TOP TEN MOST Glorious(Epic Battles)

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For the record, I HAVE YET TO PLAY 358/2, Coded, or Birth By Sleep. I have 358/2, but haven't started it yet. I am quite slow. I R BAD. I could not include any battles from those games.

I also didn't include optional fights like Sephiroth or Kurt Zisa.

Quite a few comments mentioned that Xaldin and Grass Skirt Riku and/or Riku Replica should have been on the list instead of Jafar/1000 Heartless. I can understand that, but I felt like Xaldin and Hollow Bastion Riku were already on some older lists of mine, so I kept them in the "honorable mention" territory.

Once I've played the handheld games, I'm sure the list will a bit different.


Other than that, the comments were mostly pretty good and in general agreement. YAY!

Top Ten Epic battles progress

I've got the Playlist for my top ten list for Kingdom Hearts Ultimania. Now it's just a question of getting them in order. #1 has already been decided and it's been decided for many MONTHS(er, at least a year). Beyond that? I honestly don't think it'll be too difficult to determine the order, but I can see some people wondering at a couple of the choices I've made.

You'll see once I finish the guest post. :D

Halloween Week

It'll be Halloween on Friday. I simply thought about Halloween Town. It's been around in nearly all KH games and looks a very popular place. Honestly, I've never cared much for it since I don't know anything about "A Nightmare Before Christmas", except that it was well animated and generally well received. I'd only go to that world if I absolutely HAD to. However, the full moon in that world is beautiful and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Saix favored that world. Course by that logic, he'd be favoring the Pirate world too. Lol!

One thing that made the Town stand out though was "Oingo Boingo" or "Oogie Boogie". Every single boss fight with him simply stood out from all the rest because it combined games with trying to kick his ass. In Chain of Memories, he was HARD AS HELL. Then again, all the bosses were in that game. Sheesh. He's not too difficult in the other KH games, but it's dangerous to underestimate anyone in the Kingdom Hearts world.

That's what came to mind today. Maybe I should look for some YouTube vidoes on the boss fights. It's been awhile since I've seen Oogie Boogie.

Kingdom Hearts/Shadow of the Colossus

While I was playing through Shadow of the Colossus, it occurred to me that the "Pridelands" has a colossus-like enemy. It's a quadruped, and well, very big. I think it's one of the biggest in all of Kingdom Hearts. I don't know if the KH staff was influenced by SOTC, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were. Then again, Kingdom Hearts never used symbols as weak points, and you never had to worry about holding onto fur and stabbing them either.

Thanks for kh-vids.net for the battle videos.

Big ol' Pridelands boss.

Probably similar to the big four-legged beasties of Colossus, only in Kingdom Hearts, Sora had to be a little lion cub and didn't have a horse to ride on.

This one reminds me of Colossus 13 in terms of size and majesty.

Xemnas battle part Dragon. Course 13 Colossus was actually considerable bigger.

Come to think of it, Kingdom Hearts has quite a few big 'ol bosses, but these two reminds me the most of the Colossi.

Top Five Most painfully difficult battles in Kingdom Hearts

Think Kingdom Hearts 2 is hard? HAH! You have no idea! Actually, you would if you played the first one! For me, the first Kingdom Hearts was easy on some parts, but unbearably difficult in others. Quite naturally, the unforgettable battles proved to be the most difficult, with the exception of Ansem. Anyway, here is the Top five most painfully difficult battles in Kingdom Hearts. Optional battles don't count.


Five:

Leon and Yuffie --I envy the person who managed to beat these two in less than two minutes. I'm sure it was easy for some people, but not to me. See, Yuffie wasn't the problem, Leon, on the other hand, was. He had some painful attacks. I'm really not sure if this particular battle was optional, because I think much of Olympus was, but I remember having to do it, so it's here.

Four:

Oogie Boogie -- The second part of the fight proved pathetically easy, but the first part? Hah. No. HARD! Have to hand it to Oingo Boingo though(yea, that's what I tend to call him), his battles have always been rather different than the norm. This particular battle has you spinning on a wheel, and the you have to jump on a platform to get to him and hit him. Sounds easy, except it's not. The timing has to be perfect, and while you're on the wheel, you get to deal with Oogie's traps and other beasties. I had a hard time with this one because my timing was off pretty often. Bah.

Three:

Maleficent -- Her dragon form proved easy, but the first form didn't. While her patterns were straightforward enough, but her spells were painful and hard to dodge. Plus, her rock platform moved around a lot and that made it hard for me to hit her.

Two:

Chernabog -- This boss proved to be one of the biggest nightmares EVER! I never suspected a fight like this and neither did Sora from the looks of it. I thought he'd be easy since he never moved, but he never had to. It's interesting to note that his arm movements while casting a fire spell are quite similar to Axel's. Coincidence? Yea, probably so. Anyway, what made this fight so painful was that while Chernabog spelt out his hit area, to get to it proved difficult thanks to his many fire/wind spells. Add that to the Three Stooges' flying all over the place, and you ended up with a battle where you easily lost control. However, I will say this this battled provided a most satisfying defeat.

One:

Riku 2, aka Grass Skirt Riku -- At first, I had no problems with him, but the more I hit him, the more powerful he became. It didn't help that he sped up too! GAH! The gliding Sora did was nice, but it proved ineffective. In fact, just about everything I did proved ineffective. I'd rather not discuss how many times it took for me to beat him. In fact, the less said, the better.

And that's another "Top Five Down". Yay! Maybe next time the Lame Ducks will be next!

Axel in the PARTY!

Thanks to Kh-Vids.net, there's now a video of Axel replacing either Donald or Goofy! Someone found the way to do it, and exposed it for everyone to see! YAY!

How fitting that Axel is fighting Saix in this video. Makes a lot of sense because I think they were the bitterest of enemies for quite some time.

Top Five most PAINFULLY DIFFICULT BATTLES in Kingdom Hearts 2

Yes, just like the title says. Not from the Final Mix, mind you, because I don't have a copy, but from the original version. Generally, KH2 was an easy game. Anytime I had any trouble, it was because of my own stupidity rather than genuine difficulty, but that doesn't change the fact that some of the battles were downright painful. So, here are the top Five most hairpulling, frustrating, AAAAAGH-inducing battles in Kingdom Hearts 2. For the record, I'm not including the optional boss fights, like Sephiroth.

Five:

MCP and Sark--I thought it was the "Hostile Program", but I guess not. Suck, I mean Sark(I've actually called him ballsack in the past), is pathetically easy, so he's not the problem. Not even when he's 34219598 feet tall. The problem is the MCP itself. You have to defeat Sark first and then break through the walls to even get near the MCP. Worse yet, if you're too late in breaking a wall or Sark wakes up, you have to start the whole cycle again. Not to mention that MCP's attacks can be very damaging.

Four:

Luxord. Yes, Luxord. You can stop laughing now. What made him so hard was that it took a lot of getting used to. Only Demyx was this unique. Actually, Luxord's was probably the most unique, and hard for me. The problem was turning into a die, timing, knowing which buttons to push, and god help you if you got them wrong. Worse yet, when you think you're close to beating him, you're not, so it's all the more painful when you DO lose. Gah.


Three:

Demyx. Over on Portal of Evil, someone was wondering "When did Kingdom Hearts 2 get so hard"? He was referring to Demyx, also known as "Gay Water Man". Others on POE also complained about him. His water clones, ESPECIALLY in the second summoning, the bubbles that never seem to miss, the fact that he's fast, and hard to catch make him one of the most difficult major KH2 battles EVER!!!!!!!!!!1111 Some people will tell you that he was easy. Yea, right. They were either overleveled, lucky, or lying through their teeth because they couldn't stand the fact that they were getting their asses handed to them by a goofy sitar player. It took me two times to beat him, which isn't much, but I still had a hard time with him, just like a whole lot of people did.

Two:

Xaldin. I dreaded fighting him. I knew he'd be hard because more people complained about him than about anyone else. Yea, I can see why. Still, I did better against him than I thought I ever would, but it helped that I was fairly high level at the time. On the first try, Mickey appeared, and I got my ass handed to me. On the second try, I didn't even need Mickey, and beat him. Yay. Doesn't change the fact that he is damned hard thanks to being able to summon a dragon to blow on you. Garh.

ONE:

Xigbar. I went into this battle thinking that I'd have an easy time. WRONG. Xigbar was HELL ON EARTH!!! AAAGH! It took me around seven times to beat him, AND I had to take time to level up before I even stood a chance. I also had to switch keyblades. The problem with Xigbar is that it's easy to lose patience and try to run into him. HE USED GUNS. You do the math hurrr. Even when being patient, Xigbar can do a great deal of damage, is hard to get to, and is even worse when you're close to beating him. So, he has the honor of being THE MOST PAINFULLY DIFFICULT FIGHT IN KH2!!!!! Not many people complain about him, but I'm one of them and just thinking about it give me a headache.

Next up: Most painfully difficult battles in KH1.

Top Five

When reading through the Gamefaqs KH2 Boss faq to look at the list of bosses, I found that trying to get FIVE proved quite difficult. Nearly all of the battles were easy and if I ever had a hard time, it was usually my own arrogance(HUUR! I don't need to heal, I am a GODDESS!!!!!) or careless stupidity that cost me the fight. Or, in the case of Luxord, it had a lot to do with not being used to the kind of battle I was up against(then again, he should count among the top five).

So, I held off posting the list tonight because I only have Three, and last time I checked, that wasn't five. Expect it tomorrow, or don't. Whatever. To be honest, I'm thinking of putting "Hostile Program" as part of the five because that one comes to mind, so will have to see.

It's interesting to note that the most difficult battles DIDN'T have the intensity that others did. Just thought I should throw that out.

The first Kingdom Hearts, however, is a no-brainer, but that one will come later. That goes for the "lame duck" list too.