Birth by sleep. Kingdom Hearts

[oooog]

If I felt the report was worth completing, I would have done so.  I completed the arena and all of the content necessary to suck all of the story possible, but playing those mini games, getting every move and ability, playing that pain in the *** board game was more hassle than fun.  It was the same with the original Kingdom Hearts, wading through the 100 Acre Woods mini games.  If completing the report was a necessity to unlock the ending I would have done so, but I would prefer to avoid it.  I play games for the satisfaction of completing them and the sense of accomplishment, like most others.  I gained more of this from viewing the secret ending than I ever would have from completing all of those monotonous minor tasks.

Not to mention I have a giant stack of games that has accumulated over the months that deserve my attention.  That is my excuse.

[Prpl_Mage]

But how do you feel a sense of accomplishment when you didn't accomplish everything?

I personally can't feel satisfied with an RPG if there's a hard boss left alive, awesome item to be fought ect ect. Same with Metroid, it's fun to earn the secrets.

I gotta admit though, I didn't do everything in FFXII, but completing that game was effort enough.
And I really didn't get every item in FFXIII either and some other boring trophies that existed. It was nothing that did anything in-game.

[oooog]

Admittedly the fact that I did not beat the hidden bosses is eating at me, but that is completely irrelevant to the topic of completing the report.  The things I have left to do in the report:
Find every treasure chest / sticker
Complete the command board
Create every ability
Mini-games in Disney Town

The above will earn me minimum sense of accomplishment.  Aside from said mini-bosses, I completed everything worthwhile that I felt was not just a massive waste of time.  The story has been completed, apart from the fore mentioned I have beaten every foe, and I have a record of 25 wins 3 losses amongst my peers in the arena.   I bypassed doing all of that uninteresting and repetitive time wasting by playing the game with a little more difficulty.  Admittedly once I got to my favorite grinding spot in Enchanted Dominion the difficulty of the game posed no more threat.  Why would I waste my time on repetitive tasks that will offer me nothing in the long run when there are many other games that will offer more?

I received my sense of accomplishment from viewing the secret ending without going to Youtube, and creating quite the ridiculous Ventus to annihilate the Aqua my brother is so very proud of.  I needn't play anymore for the golden Mickey icon on my report.  Of course though, to each their own.

[SaiKar]

I think there's a world of difference between beating a hidden boss / finding a hidden item and completing a game 100%. I almost never level up RPG characters up to level 99 and I don't get 99 of every item, but I don't feel like I'm missing anything by not doing that.

[Cerebus]

To complete a game 100% depends on what 100% is for you. Unless the % is actually shown in the game.

Also, I have 358/2 Days and meh... I'm not a fan of mission based games like this. I also tried Chains of Memories... and meh. Didn't like the card system thing. Could try this one, but I'm not sure I want to try a third one.

[oooog]

To complete a game 100% depends on what 100% is for you. Unless the % is actually shown in the game.

Also, I have 358/2 Days and meh... I'm not a fan of mission based games like this. I also tried Chains of Memories... and meh. Didn't like the card system thing. Could try this one, but I'm not sure I want to try a third one.

This one is significantly different from it's predecessors on the handheld systems.  Chain of Memories, if you can tolerate it, was okay, but I simply read the manga/synopsis to learn what I missed in between, and 358/2 granted was not the best.  Mission based games are hardly ever fun.  My only gripe with this one compared to the consoles is the fore mentioned spending only 30 minutes in each world actually doing things productive without excessive grinding or item hunting.

[Prpl_Mage]

I can't help finding all that exiting though. No, not the Disney town mini games AGAIN only a different character. but the whole Command melding. 3 characters share some skills, some are only for them. So it's fun to try out new things and get new abilities .
And with the chests, stickers (and prize pods). Kinda like Metroid, you know in what world they are and you search every inch of the place to find 'em and when you finally do you feel great. Sometimes it even gives something neat.

And well, Chain of memory kinda sucked - hard. Not my kind of battle system. 358/2 was a great game as whole but doing missions kinda throbs the feeling. There was some cutscenes here and there, some comical Demyx and Xigbar conversations but nothing special.

[Grandy]

I beat the game witg Aqua and Terra.

I'm not in the mood of playing Ventus anytime soon.

[drenrin2120]

I still haven't gotten through FF6... But I'd give myself a 100%

[Prpl_Mage]

I played the game with Terra > Ventus > Aqua. Now afterwards - I'm glad I did it in the order I did.

And it's a shame that you have to complete all the mini games but with different characters. Especially wining the Command Board. I have no problem getting the "Board exclusive" items on it, but winning it pisses me off when Captain Dark appear.
And also, the Skull Island board. I loathe that board.

[GaryCXJk]

Just play Proud mode you wussies. That way you'd probably only need to complete Xehanort's Report for the final episode, which, at most, only requires you to play through Mirage Arena and open some chests with Aqua and Ventus.

[Prpl_Mage]

Hey look, it's Gary!
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And yeah, that's what he did. He played through the game on the harder difficulty and unlocked the secret ending.
I on the other hand prefer to finish most things that can be finished in a game. I completed the reports of the previous 3 games KH,KH2 and KH DS(Sorry Gary I'm not counting CoM here) so I'm doing the same here. It's kinda more motivating to do it when there's this thing keeping track on what you've done rather than just doing stuff.

Also, that final difficulty with Zero Exp ability is rad.

[Archem]

Gary? What? Is something horrible about to happen? Or something good? Or something at all?

We're desperate for a return of old members.

[Cerebus]

That, I so agree. I still have that list I made of people who either left Charas or post so rarely that each time they do, a wave of nostalgia floats over Charas, and there are quite a lots of names... and it hasn't been updated for some time, so I might have to add names! I won't though. Laziness, and no real point beside twisting the knife in the wound that's already deep enough, yes.

But anyway, yeah, I might try Birth by Sleep some times. If I am still disappointed, then Kingdom Heart won't exist anymore for me!

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Gary pops in every once in a while. I've never seen him as quite "gone".