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Frostbite.

I dont think so

i love her personality

And style

Yeah me too

Her style to so cool everyone shut up.

She cartwheels.

Aqua best gurl

Yee.

Plus she's the most mature character and I find that extremely attractive

Kh3 Riku?

Ehhhhhh it's a close race

Ah yes.

Maturity from trauma.

Absolutely. Going through a bit of suffering builds character.

Life isn't always sunshine and rainbows and it's healthy to acknowledge that.

Fights like Oogie's are a reason why I'm not the hugest fan of KH2. It's gimmicky, annoying, and doesn't test your combat skills in any real way.

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Dodging and guarding are a combat

I mean I guess? But the rest of the fight is only certain intervals you’re allowed to damage him at

It took too many cues from Zelda games in that fight I think

forced periods of inaction, in a sense. the fight is extended to a certain duration due to not being able to damage the boss during said times. it breaks up the flow of combat in a less-than-appealing way

Yes like a Zelda game almost, there are certain intervals where you can't damage a boss until a certain phase

i'm not so sure. with the zelda bosses, you can continue to try various things, even if they have a shield, for example. there's a specific thing you end up needing to do in order to continue/finish the battle, usually involving dealing enough damage or using a certain item.
with the oogie boogie fight, it's literally dragged out by preventing you from dealing hp damage, and the only thing you can do is wait until he becomes available again

Exactly. It’s not like you’re failing to figure out the puzzle; it’s literally just “firetruck you, you’re not allowed to damage me”.

played a game recently where the boss has a specific hp threshold where it switches to a new phase. not via cutscene, either, just a phase change. the problem is, once you hit that point, you're prevented from doing any damage until he finishes the animation for the phase change (or at the very least, it's difficult to do damage). that's unnecessary: if they didn't want me to be able to do damage, just make it a cutscene or something, don't dangle agency in front of me like a dollar on a string

Earlier zelda games have certain phases in that fashion though, not counting BotW

Oh for sure. Even OOT is like that. The very first boss, for example, climbs up the wall and makes you dodge enemies for a bit before beginning the next phase. Really pointless.

Yeah that's what I meant, it just unnecessarily implements too much from early zelda games for oogie boogie fight in 2