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The community basicly rounded the 5 Kingdom Hearts game submissions down to 3. We have Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Beginner, Proud mode and KH2 Final Mix Critical Mode. I'm going to list some ups and downs to inform the organizers on what the better pick would be. The community has also done the pick they want to see. First of all i wanna say picking a Kingdom Hearts game is a very good choice. It has lots of nostalgia, a big community, and are solid games in terms of speedrunning.
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Beginner Mode:
Ups: It's the shortest one, around 3 hours, all the fights in the game go by relativly fast, and you're really powerful in beginner mode, so everything dies very fast and there is barelly any fear of you dying. It's one of the most optimized categories and a lot of people run it. Good run for people who hasn't seen the game before.
Downs: The word ''Beginner'' first of all will be very looked down upon by people who haven't played the game before, many people have beaten the game on higher difficulties than beginner, so picking it would be insulting to second time players. The first hour of the game (1/3 in fact) is mostly jumping and attacking (Air combos), since your strength is so good in beginner. Beginner doesn't have as many advanced strategies, so the variety is a bit low.
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Proud Mode:
Ups: Playing on the highest difficulties gives people a taste of how difficult this game can be. The hardest difficulty gives first time watchers an immediate thought of ''Oh he's playing on hard, he must be good.'' Proud mode offers more strats than beginner, more summons are being used.
Downs: Proud has a few boss fights that take way longer than they should, and can be repetitive to watch.
Kingdom Hearts 2: Final Mix Critical Mode:
Ups: It's Critical Mode, now you know we're getting hardcore with the difficulties. The KH2 run from last year was on Regular KH2 and on Beginner mode. The level of play this year in Critical mode is way higher. The game has insane amounts of variety. Pretty much everything in the game is used. Limits, Drives, Abilities, and Summons are all used. Overall this game visually looks better, is more flashy than KH 1.5, has more worlds and most people think it's the better game of the two. The game has the least amount of RNG as well, and Bl00dy is a pretty talented runner, so he won't die as much as most people would do on their playthroughs on critical mode. which makes for a consistant run.
Downs: It's the longest out of the 3 games we picked. It was picked last year, in terms of the game there is nothing really bad about it, except for the fact that 1.5 would be in HD, so it would look a bit better than 2, but it's such a minimal complaint.
If you do end up picking 2 KH games, that would be sweet, since the pick was really hard for us. And 1.5 hasn't gotten to show in a marathon at all. Our community pick for ESA would be KH 2 Final Mix (Critical Mode). Reasons explained above.
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Beginner Mode:
Ups: It's the shortest one, around 3 hours, all the fights in the game go by relativly fast, and you're really powerful in beginner mode, so everything dies very fast and there is barelly any fear of you dying. It's one of the most optimized categories and a lot of people run it. Good run for people who hasn't seen the game before.
Downs: The word ''Beginner'' first of all will be very looked down upon by people who haven't played the game before, many people have beaten the game on higher difficulties than beginner, so picking it would be insulting to second time players. The first hour of the game (1/3 in fact) is mostly jumping and attacking (Air combos), since your strength is so good in beginner. Beginner doesn't have as many advanced strategies, so the variety is a bit low.
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Proud Mode:
Ups: Playing on the highest difficulties gives people a taste of how difficult this game can be. The hardest difficulty gives first time watchers an immediate thought of ''Oh he's playing on hard, he must be good.'' Proud mode offers more strats than beginner, more summons are being used.
Downs: Proud has a few boss fights that take way longer than they should, and can be repetitive to watch.
Kingdom Hearts 2: Final Mix Critical Mode:
Ups: It's Critical Mode, now you know we're getting hardcore with the difficulties. The KH2 run from last year was on Regular KH2 and on Beginner mode. The level of play this year in Critical mode is way higher. The game has insane amounts of variety. Pretty much everything in the game is used. Limits, Drives, Abilities, and Summons are all used. Overall this game visually looks better, is more flashy than KH 1.5, has more worlds and most people think it's the better game of the two. The game has the least amount of RNG as well, and Bl00dy is a pretty talented runner, so he won't die as much as most people would do on their playthroughs on critical mode. which makes for a consistant run.
Downs: It's the longest out of the 3 games we picked. It was picked last year, in terms of the game there is nothing really bad about it, except for the fact that 1.5 would be in HD, so it would look a bit better than 2, but it's such a minimal complaint.
If you do end up picking 2 KH games, that would be sweet, since the pick was really hard for us. And 1.5 hasn't gotten to show in a marathon at all. Our community pick for ESA would be KH 2 Final Mix (Critical Mode). Reasons explained above.
