LogFAQs > #876109041

Appreciation of KH2's combat is kind of a weird thing. There's this really widespread belief that it's a bad system where you can just mash X and occasionally hit a reaction command to breeze through it. And that's actually true on lower difficulties! When you hit Critical mode though, you can see the game is actually really beautifully set up and demands that players actually learn to play on a higher level. (Especially against Final Mix bosses)

The trick is I'm pretty sure most people didn't play on Critical mode so their claim that the combat is mashy is actually true from their experience. I'm legit not sure whether arguing Critical is how the game was meant to be played is even fair considering "normal" is the baseline for 90% of other games, but it sure seems like they designed the combat with Critical in mind.
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