eine said:
I've loaded my jap. save file on the US version and discovered that once again, they reduced the difficulty of a boss fight for a US release.
SPOILER ALERT : you have been warned
They reduced Xion's HP by 3 or 4 dots(1 dot per full HP bar) on her final form. Also, she doesn't spam her vacuum as much like on the jap. ver. meaning its too easy to come close and whack away. I dont knw about her other forms though.
They added some enhancements though.
1st on Item Synthesis, it doesn't let you make more than one type of sub-ability which I consider an enhancement because you don't really need 2 or more when the effects don't stack.
They also changed up the multiplayer abit to actually have a Solo Mission Mode and Multi Mission Mode. Even though in the J version you could already solo, you couldn't earn crowns without other people to play with, and in the U version you can.
Also, in Story and mission mode, when you "Go to Title", it goes straight to the Title Menu instead of starting from the Disney Logo and waiting for the logos to pass by before you get to the Title menu.
I really haven't confirmed "its less difficult" because the Japanese version on Proud mode was still
ridiculously easy for me.
But I have noticed in Theatre Mode, if you go back to the Title Menu, the music restarts in the U version, and in the J version, it keeps playing without interuption.
So sofar its Japanese 1, American 3 until I confirm myself if the Japanese is harder....
Though really I don't consider more HP "harder" as every enemy has a very short list of attacks. Its possible there were complaints that you had to hack and slash too much to fell some storyline enemies. I know that was one of my issues, despite the enemies being predictable and easy, it took far too long to wipe them out, which was really one of the downsides for me. And the whole Xion using less of a certian attack may just be by luck, I've fought final form xion like 5 times in the U version sofar and each time she seems to favor a certian attack. And in Missions Mde when I was trying to collect crowns, she spammed whirlwinds ALOT, it litterally took me 25+ minutes to finally defeat her final form at level 72.