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lol well its japan, country is mostly populated with them

Hey everyone, I currently live in japan and am almost done with my trip here. but i decided to make one last stop and travel to tokyo and attend jump festa 2013. the event was really fun, and wanted to share it all with everyone. so I'll link here my facebook pics, and youtube video of the event. I'll also let everyone know how my experience was. So please enjoy! Pictures: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.543033072376290.124937.100000088077452&type=3 experience opinion/thoughts: The actual event wasnt really held in tokyo,but somewhat outside of the area. about 30 minutes away. it wasnt the first time i came to this area though as I came before for other events. As soon as you get off the train you immediately see signs for the event and workers holding signs as well. Just know that this convention isn't in any way at all for non-japanese fans as EVERYTHING is in Japanese. I'm sure your thinking "well its japan so they should have it like that", but that isnt the true at all many of the events like tokyo game show, electronic expo, and more have workers who speak english, and signs for english. As far as i can tell, jump festa doesn't get many foreigners nor do they expect them to show up, so if your planning to attend, you better hope you know japanese or come with a friend who can speak japanese (I have some level of japanese, but as for reading kanji I will get killed in that part lol). Well I walk to the entrance, and there are actually 2 different entrances. The entrance I happen to enter on accident was a "buy some souvenirs before coming inside the event line". I kinda laughed after having to explain I just wanted to go inside the event. there were some cool merchandise to pick out, but as I'm a college student on a budget I cant go spending so much money. I head to the entrance of the event, and I was thinking I was going to pay some amount of money, but the whole event was free!!! So pretty much you get there and just walk in which is nice. the only thing I had to pay for were my souvenirs. I start walking around and as you first enter you see a giant luffy statue welcoming you to the event. Then you start seeing the booths everywhere. Ill try to remember which ones i seen, but thats also viewable in my picture albums. I saw Sega, konami, capcom, pokemon, monster hunter, toei animation, square-enix(MOST IMPORTANT), picture setting booths, naruto, one, piece, yugioh, and more booths. Everything had their own little fun games and things to do. Me personally, I tried to find the square booth as fast as I can to get a glimpse at kh1.5. The place was pretty big, about 3 large halls. You would have the typical Japanese workers dressed up for their booth themes and handing out brochures. I just got pokemon, square, and naruto brochures. The first 2 halls had a mixture of booths, and the 3rd hall was just a food section to eat with anime themed food. There was also a jump stage, but I didn't get to check it out and I wasn't allowed to take pictures in that area. I went to the square booth, and they had many accessories from final fantasy, dragon quest, and kingdom hearts. A lot of the stuff they had I’ve seen at the square-enix store in Tokyo. The only things they didn't have from what that was exclusive for the event was the kh3ds sora/riku models with their new keyblades (badass btw), and other ff7 models. I head back to the other 2 rooms, and Ill have to mention that they were holding tournaments for yugioh, pokemon, and some other games. I was kinda sad that they had a pokemon tournament cus I had left mine at home. Would have been nice to play some Japanese players. They also had separate leagues for the tournaments. I saw like mix ages, elementary, middle, high, tag teams, multi teams (and this is for all the games). Btw, if you had a 3ds, your street pass will sky rocket. Japan is known to love handheld systems, and everyone literally has a 3ds (even the old man that's sitting down by himself has a 3ds). I think I literally had about over 300 street passes that day. I know it's a lot rarer to get street pass in the US as many people don't carry them around unless you go to specific areas, but that's my personal experience/opinion. As for playing games at the event, it really depends what you’re trying to play. I know many of you asked if I was able to try some games, sadly the big name games like KH, Naruto, once piece and more had tickets reservation that YOU NEEDED TO GET THERE AS SOON AS THE EVENT STARTED. Japanese people have a tendency to follow anything popular no matter how many times they were remade. As I like to say, if Japanese people see it on tv, they’ll go buy it right away. But getting back on topic, I wasn't able to play any of the games, but just watch from a distance the people playing them. Really would have been nice to get my hands on them, but we’ll just have to wait for the release. Overall the experience was fun, and the vibe felt really energetic. There were also many directors creators for games, manga, animes there, but didn't get to watch them. I had a good time just walking around and seeing everything going on. Would definitely like to come to more of these events sometime in the future, but only time will tell with that. Hope you enjoyed my impressions and if you guys have other questions please ask!

square saw my video and thought "$hit we gotta release it now" lol

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thanks for the remarks guys! if you guys wanna see my pics for the whole event be sure to check them out on the link the post i made. This is pretty much my last month here in japan so if i wanted to get something it was definitely to go see this live. sadly i couldnt play the game, but its only couple months away.

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lol i saw it, but i just wanted to say my opinion though

actually sephiroth in kh2 is the easiest secret boss…but thats my opinion. As for julius….I can see him getting easier and easier as you fight him more and more. for riku at least he is pretty simple to beat. And no need to use magic on him to attack from far, riku has a lot of attacks that can hit him hard and close. sora on the other hand he has a bit more trouble. he lacks a lot of attacks necessary to hit him close. you'll have to be at a high level fi you wanna try and atk julius close with little magic use. I actually saw a video of someone defeating julius with NO COMMANDS at all using sora

not sure if you can use it as a shield against bosses. maybe for smaller enemies

To be honest KH games have grown to make magic more useful in each game. just look at the big difference of magic use from 1 to 2. I wouldn't be surprised of the formula in kh3 unless they create a combination of atk/magic.

in all honestly its quite difficult to defeat this guy using sora. Sora attacks dont hit as hard as riku and doesnt have any special attacks like riku to give him upper hand. It could be possible to defeat him without long range but it would take too long and might make it a boring battle to watch.

credit goes to this channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHn2yl0hDCWDatOE0SDieQ His name is EternalDreamerVG

Hey guys. just wanted to share this video someone made. This is a no damage video against julius using sora. credit goes to the maker of the video, im just sharing it on his behalf. enjoy!!!!

level 1 run on this game is impossible and trust me i have experience with this since the game came out back in march. its too much trouble and critical mode will just stop you in your track before you even get to the last 4 worlds. Enemies A.I in this game are too smart and know how to attack. this is my only advice for that and not go through with it. Balloons wont help much either.

no critical???? ppl gotta step up the game for julius. Critical mode: sora/riku: 64 NO BALLOONS. Has anyone tried against him without balloons? its quite fun actually

Both the japanese and american kh2 were exactly the same game, and japan still got a final mix so the logic there doesnt have to do with american version always getting new stuff. It honestly wouldnt be that if square america didnt put in extra things for american consumer to buy the game. It goes back to the original kh game, it sold quite well in japan without the bonus fight against sephiroth and what not. as for the american game it had sephiroth and many extras. Lets be honest the main attraction from the selling point for many ppl was FF and seeing that your able to fight sephiroth. Japan doesnt have to worry about any game thats remade with extras not selling well since japanese tend to "collect" many of the same things. U.S. it would not be the same case and we all know that since its about the money. thus leaving why khFM are only to japan. I still believe the american ones are easier since i have read before that previous kh games have been nerfed. KH3D is no exception as well since it was nerfed in the american version with the drop system.

i have no idea how to respond, but why do i always feel like they tone down the difficulty in the american version. I have the Japanese version and it was pretty difficult at times on critical mode….just a thought

all on my page click my name, click my statuses and check out video description in "show more"

Here are some videos from the first guy who no damaged terra back in kh2FM+. He is uploading new kh3ds content related on this topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0fQECcUthk&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee0fR-QBUIo&feature=plcp

i have a video of defeating julius on my page and on my youtube channel i have a description explaing how i did it.

i have a video on my page showing how to defeat him. I also have description in the video to explain how i did it

meteor crash. you get them from the more powerful dream eaters( ryudragon, kyroo, sabrecat, etc)

balloonga over balloons, i find the homing ones to get the job done faster even though it will take a bit longer to reload, but riku has meteor smash and double jump which you can use to go over julius and deal enormous damage to him. Personally yes in this video this is a cheap and easier tactic to defeat julius since the ninja doesnt stagger much.