I have been reading since the beginning, and have had some great laughs and other thoughts.
Some things that have been on my mind:
* In the Giant Ursula fight, it is possible to avoid all of her attacks, I’ve done it before, not as a No Damage fight, but I have avoided all her attacks on several different occasions. So I’d say it should be possible to No Damage her.
Sure the tactic I would use would involve swimming around as far away from Ursula as possible, and let my party members do the damaging, but then again I always were the defending type. (Like running up the vines in the Dragon Maleficent fight where none of her attacks can reach me.)
*In the wrap-up section of Neverland part deux, you explain the controls of Glide.
Glide lets Sora float from a jump by pressing Square in mid-air, after which he’ll gradually descend like a kite.
Whilst that is the standard controls for the series, I am positive that Glide in KHI is jump and O (or X in my PS2 FM case) and that jump and square is just for Super Glide.
It has been a while since I played the game seriously, but I am positive on this point.
*This is a fun fact. SGB did a Let’s play of KHI a few years back, and like many others made fun of the Hercules battle. Like “Why
do barrels hurt him?”. After the fight, one of the guys did some googling, and came upon a story of Deianeira, wife of Heracles, when she heard Heracles had married a younger bride by the name of Iole,
The young bride, Iole, was also rumoured to be very beautiful, and Deianeira was at her wits end. When she had made sure her husband was really coming with Iole through a servant, she put the Centaurs cloth in a barrel of water, and then put a shirt in it that she sent to Heracles.
When Heracles put the shirt on it stuck on his skin and caused him great pain. When he tried to take it off, pieces of his own flesh came with it.
So in a way, unintentionally as it must have been, there is some Greek mythological reasoning for Hercules to be weak of barrels.
Source:
Deianeira, Greece, Greek mythology
*There are a lot of things to extract from the “My friends are my power!” scene. I have always liked that scene, and honestly never understood why people like to make fun of it, but here you are making a whole essay about why this is an important scene, and it reminded me of Frustrated Jacob’s LP.
He too went in a long tantrum about why this scene is the most important scene in the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxHWorrLhKk
Around 07:00 – 15:30
Jacob has mentioned several times during the LP that he wants to make a full fledged video about the importance of this scene, in a similar vein to his FFXV analyses and his “Plot of KH series in 20 minutes” video.
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You can’t climb up on Maleficent’s platform, so at first glance you have no choice but to attack the platform directly.
I have pretty much always believed you couldn’t climb the platform, but then...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHD0O1OVz-k#t=20m25s
At 20:25, a noob who hasn’t touched the game for months, jumps up on her platform, the very first try.
I feel a little ashamed.
All in all, I very much enjoy reading through these, and am very much looking forward to the following posts.