Kingdom Hearts II - #50 - Data Organization XIII

[@elwinransom3628]

Geeeeeze, every single let's play with Dan. Starts off "Man Dan's kinda bad at this game." End "Man Dan's way better than I was at that."

[@Cherry_blossom2604]

Actually though!!!

[@akiraishin7141]

That All Might joke with Larxene, you get a Plus Ultra on your report card for that one Dan.

[@jonathanfaber3291]

That moment when he doesn't yell "Book it" in Zexion's fight is highly disapponting

[@gogetta159]

Hearing the pure joy when you land the counter perfectly is just too good to hear. KH2 is such a great game.

[@Aluxboi]

Carrie, we appreciate you.

[@superbun277]

Everyone, sit back and enjoy Our Lord and Liege, The One Who Rules Over Cards, demonstrating the skills that earned him his titles.

[@Karonis124]

I was promised poorly played KH2. Not this impressive level of professional gameplay. I want a refund.

[@fisherdotogg]

Holy cow has Dan improved. I'm guessing he's watched guides and practised lots and it shows

[@Payneless]

One of the most impressssive things about these lets plays is the patience and joy of Dan when he's playing through. Like he takes his lickin's but keeps on kicking. It's such an enjoyable experience.

[@mariusjohnsen4545]

21:08 - Amazing to see you stumble over an advanced strat. If you predict pools then you can stand in the middle, cast firaga, stagger him and prevent him from casting pools entirely. Very good adaption on Larxene Dan! Truely enjoying watching you getting a firm grip on the combat!

[@ArgentusAurum]

I watch these videos and can't help but think that having an attack that drives Sora to the ground, or at least an ability that makes him fall faster on command would be really useful. Also, I think that Luxord would approve of you using dice to choose which Organization member to fight next.

[@krishnansubramoni7801]

I've played KH 2 a lot and yes, a move that sends Sora down quickly would be so useful.

[@40Kfrog]

45:00 Sora's animation when you successfully do Luxord's QTE is just the embodiment of sass, and it's even better with the tiny crown.

[@GeminiTasiri]

"This seems excessive" - Dan regarding every Data-OrgXIII Member, 2018

[@jonathanfaber3291]

Walt if he can't get a 1 but can get a 14 then why didn't he just take the dice roll and minus 1, you'd still get all thirteen values

[@Valtharr]

Or have the 14 be #1

[@Adam-cq2yo]

Also, because of the fact that he's combining two dice (1d6 + 1d8), the chances will be higher for some numbers than others. (8 will have the highest chance, iirc.)

[@Slash-XVI]

@@Adam-cq2yo 8 is the expected value, but 7,8 and 9 have the same chance with 6 possible combinations each and a chance of 1/8

[@timothymclean]

@@Valtharr My thought exactly. ...I also wondered if the bell-curve distribution was really ideal for this sort of situation. I mean, he probably doesn't have a d14 lying around, but this seems like the sort of thing random.org would be perfect for.

[@MiseFreisin]

He just didn't want to fight Xemnas first, I reckon.

[@MrAuthor3DS]

This seems a good place to list off every Organization XIII member's class (based on the Nobodies they command), weapons, and magic elements. *I: Xemnas, the Superior of the In-Between* - Class: Sorcerer - Weapon: Interdiction (ethereal blades) - Element: Nothingness/Nil *II: Xigbar, the Freeshooter* - Class: Sniper - Weapon: Sharpshooter (arrow guns) - Element: Space *III: Xaldin, the Whirlwind Lancer* - Class: Dragoon - Weapon: Lindworm (lances) - Element: Wind *IV: Vexen, the Chilly Academic* - Class: ??? - Weapon: Frozen Pride (shield) - Element: Ice *V: Lexaeus, the Silent Hero/Taciturn Stalwart* - Class: ??? - Weapon: Skysplitter (axe sword) - Element: Earth *VI: Zexion, the Cloaked Schemer* - Class: ??? - Weapon: Book of Retribution (lexicon) - Element: Illusion *VII: Saïx, the Luna Diviner* - Class: Berserker - Weapon: Lunatic (claymore) - Element: Moon *VIII: Axel, the Flurry of Dancing Flames* - Class: Assassin - Weapon: Eternal Flames (chakrams) - Element: Fire *IX: Demyx, the Melodious Nocturne* - Class: Dancer - Weapon: Arpeggio (sitar) - Element: Water *X: Luxord, the Gambler of Fate* - Class: Gambler - Weapon: Fair Game (cards) - Element: Time *XI: Marluxia, the Graceful Assassin* - Class: Reaper - Weapon: Graceful Dahlia (scythe) - Element: Flower *XII: Larxene, the Savage Nymph* - Class: Ninja - Weapon: Foudre (knives) - Element: Lightning *XIII: Roxas, the Key of Destiny* - Class: Samurai - Weapon: Oathkeeper & Oblivion (Keyblades) - Element: Light

[@patdes19]

wow we actually got to watch Dan learn how to use Guard and Reflect in one episode. That was some good work

[@stickwyvern2138]

And thus, Sora was forever confused by the term, "hit the books."

[@howdomaddie]

Oh that Larxene fight is a thing of beauty!! Very well done, I can only imagine how challenging it was...

[@callowguru2611]

Great work on Saïx.

[@callowguru2611]

Same with Larxene

[@callowguru2611]

Knew you wouldn't have any problems with Marluxia after the AS fight.

[@callowguru2611]

INCREDIBLE work on Zexion. Better than I usually do.

[@callowguru2611]

Awesome turnaround on Luxord too!

[@ingonyama70]

@@callowguru2611 That upset victory was amazing! Dan doesn't think he earned that victory, but I couldn't disagree more. You're the one who gave him the guides, right? Good one. Having a strategy is half the battle in most of these fights.

[@smooble8340]

The thing that excites me the most, is Dan being amazed/excited about beating the first guys in one try. You're amazing!

[@joseph-yt2qk]

Goodness Dan! You’re good at this game!

[@Slash-XVI]

As soon as he stopped mindlesly spamming attack and employ some strategy, it turns out Dan is actually good at the game. I guess all those hours in Dark Souls were not for nothing.

[@bananatassium7009]

I like the double meaning of the title- Organization 13 made from data AND the 13th book in the Data Organization saga.

[@Daeranilen]

Nice reflect in the Larxene fight!!! Larxene's biggest weakness is that damaging her clones damages her overall, so that excellent reflect on several of her clones took out a huge chunk of her health. And you reflected a ton of damage because you were reflecting several hits!

[@Daeranilen]

And an amazing comeback on the Luxord fight!!! Dan, you're doing so good.

[@LikeoftheConchords]

There's something kind of amazing about Marluxia using you as a skateboard

[@01ChaosWarrior]

The whole concept of refighting old bosses with their stats boosted to endgame levels, and with different attack patters/faster attack execution is a really clever way of reusing content. If you've never played them, that is basically half the endgame of the Mega Man handheld RPGs. Every boss has two higher level versions you can find and fight that not only have more HP and deal more damage, but also MOVE faster. (Trust me, if you've not played them, it gets freaking ridiculous!) The games have a decent number of bosses to begin with, but when you get to the second, and especially the third levels of them, it can almost become a completely different game sometimes with the sheer number of moves and attacks that are going off in any ten second span. And that is before you find the bosses that are exclusive to post game content, who are already as hard as a super boss should be, and they ALSO have multiple levels of difficulty half the time! (Especially Bass... seriously, the entire community agrees, screw Bass.)

[@autofire55555]

Your comment feels long and kinda tangential but I dont care because I 100% agree on MMBN handling end game well (at least in MMBN3 and 6).

[@Ninjinhah]

We have come a long way, Daniel... I'm so proud of your progress!

[@MiseFreisin]

Great job Dan. I see a lot of people talking about the fairness of the distribution. I would have set Xemnas aside and started with D6 and a coin flip. Switching to the D8 while there are 8 and 7 left would minimise rerolling. Back to the D6 for the next two and then back to the D8 with only 4 left (each boss gets two sides) before finishing it out with the D6 again. If you didn't want Xemnas to be last, you could reintroduce him to the pool for the second round or at any point after that. Of course, an online rng would be faster and fairer but I think Luxord would agree that there's little fun in that.

[@timothymclean]

12:10: ...Now I can't unsee it. Larxene's basically an anti-All-Might, hair aside, but that hair!

[@endermage77]

45:00 Top 10 Anime Plot Twists

[@Qazqi]

The reason your Combo Plus abilities were already unequipped is that you died on Zexion. Dying poops you back at the last room you entered and you had put the Combo Plus things on _after_ entering. If you change your setup, it's generally a good idea to exit and re-enter the room so you don't have to do it again if you die.

[@vibes5805]

"Nooo I am books" has the same energy as bread cat

[@Halosty45]

2:36 whoa what? That's gotta be some kind of violation of international protocol of some sort! What would happen if we applied your crazy rules of morality to the dragonball universe? Chaos! (It should be noted that the charge up times in the manga were like, 2 panels at most)

[@bookfan1239]

Whoa, you improved so much, Dan. You got good! Four out of five done on the first try! WHOOOOOO!

[@olicityfan1150]

"Duck of the Year" 'Donald gets knocked out' 🤣🤣🤣

[@krishnansubramoni7801]

Even from just the last episode to this one Dan has so much improvement. I would not have won these ridiculous fights, but Our Lord and Liege, The One Who Rules Over Cards, is really good at video games and Kingdom Hearts

[@AsterTopaz]

When you're in Dice Form, you can jump *into* Luxord and his cards to rapidly reduce the time spent as a dice and probably deal minor damage.

[@oakenshadow6763]

"I hate being booked." 33:12

[@Ederisien]

Grumbling, growling Dan evolved into jubilant Dan in this episode. I can imagine doing all 13 organisation members again is an intimidating prospect, but look at how well you did! 5 down first try, you go, Dan.

[@the6ofdiamonds]

I apologize for laughing like a maniac during the Larxene fight. Specifically when you ask her to "chill" or calm down.

[@francescosorce5189]

That was a really close comeback with Luxord Nice going Dan!

[@jafortune]

"Yes. Merge. Good!" ~ Dan, approximately 12 times. Way to go though.

[@callowguru2611]

Larxene is such a hectic fight.

[@nickvu5360]

If you're rolling with 2 dice wouldn't the odds of getting 7 be larger compared to numbers farther away from 7? Also Dan for the upcoming fight with Demyx I think you should look up a guide because those clones will probably get you more than Demyx himself. (Hint: use Wisdom with Firaga)

[@callowguru2611]

I got him covered.

[@Adam-cq2yo]

I believe the number with the highest chance here is 8. I think (but could be wrong) that you add 0.5 for every die.

[@Slash-XVI]

There are different probabilities for the sum of his two dice, however he is not using two six-sided dice, so the number with the highest probability might not be 7 as this depends on the kind of dice rolled as well as the number. First of all the expected sum of his two dice would be 8, but 7, 8 and 9 have the same probability as there is the same number of possible combinations for each of those numbers (6 for each). This puts the chance for any single one of them at 1/8.

[@rmsgrey]

@@Adam-cq2yo It actually works out at 7, 8 and 9 all being equally likely. if you take the smallest from one die with the largest from the other, you get 7 or 9 (depending which way round) and those numbers and everything between are tied for most likely outcome. Outside that range, the probability changes by constant amounts as the value does, down to the sum of the two lowest, and up to the sum of the two highest.

[@Minihood31770]

If you have 2 dice, the probability distribution isn't flat. With a D6 and a D8, the chance of getting 7, 8, or 9 is 12.5%, whereas getting 2 or 14 is only 2.08%. Getting multiple 7s is slightly more likely than you might first think.

[@TheAdamant94]

I’m legitimately impressed with your skills in these battles, Dan! You made Marluxia look easy!

[@sp2danny]

thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening

[@pyrosianheir]

Depending on how that one shot in the KH 3 Final Battle trailer (you know the one) happens... Donald might be Duck of Next Year, too. XD

[@Soumein]

I'm watching these and remembering that I barely used Guard and never used Reflect in KH2. There were always too many enemies to keep track of to bother using Guard, and I wanted to keep my MP for Cure. Granted I only played original KH2; I don't even remember if there were secret bosses outside the Colisseum, and I probably didn't even bother fighting those, either.

[@astrotello4643]

Not sure if you want to go for it Dan but if you're doing all bosses there is technically a super gummi boss at the end of Mission 3 of Dreadnaughts

[@HalfMaskMan]

27:00 except for Pooh bear. He's lovely as a book

[@damrod]

Wait, since when did Dan here obtain the ultimate keyblade? He didn't have it in the previous recording when he went down the list and didn't use it on the other boss parts as well... Also, i thought he was telling us these fights would be harder then the previous episode. He had more difficulty with those bosses then these ones so far :P

[@AskWaffles]

Trust me, they are incredibly difficult. The only reason why he's not having as much trouble is because he absolutely GRINDED for these fights, being level 99, and having the best equipment and armor, making him almost invincible compared to what it would've been like normally. Most of these boss's combos and attacks should have killed in like 2 or 3 hits.

[@callowguru2611]

The fights require careful planning and good execution regards. Marluxia and Luxord are the same difficulty on normal as they are on Critical since health is basically irrelevant.

[@AskWaffles]

@@callowguru2611 I wouldn't say that. Marluxia has 3 attacks(the bomb, the pools and the desperation move) that one hit kills, or 2 shot if you have once more. Luxord's time system isn't really the hard part, he still does damage to your health, and on critical mode, usually all his moves 2 or 3 shots.

[@damrod]

@@callowguru2611 If the fights require careful planning, how come dan didn't do any of that careful planning then and still had it easier then the previous bosses? He planned a lot for the fight against sephiroth for example but still struggled. He didn't plan a lot on the organization members and didn't struggle as much.

[@samuelturner6076]

damrod He kinda did though, he looked up guides and builds beforehand which I would say count as planning, also because these boss fights have a lot of similar moves and patterns to their previous forms he’s going in with a lot of prior knowledge on how to fight them.

[@ThePortableTornado]

The TURN AROUND

[@Ghiaman1334]

Only thought of this now: if Luxord is all about cards, then err... why wasn't he in the game that was literally a card game?

[@mysticmind4563]

He was probably improvised for KH2. Luxord seems like he was one of the least developed/interesting characters.

[@_Bookmark_]

I think if you got an ability to see Org 13s AP bars youd need 6 monitors just to see all of it.

[@bnerd1]

wow you grinded for the ultima keyblade

[@TheBoundFenrir]

I never played a version of KH II that had the Zexion fight, so this is pure guess work but: It looks like Zexian always books "forwards" when you finish a combo on him. Therefore, wouldn't it be best to hit him with one full combo, and then jump back and let him hit your allies? Then you get that "free hit" dan mentions when you free them, instead of being stuck in the book yourself. Alternatively, if you circle around him, he may aim where you *were* and not where you *are*, allowing you to punish his bad aim with a second combo, at which point you repeat ad nausium.

[@hadriennogueira3726]

Wow Dan, first try Larxene, hecking impressive

[@thomasfplm]

About getting 7 lots of times, that's the most likely result for adding two dice. If you play D&D, I would suggest getting a D12.

[@CrushaKRool]

Using a sum of D6 and D8 is pretty biased. You have a 12.5% chance of rolling 6, 7 or 8 respectively and decreasing odds towards the minimum and maximum values, leaving you only with roughly a 2% chance of rolling 2 or 14.

[@JM-nothing-more]

yeah, a D20 and reroll on a 14 or higher would be better

[@Duiker36]

I mean, he doesn't need a fair distribution; he needs a shuffled set.

[@PlayFramePlus]

True! Though I'll be fighting them all by the end of the week either way, I guess. :P

[@mithrone5832]

Damn that ending was close

[@Genee722]

Why aren't they all in order in the room? Makes them hard to find.

[@DarkLThemsby]

Ya know, I can't help but wonder how you would've done on all these optional bosses on Critical mode.. That would've been _very_ entertaining :D

[@charliec.1347]

I wish all of the Organization XIII members would say "You just got organized!" every time you lost to their fights. It would be stupidly cheesy, but very funny.

[@Adam-cq2yo]

Sounds like something water boy would say.

[@iantaakalla8180]

These are Ansem the Wise’s data, and he is surprisingly out of date as far as lingo goes if Data Seifer means anything. It could make sense for the Data Organization to say “you just got organized” upon your defeat.

[@dungheap7995]

So... I'm going to take that as a negative on the determination montages...?

[@benparker1822]

Hey. At least you didn't have to play a card game while doing these fights, too.

[@necronsplayer]

yes. merge. good.

[@SkyeFyre2131]

Would you say your win in the last fight was... Luck of the draw?

[@knobelaxphormi6320]

Excellent episode for 1.25 playback speed

[@phyrofox1641]

Who gave her coffee

[@pegasBaO23]

Prob too late for this recording 14 should've been a reroll or number 1

[@CiaranDeNaMasc]

I cannot begin to tell you how much it irks me seeing marluxia use a scythe with only one hand, it makes all of his animations feel weightless and unstable... And it's not like he's doing anything with his other hand, it's just awkward!

[@TheBigRalph]

A square in the middle of a combo on that Sai'x fight would've been helpful

[@Duiker36]

Why is this happening...

[@mgormley7530]

there is a fine line between a difficult but fun challenge and complete BS. Kingdom Hearts does not know where this line is

[@mariusjohnsen4545]

M Gormley I would fight you on that statement, with a few exceptions - like Zexion, but Marluxia, Saïx, Larxene, Lexeus, Axel, Roxas and lingering will is perfectly fair and fun fights. There is a lot of strategies to employ, tells to look for, revenge values to exploit. Some fights is KH2 are BS, but they are mostly awesome. BBS and DDD on the other hand are full of BS :/

[@kaef0rkind]

@@mariusjohnsen4545 Amen. I'm really curious if Dan is going to attempt BBS' bonus bosses because hoo boy, Mysterious Figure is probably THE most unfair boss I've ever fought.

[@Mikesean45]

@@kaef0rkind Honestly, I prefer the BBS fights to KH2's. I feel like a good number of the KH2 boss fights are either very gimmicky or require some kind of guide to know the ins and outs of the fight.

[@mariusjohnsen4545]

@@kaef0rkindI didn't even try out the bonus bosses in BBS when I completed it last week since I don't really find the combat enjoyable. It's all way too random and cheap were spamming Thunder Surge is the way to go for most fights. Enjoyed the story though.

[@mgormley7530]

@@mariusjohnsen4545 I didn't mean all were bad, KH2 definitely has a lot of good boss fights (as opposed to say, BBS where one of the strategies for Terra is literally "find a place on the map where the boss gets stuck on a rock and abuse this b/c otherwise you stand no chance), however some things are not so much difficult as annoying. Like enemies have ridiculous amounts of health at times or that Saix's sword-thing disappears way too quickly.

[@roy4173]

Dark souls: Disney edition

[@starlight_circuitry]

Saïx? More like Sucks. Larxene? More like Larx-seen it. Marluxia? More like Mar-loser. Zexion? More like Zexi-chump. Luxord? More like Lux-nerd. Nothing like a boss rush and some mediocre-at-best trash talk puns to liven up a long train ride.

[@ingonyama70]

Man, the dice were NOT kind. Five of the toughest/most nonsensical Organization members right out the gate? Someone didn't like you. You did it though, and I'm amazed. The rest might even be easy compared to what you just did.

[@pedrogarcia8706]

The reason you took so long against saix is because you were trying to play your game, instead of playing his game. You can't just jump around and attack and expect to win. You need to study their patterns and defend their attacks. Then they'll be open.

[@sosobo2991]

lol