Ok, how should I 'choose my path'?

[NachosAndCheeezzz]

I remember the horrible reviews about the difficulty of this game on release, then I heard the masses screaming that proud mode and the dlc salvaged the worst parts of the game (the dificulty and the story).

So now I start a new game and on the 'choose your path' tutorial there are options to either disregard the DLC, or add either hard mode or ez mode, if I choose the 'disregard the DLC' am I just locked out of all the DLC content? Should I pick one of the 'code' ones and just keep them off? Should I just start in proud mode?

I've beaten KH1 and 2 in proud before I'm not bad at these games but I really want to know what would be the best experience for my first play through, then I can go bananas.

[Protoman]

Pick the codes and keep them off.
And I'll tell you already: even if you've finished KH1 and 2 on Proud/Critical, you're going to get wrecked here, specially until level 10. Almost everything will one-shot you, and enemies don't care if they're offscreen. They WILL fire their homing charge attack and kill you.

[NachosAndCheeezzz]

Originally posted by Protoman:

Pick the codes and keep them off.
And I'll tell you already: even if you've finished KH1 and 2 on Proud/Critical, you're going to get wrecked here, specially until level 10. Almost everything will one-shot you, and enemies don't care if they're offscreen. They WILL fire their homing charge attack and kill you.

Unerstood.

So, is proud too hard? Has Normal been rebalanced? Or is this just a case of Normal is too easy and Hard is too hard?

[Protoman]

No, it's Critical that's a little too hard (at the beginning). The other difficulties are a little too easy, which I guess was what the people complained about at release.

[NachosAndCheeezzz]

Originally posted by Protoman:

No, it's Critical that's a little too hard (at the beginning). The other difficulties are a little too easy, which I guess was what the people complained about at release.

All right, then I'll start on proud, and get the codes but don't use them, thank you so much for the info.

[Perkele]

Originally posted by NachosAndCheeezzz:

I remember the horrible reviews about the difficulty of this game on release, then I heard the masses screaming that proud mode and the dlc salvaged the worst parts of the game (the dificulty and the story).

So now I start a new game and on the 'choose your path' tutorial there are options to either disregard the DLC, or add either hard mode or ez mode, if I choose the 'disregard the DLC' am I just locked out of all the DLC content? Should I pick one of the 'code' ones and just keep them off? Should I just start in proud mode?

I've beaten KH1 and 2 in proud before I'm not bad at these games but I really want to know what would be the best experience for my first play through, then I can go bananas.

If you are going to play proud i suggest you choose the screen that increases your hp (body that endures) and then the path of guardian because you learn withstand combo which is pretty helpful on early game if you suck at blocking or dodging also you will learn combo/ air combo plus after levels 11 and 13 if remember right. Honestly just use potions and spam dodge roll if you are that bad since kh3 has the best movement in the series

[VolnuttHeroP64]

Well, there's 6 Paths to choose from as you can only pick 2 when you start a new game
= Tier 1
Attack, Defense, Endurance
= Tier 2
Warrior, Mage, Guardian

In the First Game
= Warrior is to ATK, Mage is to AP/MP. Guardian is to Defense as you can choose one but when you do, you have to drop one item which will reduce ATK, DEF or AP.
= EXP Progression to choose from, again, only one can be picked: Dawn (Early Leveling but hard to max later), Midday (Balanced Leveling) or Dusk (Late Leveling but easy to max later).

[Perkele]

Originally posted by VolnuttHeroP64:

Well, there's 6 Paths to choose from as you can only pick 2 when you start a new game
= Tier 1
Attack, Defense, Endurance
= Tier 2
Warrior, Mage, Guardian

In the First Game
= Warrior is to ATK, Mage is to AP/MP. Guardian is to Defense as you can choose one but when you do, you have to drop one item which will reduce ATK, DEF or AP.
= EXP Progression to choose from, again, only one can be picked: Dawn (Early Leveling but hard to max later), Midday (Balanced Leveling) or Dusk (Late Leveling but easy to max later).

Bro he aint playing kh1

He is starting to play kh3 dummy

[VolnuttHeroP64]

Originally posted by Perkele:

Originally posted by VolnuttHeroP64:

Well, there's 6 Paths to choose from as you can only pick 2 when you start a new game
= Tier 1
Attack, Defense, Endurance
= Tier 2
Warrior, Mage, Guardian

In the First Game
= Warrior is to ATK, Mage is to AP/MP. Guardian is to Defense as you can choose one but when you do, you have to drop one item which will reduce ATK, DEF or AP.
= EXP Progression to choose from, again, only one can be picked: Dawn (Early Leveling but hard to max later), Midday (Balanced Leveling) or Dusk (Late Leveling but easy to max later).

Bro he aint playing kh1

He is starting to play kh3 dummy

Oh. Well, there's 2 Paths to choose in KH3, first is Desire & Second is Power
= Desire
Wisdom, Vitality, Balance
= Power
Guardian, Warrior, Mystic

You can only pick one of each as they will determine your initial MP & HP along with your skill sets to learn.

[NachosAndCheeezzz]

Sorry guys, I should have phrased it differently.

I wanted to know if picking the path of 'disregard the DLC' would cut me off completely from the DLC or just the dificulty codes, I was already told that I have to take one of the code paths and just keep them off.

Also wanted to know what difficulty to pick since this game has a reputation of being extremely easy but they implemented a dificulty later that adressed that, I have now been told that standard and proud are a tad too easy, and that critical is a tad too hard.

BTW I chose balance and warrior