KH Birth By Sleep Final Mix (PS4) - Maleficent (LV1 Critical/Ventus) *No Zero EXP/No Damage*
0My button setup coming back to bite me. I stated during my ReCoM playthrough that I play the PS4 ports with the X and O buttons flipped using the PS4's accessibility menu. You can imagine how much of a pain the Fairy's reaction command is having to press them in reverse.
This fight was a lot harder to no damage then I expected. Most of her attacks are easy to deal with, the big problem is that she has a counter attack she sometimes does when you attack her. The only thing telegraphing the counter is when your attacks cause her to stagger instead of super armoring through it. Problem is, its random when she counters after getting hit and sometimes it happens so quickly you have no time to get out of your attack's ending lag.
I highly recommend you save abuse to rare meld the Ars Arcanum command because Maleficent has a large amount of defense for this point in the game and you can barely damage her. Without it you pretty much have to rely on Terra's Sonic Blade and Finisher to do any damage. For Ars Arcanum, just keep melding a Blizzard with either Quick Blitz or Sliding Dash until you get it.
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Q: What does the title mean by "No Zero EXP"?
A: In the HD version of BBS, Zero EXP was given hidden properties to buff you up to an acceptable Strength and Magic level to actually deal damage to enemies that are way stronger then you. This also happens in the HD version of KH1 but unlike in that game, this game goes way overboard and makes it actually more viable to play the game at Level 1 then Critical Mode normally. Because of this, I am removing Zero EXP on bosses to get the true Level 1 like on the PSP version.