Oh Tav, my disillusioned friend, how wrong you can be sometimes.
He is right about the X button, you can easily get by with just the X button and nothing else. There is a standard combo you can pull of by just hitting the X button, either on the ground or in the air, that can get you through pretty much the entire game. And then toward the end of the game you could get really really bored fighting the enemies of this game, or worse break the X button on your controller (an extreme case, I know, but it could happen).
There is A LOT of other stuff you could do that is just as effective if not more than the standard combo with the X button. They add variety, and can be rather fun.
The Square button is far from useless. Guard (just pressing Square) can help you out quite a bit, both by saving you from being hit, and parrying the enemy, opening them up to being attacked.
Are you saying you never get hit? You are seriously saying that you go through the entire game, especially the early stages, and never get hit, or even very very rarely get hit? Never?Originally Posted by Tavrobel
Quick Run (pressing Square and a direction) is nice for moving faster through areas (until you get a good Glide), and it's basically the Dodge Roll of this game as you will dodge an attack with Quick Run with the right timing.
So you went through pretty much the whole game without having High Jump, Quick Run, Air Dodge or Glide......seriously?.....why? I mean not only do leveling the forms give those skills, but they give others as well, rather useful ones at that, no matter what style you play the game.
The forms have a few moves you can do with the Square button that are nice. There is an aerial Square move, that you can do repeatedly as the middle hits of an air combo, and then finish off the combo. Combine this with Air Combo Boost, and you will do some pretty sweet damage. There is also a Square button ground combo finisher, which if performed correctly can segway into an air combo without the enemy being able to do anything.
And of course you can hotkey a magic command on the Square button.
What are you talking about? Magic just requires an enemy to be there. There is a skill called Magic lock-on you know. It's a little iffy with blizzard, but works wonders with fire, lightning and magnet. And, as someone else said, you're just not using it right. You can just stand there and cast the magic, that would be using it wrongly and stupidly. Or, you could say start to attack the enemy, and then when you are going to finish the combo you could cast fire to perform the fire finishing combo move. Not only does this hit the enemy 3 times, but it hits everything around Sora as well. You get Fire close to the beginning of gameplay with Sora. And if you pick the staff you get Fire Boost rather early as well. You can do that LONG before you get Explosion. And even then, Fire Boosted Combo Boosted Firaga at the end of a combo beats Combo Boosted Explosion, and has a larger area of damage. And that's just one example, there are many many possible combinations of ways to very effectively use magic, you're just not doing any of them. Not to mention it's just as easy to have a high magic stat as it is to have a high strength stat with the right set up.
The Triangle button is the Reaction command, they're fun, use them
I'm not sure what L1 or R2 do. R1 locks on to the enemy and make the camera follow it. When you hold down L2, you can use the right analog stick to scroll through the command menu like you could in KH.
So, when you get the game, play it however your want, there are many different ways to go about the combat portion of the game, including what's been said already, forms, limits and summons. Do what you like, everything in the game if used correctly is just as powerful as everything else. Anyone who expresses that something sucks or that this is much better to use than that is really just portraying their own lack of skill with certain aspects of the game. And remember to have fun with the game, that's what it's there for (and it's a fun game, you should really get it).
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