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#46: Armored Ventus Nightmare (Dream Drop DISTANCE)

"This abyss?
Am I in Sora's dream?"

The first boss both from Dream Drop Distance, and also the first ranked in the absurd hell that is Riku's final boss gauntlet from that game.

This is the hardest end to any game I've ever played. Bar none.

There have been harder final levels, there have been much much harder games, there have been harder individual bosses. But nothing like this combined.

This would be like fighting Yunalesca, Seymour Natus, Barthandalus (1) for some absurd reason Omega Weapon as the fourth, and then ending with Material Keeper.... in a normal game. Not post game.

Why is this so hard? A couple reasons really. They are final bosses and they all have really powerful hard to dodge attacks and tricks, but the real reason has to do with DDD itself.

Days everyone had a ton of HP. DDD no one flinches and when you combo their revenge values seem to be RNG. I'll use data Laxaeus as an example. If he is ar 99,999 and I keep hitting him I have an idea when his RV is going to activate. And if I keep hitting him he'll take me to 1 HP. (Speed runners actually know exactly when it will activate, but I'm fine just having a general guess of an idea)

In DDD, (if you can even link them at all ever) they may respond on the third hit of the first chain, or the second hit of the fourth chain... you have no idea. That is especially hard in this gauntlet when they are already powerful as hell and you don't get many chances to attack.

And why did I say if you can chain them in the first place. Cause it's really not easy to cause someone to
Flinch in DDD. You wanna know why so many people think Balloonra is tier 0? (I mean, it's awesome anyway, but even stronger than it would be normally) Because it causes flinch to happen a lot of times, and works on many enemies. We'll talk more about balloon later obviously.

As for this Boss itself. It's harder than the weakest Super Boss. Ventus is so absurdly fast. Thankfully even though he is armor, he doesn't have that much HP. So just go all out at the start and see who is the better fighter.

This is the final fight for the Main Character....

Yes, Riku is so obviously the main character in this game, not Sora. Sora is a plot device. Riku gets all the biggest moments, the final boss chain, ALL of the character progression, and most of the best moves, saves the damsel in distress (Sora) and becomes only the Second Active "living" Master.

This guy is a nuisance, and would probably be ranked about 10 spots higher if I could remotely be objective about him. But because of what he follows, I can't. This fight probably took me 4-5 times. Which seems like a bit low number. But the battle before I would have gotten up and danced and praised if it only took 4-5. And for that Ventus kinda gets punished by association. Sorry dude.
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