Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Part #63

Part 63: Day 300: Shutdown

Not much difference from last time, really.

There's no one to talk to, so we'll go straight to the mission.

Music: Secret of Neverland
Music: Crossing to Neverland

Caught you!

And there's those guys.

You can't see it, but the sack Smee's holding is shaking.

Serves you right for buzzing about in me business! Planning to interfere with me treasure hunt, were you? Well, change of plans!

Smee! We're returning to the ship.

I'm right behind ya, Captain! There there, now, Miss Bell. Be a good little pixie for us, won't you?

*Hook and Smee leave, bringing Tinkerbell with them*

Is Tinkerbell a pixie or a fairy?

Tinker Bell? Is that her name? They caught her!? I have to help her! But...she doesn't really have anything to do with the mission. ......

So what. I'm going. She helped me fly before. And all I did was keep blowing her off. I can worry about today's mission once I know she's safe.

Good on you, Roxas, for being a much better friend than Axel.

Well, not like we can do anything else right now. We can't fly yet, if you're wondering. So we go to the ship.

But Captain, are ya sure ya want to tear it up like that?

Aye, we checked this one the other day. It's worthless!

If you say so, sir.

Set a course, Mr. Smee! Take us to the next treasure spot!

A-aye, aye, Captain...

Sounds like they're inside.

We've done a good bit of digging already, and all we've found is pieces of junk and them Heartless creatures.

Stop whining, Smee, and think! Why were there so many maps? I'll tell you why. Whoever buried the treasure made fake maps to lead me astray and protect the real hiding spot!

Oh! Then one of these maps is sure to be the real one, right?

Aye, and the only way to know which it is is to follow them all!

The HEartless must have been planted at the marked spots as guard dogs.

How does absolutely no one notice this?

Now, get a move on, Smee!

Aye, aye, Captain!

*Hook and Smee leave*

Hmph. Let her get acquainted with her new home-that lamp. Look lively, Mr. Smee!

*Hook and Smee leave, for real this time*

So we go inside the cabin.

*Roxas opens the lantern*

You can take care of yourself from here, right? I should get going.

Huh? Is there something else?

*moves to the table and points there*

This must be a piece of that map they were talking about. He really shredded it.

*gestures*

Um... Sorry, but I don't know what you're trying to tell me.

I don't see any map. Is this an emulator problem?

(Hmm... Everywhere they dug, Heartless popped out. And they've been digging based on these maps... Maybe I'll find more Heartless if I check these spots.) Hey, could you help me fly again? I need to go look at the spot marked on this map.

*sprinkles dust on Roxas*

Thanks. I should really get back to my mission now. Be careful those guys don't nab you again, okay?

The map fragment shown in the tutorial is actually the one we just got. We don't have to look for the others, but we're going to anyway.

We're back to examining things. They have more possible results, though.

The first possible result is Heartless. They're definitely not threatening.

Something's been scribbled here, but I can't make it out.

The second is reactions that we usually got during recon missions. Feels like it's been forever since we last did that, huh?

The third is just getting an item. For this one we get a Mithril.

Hey, another piece of the treasure map!

The fourth is getting a treasure map piece. We can't see which one we got right now, nor can we see how many pieces are left.

What, does he collect these?

Hey, another piece of the treasure map!

And that's all the pieces. Yes, there's just two of them.

Blazing Crystal and Heartless.

Did somebody use this mast for sword practice? It's full of gashes.

There's a stain. Somebody must've spilled something here.

Scratches and stain can't actually be seen, unfortunately, even though they were great with the details in Beast's Castle. They just ramping up the here.

Now we can see the full map. Like I said before, the one we got automatically was the north fragment. We only have to go to the spot marked there, but I'm going to all of them nonetheless.

Of course there's Turquoise Marches. It's not Neverland without them.

The spots were originally intact, so we have to rely on the map to find the location and then hit it with our Keyblade to reveal the box. This one has a Silver. 7 Turquoise marches are fought to get here, by the way.

3 Turquoise Marches are fought to get to this box with an Ether. Interestingly, we just grab the item inside the boxes this time. No additional fight necessary.

3 Turquoise Marches are fought to get to this box with a Lightning Crystal.

7 Turquoise Marches are fought to get to this box with an Ether. It's nice since I use magic to kill the Turquoise Marches quickly (they die in 1 hit from Fire or Thundaga).

3 Turquoise Marches are fought to get to this box with a Shining Crystal. Thankfully, that's the last Turquoise March we have to fight here, and our next Neverland mission won't have them. Fuck Turquoise Marches

Next Neverland mission just has THE boss instead...

Like I said, we only have to dig up this box to proceed with the mission.

Let's see what kind of Heartless pop up. Maybe it's the one I'm after! *opens the box* Huh? Nothing... Are they not connected? But then why do Heartless always appear when they dig up the chests? Unless it's him. That guy in red. Maybe he's connected to the Heartless. Only one way to find out. Let's see what those two are up to.

Hey, I have a weird idea. Maybe, just maybe, the guy with frequent visible dark aura has something to do with creatures of the dark! Crazy, right?

There's actually something inside the box. It's just a Potion, though, so it might as well be nothing.

Hook and Smee can be seen back where we started, so we go there (these Turquoise Marches don't HAVE TO be fought, so my statement still stands).

Aye, sir.

Seriously, how the fuck does no one notice this?

This one looks formidable. Run, Smee!

Running, sir!

*They both leave, again*

Music: Tension Rising

So...Phantom Tail. It's just like the other Heartless with the same attacks. Charging and Flipping.

The only special thing about them is that attacking the head will cause it to teleport. So we can attack the wings or the tail.

It also has the projectile attack, although I have to wait for 3 minutes to get it to do this attack.

And...that's it for this mission. At least we get plenty of treasures.

Music: Secret of Neverland

I'm not sure why, but I guess that's a question for another day.

There's holes here now, but there's absolutely nothing in them. With nothing to do, we RTC. After that, someone appears.

I still don't know why they tried to hide Pete's identity here. I'm also still not actually going to use his portrait.

That's strange... The hole they dug's here, plain as day, but not a Heartless in sight. That pirate's greed oughta have every Heartless for miles here now. Rrrgh... Somebody must be goin' around and taking 'em out! Whoever it is, they're ruinin' my perfect plan! This calls for a new strategy...