KH2FM HD True LV1 ND (12) - Pooh's Book and Hades Escape (Restrictions)
0Winnie the Pooh's book gets bullied to near death and I was near death myself during my escape from Hades' Chamber in The Underworld. The thrill is only the beginning! Figured I should add the "True LV1" to the playthrough title, because that is essentially what my stats are and will be during the whole playthrough.
Quick jump:
0:06 - The Pooh's book Heartless fight
1:19 - Scripted Hades and stats
2:25 - Escape from Hades
Playlist
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnXUuXhxDghIoqAEROkha_D_HJhmP2fgj
Restrictions:
Critical Mode
Level 1
No taking damage
AI party members set to "Sora Attack"
No stat boosts
No AP boosts (experimental, should be doable?)
No equipment
No accessories
No recovery items
The Heartless fight is nothing special. Hit the Soldiers a couple times to trigger the Cyclone reaction command and Hollow Bastion's defense systems only get in the way of my combos at worst.
The Underworld's first mandatory fight is the escape from Hades as the party comes to a conclusion that they cannot fight him in their current state. Consisting of three battle areas and four waves of enemies, this is not wholly a difficult fight to win, but no damaging this one gets risky (and interesting) during the the third area, more or less because of Hades who is, indeed, invincible the whole time and can easily ruin a decent ND run.
Hookbats in the first area are easy damage to everything that moves (except Hades), the lance soldiers in the second area can be dealt with without a fuzz thanks to air combos. They are my general go-to tool in this fight, as Hades' fireballs don't track, meaning I can avoid them as long as I'm not badly positioned to receive one at the end of a combo.
The last two enemy waves are interesting, as they have two Hookbats and two lance soldiers at the doorstep. However, the Lance Soldiers' behaviour remained a bit unpredictable to me in this particular phase, as the two would usually seek to poke me instantly, but instead opted to strategically retreat in this run instead. It was in my best interest to react to their aggressive running towards me, as this was always an indicative of them initiating the quick poke move next, which you see me counter first in the second area... but alas, I got everything but that. I even ended up clashing with the Lance Tug reaction command move before initiating it. Could've been an easy failure right there.
The Large Body that spawns in the last wave of Heartless can be a potential run destroyer, but it seems I got out of the repelled reaction command just fine. I cannot deny the tensity I felt as Hades was throwing fireballs and that huge mass of darkness was sliding towards me with vigor. This took me a while (again) to get this done, but at least I took down Cerberus that follows after this. A video of that fight will be coming soon.
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