Week 4 - Rhythm Heaven/Rhythm Tengoku Gold
Anyone else bought this game because Tsunku produced the music? Bought the Japanese version at Anime Expo 2009, I believe a few hours after Tsunku's panel.
Anyway, finished 30 levels so far, 20 bonus levels to go. A few were easy. The rest, difficult until I got the pace and tempo right. 13 years of playing the clarinet paid off when it come to rhythm.
Maybe in the future I'll get to getting all perfect medals. For now, just completing all 50 levels is good enough for me.
Update on Kingdom Hearts Final Mix: about 95% complete
- All keyholes sealed
- All 99 dalmatians found
- All Trinity Marks located
- All Summons found
- All keyblades, shields, and staves found, bought, won, or synthesized
- All mini-games played
- All Colosseum Cups completed (together, solo, time trial)
- All synthesis items made
- All 3rd-tiered spells learned
- All Heartless, included exclusive ones, found and defeated
- Sora, Donald, & Goofy at level 100
A lot of progressed made since my last post. And to think all I had to do was give all the AP, Defense, and Strength boosts to Sora.
Before that I had difficulty not only in defeating some bosses, I had problems with a few Heartless and wasting a
ton of potions and ethers. With all those stat boosts, I was going through enemies in single hits.
As for level grinding: a
lot faster than I had anticipated, especially after beating Riku in Hollow Bastion. I think after synthesizing about 15 items I got the Encounter Plus ability, which increases the rate and spawning of Heartless. And a certain accessory that gave me an additional 20% exp for every Heartless defeated. I was getting almost 100-200 exp for every enemy. Synthesizing 2 more exp boosting accessories gave me an additional 50% increase. Most of the hours of gameplay were obtaining synthesis materials, and a rare shield and staff for Goofy and Donald that are rarely dropped from Defenders and Wizards (~0.02% drop rate).
Having 3 Lucky Strike abilities to increase drop rates made things a little bearable.
All those hours spent on farming items and level grinding were worth it.
Why?
I fucking beat Sephiroth on Proud Mode!!!! Took me 3 tries to beat him.
3 tries. Back when I played the original PS2 game on normal mode it took me
days to beat him. At max level. With the Ultima Keyblade.
The first two attempts he got me with one move where all my MP is gone and my HP is dropped to 1. Used Sonic Blade only once, Ragnarok maybe as well, and 1 or 2 Elixirs. All I can remember is casting Aeroga and Curaga throughout the match, a few hits here and there, and a lot of dodge rolls and jumping to evade most of his attacks. Everything went so quickly I wouldn't be surprised that I only fought Sephiroth in less than 10 minutes.
With the 'One-Winged Angel' out of the way, only 1 more Secret Boss left to fight before going after Ansem. Also need to complete those gummi missions, find all the gummi ship blueprints, and fill out Jiminy's journal entries.