Have you tried a magic build in Kingdom Hearts 1?

[Tag365]

I tried it last year and found out Sora has a lot of magical power during the mid game if you max out his max MP with a good Keyblade keychain and good MP boosting equipment. You can get 10 MP during the midgame easily.

[PKblaze]

MP in KH1 is busted.
The more MP the more spells but also the more MP the more damage. Nuts

[Aftonstjarna]

Once you have the MP abilities and Cure upgraded you become a perpetual motion machine of death

[AnvilByte]

Magic is massively overpowered in KH1, especially KH1FM which adds leaf bracer, leaf bracer is op because kh1 wasn't originally designed with it in mind, in kh2 cure uses all mp and you have to wait for it to recharge but in kh1 cure only uses 1 mp, granted it doesn't restore as much health as kh2, but it's just enough to be op, enable leaf bracer, mp rage, and second chance and even if your at 0 mp, you can just get hit and you won't die if you have atleast 2 hp and mp rage should give you atleast 1 mp, even without Aero as long as you spam cure Sora will never die

[AnvilByte]

and that's just Cure, Gravity does a % of max hp, and as long as you have high enough magic stat(the higher your max mp the higher your magic stat, they are conbined in this game) and have Graviga it does nearly 100% HP of damage on non-boss enemies, Stop completely freezes an enemy, not the crazy but still useful, Aero gives you a magic shield which reduces damage which is massively useful

[AnvilByte]

also Donald and Goofy if configured correctly are very valuable allies, configure Donald to spam only defensive spells(I.E. Cure and Aero), and equip goofy with mp gift(which is op because it has goofy use 1 MP to give 3 MP to another party member) and make him only use mp gift to turn him into an ether factory, also make them spam items too since you only give them items for tough fights anyway

btw don't equip Evolution on Goofy after unlocking mp gift, in terms of MP to HP conversion it is less efficient then MP Gift

[Tag365]

Final Mix actually nerfed Goofy's MP Gift to use 2 MP instead of 1 MP as in the pre-Final Mix versions. The English PS3 release incorrectly stated it still used 1 MP but this was fixed in the PS4 port which also fixed a minor error with the command bar having rounded rectangle edges instead of circle edges.

[Xeronkar]

Magic build is highly recommended for a level 1 run, especially with the damage storage strategy.

[Tag365]

Anyone trying out a magic build now?

[nickwithtea]

Wow had no idea about OP magic builds, beat the game a few times. I did figure out gummi ship & making Donald/goofy do different things

[Vallard]

One of my favorite "cheese" builds is magic<strike raid<mp gift build. You are invincible for the full duration of strike raid even ignoring boss mechanics and it does great damage and can be learned as early as after deep jungle. MP gift on goofy means you never need MP. Throw in cure and offensive magic to supplement and you can one button win any fight that doesnt require you to be swimming or flying. For the fights that require flights just spam magic. No damage beat the first two ansem fights without even moving with this strategy.