I know I'm gonna be torn apart for this since everyone think Birth by Sleep is the Best KH Game ever made.......but even so
I've encountered many problems with this game that bothered me because even if the game us so good...it's soooooooooooo far from being perfect compared to KH1 & KH2
I'm gonna start with the gameplay:
1\Boss Battles(the main bosses not secret ones)
The boss battles in BBS are the easiest boss battle I ever played in the series(I was playing on Proud and Critical and I didn't touch normal difficulty) they had a the Lowest HP since chain of memories and most of them either easy to beat or require a cheap strategy to get through
Example: Vanitas. You don't have to attack him constantly because he teleports after two hits everytime...the easiest way to beat him even on critical....hit him twice & dodge,..hit him twice and dodge until the green gauge is filled then do the Shotlock....rence and repeat....every fight with vanitas is like this except the last one with ventus in the Awakening(Dive to the heart if you insist) the fight with Venitas(Ventus+Vanitas) was the easiest and the stupidest fight in the entire game.that's about Vanitas....other bosses are easy to beat as long as you use you OVERPOWERED Shotlock attacks as much as possible...Master Xehanort(old form not Terranort) is so easy to the point he was never able to land a hit on me on most of the time he stares at me like a retard waiting for me to attack him....the other bosses are also easy as long as you avoid getting hit.,....the Only hard bosses were Terranort & Terranort
2\Frame rate
the framerate drop when there are al lot of unversed ..and some time it even drop when you fight a single boss even without a lot of things happening on screen
3\the Unversed
The Unversed arw whimpy and way weaker than the heartless and the nobodies....they barely pose any kind of threat once you use the overpowered Shotlock and some magic
4\some moves are increadibly overpowered
The Shotlock is so overpowered that some enemies and bosses don't stand a chance against you....not to mention that everytime you level up the Shotlock you had in your command deck the gauge will drop Slower and slower everytime you use it...making it unlimited.......also...the Zack D-Link Final finishing move is sooo unbalanced in the japanese version and it needs more balancing in the English version(even with the balancing they've done)
5\The D-links are useless
except for Zack who's the most powerful....all other D-links are useless and weak...the Only D-link I ever used other than Zack was Peter Pan
6\some glitches
there are some glitches I've encountered against some unversed....and one glitch against Master Xehanort that make him freeze in the air which allowed me to endlessly attack him
7\ Destiny Island is just a cutscene and Yen Sid's Tower had been severely got cut into two rooms
now for the Story
1\Eraqus's Actions is non-sensical and pointless
His judgement on the Mark of Mastery Test makes no sense and he's just being a Light-whore....Terra didn't use the power of Darkness...he kept it at bay until the end of the test...he never used the power of darkness against Aqua during the test....Eraqus just being obssessed with the light and from that he didn't declare Terra as a master ...increasing the Darkness in Terra's heart with that action instead of trying to hold it back......
his second action that doesn't make any sense...if he really knew about the X-blade...he should've known about the seven Lights and 13 Darkness....so..killing\sealing Ventus won't stop Xehanort from creating the X-blade....even if Ventus didn't fuse with Vanitas,Xehanort will Seek the 7 lights and 13 darkness....making his action towrad Ventus a big non-sensical mistake
2\How did the entire series happened before Aqua????????
if you noticed...Aqua has done 2 things that made the entire series happen...
first: she caused the Fight between Sora & Riku 10 years later when she refused to choose Sora to wield the keyblade by the excuse of(one keyblade is enough for any friendship) she didn't want them to fight....but this very action is one of the causes of Riku's betrayel in KH1 because Riku was chosen by Terra and Sora simply chosed by no one until he harnessed his power later on without needing Ventus's heart anymore
Second: unpurposely Saving Xehanort.
by Saving Terra's body.,Aqua also saved Master Xehanort who later caused the entire universe to be gulfed in chaos using Ansem,Xemnas and Organization XIII.you may say this is a noble sacrifice ...but I say it's a stubborn one.......she could've falled alongside him to the realm of Darkness and figure out later away to kick Xehanort out of Terra's body so she can make sure the life's of millions out there won't be harmed by Xehanort.....but by Saving Terra's Body instead of sinking with him she gave Xehanort what he exactly demanded.....this action indirectly caused the enitre universe to be invaded by the heartless and with that she indirectly gave birth to Organization XIII....Causing the Entire KH series to occur....making herself unaware that she's the cause of the Catastrophy.....and that is not a good enough explanation to how everything happened
3\Ventus's Design is just plain lazy
If the only connection between Ventus and Roxas(Sora's Nobody) is just a haircut and some clothes.....then what's the point of designing Ventus like this????...you may say that Ventus is Roxas and that is stupid because there are like a million proof that Roxas is not Ventus and He's Sora's Nobody and his hair look like Ventus because of Ventus's heart and Ventus's heart still inside Sora(that's why he can dual-wield in KH2) so what's the point.....why not give ventus his own unique design instead of rehashing the same design with some editing.....this is one of the reason's why I hate Ventus...alongside other reason's that I'm gonna explain later related to his overall characteristics
that's some of the annoyances I had with Birth by Sleep........although I still think the game is still good.....but is sooooooooo far from being perfect or being the best KH game ever made....It's just overhyped and Overrated but that doesn't mean it's a bad game.....finally......This is just my opinion and like to hear your problems with the game if you had one
I know I'm gonna be torn apart for this since everyone think Birth by Sleep is the Best KH Game ever made.......but even so
I've encountered many problems with this game that bothered me because even if the game us so good...it's soooooooooooo far from being perfect compared to KH1 & KH2
I'm gonna start with the gameplay:
1\Boss Battles(the main bosses not secret ones)
The boss battles in BBS are the easiest boss battle I ever played in the series(I was playing on Proud and Critical and I didn't touch normal difficulty) they had a the Lowest HP since chain of memories and most of them either easy to beat or require a cheap strategy to get through
Example: Vanitas. You don't have to attack him constantly because he teleports after two hits everytime...the easiest way to beat him even on critical....hit him twice & dodge,..hit him twice and dodge until the green gauge is filled then do the Shotlock....rence and repeat....every fight with vanitas is like this except the last one with ventus in the Awakening(Dive to the heart if you insist) the fight with Venitas(Ventus+Vanitas) was the easiest and the stupidest fight in the entire game.that's about Vanitas....other bosses are easy to beat as long as you use you OVERPOWERED Shotlock attacks as much as possible...Master Xehanort(old form not Terranort) is so easy to the point he was never able to land a hit on me on most of the time he stares at me like a retard waiting for me to attack him....the other bosses are also easy as long as you avoid getting hit.,....the Only hard bosses were Terranort & Terranort
2\Frame rate
the framerate drop when there are al lot of unversed ..and some time it even drop when you fight a single boss even without a lot of things happening on screen
3\the Unversed
The Unversed arw whimpy and way weaker than the heartless and the nobodies....they barely pose any kind of threat once you use the overpowered Shotlock and some magic
4\some moves are increadibly overpowered
The Shotlock is so overpowered that some enemies and bosses don't stand a chance against you....not to mention that everytime you level up the Shotlock you had in your command deck the gauge will drop Slower and slower everytime you use it...making it unlimited.......also...the Zack D-Link Final finishing move is sooo unbalanced in the japanese version and it needs more balancing in the English version(even with the balancing they've done)
5\The D-links are useless
except for Zack who's the most powerful....all other D-links are useless and weak...the Only D-link I ever used other than Zack was Peter Pan
6\some glitches
there are some glitches I've encountered against some unversed....and one glitch against Master Xehanort that make him freeze in the air which allowed me to endlessly attack him
7\ Destiny Island is just a cutscene and Yen Sid's Tower had been severely got cut into two rooms
now for the Story
1\Eraqus's Actions is non-sensical and pointless
His judgement on the Mark of Mastery Test makes no sense and he's just being a Light-whore....Terra didn't use the power of Darkness...he kept it at bay until the end of the test...he never used the power of darkness against Aqua during the test....Eraqus just being obssessed with the light and from that he didn't declare Terra as a master ...increasing the Darkness in Terra's heart with that action instead of trying to hold it back......
his second action that doesn't make any sense...if he really knew about the X-blade...he should've known about the seven Lights and 13 Darkness....so..killing\sealing Ventus won't stop Xehanort from creating the X-blade....even if Ventus didn't fuse with Vanitas,Xehanort will Seek the 7 lights and 13 darkness....making his action towrad Ventus a big non-sensical mistake
2\How did the entire series happened before Aqua????????
if you noticed...Aqua has done 2 things that made the entire series happen...
first: she caused the Fight between Sora & Riku 10 years later when she refused to choose Sora to wield the keyblade by the excuse of(one keyblade is enough for any friendship) she didn't want them to fight....but this very action is one of the causes of Riku's betrayel in KH1 because Riku was chosen by Terra and Sora simply chosed by no one until he harnessed his power later on without needing Ventus's heart anymore
Second: unpurposely Saving Xehanort.
by Saving Terra's body.,Aqua also saved Master Xehanort who later caused the entire universe to be gulfed in chaos using Ansem,Xemnas and Organization XIII.you may say this is a noble sacrifice ...but I say it's a stubborn one.......she could've falled alongside him to the realm of Darkness and figure out later away to kick Xehanort out of Terra's body so she can make sure the life's of millions out there won't be harmed by Xehanort.....but by Saving Terra's Body instead of sinking with him she gave Xehanort what he exactly demanded.....this action indirectly caused the enitre universe to be invaded by the heartless and with that she indirectly gave birth to Organization XIII....Causing the Entire KH series to occur....making herself unaware that she's the cause of the Catastrophy.....and that is not a good enough explanation to how everything happened
3\Ventus's Design is just plain lazy
If the only connection between Ventus and Roxas(Sora's Nobody) is just a haircut and some clothes.....then what's the point of designing Ventus like this????...you may say that Ventus is Roxas and that is stupid because there are like a million proof that Roxas is not Ventus and He's Sora's Nobody and his hair look like Ventus because of Ventus's heart and Ventus's heart still inside Sora(that's why he can dual-wield in KH2) so what's the point.....why not give ventus his own unique design instead of rehashing the same design with some editing.....this is one of the reason's why I hate Ventus...alongside other reason's that I'm gonna explain later related to his overall characteristics
that's some of the annoyances I had with Birth by Sleep........although I still think the game is still good.....but is sooooooooo far from being perfect or being the best KH game ever made....It's just overhyped and Overrated but that doesn't mean it's a bad game.....finally......This is just my opinion and like to hear your problems with the game if you had one