CoM beginner tips

[Anime-Profile-Picture]

Could anyone suggest how I should approach the game. I've tried it before and never enjoyed it. As a lover of kingdom hearts I am utterly determined to beat it at least once even though I hate the card system. I've given up the last two times: ps4 and epic releases.
If someone could just recommend an idiot proof way too at least actually have fun with the game. What should I actually be doing in each combat encounter?
PS if anyone thinks I find it too hard that's not the issue, I know I can get though it but what I want is to have fun.

[Leijona]

I'm playing through it now, almost dropped it at the start. What helped me was to get a Moogle room and savescum myself some rank 9 attack cards. I did this once or twice for a few floors and now my whole deck is uninterruptable. Makes the overall game much more enjoyable without abusing Sleighs, though they are great for bosses.

[Anime-Profile-Picture]

Originally posted by Leijona:

I'm playing through it now, almost dropped it at the start. What helped me was to get a Moogle room and savescum myself some rank 9 attack cards. I did this once or twice for a few floors and now my whole deck is uninterruptable. Makes the overall game much more enjoyable without abusing Sleighs, though they are great for bosses.

How does that work exactly? I never got more than 20 minutes in, never found any moogles. It's a synthesis thing? Does it take long to do?

[Leijona]

Originally posted by Anime-Profile-Picture:

Originally posted by Leijona:

I'm playing through it now, almost dropped it at the start. What helped me was to get a Moogle room and savescum myself some rank 9 attack cards. I did this once or twice for a few floors and now my whole deck is uninterruptable. Makes the overall game much more enjoyable without abusing Sleighs, though they are great for bosses.

How does that work exactly? I never got more than 20 minutes in, never found any moogles. It's a synthesis thing? Does it take long to do?

You can get moogle room cards as drops, they make the next room have a shop for cards. You buy packs, but the card values are random. So make one next to a save point. Save. Buy the packs. If you get a few rank 9 cards, good. If not, load the game and try again until you're satisfied.

[Anime-Profile-Picture]

Great idea, sounds like a good alternative to playing on easy mode. I've also heard that firaga and blazzaga sleights are busted.

[Anime-Profile-Picture]

Man this sucks. You can't use Sleights on bosses because you run out of cards before the end, and you can use any combos because they WILL cardbreak you. You just have to attack them one card at a time. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Lame.

[Leijona]

Originally posted by Anime-Profile-Picture:

Man this sucks. You can't use Sleights on bosses because you run out of cards before the end, and you can use any combos because they WILL cardbreak you. You just have to attack them one card at a time. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Lame.

Yeah it's the least fun KH game I've played so far. I haven't really had trouble even on Proud mode though, just spamming r9 attack cards or Sonic Blade. Bosses get card broken too, then it's just a matter of killing them before they kill you!

[Anime-Profile-Picture]

Originally posted by Leijona:

Originally posted by Anime-Profile-Picture:

Man this sucks. You can't use Sleights on bosses because you run out of cards before the end, and you can use any combos because they WILL cardbreak you. You just have to attack them one card at a time. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Lame.

Yeah it's the least fun KH game I've played so far. I haven't really had trouble even on Proud mode though, just spamming r9 attack cards or Sonic Blade. Bosses get card broken too, then it's just a matter of killing them before they kill you! :DMCJester1:

Yeah this save scumming is too much effort. You have to quit the entire game each time to reload

[KaosReigns]

Originally posted by Anime-Profile-Picture:

Man this sucks. You can't use Sleights on bosses because you run out of cards before the end, and you can use any combos because they WILL cardbreak you. You just have to attack them one card at a time. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Lame.

When you learn about potions and hi-potions, you are going to feel pretty silly. I know I did when I actually realized how powerful those buggers are.

They reload all the used cards in sleights. So if you start a fight with 40 cards, use 30, and then hi potion, you get your entire deck back. Bar any premium, those are gone for the rest of the fight.

It might be an ether im thinking, but I know there is one that reloads all the discarded cards back into your deck.

[Anime-Profile-Picture]

Originally posted by KaosReigns:

Originally posted by Anime-Profile-Picture:

Man this sucks. You can't use Sleights on bosses because you run out of cards before the end, and you can use any combos because they WILL cardbreak you. You just have to attack them one card at a time. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Lame.

When you learn about potions and hi-potions, you are going to feel pretty silly. I know I did when I actually realized how powerful those buggers are.

They reload all the used cards in sleights. So if you start a fight with 40 cards, use 30, and then hi potion, you get your entire deck back. Bar any premium, those are gone for the rest of the fight.

It might be an ether im thinking, but I know there is one that reloads all the discarded cards back into your deck.

I think you're right, potion card says "reloads reloadable" cards, but hi potion says it reloads attack cards, so probably works on discarded sleight cards, thanks

[Geo]

Originally posted by Anime-Profile-Picture:

Could anyone suggest how I should approach the game. I've tried it before and never enjoyed it. As a lover of kingdom hearts I am utterly determined to beat it at least once even though I hate the card system. I've given up the last two times: ps4 and epic releases.
If someone could just recommend an idiot proof way too at least actually have fun with the game. What should I actually be doing in each combat encounter?
PS if anyone thinks I find it too hard that's not the issue, I know I can get though it but what I want is to have fun.

level up stats
I did the game doing 4 CP then buy 1 HP then a sleigh when it becomes avail.
CP > HP > Sleighs (when available)

Bossing strategy (why hp has not much use)
Sonic Blade Sleigh is your friend. rinse, repeat.

[XenomorphXIII]

Here's one I don't ever see anyone mention. (Because everyone hates this game except me, hur) For the non-sleight part of deck-building, make sure to check Jiminy's Journal for the stats on each Keyblade card type, because the blanket "power" rating just looking at the cards from the deck menu is misleading. Different Keyblades are better in different spots in your deck.

In the entry for each card in the journal, it gets broken down better. Each Keyblade has three power ratings, one for each swing in Sora's basic three-swing combo: Strike, Thrust, and Finish. Some are pretty balanced across the board, but others are just good for one single part of the combo. For example, the Lionheart is equally good in any spot in a combo, while the Divine Rose is ONLY good in the Strike position and terrible for the other two. If you can get the best cards in the best combo positions in your deck, you'll be able to take out huge chunks of enemy health without just spamming sleights, which is especially useful for the longer boss battles where you don't want to deplete your deck too much.

Now. Can this get borked if enemies go breaking your cards? Yep! You need to keep an eye on that and kind of count cards to get back on track with your combos if card breaks get your deck out of sync. However, it's pretty easy to straighten out if that happens, and it'll fix itself immediately when you recharge your deck. Plus, as others have mentioned, Potions and Hi-Potions are your friends.

I know the easy answer to getting through Re:CoM is "just use sleights", but honestly I feel like that's part of why people find it boring. Personally, I find it more engaging to actually work to improve my deck, adjusting and watching my card positioning to get the best effect out of my combos. Sleights are absolutely super useful, but it's more fun to have varied combat strategies instead of just "sonic blade goes brrrrr" for every battle. I dunno, maybe that's just me.

For a less talky suggestion: watch out for certain bosses with elemental absorption. Elemental-damage Keyblade cards will heal them if you hit them with 'em. So get those Lionheart cards out of your deck before the Axel fights!

[Sting]

Item cards play a pretty big role in reloading cards. Hi-potions will reload all attack cards even ones that have been used up in sleights and premium cards. You get to use them once per battle and if it gets broken before you're able to reload your deck, they'll get wasted.

Mega potions, Mega Ethers and Megalixirs will reset the reload counter to 1 in addition to reloading all respective cards.
Premium cards can be reloaded normally if you use them in the 2nd or 3rd slot of a combo. Otherwise they're one use per battle unless you use an Hi potion or above to get them back.

Jafar's enemy card will prevent your attack cards from being broken by Zero's and higher value cards/sleights. This is necessary for Ars Arcanum, that sleight's max value is 6. Just make sure you're not using it when the enemy is already playing something of equal or higher value.

Normal Heartless will not play Zeros. Heartless bosses will play Zeros excluding Guard Armor During Sora's story.
There's only a few Heartless that can play Nines and that only happens in Almighty Darkness rooms.

[Anime-Profile-Picture]

I just beat the game. Didn't use the save scumming thing, too much effort. What I did do however was abuse the ♥♥♥♥ out of Firaga for the bosses and Blizzaga for everything else. Just absolutely sandbag these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with a few stacks of mega-ethers and 0 cards in the back pocket.

[mdesaleah]

Originally posted by Anime-Profile-Picture:

I just beat the game. Didn't use the save scumming thing, too much effort. What I did do however was abuse the ♥♥♥♥ out of Firaga for the bosses and Blizzaga for everything else. Just absolutely sandbag these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with a few stacks of mega-ethers and 0 cards in the back pocket.

Congratulations on the first 2/3 of the game. Still have Riku mode, but he's much shorter and the decks are built for you so you dont have to edit anything. No, you cant skip Riku's section cause its arguably even more important than Sora's

Sonic Blade for most of the game, Lethal Frame for the final boss (or whatever the stops time + attacks multiple time move is called)

[KAIIRU]

I found out you can stunlock nearly every boss to death using the Tornado sleight. And the mega flare sleight is pretty good for instafight exp farming in destiny island. Get a whole bunch of Aero, Gravity, Mushu, Fire, Stop, and any other summon cards, spam premium rooms to upgrade them reducing the card cost, and just obliterate everything. I was struggling at first trying to rely on attack sleights mainly but then found out a lot of magic sleights are more viable. Experiment with all the sleights you get and find out what breaks the game, only then will you start to have fun.