Dustiflier is so busted that I used an Action Replay to make myself unkillable, but it just instantly depleted my health to 0 with each attack, putting the game into a state where I was counted as "dead" and the fight didn't end with its defeat...

Best way I found out how to beat Dustflier is having high crit % and Crit Bonus. It seems when you land criticals, it ignores the huge def the Dustflier has. So choosing the Critical Sun Ring and choosing a keyblade that improves your crit % and using Sight Units really helps.

Bro.. That last one was so traumatic that as soon as I lost it for the first time, I ran to the exit point

I remember trying to 100% the game to unlock Sora and the dustflyer was the thing I was missing. Very difficult

Say whaaaaaat?! I haven't knowlegde of these bosses!

There is actually a slight cheese for the duskflier that i found as a kid. if you spam thundara at on the shadows while the Dustflier is far away, you can bait it to jump and land inside the shadows. If you're lucky, a shadow may get the static debuff and stumble into the Dustfliers tail, wiping out a whole bar's worth of its hp. its pretty inconsistent due to how much the shadows and dustflier constantly move around, but you can definitely get it to happen a couple times a fight.

About time somebody talked about the secret bosses from this game! I wish Xigbar got the Anti treatment too considering he was fought in Olympus Colosseum

dustflier was the only fight in the game i didn’t beat first try, so it was fun to finally have to learn something. beating it felt rewarding too.

As someone who played the DS release of 358/2, I can faintly visualize the HELL that Anti-Saix and Dustflier put me through 0-0 (Same for Anti-Riku bc holy HELL does that guy hit like a truck)

You can chesse the dustflier by hiding behind the tower entrance having him stand on the opposite side and spamming thundaga. He can't get to you at all if you do it right.

Yeah. The anti bosses are there to account for mission mode and the fact that you can play as multiple characters, including Riku and Saïx. I highly recommend playing this game with others if you can because it is a blast and was apparently what the game was designed for, especially with modifications available to your damage, enemy damage, allowed deaths, and more. When you have 4 players, this game shines just as bright as any other.

came across your channel randomly looking up old kingdom hearts games. great content. you seem like a genuine dude

Yep the phantom heartless is the one I associated with being as scary as the death things from Harry Potter as a kid🤣

Fighting Dustflyer just to unlock Sora in Mission Mode was one of the most masochist things I've ever done in my life. XD

I never knew about the anti forms of Saix and Riku. Damn, I wish we can get a proper days and re:coded remake or remaster. Thanks for the video!

i've said a few times that i never got the chance to play days (or at least not yet), so this was pretty cool to learn (which also means (if i'm not mistaken) that the only kh games without secret bosses are com and re:coded). i feel that out of the spin-off titles the only secret boss ones that are truly well known are the ones from bbs since they had a whole world essentially just for them.

Mannnn these used to CRUSH me as a kid

Dustflier is very weak to lightning magic, and is why I hadn’t really swapped back off of like having 30 lightning spells in my deck.

The dustflier shockwave can give several status effects besides confusion Btw, is beating it at Lv.60 impressive at all?

I actually found the Dustflier to be reasonably manageable, speaking from a save file of 32 hours on a DS Lite. It never got too frustrating for me- A simple strategy of poking and backing off applied to an enemy with less attacks than I have fingers on 1 hand. *Much more difficult than all the other 6 giants in that mission put together, but not so much that it took me more than 3 tries to beat it at level 63.

The anti-Saix and Riku are probably mostly so players don't confuse them with the playable versions in multiplayer.

only way i could beat him is cheesin it. theres a handy video on youtube that shows you can get him to land on one side of the clock tower entrance while you hide behind the other side. the shockwaves dont reach at that distance, and the invisible wall prevents his projectiles reaching you as well as keeps him in place as he tries to move toward you. spam thundaga and viola.

I remember getting so close to beating Dustflier. When I got half a bar left, I accidently left the area and it reset him!!

I hated the Dustflier so much because everytime I tried to evade his fireballs they would ALWAYS ALWAYS hit me even when I was WAY in the corner

I remember struggling against Saix, but not Dustflier. Even though I was a complete noob at the time.

Everyone here talking about Dustflier being a nightmare but I'm just here with "This guy is hard?"

😮 me over here, thinking Riku was the last final boss

dustflier isn't hard, it's painful. Its pattern are easy but it 2 shot you pretty much no matter what and you deal almost no damage if you're not high enough level / built the wrong way

The Dust flier is the only thing that prevented me from getting sora

Amnesty =\= animosity

If you think the Dustflier superboss was tough, try doing it in Co-Op mode with friends! The lag makes it twice as hard!

How to play it using melonDS?

how do you manage to stop the crashing in de game of the pc version?

You should check my 358/2 Days playlist on how I handled the Dustflier.

Playstation needs to remaster this in ps4 console!!!! That includes Multi player mode!!!!!!!😡

I guess that’s now on my to do list 🥹