Kingdom Hearts 1 FM (PS4): Part 9: A Cloudy Presence in Olympus Coliseum
7After some freshening up, it's time to head out to another world. You can go in the opposite way you went to reach Wonderland to get to it.
Olympus Coliseum is the world from Disney's Hercules. You're gonna be seeing this world A LOT throughout these games!
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As the name implies, this world is mainly centered around its own coliseum, and the events and competitions that take place in it.
A short satyr named Phil has Sora do him a quick favor of pushing a pedestal block. Sora tries, but it's way too heavy for him to move. After Phil gets mad about that, he turns around and realizes that Sora wasn't the guy he though he was talking to. The guy he meant to talk to is a hero, something he doesn't consider of the Traveling Trio.
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So Phil tries to challenge Sora by putting him through some barrel trials. All you have to do is go through two trails to break all of their barrels before time runs out. The trick is to lock on and use a combo finisher to send barrels flying into each other to break more of them at once.
After completing these trials, Phil rewards you with the Thunder magic.
Annoyingly, though, the team still isn't allowed to take on the real games, because they don't have an entry pass...
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So then, the Traveling Trio take an early, grumpy leave from the Olympus Coliseum. This was changed, however, when a blue, fiery being handed them a free entry pass, allowing them into Phil's games, after all.
That fiery guy was Hades. It's clear that he did this for no good intentions...
Talk to Phil, again, and you can start the Preliminaries!
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For the Preliminaries, you have to win 8 matches in a row to complete the whole thing. Some cutscenes will happen after certain matches.
After Match 1, the trio talks to Phil about being heroes, again, but then, another shadowy figure walks past them with a long cape, and blonde, spiky hair...
It was Cloud. Cloud Strife, but not quite the same guy you may remember him as...
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After Match 3, Phil muses about the hero he was talking about this whole time: Hercules. He's not here, right now, but Phil sure wishes he could show up to watch his new competition.
After Match 5, we see why Hades gave Sora that free entry pass. He's trying to set him up, so that Cloud can go in and kill him and his friends. Cloud, on the other hand, reminded Hades through his contract that he was only assigned to kill Hercules. All he has to do is kill Sora, first.
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So naturally, in Match 7 (appropriately), the final match, you fight Cloud, himself.
He will either slash you up close, stab you from the sky, or unleash his lightning fast Sonic Blade. Just mind how you approach him and use both your eyes and ears to figure out how he's about to attack.
I just BARELY managed this.
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Sora knocks Cloud to his knees, but when it seemed like the fight was over, a monster suddenly appeared. It was Cerberus, and Hades unleashed him into the ring.
Before Cerberus could attack anyone, Hercules finally makes his grand appearance by holding back the three-headed dogbeast, allowing Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Phil to head back inside the Lobby.
This competition sure is full of twists and turns, already!