12th October 2025

Today I'm going to bitch about something and said thing is the first Kingdom Hearts.

I'm gonna keep it vague but slight spoiler waarning as i will spoil one of the original areas towards the end that arent a disney film.

I started playing KH1 on reccomendation from one of my uni friends who's a big fan. It took my doing the first three worlds to fully click with the game but upon reaching Agrabah and getting Simba sa a summon i went from being neutral on the game too "okay this is lit actually". My initial impressions weren't helped by the fact i just dont care that much about Tarzan and Alice in wonderland.

But what i WILL complain about is one of the fights in one of the games endgame areas: Hollow Bastion. For you see, there's a one on one duel with on a pretty small arena where you dont get access to your summons. And considering one of them passively heals you and helped me with the bossfight right before that it's a pretty big spike in difficulty for me.

Thus i havent been able to beat that boss for a literal year. Admittedly i am not great with action games, my hand eye coordination aint the best. At least 70% of my total losses so far have been cause i was impatient of just didn't dodge in time. The rest tho? WHOOOO BOYYYY

The boss has a health bar devided into 3 sections, each part per phase and on the last one this bitch's attacks become so goddamn hard to dodge. Flying around the field and then an AOE with a pattern thats hard to distinguish as i am fighting the camera that gave up on tracking the boss bouncing around the walls like a kid who ate a box of cereal in one go.

I've managed to get to the halfway mark of their last health bar. Someday i'll beat em but idk when this will be.

EDIT FROM 13.10.2025: I managed to beat them in the afternoon after posting this! I can continue the game now :D