Dream Drop Distance!

At Jump Festa recently Square Enix showed the trailer for Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance. Which if you haven’t seen yet you’re in for a treat.

From what Yen Sid explained at the end of Re:coded, with Xehanort’s Nobody and Heartless both defeated, Xehanort will return. And from what I can gather from what Yen Sid says is that the worlds in this game have fallen into sleep and Heartless can’t get to them. So instead we get the Dream Eaters which are both friends and foes. That’s a fun twist that should bring some different strategies to the game.

I’m guessing that Sora and Riku’s mark of mastery exam has something to do with the plot.

There will be appearances by characters from The World Ends With You, which I regret to say I haven’t played yet but it is on my list.

I am glad to see that The Hunchback of Notre Dame is finally making its debut into the Kingdom Hearts universe. That film is one of my personal favorites. I hope we have a boss battle with Frollo. Maybe atop Notre Dame itself?

I like the idea of the Three Musketeers world but I am wondering if the Musketeer Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are the same ones from Disney Castle and the rest of the series.

There will be a world based of the Pinocchio film (not just Monstro, I’m getting sick of being inside that whale) Maybe we’ll see an appearance from Honest John, Gideon, and Stromboli as well as the Blue Fairy. I don’t think bouncing around inside Monstro has given the Pinocchio film enough room to be a fun world in our favorite series.

The most recent film to be included in the ever-growing list of worlds is Tron Legacy and Tron himself will return but as Rinzler who pretty much just purred in that movie. Maybe we’ll see an appearance by Clu?

Everyone’s favorite Axel/Lea has returned which makes me especially happy

(After 358/2 I think we all wanted more Axel) He doesn’t have the little tear drop thingys under his eyes so my guess is that since Axel died in KHII and his heartless (maybe the Dark Thorn from the first Beast’s Castle visit or the Volcanic Lord from Agrabah?) have been defeated that like Xehanort, Lea has returned. Some of the other Organization XIII members look like they have also returned but as their original selves. I hope we get to see Isa again.

What confuses me is that Xehanort’s heartless and Xemnas both make appearances but so does young Xehanort as well as Vanitas. 2 of them Sora and Riku have already defeated. And Aqua and Ven got rid of Vanitas. But then again Malificent has been defeated quite a few times and is still kicking around.

So far this game looks fantastic. And I can’t wait to play it.

Boss Strategies of Kingdom Hearts 1 ~ Clayton + Stealth Sneak

I just barely started a replay of the original Kingdom Hearts game, and I've got to say that after all these years of playing the game, I am still frustrated at the final boss fight of Deep Jungle. How is it that there is such an incredibly hard boss so early in the game? Clayton and the Stealth Sneak offer such a hard challenge that I usually give up and try again a day or two later. Not this time.

I kind of figured out a little trick that I hadn't known about the last 10+ times that I've fought the Clayton and Stealth Sneak combo. Normally I go in, keyblade blazing, and just whacking the crap out of the Heartless until Clayton falls of, which actually makes the battle harder, because you have two targets instead of just one. So this time I was just goofing around and spamming blizzard like a madman on the Heartless, and to my surprise Clayton stayed on, instead of falling off like he normally does. This was surprising, because the Shadow Sneak's health was below half and I wasn't dying.

Eventually I completely ran out of magic and ethers so I had to rely on whacking the beast with the good ol' Kingdom Key. After a final combo hit, Clayton flew off and the Stealth Sneak was more than half-way dead. So I continued whittling down the Heartless's health until it was gone, which wasn't too difficult and then I focused entirely of Clayton, obviously. Without time for him to use one of his potions from his infinite stock because I was using Fire like a boss, and continuously smacking him around, the fight went by pretty quickly.

There you have it, I hope this was helpful and you might be able to use the information here to help rid Deep Jungle of those horrible creatures.


And by the way, Merry Christmas! I hope you got all the good stuff on your wish list.