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Cavedweller2000 posted...

Just checking previous results, how is Cartman ranked second lowest out of SP characters? (Just ahead of Mr Hankey)

I thought he would have been a front runner

Cartman can be really polarizing. A lot of people find him grating and extremely overused. Yes, many fans consider him the heart and soul of the show, but he's definitely not as universally loved as Randy or Butters.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 36; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

I had a bit of an idea relating to the 2017 theme but the more I tried to type it out the more unnecessarily convoluted it felt to me and I know I personally as a host wouldn't want to deal with the ins and outs of it so if I think of something simpler I'll let you know.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 36; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

Began KH2 tonight. Made it up to just before the Struggle... Christity Christ Christ Christ this one is starting SO slowly. I like the inclusion of Setzer, but why not make Roxas' friends FF characters? Those three could have easily been Zell, Rinoa, and... I'll say Steiner, from what I can tell so far.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 36; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

TIMMY!

(yes)

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 36; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

Friends on the Other Side
Arabian Nights
You've Got a Friend in Me
I Won't Say (I'm in Love)

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 36; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

Aww yeah, time to continue GotG!

I MIGHT give Unpacking a go as well.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 36; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

Something I never mentioned. While I was on my ragequit in the first game, I had a dream once where I was playing a Jungle Book world. I don't remember much about it but I could hear the field theme very clearly, which was an instrumental of The Bare Necessities, like what Atlantica and Halloween Town did.

Come to look it up, it's never been done, but datamining shows the remnants of a scrapped one in BBS.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 36; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

Hellfire
Poor Unfortunate Souls
Friend Like Me
Gaston
Prince Ali

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 36; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

I feel like Uncle Buck deserves better than middle of the list but paradoxically I also don't think I'd put it higher than any of the remaining films.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 36; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

Honestly I'd have to play the GBA one again to really say for sure and I'm so over it at this point.

That being said I was more invested in the story of this one than I was of KH1. Not just the framing story, but world-by-world as well. While the Disney stories in the original were mostly just chopped-up versions of the films they were based on, in this one they actually had a running theme and some of the endings were kinda nice. Axel, Riku and Namine are probably my three favorite KH-original characters so far and two of them weren't even in the first one, and the other got some great focus in this one. I hope all three have large roles in KH2. I know Roxas and the rest of the Organization XIII get introduced in the next one as well.

I threw KHII a nom for December Game of the Month so when I start playing it depends on if it gets drawn or not. Frankly if it gets drawn I'm more than happy to play something else for a week.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 36; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

see sig

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 36; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

I'm struggling badly with Riku's final boss. Hell, I think he has two forms from what I remember and I can't even get past the first form after like 20 tries. And I think I've got the right strategy it's just... man I REALLY don't want to have to grind right now...

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 36; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

Melody of Memory for Switch for $20 at Target? Yeah I'll do that. I've been playing through the series on PS4 but I know you can unlock a song in Smash with a save file so I'll deviate for one title.

EDIT: Damn, it's almost entirely sold out near me, and the closest one is too far for me to trust doing it without an in-store pickup, which isn't being offered. I wonder if Best Buy will price match?

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

What the fuck is this Zexion battle? First off, I don't even remember fighting him in the GBA version. For some reason I thought you never fought him directly. Second, I can't stop him from stealing my cards because whenever I try to 0 out that slight he just takes my 0 card. And I'm left with like 3 weak cards and can't make a dent.

EDIT: And literally a minute later he falls like a rock...

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Beauty and the Beast
Cruella De Vil
Prince Ali
I 2 I

2nd and 4th matches were very tough. 1st and 3rd not at all.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Beat all the Disney worlds in Riku's story and beat Lexaeus. That's all for tonight.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Underleveled posted...

I like not having to worry about configuring the deck

Kinda starting to change my stance on this. Starting to not like having as much control over my attack cards, plus not having magic or healing cards.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

I Goddamn fucking hate this world where they gave me all cards 5 and under

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

So I went into Riku's story with the intention of doing the worlds in the same order as I did on the GBA like I did with Sora's story. So I went to my GBA cart to check... Wait, why are there two very different save files? Oh yeah, I let my friend borrow this in high school. Which one is mine? Dammit Lewis! We did Sora's story in the same order but not Riku's. I assumed mine was the first one, so that's the order I'm going with. Interestingly we were at very different levels and did the worlds in a different order, but had nearly identical play clocks (I'm talking within seconds).

Had some trouble with Jafar because I just couldn't catch his lamp. Weird, I had no problem with it in Sora's story. Vexen and Repliku were tricky but I did them in just a few tries each.

Riku's story is so fast-paced. Not just the story itself, but the battles too.

I like not having to worry about configuring the deck but I don't like not being able to heal on command, nor worlds where I end up with weak cards.

I definitely don't remember duels from the GBA version, but I could be wildly wrong. Are those new? I'm not sure if I remember Darkness Power.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

I can't remember if he spoke at the beginning but I was definitely disappointed by how small his role was.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Nominate Kingdom Hearts II

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Half an hour into Riku's story I think Mickey has already had more dialogue than he did in the entirety of KH1.

Also Zexion and Lexaeus sound perfect. Especially Lexaeus. Exactly how I thought he'd sound.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

I'll be honest, I totally forgot about DiZ until I saw that character listed in the end credits.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

And I did the entire final Marluxia fight (both forms consecutively) on my first try. I guess you could say I "got gud."

Ending cutscene was done really well and I liked the KH2 teasers that weren't present in the original version.

Onto Riku's story.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Yeah I lied and did end up doing Marluxia 1 last night and he was fairly easy. From what I've read, people consider it to be one of the hardest fights in the game in the GBA version but one of the easiest endgame fights in ReCOM. I wonder what changed? Personally I don't remember it. I remember doing Marluxia 2 several times even after beating him once just to hear Simple and Clean before I finally downloaded the MP3 lol

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Shonen_Bat posted...

Jack's Lament

Really? Not Hellfire or anything from The Lion King?

I think it totally makes sense that it's something recent and sung by a big name star.

Hellfire is one of the last things I would guess it is because it's simply not something that appeals to children.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Beat Axel with the luckiest of lucky breaks at the end of the fight (was down to almost no HP and almost no cards).

I played WAY too much today (but at least I got a lot else done too). My eyes hurt. Time for bed.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Larxene 2 beated. Yeesh. I think overall she was harder than Vexen. Vexen was pretty simple once I figured out a good strategy. Larxene I kinda had to brute force it and hope I didn't make too many mistakes with the timing of my item cards.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Darkside was a joke as always.

Repliku 4 wasn't too bad for me!

But I went into the Larxene 2 battle not realizing that was the trigger and still had my deck for Repliku which was stacked with Lightning... amazingly I actually got her down to her final health bar!! So I figured that once I replaced those with something else I stood a really good chance... Nope. I'm on like my 5th try and I've done progressively worse each time. :O How does that happen?!

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Repliku 3 was easy. After a quickly failed attempt still using the deck I used for Vexen, I swapped to my standard battle deck and took him down with little trouble.

I know this is Meaghan Martin (Jessica from Until Dawn) as Namine. Not sure if this is what I was expecting her voice to sound like. I really liked her when I played the GBA version, but I never quite knew what I wanted her voice to sound like. I understand that this is her voice for most of the series but I'm actually more interested to hear Brittany Snow in KH2.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Man, I have had a LOT of nom v nom matches so far, and we aren't even halfway through round 1.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Under the Sea
Oo-De-Lally
I See the Light
Pink Elephants on Parade

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Okay, THIS was the Vexen battle that took me forever as a kid. The boss of Twilight Town, at the gates. But this time it was over quickly for me. After two miserable attempts where I died pretty quickly, I beat him fairly handily on my third attempt.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

I figured it must have been my strategy because before I went to grind I looked up the recommended level for the fight and I was significantly higher than it already.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

FINALLY caps

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

barreldragon88 posted...

I still need to get a PS4!

You can play all PS4 games on PS5.

Or most anyway. I think there was a small list of incompatible games but there wasn't anything of much significance on it, and that was at launch and they might have been fixed.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

BetrayedTangy posted...

I mean you shouldn't beat yourself up over it.

Nah, I went to the gym and the steam I needed to blow off is showing because this is one of the best cardio workouts I've had in ages

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

BetrayedTangy posted...

Oh I thought you were stuck on the 2nd Larxene earlier.

Yeah I'm just that bad at games/life lol.

Anyway I'm done for now. I'll give this another go tonight.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

BetrayedTangy posted...

grinding

Ugh. Nothing kills my interest in an RPG faster than this

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Been on this battle for over an hour now. Gonna give it a few more tries then be done for a while.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

This Vexen battle might be a lost cause for me. I'm on well over my 20th try and I haven't even come remotely close yet. And yes, I've tried changing up my deck/strategy.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

As expected, Vexen is proving to be a brick wall for me. I'm on like my seventh try. One time I actually got him down to like two health bars but every other time I've barely put a dent in him.

I also remember Riku's story being easier.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Just did Hollow Bastion. Remember in the first game where I struggled badly with Dragon Maleficent? This time I found her a bit too easy for such a late-game boss. Beat her in one try with not too much trouble.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Be Our Guest
I Just Can't Wait to be King
Let it Go
You'll Be in My Heart

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Frank went in to steal something but left the door ajar, and your sister went in, and, while Frank hid behind the open door, she decided it was finally time to clean the damn thing. As Frank slipped out the door he accidentally knocked something valuable over and broke it. Thinking it was her fault, your sister continued to clean so that it would look like whatever broke was lost or stolen during the cleaning process. That's why neither of them can confess to what happened, because they both did something wrong (or in your sister's case, believes she did nothing wrong). Now put the parrot on the witness stand to confirm this.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

pjbasis posted...

I'll pre-warn you that there's a string of boss battles near the end game that's REALLY rough.

Yep. I know I have at least one more fight each with Axel, Larxene and Repliku, two with Vexen and I think two with Marluxia. I remember the first Vexen fight being the hardest fight for me in the GBA version. I was stuck on that one for days.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Yes. Best Winnie the Pooh character.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

And Neverland will do it for tonight. Captain Hook was surprisingly tricky and took me a few tries.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

I'll support GotG

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts

Things went a little south again. Like in the first game, Atlantica was a pain. For some reason I kept getting lost looking for the second story room. The enemies were awful and somehow I ended up with a really bad deck against Ursula, which is weird because it was a deck I don't even remember making (at least not as poorly configured as it was).

Then Repliku battle II kicked my ass. Took quite a few tries and I still believe I only won by luck.

I keep ending up with like 3 cards by the end of these boss battles.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 35; Most recent - Kingdom Hearts