Hey, cool people, hope this video helped you! If you'd like more context for the end game strat, I did an additional test where I leveled from 82 to 89 with both (why those numbers? cause I beat the game at Lv 82 and only felt like going to 89 on the first test lol) But basically, for the two strats I suggested at the end, to go up 7 levels: my strat took me 34 minutes 17 seconds and the other took me 39 min 26 sec in case you wanted to get an idea of a practical time difference, not just the theoretical math of it; however, compared to what I said in the video - I found Sleeping Darkness to be better than Feeble Darkness in practice
if you're doing these strats continuously, the timer for each loop should begin and end at the same moment in time that might be why your eps is generally higher than what others are recording
That’s a good point! It could account for the discrepancy, though I will say, my concern is mostly placed on if my data is consistent Like, if all my timers start from room entering to final fight, then they’ll still show which is fastest even if the numbers vary from the people I “peer reviewed” yknow?
@@nickmcsleighten I noticed the same thing with your strat guide on leveling in KHFM. You counted 40 seconds for defeating the Rock Titan, but that is only how long it takes from fight start to fight finish. To loop the Titan you have to sit through numerous cutscenes and a conversation between each Titan fight, all of which will take you an additional 30 seconds if you skip and are fast in the convo. So the effective xp/s you are getting for chain-killing Rock Titan is only about half of what the vid says.
@@Jebusthlord that’s true, that was a mistake on rock titan and with that, I actually did go back and fix it in my pinned comment But as I said above the numbers are comparative to one another which is what is important to me - looping from start to start isn’t relevant if I don’t do it in any strat
Hey Nick!! I finished maxing out Riku with your help and it was a nightmare but it’s done lol, I’m also almost done with all ReCoM’s achievements! I have the Days movie playing in the background so I can grab those last cards After that I’m gonna use this guide to max out Sora 😼
@@wanderinwaffle heck yeah waffle!! I love the update, thank you 😁 and im thrilled the guide could help - did you end up using the Strong Initiative & Escape strat or Feeble Darkness & Lexaeus strat?
@@nickmcsleighten Ooo at first I switched between the two but ultimately stuck to the Strong Initiative strat! It was much more consistent since the other one had a lot more human error moments like you said lol
@@wanderinwaffle that makes sense lol and congrats too! The riku level grind is frankly the most arduous part of Re: CoM lol (enemy card grind not-withstanding, unless you use DERIKUF’s video which I highly recommend)
@@nickmcsleighten Yesss I did use their guide! They’re such a goat for that bro I actually got rly lucky and had most of the enemy cards already which made me feel kind of cool… 😳
Has anyone tried testing strong initiative in castle oblivion? Get first swing > Activate Marluxia > Spam Holy. You can sweep all of the enemies in all interactions in 1 usage of holy 90% of the time. Method also works with Riku except activate Lexaueus and warp kill 2nd wave
The message with the :( at the beginning just reminded me of that time I was doing a task for my anatomy class and my laptop decided to die when I was FINISHING. I lost ALL the documents, ALL the reports, and the worst thing was that the submit time was 2h left... That was my Vietnam. Also Nick, thank you for this type of videos! They help me a lot and are too easy to understand (also very funny of course). It must be hard to make them, right? I'm so happy since I found your channel 💕
Oh no 😅 i reminded you of your hardest day when your computer blue screened lol that must’ve been really tough And thank you so much :) I’m thrilled you enjoyed this video and my channel 😁😁
I was following the guide and then i couldnt return to the save room while i was doing the 6 blizzard strat and then i gave up cuz the cards things are so bad, so I went to search for the cinematics of this game to just get trhough it 😢
@@nickmcsleighten In the first one I saved after a hit to an object was made, and that fucked up that save cuz i wasnt geting the fucking card, and then i started over and I got it, but then right after I fucked up the save room, so I just gave up I said screw this game, im going to the cinematics. Now im watching the 3 hours movie and damn, that story is good and definetly important to the plot.
@@lemonfresh8606 you may be thinking of Calm Bounty which gives a skill, but the two chests in Rewards Room (its a yellow card) give Xigbar enemy card and Mushu magic/summon card
Sure thing! I’ll add it to my list 😁 personally, I find his side to be the more enjoyable of the two because it’s faster and dark mode is cool (even though i loathe activating it when i don’t mean to 😂) What are some things you think could make Riku’s story more enjoyable?
@@nickmcsleighten I'm curious what you enjoy - what does Riku's offer that Sora's doesn't do better? If you can make 3-5 reasons and how to play it and enjoy it, I'd say you got a great video to make.
@FatherDragonKal I personally think the simpler combat on rikus side makes it feel more like a mainline kh entry, which I vastly prefer. You can kinda mash triangle to win with riku. The decks you are given for every boss fight makes you have to figure out the best strategy against them with what you're given.
@nickmcsleighten besides the normal magic sleights. I have the raids TERROR GIFTED MIRACLE Teleport Confuse Firagaburst reflect raid Magnet spiral And lethal frame that's all
@@Mr_Failure-101 that's really bizarre! even the khwiki says level 37 and it should be just below Lethal Frame www.khwiki.com/Sleight#:~:text=KH%20CoM%5D-,Level%2037,-%5BKH%20Re
Im on proud mode and about to begin floor 13... at level 49. suddenly I feel really underleveled. Which is weird, because the regular enemies pose no threat or problem at all so far. Bosses on the other hand are cheap, cheating jerkbags regardless of level ¬¬
@@michelvanderlinden8363 49 for floor 13 is pretty accurately leveled - all things considered - I just personally find 57 good for level grinding cause of Mega Flare (sooner the better imo lol)
@@nickmcsleighten ah alright. Im just playing through the series one at a time and I hadnt played ReCoM before, so I have no indication what is suitable or not. Enemies drop like flies, and to some degree bosses as well (unless they have stupid gimmicks), so Im just... kinda breezing through the past 3 floors. Your video was very informative by the way, I saw your Kingdom Hearts one for leveling as well, though for that one I already knew Earth Titan was the best one :D .
@@michelvanderlinden8363 totally gotchya! Yeah you’re going through just fine, leveling in Re:CoM is ironically kind of irrelevant because outside of the three boosts, it doesn’t make you have more defense or strength or anything; that’s all from cards - speedrunners beat re:com at like lv 16 lol And thank you 😁 glad this video, and that video, were helpful! And yeeeeaaah, I was just surprised everyone and their mom from 2002 already knew the best route 😂
bro im on LV40 and im on 11F im underpowered as fuk bro what should i do lmaooo i dont have cards i just brute my way to 11F and now im stuck cause i dont have any card setups i have 10k moogle points tho plz help bro
I gotchyu, if you have 10k Moogle points, I suggest going down to 1F and set up a Moogle Room (you can also use a save point room to reset if you dont like your card drops) Buy a bunch of Magic Packs to get as many Blizzards as you can and 3 Simbas, then head back up to 11F and start every fight by using Simba’s roar followed by as many blizzaga spams as you can, then just fill the rest of your deck with attack cards Bonus damage if you use Crescendo enemy card before Simba & Blue Rhapsody enemy card before Blizzaga spam Once you reach LV 57 you can put in Mega Flare to defeat enemies which is just Mushu+Fire+Fire and that’ll work til 13F where some enemies will be immune to fire damage
@@nickmcsleighten so i basically i just grind 11F? sorry i asked this the question a bit off im having trouble fighting a certain boss (on 11F) and seen that everybody uses sonic blade but i can only use 8 sonic blades before i gotta reload and im pretty sure i need more power ( my stats for reference LVL 41 / HP 245 / CP 800) and thanks so much for helping
@@marcell7406 oooh okay i gotchya, you’re all good, lemme rephrase: if the Sonic Blade spam isn’t working then against the boss in 11F, it’s best to actually get at least 15 Fire cards and then just Firaga spam the boss (I would still buy magic packs on 1F for that because it has the most basic packs so you’re more likely to get Fires, Blizzards, and Cures) and the Firaga spam deck will work on every boss except for any immune to Fire so it’s a pretty good deck, the gist is 15+ fire cards, 2-4 attack cards all at a value of 0 (to break enemy sleights), and then flip flopping cures and mega ethers that you can do duo stacks with for free healing and quick card returns And you don’t necessarily have to level grind at all, because you don’t get stat bonuses like in KH1 or KH2; functionally all your “defense” comes from your health and all your damage comes from how you use your cards, so your level itself is largely irrelevant
@@marcell7406 haha nice! Glad to help 😁 and yeah, so for 95% of Riku’s bosses you can do two hits in Dark Mode and always win because the second hit of his combo stuns enemies so you can pretty much do that over and over with basically zero consequences (using Jafar-Genie card helps prevent random card breaks during it though)
Hey, cool people, hope this video helped you!
If you'd like more context for the end game strat, I did an additional test where I leveled from 82 to 89 with both (why those numbers? cause I beat the game at Lv 82 and only felt like going to 89 on the first test lol)
But basically, for the two strats I suggested at the end, to go up 7 levels: my strat took me 34 minutes 17 seconds and the other took me 39 min 26 sec in case you wanted to get an idea of a practical time difference, not just the theoretical math of it; however, compared to what I said in the video - I found Sleeping Darkness to be better than Feeble Darkness in practice
if you're doing these strats continuously, the timer for each loop should begin and end at the same moment in time
that might be why your eps is generally higher than what others are recording
That’s a good point! It could account for the discrepancy, though I will say, my concern is mostly placed on if my data is consistent
Like, if all my timers start from room entering to final fight, then they’ll still show which is fastest even if the numbers vary from the people I “peer reviewed” yknow?
@@nickmcsleighten I noticed the same thing with your strat guide on leveling in KHFM. You counted 40 seconds for defeating the Rock Titan, but that is only how long it takes from fight start to fight finish. To loop the Titan you have to sit through numerous cutscenes and a conversation between each Titan fight, all of which will take you an additional 30 seconds if you skip and are fast in the convo. So the effective xp/s you are getting for chain-killing Rock Titan is only about half of what the vid says.
@@Jebusthlord that’s true, that was a mistake on rock titan and with that, I actually did go back and fix it in my pinned comment
But as I said above the numbers are comparative to one another which is what is important to me - looping from start to start isn’t relevant if I don’t do it in any strat
Hey Nick!! I finished maxing out Riku with your help and it was a nightmare but it’s done lol, I’m also almost done with all ReCoM’s achievements! I have the Days movie playing in the background so I can grab those last cards
After that I’m gonna use this guide to max out Sora 😼
@@wanderinwaffle heck yeah waffle!! I love the update, thank you 😁 and im thrilled the guide could help - did you end up using the Strong Initiative & Escape strat or Feeble Darkness & Lexaeus strat?
@@nickmcsleighten Ooo at first I switched between the two but ultimately stuck to the Strong Initiative strat! It was much more consistent since the other one had a lot more human error moments like you said lol
@@wanderinwaffle that makes sense lol and congrats too! The riku level grind is frankly the most arduous part of Re: CoM lol (enemy card grind not-withstanding, unless you use DERIKUF’s video which I highly recommend)
@@nickmcsleighten Yesss I did use their guide! They’re such a goat for that bro
I actually got rly lucky and had most of the enemy cards already which made me feel kind of cool… 😳
@@wanderinwaffle niiice 😎 waffle was blessed by the rng gods
Has anyone tried testing strong initiative in castle oblivion? Get first swing > Activate Marluxia > Spam Holy. You can sweep all of the enemies in all interactions in 1 usage of holy 90% of the time.
Method also works with Riku except activate Lexaueus and warp kill 2nd wave
I haven’t tried it before but I can test it!
I feel like this is a math homework guide but its Kingdom Hearts. Still nice gide tho
you're not wrong 😂 agree
The message with the :( at the beginning just reminded me of that time I was doing a task for my anatomy class and my laptop decided to die when I was FINISHING. I lost ALL the documents, ALL the reports, and the worst thing was that the submit time was 2h left... That was my Vietnam.
Also Nick, thank you for this type of videos! They help me a lot and are too easy to understand (also very funny of course). It must be hard to make them, right? I'm so happy since I found your channel 💕
Oh no 😅 i reminded you of your hardest day when your computer blue screened lol that must’ve been really tough
And thank you so much :) I’m thrilled you enjoyed this video and my channel 😁😁
Trying to get Sora to level 99 right now :)
Best of luck 😁
Keep up the great work.
Will do 😁 appreciate ya
A quick question but what's with the Mushu card with the S on it?
@@joseaparicio42 the S is a shortcut you can put while in the deck menu
iirc I press down on the d-pad and it’ll immediately jump to that Mushu
nive ill try this too your videos seem super helpful
Oh yeah! Give it a shot, see if it helps 😁
im lvl 49 on marluxia dont have mega flare dont have gravity card even how should i lvl
@@hazzar420 head back to floor 10 (if it isn’t 100 acre wood, 9 if it is) and use Simba x3, Blizzard x6, and some attack cards until you reach 57
I was following the guide and then i couldnt return to the save room while i was doing the 6 blizzard strat and then i gave up cuz the cards things are so bad, so I went to search for the cinematics of this game to just get trhough it 😢
did you accidentally replace the save room?
@@nickmcsleighten I bet i did, and that was my second run as I messed up the first one and had to redo the save 🥲
@@nickmcsleighten In the first one I saved after a hit to an object was made, and that fucked up that save cuz i wasnt geting the fucking card, and then i started over and I got it, but then right after I fucked up the save room, so I just gave up I said screw this game, im going to the cinematics. Now im watching the 3 hours movie and damn, that story is good and definetly important to the plot.
@@AzureKiteP4r4 yeah that’s fair lol on the bright side you are getting the story so it all works out in the end
@@nickmcsleighten 1 hour in and it feels like im forgetting the story instead, fucked up castle lol
Didnt get mushu from hollow bastion.
Did you use the Key to Rewards card?
@nickmcsleighten when I did that I got a skill not the card.
@@lemonfresh8606 you may be thinking of Calm Bounty which gives a skill, but the two chests in Rewards Room (its a yellow card) give Xigbar enemy card and Mushu magic/summon card
Can you make a video on how to enjoy playing Riku's side? I find his play through so darn boring with the lack of customization in his deck.
Sure thing! I’ll add it to my list 😁 personally, I find his side to be the more enjoyable of the two because it’s faster and dark mode is cool (even though i loathe activating it when i don’t mean to 😂)
What are some things you think could make Riku’s story more enjoyable?
@@nickmcsleighten I'm curious what you enjoy - what does Riku's offer that Sora's doesn't do better? If you can make 3-5 reasons and how to play it and enjoy it, I'd say you got a great video to make.
@FatherDragonKal I personally think the simpler combat on rikus side makes it feel more like a mainline kh entry, which I vastly prefer. You can kinda mash triangle to win with riku. The decks you are given for every boss fight makes you have to figure out the best strategy against them with what you're given.
Wait i didnt get tornado ?? I am level 46 now
@@Mr_Failure-101 thats odd, you should’ve unlocked it at LV 37, check the sleights menu
@@nickmcsleighten if I could take a picture I would, do I have to invest into the sleights when I level up ? Because I'm level 47 in 9f but no tornado
@nickmcsleighten besides the normal magic sleights.
I have the raids
TERROR
GIFTED MIRACLE
Teleport
Confuse
Firagaburst reflect raid
Magnet spiral
And lethal frame that's all
@@Mr_Failure-101 that's really bizarre! even the khwiki says level 37 and it should be just below Lethal Frame
www.khwiki.com/Sleight#:~:text=KH%20CoM%5D-,Level%2037,-%5BKH%20Re
@@nickmcsleighten 😭😭😭 ofc it would happen to me 😂 n Google doesn't seem to know a way around it of how to get it 😂
Can we do sora flowmotion people
Likes started to like it
Sora flowmotion were awesome ! In kh3
Flowmotion is really cool!
Im on proud mode and about to begin floor 13... at level 49. suddenly I feel really underleveled.
Which is weird, because the regular enemies pose no threat or problem at all so far. Bosses on the other hand are cheap, cheating jerkbags regardless of level ¬¬
@@michelvanderlinden8363 49 for floor 13 is pretty accurately leveled - all things considered - I just personally find 57 good for level grinding cause of Mega Flare (sooner the better imo lol)
@@nickmcsleighten ah alright. Im just playing through the series one at a time and I hadnt played ReCoM before, so I have no indication what is suitable or not. Enemies drop like flies, and to some degree bosses as well (unless they have stupid gimmicks), so Im just... kinda breezing through the past 3 floors. Your video was very informative by the way, I saw your Kingdom Hearts one for leveling as well, though for that one I already knew Earth Titan was the best one :D .
@@michelvanderlinden8363 totally gotchya! Yeah you’re going through just fine, leveling in Re:CoM is ironically kind of irrelevant because outside of the three boosts, it doesn’t make you have more defense or strength or anything; that’s all from cards - speedrunners beat re:com at like lv 16 lol
And thank you 😁 glad this video, and that video, were helpful! And yeeeeaaah, I was just surprised everyone and their mom from 2002 already knew the best route 😂
bro im on LV40 and im on 11F im underpowered as fuk bro what should i do lmaooo i dont have cards i just brute my way to 11F and now im stuck cause i dont have any card setups i have 10k moogle points tho plz help bro
I gotchyu, if you have 10k Moogle points, I suggest going down to 1F and set up a Moogle Room (you can also use a save point room to reset if you dont like your card drops)
Buy a bunch of Magic Packs to get as many Blizzards as you can and 3 Simbas, then head back up to 11F and start every fight by using Simba’s roar followed by as many blizzaga spams as you can, then just fill the rest of your deck with attack cards
Bonus damage if you use Crescendo enemy card before Simba & Blue Rhapsody enemy card before Blizzaga spam
Once you reach LV 57 you can put in Mega Flare to defeat enemies which is just Mushu+Fire+Fire and that’ll work til 13F where some enemies will be immune to fire damage
@@nickmcsleighten so i basically i just grind 11F? sorry i asked this the question a bit off im having trouble fighting a certain boss (on 11F) and seen that everybody uses sonic blade but i can only use 8 sonic blades before i gotta reload and im pretty sure i need more power ( my stats for reference LVL 41 / HP 245 / CP 800) and thanks so much for helping
@@marcell7406 oooh okay i gotchya, you’re all good, lemme rephrase: if the Sonic Blade spam isn’t working then against the boss in 11F, it’s best to actually get at least 15 Fire cards and then just Firaga spam the boss (I would still buy magic packs on 1F for that because it has the most basic packs so you’re more likely to get Fires, Blizzards, and Cures) and the Firaga spam deck will work on every boss except for any immune to Fire so it’s a pretty good deck, the gist is 15+ fire cards, 2-4 attack cards all at a value of 0 (to break enemy sleights), and then flip flopping cures and mega ethers that you can do duo stacks with for free healing and quick card returns
And you don’t necessarily have to level grind at all, because you don’t get stat bonuses like in KH1 or KH2; functionally all your “defense” comes from your health and all your damage comes from how you use your cards, so your level itself is largely irrelevant
@@nickmcsleightenyea lmao i blew thru that game with firaga thanks so much any cheese for reverse rebirth ? haha
@@marcell7406 haha nice! Glad to help 😁 and yeah, so for 95% of Riku’s bosses you can do two hits in Dark Mode and always win because the second hit of his combo stuns enemies so you can pretty much do that over and over with basically zero consequences (using Jafar-Genie card helps prevent random card breaks during it though)