Re:Mind: Risk-taker

[MarlexFTW]

Re:Mind introduced Black Codes, which when enabled make your game harder. This trophy connected to this is a real pain in the butt, especially because the unlock conditions are very unclear.

Risk-taker - Reach the highest PRO Code merit rank.

Default Status: ★★★★★: Your whole team's stats are returned to their initial default status, regardless of level
Zero Defense: ★★★★☆: Your whole team's defense is set to 0. However, Defense boosts from equipment are still applied
HP Slip: ★★★☆☆: During battle, your whole team's HP automatically decreases over time until it reaches dangerous levels
MP Slip: ★★★★☆: During battle, your while team's MP automatically decreases over time, and MP recharge time is doubled
No Shotlocks: ★★☆☆☆: You cannot use shotlocks
No Cure: ★★★★★: Your whole team cannot use Cure magic
No Battle Items: ★★★☆☆: During battle, your whole team cannot use items
No Links: ★★☆☆☆: You cannot use links
No Formchanges/Grand Magic: ★★★★☆: You cannot use formchanges or grand magic
No Attractions: ★☆☆☆☆: Attraction commands do not appear outside of certain special battles
No Team Attacks: ★☆☆☆☆: Team commands do not appear outside of certain special battles
No Kupo Coins: ★★☆☆☆: Kupo coins in your possession have no effect
Ability Limit: ★★★★☆: A maximum limit of 30 is placed on abilities you can install on Sora

 

You only need these activated from the start of specific boss battles until you beat it. The more of these are active, the more points you get after each boss. You rank up after reaching specific point thresholds.

The game doesn't tell you the thresholds though. The first rank I got was rank M, so I guess it goes up to A? If you don't manage to get enough points to get max rank, you'd have to start all over again because allmost all required boss battles are not replayable in a single playthrough.

So the question is, do you really need all Black Codes enabled for every single boss battle in the game or can you still get max rank with only some of them enabled?

 

I am currently trying to get this on Critical and for every boss I encountered I enabled all of the above except the top two, Default Status and Zero Defense. For reference, this got me 3375 points from the Rock Titan and 7750 for the other three. I'm currently struggling on the boss of Monster Inc. and I really don't want to start all over again if what I've been doing until now was all for naught.

[sepheroithisgod]

Did you pick Critical by choice or is that the only option? I was reading elsewhere beginner is a good choice. Information is pretty scarce atm.

[linkdevivo]

BUMP

[thefirstassassin]

You can chose the difficulty, Begginer is easier obviously. As for the "PRO Codes" you need to activate them just before the major boss fights in each world,you don't need to have them activated  the whole game. If you press square in the Merits menu it tells you which boss counts. Max points for the mid bosses are 5000 and 10000 for the major ones, so I'm not sure if you need every code activated at once to get the the maximum amount every time.

[WatertownsFinest]

Can anyone state if Critical mode reaps bigger point bonuses or anything? Also, kinda sucks you only need these on during bosses. Imagine having to play the entire game with all those on. Now thats a challenge!

[ZexionPonty92]

2 hours ago, WatertownsFinest said:

Can anyone state if Critical mode reaps bigger point bonuses or anything? Also, kinda sucks you only need these on during bosses. Imagine having to play the entire game with all those on. Now thats a challenge!

I don't think so.... I'm playing in critical and can conferm the 5000/10000 thing

I think I'll have to do another playtrough because in critical I didn't keep all the malus active for all bosses

[anotherfangirl]

25 minutes ago, ZexionPonty92 said:

I don't think so.... I'm playing in critical and can conferm the 5000/10000 thing

I think I'll have to do another playtrough because in critical I didn't keep all the malus active for all bosses

 

Do you have to do it in one playthrough or can you play three or four or even more NG+ and collect the points? What I'm asking is: Do the points stack?

 

It sounds harder for me to activate all the codes at the same time instead of just activating a few or half of them and then play more NG+.

I know this way is time-consuming but 'm not very good at this game. I'm not sure if that's working though.

 

Edited January 25, 2020 by anotherfangirl

[Thrasher429]

45 minutes ago, anotherfangirl said:

 

Do you have to do it in one playthrough or can you play three or four or even more NG+ and collect the points? What I'm asking is: Do the points stack?

 

It sounds harder for me to activate all the codes at the same time instead of just activating a few or half of them and then play more NG+.

I know this way is time-consuming but 'm not very good at this game. I'm not sure if that's working though.

 

I've just finished getting it myself. But you have to do the PRO codes in a single playthrough across base game, remind and limit cut. For the base game you'll want to have every single code on but on beginner and NG+ that presents very little challenge, and worst case scenario you can just spend some time grinding out defense up and str up synthesis mats as those should bypass the default stat and zero defense codes. Remind you'll want them all on as well but when you get to the limit cut ep I turned off the code for no battle items so I could use potions and when needed turned off the no form change and no kupo coin. Ideally you just want to get about 20k points per data boss and you'll get the trophy at 360k or so (my final amount was 364k) and still have 4 data battles (including xion and master xehanort) left over as leeway in the case you need to turn off even more codes to do the previous battles.

 

Overall it's not too bad as you have some room for error but it's still quite challenging

[Griffon234]

2 hours ago, Thrasher429 said:

I've just finished getting it myself. But you have to do the PRO codes in a single playthrough across base game, remind and limit cut. For the base game you'll want to have every single code on but on beginner and NG+ that presents very little challenge, and worst case scenario you can just spend some time grinding out defense up and str up synthesis mats as those should bypass the default stat and zero defense codes. Remind you'll want them all on as well but when you get to the limit cut ep I turned off the code for no battle items so I could use potions and when needed turned off the no form change and no kupo coin. Ideally you just want to get about 20k points per data boss and you'll get the trophy at 360k or so (my final amount was 364k) and still have 4 data battles (including xion and master xehanort) left over as leeway in the case you need to turn off even more codes to do the previous battles.

 

Overall it's not too bad as you have some room for error but it's still quite challenging

 

Hold on, you have to do data battles with these on penalties on? Yikes.

Edited January 25, 2020 by Griffon234

[MarlexFTW]

On 25.1.2020 at 4:13 AM, sepheroithisgod said:

Did you pick Critical by choice or is that the only option? I was reading elsewhere beginner is a good choice. Information is pretty scarce atm.

Yeah, that was by choice. Can't recommend it. Thought it would be a neat challenge, but it's just plain not fun. I got to The Carribean and I was stuck on Marshmallow and the Monster Inc. Boss for quite some time. I'll restart the whole thing on Beginner and do another Critical run some other time.

[madbuk]

On 1/25/2020 at 0:09 PM, Thrasher429 said:

I've just finished getting it myself. But you have to do the PRO codes in a single playthrough across base game, remind and limit cut. For the base game you'll want to have every single code on but on beginner and NG+ that presents very little challenge, and worst case scenario you can just spend some time grinding out defense up and str up synthesis mats as those should bypass the default stat and zero defense codes. Remind you'll want them all on as well but when you get to the limit cut ep I turned off the code for no battle items so I could use potions and when needed turned off the no form change and no kupo coin. Ideally you just want to get about 20k points per data boss and you'll get the trophy at 360k or so (my final amount was 364k) and still have 4 data battles (including xion and master xehanort) left over as leeway in the case you need to turn off even more codes to do the previous battles.

 

Overall it's not too bad as you have some room for error but it's still quite challenging

I hit 360K and didn't get it so I wonder what amount you actually need. 361/362/363K just seem like such random numbers. (Thankfully I had one data boss left to push me up to 370K)

[sepheroithisgod]

48 minutes ago, madbuk said:

I hit 360K and didn't get it so I wonder what amount you actually need. 361/362/363K just seem like such random numbers. (Thankfully I had one data boss left to push me up to 370K)

Did you have every modifier on the whole game?

[madbuk]

1 hour ago, sepheroithisgod said:

Did you have every modifier on the whole game?

For the majority of the game I had default stats turned off. I also turned cure back on for some late-game fights because I wasnt good enough to do them without cure lol. I'd recommend having default stats turned on for the early game though since even with it turned off you'll be basically default stats anyway, it only matters mid-late game.

[DEMON]

How does default stats even work? I would have figured it would have put you to Lv.1 stats but it doesn't seem to? My health bar remains the same, so I'm trying to figure out if it changes anything (and yes, it is on as I have been getting max points so far).

 

But I calculated what is possible from the Base Game + Remind story, with max points and it's 175000 (assuming the max points for the "superboss" included in the game is 20k at max), so I feel getting the rest with 8-9 of the Org. XIII members is possible.

[madbuk]

4 minutes ago, DEMON said:

How does default stats even work? I would have figured it would have put you to Lv.1 stats but it doesn't seem to? My health bar remains the same, so I'm trying to figure out if it changes anything (and yes, it is on as I have been getting max points so far).

 

But I calculated what is possible from the Base Game + Remind story, with max points and it's 175000 (assuming the max points for the "superboss" included in the game is 20k at max), so I feel getting the rest with 8-9 of the Org. XIII members is possible.

Health is given by specific fights, not through levels, so you keep it. I think stats from armor and accessories also still count?

[Griffon234]

3 hours ago, madbuk said:

For the majority of the game I had default stats turned off. I also turned cure back on for some late-game fights because I wasnt good enough to do them without cure lol. I'd recommend having default stats turned on for the early game though since even with it turned off you'll be basically default stats anyway, it only matters mid-late game.

 

Did you have Default Stats off for the Data Org too? Kinda curious, what kind of points did you get through the story instead of the 5k/10k by having Default Stats off? Because Default Stats is genuinely awful.

[Thrasher429]

5 hours ago, madbuk said:

I hit 360K and didn't get it so I wonder what amount you actually need. 361/362/363K just seem like such random numbers. (Thankfully I had one data boss left to push me up to 370K)

Hm, interesting that it doesn't give it at 360k then as yeah anywhere between that and 364k where it did for me is a strange number in terms of spacing out the rankings

[sepheroithisgod]

Do the battle portals count for points?

[KingGuy420]

Someone over on reddit wrote a guide for it

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/KingdomHearts/comments/euhq6x/heres_some_information_to_help_people_get_arank/

 

Make sure to throw him an upvote cause he definitely put some work into it. 

[madbuk]

6 hours ago, Griffon234 said:

 

Did you have Default Stats off for the Data Org too? Kinda curious, what kind of points did you get through the story instead of the 5k/10k by having Default Stats off? Because Default Stats is genuinely awful.

I’d need to check for the story bosses (I think it was about 8K for 10K bosses with only default stats off. For data fights I kept default stats off. My settings for data fights were:

 

Luxord: Everything on (including default stats) apart from Kupo Coin, 23500 points.

YX/Xigbar: Everything on apart from battle items and default stats, 20K

Xion/Xehanort: Everything on apart from no cure, battle items, default stats, no formchanges, no defense, about 9-10K

The rest: Everything on apart from battle items, no defense and default stats, 17500.

 

To make up for having no ability to cure I had 8 hi-potions equipped, so you have 8 potential heals during bosses still. The trouble is that there’s no leat bracer for items.

5 hours ago, sepheroithisgod said:

Do the battle portals count for points?

Apart from the Dark Inferno one, no.

Edited January 27, 2020 by madbuk

[ROFL-WAFFLES]

@xgorinx saw your post elsewhere, did you replay just the dlc for the PRO merit rank?

[Griffon234]

43 minutes ago, madbuk said:

I’d need to check for the story bosses (I think it was about 8K for 10K bosses with only default stats off. For data fights I kept default stats off. My settings for data fights were:

 

Luxord: Everything on (including default stats) apart from Kupo Coin, 23500 points.

YX/Xigbar: Everything on apart from battle items and default stats, 20K

Xion/Xehanort: Everything on apart from no cure, battle items, default stats, no formchanges, no defense, about 9-10K

The rest: Everything on apart from battle items, no defense and default stats, 17500.

 

Thanks for that homie

[Takutolover]

Can EZ and Pro work together?

[DEMON]

16 hours ago, Takutolover said:

Can EZ and Pro work together?

 

Only if you beat Yozora, but in the end, you can't actually do the requirements for either at that point as I don't believe that save can backtrack unless I'm missing something.

[Syne-1]

15 minutes ago, DEMON said:

 

Only if you beat Yozora, but in the end, you can't actually do the requirements for either at that point as I don't believe that save can backtrack unless I'm missing something.

You can load back into the main game by pressing square instead of x on the load screen, though the only one you could probably do is the ez code merits, unless you fancy taking on all the data fights+yozora with all pro codes on!