Kingdom Hearts: Hollow Bastion – First Visit

Well, geez. I worked for about 2 hours to get some blueprints to drop through the Gummi ship “missions” and none dropped, so I’m going to continue from here for a little while. I’ll go back and try again later though, but I really want to beat this game sooner rather than later. Art is still being done, but I’m cutting down my To Do list every day, so that’s good.

Did you guys miss my horrible phone-screen shots? 

Anyway, on with the game. Just landed in Hollow Bastion, and as many times as I have played this game, I never reached this far. So I’m rather excited to see what this brings. Sora said he was familiar with this place, so we’ll find out why.

Got a plethora of chests right off and got some PUPPIES! YAY! I’m really worried I won’t find them all, but apparently I get a lot of chances still to go and collect things.

Riku’s starting to p–make me angry.

Continued up more and I found Beast! I adore Beauty and the Beast and Riku is being a little brat to him. Sora comes in to save the day. But the fact Beast is in this one, I’m rather shocked and happy.

Hey, that’s mine! 

Riku took my Keyblade, how dare he, and to add more insult to injury, Donald and Goofy left me too! Well this is stupid. I do get Beast in my team, however, I only have a wooden sword to fight with. Great.

Haven’t had too much to say due to this entire area being puzzle based and confusing. The walk-through is helping as little as possible, which is good and bad. Good for the fact it’s making me think. Bad for the fact it’s taking me twice as long to get through this place than it normally would.

Can’t say it’s not pretty though!

So no picture spoilers, but spoilers ahead:

I’ve never been to Hollow Bastion before. Like I said before, so the cut scenes have all been rather shocking! This game can be a lot darker than I thought and I’m O.K. with this. The most recent cut scene just gave me a look at how they had all the Princesses trapped and using their hearts to show Maleficent the Keyhole. Beast is still with me and I believe I’m about to go face to face with Riku.

Post Riku fight. That’s right. You weakling. 

I was right and I kicked his butt pretty quick and got Donald and Goofy back, the Keyblade back and The White Trinity!

I forgive Goofy right off. But Donald, man. 

This place is ridiculously long and I apologize for the length of this post, but man. Hollow Bastion is full of puzzles and I rather like it. I just did one where I had to switch books in a massive library and open up book shelves and secret doorways. Was tedious, but fun. I should have snapped a picture of it.

More puzzles and headed through a really pretty heartless symbol door after collecting pieces, and now there’s another cut scene with Riku and a short guy in a hooded cloak, telling Riku to come into the darkness. Bro, stop, you’re creepy.

Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies and skittles.

Still working my way what seems to be up through Hollow Bastion Castle? Is it a castle? Seems like one. But I just got my last Blue Trinity and have all of the Trinities except for the 10 white ones. Which I’m okay with as I just got White Trinity not too long ago!

Yay!

Haven’t been doing too much other than getting up through the Castle. Maleficent is deciding to take care of me herself, apparently. This should be fun.

She’s back there. In her darkness. In the dark. 

I beat her pretty easy. Some precise Gravira moves and whacks with my Keyblade, she was easy. However, I know we’re not done here…

Dragon Maleficent was even harder, and took me about 3 tries to kill her, which impressed me. Tinkerbell was nice to have with me, and she kept me healed. Thankfully I had some Mega-Potions on standby and kept Donald and Goofy up most of the fight, though all they were used for was target practice for the Dragon while I chased her head and killed her. Ugh. That was fun.

Little underwhelmed there, Maleficent. You were a lot bigger in the movie. 

Headed back into the dark little portal and towards a new room, which revealed the Princesses and Kairi. I could snap a few pictures of how they where trapped so here we go. The cut-scene’s are getting beautiful, though!

Snow White, Alice and Belle

Sleeping Beauty [Aurora], Cinderella and Jasmine.

Yay another boss-fight. Riku round 2. We’ll see how this goes and hopefully it goes better than the Rousey VS Holm [Haaaaaaaaaay. I got jokes.]. Turns out he’s not Riku at all. It’s Ansem [dun dun duuuuunnnnnn] Riku’s outfit is kinda cool though…too bad he’s a brat.

Riku vs Sora! I like how the Olympia Keyblade just blatantly says “HERCULES.” Bruh. 

Took me 3 tries to beat him too, but that was a fun fight. And Sora just stabbed himself with Riku’s keyblade. We’re giving them what they want I think…but okay. Sora had all their hearts all along. This seems a bit odd for me to type about. I don’t have a lot to say ‘cept now, hey…

D’awwww Heartless Sora.

I’m a heartless. That’s cool. You can tell they sort of went cheap on the animation on him. He’s very jerky [though they are to begin with? Maybe it was intentional?] but I feel like it could have been done better, to say the least.

D’aw Squall, you were cooler in Final Fantasy…8? Yeah, 8. 

With some loving cutscenes, I ended back up in Traverse Town talking to Squall and the rest of the gang. Riku needs my help and, apparently, so do the Princesses. This is where I’m going to end the post due to it being very late and a lot of stuff after this is collection and blue-prints. I’ll still update as I’ve missed writing, but trying to get my art knocked out as quick as possible has been holding me back. I can’t wait to get that all done then take a break from the commission scene for a while and focus on this and my massive gaming list!

Thanks for reading!

 

Kingdom Hearts: Neverland

Been a week since I last wrote anything. Life happens, you know? Things are slowly getting better, and so I’m back at playing some games again for a while. Currently waiting on my PS3 to update, but it shouldn’t take too long since I keep it up to date fairly regularly. I’m just sort of curious as to why it still has updates? The PS3 is almost obsolete now thanks to the PS4, unless they go ahead and keep their PS3 servers and systems updated when they update the PS4 as well. I don’t know. I’m just speculating while I’m waiting for this to install.

So back into the game, and I have to go back to the 100 acre woods real quick to see if I can get that special ability since I got all the right scores and such.

You’re so welcome. I’ll take that “Cheer” ability now. 

After many thanks from Owl, and a recap of everything I did, he gave me a “Gift from all of them” and I got the cheer ability. Sweet. Now off to Neverland.

It’s a pirate ship! Gimmie all your booty!

Got stopped by a pirate ship on my Gummi Adventures, turns out it was Captain Hooks ship and Riku and Kairi were on board! Kairi doesn’t look so hot, poor girl, but we knew from the beginning she was going be the D.I.D. [Damsel in Distress…seriously, watch Disney’s Hercules…] I adore how they animated Captain Hook, haha. Oh that lovely “Tick Tock” sound.

Long cut scene is long, but we also got to meet Tinkerbell and Peter Pan. I placed Peter in my party and, welp, let’s see how good he is at fighting.

Can’t wait until I can take proper screen shots, ahaha. 

He fights pretty good and I already killed a Shadow Sora…I thought he was JUST a boss battle? Hmm, that’s interesting. Also changed my keyblade to Pumpkinhead. I actually cosplayed, badly, as Halloween Town Sora one year. I wonder if I could find those pictures…haha.

Going down deeper into the ship, I reached a pretty misty place with hoards of heartless. This would be a great place to level up as they kept coming for a good 5 or 6 waves. Turns out, also, that the Shadow Sora just pops in and when you hit him enough, he runs away. I’m not actually fighting a new one in every room. The way I figured that out is right before he flees, I get a “Tech 150” instead of “Exp ##” and he runs through a wall. That’s neat.

Can’t tell if that’s a shine in the game or my flash went off. GG. 

Cut scene happened, we know where Wendy and Kairi are, and also Peter gave us a little bit of pixie dust. You kind of forgot to tell him the other secret, though, Mr. Pan. Oh well, off to save the ladies.

Hey guys, spoiler alert. Her heart’s fine.

Found a green trinity and it lead me straight to Riku, Kairi and the actual boss fight with Shadow Sora. It was a tank and spank, really easy just wearing him down and keeping everyone healed. Afterwards, we found an unconscious Wendy and Peter Pan took her and left us. Well, that’s fine. We got this.

I wonder what Sora’s “Happy Thought” was…

Going out, we find Captain Hook who has Tinkerbell hostage. We also find out Riku took Kairi to Hallow Bastion. Okay then. Also the music here? It’s pretty amazing. Gets your blood pumping. I’ve always loved violins. Peter Pan came to the rescue, Cure went up to Cura, and I can fly, I can fly!! Airborne combat is pretty cool, but a little wonky sort of like Atlantica. Relied on magic most of the time, glad I kept Donald with me!

Lured Captain Hook out, that was adorable as Peter Pan imitated Smee just like he does in the movie. Tricking Hook just made him angry, time for another boss fight!

I literally paused mid-boss fight to laugh at how, if you knock Captain Hook off the ship, he flails and jumps back onto the ship screaming “YOU’LL NOT GET THE OTHER HAND!!” and all I can picture is the crocodile biting his butt and scaring him enough to make him jump that high. I’m laughing too, Mr. Crocodile.

I don’t think that says Midnight.

Beating him got me Ars Arcanum (which is…?) and Ansem’s Report #9. Not done in Neverland yet as we head to jolly ol’ England and see Big Ben. Something’s here, other than Wendy, apparently. Fixing one of Big Ben’s faces to Midnight revealed a keyhole.

*Click*

Locking it, we got a cut scene of Riku and Maleficent where she unlocks his true potential. Ugh, weird. You’re like 105 years old, lady.

His creeper face, tho. 

Another cut scene showed Wendy and Peter Pan saying good bye, and I was given a ton of stuff. Tinker Bell summon, the Fairy Harp key chain, and the ability Glide, yaaassss. Now I can go back and get some things I missed!

All there is now is to collect a few things and such. That will all be another post. Thanks for reading!!