Part of my blind play-through of KH3 on Critical + All Pro Codes
Xemnas you alright man?
A doozy of a fight to learn. There may be checkpoints in between the phases, but you have to do the entire fight in one sitting to actually get through it. That was a wait-for-weekend deal for me.
I decided to do the bosses in ‘release order’ for no reason other than there seemed to be no other reason.
For the Ansem phase, not a lot going on here really. He seems to be the most lazy of the group, and I kinda wish I would have saved him for later and focused Xemnas first. But nonetheless it’s pretty much just try to keep him airborne to stay out of range of the other two and wail on him. Airstepping to the bombs he spawns turned out to be better than popping them with Thunders as it meant getting easy reprisals. Critical counters were always risky though, as my teammates die pretty much instantly so the other two always had a chance of clipping me while I was so low to the ground. It worked out here though as they kept away from me while I beat the old man up. After the aggro transition the goal was just to bait Xemnas somewhere else and jump back on Ansem while Xemnas raves in a corner. Mickey actually caught Xemnas up and delayed his advance on me, which I think helped as Ansem always does his superarmor orb attack here and it’s hard to get him knocked up to be above Xemnas’ attacks until he’s done. Xemnas giving me just enough time to finish Ansem off afterwards was very nice of him.
As for the Xemnas phase… I don’t really know how this happened. Very early on into learning this phase I tripped across a glitch (shown here: https://youtu.be/hoQ9ozUm1Z0) where Xemnas just checks out of the fight altogether. I spent hours trying to recreate that with zero success. No matter what I did I could not get him locked in like that again and ultimately decided to give up on that idea entirely and learn the fight as normal. Xemnas at this point was not so terrible anymore, but after the aggro transition I was having trouble doing anything other than just floating around until they switched again. That’s super lame and boring and I hated doing it. While mulling over what to do about that I realized I could possibly get more damage in on Xemnas during the transition by hitting the reprisal early giving me maybe enough time to get a Rising Spiral in for one last combo before Yung Nort takes over. After a couple tries to get the timing in, I finally hit it and you can see in the video what happens after. I had thought that getting the Final Blow was necessary to trigger the glitch as I had dozens of attempts where I could get the counter in but Xemnas went back to normal after. You can see the hesitation I had where I thought he was going to teleport away like normal, but once I realized that I had triggered the glitch again I simply went for it. As I said, cowering away from Yung Nort is lame and I was ready to move on from this fight after being here for 6+ hours.
As for Babyface himself, I didn’t really learn this phase as much. I was just starting to get a hold on his attack patterns, but with both teammates alive they provided ample flinch opportunities to let me start my combos. As such, this phase was mostly deal with his revenge attacks then let the other two open him up for my combos. I don’t think he would have lasted very long anyways with the damage they were doing. This fight ended fairly quickly which explains my sloppier playing compared to the other two phases.
All in all, an actually fun boss fight, though it did drag on for a while. Without abusing the glitch, I would probably go back and do Yung Nort first, as his range and aggression makes him more of a problem when he takes aggro in the duo phase.
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