Walking through the shortcut exit.
Holding the left analogue stick forward and spamming square to either Dodge Roll or Quick Run will result in Sora moving a little forward, before the wall pushes him and the camera insde the boundaries. In the bottom of the screen you can where the edge of the floor meets the Void.
Shortcut missing. The fading area name proves this is imediately after.
But if you don't hold forward, this happens.