Hi, Im Kaci. I play too much Kingdom Hearts. If you've got questions, I've got answers.

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soradinnersready:

i literally grew up with kingdom hearts my entire life so i honestly dont know what i’d do if the games stop being made in my lifetime but i also dont want games to keep being created AFTER my death because i refuse to die until i know and understand every single bit of the plot and all the lores

chiffon-rabbit:

The Father, The Son and the Holy Ghost.

(Source: lillioid)

I was wondering if you had any suggestions to beat the 5th round of "Legendary Challenge" with the Mickey Medal cuz' I'm helplessly lost

Yes!  Actually my roommates and I figured out a really good trick to this.

1.) Have a cleanse to keep yourself safe from his buffs
2.) Pooh Bear.  Praying for Defense Boost procs is really stupid.  Getting +4 S-Def will keep you safe.  So that’s, Pooh Bear and a friend’s Pooh Bear.  Vexen B is a good alternative, as well as the new Orchestra Sora.  Cinderella & Jaq works.

After that, it’s just attrition.  Keep fighting until you win!

Hope this helped.

<3 KCM

  Anonymous said:
Did you know that the ending for 0.2 was originally going to be very... Different. One draft involve Aqua resigning to the fact that she was just doomed to always be miserable while another involved her losing what remains of her sanity and screaming at the heavens. Nomura decided that the ending we got was the most fitting of her character arc. Would you agree?

O_O I did not know that.

Well.  I think resigning herself to misery goes against the plot of 0.2.  I think her self-analysis and recognition of the darkness is what’s really important about her character development.  She went through BBS talking about how Terra has darkness in him and how that’s so bad, since those were Eraqus’s teachings.  But now she has to experience her own darkness firsthand as the Dark World draws it out of her.  And she also comes to trust in the guiding light of her friends in her weakest moments.  I think if she gave into darkness or lost herself, the plot of 0.2 would have had to be very different.

I think 0.2′s representation of Aqua is probably very fitting for her character.  She hasn’t lost her mind, but she’s not the same girl she was ten years ago.  You can see the cracks in her sanity: her self hatred, the way she talks to herself, and her hope constantly wavering.  I hope the next time Aqua makes an appearance, she still has these cracks.  I think it would be more interesting and in line with her character to see her struggle with the aftermath of this trauma than it would be to see another KH character give into darkness.  

That being said, if she just acts like the same old Aqua I am going to be pissed. >_<

Thanks for the ask!!

<3 KCM

  Anonymous said:
Hey, I recently had a falling out with another KH blog, and I was wondering if this is an appropriate place for discussing theories?

You had a falling out with a KH blog?! o_o  Maybe their friends weren’t their power…

As for theories, I’m totally open to discussions if you want to send me something in private messenger!  I’ll probably keep the blog centered on my personal thoughts and opinions.  But if you send an Ask about a theory, I’ll definitely give my opinion!!

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  Anonymous said:
hello, i have a question how i know the medal is tier 4 or other? thanks

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The circled part is where the guilt percentage is.  The little logo next to the percent dictates what “Tier” it is in terms of guilt.  Tier 1 is 10-25%, Tier 2 is 20-50%, Tier 3 is 40-100%, Tier 4 is 60-130%, and Tier 5 is 80-150%.  Here’s an screenshot of the Tiers, their guilt ranges, and the symbols associated to them:

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Hope this helps!!

<3KCM

Org XIII Event ~ Zexion Guide

The bad news: this is the worst event since Xemnas.  It’s ridiculously hard and is geared almost exclusively to real-money players.  The only reason I was able to beat it is because I buy VIPs when they do the Tier 5 giveaways.  Honestly, I don’t know if any F2P player can beat this one.

The good news: Zexion B is exciting, compelling content!  +1 Str for one turn??  Random target?!  I’ve been waiting a year for a RAX medal that wasn’t so OP, and finally I have it!!  The real good news?  Zexion B isn’t worth the trouble.

In the spirit of the event, you see a lot of the “Barrier Master”, a Heartless sporting the same book weapon Zexion uses.  You also see enemies you can walk right through without fighting, referencing Zexion’s clones.  All enemies are magic type, since Zexion uses magic as his method of fighting.

Mission List:

Mission 1: Kill Barrier Master ~ HDL
Lv. 25 Barrier Master* & Bunch O’ Balloons** & Shadow Witch x2
The Gigas Shadows without bars above their heads do not trigger combat.

Mission 2: One Turn ~ Magic Mirror
Lv. 50 Blue Rhapsody x5
Lv. 50 Emerald Sonata*** & Wizard x2
Lv. 50 Barrier Master* & Shadow Witch x4

Mission 3: 60 Seconds ~ Zexion
Lv. 75 Barrier Master* & Bunch O’ Balloons** & Shadow Witch x4
The Large Bodies without bars above their heads do not trigger combat.

Mission 4: Two Turns ~ HDL
Lv. 100 Barrier Master* & Wizard & Ring-A-Ding**** x2

Mission 5: Kill Barrier Master x3 ~ Zexion
Lv. 125 Barrier Master*
Lv. 125 Barrier Master*
Lv. 125 Barrier Master*
They are invisible.  One is to the right when you start, at the tip of the crossroads.  Then take the bottom right portal.  The second one is in the bottom corner beneath the portal you come out of.  Go back through the portal, to the room with the four portals where you started.  This time take the upper left.  In the middle of this room, at the top, is the Target.  Again, Neoshadows without bars above their heads do not trigger combat.

Mission 6: One Turn ~ Magic Mirror
Lv. 150 Darkball x2 & Green Requiem# x3
Lv. 150 Shadow Witch x3
Lv. 150 Ring-A-Ding****
Lv. 150 Barrier Master* & Shamanwild x2

Mission 7: 50 seconds ~ Magic Mirror
Lv. 175 Barrier Master* & Bunch O’ Balloons** & Shadow Witch x4
Again, avoid enemies with bars above their heads.  When in doubt - especially with the Darksides - hug the bottom of the screen.

Mission 8: Two Turns ~ Zexion
Lv. 200 Barrier Master* & Emerald Sonata*** & Shadow Witch & Sleep Archer##

Mission 9: Kill Barrier Master x4 ~ Hairstyles!!
Lv. 225 Barrier Master*
Lv. 225 Barrier Master*
Lv. 225 Barrier Master*
Lv. 225 Barrier Master*
At least these ones aren’t invisible.  When you start, go straight to the right.  That’s one.  Then go down and to the right a little more.  That’s two.  Head back to the center and go straight to the left.  The Behemoths won’t trigger.  Go up, that’s three.  Go down, that’s four.

Mission 10: One Turn ~ Zexion
Lv. 250 Sleep Archer## & Ice Plant x2
Lv. 250 Candy Apple x2
Lv. 250 Shadow Magician & Shadow Witch x3
Lv. 250 Barrier Master* & Wizard x2 & High Wizard

Mission 11: 75 Seconds ~ Zexion
Lv. 300 Barrier Master* & Bunch O’ Balloons** & Shadow Witch x4
Navigate rooms one and two, then hug the top of the room for rooms three and four, and finally hug the bottom for room five.

Mission 12: Two Turns ~ Zexion
Lv. 325 Possessor & Barrier Master* x2 & Shadow Magician x2
Your first medal should be a buff, like +3 Str.  Your second medal has to be an AOE cleanse.  This isn’t optional.  iB&B with Extra Attack is the absolute best thing to have for slot 1.  After that, stack your +Str and general defense down.  Then hit it with your best AOE medals and Nova.  And pray.

Mission 13: Two Turns ~ Zexion & Title: No. VI
Lv. 350 Wretched Witch### & Barrier Master* x2 & Sleep Archer## & Emerald Sonata*** & Lv. 500 Chill Blade####
Well, fuck this mission.  There’s just no realistic way to describe this.  Between the Sonata’s healing, the Barrier Master’s buffs, and the Archer’s Sleep… and +50 health bar enemies?  Just.  Ugh.

So what do you do?  Sleeping Lion is a must for this mission.  All enemies are Magic and the multipliers on SL are too good to pass up.  You need an AOE cleanse.  You need +6 Str.  You need either Extra Attack on GDD or some -60% Ground Def.  You need a crap ton of luck with traits or guilted premiums or SOMETHING because damnit this mission is hard.  I really can’t give any advice here.  This game has gotten incredibly complicated and versatile and advice just won’t cut it.  Anything I recommend is going to alienate 90% of players no matter what I say.  So I’ll just tell you what I did:

SL+28:
~iB&B with Extra Attack
~Tieri with DB3
~Mickey&Minnie with SC
~150% KDG with Extra Attack & AB3 Max
~150% iHT Sora with -60% Ground Def & AB4
Share: 150% iHT Sora with -60% Ground Def & AB4

I got all my AB4 procs.  I was put to sleep on the second iB&B and couldn’t use Tieri or M&M on Turn 1.  I didn’t need SC, but I did need DB3.  Though I have a lot of +2000 Def on my medals by coincidence.

A party member who didn’t have Extra Attack on iB&B did this:
~Tieri with DB3
~iB&B
~iKairi with SC
The rest was basically the same.

I know a lot of this probably didn’t help, I’m so sorry. >_<  I can say with sincerity, with utmost honesty, that this is the absolute worst guide I have ever written.  So many new Heartless I had to look up.  So many stupid counters and special abilities.  I am so burnt out.  Please, SENA, do NOT give me another event for like.  Two weeks.

Good luck everyone!

<3KCM

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*+2 Gen & PSM Def, after one hit casts +5 Gen & PSM Def on all enemies
**When health is depleted, it explodes, damaging all enemies
***After hit with three medals, heals all enemies
****+2 PM Def, +1 S Def
#After hit with two medals, heals all enemies
##After hit with two medals, attacks and puts you to sleep.  Unlike other counters in this event, this one resets after it is used.
###+1 S Def
####+2 Def

Edit: Here’s a link to the guide on Reddit.  They’re usually really helpful so you should look at some of the comments if you’re having trouble!

iDonald HSC Guide

Ohhh jeeze here comes another High Score Challenge!  Let’s talk rewards first:

Rewards:
Illustrated Donald: General Defense Down by two tiers, single target.  And just like in the other KH games, he doesn’t heal you.  He’s basically a magic version of Mickey&Minnie from two HSC ago.
Donald & Daisy: Speed/Magic Str +2 tiers.  Basically the SM equivalent of Aladdin&Abu from the last HSC.

Multipliers:

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A nice spread of Pay to Win, Free Giveaway, and Haha Good Luck.  KA#9 is four medals for 15 dollars right now, which is great for people with money and bad for the 42%-56% multiplier range.  If you buy the KA#9 weekly deal, make sure not to combine the medals just yet.  Luckily, this event runs one day into next week for the dummies ((cough cough Chloe)) who combined their medals already.

Enemy List:
This HSC is old-school.  No paths, no screen lockouts.  Go straight for the hard enemies and refill SP on the weak ones early in the mission.

Lv. 50 Wizard [M]
Lv. 50 Large Body [P]
Lv. 50 Wibble Wobble [S]
Lv. 1 Gift Shadow [P] x5
Lv. 100 Large Armor [P] & Armored Knight [P]
Lv. 100 White Rose [M] & Ice Plant [M]
Lv. 100 Stinging Bee* [S] & Dire Plant [S]

Lv. 150 Fire Plant [M] x3
Lv. 150 Defender [P] x3
Lv. 150 Search Ghost** [S] x3
Lv. 1 Gift Shadow [P] x3
Lv. 200 Morning Star [P]
Lv. 200 Invisible [S]
Lv. 200 High Wizard [M]
Lv. 200 Hammer Frame [P] x2
Lv. 200 Cannon Gun*** [S] x2
Lv. 200 Wayward Wardrobe**** [M]

Lv. 250 Yellow Copter Fleet# [S]
Lv. 300 Red Copter Fleet## [P]
Lv. 350 Blue Copter Fleet### [M]
Lv. 400 Black Copter Fleet#### [S]

*+1 Str
**+2 Str
***+2 PSM Def
****+3 M Def
#+2 SM Def
##+2 PS Def
###+2 PM Def
####+3 S Str & +3 P Def

Guilt:
iDonald: You need to place in the top 1k and get 22.5 million to guilt him.  You get two trait rolls in this instance.  Extra Attack would be great!
D&D: You get four for getting 15 mil, which is pretty easy.  Then you have to place in the top 2k to guilt him.  Again, Extra Attack is what you’re aiming for.

I got almost 13 million with 0%, so the 22.5 million for the final reward would require something like 73%.  But I have a party member that did it with 56%, so what do I know?

Alright!  That’s it!  Have fun guys!

<3 KCM

The only Kingdom Hearts game I've played though is KH2 (multiple times), and I've played a bit of the original Kingdom Hearts and Re: Chain of Memories, but didn't really get into them. After seeing the latest trailer for Kingdom Hearts 3, I've gotten reeeeeally hyped for the series again. I'm going to start a playthrough of all the content as outlined in your Beginners' Gude, and I'm wondering: About how many hours of play/watchtime can I expect to get though everything before KH3 comes out?

Ohhhhh what a question.  Um… assuming you haven’t played the games before or you remember very little of them:

KH1: ~24 hours, ~30 with all Reports, totally doable
CoM: ~20 hours, ~12 hours for Riku’s story
KH2: ~28 hours, ~50 with all optional bosses, very hard
358: ~24 hours for the game or 3 hours for the movie.  1.5+2.5 updated the 358 movie to include a final battle cutscene (which is awesome!) and it makes the movie version a lot more substantial than it was before.  Alternatively I am reading the manga right now and it is glorious.  ~3 hours for the manga, 5 books
BBS: ~15 hours per character (x3), ~4 hours for Final and Secret episode, and anywhere from 2-20 hours to unlock Secret episode.  This is the huge time commitment one, IMO
Coded: 3 hours, watch the movie
DDD: ~24 hours
KHUx: Ongoing, but my Theater Mode, which focuses only on relevant plot, is currently at about 2 hours
0.2: ~3 hours

Total: ~170 hours, or just over a week of straight gameplay

Difficulty settings will drastically change this, but it sort of balances out.  If you’re trying to do optional bosses, they will be much easier on Beginner, but if you’re trying to unlock secret endings, they will be much easier on Proud or Critical.  If you’re following my guide and you’re willing to watch videos on YouTube, this is about right! ^_^

I know 170 hours sounds daunting, but it’s really not.  A lot of people put twice that into Skyrim.  I’ve put ten times that into the KH franchise over the past fifteen years. >///< But even if KH3 comes out one year from today (oh God please let that be the case), then you’re only looking at three hours a week, or less than half an hour a day!

It’s an amazing series, start to finish.  A bit of a wild ride at times.  But I honestly don’t think anyone can get more out of a video game than they can get out of Kingdom Hearts.

Have fun!!  And thank you for the question!!

<3 KCM