Hints & Strategies

In-game Reset Hold L1 + R1 + L2 + R2 and press Start + Select during game play. Alternate ending sequence Successfully complete all worlds and Jiminy's Journal under the standard difficulty setting to view an additional sequence after the ending credits. When playing under the proud difficulty setting, successfully complete all worlds to view the sequence. ihpmp. Successfully complete the game in Proud mode and choose the sword both times. Statistics about how you played will appear after the credits. Hidden trailer: Allow the game to remain idle for two to three minutes at the main title screen. The screen will fade and a trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2 will begin playing, showing the credits with an instrumental version of the theme song "Sanctuary" playing in the background. Hint: Drive mode training: Go to Timeless River. Make sure your Drive is full. Pick any of the four doors in front of you and enter it. Kill all the Heartless in the area with any transformation then return to Disney Castle before your Drive gauge is emptied. When you return to Disney Castle, your Drive meter is full again. Keep doing this until your Drive level is at maximum. Hint: Drive mode costumes and intermission sequences: If you finish fighting a Boss while in a drive mode, the costume will remain in the drive form. However the character you fused with will still appear in the intermission sequence after the fight. Hint: Drive meter refill: If your Drive gauge is almost empty when in your transformed state, quickly go to a save point and go to Gummi Ship. Then, go to any world desired. When you are in the world selected, notice that your Drive gauge is full. Hint: Health refill: When you have low health and no magic or potions, but a fill drive meter, turn into any form. You will have full health. Hint: Play as Mickey: Sometimes randomly when you die, there will be two new options that read "Never Give up" and "Give Up". If you choose "Never Give Up", you will resume the game as Mickey. Hint: Summon Mickey: Complete everything, then go to Timeless River. Go into the newly created door on the left. Help Mickey fight some Heartless. After the fight he will give you a King's Charm. It costs four bar of Guard. Hint: Goofy: Nobody Guard: In order to get Goofy's second best weapon, Nobody Guard, find and kill the Gambling Nobodies. Note: This may take some time. Hint: Donald: Enemy weapons: It is possible for Donald and Goofy to get enemy-based weapons, just as in the original Kingdom Hearts. To get Donald's enemy weapon, the Nobody Lance, kill some of the Dragon-like Nobodies that carry spears until you get one. It is his second best weapon. Hint: Goofy: Enemy weapon: To get Goofy's enemy weapon, the Akashic Record, kill some of the book-wielding Heartless in Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden. It is his second best weapon. Hint: Cerberus Paradox Cup: Use the following trick to get 1,300 points on the Cerberus Paradox Cup. Equip Photon Debugger, Draw, and Thunder Boost. As the round starts, get as close to the center of most of the enemies and use the Magnega spell. Then, use Thundaga while they are all together. When you run out of magic, change to the Valor form then change back. Your magic will be full again. Hint: Hades Paradox Cup: Have all four drive forms and summons maximized at level 7 to unlock the Hades Paradox Cup, which is a level 99 Underworld Coliseum tournament with 50 rounds. Hint: Fenrir: To get the most powerful weapon in this game you must defeat Sephiroth. Be careful, because he has fifteen health bars and is very strong. To fight him, go to Radiant Garden/Hollow Bastion at The Dark Depth area (beyond the area where you must defeat 1,000 Heartless). You can only fight with him after you defeat the MCP (Space Paranoids). After you defeat him, you must talk to Cloud (you can see him at Market Place of Radiant Garden/Hollow Bastion). Then, talk with Sephiroth again. After that, you will get Fenril, which as a 7 Atk and 1 Mag. Hint: Battle Of A Thousand Heartless: Despite the name, this battle can be very easy. Equip Oathkeeper and the abilities Reaction Boost, Explosion, and EXP Up for some extra levels. First, use Rising Sun to get yourself into a corner. Then, keep on using air combos on the floating Heartless and ground combos and Rising Sun on the infantry. Whenever you can, Snag a floater and use Sparkle Ray, then finish off the survivors. Oathkeeper will give you fast powerful combos; Explosion can kill about eight Heartless every time you use it; and EXP Up will ensure that you get lots of levels if you have low health. After the fight you will see some intermission sequences, have a chance to go back to other worlds and finish them, and obtain the Gullwing keychain from Yuna, Rikku, and Paine. Hint: Defeating the Grim Reaper: When facing the Grim Reaper the second time, have Donald and Jack in your party. Have Donald and yourself cast Blizzard and Thunder then pick up the medallions. Use the reaction command Hinder and the combo move Loot Launch when the Grim Reaper starts taking medallions from the chest. When all of the medallions are in the chest, switch Donald for Goofy then transform into Valor and keep attacking. When you transform back to Sora, switch Goofy for Donald then repeat the strategy. If you accidentally transform into Anti-Sora (black Sora with yellow eyes), lock on and keep attacking