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Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (2012)

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Riku was level 50 with level 3 attack relay bonus from the drop, I was using End of Pain keyblade which is obtainable before the battle with YX since you get it from doing all the special portals. The Sweet Dreams keyblade from completing flick rush would've also been functionally identical here since they have the same strength, length, and crit chance, but end of pain is way cooler looking. I did have the extra HP from secret portals which you can't normally have before YX the first time, but since I didn't get hit anyways that doesn't matter.

Okay now I'm super satisfied and done with KH3D. I still need to upload my full playthrough of no commands though. So I finally made peace with the end game bosses of KH3D, I felt guilty that of all the bosses I've fought in all my playthroughs I think the endgame bosses of KH3D are the ones I understood the least and just always cheese with big damage and healing. So I did all the fights pretty legit and was satisfied with most of them, I was satisfied with what I did for Anti Black Coat Nightmare, Ansem, and Xemnas, but the Young Xehanort one wasn't sitting right with me. I just dealt so much damage to him and got a really good pattern at the start that made it so I didn't need to see most of his moveset. I still certainly understood his fight pretty well to do that win and I certainly would say I finally had an honest win against him, but it just wasn't sitting right because it was so short. So I decided to try and do this, without spirits you can't really kill the clock on the first cycle so you have to do the time loop phase where he has less HP. Honestly I'm really, really satisfied with this one since it even deals with his time loop phase and I really had to iron out my approach and figure this guy out to a much fuller extent. Honestly, he's a pretty cool boss, he's very rough around the edges, but he's actually pretty good for what an awful rep he has. I used to think he was shit too, but honestly he's pretty neat once you start to piece it together, he's just very unintuitive and frustrating to learn. Not like an amazing or perfectly made fight by any stretch of the imagination, but far better than one would expect given the game he's in and the reputation he has.

Also, I'm aware with my damage I didn't actually need to do the time loop phase, you can do the thing where you get right up close to the clock and do counters during the clone attacks and even the X attack if you're ballsy enough to try it, but I never practiced the second phase enough to be comfortable doing that, that method makes me uneasy since you can't see the clones you're blocking and just need to memorize it to a T and be able to tell which clone attack hes using based purely on how many attacks you block in succession which is all such a chore. I probably could've killed the clock on the first cycle by just countering the clone attacks even if I didn't counter the X attack which is the scarier and iffier part anyways, but I just didn't feel like risking it and I'd rather just fight phase 1 a bit more since that's more fun anyways.

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