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Nova_Scar ------ Username for GameFAQs.com
[email protected] ------ Email I seldom check
January 08, 2009 ------ Date I first started this FAQ/Walkthrough
October 08, 2009 ------ Date I finished this guide
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This guide is set to the English version of the game, and to Proud mode
difficulty. Differences between version and difficulty may very as such.
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Welcome to my guide for Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories. The main reason
I decided to write this is because I wanted a guide which contains all the
information possible, mostly for references. Also, I wanted to make a guide
which could be used as a complete strategy for this game -- that is, from
beginning to end, and completing it 100%.
In addition, I think this game finally needs a complete comprehensive guide
for it. There are very, very few good guides for it online. And since Chain
of Memories was one of my most favorite games in the original, and remains
even more so now, I hope to have fun writing this.
While I'm not really into personal introductions...I go by the name Zadion,
and I'm sixteen years of age. I happen to live in the middle of nowhere and
have absolutely no life, so I spend every moment on the internet. I've made
attempts at writing strategy guides before, but I never had it in me to
finish them. Hopefully, this one will be different.
I currently just played through Re:Chain of Memories for the first time,
so I therefore hope to write this with the information fresh on my mind.
I'm going to play through it one more time as I write the guide.
But please remember that this IS my first guide (if completed), so it will
not be perfect.
I'm sure you all know this already, but Re:Chain of Memories is a (very
well done) remake of the original Chain of Memories, which was released
for the Gameboy Advance a few years ago. Re:CoM kept pretty much all of
the original game intact, while adding just a few extras for fun.
This remake isn't about the extras though -- the main thing that makes
it is the difference between a game for the GBA and the PS2. I believe
that's pretty obvious.
This guide will contain spoilers, though not mass amounts of them.
For example, I'm not going to explain the cutscenes out to you. That is,
unless I decide to create a section where I reiterate the story. Don't
plan on that.
Oh, and of course, if you don't like how I do it, create your own guide.
^^ Thank you.
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My email [email protected] for anything related to this
guide, and for that purpose only. This will include questions, contributions,
and corrections.
If you just want to say hi or something, that's okay. But do not email me
to do such. This is as I check my email once every two weeks at best.
As a matter of fact, you may want to IM me any questions you have. As said,
I don't check my email often, and I get a lot of spam.
Any message sent without the words "Chain of Memories," "Kingdom Hearts," or
an abbreviation of the such in it will be ignored or deleted without re-
sponse. Don't email me with any questions to do with the other titles in the
series. I probably won't be able to help.
When you choose to contact me, I expect you to use proper grammar. I don't
want to read your email and wonder what the hell you said cause you use "u"
and other crappy grammatical items. Periods, commas, and question marks are
very much indeed your friends.
Also, the only language I know is English. Don't talk to me in anything but
that.
In addition, I would appreciate that, if you wish to contribute to the guide,
you make sure whatever you wish to contribute is not already in it.
Thank you.
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without permission from me. You WILL NOT and CANNOT reproduce this guide and
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only print this off for yourself or for a friend for personal use ONLY.
Should you not obey these rules, you WILL suffer legal penalties.
The being said, feel free to use my guide.
As of right now, this guide may be used on the following:
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Wow, this is messy. When everything is complete, I'll probably clean this up
a lot.
~~ January 08, 2009: Version 0.50
-Finished everything up to Card Mechanics, including Table of Contents
and ASCII art, though the ASCII art was mostly made from long ago.
~~ January 09, 2009: Version 1.00
-Finished Card Mechanics.
-Started a new file for Sora's story, and played through it past
Traverse Town, then wrote the walkthrough for it. Going to replay
through it as I write the walkthrough, to make sure I have everything
-Made notes of the most recent bosses I've beat in Reverse/Rebirth.
I have not added the notes to the guide. They'll be used later.
-Also finished the world maps for floors 2-6. Did so with help from
my first playthrough on Sora's story.
-Completed Agrabah last. I've done enough today, so I'm off to bed.
~~ January 10, 2009: Version 1.10
-Halloween Town and Olympus Coliseum have been completed. Unfortunately,
in the process of this, I accidentally wrote over my Reverse/Rebirth
playthrough. Blah. I planned on finishing the entire first World Card
set today, but that just devoured my spirit. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe.
~~ January 11, 2009: Version 1.20
-Monstro and Wonderland done, meaning I'm officially finished with World
Card Set I! YEEHAW! I also have the guide for Larxene down.
~~ January 12, 2009: Version 1.25
-Curtosy of my first playthrough, maps for floors 7, 8, and 9 are done.
Cannot do the map for 10 yet, because I synthesized 100 Acre Wood on it.
I'll have to wait until I get that far on this playthrough for it's map.
~~ January 13, 2009: Version 1.30
-Atlantica has been completed, along with the strategy for Riku I.
I had it done once, but my damned computer did an automatic restart
while I was away for a few minutes. I didn't save. I can only hope I
got everything as I remember it.
I did have the quotes for what Ursula says before two of her attacks,
but I couldn't remember them. = =; Should anyone who reads this remember
to take note of those quotes themselves, I'd highly appreciate it if he
or she would give them to me.
~~ January 15, 2009: Version 1.40
-Blah, I was away most of the day yesterday, and when I wasn't, I was busy
talking to my girlfriend. I didn't have time to work on it. Because of
that, and spacing it off sort of the two days prior, I've put more work
on it today. Neverland (and Riku II boss, of course) and 100 Acre Wood
are done. I wanted to do Hollow Bastion but meh.
-I just read the "Composing Your Guide" guidelines on GameFAQs for the
first time since I last attempted to work on a guide. Found out not to
indent anything on a guide, so I took out all of the indentations. But,
what I really want to know is what the hell this BS about not boxing
stuff is about? Much of my guide is boxed so far purely due to bosses.
I don't even know what I'm going to do about that, other than maybe just
not worry about it.
~~ January 16, 2009: Version 1.45
-Hollow Bastion completed. Lazy today I was, I know. But I don't have a
lot left for Sora's story anyway.
~~ January 17, 2009: Version 1.50
-Walkthrough for Vexen I completed.
-Twilight Town in it's entirety has been finished also.
~~ January 18, 2009: Version 1.60
-Riku III, Destiny Islands, Riku IV, and Larxene II all completed! Yay!
I have a headache now. I probably should have worked on a strategy for
beating Larxene without Sonic Blade, but meh...My head hurts too much.
~~ January 19, 2009: Version 1.70
-Every part of Castle Oblivion complete, up to the boss strategies.
I decided to devise a strategy for beating Larxene without Sonic Blade
after all, since it was annoying me so much not having one. I used the
second save file I kept right before beating her.
Larxene, being my second favorite Organization character, deserves a
better written strategy anyway.
~~ January 20, 2009: Version 1.80
-Axel II boss strategy has been fully written. Unfortunately, I haven't
had time for anything else. School is taking too much of my time. >.<
~~ January 21, 2009: Version 1.95
-The walkthrough for Sora's story is all but finished! The boss guides
for all three boss battles with Marluxia have been completed. All that
is left is the walkthrough's closure.
~~ January 22, 2009: Version 2.00
-And...it is finished! I changed the format for sleights on the third
Marluxia a little bit to make it look nicer, and I wrote the end of it.
Now, I just need to decide what section to write next.
~~ January 23, 2009: Version 2.05
-Not much done today. I started work on the attack card lists, and have
completed it the best I can right now. I'm waiting for permission before
I put the percentages of drops in specific worlds.
~~ February 04, 2009: Version 2.15
-Wow. I wanted a break, but not this long...Blah. Life has been so damn
busy lately that I haven't had time to work on this, even though I have
really wanted to manyatime. Oh well. I got the entire "Introduction to
Riku" section completed, as well as the Hollow Bastion walkthrough.
~~ February 06, 2009: Version 2.20
-Monstro and Vexen completed. Sigh...need to work on guide more....blah!
I've been so sick lately that I'm so not up to it. >.< Grrr...soon!
~~ February 19, 2009: Version 2.30
-FINALLY more work done! I swear...no free time to work anymore. e.e
At least I got a decent bit done...Traverse Town, Neverland, and Riku I
are complete.
~~ February 22, 2009: Version 2.35
-Well, at least the guide hasn't been massively spaced off...even if I
didn't get much done. World Card Set II maps have been started on, and
Wonderland is next to complete.
~~ October 4, 2009: Version 2.50
-Wow...I haven't touched this guide or this game in ages. I sincerely
apologize for ignoring it so long. However, I've started again (very
randomly I might add), and I'm going to try very hard to finish it
this time! I'm sorry for any differences in writing style or mistakes
(as I can't remember everything now :\) in this point from before.
-Sometime (probably not long after) my last update, I finished Wonderland
and did the VERY beginning of Atlantica. From there is where I started;
I did the rest of Atlantica (which was most all of it).
-I also made the map for and wrote most of the Olympus Coliseum section.
~~ October 5, 2009: Version 2.60
-I did plan on doing more yesterday, but couldn't as my brother was
severely injured awhile back and therefore is sitting in the room with
my TV most of the time, keeping it tied up all day. Therefore, I can
only write this late at night.
-Anyway, Olympus Coliseum was finished (just the Hades strategy).
-Did all of Halloween Town, including the map and boss.
-Wrote the guide for Lexaeus. That was a huge job by itself; my guide
for him is one of the longest boss strategies I've written. I kinda feel
guilty as Lexaeus isn't epic enough to deserve such a huge strategy. D:
Ah well, at least it's plenty detailed.
~~ October 6, 2009: Version 2.70
-Destiny Islands completed up to Zexion.
-I did a lot of testing on Zexion but it was getting too late and I had
to go to sleep before being able to write up more than his attacks and
sleights.
~~ October 7, 2009: Version 2.85
-Zexion is finished. I do believe it's my longest boss guide so far.
The battle was just too....unique, to make it a short guide. It took a
lot of work and time to do enough testing and write this up. It's very
detailed though, and Zexion, unlike Lexaeus, deserves a hugely detailed
walkthrough! Just not more than Marluxia...r.r
-After going to bed, I woke up and finished Twilight Town in it's
entirety. I'll probably finish up Castle Oblivion of Reverse/Rebirth
late tonight, after midnight.
~~ October 8, 2009: Version 3.00
-My first goal was to prove the theory of Diamond Dust and One-Winged
Angel being available pre-completion of Reverse/Rebirth. This was
successfully accomplished with One-Winged Angel, but the enemies in
Castle Oblivion are too annoying and I didn't have enough map cards to
keep on testing with Diamond Dust. I am therefore going to assume this
is accurate.
-It took awhile but I just finished up the guide for Ansem and wrote the
last words for Reverse/Rebirth. It's hard to believe, but this guide is
actually finished now! I changed the finish date to today to show it's
essentially complete. The lists still need finished but I don't feel
as pressured to complete those. The main part of the guide is complete.
~~ October 13, 2009: Version 3.40
-Attack card lists finished, as well as all others up to enemy cards.
The last few days I was actually working on getting the last few attack
cards as well as the Organization XIII enemy cards, so don't go thinking
I was just slacking off. D: I cannot do anymore, however, as I am far
from having every enemy card myself, so how can I do the list for that?!
I've gotten enough done I'm not worrying about it anyway. Getting
irritating jotting all that down.
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To the right side of these contents, I have included a code. This code is
used for quick searching. Press Ctrl+F, then type in the code. Press enter,
and you're there!
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| Sora's Story |
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1. Introduction to Sora
1.1 Battle System-----------------100%-----------------------sbsys
1.2 Room Synthesis----------------100%-----------------------rsynth
1.3 Leveling Sora-----------------100%-----------------------slvl
2. Card Mechanics
2.1 Sleights----------------------100%-----------------------sk1ll
2.2 Card Types--------------------100%-----------------------ctype
3.3 Moogle Shops------------------100%-----------------------mogpwnz
3. Sora's Walkthrough
3.1 Traverse Town-----------------100%-----------------------strtn
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--World Card Set I
3.2 Agrabah----------------------100%-----------------------swcsiw1
3.3 Halloween Town---------------100%-----------------------swcsiw2
3.4 Olypmus Coliseum-------------100%-----------------------swcsiw3
3.5 Monstro----------------------100%-----------------------swcsiw4
3.6 Wonderland-------------------100%-----------------------swcsiw5
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--World Card Set II
3.7 Atlantica--------------------100%-----------------------swcsiiw1
3.8 Neverland--------------------100%-----------------------swcsiiw2
3.9 Hollow Bastion---------------100%-----------------------swcsiiw3
3.10 100 Acre Wood---------------100%-----------------------swcsiiw4
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3.11 Twilight Town----------------100%-----------------------stwltn
3.12 Destiny Islands--------------100%-----------------------sdsnisle
3.13 Castle Oblivion--------------100%-----------------------scstobln
4. Card Lists
4.1 Attack Cards------------------100%-----------------------satkc
4.2 Magic Cards-------------------100%-----------------------smagc
4.3 Summon Cards------------------100%-----------------------ssmnc
4.4 Item Cards--------------------100%-----------------------sitmc
4.5 Friend Cards------------------100%-----------------------sally
4.6 Enemy Cards-------------------??%-----------------------semyc
4.7 Map Cards---------------------??%-----------------------mapcs
5. Sleights-------------------------??%-----------------------skltz
5.1 Attack Sleights---------------??%-----------------------atksl
5.2 Magic Sleights----------------??%-----------------------magsl
5.3 Friend Sleights---------------??%-----------------------fndsl
6. Bosses---------------------------??%-----------------------noobpk
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1. Introduction to Riku
1.1 Battle Mechanics---------------100%----------------------mchpwn
1.2 Leveling Riku------------------100%----------------------rlvl
2. Riku's Walkthrough
2.1 Hollow Bastion-----------------100%----------------------hlwbtnrx
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2.2 Agrabah-----------------------100%----------------------rwcsiw1
2.3 Monstro-----------------------100%----------------------rwcsiw2
2.4 Traverse Town-----------------100%----------------------rwcsiw3
2.5 Neverland---------------------100%----------------------rwcsiw4
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--World Card Set II
2.6 Wonderland--------------------100%----------------------rwcsiiw1
2.7 Atlantica---------------------100%----------------------rwcsiiw2
2.8 Olympus Coliseum--------------100%----------------------rwcsiiw3
2.9 Halloween Town----------------100%----------------------rwcsiiw4
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2.4 Destiny Islands----------------100%----------------------rdsnisle
2.5 Twilight Town------------------100%----------------------rtwltn
2.6 Castle Oblivion----------------100%----------------------rcstobln
3. Card Lists-----------------------??-----------------------
3.1 Battle Cards-------------------??-----------------------
3.2 Enemy Cards--------------------??-----------------------
4. Sleights-------------------------??-----------------------
5. Bosses---------------------------??-----------------------
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FAQ----------------------------------N/A-----------------------faq4nub
Acknowledgements---------------------100%----------------------manythanks
Final Statements---------------------100%----------------------theend
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Kingdom Hearts: Re:Chain of Memories (the original too, of course) has one
major difference from both of the other titles: the card system. This, in
my opinion, actually makes the game more enjoyable. It adds much more
strategy to the game, and can make Sora a very formidable force. If only
it had multiplayer battles like the original had...
For those of you whom are not familiar with this system, though...prepare
to become familiarized, as I am going to discuss it here, along with a few
other basic bits of information you'll need to know.
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Ah yes...the heart and soul of Re:CoM. This system is quite easily what
makes the game so fun.
You're going to get a tutorial of how this system works in the game, of
course. But I think it's best I describe it here, too. Along with some
other information about it which the game doesn't feel necessary to tell.
First and foremost, we need to understand how each battle starts. When
you see an enemy on screen (which is any kind of Heartless), and you or
it touch, then you'll immediately switch to a new "battle" screen.
Note that if you strike the enemy first with your Keyblade, the first
group of enemies will be stunned and have a slight bit of HP knocked off.
Because of this, you'll want to strike whichever enemies first that you
possibly can, for a slight advantage.
Anyway, in the lower left hand corner of this screen is where you see
your deck, and in the lower right hand corner, you will see the enemy's
cards. At the top left corner will be Sora's health, and the top right
corner you will see any targeted enemy's health. The game auto-targets
to make attacking easier with less failed strikes.
In battle, you can press R2 to lock onto a target.
The L1 and R1 buttons will cycle through the cards in Sora's deck, but
the directional pad can be used to do this also, though it's a bit more
annoying and not recommended.
Square makes Sora dodge roll. This is basically for avoiding attacks.
The X button will immediately use whatever card you have highlighted,
and the triangle button will stock whatever card you have highlighted
for use in a Sleight -- more information about that later, though.
Actually...you probably need to know about the cards themselves now.
In Castle Oblivion, Sora immediately forgets all of his attacks, and
other abilities (so do Donald and Goofy, but who cares about that). So we
therefore have the card system to replace it. Sora is given 3 deck slots,
and a CP capacity (which will be discussed more in a bit), along with
several cards which will make up his attacks. Each attack -- be it a
normal Keyblade strike, aid from Donald, Goofy, or another friend, a
magic spell, or anything else, takes a card to use. Therefore, we need to
insert cards into our decks for everything. Our card deck is our key for
victory. You have 99 slots in your deck, but your CP will never be high
enough to let you use all of those.
Your CP matters because each card you put into your deck has a CP cost,
and, of course, with the more powerful cards is a higher CP cost.
If the amount of CP your deck is using is higher than your maximum CP,
Then you won't be allowed to use the deck.
I'm sure you'll notice the number on each card. That number is it's card
value. You see, just as Sora uses cards to battle, so do all the enemies
which Sora will fight in Castle Oblivion, and these enemies use cards
with card values just the same way Sora does. When you or the enemy uses
a card, the card can be "broken" by the enemy or the enemies card by Sora.
A card break occurs when you play a card of a higher value while the enemy
has a card in play already. This is a very good way of stopping attacks,
and getting in your own attacks as this stuns the enemy for a brief period
of time. Of course, if you play a card, then the enemy can break yours too
with a card of a higher value, and you will be stunned briefly (different
Keyblade cards recover quicker, that's discussed later on).
And, obviously, if you have a card played and the enemy plays a card of
lower value, then the attack is voided, as if the enemy never used it.
Remember however that this also applies to Sora when the enemy uses cards.
Take careful notice of these examples:
~Sora plays a Kingdom Key card with a value of 2 against a Soldier.
~Soldier plays a 4 attack -- Sora's card is broken and he is stunned,
leaving him wide open for the attack.
~Sora plays a Kingdom Key card with a value of 9 against a Shadow.
~Shadow plays a 1 Attack -- Shadow's attack is voided, and Sora's card
goes through. On most occasions, the Shadow would be struck by this.
The only exception I can think of is if the attack missed.
~Sora plays a Kingdom Key of 4 against a Large Body.
~Large Body also plays a 4 -- both cards have the same value, so they
both cancel each other.
~No attack goes through on either side.
Understand all of that? Please remember that all examples work vice versa.
Meaning, whatever applies to Sora will apply to whatever enemy he's up
against, also.
Also note that playing a card of lower value against an enemy who has
already attacked will void the attack you used, but there will not be any
stunning from it. All that happens is that you used your card.
And when you and the enemy play two cards of the same value, you will
lose your card, and both you and the enemy will be stunned and unable to
attack.
There is one card which is most useful for breaking though. The 0 card.
Anytime a 0 card is played, it is guaranteed to break whatever card has
already been used. However, a card of 0 value can also be broken by quite
literally anything, also. Therefore, 0 cards are the ultimate defense, but
defense only. Having a deck with a few 0 cards is recommended against the
bosses so that you can break their Sleights. But in any normal Heartless
battle, 0 cards do not have much use.
In battle, you can press the select button to switch to your enemy cards.
Enemy cards have a wide variety of uses -- some of them being nearly
essential, and others having nearly no use at all. Use them to fit your
style.
Enemy cards can be quite useful, but are almost never necessary. I played
through Sora's entire story without using an enemy card even once.
An enemy card's effect wears off under different circumstances with each
card, so be sure to take note of how it'll wear off before calculating
your strategy with it.
Friend cards will also drop and bounce around the battlefield for awhile.
If you don't pick them up, they'll disappear after a short time.
These are the only cards which you don't (and can't) put into your deck
during construction, and can only be picked up during battle. At the end
of each battle, you lose any friend cards which you didn't use during the
battle.
A deck can only have so many cards, especially with that CP limit.
So what happens when you use up all of your cards in a battle? That is
what the reload button is for. That is the black bar with a number in it.
Press and hold X to recharge your deck. The first time you recharge, it'll
have a recharge counter of 1. The second time, it will have a counter of 2.
Any time after that the recharge counter will be 3. Recharging your deck
leaves you wide open for attacks, because Sora has to stand still in order
to recharge. Therefore, make sure you're in safe distance from attacks
before you attempt to recharge.
Fortunately, there are Item cards which will reset your deck for you.
These items are invaluable and highly recommended whenever possible.
There'll be more information on these cards later.
Finally, what happens when you kill an enemy? The enemy will drop balls
of experience -- what will level you up. There is also a very small chance
that it'll drop a Premium bonus (more on this in a bit).
When the enemy drops the experience, be sure to run around and collect
all of the balls, because they will vanish quite quickly if not collected.
In normal enemy battles, the final Heartless will also drop a map card.
These map cards are for synthesizing new rooms. I'll explain that more a
little later.
If you go to the edge of the battle room, an Escape bar will appear.
Keep running towards the edge and the bar will load more and more.
Once it loads entirely, Sora will escape the battle. Be careful, though.
After escaping, the Heartless you escaped from will still be there.
Your escape is reset if you are attacked in the middle of the escape.
I'll discuss the more advanced details of fighting and deck construction
soon enough. For now, we need to learn about...
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As with battle, traveling takes cards too. I already mentioned earlier
how you get a map card every time you kill the final Heartless in a basic
battle. The exception to this is if you have 99 cards, since 99 total map
cards is the limit.
Each floor on Castle Oblivion has a set of rooms, and in order to gain
access into a room, you must open the room using one of your map cards.
You progress new floors in Castle Oblivion by using a world card, which
you get these as you progress through the story. Note that each floor in
the castle uses one world card, and one only. In order to open new worlds,
you must beat the current floor you're on, including the boss in the world
which you synthesized.
Each floor also has a preset map. And yes, it goes by floor, not by world.
I'll include a map of the floor with the walkthrough later on.
There are three different types of map cards, which are sorted by color.
The colors are red, green, blue, and yellow. I will list details on each
card later, but here is a brief description of differences:
~Red cards: Effect the Heartless in the room, such as with Almighty
Darkness, which makes every Heartless have cards with values two
higher than they would be otherwise.
~Green cards: Gives beneficial effects such as Lasting Daze, which
makes every Heartless that appears be stunned when you strike them
first, instead of just the first set in the battle.
~Blue cards: These affect the entire room in a certain way, usually
for obtaining new cards such as with Calm Bounty and Guarded Trove.
~Yellow cards: These are the Key cards. All Key cards are obtained
by progressing through the floor, except for the Key to Rewards.
These cards are only for the storyline and are not for synthesis.
As stated, each floor has a set of rooms which are linked together.
The rooms it has are entirely up to you and the map cards you use, but
each room in Sora's story is guaranteed to have one of the following:
--Key of Beginnings Room
--Key of Guidance Room
--Key to Truth Room
--Key to Rewards Room
--Conqueror's Respite
The first three listed are the story rooms. The Key of Beginnings is the
first story room for the floor, then Guidance as second, and Truth as third.
The Key to Rewards room takes a special card called the Key to Rewards.
These are dropped in place of normal map cards during battles on the 7th
floor and up. These are uncommon drops, but not too rare and you can only
have one of these at a time.
The Key to Rewards room contains a special treasure which is preset, and
then another treasure once you've beaten Reverse/Rebirth (Riku's story).
The Conqueror's Respite is the final room in the floor. This room contains
a save and is the exit of the floor, where you continue your way up.
This room is inaccessible until you beat the entire floor, including the
boss and the Key to Truth room.
All of the rooms other than these you must synthesize yourself with your
own map cards. To synthesize a room, go up to the door and press triangle.
(Note that you can re-synthesize a room you've already created by going
up to it and pressing triangle instead of going through.)
A screen will appear with all of your available map cards. In the center,
you will see a door with a number.
Just like your battle cards, map cards have a value too. The number you
see is the necessary value of the map card you must use. In general, the
room can be synthesized with a map card having a value of the number you
see on the door, or a higher value. A zero will always work too.
For example, a door may show the value 4 on it. If it does, you may use
a map card of the value 4-9, or a 0. Anything between 1 and 3 won't work.
The main exception is with the Key rooms (Beginnings, Guidance, etc.).
These rooms all take a preset card depending on the floor. I will give
the necessary cards along with the maps during the walkthrough.
Many of the Key rooms however will take a specific color of card, as well
as card value, or even multiple cards, all along with the specific Key card.
For example, it may take a red card with a value of 5 or higher with a green
card having a value of exactly 7.
It may also force you to give in so many cards to lower the counter.
Such as requiring a value of 15 blue cards altogether, and you need to give
in enough blue cards to make that dwindle to 0.
Once more, these are preset. What cards they take has already been
determined, and I will include them with the maps later.
When you synthesize a new room of a certain value, the next rooms you must
synthesize from that room will be require a value higher than previous.
Examples:
~A room requires you use a map card with a value of 3 or higher,
so you use a Calm Bounty with a value of 5. From the Calm Bounty
room, you need to synthesize another room. It will require
a value of 6 or higher since you used a card with a value of 5.
~A room requires you use a map card with a value of 9 or higher.
You therefore use a Teeming Darkness with the value of 9.
From that Teeming Darkness room, any room you synthesize from
it will require you use a map card of exactly 0.
~A room requires you use a map card with a value of 0.
You use a Moment's Reprieve of 0. Any room from that Moment's
Reprieve will take a map card of 1 or higher, or 0 of course.
As you can tell by the examples, 0 is still the almighty card.
You can use a card with a value of 0 for pretty much any room,
except for the Key rooms which require an exact value.
The counter will also reset back to 1 if you use a 0 on it.
Also note that the first room of every floor will start with
a requirement of 1 or higher.
Remember that, once you leave a floor onto the next one,
every room you created on that floor will have to be recreated.
I hope that is all you need to know about room synthesizing.
As stated, a complete list of map cards will be given later on.
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| Leveling Sora slvl |
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As you can guess, Sora takes levels to achieve his perfection, just like
in other titles in the Kingdom Hearts series, or like in pretty much
every RPG.
Every time Sora levels up, you'll have the option of increasing his HP
or CP. At certain levels, you'll also have the option of learning a new
Sleight.
Every time you increase his HP, it'll increase by 15.
Choosing to increase his CP increases it by 25.
In the original Chain of Memories, you could only max 2 of those 3 stats
at level 99. From what I hear, though, in Re:CoM you can max all 3.
I have yet to get Sora to level 99, so I am unsure myself. When I do,
I'll update with exact information.
Either way, the max for Sora's stats is as follows:
~HP: 560 (Starts at 80)
~CP: 1625 (Starts at 275)
~Sleights: 12 (All of these Sleights can be learned by level 57.)
From personal experience, I would say that it's most important to level CP,
and to get every Sleight you can, and get enough HP to be comfortable.
Having HP around 300 survived me the entire game. But it's all about your
style. If you prefer more HP and less CP, go right ahead. You don't even
have to get all the Sleights, though I highly recommend it.
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| | Card Mechanics | |
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This section will explain in higher detail the cards you use in battle,
specifically, your battle "skills", and how to obtain cards.
We'll start with your skills, that is...
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| Sleights sk1ll |
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If you recall, I mentioned earlier about pressing triangle in battle to
stock a highlighted card for use in a sleight. These are your "skills" in
battle.
A sleight is a combination of two or three different cards. Sleighting
specific cards (most of the time in a specific order) will make a special
attack.
In order to create a sleight, you must stock a total of three cards
using the triangle button, then press triangle again to execute it.
To execute a sleight that only takes two cards, you'll have to press
L1 + R1 simultaneously instead of triangle.
~Cura sleight: Cure + Cure or Cure + Cure + any other card
While...
~Curaga sleight: Cure + Cure + Cure
Be careful, because every time you use a sleight, you lose the first
card of the sleight. When you reload, the card will not come back to you.
It's gone until the end of the battle.
It is because of this that using too many sleights can be a very bad thing,
leaving you with very few cards to do anything with.
Item cards such as Hi-Potion and Mega-Potion, however, will restore the
first cards you used in sleights also.
The values of the cards you use in sleights do add up, and therefore,
sleights can only be broken by a card higher than it's total value.
An example is using a Sonic Blade sleight with a total value of 22.
In order for the enemy to break it, s/he would have to create a sleight
having a value of 22 or higher. Of course, 0 cards can be used to break
sleights also.
In general, there are three different kinds of sleights. Those are attack
sleights, magic sleights, and friend sleights. (Complete lists of these
are later on in the guide.)
Attack sleights require three attack cards of a specific value, such as
Ars Arcanum, which requires three attack cards with a total value of 4-6.
If you sleighted together three attack cards with a total value of 7, it
would not make an Ars Arcanum sleight. If you have gotten Ragnarok, that
is instead what it would make.
Some attack sleights require three different attack cards too, in order
to make the sleight. An example would be Sonic Blade.
You could use a Divine Rose with a value of 8, a Kingdom Key with a value
of 7, then a Crabclaw with a value of 7, and it would make the Sonic Blade.
However, if you used two of the same attack cards in that sleight, such as
the Divine Rose and two Kingdom Key, even if it had the values of 8, 7, 7,
it would not make the Sonic Blade sleight. As far as I know, it would just
make a basic three hit combo with a total value of 22. Obviously using
sleights for three hit combos is not recommended, since you lose the first
card of the sleight.
Also note that there are sleights which take three of the same card type,
just the same as Sonic Blade takes three of different card types.
Magic sleights are a little more forgiving. From what I know, you can use
any total value you want, all that matters is the order of the cards.
For example, Lethal Flame takes 1 stop and 2 attack cards. If you sleighted
together an attack card, stop, then another attack card, I do believe you
would not get a Lethal Flame though.
In exchange, they can be of any value. You could use a stop with the value
of 9, then two attack cards with a value of 9. Or you could use a 1 stop,
then two attack cards with values of 3 and 7.
Summon sleights are a variety of magic sleights which use summon cards.
They work pretty much the same, but most summon sleights require three
of the same card. Such as Omnislash taking three Clouds, any value.
There are a very few however which do not. Such as Idyll Romp. This sleight
takes one Bambi and two attack cards. The same rule of order applies to
these also.
Friend sleights are like summon sleights in the fact that they usually
take three copies of the same friend card. But just like summon sleights,
there are a few exceptions, notably ones involving Donald and Goofy.
The total value does not matter with these either, but the order does --
just like with magic sleights.
Friend sleights can be quite powerful, especially early in the game,
and I recommend saving your friend cards for the use of these sleights.
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| Card Types ctype |
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As I'm sure you've observed by now, there are several card types Sora
has access to. Five card types, to be exact. They are as follows: Attack,
Magic, Item, Friend, and Enemy.
Attack cards are the main cards you'll use, most likely. They are your
basic Keyblade strikes. This section will more specifically describe them
in just a bit.
Magic cards are your spells. Unlike attack cards, which gain power with
different types of attack cards, each spell only has one type and damage
from it. This makes magic cards simpler, but less useful for slaying.
Of course, they are quite useful against enemies whom are weak against
specific spells.
The elements are Fire, Ice, and Lightning. You also have the Aero, Stop,
and Gravity cards. You'll find that many enemies absorb one element, but
are weak to another. This includes bosses.
The other spell - and most useful - Cure is your unique one. It, simply
put, restores your HP. Almost every deck should have multiple Cures in
it.
There are also some enemies which resist an element, some enemies even
resist all elements. Pretty much every boss is immune to gravity, also.
Summon cards are also a variety of magic cards. They all attack in some
random way though, or some such as Tinker Bell will heal you.
Item cards restore either all attack or all magic cards - some even
restore the attack/magic cards which would normally be unrestorable,
such as those used in sleights. A couple item cards even restore both
attack and magic cards, and there are a few item cards that even reset
the reload counter! Needless to say, item cards are very useful. They
are even more potent if used at the right timing - like using an item
that reloads normally unreloadable cards after using a bunch of
sleights, or using an item that resets the reload counter as well after
the reload counter is at 3. You'll usually want one or two items (maybe
even more) in any deck.
I warn you, if item cards are sleighted together, their effects will
stack together and take place one right after the other. The only time
this will EVER be useful is if you're using something such as a Potion
and Ether together. Otherwise, never do this, as item cards only last
one use during the entire battle, and cannot be reloaded - this same
thing applies to when they are used during sleights. Therefore, sleight-
combos of item cards almost always result in two of the items being
wasted.
Friend cards are simple. They cannot be obtained except during a battle,
and any friend card you have goes away after the battle. Several usually
will drop per battle though.
A friend card will appear randomly during the battle, bouncing around.
You can run up to it and pick it up. It will then appear to the left of
all your cards, to the right of the reload bar.
Friend cards basically summon a friend to use some attack which varies
from friend card to friend card. They can be really useful early and mid
game, but late game, their use weakens significantly. There are also some
worlds which you will not have access to any friends whatsoever, and most
of the friends you have access to are world only. Donald and Goofy are the
only exceptions.
There is also a special friend card, Pluto. Pluto can appear in any world
as well, but he is very rare and only appears when you are very low on
cards. He's a neat little thing which will dig up treasures from the
ground.
Enemy cards are accessed by pressing select in battle. They do not have
a value, and they cannot be broken. Enemy cards do a huge variety of
different things, from increasing your combo to powering up an element,
or letting you use a stocked sleight twice in a row.
They have a large variety of effects which can be further explained in
the enemy card list.
Enemy cards are all obtained by defeating the specific enemy you're
attempting to get the card of in battle. It has a low drop rate, and
the enemy has to be the last one defeated in the battle for it's card
to drop.
Remember that enemy cards do not last forever and their effects expire
after a specific prerequisite is fulfilled. What causes an enemy
card to expire varies between enemy cards as well.
Most of these pretty much explain themselves, but attack cards need
further elaboration.
Attack cards have several different types of Keyblades, some being more
powerful than the others. They can also be more powerful than one Keyblade
in one way, but worse than another in another way.
Attack cards have hidden stats which can be seen when they are looked up
in Jiminy's journal. The stats are as follows:
~Attack
~Strike
~Thrust
~Combo Finish
~Element
~Break Recovery
~Required CP
These are all rated on a specific scale which goes like this:
* > A > B+ > B > C+ > C > D+ > D
D is the worst possible, while * is the best possible.
Attack is a basic overall rating -- that is, an average of how powerful
it is.
Strike tells you how powerful the first strike in the basic three hit
combo is.
Thrust tells you how powerful the second strike in the three hit combo is.
If you have the Soldier enemy card activated, it also decides the third.
Combo Finish decides how powerful the final hit (which is fourth if the
Soldier enemy card is active) in the combo is.
Many Keyblades will be more powerful than another Keyblade when first in
the combo, but much weaker than the same other Keyblade when second/third.
This is where the strategy in deck building comes in. You'll want to create
your deck so that it's sorted to have the best possible cards suited when
used in the combo.
A late game example would be this:
Divine Rose (Strike of A)>
Lionheart (Thrust of B)>
Metal Chocobo (Combo Finish of B+)
In it, you'd build your deck to have Divine Rose, then Lionheart, then
Metal Chocobo, and repeat that as many times as your CP would allow.
However, while I consider those the primary stats to watch out for
(since you don't want to use Divine Rose as a second attack with it's
Thrust of D+), there are a few others you should take note of.
Element is pretty obvious. It'll tell the element the Keyblade is of.
The possible elements are Physical (what most Keyblades are), Neutral,
Fire, Ice, or Lightning.
Element is a crucial factor. Striking an enemy who's affiliation is
of the same element as the Keyblade will cause either no damage, or
even heal it. As an example, if you hit a Red Nocturne with a Lionheart
Keyblade, then you will heal it. Just the same, hitting a Blue Rhapsody
with Lionheart will do more damage than normal. Use Keyblades of those
three elements at your own risk.
Neutral however is best. It will break through all defenses the enemy
has; be it elemental or physical.
And of course, Keyblades of the Physical element basically have no
element. The only thing you have to worry about is the few enemies who
have physical resistances.
Break Recovery will denote how quickly you'll recover from a card break,
should that happen. High break recovery can indeed be an important factor,
especially when up against those enemies who use really high value cards.
And last, required CP will show how much CP the Keyblade uses, judging
by the scale. More powerful Keyblades will always have a worse required CP.
Each Keyblade takes a specific amount of CP according to the scale.
Here is a list:
~*: 10-19 CP
~A: 15-24 CP
~B: 20-38 CP
~C: 25-43 CP
~D: 30-57 CP
* ranked Keyblades start at 10 CP for cards of value 1, and the required
CP increases by 1 for each value, ending with 0 at 19 CP.
A ranked Keyblades start at 15 CP at 1, then increase by 2 per value,
ending with 0 at 24.
B in the same fashion starts at 20, increases by 2 per value, and ends
with 38 at the 0 card.
C is still the same, starting with 25 and increasing by 2 each, then
ending with 43 at 0.
There is only one D ranked card, and that is Ultima Weapon. It starts
with 30 CP at the value of 1, and each value up you go, it increases
by 3 CP, which ends at 57 total CP with the 0 card.
Remember to take all of that in mind when you build your deck.
One final note on card types is the premium card. As far as I know, you
can only get Attack or Magic cards as premium cards.
What they are is the same exact thing as another card, but in it's
premium version. They do not do more damage; actually, all of their stats
are exactly the same as the regular version, except for required CP.
Premium cards take much less CP than the same exact card which is not a
premium. But in exchange for this, they can only be used once.
That's right, you use it once, even just as a normal attack, and it is
gone for the rest of the battle.
For this reason, I don't really use premium cards, and almost always
cancel out of premium bonuses. A premium bonus is a special very rare
drop in the middle of battle, which, when picked up, will turn a card in
your deck into a premium card. Your entire deck spins around like a wheel
and you get to time it just right to turn one of your cards into premium.
You can press circle to cancel out of this.
However, you may have already guessed that premium cards are perfect
for one thing. The first card in a sleight.
Since you already are going to lose the first card anyway, it's best to
use a premium card. It'll take much less CP and it has the same effect,
and premium cards will return when you use something such as Hi-Potion
just the same.
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| Moogle Shops mogpwnz |
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Moogle shops are going to be your main way of acquiring new cards,
other than the random card drops which are obtained when you break the
random breakable things in the room.
Moogle shops can only be accessed by synthesizing a Moogle Room. You
won't be able to buy anything without moogle points, however. Moogle
points are the red balls which drop when you break the things in rooms.
It's for this reason you're going to want to break every single thing you
can, and hit everything which is targetable (such as lamps).
At the moogle shops, you'll be able to buy packs of cards (meaning you
cannot buy single cards, ONLY the packs, and each pack comes with five
cards), or you can sell your own cards.
Be warned though that the cards you sell generally will not get you as
many moogle points as they are worth. Still, if you don't need them, it's
an easy way of obtaining moogle points.
The shop has four packs of four varieties. The varieties are Attack,
Magic (which contains summons too), Item, and Mixed (contains a combo of
any of the three). You will only obtain cards in packs which you have
already once before obtained a card of. For example, you will never find
a Lionheart in a pack until you've gotten a Lionheart from the Rewards
Room in Traverse Town.
When you buy a pack, it'll say it's sold out. Meaning you have four
packs to choose from of each variety, and once you buy all the packs,
you'll have to synth another Moogle Room in order to buy anymore packs
of that variety.
This has it's benefits, however, as each time you synth a Moogle Room,
the first time you talk to the moogle there, it'll give you a free pack
of cards.
Also note that card packs may contain premium cards. I like to sell
these premium cards myself, as they sell for more moogle points than
the others do.
You'll probably notice as you travel higher up in the castle, that
when you synthesize a Moogle Room, the packs of cards you see there will
be bound by different straps. The straps tell how rare the cards in it
are, and therefore cost more moogle points.
There are four different types of straps it can be bound by, which are
either leaf, brown belt, black belt, or moogle.
When moogle becomes available, you'll have the option to buy one leaf,
one brown belt, one black belt, and one moogle pack, and changes to the
packs will affect every variety of pack.
In my opinion, it's best to buy the highest ranking pack available, as
the cards in it are worth the extra points. By the time moogle packs
are available, I wouldn't recommend buying anything but them anymore,
except maybe black belt packs.
The moogle points each pack costs are like so:
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| Attack | Magic | Item | Mixed |
|-------------------------------|
Leaf: | 100 | 200 | 150 | 150 |
Brown Belt: | 200 | 250 | 200 | 200 |
Black Belt: | 300 | 350 | 300 | 300 |
Moogle: | 500 | 400 | 350 | 400 |
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If anybody has a probability guide on the likeliness of getting specific
cards in specific packs, I'd like the information. Thank you.
Anyway, with all of that information, I believe I'm done explaining
Moogle Rooms. Therefore, I'm done with the Card Mechanics, meaning...
On with the walkthrough!
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| | Sora's Walkthrough | |
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This is where the fun begins. I'm going to give you all a step-by-step
guide for beating Sora's story.
I'm going to list the worlds in the order I did them, but remember you
can do it in any order you want. But my boss strategies may differ a bit
if you decide to do a world earlier or later on than I have it.
But you can guess, I'm going to write the guide with the assumption that
you follow the worlds the same way I did. If you don't, that's fine, just
expect my guide to be a little off for you.
Since the maps are preset by floor, not by world, I'm going to list the
complete set of maps for the world sets, along with any bosses in between
specific floors, then the walkthrough for the worlds themselves.
The maps I give also will look a little different from those in the game
due to the fact the in-game maps slant to one side, obviously. Use your
common sense to figure out how it looks.
The rooms inside have multiple types of objects which you can strike.
When stricken, they will give either green HP balls, red moogle points, a
battle card, or nothing.
I'm also listing the level I was when I started the world, and the level
I was when finishing it. They will be listed as "Starting level" and
"Finishing level" respectively.
I'll list a step-by-step guide on how to get to the story rooms for each
world, but remember that the guide will only work assuming you do the floors
as I list them.
As for bosses, I'm going to list their HP as it was for me. With the floor
bosses, then it should be accurate. So it should also be if you follow the
worlds in the same order I did them. However, since bosses scale to become
more powerful as you progress up the castle, just the same way enemies do,
then they can have more or less HP depending on if you did the floor before
or after I did.
During many of the world bosses, you may notice a black and green card
with a picture on it that seems to resemble Mickey's head, and is of 0
value. This is a Gimmick card. They give a special effect during the boss,
usually something to help make the boss easier, and in a large way. If you
see one, pick it up. Chances are, it will help a lot.
Also note there are character bosses and non-character bosses.
The character bosses can use sleights and will often have to reload their
decks, whereas the non-character bosses can't.
Most of the worlds also have a specific Keyblade card for it, so be sure
to watch out for them. They are first found just by striking the random
objects in a room.
Anyway, the game will start with several overly-long cutscenes, then the
cloaked stranger giving you your first world card. You'll have to go up to
the big door and press triangle, then use your only card to get to...
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/ \ strtn \
------------------------- Traverse Town ------------------------|
\ / |
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Floor 1 |
^ |
[T]-[ ]-[C] S: Start |
| | B: Key of Beginnings - 1> card |
[G]-[ ] [ ] G: Key of Guidance - 3> card |
| | T: Key to Truth - Green card |
[B]-[ ] [R] R: Key to Rewards |
| C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
[ ] |
| |
[S] |
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Starting level: 1 (Obviously) |
Finishing level: 7 |
|
Friends: Donald, Goofy |
Cards: Kingdom Key, Simba |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Soldier |
-Red Nocturne |
-Blue Rhapsody |
Bosses: Guard Armor (Truth Room) |
Rewards Room: Lionheart |
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As soon as you enter, you'll have to go through an annoyingly long
tutorial about the battle system, then you'll be taught about room synthing.
The first room I had to synth each time going through was Moment's Reprieve.
This is probably to teach you about saving - which it does right away.
In the Beginning's room, you'll have to go through yet another tutorial,
this one about card values, and stocking for combo attacks and sleights.
You will however be rewarded this time, with the Simba card.
When you're done, go back and make sure the rooms you've synthed so far
are clear of any enemies, then make your way to the Guidance room, then
Truth room. I'd recommend leveling around five times before moving on.
Then prepare for your first boss fight...
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/ \* */ \
| \* Guard Armor */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
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| |
| My level: 7 |
| Difficulty: Low (2/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity can be assumed. Otherwise, none. |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Guard Armor enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: |
| -Two arms: .25 bars each |
| -Two legs: .5 bars each |
| -Body: .75 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| |
| Guard Armor is a simple boss. He has five parts, each one with it's |
| own HP bar. However, the body cannot be attacked until all the other |
| parts -- that is, both arms and both legs -- are defeated. |
| Fairly simple battle. Basically, hack and slash at this guy until |
| he's dead. That can be a bit hard though, because he has higher card |
| values than you do, and can break your cards at a steady rate. |
| The highest value I've seen him use is a 6. At this point, I would |
| doubt you have any more than one or two cards with a value higher |
| than 6, and your deck isn't large enough to afford stocking up for |
| sleights and the such. For that reason, using Donald or Goofy can be |
| quite useful. Stock a Donald or Goofy card first, then two attacks, |
| and unleash the combo on him. There's no way he can break it. |
| A Gimmick card will appear in this battle too. I believe you get it |
| when you defeat one of the arms or legs, but I'm unsure of this. |
| When you use it, all pieces of Guard Armor will fall down and become |
| stationary - doing literally nothing. This will give you a huge |
| opportunity to do a lot of damage on him. |
| Guard Armor's attacks are of little threat. I've seen him use three. |
| One where he jumps up, clear across the room, and attempts to land on|
| you, then another where his legs run off by themselves and attempt to|
| hit you (hard to evade, but little damage), and finally, in the last,|
| he swings his arms around like he's spinning. None of these are to |
| worry about in the least bit. |
| It's a pretty easy battle though. Even if you decide to wait for |
| Donald or Goofy to lead off sleights, it's pretty quick. It's really |
| not necessary to do that, though. Guard Armor can break a lot of your|
| attacks at this stage, but he attacks slowly so will therefore not. |
| Even when he does, his attacks don't do much damage, so it's not much|
| risk. |
| Clear advantage he has, but he wastes it. This makes him the easiest |
| boss you will fight in Sora's story. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
When you're done, make sure you save in the Conqueror's Respite room,
because there's another boss right after the next scene.
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ \
------------------------- Castle Oblivion ------------------------|
\ (Floor 1) / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Axel I */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 7 |
| Difficulty: Low (2.5-3/10) |
| Weakness: Ice |
| Absorbs: Fire assumed. |
| Nullifies: Nothing you have. |
| Sleights: |
| -Fire Wall: Axel stands in the center of the arena, and stretches |
| his arms out, and a wall of fire surrounds him. his wall|
| stretches out until it hits the entire outside of the |
| arena. Due to this, the sleight is unavoidable. Break it|
| with a 0 if you want, though it's not necessary as it |
| doesn't hit for a lot of damage. |
| Drop: Fire; world card set I |
| |
| Hit Points: 2.13 bars (around 2 and 1/8) |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Considering I was able to spend awhile just analyzing all of Axel's |
| attacks and sleights without attacking (or even curing) once, and |
| was still able to beat him without losing even once, I'd say he's |
| quite easy. |
| Axel has two different attacks I've seen him use. In the first one, |
| he throws his chakram at you in an attempt to hit you with it. Just |
| dodge roll to the left or right and you can easily avoid it. Most of |
| the time, this is the attack he'll use. It doesn't do much damage. |
| The second attack Axel will only use when you're in close range. |
| He pummels you with a flurry of attacks which ends in the use of his |
| chakram. This can do a decent bit of damage, but he fortunately does |
| not use it often. |
| The only thing to make this fight even annoying is the fact that he |
| warps around the arena a lot, which can make him hard to hit. I have,|
| however, yet to see him warp in the middle of a chain of attacks. So |
| even that isn't anything to worry about it. |
| This battle is similar to the one with Guard Armor due to the fact |
| it's easiest and quickest just to approach it in an allout brawl. |
| Attack him repeatedly as fast as you can, and keep a Cure back for |
| emergencies. You may want to keep a 0 back also for Fire Wall. |
| All-in-all, very easy fight. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ \
------------------------- World Card Set I ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
Beating Axel nets you your first set of world cards. These include Agrabah,
Monstro, Wonderland, Halloween Town, and Olympus Coliseum.
You will be given a warning about how all of the rooms you created in the
current floor will be erased once you move onto the next floor.
Remember how I said that all the maps are independent of the worlds, just
the floors. Because of this, I am now going to give you a complete set of
maps for the entire world set.
Note: Due to Wonderland's boss, I HIGHLY recommend you do Monstro first.
___________________________________________________________________________
Floor 2 \
|
[R] S: Start |
| ^ B: Key of Beginnings - Green card |
[G] [ ]-[C] G: Key of Guidance - 15 card total |
| | T: Key to Truth - Red card |
[ ]-[ ] R: Key to Rewards - Blue card |
| C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
[B]-[S]-[T] |
v |
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Floor 3 \
^ |
[C] S: Start |
| B: Key of Beginnings - 5> card |
[T]-[ ]-[ ] - 7> card |
| | G: Key of Guidance - Green card |
[R]-[ ] [B] T: Key to Truth - 3< card |
| R: Key to Rewards - Red 0= card |
[S]-[ ]-[G] C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
v |
___________________________________________________________________________/
Floor 4 \
^ |
[R] [T]-[ ]-[C] S: Start |
| | B: Key of Beginnings - 8> card |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[G] G: Key of Guidance - 1> card |
| | T: Key to Truth - Red card |
[G] [ ]-[S] - Green card |
v R: Key to Rewards - Red 9= card |
- Green 9= card |
C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
|
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Floor 5 \
^ |
[C]-[T] S: Start |
| B: Key of Beginnings - 20 card total |
[ ]-[ ] [R] G: Key of Guidance - Red card |
| | - 5< card |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[B] T: Key to Truth - 0= card |
| | R: Key to Rewards - 15 Green card total |
[S]-[ ] C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
v | |
[G] |
|
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Floor 6 \
|
[ ]-[ ] S: Start |
| | ^ B: Key of Beginnings - 3= card |
[B]-[ ] [G] [C] - 4= card |
| | G: Key of Guidance - 6= card |
[S]-[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[ ] - 7= card |
v | | T: Key to Truth - 3< card |
[R] [T] - 30 Green card total |
R: Key to Rewards - 20 Red card total |
C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
|
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/ \ swcsiw1 \
------------------------- Agrabah ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Starting level: 7 |
Finishing level: 12 |
|
Friends: Donald, Goofy, Aladdin |
Cards: Three Wishes, Ether, Genie |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Air Soldier |
-Bandit |
-Fat Bandit |
-Yellow Opera |
-Green Requiem |
Bosses: Genie Jafar (Truth Room) |
Rewards Room: Blazing Donald |
____________________________________________________________________________|
Ah, yes, the moment you enter Agrabah, you're going to have to wipe out
a mass amount of Heartless, even though Genie takes all of them out right
after. He could have from the beginning, but nah...it's much more fun to
make us work.
Anyway, Agrabah is not a bad place to level up, but it'd be much better if
you weren't still stuck with using a bunch of 3's. Fat Bandits are something
you're going to have to watch out for. They are immune to frontal physical
attacks and they can use cards with values up to 6.
Aladdin can be quite a useful friend here. Fat Bandits cannot deflect his
attacks, and every successful strike he does drops very useful moogle points.
Take advantage of this while you can.
In the Guidance room, you're going to have to fight yet another group of
Heartless. Yippee! However, you will at least get an Ether for it.
After you get enough levels to satisfy yourself (three or four should be
fine, depending on how many you got in Traverse Town), head into the Key of
Truth room for the boss.
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/ \* */ \
| \* Genie Jafar */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 12 |
| Difficulty: Low (3/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Apparently everything. |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Jafar enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 2.35 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Easily beaten, just like Guard Armor and Axel. |
| The battle takes place on six connected pillars - each time Jafar |
| attacks, the pillars will each rise randomly to three different |
| heights. The goal here is not to hit Jafar himself, but instead the |
| lamp which is being carried by Iago. Jafar will deflect all attacks. |
| In order to hit the lamp, you're going to have to climb the pillars |
| to reach him, and even after that, you'll have to jump to hit the |
| damn thing. Not always will the pillars be high enough up for you to |
| hit the lamp either, as Iago stays at the very top of the arena. |
| There is, however, a Gimmick card here which will rise all six of |
| the pillars to top height, putting you directly into place to pummel |
| the lamp. |
| Thanks to a bit of luck with collecting 1,200 or so moogle points |
| and synthing a Moogle Room, I managed to acquire several cards with |
| values of 8, 7, and 6. With these, I was able to break most all of |
| Jafar's attacks. If you, however, do not have enough higher value |
| cards, you may have a harder time beating Jafar. All of his attacks |
| are easily avoidable, though. |
| Speaking of, Jafar has four attacks that I noticed. In the first, he |
| let's out a heavy beam at Sora. When the pillars are all alligned, |
| this is very hard to avoid. However, hiding behind a pillar will |
| protect you from the entire attack. The attack can hit hard too, so |
| you'd better break it if you can't hide from it. |
| In the second attack, Jafar grabs a giant boulder and hurls it at |
| Sora. It's also easily avoidable by hiding behind a pillar. |
| The third is a simple swiping attack, when you're standing right next|
| to him. It's really easy to evade. |
| And finally, in the last, he'll slam his fists into the pillars. |
| If Sora is in the way, he's going to get hurt. But I believe this |
| attack is mostly for lowering the pillars all down to ground level. |
| Overall, another easy battle for Sora. *sighs* Oh well. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
When you've beaten him, you'll get his enemy card. Put this in your deck if
you can, it can be very useful.
After the scene, you will get the (worthless in my opinion) Genie summon
card. But most important, we're done with Agrabah! Next world.
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ swcsiw2 \
------------------------- Halloween Town ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Starting level: 12 |
Finishing level: 17 |
|
Friends: Donald, Goofy, Jack Skellington |
Cards: Pumpkinhead |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Creeper Plant |
-Search Ghost |
-Wight Knight |
-Gargoyle |
Bosses: Oogie Boogie (Truth Room) |
Rewards Room: Gravity Raid |
____________________________________________________________________________|
If you didn't get past level 10 in Agrabah, use this place to level more.
It's easier than Agrabah and you should get enough experience to level at a
nice rate. Level 15 would be a nice level to end here in.
Halloween Town is just like Agrabah in the fact that it starts off with a
Heartless battle. Fortunately, you get Jack as a friend for it and the rest
of the world, and you get the Terror sleight right after. Though I do not
understand why you get a sleight that uses Mushu this early...
Anyway, you don't have to worry about another Heartless battle in the
Guidance room like you did in Agrabah.
Try to grab as many copies possible of the Pumpkinhead Keyblde too while
you're here. It's a nice replacement for the Kingdom Key -- and you're going
to want to replace it as soon as possible.
When you're done leveling and getting your Pumpkinheads, head to the Key
to Truth room for yet another easy boss.
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Oogie Boogie */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 16 |
| Difficulty: Low (3/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity, just like every other boss. |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Oogie Boogie enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 3 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Oogie stands atop a platform which you cannot reach, as it's safe- |
| guarded by a gate. The battle is simple really - every time Oogie |
| attacks, break it. If you break it at the right time, it'll cause the|
| gate to lower by a third. I have yet to figure out the proper timing,|
| but I know it has to be done before he throws the dice. Anyway, that |
| means if you break three of his attacks properly, the gate is down |
| giving you the opportunity to smash him with a bunch of attacks. |
| When you break his attack, he'll still throw three dice, though |
| they have no effect and vanish after a few seconds. Attack the dice |
| and there is a high chance of getting a Gimmick card, assuming you |
| don't already have one. The Gimmick card will lower the gate all of |
| the way, so you get several free shots at him. |
| The dice are red if you break his attack before he throws them, but |
| if he throws them before you break them, they'll be light blue. |
| As for attacks, they depend on the dice roll. All three dice always |
| show the same number, so you only need to see one die to see what |
| number it is. |
| If the dice rolled are 1, then three saw blades will spawn, I think |
| on the left side of the field (unsure, but they did each time for me)|
| and travel across in random pathways. Not hard to avoid, just jump. |
| If the dice rolled are 2, 3, or 5, then three enemies will appear. |
| For me, Oogie wouldn't attack anymore until two of three were killed.|
| If the dice rolls as 4, then a bunch of daggers will spawn on the |
| east side of the battle arena, bouncing up and down as they march to |
| the west. They have spaces in between, but I was never able to avoid |
| them that way. It's best just to break the attack. |
| I spent awhile experimenting and Oogie never once rolled a set of 6. |
| Apparently when he does, it's a heal for himself. But I can't confirm|
| this. |
| Oogie also has one other attack where the dice he throws don't have |
| a specific number, but instead are exploding dice. If you're hit by |
| them, you'll take damage. Run to the other side to avoid them - they |
| will explode when they hit the south wall. |
| In addition to breaking the attack before the dice are thrown, you |
| can hit one of the dice to negate it. All attacks except for the |
| enemies can be broken in the middle of the attack, also. |
| Oogie Boogie is an easy boss overall though, since his attacks can |
| easily be broken and Gimmick cards can be obtained without effort. |
| When you knock the gate down and attack him, you can expect to take |
| out around an entire bar of health too. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Beating Oogie Boogie will give you a somewhat useful enemy card. Add it if
you wish, you may find it will come in handy. I never used it, though.
When you're done here, head out through the Conqueror's Respite, and ready
yourself for the next world.
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ swcsiw3 \
------------------------- Olympus Coliseum ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Starting level: 17 |
Finishing level: 20 |
|
Friends: Donald, Goofy |
Cards: Olympia, Hi-Potion, Cloud |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Large Body |
-Blue Rhapsody |
-Powerwild |
-Bouncywild |
-Barrel Spider |
Bosses: Cloud (Guidance Room), Hades (Truth Room) |
Rewards Room: Metal Chocobo |
____________________________________________________________________________|
I can't help but feel the game is being a tad unfair. You can go through
the entire first world set and breeze through the bosses (except Monstro's
boss may show to be a bit of a problem), expecting Olympus Coliseum to be
the same, just to find yourself being pwned by TWO annoying bosses. That's
correct...TWO of them! This is actually one of the only worlds that has two
bosses. Ah well. In exchange for the offset in balance, the rewards are
quite nice. You'll get your first Hi-Potion here, which becomes very good
once you get a specific sleight, along with the most useful Keyblade you'll
see in the entire first world set. Along with that, you get a summon which
can prove to be quite useful when you figure out how to use it properly.
And when you come back later with your Key to Rewards, you'll also get a
Keyblade which I personally used until the very end of the game for my combo
finishers.
So, all-in-all, this place is great place for it's rewards. Even it's
bosses are enjoyable for me, since you finally get a challenge in them.
Just like Halloween Town, you'll want to get as many copies of this world's
Keyblade as possible. Olympia will probably be your main Keyblade until the
second world card set.
Level a few more times here if you want - 20 is a nice level if you got to
17 in Halloween Town like I did.
When you're done with leveling and card collecting, head into the Guidance
Room for your first boss in the world.
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/ \* */ \
| \* Cloud */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 18 |
| Difficulty: Medium (6/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity |
| Sleights: |
| -Cross-slash: Cloud slashes his sword through the air three times |
| Fortunately this sleight is easy to avoid, since it |
| can do a lot of damage. |
| -Omnislash: Cloud flies through the air with his sword in hand in |
| an attempt to punish you with it's repeated strikes. |
| Despite the fact he flies across the entire arena, it |
| isn't really hard to avoid. However, it can hit hard. |
| I recommend having a 0 ready for when you see this. |
| He doesn't seem to use it much, either. |
| Drop: Hi-Potion |
| |
| Hit Points: 2.33 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Cloud has horrible defense and mediocre HP, yet he strikes hard and |
| fast. Ironically, his sleights are the least to worry about, since |
| they can be dodged quite easily. His basic attacks, however, will eat|
| up your HP like he's Pac-man. |
| Luckily, Cloud seems to be slow to recover from card breaks, and his |
| attacks have a slow recovery time. Especially his attack where he |
| thrusts his sword into the ground. There is several seconds of delay |
| after this attack, giving you plenty of time to get in a chain or two|
| of strikes. |
| In his most dangerous attack, he strikes his sword out across the |
| room in a fashion very similar to Omnislash, only on the ground. |
| From what I noticed, he only does it at low health - when his health |
| is still higher, it's only one strike. This, in a way, is harder to |
| dodge than Omnislash, so break the attack immediately. If you're hit |
| by all the strikes, he'll decimate your entire HP. |
| This battle is easiest approached just like many of the previous |
| bosses thus far - attack, attack, attack. Cloud's defense and low HP |
| make him easy pray for slaughtering. If you feel like being safe, you|
| can attack him only through card breaks, though I don't think it is |
| necessary to do such. Be sure to keep at least one Cure handy though,|
| you don't want him to unleash his barrage of attacks without a Cure |
| ready for right after. Recharge immediately after you use all of your|
| Cures, basically. Keeping a 0 handy would also be a good idea. |
| Also, when Cloud needs to recharge is a great time to attack him. |
| I don't think he even tries to run away. |
| This battle isn't very hard once you get the hang of it. Just keep |
| in mind that Cloud's defense is his own worst enemy. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
When you're done with Cloud, you get your first (incredibly useful) Hi-
Potion. Add this to your deck if you can, do some more leveling if you
hadn't yet, and head on over to the Key to Truth room for your next boss:
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Hades */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 20 |
| Difficulty: Medium-High (7.5/10) |
| Weakness: Ice |
| Absorbs: Fire |
| Nullifies: Gravity |
| Sleights: |
| -Firagaball: Hades magically gets some burning rock from what |
| appears to be the middle of nowhere. He launches this|
| ball at you, grabs another one, then launches it too.|
| This can be a very hard skill to evade, until you get|
| the hang of it. Basically, stay at the very edge of |
| the arena, and dodge roll to the right or left |
| IMMEDIATELY after Hades says "take that", or whatever|
| he says. You'd best practice on evading it or pack a |
| bunch of 0's, because this attack hurts. |
| -Temper Flare: Hades gets all pissed off ('cause you're owning him) |
| and creates two pillars of fire from his arms, and |
| starts spinning around. Why he does not just shout |
| "WHEEEEEE!", I will never know. But this attack is |
| easy to avoid; just run around Hades in the same |
| pattern he is spinning. Sora is faster than him. |
| Drop: Hades enemy card, Cloud |
| |
| Hit Points: 3.13 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| First and foremost, take all fires out of your deck. Replace them |
| with blizzards, and as many as possible. Having around 5 in your deck|
| would be very good, as the Blizzaga sleight will take out over half |
| of a bar. |
| His attacks are annoying and can hurt, but you should be able to |
| break most of his normal attacks with basic strikes by now. They are |
| all pretty repetitive too. I wouldn't worry much about them, just his|
| Firagaball. And unfortunately, Hades sleights like mad. The good |
| thing about this though is that he runs through his deck quickly. |
| Temper Flare can easily be evaded, and his attacks easily broken, but|
| Firagaball is a huge threat. I learned how to evade it most of the |
| time with dodge roll -- I surely hope you can too. |
| In a battle of attrition, you'll win. Hades runs through his deck |
| too quickly. Unfortunately, Hades sleights so much that it'll be hard|
| to attack him very much before he breaks your attacks with a sleight.|
| |
| Start the battle off by using as many Blizzagas and Blizzards as |
| possible. I only had four Blizzard cards, so I got a Blizzaga and |
| Blizzard, then recharged for another Blizzaga. This alone took out |
| almost two bars of health. From here, you'll want to attack when you |
| can, chaining together as many attacks as possible before he breaks |
| your attack with a sleight. Both of which have a large enough wind-up|
| delay that you can run towards the outside and evade accordingly. |
| If you got a couple Blizzagas out and attack just a few times, then |
| just protect yourself until he runs out of cards. When he does, rush |
| up and beat on him while he's recharging - he won't try to run any |
| more than Cloud did. By this point, he should be dead. If not, then |
| carefully attack around his sleights, but make sure not to die here. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Take pride in beating him, because he's the most difficult of the first
world card set. The enemy card he grants you isn't of much use IMHO, but
you will get your first Cloud summoning card after the cutscene. From here,
you may wish to get a couple more for Omnislash.
When you're ready, head out onto the next world.
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ swcsiw4 \
------------------------- Monstro ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Starting level: 20 |
Finishing level: 24 |
|
Friends: Donald, Goofy |
Cards: Wishing Star, Dumbo |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Large Body |
-Yellow Opera |
-Green Requiem |
-Air Soldier |
-Search Ghost |
-Tornado Step |
Bosses: Parasite Cage (Guidance Room) |
Rewards Room: Aqua Splash |
____________________________________________________________________________|
Welcome to my least favorite world from Kingdom Hearts! >.> I still do not
like this world purely due to the fact I hated it in the original.
Anyway! The boss for this world will be in the Guidance room this time, so
any leveling you want to do will have to be done before then. You have two
worlds left in the first world card set, and I recommend getting to around
level 30 or so by the end of the last world. Level here accordingly.
You may or may not want to pick up a few copies of Wishing Star - this
world's Keyblade. This is the only card other than Pumpkinhead with a Thrust
that is better than D+ which you have right now.. Pumpkinhead is still
better (C+) compared to Wishing Star (C) though. And you will get another C+
in Wonderland. However, if you find yourself not having enough Pumpkinheads
for the second hit right now, and still having to use those Kingdom Keys
for that, then Wishing Star is your best substitute.
Anyway, do your leveling and make your way into the Key of Guidance room
for the boss, Parasite Cage.
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Parasite Cage */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 24 |
| Difficulty: Medium-Low (4.5/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Parasite Cage enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 4 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| This boss is more annoying than difficult. Parasite Cage stays |
| stationary towards the end, facing you, while four platforms float |
| in front of him, rotating clockwise. You have to stay on these plat- |
| forms, because everything around it is acid that will eat at your HP |
| as long as you're in it; and yes, it alone can kill you. Whatmore, if|
| you stay on a single platform too long, it'll sink into the acid. |
| Staying on a platform to attack is hard also, since it's hard to pull|
| off a single combo without falling into the acid. See why this is |
| is annoying? |
| Parasite Cage uses four different attacks, and only one of them is |
| long range. Of course, since you need to be in close range to hurt |
| it, it doesn't matter. |
| With the long range attack, it puts both it's arms in the acid. In |
| case you didn't notice, those two arms have mouths - and it uses the |
| mouths to swallow up a ball of acid and spit it up at you. Easy to |
| dodge; just hop to a different platform as it is coming at you. |
| In one of the close range attacks, it does something similar as the |
| long range one. It puts both it's arms in the acid, but instead it |
| throws it's body at you. The second close range attack is simple - it|
| just swings it's arms at you. Unfortunately, both of these attacks |
| hurt quite a bit. Therefore, when you're up close to him, keep up |
| steady attacks to avoid being hit by these. |
| The last attack isn't really meant to hurt you, I believe. Parasite |
| Cage slams both it's arms into the ground in front of the platforms, |
| causing all of them to sink and I believe they become smaller, and |
| harder to stay on. However, it can hit you and it will hurt. |
| With this battle, it's necessary you keep a constant eye on your HP, |
| because the acid drains it at an annoyingly fast rate while you're in|
| it. |
| Before you start the battle, bring along as many Cures as you have |
| the CP for. Stay on a platform as it is on the left side of Parasite |
| Cage (remember that they rotate clockwise), then get in a chain of |
| attacks as soon as you get in range. If you want, you can chain a few|
| attacks while standing in the acid, as it doesn't seem to break your |
| combos. This will drain your hit points quickly though, so do this at|
| your own risk. Parasite Cage does have semi-low defense, however, so |
| the main time in this boss is waiting around on the platforms, should|
| you choose to do such. Hitting him a specific number of times will |
| cause him to drop a large bunch of HP balls too, which are actually |
| more useful in this battle than you may think; especially if you're |
| hanging around in the acid. |
| There is also a Gimmick card for this battle (which I do not know |
| how exactly to cause it's appearance). When used, it'll remove all of|
| the platforms and turn the acid to water. This is the perfect time |
| for unleashing a barrage of attacks. If the platforms were shrank by |
| Parasite Cage's attack, they will return in normal size, also. |
| This boss, just like the last two, isn't really hard if you know how |
| it's done. Just remember to recharge the moment you run out of Cures,|
| whether you decide to wait around on the platforms or go berserk in |
| the acid. Cures are a must for this boss. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Be sure to save before going into the Truth room, because another event is
in there.
In this event, you have two minutes to fill the entire bar. The bar will
increase as you kill more Heartless, but it decreases with each passing
second you are not killing Heartless. I think the bar represents how many
Heartless are left to kill - since as it goes back down, more Shadows will
appear.
It's not a very hard event though, as I did it with just a little over a
minute left.
Your reward for completing this is the Dumbo summon.
Peculiar how Pinocchio and Geppetto escape through Monstro's mouth, but
you have to use a secret door. >_>
When you're done, leave out this door and prepare for the next world, the
last one in World Card Set I.
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/ \ swcsiw5 \
------------------------- Wonderland ------------------------|
\ / |
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|
Starting level: 24 |
Finishing level: 30 |
|
Friends: Donald, Goofy |
Cards: Lady Luck, Card Soldier |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Soldier |
-Red Nocturne |
-Large Body |
-Crescendo |
-Creeper Plant |
Bosses: Trickmaster (Truth Room) |
Rewards Room: Stop Raid |
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I chose to do Wonderland last for two reasons: it's the easiest. In Kingdom
Hearts, it was the first world that Sora, Donald, and Goofy went to. And it
would normally be so here too. However, spacing off Wonderland makes it more
of a challenge than it would have been otherwise, and it's actually not a
bad place to level.
Second: the boss here will be extremely annoying if you haven't obtained
High Jump. I'm dead serious. He's easy otherwise...but if you don't have
that ability, expect a very dreadful battle. My strategy will be assuming
you have High Jump.
In my opinion, Wonderland pretty much marks the half way point in the game,
judging by floors. It's the sixth of thirteen, but the final floor is nearly
impossible to level efficiently on. So that makes it the sixth of twelve.
Then the second world card set has a floor which you won't do any battling.
Six of eleven.
On each of my playthroughs in the original CoM and in Re:CoM, 60 was a good
level to be at when you beat the game. For that reason, hitting level 30
on the halfway point in the game is ideal.
Anyway, pick up a few Lady Lucks if you want. It's slightly worse than
Pumpkinhead, but it does the same job that they are meant to do just as
well.
In the Key of Beginnings room, you will encounter a miniboss of sorts.
It's nowhere near a boss -- more like an advanced random encounter -- but
you will have to fight three sets of Card Soldiers. It is slightly more
difficult, but not worth a strategy for it. In the first set, you fight
three spades; in the second set, two hearts; in the third, three hearts and
two spades. The first two are easy enough, but the third set can be hard.
They can strike hard, and overpower you. Hearts are more dangerous than the
spades due to having more HP and higher card values (7 is the highest, I
think), so take them out first. If you're not careful, you can die easily
on the third set. Make sure you have a Cure available at all times. You'll
find that the Jafar enemy card is insanely useful for this, as the hearts
tend to break your cards in the middle of a combo a lot.
You'll get the Card Soldier enemy card for defeating all of them.
After you're done with everything, go into the Key to Truth room for your
next easy boss.
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/ \* */ \
| \* Trickmaster */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 25 |
| Difficulty: Low (3.5/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Trickmaster enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 4.2 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Okay, so I hadn't leveled much yet. >_> I was in a hurry to get the |
| strategy for this boss completed, so I did the leveling after. |
| Easy fight though. Trickmaster is tall, and the only section of him |
| you can hit is his stomach - but if you jump, it will still strike |
| him. And you'll only have to jump for the first strike in the combo, |
| anyway. He does have 0's to interrupt your attacks, though; he also |
| has cards with values up to 8. I really hope you've been using the |
| Moogle Rooms enough now to have a few 8's and 7's. |
| The battle starts with a table in the center of the room. This table |
| is very handy for attacking him - but it's not entirely necessary. |
| The Gimmick card for this battle will cause the table to spawn again,|
| if Trickmaster knocks it down. Which, if you stand on the table for |
| very long at all, he WILL knock it down. |
| As for attacks, he has four. The first one is the one he'll use the |
| most, especially when you're out of range. He slams his arms onto the|
| floor, which causes a shockwave to flow out to the walls. A giant |
| combustion forms around him also, making this attack pretty much im- |
| possible to avoid if you're in close range. However, at mid-to-long |
| range, it's easy to jump over. |
| The second attack is short range. He just swings his arms around, |
| basically. The noob even does it when you're really far off. |
| In his third attack, he shoots several large balls of fire at you. |
| It may have been a coincidence, but I only saw him do it at low |
| health. You can evade this by standing on the opposite side of the |
| table, if it's there. Otherwise, break the attack. It's annoying and |
| can kill you easily. |
| The final attack he only does when the table is in the room. |
| It starts similar to the first attack I mentioned, only he hits the |
| table into the ground instead. He only uses it if you stand on it for|
| any semi-long period of time though. Therefore, if you decide to use |
| it, then don't stay on for anymore than long enough to get in a chain|
| or two. |
| Start the battle off with Jafar, so that he won't break your chains. |
| From there, stand on the table and chain attacks at him until he |
| decides to knock it down -- or stand on it for a chain, hop off and |
| get in another chain, then stand back on the table and repeat. |
| Your attacks will hit hard enough that he should go down quickly. |
| I died once against him because I forgot to keep a watch on my HP, |
| and I only had it around 110. Just like all bosses, keep your HP up |
| and don't become careless, and you'll do fine. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
When you're done with Trickmaster, make sure you are at least level 27.
This is the level you will be getting the Sonic Blade sleight, assuming you
have gotten every other sleight to this point. If you haven't, do so, as
most of my boss strategies from this point on will involve using it.
Remember to save in the Conqueror's Respite room, because, just like how
you had to fight Axel for the first world card set, you'll have to fight
another Organization member for the second world card set. This member
happens to be Larxene, one of my favorites.
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/ \ \
------------------------- Castle Oblivion ------------------------|
\ (Floor 6) / |
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/ \* */ \
| \* Larxene I */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 30 |
| Difficulty: Low (3.5/10) - Lower with Sonic Blade (1/10) |
| Weakness: Sleights |
| Absorbs: Thunder probably. But we don't have it yet. |
| Nullifies: Gravity |
| Sleights: |
| -Mega Volt: Larxene throws both handfuls of her kunai to the |
| floor, and this causes several streams of thunder |
| from the ceiling to strike the center of the field, |
| then spread out quickly to the outside. I haven't |
| found a way to evade it, so break it if you want. |
| It doesn't hurt a lot though, so I see no need. |
| -Teleport Rush: It's kind of hard to describe, but Larxene...well, |
| she "teleports" right beside you and tries to strike|
| you, using her kunai as claws. She does this many...|
| many times, before she finally gives up. This CAN be|
| deadly, depending on how much you're hit by it. It |
| doesn't hurt much with one hit, but the damage adds |
| up very fast - and due to her staying so close, it's|
| hard to avoid. Break it with a 0 if you see it. |
| Also, I think she attacks ten times. I'd like a |
| confirmation on if she does or not. |
| Drop: Thunder; world card set II |
| |
| Hit Points: 4.65 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| *Sighs* She's comparable to your battle with Axel in almost every, |
| single way. The worst, however, being that this fight is a letdown. |
| You'd expect something more than this. And, just like Axel, I was |
| able to analyze her attacks and sleights and beat her in the same |
| battle - without dying once. Of course, it was quite a bit harder |
| now. I had to recharge to get Cures again many times. |
| Larxene is a speed demon (and a hot one too), but her attacks fail |
| to hurt. She has to pile on tons of attacks to take out a large chunk|
| of your HP. However, she actually can pile on tons of attacks. You |
| have yet to fight a boss as speedy as she is. I think that's supposed|
| to go hand-in-hand with her element being lightning. Even so, she is |
| unable to pile on enough attacks to even nearly match the damage out-|
| put that you will - if you're actually trying to attack, at least. |
| Outside her sleight, she uses three attacks. Her first being a basic |
| lightning spell. You know she's using this when her cards are blue |
| instead of red. You can dodge roll to evade part of the attack, but |
| enough bolts of lightning strike that it's hard to evade all of them.|
| Break it if you want, but it doesn't hurt a lot. She gives the attack|
| away by chanting "Lightning!" |
| Second attack she gives away by chanting "Vanish!" It doesn't hurt |
| anymore than her lightning spell, and is much easier to avoid. |
| She throws both sets of kunai out at you, one just a second after the|
| other. Just jump to avoid them both. I seriously did not get hit by |
| it even once when I put the slightest bit of effort into evading it. |
| Third attack is signaled by her grunting. However, it's too late |
| once you hear her - you'll be struck not even a second after. This is|
| her only short range attack - the other two are long range. In it, |
| she swipes at you twice, using her kunai as if they were claws. Also |
| does not hurt much, but it's quick. Also note that this attack morphs|
| into something more deadly when she's low in health. She instead |
| swipes multiple times at you, and then ends the attack with a barrage|
| of lightning bolts (very similar to her lightning spell). Yes, in |
| just one attack. |
| You can go at this fight in one of two ways - using a normal attack |
| deck, or a Sonic Blade deck. The latter will decimate her, since she |
| is already weak to sleights. But, at this point in the game, it may |
| be very hard to make a Sonic Blade deck. Especially since you most |
| likely don't have many Hi-Potions - and none with a high value. |
| If you do manage to make a deck around it, then it's simple enough: |
| use Sonic Blade over and over, mashing the triangle button between |
| sleights to get it out as quick as possible. Use a Hi-Potion once you|
| are out of cards, and repeat. Be warned though that, in the middle of|
| using a Hi-Potion -- even your first one -- she may have enough time |
| to sleight together a Teleport Rush. It seems Larxene's speed lets |
| her get her cards quicker too. |
| Anyway, a deck built around that is not necessary...yet. Right now, |
| a simple attack deck will do just fine. |
| Start the battle off like a normal hack-and-slash battle - attack! |
| Do it carefully, as she packs several high valued cards to interrupt |
| your chains. You can choose to break her attacks with your own, but |
| don't worry much if you get hit by her a few times. |
| After she starts getting low on health, she seems to get really... |
| pissed off, and starts using the more deadly version of her swiping |
| attack I warned you about, along with Teleport Rush. At this point, |
| use Jafar if you have it. You want to finish her off as quickly as |
| you possibly can now. And always keep a 0 handy, in case she slips in|
| a Teleport Rush in the middle of your repeated chains. If she does, |
| and you aren't one or two cards away from a Cure, then you can expect|
| to die. |
| Beating her isn't hard by any means - if you die, it'll only be if |
| you leave the controller, or if you misjudge Teleport Rush. Lucky for|
| us -- or me, at least -- her next battle is much more difficult. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
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/ \ \
------------------------- World Card Set II ------------------------|
\ / |
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After you beat Larxene, you're going to get your next set of world cards.
These are Atlantica, Neverland, Hollow Bastion, and 100 Acre Wood.
You'll probably notice the enemies becoming more difficult by now, too.
Many of the bosses from here out (mostly the non-Disney ones) will become
insanely annoying. This is why you need Sonic Blade.
Sonic Blade is easily the best sleight in the entire game. In the normal
battles, you'll find little use for it -- however, it can turn the most
annoying of bosses into a piece of cake (figure of speech).
In this sleight, Sora will zoom across the room, Keyblade first, into the
nearest enemy, and you can press triangle up to six times for extra attacks.
During this period of attacks, the enemy you're attacking (which should be a
boss) is stunned; they can do literally nothing until it's over. Quickly set
up another Sonic Blade and unleash it to start the process again.
The period of time between sleights is very low, and the enemy has almost no
time to do anything in between. Therefore, a deck built around Sonic Blade
and Sonic Blade alone, can massacre almost any boss in which the target is
not in the air without you getting hurt almost at all.
This sleight will be used against most of the non-Disney bosses from here
out. If you see a non-Disney boss coming up, expect it to be shorter and
based on Sonic Blade.
A properly constructed Sonic Blade deck will involve as many uses of
Sonic Blade as you can (preferably with 8, 8, and 7 for each sleight, and
the cards set up best for chains, in case you can't use Sonic Blade and
need/want to rely on basic attacks), two or three Hi-Potions, around three
or four Cures (which you shouldn't really need to use), and at least three
0's at the end, for breaking any sleight which manages to slip past Sonic
Blade, that it can't break.
Anyway, enough of that. You should understand that Sonic Blade is a must
by now, and you need to be able to build a deck around it.
Consider this part the middle of the game, as you only have six floors of
battle left. In the second world card set, you'll only have to go through
three floors as you may expect -- 100 Acre Wood is free of enemies. It is
also free of a map therefore, so you will skip a floor map for whichever
floor you synthesize 100 Acre Wood on.
You will also get your first Key to Rewards within these floors. You may
wish to battle enough to get all of the treasures from the Rewards rooms
prior, but that is up to you. Note however that you can only carry one
Key to Rewards card at a time. Also note that, if you plan on getting all
of the treasure possible in the game, you will have to come back and re-
open each of the Key to Rewards rooms once more much, much later in the
game, after you beat Reverse/Rebirth. This is because beating R/R spawns
a second chest in each of the Rewards rooms, which contain things never
in the original Chain of Memories.
As for the maps, be prepared as you will have to fight a boss immediately
after you complete floors 7 and 8.
Note: Having Glide (obtained in Neverland) will make Hollow Bastion's
boss just a bit easier. I therefore recommend Neverland is done first.
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Floor 7 \
^ |
[C] [ ] [R] [ ]-[G] S: Start |
| | | | B: Key of Beginnings - Red card |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[S] G: Key of Guidance - Green card |
| | | v T: Key to Truth - Blue card |
[T] [ ] [B]-[ ] R: Key to Rewards - 30 card total |
C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
|
Save at the Conqueror's Respite here, as a boss awaits you after. |
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/ \ \
------------------------- Castle Oblivion ------------------------|
\ (Floor 7) / |
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/ \* */ \
| \* Riku I */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 35 |
| Difficulty: Medium (5/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Aero |
| |
| Hit Points: 5.5 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| What in the hell? Your first time seeing him, and he already is |
| starting a fight?! What a giant bastard. |
| Anyway! I had a lot of trouble with this boss when I fought him on |
| my first playthrough, but I seriously cannot remember why now. I know|
| I was underleveled, but damn. I think I learned to use Sonic Blade |
| with this boss, also. Speaking of, Sonic Blade will make this fight |
| very easy. |
| Unfortunately, there isn't much strategy involved in this fight. |
| Riku uses no sleights yet, and his attacks are very repetitive. He |
| hits the ground, leaving a dark aura around the attack, and slashes |
| at you. The slashing combos are a little longer at mid-low health. |
| That's basically it. However, his attacks do enough damage and he |
| hits enough that it can really add up, plus the fact that his attacks|
| have a chance to stun you, leaving you defenseless for more attacks. |
| Also, he has a Shadow enemy card which he'll use at mid health. It's |
| effect will increase the values of all his cards by 1. If you have a |
| Parasite Cage in your deck, use it. If not, you may want to wait for |
| this point to use Jafar. Though I didn't. And yes, you will want to |
| use Jafar at some point in this fight. Just like every other boss, it|
| is very useful here. |
| Beat on him with combos, possibly waiting to break his attacks once |
| in awhile like he does with you, and use Jafar. If you do that, you |
| shouldn't have much trouble beating him. There are a few sleights |
| which come in handy too, such as Strike Raid. If you have them, use |
| them. Otherwise, don't worry about it. It's not really a difficult |
| battle as long as you're careful. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
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Floor 8 \
^ |
[C]-[ ]-[T] S: Start |
| B: Key of Beginnings - 5= card |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ] G: Key of Guidance - 6= card |
| | T: Key to Truth - 30 card total |
[R] [ ]-[B] R: Key to Rewards - 15 Blue card total |
| C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ] |
v | | |
[ ] [G] |
|
Save at the Conqueror's Respite here too, as there is another boss. |
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/ \ \
------------------------- Castle Oblivion ------------------------|
\ (Floor 8) / |
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/ \* */ \
| \* Riku II */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 40 |
| Difficulty: Medium-High (7/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity |
| Sleights: |
| -Helm Split: Riku jumps up and smacks his Soul Eater against the |
| ground, three times. Each time leaves a large, dark aura|
| around the spot he hit. The third time causes a few |
| pillars of the aura to rise out of the ground. Hard to |
| evade, really. You can dodge roll, or jump - I found it |
| to be easier to jump over it. But, even still, evading |
| all the pillars of the final hit is hard. If you can |
| glide here, then I'd recommend it. Still, I would just |
| break this when you see it. |
| Drop: Magnet Spiral (sleight) |
| |
| Hit Points: 5.5 bars (Yes, still) |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| This battle is more annoying than before. Riku has the same HP, and |
| many similar attacks. Added to the previous arsenal, he also has an |
| attack where he strikes the ground, and the aura travels across the |
| arena in an X shape. This attack is annoying due to how hard it CAN |
| be to dodge. But the main thing that'll make this battle harder is |
| Riku's new sleight. Once you've seen it and attempted to evade it a |
| few times, it gets easier to evade - especially if you can glide. |
| But even then, it'll take out a large chunk of your HP if you get hit|
| by all of the attacks from it. |
| Jafar is even more important here, due to Riku's many 9's and 0's. |
| Make sure you have this card at all costs. |
| You'll also want to keep a few 0's in your deck (three or four?), so |
| you can break Helm Split. |
| The twenty unbreakable cards you get from Jafar should take out |
| around two and one quarter bars. From here, you're stuck getting in |
| a combo or two whenever you can, and breaking his attacks. Remember |
| to have a 0 or two for breaking Helm Split - you don't want to worry |
| about this attack. Also keep at least two Cures (for Cura) handy at |
| all times, in case you get caught in the middle of one of his attack |
| barrages (if he stuns you, perhaps). This means to have at least five|
| Cures in your deck, and I'd recommend starting off a sleight with a |
| friend, then two Cures for Cura. The extra Cures are for emergency |
| Curagas. |
| You'll also have a large opportunity to take out Riku's HP, and a |
| large piece of it, when he has to recharge. Take advantage of this. |
| |
| An easier (much easier) way to beat him involves Sonic Blade. Build |
| a Sonic Blade deck and spam that sleight until he's dead. Remember to|
| include at least two Hi-Potions, and use them as part of a sleight if|
| necessary. If you don't have two Hi-Potions or just don't want to use|
| a pure Sonic Blade deck, you can also build a Sonic Blade deck built |
| for beatdowns - as in, the order of cards is made for the three-hit |
| combo. Start with Jafar and pummel Riku senseless until it wears off,|
| then spam Sonic Blade. Pretty much any combination that involves that|
| sleight will make this boss really easy. |
| Sonic Blade will take out nearly an entire bar per use; and from my |
| experimenting, it will take seven Sonic Blade sleights to beat him, |
| starting at full health. |
| Honestly, Sonic Blade is far from necessary to beat Riku. It will |
| make it a lot easier, but don't worry about it if you don't want to. |
| Just make sure to keep an eye on your health and you should do fine. |
| I can't promise you'll do it on your first try, though. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
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Floor 9 \
|
[B]-[ ]-[ ]-[R] S: Start |
| | B: Key of Beginnings - Red card |
[ ] [ ] G: Key of Guidance - 9= card |
| | ^ T: Key to Truth - 1= card |
[T]-[ ]-[ ]-[C] R: Key to Rewards - Blue 2= card |
| | C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
[ ] [ ] |
| | |
[S] [ ]-[G] |
v |
|
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Floor 10 \
^ |
[C] S: Start |
| B: Key of Beginnings - Blue card |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ] - 3< card |
| | G: Key of Guidance - Green card |
[R] [T] [ ]-[G] [ ] - 7> card |
| | | R: Key to Truth - Red card |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[S] - 0 = card |
| | v R: Key to Rewards - Green 3= card |
[B]-[ ] [G] - Red 7= card |
C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
|
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/ \ swcsiiw1 \
------------------------- Atlantica ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Starting level: 30 |
Finishing level: 35 |
|
Friends: Donald, Goofy, Arial (Guidance room and after only) |
Cards: Crabclaw |
Heartless: |
-Search Ghost |
-Darkball |
-Sea Neon |
-Screwdiver |
-Aquatank |
Bosses: Ursula (Truth Room) |
Rewards Room: Quake |
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I disliked this place in the original game, but now that you don't swim
(how is Sora breathing underwater?), this place is much better.
Take the advantage to level here if you're not 30 yet, because the enemies
are only semi-hard and they give a nice amount of experience. Just remember
to take any lightning elemental attacks out of your deck, as a few of the
enemies here will absorb it.
Crabclaw is also a good Keyblade to snag. Out of all of the Keyblade cards
in the second world card set, Crabclaw is the most well-rounded, and it
is your best card for combo finishing, unless you decide to go after Metal
Chocobo (Olympus Coliseum Key to Rewards). While Lionheart is better, should
you choose to use your first Key to Rewards card for it, Crabclaw is good
for all around purposes, and not bad to build a deck around at this point
in the game.
Note: You'll get Arial as a friend in this world, but only after going
through the Guidance room. However, she isn't very useful unless you stock
two or three together. Even then, it leaves a lot to be desired.
When you're done, go into the Key to Truth room for your next boss.
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/ \* */ \
| \* Ursula */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 35 |
| Difficulty: Medium (5/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Ursula enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: |
| -Ursula: 2.80 bars |
| -Tentacles: .25 of a bar each (four altogether) |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Ursula, while not difficult, will take a bit more strategy than many |
| other bosses we've fought so far. |
| The main target is Ursula's head, but she hides behind four of her |
| tentacles. Once you knock off all four of them, she'll take her sweet|
| time getting her head into range for you to bash at. Then, after a |
| short time, her tentacles will respawn. |
| There is a Gimmick card in this battle which you may get when you |
| beat one of Ursula's tentacles. It causes all four tentacles to |
| vanish, and Ursula lowers her head, stunned. When she comes to, her |
| four tentacles will reappear. |
| She has four attacks. The first one she uses when you're near her |
| tentacles, and she swipes one of her tentacles at you. The second |
| attack is basically like the Thunder attack. She holds the trident up|
| and three bolts of lightning strike. If you dodge roll at the right |
| time, you can evade it, but it's easier if you just break the attack.|
| The third one is simple enough. She spits out ten bubbles at you, |
| which chase you down until they disappear. Run around the arena, |
| avoiding them. They disappear rather fast and are not hard to avoid. |
| The fourth attack is a bit more annoying. She lets out a large beam |
| of electricity from her mouth. Plus, if you try to jump over it, it |
| will follow you. I therefore have not yet found a way to evade it. |
| Break it when you see it coming -- she grunts or moans or something |
| when she's about to use it. |
| Note that she doesn't use the third attack nearly as much and uses |
| the fourth attack a lot more once she hits lower health. |
| |
| Start the battle off with Jafar. She uses cards with values of 7 and |
| 8, so she can interrupt your combos with annoying ease. Unless you, |
| by the grace of God, have a deck of 9's already, then Jafar is almost|
| necessary. |
| Use your friend cards to take out the tentacles. You may wish to |
| wait until Jafar is gone to do so though. She'll be able to break |
| your friend cards in the middle of the attack, also, so be sure to |
| sleight together at least two at a time to avoid them being broken. |
| Once you take out all four tentacles -- either with attacks or any |
| friend cards you were lucky enough to obtain right away -- Ursula |
| will lower her head. Once it gets into range, bash at it as quickly |
| as you possibly can. |
| When her tentacles respawn, if you have a Gimmick card (which you |
| should), and Jafar is out, then activate it and bash at her more! |
| By this point, you'll have to be careful. It's best to use your |
| friends on the tentacles here, and playing defensively. You could |
| always create some combo sleights to be safe, too. If you do this, |
| I highly recommend making sure you have a Hi-Potion to use. |
| Due to Ursula's semi-low HP (not including tentacles) for this point |
| in the game, she's really not hard. By the time you're done with your|
| Jafar enemy card and using a Gimmick card, maybe two, she should |
| already be approaching her demise. The only reason I gave this a |
| medium difficulty is because of how easily she can break your cards. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
When you're done, be sure to save in the Conqueror's Respite room, because
the end of floor 7 has a boss. The strategy for him is up with the maps.
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/ \ swcsiiw2 \
------------------------- Neverland ------------------------|
\ / |
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|
Starting level: 35 |
Finishing level: 40 |
|
Friends: Donald, Goofy, Peter Pan (See below) |
Cards: Fairy Harp, Tinker Bell |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Yellow Opera |
-Crescendo |
-Darkball |
-Pirate |
-Air Pirate |
-Barrel Spider |
Bosses: Captain Hook (Truth Room) |
Rewards Room: Thunder Raid |
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I have mixed feelings about Neverland, myself. In the original Kingdom
Hearts, I liked this place purely due to the awesome optional boss at the
end of the game. However, Re:CoM has no uberly fun boss which shows up here
later on, so I'm willing to say that this place is a lot to be desired.
One large reason for this is the annoying enemies which can make this place
hard to level. They aren't hard to beat (though my deck had a lot of 8's and
9's, with 6 being my lowest card value); but they can hit hard.
Then, this place has a Keyblade which is a lot to be desired. Fairy Harp
is basically a Pumpkinhead with worse recovery but a better combo finish, in
case you accidentally mess up the order. The original Chain of Memories had
Swing Speed, in which Fairy Harp excelled in - however, I'm unsure of Re:CoM
using so much as even a hidden Swing Speed stat.
You also have to deal with Peter being a whiny little ass, joining you at
the Beginnings room, but then leaving you in the Guidance room. However, he
will join you again for the boss.
Take your time and level to 40 here if possible, and go into the Key to
Truth room for your next boss.
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/ \* */ \
| \* Captain Hook */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 40 |
| Difficulty: Medium-High (6.5/10) |
| Weakness: Fire |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity, Thunder |
| Sleights: |
| -Barrel Blast: Hook hops on top of one of the sides of the ship |
| and pushes six barrels out at you. They're easy to|
| dodge, plus, he can be hit by one too. If he is, |
| all six of them will disappear, which ends the |
| sleight. They do a lot of damage though, so you |
| may want to break it if you see it. Be careful, as|
| Hook can strike at you during the sleight, if you |
| happen to get in range. |
| -Combo & Present: Hook throws a flurry of attacks, and throws some |
| of his presents at you. Annoying damage, but very |
| short range. However, you'll probably want to stop|
| it if you see it. |
| Drop: Hook enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 4.1 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Hook is meh. His basic attacks are simple, but they can hit for a |
| lot of damage. His attacks involve throwing a few "presents" at you, |
| which explode when they hit, and basic slashes and slash combos. All |
| of this can easily be avoided (in my opinion) using dodge roll. |
| Hook may start the battle off with an enemy card. One of the enemy |
| cards will make all of his cards of 0 value, and another one is a |
| randomizer. It'll make every card value random as he uses it. Note, |
| however, that he does not always start the battle off with one of |
| these enemy cards. |
| There's not much you can do if he uses the randomizer, other than |
| evade all his attacks. But if he uses the card which makes all values|
| 0, then take advantage of this to play defensively. Do NOT attack |
| first, let him attack first then card break him. |
| If he does not start the battle with one of these enemy cards, he |
| may still use one or even both later. Watch out for this. |
| |
| Start the battle off with Jafar, like always, unless Hook started |
| with the enemy card which turns his card values to 0. This is because|
| Hook has several cards ranging from 9 to 0 which he'll love to break |
| your combos with. This will obviously leave you open, which you do |
| not want, as Hook hits so hard. Once Jafar runs out, dodge roll to |
| evade his attacks, then quickly rush in with a combo. His attack |
| where he throws his presents at you leaves him open for just enough |
| time to get in a combo anyway. And when he uses Barrel Blast, try to |
| lead him into the barrels, as it'll hurt him just as hard as it would|
| you, if you get hit by them. |
| When he gets low on health, he'll use his own enemy card, which will |
| protect him from a hit which would normally kill him. I honestly do |
| not see much use for it, as he can't heal himself anyway. |
| Your attacks will do quite a bit of damage against him, so, as long |
| as you're careful not to get hit by him much, you'll do fine. Keep a |
| Cure at all times, though. Even if you have to recharge to get them. |
| When he throws his presents is a perfect time to start recharging, |
| and you can evade him long enough behind the pole in the center of |
| the ship to fill the recharge bar too. You do not want to get in the |
| middle of one of his attack flurries, without a Cure to heal after. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
When you beat him, you'll get his enemy card and Tinker Bell.
Congratulations, you just beat the most difficult Disney boss in the game.
Go through the Conqueror's Respite door for your next battle with Riku.
Remember to save right before, as this one really can kick your ass. Guide
for him is above, like earlier.
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/ \ swcsiiw3 \
------------------------- Hollow Bastion ------------------------|
\ / |
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|
Starting level: 40 |
Finishing level: 45 |
|
Friends: Donald, Goofy, Beast (Guidance room and after only) |
Cards: Divine Rose |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Tornado Step |
-Darkball |
-Wizard |
-Wyvern |
-Defender |
Bosses: Dragon Maleficent (Truth Room) |
Rewards Room: Mushu |
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This is my favorite of the world card sets. It's got an awesome melody in
the background, and honestly has the best of the story rip offs from KH.
If you've followed the floors in the order I have given, Hollow Bastion will
also be the final story rip off (other than 100 Acre Wood, if you want to
count that). Deservingly so, also, as the enemies in Hollow Bastion are the
most annoying.
This world shines in one small way: it's world Keyblade. Divine Rose has
the highest three-hit combo stat you've obtained so far, with a Strike of
A. It's Thrust and Combo Finisher are pathetic, so it can be hard to use
efficiently. Just remember to never mix up the order and accidentally use
Divine Rose as the second or third hit in a combo. If you use it properly,
it will do more damage than any other Keyblade you have right now. There-
fore, grab a few. At this point, I had enough MP and worthless cards to sell
to make my deck designed to start every combo with it. I recommend you do
the same.
The Rewards room of this world also has a potential useful summon for you.
A specific sleight involving Mushu called Mega Flare will quite literally
obliterate Heartless in a matter of seconds. It's unlikely you have Mega
Flare yet, but if you have a Key to Rewards card, then I recommend you grab
Mushu now while you can.
If you did 100 Acre Wood before Hollow Bastion and are using Spellbinder,
you may want to think about taking it out of your deck, along with any other
elemental cards. Wizards are common enemies here, and they absorb every
single element you can think of.
When you're done with everything, go into the Key to Truth room for your
next potentially annoying boss.
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/ \* */ \
| \* Dragon Maleficent */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 45 |
| Difficulty: Medium (6/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Dragon Maleficent enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 6.1 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| This boss is...argh! Easy, when done right -- otherwise, it's hell. |
| And I mean that literally -- if you know what you're doing, this boss|
| really is VERY easy. But if not...Expect to see that Game Over screen|
| ...a lot. The thing that will make this battle deadly is how her |
| attacks hurt so freaking much. You will need at least five Cures for |
| this boss. Start out with that. |
| With all of this, remember that Maleficent stays in the center of the|
| field, and the field is VERY large. Use this to your advantage. |
| The target in this battle is her head, which is above the ground, |
| like an aerial enemy. Because of this, you have to jump to attack |
| her. |
| |
| Dragon Maleficent has four attacks from what I've seen. Two of them |
| basically do the same thing -- in one, she swipes her tail at you, |
| and this causes a wave to expand and hit you. The tail strike will do|
| damage, as will the wave. Jumping can avoid the wave. |
| The second attack, she stomps her feet and each stomp releases a wave|
| which will obviously hurt if you're hit by it. Once more, jump to |
| avoid this. The range of both of these attacks does not extent to the|
| outer rim of the field. |
| Her third attack is easily the most annoying though, and she will use|
| it a lot. She breathes out a large burst of green flame which pretty |
| much covers the entire field in front of her. This attack pisses me |
| off so much, as it can get A LOT of damage done before you manage to |
| run away from it. The easiest way to avoid this is to jump and glide |
| to another side of the field. Remember, the field is very large. |
| The fourth one is simple enough: she tries to bite at you...several |
| times in a row. It obviously has very short range, so evade it |
| accordingly. |
| |
| To win this battle, you need to remember not to EVER let Maleficent |
| attack, unless you absolutely have no other choice. Sleight together |
| cards to keep her at bay, if you must. With that in mind, you can |
| assume that Jafar is quite useful here. Put that in your deck, along |
| with the five plus Cures and at least three Hi-Potions would be a |
| good idea. |
| Maleficent's card values do not go above 7, from what I have seen. |
| I really should hope that by now, most of your deck is higher values |
| like that. The only exception is if you are using new cards (this |
| world is the first which you've been able to obtain several copies of|
| them?). |
| Sleights are useless here for anything more than keeping Maleficent |
| from attacking; make your deck geared for general three-hit combos. |
| You're going to want to start out with Jafar -- I managed to take out|
| three bars of health with it alone. Then...attack relentlessly. |
| Whenever she manages to get in an attack, avoid it. If you see her |
| preparing her green flames, glide over to another side of the field, |
| far away from it, right as it starts to land. Keep a close eye on |
| your HP, too. |
| You'll also want to watch out for Gimmick cards here. I'm not sure |
| what triggers them, but I noticed one pop up when I broke her attack |
| and hit her. But, the Gimmick card for this battle causes a platform |
| to rise, which not only gives Sora direct access to her head but it |
| also basically lets you evade pretty much everyone of her attacks. |
| The platform will move as you attack, also, so the only way to fall |
| off is if you move the analog stick to get off it. |
| |
| This battle is easy...once you figure out how to do it properly. For |
| that reason is why I give it a medium difficulty. But, you may end up|
| dying a couple times before you figure it out. Just remember...do not|
| let yourself get hit by Dragon Maleficent's attacks. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Beating Dragon Maleficent will get you her enemy card -- useful in a deck
filled with various Potions.
If you've been doing this in my order, I hope you enjoy the scene for the
tenth floor, as you finally see Marluxia, who is my favorite character. ^^
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/ \ swcsiiw4 \
------------------------- 100 Acre Wood ------------------------|
\ / |
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|
Starting level: 40 |
Finishing level: 40 |
|
Friends: N/A |
Cards: Spellbinder, Mega-Ether, Elixir, Bambi |
Heartless: None! |
Bosses: None, again! YEEHAW! |
Rewards Room: N/A |
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You may notice my level here was lower than the finishing level for Hollow
Bastion. This is due to the fact that I actually did this place before
Hollow Bastion in this playthrough; but I only did that because I needed the
map for the fourth world of this world card set. In my original playthrough,
I did 100 Acre Wood last, and I prefer that order. I therefore put it in
that order here.
Hundred Acre Wood is the only world in the game where you will have no
enemies to kill. It's just a bunch of minigames, really. Of course, if you
don't want to do them, you can skip through the rooms to the very end. This
shouldn't take you any longer than maybe two minutes. However, I'd recommend
that you do all of it, as you get some nice rewards.
Basically, Pooh lost all of his friends and Sora wants to help Pooh look
for them, since he's far too dunce to do it himself.
There will be a different minigame for each friend you find, except for
Piglet. And you'll also get a reward for each friend, and each room of the
world has a different friend of Pooh's for you to locate and complete the
minigame of (once more, except for Piglet - or the room you start in).
Each friend of Pooh's you find will give you a reward, once you beat what-
ever minigame they throw at you. There's also two friends of Pooh's for you
to find in the room immediately before the last room (save and exit room).
Pooh will follow you around everywhere. He's really slow, however, so do
not bother waiting for him. In the original Chain of Memories, you were
forced to have Pooh with you through the entire thing, apparently. Here,
though, you don't have to. Even if Pooh hasn't caught up, talking to one of
his friends will have Pooh caught up automatically - and if you enter a
different room, he'll start in the room with you.
There is also a lot of stuff here for you to hit, and hopefully get some
Moogle Points out of (some contain cards too, I believe). You can actually
mass collect Moogle Points here.
We'll start with Piglet. Go around the left side of Pooh's house, and you
will get a scene where Piglet shows up. He'll run around the bushes, and
stop at a specific area between them after a bit. Press triangle to talk to
him, before he starts running around again.
All you have to do is go through the scene (or skip it, if you'd prefer),
and he'll give you the Confuse sleight. And no, he won't ever decide to come
with you or not.
You can go into Pooh's house for a few strikables too. Only a few, however.
When you're done here, go north into the next room. This is Rabbit's house.
Past the vegetable garden and around Rabbit's house specifically, you'll see
a lot of pots and jars. Each of these pots and jars can be broken. This is
where you'll probably get most of your Moogle Points here - and this is
actually the best spot in the game for getting MP (that I've found at least).
I've gotten anywhere from 20 to 700 MP from these pots and jars alone.
Go towards the exit to trigger a scene where Pooh gets hit by a pumpkin.
If you cannot laugh at that, you are a noob.
Anyway, if you talk to Rabbit after this scene, you'll get the option to
help Rabbit sort his veggies. This will be your first minigame in the world.
______________________________
----------------------/ \----------------------
| Veggie Panic |
----------------------\______________________________/----------------------
| Reward: Cross-slash+ |
------------------------------
Your goal in this minigame is to sort the cabbages to the left, and the
pumpkins to the right, and you have to sort a total of 30 vegetables. Press
square square to sort the cabbages, and circle for the pumpkins.
Pooh will also be a complete noob and walk into the path; when this happens,
you have to hit triangle to sort whatever is about to run him over. It'll
automatically sort it to the right spot, so don't worry about that.
Carrots will also come rolling down the path for a little bit. You can press
either of the buttons to sort these - or just let them hit you and knock you
over. They won't count as misses, but knocking you over will put you at a
disadvantage when you have to strike something else.
You'll also have to worry about a giant vegetable rolling down. I, honestly,
have not been able to do this, but apparently you hit triangle over and over
to blow up the giant veggie.
Also, you'll be able to make up to six mistakes doing all this, otherwise
you'll have to start from the beginning.
The minigame will keep going until you make six mistakes. I got a hiscore
of 55, without trying.
Your reward for this is the Cross-slash+ sleight.
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Go on into the next room for your next minigame, and, of course, reward!
This room is basically a bunch of nothing, except for a large, notable tree,
and a log with balloons tied to it, which Sora will notice immediately. Press
triangle to start it.
______________________________
----------------------/ \----------------------
| Balloon Glider |
----------------------\______________________________/----------------------
| Reward: Firaga Burst |
------------------------------
The goal in this minigame is just to reach the top of the tree, collecting
the pieces of honey as you go. Unfortunately, there are obstacles. Hit the
tree or any of the bees that fly by, and a balloon will pop. If all of your
balloons pop, then you'll fail and have to restart. However, there are more
balloons you can pick up on your course to the top. You can't have more than
three balloons at a time, though.
You'll have to press circle repeatedly to ascend (which I assume is for
easier steering), and the bar at the right side of the screen will show how
far you are on your progress to the treetop.
There are approximately five hundred pieces of honey to collect altogether.
It's not hard, just be careful not to hit stuff.
At the top of the tree, you will find Owl, who'll give you your next reward,
the Firaga Burst sleight.
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Proceed into the next area (down the path to the right of the log), and you
will see Tigger bouncing around on four tree stumps; he'll, of course, ask
you to bounce with him. Before you do that, jump onto the first stump, then
onto the left, and you'll see a platform over towards the west. Glide over
there and open the chest to receive the Spellbinder Keyblade -- an amazing
Keyblade for this time of the game, if used properly. It's basically the
Divine Rose of Thrust (second hit in the combo). Great Thrust, but the other
two combo stats are crap. Use it in the right order and do great damage; mix
up the order and watch yourself fail. It's tricky to use, yes, but worth it
if you can. It's lightning elemental though, so be careful for enemies that
absorb lightning.
After you get the Keyblade card, go talk to Tigger for your next minigame.
______________________________
----------------------/ \----------------------
| Tigger's Jump-a-Thon |
----------------------\______________________________/----------------------
| Reward: Idyll Romp |
------------------------------
Very annoying minigame, in my opinion. If you've ever played The Legend of
Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and did the part in the forest where you had to
repeat Skull Kid's notes on the Ocarina, then you'll know what to do here.
Tigger hops on the four logs in a specific order, and you have to repeat it.
Press X to hop on the south log, square to hop on the west, circle to hop on
the east, and triangle to hop on the north. The amount of jumps you have to
repeat of Tigger's increase with each successful repeat; meaning that Tigger
will jump a certain pattern, you repeat it, then he jumps the pattern again
with more jumps added to it, and he adds more and more to it each success.
It goes in the order of +1, +1, then +2, and the first round starts with
three jumps.
You'll have to repeat Tigger's jumps a total of twenty-five times to win;
fail once, though, and it's game over. The game will continue until you lose,
just like with Veggie Panic. I managed a hiscore of 57.
When you complete it, Tigger will show off and let you have the Idyll Romp
sleight. I don't get how Tigger knew Sora's name, though. >_>
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After you do that, and make sure you have gotten your Spellbinder, go out
through the path north-west of the tree stumps.
Sora will notice a blustery hole - jump over that hole (looks like a well to
me, but meh) to start the next minigame.
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----------------------/ \----------------------
| Whirlwind Plunge |
----------------------\______________________________/----------------------
| Reward: Mega-Ether |
------------------------------
This minigame can be related to Balloon Glider -- except you go down, rather
than up. Basically, that hole with air coming out of it threw you clear up
into the sky, and you fall down. On your way down, you're supposed to collect
all of the honey you can, but you only can while Sora and Pooh are together.
If you two hit an obstacle, then you two become separated. Move over to Pooh
and press triangle when it appears to grab him again. You can also roll out
of the way of obstacles by moving the analog stick and pressing square (like
a dodge roll?). I think there's approximately two thousand pieces of honey
altogether, but I'm not sure as I've never been able to get all of it.
Note that it's impossible to get a game over on this minigame.
When you hit the ground, you'll find Roo. He'll give you your first Mega-
Ether.
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The final minigame is in this room also. Hop on top of the formation that
looks like stairs to the left of the hole, and you'll see Eeyore. Talk to him.
Pooh will notice a hole in the tree ahead which has honey in it. Therefore, go
up to the hole in the tree and press triangle to start the last minigame.
______________________________
----------------------/ \----------------------
| Bumble-Rumble |
----------------------\______________________________/----------------------
| Reward: Elixir |
------------------------------
This is my favorite of the minigames, but has the potential to be hardest.
Bees swarm you and Pooh, and it is your job to "exterminate" fifty of them.
You're given a specific deck for this minigame, which has Keyblade cards,
Wind cards, and Honey cards. The Wind cards are used to blow away all of the
bees, and the Honey cards are used to refill Pooh's Honey Gauge. The Honey
Gauge is the gauge in the top left corner. As Pooh attempts to collect honey,
the bees will attack him. When he's attacked, the Honey Gauge will lower.
If the Honey Gauge reaches zero, it's game over. For this reason, you'll want
to use Honey cards regularly and recharge when you run out of them. You
should start with a Wind card before using a Honey card, because the bees CAN
break your attacks. With the Wind card, the bees will be blown away, even if
only temporarily, so that they won't bother you for a short bit.
This is the deck I was given:
9 Keyblade
0 Keyblade
2 Keyblade
6 Keyblade
9 Keyblade
0 Keyblade
6 Keyblade
2 Keyblade
9 Keyblade
7 Wind
5 Honey
8 Honey
6 Keyblade
0 Keyblade
2 Keyblade
9 Keyblade
3 Keyblade
6 Keyblade
8 Keyblade
I'm unsure if this is random or not, but I think this is a specific deck as
I remember having a deck like this on my previous playthrough.
You will have access to any sleights you may be able to use out of those cards
given, plus two special sleights: Honey Pot (Honey + Honey) and Honey Storm
(Wind + Honey). Honey Pot is basically an emergency heal for Pooh; it restores
the Honey Gauge by a lot and quicker than a normal Honey card. I am honestly
unsure of what Honey Storm does. I just know it blows all the bees away, and
several honey pots seem to fly off with the wind in the sleight. If anyone
manages to find out what this does before I do, I wouldn't mind a little help.
Either way, use these sleights with caution, because, remember, that you lose
the first card of every sleight even still. You don't want to lose your only
Wind card, nor do you want to risk losing your Honey cards, now do you?
It may take a couple tries, but it's not really that hard once you get the
hang of it. You're given fifteen attack cards, so using a sleight is not
much of a problem, if necessary. Just remember to recharge if you run out of
Honey cards, and keep the Honey gauge above half way.
The game will end when you kill fifty bees. Pooh will run into the tree,
which will cause Eeyore's tail to fall out of it. For accidentally finding his
tail, Eeyore will give you your first Elixir as a reward.
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Finally, we are done! From the cliff where Eeyore is, there will be a log
connecting to another cliff. Glide across to there or carefully cross the log
to find the path out of this area. In the next area is an empty field with a
single log and a save spot. Save at the save spot and approach the log. It'll
ask you if you want to leave the world.
After the scene (which I actually kind of found to be a little sad), Pooh
will give you the Bambi summon card, which I do believe we got a sleight for
a little bit ago.
If this is your last floor of the world set, then prepare yourself in the
final room (preferably with a Sonic Blade deck), as you have a VERY annoying
boss fight next. Just as Axel came after Traverse Town, and Larxene after
World Card Set I...Another organization member has the need to do Sora in.
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/ \ \
------------------------- Castle Oblivion ------------------------|
\ (Floor 10) / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
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/ \* */ \
| \* Vexen I */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 45 |
| Difficulty: Medium-High (7/10) |
| Weakness: Fire |
| Absorbs: Ice |
| Nullifies: Gravity, frontal physical attacks |
| Sleights: |
| -Freeze: This is easily the most annoying attack he will use on|
| you. He starts off by standing, extending his arms, |
| then swiping his right arm (the one with the shield) |
| out in front of him. The moment he does this, a ball |
| of ice will appear under Sora and freeze him. Then, |
| Vexen will teleport beside Sora and attack him. Both |
| Both parts of this attack will cause moderate damage |
| which means they do large damage together. Once you |
| are hit by the first attack, you can't evade the last |
| one. This attack IS, however, easily dodged...with |
| practice. Figuring out how to do it under the perfect |
| timing is hard though. Basically, immediately as Vexen|
| starts to swipe his arm in front of him, dodge roll |
| out of the way. Once you figure out the proper timing |
| you can dodge roll out of the way easily (I was able |
| to, at least). But if you can't, then just break this |
| with a 0. |
| -Ice Needles: Despite the fact Vexen only seems to use this at mid- |
| low health, it's actually not that dangerous. Vexen |
| will summon a wall of "ice needles" around himself. |
| A trail of these needles will follow you around as you|
| run, until it wears out. The thing is, they are not as|
| fast as you. Just run around the field until they wear|
| out. Each needle will, though, hit for decent damage. |
| Don't let yourself get hit by many. |
| Drop: Freeze (sleight), Twilight Town world card |
| |
| Hit Points: 6.25 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Vexen is...ugh. I KNOW HE WASN'T THIS HARD IN THE ORIGINAL GAME! |
| If you notice, he holds a shield in his right hand, and keeps it in |
| front of him. This shield will be used to deflect every single one of|
| your attacks. So how do you attack him? You have to card break him - |
| when you do, you'll have the chance to use a combo, assuming he does |
| not break the last attack (which he will often try). To add to this |
| difficulty, he uses cards with high values (7-9), AND his attacks are|
| somewhat hard to evade. He attacks slowly, but does that really |
| compensate for the fact you practically cannot attack him? |
| Actually, it's easier once you get the hang of it. But it will take |
| practice. |
| Vexen does have a few weaknesses, which you will want to use against |
| him. |
| The first being the fact that Vexen has mediocre defense, so your |
| attack chains will work. The second due to the fact Vexen's shield |
| will only deflect frontal PHYSICAL attacks. Sleights and magic still |
| work. As a matter of fact, Vexen is weak to fire... |
| |
| There are three deck types of varying difficulty each deck which you |
| can use to defeat Vexen. |
| You can use your normal beatdown deck, made for the three-hit-combos |
| and just break Vexen's attacks, slowly dwindling down his health. |
| If you do this, make sure to include Jafar as to not get broken at |
| end of the chain. Strike Raid is not a bad sleight to use in this |
| deck, as it will strike Vexen twice for damage and leave him stunned |
| so you can get in another chain. THIS is the deck which makes Vexen |
| medium-high difficulty. It does become easier to use this method late|
| in the battle, once Vexen has used up all his high value cards on his|
| sleights. He'll try to use his Mega-Ethers and Elixirs here, though, |
| so break these at all cost. |
| You can also use a magic deck against him -- take note, however, that|
| Vexen's weakness isn't massive. Firaga will only take out a little |
| over half a bar. Still, his shield won't block it. The difficulty of |
| using this deck is based around how many Fire spells you have in your|
| deck. I'd say around medium. Remember to include some Mega-Ethers if |
| you plan on using this deck, too. |
| The third deck you can use and the one I highly recommend is the |
| almighty Sonic Blade deck. I've already repeatedly mentioned how this|
| deck works. Just spam Sonic Blade. The difficulty for this deck is |
| barely even low. |
| |
| Vexen has two normal attacks. In the first, he sends an ice missle |
| spiraling towards you. It does moderate damage, and can be hard to |
| evade. Dodge roll out of the way right as it is about to hit you, and|
| it will circle around you twice in total in an attempt to hit again. |
| In order to avoid being hit again, you'll need to keep moving around |
| until it makes a full circle twice and rockets towards the wall or |
| floor. It's long range, and it's signaled by him laughing or saying, |
| "Here you go." |
| The second attack is more annoying. He swipes his shield twice in an |
| attempt to hit you both times, then a stalagmite of ice will spawn |
| out of the floor, which will also hit Sora. It will do heavy damage |
| if you're hit by it. Fortunately, it's short range only. You can also|
| see it's coming if Vexen laughs (different way from the first attack;|
| you'll notice the difference when you see them), or if he says, |
| "Taste this!" |
| He also has a couple Elixirs, which you WILL want to watch out for. |
| In addition to this, he has a Blue Rhapsody enemy card to boost his |
| attacks. You can break this with Parasite Cage if you want, but it's |
| not really necessary. |
| |
| If you use Sonic Blade, this boss is very easy. If not, expect you'll|
| have a lot of trouble. Seriously, Sonic Blade just makes this fight |
| so easy. Use it. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Beating Vexen here will earn you your next world card: Twilight Town.
This is the point where you lose the ability to choose what world you wish
to do next. Of course, this is also the point where the worlds stop being
cheap imitations of what happened in the original Kingdom Hearts.
That means, this is where the story really gets deeper. It's also where the
story actually gets really good, in my opinion. My favorite part of the game
starts here, in...
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/ \ stwltn \
------------------------- Twilight Town ------------------------|
\ / |
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Floor 11 |
|
[B]-[ ] S: Start |
| B: Key of Beginnings - 5> card |
[R]-[ ]-[C] - 5< card |
| - Blue card |
[S]-[ ] R: Key to Rewards - Blue 8= card |
v | - Red 1= card |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ] - 20 Green card total |
C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
|
|
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|
Starting level: 45 |
Finishing level: 55 |
|
Friends: Donald, Goofy |
Cards: One-Winged Angel (Not yet obtainable; see below.) |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Soldier |
-Air Soldier |
-Barrel Spider |
Bosses: Vexen (Beginnings Room) |
Rewards Room: Warp |
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The first thing you'll probably notice here is that the floor is much, much
smaller. Many less rooms than you're probably used to by now, and there is
only a Key to Rewards room, and a Key of Beginnings room. As you can guess,
the boss for this world is also in the Key of Beginnings room.
The most notable feature to this world, however, is how quickly you can
level. Ten levels may seem like a lot, but levels come twice as fast here.
All the enemies here use really low card values, and the Soldier and Air
Soldier will drop large amounts of experience. It took me just a little bit
over two hours to get from 45 to 55 here.
Twilight Town is the best world to level in the game. Get as many levels
as you want here. But, 55 is the minimum I recommend. You'll have to be at
60 to finish the game, though.
One-Winged Angel is said to be first obtainable in any treasure room here
(e.g: Calm Bounty, Guarded Trove). However, I found my first One-Winged
Angel through breakable objects.
Either way, it can ONLY be obtained AFTER beating Sora's story. You do NOT
need to beat Riku's story, as some say you do, in order for One-Winged Angel
to appear.
The Moogle packs start appearing in the Moogle Shops starting in this world,
also. You may want to synth a few of these and buy a few packs -- the high
value cards you'll get from them will probably come in handy.
When you're done with all of your leveling -- remember to level all you
want, there is no overleveling in this world -- go into the Beginnings room
for your next boss -- yes, you have to fight him twice in a row.
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/ \* */ \
| \* Vexen II */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 55 |
| Difficulty: High (8/10) |
| Weakness: Fire |
| Absorbs: Ice |
| Nullifies: Gravity, frontal physical attacks |
| Sleights: |
| -Freeze: This is the same as before. Scroll up. |
| -Ice Needles: Also the same. Scroll up to the last battle. |
| Note: He starts using this at the very beginning of |
| the battle now, unlike only mid health as before. |
| -Slide Break: Vexen summons a MASSIVE (and uber looking if I do say |
| so myself) sword of ice to replace his shield, then he|
| flies at you and strikes his sword three times; each |
| time it hits will do large damage on you. In the final|
| hit, he hits his ice sword against the ground, and it |
| causes a ring of ice to spread out on the ground. |
| This attack will seriously do huge amounts of damage |
| if hit by all three attacks; it can take you from full|
| health to critical health. And what's worse is that |
| all of the attacks are hard to evade, with the final |
| one being nearly impossible. The only relief for this |
| is the fact that Vexen only uses it at low health; |
| around 2-3 bars remaining. If you see it, break it. |
| If you don't...you'd better hope you can survive the |
| attacks. |
| Drop: Vexen enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 7.25 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Vexen is only slightly more difficult this time, in my opinion. He |
| has one more sleight and attacks a little quicker. That's about it. |
| Honestly, the same tricks as before will work against Vexen this time|
| also. Particularly Sonic Blade. Because of this, I won't bother with|
| going over deck types to use against him, as you can scroll up to the|
| last battle for all of that. |
| You may, however, want to include the Parasite Cage enemy card into |
| your deck this time. The reason for this is because of Vexen's enemy |
| card of himself -- it will restore him with two bars when you beat |
| him. I highly doubt you'll want that, unless you just love fighting |
| Vexen so much that you want to extend the battle out. If not, then |
| yeah, Parasite Cage would be very recommended. |
| You may also want more 0's to break that last sleight of his. Also, |
| making your deck able to use Sonic Blade towards the end of the fight|
| would be a good idea. If you're not gonna use Sonic Blade to get him |
| to low health, I HIGHLY recommend you do once he is at low health. |
| If you're constantly barraging him with Sonic Blade attacks, he will |
| not have the chance to hit you with Slide Break. |
| Other than that, the same deck as you used to beat Vexen before will |
| work just as well against Vexen this time. And I will repeat myself: |
| Sonic Blade works wonders. You'll seriously want to use it here. |
| |
| Once more, for more details about Vexen, scroll up to the first fight|
| against him. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
For beating Vexen for the second and final time (in Sora's story), you'll
get his useful enemy card. If you have the CP for it, I'd recommend adding
it.
You should notice that you did not get a world card for beating Vexen, and
you haven't any world cards left to use. Using common sense, this should
tell you that you'll get another one during the next Castle Oblivion scene;
and this should tell you that you'll have to fight a boss for it.
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/ \ \
------------------------- Castle Oblivion ------------------------|
\ (Floor 11) / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
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/ \* */ \
| \* Riku III */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 55 |
| Difficulty: Medium-High (7.5/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity |
| Sleights: |
| -Helm Split: This is no different from before. This is copied and |
| pasted from the last battle: |
| Riku jumps up and smacks his Soul Eater against the |
| ground, three times. Each time leaves a large, dark |
| aura around the spot he hit. The third time causes a |
| few pillars of the aura to rise out of the ground. Hard|
| to evade, really. You can dodge roll, or jump - I found|
| it to be easier to jump over it. But, even still, |
| evading all the pillars of the final hit is hard. If |
| you can glide here, then I'd recommend it. Still, I |
| would just break this when you see it. |
| -Dark Firaga: Riku charges up a ball of "dark fire" in his hand, and |
| shoots it at you. Yawn. It seems to be like a homing |
| missle, in that it follows you. Plus, it's fast. Still,|
| it only does moderate damage. Break it if you want, but|
| it's not entirely necessary. You'll probably find that |
| Helm Split is more annoying. |
| Drop: Mega-Potion, Destiny Islands world card |
| |
| Hit Points: 6.25 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| It's been awhile since last fighting Riku..and this is all the better|
| he's gotten? He has a new sleight, which isn't even as dangerous as |
| his first one, he attacks just a little faster, and not even an |
| entire extra bar of health... |
| Don't get me wrong, he's still hard. But, I'd say that you must have |
| improved more than him since the last battle. Your deck, for one, |
| should be much better than it was before. |
| Following the last strategy for Riku should work just fine. Remember,|
| Sonic Blade is your friend! |
| If not using Sonic Blade, remember to keep Jafar and several Cures in|
| your deck. By now, you should be able to have plenty of high value |
| cards to use against Riku, meaning that Jafar isn't necessary like it|
| was before -- but you'll still find use in it. |
| One or two Ethers/Mega-Ethers would be good for this fight, too. Riku|
| attacks faster, so you won't have time to recharge unless he has to |
| recharge too. And if you run out of Cures...you're in trouble. |
| Ars Arcanum is also a wonderful sleight to use against Riku. It will |
| devour his HP, and once the attack starts, he won't have a chance to |
| break it. |
| Be warned too that Riku still has his Shadow enemy card. |
| Riku can be hard; but as stated, you've advanced far more than him. |
| That should make this fight easier than your last with him. Even if |
| you don't use Sonic Blade. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
When you beat Riku, you'll get the Destiny Islands world card; that is the
next destination.
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ sdsnisle \
------------------------- Destiny Islands ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
Floor 12 |
|
[C]-[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[G] S: Start |
| | B: Key of Beginnings - 2= card |
[ ] [R] - 8= card |
| G: Key of Guidance - 50 card total |
[ ]-[B] R: Key to Rewards - 33 Blue card total |
| - 33 Red card total |
[ ]-[S] - 33 Green card total |
v C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
|
|
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|
Starting level: 55 |
Finishing level: 58 |
|
Friends: None |
Cards: Oathkeeper |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Crescendo |
-Creeper Plant |
-Tornado Step |
-Darkball |
Bosses: Darkside (Guidance Room) |
Rewards Room: Megalixir |
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As you may have noticed, you have no friends here. It's just Sora. By now,
you shouldn't even be using Donald or Goofy much, anyway. And if you are...
Expect to have a hard time here.
Destiny Islands is larger again -- but still not as large as a normal floor.
You'll only have to go up to the Key of Guidance room, which is where the
boss for this floor is.
Also, this world's Keyblade card (Oathkeeper) is acquired through the story,
meaning it's pretty much forced upon you. Don't bother destroying crates
and the such for it, because you won't ever find it there. At least, not
until you complete the floor.
I highly recommend you open the Rewards room for Destiny Islands, as the
Megalixir is VERY useful. You'll need it for the Holy sleight, too. Trust
me, the 99 total is worth it.
Go into the Key of Guidance room for your next boss, who happens to be the
first boss in Kingdom Hearts.
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/ \* */ \
| \* Darkside */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 58 |
| Difficulty: Medium-Low (4.5/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Darkside enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 3.25 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Since Darkside's only targets are his hands and head, he is effect- |
| ively an aerial boss. Due to this, Sonic Blade is useless. Though it |
| doesn't matter, since Darkside isn't very hard anyway. Look at his HP|
| and you will get an idea as to how easy he is. |
| Darkside uses four attacks, and attacks in a specific pattern. |
| In the first attack of the pattern, Darkside slams his right hand |
| into the ground, and a pool of darkness surrounds his hand, and from |
| this darkness he summons several Shadows. Incredibly weak versions, |
| with very little HP. This attack leaves him open due to his hand |
| being directly in reach -- attack him while he is using it. |
| Then, in his second attack, he charges a ball of darkness within his |
| chest; that is, the empty spot that forms a heart. Two balls of this |
| darkness will shoot at Sora and hit him, doing semi-large damage, and|
| this happens three times. As long as you're at three quarters health,|
| you shouldn't have a problem surviving this, then using Cure after. |
| You cannot attack him while he is using this. You cannot evade this |
| attack, so break it if you want to avoid it. Also note that he shoots|
| more than two balls at a time once he reaches lower health, and will |
| shoot them four times. |
| With his third attack, he charges dark energy into his right hand, |
| then slams it onto the ground, which causes a shockwave across the |
| field. Jumping at the right time can avoid the shockwave, but it goes|
| very fast. You'll have a slight bit of time to attack his hand here. |
| His fourth attack is the most annoying. He slams his left hand into |
| the ground, and grabs ANOTHER large ball of darkness. Then, it flies |
| into the air, and many small dark balls rain upon the field. Dodging |
| some is possible, but so many rain down that you're guaranteed to be |
| hit for large damage. This attack alone can kill you if not careful. |
| Because of this, I highly recommend you break it. The attack card |
| stays the entire time the attack is active too, so you can break it |
| at any time. |
| |
| A Gimmick card will appear during this boss. Using it causes several |
| stone pillars to form, ascending to Darkside's head. For a short |
| period of time, Darkside will stand still, doing literally nothing. |
| You can climb the pillars to get to Darkside's head and pound him |
| with attacks for awhile, before the pillars vanish. |
| |
| Darkside's only dangerous attack is the fourth one. So long as you |
| avoid this, he will be easy. But, since Darkside is out of range, |
| the main times you'll be attacking him are during his first attack |
| and when you use a Gimmick card, while being able to do a little |
| damage during his third attack. You'll be able to take off nearly an |
| entire bar of his health though during his first attack alone, so |
| beating Darkside should be quick. You can also pull off a single |
| attack by going up to his hands in between attacks, jumping, and |
| attacking. But it's slow as you'll only be able to do one attack in |
| this time. You're probably better off waiting for him to use one of |
| his attacks which give you open space to strike. |
| Jafar won't be very useful in this battle, so you may wish to include|
| a couple more Cures, in case you're caught in his fourth attack. |
| Otherwise, your normal attack deck should be fine against him. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
After beating Darkside, you'll get his enemy card. After the long scene,
you get Oathkeeper. This is the best Keyblade you've acquired yet. But
don't go back and synth some Moogle Rooms to obtain more copies just yet.
Save at the Conqueror's Respite, as another boss awaits you after you
leave.
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/ \ \
------------------------- Castle Oblivion ------------------------|
\ (Floor 12) / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Riku IV */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 58 |
| Difficulty: High (9/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity, resists Fire, Ice, and Lightning |
| Sleights: |
| -Helm Split: Helm Split is the same as last time. Scroll up to Riku |
| III for information. |
| -Dark Firaga: Also the same as Helm Split. Scroll up to your last |
| battle with Riku. |
| -Dark Aura: This is it. Riku's most deadly attack. Riku charges up |
| and flies across the field -- more specifically, where-|
| ever Sora is -- with his Soul Eater fixed in front of |
| himself for repeated attacks, which ends in several |
| dark pillars forming out of the field in a manner very |
| similar to Helm Split, only covering much more space. |
| This sleight WILL kill you, if you're hit by it. The |
| only exception is if you already have insanely high HP |
| by here (500+?). Break this at any cost necessary. I'm |
| not joking. Also note that you will not have the chance|
| to break this attack once you're hit at all by it. |
| Drop: Riku enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 7.5 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| This is your final battle with Riku, and he sure makes it count. I |
| honestly would say this is one of the hardest bosses in the entire |
| game. |
| Riku seriously came prepared for this fight. He's got a new sleight, |
| a new attack, he attacks even faster yet, and he seriously looks |
| badass with that dark ball he carries in his left hand through the |
| entire battle. Oh, his attacks seem to have a higher chance to leave |
| you stunned, too. Fortunately, Riku's new attack isn't much to worry |
| about. He shoots out a dark ring at you, which goes pretty fast. It |
| can be hard to evade. Still, not much to worry about. Riku's new |
| sleight and how much quicker he attacks are the real killers. |
| On top of that, Riku still has that annoying Shadow enemy card, which|
| he likes to use at the beginning of the battle. |
| You also will not have any friends here. It just keeps getting worse |
| and worse, doesn't it? Not that Donald or Goofy are very useful here |
| anyway. |
| |
| Riku's main weakness lies in how often he uses sleights. If you can |
| hold the battle off for awhile, until Riku uses up all of his good |
| cards, you'll win for sure. Good luck with that, though. |
| |
| You'll most definitely want to use sleights; I, of course, recommend |
| Sonic Blade, as it makes this fight as easy as all others. Beating |
| Riku here with a basic beatdown deck is insanely difficult. Possible |
| (I did it for fun), but insanely difficult. |
| If, however, you wish to take that upon yourself, then you will need |
| to prepare properly. First, you'll want several 0's in your deck, to |
| break Dark Aura when he uses it. Four should be sufficient. You'll |
| also want an abnormal amount of Cures (as many as you possibly have).|
| Jafar is a must here, too. Also include two at least two Elixirs. |
| They don't need to be high values, as you can use them as part of a |
| sleight if you must. But you have a snowball's chance in hell of |
| recharging now, with Riku attacking so dreadfully fast. Other than |
| that, you'll need a lot of practice. |
| Good sleights to use here include Ars Arcanum and Holy. Holy will |
| do devastating amounts of damage against Riku...Or any boss for that |
| matter. If you want to beat Riku using a basic beatdown deck, include|
| this. Complete use of Jafar and Holy will take out four of his bars |
| by themselves. If you put in Holy, you'll probably only have room for|
| one Elixir and maybe a Hi-Potion. |
| |
| When the battle starts, you'll want to immediately use Jafar. Attack |
| him until you exhaust all of your attack cards, which should use up |
| most of Jafar's effect. Use Holy. If Riku breaks it with a 0, which |
| he usually does not, then you're screwed. After Holy, use the Elixir |
| or a Hi-Potion if you have it, depending on how many Cures you have |
| left. Chances are, you'll probably only need a Hi-Potion. You can, of|
| course, recharge if you feel like you can. Recharging is possible in |
| this battle, just difficult. And when you recharge, you'll need a |
| Curaga sleight in stock for when Riku interrupts you like he more |
| than likely will. The best time to recharge is when you are on the |
| other side of the field of him. I had to recharge twice in order to |
| beat him, so you'll have to expect to recharge unless you have the CP|
| for three or so Hi-Potions and an Elixir after Holy. From the point |
| after refreshing your attack cards, you'll need to beat at Riku |
| slowly but efficiently with your attack cards. Also make sure you |
| watch out for Dark Aura, as that will end the battle right then and |
| there. After doing that once, you'll probably need a new set of |
| Cures, so use your Elixir. Repeat the use of your attack cards and |
| then recharge -- do NOT let yourself run out of Cures before you need|
| to recharge. You'll need to repeat that process once more, then you |
| should defeat Riku on the first few cards of that recharge. |
| Of course, you can always use Sonic Blade and end this fight easily. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
When you beat Riku, do NOT go forward and talk to Riku. When you do, you'll
have to fight another boss after the scene. Another boss which could kick
your ass too. So therefore, it's very crucial you go back into Destiny
Islands' Conqueror's Respite and save there before talking to him.
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Larxene II */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 58 |
| Difficulty: High (9/10) |
| Weakness: Sleights |
| Absorbs: Thunder |
| Nullifies: Gravity |
| Sleights: |
| -Mega Volt: I have copy and pasted this from the last battle: |
| Larxene throws both handfuls of her kunai to the |
| floor, and this causes several streams of thunder |
| from the ceiling to strike the center of the field, |
| then spread out quickly to the outside. I haven't |
| found a way to evade it, so break it if you want. |
| It doesn't hurt a lot though, so I see no need. |
| -Teleport Rush: Teleport Rush is a bit different now. It works the |
| same: Larxene teleports beside you over and over, |
| attempting to strike you each time she does, using |
| her kunai as claws. The difference between last time|
| and this time, though, is that each hit on you will |
| do large amounts of damage. She still only uses this|
| at low health because it remains her finisher. If |
| you are hit by all of her strikes, you can go from |
| full health to critical health, or even dead due to |
| this attack alone. You will definitely want to break|
| this. |
| -Blade Storm: Larxene gathers lightning around her, and jumps into|
| the air. She then lets the lightning fly off her |
| and rebound against the walls, to form several lines|
| of this lightning from wall to wall, and from the |
| ceiling to the floor, and these bolts rotate. If you|
| touch a single bolt of this, then it will pick up |
| and encase Sora within its electrical current. You |
| are forced to sit there and watch your HP drain, and|
| no way to do anything to evade it. It does large |
| damage, and it will leave you stunned for a short |
| period after it's done. Break this. |
| Drop: Larxene enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 7.90 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| "More pain for you means more fun for me!" You have to love that |
| quote, seriously. |
| Anyway, Larxene gets kudos for being one of the only two bosses who |
| has been able to escape the entire wrath of Sonic Blade. And even |
| then, just barely. |
| She seems to be able to break Sonic Blade a quarter of the time you |
| use it against her -- at least, she did for me. I have no idea why |
| this is. Still, it makes the battle against her incredulously easy. |
| Medium-low difficulty at hardest. This is partially due to the fact |
| that, Larxene being able to break it doesn't compensate for the fact |
| she's weak to all sleights. |
| Larxene does not get any new attacks from before; the thing that |
| makes her so deadly now is the fact her attacks hurt so much more now|
| than they did then. She attacks just as quick as then, and the damage|
| will add up enough to easily kill you if you're not careful. |
| |
| You'll have Donald and Goofy back for this fight also, but don't risk|
| Donald, as you don't want him to end up casting a Thunder spell on |
| Larxene. |
| |
| Larxene is a very difficult boss to beat without Sonic Blade, though.|
| She attacks just as quickly as Riku did, and uses higher card values |
| more often than Riku did. Her attacks also hurt just as much as his. |
| In case you can't remember, she has three different attacks. The |
| lightning spell, which is probably her most painful attack this time.|
| It sends several bolts of lightning crashing down on Sora. You'll be |
| able to dodge most of them, but it's nearly impossible to dodge them |
| all. This time, you'll probably want to break it. She still chants |
| "Lightning!" before using it, too. It's also her only attack where |
| the card used for it is blue. |
| The second attack remains the same: she throws both sets of her kunai|
| at you, one set around a second after the other. Jumping can easily |
| evade these. She still gives this attack away by saying "Vanish!" |
| The third one is her only short range attack. She swipes at you twice|
| and often signals it by laughing right before. You won't have time to|
| evade it once you hear her laugh though. Also just like before, this |
| attack changes into several swipes that end in a lightning spell, all|
| in one attack, at low health. |
| |
| In order to beat Larxene using a beatdown deck, you'll want to use a |
| tactic similar to how you beat Riku. |
| In building your deck, take out any lightning elemental attack cards |
| (such as using Spellbinder for it's Thrust). |
| Then, include the cards for Holy, an Elixir, a Hi-Potion, then five |
| or six Cures. After that, put in the Jafar and Hook enemy cards. |
| Then put in around three 0's, and a set of cards for the use of Ars |
| Arcanum (include two sets if you feel it's necessary). Use any left- |
| -over CP space for as many three-hit combo set ups as you can. I was |
| able to get in three (nine cards in all). |
| Your deck should have three plus sets of cards for the three-hit |
| combo, one or two sets for Ars Arcanum (remember to use simple cards |
| like Kingdom Key for this), three 0's, the cards for one use of Holy,|
| an Elixir, a Hi-Potion, five or six Cures, Jafar, and Hook in that |
| order. |
| The battle will progress very similarly as to how it did with Riku. |
| Start out with Jafar and beat the hell out of Larxene until it's used|
| up (which should use all of your attack cards; use your cards for Ars|
| Arcanum and your 0's if necessary for it). Then, use Holy. Larxene |
| moves fast and has a lot of 0's, and there is a decent chance she'll |
| break it. If she does, you may as well give up and start over. |
| By this point, you'll want to use your Hi-Potion or Elixir, then |
| activate your Hook enemy card. Hook is there to lower the damage of |
| Larxene's attack, as it's effect will stay through the entire battle |
| as long as you keep yourself healed. |
| After you run used your Hi-Potion and activated Hook, the battle will|
| progress as it did with Riku. Go through your attack cards, and by |
| this point you'll probably want to recharge, unless you already ran |
| out of Cures. In this case, use your Elixir. |
| Just the same as you did not want to attempt recharging with Riku |
| when you hadn't any Cures left, you won't with Larxene. Recharge the |
| moment you run down to two Cures left. |
| Larxene does not have much more HP than Riku did, so the battle will |
| flow the same from there also. After refreshing your deck either with|
| a Hi-Potion or by recharging, beat at Larxene until you run out of |
| attack cards. You'll want to use your Elixir here most likely. Then, |
| recharge once you run out of attack cards here. |
| The set of Ars Arcanum is for pummeling Larxene as she's recharging. |
| She'll be helpless to block the mass damage it'll inflict upon her, |
| and it WILL do large damage. Ars Arcanum is already very powerful; |
| added to the fact Larxene takes extra damage from sleights... |
| The extra damage from Holy and a use of Ars Arcanum should take care |
| of Larxene's extra health from Riku. You will still probably need to |
| recharge a third time, though. Remember to keep a 0 on hand at all |
| times once she reaches low health, in case you're caught in her |
| Teleport Rush sleight. |
| I see no point in not using Sonic Blade here though. The fact that |
| Larxene is weak to sleights screams Sonic Blade. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Defeating Larxene for the final time earns you her enemy card. Also useful,
you may want to use it if you have room.
After the scene, you'll get the Oblivion Keyblade too. This and Oathkeeper
are your two best Keyblades thus far.
The next floor is Castle Oblivion itself. There won't be a world card for
it.
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/ \ scstobln \
------------------------- Castle Oblivion ------------------------|
\ / |
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Floor 13 |
^ |
[M] S: Start |
| B: Key of Beginnings - Blue 1= card |
[B]-[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[X] - Red 3= card |
| | - 99 card total |
[ ]-[ ] [ ]-[R] R: Key to Rewards - 30 Blue card total |
| | - 40 Red card total |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[ ] - 20 Green card total |
| X: Paths to this room are blocked off until the |
[ ] Key of Beginnings Room is complete. |
| M: Battle with Marluxia is in this room. |
[S]-[ ]-[ ]-[ ] |
v |
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|
Starting level: 59 |
Finishing level: 61 |
|
Friends: Donald, Goofy |
Cards: Ultima Weapon, Diamond Dust (See below.) |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Neoshadow |
-Red Nocturne |
-Blue Rhapsody |
-Yellow Opera |
-Green Requiem |
-Darkball |
-Wizard |
-Wyvern |
-Defender |
Bosses: Axel (Beginnings Room), Marluxia |
Rewards Room: Super Glide |
____________________________________________________________________________|
This is the final floor. Finally, we're at the end of the game. I hope you
are prepared, because you'll need to be for this floor.
After the scene when you first enter the castle, you will gain the Trinity
Limit sleight. There is nothing that will decimate groups of Heartless as
quick as this sleight will. That's probably the reason you got the sleight
here; the regular enemies in this world can even destroy you if you aren't
careful. The most dangerous of these enemies would be the Neoshadow, which
can use card values up to 8 and will frequently. Many of the enemies here
also have over an entire bar of health. As you can tell, Trinity Limit is
very useful here.
Without your sleights of mass Heartless destruction (Trinity Limit, Mega
Flare), leveling here is nearly impossible. The enemies give large amounts
of experience, but it doesn't compensate for the difficulty of a single
random encounter. Sleights such as Trinity Limit and Mega Flare are a must
if you plan on leveling here much at all.
However, using them, leveling here can be abnormally quick, even making
this place the easiest place to level in the game.
Unfortunately, due to reliability issues in getting the cards for Trinity
Limit, it's wise to rely on Mega Flare. A couple of the enemies here will
absorb it, however, so you'll want a few cards for normal attacking too.
Because of these enemies, having five Cures in your deck from this point
forward is highly recommended. You will be using them a lot.
The first thing you'll want to do when you enter Castle Oblivion is to
synthesize some Moogle Rooms. You just got two very powerful Keyblades
and hopefully a Megalixir; getting more copies of these would be a very
good idea.
Oathkeeper is a great card to build an entire deck around, but it is
best used for it's Thrust. This card should be replacing Spellbinder in
Castle Oblivion, as it does higher Thrust damage, and the annoying
Wizards in this place won't absorb the damage.
Oblivion will be used for Strike. It gives the same damage output as
Divine Rose, but it's Thrust is A also. This means that you're far less
likely to screw up with it like you could with Divine Rose.
Unfortunately, you'll still be stuck with Crabclaw or Metal Chocobo
(whatever you've been using) for combo finishing. You will be until you
beat Reverse/Rebirth.
I'd recommend that you only buy the Moogle packs, and save your MP for
getting more of these in different Moogle Rooms. Buying the black strap
packs for Attack cards may be wise too.
Both of the Keyblades here cannot be obtained yet. Diamond Dust can be
obtained after completely beating Sora's story, by breaking objects.
Ultima Weapon cannot be obtained until you beat Reverse/Rebirth as well.
When you can get both of these, it is highly recommended as they are
both a couple of the best cards in the game. (Ultima Weapon IS the best.)
As for the bosses: you will fight Axel in the Key of Beginnings room.
However, Marluxia is not in any key room. You'll view a scene, then have
to battle him in the room marked as M on the map above. After beating
Marluxia, a save will appear in this room, as will a door leading to the
final boss.
The door to this room will already be unlocked when you enter the room
marked as X above.
When you're done with any last minute leveling using Trinity Limit/Mega
Flare, go into the Key of Beginnings room for one of my favorite scenes in
the entire game, along with your final battle with Axel.
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/ \* */ \
| \* Axel II */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 60 |
| Difficulty: Medium-High (7.5/10) |
| Weakness: Ice |
| Absorbs: Fire |
| Nullifies: Gravity |
| Sleights: |
| -Fire Wall: Copied and pasted from the last battle: |
| Axel stands in the center of the arena, and stretches |
| his arms out, and a wall of fire surrounds him. his wall|
| stretches out until it hits the entire outside of the |
| arena. Due to this, the sleight is unavoidable. Break it|
| with a 0 if you want, though it's not necessary as it |
| doesn't hit for a lot of damage. |
| -Firetooth: This sleight is highly deceptive. At first, it seems |
| simple and useless. He'll throw both of his Chakram at |
| you in a completely random pattern. You can either dodge|
| roll to avoid it, which can be hard since the pattern is|
| random, or jump over it if you see it coming. At this |
| point, you can break it but it's not that necessary. |
| However, once Axel reaches mid-low HP, you'll be going |
| OMFGWTFBBQ! |
| It transforms into something completely different. Four |
| fireballs gather above Axel's head, and he throws them |
| all at you in what is still a random pattern. Also, they|
| don't just go in a straight path and vanish like before;|
| they actually will rebound off the walls and keep on |
| striking you. |
| At this point, the sleight can EASILY decimate your |
| entire HP bar. Fortunately, it has a long enough delay |
| at this point that you should have the time to break it.|
| And yes, you will want to break this at all costs. |
| Drop: Axel enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 7.25 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Axel plays much differently than Larxene in one large way: he rarely |
| uses his sleights, so wearing him down to few cards is very hard. |
| It doesn't matter much, as Fire Wall isn't that deadly, and Firetooth|
| is only dangerous once he reaches lower health. His basic attacks are|
| what make Axel deadly. |
| His first attack is what he'll use most. It's basically like a single|
| version of Firetooth -- he throws only one of his Chakram at you. |
| It's in a straight pattern, though. Because of this, it's easy to |
| jump over. Jump too early, however, and he'll just throw it up. It's |
| mid-to-long range. |
| The second attack is short range. He swipes his chakram at you twice,|
| then lets them go. They'll circle around you, come back and strike |
| again, and create a burst of fire in the process. This attack does |
| WAY too much damage. Do NOT let yourself get hit by it. |
| Evading both of these attacks can be hard, because of the fact that |
| Axel is repeatedly warping around the arena. As far as I can tell, he|
| does not move once except through warping. Since he's always warping,|
| it can be hard to follow where his next attack is coming from. |
| |
| Axel isn't as hard as Larxene or Riku was in my opinion. He's more of|
| an annoyance than anything. |
| Sonic Blade, of course, works quite well here. There's a chance that |
| Axel will warp right as it is about to hit, but it still hits far |
| more often than not. You'll probably want to include a couple 0's for|
| that emergency oh-damn-Axel-is-at-low-health-and-I-accidentally-let- |
| a-Firetooth-escape. |
| Other than that, you can use a Blizzard based deck, or a deck with |
| sleights that involve ice based attacks. They work really well. |
| I beat Axel using a deck with five random 0 value Keyblades, four |
| Blizzards (all the more I had), four Mega-Ethers, three Elixirs, two |
| Megalixirs, and seven Cures. At the last bar of health, I was stuck |
| only being able to hit him through retaliation with my 0's, though. |
| Remember to be careful with a deck like that. You don't want to cast |
| a Blizzaga sleight just for Axel to warp away before it can hit. |
| A basic beatdown deck can work for Axel just the same, too. It will |
| work the same as always; around three 0's for breaking Firetooth at |
| the end of the battle, several sets for the three hit combo, several |
| cures, and you may want a few Blizzards just to use Blizzaga, if you |
| have any spare CP. And, of course, a few Hi-Potions or Elixirs. As |
| for enemy cards, Jafar and Riku should be fine. Riku will be used for|
| resisting the damage done by Axel, and since the deck isn't designed |
| to use sleights, it'll last awhile. (Hades can also be used, but note|
| that it will wear out much quicker and it's unlikely it'll last long |
| enough.) Use the same order as you did for Larxene, replacing Hook |
| with Riku. |
| There really isn't much more to him than that. He's hard, and it'll |
| probably take a couple tries to get him. Especially if you're using |
| the beatdown deck. However, I found that Larxene and Riku were more |
| difficult. The only thing that makes Axel much trouble is the way he |
| loves to warp around right as you're about to attack. |
| Remember, if you have too much trouble, which you shouldn't if you're|
| used to the last two bosses, then use Sonic Blade. |
| |
| An alternate and excellent strategy has been submitted by ansemdwise:|
| "The key to this boss battle is the Darkside. If you use it to copy |
| his own enemy card you'll get immune to fire, which is ALL his cards,|
| and it will NEVER wear off. Put some Blizzagas in your deck, most |
| likely 3, so you'll have 2 Blizzagas after you reload, 3 Sonic Blades|
| and 3 Strike Raids and that's all. Of course you'll need some item |
| cards so that you can use the sleights again...And some Cures - they |
| will be useless once you have already used Darkside, but Axel may try|
| using Axel card AFTER Red Nocturne card." |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Beating Axel will not only net you his enemy card (which is quite useful),
but it'll also unlock the door to the next room to the furthest east from
the Key of Beginnings room. When you reach this door, I highly recommend
you create a Moment's Reprieve room in it.
The door to the next room is already unlocked. Proceed into it for another
awesome scene with Marluxia. After the scene, you'll have to fight him.
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Marluxia I */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 60 |
| Difficulty: Very High (10/10) |
| Weakness: Physical attacks |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity, resists all elements and sleights. |
| Sleights: |
| -Blossom Shower: This sleight will SCREW YOU OVER! I am not joking. |
| Marluxia starts by teleporting near you and strik- |
| ing several times with his scythe, with a pink aura|
| crossing around him. The way he does this is very |
| similar to the way Vexen did with his Ice Blade, in|
| the second battle with him. After he does this the |
| multiple times, he lands and slams his scythe down;|
| this causes a shockwave to flow through the entire |
| field. After this, dozens of petals strike you like|
| missiles. |
| The entire thing is practically impossible to |
| evade. The first part of the sleight is very hard |
| to avoid because of the way Marluxia attacks; the |
| second part of the sleight (the shockwave) can't |
| be avoided due to the fact that you'll still be |
| recovering from Marluxia's first attacks, so you |
| can't jump (perhaps the Axel enemy card could take |
| care of this...?). With the third part, the petals |
| work basically like homing missiles, and too many |
| of them come to evade. |
| The killer part is that the entire sleight will |
| consume all of your HP. Not once have I been hit by|
| this sleight, and not died. Break this sleight. |
| There is enough time between the attacks that you |
| can still break it in the middle of the first part.|
| -Deathscythe: First thing first: note the awesome line Marluxia |
| says when he uses this sleight; "Your heart shall |
| be judged!" Not only does it sound cool, but it's |
| a clear warning of him using it. |
| This sleight is nearly as deadly as Blossom Shower;|
| Marluxia jumps into the air and hovers there, as he|
| slashes his scythe down in front of him. In doing |
| this, several energy ripples (shaped like the blade|
| of his scythe) lash out in front of him; and these |
| energy blades are huge. He'll do this several times|
| in different directions. The sleight can be dodged,|
| but it's very hard to time it right (it was for me |
| at least). Plus, it does enormous damage. It can |
| take you from full health to critical, or even kill|
| you. Break this. |
| -Drop Shot: Marluxia uses this only at mid-low health. He hacks|
| his scythe into the ground, burying it half way in |
| the ground. Doing this causes a quake-like effect |
| which effects a huge range around where he hits the|
| ground. Then he pulls the scythe out, warps to a |
| different spot, and does it again, possibly more |
| than one more time, too. (I've never survived this |
| sleight past the second hit). This sleight, like |
| the others, does massive damage. Evading it is a |
| bit easier though, as long as you stay far away |
| from Marluxia. Still, since it eats up so much HP |
| per strike, it's best to break this. There is a |
| long delay between the hits to give you time to |
| break it, if you got hit. I'd say that, despite the|
| fact Marluxia uses this at low health, Blossom |
| Shower is still his most dangerous sleight. |
| Drop: Marluxia enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 8.75 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Marluxia makes it as my most favorite character in the entire series.|
| Cool attitude, insanely sweet attacks, and well, look at that scythe!|
| Also notice the awesome but haunting background theme, and the eerie |
| white room you're in during the battle. |
| |
| Marluxia isn't an agile boss in the slightest bit. He attack slowly, |
| too. But when he does attack...you'll suffer more damage than you |
| ever have from a boss's basic attack. All of Marluxia's attacks will |
| involve his scythe (proving how awesome scythes are), and they will |
| inflict mass amounts of damage. I've said before in bosses to not let|
| yourself be hit by his/her attacks more than necessary, and I've not |
| once meant it more than I do now. Do NOT get hit by his attacks if |
| you can possibly avoid it. Unfortunately, that's easier said than |
| done, as his attacks are all very hard to avoid. Most of them have a |
| long enough delay that you can break them, however. |
| Note that Marluxia doesn't use sleights often, but when he does, they|
| are pretty much all unavoidable. Plus, they are battle-ending. |
| Bottom line is: Marluxia isn't fast, but he's all about how horrific |
| the damage he does to you is...and in a single attack... |
| |
| Marluxia's first attack involves him rushing towards you, slashing at|
| you three or four times with his scythe. It's hard to avoid, due to |
| his scythe's large range. Plus, it does a lot of damage if you're hit|
| by all of the strikes. This attack's card is red. |
| In Marluxia's next attack, he hacks his scythe in front of him, but |
| not in an attempt to strike you. Doing this actually causes four |
| flower pools to spawn on the field, and these flower pools will move |
| around until Sora is caught in one of them. When caught, it does |
| moderately low damage. The flower pools will then join together into |
| one and trap Sora into it, and Marluxia will then move up and strike.|
| This does larger damage. The attack is very hard to avoid, largely |
| due to how huge the flower pools are. It has a long enough delay that|
| you should be able to break it. Marluxia uses a blue card with it. |
| In Marluxia's third attack, he swings his scythe around twice, and |
| each swing causes two energy blades to rip through the air. Since it |
| covers a large area, it's also hard to avoid. It hurts about as much |
| as Marluxia's first attack. Red card here also. |
| |
| Marluxia is slightly harder than Larxene and the Riku replica were. |
| I give him a 10/10 difficulty because of the fact there's so little |
| you can do to make him "easy." |
| Beating Marluxia involves playing the same game he does. He'll hover |
| around the field, never letting Sora escape his sight. Then, a random|
| attack from him will fly out of nowhere, sometimes several in a row. |
| After that, he'll return to his fixed watch, waiting to attack again |
| while slowing stocking cards to use one of his unholy sleights. |
| You can't beat Marluxia by rushing in and beating on him as fast as |
| humanly possible, like you needed to with so many other bosses in the|
| game. After the first or (if you're lucky) second combo you pull on |
| him, he'll start warping away right before the second or third attack|
| hits him, then he'll attack himself with you being unable to even |
| attempt to dodge it, since he'll be out of view. Therefore, you'll |
| have to do the same thing as him: close in on him, get in a combo or |
| two if you feel lucky, then run away so there's distance between you |
| and Marluxia -- enough to be able to evade his attacks or break them |
| more easily. |
| |
| As you may have already noticed, Marluxia's weak to physical attacks.|
| (The fact you can't attack Marluxia with more than one or two combos |
| at a time is more than likely a safeguard for this.) One full combo |
| with Oblivion, Oathkeeper, and Crabclaw in that order will take out |
| over half of a bar. Judging by this, you can understand that Marluxia|
| is most easily beaten with a strategy involving the exposing of this |
| weakness. Using the above mentioned strategy in this battle will be |
| your most successful. However, there are a few other things you can |
| do to help. |
| First and foremost, Sonic Blade's use is limited in this battle. |
| Marluxia is strong to sleights, meaning the damage output of Sonic |
| Blade is lowered by quite a bit. Also, Marluxia will sometimes warp |
| out of the way of the attack's first hit, which will cause the entire|
| sleight to go to waste. Doing large amounts of damage using Sonic |
| Blade here, though, is too difficult. At the same time, you can keep |
| Marluxia from attacking by using Sonic Blade...as long as he doesn't |
| warp out of the way. I recommend using Sonic Blade for half of the |
| battle, but stick with physical attacks for the second half. Remember|
| what I said: expose Marluxia's weakness. |
| There are also other strategies you can mix into the battle at your |
| own will. Most of these involve the use of Darkside. |
| If you attack carefully and don't make an attempt to pummel Marluxia |
| with Sonic Blade or the such, then he'll have a chance to use his own|
| enemy card. This enemy card grants the Double Sleight effect -- it |
| gives the ability of using the same sleight twice. Using Darkside |
| when Marluxia has activated this enemy card would grant you that very|
| ability. You can combine this with your most favorite sleights to pwn|
| him with. Perhaps the most notable of these is Holy. Supposing you |
| have the cards for two uses of Holy in your deck...you could get four|
| uses out of this. While Marluxia resists sleights, it'll still do |
| unholy (no pun intended) damage on him. The same can be used for more|
| sleights such as Ars Arcanum. |
| |
| My recommended strategy for beating Marluxia would be the Sonic |
| Beatdown deck. Basically, make a basic beatdown deck fit for the use |
| of Sonic Blade. For example, make every set of cards to be like 8 |
| Oblivion, 8 Oathkeeper, 7 Metal Chocobo. Do this a few times, then |
| put in AT LEAST five 0's. These are necessary for breaking Marluxia's|
| sleights. Include as many Hi-Potions as you can afford (I used four),|
| seven Cures (I was stuck with five), then at least one Elixir for |
| when you've used too many Curaga sleights. You can then add in the |
| cards for Holy and Darkside if you choose. If you don't have enough |
| CP, then delete a set or two of attack cards to make enough. The five|
| 0's and seven Cures are a must, though. I highly recommend the Elixir|
| also. As for enemy cards, none have any real use here, other than |
| Darkside as stated. Due to Marluxia's infrequent attacks and the fact|
| that he VERY rarely interrupts your combos, Jafar is next to useless |
| here. |
| |
| When it comes to the actual battle, you'll want to start off with |
| Sonic Blade, and use it over and over until he's around half beaten. |
| From this point, use the battle strategy I recommended earlier, while|
| keeping a 0 on hand at all times. The moment you have one 0 left, |
| start recharging. There is a chance that Marluxia will use one of his|
| sleights in the middle of your recharging, and you'll need a 0 on |
| hand to break it. If you don't, then kiss your ass goodbye. I know I |
| have already said this, but there has never been another boss where |
| it was so urgent to ALWAYS break his sleights. |
| You'll also find heavy use in Curaga (perhaps another reason Darkside|
| may be useful?). Marluxia's attacks do heavy damage and will indeed |
| add up over time. You can use Cures with little worry of him breaking|
| it, but that uses them up quickly. Curaga is most recommended. |
| If you decided to include Darkside and Holy, then you'll want to take|
| advantage of this immediately after Marluxia activates his enemy |
| card. It doesn't matter at what point in the battle it is. I would |
| highly recommend you wait to use Holy though until you can break one |
| of his attacks with it. Marluxia's infrequency to attack produces |
| little likeliness of him so much as attempting to break Holy, plus if|
| you break his attack with it, he'll be left helpless long enough for |
| it to start it's work. Marluxia DOES have 0 cards though, and you |
| don't want him breaking it, especially if it's later in the battle. |
| Remember through all of this not to let yourself get hit too much. |
| Once more, Marluxia's basic attacks do dreadful damage, and they can |
| quite easily kill you too. |
| |
| I usually don't say this, but I'd just test out whatever strategy you|
| please for this boss. You only get to fight him once, and he's one of|
| the most entertaining bosses in the entire game in my opinion, only |
| surpassed by the final boss itself. This battle with Marluxia is the |
| most difficult boss in Sora's story, and quite possibly the most |
| difficult boss in the entire game. But it's really fun, so why not |
| play around with it? Marluxia deserves more respect than that anyway.|
\_______________________________________________________________________/
After beating Marluxia, you'll get his enemy card as a reward. If you like
sleight heavy decks, you'll definitely find great use in this.
You'll view another scene, then a save will appear in the room. Save here,
as you are about to confront the final boss in the game. Actually, it's two
boss battles in a row, and you'll get no break in between. Because of this,
you'll need to prepare your deck for such.
Actually, the deck I recommended for using against Marluxia previously
should work just fine. You'll want to edit the items to make sure you have
a Mega-Potion and a Megalixir too. The final battle specifically will take
awhile, and you'll be recharging much more than most bosses generally will
allow late game. Other than that, however, your deck should be fine. You
probably won't need as many 0's either, but make sure you have at least
three. But a Sonic Beatdown deck is what you'll want.
This is the deck I used:
7 Oblivion
8 Oathkeeper
8 Crabclaw
6 Oblivion
9 Oathkeeper
7 Crabclaw
9 Oblivion
4 Oathkeeper
9 Crabclaw
9 Oblivion
4 Oathkeeper
9 Crabclaw
0 Kingdom Key
0 Three Wishes
0 Pumpkinhead
8 Hi-Potion
7 Hi-Potion
7 Elixir
9 Mega-Potion
8 Megalixir
9 Cure
9 Cure
8 Cure
6 Cure
5 Cure
6 Cure
Make your deck something along the lines of that.
When you're done with any last minute leveling (I did none), go over to
the big door at the end of the room. It'll trigger a confirmation of if you
really want to proceed into the final boss yet. Hit "It's our last battle!"
to continue.
After another awesome scene, you'll start the beginning of the final battle.
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Marluxia II */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 61 |
| Difficulty: Medium-High (7/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity, resists all elements and sleights. |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: It's the final boss, no drop obviously. |
| |
| Hit Points: |
| -Body: 7.20 bars |
| -Arms: 1.60 bars each |
| -Rose Buds: . 25 of a bar per set |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Marluxia is quite a bit different this time around. First of all, he |
| sits a-top a massive...machine, I think, the entire battle. Due to |
| this, he isn't really a character enemy. He does not use sleights and|
| does not have to recharge. I'm not even going to bother trying to |
| describe that machine out either. Just note that it has two massive |
| scythes for arms...arms with their own HP bar, which you will have to|
| take out. |
| This battle is definitely easier than the last. The main danger is at|
| the beginning of the battle, when the machine's arms are still there.|
| As such, you'll want to take them out first. |
| Marluxia attacks a bit quicker now, and his attacks still do large |
| portions of damage. The main damage caused will be done by the scythe|
| arms though. |
| |
| Let's start with attacks. Marluxia himself uses a variety of attacks.|
| With the first, he summons four rose buds on the field. As long as |
| they are there, everytime Marluxia attacks, these rose buds will |
| shoot several lasers out at you. Each time, it will cause significant|
| damage. You'll have to attack the rose buds to rid yourself of them, |
| and get Marluxia to use a different attack. The small bar of HP you |
| see counts for all four rose buds, so attacking one of them rapidly |
| will cause all four to perish. The four rose buds will also vanish by|
| breaking Marluxia's attacks, as he attempts to attack with them. |
| Marluxia's second attack is quite annoying. The battle will pause and|
| you will get a quick scene where Marluxia starts forming a ball of |
| darkness in his hands. During this scene, you can break the attack, |
| which I recommend. When the attack is finished, the entire arena will|
| be surrounded by a "world of darkness." As a result, your entire deck|
| is hidden from you. You can't see what cards you're using. As I said,|
| annoying. And no, it does not do any damage specifically. |
| In his third attack, Marluxia will summon a few balls to rotate in |
| front of his hands. One will shoot at you, and his next attacks will |
| be another one of these balls shooting at you. When they do, it'll |
| cause an energy blade shaped like an X to fire. It's easy to dodge. |
| Also, it'll start with three of these balls, but increase as he loses|
| health. |
| His fourth attack is very similar to his second in the fact it has a |
| scene with it. Instead of making a ball of darkness, the ball is of |
| flower energy. You have time to break it during this scene, which you|
| will want to do, as it's unavoidable. The flower ball will explode |
| into many petals, which turn the walls white temporarily as they |
| fall. You'll be hurt in the process of this. |
| His fifth attack he only uses when both of his scythe-arms are gone. |
| Simple enough, he charges straight into you across the field. As you |
| can guess by the machine's size, it's hard to evade this. |
| In his sixth attack, he jumps up out of range (machine and all), and |
| falls down with the tail of the machine striking the ground. When it |
| does, a large shockwave will emit across the ground. Large range, so |
| it's very hard to evade. |
| The scythes use the most dangerous attack though. It's basically like|
| a rip-off of the Deathscythe sleight. He'll slash both scythes in the|
| air, and it'll cause a shockwave from each scythe to flow through to |
| the wall. These two shockwaves will explode into two lines of flower |
| "flame". Since it happens right in front of him, it's much easier to |
| dodge this attack than the sleight was. Still, it can be hard and it |
| does mass amounts of damage. And to compensate for being only two |
| simple shockwaves which explode, and being easier to follow, it's a |
| regular attack. This means he can use it several times in a row. THIS|
| is why you'll want to take out the two scythe-arms immediately. |
| Marluxia's other attacks can be annoying, but none are particularly |
| deadly. |
| |
| Beating Marluxia this time really is not that hard. It can be a long |
| battle though, since he's high up and hard to hit at times. And at |
| low health, he tends to move around a lot, making him hard to hit. |
| As you can guess, sleights (particularly Sonic Blade) are useless in |
| this fight. So, you'll be forced to stick with basic attacks. |
| Start the battle off immediately by taking out the two scythe-arms. |
| When they're around, you can easily die. Once knocked off, however, |
| it's unlikely you'll lose as long as you keep an eye on your HP. The |
| 0 cards won't have much use here, either. Simply enough, just attack |
| Marluxia whenever you can with regular attacks. |
| Curaga is also unnecessary here. Marluxia doesn't often use high |
| value cards, so simple Cures should be fine. By now, you should have |
| plenty of those which are of values 6 plus. |
| After you take the scythes out, you should do fine. Just remember to |
| keep an eye on your HP, and recharge when you run out of Cures. |
| He was definitely harder in the original Chain of Memories than in |
| this version. I think they intentionally made him easier here due to |
| no longer being the very last battle. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Immediately after beating Marluxia in his giant machine or whatever the hell
that is, you'll be thrown into the very last battle in the game. There is
no save point in between, nor even a long enough break to rebuild your deck.
Your deck will be refreshed, though, as if starting a new battle.
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Marluxia III */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 61 |
| Difficulty: High (8/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Gravity, resists all elements and sleights. |
| Sleights: |
| -Gale of Severance: |
| Cards used are 8-8-8 |
| Marluxia will only use this when you're up close to him. It|
| will blow you back to the end of the field. Since it's a |
| large field, it's actually quite effective. It'll give him |
| enough time to attack you without you being able to attack |
| him. He'll use this sleight quite frequently as long as you|
| remain close to him. The damage done is very little, as the|
| attack isn't used for it's damage. |
| -Whirlwind to the Void: |
| Cards used are 7-7-7 |
| This is possibly the most interesting attack in the game. |
| When this sleight is used, Marluxia will spawn a giant |
| flower pool. This flower pool moves very fast, and targets |
| Sora. Once it hits him, it will grab him up then drop him. |
| In this process, all of Sora's cards (including recharge |
| bar) are scattered around him. You have to run around and |
| pick them up all of the cards to use them. And yes, they |
| come back in the same order as you put them. Marluxia will |
| pause for a few seconds after using this sleight, giving |
| you a bit of time to pick the cards up. It's not enough |
| time to pick them all up though, so be prepared to start |
| breaking once you get a few. This sleight also does very |
| little damage. |
| -Doom: |
| Cards used are 6-6-6 |
| Another very interesting sleight. In it, a timer will |
| appear on the screen and count down to 0. During this time,|
| Marluxia throws a total of six cards at you to break. This |
| sleight is nearly unbreakable, because the attack travels |
| incredibly fast. You'll have to be at the end of the field |
| in order to stand a chance of breaking it. Therefore, you |
| are practically forced to go through this "duel." What |
| happens if you don't break all six cards in time? You're |
| automatically killed. That is correct, Marluxia uses an |
| attack which kills you. Not stoppable. Isn't that amazing? |
| ...Yeah. The good thing about this is, the cards he throws |
| at you are usually semi-low value. It shouldn't be hard to |
| break them. You can also recharge during this, if you must.|
| Be careful as the countdown still goes while you are |
| recharging. This attack also does low damage. |
| As a side note, I find it incredibly ironic that such a |
| number is used for this attack. It's actually fitting. |
| -Circle Reject: |
| Cards used are 5-5-5 |
| Marluxia's angel warps to the center of the field, and it |
| hammers the end of it's scythe onto the ground, creating a |
| massive aura to spiral around it, which covers the entire |
| field. It's also very high, so jumping over it is next to |
| impossible. Semi-large damage, break it if you think it's |
| necessary. |
| -Omni Laser: |
| Cards used are 4-4-4 |
| This sleight really pisses me off. A giant ring appears |
| around the ship, and it shoots like a dozen lasers in a |
| semi-circle shape, and the ring rotates around Sora. It |
| does repeated damage, and is generally enough to kill you, |
| forcing you to re-do everything! And you can't break it |
| during the attack, due to constantly receiving damage from |
| the lasers. Fortunately, due to it's low value, practically|
| any card combo you would be using could break it. If you |
| see this in the corner, quickly sleight together ANYTHING |
| to stop it! It has a long enough delay you should be able |
| to, and Marluxia gives the attack away by first saying, |
| "It's the beginning of the end." Plus, he'll use it in a |
| predictable pattern. Prepare to break it right as you first|
| hear that line. |
| Drop: Do I even need to say anything? |
| |
| Hit Points: 9.75 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| "Your hopes are doomed to the darkness!" |
| |
| Marluxia is much different this time. Sora and him stand on top of a |
| giant ship, and he now has a massive angel (look at that gigantic |
| scythe!) behind him, who does a lot of attacking for him. Marluxia |
| stands stationary at the end of the field during the entire battle. |
| Gale of Severance takes care of that abuse though. |
| This battle is one of the most entertaining in the game. Yes indeed, |
| it is quite...interesting, to say the least. Very different. |
| |
| Marluxia's main attacks are his sleights. Marluxia will use them in |
| a different way than any boss you've fought so far, in that he'll |
| gather all three cards and use the sleight so quick it's like he's |
| mashing his triangle button. You'll barely have time to see any of |
| the sleights coming. But the real annoyance is the fact that Marluxia|
| has the pros of a non-character and a character boss all in one. He |
| can use sleights, but doesn't have to recharge (or if he does, he has|
| an extremely massive deck that lasts for an insane amount of time, to|
| the point of not ever seeing him recharge; I'd say you could treat |
| this as not having to recharge). Due to having a seemingly limitless |
| deck, he can therefore abuse sleights and not have to worry about |
| running out of cards. And as such, he DOES abuse sleights. Especially|
| at low health. I wonder if that angel behind him is responsible for |
| this........ |
| As a random fact, the sleights Marluxia use all use the same value |
| for each card in the sleight. |
| |
| Marluxia only uses three attacks other than his sleights. The first |
| is the most annoying. The angel behind Marluxia will appear on the |
| left, right, or center behind Marluxia, and then slash his enormous |
| scythe out to cause an energy blade the very size of that scythe to |
| travel through the field. It seems that Deathscythe is Marluxia's |
| signature technique, eh? As you can guess by the size of that thing, |
| it can be hard to evade. It's only one shockwave though. It does |
| moderately large damage. Nothing you can't handle. By the way, if the|
| angel strikes from the left, the wave will cross from left to right |
| and vice versa. |
| With the second attack, Marluxia summons three rose buds the same way|
| he did in the last battle. These rose buds fly all over around Sora, |
| and will shoot at him. Destroy them accordingly as to the last fight.|
| They have the same amount of HP. |
| With the third attack, the screen will switch over to Marluxia who |
| will charge a massive flower ball the same way he did last battle. |
| The ball will explode, causing damage to Sora. It's basically the |
| same attack. Still unavoidable. |
| These attacks do moderate damage. Break them at your own will. His |
| first attack I explained, I recommend breaking the most, however. |
| |
| First thing you'll need to know is this: this is a long battle, and |
| quite possibly the longest so far. This is where the Mega-Potion and |
| Megalixir show up. |
| Sonic Blade has little use here. Marluxia resists the stun effect |
| which is left behind between attacks, and he'll commonly break it |
| with Gale of Severance in the middle of it. I swear, I think the game|
| creators purposely made Marluxia in all three battles resistant to |
| Sonic Blade. So, since Marluxia already resists Sonic Blade, and he |
| can break it in the middle of it, there's no point in using it for |
| main attacking purposes. What you'll want to do is this: run up to |
| Marluxia and attack him as many times as possible before he uses one |
| of his sleights on you. It's likely he'll interrupt your combos a lot|
| by the use of his own attacks. Once he uses one of his sleights, |
| treat it accordingly. If it's Doom, break all of his attacks and run |
| up to him to start attacking more. If he uses Whirlwind to the Void, |
| run around and pick up your cards before continuing to attack. Make |
| sure you have lock-on off, so you can see the entire field better. |
| If he uses Gale of Severance, simply let it pass and run back up to |
| him. |
| |
| During the first half of the battle, he'll switch back and forth |
| between these, with attacks in between. However, once he reaches mid-|
| low health, he'll add Circle Reject and Omni Laser to the variety. |
| From this point, I noticed a pattern that works like this: |
| He attacks attempting to use Doom either three times or until it is |
| successful, whichever comes first. Then he'll attack a few times, and|
| use Whirlwind to the Void. Just like Doom, he'll try it three times |
| or until it's successful. Then he'll attack a few more times. After |
| this, he uses Circle Reject three times, whether you break it or not.|
| Then he'll use Omni Laser (no attacks in between this time). He'll |
| attempt it three times. I'm not sure if he uses it three times, as I |
| have never lived past the first use. After Omni Laser has failed, he |
| uses Gale of Severance if you're up close, otherwise it goes back to |
| Doom. |
| The only opportunities you are given to attack are in between Doom |
| and Whirlwind to the Void, and in between Whirlwind to the Void and |
| Circle Reject. It is because of this that this boss can turn into |
| quite a long battle. |
| Attacking Marluxia before then is pretty straightforward. But once |
| Circle Reject and Omni Laser are added, you will want to follow a set|
| pattern to follow his. It's simple, really. |
| Attack Marluxia in between those three attacks, while breaking Doom |
| and Whirlwind to the Void if you wish. Once Circle Reject starts, you|
| have two options: you can take the hits, while attempting to jump |
| over it, or you can activate Sonic Blade. In doing so, it'll break |
| Circle Reject, and Marluxia will be an utter noob and continue to try|
| using it both of the next times. If Sonic Blade isn't still going, |
| then repeat this for Omni Laser. Doing this is completely optional |
| for Circle Reject, but it is a must for Omni Laser. Break the first |
| Omni Laser, and Marluxia will continue attempting to use it until he |
| has tried three times. After that, he'll use Gale of Severance to |
| blow you away, followed by Doom. Sonic Blade will protect you from |
| these annoyances, while still getting in just a little extra damage. |
| And since Gale of Severance is the only attack of his which can break|
| Sonic Blade, you CAN use Sonic Blade to break all of his sleights. |
| Be warned, however, that you may run out of cards doing this, without|
| anything to restore them. As I said, it's a long battle. |
| The 0's are for breaking Omni Laser in case of the emergency where |
| he starts it and you don't have the cards to use Sonic Blade at hand.|
| They should be used for this emergency only. |
| When you heal, use single Cure cards. You'll run out of Cure too fast|
| if you rely on Curaga, and you'll be healing a lot. |
| The Mega-Potion and Megalixir should only be used when your recharge |
| bar is at three, you have no more Hi-Potions or Elixirs, and you |
| have run out of the ability to use Sonic Blade. (The reason you will |
| want a Megalixir instead of two Mega-Potions is because you will need|
| to use Curaga occasionally, when you run low on health and need to |
| heal quickly.) |
| |
| It is a long battle, and it'll take some patience. But there isn't |
| really anything you can do to make the battle easier. Marluxia is |
| still weak to physical attacks, so it'll go faster than you may think|
| right now. Some of it also depends on how you built your deck, and |
| how often Marluxia will break your attacks with his. |
| Don't bother with anything other than basic attacks for your damage |
| output, though. There really isn't anything that works better. |
| Be careful though...if you die here, you'll have to rebeat the last |
| battle, too. And if you get caught in Omni Laser, you WILL die here. |
| |
| As a final boss, Marluxia holds up pretty well. Your first battle |
| with Marluxia was more difficult, and can effectively be called the |
| final boss, as he's the most difficult in the game like the final is |
| supposed to be. Still, the fact you have to go through two bosses and|
| this battle with Marluxia can take so much time, it is a commendable |
| battle. Remember that, since he's the final boss, you can rebeat him |
| over and over. Test out your own strategies. See what you like. It's |
| a fun battle; just mess around with it a little. Have fun. |
| |
| "This...This is the heart of a hero..." |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
After you drop Marluxia's HP to 0 for the third and final time, you'll get
a really long scene comparable to that at the beginning of the game, then
the credits will role. Congratulations, you just beat Re:Chain of Memories!
After the credits are over, you'll see a screen showing your battle record.
You'll be able to save here, too. Saving here marks the game as clear game
status. This unlocks the theater mode, which allows you to view any scene
in the game over again, and it also unlocks Reverse/Rebirth, which is Riku's
story through Castle Oblivion. (You'll have to complete Reverse/Rebirth to
get a few of the most powerful cards.) In addition, the clear gama data
allows you to backtrack and get a few extra cards, most of these being in
the Room of Rewards. A second chest will appear in it, which contains a
new card for you to grab. You'll have to unlock it over again, though.
These are the new cards you can get with the clear game status:
Hidden Dragon (Traverse Town, Calm Bounty room)
Saix enemy card (Traverse Town, Room of Rewards)
Luxord enemy card (Agrabah, Room of Rewards)
Bond of Flame (Halloween Town, Room of Rewards)
Monochrome (Olympus Coliseum, Room of Rewards)
Xaldin enemy card (Monstro, Room of Rewards)
Xemnas enemy card (Wonderland, Room of Rewards)
Demyx enemy card (Atlantica, Room of Rewards)
Follow the Wind (Neverland, Room of Rewards)
Xigbar enemy card (Hollow Bastion, Room of Rewards)
Roxas enemy card (Twilight Town, Room of Rewards)
Photon Debugger (Destiny Islands, Room of Rewards)
Star Seeker (Castle Oblivion, Room of Rewards)
Diamond Dust (Castle Oblivion)
One-Winged Angel (Twilight town)
Contrary to common belief, Diamond Dust and One-Winged Angel can be found
BEFORE completing Reverse/Rebirth (Riku's story).
Diamond Dust is said to be found in breakable objects in Castle Oblivion,
and One-Winged Angel is said to be found in a Calm Bounty room (or other
treasure room) in Twilight Town. However, I found my first One-Winged
Angel in a breakable object in Twilight Town.
As for the post-Reverse/Rebirth only cards, they are as follows:
Zexion enemy card
Lexaeus enemy card
Ansem enemy card
Ultima Weapon
Zexion is obtained in a chest (e.g. Calm Bounty room) in Destiny Islands.
Ansem is found in a chest in Twilight Town. Lexaeus and Ultima Weapon are
found in chests in Castle Oblivion.
If you created a clear game data, then pressing New Game will give the
option to start as Riku. This will start Reverse/Rebirth mode. Good luck!
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| _________________________ |
*=======================// \\========================*
| | Card Lists | |
*=======================\\_________________________//========================*
|____________________________________________________________________________|
These lists will have information on all of the cards in the game -- I will
provide information for the card's names, Jiminy's Journal entry, effect,
and it's location percents. The location percents will show the likeliness
of obtaining the specific card in a chest and in a object. Prior to each
list, I'll be explaining how they work. The same information can be found
in the Card Mechanics section above, but it will be repeated here with a
bit of detail left out for convenience.
Personal notes will be entered at a later date.
Note: Credit for location percentage information for all attack cards goes
to gotryce22. Only exceptions are for the Keyblades added to Re:CoM,
which are Star Seeker, Monochrome, Follow the Wind, Hidden Dragon,
Photon Debugger, and Bond of Flame. The percent of finding these in a
specific world is currently unknown and will be added if I find out.
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/ \ satkc \
------------------------- Attack Cards ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
Attack cards -- or Keyblade cards -- are the main cards you'll use in the
game. Basically all decks have these cards as the main source of damage.
Details on attack cards are in the Card Mechanics section above. But, in
short, Keyblade cards have their own values for where they are used in the
standard three-hit combo, which will be listed with the cards here.
It also has other basics such as element and recovery.
The six Kingdom Hearts II Keyblades that are exclusive to Re:Chain of
Memories (numbers 18-23) can only be obtained after saving a clear game
data on Sora's story. Almost all are found in the Room of Rewards of
certain worlds (you will have to re-open it, had you already opened it),
with the only exception being Hidden Dragon, which is found in a treasure
room in Traverse Town.
There are 23 attack cards in total. They will be listed in the order that
Jiminy's Journal has it.
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Kingdom Key 1/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: D+
Thrust: D+
Combo Finish: D+
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: B
Required CP: *
First Obtained: Start of the game.
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Traverse Town: 50% | 10%
-Agrabah 30% | N/A
-Halloween Town: 30% | N/A
-Olympus Coliseum: 20% | N/A
-Monstro: 30% | N/A
-Wonderland: 30% | N/A
-Atlantica: 20% | N/A
-Neverland: 20% | N/A
-Hollow Bastion: 20% | N/A
-Twilight Town: 15% | N/A
-Destiny Islands: 10% | N/A
-Castle Oblivion: 5% | N/A
Journal Entry:
"The default weapon. Not very powerful, but reliable and easy to handle."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Three Wishes 2/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: C+
Thrust: D+
Combo Finish: B
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: B
Required CP: A
First Obtained: Agrabah
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Agrabah 20% | 15%
Journal Entry:
"Obtained in Agrabah. Fairly strong with a fast swing."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Crabclaw 3/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: C
Thrust: C
Combo Finish: B+
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: *
Required CP: B
First Obtained: Atlantica
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Atlantica: 20% | 15%
Journal Entry:
"Obtained in Atlantica. Easy to handle with an impressive recovery time
after card breaks."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Pumpkinhead 4/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: C+
Thrust: C+
Combo Finish: D+
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: A
Required CP: A
First Obtained: Halloween Town
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Halloween Town: 20% | 15%
Journal Entry:
"Obtained in Halloween Town. Easy to handle with a fast recovery after card
breaks."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Fairy Harp 5/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: C+
Thrust: C+
Combo Finish: C
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: *
Required CP: B
First Obtained: Neverland
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Neverland: 20% | 15%
Journal Entry:
"Obtained in Neverland. Easy to handle with a formidable swing speed."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Wishing Star 6/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: C
Thrust: C
Combo Finish: D+
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: A
Required CP: A
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Monstro: 20% | 15%
Journal Entry:
"Obtained on Monstro. Not very powerful, but very easy to handle."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Spellbinder 7/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: D+
Thrust: A
Combo Finish: D+
Element: Lightning
Break Recovery: A
Required CP: B
First Obtained: 100 Acre Wood (Hidden chest in Tigger's room)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Atlantica: N/A | 5%
-Neverland: N/A | 5%
-Hollow Bastion: N/A | 5%
-Twilight Town: 15% | 5%
-Castle Oblivion: 10% | 5%
Journal Entry:
"A special attack card with lightning based attacks."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Metal Chocobo 8/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: C+
Thrust: C+
Combo Finish: B+
Element: Neutral
Break Recovery: B
Required CP: B
First Obtained: Olympus Coliseum (Room of Rewards)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Olympus Coliseum: 10% | 5%
-Atlantica: 2% | N/A
-Neverland: 2% | N/A
-Hollow Bastion: 5% | N/A
-Twilight Town: 15% | N/A
-Castle Oblivion: 10% | 5%
Journal Entry:
"A special attack card that can break through physical defenses. A bit
difficult to handle."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Olympia 9/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: C+
Thrust: D+
Combo Finish: B
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: *
Required CP: B
First Obtained: Olympus Coliseum
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Olympus Coliseum: 20% | 15%
Journal Entry:
"Obtained in Olympus Coliseum. Powerful with a quick recovery after card
breaks."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Lionheart 10/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: B
Thrust: B
Combo Finish: B
Element: Fire
Break Recovery: A
Required CP: B
First Obtained: Traverse Town (Room of Rewards)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Traverse Town: 12% | 10%
-Atlantica: 5% | 5%
-Neverland: 5% | 5%
-Hollow Bastion: 5% | 5%
-Twilight Town: 15% | 5%
-Castle Oblivion: 10% | 5%
Journal Entry:
"A special attack card with fire based attacks."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Lady Luck 11/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: C+
Thrust: C+
Combo Finish: D
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: B
Required CP: A
First Obtained: Wonderland
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Wonderland: 20% | 15%
Journal Entry:
"Obtained in Wonderland. A balanced weapon that is easy to handle."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Divine Rose 12/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: A
Thrust: D+
Combo Finish: C
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: C
Required CP: B
First Obtained: Hollow Bastion
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Hollow Bastion: 20% | 15%
Journal Entry:
"Obtained in Hollow Bastion. Features a powerful strike and fast swing."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Oathkeeper 13/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: B
Thrust: *
Combo Finish: B+
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: B
Required CP: C
First Obtained: Destiny Islands (Key of Guidance room)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Destiny Islands: 15% | 10%
Journal Entry:
"A well-balanced weapon with a very powerful thrust."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Oblivion 14/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: A
Thrust: A
Combo Finish: D
Element: Neutral
Break Recovery: A
Required CP: C
First Obtained: After beating Larxene II
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Destiny Islands: 15% | 10%
Journal Entry:
"A special attack card that can break through physical defenses. First-
class strength."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Ultima Weapon 15/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: *
Thrust: *
Combo Finish: *
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: B
Required CP: D
First Obtained: Castle Oblivion (See below.)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Traverse Town: 3% | 5%
-Agrabah 3% | 5%
-Halloween Town: 3% | 5%
-Olympus Coliseum: 3% | 5%
-Monstro: 3% | 5%
-Wonderland: 3% | 5%
-Atlantica: 3% | 5%
-Neverland: 3% | 5%
-Hollow Bastion: 3% | 5%
-Twilight Town: 3% | 5%
-Destiny Islands: 3% | 5%
-Castle Oblivion: 3% | 5%
Journal Entry:
"The strongest attack card to be found."
Note: Ultima Weapon cannot be obtained until completing Reverse/Rebirth
and creating a clear game data. After doing so, it can be found in
Castle Oblivion in a treasure room. As far as I know, the chances
of obtaining it in a treasure room the first time (ONLY) are 100%,
though you may obtain Lexaeus before Ultima Weapon.
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Diamond Dust 16/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: B+
Thrust: B+
Combo Finish: B
Element: Ice
Break Recovery: *
Required CP: C
First Obtained: Castle Oblivion (See below.)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Twilight Town: 10% | 10%
Journal Entry:
"A special attack card with ice-based attacks. Powerful and the easiest
to handle."
Note: Diamond Dust cannot be obtained until completing Sora's story. It
is later first obtained through any breakable object or treasure
room in Castle Oblivion.
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| One-Winged Angel 17/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: C
Thrust: C
Combo Finish: *
Element: Fire
Break Recovery: C
Required CP: C
First Obtained: Twilight Town (See below.)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Twilight Town: 5% | 10%
Journal Entry:
"A special attack card with fire-based attacks. Exceptional combo finish."
Note: One-Winged Angel cannot be obtained until completing Sora's story.
It is later first obtained through any breakable object or treasure
room in Twilight Town.
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Star Seeker 18/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: C
Thrust: D+
Combo Finish: B+
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: *
Required CP: A
First Obtained: Castle Oblivion (Room of Rewards)
Journal Entry:
"An attack card with a powerful combo finish and the shortest recovery
time from card breaks."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Monochrome 19/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: D+
Thrust: B
Combo Finish: B+
Element: Neutral
Break Recovery: C
Required CP: B
First Obtained: Olympus Coliseum (Room of Rewards)
Journal Entry:
"A special attack card that can break through physical defenses. Takes
time to recover from card breaks."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Follow the Wind 20/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: C+
Thrust: A
Combo Finish: D
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: A
Required CP: B
First Obtained: Neverland (Room of Rewards)
Journal Entry:
"A well-balanced weapon with a powerful thrust and a short recovery time
from card breaks."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Hidden Dragon 21/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: D+
Thrust: C+
Combo Finish: B+
Element: Physical
Break Recovery: A
Required CP: B
First Obtained: Traverse Town (Treasure room)
Journal Entry:
"An attack card with weak strikes but powerful combo finishes."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Photon Debugger 22/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: B
Thrust: C+
Combo Finish: B+
Element: Lightning
Break Recovery: B
Required CP: B
First Obtained: Destiny Islands (Room of Rewards)
Journal Entry:
"A special attack card with lightning-based attacks."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Bond of Flame 23/23 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Strike: *
Thrust: C+
Combo Finish: B
Element: Fire
Break Recovery: B
Required CP: C
First Obtained: Halloween Town (Room of Rewards)
Journal Entry:
"A special attack card with fire-based attacks. Delivers exceptionally
powerful strikes."
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ smagc \
------------------------- Magic Cards ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
Magic cards are far more simple than attack cards. There is no detailed
information about it's usefulness in the three-hit combo and how much
damage it does in a specific spot. Rather, they're simply hit-and-fire.
However, to counterbalance the uncomplicated ease of their use is the
unfair aspect that they are simply not that useful, not to mention that
their isn't very many of them (though summons are technically magic also,
even Jiminy agrees they deserve their own section). They do little damage,
and, other than Cure (which is on the contrary VERY useful), you'll find
almost no use for them outside of sleights or certain bosses.
As expected, there isn't much to write about them and you can expect this
section to be quick and simple.
There are 7 magic cards in total. As with the attack cards, they will be
listed in the same order they are in Jiminy's Journal.
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Fire 1/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: After beating Axel I
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Traverse Town: 10% | 30%
-Agrabah 5% | 15%
-Halloween Town: 6% | 15%
-Olympus Coliseum: 5% | 15%
-Monstro: 5% | 15%
-Wonderland: 6% | 15%
-Atlantica: 10% | 5%
-Neverland: N/A | 5%
-Twilight Town: 1% | 15%
-Destiny Islands: 8% | N/A
-Castle Oblivion: N/A | 10%
Journal Entry:
"Magic that deals fire damage. Stock two cards for Fira and three cards
for Firaga."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Blizzard 2/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Start of the game.
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Agrabah 5% | 15%
-Halloween Town: 6% | 20%
-Olympus Coliseum: 5% | 15%
-Monstro: 5% | 15%
-Wonderland: 6% | 15%
-Atlantica: N/A | 5%
-Neverland: 10% | 5%
-Twilight Town: 1% | 15%
-Destiny Islands: 8% | N/A
-Castle Oblivion: N/A | 10%
Journal Entry:
"Magic that deals ice damage. Stock two cards for Blizzara and three cards
for Blizzaga."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Thunder 3/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: After beating Larxene I
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Atlantica: 10% | 20%
-Neverland: 10% | 10%
-Hollow Bastion: 10% | 10%
-Twilight Town: 1% | 15%
-Destiny Islands: 8% | N/A
-Castle Oblivion: N/A | 10%
Journal Entry:
"Magic that deals lightning damage. Stock two cards for Thundara and
three cards for Thundaga."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Cure 4/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Start of the game.
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Traverse Town: 10% | 30%
-Agrabah N/A | 5%
-Halloween Town: 6% | 5%
-Olympus Coliseum: 5% | 5%
-Monstro: 5% | 5%
-Wonderland: N/A | 5%
-Neverland: N/A | 5%
-Hollow Bastion: N/A | 5%
-Twilight Town: 1% | 15%
-Destiny Islands: N/A | 5%
-Castle Oblivion: 8% | 5%
Journal Entry:
"Magic that restores HP. Stock two cards for Cura and three cards for
Curaga."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Gravity 5/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Randomly from any treasure room.
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Agrabah 10% | 20%
-Halloween Town: 6% | 10%
-Olympus Coliseum: 5% | 10%
-Monstro: 5% | 10%
-Wonderland: 5% | N/A
-Atlantica: 5% | N/A
-Neverland: 5% | 10%
-Hollow Bastion: 5% | 10%
-Twilight Town: 1% | N/A
-Destiny Islands: N/A | 20%
-Castle Oblivion: N/A | 5%
Journal Entry:
"Magic that deals damage relative to the enemies' remaining HP. Stock two
cards for Gravira and three cards for Graviga."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Stop 6/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Randomly from any treasure room.
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Agrabah 5% | N/A
-Halloween Town: 6% | 10%
-Olympus Coliseum: 5% | 10%
-Monstro: 5% | 10%
-Wonderland: 5% | N/A
-Atlantica: 5% | 10%
-Neverland: 5% | N/A
-Hollow Bastion: 5% | 10%
-Twilight Town: 1% | N/A
-Destiny Islands: N/A | 20%
-Castle Oblivion: N/A | 5%
Journal Entry:
"Magic that halts enemy movement for a set time period. Stock two cards
for Stopra and three cards for Stopga."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Aero 7/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: After beating Riku I
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Atlantica: 10% | 20%
-Neverland: 10% | 10%
-Hollow Bastion: 10% | 10%
-Twilight Town: 1% | N/A
-Destiny Islands: 8% | 20%
-Castle Oblivion: N/A | 5%
Journal Entry:
"Magic that blows away nearby enemies and inflicts damage. Stock two cards
for Aerora and three cards for Aeroga."
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ ssmnc \
------------------------- Summon Cards ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
Most summon cards show a bit more usefulness than most magic cards. Though
you won't keep a lot of them in your deck for long, many are somewhat use-
ful for the first two or three worlds after obtaining it. A couple in
particular show good use throughout the whole game in one way or another.
Like magic cards, there are 7 summon cards and will be listed in the order
appearing in Jiminy's Journal.
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Simba 1/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Traverse Town (Key of Beginnings room)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Traverse Town: 5% | 10%
-Halloween Town: N/A | 5%
-Wonderland: N/A | 5%
-Twilight Town: 1% | N/A
-Castle Oblivion: 5% | N/A
Journal Entry:
"Simba lets out a mighty roar that deals damage to enemies in front of
him. Stock more than one and his roar will also stun enemies."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Genie 2/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Agrabah (Key to Truth room)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Agrabah: 7% | 15%
-Twilight Town: 1% | N/A
-Castle Oblivion: 5% | N/A
Journal Entry:
"Genie casts Thundara, Gravira, or Stopra. Stock more than one and Genie
will cast multiple spells."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Bambi 3/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: 100 Acre Wood
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Atlantica: N/A | 10%
-Twilight Town: 1% | 5%
-Castle Oblivion: 5% | N/A
Journal Entry:
"Bambi bounds around and drops HP orbs. Stock more than one to boost the
effect."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Dumbo 4/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Monstro (Key to Truth room)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Monstro: 7% | 15%
-Twilight Town: 1% | N/A
-Castle Oblivion: 5% | N/A
Journal Entry:
"Dumbo douses enemies with water over a set time period, dealing ice
damage. Stock more than one to prolong the attack."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Tinker Bell 5/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Monstro (Key to Truth room)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Neverland: 10% | 20%
-Twilight Town: 1% | N/A
-Castle Oblivion: 5% | N/A
Journal Entry:
"Tinker Bell restores HP over a set time period. Stock more than one to
boost the effect."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Mushu 6/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Hollow Bastion (Room of Rewards)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Hollow Bastion: 10% | 20%
-Twilight Town: 1% | N/A
-Castle Oblivion: 5% | N/A
Journal Entry:
"Mushu breathes fire at the enemy, dealing fire damage. Stock more than
one to prolong the attack."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Cloud 5/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Olympus Coliseum (Key to Truth room)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Olympus Coliseum: 10% | 15%
-Hollow Bastion: 10% | N/A
-Twilight Town: 1% | N/A
-Castle Oblivion: 5% | N/A
Journal Entry:
"Cloud unleashes two successive sword attacks. Stock two cards to use
Cross-slash and three cards to use Omnislash."
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ sitmc \
------------------------- Item Cards ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
Item cards are most probably the most useful cards in the game, outside of
Cure and (obviously) attack cards. Their unique ability to reload an entire
type of cards (some, even both attack AND magic!) makes them beyond useful,
especially in the quick-paced battles. Sadly, the fact they disappear after
only one use makes their use limited, due to high cost. Do not ever sleight
any item cards together as, unless it's something like a Potion and Ether,
their effects will copy over each other and most likely two of the cards
will go to waste.
There are 7 item cards as well, which, again, are listed in the same order
shown in Jiminy's Journal.
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Potion 1/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Start of the game.
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Traverse Town: 10% | 5%
-Halloween Town: 7% | 5%
-Monstro: 5% | N/A
-Wonderland: 6% | 10%
-Atlantica: 3% | N/A
-Neverland: N/A | 5%
Journal Entry:
"Quickly reloads attack cards with no charge time required. It does not
work on cards that cannot be reloaded."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Hi-Potion 2/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Olympus Coliseum (Key of Guidance room)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Agrabah: 5% | N/A
-Halloween Town: 5% | 5%
-Olympus Coliseum: 7% | 10%
-Monstro: 5% | 5%
-Wonderland: 7% | N/A
-Atlantica: 4% | N/A
Journal Entry:
"Quickly reloads attack cards with no charge time required. Even normally
unreloadable cards are restored."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Mega-Potion 3/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: After beating Riku III
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Twilight Town: N/A | 10%
-Destiny Islands: 3% | N/A
-Castle Oblivion: 1% | 5%
Journal Entry:
"Quickly reloads attack cards with no charge time and resets the reload
counter. Even normally unreloadable cards are restored."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Ether 4/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Agrabah (Key of Guidance room)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Agrabah 10% | 10%
-Halloween Town: 5% | 5%
-Olympus Coliseum: 5% | N/A
-Monstro: 5% | 5%
-Wonderland: 7% | 5%
-Atlantica: 3% | N/A
-Hollow Bastion: N/A | 5%
-Twilight Town: 3% | N/A
Journal Entry:
"Quickly reloads magic cards with no charge time required. It does not
work on cards that cannot be reloaded."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Mega-Ether 5/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: 100 Acre Wood (Whirlwind Plunge)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Twilight Town: 5% | N/A
-Destiny Islands: 3% | 5%
-Castle Oblivion: 1% | 10%
Journal Entry:
"Quickly reloads magic cards with no charge time and resets the reload
counter. Even normally unreloadable cards are restored."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Elixir 6/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: 100 Acre Wood (Bumble-Rumble)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Twilight Town: 5% | 5%
-Castle Oblivion: 2% | 5%
Journal Entry:
"Quickly reloads attack cards and magic cards, including normally
unreloadable cards."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Megalixir 7/7 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
First Obtained: Destiny Islands (Room of Rewards)
Locations: [ Object | Chest ]
-Destiny Islands: 3% | N/A
-Castle Oblivion: 5% | 2%
Journal Entry:
"Quickly reloads attack cards and magic cards, including normally
unreloadable cards. The reload counter is also reset."
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ sally \
------------------------- Friend Cards ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
Friend cards are one of the most simple cards in the game. Unobtainable
outside battle, they will randomly pop up during battle and you can go pick
it up to use it. Almost all friend cards are available in one world only,
with Donald and Goofy being the most notable exceptions.
They usually are moderately useful for the world they are in, but Donald
and Goofy lose a lot of their usefulness towards the end of the game.
Still, as friend cards are COMPLETELY free and oftentimes several will
drop, they are quite reliable - as reliable as a card that only randomly
appears can get, anyway.
As expected for a randomly dropped card, this section is even shorter yet.
Including Pluto, there are 8 friend cards in the game. Once more, they are
listed as to the order in Jiminy's Journal. Wow, repeating this is getting
irritating.
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Donald 1/8 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Located At: Every world outside Destiny Islands
Journal Entry:
"Donald randomly casts two spells from Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, or Cure.
Stock more than one to power up Donald's magic."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Goofy 2/8 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Located At: Every world outside Destiny Islands
Journal Entry:
"Goofy attacks the enemy as he spins around Sora. Stock more than one for
more power and duration."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Aladdin 3/8 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Located At: Agrabah
Journal Entry:
"Aladdin runs around while swinging his sword, producing Moogle Point
orbs. Stock more than one to stun enemies and produce more Moogle Point
orbs."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Ariel 4/8 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Located At: Atlantica
Journal Entry:
"Ariel whirls across the field, striking many enemies. Stock more than one
for multiple strikes."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Jack 5/8 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Located At: Halloween Town
Journal Entry:
"Jack casts Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, or Gravity. Stock more than one and
Jack will cast multiple, more powerful spells."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Peter Pan 6/8 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Located At: Neverland
Journal Entry:
"Peter Pan attacks with his dagger.
Quick taps on triangle speed up attacks and produce Moogle Point orbs.
Stock more than one for more power and duration."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| The Beast 7/8 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Located At: Hollow Bastion
Journal Entry:
"The Beast knocks enemies towards Sora. Sora can then knock the enemies
back to the beast. Stock more than one for multiple strikes."
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Pluto 8/8 |
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Located At: Every world outside Destiny Islands
Journal Entry:
"Pluto digs up cards and orbs from the ground. Stock more than one for
better items."
____________________________________________________________________________
| _________________________ |
*=======================// \\========================*
| | Introduction to Riku | |
*=======================\\_________________________//========================*
|____________________________________________________________________________|
Riku's section of the guide will be much shorter than Sora's. Riku's has far
less to it, and is 75% filler. It already has less than Sora's story, and
therefore much less to discuss. The main portion of the game is effectively
over as of right now.
As you can assume, I am not going to repeat myself, explaining all of the
basics of the battle system, room synthesis, et cetera for Riku. It's likely
that you already know how it all works, anyway, if you've even unlocked
Reverse/Rebirth. So, instead, I have one section for all of the mechanics
new to Riku, which you didn't experience with Sora. This section is...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Battle Mechanics mchpwn |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Riku doesn't have many new things to make the game different for him, but
there is enough you'll need to know to take use him properly.
First thing you'll need to know about Riku is this: deck strategy has now
been voided. Riku gets a new deck in each world he's in, a deck which has
been customized by the game for the world. Riku's only attack card is the
Soul Eater, which is what the entire deck will be made out of for every
world, save the occasional Potion or Hi-Potion in a few worlds. The cards
will differ only in rank. The one good thing about this is that you won't
have to worry about what order you attack in anymore. It won't matter, as
every attack will be with the same card. The bad thing is that Soul Eater
starts with rather low damage output. It's damage output will increase as
you gain AP -- a very important attribute for Riku alone that causes Soul
Eater to do more damage. You obtain AP as you level up -- it becomes an
option at certain levels, just as Sleights did for Sora. (That is correct,
there is not an option to learn Sleights anymore.)
With that worry gone, the main thing to worry about is card breaks. The
game has an unfair way to even this out, though. You'll find that decks
for a lot of the worlds, well...suck. It's something you'll have to learn
to deal with, because Riku's deck is COMPLETELY uncustomizable. You'll
never get any attack, magic, or item cards to add to the deck. What you
see at the beginning of the world is what you get.
Enemy cards are different in a way. You won't get them through the basic
encounters. You, instead, will get a specific enemy card at the beginning
of each world, and it's purpose is to help make your deck more easily
used during the world. (Some accomplish this task better than others.)
Unfortunately, the enemy card you obtain at the beginning of the world
is world-specific. This means that when you leave the world, you lose
the enemy card too. You'll also obtain enemy cards from bosses commonly,
like you did with Sora. You'll have complete access to all of these at
all times, as they are always in your deck (due to Riku not having CP).
As for friend cards...Riku's only friend is King Mickey (known as "The
King"), which you will not have access to in every world. King Mickey
is easily the most useful friend card in the game -- Sora's story and
Riku's. He does damage to all enemies (though not a lot), stuns them,
and heals Riku. You WILL use Mickey a lot, as it's the only way Riku
can ever heal during battle. You'll also probably use the Holy Burst
sleight (Mickey> attack> attack) a lot too, as it is epic for
obliterating many enemies. The HP orbs which drop from objects suddenly
become much more useful, too, as you'll need them for healing. They're
also the only thing that'll drop now, with the obvious elimination of
Moogle Shops.
Also, you can combine "The King" friend cards for MM Miracle...Do this
to prevent breaking, and extra healing!
Another difference in battle is the Recharge bar. You'll probably notice
this right away, but it doesn't have a number on it anymore. This is due
to the fact that, with Riku, all you have to do is click on the Recharge
Bar, and your deck is...well, recharged. Epic, nay?
As for completely new features for Riku, we'll start with something which
Sora should have and easily could have had. It's called Rapid Break.
Simple enough, you break an enemy's attack IMMEDIATELY after the enemy
attacks, and it'll boost the damage. It's easier said than done, though.
You'll find that out in your first..."battle" with Ansem, right after the
first floor, which is where you will learn about Rapid Breaks.
The next is a bit more useful, but equally hard to pull off in my opinion.
It's known as a Duel. When an enemy attacks, use a card of equal value as
the one the enemy attacked with. The word "Duel" will flash on screen, as
will the triangle (Reaction Command) button. Hit triangle to initiate the
duel.
A system very familiar to those whom know the Doom attack, from the third
battle with Marluxia, will appear. The enemy will throw a set of cards at
you (three, five, or seven), and you have to break them all. Succeeding
in doing so will unleash a sleight. What the sleight is depends on the
amount of cards you were forced to break in the duel -- either three
(Impulse), five (Maelstrom), or seven (Barrage). The sleights are often
very useful, but it can be hard to win in a duel, as there's a time limit
on breaking the enemy's cards. Failure in breaking all of the cards with-
in the time limit results in being left helpless momentarily for the
enemy to strike with whatever you initiated the duel with. You may very
well want to practice duels early on, as these sleights are the only
sleights you'll use with Riku, outside of Dark Mode. You'll be taught
these in the same battle as you are taught Rapid Breaks.
Speaking of Dark Mode, that's the final new feature for Riku. You'll
get an information screen about the basics of that after the previously
mentioned battle.
After that battle, you'll notice a small bar directly next to your HP
bar during battle. This is your Dark meter. It increases by winning in
card breaks. The amount of Dark Points added to the meter will increase
depending on the difference of the card break. Subtract the difference
of the value of your card from the value of the broken card, and that
is how much it'll increase. Example: Enemy uses a card with a value of
2, then you use a card with a 9 value. You'll gain 7 DP to the bar.
The same concept works with 0 cards. If you broke the 2 card with a 0,
you would gain 2 DP to the bar. If the card you broke with a 0 was a 9,
you'd gain 9 DP. You cannot gain more than 9 DP per card break, either.
This means that you cannot use a sleight combo having a value of 20 to
break a 2 card and gain 18 DP -- you'd still only get 9.
When the DP in this bar reaches 30, Riku will enter Dark Mode. In Dark
Mode, the form of Riku's combo attacks is different and each of his
attacks will do a bit more damage. In addition, this is the only way
Riku has any normal sleights -- which he has access to three of in his
Dark Mode. These sleights are Dark Break (value of 5-15), Dark Firaga
(value of 16-26), and Dark Aura (value of 27). These are very useful,
as they are much more easily activated than duel sleights (they are
activated the same way as normal sleights in Sora's story), and they
usually do large damage, and each is hard to avoid. Dark Mode is
very useful in nearly every circumstance; it makes most boss battles
much easier, and the sleights can decimate groups of Heartless too.
You don't get to keep Dark Mode for the rest of the battle when it is
activated, however. The number of the Dark meter will change to your
total amount of DP, and that number will lower whenever you are card
broken, and will NOT increase when you card break. In addition, it
will lower whenever you are damaged. When the Dark meter reaches 0,
you will lose Dark Mode. The meter will reset to 0, and you'll have
to fill it over again if you wish to re-enter Dark Mode. You can
increase your total amount of DP during Dark Mode by choosing the
option "Darkness Boost" when you level up.
Dark Mode is generally easy to enter. If you're against enemies who
use high card values, then you can just use sleights and/or 0's to
quickly enter it. And, the boost of Dark Mode is great. You'll want
to use it a lot.
With the information of these new features at your hand, weild them,
and use Riku to OBLITERATE EVERYTHING! There's not much, but enough
to put you at a large advantage.
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| Leveling Riku rlvl |
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Leveling Riku is just the same as leveling Sora -- just, two of the three
options are completely different. Whereas Sora had HP, CP, and Sleights,
Riku has HP, AP, and DP. HP is obvious by now, and I explained the other
two above. Every AP (Attack Points) Riku has increases his damage output.
You'll only use it every five levels, however. Just like sleights, with
Sora.
DP (Dark Points) contributes to how long Riku will stay in Dark Mode,
once it's been activated.
As for how much a stat is increased when you select it, it goes as so:
Each time you increase Riku's AP, it'll increase by 1.
Each time you increase Riku's DP, it increases by 2.
HP still increases by 15 each.
Just the same as Sora, only two of the three stats could be maximized by
level 99 in the original CoM. However, sources have stated that all three
can be in Re:CoM. I have yet to get Riku to level 99 also; but when I do,
I'll update it here whether it's possible to maximize all three or just
two.
The max of Riku's stats are as follows:
~HP: 560 (Starts at 80)
~AP: 30 (Starts at 10)
~DP: 99 (Starts at 8)
Which stats to max is very similar to Sora. I recommend getting AP maxed,
and then having semi-high DP, while making HP enough to be comfortable.
Remember that HP is more important with Riku due to the lack of healing
options. But it's all up to you. You will, however, find that AP is
very useful, and it's nearly a must.
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| _________________________ |
*=======================// \\========================*
| | Riku's Walkthrough | |
*=======================\\_________________________//========================*
|____________________________________________________________________________|
You'll find that Riku's story is much shorter than Sora's. The game itself
is mostly just a bunch of worlds with nothing happening in a very pathetic
attempt to make the game large. Don't get the wrong idea, though. The story
it does have (which you'll only really witness in between floors, in Castle
Oblivion's halls) is epic, and it's all pretty fun. In a way, it's better
because you don't have to watch any annoying rehashes of Kingdom Heart's
story during the Disney worlds. You go in, you level, open a key door, and
you're out. Simple and quick. Just remember that Riku's part of the game is
much shorter.
Riku has to go through all of the same worlds Sora does (except for 100 Acre
Wood), but each floor is smaller as for Key rooms. Most of the floors only
have the Key of Beginnings room -- all floors lack a Room of Rewards. Riku
has no use for such rooms, due to his inability to customize his deck.
Common sense dictates that there is also no Rewards card in Riku's story.
I know I have already stated this earlier, but I feel it necessary to repeat
myself. Healing is very limited with Riku; his only source for healing is
with the King Mickey friend card, which is often better used for the Holy
Burst sleight. Be sure to keep this in mind.
Riku starts at the bottom of the basement (B12), and works his way to the
top of the basement floors of Castle Oblivion. (That is correct, Riku and
Sora are in the same castle the entire time, but they don't ever see each
other; though that has a slight loophole).
Each floor takes place awhile after the same corresponding floor of Sora's.
It seems to be that each floor of Riku's actually matches a similar floor
about 3-4 floors after the corresponding one of Sora's. I can't say for
sure. What I do know is that Riku's story starts awhile after Sora's did,
and ends awhile after as well.
Leveling for Riku won't be as necessary. As stated, his deck is different
for each world, so you won't need to level to obliterate things. Leveling's
main purpose serves to last in Dark mode longer (which you won't even need
high DP for), and, of course, for HP. However, since Riku's healing source
is heavily limited, HP is more necessary for him. Enemies are still weaker
correspondingly though. Level 45 -- maybe 50 -- is all you'll need to beat
the game. And that is for Proud mode.
Most of the details for Sora's guide correspond to Riku's guide also. You
should be able to figure what does and does not count based on what I've
already mentioned. So, do I really need to repeat it? "Yes, for I am
supernaturally lazy and can't scroll up."
All right then!
-Gimmick cards appear in certain bosses -- these make the boss easier, so
use them.
-My guide's directions go by how I did it. If you do the worlds in any
different order whatsoever, it may be different for you.
-I'll include maps for the worlds before I start on the world walkthroughs
themselves. I'll also have the preset deck Riku has for each world.
A side note for the bosses: Remember that Riku does not have any access
to the elemental cards and such. Things such as what a specific boss would
nullify can only be assumed. I won't bother listing Gravity, even though
every boss nullifies it, because Riku does not have access to it. Same
goes for everything else that Riku doesn't have access to.
Oh, and I'm not going to relist the attacks bosses have, unless it's a
particularly difficult boss or a new one. I listed them for Sora, so I'm
not going to bother with Riku. Scroll up if it's necessary.
Now that we're done with that, I say it's time to start on the walkthrough.
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/ \ hlwbtnrx \
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\ / |
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Floor B12 |
^ |
[C] S: Start |
| B: Key of Beginnings - Red card |
[ ]-[T] G: Key of Guidance - Green card |
| T: Key to Truth - 5> card |
[G]-[ ]-[ ] C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
| | |
[ ]-[ ]-[B] |
| |
[S] |
v |
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|
Starting level: 1 (Durrrrr.) |
Finishing level: 7 |
|
Friends: None yet. |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Darkball |
-Tornado Step |
-Wizard |
-Wyvern |
-Defender |
Bosses: Dragon Maleficent (Truth Room) |
|
Deck: |
-9 Soul Eater |
-8 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-8 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-Defender |
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After the scene (with a cryptic ending), you'll get your first Key card
with Riku. As you see...one of the more annoying worlds with Sora is your
first with Riku. Wow. Actually, Hollow Bastion can be considered easier now
with Riku than it was with Sora. You'll want to take full advantage of the
Defender enemy card you've been given for this world, though. You'll find
use in it against all enemies. And you'll need it, as Mickey is not yet
available to you; therefore, there is very limited healing options.
Your deck for this world honestly could be much worse. It's not fantastic,
but don't complain. It's more than enough to achieve a few quick levels.
You have enough cards for five combos, and they go in a descending value.
It starts with 9-8-7, 8-7-6, 7-6-5, and so forth. Using your combos like
this can decimate many things quickly, but beware that a few of the enemies
here have higher card values (up to 6), and if you run down to the last
half of your deck, you'll have to sleight in order to break it.
You'll want to get around five or so levels here, at least. I would not
recommend massively powerleveling here, as you'll want to save a few levels
to make it easier to obtain DP later on. (You do not yet have access to
Dark Mode.) Levels will come pretty quick, as the enemies give quite large
amounts of experience. In the first three or so levels, you should be able
to get one level per battle.
Finish up with leveling and make sure you're used to the differences with
Riku, then go into the Key to Truth room for Riku's first boss.
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/ \* */ \
| \* Dragon Maleficent */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 7 |
| Difficulty: Medium (5/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: None |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Dragon Maleficent enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 3 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Wow. One of the two most difficult Disney bosses in Sora's story |
| returns as the first boss in Riku's... |
| Actually, she's not really that difficult. Hitting her isn't as hard,|
| since Riku can jump higher than Sora. You still have access to the |
| Gimmick card in this boss, as expected, if you need it's help. It'll |
| create a platform to let you hit Maleficent, while avoiding all of |
| her attacks. You'll have to jump on the platform, though, instead of |
| automatically appearing on it. |
| Maleficent has all of the same attacks as she did with Sora. The |
| bite, the tail/shockwave, the stomp, and the green flames. The flames|
| are easily the most dangerous, as you won't be able to glide over |
| them with Riku, like you could have with Sora. None of them will do |
| mass amounts of damage...but since you can't heal in this battle, the|
| damage WILL rack up fast. |
| Maleficent uses a lot of low value cards, but she also uses 7's and |
| 8's, so watch out. Don't let her get in many attacks, and sleight |
| together your lower valued cards of the deck to break her attacks, if|
| you must. It's not a hard battle, as long as you're careful. You |
| should know how to treat a boss like Dragon Maleficent by now. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Upon beating this wicked witch, you'll get her enemy card. It's FAR more
useful for Riku than it was with Sora, as Riku doesn't have a reload time!
Abuse this card like hell.
When you're done, you'll need to go north into the Conqueror's Respite.
Save here, and continue into the Castle Oblivion hall.
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/ \ \
------------------------- World Card Set I ------------------------|
\ / |
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You probably assume that there is a boss right after, in the Castle Oblivion
hall...and in the original CoM, you would have been right. However, the next
battle does not qualify as a boss. It has been changed as somewhat of a...
tutorial. It purely teaches you a couple other basics you should know, which
I covered above.
And after that little tutorial, you'll get your first set of world cards for
Riku -- Traverse Town, Agrabah, Monstro, and Neverland. You'll also have
The King (Mickey) as your friend for the worlds.
As with Sora, maps are dependant of floors only, not worlds. Therefore,
maps are included now, as are in bosses between floors in the hall.
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Floor B11 \
^ |
[C] |
| S: Start |
[ ]-[ ] B: Key of Beginnings - Red 3> card |
| | C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
[ ]-[ ]-[B] |
| |
[S] |
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Floor B10 \
^ |
[C] |
| S: Start |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[B] B: Key of Beginnings - Green 5> card |
| C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
[S] |
v |
|
Save at the Conqueror's Respite here, as a boss awaits you after. |
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/ \ \
------------------------- Castle Oblivion ------------------------|
\ (Floor B10) / |
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|
Deck: |
-8 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-8 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-8 Hi-Potion |
-Dragon Maleficent |
-Jafar |
-Parasite Cage |
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/ \* */ \
| \* Vexen */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 14 |
| Difficulty: Medium-High (8/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Frontal physical attacks |
| Sleights: |
| -Freeze: I'm pretty sure you know how this works, as you had to|
| of experienced it enough with Sora. I'll re-explain: |
| Vexen goes under a momentary standstill, extending his|
| arms out. Following this, he swipes his right arm -- |
| or the one with the shield -- in front of him. This, |
| somehow, spawns a large chunk of ice under Riku, which|
| encases him in the ice. Vexen then teleports beside |
| Riku and attacks him; both parts of this attack will |
| do damage. It's a VERY annoying sleight, and you'll |
| most likely want to learn how to evade it. immediately|
| when Vexen begins swiping his arm in front of himself,|
| dodge roll out of the way. This will cause the chunk |
| of ice to spawn where Riku WAS, not where he IS. It's |
| really hard to avoid this at first, but rather easy |
| once you get the hang of it. If you can't seem to |
| figure this out, just break it with a 0. |
| -Ice Needles: This sleight is really simple. A wall of ice needles |
| spawn around Vexen as he's in another momentary stand-|
| still, and then a trail of these needles follow Riku |
| around as you run from them. It's easy to dodge as the|
| needles move toward you at a slightly slower pace than|
| you can run. Run around the arena until the sleight |
| wears off. |
| -Diamond Dust: This is Vexen's last resort sleight -- he'll only use |
| it at low health. He stands in the center of the arena|
| and the room turns into an entire blizzard. Particles |
| of ice fly around the room and hit for large damage. |
| After just a short time of this, Vexen will end the |
| attack by causing a wall of ice that works similar to |
| Axel's attack. The entire thing is enough to kill you,|
| and it's pretty much unevadeable. Break it. |
| Drop: Nothing. What a rip off! |
| |
| Hit Points: 5.5 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| This fight honestly reminds me more of Sora's second battle with him |
| than his first, due to how he has three sleights, Ice Needles is used|
| from the beginning, and I'd say it's about as difficult too, though |
| there is a nearly failproof strategy you can use to easily beat him. |
| You'd expect Riku to have a more difficult time with Vexen than Sora |
| did due to the fact that Vexen's main weaknesses before (magic and |
| sleights still hitting) have been all but completely taken away from |
| Riku. Normally you'd be right, too, but Riku has a couple advantages.|
| First, Vexen has a lower bar of health. Second, his defense seems to |
| have plummeted...or perhaps Riku can just hit Vexen a little harder. |
| In addition, Vexen uses somewhat low card values that Riku can break |
| pretty easily, though he does still have high cards. Finally, the |
| damage output Vexen dishes out is pathetic mostly. Still enough to |
| worry about with Riku's limited healing options, though. |
| In case you don't remember, Vexen's shield blocks all physical hits |
| on him from the front (don't bother trying to hit him from behind.) |
| So, in order to attack him, you'll have to card break him. This will |
| leave him stunned temporarily to get in a combo. Since Riku has no |
| access to magic, and sleights are few and far between, you'll have to|
| use this method to attack him for a share of the battle. |
| |
| Vexen is limited to the same two attacks as before. His spiraling i- |
| cicle, and shield swipe-stalagmite combo. The first is long range, |
| and second is close range. His long range is him throwing an icicle |
| at you, which is homing qualities. You can dodge it, but it'll circle|
| around up to two times more before crashing into a wall, trying to |
| hit you again. Somewhat hard to dodge. |
| His short range is more annoying -- he'll use his shield as a weapon,|
| swiping it at you, followed by a stalagmite of ice appearing under |
| the spot Riku was standing in. It can do decent damage if you're hit |
| by every part of it. |
| |
| Expectedly, Dark Mode is your greatest ally in this battle. Any basic|
| attack used in Dark Mode can go through Vexen's shield! Since there |
| is a large chance of Vexen being stunned by an attack, he'll be ren- |
| dered helpless for a merciless pounding once he is. Also, you have |
| two uses of Dark Aura from the beginning, without recharging. Dark |
| Aura takes out an entire bar of health by itself. Dark Firaga is also|
| quite useful, and you'll have many uses of that in the deck. Even |
| Dark Break is quite useful. Holy/Inverse Burst also has some use, but|
| not to a high extent. It's best to save your Mickey cards for all of |
| your healing. It'll leave Vexen stunned too, if you manage to use it.|
| That'll get you a chance for a free combo! Be careful with sleights |
| though. Vexen packs quite a few 0's, and he mocks you by breaking |
| sleights at a decent rate. Breaking his attacks with a sleight will |
| help reduce the likeliness of that. |
| |
| You'll need to take this battle slowly. Immediately try to hit Dark |
| Mode. Move your deck to the point where there is the two 0's and a 9,|
| and use these to break Vexen's attacks (depending on what he attacks |
| with -- though his attacks usually start with high values). You'll |
| want to start with the 9, so you can get in a full combo without wa- |
| sting anything you'll need for the breaks; but if his first attack is|
| 7-9, use the 0 as it'll fill the meter a lot better. |
| You will then need to go to the end of the deck where the three 9's |
| are, and break his attacks with these. This should get in Dark Mode, |
| if the last didn't. |
| From Dark Mode, you'll be able to nearly finish Vexen off if done |
| right. Your deck will refresh, so go back to the three 9's and use |
| them for Dark Aura. Then, while Dark Aura is going, move back over to|
| the start of the deck and prepare to quickly sleight together a Dark |
| Firaga, then another one. Then sleight together two Dark Breaks, and |
| skip past the two 0's (you may need these for breaking). You can then|
| get in three more Dark Firagas...and in the process of this, Vexen |
| should not be able to hurt you much at all. He should also be at his |
| second last bar of health by this point. Recharge here. If you're hit|
| too much, and lose Dark Mode, you'll want to immediately use your Hi-|
| Potion (preferably while breaking one of Vexen's attacks). Otherwise,|
| attack Vexen unrelentlessly until he's defeated. You'll also want to |
| use an MM Miracle sleight if you have enough "The King" cards for it.|
| Even without it though, you should be fine. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
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Floor B9 \
^ |
[B] [C] |
| | S: Start |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ] B: Key of Beginnings - Blue card |
| | | C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
[ ]-[G]-[ ] |
| |
[S] |
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Floor B8 \
^ |
[C] [B] |
| | S: Start |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ] B: Key of Beginnings - Red 0= card |
| | | C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
[ ] [ ] [ ] |
| | | |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ] |
| |
[S] |
v |
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/ \ rwcsiw1 \
------------------------- Agrabah ------------------------|
\ / |
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|
Starting level: 7 |
Finishing level: 10 |
|
Friends: The King |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Air Soldier |
-Bandit |
-Fat Bandit |
-Yellow Opera |
-Green Requiem |
Bosses: Genie Jafar (Beginnings Room) |
|
Deck: |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-Fat Bandit |
-Dragon Maleficent |
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Look at that deck, and you'll see what I meant above about many of Riku's
decks really being horrible. This early too, even...Sheesh. This deck also
has a pattern, which goes 7-6-4-3. This will give you six and two-thirds
combos. Obviously, since combos have three hits each, you'll get 7-6-4,
3-7-6, 4-3-7, and so forth. Hitting Dark Mode in this world isn't very easy,
as you can probably assume, due to all of the 3's and 4's you're given --
meaning it's likely you'll get card broken periodically. The enemies don't
use anything with values higher than 4, but half of your deck is built of
4's and 3's. You'll have mostly a lot of uses of Dark Break though if you
do manage to hit Dark Mode...and, used properly, this can slay heartless.
But due to the annoyance of hitting Dark Mode here, it's easier to slay
enemies with basic combos. On the other hand, Holy Burst can be used here
to wipe out mass amounts of Heartless very, very quickly. Otherwise, this
is NOT a good world to level due to it's deck, so only level as much as you
feel necessary here.
This world's enemy card, Fat Bandit, has limited use too, sadly. This is
due to the fact that the only enemy you'll be intentionally hitting from
behind is...the Fat Bandit. Of course, Fat Bandits are the only enemies
which should give you any trouble, so the enemy card can be quite useful if
for killing them alone. Otherwise, stick to starting with Dragon Maleficent.
You should find her quite useful here.
When finished, the Beginnings room will hold your next boss.
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Genie Jafar */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 10 |
| Difficulty: Medium-High (7/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: None |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Jafar enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 2.75 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Jafar is...eh. He's much harder than he was with Sora, and probably |
| can be considered harder than Maleficent. Even so, you're less likely|
| to get a game over against him if you know what you're doing. |
| You, obviously, still have to hit the lamp which Iago holds, as Jafar|
| himself is immune to everything. |
| Jafar has all four same attacks as Sora. The swipe, the slam, the |
| beam, and the boulder. The beam is still the most annoying. |
| The reason Jafar is harder here with Riku than with Sora is due to |
| Riku's preset deck. Jafar commonly uses high value cards (8 at most),|
| and loves to use them to break your combos. And due to your deck, it |
| always works. Added to the fact that you don't have Cure, and you are|
| relying on Mickey for healing (which seems to be a rare sight in this|
| boss for some reason)...Yeah. On the other hand, Riku seems to be |
| able to hit the lamp Iago carries around when on the same level as it|
| a bit easier than Sora could. Do not know why, but I'm currently |
| crediting it to Riku's better jump. |
| Don't expect to hit Dark Mode here either, unless you use a lot of |
| sleight combos. And even if you do, it's not really useful. Even more|
| so since Iago seems to move after around the second Dark Break hit, |
| therefore nullifying the sleight. |
| |
| The Gimmick card still appears here, but it's hard to get as it is |
| unlocked by breaking Jafar's attacks...which is obviously difficult. |
| It rises all of the pillars to highest level to give you some easy |
| strikes at the lamp. |
| Genie Jafar's HP bar is lower than Dragon Maleficent's, but it's an |
| equally long battle...possibly longer. Be patient and be careful, and|
| you should win without a game over. I did. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
After you beat Jafar, you'll get his enemy card. This holds just as much
use for Riku as it did with Sora -- perhaps more, due to the preset decks.
Continue on through the hall, and enjoy the single, cool scene as you
enter floor B10...'Course, any scene with Zexion is cool. Your next stop
should be...
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ rwcsiw2 \
------------------------- Monstro ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Starting level: 10 |
Finishing level: 14 |
|
Friends: The King |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Large Body |
-Yellow Opera |
-Green Requiem |
-Air Soldier |
-Search Ghost |
-Tornado Step |
Bosses: Parasite Cage (Beginnings Room) |
|
Deck: |
-7 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-2 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-2 Soul Eater |
-Search Ghost |
-Dragon Maleficent |
-Jafar |
____________________________________________________________________________|
Monstro is so similar to Agrabah that it's...annoying...
First of all, take a good look at that deck. Does that pattern not look so
familiar? Only, instead of several 7-6-4-3, you have three 7-5-4-1 and two
7-6-3-2...And that's even worse. The enemies here use cards with values up
to 4 still, just like Agrabah. The main huge difference between these two
worlds is the fact that you now have the almighty Jafar enemy card. With
this, it's not even going to matter how low your card values are. With only
twenty attacks out of it, though, it won't last an entire battle...but it
will last long enough to get through a large share of it. Be sure to start
every battle with this, then use Dragon Maleficent when it runs out.
Also like Agrabah, the enemy card here doesn't have a wide variety of use.
It's okay for some additional healing, but with this deck, you need some-
thing to help rack up damage, or protect from card breaks.
Leveling is still not easy. Jafar evens things out quite a bit, but not
enough to allow you any powerleveling. Dark Mode is still difficult, and
Holy Burst is still your most useful Heartless killer. Only level enough
to be safe.
The boss's haven is still in the Beginnings room. Go in there when ready.
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Parasite Cage */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 14 |
| Difficulty: Medium-low (4/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: None |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Parasite Cage enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 3.90 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| This battle is either really easy or moderately difficult, depending |
| on how you go by it. |
| It has the same mechanics as it did with Sora. There are four medium-|
| sized platforms that circle clockwise in front of Parasite Cage, and |
| you have to stay on these platforms, otherwise the acid surrounding |
| them will slowly deplete your HP. You may find Search Ghost useful in|
| this battle due to that. |
| Parasite Cage uses all of the same attacks as he did with Sora. The |
| acid ball (his only long range), his body throw and arm swipe, and |
| the attack where he slams his arms onto the platforms. |
| |
| Don't rely on Riku's basic attacks for most of the battle. Parasite |
| Cage can be beaten very quickly, when using special attacks. Because |
| of this, your goal should be to hit Dark Mode as soon as possible. |
| Dark Firaga does moderate damage, but Dark Break deals over a half of|
| a bar, and since Parasite Cage never moves, you won't have to worry |
| about the sleight being interrupted. Holy Burst is also very |
| efficient in this job. You don't have to worry about the acid slowly |
| reducing your health with it, as you float above the acid, and it |
| does large amounts of damage. Dark Break and Holy Burst should be |
| used most for killing Parasite Cage. (Inverse Burst obviously works |
| too.) |
| |
| The Gimmick card here has the same effect as with Sora. It'll turn |
| the acid to water, and basically give you an opportunity to do a lot |
| of damage on Parasite Cage. This is the only time you should rely on |
| Riku's normal attacks to inflict large amounts of damage. Use the |
| Gimmick card, activate Jafar, then rush in and pound at it for as |
| much as you can. |
| |
| Repeated use of Dark Break and Holy Burst should end this battle very|
| quick and easily. Not very challenging, really. Relying purely on |
| Riku's normal attacks will make it somewhat difficult, so be warned. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
You'll get the Parasite Cage enemy card after he's beaten. Fairly useful,
sometimes more than others. Since it's always in your deck, don't fear
using it.
Save in the Conqueror's Respite room, and be prepared for a boss fight in
the next hall, with Vexen (the strategy for him is above, with the maps.)
You'll use a different deck for that battle -- the same deck you use for
all Castle Oblivion battles.
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ rwcsiw3 \
------------------------- Traverse Town ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Starting level: 15 |
Finishing level: 19 |
|
Friends: The King |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Soldier |
-Red Nocturne |
-Blue Rhapsody |
Bosses: Guard Armor (Beginnings Room) |
|
Deck: |
-9 Soul Eater |
-8 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-2 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-2 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-Shadow |
-Dragon Maleficent |
-Jafar |
-Parasite Cage |
____________________________________________________________________________|
Traverse Town...is probably the best place to level in the first world card
set. You look at the deck and wonder how so, but the enemies here are all
weak, and will never use anything with card values above 4. Even those are
not very frequent (1 and 2 is most common). Since the last half of the deck
is full of crappy cards, you can still expect card breaks...but if you play
well, and with a bit of luck perhaps, it shouldn't be common. In addition,
you have the Shadow enemy card here for it's usefulness. The Incrementor
effect will wear off rather quickly due to the small deck, but it'll last
long enough to give you a large enough boost to wipe out enemies without
much trouble. Jafar can be useful for this too.
Dark Mode is quite useful here, for the longer battles. Just basic attacks
in Dark Mode will decimate enemies with abnormal speed. You won't have to
worry much about card breaks either, since the speed of Riku's attacks in
Dark Mode and the chance of stunning will prevent any enemies from being
able to attack you most of the time. Hitting Dark Mode is easy here too,
using Incrementor especially. Activate your Shadow enemy card right off,
then use your 9, 8, 7, and 6 (which is interrupted by the 1) to break the
enemies' attacks. That should get you into Dark Mode -- if not, then re-
load the deck. From there, pound at enemies with all you've got!
'Course, that isn't necessary as your Incrementor'd deck without Dark
Mode should be able to take out the enemies with much hassle, really.
However you want to do it, do all the leveling you feel necessary here
(19-20 is fine), and go into the solitary Key Room (Beginnings) for the
next boss!
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Guard Armor */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 19 |
| Difficulty: Low (3.5/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: None |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Guard Armor enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: |
| -Two arms: .90 bars each |
| -Two legs: 1.10 bars each |
| -Body: 1.80 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Guard Armor is nowhere near the range of difficult. His use of high |
| level cards and your wild deck will make the battle *slightly* |
| annoying though. Guard Armor is the same he was with Sora, really. |
| Guard Armor's attacks are exactly the same as they were in Sora's |
| story -- none of them are of any real threat even still. Treat them |
| as suck. |
| You've got five parts to destroy, each one holding it's own HP bar. |
| Guard Armor's defense isn't the greatest, so each part can go down |
| pretty quickly. The problem is getting in attacks due to it's using |
| of cards having values of 7 semi-frequently -- you only have two that|
| can beat that (three with Shadow) per deck load. Because of this, you|
| will want to enter Dark Mode in the same way I recommended earlier in|
| regular battles. You'll more than likely need to reload your deck to |
| enter Dark Mode with this method, of course. Possibly even more than |
| once, though that's unlikely. Sleights in Dark Mode have little-to-no|
| use here, as Dark Break fails half the time and Dark Firaga can only |
| hit one of the five parts (obviously). Basic attacks shall do amazing|
| damage, while frequently leaving Guard Armor unable to even attack at|
| all. You'll probably get a Gimmick card here too while you are trying|
| to enter Dark Mode. Save the Gimmick card for when you enter, then |
| activate it. All pieces of Guard Armor will drop to the ground, un- |
| able to do anything for a long enough period of time that you'll be |
| able to take out at least a couple pieces entirely...with just one |
| Gimmick card. |
| Guard Armor should go down pretty quickly. Using Dark Mode, it's not |
| difficult at all. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Beating Guard Armor nets you his enemy card. Not incredibly useful, but it
is free of CP anyway. Use it as you see fit.
Proceed out through the Conqueror's Respite and into our final world of
this world card set, which is...
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ rwcsiw4 \
------------------------- Neverland ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Starting level: 19 |
Finishing level: 23 |
|
Friends: The King |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Yellow Opera |
-Crescendo |
-Darkball |
-Pirate |
-Air Pirate |
-Barrel Spider |
Bosses: Captain Hook (Beginnings Room) |
|
Deck: |
-7 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-2 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-2 Soul Eater |
-Pirate |
-Dragon Maleficent |
-Jafar |
-Parasite Cage |
-Guard Armor |
____________________________________________________________________________|
You'll look at that deck and probably think Neverland is your new hell for
leveling. Normally, you'd probably be right too. Actually, you'll find that
leveling here is only slightly harder than it was in Traverse Town...and
the levels may come quicker. Enemies commonly come in large groups, and a
large share of them drop nice amounts of experience. The proper battling
technique -- AKA the one you used in Traverse Town -- can grant you quick
battles and therefore quick experience. Holy Burst is also VERY useful for
quick enemy slaughtering, as many of the enemies are large.
To enter Dark Mode, it's most recommended to use the first 7, then skip to
the left past the recharge bar to the 7, 9, and 7 there.
The enemy card here is next to useless though for random encounters. It's
seriously a piece of crap that will make battles harder than easier. Do
not use it.
Prepare yourself for your next boss, then enter the Beginnings room for...
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Captain Hook */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 23 |
| Difficulty: Medium (5/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: None |
| Sleights: |
| -Barrel Blast: Hook jumps on the one of the sides of the ship, |
| pushes six exploding barrels out at you. Semi-easy|
| to dodge, but they're obnoxious even still, and |
| are more likely to hit you as you do not have the |
| jump Sora had during this fight. Hook can be hit |
| by them though, which stops the entire sleight if |
| he is. Hook still strikes at you, though, during |
| the sleight, which will leave you open to a strike|
| from a barrel. You'll most likely find it more |
| important to break this sleight with Riku. |
| -Combo & Present: Very simple: Hook launches uncountable attacks, |
| then throws his presents at you. This is just as |
| annoying here as it was for Sora -- and equally |
| evadable. Break it if you find it necessary. |
| Drop: Hook enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 3.5 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Hook is actually a decent bit easier here than he was for Sora. Both |
| sleights are annoying, but his actual attacks do pity damage to Riku.|
| He uses the very same attacks now as he did with Sora. Not of threat.|
| It helps make up for your very limited healing. Plus, Hook's HP is |
| now much lower. He'll use high card values, which is VERY annoying |
| considering your deck, but it's easy to get past. You'll probably |
| want to skip entirely past the low value cards, use the very few high|
| ones you have, then recharge. Conversely, Dark Mode is quite useful. |
| (The two 0's in your deck are very useful for entering Dark Mode, as |
| is the Pirate enemy card). Both Dark Break and Dark Firaga will work |
| wonders. That said, entering Dark Mode as soon as possible is most |
| recommended. |
| Holy/Inverse Burst is not very useful in this battle -- Mickey is |
| best saved for healing purposes only...if you even need to heal. How-|
| ever, Jafar is very useful in this battle (as expected). Start with |
| it, then work your way into Dark Mode. |
| As a note, Hook still has his enemy cards to annoy you with, but he |
| tends to use his Pirate one most frequently. Use this to enter Dark |
| Mode? |
| It's a simple battle. Once you hit Dark Mode, it's VERY unlikely you |
| will lose. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Your reward, the Hook enemy card, is not bad for your last ditch efforts.
Since you don't have Vexen with Riku, you may actually find use for Hook.
Go into the Conqueror's Respite as always, and remember to save. There's
a boss in the next hall!
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ \
------------------------- Castle Oblivion ------------------------|
\ (Floor B8) / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Deck: |
-8 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-8 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-8 Hi-Potion |
-Dragon Maleficent |
-Jafar |
-Parasite Cage |
-Guard Armor |
-Hook |
____________________________________________________________________________|
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Riku I */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 23 |
| Difficulty: High (8/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: None |
| Sleights: |
| -Helm Bash: Riku jumps up and bashes his Soul Eater onto the floor |
| three times, the first two times leave a pool of dark- |
| ness surrounding the attack and the third time causes |
| several pillars to rise. Being hit by the pool or the |
| pillars will cause somewhat heavy damage. This attack |
| can easily be dodged by jumping right as Riku bashes his|
| Soul Eater onto the floor, each time. The pillars are |
| somewhat harder to avoid, but jumping away can usually |
| protect you from most of the damage. |
| Drop: None |
| |
| Hit Points: 3.5 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| This battle isn't long by any means, but it IS insanely annoying. |
| Riku uses all the same attacks as he did before, and still packs the |
| very same sleight. The difference is, you don't have Sonic Blade to |
| beat the hell out of him this time. He's very speedy, and can kill |
| you within seconds if you let him. |
| Start the battle off by quickly activating your Jafar enemy card, and|
| jumping to avoid the replica's first attack. After that, continuously|
| pound at him until you enter Dark Mode (hacking at him repeatedly |
| should net you enough card breaks to get there quickly). Once you do |
| this, you should've knocked around 1/4-to-1/3 of his HP off. You will|
| also, hopefully, have a Mickey card by now. The Mickey card is VERY |
| necessary. Quickly create an Inverse Burst, and activate it while |
| near Riku. This will easily knock off a large chunk of his health. If|
| you did not have a Mickey, you will need to proceed directly to the |
| next step: Dark Aura. Quickly sort your cards to the left, past the |
| reload bar, for quick access to three of your 9's. Sleight them for |
| a quick Dark Aura. This will also knock off a large portion of his HP|
| bar. By now, another Mickey should be bouncing around, if you don't |
| already have one. Sleight together a second Inverse Burst (or Holy |
| Burst if you lost Dark Mode). This should finish the replica off, if |
| you already used Inverse Burst once. If you did not, and/or there is |
| no Mickey for you to use, then you'll need to mash triangle to use as|
| many Dark Firaga and Dark Break sleights as you possibly can. Both do|
| large enough damage that they can finish Riku off, but it's risky as |
| the damned replica somehow can break either of them, in the middle of|
| the sleight. |
| I can't guarantee getting it in your first try -- it took me several;|
| but this strategy should work pretty well. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ \
------------------------- World Card Set II ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
In the entrance hall to the next floor, you'll get your next set of world
cards: Wonderland, Atlantica, Olympus Coliseum, and Halloween Town. 100
Acre Wood isn't in Riku's story. The floors here become more difficult, but
not unbearably. You may also find more opportunities to level in this world
card set. There's not a lot of change here from the first set; treat it
accordingly.
___________________________________________________________________________
Floor B7 \
^ |
[C] [B] |
| | S: Start |
[ ] [ ] [ ] B: Key of Beginnings - 20 Blue card total |
| | | C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
[ ] [ ] [ ] |
| | | |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ] |
| |
[S] |
v |
___________________________________________________________________________/
Floor B6 \
^ |
[C] |
| S: Start |
[ ]-[ ] B: Key of Beginnings - Red card |
| | - Green card |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[B] C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
| | |
[ ]-[ ] |
| |
[S] |
v |
___________________________________________________________________________/
Floor B5 \
^ |
[B] [C] |
| | S: Start |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[ ] B: Key of Beginnings - 30 Red card total |
| | | | C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[B] |
| |
[S] |
v |
___________________________________________________________________________/
Floor B4 \
^ |
[C] |
| S: Start |
[ ]-[ ] B: Key of Beginnings - Blue 5< card |
| | C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
[ ]-[ ] [ ]-[ ] |
| | | | |
[B]-[ ]-[ ] [ ]-[ ] |
| | | |
[ ]-[ ] [S] |
v |
___________________________________________________________________________/`
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ rwcsiw4 \
------------------------- Wonderland ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Starting level: 23 |
Finishing level: 27 |
|
Friends: The King |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Soldier |
-Red Nocturne |
-Large Body |
-Crescendo |
-Creeper Plant |
Bosses: Trickmaster (Beginnings Room) |
|
Deck: |
-5 Soul Eater |
-2 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-2 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-Large Body |
-Dragon Maleficent |
-Jafar |
-Parasite Cage |
-Guard Armor |
-Hook |
____________________________________________________________________________|
Look at that deck...and scream. You'll probably look at it and think, "OMFG
WTFBBQCHICKENBIRDFLU?!?!?!?!" The card values are all REALLY low, and the
deck is annoyingly small. It's actually somewhat deceptive, though. If you
use the proper map cards, you can level here somewhat efficiently. This
will most likely be the best world for you to level in yet. This is only
assuming you synth either Martial Waking or Meeting Ground rooms. Martial
Waking is recommended - it gives enough boost in card value that you can
take out most of the enemies rather easily. Meeting Ground is just a little
less useful, but Holy Burst can decimate the enemies quickly. Your Meeting
Ground cards should be saved for the next world though. Here, Holy Burst
may have a little bit harder time hitting all of the little hobgoblins.
Wonderland is chosen to do first, however, to get it out of the way. It
still reigns as the most annoying of the world card set purely due to it's
boss.
The enemy card here is also pretty useful - you'll probably use it at the
beginning of each battle, if you don't choose to use Jafar or something.
By the way, many of the doors in the rooms here are blocked by vines. In
order to clear the vines so that you may synth the next room, you'll have
to find the large plant with purple flowers and destroy it.
Prepare yourself well before going into the Beginnings room, as the next
boss is likely to piss you off VERY much.
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Trickmaster */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 27 |
| Difficulty: High (9/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: None |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Trickmaster enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 4.25 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| This is easily the most annoying boss you've had to fight thus far. |
| Prepare to reap hell with this guy. Expect him to take you many tries|
| (it took me around a dozen, if I recall correctly). This reason is |
| because of your deck having nothing above the value of 5, and nowhere|
| near enough cards to risk Sleights. At the same time, Trickmaster can|
| use many high valued cards -- ranging from 6 to 8. These, obviously, |
| are not breakable, so the most you can do is avoid the attacks. They |
| are the same attacks as Sora experienced, but I'll go ahead and list |
| them again. |
| A basic fire attack - he shoots a large ball of fire at you. Standing|
| on the opposite side of the table as him should protect you from it. |
| Repeated fireballs - he shoots several balls of fire around the room,|
| which bounce back and forth. Standing on the opposite side of the |
| table always protected me from these, also. |
| He slams his arms onto the floor, creating a shockwave around it. |
| This wave is nearly impossible to avoid while up close, even when you|
| do jump; but at mid-range, you should be able to jump to avoid it. |
| He swings his arms around himself in an attempt to strike you. Quite |
| easy to avoid, even when up close, from my experience. |
| If the table is up, he'll slam it back to the ground. If you are on |
| it, you'll be hurt by the attack. He only slams it into the ground if|
| you stay on it for extended periods of time. |
| The attacks aren't all that annoying. It's mostly only the one where |
| he slams and creates a shockwave that'll kill you. If you see him |
| preparing it, run away as fast as possible and jump. This wave takes |
| out way more HP than you can afford to lose, and will most commonly |
| be the source of your death. |
| Dodging it can be hard, especially when you're in the middle of an |
| attack chain, and he breaks your attack with it. And you can't break |
| his... |
| |
| The same Gimmick card appears in this battle also. The card makes a |
| table appear in the center of the room. While it can be helpful, it's|
| not necessary as Riku has plenty high enough jump to strike Trick- |
| Master from the floor. |
| |
| Most likely, you'll find that Dark Mode is more of a nuisance in this|
| fight, because of Riku's attack pattern in Dark Mode not striking the|
| only spot Trickmaster can be hit at -- his chest. You also do not |
| have access to enough cards to waste on sleights, especially since |
| your only available sleight (Dark Break) isn't very useful in this |
| battle. |
| "The King" cards should be used for healing purposes only -- Holy/ |
| Inverse Burst is useless during this battle due to Trickmaster's weak|
| spot being too high up. (I know, your two main sources of enemy slay-|
| ing are taken from you during this fight. Sucks, huh?) |
| |
| As soon as the battle starts, immediately activate your Jafar card, |
| and pound at Trickmaster with as many chains as you can. This is most|
| easily done from the table, so you'll want to jump off from the table|
| at the beginning of the battle to avoid Trickmaster hammering it down|
| into the floor. Then, with Jafar activated, you should be able to |
| safely attack Trickmaster from the table without worrying about him |
| attacking to hammer the table...until Jafar is done, at least. From |
| the multiple times I had to retry this annoying fight, I noticed that|
| Trickmaster starts off with an unbreakable card (value of 6 or 8), |
| then uses a card with a value you can break. This should be where you|
| start your pounding with Jafar activated, taking out as much HP as |
| possible. After it wears out...all you're left to do is try to get in|
| an attack chain whenever you can, preferably starting it off with a |
| card break so he'll be stunned long enough to get in a chain without |
| any worry. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Beating Trickmaster will earn you his enemy card, like always. All right,
but not anything you'll use a lot.
Go into and exit the Conqueror's Respite.
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/ \ rwcsiiw2 \
------------------------- Atlantica ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Starting level: 27 |
Finishing level: 31 |
|
Friends: The King |
Heartless: |
-Search Ghost |
-Darkball |
-Sea Neon |
-Screwdiver |
-Aquatank |
Bosses: Ursula (Beginnings Room) |
|
Deck: |
-0 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-2 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-Darkball |
-Sea Neon |
-Dragon Maleficent |
-Jafar |
-Parasite Cage |
-Guard Armor |
-Hook |
-Trickmaster |
____________________________________________________________________________|
Okay, first thing I wanna say is Meeting Ground is soooo useful here. For
leveling, that is! Synthesize Meeting Ground rooms for ALL of your leveling
purposes if you possibly can. The King will appear at the start of every
battle and you can go for an instant Holy Burst! Shazam! The enemies are
large enough here that you should not have a problem with Holy Burst hit-
ting either, unlike in Wonderland. Level 31 is a good level to stop, but
you can level more if you wish.
That said, let's talk about the deck: it sucks. What else do you expect by
now, really? Holy Burst makes leveling even better for this reason as you
don't have to deal with the irritating leveling using THOSE cards. Sea
Neon will randomize the value of the card you use (slightly hard to ex-
plain, use it and you'll see exactly how it works), but it's definitely not
very reliable and for this reason, not recommended. But it can help so if
you don't have Holy Burst available, you may wish to consider this.
Darkball does a better job than Sea Neon for making this deck more useable
in this world, but in an odd way... It makes it so every card can start a
duel. If you win, you get a sleight which will serve it's purpose. I, how-
ever, advise against relying on this. Duels are too hard to win with this
deck; there is almost nothing in this deck that goes above 4.
Like I said, just go with Holy Burst. If you don't have any Meeting Ground
map cards, then Martial Waking can help SOME. (Consider this a reverse of
Wonderland; except Meeting Ground was more useful there than Martial
Waking is here.)
Also note that the highest card value you'll see is 7, even though it's
rather rare. This makes the deck even more annoying to use.
When done leveling, enter the Beginnings room to kill a sea witch!
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Ursula */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 31 |
| Difficulty: Medium-Low (4/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: None |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Ursula enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: |
| -Ursula: 3.10 bars |
| -Tentacles .25 of a bar each (four altogether) |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Ironically, Ursula is one of the only few bosses I did not die |
| against even once trying to beat Reverse/Rebirth. She's pretty easy, |
| so you don't have much to worry about here. Your deck makes this a |
| bit of a challenge due to the fact she frequently uses 8's and 9's, |
| but that's it really. |
| Ursula has several tentacles protecting her face. Four, to be exact. |
| In order to attack her, you have to knock off all four of her tent- |
| acles. The most efficient way to do this is through Holy/Inverse |
| Burst. Most of the time, it'll wipe out all four of the tentacles, |
| leaving her wide open for a huge chain of attacks. Genie Jafar is |
| highly recommended here to do so. The tentacles will respawn after a |
| short while, by the way. |
| |
| Start the battle off by hacking at her tentacles until you see a King|
| card, then lay waste to them all with a Holy Burst. After this, |
| strike at her face until tentacles reappear. Rinse and repeat. |
| Dark Mode has limited use here; Dark Firaga can be nice, but it's not|
| necessary. Your best bet is just to stick with normal attacks. |
| |
| A Gimmick card appears in this battle just like it did with Sora; and|
| with the same effect. It'll immediately blow off the tentacles and |
| stun her momentarily, but the tentacles reappear when she comes to. |
| |
| Easier battle than Sora had, as Riku has Holy Burst! |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Killing her for the last time will get you her enemy card. Not too bad,
considering less damage equals more HP for Riku. Still, if you're like me
who is lazy to use enemy cards a lot, you won't be using it much.
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/ \ rwcsiiw3 \
------------------------- Olympus Coliseum ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Starting level: 31 |
Finishing level: 35 |
|
Friends: The King |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Large Body |
-Powerwild |
-Bouncywild |
-Blue Rhapsody |
-Barrel Spider |
Bosses: Hades (Beginnings Room) |
|
Deck: |
-8 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-8 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-5 Hi-Potion |
-Powerwild |
-Dragon Maleficent |
-Jafar |
-Parasite Cage |
-Guard Armor |
-Hook |
-Trickmaster |
-Ursula |
____________________________________________________________________________|
This deck is errr....interesting. Very different from the crap decks we're
used to - this deck actually has potential! The main potential being in
that odd Powerwild card. It reverses card values 1 through 9 (meaning 0 is
untouched). With 2 through 8, the card values will be the same amount above
1 as it originally was below 9, but what shines is that 1 becomes 9 and 9
becomes 1...except there are no 9's!
First, you'll notice somewhat of a pattern with this deck. 8-7-6-1, 7-6-5-1,
5-6-7-1, 6-7-8-....What? Where's the 1? Oh, down below three 0's, with two
other 1's. So essentially, the second set before the 0's is the first two
reversed, except there's no 1 at the end of the last. 8-7-6 is honestly
pretty good, as the enemies here use low value cards.
When you use Powerwild, however, the cards change into 2-3-4-9, 3-4-5-9,
5-4-3-9, 4-3-2, then the three 0's and the three 1's become 9's.
Like most of the decks, this deck was altered from the Olympus Coliseum
deck in the original Chain of Memories - it was watered down, but still
holds to it's true intention of Dark Aura. The original deck allowed three
uses of Dark Aura with nine 1's altogether, where this allows two and the
first one makes you shuffle through the deck to pull out the 9's. The Hi-
Potion is there to let you grab your cards again that were wasted as
sleights for Dark Aura, but the Powerwild card will NOT be in effect still
after it's used, as it only lasts until your next reload, and Hi-Potion
reloads. Essentially, you'll want to save your Powerwild until you enter
Dark Mode, then unleash Dark Aura like a beast. Then you can use Hi-Potion,
and have your cards back. The question is if you'll want to do this, as
getting rid of a couple 1's from this deck may make it better, as they won't
be there to interrupt your combos with crappy valued cards which will easily
be broken, making you stagger and get hit. Without Dark Aura, this deck
is pretty much better without Powerwild, so don't use it until Dark Mode.
Do note however that the enemies do rather large damage (especially those
stupid Barrel Spiders), so you'll want to watch out for that. This can
partially be countered by concentrating on breaking attacks alone (your
cards can all do that, except for the 1's) to get into Dark Mode, then
activate Powerwild and Dark Aura everything; though I will warn that it
can be hard to hit those small HOBGOBLINS(!) with Dark Aura.
By the way, Holy Burst is a bit less useful here as the enemies are quite
small, most of them. Plus, it's not really necessary. Your King Mickey
cards are better used for LV2/3 MM Miracle here as, since the enemies
can damage so well (and with more opportunities do so with Holy Burst
not being as useful, and therefore not being used), the extra healing
is needed.
Like the two worlds before it, this deck allows you good powerleveling.
Level as much as you want here - though I did the traditional four levels.
Blah blah blah Beginnings room for Hades when done leveling blah blah blah.
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Hades */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 35 |
| Difficulty: Medium (6/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: None |
| Sleights: |
| -Firagaball: Hades magically gets some burning rock from what |
| appears to be the middle of nowhere. He launches this|
| ball at you, grabs another one, then launches it too.|
| This can be a very hard skill to evade, until you get|
| the hang of it. Basically, stay at the very edge of |
| the arena, and dodge roll to the right or left |
| IMMEDIATELY after Hades says "take that", or whatever|
| he says. Practicing evading this was more important |
| with Sora in case you had limited 0's, but you have |
| three 0's per deck here so only worry about dodging |
| if you're feeling stingy with your 0's. |
| -Temper Flare: Hades gets all pissed off ('cause you're owning him) |
| and creates two pillars of fire from his arms, and |
| starts spinning around. Why he does not just shout |
| "WHEEEEEE!", I will never know. But this attack is |
| easy to avoid; just run around Hades in the same |
| pattern he is spinning. Riku is faster than him. |
| Drop: Hades enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 4.75 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| How easy this battle is, is entirely dependent on your use of Dark |
| Mode. He uses high value cards (7, 8, and 9) and even with your deck |
| being rather good, it's just not good enough. He can break you quite |
| frequently and his attacks HURT. Your light at the end of the tunnel |
| is the truly amazing attack known as Dark Aura; because of this, I |
| recommend Dark Mode immediately. This can be easily done by using |
| your 0's to break his attacks, which is especially good when he uses |
| his sleights (he does this often). Once you hit Dark Mode, your two |
| uses of Dark Aura will almost completely kill him. The rest of his |
| health can be depleted easily using your 8's and 7's in particular; |
| though I recommend you wait to break his attacks in order to attack |
| yourself, as he can and most likely will break 8's and 7's. |
| You could also wait until he needs to recharge and just beat the hell|
| out of him then. I recommend this if for some reason you don't want |
| to use Dark Mode. |
| |
| I'd put the difficulty of this battle as medium-high if it wasn't for|
| the fact Dark Aura makes this a cakewalk. Please be warned though, |
| Hades has 0's and CAN break Dark Aura. Killing Hades with Dark Mode |
| is easy; killing Hades without it is hard. Some of you who feel Dark |
| Mode is cheating may want to do this battle without it. Otherwise, I |
| cannot stress enough the importance of entering Dark Mode ASAP. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Just like most of your boss enemy cards, Hades is more useful with Riku
than with Sora. You'll definitely find Riku hitting low HP far more often;
nonetheless, that doesn't mean you want him there. Use Hades if you find
yourself there, but never enter low health just to use Hades. You probably
won't find yourself using this card even if more frequently than with Sora,
as low HP is never a good thing.
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/ \ rwcsiiw4 \
------------------------- Halloween Town ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Starting level: 35 |
Finishing level: 39 |
|
Friends: The King |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Creeper Plant |
-Search Ghost |
-Gargoyle |
-Wight Knight |
Bosses: Oogie Boogie (Beginnings Room) |
|
Deck: |
-7 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-Wight Knight |
-Dragon Maleficent |
-Jafar |
-Parasite Cage |
-Guard Armor |
-Hook |
-Trickmaster |
-Ursula |
-Hades |
____________________________________________________________________________|
This deck is almost as interesting as the one for Olympus Coliseum. It's
smaller than the Olympus Coliseum deck and the enemy card is next to use-
less (at least, it doesn't help the deck any). However, the cards are
actually useful. It has several 7's, several 9's, two 4's and two 0's.
The 4's are useless but there isn't much of them, and 0's are always good
as long as it's not in large amounts.
This is another good place to level; perhaps the best. The Heartless drop
moderately good amounts of experience; and, except for Shadow, all of the
enemies are large enough to be good targets for Holy Burst. Holy Burst is
fast and deadly so it is always recommended, but in this world it's not
even necessary as your deck is good enough to handle it. The enemies don't
seem to use any values higher than 6, therefore most of your deck can easily
deal with it... Just remember to skip past the 4's and 0's.
On a side note, Martial Waking rooms are fun here. Should you enter Dark
Mode there, you'll get Dark Auras out the ass.
...Okay, only four, but you still get more after reloading unlike the last
world! And Dark Aura is always fun, nay?
Oogie Boogie is in the Beginnings room; go there to finish this place up.
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Oogie Boogie */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 35 |
| Difficulty: Low (2/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: None |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Oogie Boogie enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 4.40 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| You could honestly go re-read the guide for beating him with Sora, |
| as he is no different here. It's basically the same thing all over |
| again. There's really no point in me writing anything, but I'm gonna |
| anyway. |
| The battle is even easier this time (just when you thought that was |
| impossible). For one, you have guaranteed 0's and 9's to break him |
| with, though the 9's may just end up in a Duel. For two, Dark Aura |
| (once more) does tremendous damage against him. Like, about 3 bars |
| of damage. It's entirely possible to defeat him the FIRST time the |
| gate lowers and you get access to beat on him. Hell, even Dark Firaga|
| is useful. The Gimmick card is here too but you don't really need it |
| Do you need to make this battle even easier than it already is? The |
| only reason I gave it a 2/10 difficulty is because I STILL don't know|
| the correct break timing to lower the gate. |
| |
| Seriously... Riku completely slaughters this guy... |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
As your reward for utterly DESTROYING this guy, you get his enemy card!
Unlike with Sora, this may be your most useful enemy card yet! ...After
Jafar, of course.
Save in the Conqueror's Respite. As after every world card set, you can
expect a boss. And this boss will destroy you as badly as you destroyed
Oogie Boogie if you don't know how to handle it. Of course, if you do....
Well let's just continue with the guide.
___________________________________________________________________________
/ \ \
------------------------- Castle Oblivion ------------------------|
\ (Floor B4) / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
|
Deck: |
-8 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-8 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-8 Hi-Potion |
-Dragon Maleficent |
-Jafar |
-Parasite Cage |
-Guard Armor |
-Hook |
-Trickmaster |
-Ursula |
-Hades |
-Oogie Boogie |
____________________________________________________________________________|
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Lexaeus */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 39 |
| Difficulty: Medium-High (7/10) |
| Weakness: Sleights |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: Nothing, but he resists physical attacks. |
| Sleights: |
| -Impact Quake: Lexaeus starts by holding his tomahawk into the air|
| and gathering some sort of magical power. He then |
| slams this into the ground in front of him and an |
| aura covers him, as rocks spawn out of the ground |
| right around and below Riku. This attack is very |
| irritating to fully dodge and one hit usually will |
| leave Riku susceptible to more of the rocks hitting|
| him. This also takes out very large amounts of HP, |
| so I highly recommend you take a 0 and break this. |
| Proper dodge rolls CAN evade most if not all of the|
| sleight, but it may take some practice and it may |
| just not be worth it. |
| -Ground Impact: This sleight is so annoying. He jumps high into the|
| air then crashes down. In doing so, a huge ball- |
| like aura (if you've witnessed Ultima in FFVI you'd|
| know exactly what it looks like) spans across the |
| field quickly and hits Riku for large damage. The |
| irritating part is that it has little lag for you |
| to break this quickly. I haven't figured out any |
| way to dodge this. |
| -Rockshatter: This is a little bit hard for me to explain but |
| basically Lexaeus slams his weapon to the floor and|
| a bunch of rocks gather around him in pillars. |
| After this, he swings his tomahawk around them and |
| breaks them, causing them all to shatter and fly at|
| you. If you stand at the right spot between them, |
| this sleight can easily go right past you. Finding |
| this spot can be hard though, so you may want to |
| just break this. |
| Drop: Lexaeus enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 8.30 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Lexaeus is a confusingly difficult boss if you don't know how to beat|
| him. He's strong to physical attacks, does huge damage, and uses high|
| value cards often. The key to winning this match is using Dark Mode, |
| which makes it a relatively easy fight. In the original CoM, he was a|
| bit more uneven as Dark Mode slaughtered him way faster than it does |
| here, while beating him with regular attacks was pretty much im- |
| possible (unless you powerleveled to super high levels) then, as he |
| wouldn't even stagger when you attacked him. He is beatable here with|
| regular attacks, but it is EXTREMELY hard and still to a large degree|
| takes powerleveling to stand a chance. I'll get to how to beat him |
| later. |
| |
| Lexaeus is a very deadly opponent; his attack style is strong but |
| slow, and he shows this well. His sleights are a pain but his simple |
| normal attacks, which can do huge damage, are even more so. For this |
| reason, I am going to list them first. (Though I usually do anyway..)|
| He uses three attacks (though one isn't really an attack). His first |
| is used when you're closer to him a lot more. In it, he moves toward |
| you a bit, slams his tomahawk against the ground (trying to hit Riku |
| with it), moves a bit more then slams it again (also trying to hit). |
| If you move out of the way properly, it's possible to avoid this, |
| though I personally find it hard to do such. He follows you with the |
| attack to a large degree, which is the biggest issue in making it |
| hard to evade. |
| The second one he uses frequently when Riku is across the arena from |
| him, though he does still use it when you're close. He throws his |
| tomahawk at Riku, then it boomerangs back to him. It's thrown at a |
| VERY high speed, making this attack hard to evade as well. If you |
| jump JUST before he throws it, then it'll fly right under you. If you|
| jump to early, he'll just throw it to your new position, while if you|
| jump to late, it'll still just barely hit you. It's hard to get the |
| timing for this down, but you may find it easy to dodge if you do. |
| You can also dodge roll to the left or right to dodge it, which |
| requires a little less precision timing, and is quite a bit easier. |
| You will probably need to practice that just a bit too though. |
| By the way, if you're close to him when he uses this, which does |
| happen, then it'll hit Riku twice; once for him throwing it, and once|
| for when it comes back. |
| His third "attack" isn't really an attack, but rather a charge. It's |
| also his only use for his blue cards (not counting sleights). What he|
| does is, he stands in position, growls or makes some line about dark-|
| ness, then charges himself as some aura covers him. I can't confirm |
| this but I do believe the point in this is that his other two attacks|
| do MORE damage with this than they already did. He can charge more |
| than once, in which you'll see the aura around him look different as |
| he charges more. It also seems that each time he charges, the damage |
| done increases even more yet. How many total times he can charge and |
| whether it resets after so many charges I cannot say; nonetheless, |
| this is very dangerous as after a couple or three times of this his |
| attacks do TREMENDOUS damage. It also increases the range of his |
| first attack where he slams his tomahawk to the ground. I'm unsure if|
| each charge increases the range more, but I know that after a couple |
| charges, the final hit will create a quake-type effect around it, |
| therefore it will still hit Riku if he's even NEAR Lexaeus as he uses|
| it. |
| One final thing you'll need to know about his attacks is his enemy |
| card. If he uses it, everytime he attacks you, Riku will be stunned |
| for a moment afterwards. As he'll almost always attack you again |
| while stunned, the stun will reset. Theoretically, he can completely |
| kill you off ONE successful attack. He usually doesn't as he wastes |
| time charging at some point instead, but this is still very dangerous|
| and must be dealt with immediately. Therefore, you'll want to |
| Parasite Cage that thing as soon as you see him use it. |
| |
| As I said, Lexaeus is a beast of a character and an all-out brawl |
| will almost always result in certain death. The key to this battle is|
| the use of sleights. In the original game, you could spam sleights to|
| destroy Lexaeus. Here, you have to use them with ONLY A BIT more |
| thought. |
| As you're going to want to use almost nothing but sleights to kill |
| him, you're first concern should be entering Dark Mode. Duels work |
| for sleights -- to a point, even better as he can't interrupt them --|
| but are a little unreliable, and Dark Mode is easier. You should |
| shuffle your deck to the area where the two 0's are and wait there. |
| If he uses an attack with a value of 7 plus, use the 0's to break it.|
| If he uses an attack with a value of 6 or under, use one of the near-|
| by 7's or 9's to break it. When you use your two 0's, reload. And |
| during this entire process, do not attack once. Wait at the edge of |
| the arena and concentrate on breaking his attacks only. |
| Once you enter Dark Mode, which should not take long, you can start |
| spamming sleights. As I said, you'll want to do this with some |
| thought, as he has 0's and can break your sleights. |
| -Dark Aura: Don't use this. True, it will slaughter him IF all the |
| strikes hit, but this almost never happens, and he doesn't stagger |
| during sleights. Therefore, he can find a 0 to break this with, and |
| usually this will be early on. This will give him a chance to attack |
| you and do large damage. On the rare instance of him NOT breaking |
| this, it'll do horrific damage, taking out over 5 bars. Still, this |
| does not happen often enough to make it worth the risk. |
| -Dark Firaga: Reliable and good; it takes off almost an entire bar of|
| his health immediately upon use, and it's too fast to be broken. I do|
| not recommend relying completely on this, but use it frequently. |
| -Dark Break: This attack is mildly risky but worth it. It can knock |
| him back and therefore cancel the sleight after any attack but for |
| some reason he rarely breaks it in the middle of the sleight. Plus, |
| it will knock off a very large chunk of HP if every attack in it does|
| hit. The reason it is unreliable as it's useless if you use it while |
| far from him, and you will commonly only be able to hit him once or |
| twice before the next attack misses, ending the sleight. Definitely |
| less reliable than Dark Firaga. |
| -Holy/Inverse Burst: Yes, the sleight Riku can use outside Dark Mode.|
| However, the chances of you getting The King before entering Dark |
| Mode is VERY slim, therefore this will most likely be Inverse Burst. |
| Anyway, this sleight is very much a high risk/high reward one. |
| Lexaeus does not stagger at all during this sleight, having a very |
| similar effect to Dark Aura in that he can break it and punish you. |
| However! Holy/Inverse Burst launches far more attacks quicker and |
| will do far more damage before he breaks it, if he does. It does a |
| TREMENDOUS amount of damage, but the problem is in getting the Mickey|
| card. If you do, use it. It's definitely worth the risk. |
| After entering Dark Mode, use any combination of sleights you see |
| fit. I recommend a Dark Firaga and Inverse Burst combination, while |
| using Dark Break if you get really close to him. You can try Dark |
| Aura if you want, but it really is VERY risky. |
| |
| Relying on Dark Mode sleights makes this battle around medium in |
| difficulty, due to how much damage he can do after charging. If you |
| don't rely on Dark Mode sleights, it is definitely High difficulty. |
| But there is no reason for you not to. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Upon kicking Lexaeus' ass, he'll drop his enemy card. This thing is VERY
useful and you'll definitely wanna use it a lot... That is, unless you're
lazy to use enemy cards like me. I gotta change that soon....
Nonetheless, you'll witness a very interesting scene right after. Then,
after that, when you ascend to the next floor, you'll get your next world
card from Zexion. At this point, you stop getting to pick what worlds you
visit next, just like what happened to Sora.
Also note that you no longer have The King with you as a friend card for
a while.
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/ \ rdsnisle \
------------------------- Destiny Islands ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
Floor B3 |
^ |
[C] |
| S: Start |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ] B: Key of Beginnings - Green 7> card |
| | C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
[B]-[ ] [ ] |
| | |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ] |
| |
[S] |
v |
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|
Starting level: 40 |
Finishing level: 45 |
|
Friends: The King |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Creeper Plant |
-Tornado Step |
-Crescendo |
-Darkball |
Bosses: Darkside (Beginnings Room), Zexion (Beginnings Room) |
|
Deck: |
-3 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-2 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-8 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-8 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-8 Hi-Potion |
-Dragon Maleficent |
-Jafar |
-Parasite Cage |
-Guard Armor |
-Hook |
-Trickmaster |
-Ursula |
-Hades |
-Oogie Boogie |
-Lexaeus |
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At first you may think this deck royally sucks ass. But you are actually
quite wrong; it may not be as good as decks such as Halloween town's, but it
can hold it's own. You may or may not have realized this by now but this
deck is sleight heavy. Instead of normally mashing X, you'll be mashing tri-
angle here in Destiny Islands. The deck is huge to keep you from running out
of cards, and there's a high valued Hi-Potion to get all your sleighted
cards back, though you wouldn't ever really have to.
Your deck is a complete failure without sleight combos so ALWAYS use them.
The Heartless here use up to 6's, and very few cards in your deck have a
higher value than 6.
You also have Holy Burst here, so don't be afraid to use it. It's still the
amazingly quick Heartless killer it almost always was before. Dark Mode,
however, is not useful here the least bit as it'll screw up your ability to
sleight-combo, and Dark Mode sleights aren't really worth it. You may want
to try to stay OUT of Dark Mode if possible.
Lexaeus is also VERY useful here. His effect grants a high chance of an
instant kill on the enemy the last strike of a combo hits, with experience!
Basically, the third strike in your combo is likely to kill whatever enemy
it hits (by warping it away it seems), no matter how much health it still
has, and you still get ALL EXP you normally would from it. Plus, since it
lasts 50 attacks, you won't find yourself running out of use anytime here.
Lexaeus is a risky card in character bosses, but anywhere else it's fine.
It'll grant you resistance to physical attacks along with the "Warp Break"
effect. However, it makes you as weak to sleights as Lexaeus was himself.
Therefore, you'll not want to use it in character-type boss battles;
anywhere else it's wonderfully amazing though.
You'll probably wanna get the traditional four levels again (assuming you
have leveled as I have) before going on to the Beginnings room to witness
a couple scenes (one is even an FMV! O_O) and battle an all-too-familiar
boss.
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/ \* */ \
| \* Darkside */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 44 |
| Difficulty: Medium-Low (4.5/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: None |
| Sleights: None |
| Drop: Darkside enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 4.80 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Darkside is about the same with Riku as he was with Sora. Therefore, |
| how you treated him with Sora should basically be the same here. You |
| will not need to sleight-combo to attack him as during your only real|
| opportunities to attack him, he doesn't attack anyway. The Gimmick |
| card may be more useful here due to Riku's poor selection of cards. |
| Therefore, other than with the Gimmick, you'll probably only be able |
| to attack during his first attack. The Shadows here shouldn't be much|
| threat; not enough you have to sleight-combo attacks. |
| Dark Mode however is very useful here for pure attacks. It does far |
| more damage and will slaughter him off far quicker, so your best |
| interest will be in getting it as soon as possible. |
| Also, do not use Lexaeus here as if Warp Break takes effect, then it |
| will just show "resist", and he will not even take damage for the |
| third attack in the combo. |
| |
| He's a really easy fight and no more of a threat here than he was |
| with Sora. You'll still want to break his fourth attack (scroll up to|
| the guide for him with Sora if you can't remember these) as it still |
| hurts. That is really the ONLY threat. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
After beating Darkside, you should be facing "Sora" and a door will spawn
behind you. Go back through the door and go save (and therefore heal), as
talking to "Sora" will lead to a new battle, exclusive to the remake of
CoM. A very long overdue boss at that.
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Zexion */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 44 |
| Difficulty: High (8.5/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: None |
| Sleights: |
| -Cyclone Snatch: Zexion summons a cyclone in the center of the |
| field which will draw Riku in like a magnet. Every|
| time Riku is hit by the cyclone, it'll steal cards|
| from him, while doing minor damage. It can hit him|
| multiple times per sleight. It's by no means a big|
| issue. Just move away from it and dodge roll every|
| couple of seconds, and you'll bypass the entire |
| thing. |
| This is the only sleight Zexion uses with his own |
| cards; therefore, all of the following sleights |
| will be assumed to be used with Riku's cards. |
| -Dark Punisher: This sleight is simple enough: the copies of |
| Zexion disappear and the real Zexion grabs Riku |
| from behind. Darkness covers the ground below them|
| (similar to what it looked like during Darkside's |
| first attack), and some kind of aura flows around |
| them. In this process, some kind of...snake-like |
| wave of darkness slithers through this aura and |
| Riku takes repeated damage for a few seconds |
| before Zexion finally lets go of him. This sleight|
| can be broken at any time during it, which is a |
| good idea as this sleight does moderately-high |
| damage. |
| -Catastrophe: All of the copies of Zexion warp to opposite |
| corners of the field, then they all shoot pink-ish|
| beams directly to the center of the field to form |
| an X (or +, depending on how looked at), with a |
| large ball in the center, where all of the beams |
| collided at. At this point they all rotate around |
| the field attempting to somehow hit you. Since |
| they're all at the very edge, this is actually |
| more easily done than it seems. After awhile of |
| doing this, the real Zexion flies into the sky and|
| crashes down to the center, destroying the ball |
| and causing a shockwave to go through the ground |
| and cover most all the field. If you're hit much |
| by this sleight, it can do huge-to-enormous damage|
| (really depending on how much you're hit). How- |
| ever, as it is easy to dodge most hits, it's not |
| really a requirement to break this. |
| Drop: Zexion enemy card |
| |
| Hit Points: 5.60 bars |
| Lexicons: .20 of a bar each |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| The battle with Zexion is very unique. It is possibly even more odd |
| than the third battle with Marluxia. Due to this, it's kind of hard |
| for me to explain properly, and if I make it sound confusing, then I |
| apologize. |
| Zexion's weapon is a book called a Lexicon, and his element is that |
| of illusion (this is beyond me as illusion is not an element >.> then|
| again, neither are flowers I guess). His battle-style involves using |
| his Lexicon to steal Riku's cards, through his main attack and his |
| main sleight. Then, when he has enough of Riku's cards to make into |
| his own deck, he'll create clones of himself and begin attacking with|
| Riku's cards (that he stole) only. |
| Also note that Riku starts this battle in Dark Mode. |
| |
| Zexion uses unique and hard to describe attacks, and there is two of |
| them. In the first one, he creates some kind of ball, which has a |
| copy of his Lexicon in it. It charges up and flies at you at high |
| speeds and with very good homing. Then the book steals three of |
| Riku's cards and transfers them to Zexion. This attack does very |
| minor damage; the main point is in stealing Riku's cards. |
| This attack takes some practice to dodge. The key is to dodge roll |
| immediately when the orb comes flying at you. If you time it |
| perfectly then it'll spin around Riku and completely miss. Also, if |
| you stand at the very opposite side of the field as him, you can |
| rather easily evade this by dodge rolling as it flies at you. Just |
| remember that you can't attack if you're on the other end of the |
| field. |
| If (more likely when) he steals enough cards from you, he'll change |
| his battle style. Three more copies of him appear across the field, |
| and he starts attacking you with your own cards! |
| This is how he uses his second attack. Each of the four copies of |
| himself will take turns attacking you, Soul Eater in hand, ending |
| with the fourth one jumping up and slashing the ground below him. The|
| cheap part is that it only uses one card for the entire set of |
| attacks (HAX!!!). I find this attack much harder to dodge once he |
| hits you. Though it is possible to roll and jump away between the |
| attacks, I was only able to successfully do this once. As it does |
| large damage, it's a very good idea to break this. Since they ARE |
| your cards, remember that most all of them will have low card values |
| (crappy deck FTW!) Note that this attack CAN be broken in between |
| attacks. |
| Zexion can also use his enemy card, which he particularly does while |
| using Riku's cards. It has a "Confu-Strike" effect - or basically, it|
| inflicts Riku with confusion. If you aren't familiar with what that |
| is, it means that movement controls are reversed. Moving up makes |
| Riku move down, moving right makes him move left, etc. Unless you're |
| very familiar with how to handle this situation, this can REALLY |
| screw you up. You'll probably want to Parasite Cage this; I don't see|
| why you wouldn't, other than it'll leave you vulnerable to an attack |
| from Zexion. |
| |
| Zexion will stand on the other end of the field and use his book to |
| steal Riku's cards, either with his first attack or his sleight. |
| After stealing approximately 18 cards (give-or-take a couple), Zexion|
| will say, "Looks like I have enough," and then make three copies of |
| himself around the field - therefore four of him altogether. At this |
| point, he'll use the cards he stole as his own deck and use them |
| exclusively against you. At this point, he can easily slaughter Riku.|
| When this happens, three copies of his Lexicon float at three corners|
| of the field, encased in flames. These act as the health of his three|
| clones, and destroying one of the copies will therefore destroy a |
| clone. Despite this fact, you can attack any of the copies of Zexion |
| and it'll still damage his main health bar. Doing such however is not|
| advised, as Zexion is far more dangerous with Riku's cards. |
| Destroying the final copy will knock Zexion back, all clones gone, |
| and every card he stole from you will be scattered across the ground.|
| You'll have to run around and pick them up, careful to break Zexion's|
| attacks as you do, because he WILL attack immediately. |
| What you may or may not notice is that one of your cards will have an|
| odd image. The blade of the Soul Eater (the "wing" part) on the image|
| will be colored orange. It appears Zexion planned ahead (quite a |
| schemer, he is) as he planted a fake Soul Eater card for ya! Using |
| this card will do nothing but leave Riku stunned and vulnerable for |
| Zexion to steal more cards. Wow. |
| |
| You'll want to handle this fight with care and caution, as Zexion can|
| easily slaughter you once he steals Riku's cards and starts using |
| them. At one point in the battle, this is likely to happen. Your deck|
| has limited 0's (two...), and Zexion uses A LOT of high value cards. |
| Plus, if you combo on him too much he'll break your combo instantly |
| with a Cyclone Snatch sleight (as this has a high max value, you'll |
| need to break this with a 0). The horrible part is that it happens |
| fast enough that it's almost guaranteed to steal some cards from Riku|
| unless you break it before it can. If he breaks your combo with a |
| high value card - which he'll do a lot - it's not a threat as his |
| basic attack with his own deck is slow and you can even sleight (or |
| sleight-combo if you've lost your Dark Mode) to break it before it |
| hits. |
| If (when) Zexion starts using Riku's cards, the main thing you will |
| want to remember is that they ARE your cards. They'll have low values|
| and most likely can be broken easily. The annoying part is that a lot|
| of the cards he stole from you will be mostly your high value cards. |
| |
| Start the battle by rushing into Zexion and using combos. When he |
| breaks you for one of his own attacks, use a sleight to break it (you|
| can also use one of your own cards to continue using combos if it's |
| low enough value). It won't take long of doing this before he quickly|
| sleights together a Cyclone Snatch. Break this with a 0 as soon as |
| you can. If you don't have one due to using it already, then reload |
| and prepare to lose some of your cards, as it comes out fast enough |
| to make it hard to dodge at this point. Once it's over, continue |
| using combos on him until it happens again. Be careful how many times|
| you use sleights at this point, because you'll need your cards for |
| when Zexion starts using yours. |
| When Zexion has stolen enough cards, copies himself, and begins using|
| them, you'll want to concentrate on taking out the Lexicons ASAP. You|
| CAN attack Zexion here but he will use his two sleights here rather |
| frequently and you may not have a 0 to break them. It's dangerous to |
| attack him here, so I highly recommend targeting the three Lexicons. |
| You will most likely need to rely on sleights to destroy them, as he |
| leaves you with very few cards, and usually low value ones. He has a |
| nasty habit of breaking you right in the middle of your combo, |
| leaving you open for an attack from him - and trust me, that is the |
| last thing you want as his attacks here hurt like hell. |
| He seems to always steal a 0 as well, and can (and usually will) use |
| it to break your sleight. Still, due to the Lexicons having low HP, |
| it's not a large threat because the Lexicon you targeted should be |
| destroyed before he can. The main problem here is that he leaves you |
| with around 6 cards, and you will very likely need to rely on using |
| sleights three times to destroy all three Lexicons. This means need- |
| ing to recharge at least once; and he will unfortunately use this to |
| his advantage to attack again. Reloading is really fast with Riku so |
| if you're near a Lexicon, mash triangle immediately and you should be|
| able to break his attack before being hit or at least only being hit |
| once. |
| Also remember to be careful for his sleights, as they can REALLY hurt|
| a lot. |
| When the three Lexicons are destroyed, run around and pick your cards|
| up, then start the same pattern over again as when the battle started|
| the battle started. Just be careful not to accidentally use the fake |
| Soul Eater card. |
| The King also is very useful here. Though he can break it easily, |
| Inverse Burst will rip out a ton of HP, and the added healing of MM |
| Miracle can really help. |
| As for enemy cards, the only really useful ones are Jafar to keep him|
| from breaking you, Oogie Boogie for healing, and Parasite Cage for |
| breaking his enemy card. Dragon Maleficent can be useful as well. |
| |
| If you're careful, it's entirely possible to beat Zexion before he |
| steals enough cards to use against you. Zexion isn't too much of a |
| threat until he starts using Riku's cards; it's just that it's hard |
| to keep him from gathering that many. You should be able to take off |
| a good three or more HP bars before he steals enough cards for his |
| own deck. When Zexion relies on his deck again, after you destroy the|
| Lexicons, you should be able to beat him before he can steal enough |
| cards to use against you again. |
| Just remember, Zexion can really kick your ass when he starts using |
| Riku's cards, and he has plenty of opportunities to. |
| This battle is difficult, and you'll probably die a few times, but |
| you should be able to do it after getting the hang of it. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
After beating one of the coolest members of the organization (only sur-
passed in epicness by Larxene and Marluxia), you'll get the Zexion enemy
card. It's use is more limited to boss battles, and even then, mostly due
to it granting resistance to everything but basic attacks. Sadly it comes
in a little late to be incredibly useful. Confu-Strike is good, but it
isn't quite as good as Warp Break for Heartless slaying.
Leave via Conqueror's Respite. There's no boss this time so you don't
need to bother saving.
And after witnessing a very sad scene (damn you Axel...DAMN YOU TO HELL),
Mickey will show up and give Riku your next world card!
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/ \ rtwltn \
------------------------- Twilight Town ------------------------|
\ / |
____________________________________________________________________________+
Floor B2 |
^ |
[G] [C] |
| | S: Start |
[ ] [ ] B: Key of Beginnings - Blue 0= card |
| | G: Key of Guidance - 50 card total |
[ ] [ ] C: Conqueror's Respite - leave the world here. |
| | |
[ ] [B] [ ] |
| | | |
[ ]-[ ]-[ ] |
| |
[S] |
v |
___________________________________________________________________________+
|
Starting level: 45 |
Finishing level: 49 |
|
Friends: The King |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Soldier |
-Air Soldier |
-Barrel Spider |
Bosses: Riku (Beginnings Room) |
|
Deck: |
-9 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-2 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-2 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-1 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-4 Potion |
-Dragon Maleficent |
-Jafar |
-Parasite Cage |
-Guard Armor |
-Hook |
-Trickmaster |
-Ursula |
-Hades |
-Oogie Boogie |
-Lexaeus |
-Darkside |
-Zexion |
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Twilight Town is not a lot worse for leveling with Riku than it was with
Sora. The difference is that Sora was not stuck with a crappy deck.
The deck here is similar to the one in Destiny Islands in the fact they are
both equally large. The deck is far more sporadical here though, but it
does still have a pattern. A three descending combo pattern, then a two
descending combo pattern, taking turns as such with each top card starting
two less than the last pattern, until the 0-7-4 in which it appears to be
random... As that probably did not make much since, I'll just say it does
not matter. The cards here are not good anyway, despite being somewhat
sporadical, as the majority is of low value. However, the Air Soldier and
Soldier enemies still have high HP, use low value cards (I never saw any-
thing higher than 4), and still drop large EXP. And Shadows...well they've
never been a threat.
You'll use a similar leveling tactic here as you did in Destiny Islands.
The deck is plenty big enough to pull you through nothing but sleight-
combos, and Lexaeus is even more abusable here as the enemies here have
higher HP! You can expect to hit Dark Mode frequently as well, and the
swift and speedy attacks in Dark Mode are also rather beneficial, even
if you're stuck without using sleights and risking being broken. When this
happens, you may want to use Jafar, though that depends on if you're will-
ing to cancel Warp Break for that...
Holy/Inverse Burst isn't quite as useful here, but it can still be very
potent Heartless slaying machine if used right. Just don't rely on it.
You'll be going to the Beginnings room for a boss that ought not exist.
_______________________________________________________________________
/ \* */ \
| \* Riku II */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 49 |
| Difficulty: High (8/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: None |
| Sleights: |
| -Helm Bash: Copied from the last battle: |
| Riku jumps up and bashes his Soul Eater onto the |
| floor three times, the first two times leave a pool |
| of darkness surrounding the attack and the third time|
| causes several pillars to rise. Being hit by the pool|
| or the pillars will cause somewhat heavy damage. This|
| attack can easily be dodged by jumping right as Riku |
| bashes his Soul Eater onto the floor, each time. The |
| pillars are somewhat harder to avoid, but jumping can|
| usually protect you from most of the damage. |
| -Dark Firaga: This is as simple as it always was. Riku charges a |
| ball of fire and throws it at you. The ball has large|
| homing properties, but no more than Zexion's attack |
| did in the last battle. Dodge rolling just perfectly |
| can force the whole thing to fly right past you. Not |
| that it matters too much as it's damage isn't that |
| heavy. |
| -Dark Aura: This sleight seems a little watered down from your |
| fight with Sora. It works the exact same way; Riku |
| flies into the air, pounding at Riku *cough*, Soul |
| Eater fixed in front of himself, multiple times. This|
| ends with Riku hitting the ground, causing several |
| dark pillars to form kind of like how Helm Bash did, |
| but covering more space. It doesn't do as much damage|
| to Riku as it did to Sora though. It does do a lot of|
| damage, but you SHOULD be able to survive this. Even |
| so, breaking this would be a very good idea. |
| Drop: Nothing, the cheapskate. |
| |
| Hit Points: 6.80 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| This battle is equivalent to your first battle with Riku in that it |
| is not a long battle, because one of you is going to end up royally |
| kicking the other one's ass in a short period of time, or else facing|
| having your own ass royally kicked. |
| Despite the fact this battle is supposed to be equal to the fourth |
| battle with Sora (Dark Aura and ball of darkness in the left hand |
| and all), it's only slightly harder than RIKU's last battle with the |
| damned replica. |
| The replica uses the same attacks. The main two you'll see are his |
| slashing combo, and his X-slash (where he hits the ground and an X |
| forms from it). |
| He also still uses his Shadow enemy card, which you'll want to break |
| with Parasite Cage immediately. He also has his own enemy card, which|
| lets him keep the first cards of his sleights. This will keep you |
| from winning in a battle of attrition. |
| Jafar isn't really necessary in this battle. Your best bet actually |
| is just to sleight-combo until Dark Mode. The Riku Replica's highest |
| values can break some of your sleight-combos with this deck, and he |
| can also use 0's, but a single attack or two from him will not prove |
| to be a huge threat. And by the time you reach Dark Mode, you can |
| spam Dark Break and Dark Firaga to take off enormous chunks of HP. |
| Riku Replica attacks really fast still, and can chain together his |
| attacks really well to knock off large chunks of your HP. That is the|
| main problem with this fight. He'll likely do this when you hit Dark |
| Mode to knock you out of it quickly, especially if he makes a habit |
| of breaking your sleights with 0. If or when he does, you'll want to |
| return to your typical sleight-combos to take out the rest of his HP.|
| Your deck has plenty of cards, so using sleight-combos SHOULDN'T be a|
| problem; Riku should be dead far before you run out of cards. If you |
| are too worried about running low on cards, then you can use Jafar to|
| help out at the beginning of the fight, hopefully hit Dark Mode using|
| your card breaks there, then use sleight-combos after you're knocked |
| out of Dark Mode. |
| Duels can actually be helpful in this battle. Barrage will deal TONS |
| of damage (around two bars I believe). However, this is risky and |
| only advisable if you recently reloaded and have all your cards. |
| Spamming X actually can nearly guarantee you to win the Duel, as long|
| as you have most your cards. |
| The King is best used for restoring back HP, as Riku is likely to |
| interrupt your sleight if you use Holy/Inverse Burst). To be safe, |
| you can save your King Mickey cards for MM Miracle or if you need the|
| healing immediately, use it in the middle of a sleight (Soul Eater > |
| The King > Soul Eater). |
| You'll want to hit Dark Mode ASAP, as even normal attacks in Dark |
| Mode will do more damage and will slaughter the replica faster. |
| Dark Break in particular will do tons of damage as long as it's not |
| broken in the middle of the attack. |
| Otherwise, the battle can be treated very similar to the last one. |
| It's a difficult battle but there's not much strategizing you can do |
| with it. This fight will probably take you more than one try. |
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After the battle, you'll see another sad scene (so the Riku Replica killed
Zexion for nothing...NOTHING! T_T). You'll need to go to the Guidance room
for another scene, then the Conqueror's Respite to leave. No boss, so
don't bother saving until the next floor ya?
Be prepared, as we're ascending to the final floor in the game!
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/ \ rcstobln \
------------------------- Castle Oblivion ------------------------|
\ / |
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Floor B1 |
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[B] |
| S: Start |
[ ] B: Key of Beginnings - 13 card total |
| |
[ ] |
| |
[S] |
v |
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Starting level: 49 |
Finishing level: 50 |
|
Friends: The King |
Heartless: |
-Shadow |
-Neoshadow |
-Red Nocturne |
-Blue Rhapsody |
-Yellow Opera |
-Green Requiem |
-Darkball |
-Wizard |
-Wyvern |
-Defender |
Bosses: Ansem (Beginnings Room) |
|
Deck: |
-8 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-8 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-6 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-5 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-3 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-0 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-7 Soul Eater |
-4 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-9 Soul Eater |
-8 Hi-Potion |
-Dragon Maleficent |
-Jafar |
-Parasite Cage |
-Guard Armor |
-Hook |
-Trickmaster |
-Ursula |
-Hades |
-Oogie Boogie |
-Lexaeus |
-Darkside |
-Zexion |
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While with Sora, Castle Oblivion was a flashy floor with tons of rooms (it
was the largest floor in the game), several scenes, and two epic bosses
(one in particular being REALLY epic) before the final boss....
Riku is on the opposite end of the spectrum. Castle Oblivion for Riku is
the shortest floor in the game with no special scenes, and just one final
boss...
It also contrasts in the fact Castle Oblivion is potentially the easiest
place in the game for Riku to level.
You may realize Riku's deck here looks familiar. That's because it's the
same deck he had in all of the floor battles previously in the game (Vexen,
Riku I, Lexaeus...). This deck is probably the best offered, as well, being
the longest yet and having a good mix of high value cards.
The key to leveling here is Dark Mode. The enemies are dreadfully annoying,
with Neoshadow in particular being a huge nuisance. Dark Mode can quickly
slaughter them all though. Your deck will have two uses of Dark Aura per
reload - and even more in Martial Waking rooms! - and Dark Break is very
useful as well. Even Dark Firaga is great! Holy/Inverse Burst, as well,
can be a potent Heartless slayer, though the main Dark Mode sleights are
usually the better option. Even the basic attacks in Dark Mode are very
good, as Riku's swiftness can quickly eliminate all opposition! YEEEHEHEHEHE
...
Lexaeus is EVEN MORE abusable here, as half of the Heartless have large HP
meters (over a bar, some!). Combine it with the swift, dreadful attacks of
Dark Mode Riku, and you have a very fast and potent Heartless slaying
MACHINE! The enemies here drop VERY good amounts of EXP, making this a
wonderful place to level. With all of the 9's and the few 0's and 8's in
your deck, reaching Dark Mode should be very fast.
However, I do warn, many of the Heartless here can DESTROY you very fast.
Keep a close watch on your HP, because if you let them sneak in too many
attacks, you may just find yourself dead. With Holy/Inverse Burst not
quite as useful as it usually is, maybe your King cards can be better used
for MM Miracle...?
Despite the leveling potential here, I've made a point in only getting to
level 50, so I can prove the ability to beat the game at this level.
At the end of this VERY short level is the Beginnings room, where you're
about to encounter the final boss of the entire game...
Do any last minute leveling, then you'll probably want to synth a Moment's
Reprieve room in the room right before Key of Beginnings. In the
Beginnings room, you'll encounter a boss very familiar to those of you
who've beaten the first Kingdom Hearts... I guess Riku had to get a piece
of him too.
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/ \* */ \
| \* Ansem */ |
| \*-------------------------*/ |
|______________________\_________________________/______________________|
| |
| My level: 50 |
| Difficulty: High (8.5/10) |
| Weakness: None |
| Absorbs: None |
| Nullifies: All when his guardian protects him. |
| Sleights: |
| -Shock Slash: Ansem's guardian forms rings of lightning, then tosses|
| them at you...repeatedly. (From my count, he tosses |
| about 7.) This sleight isn't as deadly as his others, |
| as it is far more evadable. If several of the rings |
| hit Riku, it can do tons of damage though. It's |
| evadablility is highly dependent on your distance from|
| Ansem when he uses this. The rings have practically no|
| homing qualities, so if he's at a distance, you can |
| simply run left or right and dodge the entire attack. |
| If he's close up though, evading it can be far harder.|
| It's up to you if you want to break this. |
| -Dark Rush: Ansem forms some kind of aura around himself, then |
| charges at Riku at top speed several times (about four|
| to five). Consider this Ansem's twisted version of |
| Sonic Blade; and it's just as deadly. Ansem rushes at |
| you multiple times, and each time it hits you it does |
| large damage! It's evadablity is just as dependent on |
| how far away from him you are as Shock Slash is. If he|
| uses it while he's far away, you can usually dodge |
| roll to the left or right to have him rush right past |
| you. The main problem lies in the fact that he almost |
| always uses this at close range, where it is nearly |
| impossible to evade. Either way, it's best to just |
| break this with a 0. |
| -Dark Shadow: This sleight, like the last one, is a royal pain. |
| Ansem's noob guardian dissolves into the floor, then |
| a large shadow appears under Riku. From this shadow, |
| Ansem's guardian pops up and beats Riku into the air, |
| again several times. The sad part is that this does |
| EVEN MORE damage than Dark Rush, per hit. When you see|
| the shadow under Riku, immediately dodge roll. You'll |
| have to repeat this multiple times, because if the |
| shadow doesn't hit the first time, it'll reposition |
| itself to Riku's current position and attempt to bash |
| some more. Sadly, the cooldown of dodge rolling makes |
| this difficult to dodge several times. I think you'll |
| most likely just want to break this. |
| Note that Ansem starts this by saying, "The final |
| darkness is now." |
| Drop: Nothing again! Being a final boss is a cheap excuse! |
| |
| Hit Points: 8.90 bars |
| |
| ~~Strategy: |
| |
| Honestly, Ansem is not a really difficult battle. He attacks rather |
| infrequently, and his only two basic attacks only do moderate damage;|
| not to mention the fact they can be seen coming and easily dodged. |
| The first thing you'll need to know is that Ansem's guardian (the |
| black shadowy creature that lurks behind him) can protect him from |
| any of your attacks. Sadly, his guardian does this far less often |
| than he did in the original game. Usually he only seems to do this |
| when you start chaining together a lot of attacks, though he will |
| occasionally do this to block another attack. |
| |
| Ansem only uses two attacks here, both of which are actually used by |
| his guardian. |
| The first is a simple strike from his guardian. He'll oft use this to|
| break your attack and in close range, leaving Riku helpless to be hit|
| by it as it is a very swift attack. When he uses this outside break- |
| ing your attack, it can rather easily be evaded through a dodge roll.|
| You may find yourself being hit by this attack most often as it has a|
| very fast execution and can catch you off guard. This is even more so|
| in close range. Still, it only does moderate damage so it's not much |
| to worry about. Just don't let yourself be hit by it too often, as it|
| alone can be responsible for killing you. |
| In his second attack, his guardian charges two balls of lightning - |
| one in each hand - and throws them like bowling balls across the |
| floor. As they only travel vertically, this attack can easily be |
| evaded through a dodge roll. It has a longer execution than the |
| physical strike of the guardian, too, giving you just a second more |
| to react. However, if he uses this in TOO close of range (as in, |
| nearly touching you), the balls of lightning will hit you before |
| falling to the ground and shooting through the floor. It, too, only |
| does moderate damage. |
| |
| Ansem's main weakness lies in the fact that his guardian's physical |
| strike is the only one that can hit fast enough. Every other attack |
| of his (this includes the sleights) have a large enough delay that |
| they can either be dodge rolled or broken (in the cases of Dark Rush |
| and dark Shadow in particular). Don't get me wrong, he's still a |
| tough customer, he's just hardly more difficult than your last battle|
| with Riku. |
| And to top it off, his guardian seems to NEVER protect him from any |
| attack if the attack was through a card break. Basically, you can get|
| entirely past his guardian's protection as long as you break his |
| attacks. As his attacks have such a long wind-up delay, this should |
| NOT be a problem. |
| Ansem CAN offset this little problem just a smidge through the use of|
| his enemy card. It's effect shadows his sleight section, so he'll use|
| sleights but you won't know what he's using until it's too late. |
| I should think most people will usually just run off to evade Shock |
| Slash while breaking the others; however, with his enemy card in play|
| you won't know what he's going to use. This can be counter balanced |
| by simply breaking any sleight he uses. His enemy card does nothing |
| to remove the delay in attack, so if you see the sleight at the |
| bottom-middle of the screen, you can just know to break it. His enemy|
| card only lasts ten sleights anyway, not to mention the fact he often|
| doesn't even use it. |
| Do note that his sleights STILL do enormous damage...if you actually |
| let yourself be hit by them. As his sleights Shock Slash and Dark |
| Rush in particular are so much harder to evade in close range, it's |
| in your best interest to keep a distance from Ansem whenever you see |
| he could use a sleight. Ansem does not rapidly pull up three cards to|
| use as a sleight at any given time, and rather plucks the cards out |
| one at a time, and even holds his sleight for awhile after having all|
| three cards available. Therefore, keeping a distance should not be an|
| issue. |
| |
| How you handle this battle actually is similar to what you did with |
| Riku. The deck you have is plenty large and can support high use of |
| sleight-combos and sleights very well. Ansem attacks infrequently |
| and therefore using sleight-combos is not necessary, but it is how- |
| ever helpful. It's most helpful in getting you to Dark Mode faster, |
| and Dark Mode is when you'll be SLAUGHTERING this guy. The main thing|
| to remember is that it's best to attack, especially when you hit Dark|
| Mode, only when you break his attacks with your attack. If you decide|
| to use sleight-combos to reach Dark Mode, this applies there as well,|
| since you'll raise the counter a lot faster this way. Ansem does have|
| 0's and can break sleights/sleight-combos, but the chance of this |
| happening is far less likely if you break his attack with one of your|
| own. Not to mention it guarantees that your attack won't be guarded. |
| My recommended strategy is to attack only by breaking his attacks |
| using sleight-combos until you hit Dark Mode, then use sleights only |
| in Dark Mode, but only when you break his attack with it. Ansem will |
| commonly interrupt your sleights; or, if you use Dark Firaga (very |
| potent against Ansem), he'll guard it as well. Sleights work |
| exceptionally well against Ansem. Here's a basic rundown: |
| -Dark Aura: Useful almost only when you use it to break an attack. |
| It'll beatdown Ansem and force him to take a VERY large chunk of |
| damage. However, he breaks this frequently if you don't break him |
| with this first. Supposedly, his guardian can protect him from the |
| hits too, but I never saw it. This seemed to be in the original Chain|
| of Memories only. Therefore, don't be afraid to use this, as it takes|
| off around 2 bars of his HP. |
| -Dark Firaga: As mentioned, Ansem's guardian will repel this most of |
| the time unless you break him with this. In this circumstance, I've |
| not once seen his guardian repel this. And it takes off over half a |
| bar of HP! As always, Dark Firaga is very reliable in boss fights. |
| -Dark Break: This is probably your best bet if you don't break his |
| attack first. I've never seen Ansem's guardian block this, and he |
| doesn't always interrupt it either. You still have a better chance of|
| this attack finishing out if you break him first, though, so do so. |
| It's actually more reliable here than it usually is, considering it |
| will run down his HP fast. |
| |
| Basic attacks in Dark Mode work well against Ansem as well, and you |
| may opt to use this in combination with Jafar to unleash a good old- |
| fashioned beating on this rip-off Heartless (whoops, spoilers)! |
| Basically, Dark Mode just screws this guy up. I recommend to always |
| keep a 0 on hand in case of Dark Shadow; his other two sleights can |
| be dodged relatively easy as long as you keep your distance. |
| As for your King Mickey cards, I recommend saving them. MM Miracle |
| may be a life saver at a certain point, because you're bound to take |
| damage. Holy/Inverse Burst is almost useless as it does not cause |
| Ansem to stagger at all, and it misses almost the entire time due to |
| how large the field is (BTW, the field background is totally epic), |
| and how Ansem can float to avoid most of the attack. I also highly |
| recommend you break his attack with MM Miracle as well, because he's |
| less likely to interrupt it that way. |
| By the way, Ansem has a HUGE deck, but he will have to recharge some-|
| time. However, he has his guardian protect him during this period, so|
| you cannot use this to beat him up. |
| |
| Don't let this all fool you. Ansem knows how to catch you off guard, |
| and he often will. Not to mention that, if he does this with one of |
| his sleights, it's likely to kill you. This IS a difficult battle, I |
| just can't say it's the hardest. It's arguable if this battle or the |
| one with Zexion was more difficult. Ansem was a true beast in the |
| original Chain of Memories, but it seems he was nerfed a bit here. |
| Nonetheless, don't expect to win this on your first try. This battle,|
| like many others, comes easier after getting the hang of it. Just |
| remember that Dark Mode is your best friend in this fight, and that |
| it's always best to wait to attack until you break his first. |
| Have fun. It may not be as epic of a final battle as all three were |
| with Marluxia (okay..maybe I'm partial...), but it's still an |
| entertaining battle. |
\_______________________________________________________________________/
Congratulations! You just beat Re:Chain of Memories in it's entirety! No
more storylines to explore after this boss, this is the end of the line!
You'll witness a cliffhanger scene before the credits roll, though you'd
probably know what to expect if you've played Kingdom Hearts II.
Hopefully, 358/2 Days will shine some light too.
With Reverse/Rebirth cleared, there isn't much left. However, Sora now
has four more cards he can get with it cleared (if you saved the clear
game data). There was more point in that in the original Chain of Memories
since it had multiplayer function, but it's kinda pointless now, other
than for completion's sake....
Still, if you're like me and feel the need to max everything out, you'll
probably want to get them. I listed them after the battle with Marluxia,
but here they are again (copy and paste):
Zexion enemy card
Lexaeus enemy card
Ansem enemy card
Ultima Weapon
Zexion is obtained in a chest (e.g. Calm Bounty room) in Destiny Islands.
Ansem is found in a chest in Twilight Town. Lexaeus and Ultima Weapon are
found in chests in Castle Oblivion.
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*=======================// \\========================*
| | FAQ | |
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No information here for now. :D Hopefully it'll stay that way for awhile.
And yes, that title is awkwardly short. Frequently Asked Questions wouldn't
fit properly.
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| _________________________ manythanks |
*=======================// \\========================*
| | Acknowledgements | |
*=======================\\_________________________//========================*
|____________________________________________________________________________|
~~ God, and my Savior:
-Without my Lord, I wouldn't even have had any inspiration, let alone
the thoughts for this guide. Seriously, all credit of everything I do,
including this FAQ/Walkthrough goes to Him.
~~ My girlfriend, Maria:
-For being so tolerant of me, when I was spacing her off to work on this
guide. Also for pushing me to complete it the few times she had to.
I dedicate it to her -- without her, I don't think I would have gotten
this far on it. I love you, Maria.
~~ The many users of the GameFAQs boards for Re:Chain of Memories:
-I used the boards frequently for confirming facts on my guide (I like to
be accurate), and a bit of the information I have even came from there.
There are far too many users who contributed to list, but I thank you
all for helping.
~~ Square Enix and Disney:
-There wouldn't be a game to write a guide for if it weren't for these
two companies. Large amounts of appreciation goes to them, especially
for finally releasing this game in America.
~~ Guardian_D1288 and xnikev:
-Each of these two for correcting me on the availability of Diamond Dust
and One-Winged Angel respectively before finishing Riku's story.
~~ ansemdwise:
-For the great alternate strategy for Axel!
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| | Final Statements | |
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There's not much I can say for a final statement. Some may not believe it,
but I actually enjoyed writing this very much. It took my time away from
some more important things, but I'm proud to be able to help people. A lot
of people have e-mailed me telling me how happy they are I made this, and
I can't explain enough how much those people have helped encourage me.
Really, it's the people who take the time to tell you how much your work
has helped them who really make it all worthwhile.
Even besides that, I did have fun writing this, despite the work involved.
I hope to maybe write another one sometime soon, too! And maybe it won't
take so long to finish. XP
Speaking of, I sincerely apologize for the huge break in between work on
this walkthrough. I simply lost the motivation needed to continue work on
it. A couple people in particular helped me regain the motivation needed
to finish this, and that's how I was able to do the rest of story mode in
just four days, even with only limited times to be able to work on this
at all. I thank them greatly for the inspiration, as well as the Lord for
helping me through it.
The lists I will hopefully finish soon, but I don't see them as important.
I wanted this to be a comprehensive guide for all purposes, where nobody
would have to look at outside sources for information. Right now, it's
several lists short of that. Still, the story walkthrough is most important
and I hereby consider this guide finished, even if not 100% complete.
Thank you all for your support, and I hope you all find this FAQ/Walkthrough
as useful as I intended it to be. Don't be afraid to contact me about any
questions or contributions, or just to give support. I greatly appreciate it.
God bless you all.
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