Spoilers ► KH HD 1.5 ReMIX Spoiler-Free Impressions + Streams (Tag dem Days stuff)

[Chaser]

Got my game last night, in Agrabah.

Thank you so much Erry!
Are the videos going to be saved to watch later? Would love to watch when I'm done playing Ratchet and Clank.

 

[Vəntus]

Yes, Part 1 and the unboxing were saved directly after finishing livestreaming, so once I'm done with Part 2, it'll also be saved for watching later.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

Got my game last night, in Agrabah.

Watching you play reminds me of how much I miss Technical EXP

 

[Chaser]

Oh tech exp. Everyone loved you, but you were yanked from sequels. You'll have a special place in my kokoro ;~;

 

[ajmrowland]

Spoiler Show

[video=youtube;jDEUuridjr0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDEUuridjr0[/video]
Odd since Toshiyuki Morikawa did dub over lance bass in this game.

I love that new music! And the fight will be awesome

 

[Kevin Perez]

Wow, the triangle button is a life saver and it seems not too difficult to cast Strike Raid without eruption. If it where anything like the PS2 version, I would've been massacred in less than a minute.

 

[Vəntus]

Streaming again, at Atlantica.

 

[Sephiroth0812]

Spoiler Show

[video=youtube;jDEUuridjr0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDEUuridjr0[/video]
Odd since Toshiyuki Morikawa did dub over lance bass in this game.

Spoiler Show

Looks like the control improvements with using the triangle button make even KH 1 Sephy now practically a joke in terms of difficulty. You just have to spam Strike Raid over and over again to easily defeat him.
Not having to scroll down to use it saves a decent amount of time resulting in the player not getting in critical health even once.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

Streaming again, at Atlantica.

Oh wow you started early...or probably late for you xD I wish I could have watched. I hope you do a stream later on in the day!

 

[Kevin Perez]

From what I saw from EmiruHD's walkthrough of Atlantica, it seems that controls have been "fixed/updated", now, from this point on, the Atlantica bashing must cease. Thanks to whiny, self-important cry babies of the first game, Kingdom Hearts II was watered down in difficulty and Atlantica was reduced to a mini-game world. Oh, how much I love Atlantica and it seems they've updated Triton's castle that it doesn't like it does in the PS2 when Sora and Co. reach and go into it. The magic of HD!

 

[ajmrowland]

Spoiler Show

Looks like the control improvements with using the triangle button make even KH 1 Sephy now practically a joke in terms of difficulty. You just have to spam Strike Raid over and over again to easily defeat him.
Not having to scroll down to use it saves a decent amount of time resulting in the player not getting in critical health even once.

Just remember it doesn't seem to be proud mode because sora has so much hp.

 

[Chaser]

What happens if you level up a lot then turn on zero exp? Does it still give you those second chance stuff and you can survive more combos?

 

[Vəntus]

Oh wow you started early...or probably late for you xD I wish I could have watched. I hope you do a stream later on in the day!

I live in GMT+3, so it was probably veeery early for you guys, it was around 5pm or so when I started. 10am, at least, for east coast users.

What happens if you level up a lot then turn on zero exp? Does it still give you those second chance stuff and you can survive more combos?

No, it won't grant you more abilities. EXP Zero was more fit with KH2 and the later games because abilities were separate from the leveling tree.

 

[Chaser]

I've seen level 1 Khfm runs where sephiroths hits take a third of the health off instead of instant k.o. You sure it doesn't have these special abilities?

 

[skyfoxx]

Spoiler Show

Looks like the control improvements with using the triangle button make even KH 1 Sephy now practically a joke in terms of difficulty. You just have to spam Strike Raid over and over again to easily defeat him.
Not having to scroll down to use it saves a decent amount of time resulting in the player not getting in critical health even once.

Spoiler Show

This is why I feel that KH1 wasn't really difficult for the right reasons. It was difficult because it was sort of a flawed game. Making the bottom command to a simple button is just more efficient. If something is difficult, it should be difficult because the enemies or boss themselves are difficult. For example, a Mario platformer in which Mario can't jump unless the player presses A and then Down DOES make the game harder, but rather in a frustrating way than a fun way.

 

[Vəntus]

You don't get the ability but the EXP Zero ability probably has a pre-implemented Second Chance in it. Additionally, someone deducted that not only do you get stuck at Level 1, but so do bosses.

 

[-Roxas-XIII-]

You don't get the ability but the EXP Zero ability probably has a pre-implemented Second Chance in it. Additionally, someone deducted that not only do you get stuck at Level 1, but so do bosses.

...which completely defeats the point of having a lv1 mode in the game....

From what I've seen in lv1 palythroughs, the only changes to the game mechanics appear to be a reduction in enemy STR values, and automatic Second Chance and MP Haste abilities. Sora still does very little damage to enemies, but the damage certain enemies do to Sora is greatly reduced, most notably with the super-bosses (Kurt Zisa, Xemnas, Sephiroth).

SE really should have left it alone. It's kinda fun when you know that a single hit can take you out at any moment.

 

[Kevin Perez]

Spoiler Show

OMFG, they used the models from BBS for Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora! Aurora no longer suffers from down syndrome! Jasmine seems to have the KH2 model as well.

 

[Vəntus]

Spoiler Show

OMFG, they used the models from BBS for Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora! Aurora no longer suffers from down syndrome! Jasmine seems to have the KH2 model as well.

Spoiler Show

Belle is also using her KH2 model.

 

[Chaser]

...which completely defeats the point of having a lv1 mode in the game....

From what I've seen in lv1 palythroughs, the only changes to the game mechanics appear to be a reduction in enemy STR values, and automatic Second Chance and MP Haste abilities. Sora still does very little damage to enemies, but the damage certain enemies do to Sora is greatly reduced, most notably with the super-bosses (Kurt Zisa, Xemnas, Sephiroth).

SE really should have left it alone. It's kinda fun when you know that a single hit can take you out at any moment.

However in an interview they said it was actually impossible for them to defeat bosses. That's why they had to tweak it.