| Hollow Bastion |
| After leaving Space Paranoids, the heroes find Hollow Bastion under attack! In essence, this signals the start of the second half od the game. The Heartless and Nobodies are out of control, and it is up to the heroes to save the day. They need to finish cleaning the worlds they've already visited before starting the final ascent to the last battle. Go talk to King Mickey and go outside the Postern to talk to Sephiroth. Make your way to the King Mickey who waits at the Bailey. Jump down and prepare for another fight. Demyx HP: 1005 Damage Weapons - Normal damage Fire - Normal damage Blizzard - No damage Thunder - 1/2 damage Dark - 1/2 damage Other - 1/2 damage This fight starts off virtually identical to the fight against Demyx in the underworld. You need to defeat the Water FOrms that he summons before time expires. This time around, it is 50 Forms in 40 seconds! One way to accomplish this task is to use the Reaction Commands. Try to stay in the center of the stage so that you can hit the most Forms after you grab one and start swinging it around. Trying to defeat teh 50 Forms without the Reaction Commands takes too long, so find a group of Forms, snag one, and then wipe the rest out using the Reaction Command. After defeating his small army, Demyx presents another challenge. He is much more formidable than his water clones and prefers to attack with patterned geysers. Rather than running around. Demyx slides across the ground, leaving a row of geysers in his wake. Demyx's taunts indicate which attack will com next. "Dance water, dance!" indicates that you must defeat his water clones (usually 10 in 10 seconds). "Come one. Kick to the beat!" signals a series of geysers that sprout up all around him, Avois these geysers by staying close and jumping around him. "Water" means that Demyx is about to unleash a blast of rain. Simply retreat to avoid this attack. Use your Goofy and Trinity Limits as often as possible. Listen for "Dance water, dance!" to make sure that you don't waste MP on clones, Teh Drive Forms' instant MP restoration is particularily useful in this battle. Try to save it for the end to finish him off with a closing Limit. The 1000 Heartless Challenge The key to success in this battle is all in the Reaction Commands, It's possible to defeat all 1000 Heartless by using the Snag/Sparkle Ray combo and Rising Sun Reaction Commands. One involves dive-slashing (my favorite) through enemies (you can repeat this attack four time before it ends), while the other involves grabbing a Surveillance Robot and using its laser beam to cut down large groups of monsters. They both work equally well and there shouldn't be a need to manually attack until the very end when fewer than 10 Heartless remain. It took me 2-5 minutes to accomplish this task depending on my difficulty. What Happens Next? Just when things look their bleakest, the heroes are rescued from certain death in Hollow Bastion and are placed in the Gummi Ship by none other than - Maleficent! Now it's time to revisit all the worlds you've already completed - or thought you had completed. The Heartless and Nobodies are back and it seems alot like Organization XIII people are running around loose, too. These return trips are much faster than the first ones. Expect to land, meet up with old friends, and spend the rest od the time fighting new and old enemies. |