KH1 Final Mix Proud Notes (for beginners)

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX

Prologue

Pick the Sword, and sacrifice the Staff.  Choose the Dawn route.

Full up Sora's items with Potions at the first available opportunity.  While talking to Cid be sure to get the Mythril Shard chest.  For Guard Armor, lock onto one of it's feet, spam air combo; and when it jumps into the air, wait till the right moment, jump, single air slash, and hopefully that helps you dodge ground pound.  Equip Brave Warrior, empty out Donald and Goofy's items, equip Dodge Roll, and activate the Blue Trinity (Munny).

Remember, you must have a high score while going through each GUMMI mission, due to the fact you need to reach minimum of 4000 munny, for Jet Balloon. Jet Balloon is 110% RNG and it is the most difficult heartless to defeat. Getting 4K munny is not guaranteed for the user to win against this heartless. In addition to, it is the lowest it can be killed by. Jet Balloon for some reason stays in the field longer the more munny the user has. For example, if the user has 1K Jet Balloon will stay a shorter time than a user with over 4K munny. So your mission is to get over 4K munny before reaching Jet Balloon. Also, you will have to use the Jet Balloon funds to survive through O.C, including Hades Cup.

    While visiting O.C, get Thunder, and get both Blue Trinities (Mythril Shard + Puppies chest)

    Empty out Tarzan's items, take off all MP abilities except Healing Herb, and equip his Critical Hit+ skills.  Get the Mega-Ether and Touch the save before the slide mini game (Quit to get through quicker). Form the Trinity party, get both the Blue Trinities on the way to the Treehouse, use the Vine Minigame + Quit skip, replace Goofy with Tarzan after the cutscene.  For Sabor, lure it to near the entrance of what will be the fighting Arena with Clayton and Stealth Sneak, then attempt to stun lock it via full combos and walls.   Equip White Fang, equip Sliding Dash, and go through the Power Wild fights (Sliding Dash makes it much safer to begin combos on them). After the Black Fruit, activate the Blue Trinity before replacing Donald with Tarzan. Equip Scan to track Stealth Sneak health, and don't separate him from Clayton till he has 80% green bar left.  Separate him, then kill Stealth Sneak before moving on to Clayton.  Equip Jungle King.  While entering the Water Cavern, be sure to get every chest.

    Go through Wonder Land cutscenes till Lotus Forest.  Obliterate first encounter with Thunder, get Footprints and Blue Trinity, hop up onto trees, hop up onto tree with big nut (use air slash to get some more height and distance), get pup's chest, and go through the Crank Tower fight.  Back into Lotus Forest, go behind rock to not trigger heartless, use Potion on flower.  Push rock into pool for later, then shrink back down by eating fruit.  Walk to end of ground path to Tea Party Garden, get the Elixir there.  Go to Bizarre Room, hop immediately onto cement fireplace, circle closely round chimney, hop to first lamp.  Done correctly, you'll skip the first encounter.  Then, turn camera right till you face the lock.  Hop onto the sloped cement, hop towards the lock, spam triangle, and hopefully you'll skip this encounter as well.  For Trickmaster, you're strong enough, now, that an air combo + Thunder will stun him every time.

    During Traverse Town, Hotkey Blizzard over Thunder.  Get chest by the candles with Blizzard, and get the Blue Trinity near that.  Activate the Red Trinity, pick up the pup’s chest. Continue just as you were doing ANY%.  After seeing Merlin, get the Blue Trinity, leave, return to District 1, talk to Cid, sell till you have 1700 Munni, leave, go back to Merlin's, restore Simba, go into District 3, unlock door, Thunder the wires, get Blue Trinity, go into Squall's house, walk back into District 1, buy Fira-G and Haste-G, Warp to Wonderland, then leave for Agrabah.

Put Haste-G and Fira-G on ship.  Go to Agrabah, go through scenes, go to Aladdin's house, get Mega-Elixir and Mega-Ether on the way out.  Simba Aladdin's assailants to death.  Enter Bazaar to leave, return to Aladdin's house, take off his Sandstorm skill, equip Critical Plus, take off his Ethers, and make the Trinity party. Go to Blue Trinity room (get chest on the way there), beat up Heartless, unlock key, activate Trinity, and fight Pot Centipede.  Air combo him till he breaks apart, wait for him to bust through walls, then rinse and repeat.  Take off Sliding Dash, go to Cave of Wonders fight, climb up to eyes, and do the ol' "first strike while Locked On to one eye, then Lock On to other eye for other two strikes" trick to hopefully kill it before things get too crazy.  Enter cave, fall off immediately, swim through other cave, light monkey egg, swim up watefall, swim through cave, touch save point, leap tough gap, get Torn Page, go back to previous room, get Blue Trinity, swim through cave, destroy pillar, go into main hallway, hop onto pillar for chest.  While entering the Treasure Room, activate the Red Trinity, get both the pup’s chest and the Mythril Shard.  Put Aladdin over Donald, fight Jaffar.  Use magic on Jaffar to make him do the shield thing before spamming air combos.  Alternate between Blizzards on Genie-Jaffar and air combos on Iago.  Death skip carpet ride.  Jungle King > Three Wishes, and Brave Warrior > Ray of Light.

    During Monstero, Chamber 2 > 3.  Beat up encounters till you can get the pup's chest.  Jump to other ledge, beat up encounters, hop up to platform for Flare-G, hop back to previous ledge, and go into right Chamber 2.  Chamber 5 > 6, beat up encounters, get Torn Page up top, then get pup's chest next to the next Monstero 5 entrance.  Get Blue Trinity by jumping to skip encounter, jump on barrel to Monstero 4, replace Ray of Light with Brave Warrior, and fight Parasite Cage.  Air combo it in the teeth till you have to jump back, Blizzard spam, and more air combos till dead.  Get High Jump from chest, equip every new ability you can except Tech Boost.  Beat up Parasite Cage again, the same way.

	Go back to Dark Chamber in Agrabah, swim up waterfall, High Jump through cave, light the monkey egg, get both chests, leave, go back to 1st District in Traverse Town, get Wishing Star from Gepetto's new home, Three Wishes > Wishing Star & Brave Warrior > Ray of Light, go back to Monstro, collect all the stuff in the first room, put Haste2-G and Flare-G on ship, then head to Halloween Town.

	Get Power Up before going to Doc's Lab.  Form Trinity Party, take off all of Jack's items, replace Sora's items with Ethers, then use all the Power Up + Defense Ups on him.  Go to graveyard, and wreck all three enounters with Blizzard.  Restore MP with an Ether, give stuff to Doc, go back to graveyard.  Snipe two ghosts from afar with Fire, then hop on gravestones to skip encounters.  Talk to mayor, do puzzle to get stuff, light lamp ride to go back, talk to Doc again, go back to graveyard, progress further to bigger graveyard, Blizzard spam encounters, go to Oogie's Manor, and fight the Children in the Evil Playroom (careful to jump when healing).  Roll straight down to Oogie's Arena, and remember that he blasts you back when you hit him exactly 8 times.  Try to reflect his dice, but don't be ashamed if it's too tough for you.  Engage Giant Oogie!  Hop on the right foot (from your perspective) take the path right, take up-right path till 2nd orb is diced.  Go right till you see two orbs.  Take down bottom orb, then start on upper orb while using Stop to freeze the Gargoyles (no, it's not Hot-Keyed).  Hide behind 5th orb as you destroy it; and use Stop again on Gargoyles for the 6th.  Leave for Pirate Ship!

	Head straight for Shadow Sora (take the right hole in the ceiling when faced with that split).  When he starts disappearing, time finishers on Shadow Sora so that the 5th hit is always the finisher!  Try to catch him in a loop every time he disappears and reforms: Wait for him to hit the air, pop him with a Slapshot, do a combo, dodge him as he tries to tleeport and hit you, and TRY to catch him in another loop as his attack animation ends.  It's tight; but it's the only way to keep him away from the "sink into the ground" attack.  Afterwards, remove Peter Pan's Ethers.  Ray of Light > Raven Claw, Donald equips MP Rage and MP Haste, Goofy equips Cheer and Goofy Tornado, and Peter Pan removes all three of his spells.  Customize Sora so Stop replaces Blizzara.  Customize Goofy so that Support Actions & MP Items are spammed.  Drop down through hole, touch save point, open door, backtrack to Shadow Sora arena, then go on to fight Hook!  Replace Donald with Peter, make liberal use of Stop on Pirates, air combo Vanguards, and Stop + 2x Gravities on Airships.  Against Hook himself, use a 3 hit + Stop combo on him whenever able to.  Use the Sliding Dash when Hook starts countering with his "sword flurry" move.  Aside from that, be very careful about doing full combos.  You CAN...but only sometimes.  Anyway, after that, strike the clock to seal Keyhole, Wishing Star > Fairy Harp, equip Guard, Ars Arcanum, and Glide.  Go to Merlin's Study in Traverse Town.

	Restore Dumbo, leave, re-enter through Accessory Shop, get Green Trinity, climb up, get pup's chest, go Glide up to bell tower, Ars Arcanum encounter, get Red Trinity, ring bell three times, fight Guard Armor before Reverse Armor.  Ars Arcanum a foot, smash the other, then use Stop and Thunder as you beat up the other parts.  Talk to Cid, then go to Hollow Bastion!

	Customize Sora so Gravity replaces Stop.  Freeze first two bubbles to get pup's chest, trigger cutscene.  Afterwards, take Ethers off of Beast, jump off building, then go into bubble.  Go through all the puzzles (using Beast to break down 2nd wall as well; gonna go to there, later), using Gravity on the Defender when you meet it.  Backtrack; and when you get back outside, go into the dark corner near where the platform ride trigger is, and wait there till the encounter disappears.  Then go fight Riku!  Use an Ars Arcanum.  Then, use a two hit combo, run away from counter, Slide Dash + Counter combo, then repeat till he's dead!  Go to library, go through book puzzles (including Green Trinity) till you get secret passage.  Get pup's chest, then go to Agrabah.

	Get AP Up through Green Trinity in Storage Room, go to Cave of Wonders, get Ifrit's Belt through White Trinity near entrance, Glide to pup's chest, go to Clock Tower.  Get Power Up, use it, then go back to Hollow Bastion through Waterway.

	Go through door that Beast broke down previously, beat up enemy encounter, and get Blue Trinity.  Leave, re-enter through Library, then solve Emblem puzzle (get Red Trinity while you're at it).  Use Stat Boosters on Sora, Fairy Harp > Wishing Star & White Fang > Ifrit's Belt, remove Sliding Dash & Slapshot to put on Hurricane Blast.  Proceed through door, go through the next door, Glide to very far platform, Gravity on Wyverns that follow you, then get pup's chest.  Glide on back, trigger blue jewel to move on, then trigger next jewel to get onto giant platform.  Beat up encounter (make sure you're high enough in the air to trigger Hurricane Blast).  Activate Blue Trinity, then go on as normal till you get to the first room with the "two giant sliding columns" puzzle.  Glide down to the aclove that leads to the Royal Crown, and get it.  Backtrack by flying left, then forward into the next screen (that somehow starts you back up on the ledge).  Summon Dumbo, hover as far up to ledge as you can, undo the summon to jump up, grab on, and sequence break (may need to clear out some Heartless, first)!  Wishing Star > Fairy Harp, heal with Cottage, stock up Sora's items with x2 Elixers + x3 Ethers, and fight Maleficent!  Spam 3 Hit + Ars Arcanum combo as needed (but leave out the last Arcanum bash; too much lag), and recover MP constantly.  When Maleficent tries to shake you off, jump up each time the platform spins.  If timed right, you'll stay on it!  Customize Sora so that Stop replaces Gravity, give Sora x3 Elixirs + x2 Ethers (or stronger versions of Elixirs, if you don't have three), remove Hurricane Blast, Donald equips Second Wind & (bottom skill), then go fight Dragon Maleficent!  Spam air combo + Single air slash + Stop!  Put Hurricane Blast back on, Customize Sora so Thunder replaces Stop, then go back to Wonderland through Rabbit Hole!

	Get Elixir through Green Trinity, get pup's chest in Queen's Throneroom, backtrack to where doorknob is, beat up Giga Shadows with Ars Arcanum before letting them hit you and disappear.  Get Green Trinity, and enter Lotus Forest.  Go into the little area past what looks like a flat pool of water, get the Blue Trinity (try to skip encounter), go up to tree tops, Glide past the tree with the huge nut on it to the far away cave!  Glide over to far right lamp, light it, Thunder the encounter, light up plant for pup's chest, get Lady Luck through White Trinity, backtrack to Lotus Forest.  Glide into the hidden cave located directly to the left of the entrance to the Queen's Throneroom.  Get pup's chest, Fairy Harp > Lady Luck, Raven's Claw > Ray of Light, go to Agrabah, then go to Atlantis!

	Thunder first encounter, take off Ariel's Ethers, form Trinity party, get free Elixir, beat up the giant green Pink Agaricus with Stop and a hit (have to use Stop on White Mushrooms, first), destroy Sea Neon and Sheltering Zone if you see them, meet Triton, do Dolphin clip by swimming to left spot and talking with dolphin at the right time (you NEED to be mashing the next as it appears onscreen), swim down and forward to the little blowhole you'd normally be blocked off from till you go to the Sunken Ship, get to till get Torn Page and Cottage in Ariel's Grotto, go get Elixir outside the Sunken Ship, get Trident piece inside Sunken Ship, leave again, do the scene at Ariel's Grotto, go back to Sunken Ship, beat up Shark with Stop.  Use stat boosters, x2 Elixir + x3 Ether set up before Ursula fight.  Spam Fira on cauldron when Ursula throws something in, beat her up, Fira Flotsam and Jettson, then finish Ursula off.  Equip Mermaid Kick, and Customize Sora so that Stop replaces Thunder.  Beat Ursula with 3 hit + Stop combo.  Get Elixir from shell and White Trinity on the way out, do Ariel's Grotto scene, go back to Triton's throne, and leave for Olympus Colosseum!

	Get Green Trinity, restock Elixirs, then enter THE GAAAAAAAMES!!  Crush encountes with Thunder, and crush Cloud with Ars Arcanum + combos!  Spam 5 hits + Stop on Cerberus!  Customize Sora so that Gravity replaces Stop, get White Trinity, leave and re-enter.  Crush Phil Cup with Thunder + Blizzara + physicals as needed (Ars Arcanum on Opposite Armor body).  Solo Phil cup with Sora with same tactics to win EXP Ring.   Same tactics for Pegasus Cup (except more Blizzara) till Black Mushrooms.  Get away from them, and OHKO all three with a well-time Gravity.  Crush Leon and Yuffie with brute force.  Lady Luck > Fairy Harp, and use Ethers to keep MP up.  Against Cloud, use two Ars Arcanums to hopefully skip his Omnislash.  Restart match against Hercules for MP restore, then use the same strat you used for Dragon Maleficent!  Then go back to Chapel in Hollow Bastion.

	Against Ansem-Riku, use slash + Ars Arcanum (minimum blows) followed by a slash + Ars Arcanum (full attack) combo.  Then, get Ansem-Riku in a 4-hit loop (he'll always deflect the fourth, but he'll get stun-locked by the first three in exchange).

	Inside Traverse Town, beat up Sniper Wild in District 2 with Stop + Ars Arcanum.  Enter Dalmation's House, get rewards from them, go through cutscenes.  Get White Trinity afterward, get pup's chest on the way to Merlin's.  Equip Metal Chocobo & White Fang, then go to 100 Acre Woods!  Get Elixir in Pooh's closet, get two pink nuts for stat boosters, and complete the world!  Restore Bambi, Glide to pup's chest outside, and get chest through Yellow Trinity.  Leave, re-enter through District 1, talk to Cid, then go back to Hollow Bastion.

	Get White Trinity on the way to the castle.  Go to Library, get Divine Rose from Belle, Metal Chocobo > Divine Rose, Goofy equips Herc Shield & EXP Ring, Sora equips Slapshot & Sliding Dash, Donald equips Cheer & Leaf Bracer, Goofy equips MP Rage & Second Chance, then use Stat Boosters.  Backtrack to Chapel, replace Donald with Beast, get pup's chest, and beat the Behemoth with brute force!  Stock up on Ethers for Sora, replace Goofy's Goofy Tornado with MP Haste, Customize Sora so that Stopra replaces Gravity, White Fang > Omega Arts, and Goofy equips Royal Crown.  Backtrack to Library, and talk to Aerith three times to get all her stuff!  Leave, re-enter through Library, and keep entering and exiting the main room till you get Stealth Soldier.  Beat him with Aerora + Stop + ground combos, then go to the World of Darkness.

	Customize Sora so that Gravira replaces Stopra.  Stopra and Gravira spam on first encounter, air combo second encounter, get chest, use Cottage, and get other chest on the way to Behemoth encounter (defeat with Gravira, combos, and Ars Arcanum as needed).  Go through teleporters, get chest from green 100 Acre Woods, and go to next forced encounters.  Gravira on Invisibles.