Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories (GBA) - Final Boss - Marluxia

Only the OGS remember the sheer PAIN this game caused...

I gotta say, the dialog for the GBA Com is much better than Re:com. Sora's a lot more sassier with "Get real Marluxia...", and everyone else sounds more natural. Watching this fight again after many years, I'm reminded why I never finished Com until after KH2, due to its difficulty. Spamming sleights with Genie Jafar doesn't work in this version, and you need to use your brain if you wanna progress. I remember being stuck on Riku IV because my 8 year old mind couldn't understand the combat system, which amazes me how I even got that far. No way I would have beaten this version of Marluxia during that time, he'd one shot my ass easily.

Riku 4 was a monster when i was an 8yo. also ruined my deathless run ten years ago lol

I swear the games ger easier as the years go by. I remember being so pissed off at this fight that I cheesed it by putting just 0s and using them when he uses something until I eventually kill. Riku Replica was the worst for me. I remember quitting and coming back to the game two or three times. At first I didn't know that you could edit your deck so I gave up when i got to the Monstro fight where you have to fill up that bar. Like 2 years later my first cousin is messing around with my gameboy and I look at it and see that she changed my deck. I was so confused and then when I realized that you could change the deck I easily beat the Monstro last fight. And then the last Riku fight I think was either this one or the one where you fight him in front of some big gate I remember being so goddamn difficult that it made me quit again. And I was a kid when I played this for the first time so I sucked really badly. I remember bringing my gameboy sp to my grandparents house over the summer even though I didn't really play it. At that time I showed it to my other cousins while we were playing outside and one of them casually comes to me and tells me that he easily won the fight. He is about 4 years older than me so he realized game mechanics quickly and beat Riku Replica without any problems. I don't remember to this day if I beat the final boss Ansem on my save file.

I’m playing the GBA version and I’m on the first part of Marluxia boss fight and it’s hard

would've been cool to hear higher pitched Soras voice in recom but I'll always appreciate recom and com as well

judgement ftw

cant understate how horribly designed the bosses are in this game. the game emphasized sleights through the whole game and then throws them out the window for the last two bosses.