Is it important to level?

[Hawkeye]

I admit, I got kind of turned off by the game because I believe that leveling your characters a lot and then just easily beating the next level. Is leveling your characters a thing you gotta set a time for, or couold you easily beat the game by just leveling as you go along?

[Ichimonji]

You can easily beat the game by leveling as you go along. The only reason to level in the Kingdom Hearts series would be if you want to do some of the optional stuff, like beating Sephiroth or completing Arenas. To beat the game though, you certainly do not have to level.

[PontiusPilate]

You can easily beat the game by leveling as you go along. The only reason to level in the Kingdom Hearts series would be if you want to do some of the optional stuff, like beating Sephiroth or completing Arenas. To beat the game though, you certainly do not have to level.

Sephiroth and the arenas are a bitch to beat if u havent trained at all

[Yooniece]

Yeah. Tetsuya Nomura purposely made this game "user-friendly" (as seen by all the tutorials this game had!). There were complaints that the first game was too hard. They made KHII managable for people who just wanted to get through the storyline without really battling or going through the optional battles. Even in Normal mode the game is effortless.

[Slothy]

There were complaints that the first game was too hard. They made KHII managable for people who just wanted to get through the storyline without really battling or going through the optional battles.

People actually found the first one hard?

Anyway, no you should never actually have to set aside time to level. I did spend some time leveling up my various forms, which probably bumped me up an extra ten levels near the end, but even without that I'd be around level 50 and most likely still having an easy time with the game.

[nik0tine]

Excessive leveling is for excessive idiots.

[Tavrobel]

Excessive leveling is for excessive idiots.

[PontiusPilate]

Excessive leveling is for excessive idiots.

Level enough to get the job done.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

If you're playing normal mode, so long as you do the worlds in the proper order you should never have to level.

[Tifa's Real Lover(really]

do u get ANY experience when fighting sephy?

[Tavrobel]

do u get ANY experience when fighting sephy?

Nope. None that the game records. The only experience you get, is not measured by any number, but rather, the experience, of beating one of the optional bosses, and how to fight him in the future, if necessary.

You also get a nifty +1 Drive Bar Maximum.

[PontiusPilate]

do u get ANY experience when fighting sephy?

Nope. None that the game records. The only experience you get, is not measured by any number, but rather, the experience, of beating one of the optional bosses, and how to fight him in the future, if necessary.

You also get a nifty +1 Drive Bar Maximum.

You forgot the strongest keyblade in the game, Fernir, and a kick ass cutscene of cloud and sephy fighting

[koocnahtanoj]

I never leveled up until after I had beaten the game and wanted to complete all the side quests.

[teaandmachines]

Excessive leveling is for excessive idiots.

Level enough to get the job done.

'nuff said.

[Neo Blackheart]

I got to level 40 beat the game went to fight sephy hit me once and

"Continue"
"Load Game"

but otherwise the hardest boss was Xaldin In which I died once. then mickey helped me 4 times in a row and I stopped trying to get the gauge up and just started attacking with mickey