Here are some tips from someone who has beaten most of Level 1 Critical and is now doing Critical with leveling, I've also beaten KH2 vanilla on Standard and Proud multiple times, plus FM on Standard. In no particular order: 1. Use your magic. Fire, Blizzard, and Thunder are all really good early-game. You won't get them until you get to Sora's parts but they're all really good tools that take out lots of heartless easily. Use the lock on and make sure your shots don't miss though. Later on you'll get spells like reflect and magnet which are very helpful for easy heartless slaying and defense. Time your reflects well. 2. Use your summons. Each summon is gotten throughout the story from different chests. Chicken Little is really good and basically acts as a magnet spell that can stun enemies, never use FPS mode though it sucks. Stitch is a free mp recharge, you can spam magic attacks all you want even cure and basically instantly get it back right away. Genie is kind of confusing but he has different forms similar to drives that all do different attacks which can be broken. Peter Pan is a stunlocker that stuns bosses and lets you jump slash and jump slash and loop them into doing the same thing over and over again. He also heals you if you die. 3. Use your drive forms and level them up. All of the drive forms are good for different things. Valor is good for doing combos and levels up by hitting enemies with a certain amount of attacks. Wisdom is good at magic and has quick run for speeding around. Limit is overpowered and has really good limits. I recommend using Sonic Blade and Ars Arcanum, his limits also heal you. Master Form is really good too and keeps you in the air a lot, use it when you have aerial enemies. Final Form is straight up broken, especially when using firaga to destroy things. The drive meter drains really fast when you use it though. Finally, Anti-Form can actually do a lot of damage but you turn into a glass cannon so be careful and run away if you need to or are low on health. 4. Don't be afraid to quit the game if you're feeling frustrated. Critical is actually really difficult even as a veteran of KH2 since it came out. But that being said don't give up on it. All fights are based on skill, (apart from some bs like light cycle and hot rods). There's not really much rng involved and most things can be won if you learn their patterns. I recommend watching level 1 critical strategies by Bizkit047 if you need help. 5. Have fun and enjoy the game. The hard fights, the easier fights, the fun moments, the silly moments, the sad moments, and especially the music.
14:26 the destiny island in kh1 was a play island, the scene here is the mainland. Towns houses, government, school, people, etc They went into detail, but it was only spoken of occasionally but it does get shown or explained later. Kh1, child riku talks to child Sora, and is determined to leave Destiny islands with him. “When we grow up, let’s get off of this island” A moment later it’s revealed that it was the day Kairi appeared, residing at the mayor’s house. And as Kairi said, with no memories of her past life. Which also gets explained in future games.
Critical mode is the hardest setting. They toss in a few exclusive mercy skills, (it’s not carry over) then let you loose with 1/2 hp, 1//2 mp, and a stat famine. You can overcome some of it with grinding, hunting, and synthing, but it’s a growing nightmare with no prep. Also… if it’s console, there’s 99 save slots. In kh3, it’s a nightmare out the gate. But it actually does let you carry your key blades over.
When I was young the only 2 I played on the easiest difficulty was kh1 and bbs but ever since the remix came out I've just been playing them on the hardest difficulty yes even chain of memories I've even gone as far to beat all the super bosses
Honestly I feel like the introduction of Critical mode in Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix was made as a response to the people who absolutely HATED the vanilla KH2 for being a mindless brainless button masher at least the way I see it
Yea that’s a good perspective on it too because it essentially can be a button masher but I also fell like you can play differently than mashing and actually cook up some combos
Just wait till you try kh3 critical mode. Makes kh2 feel easy. I spent about 9 hours on the final boss stage. I’m not an amazing player but I’m pretty good too. Beat kh2 crit with very few problems just kill every heartless you see and you’ll get the xp to level up at a good pace. Kh3 is a different beast
This was my first critical mode experience. Currently I am now just after the 1000 heartless battle. Keep trying bro. “That is crazy to say to somebody 😭😭”
@@NonstickSQYD yea that’s what I’m gonna do cus I guess I’m so used to rushing into fights knowing I can take more hits but now I gotta move at a slower paxe
I just finished beating KH2 for the first time and I used critical mode (I have a problem) and it was actually so much fun, I could almost just recommend jumping into the game with critical immediately
Here are some tips from someone who has beaten most of Level 1 Critical and is now doing Critical with leveling, I've also beaten KH2 vanilla on Standard and Proud multiple times, plus FM on Standard. In no particular order:
1. Use your magic. Fire, Blizzard, and Thunder are all really good early-game. You won't get them until you get to Sora's parts but they're all really good tools that take out lots of heartless easily. Use the lock on and make sure your shots don't miss though. Later on you'll get spells like reflect and magnet which are very helpful for easy heartless slaying and defense. Time your reflects well.
2. Use your summons. Each summon is gotten throughout the story from different chests. Chicken Little is really good and basically acts as a magnet spell that can stun enemies, never use FPS mode though it sucks. Stitch is a free mp recharge, you can spam magic attacks all you want even cure and basically instantly get it back right away. Genie is kind of confusing but he has different forms similar to drives that all do different attacks which can be broken. Peter Pan is a stunlocker that stuns bosses and lets you jump slash and jump slash and loop them into doing the same thing over and over again. He also heals you if you die.
3. Use your drive forms and level them up. All of the drive forms are good for different things. Valor is good for doing combos and levels up by hitting enemies with a certain amount of attacks. Wisdom is good at magic and has quick run for speeding around. Limit is overpowered and has really good limits. I recommend using Sonic Blade and Ars Arcanum, his limits also heal you. Master Form is really good too and keeps you in the air a lot, use it when you have aerial enemies. Final Form is straight up broken, especially when using firaga to destroy things. The drive meter drains really fast when you use it though. Finally, Anti-Form can actually do a lot of damage but you turn into a glass cannon so be careful and run away if you need to or are low on health.
4. Don't be afraid to quit the game if you're feeling frustrated. Critical is actually really difficult even as a veteran of KH2 since it came out. But that being said don't give up on it. All fights are based on skill, (apart from some bs like light cycle and hot rods). There's not really much rng involved and most things can be won if you learn their patterns. I recommend watching level 1 critical strategies by Bizkit047 if you need help.
5. Have fun and enjoy the game. The hard fights, the easier fights, the fun moments, the silly moments, the sad moments, and especially the music.
it physically hurt me when the game froze while you were trying to save. great video dude!
Bro I wish I had a face cam for that part I was sick and thanks man!
14:26 the destiny island in kh1 was a play island, the scene here is the mainland. Towns houses, government, school, people, etc
They went into detail, but it was only spoken of occasionally but it does get shown or explained later.
Kh1, child riku talks to child Sora, and is determined to leave Destiny islands with him. “When we grow up, let’s get off of this island”
A moment later it’s revealed that it was the day Kairi appeared, residing at the mayor’s house. And as Kairi said, with no memories of her past life.
Which also gets explained in future games.
@@DemiTrusdale3 ok now it’s coming back to me I remember them saying that in a cutscene
Critical mode is the hardest setting.
They toss in a few exclusive mercy skills, (it’s not carry over)
then let you loose with 1/2 hp, 1//2 mp, and a stat famine.
You can overcome some of it with grinding, hunting, and synthing, but it’s a growing nightmare with no prep.
Also… if it’s console, there’s 99 save slots.
In kh3, it’s a nightmare out the gate. But it actually does let you carry your key blades over.
Ahh ok that’s good to know then
Me struggling on Proud Mode:
Man that looks tough too
Wait until you get to the Timeless River with the Hot Rods... that is going to be literal hell. And the giant heartless in Mulan's world. Good luck.
Oof I forgot about that part in the timeless river
Bro didn't even get to the infamous Axel fight 💀
Bro it was 3 am and I was getting my ass handed to me by those nobodies 🤣 I’m saving that fight for the beginning of the next video though
Critical mode is for after youve already beaten the game like 7 times as a kid lmaooo
Man I can tell but I gotta give the people what they want
@@whoskoji the demyx fight is gonna suck so bad just a fair warning
@@naysayerck5971 that sounds like it’s gonna be awful
When I was young the only 2 I played on the easiest difficulty was kh1 and bbs but ever since the remix came out I've just been playing them on the hardest difficulty yes even chain of memories I've even gone as far to beat all the super bosses
At this point I only play kingdom hearts on critical
Honestly I feel like the introduction of Critical mode in Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix was made as a response to the people who absolutely HATED the vanilla KH2 for being a mindless brainless button masher at least the way I see it
Yea that’s a good perspective on it too because it essentially can be a button masher but I also fell like you can play differently than mashing and actually cook up some combos
Wow, did you make that animation at the end? Cool stuff
@@MrProg-ey3tl nah it was a guy ik that did it for me
Just wait till you try kh3 critical mode. Makes kh2 feel easy. I spent about 9 hours on the final boss stage. I’m not an amazing player but I’m pretty good too. Beat kh2 crit with very few problems just kill every heartless you see and you’ll get the xp to level up at a good pace. Kh3 is a different beast
Yea I feel like once I get my levels up I’ll be fine and I’m on birth by sleep right now and gonna play 3 afterwards
Damm if you struggling here then just wait till the expermint boss 😭
Bro I struggled on him on standard
@@whoskoji well I ain't any better on crit. I think he's one of the hardest kh bosses of all time I'm not joking. (Tbh feels like a bbs boss) 😭😭 😭
@@JonseyLetsPlays oof that’s finna be crazy
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Thank you! I’ll try to upload more soon!
Felt like doing Critical Mode for one of the trophies On ps, instantly regretted it😭
I haven’t fully regretted it yet but I feel like that’s gonna change once I get to sora
Just finished my 100% run yesterday
Jesus the Lingering Will was no joke
I’ve been thinking about doing the lingering will fight myself
This was my first critical mode experience. Currently I am now just after the 1000 heartless battle. Keep trying bro. “That is crazy to say to somebody 😭😭”
Man ik that 1000 heartless part is gonna be outrageous
@@whoskoji I’d say the hardest part so far is lightcycle , just take it step by step
@@NonstickSQYD yea that’s what I’m gonna do cus I guess I’m so used to rushing into fights knowing I can take more hits but now I gotta move at a slower paxe
Critical mode is a different beast man. Watch out for the first Olympus visit a few annoying parts there.
Man I can already tell this is about to be crazy
Feel the heat.
no worry, I tried out KH2 on Critical for first time and is brutal. However manage to beat the game for the story. (not doing Data)
@@KoroxasHeart yea I can tell this is about to be a tough run
Data battles are so satisfying tho
I am playing veteran without changing armor or pressing continue that’s really hard but I am at the pride lands and I am not a good player
I just finished beating KH2 for the first time and I used critical mode (I have a problem) and it was actually so much fun, I could almost just recommend jumping into the game with critical immediately
@@babykoops6465 I feel like it definitely adds a more challenging and interesting aspect to the game