User:17master/KHDW



What mattered the most was remembered the least.

Introduction
Hey there! This is the 17master's walkthrough subpage for Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. The walkthrough is still under development so expect updates soon. Right now, I'm still playing the game myself and I'm already a few Days ahead, so after I complete the game, I'll return to the Days before and complete the walkthrough. Any questions, suggestions, and critics can be sent to my talk page.

Updates Log

 * 1.0: Started the walkthrough, still playing the game. Currently on Day 173
 * 1.1: The walkthrough is coming along well, and ANX219 & Erry decided to help with the walkthrough! Big thanks to them!

Controls
(Button R): Turn camera to be in-line with the character's back (Button L): Shortcut
 * Attack/Examine/Talk/Actions
 * Jump
 * (On missions) Move Command (On Grey Area Menu) Abilities. Hold X and up/down to scroll through the menu
 * (After equipping Block panel}} Block {After equipping Dodge Roll panel) +direction to Dodge Roll. (On certain weapons) Alternate combo and finisher
 * (On missions) Pause; with "Continue" and "Withdraw" options. (On Grey Area) General Menu.
 * (On missions) Free-Camera (The character won't be able to move)

Legends
Explanation on the walkthrough.

Terms:
 * Grey Area Menu: before going through missions, you'll be in the Organization's "lounge" called "The Grey Area". If you press the start button here, you'll go to a menu where you can set up your panel, go on Holo-Mission and Challenges, read Roxas's Diary and Enemy Profile, read tutorial, configure your game, save your data, and go to title screen.
 * Mission Menu: Withdraw or Continue the mission
 * Panel: The game's level up and equipment system. You can set up your equipment and level up using this system.

Story section guide
 * Tutorial section: will only show up if the game offers a new tutorial, I'll sum the turorial and put it in the section along with few tips of my own.
 * Roxas's Diary: Usually after a storyline mission is done, you'll get a new entry the next day. I won't tell you the contents of the entry, just the title. You can see the entry by opening the Grey Area Menu
 * Tasks/Gifts: Sometimes when you talk to the others on the Grey Area, they'll give you an item or a task. Complete the task, and you'll get an item, so be friendly and talk to people! You may also find some interesting conversation.
 * Shop: One Day a Moogle wearing the Organization's cloak will appear, if you talk to him, you'll gain access to a shop, which is the Moogle. You can but new panels from him and Synthesize items. You can also redeem items after getting enough Challenge or Mission sigils. The section will tell you what new items are present in the store.
 * Mission: details on new missions. It'll also tell you the recommended order of the missions you should do.
 * World: what world the mission takes place
 * Type: The mission's types, Story mission or Optional mission
 * Mission Type: The mission's objective's types.
 * Emblem Collection: The Organization spreads emblems for you to collect. Take the emblems before the ring is gone for extra mission gauge points.
 * Target Hunting: The Organization needs you to defeat a certain Heartless.
 * Hearts Collecting: The Organization needs you to collect a set amount of Hearts
 * Recon: Usually appears for new worlds, walk around until you find a question mark, then look around until a target focuses on something. Get near it, an examine it. Later you'll be questioned either by your partner or yourself.
 * Objective: The objective of the mission
 * Intels: Infos given by the Organization regarding the mission
 * Awards: Awards for the mission
 * Additional Awards: One of the items mentioned will be given randomly for completing the mission.
 * Treasure Chests: The number of the available treasure chests on the mission.
 * Partner: Your partner for the mission.
 * Tips: My tips for the mission.

Day 173: Lies
Axel talked to Saix about Xion, sadly, no answer :( Roxas seems pretty happy knowing Saix would stop calling her "Broken", though. And... Look! a new tutorial! It's been awhile, hasn't it?

Tutorial: Powering Up Abilities Basically, some abilities panels costs more than one panel. We already knew about that, though, this tutorial is late, really. Abilities that costs one panel are like Weapon panels, they can be linked with additional panels to power up the ability, like the Air Dash panel. If you equip an Air Slide LV+ panel, you can dash twice in the air.

Roxas's Diary
You get another entry for Roxas's Diary: Day 172: Xion's Collapsed.

Tasks/Gifts

 * Talk to Axel, he'll give you a task to equip a weapon panel with 3 or more units attached. By now, you should already use one, so talk to him again, and Saix will have a new mission for you.
 * Talk to Luxord, he'll ask you to synthesize a weapon with Gear Component A, Rune Tech, and Bronze, which is the Chrono Gear+. Go make one if you haven't, and talk to Luxord again afterwards. You'll receive a Shining Gem.

Shop

 * You can now synthesize: Duel Gear++, Phantom Gear++, Prestige Gear+, Crisis Gear, Raider's Ring, Thunder Charm, Recovery Ring, and Vitality Ring.

Mission
New World: Neverland


 * 3 new missions
 * 1 new task mission

Two are optional, while two are story-related.

Recommended Order: 1.52 2.54 3.55 4.53

Mission 52

Tips First things first, you'll need 8 Fire panels. Either bring some and restore them with Ethers or Hi-Ethers, or use the magic multiplier panel, which I highly recommend and you should've used one by now. I also recommend bringing in some extras for Snowy Crystals or Skater Bomb. Alright then, welcome to Halloween Town again! If you look at your right you'll see a weird, floating balloon, examine it and... OMG GIANT WORMS!! Yes, interacting with floating balloons will make Heartless appear, so try and find as many as you can! Also, bones are scattered around again, which means you can pick one for Zero. Check around the Plaza for some balloons, then go to the Graveyard. In the Graveyard, you'll see a cutscene involving Jack and Zero. Apparently he has a new idea of using lanterns. after the cutscene, lit the four lanterns using fire, examine the coffin, and go towards the gate. Then you'll see the coffin opens up. Proceed. In the next area, lit up the four lanterns again and go to the newly opened door. Prepare for a boss battle!

Boss: Lock, Shock, and Barrel They're quite easy really. whenever you see a pumpkin with a huge number above them, BARREL ROLL DODGE ROLL!. Chase them afterwards and attack them one-by-one. Don't worry, their dashing attacks deals a small amount of damage.

Rats, they got away >:( Hey look, it's Zero! Give him the bone to ask for his help and find the rest of the Heartless.

Roxas's Diary
You get another entry for Roxas's Diary, Day 173: Picking Up the Slack.

Shop

 * You can now synthesize: Blizzara

Mission
Mission 54

Tips Okay... a target hunting mission... and we're paired with Demyx? Sheesh, what's Xemnas thinking? :/ Oh well, can't be too pic-WHAT'S THAT BEHIND YOUR BACK?! Oh, a Unity Badge. Grab it.

Head to the plaza and be prepared for our target will show up.

Target: Dual Blade Yikes, it's huge. Btw, you'll see a Snowy Crystal here, don't bother to attack it since a new one will spawn. As big and menacing as it is, it's waaaaaay weaker than Zip Slasher. It almost has the same move pattern, it blocks by crossing both of its swords in front of him before doing the spinning-thrust attack. Now, don't worry, this time, the spinning-thrust attack won't heal it. It also got another move at his disposal, it'll fire an Aerora spell, so be sure to dodge that one or you'll fly (then again, flying sounds fun...). All-in-all, you should beat this Heartless with ease. Try and block its spinning-thrust attack, it'll be staggered for awhile which leaves you a chance to beat it up.

Grab a badge on the top of the fountain, and head for the house besides the entrance to the graveyard, and grab another badge and open up a chest there. RTC afterwards since there're nothing left to do.

Roxas's Diary
You get another entry for Roxas's Diary, Day 174: Seashells for Her.

Mission
Mission 55

Tips Ugh, I hate emblem collecting mission. I really have no tips for these kinds of mission, it depends on yourself really, how good you can handle Roxas's movement and stuff. I think the only tip I can give you here is to equip Air Slide and High Jump panel. Also, be on the lookout for Sapphire Eleggies and Grey Caprises since they both drop Rune Tech and Gear Component B, respectively. And Gigas-Shadow also drops Elixir recipe, so you may want to beat them up, too.

Mission
Mission 53

Tips It's a new world! Welcome to Neverland! Is it just me or does the soundtrack for this world sucked? :/ For preparations, you'll need a Nimble Gear or any gear that supports long air-combo. I heavily suggests that you go and synthesize a Nimble Gear+ right now if you still don't have one. Move until you see a cutscene- hey it's old man Hook! He seems pissed about finding yet another empty treasure chest, and- OMG Heartless! They'll run like a chicken and it's your chance to take 'em out. You'll encounter some new enemies here, the Turquoise March uses water magic, and they have the same pattern move as Crimson Jazz, only their attack won't bounce off like their fireballs, it'll create a small pillar of water. Air Battler is similar to the Air Pirates, the only problem here is chasing them as they fly around. After the short battle, examine the pit made by Smee to get a Gust Shard, and go to the other side of it and take a Badge. Head to the ship afterwards. Aster the cutscene, Roxas can fly! A new tutorial appears

Tutorial: Auto-Glide Basically, you press to jump, and use  to start flying. Use to go down and  to go up while flying. This new "feature" is the exact reason why i told you to get a Nimble Gear+.

Now that you can fly, fly up to the higher parts of the island, examine the holes to spawn some Heartless. After you finish those Heartless, check the hole again to get some items. Our target is in the west, grey mountain. Check the hole and the Wavecrest will appear. Target: Wavecrest This guy's a Wyvern type enemy like the Tailbunker. It has similar attacks, except for the ground stomping move. Just attack this guy continuously until your attack is repelled- if this happens when you're attacking it in the air, go down immediately, and if you're on the ground, barrel roll dodge roll, for it will spin forward and deal a good amount of damage if you don't dodge it. Other than that, lock-on and attack its tail and it shall fall with ease.

Check the remaining holes for some Heart Points Heartless and items and RTC. ...>wait, what? RTC?! What about Tinkerbell? Roxas abandoned her?!

Day 193: Memories
Xion woke up! That's awesome. Saix is still antagonizing her by calling her "it", though. Anyhoos guess what? You'll be going on a mission... with 2 partners!

Tasks/Gifts

 * Talk to Xaldin, he'll ask you to synthesize something with Moonstone and Shield Tech... which is Perfect Block. Just synthesize it since it's useful for you, too. Afterwards he'll reward you with a Rune Tech

Missions
New story mission

Mission 

Tips Stock up Fire panels before going on the mission. Grab the chests and a badge in the area, and you'll notice that there is a new enemy, the Detonator, which is about 5x bigger than a normal Minute Bomb. Scary? No. Use fire and they'll go boom. Easy. Head to the Sandlot and prepare to fight the Heat Saber.

First Target: Heat Saber Okay, first, don't go after the Heat Saber, notice that it glows, and you can't attack it. Look for the Barrier Master that makes the Heat Saber invincible, and use Fire on it, it'll take one bar of its health. After the Barrier Master is finished, you can continue to pummel the Heat Saber. True to its name (and red blade) it can use fire spell, so be careful of Ignite status effect. It can also jump and stomp, his stomp will deal a good amount of damage and ignite status effect so be ready with dodge roll. And after it blocks, it can either do the spinning-thrust attack or use a more powerful thrust attack. It'll also do the spinning-thrust if it held both of its blade on bottom-right. Having Axel and Xion in this mission is really handy, while they'll heal you frequently, you can also retreat the battle to heal while the two fight it.

After this, head to the Station Heights while you grab an emblem and open a trasure chest on the way, go to the Station afterwards. OMG Xion passed out... AGAIN. And the Destroyer showed up, too... this is bad. While Axel takes care of Xion, you'll face the Destroyer by yourself.

Second Target: Destroyer Okay, this guy is no pushover, its upwards laser attack is dangerous, VERY dangerous. Depending on your status, it might kill you instantly, or put you on a critical mode with only 15% HP left. I really recommend using Fire magics in this battle, Auto-Life panel is also important, and Limit Break is too risky as it can fire its upwards laser while you're attacking. Other than the upwards laser attack, it'll fire laser at your direction and follow you wherever you go, you can dodge roll this attack. And there's a treasure chest on the left-most corner of the area, be sure to grab it because you'll RTC immediately after the battle. Other than that, Pray to your own God, and put a pillow on the corner- in case you want to emocorner for not being able to defeat this guy.

Axel'll ask Roxas to RTC due to Xion's condition. And here comes Saix, he's being a jerk again, and this time Axel steps up to him... which is nice. VERY nice.

Roxas's Diary
You get another entry for Roxas's Diary, Day 193: Best Friends .

Tasks/Gifts

 * Talk to Xion to obtain a Bronze
 * Talk to Xigbar, he'll challenge you to defeat 30 enemies using Limit Breaks. Don't worry if you lost count, ask him and he'll tell you how many have you beaten. He'll reward you with a   afterwards

Missions

 * 3 new missions
 * new task mission

one is optional, while two are story-related.

Recommended Order: 1. 60 2. 58 3. 57 4.

Mission 

Tips