Kingdom Hearts So Donald vs Goofy in KHFM Gameplay Wise.

Which character do you prefer more in Kingdom Hearts Final Mix just gameplay wise? Who comes through for you more when you are taking on loads of enemies and tackling difficult bosses?
Donald with his occasionally Curaga and Aeroga, his advanced magic spells, high MP, and MP boosting abilities.
Or Goofy with his shield techniques, high strength and defense, MP Gift/Evolution, and high item stock?

 

Exactly!! All you have to do is remove Goofy's MP techniques such as Charge or Rocket and just give have MP Gift or Evolution equipped and Goofy is ten times more of the "white mage" than Donald would be. Plus, with his high HP and defense he definitely outshines Donald when it comes to who lives longer in battle. Thus, giving him more time to replenish your health and MP :)

 

Goofy FTW. Like what Aiden said, MP Gift is very useful later in the game. And I can store a lot of potions and ethers on Goofy.

 

MP gift + MP rage on goofy is essential to kurt zisa & phantom fight.
When i faced these bosses thats all goofy had equipped, MP rage + MP gift = infinte mp for Sora :P

 

I actually found donald to be the more useful one. With the accessories i gave him, his MP was immense. He was able to do a fair amount of damage with his magic and keep himself and goofy alive at the same time.

 

True, Donald can have immense MP. His spell-casting is top notch, and he occasionally casts Curaga or Aeroga on me. He can also earn tech points for me when he using the correct element on my opponents. However, the main problem with Donald is...

I can't control any of his spell-casting :(
Sure I can tell him how often to use spells but that doesn't stop him from casting Stopga while I'm in a tournament time trial. It also doesn't stop him from healing Goofy instead of me, or using so much of his MP that Goofy uses MP Gift on him. What I'm trying to say is Donald's high MP was worthless to me if I couldn't control it or use it to my benefit. While with Goofy, I make him have two choices (Evolution or MP Gift) when it comes to how he uses his MP. I can't tell Donald what spells to use and what spells not to use :(

 

From my experience I gotta vote Goofy. For the first boss fight in Traverse down Donald went down in 2 hits, while Goofy stayed up and fought with me. He stays up longer then Donald, and for some reason I find if I'm running out of HP he'll heal me faster then Donald, even though they're on the same Config settings. Either way, I find that neither of them are very smart when it comes to battle (I.E Running right into attacks and getting stuck in corners) But if I had to only have one it's Goofy for sure.

 

Once you learn Cure, though, which Donald also automatically learns at the same time, he's a lot better at staying alive. Once he learns Second Wind and Second Chance, he's pretty hard to be knocked out.

In Kingdom Hearts II, it's even better, since he starts out with Donald Cure right off the bat, and adding to the fact that Kingdom Hearts II is easier than Kingdom Hearts as well.

 

I hope that's the case XDD Because it's really hard to only fight with one of them, and then they're both down and your like #KeepCalmAndDodgeRollAway Until they come back. :P

 

I'd say Goofy. Donald is pretty useless in my eyes. Even when I change his strategy he just ends up getting in the way more often than not. I always switch him out for other world-exclusive party members whenever possible. :X

I actually wish the KH series would let you just remove party members rather than switch them out for someone else.

 

I mean, it's the same as on KH which has been out for more than a decade now and my opinion still stands. Donald. Having Cure on a party member is invaluable when you can set that party members preferred actions to be support Sora. This means you almost never have to use Cure on yourself in low-level fights. This with MP Gift practically eliminates the need to heal yourself or use items for less-demanding fights.

 

The problem is, on my playthrough of KHFM in the KH 1.5 REmix version is that donald seems to cure you just after you cure yourself, though it might just be me but he seems to do that with every boss, if I got low on health with early EXP grinding he'd cure me most of the time

 

It's because when you're on low HP, he will always heal you.

If everyone's on low HP, he'll heal Sora first, then himself and then whoever the third party member is.

 

That's just your bad luck. Did you customize the character to do what you want? And this happens to me sometimes in kh and khfm and has nothing to do with which game its in.

 

I guess because in the original ones I used to play it on beginner or normal, Critical I used to go to low health a lot and yeah, I did customize both goofy and donald , donald would only use healing spells occassionally which should be when I'm low on health but I guess i always used to get worried that he wouldn't heal me in time. It never happens in KH2 though. KH2 i only get healed if I equip them with potions

 

Since the MP Gift nerf I find them about equally useful for most situations, but whenever more advanced tactics are required, I inevitably fall back on Goofy. He's still too valuable to leave behind. Plus Donald's heals usually come too late, especially on Proud where if you're being hit then you need to stop getting hit, not heal it off.

 

What's this nerf you're talking about?

 

In KH vanilla, MP Gift cost Goofy one MP and gave his target three. Now it costs him two. It really does make a difference, since he can't spam it nonstop, even once he gets MP Rage.

 

But Donald is still too unpredictable when it comes to his spell casting :(.