Kingdom Hearts 3 Was A Waste of Effort

um [Music] um [Applause] this right here what you see is the peak of video game hype they show so little but you knew that kingdom hearts 3 was finally coming out your mind dizzied with speculation how are they going to finish off xehanort what mechanics are coming back will soren riku finally kiss well you're going to have to wait video games take the longest to make as a medium i'm sure you know this it's why some big budget games take so long to come out but the longer a highly anticipated game takes the more hype is going to be drummed up so it's inevitable that many people will be disappointed with the final product even if it's literal perfection you're wondering how i feel about it well i used to be a sucker for upcoming games but over time i grew better halo 4 and 5 are genuinely bad games red dead redemption 2 doesn't know the meaning of the term tendon i'm one of the only people that thinks breath of the wild is just okay and fallout 4 ruined my life the last game i was truly excited for was smash ultimate but only because that's a very safe bet that all being said when kingdom hearts 3 came out my expectations weren't incredibly high kingdom hearts 1 is one of the first games i've ever played and kingdom hearts 2 is one of my favorites despite that the bitterness i grew kept me from being too hyped but i still wasn't expecting what i got [Music] the last numbered entry in the series kingdom hearts 2 came out all the way back in 2005 2006 for a sneaky american like me it's a game that many tout as the best in the series especially the 2007 enhanced re-release final mix but what captured the attention of most was the secret ending in said re-release it showed three armored figures wearing capes and holding keyblades not only that but they're surrounded by hundreds of other ownerless keyblades then we see them get their asses kicked by an old man with the least human skin i've ever seen and a masked man and they both have keyblades as well the old man freezes one of the armored fellas and his helmet shatters revealing that he's the kid that we played as at the beginning of the game and on top of that there's another cutscene at the end that shows sora getting a letter from mickey what's in the letter who knows guess we'll have to wait and see if this is what kingdom hearts 3 is gonna be like it's gonna be crazy okay i'm typing this in the year of our lord 2021 if you know anything about the series you know that none of this actually led to kingdom hearts 3 not directly anyway no it actually led to quote-unquote spin-off games and quite a few of them at that on the off chance that you don't know the plot of these games i actually made two videos on the subject give them a watch if you aren't in the know or just for the hell of it i think it's pretty good but just to quickly answer the mysteries i just spoke of those three armored guys are keyblade wielders named tara aqua and ventus yes that isn't roxas also the two other guys are venitus who is the dark half of venice's heart after being extracted by the other one master xehanort who is the main antagonist of the series and as for that letter it was an invitation to sora and riku's mark of mastery exam which is a test to see if you're a keyblade master it's just a label but they treat it like it isn't sometimes and that's all i'll give you again the other videos i make can fill you in completely so getting back on track the game we've been waiting for for seven years at this point was finally formally announced e3 2013. this trailer was huge again it was a minimal barely showed anything but what it showed was really cool to say the least swords being chased by a literal wave of heartless riding on it all the while jumping off walls and [ __ ] come on how are you not drooling the amount of trailer analysis videos and speculations and all that jazz was through the roof this trailer and everything after made these content creators go crazy justifiably and because of that every drop of development with the game was torn apart to find as much as they could as as we could after that first trailer we didn't have to wait long before another update four months later at the japan d23 expo or is it d23 i don't know they showed off another gameplay trailer it's clearly unfinished the animations are rough and everything looks kind of weird in general so we knew this game wasn't coming anytime soon some really cool stuff was shown off though mainly the fact that sora split his keyblade into two guns and shot fire everywhere and the figurative and literal bigger one disney rides soros spawns a pirate ship that rocks back and forth just like the real thing it looks really good next they show sora and gang on the big magic mountain ride fighting against the rock titan so olympus was our first disney world confirmation who would have guessed this trailer built upon what we already knew from the first trailer by putting it on a much grander scale but at the same time they didn't show off too much another banger of a trailer from square but then things went quiet for a while it wasn't until june of next year 2014 where we got a trailer for the 2.5 collection which featured a mini kingdom hearts 3 trailer at the end no gameplay no cutscenes just drawings of two kids talking to each other about the keyblade war and that's all we got that year e3 2015 the next big trailer finally came it shows a finished cutscene of those two boys from the last trailer and i just cannot tell who they're supposed to be they have basically the same conversation that they did in the last trailer after that though we're given a nice long look at the game we'll be getting a huge world nothing the last games even come close to matching it had it all action heartless parkour running up walls jumping more heartless team attacks teacups rocks grass physics water physics jiggle physics then we see the gang in the tangled world along with finally seeing sora's new outfit it's not bad but i prefer the last one and finally a look at a new mechanic keyblade forms not much is known about it at this point but we'll get to that moving on to three months later we get a trailer for the 2.8 collection the trailer starts off with a 30 second version of the trailer we just saw before moving on to the collection itself it had dream drop distance since its only full game but also featured an hour-long movie about the phone game union cross but that's irrelevant what we're really after is the prologue demo 0.2 all it showed was one shot of aqua walking along the realm of darkness before looking back and that's all for that one moving on the next trailer sucks it premiered at jump festa in december 2015. it feels like it's the same as the last one with a few differences main one being that you could focus to leap to certain places through flow motion a neat combination okay they really gotta stop showing this same exact fight in twilight town reader's part was when they were fighting at the mysterious tower you never go there in the final game and that's it well that was probably the worst it gets the next trailer was shown off in june of 2017 quite a while after the last one a year and seven months luckily though it's much better than the last one it starts with sword diving from the sky and slamming his keyblade on the ground he goes on to show a little more of the keyblade form we saw years ago more team attacks and the best part pete baby oh and hades and maleficent finally it shows sora talking to two big boys and some enzemnus feminist says that the only way to bring roxas back is to call upon the darkness which i'm pretty sure is a blatant lie these guys love to say that every problem is solved with darkness but instead of backing it up they just go into murder mode and with that the trailer's over the next trailer aside from the first trailer made people go crazy the most not because it showed off new cool mechanics or anything but because they brought in pixar after showing more hercules with some very obnoxious texts scrolling across the screen we go to toy story it's mainly cut scene which i'll be going over when we actually play the game so talking about it here would be redundant let's move on to the next one february 2018. okay more pixar monster zinc again not much to talk about here it shows off the environment cutscenes spoilers oh yeah here's an issue this trailer and all of them after show story relevant cutscenes who thought that was a good idea this is a problem a lot of triple a games have the best recent example i could think of is the phantom pain it shows some of the last cut scenes in the trailers sure you don't have context but then the surprises ruined once you actually played the thing you hit some story beats and think oh this is going to lead to that part from the trailer isn't it and most of the time you're right this suffers that exact problem and the rest of the trailers kind of suck too so i'm going to give you a quick summary of the last 20. the next one shows off the game's main theme don't think twice at first i thought it was kind of lame compared to sanctuary from kingdom hearts 2 but it grew on me over time and i kind of like it now side note but did sanctuary ever give off lincoln park fives to anyone i don't know why but that's what i'm reminded of when i hear it maybe it's because i stumbled upon a kingdom hearts 2 amv when i was like 7. e3 2018 we got confirmation of a world that came totally out of left field frozen where did they pick such an obscure movie for a game like this might as well have went with mars needs moms another disney world announced was the return of pirates of the caribbean we also got a small look at what the gummy ship is going to be like not much shown but it looks like it's taking an open world approach the quality of these trailers really dropped off at this point they're mainly just showing cut scenes and barely anything else as we go along and the cutscenes are missing sound effects for whatever reason look out that's amazing sometimes we don't get audio at all and instead we just see a montage over don't think twice later that year we got big hero 6 a pic i genuinely like it's not obscure or anything but compared to the likes of frozen and tangled i'm glad i got some representation for some reason we got a trailer dedicated to the tangled world even though we've known about this world being in the game for three years at this point we also got confirmation that hundred acre wood is returning there was one trailer that felt like a parody of trailers our worlds are under attack and only you can stand against the darkness now the battle between light and dark will reach its epic conclusion jack sparrow caption taxpayer okay i added that record scratch but but it's it seemed real didn't it skipping over to right before the game's release we got a japanese trailer featuring english-speaking fans talking about how great the series is kinmahart's helped me get my mom into liking video games i made a lot of friends because of our shared love of kingdom hearts and finally the last trailer before the game's release mere days before the faded event we got a gameplay overview basically just a narrator explaining the concept of what a keyblade is and what it does over footage of gameplay and that's it what happened here we had a strong start for these trailers not showing too much but just enough to get us excited but then we nose dived and showed way too much to the point that it starts to diminish the hype if anything and they got so poorly made over time i could have made these and i suck at editing instead of building up slowly over the course of the game's development carefully picking things to show that will get people excited without risking ruining the experience once it's out they suddenly skyrocket how much they showed then someone at the marketing department smoked some crack and decided it was a brilliant idea to show cutscenes from the last few hours of the game it's fine to go wild with how much you show off the gameplay but don't compromise the story all that being said i'm not going to dock points from the game for this it wasn't the developer's idea to do all that it was a good thing i didn't watch too many trailers though i would have been pissed now all we can do is wait for the fateful day to come january 25th 2019. if you would have told me that was the day the game would come out in 2013 i wouldn't have believed you but here we are game is here in my hand and it's surreal i've been waiting so long for this but like i said i tempered my expectations someone reviews rolled in from official and non-official sources alike i was expecting positive but not overwhelming reception i wasn't expecting mixed however sure we had the typical eight out of tens from all the big names in game journalism but go down a few tears of humanity and things get muddy anything ranging from this game is a fantastic follow-up to the previous games too this is far from what i wanted and i'm disappointed and even straight this game is a piece of [ __ ] thing is if you voice not liking a jrpg on the internet you'll get murdered so you saying you didn't like the game was practically asking for you to get [ __ ] on when it came out popular cooking channel video game dunky made a review about kingdom hearts 3 and he really liked it one of the biggest glumber [ __ ] i have ever witnessed the story which is possibly one of the worst yet in a video game there is no sense of narrative cohesion jingle the game is boring really boring long awkward pauses no structure no stakes the villains are completely aimless [ __ ] mario kart they just dump all of that [ __ ] straight into a garbage bin i'd give this [ __ ] show a one out of five i think this is one of his most controversial videos due to this what struck me as the most annoying part of the backlash he got was that a good portion of the criticism he got was along the lines of he doesn't like rpgs so he shouldn't keep playing and reviewing them and you know what that's a great point hi my name's jess joe if you're inclined i really enjoy a good jrpg mother 3 is among one of my favorite games i have stockholm syndrome towards persona 3 because i sure have played that one a lot and most importantly kingdom hearts 2 is a game i really like and even more importantly than that since its release i've played kingdom hearts 3 6 times so i could say with confidence that kingdom hearts 3 is a bad game [Music] sorry mommy your poopsies are toast i smell you anson say fellas did somebody mention the door to darkness [Music] oh [ __ ] do it again [Music] if i have to i'll end those [ __ ] heartless myself you're already on the path to [ __ ] my [Music] wife a bold statement to be sure but one i've already made so i guess i gotta prove why that is let me give you a few quick disclaimers before we jump in one if you like this game that's great i'm not here to make you hate it i'd love for you to stick around and hear me out though just like there might be things you see in the game that i don't that works both ways two i'm gonna be covering the game from start to end to post end so spoilers obviously three i'm mainly covering the game we got at launch so the critical mode update and the remind dlc comes after the main portion four the amount of garbage littering the earth right now not being properly disposed of can lead to pollutants in the air that cause birth defects cancer vermin and insects causing disease bacteria and that's just to name a few this has gone unchecked by our governments and it's believed by some experts that we're past the point of no return so be sure to subscribe while you still can 5. let's get down to it once we get started we get the opening movie it's a clip show giving a little chronological look through the series yeah that'll help newcomers understand what's going on okay that's not fair there is an option on the main menu to get a little narration on everything it's not perfect but it's not good either so here we are not much else to do but get started the highest difficulty option is proud mode or it was but like i said we'll get to that later first thing we see is this really weird looking town village i don't know we get to see those kids with their darned chests have you heard of the ancient keyblade war huh of course i have long ago keyblade wielders waged a war over the ownership of light yeah the master's favorite story i like to think the keyblade war is just common knowledge so what happened was basically like playing a game with your friend and they're like have you heard of world war ii these two are very obviously xehanort and ericus but i think the developers know that you're gonna know that their chat about the war whittles down to saying that one day inevitably the light will expire and the dark will prevail i suppose they've never heard of friendship cue the heart diving they can take your world they can take your heart cut you loose from all you know but you can't unfetten this ass we start with kingdom hearts one sora who we play as for three seconds before looking in a mirror and switching over to current day sora the fact that they made a model with animations and jumping and stuff all for you to switch over to a different model really shows their dedication so that's a great first impression as usual you pick if you want defense magic or strength now we pick up where 0.2 left off with the end sid telling sora he's a worthless piece of [ __ ] and to go to olympus so he can see how worthless he really is problem with that is all the space highways are closed off so they're essentially driving blind their one saving grace is that the power of waking that we've heard so much about can help lead the way to where they need to go may your heart be your guiding key huh what's that master yin sid always said that right before we went off on any of our real important adventures what a slogan i hope they use it more sora's not very good with that power but with a little bit of coaxing he manages to get them there or more so into a ditch close to that area but that's definitely not a bad thing we're finally outside the perimeters of the coliseum no fanfare spoilers but one of the things i like most about the game is that it's definitely more self-aware than the others to the point where the game can be genuinely unironically kind of funny it's not like the previous games were devoid of humor but i would rarely ever chuckle at the jokes they made so let me add this counter to show the parts of the writing i appreciate what with them being a bit off course the three half pints are gonna have to go find hercules themselves and maybe make some friends along the way a few steps later they're ambushed by heartless now we finally get a feel for the combat on a baseline level it's what you've come to expect from the series an rpg style hack and slash donald's the mage goofy's the bruiser and you're the all-around not much you could do at the moment because your magic abilities are very low so it's a match x fest for now after dealing with them you're greeted with a wall and told to run on it to get up if you've played dream drop distance then you're familiar with flow motion this game brings that back in both limits and expands on it meaning when it comes to the aspects of flow motion returning from dream drop like jumping off walls or spinning on poles it's been limited and expands by adding a bunch of new features like we see here after looking around for approximately 10 seconds soros starts calling out to hercules hades here's that and there he is he tosses out a threat despite the fact that we've beaten him twice now wait if hades is here then where's her what is everyone's infatuation with that doubt goofy was so calm he didn't even flinch not a muscle in his face moved why do we even need a keyblade maybe hades is right to be cocky this time because he's got all four titans with him now i mean just the ice titan was a real pain in the rear so we're probably all [ __ ] he uses them to blow the three away man hate to see him leave but love to watch him oh hey pete so you can keep your heartless this time i'm going back to my original plan all right so toodaloo exists that away hey it was great seeing you happy train all right jeez cut the ham hates they're not here to meddle like usual but rather they're looking for a black box and searching throughout all the worlds to find it hades points them in the direction of pandora's box sora and co are sent flying over to the city of thebes where hercules catches them looks like the place has seen better days it's due to the titans running amok and throwing big boulders everywhere after swatting some pesky flies mega run phil come in on pegasus and then they leave immediately why did they even come here be careful wonder boy i will so you guys in now hold on don't be selfish herc sora's got a question for you herc i came here so i could ask you something do you remember the last time we were together you were feeling down and out how'd you get your strength back when you jumped in and saved meg the best hercules can say is that the power came when he needed to protect someone he cared about aside from that sora is on his own they see a kid in trouble and hercules throws them over there splitting them up from him after saving her they're given a visit from the two demons [Music] say maleficent i don't know about his sidekicks but kid keyblader here looks way punier than the last time we saw him i say we finish him off while we still can waste no time with the boy he's inconsequential well that was pointless moving on the goal now is to save the townsfolk from the heartless and now we get a good look at the size of this game it's huge for reference the colosseum in kingdom hearts 1 was a whole three rooms large totaling to a whopping square inch in size and one of those rooms was only accessible from fighting in the coliseum while the underworld in two is significantly larger it's not very visually stimulating there's some cool looking parts but most of it is dark cave area with like one of these souls why am i hitting them for magic it's kind of morbid but this is a large space with a lot of variety there's multiple routes for you to take from the start there's a bunch of crumbling buildings and statues and like it's great remember when i said your magic abilities are low i meant it you start with fire and water spells and they do piss-poor damage even when you use water on fire it's kind of frustrating if anything because i'd like to do something aside from just pressing x during fights you could do team attacks but aside from that right now nothing while running through the city you save actual people human beings that you can talk to once again ps4 does what ps2 don't if you beat the heartless around them they give you a little something for the road hey here's a gamer tip for any gamers that play this unequip aerial dodge basically all it does is neuter your pre-existing aerial slide when in combat it doesn't really make avoiding attacks in mid-air any easier so just don't use it anyway we catch up with hercules who's holding up an entire building while the heartless attacked the citizens we made it just in time but hurt can't hold on much longer we gotta take these guys out quick but how as i said our damage output right now is terrible what to do ah perfect a tutorial ladies and gentlemen the successor to drive forms keyblade forms basically depending on what keyblade you have equipped you'll get a unique form that only that one uses there are 15 key blades so that means the amount of keyblade forms is triple the amount of drive forms i'll cover each as we go along on top of that we're also introduced to grand magic which essentially means if you use a certain spell enough times you'll sometimes get the ability to use the same spell but one tier higher for example fire to phyrra or phi raga to fight raza but what do i mean by sometimes and also how do you even access these shiny new keyblade forms well this thing it doesn't have a name or an explanation as to why it's there as far as i know this thing slithered into the game without the devs noticing basically the more hits you land the higher this thing goes once you get above three arrows you'll get something it could be a keyblade form grand magic or something else entirely or at least that's the theory this is a whole thing so i'll talk about it at a more appropriate time at least now we can speed combat up a little bit the kingdom keys form is called second form it's heavily reminiscent of the limit form from two final mix albeit now mixing in moves from two with moves from one moves like explosion or magic burst rather than using magic to use moves like r's arcanum or sonic blade every time you fill up the meter you get a better finisher ability it starts with stun impact which is really bad and moves on to sonic blade which is significantly better and finally the best of all r's arcanum after dealing with that zigbar comes in oh wow very nice oh marks no organization that's the first thing they say to an organization member in this whole game remember in the old games when they would show up to basically say nothing and then leave well i am glad to say that nothing's changed moving on you know i'm just noticing this is the first time hercules is a party member out of all the games he was in also that you could have three party members without needing to switch out donald or goofy were encountered by a boss battle this is where the disney rides come in aka the attractions every once in a while a target will have a green reticle which means if you hit them you get to use an attraction first one we see here is the pirate ship it rocks back and forth shooting balls of water out for those who aren't close by you can turn it around as well so you don't miss out on those sweet side enemies it's quite the spectacle and if used sparingly could be a cool finisher or move to use when desperate due to this being the introduction to the system it helps a lot to take care of the boss with that the town's been saved next on the list is to take care of those titans so it's time to go up the mountain on our way up we're interrupted by some water heartless oh that was fast we get to use an attraction again wait why did i get the pirate ship that's a water-based move unless they're right next to me i'm not doing any damage well whatever i guess you may notice when going up the mountain that there are actual secrets and stuff for rewards as much as i like kingdom hearts 2 it's hard to deny its level design was pretty bad i never mind it personally because i prefer to getting straight to the point but if you like the way one handle this level design then 2 is most certainly lacking so good news for those people as kingdom hearts 3 uses its big maps to its advantage with the mountain crumbling hurt gets worried and flies on ahead and leaving the 3 to deal with the rock titan if you remember the rock titan was an optional late game boss in kingdom hearts 1. optional bosses in these games are usually pretty hard but this guy was outright pathetic one of the easiest in the series without a doubt so putting him as not even the final boss of the first world is both very fitting and very funny before being able to actually hit him you gotta run up the mountains while you do that boulder's hail in visually speaking this is a great fight the weather changes from sunny to pouring rain sora's jumping off rocks like it's nothing rocks are breaking into a million pieces once you nip at his feet for a while you get to slow motion your way up to him and start bonking him in the heads then you're given the big magic mountain ride and the fight is basically one at that point let's keep heading up apparently the entrance to what is basically heaven is a few pebbles now we just gotta make our way to hades and help out hercules i am impressed i must say as much as i was expecting much bigger worlds i wasn't expecting them to be this varied we go from town under attack to mountain climbing to evading attacks onsen mountain in the rain and now we're here great work on the people who built the maps dealing with these boys grants you the ability to use focus and shot lock commands it works a bit differently here than it did in birth by sleep you don't get to use whatever one you select like before instead there's a different one for each keyblade as it ties into your keyblade form like before you get bigger results for hitting the max amount of targets you can but now instead of just getting a better version of what you had you get a new move in the kingdom keys case if you hit less than max you get king of hearts which fires a bunch of homing hearts but if you get the max you use ragnarok those two are pretty similar but the later keyblades have ones that are more unique to each other we're also given a new attraction blaster blaze the game real quick turns into a first person shooter and you don't do much outside of holding r2 you can boost yourself into the air but there's very little reason to ever do that it's finisher is a big aoe blast now that we're high enough all we have left to do is jump to the gate like the trailer showed you can use focus to air step onto enemies or select objects this is one of the most useful things in the game so don't take it for granted as fast as your running speed is it can still feel like it takes too long to get to certain places so this is a neat trick you should show your friends it appears hades has zeus in his infamous crust pyramid somehow hercules took just as long as us to get here so we're just in time for the fight this fight is pretty basic not much going on tornado boys hanging out in the back while the ice and flame titan do their stuff they shoot beams of their respective elements at you toss fire and ice balls throw a headbutt etc but they're nothing compared to us they can give you the magic carousel attraction it's basically a rhythm minigame line up the beams to the yellow and do big damage we beat them and it's just down to the tornado titan he uses the other two to harness the power of ice and fire aside from that he throws debris from thieves at you and tosses you in the air again not too big a challenge but it doesn't need to be after this zeus is freed from the crust and the two of them destroy all the titans hades gets very frustrated by this and he gets ready to fight but we've already fought him twice do we really need a third herc dexa many retreats likely to never be seen again in the series hercules reunites with meg and sora figures out that he's supposed to figure out this power of waking and regaining his strength himself and that's the end of the tutorial so what did i think of that it was a good intro the complaint many had with the previous two games is that it took too long to get to the meat of the game and i think they did a good job of remedying that but before we move on i want to compare and contrast the beginnings of the three games i find kingdom hearts 1's intro to be the worst it's fine on the first playthrough but on repeat playthroughs it's tedious kingdom hearts 2's intro is the exact opposite where your first playthrough will likely be miserable but when playing the game again you can appreciate what it had to offer they both took their time on introducing the mechanics of the game this game gets straight to the point and i can respect that however one thing that i think the first two did better was making you feel weak the first game especially when you're on destiny islands you could fight four of your friends guaca was a bit tricky but selfie and titus were easy it's when you get to riku that you start to realize that maybe you're not the strongest hit on the block what was especially demoralizing about this is the fact that every time you lost was shown to you 0-5 0-10 etc and the race don't get me started and things didn't get much better once you hit traverse down you walk around aimlessly until you're attacked by [ __ ] squall from final fantasy 8. that's leon even if you beat him you collapse from exhaustion anyway you're a wimpy brat that's nothing even with a legendary weapon the only way you're getting by is with the duke and edward by your side in kingdom hearts 2 roxas was just a kid hanging out in his hometown or at least that's what we were led to believe at first your first major enemy isn't a giant heartless it's a high school bully although you do fight a giant nobody later on man does that take you off yeah that's just wrong cipher has gone too far this time you don't get money by shredding through hordes of enemies you get it by doing side jobs around town like putting up posters you feel a little more powerful later when you fight that giant nobody and also get keyblades but in the end it's futile you're not even a person now go and become one with a strong guy would you here the only thing they do to make you feel weak is by telling you you are sora looks virtually the same as he did in kingdom hearts 2 but everyone can just tell he's level 1. but then you're doing parkour [ __ ] that sora did in the final boss of two you beat four titans one kind of single-handedly you also beat that one rock golem heartless very easily sora is strong as [ __ ] here but let's just pretend he isn't so it's annoying when he's getting made fun of for it to the point that he gets visibly depressed call it a bias but i feel bad for him so it gets to the point and lets you do a bunch of the cool stuff early but at the cost of making you feel really strong from the start in the end it comes down to if you care about that or not personally i don't really think it's a big deal just enough to write four paragraphs about it overall good intro even though this is a game made for the fans this would be the best intro in the series for beginners so i haven't really been proving my point that this is a bad game thus far hell it kind of seems like a good game from the way i'm describing it don't worry hell is just a short trip away after we've left olympus we see that pete and maleficent haven't pete says something about how the box they're looking for contains the book of prophecies now i'm gonna need you to pay close attention to this line because it's very important and by important i mean it's a huge red flag that movie i mentioned in the 2.8 collection it had dream drop distance it's only full game but also featured an hour-long movie about the phone game union cross but that's irrelevant what we're really after is the prologue i was a big fat stinky liar that movie is extremely important i have my gripes with that but that would be a long rant so later all i'll say is that the video i made talks about back cover i'm the king of plugs but again i'll give you a quick explanation as to what's going on here so this dweeb named the master of masters had this box right and he put some crazy [ __ ] in there or at least he [ __ ] better have because we don't know what's in it and it's been teased for quite a while now he gave it to one of his apprentices lushu and told him to keep watch over it for like a few thousand years maleficent thinks the box contains the book of prophecies which the master of masters made all that time ago that basically spoils the entirety of this series even what we don't know yet i assume she wants it to defy fate and rule the worlds or something who cares whoa what is it have you found something show it to me at once fool jesus [ __ ] christ relax he's helping you they find pandora's little box but obviously that's not the one they want so they move on [Music] may your heart okay meanwhile in the realm of darkness oh oh we're going here this early all right riku and mickey are on the hunt for aqua but they stop for a second to talk about christ basically nothing this cutscene is so bad they're reminiscing on the good old days for riku but they're talking in circles i remember my first time here i was so scared but now my doubts and fears are gone if anything i feel exhilarated and it's not because there's darkness in me i know too well what that rush is like this is different i get the point okay riku's conquered the darkness in his heart we talk about this at least twice in every game and oh my god watch this exchange it reminds me of a promise i made to who just someone i once met can't tell sounds like a good memory any defenders of the game's writing i want you to look me dead in the eye and tell me that was excellent dialogue me riku me have memory tell me memory no must be good memory yeah why don't you even bring it up out loud if you're not gonna tell mickey about it you attention seeker whatever just get your asses kicked by a demon tower we play as riku here and it's as if he's level 50 at least i can appreciate that detail whenever you block mickey blocks with you too they even have a team attack again i really like that they added so much detail for a character you're only going to play as for 10 seconds they pull the old winning gameplay losing cutscene and riku gets gobbled up by the demon tower it was strangely strategically done for a bunch of shadows can they do that riku's drowning in the heartless it's very scary but in the nick of time he hears a muffled voice call out to him but before he can get this voice's name and phone number mickey does his coming in clutch thing he does unfortunately there was one casualty in the fight riku's keyblade the heartless here are stronger than what we expected i guess we probably should have powered up our keyblades before we came in here huh power up keyblades you can do that whatever no time for questions we gotta get out of here how long are we supposed to keep her waiting in this awful place but aqua she's like sora no no no strong like sora oh okay good one last thing before we go we're going to leave the keyblade here a proper burial rest in peace waited on i liked your design back again sids sora and ko are telling him about how good they are at failing their tasks yen sid says that he might need to use the unbridled wrath of the deus ex machina to awaken the power of waking he really has a point though riku and mickey are also back riku theorizes that it's going to take someone really close to aqua to take the dive and save her like riku did for sora and dream drop but just as mickey says no one's left that's close to her erikas got shot tara got super northed zack never got that date and [ __ ] died and who knows what happened to peter pan and of course ventus's heart is sleeping within so wait a minute i'll save her huh but sora that's gonna be super hard since you don't have the power of waking huh sorry i have no idea why that just popped out oh that's right no one knows that ventus is right there hence it tells the two losers to meet up with kyrie and lee to get new keyblades and while they're at it deliver their redesigns for him ah here's one for sora too apparently the new clothes everyone gets wards off darkness like the organization codes so it's kind of [ __ ] that donald and goofy don't get some also here's a summon for you sora wow grandpa yen sid is feeling generous today back on the gummy ship sora gets a call on his smartphone grandpa please this is too much speaking of grandpas sora has no idea what a smartphone even is or seemingly a phone at all destiny islands must have had some form of communication anyway it's chip and dale here to say that they've been researching a bunch of the jpegs that ants on the wise hid inside sora you remember that because it's on the quiz but before they could say anything they're cut off by my boy enzo huh oh i guess we haven't spoken since the castle you didn't speak in the castle alias is here too alias whatever's between you and roxas it's in the past did they have beef i don't think they interacted much at all anyway all he says is that roxas's heart is inside his that gave sora the idea of heading to twilight town to see if they could figure anything out well before we get there i suppose i can't keep ignoring it and now that we have the gummy phone that's what it's called by the way now's the perfect time to talk about the loading screens yeah this video wasn't long enough i'm talking about loading screens now but in this case i'm completely justified because look hello world this is sora me and the other two half points are on a new adventure hashtag it begins hashtag donald hashtag goofy hashtag fight and a half those huge lightning bolts hurts dad was throwing around make my thunder magic look like sparks hashtag zeus hashtag hercules hashtag olympus hashtag like fatherlike sun hashtag never thought i'd find my way to these shores again it's almost like someone wanted me to come here hashtag way to the dawn of darkness the leaves in the trees here seem to whisper unspoken words unspoken feelings sora it's my turn to fight for you hashtag kyrie hashtag lee axel hashtag secret forest hashtag that's right our main characters post on instagram now although it's not actually instagram this is called kingdom hearts and honestly that's for the best i don't think sora would be able to handle up a meme pages that shamelessly advertise dildos the hashtags are more baffling than the captions themselves i'll read some more of these as they become relevant and now we get to look at the gummy ship segments of the game the first game was a shitty star fox clone the second game felt more like an arcade shooter but with a controller and this is an open space with a bunch of optional ship battles boss battles you could take pictures of constellations and get a prize all that good stuff do i like it no i find all that stuff pointless and so when i just want to get to the next world it's quite annoying how you have a limit of three boosts all of which don't last very long and takes a whole 10 seconds to recharge one of them also these battles feel like a genuine afterthought like they needed to put something in to make you feel like these sections are worth it it's also mindless just hold r2 in match square oh and don't get me started on those meteorites no no really i shouldn't get started on them later i know i'm pushing a lot of things back but trust me once we start actually getting to them it'll be worth it for now let's just head to twilight town once we set foot back on this land for the first time in 10 years we get a joke about the fact that it's been 10 years oh cool the trams are still here [Music] feels like it this was apparently the perfect time to recap the events of coded it's really very irrelevant but they're trying a good bit to make it so suddenly nobody's attacked good thing because now we can look at hero's origin our new keyblade the design is awful but is it any good in the field well yes and no its incomplete shotlock siphons health from your enemy and gives it to you while its complete shotlock spawns a meteor that you block with a big shield that makes sparks fly everywhere its keyblade form countershield turns it into a shield you can throw it and bash people with it and its combo finisher throws out a circle of lightning but the main event is that you can block while moving and if you successfully block something your counter is [ __ ] massive the problem is the finisher it's pathetic you summon a chariot and go around smiting people but you have no control on where you're going often i have not been able to hit anything due to this once you've dealt with them you see that haner pence and olette are being chased by a demon tied isn't it a bit early for this this was the final boss of 0.2 and it ended up looking like this and that's a super boss amount of health well you only have to take down three of its health bars and they dumped down its moves for your low level ass nice fighting thanks sora hainer pence olet it's been ages what it hasn't been that long long enough for all your voice actors to change anyway they tell the three that they're looking for roxas and being the nice people they are they say they'll help them out actually he might have been friends with another version of you this photograph yeah we've got the same one oh yeah the other twilight town it's like one of those spot the differences puzzles except really easy i guess in that town we're friends with this roxas person sora shows the others his new magical screen touchy device and they take a picture with it [Music] hmm wait who's taking it oh ooh two in a row olet points out the mickey indent in the wall it's a lucky emblem a spin on the hidden mickeys in disney world now they're a sort of collectible if you could take pictures of more of them you get prizes some of them are pretty damn good too it's a cute concept now we could look the new and improved twilight town it's been shrunk to only three of the rooms from the second game unfortunately but that's not too bad they added a lot of detail to this one room there's a bistro people all over the place you could spin in a barrel and the townsfolk will toss money at you the junk area has been converted to a movie theater where they're watching old timey cartoons of mickey and you aside from how that doesn't make sense how are you gonna tell me that isn't pretty cool our goal right now is to get to the mansion so into the sewers we go once you exit through the other side you see that the rat's in danger one of these heartless will introduce you to splash run what i believe to be the most powerful attraction you slide and bounce anywhere you want leaving a trail of water that hurts enemies and you finish by making that water burst you clear that problem up for remy and as a thank you he forces you to pick up his ingredients after doing that for him you leave him with a pile of fruit that he still can't carry all of and also has to go through a sewer with good for him we made it to the mansion and sora is getting some roxas vibes from that curtain they say that if you look closely you just might be able to hear the better twilight sound theme while sora is busy with that haner jump scares them thanks for the heart attack yo if william apton was in this game do you think he'd resign his heart to darkness it seems that the transporter to the data twilight town isn't working anymore so that was a wash unless we get a phone call from someone who can help anyone no okay huh hello sora you wouldn't happen to be in front of a computer huh pence and enzo get to work on getting the transporter working but computers is boring so sora takes a nap by the end they've settled that they can analyze the data town and decrypt the roxas data that ansem made okay great i can't computer so well that was a successful venture i think let's go take a hard-earned break at the bistro whoa what happened to your face how do you go from that to this xemnas pops in too it's just like the scene from the trailer the only way to truly bring roxas back is to call upon the darkness again pretty sure that's a myth you shouldn't listen to every life hack you see xemnas before any sort of reasonable debate can occur they spawn their ghouls and run away well this is perfect now i can try out my new summon or as it's called in this game link meow wow balloon aka the meow dream eater you jump around and with every jump you inflate more and more until you decide to deflate which will send you flying all around and do an unreasonable amount of damage to anyone who comes in contact with you i know what you're seeing doesn't look like too much damage but this early in the game it is and it's only getting stronger its finisher is a burst with a ton of other dream heaters that's cute with that out of the way they're gonna head out but before they can do that scrooge stops them he's the owner of the bistro here and remy is his chef he's not called remy in this game though he's called little chef yeah so remy wants to make some food for you but he needs the right ingredients so off we go to steal food from the locals ingredients are an item that can be found similar to any item dropped from an enemy the only difference is these come from food sources like fruit baskets or snack machines they're everywhere in all the worlds i actually picked some up back in thebes once we've gathered enough here we bring it back to remy and he'll cook some nub for us it works like synthesis you need the right ingredients to make the right dishes but here's the difference is the food ready yet huh hmm he hasn't started huh whoa whoa hold on hey hey oh no oh whoa what you you gotta do a mini game to get your dinner bud there's four different kinds of minigames and if you do good enough you get the food how's that if you do great you get excellent quality food which means its effects are stronger we did it [Music] but if you mess up the mini game you don't get the food and you lose the ingredients [Music] sorry what you get out of the food is in the pause menu you can combine all the stuff you've made into a full course meal it increases any of your stats i don't know how they pick which ones and by how much you don't have to fill every slot but if you do you get a bonus condition something like the effects lasting longer or the stat increases being increased or having all enemies drop only money if you get an excellent rating on every item on the menu you get a keyblade so you bet your ass i'm gonna do that once that initiation process is over hannah and i'll let meet with you they've been putting out posters for scrooge to promote his movies which are the ones playing in junk town there's a qr code on the poster scan it and you get oh my god i just got done okay so another new thing is phone games you have to unlock them by finding them around the worlds or a few freebies like the first one you get here they're game and watch dial mini games which are really cute and clever but what do you get out of them well not much if you're just playing them casually but if you want a reward you got to get all 20 games and get a high score on all of them if you do you get guess what a keyblade so you bet your ass i'm gonna do that while i'll let's explaining all of that ansem and xemnas are very visibly standing above them watching with smirks on their faces for no reason zigbar comes in and is strangely the voice of reason aren't you making it a little too [Music] obvious huh fair enough but let's not forget how many times sora still managed to reign on our parade if he wavers from the path we lay we destroy him [ __ ] did you not hear what he just said he's beaten you before like three times you aren't on a high enough level to be this cocky except in a literal sense because you're on the roof and with that we're done with twilight right obviously moogle's return for this game that's not what we're here for as it turns out what mickey said earlier was true in what is quite possibly the best addition made in this game you can upgrade your keyblade nothing crazy just upping its stats but that on its own is great because of keyblade forms you might feel cheated by having one that's really fun to use but statswise is weak and brittle so this is a great remedy for that now if you fully upgrade all the keyblades there's still a bunch of stat differences but i find that to be kind of a moot point because unless you're a completionist you're not going to be upgrading all of them alright [ __ ] me let's get out of here as soon as we leave we're greeted with a pre-rendered cutscene sounds like we're being read a letter to sora from kairi merlin has used his magic to bring us to a place where time doesn't matter we can take as long as we need to complete our training what we've been going on for like three hours about how sora is so weak and lost all his power when you had a hyperbolic time champ whatever never mind also let's not forget lee's here too every now and then i catch him staring at me when i ask what's wrong he says i'm not sure i think i'm forgetting something don't know what man if this wasn't kingdom hearts i wouldn't buy that excuse for one second yeah not at all there's something about this cutscene that really rubs me the wrong way something about lee but i can't put my finger on it the letter yep to sora [Music] technically yes but i won't send it it's more for me ask merlin he'll deliver it for you yeah but it's okay i just like talking to sora even if it's on paper no but you should really send it give him that confidence boost did you put something too personal in there maybe some backhanded compliments something more sinister lee's got some sea salt ice cream for him and kyrie you're sweet lee yet salty so the reason he keeps staring at her is because of shion they look very similar after all one thing that actually took me a long time to pick up about this scene is this line here so tomorrow you and me in the ring you ready course don't hold back lee promise [Music] [Applause] [Music] please don't hold back axel promise it could be a coincidence but it's the line right before he sees xion if it's intentional good job writers probably the last time i'll be saying that you're crying what's wrong [Music] something in my eyes lee tells kyrie to call him axel now which totally goes against him desperately trying to get people to call him lee and dream drop but [ __ ] it it's a cooler name meanwhile in radiant garden mickey and riku are wondering what tara's been up to lately this is a bit of a recap scene so there's not much to say here aside from the reason that xehanort's an old man again despite the last time he saw him being in the form of terra norte is that terenor is most likely also in the organization xehanort was controlling tara's body when he created ansem and xemnas but ansem had no form until he possessed me am i why he looks the way he does yeah the resemblance is uncanny hashtag terra hashtag searching hashtag radiantgarden anywho our next stop is toy box so off we go before you can land you get attacked by a big heartless cool now i can prove my point just look at the gameplay here doesn't this look scrumptious hold r2 and you win in three minutes fun but with that dealt with we can land uh does anyone feel a bit of dread or is it just me it's the moment many have been waiting for we finally have toy story and kingdom hearts [Music] what the [ __ ] is this is this final fantasy who are these people why are these people why is this so well made is this just a trailer for final fantasy 16 in the middle of my kingdom hearts game verum rex commercial limited edition action figures actual wrecks alright apparently verumrex is a video game in the toy story universe and that was an in-character commercial interesting concept but now's not the time for disney crossovers we got heartless from kingdom hearts in andy's room sora and co have been shrunk and turned into toys to protect the world order the toys are going to try and fight the heartless but we got it here's where you're introduced to the final attraction mad teacups i don't think i need to describe it it does exactly what it looks like once you've dealt with them the toys come to interrogate you on where you came from well except for rex who thinks you're yazora he was that one guy with the two colored eyes and the red laser sword thingy you said that you've battled those intruders before tell us where and why oh becomes a heartless nobody's with strong wills she can basically take people's memories [Music] strangely something is going wrong with the laws of this world like that half of the main cast of the movies disappeared and buzz's laser actually works as a laser now you know excuses to be a party member but most importantly andy's gone sora and woody agree to team up and figure out what's wrong but buzz is a bit apprehensive about it the destination is galaxy toys because that's where they spotted a man in a black coat would you look at that four party members another thing i should point out is that unlike the previous games where talking to npcs only gave a speech bubble here they're all voiced another thing you'll notice about this world is how detailed it is it's filled to the brim with little things you wouldn't find in other games andy's room is very detailed of course but once you jump out the window that's when you see how much time was put into this map and again it's filled with secrets just down the road is galaxy toys and everyone's wowed and for good reason this is an impressive looking environment hey why doesn't that toy move i guess it hasn't figured it out figured what out i can make it move for you oh hey it's the worst xehanort some may say terranord is the worst but to me he's annoying to the point of being funny young xehanort over here is just annoying he spits out some heartless that jump into the remote control mech toys and then he says that the reason he's here is because they're still missing one of their 13 vessels and researching the way a toy's heart connects to another's could help them to achieve this he split this world into two and had half of the toys stay here while the rest went to the other world i wonder how you'll handle the strain wait what does that mean don't let me down stop the tape this shot this one right here this is the exact moment that the game starts to decline sora gets the wise idea to jump in one of those mechs himself and we're introduced to another gameplay style the game real quick turns into a first person shooter and you don't do much outside of holding r2 wait have i said that before ah yes that's how i described blaster blaze why are there two different kinds of first person shooter gameplay styles okay well to be fair you can do more things in these mechs you can strafe punch and there are three varieties of the mech that have unique special moves so these outclass blaster blades buy a lot so why couldn't they have removed it it's so boring the macs are exclusive to this world but i think it's still a worthy trade-off you're likely to get through this segment fast because the mech is very very overpowered i'm confused that guy in the black coat did he say he made a copy of the real world what's that mean oh you got me there old pal only one of the worlds is real and the other is just really convincing you can't be serious oh that's right you're from a video game poor guy doesn't know that he's in a video game right now woody comes in as the voice of reason and tells buzz that obviously the world's been split into two because your laser works as a real laser now duh before any more arguing can occur rex ham and the aliens get kidnapped off screen and we gotta find him we gotta take all the help we can get don't worry sora can be reckless and donald rumbles a lot it's true but you can trust them it's true these rails coming out of that giant gumball machine are our ticket up first stop toy store you have to save wrecks from scary dinosaurs and you're given access to the mex again so that's the end of that now the next stop is the babies and toddlers section but it's closed off from the outside so we gotta get in through the vents and now i can show off shooting star the keyblade that we got from twilight town it's a projectile based weapon its incomplete shot lock fires some bullets and its complete shot lock fires more bullets or has you dive at them from above reigning them with bullets this is the first keyblade we get that has two keyblade forms it's first double arrow guns changes your keyblade into two guns and all combos are changed to projectiles but even cooler is that you can hold r2 to aim and shoot the second form magic launcher has your keyblade turned into a big gun and you could fire explosive magic bullets sarge didn't you mention music affirmative goofy hmm all right why don't we look for things that make noise sure that's good [Music] what do you mean for me hey where are you that was incredibly forced there's a record player that's just begging to be stepped on about as much as i am running on it reveals that the orchestra of frogs has one that sounds off reaching in reveals that ya boy corporal was stuffed in there a few feet away is ham stuck in a toy house the culprit of these two crimes reveals herself i'd hate to be the guy that looked up how to beat this one this fight isn't very good usually in a boss fight if there's heartless surrounding them they aren't the worst thing in the world there's not too many of them and are usually in a spacing closed enough that you'll probably take them down quickly here you're in a large room and it's a cluster [ __ ] on her own the doll is easy but because the heartless are actively hunting you down you have to go in and out of attacking her even when she's very open so what i end up doing is either using everything i have against her as soon as i get the chance or run to the other end of the room and hope she gets to me before the heartless do wait what if we end up just like her forgetting ourselves and attacking each other we're all just cogs in the machine buzz oiled by the elite you'll become a lifeless puppet just like the rest of us will you'll never lose heart when it comes to your friends that be true enough cowboy now let's go find the others we see a ufo heartless so obviously this is gonna lead us to bo peep the aliens get snatched up by it and we gotta cut them loose all you gotta do is reduce its health while it's running away from you that [ __ ] problem i mentioned is doubled here you're going to be barraged by like 20 heartless in this enclosed space but it's not too bad if you just watch where you're going with everyone rescued buzz and woody say they're going home to wait for randy but organization 13's our problem to solve i'm not so sure about that obviously they're not gonna leave we need our precious party members so rex went over to the video game store we gotta go save him as it turns out veramrex is a hit around these parts if you look at this poster you'll see a bunch of transparent blades surrounding the main red one that yozara uses that's actually something that was used in the trailer for final fantasy versus 13 all the way back in 2008 it was a project that was in development for seven years before ultimately being completely reworked and rebranded to what we know as final fantasy xv it's a shame that nomura's original characters and story for the game were changed so heavily so i'm glad he's able to let it live on as one big reference in kingdom hearts i hate it when people say that this right here so cringey this right here this shot this one right here even though rex thinks sora looks like yozora it's pointed out that riku would be a better match for his appearance you know who wouldn't be a good match oh but you needn't rush off say north [Music] i have more to observe i can't let you leave yet you know i'm just realizing that he had to shrink himself down to the size of the toys just so he could keep being a pretentious douchebag oh damn is he using the old teleport say nothing and leave tactic to his advantage by distracting them buzz gets taken over by a puppet heartless and now he's evil buzz my appreciation for this use of an old trope is immediately diminished however by him again explaining that he's testing the bonds of the toys to help with creating a new vessel but he's just elongating it so he could look cool dodging all of level 13 soros attacks kind of punching down aren't you then he blasts sora into varam rex where am i haven't you heard in this world you come from a video game so now you can watch my experiment from inside that screen is he just standing there talking to the tv screen or what oh he is it's more mech game play shoot guys shoot stronger guys shoot strongest guy this is getting kind of boring but hey you got a link out of it you make it out but buzz is gone wait where's buzz he disappeared into a dark corridor sir did i hear you say dark corridor apparently they spotted a dark portal in the events of babies and toddlers the link we just got 8-bit blast gives us wreck-it ralph basically you can build blocks with lights on them anything that gets caught in the lights beams gets stunned you have a finite amount of them and a few different types think of it like tower defense but really stupid your finisher is wrecking it breaking all the blocks and again doing an unreasonable amount of damage after hopping through the window you're given even more awesome mech gameplay the vents can't be reached unless you have something to boost you up so you gotta use the electromagnetic feature to build blocks and hey wasn't i just doing that you gotta find more blocks to get high enough but beware high jinks will ensue every time you find some it's nothing worth talking about just know that it'll take another 20 minutes skipping over to when you finish building it it becomes a cactar and opens up the vent well no going back now in we go we make it in to see xehanort who probably stood in that exact spot the entire time waiting for you to get here and buzz who's being darkened by darkness that meaning the loneliness from being taken away from andy distance doesn't matter andy's part of their hearts just like my friends are part of mine [Music] what your friends are your power how very true but if the light of friendship is a form of power the darkness of being alone is a power you can grow oh shut up as i've said he's the most annoying xehanort but that mostly derives from how easy it is to tear apart his idiot logic but yet all the main characters are just stumped by it how is this a villain that people like unironically he has no good reason to be doing what he does he doesn't have a tragic past or an interesting one he's not a chaotic force with no regard for anything he's just some prick that decided to become 13 different people and start a war and yet there are so many fans that love and even empathize with xehanort check out this reddit post i found i actually don't sympathize or empathize with sora at all i think i'm closer to characters like say order ansem so sora is like my enemy i really think that sora is just like an opposite personality to who i am i just don't understand this logic it makes no sense i mean oh oh that wasn't a reddit post that was a quote from tetsuya nomura oh you heard it here first folks the creator of kingdom hearts himself thinks that the ben shapiro of darkness is one to be empathized with let us say that hypothetically the keyblade war will cause more problems than it solves there is an imbalance of light and dark there's too much of the latter if the war were to solve that one problem the others would be worth it and you hypocrites that you are might say that my most present self will use the power of the keyblade selfishly but if we look at this 2010 study we can see that 60 of the heartless killed by keyblade wielders of light are done for experience or items and 10 is done merely for sport that leaves only 30 percent of heartless that are killed for the greater good so much for the tolerant light such cruel acts can only be done by someone who doesn't act by the light but by their instinct their nature and that leaves us with the indisputable fact that darkness is the heart's true nature whatever you're talking about i don't care put buzz back the way he was then get lost or else what toy yeah i am a toy and a friend my guess is no one's ever loved you before because you know nothing about hearts and love xehanort you're so caught up in here shut up a second we're going home no matter what and taking buzz [Music] is [Music] stop it [Music] [Music] so this is where my wall ends with his tail between his legs xehanort spawns a giant heartless and leaves this fight sucks the main gimmick is that barrier around its center but it's so small you can clear it whenever it's within the boundaries at all aside from one move it can try and spin you off but most of the time you can land right back on and besides shooting star is a keyblade you're scripted to have before you get to toy box and it's shot lock will spawn you right on top and double arrow guns can deal damage when it's out of bounds it has a desperation move where it makes it easier to hit it because it's not moving i know it attacks you here but i don't think i've ever gotten hit by it because airstepping is instantaneous it's easy and sad unfortunately you weren't able to get them back to the real world but it's okay because they've got their new best friends to keep them company in the meantime anyway we gotta leave forever goodbye wow what a nosedive toybox was long and boring you can get lost pretty easily on a first playthrough but for subsequent ones it'll feel samey the world is full of detail don't get me wrong but it means nothing when the detail is in a shitty environment i don't know how they shrunk you down to the size of a toy and the world still feels small and cramped and they don't know when to end it too they could have easily put the boss around the time you first gathered up the toys but no you gotta play this dumb mini-game then go back to the play area then use the mech you just got done using in the mini game to build a big reference and that's gonna take a few more annoying fights in annoying areas and let me tell you you've got a friend in me gets just a tad irritating after a while and by the end of it you're rewarded with a boss that made me want to fall asleep just as much as everything else i [ __ ] added a fake scenario just to make things more interesting this was a very bad world back in the gummy ship what they call up the enzo to check on the status of roxas's new body oh man these redesigns are getting weird these two are a bit stumped on where they're gonna get a body from hmm huh replicas that's right because sora went knight knight back in castle oblivion riku's got to explain it all over again a replica can be the perfect home for a heart and with hearts the replicas will become people cool but if we these two are going to go talk to janzo to see if that'll work ps look out for taranor bye-bye we start this one off with the gang just walking around with no reason as to why we're here got me donald that almost seems like an issue but before we can think about that we're rudely interrupted by the movie this world is based on looks like we're taking out heartless just like old times oh hey i got blaster blaze again like i said earlier i find it kind of boring but maybe i was being a bit too harsh it's alright for what it is although most of the time you're able to keep shooting for a while after your finisher don't don't know what that's about now that we slow down natural selection once again let's head for the secret passageway well at least he got away safe right huh hey now sora's gone too okay guys you're dumb but you're not blind while they're trying to figure out if leaves in large spaces can go hand in hand they're missing what i believe is a shot for shot recreation of one of the scenes from the movie i haven't seen tangled but i think i've seen this scene at some point although i'm going to assume that him scheming to bring sora donald and goofy along his bodyguards didn't make the final cut you never know speak of the devil basic gist rapunzel has the tiara flynn stole and he has to take her to see the lanterns if he wants it back but first more movie shot for shot but with the gummy crew in the background i notice you seem a little at war with yourself here a little more than a little why what i want thanks guys great insight i can get her to the kingdom but you guys are clearly more cut out for combat [Music] and we're heartless experts yeah yeah that's literally all the organization has to do just trick them into doing something they want by guiding it under the veil of being heroic you know instead of if he wavers from the path you destroy him jesus now let's take a look at this here environment all right foresty very pretty looking secrets although i will say that for some reason in this world alone they point you in the right direction of most of these treasure boxes like here the flowers are growing on top of the water yeah look at all that water very very interesting stuff if i had to theorize as to why this is it's because the devs were particularly proud of this world and wanted you to see all of it which i get this is a very good looking world probably the best in terms of visuals thus far now let's take a look at our new keyblade your favorite deputy this is a pretty good one it's incomplete shot lock like leaves a ghost of where you're going and then you go there slashing whoever you are aiming at its complete shotlock has you do a bunch of faster teleporting slashes no ghost required this is another one with two forms first being hyper hammer you get a big hammer have fun it's its next form drill punch that's a bit more interesting hammer turns into a drill and you do a bunch of drill based combos a lot of them being aoe the finisher is kind of lame though just grabs one enemy and smacks him around it deals damage to anyone nearby too but not a whole lot ah brand magic i haven't talked about it too much but what's interesting about grand magic is oh i got blaster blaze again a team attack too game's feeling generous right now i guess and there's my keyblade form ah just what i needed blaster blaze again do i really need this much this has all been one [ __ ] and another team attack and a second keyblade form what is what is going on in two minutes in 10 seconds i got seven things well chalk it up to the game wanting me to get used to enemies with armored states i mean the fight right around the corner here gave me one thing a much more reasonable number how is she not worried about her dress getting wet her hair too i mean sora's outfit has darkness repellent so i mean it probably dries faster something but she ain't got no clothing abilities i think speaking of water she splashes you with water so in retaliation you kill her okay you're in for it after gala venting a bit more through the forest you find a big nobody colored flower so who's gonna wake it up we're all clear oh man it's a nobody now these variants are interesting they have some weird moves like turning into a vine machine and going invincible completely for a little bit tossing out some flower petals that do a damage upon contact good stuff marluxia shows up to say nothing but to be fair this time sora did call out to him the three have no memory of him because of the memory pots but marluxia sure does remember them so he says that rapunzel is the very light of this world and wants you to continue protecting her for the time being it feels like they were going for a mini version of the whole revelation in two where killing heartless was exactly what they wanted but i mean come on they gain nothing from this they went on a head so let's go catch up getting to the swampy dark area we see mother gothel who basically just says hi i'm evil bye let's fast forward a bit to when we find them they got a horse with them now how'd they find them well if you take a look here oh that's a very competitive rate 7.99 come on you could afford that would you look at this it's so pretty how about we stop for a second and enjoy the scenery see this is what i was talking about but again i don't mind it is very pretty a few very low frame rate swings later were encountered by a little tower it looks like the heartless are going to use it as a weapon against us and we got to avoid them from doing that as soon as the fight started i was treated to splash run as i've said it's the most powerful i mean look at how much ground it's covering and after that well after we've dealt with them the tower collapses turning into a horse heartless it dashes around a lot spinning and stuff and we're in a pretty small space i'd be hesitant to call this an easy boss even then it's not over yet because each of the three pieces of the tower is a horse of its own and i probably would have said that this is a bit of a tricky one if i didn't get six things on the command menu walking a bit further and wow impressive they must have spent a few months on this part alone yeah this is definitely the best looking world at this point and then you slide down all of it real fast good stuff this is amazing yeah i agree rapunzel this is amazing we already said that and now finally we've made it to the kingdom itself rapunzel sure looks happy well her dreams gonna come true they're sending the lanterns up after dark oh is that why she's cool now let's do a little splorn it's pretty similar to twilight town it's bustling village people are doing their own thing little barrel spinning a little fishing a little stealing a little property damage a little taking selfies with the world's most oppressed looking man hope we find some ingredients around here same your smart boyfriend the greed i bet we'll find some ingredients around here never thought of it that way i bet we'll find some ingredients around here oh he said it in the center of town is a festival everyone's dancing it's a great time you're dancing this sucks it is a mercifully short minigame though just don't tell kyrie alright the lantern festival approaches so it's time to watch another scene from the movie lights awesome love romance dreams satchel tiara brb looks like the nobody's just had to ruin everything as usual so we got to clean them up before they get to the townsfolk this is another with those marluxia themed side variants they are pretty tricky to handle in groups so this is pretty hard is what i would say if i didn't get okay have you ever played arkham knight you get access to the batmobile and the bad tank and you think oh this is a pretty cool mechanic i'm glad they brought this in but then they use it again and again and again and again until hey this is kind of [ __ ] annoying yeah [Music] that oh dear he's run off with the crown and forgotten you bro you can sound a little less like you're about to yawn i understand you're supposed to sound less emotional than our main cast but i don't think the tone of voice you're making is the one intended here no he wouldn't who are you very tall apparently hadn't really noticed until now he pulls the classic make a bad guy look good technique to bring rapunzel back into mother gothel's grip the boys come in just barely too late let's say she's keeping rapunzel on the shelf for us an extra pawn in case you failed to find the remaining guardians of light and we have occasion to call on other hearts of light instead a new seven hearts to fill out the ranks so the previous seven princesses gave up their role to a new generation of disney princesses like rapunzel definitely elsa um moana probably if they do a wreck-it ralph world then maybe vanellope uh marluxia hit sora with the sleep spell that he should have used if he wanted to kill him a year ago but better late than never you always were such a sound sleeper how would you know you were dead skipping over to three minutes later it's now day time and rapunzel figures out she's the lost princess duh did you not hear what marluxia just said blah blah blah captivity sora wakes up and the four race back to the tower although flynn goes on ahead after a while because the movie's gotta play out somehow so you gotta race through the heartless and nobodies to get to the tower this would feel a lot more urgent if you were timed and there were more guys blocking the way or something because as it is you could just run right through with no stakes or maybe you could start a little close to the tower and fight waves of enemies against an invisible wall that sequentially moves closer and closer kinda like that one part in the underworld of hades in the second game grab your popcorn because here comes more movie flynn gets stabbed oh no he cuts off rapunzel's hair oh no mother gothel falls out of the tower oh yeah marluxia decides that it would be really funny if he turned her into a giant heartless so that she is now it's a neat design but as a fight it's not very neat it's definitely better than the ufo from toybox but whoever thought that the tower room was a great place for a boss battle was wrong or how much it moves around in an environment with so many steep inclines and rocks you'll get tripped up very frequently especially if you're targeting it which is the only way you'll know where it is 100 of the time if your boss is this big and you still have a hard time finding it maybe pick a different area on top of that one of its moves plants flowers on the ground that can grab you and leave you open for attack and again if you're targeting the boss it's unlikely that you'll even notice the flowers are there it's desperation move has it go on top of the tower while showering you with bombs and placing gates up this move is fine i don't have a problem with it it also lets you slam it when it falls it's like a 4 out of 10 boss but once that's over we're treated to yet another scene from the movie with the three in the background with their thumbs up their asses adding so much to the scene as usual hey so i don't mean to be that guy but her hair had magical healing powers that could heal him until it was cut off right you know what else has magical healing powers sora and donald they've shown to be capable of it during cutscenes so you could perk him up right now i don't recall there being anything in the world order about not helping people when they're dying is this some kind of new world order ah whatever her tears work too rapunzel eugene did i ever tell you i've got a thing for [Music] brunettes just shut up they're having a moment how would you feel if i just riku it's riku riku's here i looked through yeah whoa come on sora yes so that's the end of that world it was meh feels weird saying that toy story world was worse than the tangled one but the environment was more enjoyable if also sammy at times it just had more going on what toybox did have over it was that you were directly involved with the plot there here you're a backdrop nothing more you're along for the ride that is the movie but also i should bring it up shouldn't i the sheer amount of times you get access to a super strong ability like a keyblade form an attraction or a team attack is really high i counted the amount of times anything barring drill punch because it's an extension of an already existing keyblade form showed up on top of the command menu the amount of gameplay time in that world was roughly an hour and a half care to guess how many times i got something keep in mind these are abilities that can annihilate enemies quickly if it doesn't wipe them all out it'll leave a pretty big hole in their numbers so how much do you think if you guessed 36 you'd be wrong because it was 60 60 [ __ ] times that is ridiculous i imagine the amount of gameplay time is supposed to be more along the line of three hours so keep in mind i didn't even take every ability i was given that probably took less than a third that's just not right and i hate to break it to you but that is not a problem with this world back in radiant garden turns out only evan can tell them what they want to know about replicas but he's gone missing seemingly to join the organization again but he'd never do that the documents left behind on replicas are incomplete so evan was their only hope but wait a minute if vexin is with them now does that mean the organization is going to use replicas to fill out their ranks better go tell jen sid this galaxy is getting a bit crowded don't you think let's get ourselves a new wide open space to guys should check it explore [Music] let's go you remember the keyblade upgrading system i mentioned earlier how it was possibly the best addition to the game well that was a half truth there's one thing that takes it from great to almost not worth it synthesis of course makes its return in this game it works the same as it did in every other game with it gather the right materials to make whatever it is you're aiming for you do that by grinding them off of enemies it's not so bad just a detour and a large scale rpg the problem begins with what's required to upgrade your keyblade every one of them will require fluorite damascus adamantite and electrum at some point in its 10 levels all four of them now what's wrong with these you may ask well you don't get these from enemies all of them can be found in chests but there's only so many of those and it doesn't nearly meet the requirement of upgrading all the keyblades so how do you get that amount [Applause] [Music] you shoot rocks for a long time the drop rate is low so if you want to upgrade a keyblade you could be sitting there holding r2 for upwards to 3 minutes apiece so usually 10 minutes in total every time you want to get some goddamn fluoride for your favorite deputy say what you want about grinding for materials in the past game but [ __ ] it could be interesting sometimes the only way you could get fury stones in the first game is by fighting a million shadows in this room until some big ones show up in the second game remembrance crystals were only obtainable in the cavern of remembrance in a difficult to traverse room it kept your brain active instead of just sitting there doing nothing but keeping your finger pressed on a button it doesn't help in the slightest that the gummy ship controls like complete ass when going slow you'll miss meteorites constantly making you turn around but don't do it too close or you'll overshoot it again you can do that or hold l2 and move the direction you need to go at a snail's pace you unlock a prize bonus later which increases the likelihood of these items dropping but don't get your hopes up you still don't get what you want often oh and did i mention that meteorites have health they don't crumble with one shot you have to hit it enough for that these things are artificial lengtheners and the game doesn't try to mask it with anything remotely enjoyable so yeah that's the main reason i don't like the gummy ship segments say what you want about the previous two games but they didn't make you repeat the same grinding process over and over again i got through kingdom hearts one just fine with a default gummy ship and the second game doesn't really ask you for anything the optional gummy ship parts were entirely superfluous here if you want a stronger weapon fork over your precious time [ __ ] this but before we move on to our next world i want to talk about something i liked in the gummy ship segments the game has some optional bosses littered throughout the spaces you fly through they aren't anything special you could beat them by holding r2 just like everything else but there's one i like in this new space we just unlocked there's this big whirlpool tornado thing if you try to fly into it you'll be told you need a gummy ship that's fast enough once you have one that is and you fly into it you're greeted with this thing huh i think it's hostile it's called the schwarzgeist if you don't recognize this that's all right because neither did i but the fact that it had its own unique boss theme thermosphere playing here and the fact that it kind of slaps tipped me off that maybe this is from something after doing a very minimal amount of research i've determined that this is from a boss from the ps1 game einhonde a game that's often considered one of the best 2d shooters apparently it seems the team behind that game worked on the gummy shift segments in this game so honestly if that game is considered a gem i'm kind of interested in playing it to see where things went wrong as a boss it's probably the hardest of the gummy ships but it still just comes down to holding r2 and moving around the cool parts are the music and the fact that all of its moves are taken from its source material it even has a phase after beating it where it ejects a small part of it that barely attacks at all and you just kinda gotta wail on it also when you fight in the ship endemion designed after the main ship in ironhunter you get the original version of the song good reference for beating it you get the gummy ship equivalent to the ultima weapon golden high wind it gets things done real fast just the way i like it and with that let's move on to the next world [Music] while not as wanted as toy story was monsters inc was a pretty big addition to the lineup of worlds simply because his pixar toybox was not very good so let's hope they can make it up here we start outside the main building in our new fantastic redesigns i'm mainly weirded out by the fact that they removed sora and goofy's pants i wonder what kind of weirdos live here who'da thunk he'd get so creeped out yeah and who'da think he'd be so shallow if they look like us then they could be trouble yeah seriously what the [ __ ] seems we have a big misunderstanding the gang thinks sully's a ravenous carnivore and is gonna eat that child we gotta call the cda uh it's uh uh oh yeah a code 835. [Music] okay but really why are we so quick to assume they're terrible beings that need to be put down after goofy snaps sora out of his murderous intent we all get to know each other come on boo i'm mike wazowski [Music] do you know who i am i could [ __ ] buy you oh [ __ ] unversed guess we know who today's antagonist is let's take a look at our new keyblade ever after people tend to sleep on this one because it's a more magic oriented keyblade but its unique abilities make this a weapon with genocidal capabilities its incomplete shot lock is a shameless rip-off of heroic origins siphoning health from enemies but its complete shot lock does i don't even know what that is but it's really good its keyblade form mirage staff lets you do combos with wide range while moving so you can move from one opponent to another in the middle of a combo on the fly but that's not its best feature if you dash you leave behind a ghost of yourself you can leave up to three and when you've done that and hold x it's ranged it does a healthy amount of damage and you can do it as much as you want while you're in the form its finisher is the best yet it spawns a tower that shoots out a bunch of lasers [ __ ] up anyone within 500 meters this big unverse with the shell is one of the hardest non-boss enemies in the whole game it's got a lot of health it doesn't have too much of a wind up before most of its moves and some of said moves cover a lot of ground on top of that you need to attack from the front because of the shell and damn it would have been pretty tough if i didn't get a million things in the command menu to combat it you can feel it too can't you the ranton coming after sora gets the history lesson on one of verstar sully and wazowski decide to bring boo back to her world because of the infestation going on oh come on this isn't even a good place to get blaster blaze looks like the unverse pressed a couple of buttons and now booze door is being sent to who knows where the cans of laughter slash scream can be hit and fly into enemies to do some extra damage not like we do enough or anything we gotta hitch a ride if we want to catch up to boot's door so hop on oh man i forgot about these unreal segments there's so many gameplay styles i have a hard time keeping track of them all now we gotta get through this door but it's offline and we need to make boo laugh to power it up so let's kill [ __ ] that always does the trick fun fact the enemies here spawn infinitely once you fill up the laugh meter you need to do a finisher to end this part but if you want to you could just keep going to grind i mean it's not like you're gonna die with how many attractions they give you okay time's up i've been waiting for this if you've played this game you might have noticed that i left out three specific major features about it them being rage form koopa coins and that you could have three keyblades equipped at once let's go over them real quick rage forms this game's equivalent to anti-form but it's way better instead of showing up sometimes and using dry forms against your wheel and limiting your moveset to the point of being an instant death in certain scenarios it shows up on top of the command menu when you're low on health sometimes as a last resort to heal yourself it's optional which is already a plus but it works pretty differently too your moveset is still restricted but not nearly as much it's a genuine viable asset in combat it has its own special move risk charge it takes a chunk of your health but in exchange you do more damage you can do it up to three times after the third you can use a finisher that does whatever the hell that is up next is kupo points it basically gives you all your health back if you die once a second second chance if you will you can buy them from mughals and you can only hold one at a time the previous two games had things somewhat similar to this in the form of tinkerbell and mickey tinkerbell was a late game summon in the first game that periodically healed you and only went away if you lost all of your health in which case she'll save you and disappear during certain boss fights in the second game if you lose you get a chance of getting a prompt asking if you'll give up if you don't you suddenly start playing as mickey your goal as the mouse is to heal sora back to full health so you can carry on with the fight the problem with this i find is that you could do damage to the bosses as mickey and a lot of it at that thor needs to deal the final blow but you could get it down to one hp mickey has a health bar as well but losing all of it just instantly wakes sora up there's no real stakes here you're essentially rewarded for losing certain fights tinkerbell is fine by me due to the fact that you get her right before hollow bastion mickey on the other hand feels kind of forced when i said certain boss fights i meant it one of them is the first phase of the final boss which makes no sense due to the fact that at that part of the story they were separated and so it felt like it was mainly done so that people playing the game for the first time would get all excited that they're playing as mickey but then you'll realize pretty fast that he controls like [ __ ] so you're stuck with the rat until you gain all your health or lose all of your health kupo coins feel a bit more natural you have the option to use them from the start for any fight and it costs a fair bit to buy one or at least if you buy them frequently so you didn't just get them for free sometimes you needed to earn them at any time and instead of making you go through a whole sequence to get back up a little animation plays and you're right back into it and lastly you can have three keyblades at once this one kind of speaks for itself you can switch off between the three on the fly with the d-pad what's important to note here is that you retain your keyblade form if you switch off while using it so when you go back to that keyblade you can continue using that form so why did i withhold all this information until now well simply put they don't matter i could have gone the entirety of the non-dlc portion of this video and left it out and nothing would have changed why is [Music] that this game's combat is fundamentally broken and let me tell you why look at this screen what do you see well i spy with my little eye a little too much attractions keyblade forms attractions team attacks keyblade forms attractions team attacks it never stops and would you believe that this game has the gall to give you abilities that make these things show up more frequently there's only so many times i could see mad tea cups and blaster blades before it gets old i take back what i took back what i said about blaster plays this [ __ ] is awful and so are all the other attractions no exception they all suck they do way too much damage and make me feel like i'm not even playing the game with how monotonous the gameplay is you'd think maybe they'd make attractions a bit more attractive but nope they made it somehow more boring oh and that's right the game is [ __ ] boring the amount of times they give you a hand is outright insulting but it's not like that's the only problem with the combat grand magic is a flawed concept as it rewards you for being cheap if you spam fire to the point of completely draining your mp it doesn't matter because here's a stronger spell no magic required and on top of that grand magic is used automatically when spamming spells and on top of the top of that some keyblades have grandmatic as an inherent ability like ever after the one we just got you're given access to arizona when using it keep in mind the world we just got that keyblade from is where we unlocked arrow the tier 1 version of that spell arrows is tier 4 the highest a little above our current enemy's pay grade and what's stopping you from using three keyblades that can use op abilities like that at once just switching between them whenever you want on that note that system is stupid the whole point of keyblade's having stats and abilities is so you have to pick one for the situation you're getting into but now who cares you could have a strength oriented and a magic oriented keyboard at the same time no stakes no consequences do whatever the [ __ ] you want what sucks the most is that we're only scratching the surface shot locks are extremely powerful as well they can shred through anything in your path and do unfair amounts of damage to bosses not to mention more than one being able to heal you while doing damage to enemies keyblade forms damn it i want to love these but i can't the idea of unique forms being attached to your keyblade is a great step forward from dry forms it really is but this meter had to ruin everything because of how fast this thing fills itself you can use a keyblade form 10 seconds after you just got done using it it doesn't help this game's cycle of repetition at all in the second game you had to fill three to nine meters to get the dry form you were after only way to fill it up was with drive orbs which weren't incredibly common due to this i'd use a dry form one to three times in every world not to mention that excessive use of dry forms was punished as we've gone over ansi form shows up a bit more than i'd like but it still works as a deterrent from using them so often on the topic of dry forms each one was fairly balanced to where you were up to in the game valid form you get at the beginning and it's still a pretty good option near the end if you leveled it up wisdom form is kind of meh but still useful at times where you want to stay ranged because projectile magic didn't hone in on enemies so you couldn't rely on that limit form is pretty deceiving it seems like a shitty form you'd only use in desperate situations but in actuality it was strong as hell if limiting for movement master form is the only one i'd say you get a bit too early it's also one that's a bit limiting in movement but its combo game is ridiculous and lastly final form the strongest of all most people wouldn't even realize this form exists you need to use this one specific keyblade you get at the last world activate any drive form you have a 50 chance of getting either anti-form or final form but once you get final it's all yours i considered it a perfectly fair system up until final east dry form had its own strengths and weaknesses valor was good for speed but at the cost of any and all defense as well as goofy wisdom was a magic-based form entirely aside from that you had the projectiles and that's it and also got rid of donald limit could deal major amounts of damage at once at the cost of magic mind you but as i said your range of movement is neutered master could do super long combos and keep enemies suspended in the air open for even more attacks but your movement and defense are decreased as well as both of your party members being removed final was objectively the best with little downside aside from your party members being removed again but not one you could use until the very end of the game compare that system to keyblade forms instead of at least three meters you only need to fill one which can be done through fighting anything as a result you'll have access to keyblade forms to such a ridiculous extent that you could very well get one 30 times in each world and who needs balance for where you are in the game when all your keyblade forms are final formed here there are never any downsides to using these you even keep all of your party members so getting them so often is really frustrating and the biggest shame here is that i genuinely think a lot of these keyblade forms are more enjoyable than drive forms the first two trailers for this game showed that they might have been using a drive gauge-esque system and i wish they stuck with that i'll cut it off here there's much more to talk about but this isn't the time to blow my whole load on this game consider this pre-cum that's [ __ ] disgusting i'm sorry so where were we right the door is powered up and open on the other side is more of the same [ __ ] rail segment heartless another door why was this part here now we finally made it to booze door so the entire group walks through instead of just letting boo in like they should what if her parents walk in and see all five of you freaks doesn't matter it's not booster it's randall back at it with his old tricks turns out someone pieced his door back together and he's back to become the big boy around town again he's not getting laughs however he's going for screams and the unversed are getting them for him because they thrive off negative emotions admittedly this is a clever way to tie in the main plot to the disney world laughter's just not sustainable once junior towards his last chortle you've gotta start over but negative energy especially sadness give them something that really breaks their little hearts and they'll stay sad forever that doesn't make sense people laugh after childhood and continue to until death unless of course you have some mental deficiency that makes you unable to emote which would also apply to sadness anyway they're both basic human emotions he's taken control of the facility and he's going to make being here a living hell now doing things like turning the totally not already dangerous laser machines on them you're supposed to duck under these things and slide around to avoid getting hit but you could also just dodge roll through the heartless are here too the [ __ ] do you mean we were just fighting them a second ago they electrify this fence don't worry i have the perfect solution for this tiny little room we have to fight in a giant pirate ship that killed all but one of them a little later on we get to the door that'll take us out of here but the terminal doesn't seem to be working maybe it would be faster to just break it oh that's brilliant we gotta short out the power on it to disengage the lock so let's overload it with laughter it's the same as the part earlier with the door this is another way you can just keep going for as long as you'd like and the enemies are stronger here so you'll get more xp once we get that done and over with randall comes back with his trump card give it a rest randle you're not gonna get away with this we'll stop anything you throw at us yeah maybe you will nor then again maybe you won't dude must have been practicing that one in a mirror what a comeback well that thing in the corner looks like it's gonna be our boss for the evening that is if it worked what a [ __ ] idiot he didn't even have anything in there just a piece of metal with teeth loser looks like we don't have a boss in this world all that's left is to find booze's door and be done oh hey benitez oh geez look at all the damage the unburst caused but no time for mourning we gotta get this kid out of here we're mainly just going through and putting out the flames while dealing with heartless and unversed stand aside we'll get this fire put out pronto roger craig smith over here was supposed to but he wasn't fast enough i actually don't know if you have to put the fires out or if it's just to avoid them being a hazard for you water spells do the trick and they give you splash run as well i'll let it slide this time due to the context you're at a d-minus game don't mess up anymore you head over toward the door vault by doing an epic dive from one building into another landing by slamming onto this creighton being rewarded with a phone game and we're introduced to another spooky fire segment getting through this one rewards you with a new link king's flare aka simba wanna see what it does [Music] look [Music] it doesn't get any less effective for the rest of the game so we've made it to the door vault at last but there's a bunch of black goop on the floor what could that mean well randall brought back his little contraption but now it's working as intended it's turned into a giant unversed well i say giant but it's probably as big as the shell guys from earlier this fight is actually pretty good nothing mind blowing or anything but it's more enjoyable than the last two it's a plain square environment no obstacles inclines or declines it's moves aren't incredibly easy to punish and it's not open all the time either it won't let up at times he has a move where he spreads some of his gunk out to a certain amount of hands that do attacks on their own albeit kind of rarely and he's not open until you get rid of them all its desperation move is that last one on more crack than the cia gives to low income neighborhoods it turns the arena into a hell zone and puts goop hands around the whole thing while turning itself into the lord of goop the only thing it'll do is flap its newfound wings to push you back into the hands so you can get attacked overall i think this is the best boss fight so far but i think this is a good place to talk about another one of my gripes with this game the soundtrack this boss uses a remix of one from birth by sleep which makes sense and i don't really mind it in this instance but my issue is that it's far from the only time they've relied on remixing or reusing songs in this game this one is much more subjective than my other criticisms of the game i know but i think it's still one worth talking about throughout this game they use old songs constantly songs from the first game the second game re-chain of memories dream drop birth by sleep and a good bit of the original tracks use light motifs in case you don't know a light motif is when you take a part of a song or a motif and put a new spin on it in a different song here's an example [Music] ah [Music] there are some games which soundtracks are famous for doing this a lot like super mario world or undertale the difference between those games and this is that light motifs had more of a reason to be there super mario world's entire soundtrack is composed mostly of spins on the same motif undertale uses light motifs to signify a connection between two things in the story while this game had a tactic similar to the latter it feels diluted by all the remixes and reuses they do already minus the first all the previous games did use songs from each other but this game feels like the foundation of the soundtrack was built on that let's take for instance dreamdrop's rendition of traverstown's theme [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so it shared the same motifs but it spun it to the point of it being its own thing but now let's take twilight town's theme in this game again being a revisit to an old world it's reorchestrated but you'd be forgiven if you thought otherwise because they sound nearly identical [Music] to be fair nearly all of the disney world songs are unique but that was a given were you expecting them to use pridelands theme in toybox it's a shame because some of the completely original songs in this game are very good the toybox fight theme for example [Music] [Music] or this one boss theme [Music] again this is all very subjective if you don't care about all that whatever moving on from that the unverse is defeated and randall is sent back to the other world doors shredded once again or rather locked away by sora but hey don't we have someone else to deal with where is that silly man gotta say that strange facade had me fooled at first brother we haven't ever met in the flesh i am vanitas what's this voice we're doing here that's not what you sounded like before this is the part where you spout some mumbo jumbo and disappear right oh man i'm glad they acknowledged that problem so now they could fix it this whole world was powered by scream they converted the screams of human children for the last time we already stopped doing that did you then how do you explain all these canisters of surplus scream yeah surplus kind of answered your own question there venetus by the way you're acting oddly cocky for someone who last we saw was reaching for the keyblade like a little baby after getting his ass kicked basically the negative emotion in this world let vanitas thrive but his heart still isn't complete without ventus who's inside sora and by the way this is the first that the gang is hearing of this vinitas gives the whole explanation before going into darkness mode donald and goofy try to stop him but it's worthless sora tries to fight but it's worthless nowhere to turn i want to save him it looks like venetis is about to end this series for good join your heart with mine need to look let me go over here quick so that was the best scene in the game i don't even think i'm kidding all i've ever wanted was for someone to shut one of these characters up without going into some unneeded friendship speech and there it was people tend to talk about when woody told young xehanort to [ __ ] off as the best moment but come on venitas was just [ __ ] humiliated someone who was once able to fight keyblade masters and come out unscathed so many times just got literally shown the door by sully from monsters incorporated before doing a fist bump with mike wazowski from monsters incorporated phoenix was probably so frustrated and embarrassed that he didn't bother coming back with a dark portal he just he just couldn't face them after that but he'll totally come back all cocky later just watch and then they totally act like that didn't just happen and go back to talking about booze door immediately i love this we send boo back home and we're done with monstropolis hmm what did i think honestly it's a bit tricky to pin down i don't think i like or disliked it but then i also don't know how i feel about just okay that rant at the beginning holds as much weight as when i said it but just like tangled that's not a problem with the world but rather the game so judging it on its own merits i'd say it was alright like a six out of ten the environment was kinda bland but then again it's a factory so they probably made it as interesting as they could have like toybox it could have ended sooner than it did but it wasn't to the point of being draining like the former it was certainly better than toybox but i don't know about tangled in case you're wondering why i haven't been comparing any of these worlds to olympus it was a tutorial world so it wouldn't feel right overall it's on the higher end of the ones we've played thus far back on the gummy ship sora begs the others to take him to the realm of darkness but they don't even know how to get there and even if they did they wouldn't tell them and neither would riku or mickey so just put that phone down but hey they're getting a call must be from one of them riku is this a bad time [ __ ] roasted holy [ __ ] way to make him feel welcome he's calling to tell them that they've uncovered something interesting about sora's heart there isn't just one foreign heart inside it there's three well obviously there's roxas and we've figured out about ventus so that's two down i wonder how long it'll take before they figure out about shion sora do you know who the third one might be hey that's not related before we get head back out into the cosmos chip and dale let you know that merlin wants to have a word with you in twilight town heading over there he says something's up with that little old bear book sword's not on the cover anymore time for him to head on in for old time's sake hundred acre wood is going for a more cel-shaded approach this time i dig it we say our hellos but we can immediately tell something's off just something weird about this interaction but before any intrusive thoughts can come in rabbit reminds us that as is tradition we must do mini games oh don't mind me go on now who's this i'm not a baby that watches winnie the pooh so i don't know who this is however i am a man child that plays kingdom hearts so i looked it up on the wiki now i know and you don't rabbit needs help with his harvest so we gotta play puzzle bobble to help him out of course i don't know if i'm playing this wrong or anything but i just hold down the button when i'm aiming towards the matching fruit and it works just fine i always win in the end easy game well looks like your problem solved guess i'll be on my way solved oh it's far from solved we still need to harvest the fruit but unlike previous games we only come here once rather than multiple times this of course means more mini-games always a bit of a debate amongst fans if these are any good so hopefully they refine the selection of okay it's just puzzle bottle again ah but it's a bit different this time now we have to prevent the fruit from falling into the water which will never happen unless you fall asleep while playing which could very well happen honestly this is better than the mini games in the first game but the second games were highly inoffensive most are really easy and done in less than a minute and then there's this one which is awesome this just feels unrefined with all the fruit in the universe harvested rabbit wants to get some honey from the flower patch to surprise poo with okay so a flower based mini game that's different what have seriously this is just a reskin whatever let's just skip past with pooh's bloodlust satiated he tells sora that he doesn't feel him in his heart anymore sora reassures him that he's always been and always will be there except i can feel it our connections weaker why is that fake friends am i right fellas well that was fun back outside sora mourns over the loss of his friendship saying he doesn't want to lose that bear god damn it merlin tells him not to worry because look sore's back on the cover okay so is there connection weaker or not did smacking some fruit around make it better then why did sora say it was weaker than the last cut scene there did we learn anything at all i think they just needed an excuse to put sora's redesign on the cover again well that was pointless whatever [ __ ] you let's go make a crap suzette heading back out all right let's see what's our next world oh oh boy things are about to get interesting huh [Music] this one starts with our gang in the cold okay look i'm not gonna beat around the bush arendelle is [ __ ] terrible even people who like this game think this world sucks but just how terrible is it well you're just gonna have to figure out by watching this part of the video and hitting the bell without subscribing anyway sora's cold and donald has the ability to give him a coat but is perfectly fine letting him freeze to death over 0.02 mp how am i supposed to keep the order from freezing my butt off come on can't i order some [ __ ] they spot elsa on the run and make chase the first heartless encounter we have here is very long like unnecessarily long three whole minutes which is the average boss length in this game that's a very strange start for a world but while we're on this we can use our new keyblades yeah we have a double feature this time happy gear which we got from monstropolis and honey spout which we got from hundred acre wood as for happy gear its incomplete shot lock is a ripoff of the kingdom keys its complete shot lock warps some yoyos to whoever you are targeting and i know they're yo-yos because that's what the second form is the first is agile clause which lets you do damage while dodge rolling alongside the usual moveset change honey spout is 100 complete knockoff of shooting star taking its keyblade forms and shot locks straight from the source only difference is that the shotlock also slows targets down because honey we catch up with elsa to ask what's up she asks them very politely to leave her alone but they don't shut up to the point that she attacks them like any other one honestly then some more heartless show up but it's a height because elsa can deal with them herself no need for sound effects or anything that's amazing you can control ice yeah that's pretty epic and awesome are you free this weekend she leaves blocking them from following her and then everyone's favorite comes in she's here to stop you from meddling with their new seven hearts so she puts you in a little ice prison and by little ice prison i mean a giant meticulously crafted ice palace complete with ice trees for ice baths to hang off of and elevators and rotating walls ice is so not my style it [ __ ] should be good lord this sucks i have no clue how this part was even considered but it wasn't worth it it serves zero purpose to the plot of the world that just comes and goes or at least that's what i would say if it wasn't 24 minutes long it has elements of puzzle solving and by that i mean it has elements of spinning on a pole until the wall moves to the right spot aside from that it's just a bunch of nothing it's easy to get lost too because everything looks the same it's like a really shitty zelda dungeon anyway once we're out of there via black hole that larks scene generously left out for us we gotta head up the mountain catch up to elsa this part's pretty bland run up a wall fight some heartless run up a wall fight some heartless etc until you reach the top which is where you're greeted with a pre-rendered cutscene of the entirety of let it go with the gummy crew in the background doing a [ __ ] director's commentary on it and i mean it they're talking over the song i can't play the audio for obvious reasons but just look at the subtitles i get it guys technology has progressed so much since 2002 it looks so close to the actual movie but the fact that our main characters have zero to do with the scene makes it feel less like they're there and more like i'm watching a reaction to a music video anyway after that disney plus advertisement larxine pops in to reiterate what marluxia said except maybe elsa isn't a princess because i mean she could be full of darkness or something elsa would never rely on the darkness you just met her a little bit of bickering and she uses more of her licensing to blow you away once we land we're immediately hit with an avalanche so it's time to go sledding there's heartless in there too so we gotta avoid them on top of that this part is very fun that is if you replace the f with a z and the u with a z and the n with a z jumping to avoid lasers is very enjoyable especially when you're doing it for two whole minutes followed by sledding down the mountain with no consequences for another two minutes i mean look how much fun this is i'm having a lot of fun with this fun part of this fun game once you're done with that you gotta fight the heartless from earlier these guys have interesting design you could take out their wings so they stay grounded and have completely different move sets they're not incredibly difficult though ends up feeling as boring and repetitive as everything else once we're done with them some more show up and cause another avalanche that sweeps us away basically telling me that like everything else thus far that entire last part was padding gold's star to the depths for wasting my time this much sores awoken by olaf but for reasons beyond comprehension donald and goofy can't believe his existence everybody goes so bad can't walk good thing he hasn't moved too far so he could prove them wrong we get acquainted with anna and kristoff all right i know we just met but sora was it i get the feeling that you're someone to trust i just hope you like long stories oh no considering we're in a bit of a weather emergency that needs to be handled asap honest it's sora downer describes what elsa was like when she was little this of course means another song from the movie with nothing added well except for anna describing things that happened later on in the movie over herself singing during an event that came before narratively this is brilliant because by design the human brain can withhold two pieces of information at once so covering two things that happen during two different periods of time makes for a good time saver and this goes to show how smart the writers for this game they're dumb to save their lives but based on this scene please i know you're in there people are asking where you've been they say have courage and i'm trying to i'm right out here for you just let me after drawing an unnecessary parallel between elsa and riku kristoff comes back to say olaf fell apart and went missing this leads to a mini game where we gotta find the different parts of him to put it together now we're really coming along now olaf's head calls out to you in an attempt to bring you closer but the voice line doesn't have any sense of distance to it it just sounds like it's in your ear so it serves no point other than to be annoying it's quiet but i can definitely hear his voice it's not quite i could smell the studio that was recorded in his head can be found inside a giant snowball and you gotta roll it around and crash into a wall to break him out okay that's one of three his legs are spawned on the ice after finding his head it skates around to avoid getting caught even though olaf wants to be put back together but it's not too hard to catch him lastly his torso which can be found on the top of a frozen waterfall although it looks a little misshapen from it rolling around in the snow or something think that's all of him know what to do next uh-oh looks like we got the wrong piece the real torso is somewhere else we then get a cut scene of us finding the right piece and we move on psych we gotta find the real piece ourselves over here we've got us a brown piece that is also probably not his leading to getting the same cut scene telling us we got everything until whoops no we didn't keep looking back up that waterfall and there's a giant piece that is very clearly wrong but i get the feeling we're supposed to find all the wrong ones and then we'll automatically get the right one think that's all of i don't them what to do next thanks the third time was way cooler than the first two uh oh he's very big and spooky now let's be done i hate you i feel like i've searched everywhere i don't know where else to look we already searched the back we already searched the ice we already searched above the waterfall we already searched the crevice we already searched humane ways to self-induce a coma we already searched the size we've already searched behold the endless abyss within it lies the heart of all boredom kingdom hearts three look as hard as you are able you'll not find even the smallest glimmer of fun from those dark depths lie thousands of disappointed hearts even yours [Music] this [ __ ] is [ __ ] boring please let me leave we can't just leave yes we can he's a liability let me progress are there any sequence breaks i could do any cool speed run stress so i don't have to keep looking anything please i've been circling this place for so long now i don't know where it could are you [ __ ] moving on think that's all of him [Music] the carrot's still missing but don't worry that's a cutscene retrieval [Music] someone had to pick it up you're right buddy thanks for finding it and not actually eating it oh you're welcome you see this is the problem with how they're telling the story of the movie they're skipping so many details and assuming you know them because come on it's frozen well i haven't seen frozen since it came out in 2013 so kristoff just seems like an insane person here before i can gouge out my own eyes more heartless come in so we tell them to run on ahead while we deal with them all this meaning we don't want them on screen for too long so let's go meet up with them at the top of the mountain so now we gotta climb back up we go up a different way than we did last time but i honestly couldn't tell my first few playthroughs because everything looks the [ __ ] same in this world that is of course aside from the ice palace but everything in there looks the same too i described some of the previous worlds as feeling samey but this takes the cake it's all snow and snow and ice and snow nothing really interesting to comment on this environment's large but it sucks big time this time we also get some snowballs to roll around on and do a very large amount of damage to all enemies on contact again not like we do enough but [ __ ] it whatever gets this world done faster let's just fast forward to 17 minutes later when we get back to the top we get another pre-rendered cutscene showing another scene from the movie meanwhile our trio stands outside without coming in out of politeness or something damn sora is such a good boy that he feels any lawful good person getting hurt marshmallow tosses the others out and gets provoked so we use ourselves as bait to distract him now that we've got him in a secluded area we can begin our battle i'd like to point out that this is the first time since the tutorial that we're actually in a boss battle with a disney character the giant heartless just don't have the same charm i'm sorry to say but anyway this fight is mediocre if you couldn't guess fire is his weakness and with how much you can use it you're bound to demolish his health pretty quickly he has an armored state which just leads him to using one move where he swipes at you pretty fast aside from that he's baby mode but of course cutscenes beg to differ because he's easily able to push you right off the cliff good thing snow's so soft we could do this a hundred times now we gotta get back to the other three different groups so off we go again but before that we see hans has elsa fun fact not even a single speaking line comes out of him he was clearly very thought out for this world pushing through a couple more obnoxiously long heartless fights and we see that marshmallow is chasing after elsa too we squash our beef and he becomes a party member oh oh oh he sucks we gotta get through this blizzard segment where we gotta duck behind rocks to avoid getting swept back to the beginning which is most certainly even more padding and not fun in the slightest now the end is finally in sight just like the legend said han swings at elsa before anna blocks it freezing solid in the process but remember we're playing kingdom hearts so something else has to happen so darkness surrounds hans transporting the gang to black map underscore bossarina03.map and we've got ourselves a giant heartless once again how fun and interesting i understand hans himself wouldn't have made for a very interesting battle but couldn't you have done something like what they did with clayton and barbosa giving him a pairing with a big heartless instead of him just becoming one the fight itself is bad there's a whole lot of him darting around the place with a lock on camera not being able to keep up as well as him swiping at you from 20 yards away but with his pause being rayman it's hard to tell how big the hitbox and some of his moves are he'll also spawn some minions that do nothing other than make it difficult to lock onto him one thing i will give this boss is that his desperation move is visually very cool he makes a big black hole that spits out more of his minions and you gotta take out enough of them in time to get a special team attack from marshmallow where you and him grab the black hole and [ __ ] freeze it that's the best part of the world which is very sad aside from that it's more the same until you beat them once you do marshmallow pulls a piccolo and stands in front of the heartless big suicide blast but that doesn't work out very well doesn't matter though we still made it out all right everything's worked out as planned and anna is all right before we can ruin yet another moment larxin stops us to say you guessed it nothing well except that both elsa and honor are princesses of light so congratulations to them leave innocent people out of it oh look at this tough guy such a big boy now i'm not even gonna touch that one anyway bye-bye we finished with yet another pre-rendered cut scene of one of the scenes from the movie can you tell this movie is one disney is especially proud of the developers however shouldn't be proud of this world because it's a giant [ __ ] stinker what a disaster and that's putting it lightly padding mini games repetition and exhaustion are the main ingredients to this [ __ ] heap of a world i'm gonna say something controversial now so put on your helmets arendelle is the worst disney world in the entire series now there are worlds that play worse like both trips to atlantica or all the worlds in birth by sleep but the difference here is that all those are mercifully short or optional arendelles are required by law and painfully long on the topic of atlantica people rag on the rhythm minigames in the second game and rightfully so they're awful and unnecessary but at the very least they're funny bad like the minigames are easy enough so i have room to bust a gut it's sorry mommy your poopsies are toast every time walking around what do you call them paws here we have the songs straight from the source with people talking over them like [ __ ] there's nothing funny here it's just annoying as hell and this world offers nothing else other than misery f minus [ __ ] you over at the keyblade graveyard luxina marlux are having a chat wondering why they were even taken back into the organization when they betrayed them last time it's most likely due to xehanort not giving a single [ __ ] about anyone else only his plans man's got so many backup plans that he compromises himself just to use some of them you up for another coup please you couldn't do it last time you gotta play it smart like me my mandemics is back you're not smart well you heard what marley said i don't have to be smart or capable or likable or attractive a cereal bowl would make a better vessel yeah it's not like i like you or anything jesus [ __ ] christ unfortunately though demix was kicked out of the organization in favor of someone else who was brought in because of vexin so a replica most likely or more specifically the next replica the one crafted from sora's memories was real enough to join our ranks oh what i thought everyone forgot about her when she died let them believe as much ugh zemnes i must admit i like the dynamic here that everyone hates zayn or even though they're working for him you have been brought together for another purpose what so that we can rot away on the bottom rung my man luck sword is back too among everyone's bickering we heard that ziggbar wants to find the same box that pete and maleficent are looking for i guess the book of prophecies is more well-known than i thought if that's even what's inside xemnas reveals that the true reason these four were brought back onto the team wasn't because we don't have any good ideas for new characters i swear you four are going to reveal your greatest secret the ancient keyblade legacy that slumbers within you huh i mean we knew that lark cena marluxia used to be keyblade wheelers but luxor endemics can everyone wield a [ __ ] keyblade now oh yeah before we move on when i went back to this world later on to get all the lucky emblems and went past this area bad news sora it happened again no you can't make me do this again no no think that's all of them [Music] no the caribbean is what we're up to people say that if it's not arendelle that's the worst then it's definitely this one oh joy i already stated that arendelle was my least favorite but if it's neck and neck with this one then i can't wait we start this one with our gang on the raft uh how far we've come that doesn't last too long though cause they fall off the flat earth i [ __ ] knew it they wake up in okay i've only seen like a quarter of this movie on cable in like 2010 so i basically know nothing going in what i do know is that this is another film disney is especially proud of considering this is one of the most expensive movies ever made only being topped by four other disney produced films the highest budget being the fourth pirates movie so i expect nothing but the movie with our main characters contributing zero again we find the black pearl being carried away and jack sparrow who's chasing after it so i mean what else are we doing let's help him there sora alright that's the third time you've done that joke hi sora hey sora hello goodbye we get ourselves an incredibly short chase sequence before fighting some hook guys they're pretty tough but also tend to miss a lot so they're no big deal with all that taken care of we meet up with the rest of the gang and holy [ __ ] these graphics are good environment wise the game looks fantastic as i've said but one thing i think is hit or miss are the character models for our main cast sometimes they look just fine but other times they look like they're made of clay with some facial features slapped on but this this is good it's like i stepped into a different game one that just so happened to be one of the best looking of its time they let us know we're in davy jones locker also we've got ourselves a rekindled old flame hector barbosa now we have to escape and get jones and cutler beckett who commands him to escape the locker we gotta sail yep we can control the ship now complete with ship combat cool it's pretty simple aim and fire each heartless ship has a visible weak spot that you could shoot to instantly kill them there's blocking and some special moves too aside from that there's nothing here it's quite boring tia dolma gives us some more information on the movie telling us that jack was supposed to give jones his soul in exchange for letting him captain the black pearl for 13 years but jack never gave it to him so jones sent him here using the kraken the rest of the gang is here to rescue him to escape his debt jack wants to get the box with jones heart in it the trio thinks that this may be the box that pete and maleficent are looking for zigbar thinks the same thing so he sent luxord here and vaccine came too because the prospect of a being without a heart being able to live on so effortlessly would make for great research toward his replicas already there's a lot of moving parts here so try to keep up if you can i'd like to point out that not only were sora and co-redesigned for this world but so were these two in vaccine's case it's only some mild coloring and more realistic skin but luxord got a facelift apparently this was because they just didn't fit here with their regular designs and what exactly are we striding towards luxured oh it's luke sword now all right you're the boss i'll be sure to correct my pronunciation tells vexin to stay out of the way so he can do his job because he's been here before so he knows what he's doing more than him off screen the gang finds a way out of the locker but the victory needs to be put on hold because we've got a roast chicken heartless to deal with the only way to get up to its level is to hop onto a flying guy so off we go for yet another gameplay style just like the ship part very straightforward aim and shoot you could also dodge and shoot torpedoes to do a little bonus damage do enough damage and you could hop onto its back and wail on its head while blocking its fire breath once we're done with that a small gust of wind blows us as well as jack over to a deserted island away from the others but maybe that isn't jack because meanwhile we've got a pre-murdered cutscene that looks incredible minus jack's eyes looking like glass while he talks to cutler beckett beckett offers a deal to give him his freedom from jones in exchange for information on where the others are so they can be eliminated but anyway fake jack wants to find a new ship while a pearl isn't in his possession and he suspects there's one on this island so we gotta go swimming to find it yes swimming another gameplay style and with that my notes are mostly finished you might have heard a few times that i've been writing some stuff every once in a while well that was me keeping track of the number of gameplay styles in minigames the grand total of all them is a lot but how much is that well let's count we have our base gameplay with the regular combat then we have the on rails segments they're the mechs and toy box there's the veramrex minigame the dancing minigame there's the gummy ship and the gummy ship battles cover shooting find the food i'll be generous and count the three mildly different minigames and underacre what is one pin the tail on the snowman then there are some team attacks that change gameplay like woody and buzzes marshmallows hercules jacks or goofy's trinity guard then there's the sledding and by extension the sledding minigame which functions fairly differently and let's not forget the three that we found in the first 15 minutes of gameplay in this world the ship the flying and the swimming all of that doesn't seem like too much but i haven't mentioned the mini games that follow you around for the entire game the attractions and the links counting big magic mountain there are six attractions and as for links there's two more that we haven't seen making for a total of five we haven't seen the end of the game yet so we have still yet to see all the different stuff it has to offer but i'll spoil the amount that there is by the end there are 43 gameplay styles in minigames in kingdom hearts 3. 43 that's a pretty high number you might be thinking that some of those are stretching the definition of gameplay style like the cover shooting or you might think that some of them shouldn't count because they barely have a presence in the game like the cover shooting but that's my point they do barely have a presence and that's a problem keep in mind how long this game took to make at least 7 years now i want you to think about how much of that time was dedicated to things like this that show up in the single digits of times in the entire game something like the cover shooting could have taken weeks making the animations the reticle and the aiming that has a unique control to everything else the effects of the energy balls that come out of your keyblade as well as when they hit enemies all that work for something completely useless that could be skipped easily by just dodge rolling and that is only one the rest are mostly much more complicated than this i've stated that the game is boring and this does not help in the slightest they could have spent all that time refining the base gameplay making it more exciting engaging challenging but instead we opted with throwing a bunch of different gameplay styles your way very little of which are enjoyable in the slightest and mini games every 10 seconds the goal for a game like this should be to make sure the player is satisfied consistently throughout the whole thing but the devs just put a bunch of things on screen and hope you'll like the pretty colors i'm sorry but my dopamine receptors have burnt out at this point i just want to fight heartless and enjoy doing it but they were so caught up in giving you different ways to do it that the main way isn't fun it's the sheer definition of style over substance alright let's get back to earth regarding the swimming it doesn't control good it's better than kingdom hearts one's atlantica if only because you can dodge and block but personally i prefer the air there are fish though so it's a masterpiece there's a boss here as well and it sucks the camera hates this [ __ ] thing and due to our underwater combo being [ __ ] it goes really slow but once we beat it we're given a new link so there's that turns out jack was right we've got ourselves a ship now it's time to go where were we going catching back up with the rest of the gang sure let's go with that but hold that thought it's card man he's on the prowl for the box and jack knows where it is so it's time for a little competition luke sword decides to challenge you and jack to a race back to port royal but being the mischievous man that he is he uses heartless to impede your progress not much to talk about here aside from the fact that i lost once because they gave me a special move that made my ship basically stop moving for a good few seconds don't know why that was one you could get here but once you've won luxord goes for plan b murder another ship battle later and we board his now that we're finally doing ground combat for more than three seconds i can go over our new keyblade crystal snow it's incomplete shot lock is just a bunch of projectiles and his complete shot lock slices up whoever you're targeting its first keyblade form blizzard claws is once again a knockoff of another in this case happy gears are you noticing that they're doing this a lot now it's second form is unique however it's called blizzard blades it's pretty cool mainly because of the combo animations but you could also freeze people with it its finisher creates a big ice chandelier and drops it hurting anyone nearby with that handled luxor congratulates you on your victory and tells jack that he will grant him one wish jack wishes for the box to be found but tells him it's located on the dutchman in the process which is exactly what luke sword wanted in the first place the ship got messed up so we gotta get it repaired before we go after him to port royal what we need to patch the ship up are white crabs not sure why but i'll bite we've got to scavenge around the town to find 300 of them a lot of people point to this part as one of the shittier moments in the game but i'm actually gonna go against the grain here and say that i like this part quite a bit port royal this time around is pretty fun to explore once again the town is filled with people and lively it's also really big it's bigger than some worlds in the first two games my first few playthroughs i've found places i hadn't been before while we're on this let's go over the link we got earlier c spectacle it's ariel and she's pissed this is on par if not better than simba you dive in and out of the ground while shooting out balls of water the better you time the button presses the more you can do and the amount of damage you can do here is ridiculous i forgot to mention something about lynx you can't die while using them so it's basically a get out of jail free card if you're in any danger so that's pretty lame once we've got enough craps to fix this ship jack reveals that he's not the real one but rather one created by tia dalma to guide the trio you see this jack much like the developers was actually a bunch of crabs in a trench coat okay meanwhile the real one is with the others to strike a deal with davy jones and cutler beckett they don't explain how but will was taken by them elizabeth strikes a deal to trade jack in for will but you see this was all part of their plan i think again they don't really explain we're supposed to meet with them to help but before we do that i'd like to point out something really good about this world the events of the story here are very linear but the world itself is anything but there are a bunch of islands to explore for treasure and a lot of it too one instance i particularly liked is on this island when you get here one of the first things you'll see is a big crate it can't be broken by normal means so you'll think okay how do you break this and you'll probably remember that you've broken crates like this before by slamming it from above so now your goal is to find a place high enough to jump and do that so you'll go into the island until you find a ledge you could die from for your efforts you're given a pretty good accessory this is genuinely good game design and i wish there was more of it another good one is on this island with a [ __ ] ton of enemies it's a tough fight but i mean look at all that treasure matey don't you want that loot a good incentive to fight these guys or how about this island that's completely empty it has just one chest with a mere phone game inside but after you get it you're ambushed and gotta fight your way out overall it's a good time and very rewarding and fun to explore i don't know why there aren't many people that talk about this part of the world because it's good it's likely because barely anyone actually did explore anywho we make it to the black pearl but things aren't looking too good they were planning on using tia dolma who was actually the sea goddess calypso they freed her from her human form but that doesn't seem to be doing anything for him there's nothing else to do but fight to our last breath so let's take on davey jones the battle begins but almost immediately the kraken takes the black pearl and now it's just us fantastic we gotta shoot the tentacles enough to get it to let him go but also we gotta make sure that the dutchman doesn't destroy them it'll keep going under and popping back up so you gotta pay attention to your surroundings meanwhile on the dutchman jack escaped the brig and got the box but too bad luke sword wanted so he's gonna hand it over cousin you must be mistaken mate i'll not be giving you anything then i invoke the right of paulie nope nope look around we're a little busy and besides i've already got all that i want mate once again the disney character beats the organization i like this trend but now we've got my man davey who also wants the box because you know it has his heart in it we make it and now it's fight time this is the first humanoid boss in the game the devs must know that people enjoy the humanoid bosses the most so i find it very weird that they waited until now to give us one but either way this fight sucks the [ __ ] is almost always vulnerable and can be comboed for like 10 years straight with mild interruptions that could be ignored his main attacks also just consist of sword swings and nothing else really aside from his desperation move where he summons the kraken to crowd the ship for a while all you gotta do here is take out a few tentacles and more back to normal he'll do this move twice once with just tentacles and one where he pops in as well funnily enough the one where you're getting attacked more is the easier variant of the move because now that he's here you could just wail on him even more shoulda stayed up top incredibly easy and disappointing we're treated with a pre-rendered cutscene of jack and jones duel will gets a good shot in but the man ain't got no heart so that was worthless a dreadful ball that's not true i may still have a lot to learn about love but i know what it means to share god shut up this is not the time to get on a soapbox sora vexin was here the whole time by the way turns out he wasn't expecting the box to literally just have his heart in it so there's no real research to be done here [Music] hey you guys have weapons ones that could do wonders and deal heavy amounts of damage you don't need to use your bare hands remember it not matter jaqen will stab his heart and kill him now that will is dead he must become the captain of the dutchman so we need to leave him behind the next day it's time to fight beckett but uh oh he's got a lot of ships uh oh will's back and brutally destroys his ship killing the [ __ ] out of him and now our problem is solved okay now hear me out on this one this is actually the best world in this game it's got a heap of problems don't get me wrong the ship combat and swimming are very boring but i think it makes up for that in spades by being really fun to explore i felt like going through the whole world was worth my time everything thus far has been hot garbage or just alright with the only saving grace being the visuals but not only is this the best looking world anyway but it's the only one i can confidently say is good not great but good moving right past that we're back in the realm of darkness but not with riku or mickey they haven't come back yet nah we're with aqua and some the wise they've been chilling here since the end of kingdom hearts 2 in this spot that looks very similar to the one riku and mickey were in it's almost like they didn't want to make a different map for the same shore can't blame them honestly it's a tame conversation no exposition or anything just two people talking in a way that's kind of a breath of fresh air whoa what happened to your fake yeah scratch what i just said as usual xehanort has to ruin everything even for the player apparently back when he was an apprentice and doing a bunch of forbidden heart experiments one of the test subjects was a girl that had amnesia there's something that ansem sod over here wants from her that he doesn't say in order to do this her memory needs to be reconstructed and ansem's the guy that can do it as he did with sora but first and foremost he needs to know where she is ansem says he doesn't know who he's talking about but he's clearly lying so sod is gonna take him by force not on aqua's watch if you remember she lost her keyblade so she's stuck with punches and kicks as futile as it is it's kind of funny to see the guardian get kicked in the face no more i'll go you are wise get it also i like his little finger gun that he did he leaves aqua with a parting gift of a discount norton only master xehanort can do it full time though i think if that wasn't the case then riku would have gotten fully ordered in the first game personally the darkness would be the least of my concerns i'd be more focused on the fact that i'm drowning now we're back at the super secret pre-rendered only hyperbolic time forest kyrie and axel's redesigns were delivered to them did it come with a hairdresser or what axel's too cool to change clothes he'd rather be wearing the same coat that his mortal enemies were if it ain't broke don't fix it this is how you pick me out of a crowd everyone in the [ __ ] series wears that how thoughtful oh nah not really again there's just something off about axel in these cutscenes can't quite put my finger on it there's nothing of real substance in this conversation so let's move on to the final disney world oh well let's get it done [Music] the big hero 6 world san fran tokyo is our final stop i'd like this one to be good but at this point i can't have my hopes too high bottoms up we start immediately with the heartless attacking the city or this bridge with big hero 6 not doing such a great job of taking care of them oh cool that's a robot hello i am baymax your personal healthcare companion wow cool this rules baymax is our party member for this world he can heal you so you will never die our new keyblade wheel of fate is probably one of the better ones in the game it's incomplete shot lock is the same bunch of projectiles as crystal snows and his complete shot lock is also kind of a reskin of crystal's nose just not exactly this time we got two forms on this one the first is called high wind it turns into a staff that you could really go ham with this on its own is pretty powerful but the next form storm flag is even better the pole turns into a flagpole and you [ __ ] rock that [ __ ] look at him go it's really fast and the animations are cool to look at the finisher is kind of meh though it summons the kraken to deal damage to anyone in a fairly short radius you have a team attack with baymax that kinda sucks but on the plus side you could do this after we got that sorted out we head back to hero's place not cool people like spectacle not truth yeah who needs quality reporting when you can just make stuff up yeah let's uh let's not get too in-depth on that one huh we give them the explanation on what heartless are and they pretend to understand hero decides that maybe a little ar training could help the rest of the team not eat [ __ ] against them again so he gives sora device to augment that reality jesus christ relax it's one shadow at this point you can kill them in like two hits is this really a voice crack level threat sora all you need to do is run through some courses that heroes scripted like a mini game what's a mini game also why are we doing the obstacle course you guys were getting your asses kicked we saved you well before we get started we learned focus siphon which basically means we could target people with shot lock and instead of actually using an attack you can steal focus orbs off of them but but [ __ ] this game man this minigame is an actual obstacle course go through the rings and perform stunts to do it and by stunts i mean property damage i just wish there were pedestrians so i could show them my cool ball that one shots everything it's about three minutes not too bad we also inspire the others by being so cool and using shooting star that's one of my favorites too we have a montage of them creating new weapons and stuff over olympus music for some reason [Music] conveniently right when we're done with that the city is attacked again we gotta head to the top of the tower to deal with a threat which a quick step will do we've got your basic heart this fight up here with these new variants of the armored ones from olympus but i have horses so they stand no chance but we ain't done yet dinosaur volcano villain i knew you'd come this fight is alright it's not an insult it has multiple phases including his regular stomping around state an armored fire state a state where the head takes a nap while the volcano does the fighting and lastly one where it leaps to the top of another building and the tail does the work by striking you with lightning so you gotta get up to the top to stop it because it's being very annoying after a long day's work we all take a load off with some non-sea salt ice cream on the top of the knot clock tower but he always wanted to make a difference he cared about people that's why he worked so hard to create baymax i'm sorry [Music] he's still here in baymax in all of us tadashi he lives on in your hearts huh [Music] yeah right what the [ __ ] man it's like sora has three presets for every conversation in his entire life even if it makes [ __ ] really uncomfortable for everyone around him he's more robotic than baymax for whatever reason this awakens a bit of rocks inside him that reminds me have we learned anything about the power of waking in this game yet no well there's only a half a world left so they got to figure something out we started heading back home but i guess you guys never paid attention to your guardians never walk around the city at night or you'll be attacked by the goop hero says that there are microbots which need to be controlled by a person but who could it be either way we've gotta stop it so we're sent out to find them except there's no waypoint where am i going this way well there's some heartless here maybe that means i'm close no i'm not then maybe this way nope that end here no i'm not interested in this game well while we're here let's go over the link that i forgot to tell you we got plasma encounter it's stitch what you do here is create lines of plasma that creates centers that do damage you basically keep doing that until the finisher which just ups the damage it does but why the [ __ ] didn't you we catch up to it and it traps us so we've got to fight only problem is that it can't be damaged try as you might there's no touching it it gets bored and [ __ ] off hero figures out that they are in fact not microbots but something else entirely but on the bright side he's also found that there is a core that can be hit to do actual damage but before we can try that out it seems that it's trapping the others and we gotta free them in wasabi's case he's on top of a tall building with powerful fans conveniently placed so he can get above and smash him out gogo's rolling around the city so we got to use that property damage ball to crash into it fred's wrapped around some pulls so we've got to use flow motion and honey lemon left some of her science [ __ ] on the cubes so we've gotta melt them by using magic of its corresponding color to free her now the stuff went to the top of that tower and here has figured out the weak spots so we can fight it for realsies now oh but wait a minute almost forgot this is kingdom hearts sup riku he's got the original chip that was made for baymax that's the first chip i made for baymax full of combat programs yeah they tell vaynex how to react does that mean it's like his heart as we all know the heart only knows combat programs well he tosses it in the cubes and leaves so we can fight it it's a pretty boring fight honestly all of its moves are incredibly choreographed but then it also isn't vulnerable very often so it's a whole bunch of waiting around not much to talk about besides that the ship falls out once it's defeated but fake riku isn't quite done with it yet after playing some mind games with sora saying he's the real guy even though he clearly isn't donald and goofy made the logical conclusion that because young xehanort was going across time to get members for the organization he'd probably want to get as many xehanort as he could because they would probably be the most loyal so this must be riku when anselm possessed him bag in the first game this is ansem is the basic just here he basically confirms this i'm gonna call him dark riku because riku ansem doesn't [ __ ] because because riku ansem doesn't roll off the tongue well i literally just bit my tongue saying that the replica program was a success and xehanort got as many vessels as he needed for his hearts to go inside dark riku was one of them the reason he's here is to figure out if they can recreate a heart from data and this baymax ship will help them with that i guess everyone's tired so we head back to heroes to rest for the night remember pete and maleficent well here they are looking for the box in this world dark riku comes in and says hi and that's all he really does just thought i'd bring out the scene to remind you that these two are still alive the next day we have a long chat about dark riku on the chip we don't know why they even want to create a heart from data if they already have all 13 members and as for the chip it had originally went over to a different dimension so the fact that it's back could mean that the original baymax the chip was made for is here too guess we'll get our answers soon because the cubes are back our probability of success is you don't have to crunch the numbers be max it's not the sum of our parts it's the sum of our hearts this time we're refreshed were hydrated and ready to demolish these kyoke it collected all the data he needed the chip is now a complete data heart he converts the cubes into a vessel this vessel being the original baymax but he's evil now that the chip is full of hate now he wants sora to kill baymax right in front of hiro because hiro gives sword the okay to wreck this one's [ __ ] because that ship just isn't who he is this looks like it could be fun it's humanoidish not giant maybe this could be interesting you know unless sora hitches a ride on their baymax and the entire fight is on top of him but not before a chase sequence that takes 20 years and only has you hold one button but it doesn't really matter because once the fight portion begins punching isn't really worth it so you might as well just keep shooting from a distance until you win oh no that's exactly what happened and because of that this is one of the worst fights in the game honestly i don't know what else to say it's a boss fight that's used entirely on a shitty team attack i don't know how much harder i can go down on this and i don't go down lightly after we stress it out to the point of it going into rest mode like a possum hiro balances on the idea of destroying the chip because it's basically turned baymax into a weapon of mass destruction maybe there's another way but i mean it's literally oozing with darkness it's the right thing to do tadashi would have done the same i should be the one ow [Music] hello i am baymax your personal healthcare company wait what how did you do that no no really the entire last cut scene was about how it's not possible you can't just backpedal without explaining it what the [ __ ] this is so stupid i hate this [ __ ] i can't say i liked that one san franco wasn't the worst but it felt like it had no focus one minute heartless touching bridge ice cream scene and then bam before you know it dark cubes what are they who knows let's fight them oh i guess we can so let's go save our friends okay now we can fight them but before that hey riku by riku beat it hey rick you see what i mean the map is really detailed and while i can't say it's necessarily fun to explore for a long time finding the lucky emblems in phone games was kind of neat all around i'd say it was low tier but not bottom tier and now that we've finished every disney world i can tell you how i truly think of them of the three games this is by far the weakest lineup there are two worlds i can say are good and one of them is the tutorial world everything ranges from weak as hell to soul crushingly boring the bosses are mostly [ __ ] again big heartless are not the series bread and butter and more importantly it's the most flaccid this is the most corporate that this has ever been following the plots to their most beloved movies to a t and when they didn't good lord was it still very annoying i don't know how the writers never figured this out but the organization is filled with annoying [ __ ] that i don't want to watch they aren't entertaining or even funny bad they're just irritating when the best parts of the entire game are when the bad guys shut the [ __ ] up we've got an issue on our hands the previous games even the non-numerical ones made some out of the box choices for disney worlds movies that aren't universally recognized are liked like tron hunchback of notre dame lilo and stitch or even nightmare before christmas they're not completely unrecognized but definitely less so than their big boys and those worlds tended to be the better ones of their respective games my favorite world in the series is tron for a few reasons one of them being the aesthetics another being that i think tron himself is actually a pretty decent party member as a character you see him actually grow from program to person and by the end he roasts sark and then kills him like straight up kills him he came back but that's only because the god of that world willed it he still died here it feels so lifeless it's either pretending to serve the plot of the game or just actually being the plot of the movie but oh well we're done with them now once you beat this one instead of spitting you out at the end you stay there which should tell you okay once i leave there's no going back well not literally but you know what i mean so i'm gonna take the time to talk about other things before we head out first off our new keyblade we got from this world nano gear i'd argue that it's probably the best that you get from a disney world in this game it's incomplete shot lock is a reskin and so is its complete shot lock and so is its keyblade form so why do i think highly of this one well the keyblade form is a reskin of multiple other ones it's the hammer the drill the yoyos and whatever the hell this is there is no second form which i think is the best part you get all these moves for the price of one it's a great choice if you're not going for the optional keyblades and speaking of which that leads me to the next thing the optional keyblades there's three but one of them is the ultimate weapon so we'll get to that one later if you remember earlier i said that you can get a keyblade for getting an excellent rating on everything at the bistro so i did that for your efforts you're given the keyblade grand chef it's okay it should come as no surprise that it's a rip-off but would you guess that it's a ripoff of heroic origins the olympus one instead of thunder it's fire related the incomplete shotlock is more projectile ship but the complete one is like the one with the meteor on the shield but instead it's fruit being cut up everywhere and the keyblade form is like counter shield except it's a frying pan the finisher is unique however you grow the frying pan and slam it on the ground so it's better than heroic origins finisher but it's still not great now as for the phone games i had to collect and play all of them the requirement is that you get a high score on all of them but that essentially means that you have to get a score because that'll be your personal best right off the bat once you've done that you're rewarded with classic tone now this one's good like really good still rip off but good in this case it's taken from favorite deputy both stratlocks are taken from the source although it now has an old timey cartoon filter the keyblade forms are also the same but reskinned to be more cartoony and also having a very annoying sound effect upon hitting anything the finisher is unique you use the drill to spin a clock gear thing and as usual it does aoe damage now as for the lucky emblems there are 90 in total and getting them all rewards you with well a cool accessory kind of lame but it does have two other uses we'll get to them later and that's all for the optional mumbo jumbo but let's get to the real thing i wanted to talk about i've brought up a number of problems with the combat system the amount of diversions how easy it makes the game how little emphasis was put on the combat and development due to the diversions basically the diversions and their consequences and if you liked this game and watched this far first of all thank you i appreciate you hearing me out for this long but you probably thought just handicap yourself don't use some stuff in the combat will be harder it's a reasonable argument and i thought of it too so let's put it to the test what do i think is the worst aspect of the combat the attractions they're not a diversion they're a disruption a big dumb stupid disruption that stops the pace of the game entirely in favor of free damage so let's stop using them to be honest outsider for the sake of gathering footage i haven't really been using it without it is the game a little better yes and i recommend anyone playing the game to rarely if ever use them but that's not the question that's on the table the real question is does it make the game harder and the answer is a resounding no while the attractions can do a ridiculous amount of damage it's far from the only thing links some are better than others but they all have explosive capabilities so i guess i should get rid of those too unfortunately while it does slow down the flow of damage they don't show up as much as attractions so it doesn't make much difference i'm still racking up big damage keyblade forms that's a big damage dealer so let's get rid of that yeah i mean i'm definitely doing less damage but that doesn't make it harder just longer i guess maybe shot locks honestly they are probably the least frequent thing you can use so i don't see much use in getting rid of them but i will anyway well now what's even left right we have grand magic and we can easily get rid of that but simply using regular magic in strings is more effective especially because a string ends with grand magic albeit with an mp cost so should we get rid of magic i guess well at this point all we have left is our basic attack and we can't get rid of that we've stripped ourselves down to the bare essentials and is the game harder i'm sorry but no i've hinted at this for a while now but this is my biggest problem with the combat everything you have at your disposal is overpowered that much is obvious but no matter how much you get rid of these things completely clear the screen of every form of attack you still have all reliable the x button or a mashing x is your only attack and nothing else is a perfectly viable strategy that will get things done every time so to that extent every strategy you take in combat no matter how mindless is always the right strategy anything you do will get you results fast you can do a lot of things but everything works in any situation don't get me wrong i'm not saying it's bad to have options but it certainly is bad when you never have to think before using one and before you say that one and two were just like that let me cut you off right there of course there are a good number of times where you could deal with a situation with just the basic attacks but the bosses which the series is most well known for were absolutely not all like that dragon maleficent demix salden psyx ursula parasite cage thresholder oogie boogie sig bar riku ansem ice titan hell even waka riku and leon at the beginning of the first game all teach you that maybe running in and mashing x isn't the best idea and that's just to name a few but maybe that's unfair a lot of those bosses are late game well hate to break it to you but the late game bosses here can all be one with the x button alone in the main game there's only one boss that i can consider genuinely challenging and we'll get to that one when it comes this is one of the big reasons i don't understand it when people say that this game is just as good as two kingdom hearts 2 was such a good game because it did mainly focus on the base gameplay it had different gameplay styles and some of them did suck but the majority of the game is dedicated to whacking heartless with your keyblade and finding ways to keep that fresh you gotta mix up combos to make sure you don't get hit by enemies like smacking them into the air the really fun stuff like drive forms are basically just remix versions of the base gameplay which again keeps things interesting without completely changing it most team attacks function similarly and are done in seconds the summons are kinda lame i never use them and more importantly there were much more humanoid bosses in the game which were 10 times more interesting than the stock big heartless the main rebuttal i see towards most critiques of this game is you just wanted it to be the second game again and that is a load of [ __ ] if this game was a departure from 2 but was still enjoyable that would be just fine by me but it's not enjoyable it's a piss easy romp through the boring retellings of disney movies look is kingdom hearts 2 or even 2 final mix this perfect game with no flaws that every game after should aspire to be [ __ ] no it's got issues a good amount of them the summons as i said are kind of lame there's some keyblades that are blatantly awful not every boss is a winner the one on your second trip to pridelands is really bad and so is pridelands as a whole on that note the level design is terrible tiny empty rooms or empty hallways are all over the place this nobody that goes on the ground can suck my dick atlantica don't need to go into detail on that one reflect is super op it should not be able to do this amount of damage and i could probably go on it's not a masterpiece which is why i would have preferred something that evolved and improved the formula and as i've said it does make steps in the right direction like how keyblade forms can be more fun to control in dry forms being able to block and dodge in midair is a good addition and so is the ability to use lower tier magic if you're past it so you can use less mp but all of that is completely overshadowed by everything else you can do anything and you will win this game is a masochist they want you to abuse it now another problem although not as severe leads to a decent segue some have described this game's combat as floaty but i'm not sure that that's the right word for it i think when they say that they mean that things just don't feel as fast paced as two and while that much is true i think the animations are deceiving that it makes things look slower the best example i could give is magic flash or combo finisher look at it compared to two's combo finisher take this it's only like a second or two longer but it felt like it was much more didn't it floaty was probably the word used because of this game's team story time once upon a time there was this little indie game called kingdom hearts it was universally praised and the team behind the game tokyo team was eager to make another so another they made kingdom hearts 2 what some consider the best the series had to offer things were looking up a new game was on the horizon or at least that's what we thought you see tetsuya nomura the man behind the slaughter had a different project a big one final fantasy versus 13. tokyo team diverted their attention from kingdom hearts to work on this while a different group osaka team went to work on the side games the word side being up for debate they were responsible for re-chain of memories but the big one they worked on was birth by sleep and it was this game that made the difference between tokyo and osaka team clear i think this is an unpopular opinion but birth by sleep is awful the combat is janky as hell easily exploitable and for whatever reason osaka team must not have heard about hit stun and how important it is to give to most enemies because most don't react to getting hit and swing back on higher difficulties this leads to dancing around enemies until you get a small window to attack then you keep dancing i used to love this game thought it was tied with two the [ __ ] was i thinking if you really like this game please play one two or even three and then play this it's not even close well thankfully 13's development was going smoothly and tokyo team would return for kingdom hearts 3 soon but as we all know versus 13 was cancelled and reworked to final fantasy xv square quickly reassigned tokyo team to different projects but they separated the group too tokyo team was no more so what was left but to give kingdom hearts 3 to osaka team this was scary to some because their track record wasn't as good as tokyo teams but fortunately they do listen to feedback after 0.2 release there was some constructive criticism thrown their way they listened to most of these criticisms and worked to iron them out for the big one this wasn't a remake of a gba game with assets reused from the first two this was an a portable console game that could rely on a slew of gimmicks this was the long-awaited kingdom hearts 3. i will say that this game is better than any of their previous games but ironing out old problems gave way to new ones and i've gone over them all this is where the quote unquote debate began on people not liking this game just being stuck in the past with kingdom hearts 2. it's different than 2 and different doesn't equal bad that much is very true but it had to be a good different and kingdom hearts 3 is not that it's a game with broken combat now maybe you're thinking that i could have gotten rid of more things earlier to make the combat harder i can disable some of the many abilities i can unequip accessories i can turn on exp0 i cannot upgrade keyblades i can turn party members ai off or i could just play critical mode when it comes to not upgrading keyblades i barely did throughout the whole game some keyblades come automatically at a higher level so i only think i upgraded two or three and none of them passed the halfway point i didn't want to bother with shooting rocks for a million years when it comes to party members ai i had turned it off early in the game for the sake of gathering footage of me using one of the keyblade forms and forgot to turn it back on until san franco so donald and goofy weren't doing anything for the majority of the game for me and as for critical mode well i said i'd do that after the main story but to give a tl dr to the impatient that doesn't make it naturally harder or better and neither do any of these handicaps as for not using abilities or accessories well i tried to fight without it and yeah i died but was it fun or fair not at all i wasn't enjoying being restricted to only the x button for attack while getting my health shredded in a few hits yes it is harder but now it's really really bad removing features doesn't magically make the game better well jess are you gonna keep bitching or are you gonna say how you'd fix it well i'm glad you asked voice inside my head attractions go bye-bye is step number one step two is making this meter fill five times slower at least it should feel like a treat to get a keyblade form not a regular occurrence do that or replace this meter with a much cooler one that takes orbs to fill rather than breathing in the direction of any enemy don't let me spam magic so much make the animations longer or something and at the same time don't put grand magic at the end of a string but when ground magic appears above the command menu it should still take mp team attacks should also take mp you should only be able to hold one keyblade at a time so there are actual risks to sticking with strength or magic shot locks can stay as they are but for the love of god we do not need focus siphon and when it comes down to only having your keyblade swings left maybe make some of the animations less wonky does this sound better to you worse i don't know but what i do know is that what we have here ain't cutting it it needs some serious renovations even if it's not the ones i just said but hey the game still isn't over it's unlikely that the combat will change in the ending but maybe this story can make it all worth it hit it [Music] back on the dummy ship sora gets a call from chip and dale saying that riku and mickey are back in the realm of darkness and mickey aren't doing so well now the gang has no choice but to go there and help power of waking or not problem is we don't know how to get there only riku and miki know the way and they wouldn't tell sora even if he asked the only hope now is to do the thing we did at the beginning of the game sora uses his heart as his guiding key and opens a path to twilight town oh no this is a different thing ansem took ansem to the old mansion because that was his old base of operations so sod suspects that this will lead them to that test subject but it seems the timing for hannah pence and oletta search around was perfect because they saw them come in let's listen in on their conversation shall we why zanson begs sot to not make him do this but it's xehanort i think that's gonna work either way he stands firm that he doesn't know what happened to the girl but you know he's he's probably lying sod insists that they look at the data hidden here so that it may lead to her he thinks something within her memories contains information on the keyblade war either the last one or this upcoming one but enough talk get in there the twilight gang hatched their plan on the spot step one pence distracts him with some tall tale well i'm looking for a friend who used to live here no one lives here be gone but sir no no not one more step get out step two a let somehow makes it in without being seen and takes wise ansem out of there and step 3 haner goes in for the kill i reach for the darkness just kidding hannah's gonna die but at the last second he's saved by nobodies they also surround sod to preoccupy him while the others escape this must be a betrayal from someone inside down in the pupu sewers the rescue is a success ansem recognizes these three from roxas's data world it seems that finally some plot progression is about to be made with roxas but still no body to put his heart in shame we don't have someone who can make one my dear master you are safe ah the true deus ex machina vexin was the one behind the nobodies back there he planted himself in the organization as a spy waiting for him to hear about his master's whereabouts and once he did he saved him vexin or i guess evan now wants to atone for his past misdeeds and this was his first step in doing so back in the a plot the gateway took the gummy crew to destiny islands i guess this is where we access the realm of darkness sora sees era kisses or aqua's keyblade just laying around this would make for a great trailer shot one day however it got there it's just what we need to open the door but wait sora needs to go it alone this time in case sora can't make it out they still need someone to stay up there and fight xehanort and without sora riku or mickey we've still got a great team to do the job they reluctantly agree and sora heads on in as we've established things aren't looking too good for these two this time mickey's swallowed by the demon tower dropping his keyblade in the process oh wait hold on it gets worse the tower manifests itself into an orosphere and out pops the product of what happened to aqua she's no longer aqua she's anti-aqua she's so evil now that she takes mickey's head out so he can watch her steal his keyblade but worst of all she's all edgy and moody now left me in this shadow prison for more than a decade knowing what it would do to me i reached this shore after endless wandering waited forever for help to arrive but no one ever came you should have known i was stranded do you have any idea how lonely it is here oh boo hoo look at me i had to stay inside this universe's equivalent to hell for 10 years grow up have you ever had to write a 150 page script for a youtube video before riku is on the same level as me and is going to show her that she's been taking everything for granted this time with the help of an old friend that voice from earlier the replica of riku oh yeah by the way that's his new keyblade it's like a modern car key i don't think anyone's said that yet time for the big battle you know not before aqua turns the mickey ball into a demon tower and makes you fight that once again we're in riku's shoes but now that we're this far into the game i could see just how unfun fighting demon towers is instead of team attacks now we get dark fire which is pretty dang powerful but i think my favorite part about playing as riku is how passive aggressive he is sorry every once in a while aqua will show up to do an attack or two you can't damage her she's basically just another attack from the tower but that's all there is to it you just gotta beat it except you can't once it's at one hp you can't do any more damage that is of course unless you use riku's desperation move mc summon it's probably the most powerful link in the game because i mean sora on his own has like five but after i'm done making that awful joke they work together to slice that [ __ ] in half that in turn spits mickey out riku is gonna check if he's all right but aqua being the cheap shot that she is goes for the kill but it's time for the keyblade master to step aside this is sora's battle this fight's pretty good one of her moves is something i like to call shadow clone guilt trip but thunder will immediately reveal the real one aside from that oliver moves from what i can tell are variants of what she uses in birth by sleep in 0.2 although it's perhaps a bit too similar to phantom aqua whatever as long as it's decent it's a good fight and all but you know what will make this more emotionally impactful once it's over aqua regains her humanity losing her keyblade again even though this one was stolen and once again falls into the depths but not this time soar is here aqua aqua close enough she's back ladies and gentlemen this is a nice moment hopefully more like this to come one down five to go over in radiant garden evan got a hold of dimx something which i've heard is very difficult he wants to use demix to help with his plans because he was kicked out of the organization but he's still considered loyal to them so he wouldn't be suspected evan further elaborates that he wants to redeem himself of his past mistakes like the riku replica or nothing else now he wants to help people demix doesn't care at first but evan whispers to him that someone who isn't a loser and didn't get kicked out of their ranks also wanted on the plan who my money's on dark riku this somehow convinces demix so he takes the job what is the job well deliver two things to a enzo one an empty vessel to use for roxas how's humanity treating you i rejoined the nobodies but like i just can't shake the feeling i've been sweet talked you know we have so got to have a chat whoa back up what oh sorry sorry i'm getting ahead of myself i'm actually here on a top secret mission apparently i'm so off everyone's radar that i'm just the guy to handle a special delivery i'm not sure i like how demx is becoming one of my favorite characters in the series the second delivery is ansem the above average the first thing i think about when seeing this scene is when ansem was ominously laughing while looking at baby ienzo [Music] that also makes me think how old is he enzo anyway he looks like he was the same age as sora and riku on birth by sleep so maybe he's like 15 16. anyway this is a very emotional moment so much so that alias and dylan are at a loss for words it impacts them so much that they don't speak before this cutscene too with that work can truly begin to bring roxas back now aqua's taking us to ventus but sora still doesn't have the power of waking what do you think's gonna happen he'll suddenly realize how to do it at the last second making each and every disney world completely [ __ ] useless [Music] ah castle oblivion i did not miss you at all what the [ __ ] was that keep it to yourself man alright time to bring this back to its former glory nice the place got repaired too i guess oblivionizing the land of departure has more than one benefit ah this brings me just a touch of nostalgia i said i didn't like birth by sleep but i still played it a lot possibly more than i played too same goes for this game actually now that i think about it guess i play bad games more than good ones you can walk around but it's not like there's much to see just a hall some stairs and ventus sleeping like an angel aqua slaps him around a bit but it isn't really working where's maximus when you need him why your heart never found its way home that was a neat trick no wonder no one could find him what did i tell you cocky as ever i love how cutscene villains are at a much higher tier than gameplay villains sora can never even touch a single organization member without a controller guiding him we're the true heroes vanitas is suddenly fixated on aqua being a keyblade master he brings it up a lot in this game i don't know why aqua decides this is the perfect opportunity to get the gummy crew off so she can fight vanitas alone like just [ __ ] gang up on him you [ __ ] why do you always try to lose whatever we play as aqua here both aqua and vanitas move sets are nearly identical to their birth by sleep counterpart or i guess in aqua's case her 0.2 counterpart spell weaver is basically a keyblade form for her now and she has her old shotlock as for venetis the only difference with him is that he sure does get hit stunned easily overall this fight's kinda weak my favorite part is that you can see the other three outside and they have head tracking how long do you think that took back in cutscene land venitus uses the old kill ventus strategy to bait aqua into sacrificing herself call his bluff he needs ventus for christ's sake or whatever just do exactly what he wants you to do he's gonna go ahead and finish the job and it's looking like he actually can this time that is until sora has a jimmy neutron-esque thinking session deep down he finds ventus chilling out in his heart he tells sora to use the power of waking but you know he doesn't have it and this is when ventus tells sora that he's had it all along it never left he just needs to believe and what do you [ __ ] know what worked like a dream they had the chance they had the opportunity we can make the disney worlds matter we could make them have some story significance nope inside him the whole time look i know this isn't exactly a new argument being made here but that doesn't make it any less true people say that it's always been like this but no i will not allow that not in my house the first game had a gang of disney villains working together to find the keyholes i know that doesn't really end up mattering in the end but good lord you at least feel like you're accomplishing something when beating them and maleficent taking the seven princesses was what led ansem to nearly accomplishing his goal not good enough for you how about captain hook literally telling you about hollow bastion in the second game you [ __ ] kill one of the organization members in beast castle and yes i will be counting holo bastion in that game because it's a world that isn't the last one there's a [ __ ] ton of story progression in there you kill another organization member there you learn who xehanort even is you see xemnas for the first time not to mention that the tron world directly ties into hollow bastion's plot aka the main plot of the game another reason that i'm counting hollow bastion is specifically because kingdom hearts 3 doesn't have anything remotely similar what did we learn in twilight town in this game we went in thinking maybe roxas can be rebuilt and we left thinking maybe roxas can be rebuilt what did we really learn there the chapter title was not lying the plot of this game really does start once you're done with all the disney worlds can you really say the same about the first two games when you get out of traverse town in the first game could you really go to the end of the world or even hollow bastion riku isn't immediately the biggest prick in the universe after destiny islands gets destroyed you see that happen throughout the disney worlds can you really go to the world that never was after your first visit to twilight town no you learned so much about nobodies in the organization throughout the course of the game and a good bit of that is portrayed in the disney world can you really get straight to saving aqua after olympus in this game no you could do it before olympus erase literally everything in this game leading up to that and what did we really miss nothing that new seven hearts [ __ ] is pointless too xehanort would use them as a backup plan to forge the keyblade you know the ones that will put up the least fight it would be so much easier if he used them instead of the seven guardians but he wouldn't because the new seven hearts were added just as padding to make sure the organization had a reason to be in two of the worlds i've heard more than one person say that each disney world serves to symbolize a stage and sora's growth as a character could've fooled me i don't know what you're talking about what did he learn and tangled the power of love will bring someone back to life what a development what about the pirates world you can always make time to have fun with your friends cool that really changed his character san francisco two baymax's wow that's a lot arendelle there is no true god only fallacies okay i'll give you that one what i'm trying to say through all of this is that they could have made sora figure out more about the power of waking in each world but they didn't because the disney worlds didn't matter to the writers even though they sure did matter to the game's developers because the majority of the development was focused on the disney worlds anyway deyou's fen machina awakens and stops vanitas from killing aqua their clash breaks the barrier and now venitus is very outnumbered so he leaves i guess ventus never knew what sora actually looked like because he's a bit weirded out by his appearance i get it you were my second chance actually he was your once more also what the [ __ ] are you talking about him and aqua share a good morning and we're done here this scene was very weak finally all seven guardians are here plus donald and goofy axel and kyrie are trained aqua and ventus are back mickey and riku maybe don't suck anymore and sora has the power of waking under his belt although i've got a question even if you're sure you could win this fight wouldn't it be better to keep training so you could really crush them i mean it's not like there's a place where time doesn't matter that you can train essentially forever in where theoretically you could get sora kyrie axle and ventus to master status and or level 99. whatever this game sucks we all have a big hey i know you conversation it's really dumb aqua is essentially mrs worldwide she knows everyone here except axel especially kyrie who she's surprised to see became a keyblade builder anyone would forget hazy memory or not [Music] thank you axel this is kind of cringe then looks just like roxas or is it roxas looks just like van [Music] and now i have to explain all of that to him which is in itself a crazy long story and apparently everybody already knows everyone and this is an insane amount to get memorized uh oh are we getting self-aware reel it back guys either way ventus remembers axel anyway axel who's axel c c see major brain ache huh now who jiminy's given everyone a gummy phone with his journal so now we don't have to go over everything that's happened in the series again i'm thankful for this good work bug meanwhile with pete maleficent pete's had enough of this [ __ ] saying the box probably isn't real but much to his surprise she agrees with him and the search finally ends she assumes that the box will materialize during the nordie north battle so for now all they'll do is wait and that's the last we'll see of them more is it axel's on the clock tower with three ice creams he doesn't know why but it just feels right suddenly cyax he takes one of the ice creams and he didn't even pay for it what a jerk why did you buy three of them one for roxas and two for good luck i don't know because i felt like it okay the marks under your eyes they're gone yeah don't need him alright i think i've figured out why those last scenes rubbed me the wrong way axel seems like a different character in this game he had his moments but was still fairly calm and collected before in this game he's very much not that kind of whiny actually i understand he's human now in an environment where people don't mind if he's emotional but i really do mean that he feels like a completely different character and now that i think about it i think i can say the same thing for riku and kairi riku was a complete dick wad in the first game and then of course he started to change course from dark to light but him being rude was always part of his character i was starting to worry you guys weren't ever gonna catch on sora never did pick the brightest friends that's completely absent here unless of course you want to count those fight lines i mentioned earlier and as for kairi she used to be sort of for lack of a better word more human you know sora is completely hopeless without us come on riku but cut to this game she's the most polite person on the face of the earth with no faults point i'm getting at here is that they made all these characters less memorable anywho psyx gives some exposition about how when these two were young they found a girl in ants in the wise's lab most likely the one xehanort wants to get a hold of they wanted to rescue her from the experiments so they became apprentices to ansem but they weren't able to save her because she just disappeared one day shortly after that was when they were turned into nobody's syacks figured that because xehanort was the one doing the experiments on her he could find her by working for him in the organization that's the reason that axel was helping psychs rise up in the ranks remember when he killed zexion yeah he did that to keep him from snitching so sayax could get to the top that obviously didn't work because xehanort doesn't even know where she is so now he's just nihilistic or something working for zayn or just cause he's a prick buh-bye back on destiny islands sora and kyrie are having a moment while riku is down at the shore having a moment with himself as in his replica apparently back when he died in chain of memories his heart went to the realm of darkness so when riku was in trouble down there they linked up and now they're together again although he's only visible in riku's eyes no one else can see the replica he's here because he has one thing left that he wants to do before passing on fully we can assume it's giving namine a body like roxas he did basically live for her but over to sora and kairi oh it's finally papu time allegedly this is the most romantic [ __ ] you can do in this universe that's my man they vow to keep each other safe and have a bite wait kyrie you didn't take a bite sora took his you got to take yours the intertwined fate thing doesn't work if you don't take a bite does it taste bad you're the one that initiated this oh well there's always next time friend zoned again we get one last new space to shoot rocks in we start in a big space complex thing kind of like in the second game but this time it's much more boring once we make it out we're greeted with a big scary final mandatory gummy [ __ ] boss once we're done with that we're greeted with our final destination the keyblade graveyard there's most certainly no going back after this so you need to be ready for the [ __ ] storm brewing are you okay then here we go i know i just told you to be ready but honestly i'm a bit nervous myself this is the big moment this is what fans have been waiting for [ __ ] everything else toy story more like uh um but first let's do a little background this isn't the first time we're seeing the keyblade graveyard it made its debut in birth by sleep personally i thought it was a very weak final world compared to the end of the world in the world it never was it was just bland we had the complete chaotic mess that symbolizes the worlds that fell to darkness the clean all-white castle that symbolizes the emptiness that nobodies feel or you know at least that's what we were led to believe at the time and then there's the keyblade graveyard it serves no symbolic purpose but rather a lore purpose which is fine but i'd say the wow factor of a desert with a bunch of keyblades and it wore off after beating the game as one of the characters you gotta go back twice after but now that i think about it neither the end of the world or the world it never was structure serves well to the big battle that we're going into like the keyblade graveyard does i guess i would have just preferred something more visually interesting for our final stop but remember what your meemaw said never judge a keyblade graveyard by its cover so let's just go ahead and get this war started looks like everyone on our side's here now what about hey there the head honcho the big cheese the godfather of darkness master xehanort leonard nimoy was the original voice actor for him but he passed away in 2016. so he's been replaced by rutger hauer legend has it the darkness once covered the world we know so little about the keyblade war only that it was just the beginning who also died only six months after this game's release and also the original japanese voice actor chikautsuka died before kingdom hearts 3 so he was replaced with his son akio tsuka a real unfortunate turn of events around this guy also i apologize if i pronounced any of the names wrong now as for his appearance he looks a little more veiny than before are there even that many veins in the head close enough to the surface to show hold on let me look it up [Music] well that's ominous anyway he gives his classic darkness keyblade war speech some more fellas come in and continue from their part of the script allotted to them these gonna destroy us to forge the keyblade and unlock kingdom hearts yadda yadda i've been thinking why don't they just sue zeonor i feel like that would solve a lot of our problems with that out of the way wave one of three begins remember the thousand heartless battle from the second game this is what this part should be titled because it's that again but they have an opportunity to one-up that part by having all the guardians fighting together in a big old bloodbath i'm sure you could tell by the way i phrased that but that's not how this goes instead the other six somehow disappear into the crowd of this pretty small space and the gummy crew does their own thing the first big battle had only two types of heartless and you were alone because the ps2 couldn't handle all that ai but it makes more sense that you're alone because the space you were fighting in was giant and you're only in one small part of it and the main thing that i think the second game does better here is that it had a reason to be there it was really cool and all but then right after you're told that every heartless you've just killed is going towards kingdom hearts for zemnes so keep doing that why don't you it's a pretty good twist and put in a pretty smart place right after you burnt through a thousand of them here this part isn't so much as brought up at all after and so the flaws here shine extra bright this is the only fight in the entire game that i'd wholeheartedly recommend attractions for because that'll get the repetitive nonsense over with much quicker besides this is the second and last time you're given the big magic mountain ride and you can absolutely destroy them with it so let's just move on shall we once we're done we finally unlock glide it does what it looks like although it does feel just a touch slower than two's glide and also you can't remain stationary while gliding so you aren't able to do this don't tell me you've never done that you'd be a filthy liar if you did let's head on over to the others everyone made it out without a scratch including tara ventus sprints over to him and aqua remains skeptical and for good reason as this is obviously not tara just like riku and mickey hypothesized terenorz made his triumphant return he gives his usual xehanort diet tribe saying they're all gonna fall to him this is pretty bold of him to say considering he hasn't accomplished a single thing in this form the second he got his new body he got his ass beat by an emotion getting partial amnesia because of it and then got his ass beat again by aqua all the while tara was fighting back inside so he was getting pulled around everywhere because he wasn't good enough to fully suppress him this resulted him getting full amnesia he tried to get information out of aqua but he's such a dumb ass that he was about to give away who he really was but it didn't really matter because tara stopped him again his greatest achievement is choking women in the night so the fact that he thinks he could take seven keyblade wielders including one that beat him before is pretty funny right cutscene villains so he just straight up one shot ventus i don't think he's dead but he ain't fighting anytime soon sora is next up and he should last a bit look no you can't do that why doesn't anyone [ __ ] help him instead of standing there like a bunch of jackasses because now that he has the room to he's gonna go ahead and one-shot axel too okay so i guess terenord is just this all-powerful warrior and no one can stop [Music] him i'm not so sure about that [Music] i hope you enjoyed my donald fan cam remember when i said that the venitas door scene was the best well it still is but this is a close second this whole time donald was holding on to this power capable of disintegrating a xehanort but unleashing it cost him his life i really don't know what else to say donald killed terenor donald killed terra norton but anyway now three of us are down it already isn't looking too good but it can always get worse is this a demon tide no it's a demon tornado sore riku and aqua fight while the others tend to the wounded but the tornado is getting even bigger how the hell can you even approach that aqua starts feeling the pressure and just gives up getting taken by one of the tides the other tides aren't far behind and they take ventus axel mickey donald goofy and kyrie all to be swallowed into the tornado shredded to pieces okay so everyone's dead but we've still got riku we could we can still do this they're gone kyrie donald goofy the king gone forever what do we do without them i all my strength came from them they gave me all of it alone i'm worthless i kind of like to interpret this as xehanort being very deliberate with the order of the people this thing took he recognizes that sora is probably the most powerful out of everyone because of how strong and plentiful his connections are so he needed to be taken last because well just like he said alone he's worthless and now once that last light is snuffed out he can be taken this would be the funny part where i say well that was a dark ending be sure to hit the pork button for weekly videos about pork oink oink but obviously that can't be the ending we cut back to the chess game xehanort calls checkmate and gloats but ericus isn't quite done yet he moves his piece back and makes the ultimate play it's not over come on that's not fair i know i had you yes you nearly did but a game's no fun if you know where it's going there's more to light than meets the eye i told you [Music] some light comes if you cheat and that's exactly what we're gonna do sora wakes up in well a world that only consists of water and sky he's a bit of a phantom at the moment is this hell no this is apparently the final world so maybe i'm not far off you're giving control of where are we even going there's nothing here and all we can do is walk and walk until we spot a charity okay so i was kinda right this is like a purgatory of sorts but more specifically it's basically the realm of death which is closely related to the realm of sleep and so we've apparently been here before due to our character setup dive into the heart segments because that's a sleep-ass ritual sleep and death touch so that's how we'd been here in the past i i think i got that right i don't really understand it at all but i did find this video of a raccoon you get a big guy but in this instance you actually just died this is the place that those who have died yet still hold on to life cone sora is now one of those people someone with a connection to sora is keeping him here as for the others no one came here with him they're either gone forever or barely hanging on back at the keyblade graveyard most people who come here don't have form they just appear as stars but sora has form and that means he can piece himself back together and if he does that he can go back to the land of the living and so the hunt for the pieces of sora begins they aren't very hard to find as you can see but you can also talk to some of these aforementioned stars get a little snippet of their story some of them are honestly pretty well written in the way that i really feel like this is just a small portion of a completely different story with a different protagonist rather than something stable on the kingdom hearts 3 but there are two story important ones one is namine been a while since we've seen her when the demon tide took kyrie away it also took her obviously so she's here but kyrie isn't that's because she's trying her best to keep sore from dying completely so that's basically why we're here as for namine well she's all pessimistic thinking no one cares about her and the only one people want back is roxas but sora says that's wrong and that someone special isn't gonna let her down wait who can't be roxas he already said his name riku whatever nominee says that to pass the time here she's been looking through various memories and doing that letter to tara the real one there's something deep keeping him connected to the realm of light so she'll try to do something about that you know maybe she'll awaken the rage within his lingering will the other one is this rendo she speaks all formally she apparently lost her name and her body and her everything her heart only remains here because of another person who she's connected to someone who had apparently had his heart replaced so he doesn't remember her but if he did remember her he'd want her back sora asks for this mystery man's name and as is tradition we can't know yet so she whispers it to him in the middle of purgatory it surprises him so it must be a name he's heard before anyway let's fast forward to after you get all of your pieces back think that's all of them what oh i'll know what to do next charity comes back to see you off apparently they're here because they're waiting for someone just like a lot of other people here likely a keyblade wielder who they were paired with they say that he doesn't remember the past so that basically narrows it down to two people but who cares what matters is that sora's gotta use the power of waking to restore the hearts of all the others sora gets to olympus from doing this somehow apparently this is where riku's heart went so we gotta go find it with the help of jiminy what did you forget about him seems as hard as being guarded by this heartless known as the lich get ready for one of the worst parts of the game you gotta fight this guy to get riku's heart back his main gimmick is that he dashes around creating phantoms of himself everywhere that explode if you're locked onto him then you'll be locked onto whatever phantom he leaves behind when he makes one once you beat him riku's heart is freed but we've still got a few others to worry about so we have to keep chasing the lich going this time to the caribbean the fight is exactly the same except now he uses water magic against you and spawns some small fry beat him in aqua's heart is freed he leaves again and we follow him into arendelle the fight is exactly the same except now he uses ice magic against you and spawn some different small fry beat him and goofy's heart is freed he leaves again and we follow him into monstropolis the fight is exactly the same except now uses fire magic against you and spawn some different small fry beat him and donald's heart is freed are we done yet he leaves again and we follow him into toy box the fight is exactly the same except now he uses arrow magic against you and spawns some different small fry beat him and ventus's heart is freed he leaves again and we follow him into oh my god the fight is exactly the same except now he uses status effects against you and he's in a foresty area so he has a lot of room to run around where he can't see him and you know what [ __ ] it this is an iceberg video now hey guys welcome to the kingdom hearts iceberg i've been getting a lot of requests to do this one after i made my pork iceberg and you know what i just want to get straight into it so let's go so on the tip of the iceberg we have this unused room from the first game where you're supposed to fight dark riku for the second time if only we could have seen how that fight went next did you know that if you jump onto this rock at an angle that you never stop falling the rock breaks to prevent you from being stuck with an effect and a sound and everything that's pretty oh [ __ ] i'm hungry in the japanese version of kingdom hearts 2 william turner points a gun on himself but the version we got in ohio has him holding it at his side what has this place got against suicide did you know in japan xehanort means hello and goodbye that's all for the tip of the iceberg just some fairly common knowledge that any fan would know so now let's get to the next layer the abyss up first on this layer is that this game can suck my two nuts the final part is in san franco it's the exact same fight but blah blah blah beat him and he actually dies this time freeing axel's heart so that's everyone right nope we never suck kyrie where else do we go we've seen every disney world where would her heart be ah i've got an idea boy am i glad to ally myself to the light i sure do hope no one sets me on a path that i don't desire cool maybe he can give us a hint well not quite you see back in dream drop distance sora fell into multiple layers of sleep nearly banishing him to counting sheep forever using the power of liking like this can cause that to happen again but for real this time the power is meant to be used to traverse hearts to reach worlds like in dream drop sora here is using it in the opposite way traversing worlds to reach hearts so going against the grain with the power of waking well you can do the math sora says ah zayanort says yaha and then he leaves not the hint i was hoping for but still useful information anyway the real hint is given by chip and dale saying her heart is in the keyblade graveyard good thing we don't need to fight the [ __ ] lich anymore remember her heart was keeping his tethered so she was the most alive out of any of us here and now we can get back to warring seems we've time traveled just a bit backwards just before our encounter with terra norton so let's go give that one another shot we've already been through this much it's tara it's not tara i'll [ __ ] kill all of you but maybe i'll go for donald first we're not gonna lose to you [Music] who are you got you seems to have pulled through for us oh [ __ ] he's doing the whip thing i [ __ ] hated that move shows boss yeah mess with his command menu next this works too it wasn't quite zeta flare power but it did some damage this is super fanservicey and i [ __ ] love it they go off and do their big battle but we can't help because we've got our own problems but now that we're all in good health we can take on the tide before it becomes a tornado let wave 2 begin everyone except us of course goes to hold off the rest while we fight the tide now this fight isn't very good i'm sure it was going for a look how far you've come feel to it but like the first fight wasn't really hard it just had a lot of health we didn't even need to take all of it away its moveset here is mildly expanded for the majority of the fight but it has a second phase halfway through where it turns into a mini tornado it doesn't really get harder it's about on par to how it was before smooves in this phase include but are not limited to throwing in the air and then shooting dark balls at you shooting dark balls at you without throwing you in the air tossing out some heartless and a bunch of other heartless nonsense it's boring and it takes a very long time let's move on looks like that was completely useless it went big tornado mode anyway so now what how do we even get close enough to attack don't worry sora has a terrible idea he's just gonna go up to it and hit it that might work but before he can die in a split second something stops him it's ephemer from union cross well he offers a helping hand from beyond the grave as well as all the other keyblade wielders from back then the lifeless keys become full of life once more time to pull an anti-venetus and go surfing using action commands you call upon the power of ah i like that that's a nice touch there are user names of players in union cross it even has their union next to their name using them you go into the eye of the storm and [ __ ] obliterate the core you can lose health here but i'm going to assume you can't die that would kind of ruin the moment one final slash in the tornado is not a threat anymore we got a new keyblade from that starlight the classic union cross keyblade it functions exactly the same as the kingdom key with the same shot locks in keyblade form the only difference is that instead of rs arcanum there's something else called ancient light it draws enemies in and shreds them with other keyblades thanks fellas by brewski sometime but of course these guys have to ruin the moment in comes dark riku acting a bit crazier than before that must be you from when anthem had control of your heart yeah how could i forget i'd say that was our finest hour wrong my hour of weakness you sure how about we find out he did not just do that he did not just create a big xehanort i'm looking away i don't want to believe what i just saw a real test for the mark of mastery what did you say i couldn't hear you i have a bit of wax build up we gotta make sure you're not blundering your way toward a second failure plundering and i'll have you know we failed with style chief okay wait a minute so everyone knew about that last attempt then why the [ __ ] did ventus still fall for the old terra trick and why did terenor bother making the same speech you know what whatever it's cool here come even more heartless but this time it's like it's like a lie tower's all over the darn place too mickey contemplates using stops us so we can get past but that'd make him too weak for the final battle so like what do we do well let's see who else can come out of nowhere to help lingering will is busy no final fantasy characters will come because they don't exist in this game by the way have you noticed that we'll get into it later um i'm at a loss i don't think there's any deus ex machina we can okay not what i expected but still welcome he clears the way for us to move forward donald and goofy stick with him to make sure he's safe and with all of that [ __ ] out of the way we can begin wave three all's quiet over here nothing but the sound of the breeze blowing through the deceased we walk to the center awaiting the arrival of our adversaries they don't keep us waiting long the real organization 13. master xehanort wears his grin with pure delight his plans are finally coming to fruition the only words that break that grin are you're about to have an amazing time the tension in the air you could feel it getting higher and higher a tumbleweed blows by walls surround you you're now in his labyrinth at his mercy wait a minute amazing time he put us in a maze good one xehanort anyway everyone's gone to fight their own battles and groups for instance aqua and ventus are obviously fighting venetis in terra north sora's role is to provide support to every one of these battles to begin with you're given the option of two riku facing dark riku ansem and zigbar or mickey facing larksine marluxia luke sword and xemnas holy [ __ ] yeah they've both really got their work cut out for them but i'd say mickey needs to help a little more after doing a little obstacle course our first battle can begin he's actually doing a decent job with him for the time being but nevertheless we're still here to help xemnas decides to cage us in but but why though it's not like we were going to try and escape he could be fighting us too whatever less work for us so three to choose from i'll name for luke sword first from what i can tell he's only using one move where he circles you with cards but you also do a noticeably small amount of damage to him that is until xemnas realizes his game plan is stupid and could be doing better things so he decides to head out and leaves luke sword a parting gift of a power-up first thing he does is trap mickey into a card and now he has his eyes on you i'm gonna count this part as its own boss fight because larksina marluxia can't be damaged here they're basically attacks from luke sword so judging this fight on its own merits it is terrible possibly one of the easiest fights in the series the goal is to find the card with him on it and hit it and when you do that you'll notice you're suddenly doing a much higher amount of damage than you were before and that's it that's all there is to the fight you know what here i'll let this speak for itself oh yeah after the pathetic whelp gets his he gives sora a wild card it could bring him good luck probably important for a future game could turn the tables play again someday when we're just guys i should like that very much zara nice mickey's freed and now it's time for the real fight one of the first things larksina marluxia will do was a coordinated team attack it's real scary and all that gliding will avoid all of it marcin's moves consist of lightning stuff she uses shurikens and combos and whatnot as for marluxia he has a move where he draws you in before slicing you up and another where he repeatedly teleports and slashes you the fight's okay and all but one thing you'll notice in all these keyboard graveyard fights is that they're very generous with the hit stun maybe a little less so than davey jones but you could keep them from attacking very consistently as in you can while on them they teleport away do one attack and you get to do it all over again so that's a bit disappointing but hey there is one thing that could make this fight way cooler when you beat lark's scene she doesn't have the same change of heart that luke sort did you're gonna be re-completed i didn't ask you for your garbage opinion well i think that's actually a fact she says that she prefers this to being xehanort's puppet well then why the [ __ ] did you join him then i was really just along for the ride my secret man imagine giving up your humanity for the dance water dance guy as for marluxia getting a few bunks on the head made him remember that he's actually lorium good for him looks like everything's okay here so let's head over to riku riku seems to be doing a bit worse than mickey was so that probably means that this fight's a little harder ansem's in this fight for about five actual seconds before he decides to leave this to zigbar and his other self not before he does this weird darkness explosion that i think does nothing anyway this fight is worse than the last one zigbar is pissed easy to take on on his own but combining that with dark riku is very annoying he isn't fast but he will chase you across the whole arena for this i'd recommend you go after zigbar first even though that's not what i did here both of them have desperation moves dark riku's have him repeatedly teleport and slam onto the ground most of the time he'll slam right where you are but once or twice he'll do it in front of you so you gotta change direction a couple of times when dodging it zig bars has him go to the center before firing a [ __ ] ton of bullets that form a ring moving closer to you it's not too bad all you gotta do is block but the challenge comes from working that in while you're still dealing with both of them attacking they might actually do their desperation moves at the same time so that's spooky you're not real huh that's riku ansem isn't it no you beat ansem and you're still here this guy is me oh neat twist the replica rips the other replica's heart out revealing the vessel his heart was put in he leaves it empty he's not going in it because that one's for namine well at least we won't have any more rikus around am i right fellas as for zigbar he starts weirdly lamenting that if he had a keyblade he'd win this fight you see that's why he's been working for xehanort for the past 10 years he would get all no name gazing eye once xehanort has the keyblade won't need it once he does after all but that's off the table now that he's lost again he isn't gonna fade away from them like the others he teleports on top of the ledge and jumps off [Music] oh odd well his weapons faded away so i guess that's the end of him that takes care of that riku is going to go after ransom sora continues being a part of the fan service another two choices should we go after axel and kairi fighting sax and someone else or aqua inventus fighting terra norton venitus well ak was a master so i'm going to go ahead and help out the beginners so this hooded figure wielding a kingdom key is fighting alongside psyx i couldn't tell you who it is i still don't know him i've beaten this game six times but considering we've only seen one other person besides swirl use a kingdom key i'm gonna assume that this is shadow sora from captain hook's ship anyway let's go tax immediately goes into semi-berserk mode while not shion somehow copies his abilities no really how does she do that this part is more a matter of surviving than fighting you can't really do much against either of them while they're rampaging nachion will occasionally break out of her psyx mode and go for keyblade swings but that doesn't really last long once cyax's meter fills up completely it's complete berserk mode time and you know what that means cutscene ziax really [ __ ] all of us up and leaves axel on his knees that's when xemnas comes in it seems like this is mildly personal to him so he wants to finish him ah ever the rogue pawn knocked from the board early in the game utterly useless and forgotten are you kidding do you know how popular i am i got loads of people rooting for me sorry boss no one acts as axel got it memorized god that was lame temnis destroys axel's keyblade and honestly i'm glad i much prefer the chakrams anyway we don't need everyone to wield the keyblade zemnes [ __ ] him up and is going to do him in completely but darkness [Music] changing sides again wait who's this i was only fighting cyax he tells her to kill him because he's sadistic like that but then sora goes ahead and stops her saying her name and rocks is his voice it's all right you can stop now it's all right xion this causes her to go into a full mental breakdown so xemnas gives her a kick maybe that'll help like a car instead it takes her hood off making axel remember her but once again it's job finishing time he gives axel a quick stomp on the hand that'll show him and then it's her turn to go but all of this resonated with roxas's heart and it finally exits sora's body probably into that replica from earlier [Music] hands off my friends it cannot be [Music] my man because xemnas is a petty [ __ ] if he can't win no one does so he takes kyrie to god knows where now it's just psyx axel got roughed up a bit so it's down to you roxas and shion now this fight is very easy but i'm okay with it this time given the context normally psyax can't be hit stunned when in berserk mode but roxas has some moves that can leaving him open for a good few seconds and on top of that both of them can do a stupid amount of damage against him on their own but i mean listen to that music it's supposed to be a big triumphant moment kick his ass the moon shines down psyax collapses and axel finally breaks through his stoic facade he was mad at axel for putting him and the girl they've been looking for aside in favor of his shiny new friends and so he became all nihilistic as we went over of course axel didn't forget him or her why do you think he worked to put him up in the ranks and in response to that zayax finally admits that he was jealous and with that it's time for him to go sora's off to do better things while they have their little reunion [Music] and guess i should have brought some ice cream [Music] all right i'll admit it i felt something here i wasn't crying or anything but this was a long time coming they'd all been in constant mental pain forever roxas was forced into killing shion before then being forced into a simulated town making friends with people who weren't even real just to come to the realization that it needs to be part of sora without a will of his own shion held the burden of kickstarting that downfall and fighting him before fading away to be forgotten by the two people that cared about her axel had to watch the both of them exit his life and desperately try to get one of them back sacrificing himself for the person that has his friend trapped in his heart so yeah this hit me a little bit this was a good moment but now i'm really noticing how tall axel is he's like seven feet my hands in the wrong line will work alright last up on the small guys let's go help those wayfinders looks like they're holding their own decently enough even though terenor literally destroyed us earlier speaking of which what the hell happened to the lingering will did he just get bored and [ __ ] off whatever terenor is here now and so is vanitas we make it and let's just jump into it so this fight straight up sucks in true birth by sleep fashion they decided that [ __ ] is the same thing as challenge you have to target just one of them at a time but the other will very frequently just come at you from behind and hit you there's nothing you can really do about that unless you stay ranged throughout the whole thing which is super fun and this problem is amplified because aqua and ventus will almost always bring whoever they're fighting to you so it becomes this complete [ __ ] but don't worry you know what could make this much more [ __ ] to the untrained eye you may not notice but if you look closely this is fun on the plus side sometimes they just won't target you at all as for their moves venetis is basically exactly the same as he was in the light of departure with the addition of his classic surfing on keyblades trick this time he finishes by going to the center and shooting them at you until he's out you're nothing well that's just rude as for terra nord his constant voice lines are just as annoying in birth by sleep but now instead of it's more like dark times ahead his bread and butter is dashing around like an [ __ ] hitting whoever he comes in contact with at times it feels like he's not targeting anyone while using it so maybe he really is just being a [ __ ] aside from that he has projectiles that he shoots out of his keyblade basic combos and guardian [ __ ] what i'm nice what do you mean nice stop you're making me uncomfortable his desperation move has him very cheesily go and turn the arena into hell beams everywhere the guardian keeps dragging you in to punch you every time he punches terenord says break him every [ __ ] time best thing you could do here is to let him drag you in and just block whenever he punches you should be fine if you just do that i beat venitus first figured it made more sense his mask cracks once more [Music] your face what are you talking about even if you are not the prisoner oh yeah you were at the cathedral your face i am the piece of ventus that was taken away okay but really what is this voice we're putting on you didn't even sound remotely like that in birth by sleep i'll be asking the questions and why shouldn't i after all between the two of us i'm the only one who'll walk away from here alive we are brothers anyway he gives the whole explanation about how he and him are connected because sora filled the void that venitus left behind which still doesn't make sense to me feninus was created before sora completed ventus's heart right so unless he didn't have a face under that mask before then that's really dumb i mean it's really dumb anyway but you get my point he says that the three of them are real tight-knit but venitus repeatedly tried to kill them both because after all all of his heart is darkness ventus tells him that he shouldn't just be in the darkness because that's the way he was created he should choose what he wants to be well that argument went out the window because venetis wants to be darkness okay god he'll probably come back one day as for terenord he gets knocked out giving aqua and ventus the chance to get through to terra they could get a few words out of him but the zaya norden him took control again after a couple of seconds you'll never be able to break these chains they're our bonds you have no power over me i really want to think that in the recording studio there were multiple takes for this line and all of them were better than this one but the guy in charge was like no no this this is the best one he gets him real dizzy and is going to kill him with fall damage something that has never been an issue in this series [Music] you fell to the dark sora goes ahead and unlocks his heart so tara can reclaim him and everyone's favorite character is back tara is it you yeah you never stop lighting my way back you're here i heard you too then you found me just like you promised you see as opposed to the last one i don't feel much here i don't have too much sympathy for the main cast of birth by sleep they were never very likable and the [ __ ] they went through was partially their own fault that anakin palpatine [ __ ] with tara and xehanort was annoying ventus trying to find friends in every world and that basically just being his goal for half the game was annoying the fact that the best role they could give to ako was to clean up this [ __ ] from the other two was annoying ventus is dumb terra is dumb aqua isn't as dumb but she didn't really have too much of a character in that game she has a little more here so yeah this reunion doesn't feel nearly as emotional well that's all the appetizers out of the way the only ones left are well the zeonarts this is it fellas buckle your seatbelts we made it this far and so did riku and mickey i guess they were just standing there waiting for me to get here remember xehanort now has possession of kyrie i guess as another backup plan with each clash between the lights and darknesses a key is made thus far there's been nine created four to go before 13. once there is 13 the keyblade will be forged yeah sure and what makes you think there'd ever be any way we'd help you with that huh you forget i plan for every eventuality that is fair what if the reason xehanort can plan so far ahead for everything is that everyone can't stop posting about their plans on kingdom hearts instagram if you do summon kingdom hearts we will defeat you and we will close it again maybe you will nor then again maybe you won't let the north battle begin remember when i said that there was one fight that i consider genuinely challenging this is it it's kind of like the last fight but not nearly as [ __ ] don't get me wrong there are [ __ ] parts young xehanort likes to teleport at you quite a bit but it's a bit more manageable here as it's usually not outside your view when it comes in the three of them combine attacks frequently but it's designed to work you can avoid each move one after the other it's not easy to do it but that's the fun part a few seconds into the fight the three will disappear and master xehanort will cause a keyblade hurricane taking the other two away during this part you have to avoid waves of keys all the while the three attack you the pattern of which they attack and what attacks they use depends on who you've beaten at that point in the fight what i particularly liked is when the second wave of keyblades comes in and xehanort goes no grandpa stop pinching my cheeks ansem uses weird looking minds laser balls lasers that circle him and darkness explosions samus uses a lot of his kingdom hearts 2 moves lasers lightsabers whatever these are and kicks young xehanort could put you in a time stop while he shreds your health he uses his keyblade as a whip he shoots ice projectiles that can freeze you so yeah there's a lot of moves for you to keep track of but it's a good thing we have come on when you beat ansem riku admits that he's gonna miss him ansem gives them some encouraging words that he knew he would lose part of me wanted to defy my fate but when the others betrayed us i found i did not care and then nothing else seemed to matter anymore handsome what it is time to move on boy there is more to seek so go forth now and seek it when you beat xemnas he feels the first emotion he's felt in years loneliness he used the organization and his members as a tool nothing more now he finally understands that they were more than that they were people do you see a heart is just pain pain is being human xemnas really it must take [Music] incredible strength young xanar goes out like a little [ __ ] he's just gonna go back to his time period and keep going like nothing happened but sora will fall into the deep depths of slumber forever what goodbye sora your time in this world is god i wish one of you could have just roasted him one last time oh well we won't be seeing him again we've got ourselves 12 keys now he clears the clouds above once again showing kingdom hearts all that's left is to make the final key shion join their side so she couldn't be used so let's use the next best thing sora starts rushing up to get to xehanort but honestly he should have air stabbed [Music] kyrie well that sucks rage isn't gonna work here he's become too powerful how about riku nope mickey well actually that made things worse so you don't use stopsa then just to be a dick he uses one of his keyblades to hit sora again alright no more emotional [ __ ] let's get this keyblade forged well this is unfortunate but honestly were you expecting him to not get it this time he finally unlocks kingdom hearts making it purple you monster all right i forgot that you guys were here where's the end sid the others are here too oh hey you two look exactly the same that's cool let's not break it up stop so wore off so here's riku and mickey too it's not over yet fellas xehanort has the ability to transcend time or something right well then that must mean he's a portal so we can trap him inside what whatever just go with it someone has to go with him though to stop him from coming back nikki says that the masters will go in them being himself riku and aqua but sora says it's better that they stay out here to keep kingdom hearts at bay he'll go in with his a norton defeat him but hey only keyblade wielders can really help with kingdom hearts so you know what that means three half pints taking on a final boss again we didn't get that in the second game hey before you go oh hey kyrie will be all right i can feel it how would you know you're connected to him not her also i'm just noticing that axel got his keyblade back what's that about alright boys and a one and a two [Music] and that's what you get for turning your back on your only threat left i wonder where that portal's taking us oh it's that world from the intro cut scene xehanort seems to be somewhere else in this place oh that was fast found them ooh two for one deal okay come on now we just got done beating three xehanorts oh what's what's going on here they're all glitching out into these things well honestly who cares because while this happens the best song in the game plays there's 12 of them so the 13th must be our man but first let's get these guys out of the way seriously that was like 10 seconds whatever this fight is weird they all have shared health and each is based on a member of the organization you can see zigbar's guns venetus keyblade young xehanort's keyblade etc their moves are all still pretty straightforward except for their desperation move where they start armageddon blazers rain in all over the place while the others come in to take pot shots but aside from that pretty easy the real guy shows his face this place used to be a town made for keyblade wielders the nexus from which all worlds spring apparently i thought that was daybreak town it's also where he and ericus were raised its name scala ad kylum stairway to the sky yeah it looks like it but that's enough talk he wants to finish this just as much as i do he absorbs the power of all the 12 you just took out and well the fight begins he dons the goat's armor and uses his newfound power to manipulate the environment to his will the walls that's now the floor but that's too simple let's stretch the entire thing into an orthotope this is merely phase one of the fight but i can't say i love it this is just not a good environment for a boss his moves consist of keyblade combos spinny stuff fire stuff his desperation move for this phase is spawning a big old fire pillow that's so hot it creates other fire pillars around it but be careful because the old rascal will try to take you while it's happening he'll finish it off by trying to drag you into a pending explosion it's a fine move and all but hey do you know me once you get far enough he decides this environment ain't working for him so let's put us in no come on we've only been underwater once before this this fight just went from a 5 out of 10 to a 3. he has the least moves in this phase he'll put three explosions in you you avoid them he attacks right after you block you attack rinse and repeat until his desperation move where he creates some fire pillars a taxi for a bit combines them and shoots fireballs then he goes right back to what it was this part sucks it really does finally we head to the surface but xehanort propels you into the air separating you from donald and goofy and now the rest of the fight is airborne he doesn't really have any new moves here it's just the same as the first phase yeah this fight was not very good good thing it wasn't the actual final boss do you think you have one we break through his armor but it's not over yet he teleports to the top of the town and we follow him that grin he rarely doesn't have it i think he has it this time because he just remembered that he has the ultimate weapon the keyblade is spawned all i'm really thinking about at this point is will the final boss be good and well let's find out he's actually pretty fast with his movements and his swings one move that's pretty interesting is when he throws the keyblade to freeze you then burn you and finally strike you with thunder thrice but it's halfway through the fight that it starts to get interesting he starts getting teleport heavy and goes for you multiple times but he also goes for donald and goofy which can throw you off your guard pattern he also starts throwing meteors at you it's not too bad just a matter of blocking three quarters of the way through the fight is when it starts to get very interesting he forces you into rage form and it's not on a meter like usual you can't get out unless you hit him enough that's where it gets tricky because he doesn't make himself very open in this phase so you could potentially be there for a while once you've hit him enough you can get back to normal but the first thing he does after that is his desperation move he creates a mock organization room and each chair has a zayn ordinance you're going to get bum rushed by a [ __ ] ton of these guys all the while lasers come in so all you can do is block and dodge roll your way through even after six playthroughs i still haven't gotten out of this desperation move without getting hit but once you're done there it's a straight shot to the end once you have him down to one hp you have to use a reaction command to finish [Music] it oh he's got a keyblade beam of his own but this one's way more powerful to the point that you'll probably die because you didn't realize that you had to plug the controller into port 2. wait hold on why isn't the game over screen giving me a menu oh the controller is making noise too [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh my god didn't you realize xehanort in cutscenes you're the victors but in gameplay well the light prevails as you can see this was not something xehanort considered but according to him he's already won kingdom hearts is looking awful and tense right now what's gonna happen a purge the world will be returned once it started the world began in darkness and from that darkness came light from the light came the people and the people at hearts no evil burgeoned in those hearts be getting more darkness and the darkness spread across the world like a plague the light the symbol of the world's hope was devoured by shadow it's not too late guys you can fix this no one wants this but the first light the light of kingdom hearts it can give us a new start an empty world pure and bright nomura you son of a [ __ ] you made me wait for so long to get it i'm a misguided good guy i'm so quirky ending i understand that the whole what would a keyblade war bring ruin brings about creation motive isn't incredibly far off from this but to frame it in such a way that he had the best intentions at heart is such a slap in the face to everyone waiting for this game and the fact that they decided to put this new motive right after you beat him is the worst part he's been doing all this [ __ ] with a smile on his face for years now suddenly he's serious saying his piece on how we need a leader he's literally the reason that there are problems in the worlds before i get too in depth on this let's just get to the end of the scene everyone's made it to scala they're a bit late he's already defeated but whatever tara and xehanort make eye contact this is an interaction i want to see master xehanort [Music] aqua what exactly are you afraid of xehanort's kind of outnumbered in this scenario he couldn't beat three half points what makes you think he could take on 10 gallons there's more to light than meets the eye as i told you hmm you sly fox or you know whatever he can just spew erikas out he tells xehanort to give him the keyblade that it's time he finishes this nonsense [Music] no i can do this [Music] enough checkmate this reminds him of the chess game and that ericus ended up winning this was uh good enough for him i guess he hands the keyblade over to sora ericus has his reunion with the three before he passes on completely apologizing for the trouble he put on them and telling tara to look after them xehanort watches with possibly conflicting emotions before starting to stagger but erikus catches him ready my friend yes [Music] wow that has to have been the most underwhelming ending possible for this game it's not actually over yet but i just want to talk about how they handled xehanort such a quick shift and then he just [ __ ] dies i'm gonna go ahead and fuel my narcissism for a second and tell you how i would fix it the last scene doesn't necessarily need to be changed too much and neither does his new motive i just think they could have made it way more natural if there was context beforehand when they get to scala and they first see xehanort instead of just getting this town's backstory and then bam fight time have sora asked quite simply why are you doing this of course in response zaynor would give yet another speech about keyblade wars and darkness and what-ifs this would be the point where sora says to him that no one would go this far over a hunch what are you really after and so someone finally calling his bluff he gives his motivation but he doesn't give them a chance to argue against it as that's when he goes into armor mode the fight happens it's a great time then he goes to the top this is when sora having reached this maturity that people keep talking about tells him that he's not worthy of being a leader not only that but why he isn't xehanort sought a peaceful age using people like this you're only here so that when i finish you off tara will succumb to the darkness so who wants to go first you're nothing please give me back my friend the moon exhilarates me thanks to you all our plans are ruined and ruined so many lives he inadvertently caused the creation of roxas and xion just to torment them put ventus in a 10-year coma put aqua in the realm of darkness and had tara strike his own master and father figure down killed sadmaster in front of him and stole his body just to destroy it in the process of making a heartless nobody he tore kyrie from her homeworld and grandmother and speaking of her he just [ __ ] killed her he sliced a 15 year old girl's back open for selfish reasons he turned radiant garden into such a [ __ ] hole that they changed its name to hollow bastion and forced hundreds of people to traverse town by doing that trick people he called his comrades to believing they were doing these terrible things to regain their humanity when in actuality they always had it and they're just making him stronger his heartless is literally named ansem seeker of darkness he even tricked luke sword into thinking his power up would be good ask yourself are these the actions of a leader that brings about a balanced peaceful age you might think that none of this would matter at all to him if brought up but no one's ever really confronted him on these things it's always been ah zayn or you're a real meanie you know that if these specific instances were brought up to fuel the argument that he wouldn't make a good leader that's a real argument one he couldn't have heard before because he wouldn't even tell people that leadership was what he was after and so this being the first time he's confronted with this it actually gets to him a little bit visible with him getting angry instead of just confidently denying these things as usual that's when the final battle begins i'd change the way it works just a little bit to suit this ending that i'm making here it'd be faster more hectic fitting of someone having their own character challenged and not liking it at all and that final part with the beam everything happens like normal except once donald and goofy help him back up it makes xehanort realize the things that he's been missing out on in pursuit of his goals he killed his best friend someone who would have done the same for him as donald and goofy just did for sora and so his beam weakens as his confidence wavers and that's what leads to it being broken and him being struck down the destination is the same but i personally think that that would have made it a bit better you might think that that was terrible and maybe it was but to me it would have not only been narratively better but more cathartic as well seeing xehanort's confidence crumble like that the conclusion for him that we got was underwhelming at best but let's move on to our ending [Music] back in the keyblade graveyard it's done or is it you may have not noticed but kyrie's still dead the only thing that could possibly bring her back is the power of waking donald and goofy offer their assistance on this one but sora declines this is something he needs to do alone mickey begs sora not to go saying that he can find her but just like young xehanort said it'll lead him into the endless abyss but nah he don't care neither does riku he's bringing kyrie home no matter what he opens up a portal and off he goes now for the where are they now segment the disney crew made it back to the castle and yen said too the wayfinder set up a memorial for ericus with his keyblade so i guess akwa's going back to rainfall they start walking back but chirothy comes in perhaps ventus starts remembering union cross now because he welcomes them with open arms on the clock tower roxas and axel are hanging out and then shion comes in then aiza then hayner pence and olette a little crowded don't you think in radiant garden they put the riku replica to good use putting namine's heart in it and now she's back i guess riku and namine are a thing the man's cocking himself but wait i thought it would be her and roxas based on their whole two sides of the same coin thing going on in the second game maybe he's with shion [ __ ] is that incest thebes is rebuilt the toys make it back to the real world with andy sully and mike finally get their play date with boo arendelle still sucks ass two baymaxes and then we get over to destiny islands this is a real everyone is here moment ventus is playing frisbee with axel and aiza shiona namine are looking at seashells for some reason donald goofy hainer pence and a letter making sand sculptures but then they all look up at the pampu tree sora and kairi sit holding hands he brought her back but he didn't have long to say goodbye and that's it that's the end okay okay not really you see we have another cut scene after the credits xehanort's keyblade went flying all the way over here where someone was waiting for it some portals appear summoning the foretellers also the master of masters box is next to this guy so it must be luchu remember him did you summon us back yep [Music] is that you lucille you look different i haven't heard that name in a long while okay okay okay so luchu had to cast his old form away multiple times so he wouldn't die of old age just like the master of masters told him to do he gave that keyblade over to someone else and it was passed along to that person's apprentice and then them to theirs and so on for who knows how many centuries it eventually fell into xehanort's hands and so once it came time for lucia to reclaim it he was brake working for xehanort under the condition that he gets that keyblade once it's over the rest you know he turns into a nobody he becomes zigbar etc now that he has it and the box the time has come to enact the master of masters next phase of the plan it seems ava didn't make it like the other four did whatever her role was it wasn't leading her here by the way pete and maleficent they found the box now all they need to do is get it assed gets fed up and demands to know what zigbar's role was i hope you like long stories [Music] and that's it okay again not really as is tradition there's a secret ending in the past games it was kind of time consuming to get them but here all you need to do is get 80 of the 90 lucky emblems not too bad now what does this secret ending entail let's watch [Music] sora seems to have woken up in this city it's completely empty suddenly riku also wakes up here what okay it's a secret ending it's meant to be confusing just keep playing as riku is walking along the sidewalk he can feel that someone's watching [Music] from toy box we're bringing versus 13 into kingdom hearts aren't we nomura finally we see who i presume to be the master of masters on top of a different building okay lot to unpack here i would go in depth but remind does answer some of the major questions so i'll save it for then well that's it we beat the main story got through the thick of it that ending was gross i would like you to keep in mind that this was kingdom hearts 3 the game people have been waiting for for years a game hyped up to be the ending of the xehanort saga and how did they spend half of the game's story building up the next game do you understand how much of a slap in the face that is all this buildup was based off of a phone game you can't tell me that that isn't at least a little weird i'll be honest it seems like this next saga with the master of masters and zigbar and wherever the hell we are right now is much more thought out and advanced than the xehanort saga it's more interesting but before we get to that we have to finish what we started and this game barely did that beating xehanort was supposed to be a moment of triumph but it was anything but that ericus comes out says checkmate and then he just dies and then sora poofs out of existence at the last few seconds save that [ __ ] for later focus on making beating xehanort better then we could focus on the next saga instead it feels like we've moved on before we're at the final boss this plot had no focus at all it'll shift from xehanor to mystery test subject in a split second back to xehanort then did you know you guys are keyblade wielders we never go anywhere with that but just thought i'd let you know then xehanort then ooh what's this mystery box am i being too harsh i really don't think i am after waiting for so long having been built up since 2002 the fans deserved better than this video isn't done though there are still more critiques to be made but also some praise hold on to your hats because it's time to enter the post game [Music] gonna say this from the start the post game of kingdom hearts 3 is barren there are a number of things you can do but only one of them is mildly worth it once you load your last save after beating the game you'll be told that portals have opened up across all the worlds there are 14 in total but you only have to go to 13 to reap the benefits these are known as battlegates and they are fine i guess some of them straight up suck there's more than one that feature these big mini boss heartless that we've seen throughout the game and they are just the worst not because they're too hard or too easy or even cheap the problem is that the camera is terrible around them it just doesn't know what to do when you're hitting at close range which is you know your main method of attack aside from them there's this one in the caribbean that goes on about an hour longer than it should this one in toy box is putrid i didn't really go over these dinosaur guys because the only time we fought them was when we had access to the mech so that destroyed them but now that we're mechless against five of them i can tell you that they're really not fun to fight they only have three or four moves but this one [ __ ] laser move has like two frames of wind up before it's too late i'm exaggerating of course and i'm sure this looks like it's plenty of time but when your mind is focused on the other [ __ ] that might do the same thing at the same time your reaction times will get worse this is once again a case of this game showing its birth by sleep putting five giant enemies in a fight with significantly higher health than they used to might i add isn't challenging it's [ __ ] you so you gotta stay ranged until one's separated from the rest or there's only one or two left but once you got that uh could you [ __ ] off please well it's alright this part isn't nearly as bad as you can see they're mechs i only need to beat one and then the fight is basically over the battlegates end up feeling like the coliseum matches but a much higher [ __ ] to match ratio and none of the charm also i experienced the only soft lock i've ever gotten in the series in one of the battlegates i killed everyone but it wouldn't end it wasn't a very large arena so either one heartless went out of bounds somehow or i somehow missed it despite looking for like three minutes for every battlegate you complete you get a secret report like the ansem and zayn weren't reports from the previous games but written by numerous people the first one is written by the mystery test subject that xehanort was looking for labeled subject x all she recalls is that she had four friends and there was a key somewhere in there and uh yeah that's all she's got aside from that she just reiterates things we already know like that axel and aiza visited her frequently but the person that took her away from xehanort's clutches wasn't ansem the wise but actually zigbar she's likely someone from keyblade war times based on her saying may my heart be my guiding key the next few are written by xehanort not saying much aside from revealing that ericus is actually a descendant of the original masters from the age of fairy tales there was some written by isa not really revealing much we didn't already know there's one written by evan that reveals that the person among the organization's ranks who wanted out earlier was aiza he doesn't say his name outright but that he's younger and xemnas's right-hand man zigbar looks a bit older and had no reason to switch sides so that's the only conclusion we can come to there are some more non-revealing ones written by ienzo and the final three are written by zigbar going just a bit further in depth on his plan to get xehanort's keyblade it was destined that someone would come and start another keyblade war and so once that person revealed himself it was time to take it back he was intentionally playing the part of a jackass looking for a keyblade just for the sake of power his break and now that it's all done and over with the master of masters will return soon that's cool or whatever but i'm more focused on the secret 14th battlegate containing this game's only super boss dark inferno i knew that that's what this thing contained on my first playthrough so in preparation i gave myself three elixirs upgraded classic tone to one below the max by the way the only keyblade i upgraded past the halfway point ate the only cuisine in the play through got to level 52 and beat her on my first try this is just sad at this point it's definitely one of the hardest bosses in the base game but that's not really saying a lot none of his moves are threatening never doing too much damage it gets harder as it goes on but the main problem with the boss is that you can easily tank most of his moves and be fine i got hit a lot in this fight but that didn't matter in the slightest you're getting onslot with moves in the triple north fight so you couldn't really afford taking too many hits in here it's whatever because he's so predictable that you'll know you're gonna be fine while you're getting combo he has this one move where he stuns you if you get hit for some reason in this most recent playthrough i kept getting hit by it but most of the time he follows it up by disappearing for 10 seconds giving you plenty of time to get out of the stun and avoid what comes next i don't know what to say man it's just not right aside from that there's the ultimate weapon and that's it getting the ultimate weapon is annoying as always but in a different way this time you need seven aura calcum pluses two were found in chess one you get for getting 80 of the 90 lucky emblems one is by getting postcards from mughals and putting them in this mailbox one is obtained by beating five secret gummy ship bosses that are all re-skins of previous ones it's a great time there's one for doing the flantastic seven mini-games they're the equivalent of the mushroom 13 and two final mix i don't think i need to go over them and the last my favorite is by doing this [ __ ] sledding minigame again and finding 10 collectibles which means you have to do it multiple times and it takes like 12 years to do it once but once you've done all that you have the ultimate weapon the best keyblade arguably it doesn't have an incomplete shot lock it works differently you have to aim at whoever you're targeting until these two circles match and once they do you activate a screen nuke wiping out everyone in sight its keyblade form ultimate form is the successor to final form it's not quite as fun as that to me but it's still pretty fun it splits the keyblade into many pieces and uses them in combos it's very cool visually and quite the damage dealer its finisher is basically another screen nuke overall it's the most effective keyblade of them all but i'm not sure that it's the most fun to use those are the only two we haven't seen yet and yeah that's the entire post game you may say that this isn't incredibly far off from one or two's post game in their non-final mix versions but i'd argue the opposite one had four super bosses in the hades cup something you might genuinely want the ultima weapon for two had multiple paradox cups and sephiroth the base game version was harder than the final next variant due to not having limit form so again that's something you might actually want the ultima weapon for this has 13 generic heartless battles and a boss that despite everything you have at your disposal the devs thought shouldn't be too hard so we've experienced everything that the base game has to offer now i've been conflicted as to whether or not i should tackle anything after that for a long time this video is already pretty long isn't it but eventually i decided that it would be unfair to not talk about the updates in dlc as they both make up for a lot of this game's shortcomings and symbolizes one of the biggest ones so what do you say go on one last adventure with me well if you're still here that's probably a yes let's start from our next beginning three months after this game's release a free update was launched with two big features one being new game plus you can start a new game carrying over everything you've gotten from your last playthrough and by that i mean all of your keyblades albeit now at a completely unupgraded stage and selfie poses nothing else no abilities no equipment no stats you're still starting completely from scratch but with more keyblades and selfie poses only the necessities but the other new feature was critical mode introduced in kingdom hearts 2 final mix this was the hardest difficulty i'd say it's the definitive way to play that game but it does have some faults there are some enemies that can really shred your health in one to three hits but those enemies are far and few between and some really make it clear when they're about to attack you so this game had the opportunity to make it much better it was universally agreed that this game was way too easy on proud mode so much so that the devs must have heard this but fixing that problem wouldn't be easy they wouldn't need to simply change some values i'd argue for some enemies there's no need to do that they just need to be more aggressive making it more punishing to be hit by certain moves wouldn't be the only fix they'd need to do i remember when the critical update came out i booted the game up and gave it my second playthrough hopeful that it would turn this game around i [ __ ] hated it as soon as i had gotten out of olympus i wanted to stop playing consistently throughout the rest of it nearly every enemy was one-shotting me here look at this this is the first fight in the game it can't be look i get it it's early in the game i have a very small amount of health large bodies are supposed to hit hard but i don't think it's fair to get killed in one hit when i didn't get hit you probably think i'm cherry-picking and you're right i am but now let's look at the first fight in twilight town this goes from simple early game fight to why the [ __ ] can dusks kill me in two hits and the snipers are just the absolute worst that fight was pure stress and nothing else and it's supposed to be super easy it is super easy i'm proud and this continued throughout the entire game if there's one tip that i could give to people who decide to play on this mode it's use kupo coins let me tell you why withstand combo is this game's equivalent to once more it as its title implies lets you survive a combo that would normally kill you at one hp but it won't save you from singular attacks that can kill you which is what the vast majority of enemies will kill you with second chance is what will save you from that depending on what you pick between attack defense and magic you'll learn this ability at different levels i pick defense which gets you second chance at the earliest level 30. i beat the game at level 30. aka i didn't have it until the very end this part's more so my own fault but i thought i was still at level 29 throughout the end and didn't notice until post game either way throughout a good 98 of the game one tap for most enemies could kill me as a bonus when playing critical you're given certain abilities early aerial recovery counter abilities combo master etc second chance should have absolutely been one of them but as it is use kupo coins to avoid unnecessary hair pulling now when i originally beat the game on critical i came out thinking that it was complete and utter [ __ ] they couldn't make it naturally difficult so let's have everything kill you in at most a few hits it wasn't until making this video that i played it again twice as a matter of fact it's amazing how much it changed for me it went from [ __ ] to somehow still too easy i know that sounds [ __ ] stupid right but it's the truth there's a good reason for this when i was looking up which abilities you get early on this difficulty i stumbled on this article that accidentally summarizes this mode's biggest problem critical mode is more than just a simple buff to enemy health and damage like how some other rpgs might tweak the difficulty and is even different from previous kh titles this mode is designed to make you rely on all the game's mechanics such as smart use of accessories magic summons food and everything else you can to give yourself just enough of an edge to make it through well first of all if it is more than just enemy buffs can you tell me what else has changed with the enemies because i don't see any differences and second why yes it is designed to make you use everything you have at your disposal and when i say use i mean abuse of course like before you can use keyboard forms grand magic cuisine shot locks etc it's hardly breaking new grounds to say that using them makes the game easier but there's one thing that can especially get you through the game without too much effort i said earlier that you can't die while using a link you take damage but once you have one hp you're fine i didn't use links too much on that original playthrough but now i know just how op it is something i also said earlier was that they don't show up frequently enough to change much and that much is true if you're not keeping an eye on your mp bar at all times you need a full bar to use a link and it's very easy to get to that state on proud mode it's unlikely that you'll use potions or ethers pretty much at all but now they're quite useful in breaking the game ethers aren't incredibly cheap but potions sure are and they're useful throughout the whole game because your health bar is a lot smaller on critical unless you're in a situation where you need leaf bracer don't use cure just drink yourself into a potion addiction and if you ever use offensive magic go all out completely drain your mp because not only will you be doing much more damage of course but your mp bar is also smaller on critical mode so you don't need to wait long until you're back to full and you could have a small stock of ethers just in case things are really desperate doing that will have links almost always available they'll shred through enemies and keep you safe at the same time there's no risk you may be thinking that i'm blaming the game for me being cheap and yeah i kinda am they put me in that position without links this mode sucks there's no in between it's either painfully [ __ ] or still piss easy so yeah don't like it very much this was their attempt at making the game harder but it's just more stupid but at the same time i don't know which i prefer between this and proud i guess they both suck in their own special way with that out of the way we can get to the dlc one year after kingdom hearts 3's release dlc was made for it at a pretty hefty 30 dollars kingdom hearts 3 remind final mix is now a thing of the past the dlc includes more content after the adventure but also it makes one large addition to the main story at the start of a playthrough during your dive into the heart you're given a new choice them being if you want to use easy codes or pro codes also neither is an option these are two sets of cheats that make the game easier or harder easy codes are things like health mp and focus regeneration all abilities not costing any ap obtaining every gummy ship never messing up cooking mini-games one-shotting everything including bosses etc i would say that the last thing this game needs is to be easier but it's actually very useful if you want to speed run through as for pro codes we have health mp and focus draining deactivating things like keyblade forms links putting your defense at zero and so on i didn't bring up attractions when talking about critical mode because i actually used a pro code to turn them off it's a very interesting way for the developers to tell us to make our own damn difficulty if we're so smart but like i said removing features doesn't automatically make the game better the features that are there need to be tweaked heavily and there isn't a code that does that unfortunately this dlc doesn't add anything else to the main story any other additions that it makes are given after you beat the game those additions being two keyblades and some abilities as for the abilities the only one of note to me is the new combo finisher last charge it's much faster and i believe it does more damage too the new keyblades are the classic oath keeper in oblivion to get oath keeper you need to get all the lucky emblems and beat the game to get oblivion you need to beat the game on critical mode they're both very similar they have different and complete shot locks both of which are rip-offs but their complete ones are the same and whatever the hell this is i like it i think it's supposed to be reminiscent of one of roxas's moves in two final mix they have two keyblade forms each the first being light form and dark form again the first form is a little different between the two i believe the only difference is their combo finishers aside from that it's basically just a speedy new form that's not all too different from your base form the second double form is when [ __ ] gets good you're fast as hell the combos are fun to look at this combo finisher is great and the finisher is another roxas-esque move these are the most fun keyblades to use i just wish they added some things to the main game that served the plot one and two's final mix added a fair bit of cutscenes to be fair though most of them were pretty unnecessary one that comes to mind is when psyx tells you to keep killing heartless we get an extra cut scene right after where psyx reports to xemnas saying that he did in fact tell them to keep killing heartless and then xemnas says very unsubtly that this is serving their greater goals kind of dampening that twist later on another that i can think of was right after axel sacrificed himself we go back to the organization room and they say how they feel about him doing that perhaps he put his existence on the line and won what he'd been longing for [Music] wait a minute how would that even be possible we don't exist remember what you're saying goes against the laws of nature then perhaps he bet his non-existence i can't say these cutscenes added much to their character it adds nothing really but two final mix does add the roxus boss fight one of my favorites in the series it's pretty [ __ ] hard that i never really felt cheated on any deaths his moveset was fun to learn and punish it also added limit form in the absence silhouettes 3 remind adds nothing of this sword and that's a real shame because i feel like this game could have especially used additions like that but hey that's not what the majority of people bought the dlc for what we're really after here is the two new chapters remind and limit cut remind is the only one we have access to right now limit code is unlocked after beating it quick note before we go in i played through this dlc on critical mode let's go the story for kingdom hearts 3 remind revolves around sora's adventure bringing kyrie back to the land of the living i was thinking about going over some of the trailers like i did for the main game but just like then they spoil the [ __ ] out of it so never mind will it make the game's story better well kind of it answers a few questions from the base game like how they brought shion back or what happened to the lingering will let's get into this shall we the first thing we're greeted with when entering remind is the cutscene with zigbar from like eight hours ago on this video may your heart be your guiding key so now we know why he wants the other members to find the box which makes me wonder if his role was to keep watch over it how did he lose it and how did he find it he wouldn't be watching over pete maleficent having other people look for it if you knew where it was speaking of which picture this a black goat stashes away a letter then orders a white goat to search for it what could his intentions possibly be immediately luke sword is seeing right through zigbar or should i say lucious facade supposedly what's in the box is a mystery so why the hell are they even looking for it he was told xemnas was the one who gave the order to him but he asked the big man himself and he didn't even know what luke sword was talking about so zigbar's caught with his pants down and has to come up with a new story the best he can do is just say that he's so curious for being alive for thousands of years living who knows how many lives and making new backstories for himself constantly he sure is a terrible liar and where did you hear this hmm i don't remember i keep my eyes and ears wide open but i've traveled so many different places it's hard to keep everything straight you know [Music] if this box is truly as important as you say why now i believe you discovered that others also seek it and you need to find it before anyone else does in order to keep your connection to the box a secret from those around you zigbar who are you really hair doesn't actually matter to him just wants to let zig bar know that he's on to him i'm content to feign ignorance the question is who are you luxured oh cool look sword's super important too but in all seriousness i really do like this scene it's not often that we see a character get owned with facts and logic in this series any who 75 years earlier we've got young xanar just about to take his mark of mastery exam his eyes aren't yellow yet so he hasn't become the totally misunderstood good guy we all know and love he meets up with the uh master of masters it seems he sent xehanort off on some grand tour across all the worlds to see if it would give him a new world view it most certainly did there's darkness everywhere there needs to be a reset a purge we need a ruler a good handsome ruler like me yadda yadda the master is letting him blabber on essentially being a yes man to most of what he's saying minus a few things leading me to believe that he's subtly egging xehanort on toward a path that suits his own goals but this isn't a very long conversation as it's time for the master to go he gives xehanort his name but it seems his love mike started acting up because we couldn't quite hear it annie who's 75 years later we're back in the current day or you know a little before a current day when xehanort was still alive stand here today because of a fated encounter ah yeah as i said wrecker howard passed away six months after this game's initial release so he had to be replaced once again by christopher lloyd he does okay this scene takes place in between dream drop in this game as what we talk about here is filling out the rest of their ranks they're still missing too number 12 is reserved for terra norte where they're working to bring to the present day and the last space was reserved for sora but the light gang saved him from getting norted so we're gonna have to go with plan b sora xion but if you recall back in 358 over two when shion was killed by roxas everyone lost their memories of her so how could they bring back someone they didn't even know existed well the answer is quite simple their hearts may have forgotten but their documents sure haven't they still wrote about her in their reports over in the world and never was so they just remembered her all over again when reading them i know that makes perfect sense but that's still some fan fiction sounding [ __ ] to me now let's get to what we came here for sora's first stop on his new adventure is the final world cherokee reiterates what young xehanort mickey and the ending said he's already restored six hearts if he continues on this path he'll fade away from the mortal world and on top of that he'll lose the power of waking so he can't just use it to come back but once again sora don't care just point him in the right direction basically what's about to happen is sword's going to go back in time yet again and redo the keyblade graveyard doing everything in his power to stop kyrie from getting deep sixth but because his heart was already present in a time travel sense we're going back to the first timeline the one where we all got [ __ ] up going up until we restarted the first time and then finally we'll move from that timeline the one where we beat the game does that make sense no we'll be traversing this old timeline through the hearts of the other guardians making our way through all of them until we get to kairi so first things first taranart one shots ventus and through that we see what's going on deep inside his heart someone's in there with him someone dark it's not phenitus though if you've ever played union cross like i haven't you know that a mysterious figure named simply darkness took refuge inside ventus heart doing some kind of evil things like killing lorim aka marluxia's sister strolitzia i guess they never left as they challenged sora taking the form of dark [ __ ] inferno so the devs must have known they were piss easy if they were the first thing we fought in this dlc it's an easier version and all but still that's very funny after obliterating them we go back to business now we go over to aqua's heart where we see why she gave up on fighting it so quickly you see in her eyes the tornado wasn't a terrible nightmare but rather a dream come true i suppose it's representative of some realm of darkness ptsd this mental issue manifests itself into oh no this whole dlc is just going to be redoing fights isn't it nothing's different here i don't even think it's been made any harder i beat her in about a minute because i was a higher level than i was the first time tornado takes her tornado takes everyone [Applause] taking in another deep heart dive this time into our own we see namine and the kind of flesh like she said she's in the middle of connecting tara's lingering will to the realm of light this scene doesn't really add much we already know that she did that we've passed over to the second timeline and our man lw is back but now we're traversing through his heart and following him and terenor to their battle ah all right i've been preparing since i last fought him what woody line should i use against him that why does your mind resist thing didn't really make any sense and it also wasn't really a witty line at all i was just angry i gotta have one this time i mean i'm the xehanort that's what i do best well aside from giving some bring that explanation as to why i'm still alive it could never die okay the time has come i've made my decision wretched spirit master xehanort why will says that he's going to protect aqua and venn no matter what you know the drill but then something i really don't like happens tara north starts kicking his ass he uses the guardian to take hold of him and nearly crushes his helmet skull why the [ __ ] is terra norte suddenly so ope he couldn't do [ __ ] in birth by sleep you can't make this such a hype moment and then have this [ __ ] beat the secret superboss so i guess that's how terrenhardt came back to the battle later he just nonchalantly killed him but in this new timeline sora jumps in and saves the day [Music] how can you be here hey i can travel to different times too you know did you think you were the only one with that power roasted oh but never mind i [ __ ] hate this stop it stop winning great the lingering will sacrifices himself for sore what a shitty ending to that character i know he's just tara and he comes back later but no lingering will is cooler he barely speaks which was tara's worst quality all he ever did was think brown-haired twinks ducks and dogs were zayn orton beat ass and now he's one shot by one of the shittiest characters rest in peace i guess now we get to fight terra nord alone unlike auntie aqua i think he's been made a bit harder due to not having venitas with him it's still not incredibly hard though he has the same moves but he goes just a bit faster once again cutscene villains win sarah gets grabbed tarano yells a bit more and before sora can die he's sent back to the true timeline to continue where he left off and now we're going through all the old fights again but with a few major differences in each of them except for the first one with mickey all you get there is a new kind of shitty team attack so let's get past it and move on to the next battle for the replica zigbar battle you get the option to play as riku again he plays exactly the same except now he has a shot lock that's just aquas but with fire and that's all there is to that one huh i was expecting to talk about these for longer there's a bonus cutscene that takes place after sora leaves the area demix pops in to take the empty replica it's kind of weird seeing these two interact with each other they're not the first two that pop into my mind when it comes to conversation pairings we don't get a choice on which of the two we get to do first this time we're forced into going for terra norton venitus but before we get to them we see another bonus cutscene with the wayfinders talking to them maybe not but i'm still going to keep calling his name we have to light his way home then hey guys feeling a little left out here vanitas you're coming home too oh akko can we keep him i'll feed him every day i promise venitas says that he and ventus aren't two parts of the same person but rather he was his own man inside ventus for his entire life until xehanort took him out lore i think more reason to believe he's coming back we play as aqua once again and once again nothing's changed with her there's a new team attack with her inventis but aside from that she's exactly the same after fighting for a little while sora finally comes back in and we get the choice to either swap back or stay as awkward for the rest of the fight i wonder i beat venitas first last time but what if i went for terra north first would tara get his body back and become a party member to fight venitus would there be an alternate cutscene now i'm curious let's see oh okay anyway venus goes night night and then tara comes back let's keep it moving another pre-sora cut scene with axel and kyrie are you truly foolish enough to believe you can defeat us what do you think wait is that an up yours they're allowed to do that i think you'll lose axel axel now that we know sayak's wanted out we can tell that he was the one that planted the seats for shion to regain her memories wait that keyblade is that you roxas roxas [Music] no it's not roxas axel huh and now sora is here time for the epic battle this fight had the most added to it by a lot once roxas returns xemnas doesn't just take kyrie and lee first he traps both her and sora in the cage of naught and he fights with sayax leaving us to play as roxas and let me tell you roxas is very fun to play as his combo starter has him warped to his opponent no matter where they are relative to him and he also doesn't seem to take his stun at all to minor attacks mid combo you could do the classic dusk reversal into a different finisher kinda the man's a beast but hold on what's the title of this video waste of effort right well psyax and xemnas are kind of a terrible combo one punishes you for being too close and the other punishes you for being too far and the only things that could hit stun psych are counters and duel shots your special move aside from that you just have to put up with him not blinking when you hit him there's also this team attack that for some reason shows up incredibly rarely i had to reload a safe twice just to get this [ __ ] thing to show so the character's fun but the fight itself isn't does that make sense what's that too negative well so was your mother when uh um [ __ ] once you do enough damage zemenes takes kyrie and leaves and the rest is history but you could play as roxas now skipping over to the triple north fight the only difference here is a new team attack which is essentially a big flashy screen nuke nothing else of note here now for the moment of truth we just gotta stop zaynor from really sora alright not good everything's just going as it did last time complete with mickey getting stops it but hold on mickey somehow contacts sora telepathically through the time stop and tells him something that he [ __ ] should have said the first time around and that's that xehanort actually didn't kill kyrie just then but rather he crystallized her heart so that just in case he were to lose to these three [ __ ] in the next few seconds he just used kyrie's heart to activate kingdom hearts anyway okay i'm gonna be real with you for a second everything that i just said could be very incorrect but i don't know what else it could be that's very clearly what mickey is saying here and if that's the case it doesn't make any sense at all again he didn't kill her but he was going to if he had lost so why the [ __ ] didn't he just kill her if he did that he could get to kingdom hearts i mean he does anyway but still why the unnecessary extra step this is the same problem as the new seven hearts as a concept just [ __ ] kill them if you want kingdom hearts so bad does he have a backup plan fetish it all feels like a lazy slapped on deus ex machina so that we still have a hope of saving her if she's not dead all we gotta do is get her heart back from xehanort before we kill him and again would have been great to know this the first time mickey could have saved us a whole dlc but uh whatever if the writers didn't know you didn't know am i right so it's time to take another trip to scala at kylum this time in spirit form before our canon self goes in we can't be in the same space at the same time physically or else we'll merge and things will go as they did before so we gotta rush and find our heart before the three half pints come in makes sense so far [ __ ] you let's rewind a bit in real life apparently there was a press-only trailer for this game in 2015 showing sora exploring scala much more than we ended up doing in the base game remind is essentially making up for that by letting us actually explore a bit starting from this area that was just a boss arena for these weirdos we've got some heartless over here one shadow has this strange aura around him as well as having a lot of health and a teleportation habit so you know that means obviously it must die this part's actually pretty hard they bombard you with other heartless and nobodies while you chase after this thing but it's all good because that one song that i really liked from earlier plays for more than 10 seconds during this part and for every heartless fight here now that's the best part of the dlc beating that shadow reveals that it was holding on to a fragment of kyrie's heart one of five the others seem to be hidden around the town there's one that you get by matching colors on this very unnecessary looking decoration but look out because you get ambushed once you get the heart piece there's one that's in this fountain and you gotta get it working by beating the [ __ ] out of it but once again luck out another ambush awaits you the next is caged up in the tunnels so you gotta make your way to a spot where you could dive slam it from and finally the last one's guarded by darkseid you know the deal it's classic dark side no twists in its move set the thinking man's tutorial boss well we've got all of them shouldn't you just materialize back or something wrong here's anor instead you know kiddo use the power of waking like that and you're gonna end up paying the ultimate price you're not my dad zayn or get to the point turns out he's the one that hid the fragments of her heart very thoughtfully might i add quite the mischievous little rap scally in that man there are two that we still don't have what kind of collection of items would something be in kingdom hearts if it wasn't seven or thirteen either way sora is too late the three canon half pints are here so it's time for them to merge from here we fight these guys again nothing new to note here we beat them nordy absorbs their power he goes armor mode current soar is contemplating his next move he suddenly gets the bright idea to trace the hearts of the only two guardians that he hasn't yet riku and meki would that spit out the remaining fragments better safe than sorry i suppose let's head outside seems these guys had the same idea all right i can't keep calling them these guys what's their name replica xehanorts okay so the replinorts had the same idea they summoned a bunch of keyblade portals and pushed the guardians into the air boy it's a great day for a fight six lights versus 12 darknesses in a climactic final battle admittedly there's really nothing to this fight it's just a whole bunch of matching x with the occasional square when they synchronize but i mean come on this is pretty cool technically you're playing as everyone and there's even some banter between them in the middle of it if there's one big flaw with this part it's that said banter is terribly mixed with the music and you can barely hear it so you've gained power what why aren't there subtitles it's not like there weren't subtitles during gameplay before i can't hear the only interaction roxas and ventus have i also think it goes on a little too long so if you die on this part not to do it all over again it stings real bad once you've got the health pretty low you earn yourself the sixth heart piece from riku but uh oh the replinorts get the upper hand and send the gang flying into the keyholes mickey's about to get sucked in but riku takes the fall now only the rats left one against twelve the odds are stacked against him but who said it couldn't be done he'll fight to his last breath and keep fighting damn it we play as mickey here struggling but barely warning off their attacks it's not very interactive all you have to do is swing whenever a replier appears and hold the left stick up when they fire their beams they get more aggressive as time goes on but it's nothing hard it's not supposed to be it's kind of funny but part of the song that plays here sounds like the american national anthem showing us that mickey mouse is the ultimate patriot finally mickey transfers all of his power into a giant energy sword destroying them all in two swings and finally unlocks the keyhole before collapsing from exhaustion this earns sora his seventh and final heart piece now let's head into the keyhole and free the guardians in kyrie from here we connect all the keyholes seeing this makes me wonder i wonder what a kingdom hearts 3d shooter would be like probably a side game in the works for that after doing that everyone awakens and use their light to piece the fragments of kyrie's heart together finally bringing her back their romantic reunion is short-lived because here comes xehanort to reign on the parade a new version of armored xehanort is the final boss but why isn't he using the keyblade that's his more powerful weapon isn't it we actually get to play as kyrie here and i'm glad to say she's pretty fun to play as like roxas her combo starter has her teleport to him albeit slower and having a more limited range she has a special move and a team attack with sora 2 complete with feathers showing little screenshots of them in previous games that's cute she also has a shot lock that works like the ultimate weapons matching the circles to complete it i'd say that the only downside is that most of her combo finishers have her yell which is pretty annoying as for xehanort his arsenal is mostly different from before he can spawn fire pillars unto you with sigils to indicate where they'll pop up as well as having the fire spawning from the underwater segment earlier but now not in the water so automatically it's better implemented halfway through he'll mix things up using more fire stuff the man sure does love his fire he also busts out his desperation move summoning meteors that have a really large area of impact all the while popping up now and again to take pot shots overall i'd say it's harder than the actual final loss although the desperation move in that one is more tricky after beating him the other guardians emerge and everyone puts their power together into a big energy wave that [ __ ] disintegrates xehanort into oblivion while the actual end to his character sucks i'll say that this is a bit more anti-climactic he just dies not even saying anything beforehand good thing this isn't the canon way he goes out i guess sora and kyrie's time in this timeline comes to an end and they disappear letting the events of the main game play out they go to the final world meeting up with chirothea once again unfortunately sora is starting to fade away so he doesn't have much time left he invites chirothea to come with them to the mortal world he gives an inspirational speech about how they should be together with the person they're waiting for while they have the chance this makes them cry and they agree and now we experience the where they now segment all over again but this time we can see that zora and kairi were there in secret for all of it they're the ones that pushed chirothea to see ventus again they were at the top of the clock tower with the others i assumed because they couldn't fit anyone else sora helped domine make her way to the replica body from kyrie's heart and finally as we saw back on destiny islands they share one final moment before he fades away and that my friends is remind it was interesting i can't say it fixed everything not even close there weren't any quality of life fixes like i said and the new playable characters were basically the entire selling point but those singular fights were all we get of them and never again but i suppose it's better than just doing the entirety of the keyblade graveyard again with some bonus cutscenes you know what would have been a good addition though if you have a save file with remind completed and start a new game plus on it you should be able to play as these characters again when getting to the keyblade graveyard as well as having those bonus cutscenes you know minus the time travel shenanigans that would have been a decent incentive to do new game plus not the selfie poses overall better than nothing but it doesn't affect my overall opinion of this game but the next episode of this dlc limit cut just might [Music] limit cut is not a story heavy episode there's only about eight minutes of cutscene in the whole thing the remind episode was the story based section of the dlc limit cut is the gameplay section that all being said there is a story to it and it starts one year after the events of the main game everyone is basically trying to find sora in different ways mickey donald and goofy are going through every disney world that they've been in the past i'm sure it was a blast to go back to atlantica and pridelands wonder how tarzan's doing and some of the y's in his gang suspect something within kyrie's memory holds a key to finding him so she volunteered to put herself into a coma so they can delve into her noggin and find something this may be just disliked the game's ending more again conclusion to the xehanort saga and it still ends with our main cast in a bad position she's put herself in a coma for a year another reason why they should have saved the setup for the next dark for later they're also searching through roxas and shion's memories with no mention of any coma there as for the wayfinders tara trained riku for a while even though riku is a master and he isn't master status basically means nothing at this point but after they were done with that he and the other two set out for the realm of darkness to search for him a quick question why them specifically why aqua she like has ptsd from being there for a decade remember i guess being with her friends is enough for her to be okay going there they don their armor and head out makes me wonder it seems that the armor is useful for protection so why doesn't yen sid give everyone armor anyway over meridian garden hey remember these guys remember how they had zero presents in the game i would say they just forgot about them but apparently they didn't in an interview nomura stated that there was basically no reason for them to be in the game story as they weren't needed for it which is true but make a reason i know that they're not necessary but neither are the disney worlds the entire point of this series is that it's a crossover between disney and final fantasy and the best he could do was moguls and even here they're only in two cutscenes also still no word on cloud and sephiroth that was basically the only thing i cared about but they still haven't concluded that plot point leon lets us know that they've been working at finding sora as well sid's looking through the data what data what's the data not gonna explain whatever after a year he hasn't figured out much but conveniently right as riku's come to visit he cracks the code meet the second incarnation of datasora along with him we've got data versions of all 13 members of the real organization perhaps this could lead us to sora one problem though the data of the organization cut their limits get it so now they're so strong that sid can't access them maybe they can use datasource to beat these data guys and let cid look through the data so now let's use the computer and fight them when we go to it we're given two options data analysis and data greeting data greeting is a mode where you can mess around with character models for photos it's pretty neat you can use multiple different maps and a bunch of characters and enemies it's fun to mess around with for a while but data analysis is where the meat of this episode nay this dlc is if you couldn't tell this is the successor to the data fights from two final mix they were fun but not perfect at all firstly they don't have any story as to why they're there there's just this weird place in holobastian that has the data organization why is it here why is it data never answered also all the fights were just redos of previous ones with minor differences of course they were harder and faster but you'd be lucky if one had a new move or two some of them were more annoying than difficult like larxene or lexius or xemnas this game has a pretty solid opportunity to be better than that minus terra north venitus and master xehanort you fight every organization member in groups so even if they did use the same moves they feel new because they're alone this time so how does it stack up well i'm happy to say that it's better than two stata battles way better and unexpectedly it's way harder better yet challenging they're mostly not cheap they're still not perfect but i had a great time figuring them out my gamer tip for all of these fights is use everything you can i'm talking buying as many elixirs as you can koopa coins cuisine the whole king caboodle you're really gonna need them these fights are intimidating as [ __ ] so go in knowing they'll mostly take a while i enjoyed these fights so much that [ __ ] it let's go over all of them i don't care how long this video is i want to talk about these fights strap in we're about to go over the best part of the entire game to begin with we have the choice of 11 fights two are locked let's do it in a sort of chronological order a real freak this kid a common theme that you'll notice between all these fights is that they very consistently try to [ __ ] with your head a lot of teleporting a lot of intentionally awkward timing no strong signals of when they're open they try to make you feel like you straight up can't win replica over here does a fantastic job of giving you that feeling he never stops moving he's constantly throwing attacks he's unpredictable you can't really run around most of the time because he's placing minds constantly but at the same time he has multiple unblockable moves so you gotta dodge just be careful not to dodge into a mine his moveset is so hectic that his desperation move is basically just him doing the same things he's been doing but faster one saving grace is that he has this really slow slash move that's easy to block encounter except except i just lied to you it only looks that way in reality he launches an unblockable projectile from it and if you get hit be ready to be comboed it's easy to just quit after trying him a few times like i said he makes you feel like you're not winning anytime soon but if you want to get through limit cut patience is key you'll see the cracks in his moveset eventually he has one move where he hits you from above and summons some red gunk on the floor and as long as you can avoid those he's open that move was the one where i went for him the most but there's plenty of others he was the first one i beat and it felt really good when i did you'd think larsen would be even faster and even more hectic than replica but not really she's fairly easy to read during the first half of the fight one of her main moves is a fairly short combo followed by her throwing her lightning shuriken thingies on the ground her opening is when she teleports away i bring this up specifically as an awesome segue into telling you that if you weren't air stepping much during the main game you will now airstep is like family to you now disregard it and you will die many times many of these guys openings are made far away from you so if you don't zip over there you're wasting time time that will certainly be spent dying anyway back to the fight things start to ramp up the lower her health is you know as usual but honestly i found this fight to be the least enjoyable usually when i fight a superboss in these games i try to just power through in 10 kits the first few tries so i know what moves i'm dealing with it's not very often that i end up winning by doing that her moveset consists a lot of lengthy combos that can be dodge rolled through and that's what i did i genuinely don't know how to evade a lot of her moves the right way because tanking it worked just fine for me unfortunately that's not the first time that's happened in this game but luckily it is the last [Music] in comparison to the last two this one's pretty slow you have much more room to breathe here that doesn't make marluxia easy however in kingdom hearts 2 he was probably the easiest super boss his gimmick back there was whatever level you are was the amount of times you could be hit he rarely did any actual damage to you the likelihood of you going through the cavern of remembrance at any level lower than 99 was slim and being able to be hit 99 times is pretty generous now it's been reworked from a counter that lasts the whole fight to a timer that he only gets for specific moves these moves look intense and would probably cause you to panic and wail on him to try and get through his armor fast in actuality however it's a pretty easy one to get through just block and dodge a slash move and you're good to go i really like this one because while it's hard you always feel in control all of my deaths in this fight were results of me panicking so take this one slow you're not going to be barraged here that is until his desperation move he'll give a counter of 99 that rapidly goes down meanwhile he's attacking you non-stop not being vulnerable until you hit 10. just dodge until that point airstep to him and you win this is a good one [Music] this is probably the most unique fight out of all of them much like his kingdom hearts ii counterpart luke sword doesn't have a health bar but rather a health bar the rules are simple if you can outsmart him he loses health if you could hit him he loses health and the same works vice versa his moves consist of find the right card find the right card find the right card and probably his hardest move find the right card this fight is one where you don't want to have any abilities that extend combos on because if you touch the wrong card you'll lose a chunk of your health most of his moves are super easy to predict and just as easy to punish his desperation move is notable because it's the longest but to make up for that it's the easiest too what i'm trying to get at here is that his fight is the easiest of the bunch he's harder than his main story fight but i'm pretty sure a singular neo shadow is too i still find this one pretty fun though it's different and i like different sometimes all right now we're getting into the super hard territory psyax will [ __ ] you up the first red flag you should see should be that the arena is much smaller than the others at first he's not too tricky to deal with but his rage meter goes up real fast and once it does this fight is over there's a few moves you might want to look out for starting with the one where he dashes all over the place spewing trails of purple fire all around then there's the little slam combo he does then there's the one where he throws many claymores at you before coming at you from above that's a fun one ah and who could forget the one where he throws five full-sized claymores at you and if you get hit by one it stuns you and you'll most likely get hit by another one of the four which will only prolong the stun and finally the one where he does the splish moon snack move all the while throwing claymores the point i'm getting at here is that his rage state will ruin your day good thing he isn't in a very often psych he's in it for like 75 of the fight have fun douchebag i'd consider this one as tough as the last zigbar plays with your head constantly that's his main gimmick as soon as the very beginning of the fight he changes the arena and starts shooting this on its own is fine but what i find particularly clever here is that at the end of this phase he brings in a hail of bullets slowly moving toward you that's a moment of panic for someone on their first try you might try to move away or move toward it so you can get dodging through it out of the way but it's never that simple he's still shooting at you so you gotta manage the immediate threat and the one coming for you it's such a scary set of moves that you probably won't realize that if you just stayed put from the beginning that reign of bullets wasn't getting anywhere near you and that makes it all the more [ __ ] up when later on it does every once in a while you'll get the option to have a showdown with him you just gotta wait until he moves and then press x i consider this one free damage the window to react is fairly generous though that doesn't really make this fight any easier he's got a wide variety of different ways to shoot you most of which are pretty sudden he'll also stop attacking altogether and just walk around for a bit he's not open here so he only does this to make you nervous his desperation move is very similar to his kingdom hearts 2 desperation move he shrinks the arena and goes ham isn't so bad once you figure out the pattern well placed dodge rolls and circular movements are all you need also take note that he starts to get stingy when it comes to getting close to you once he's low on health or at least that's how it was for me i think this fight shoots up high on the difficulty scale [Music] three pains in the ass in a row vanitas is as relentless as the replica albeit in his own way a whole lot of his moves can freeze you to help you with that i'd recommend getting the snowman rosette because it has freeze protection it can be found in the seventh layer of hell and honestly just keep it on for the rest of these fights some of his moves are pretty simple but that makes it all the more frustrating when he has you hit stunned and gets you with him the main thing that gets me with him is that damn desperation move the shadows getting mixed in with the keyblade waves always throws me right off waves have to be dodged and the shadows have to be blocked mixing them really confused me on which of the two i should do and my brain takes too long to react so i usually opt to just dodge and block whenever i think i should which would be fine if the move didn't go on for 27 seconds that probably doesn't sound too bad but trust me it feels like an eternity it takes an especially long time to figure him out but once you do it'll feel really good to shut him up [Music] get in [ __ ] we're going to the north zone north's only no girls allowed terra north's a fun one his voice clips are just as annoying as in the main game and thank god for that he's not the fastest his moves are pretty easy to predict and that dark ball move is essentially him begging to be hit overall xehanort isn't very hard but this isn't xehanort this is terra nord once he busts out dark beast's terra that's when things get tricky his moves have a larger area of impact and uses the tried and true method of using an unnatural pattern of attacks to throw you off however he's very polite to inform you about his desperation move incoming dark times ahead indeed compared to the others terra nord's very straightforward and not quite as tricky as the last few let's delve further into xehanort hell well well well looks like you couldn't stay away huh babyface is more of a ranged fighter than close quarters a lot of projectiles and minds and traps the few times he gets close is only for a brief moment then he's back to keeping his distance it might seem like it's going to be difficult getting to him because of how much he throws at you but trust me it isn't he has a very healthy amount of openings where you could air step to him and then just wreck his [ __ ] there's no move in his arsenal that actually poses a threat if you know what you're doing hell even his desperation move is lame even if it looks cool he puts on all these theatrics just for him to continue keeping his distance the problem with that is that by putting me in an enclosed space he's also put himself in one i'm not stuck here with him anyway just get to butchering him and then you're done what a loser [Music] as a fittingly stark contrast to ansem this one's painful xemnas's gimmick is that he'll use his trademarked emptiness vines to fling you all over the place he doesn't relent on doing that either it's not like it's a death sentence if you get grabbed by one but it'll definitely throw you off by putting you in a completely different part of the arena sometimes and every time he tosses one out he goes leaving no obviously not we're in the data realm [ __ ] he also uses his trademarked glass walls of the void to be flung into aside from that his moves consist of lightsaber and feet combos my two favorite kinds not too hard to get the rhythm of it but you'll have to manage that rhythm in the midst of everything else and ugh don't get me started on his desperation move he turns off the lights and he basically does the same things he's been doing until he brings out his patented laser dome of desolation he starts letting some of them loose some only a third of it he'll then continue to attack you while you're waiting for round two those lasers are taunting you the whole time once that round comes you'll instinctually block them but then he'll fire some white lasers that are unblockable so basically what you have to do is dodge roll after a little bit of blocking then continue to block he'll keep going until the third round which is the same except if you get hit with the lasers you'll exit the desperation move stunned which means you are [ __ ] not to mention the fact that sometimes xemnas will break the laser's pattern so that if you were getting hit second chance can't save you he's such a dick it's like he's trying to win or something and for the love of god can you stop telling me to burst this fight's not fun i want to move on now [Music] this is another one that looks more difficult than it is young xehanort does an especially large amount of teleporting to psyche you out but the pattern of which he does it is always the same on top of that his moveset isn't very large he has a move where he heals himself which would prompt you to go and stop him but if you do that he'll fire a bunch of ice bullets at you looks like you fell for his trap except you didn't really it's super easy to just air slide away and have plenty of time to block them i like the idea of the move though very chest-like he can also send you to time land where he'll hit you with a barrage of moves and you can't escape unless you do a certain amount of damage good thing that that's a very small amount so you just gotta poke him once or twice and i'd argue that being in there was just as difficult if not easier than how it usually is past that is his desperation move once he hits one hp looks like he did some renovations to timeland not not very good ones because it's very mildly harder poke him a few times poke him again you win at the very least it was cathartic once you beat these 11 the final two are unlocked shion and the head honcho master xehanort i'm eager let's just fight them [Music] you'd figure that the locked bosses would be the toughest and you'd be right well actually i don't find shion as difficult as xemnas or psyax but she's definitely up there she's kind of got the roxas thing going on with the light beams but these are special here take a look at your health when you're hit by them uh oh yeah they don't do damage they lower your max health and it doesn't go back up once you beat the fight you're stuck with the health for the rest of the dlc i'm just kidding can you imagine elixirs and activating keyblade forms are the only ways to raise it back up so leaf bracer ain't saving you here also while you have a keyblade form active they do actual damage instead you don't want to be in midair because it'll be hard to get back down and your dodging abilities are limited there her other moves aren't anything to sneeze at either while not a random pattern she'll hit you with strike raids at difficult to predict times but you're going to want to try your best to memorize them because those moves are ones you can counter aside from that she has an armored state but i wouldn't bother trying to break it her moves here are particularly dangerous one can stun you and that means you're probably dead they're not too difficult to dodge so do that and don't attack the armor will go away eventually however her desperation move is one where you have to get rid of the armor at least if you want the move to end within the next hour you'll want to do that sooner rather than later there's a whole lot of light beams here and as we've already established getting hit by them is pretty punishing it's probably one of the more intimidating fights but unlike the others she has the difficulty to back it up learning her patterns was fun i enjoy feeling like i have a chance rather than just delaying the inevitable and maybe getting lucky good fight recommend [Music] destiny is never left to chance [Music] all right last one get ready he's the hardest in my opinion from the beginning he'll be hitting you with the meteorite attack my initial thoughts were okay i've seen this move it's gonna be harder of course they're probably gonna be faster or something nope lasers unblockable ones that have some crazy spread to them what even are these where do they come from same deal as eminence alternate between blocking and rolling probably shouldn't waste much time breathing because he's coming in with another it's that one move where he uses a bunch of elements and honestly i'm pretty sure it works the same as it did back then only difference is that you're alone this time he's only aiming at you and getting frozen here ninety percent of the time is a death sentence so keep that rosette on would you have guessed his opening here is to air step right into his face as he's throwing the keyblade you're probably getting hit so be ready to use reprisal to keep him hit stunned third move is one of his two desperation moves yeah he uses it this early the only way you're getting out of this one is by dealing damage to him doesn't sound too bad well he's teleporting a whole lot and he barely gives you time between teleports because he's swinging at you so you need to be relentless while at the same time getting through his relentlessness once you're out of that he's shooting more lasers at you i'm still not sure how to consistently dodge through the spread following that it gets more straightforward those four moves are always the first he's using but now it's more open mainly he'll be teleporting and swinging at you and this isn't too bad oh never mind sometimes he'll throw like steering wheels with his slashes seriously where is he getting this [ __ ] from you could block them but you have to roll right after because they'll explode another opening is made here after five teleports worth of wheels he'll stay put for a whole three seconds while you're busy dodging them one of his easier openings is when he's firing big red lasers on all fronts he'll just teleport in about halfway into the move don't know why he does maybe they just taunt you well jokes on you you senile liability although if you do it too early you'll most likely get hit by a laser i don't really care about that though i'm taking whatever chance i can get just use reprisal and you're fine as you could tell i've been pretty reckless with this fight but you can't be reckless after desperation move 2 hits so this is one of the most intimidating moves in the whole game it was scary in his vanilla fight but now it's much more ruthless shadows are coming at you from all angles lasers come in for a visit xehanort comes in and turns his keyblade into a whip since when could he do that so how do you get through it huh no really i don't i have no idea how to get through it i don't know why oh oh you laughed you all laughed when i said links are op how many times do i need to tell you when you're using a link you can't die i must admit i've been holding out on you this method can go for anything in this fight and all the others does venetus desperation move kill you too often c spectacle what about xemnas like i said those lasers are pretty tough see spectacle how about zigbar his desperation move is pretty scary what with you being stuck in a small space with hundreds of bullets coming in now now hear me out on this one c spectacle not only does c spectacle stop you from dying it stops you from getting hit too much at all so as you can tell this is a bit of a problem okay look does it make these fights easy no there's still plenty difficult and also links are tucked away in the command menu so you can avoid them pretty easily but it sort of sucks the tension out of some of these fights when you know you've got an ace up your sleeve that you're only choosing to withhold attractions were turned off for these fights and that's great one less problem to pollute the air here why couldn't they do the same thing with lynx just for the sake of stopping me from being grumpy about a children's game okay before i start rambling in my old age let's move back to fighting a man at his old age xehanort's moves start to ramp up after the storm he uses his little keyblade transformation trick outside of that moment what's cool about these is that he seems to finally be listening to his other members because they decrease your max health what else his moves get faster at lower health but everyone else's does too uh oh yeah a lot of his fight lines courtesy of christopher lloyd are hilarious concede cuts heed more you say boy you say you're reward yeah reward enlighten me and like me and you know there's nothing more to it than that unfortunately i lost the footage of my original fight with him so i'll have to guesstimate how much time it took to beat him like i said he's the hardest but something other characters like xeminus psyx or venetis have over him is that even after learning their moveset you're still going to have to put in a lot of effort to win while it took about as long as these fights in their entirety to even figure out xehanort's moveset once you do it's really not so bad his moves are scary and intimidating and they're tough but so are you you've made it past 12 other super bosses and you've learned things from them too your patience is probably higher your reaction times are probably better your choice in abilities and accessories is the best you can possibly do you're better than some old pervert with a big sword so once and for all send master xehanort to hell where he [Music] belongs overall this was a great time by far the best part of kingdom hearts 3. honestly one of the best parts in the series if i had to rank them in difficulty it would look like this and as for enjoyment this good job square i had a lot of fun one small gripe i have is that they should have let you do these fights with the other playable characters that would have been neat maybe you only have it available once you've beaten them all as sora and maybe get some bonuses for beating them as each character they could have made a whole thing out of it oh well it's not the end of the world once you've beaten all of them sid's computer learned absolutely nothing i would be pretty pissed if that wasn't such a good time but fear not it's the fairy godmother another character absent from the main game this dlc and also melody of memory feature her at her most useful she asks riku about any dreams that he's had recently funnily enough they've been very intriguing lately he's been dreaming of looking for sora in this empty city all the while he can't help but feel like he's being watched so that explains why he was in the secret ending but if he was really there instead of it just being a dream then could that mean that this is a dream world and maybe riku was sent there to protect sora because he's a dream eater like in dream drop interesting not the direction i was expecting this to take yen sid had the suspicion that because he was sora's dream eaters his dreams could hold the key to his whereabouts so he sent the fairy godmother here to look into it and once she hears what his dreams are like she figures there really is something special to them and the rest of that story is left a melody of memory the end that's everything right no not quite we've got one last chapter to our adventure and it's probably the most interesting of them sora the real one awakens in a place that looks like the final worlds but it's night time and it's completely empty no stars no jerothy nothing he calls out but initially no one answers when he calls a second time however there's a faint voice in the distance zora runs to the voice it's yozora sora recognizes him from toybox and strangely enough he recognizes you or your name if you're here then this can't be the real world can it but wait that girl she told me about you ah so that's who that nameless star was talking about so that must mean yo zora has a past life that he forgot about perhaps this past life was what we saw in that fake trailer maybe this girl was that star something of note here is that yozora is voiced by dylan sprouse who you may recognize from rick and mort zach and cody apparently the appearance he takes isn't his true appearance i hope his true appearance is like a neckbeard that would be pretty funny yazora has his own motivation one that we don't know yet he doesn't have any bad feelings towards you but he has to defeat you he transforms this place into sora's heart before then the city we've seen in the secret ending this place is known as quadratum apparently he's been here and went on his own adventure before being told to save sora huh then what's with the weapon time to end this and so the secret super boss begins one final mix's super boss was xemnas two final mixes super boss was the lingering will feminist wasn't incredibly hard actually being topped by sephiroth in terms of difficulty but the lingering will was by far the most difficult boss in the series his moveset was crazy and he didn't give you time to breathe despite that it was still pretty fun three remind has already proven itself to be really hard in limit gut honestly fights like psyax shion or xehanort gave the lingering willow run for his money but by the end of the day he was probably still the hardest i had no doubts that this would be a hard fight but will it top everything [Music] how could sorry but i don't lose [Music] i will save you so yeah suppose that was the bad ending you're getting kicked back to the main menu after this and you're given the option to retry right under limit cut obviously i'm not giving up there thankfully if and when you lose after this you don't have to watch that cutscene again only if you pick give up on the game over screen damn that's how you know this is going to be a tough one well nothing left but to beat him wish me luck [Music] let's do this [Music] this is by far the hardest fight in the series the lingering will is tough on his own but yozora outclasses him and then some the developer's goal for this one was most likely to give you a balls to the wall challenge unlike anything this game has offered before including limit cut and if it was consider that goal achieved even better figuring out his moveset is a lot of fun as much as i died in this fight i never got angry everything feels precise here so messing up the timings was always my fault as i said for the data battles use everything you have at your disposal koopa coins rage form cuisine etc his kit is fairly randomized at the beginning much like our man lw but unlike him yozora uses every move he has in the fight in one run let's go over them he could shoot six sets of lasers at you in an easy to get rhythm before pausing for a second and shooting out three more just to [ __ ] with you he'll charge up a blade slash and teleport to hit you with it before continuing to wail on you and charging up again one of his openings is made here airstep to him and attack but be careful because he will counter what you want to do is swing and immediately air slide away to avoid getting hit then air stepped to him again another laser based move has him firing at you interspersed with a couple of swings it ends with him spawning his blade behind you and chopping don't try blocking the first swing for whatever reason you can't you need to dodge roll once and then block leaving him open again don't roll twice though the blade will go away and he'll get up close and personal oh yeah i forgot to mention that a lot of his slashing loops take away from your max health another move has him spawn a red triangle thing that you need to roll out of at the right time to avoid getting demolished with lasers he does this three times with him going at you in between each he can go arm remote and start flying around this will lead to him tossing out some tractor beams and sucking you in to steal health and items off of you the [ __ ] can even steal your kupo coin so you're gonna be [ __ ] out of luck if you rely on that all you gotta do to avoid this is glide horizontally while he's using the beams he goes out of armored phones so you can shoot some magic at him another laser based move has him creep a big laser towards you before ramping the speed up at the last second followed by him shooting a bunch of faster ones out including some blue ones that can't be blocked he could do a little blade swingy dance to [ __ ] with you making you think he's best to combo you but instead he'll disappear and hit you with some invisible slashes before coming back in with a weird laser ball thing but all that nonsense was easy mode compared to these next few moves at some point he'll start running toward you all menacing first instincts to block and hope for the best but the best will not happen once he gets close he'll teleport and spawn a sphere at you if you get hit you'll get grabbed and have your keyblade copied onto his blade not only that but you lose your keyblade too from here you can attack do spells keyblade forms rage form anything he's gonna shoot waters at you first before lunging at you multiple times sometimes teleporting dodge rolling at the right times is essential here if you don't want to die unless you have potions or elixirs you have no means of healing yourself but even if you did you don't have the luxury of leaf bracer while he's coming at you after a good 30 seconds he'll finish by onslaughting you with hundreds of your own keyblades coming from the ground along with some circling you that if you don't avoid will shred you into thin slices get past that and you have your weapon back now it's time for the big one his desperation move he'll use a rubik's ball to change the environment around you while this happens you'll be barraged with red and blue lasers and difficult to predict combo patterns meanwhile you push back to the edge and into the air occasionally so your trusty dodgeball isn't usable all the time here leading to tons of hijinks after a while and i do mean a while the environment will change again and we're bum rushed by a bunch of the mechs from toybox because they're from veramrex that's a nice detail after a little bit of that we're changed back to where we were at the beginning of the move with a small variation in the way things work more teleporting trickery mainly along with him spawning his blade behind you a bit more time later and he'll again go to the white landscape for some clone action and finally the ball turns into a black hole that sucks the landscape in back to the way it was it tries to take you too while yazura tries to push you in himself i still don't know how to consistently dodge in here if you get sucked in he'll slice it in half destroying your hp like before links are useful here to cheat death but to combat this the desperation was two whole minutes long well above the length of the length even with extension abilities on for reference venetis and xehanort's desperation boobs can be completely avoided with a link lingering will's desperation move was something i found arguably easier than a lot of his other moves because all you really need to do there is glide with an angle for a while before spamming reflect at the end this by comparison is essentially a big [ __ ] you if you made it this far in the fight except not really because on rare occasions he could do this right off the bat in an attempt what a [ __ ] after he's done using that move the first and hopefully only time his moveset will change a bit being more aggressive than it already was a lot of his previous moves will now be blue meaning you can't block them and he'll gain a few new ones including a big fuck-off teleport heavy combo that messes with your head and a long-ass armored state combo that doesn't let up all of this is ridiculously hard a huge departure from the baby [ __ ] we dealt with in the main game but now it's just a straight shot to the end he has no more new tricks up his sleeve from here you need to be careful and aggressive at the same time the dodge and punishes moves more than ever and after doing that for roughly six minutes straight you can finally finally beat him [Music] oh my god he stole my cuckoo coin earlier so now he thinks wow and now he has wow i'll admit the first time i beat him this happened and then i lost i didn't even get mad i laughed that was too [ __ ] clever to get upset at bravo i got outsmarted it's impressive to see how far this game has come from its release from barriers that could be cleared with short hops to this insanity i was really hard on this game but now it's hard on me i consider this one of my favorite bosses in a game because of its learning curve it's seriously a blast and once you've overcome his moveset and probably learned how to always avoid getting your coins stolen you can feel the immense rush of dopamine flood through your cortex as you finally win [Music] [Music] upon beating him yozora starts to fade away i guess that my powers aren't needed yet what do you mean never mind he wakes up in a car a scene very reminiscent of one of the trailers for versus 13. the man in front gets his attention impressive is it not that's luke sword isn't it well we knew that he was important from that cut scene earlier with zigbar we get a cute little retelling of that i've been having these weird thoughts lately speech from kingdom hearts 1 and that's the end so earlier i said that the dlc symbolizes one of the game's biggest problems but i think it more symbolizes one of the biggest problems of this series which could very well lead to a declining interest and that's the constant non-stop blue balls that nomura loves to give you i get why it's a thing it keeps the players engaged wondering what's gonna happen next and obviously that has a monetary benefit but it could get so in your face that you'll realize pretty soon that this is a series that won't end anytime soon there's only so many times you can get us wondering what happens next before people won't care why get excited for answers when you're only getting more questions with it the formula is still working but it won't last forever and yozora here is a great example of that he's so mysterious but so is everything else the master of master zigbar luke sword still xehanort to an extent due to recent things that happened after this game subject x i can go on to the point that all these things blend together you'll get lost fast in all of these open plot points and not in a good way a decent way to remedy this is to quite simply not have it so in your face there are a few scenes in this game that open new questions and are brought up sparingly but not rarely and i think that that's the best way to go about it so many mysteries are practically shouted at you going forward tone the ladder down a lot and keep things subtle kingdom hearts has become known for its complicated plot there's no one doing that i just hope that isn't so obvious about it going forward since remind a few things have happened with the series firstly melody of memory a rhythm game that is of course important to the plot union cross came to an end and added an actually decent set of twists and most notably to me the game along with the entire series came to pc at the moment it's an epic game store exclusive so make of that way you will i did buy it and give it a quick easy code playthrough and i can say confidently that this port doesn't run well on my computer with obs but it does run pretty decently at low settings without obs which is impressive considering the computer i'm using as a low end laptop i'll tell you now that this is the definitive way to play the game for one reason and one reason only mods the modding community for this game is still in its infancy and they're figuring things out but this infant has already accomplished quite a bit there's this custom hud for sora that uses a modified version of official art and it looks damn good there's been entire animations created from scratch to give you some new moves and to that extent giving you the ability to play as other characters like venitus or xion with their own movesets and voice clips there's one that makes your movement way faster which does speed up the combat a good bit if at times giving you an unfair advantage there's one that makes your main menu family guy for some [ __ ] reason here's one that makes the ice castle peter griffin for some [ __ ] reason here's one that replaces the pc exclusive keyblade elemental encoder with a console exclusive keyblade dawned dusk i like this one because this was originally a keyblade that you get for pre-ordering the game at 7-eleven which is apparently a place where you can buy video games in japan the handle has a 7-eleven color scheme and it's called dawn to dusk because that's how long 7-eleven is open in japan this is the best [ __ ] weapon in any video game ever made and my personal favorite is this one that replaces tara's keyblade with his lingering will counterpart mod itself is nothing crazy but i just like the description bruh peep this one like really peep this one no more earth shaker no more ugly keyblade no more ugly hearts shaker no more trolls you've been blocked and and then how to pronounce his username hell yeah i'll endorse that but my actual favorite is the c mod menu it is as its title implies a mod menu letting you spawn party members and enemies wherever you want and many other features but my favorite part is that when you enter any data fight or yo zora's fight you're given a little character select menu where you can pick who you want to play as and what party members you're bringing in this doesn't necessarily make the fight any easier because all your party members die in like a few hits but it's still really cool to act out your own fanfic battles it's also very funny for when you want to settle unfinished business with sully wazowski and venetis and of course other stupid pairings taking on lark's scene with marshmallow is funny and you will laugh i said earlier that it would have been neat to be able to use other characters like roxas and kyrie and the data fights but now having that ability made me realize that it doesn't work quite as well as i thought as in they're all much weaker than sora and less versatile they all have two or three items on them they get their health shredded fast and they do a very small amount of damage compared to our boy it's a fixable issue but now i kinda get why it wasn't implemented but yeah if you have a good enough computer this is the best way to play the game mods aren't that hard to install either and well i guess that's all she wrote so that finally is the end of kingdom hearts 3. you've made it through all five hours of this video quite the long one wasn't it i've sung the praises of remind or rather limika nyozora but i think it's important to say that it doesn't change my overall opinion of the game by much to get to these really good parts you have to get through the pure mediocrity of the main game the disney worlds are the things that most people play these games for believe it or not the minority of people that are there for the main plot are just much more vocal and the disney worlds are a joke and the ending what we've built up to is a joke the good parts of the game are far and few between or locked behind a 30 dollar paywall that's not good it's okay to acknowledge the faults in a game you like and this game has so many of them you're allowed to love this game more power to you you don't have to make [ __ ] up to enjoy it it is undeniably a game filled with flaws to you it could potentially be a masterpiece but to me it's a bad game however don't get me wrong this isn't a video that'll end with me saying that this series is doomed to stay bad or will never reach the heights it did quite the contrary actually despite everything that i've said i believe that this series holds more potential than it ever has kingdom hearts 4 could very well be the best game in the series story and gameplay wise this upcoming arc is very interesting to me and tokyo team has clearly learned a lot if limit cut has anything to go by i'm excited to see what's next and you should be too i only want the best for the series i grew up with but in order to do that we need to see the bad to know where the good can come kingdom hearts 3 was the bad and very hopefully kingdom hearts 4 is the good that comes from it but as it is now this was massively disappointing and a waste of effort [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] so [Music] [Music] do [Music] cipher's been in hiding ever since the last struggle no one's seen him in years all we hear are orders delivered by levy except you you met with him face to face in order to contact setzer tell me where he is where is cypher where is

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