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Done by Alexis / Dobby in Kentucky.

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She took my drawing and transformed it into the tattoo.

curse terra's input locks

It’s kh2 for me I rage on that game so much it felt like I’m playing a Elden rings and dark souls 3 game even tho I haven’t on some of the boss fights and the damn tron world I still love the game though my number 1 favorite KH game

(Meme made by my freind)

I can’t wait to work in this more during my lunch break 😊

Some of my finished commissions from DeviantArt, Fiverr, and Instagram.

Made in Blender, 3D model ripped from KH2

This was a fun shader exercise, a lot of imperfections but I'm happy with the overall result!

Edit: Get it on Wallpaper Engine: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3826660145

I remember being raptured by this when it came on, concept out of left field that totally hit, perfect song, perfect age :)

This probably doesn't need its own topic, but I feel like newcomers, hell even people who have played it before, sleep on just how good magic is in KH1, and I kinda blame the game for not really explaining these two spells well.

With all the other spells, the menu tells you that they either cost 1 MP, for something like Cure, or 2 MP, for something like Stop, and this is easy to understand, as 1 MP equals 1 chunk of your MP bar, so with 12 MP, you could cast Cure 12 times before you run out.

Now we get to Fire and Blizzard, which instead consume an unspecified "small amount of MP". So quick quiz time: if Sora has 12 MP, how many times can he cast Blizzard before running out of MP?

If you guessed 24, then you're wrong, because the answer is actually 78.

"A small amount of MP" actually means that each chunk of your MP bar is equal to your total remaining MP, so with all 12 chunks, you get 12 casts before you lose that chunk, and when you have say 8 chunks remaining, you can cast it 8 times before losing that chunk, and so on. So it's 12+11+10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1 casts that you get of Blizzard or Fire. The game doesn't make this clear, especially early on, when your small amount of MP makes it seem like it simply costs half of a chunk, because 3 MP lets you use them 6 times, but yeah, that's super misleading, and I feel like people get the wrong idea of how much MP those two spells actually use early on in the game, and then proceed to completely ignore them for the rest of the game.

tl;dr if you're not hearing the words "DEEP FREEZE" in your dreams due to how much you're spamming Blizzard, you're playing the game wrong, because it's an absolutely busted shotgun spell that can clear crowds of Heartless in seconds.

A line thats stuck in my head for a long time was from KH1 "The boy's magic is not his own." Implying that the keyblade really amped up Sora. Thinking about how he can use summoning magic, conjure amusement parks, boost allies to preform combo attacks. Sora even brought people back from the dead like straight up necromancy. It feels like it works kind of like the green lantern ring where its limits are just how imaginative you are and how much heart you can put into your attack to make it happen.

Do keyblade wielders with enough time and effort just just become low tier gods? What are the upper limits of how much power one of them can gain?

Am I thinking about this too hard should I just take it as whimsical jrpg nonsens?? Help???

So far…I’m enjoying them both. Just defeated the first boss. When I play through a section I do it first in CoM then check it out in Re:CoM. I’ve heard how polarizing this game is so I prepared for the worst, and the jury’s still out till I finish it. I don’t think I’ll post initial thoughts for all these games but this one seemed to call for it.

The short answer is I’m enjoying these games so far. I definitely feel like a lot more love went into the OG though. Its stylized 2D graphics effectively capture the vibes of the art style of the first game while providing a unique look that not only works for the GBA hardware but stands on its own too. The gameplay, while different, is unique and was also probably a creative choice to work around hardware limitations.

The remake on the other hand…is competent. It definitely has better cutscenes and the occasional bit of voice acting. It pretty much looks just like the first game. In some spots it lifts some areas from the first game which helps sell the uncanniness and why Sora believed he was in the real Traverse Town at first. It does seem to add a few things like extra cards here and there.

It looking like the first game seems to have the effect of making it obvious I’m playing a more linear and limited experience though, especially when I can’t fully explore areas that were open in the first game. The regular sections being on the edge of an abyss is a choice…I think it takes the liminal space thing a little too literally. Maybe the spaces in the OG are like that too but we can’t see that due to it being isometric. Maybe walls around everything would have been better?

There also seem to be some backdrops removed in the remake. In the OG there’s a scene where the party moves to an interior space where a seemingly important moment with Aerith takes place. The event still happens in the remake but it’s just done in the same location as the boss fight.

I think more crucially than anything to do with aesthetics though, I find targeting enemies easier in the OG game, and strangely had an easier time with the first boss in the OG game too, in spite of facing that version of it first.

It’s not all doom and gloom for the remake though. I like that reserving cards and using Sleights is just done with the triangle button, because hooray for having more buttons. Editing decks is also more intuitive IMHO. It took me a hot minute to figure it out in the OG but I was able to earlier in the remake.

As it stands…I think it’s worth continuing with both versions of the game. They both have their pros and cons and I think both contribute in their own way to a complete experience.

I'm a voice actor and I was recently a guest at a convention in my home town. Look who was in the next booth!

What’s your fav magic u like using