Done and Dusted! My second Kingdom Hearts platinum trophy!

I finally got the Kingdom Hearts 3 platinum trophy! It's my 42nd trophy on the account, I deliberately added a new game before it just to get this to Platinum 42 because it's a number I have a history with. Before I played video games, I read books and one of the first book series I read was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, may he rest in peace. I never read the final book, which basically reset the Earth, but I loved the first two books. 42 has a special significance in that series.

Almost done with KH3

I don't own the image here with the beholder, that is from Puffin Forest's video. All credit for his wonderful artwork is his.

So anyways, I have been busy. I have finally managed to get a few things done.

1. Got the trophies for the minigames in Arandelle and San Fransokyo. Shield Shredder was a pain in the tookkis to get since you have to avoid hitting anything and keep your x8 modifier by collecting gems constantly. But I finally got it and now I have to go through the race nine more times to get the rest of the treasures for the Orichalcum+.
2. Got the A rank score for the super Flash Tracer course, which stinks. The only Flan I have to make very happy to get the Orichalcum+ from the Flans is that stupid melon flan in this world which requires bouncing on flans and you free fall if you bounce on too many and end up missing the flan bounce pad. :(
3. Still hate Verum Rex, I will eventually get that 12 million score someday.
4. Wasted all my honey on fails on the Bistro dishes. Egg-cracking suckings and I even missed a few flambes and pepper shakers. I did not fail a single chop the food minigame as Alton Brown taught me never to chop too close to your fingers. ;)
5. Finally have to grind for levels and Synth items to get the rest of the synth recipes complete.

So I am at 77% trophy completion, higher than the other Kingdom Hearts main titles. My next mission will probably be to go to KH2 and farm for synth items to complete the synth notes so I can get that trophy and get it out of the way. Not really going to be into KH1 for a while as I dread having to repeat the Hades cup twice without breaks. Then again, the Hades Paradox Cup will suck. I want to make sure I get the high score on that first try so I don't have to do it again as 50 rounds sucks.

Birth by Sleep is coming along, will probably get EXP walker and do the same thing for Ven as I did with Terra. I am running Aqua alongside him because I don't care about the stickers right now, I just want Ven and Aqua to complete their stories so I can get the remaining episodes and get the trophy for Critical Mode completion so I can start over with everyone to get the journals 100%.

Dream Drop Distance... meh, I will get there eventually. It's not that hard.

So I am just Goofying around until the KH3 DLC drops and I find out what horrors of trophies await.

All in all, KH3 is decent but they need to make their hardcore fans happy. Even though the trophy for Master Chef and Centurion are annoying, it's not that hard.

For anyone interested...

SORA! THIS IS NOT THE TIME!!!!!!!! X(

I am planning on doing a special event on another blog where we try to go past 100% trophy completion in Kingdom Hearts III. If it gets a lot of feedback, I might expand it to other games in the series as we wait impatiently for Kingdom Hearts 4. :)

I got inspired by Walt the Dog's Let's Play Neptunia thread on PSNP. If you really want to go above and beyond the easy trophy list, then check the blog out.

Please... LET IT GO

Yes, it's the Damn Meme Song. Go ahead and drag me through the streets naked with wild horses. :p

So I have finally gotten more progress in Kingdom Hearts 3, and actually decided to go through the cutscenes in Arandelle, the Frozen world. I was very worried about THIS MOVIE getting into Kingdom Hearts, I was with the Frozen haters and when they said it was confirmed, I was going to get upset especially when they said the whole "Let It Go" number would be included and cringed, waiting for the inevitable...

But, as I had expected, it was not bad to me at all. I actually liked Elsa singing as she created her ice palace. I was giving bad hate to this song because it was a meme that created viral videos in Youtube, but this movie is not bad. I think Kingdom Hearts really dilutes the eventual poison of Disney.

Also, the fact that my favorite Organization XIII member, Larxene, was taunting Sora during this and had actually LOCKED Sora et al in a MAZE OF ICE she created with electromagnetism, I think that it really made the story cooler, no pun intended. My only gripe: Hans is made mute. I know that they probably weren't able to acquire the voice actor for this villain but Mother Gothel got her lines before she got transformed, why not Hans? :(

Now to watch the Monsters Inc. cutscenes.

I am now 2/3 of the way to the end. I just have to complete the last two worlds, Caribbean and San Fransokyo. Having not seen either the Pirates of the Caribbean movies or Big Hero 6, I am hoping not to get too delusional when I watch the Big Hero 6 stuff. I should go there now. :)

Wow, so amazing!

My Kingdom Hearts 3 journey is going well, and I am so amazed at this game. While the canon path is Toy Box => Corona, I decided to tackle Corona first to get its world Keyblade(I was watching a speedrun of the game) and I was so awed.

I have never watched Tangled, and yet this game retells the story with its own OP inserted in. Marluxia's return was not surprising but I was impressed that he managed to escape Castle Oblivion. To be honest, I got spoiled to the whole story of the game by a video and it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, but it was nice to get to see Sora, Donald and Goofy interact with Flynn Rider and Rapunzel.

The folktale of Rapunzel is one of the stories that intrigued me the most. Disney has the Midas Touch to all tales it grabs under its wings, and this was no different. The versions of Rapunzel's tale I've seen are... not as family-friendly as Disney's bawlderization of this, but they all involved a girl with hair so long it was the only way to get into the tower and an evil stepmother who locked her up to keep her from getting hit on by men for her beauty.

To be honest, the scene where Rapunzel gets a haircut(no spoilers) might have well been ripped from the movie but watching Sora and his two goofballs charge to the tower, fighting off Nobodies and Heartless like no business was awesome. The bosses here were fun too but I won't spoil them.

Getting the only missable item in the game, the Forest Clasp, even though it's outdated by the endgame, is still really nice. I like how Sora and Rapunzel interact and it was worth 13 years of real time to make sure we get stuff like this. Stuff like this makes me not feel so bad that the only returning worlds were Olympus(which has been in KH since Day 1) and the Pirates of the Caribbean property, which really pops this time thanks to the Unreal Engine, the KH2 Port Royal world really didn't look very clean in the graphical engine.

What's even cooler is that the worlds are not ghost towns, you actually walk by people living in the world. Yes, there are monsters in each world but the game cordons them to areas where people are not wandering around. You only see other humans in the castle town of Corona and it was fun having Sora dance at the festival.

Now on to the stuff I enjoyed outside of this world:

• The Lucky Emblem hunt is awesome. It's like a scavenger hunt but it doesn't need to be done if you don't want to do it. But I am a grubby hoarder so I hunt for every chest and lucky emblem. I am pissed off that I missed a chest in Corona. XD
• Classic Kingdom was introduced in the mobile Union X game but thankfully you do not have to score high to get the trophies involving these LCD game knock-offs.
• The Bistro mini-games are not too punishing though I think the egg-cracking game is the hardest to do correctly, I kept messing up the first few times as you must tilt the sticks VERY gently to avoid smashing the egg. Still, collecting ingredients around the worlds and using them to make food buffs really makes things nifty. I had my doubts about Remy (which I wish they had named him but I understand that nobody knows Remy's name but the rat himself) but it was funny to see him grab Sora's hair and body-snatch him. ;)
• Now that Sora has Superjump it's nice to see him Flowmotioning like he did in Dream Drop Distance although he can't do the jumps too much. Nice way to skip boring routes.
• Wall parkour is pretty awesome!

I am spacing out this game because I don't want to delve too deep into it. Am in the Toy Story world. Have seen a bit of the first movie but I like how Young Xehanort split the world in two and that's why we don't see many Toy Story characters. Love the Final Fantasy game commercial with the shonen characters, and if the epilogue is real, Riku is going to meet Yozora. ^_^

So yeah, I am playing KH3 now...

[picture coming soon]

So yeah, finally popped in the Kingdom Hearts 3 disc and started playing. Played through Olympus and nearly died to the stupid gang of minotaur Heartless at the beginning of the Realm of the Gods. Then I keep failing at airstepping and nearly died at the Storm Titan because I had to airstep.X(

Then I got to Twilight Town and got thrown into a fight with Snipers. F'king Snipers. Then a DEMON TIDE which kept juggling Sora into the air. I hope Aerial Recovery is still a thing because this is going to really old real quick if Sora keeps getting tossed into the sky by enemies. :(

The gummi ship and rail grinding is ripped from Ratchet and Clank A Crack in  Time, but I didin't mind, except the gummi ship takes a while to center the reticle. I love the Gummi Heartless battles.

Just finished the Demon Tide and now have access to Twilight Town but I'll hold off the game until later because I have plans to work on Dream Drop Distance's platinum from a guide.

All in all, I think the game is really enjoyable and lovely though having to deal with all of these situation command options is annoying and Flowmotion sucks in this game.

Kingdom Hearts 50%

I am going to be starting up my copy of Kingdom Hearts 3 this March but to get ready and go back over the story, I've been working on platinuming Kingdom Hearts games from the 1.5+2.5 Remix collection. Here is where I am so far.

I've actually gotten pretty decently far into this. I am doing everything on Beginner Mode but I have started a Proud Mode run. I've been grateful that the PS4 version of K.H.F.M. has stacking difficulty trophies and I got all of the Gummi ship trophies, something I failed to do on the PS3 version. Though Gummi Ship Collector is the only trophy on my first account I didn't have due to having to complete EVERY Gummi Mission and some are just jerkwad stupid. X(

I've done better in my Proud Runs of this game than I did Critical Runs on KH2. And yes, the first account I ever made I was surprised to have beaten Ansem's World of Chaos on PROUD Mode. :O Let's hope I can copy that task this time.

EDIT: I might do the hardest difficulty runs of these games on a blank account. That means I have to delete my account to transfer the trophies and I'll lose all my PSN purchases but... I will deal with that soon. Hit Level 100 recently so I have no excuse to avoid the Hades Cup challenges and then face the Ice Titan, Sephy, and Unknown to get the last set of trophies.

Even though I burned all of my Elixirs, I managed to defeat Xenmas and get the credits. I also got all of the puzzles, maps, Nobody entries, and even completed the tough Gummi Missions though I did Dreadnought EX Rank 1 instead of Rank 3 because I was able to modify my donut ship enough so I wasn't totally crippled. Even so those EX missions were tough!

I ended up getting Anti-Form a LOT more often than usual but I still haven't gotten the Corroded By Darkness trophy. I ended Anti-Formed against Demyx(which sucked) and Xaldin(which also sucked) but not my 13th time? SHEESH!

And I don't care what you think of me after I say this, but I f'king LOVE the songs you have to bop to in Atlantica. The best of The Little Mermaid OST. ;)

EDIT: Updated to 53% as I completed two more trophies. First, the 13 Anti-Forms, turned out I only had to Anti ONE more time for the trophy to pop. Then I ran through Paradox Titan to get that out of the way. All that's left are getting the high score for Goddess of Fate, Paradox Cerberus, Paradox Titan and go through the final 50-round slog with no breaks for Paradox Hades and get the high score on THAT as well. Then it's only to level grinding, not Level 99 yet...

YES, I FINALLY HAVE A PLATINUM IN THE KINGDOM HEARTS SERIES!

To be honest, I went through this faster than others because I just wanted to play it and get it done.

Props:

1. Good story, great characters.
2. The worlds were fine and at least they dressed up Sora and the gang in their costumes unlike the original Chain of Memories when Sora and the gang were in their normal clothes. I know the GBA couldn't program in Sora/Donald/Goofy in their Halloween Town costumes but...

Slops:

1. This 100 Acre Woods was the worst Winnie the Pooh world I have ever played. I am looking at you, Veggie Panic and Bumble Buster. X(
2. I died too many times to the final bosses in both stories. Lethal Frame is not a magic bullet as Marluxia the jerk can break out and teleport far away wasting your cards and then one-shots you with Blossom Shower. You have no choice but to break cards as Marluxia, Zexion and Ansem finale are impossible to beat if you do not break their cards. I was very lucky with Zex - he stole Riku's cards but Riku had enough to destroy his books and get the cards back and avoided Zex's sword sleight that one-shots you on Proud Mode. Not so much with Ansem.
3. Level Master = Worst Trophy. I don't mind maxing my level but when you have to rely on RNG to give you good mobs for Riku since he can't use sleights unless he's in D-Mode, he can't kill all the enemies before they get him. Even with Lexaeus and Strong Initiative rooms, it took me all night to get 12 levels to Level 99. And even at Level 99 with all upgrades, Ansem one-shotted Riku. I hate Ansem. :( Sora had it easier but I kept eating inputs and accidentally summoning Mushu instead of using the Mega Flare Sleight.
4. I know that the remake of Chain of Memories was an afterthought so they couldn't call in voices and it was remade after KH2(which is why Sora sounds like KH2 Sora instead of KH1 Sora despite him being KH1 Sora), but they could have hired scabs for the voice acting instead of having text dialogue. I am certainly glad you no longer have text dialogue for KH3!

Overall, re:Chain of Memories deserves black sheep status. I wouldn't say that it's the worst KH game in existence(that honor goes to re:coded) but it is meh. I know that there will never be a re:CoM platinum speedrun because it's impossible due to the fact that Level Master is a thing. I am never playing this again except on blank accounts for self-torture. :p

The fact this is my first KH platinum on my true account shows how desperate I was to get a KH plat before I started up KH3.

Others:

Birth by Sleep: 11%

Completed my Terra Critical Run and started my Ventus Critical Run. BBS has the easiest time with Critical, though I am sure Aqua is gonna die a zillion times AGAIN in Critical Mode. Better fuse EXP Walker and leave it overnight again! :(

Dream Drop Distance HD: 7%

Just started it, defeated Hockomonkey with Sora.

I have deleted my save because I bought the physical copy of 2.8 and want to start over. I still have all of the trophies up to that point so I can avoid using paint ball on the Dream Eaters. Following a guide to 100% the game fast.

Yes, I will eventually play Kingdom Hearts 3, don't yell at me! :(

(No pic here, sorry)

First off, I am glad Nintendo finally squelched the 'Bowsette' character by having their game (which I got and played until Soda Jungle, which sucks) by saying that the Super Crown only works with Toadette. Peachette is cute and great for jumps but you lose her so often after World 2 because you get hit so much more often. :(

But back to Kingdom Hearts 3. Yes, I have the game, still wrapped, on my kitchen counter. I do not plan on touching that wrap until March 1st.

Why? Several reasons:

(1) I am getting way too many spoiler videos showing how to platinum the game. I have already learned how to craft the Ultima Weapon and make an uber Gummi ship as well as learned about Lucky Emblems and what so not. I know that it is my obligation not to watch those tip videos if I don't want to be spoiled before I play the game but...
(2) I have other obligations. Now that I have a second HD computer, I need to use it as much as possible by playing The Sims 4(I got the latest expansion and never tried it out) and Maple Story (my old computer will be a Kishin Kanna whore and help spawn tons of enemies for my hero to slay to get the vital experience needed to survive) and I also have other games I want to platinum first, mainly at least one old Kingdom Hearts game. The only platinum I ever got was Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Remix on a very old account and I want to replicate it.
(3) I need to play through and complete Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep A Fragmentary Passage. (gag, so long a title!) This is the only story I have never finished(I only played up to the first boss) so I need to try to witness the story of Aqua's travail through the Realm of Darkness to understand how she got into such a bad condition in Kingdom Hearts 3.

That said, I realize that I shouldn't put off KH3 forever lest I end up regretting it, so I have put a limit on myself to try to get it started on the one month anniversary... and since 2019 is not a Leap Year, that means that one month from January 29 is March 1. So I will unwrap Kingdom Hearts 3 then and only then.