Ranking Every Boss in Kingdom Hearts 3
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Music used (in order):
"Wonder of Electron" from Kingdom Hearts Re:coded (2010)
"The Promised Beginning" from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010)
"Traverse Town" from Kingdom Hearts (2002)
"Shipmeisters' Humoresque" from Kingdom Hearts
"Rowdy Rumble" from Kingdom Hearts II (2005)
"A Day in Agrabah" from Kingdom Hearts II
"Scent of Silence" from Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories (2007)
"Squirming Evil" from Kingdom Hearts
"Shrouding Dark Cloud" from Kingdom Hearts
"Dive into the Heart Destati (Third Inception)" from Kingdom Hearts III (2019)
"Rowdy Rumble -The Crazy Carriage-" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Titanic Clash" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Hunter of the Dark"" from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix (2011)
"Scala ad Caelum"" from Kingdom Hearts Union χ (2015)
"Eye of the Storm" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Wave of Darkness I" from Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep A fragmentary passage (2017)
"Vim and Vigor" from Kingdom Hearts II
"Skyward Striker" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Sinister Shadows" from Kingdom Hearts II
"Winnie the Pooh" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Unforgettable -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version-" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Aqua -Dark Dive-" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Tension Rising -Angelic Amber" from Kingdom Hearts III
"The Deep End -Rock Titan's Rage" from Kingdom Hearts III
"No Surrender!" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Anger Unchained" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Enter the Darkness -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version-" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Graveyard Labyrinth" from Kingdom Hearts III
"The 13th Dilemma" from Kingdom Hearts II
"Lord of the Castle -Marluxia-" from Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind (2020)
"Dawn of Hope" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Laughter and Merriment" from Kingdom Hearts II
"Hearts as One" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Critical Crossroad" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Dark Domination" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Replicas" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Key of the Brave" from Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind
"Nachtflugel" from Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind
"Forza Finale" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Seeker Ansem" from Kingdom Hearts III
"A Walk in Andante" from Kingdom Hearts II
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Badmouthing KH2 should be enough for almost anyone to blackout lol
Yeah I'll pass on that thanks though
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Pat, never stop, you make me remember why this is my favorite video game series of all time without failure every time you upload something like this.
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My thoughts exactly (in regards to OP)
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Regular Pat: Uploads long awaited KH3 boss ranking video
Me in disbelief: Thats...Nuts!
Repliku's last words being "Take care of her" actually was the intent and was what he said in the Japanese dub. Translators just dropped the ball and didn't catch it.
Inbetween this, the callback in Data-Xion's defeat quote that was also lost in translation, and whatever was going on with Saix's facial animations, I feel like KH3's localization really left a lot to be desired
@@BearfaxII could you elaborate?
@@joa6336 In relation to the Data-Xion quote: her defeat line, "This is... how it's supposed to be", was apparently translated from what in the Japanese version was the same line as "You'll be better off now... (Roxas)".
In relation to Saix's animations: one of his facial expressions was a lot softer and happier in the Japanese version of the scene with him and Lea on the clock tower, but in the English version he has his usual stern facial expression on in the same shot. A few people interpreted this as the localization team or perhaps some of the higher ups (something something Disney) thinking the scene felt "too gay" and wanted to change it, other people more charitably thought it was just an oversight. Either way, it's a weird and completely unnecessary change; gay or not, they've been friends since childhood, it only makes sense for him to be genuinely happy to see Lea despite their current circumstances at opposite sides of the Keyblade War.
@@BearfaxII they did this a lot for some ungodly reason. When Sora tells Kairi "I feel strong with you Kairi" he originally says "you are strong after all Kairi". Which was supposed to be a KH1 callback to that scene where Sora tells Kairi to stay put because it's too dangerous and she'll only get in the way. Now Sora finally understands that Kairi has strength of her own, that she CAN help and that she's not some helpless little girl who constantly needs protection. He finally sees her as his equal but the English Localization Team decided to change it, making the scene all about Sora instead of Kairi.
TBF, the localization team dropped the ball a LOT in KH3... between flubbing Riku's lines to make them less gay for Sora (and thus muddling his characterization...) and trying to push SoKai ship at the expense of Sora's characterization ("WHY HER?!" makes it seem like he'd care less if anyone but Kairi had been killed, where as the original line "WHY?! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!" fits WAY better to Sora's "my friends are my power!" characterization. And then later, "I thought we'd finally be together..." vs the original "I thought we'd finally all go home..."? Yeah)... it's a shit show.
So many of the dialogue changes with the Destiny Trio seem to be about erasing any strong feelings from Riku about Sora... and altering Sora's dialogue to push SoKai as hard as possible. I hate it. Sora loves his friends. He's gonna want to try and lift them up, not use them as a ladder to bolster himself (as a previous comment mentioned, "I feel strong with you" vs the original "You're strong, Kairi" lines). I HATE what the localization team has been doing. They were more subtle about it in previous games... probably because Nomura had a larger part in making sure his work was translated faithfully... but it did still happen. They've been trying to push SoKai from the start, and now there's strong evidence that if there IS an end game ship to KH, it's gonna be SoRiku (come on... Sora falling to his knees while clinging to Riku's hand and crying, "It's Riku! Riku is here!"? Kairi doesn't get that kind of treatment. lmfao), so they are pushing even harder on SoKai to the point of harming characterization... smh
i think the reason Sora freaks out at the sight of one Shadow is because he's used to there being "more where that came from"
kind of like how you don't see roaches out and about during the day unless there's just no space for them back at their nest, tipping you off to the presence of an infestation
he isn't referring to just that one Shadow when he yells "HEARTLESS!", he's freaking out because this place he thought would be a safe hideaway seemed for just a moment to have been invaded by an indefinite number of them
But that's just a theory...
Honestly I feel you're on the right track about that, yeah Sora's handles Quadrillians by the hour... but normal people that don't have a keyblade can't exactly fend for themselves, like back on destiny island in KH1.
@@marxxplaysgames Mhm! -It's a nice touch that he specifically calls out Donald and Goofy, who he knows can get into a fight with Heartless at a moment's notice, whereas it looks like Big Hero 6 need to suit up to start having a chance against them.- He'd be understandably worried about everyone and probably jumped to the conclusion that the visor was a device that lets you see hidden, lurking Heartless-a terrifying prospect, to be sure...
Edit: I noticed later that most of BH6 is suited up already, so that element is out.
That, and it’s not really HIM that he’s scared for, it’s the fact that he straight up watched a man get eaten by these things before, and he’d rather NOT see that happen with anyone much squishier than he.
So, maybe more like seeing your kid walk up to you holding a live rattlesnake
@@spindash64 Oh defo
“[sniffing sound] Roaches! ROACHES-“ Coryxkenshin, SSS# 29
Even if fights like The Kraken and Davy Jones aren’t the most mechanically interesting fights ever made, those battles really opened my eyes to how much I value the mood of a fight. The pouring rain, the music, the sense of urgency, it’s palpable and I’m so here for it.
I really loved the Port Royal representation on KH3, starting i thought "oh, tía knows something", "Is the Leviatan's appearance convenience of Kingdom Hearts or convenience of Jack Sparrow existing right there?"
And then everything clicked at the end, i saw THE moment where sora's (a bit of) trigger (and a lot of) *HAPPY* scheme started falling apart against Davy Jones, it was beautiful and actually made me want to watch the Pirates of the Caribean movies (and possibly edit the third movie by putting the scenes from KH3 to make a "definitive KH hype experience"
And also the fact that Sora punches Davy Jones _in the face._ no magic, no Keyblade, just straight up decks a motherfucker
While kh3 is my least favorite of the mainline games, Port Royal is in my top 3 favorite worlds. It was the peak world in this game and one of the best in the series to me for how explorable it is, the battles, atmosphere, just about everything about it I loved.
Alsso immaculate graphicss. Don’t know what it iss but that sssene lookss ssuper good
And the thing about the Kraken is... IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD! Becket's men killed it and it's corpse was supposed to be the first thing we see upon returning from the afterlife.
“sora, dumbassedly” is one of my favorite quotes ever now, thank u patrick
My fav was when he said " that'd be like my darkness manifesting as a hand me down ford escape" 😂
"These ranking videos are secretly essays in disguise."
Yes. That's why I watch them
Fun fact about Skoll; He is named after the norse creature of the same name, a massive wolf that chased to sun as his brother chased the moon. His name meaning 'treachery' or 'mockery'. His DM, mostly called 'Black Sun', is also a small reference to the events of Ragnerok where Fenrir, son of Loki, devoured the sun.
and that was the peak of creativity that went into the frozen adverti- I mean fully fleshed out and functioning world of the video game Kingdom Hearts III.
This is the kind of stuff that makes a game more fascinating after I learn it
They put such a cool boss in the most lackluster area they called a world :/ Poor Skoll...
Fefnir
@@Someguyonline7732 Fefnir is Loki's son and did something different. Skoll and Fefnir are two different wolves.
not me crying over Pat reconciling with fictional corporate overlord icon Mickey Mouse.
God tier script writing and delivery as always Pat!
this is easily some of your best writing pat its insane
How can you possibly say that when you wrote this comment 2 minutes after this 1 hour video was uploaded
@@13EqualsB i watched it early cause im subscribed to regular pats patreon, which you can too for as low as 5 dollars!!
@@koumori9214 TOP TIER SHILLING
@@RegularPat YES SIR 🫡🫡
Ef yes
Davy Jones actually can teleport in the movies. He does it during Dead Man's Chest to warp onto the Black Pearl.
Granted, he doesn't seem to do it very OFTEN for some reason.
i had him do it alot somehow .... definitely didn't entirely like him teleporting around but it also wasn't a problem
I feel his teleporting was tied to things connected to his curse. Like he could teleport anywhere within his ship, and to Jack because he made a deal with him, he just doesn't do it often out of the possibility that Jack might be on dry land instead of his ship.
about your existential questions about the toys, around the beginning sora asks "why don't those ones move?" and woody responds "i guess they haven't figured it out yet," implying that every toy is created with consciousness but needs to actually recognize it and learn to move on their own. so really it's like puppeteering an infant too young to hold its own head up.
Reading this out loud in my head, your explanation sounds darker than I remember. Nice
I had always thought that the World Terminus was how the Heartless traveled back and forth between different worlds in KH1, maybe confusing "terminus" for "terminal," like some sort of train station.
I like this headcanon
Terminus can actually refer to the endpoint terminal of a railway
@@noodle4542 The more you know!
I love that you actually appreciate Kairi. Too many people treat her like Sakura. “sHe HaS nO pErSoNaLiTy…” Glad someone sees her value
Yeah, her issue is more that she doesn’t get enough chances to SHOW that Fire in her. Even in base KH3, there’s some there, but not really touched on as much.
@@spindash64 I personally wish she shows more of her personality from KH1. Since like KH2, she's just felt mostly like a damsel in distress with the old Disney princess personality if that makes sense. I still like her as a character, but I wish she showed how she acted in the first game.
@@phantom-X2086 she's in a coma for half of KH1 but I catch your cold.
@@AnAverageGoblin I meant the character she showcased throughout when she wasn't in that comatose state
I admit, I love shitposting about how Kairi is boring and has no personality, but it only frustrates me because I feel like when she was first introduced, she had this “spunky low-key tomboy” vibe about her that I greatly appreciated. Her introduction was calling Sora a lazy piece of shit and telling him to get moving.
I feel like we haven’t gotten to see that much after KH1, which just annoys the hell out of me. She had a personality, and it could have been a lot of fun. But a side-effect of them focusing on stuff that wasn’t her, and her being stuck in the role of “that girl Sora saves” prevented them from diving into the personality it felt like they’d started building for her. Hence why I roast her.
Gotta disagree on the Anti Sora segment being hard to tell when it'll end! The gold arrows that are normally used for form changes tells you how close you are! (At least I'm pretty sure)
Your right but on a first playthrough it may not be obvious
That sounds similar to Ven fighting Vanitas in BBS, but that also wasn't immediately obvious to many.
@@rupeehyrulian5259Doesn't the tutorial bring those arrows to your attention for both building to your form change and when the buildup may drop?
Thanks for your hard work, Pat! Your writing style always makes my day 😁
Thank you!! That makes MY day!
The bosses in KH3 are so good! If I have a favorite, it would be the Nort Court. The synchronization, the wild mayhem, and the goodbyes from the bosses makes it the best.
this aged well
Also Oscurita di Xehanort is an S-Tier nostalgia nuke of a song.
god, Ansem and Xemnas got my heart's ass tbf, I really love those cutscenes
love Teen Nort's scene; he dies as he lived, a little fucking shit lol
@@leowulf5280I second that.
I think part of the problem with Darkside in KH3 is that the side games kind of positioned it totally different in the interrim. 0.2 had those World of Darkness Darksides (you know, the ones we've known since KH1 lived there naturally), Days had it as a series of bosses you fought that got harder as you went up the family tree from Darkside to the Dark Follower, who had an additional attack to stop you from just standing in the back and pelting it with magic like a wimp, and Re:Coded has the initial Darkside encounter (which is markedly different from any other one in that Darkside itself is totally inaccessible outside of when it is attacking) go through three forms, with it getting buggier as it goes in and eventually becoming something that doesn't even look like Darkside, and then in the final boss fight shows up as a form Sora's Heartless takes with significantly more vicious attacks than any other version to that point, before turning into Anti-Sora directly.
But then it just... shows up in KH3, with even less attacks than it had in KH1? And then shows up in a gauntlet in the final true ending where it's barely gotten back to KH1 level, except now you can attack it at literally any time because your jump height and rising attacks can reach up even to its face at any point? Why? What's the point? He's not even remotely threatening then, you needed to give him more to do.
It might be to show sora is op now.
@@tumultuousv That showing only matters though IF you have prior knowledge... yet prior knowledge also shows that Sora handles massive groups like a Warrior's game and is inherently more powerful.
I always felt that Sora's heartless should have been Darkside rather than just a shadow. Could have tied in better later, like Destiny Island falling to darkness, including Sora, and then Vens light fights Sora's heartless with Sora's body a la Roxas foreshadowing and then defeating Darkside puts Sora's heart back into his body which is why he's the only dood from Destiny Island in traverse town. Coulda been something there.
Your Baymax voice when you said
“Oh no. Guess I’ll just go
fuck myself.”
Was /so/ spot on perfect that I had to pause for almost three whole minutes because I was rofling so hard. Another excellent video; I’d been waiting for this one for a while! Thanks for giving me some honest to god laughs and consequently brightening my day, I don’t think I realized how much I needed that. As ever, you continue to be my all-time favorite KH channel, and I can’t wait to see what else you come up with next! All the best, and happy holidays!
Every time you post a video, I always think: will this be the video that beats the manga video as my new nighttime “fall asleep” video? And damn every time it is! That’s a compliment btw. Your writing has been so good, especially in this video! I love how you balance informative analysis of each fight with your usual deadpan humor. Great stuff👍
Also, I love the clip of Vexen being hit by fire. Very much for me specifically✌️
Wishing you a happy end to women’s history month and cheers to December, women’s history month💕
Sometimes calling someone a "content creator" feels derogatory to me because it evokes the sterile feeling of something being created purely to be consumed, digested, and quickly forgotten about. That's never what Pat's videos feel like to me. It sincerely feels like he's building a library of videos that I actually want to return to and revisit later, rather than just a curiosity I've seen on my homepage with no staying power. It's in part because he takes the essay approach and puts real thought into what he's saying rather than just speaking on the fly. But it's more than that because they feel pretty painstakingly produced. It would be so easy to make a ranking where you just put up footage of yourself fighting each boss and talking over it, but the imagery used really effectively demands the audience's attention and enhances the already smartly written commentary (and that's to say nothing about the hundreds of clever visual and editing gags and easter eggs).
I really don’t care THAT much about Kingdom Hearts but Pat really makes a compelling case for why this franchise is actually worth talking about. And I’ve worked in the field of documentary post-production, and I can say with authority that there are famous or well-regarded filmmakers making archival footage-based feature-length theatrical or broadcast released documentaries that have put less effort into their final product (in both planning and editing) than Pat has here in his own feature-length video. Whatever success he has had or will have is totally earned, and probably not enough.
Also, this comment makes it feel like we're talking about serious business but rest assured Pat is extremely funny and strikes the perfect balance between taking the material seriously (to provide substantial and insightful commentary) and understanding how funny and ridiculous it is (in order to make fun of the franchise and himself) with some really funny writing, visuals, and editing.
not me about to straight-up sob. Thank you so much. I know it might seem pretentious or too self-serious, but I really do want my channel to feel like a library of projects instead of "a channel with videos on it." Obviously it's still that, but I really do want each one to feel like an experience. Obviously there are memes and off-the-cuff things thrown in, but I try to make it apparent that they're like a "sub-series" separate from what I consider the real chronology of the channel. Thank you again for saying all of this
that ending... I've been around since the days when you hit 1K and despite the fact I've dipped in and out as life's happened, I'm so proud of all you've done and even though I've only managed to pop into any stream of yours for a grand total of 10 minutes, your journey has been incredibly inspiring. your scripts (and unscripted content too) has put me in stitches on several occasions and your more opinion based content never feels very forced down the throat at any point. looking forward to whatever's next! also stellar thumbnail and obscure references btw the lump moment slapped
Man you never fail to deliver Pat, that one Katy Pericles joke was hilarious damn. Love the way you wrote this down, I mean they're always a banger but this one has been your best so far imo.
EDIT: Real happy for you to try and engage more with positive comments than the haters. I can't imagine what that's like in an internet standpoint, but happy holidays and enjoy your school break, my guy
My first playthrough of KH3 was after he was announced for Smash, on Critical, and I thought the hardest had passed with BBS, thinking that the last Keyblade Graveyard was the hardest the games would get. I had heard KH3 was overall easier than the others, forgetting that Critical was added when Remind came out. When I played this game, I think this might be consistently the hardest in the series. I remember taking a lot of attempts on numerous bosses, every end of area boss took like 10-20+ attempts. Keep in mind, I had binged the entire series up to this point, and thought I was used to early game struggle to mid-late game ease until the very end. But this game was constantly kicking my ass, there were some regular enemy encounters that would often wreck my shit. But overall, no boss was as hard or as fun as the “Nort Court” that shit took me at least 3 hours to fully get through, and it was mostly the first phase being a bitch. I think the worst part is, even if you beat one Nort and then die after damaging the remaining alive ones, they respawn at full health, which only made it take longer. And then Armored and Final Xehanort were somehow harder, and the Remind fights ducked with the menu. Still, I think I love this game, and Sephiroth in KH2 might still be my favorite fight in the whole series. And no, I have yet to beat the Data Org fights in Remind, I kinda lost motivation to play KH after steamrolling the entire series over the course of my senior year of high school, but am getting through it every now and again.😊
Holy shit this was way longer than I thought it was gonna be wtf
"I think it would be a lot easier to nail the choreography when you're teaming uo with yourself"
* In the Graveyard*
Ansem: Ok, guys, we know what we have to do, right?
Xemnas: Yes
YMX: Kick their asses while bopping and dancing to 90s pop music.
Xemnas: Yeah but minus the dancing to 90s pop music.
Ansem: Although we can still dance...
*Proceed to do the dopest choreography in history... WHILE BATTLING! *
Random thought regarding the world terminus in KH1: I always thought those were gateways the Heartless used to get to those worlds. Meaning you actually do travel back to the worlds. I could be wrong of course.
Edit: also that video was fucken great!
Your writing was completely on point this video! Perfect mix of dissecting the good and bad points of the various boss fights, as well as amazing quips and comedic bits. I can really see the thought and effort you put into this :)
Thank you so much for your videos, Pat. I love Kingdom Hearts, and I have been watching your stuff since 2019. I hope you have a great holiday season. Here's to many more years of awesome things.
Thank you for sticking around!!
The wordplay is off the charts, Pat. For real though, incredible video. My roommates and I are going through III blind as a final game before he moves away and this came at the perfect time. I'm very happy to reminisce about the game as I prepare to send off one of my best buds at the same time, so in an odd way this was real comforting. Thanks for the incredible work, dude.
Small personal note on the Nort Quart:
While I totally agree that the "titans of the series" comment mainly should include Ansem and Xemnas with the BBS funny keyblade storm in the background, I have a little bit more personal history with it.
My first KH game was 3D, and Young Xehanort was an incredibly challenging fight for me. It destroyed me over and over, knocked me down and then time-stopped me to stab me again. So when I walked into Nort Quart, every member felt more important; the original villain, the villain who I enjoyed the most, and the boss that crushed me years and years ago and singlehandedly started my love for KH bosses.
Fantastic video, by the way
I just finished reading the Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days novel recently (though, I still have yet to beat the actual DS game), and as a MAJOR fan of the sea salt trio and their stories, I REALLY can't wait to see your 358/2 Days video!
That and it's been almost a year since I officially became a Kingdom Hearts fan! Thanks so much for helping me stay invested in this marvellous series, Pat! It means a lot!
I'm always impressed at your script work, the way you can riff out metaphors like crazy without skipping a beat is amazing. Once I recover from a great joke, you're already making the next one. Its so exciting whenever you release videos, this is one of your best ones yet!
Your commentary on the Davy Jones fight just convinces me more that I wish somehow we could play Roxas v Riku in HD. The DS graphics are not enough.
edit: The cameo from Richard Epcar was so sweet
I never realized that u could use goofy bombardment ( the attack where sora throws goofy) to force the lump of horror out of its invincible phase, just like how goofy can insta kill the sand heartless things
I found this out during my most recent run though on complete accident
I like how Kairi throws the key blade as part of her combos, I hope sora can get some moves like that in the future and maybe even using the chain on his keyboard to swing it around and stuff, especially with how we see him use the keychain for traversal
Agree on 13 seekers, so unsettled at first, maybe a bit of fear, so walking over a few feet and getting greeted with a barrage of attacks was so memorable and evoked a lot of emotion and hype. Which was hard to come by for me in KH3
And even technically knowing WHAT they are doesn’t really address the fear of HOW they are. Not, “how are you doing”, but “how the fuck are you still moving?”. Is Xehanort literally controlling them like marionettes? Are they operating on just enough awareness to be sentry bots? Are they something else?
@@spindash64 My headcanon is that Xehanort is controlling them, messing with Sora before basically making the armor.
I've always thought it was the keys MX collected that controls these marionettes and taking a literal form (since Xehanort was collecting them like keys pretty much after they get defeated).
The long-awaited ranking video…! Absolutely a fan of the analysis and witty writing, it’s been really fun relistening to the prior boss rankings like podcasts and the KH3 ranking’s an amazing evolution
RIP Genie Jafar, you will not be missed... unless a CoM or Coded boss ranking happens in 2030
I love this video a ton, just a few things I can comment on:
12:13 That's actually just the Flying Dutchman, it's just a persistent little octopus head.
15:00 Dude, I'd LOVE to fight Mozenrath from the animated series too, no joke XD
24:42 There ARE arguments I saw (TV Tropes did a bang-up job of it too) to justify why each hero is in which world, so there can be some speculating done there. Basically; Riku had the same godly expectations Hercules did and fell to temptation that required them to prove themselves, Aqua and Davy Jones were both masters of their crafts forced to go through matching 10 years of Hell only to be abandoned by people they cared about, Ventus and Woody share the fear of being left behind by their loved ones and ended up at the mercy of a psychopathic kid wanting to kill them, Mickey and Rapunzel are two nobles estranged from home who were rescued and given new motivation by roguish-type handsome guys, Goofy and Anna were both enamored with the idea of following destiny until it led them to toxic people that hurt them, Donald started with Sully's professional-only approach to their respective charges until they grew to genuinely care for them, and finally both Axel/Lea and Hiro lost someone dear to them and their stories are more about the aftermath of them dealing with the grief.
48:16 Yeah screw Unknown-Xehanort.
53:57 I mean, thematically it makes sense. Gothel is SO obsessed with keeping appearances, her youthful look, that the Heartless STILL just looks like her AS a Heartless.
01:01:10 Aaaactually the light balls he drops are purely for aesthetics XD You're supposed to check the Action Command gauge for this (the golden arrows that show up over the command menu as you're building up a bigger one) But you're right that it isn't as clear as it could be.
Also, the order you fought the Nort Court is the one I like to do it in. With matching keyblades for each.
Keep being amazing, man!
I had to pause the video at 1:07:54 after the “Yo Zora!” line because I was crying laughing 😭
GENIE! My final wish! I wish to be an all powerful BIG FISH so I can pull off the hat trick!
My favorite kh youtuber talks about my favorite kh game? Hot buttered popcorn that's a deal!
You ever consider putting your stuff on Spotify? I’m selfishly asking for myself lol I’ll admit it and I’m not ashamed of it but I work two jobs and the second one is a night shift. I’m a heavy metal/hard rock guy but on the way home most nights I prefer something chill especially since I’m starting to go home at roughly 2/3am. So I go to UA-cam and throw on your boss ranking or world ranking videos and everytime I finish a run of them (run as in watching them all in chronological order), I just…start at the top again, every once in a while throwing the Days or mini game ranking in the mix. This has been going on for literally over a year and I’d like to get just the audio since even though I’ve seen all of your videos 20+ times I can’t resist peaking at the screen every once in a while 😂 legitimately appreciate you man, you’ve become one of my favorite UA-camrs and reignited my love for KH. Forever blessed that the original boss ranking video found its way into my recommended tab a couple years ago
I'm so happy to see that somebody else says 'Yeetus Vanitas' for the Monster's Inc. segment. I cracked up so hard at that bit on my first playthrough.
41:50 You know I actually do dig Xigbar and Luxord being the joint boss. Maybe they could make it minigame-ish too, like you have to find the Luxord Card before Xigbar finds the Riku card. And Xigbar seems like the type who would be down for Luxord's games.
I agree with some of the bosses feeling easy. I wanted some more DM/counter DM like Skoll or Grim Guardianess. But the DMs we do get are extremely fun to play
SMH my head, when will these ego-inflated UA-camrs stop e-begging all the time 🙄🙄
replying so everyone knows that this person is one of my first ever patrons
@@RegularPat If they don't stick around for the Pat reon credits that's on them tbqh
Sköll is so ridiculous on crit level 1/pro code runs. Currently stuck on him right now, actually
Kh are some of my favorite series even though some suck and kh1 is some of the best and please video's on the data fights in my opinion kh3 is one of the best in series stay safe and I agree it's the easiest but I don't mind love this
I appreciate you and your uploads, Pat.
Need a new Patreon goal where Pat promises to fight George in hand to hand combat. Loser has to play KH2 and is banned from playing KH1 ever again.
Sora also fights Darkside in Chain of Memories, so that's technically 6-7 times you fight him across the series as Sora alone.
oh my god you're right. fittingly i forgot
1:07:08 holy shit that killed me. never thought i would hear that combination of words before
Honestly, I'd like if KH2FM's and KH3+Re:M's data battles were a single video, so the returning members can be compared between the generationsal gap.
Only boss I disagree is the 12 replicas at number 2 they are a joke of a boss Aero just rips them apart when they try to gang up on u
Maybe that giant heartless in the KH4 trailer is an evolved version of Darkside, as they share alot of similarities.
I guess I'm a weirdo because I was thrilled to see that cure is mapped to triangle (or in my case Y, I'm an Xbox player) for alternate characters, as that's how I have always had it, even when I was a kid lol
I think my thinking was cure=green, triangle on a PS controller is green, it just made sense to me 😂
Although I would switch a few around I 100% agree with the motivations for each ranks.
I find "The Treysh" infinitely more funny than I should. Congratulations on making me disturb my neighbors by laughing too hard with a single misspelled word on a screen.
i take a large amount of inspirtion from how Danny DeVito says it on Always Sunny
Hey pat, I just found something out about the kh remixes that I think you would find cool. Did you know that in the kingdom hearts remixes, they actually color code the save menu based on console? (Green for Xbox, red for switch, blue for PlayStation). Great video by the way!
You know, the thing I've always loved about your videos is even when I don't agree with that you're saying, you articulate your points so well that I can totally see where you're coming from.
Fantastic job on this! Data Xemnas, Data Marluxia (though you're not counting data fights here), Yozora, Lump of Horror and Davy Jones were my favorite fights in this game and it was cool to see you talk about them.
Katy Pericles is proof that Pat is the best Kh content creator
Pat, your words on Ansem reminded me (no pun intended) how much I love this franchise and will probably still be playing this franchise, even as my fingers' dexterity and reflexes begin to fade, there will always be more to seek.
"Say what you will or even Elizabeth about the Pirates franchise" is top tier writing, my god.
Pat you're the best KH UA-camr hands down
My interpretation if the Dark Inferno is that it might be the heartless form taken by a keyblade wielder, or maybe the collective darkness of many keyblade wielders who didn't have enough darkness in their hearts to fully turn. You fight both versions in the keyblade graveyard and his swords are kinda vaguely keyblade-ish in shape.
The worst part about the darksides returning is that THEY STILL ACT LIKE 1 ALONE IS ENOUGH, NAH, I WANT TO FIGHT 5 AT A TIME, AT LEAST THEN IT'D BE A CHALLENGE! GIVE ME THE 100 DARK SIDE AND TWILIGHT THORN BOSS FIGHT INSTEAD OF REPEAT BATTLE IF 1,000 HEARTLESS!
To comment on the Dark Inferno, I think that Remind and base game Dark Inferno are meant to convey that the Dark Inferno enemies evolve and change over time. Their visual similarities to Darkside, and Darkside's presence always being tied to Sora in some way imlpies to me that Sora may have been the one to directly bring Heartless to the other world in KH4, or that Darkside itself has somehow gained the ability to grow and evolve with time, becoming the KH4 trailer Heartless and later slowly compressing itself down, growing more and more similar in moveset and skillset to Sora. Like the heartless version of a Nobody becoming an Organization member, it's the dark heart growing its own vessel around itself, becoming a stronger and more realized being.
TLDR: I think Dark Inferno is the KH4 trailer heartless and the teases we've gotten with him are specifically pointing at how he will grow and evolve over the course of KH4.
It's kinda funny that you regard Larxene and Marluxia's fight as the one Sora would rememer since all of his Chain of Memories encounters were rewritten to fix his memories while he does remeber Luxord as KH2 was after his memories being fixed.
I personally prefer 3 over 1 and 2. I see it as an upgrade, however, I can see why other people don't.
Kh3 adds a bunch of new features at the start, but that allows you to pick how you want to play. You could be someone who uses physical attacks, and your big bosses are the ones that are magic based. You could be a magic user, and have your fights which you struggle with be resistant enemies or underwater segments. You could even be a shotlock user like me and cry in agony until you get focus syphon whenever the meter runs out. Either way, it allows you to learn what types of keyblades and stuff you want to use. I personally found attraction to using Ever After due to the ranged attacks and AOE it can do. Either way, I personally find it fun if you do it in critical mode, and critical mode only. Every other mode is too easy in some way or another, and it feels like the TRUE way to play the game. PRO codes and EZ codes also let you customize the gameplay easier without needing to modify the game in some way.
I find Kh2 to be my 2nd favorite, mostly because I grew up playing it first, and it taught me the mechanics of how it should feel to play the game. Drive forms are appealing, yes, but mostly just collecting synthesis materials being somewhat simple and studying enemies is probably why I prefer it over Kh1 but a bit less than Kh3.
I place Kh1 in 3rd place (not because I dislike it or anything) but because I find the mechanics a bit more clunky, and I prefer having some more streamlined movement options to start. It is the only one I haven't beaten because it's too time consuming to grind, and because I recently bought Kh3. I understand the appeal of it, but I prefer the others above it.
-Kingdom Hearts Union X will never be forgotten-
The jokes in this video are peak
The replicas are jarring, where other villeins will speak with and antagonize Sora, the replicas only offer silence. No belittling, threatening, scheming, back stabbing. Anything that isn't them reforming and becoming god is simply a delay. (might just be me) None of the other villains are this cold, all of them would be better off with him gone and are ready to make it happen if need be but none of them feel like they are actively trying to just straight up brutally murder Sora.
Learning all of Yozoras attacks over days of grinding to practice for whenever I get there on my lvl 1 all pro codes critical mode run was honestly really fun. I've even almost got down how to dodge the mecha attack without any summons.
By the movie Big Hero 6's own internal logic, we're definitely not supposed to feel sentimental about Hiro's original combat chip (nor Baymax's original body). It's Tadashi's healthcare chip that actually has Baymax's personality/"soul"; it's the thing we the audience are meant to sigh in relief for when it's salvaged in the end, even while Baymax's body and combat chip are lost in the void. All the moping in KH3 about Hiro having to destroy his original combat chip as if it's the equivalent of KILLING BAYMAX or something is meaningless and a false reading of the movie.
Maybe I just suck, but the difficulty is absolutely much higher on Critical in KH3 than critical KH2, in my experience: yeah, KH2 crit has some utterly brutal points, like that one hallway before the data fights, but other than that, you’re pretty safe once you make it to Olympus: not super safe, but the number of abilities you can equip by that point turns Sora into a high speed blender, so enemies don’t actually GET many chances to hit your piddly defenses.
In 3, you do much less damage on Critical than in 2, and that means big groups are actually really scary, because while you’re wailing away at one guy, there’s another guy who will come walking up behind you to clap your ass. The bosses are far less vicious feeling due to being able to actually focus on one person’s patterns, but you still need to survive a lot more damage trades than in 2. And this will be a problem throughout the game, with hordes only very slowly becoming less terrifying as you reach later worlds
Of course, that doesn’t really tie into the “vanilla” experience as much
13:20 I think he’s more freaking out because it’s the equivalent of having a sick bat in your house, and you do NOT want to have to get that fucking rabies vaccine in the stomach. I mean, the guy literally calls himself the exterminator in Monsteropolis
13:50 it makes more sense when you remember he has King Mickey and not Donald for white magic
(Yes, I know he’s not that bad, and he’s a Black Mage who’s stuck babysitting more than anything else, but the meme is obligatory)
26:00 to be fair to Ice Titan, KH3 seems to be trying to pull an MGR sort of power scaling with its tutorial, by pointing out that Sora’s weaker than he could be… and STILL having him shred monsters that literal GODS struggled with. Plus, of course Ice Titan was gonna be easier in a game where you can actually reach his face without needing to block 500 missiles
41:10 it took me until now to realize the “joke” is that it’s a Puppet pretending to be the real thing, and a Puppet Master pretending to be a puppet.
The way you talk about KH3, nobody talks about it like that. KH3 is my favourite of the series, I didn't grew up with kh1 and kh2 like you lot, I watched somebody play these games and then bought 1.5 2.5. I didn't have ps4 so I had to get spoiled of the story. Then it came out on pc and it was a unforgettable experience, I like your list and your videos please keep up this content :)
Not making Bahamut the final boss of Toy Box was criminal
It could have been really cool
I'm a freak that loves KH3 and think it's the best KH game
And I've never seen Big Fish befor in my life
There is actually a reason KH3 could not let you unlock a lot of its features... it isn't designed too.
KH1 and KH2 got around this by letting Sora become more powerful in his space then his space was. In KH3 Sora is exactly as powerful in his space as his space is and none of the tools he unlocks are good for growth.
Flow Motion is as if you gave Sora High Jump Lv30 and Glide Lv30 at the same time. Unlimited Forms is an infinite use system which has enemies designed with you being in forms by giving you massive mobs like a Warriors game. Sora gets so much power and movement that a growth of it doesn't work.
This is such a massive leap in power you would feel the lack of it hard and it would actually make KH3 a lot more of a divisive experience. The game would start out very traditional appealing to those fans, while then it goes very high speed and extreme appealing to those other fans while alienating the first group. All without illustrating steady growth.
It would also make every moment Sora isn't in a form or isn't moving at high speeds worse as it creates whiplash and you can't design early levels to make it feel like Sora grows without giant open spaces and horrid mob fights.
as someone who got into the series quite recently, I can agree that KH3 is probably among the easiest in the series. but much like you, I still really love KH3. I'll also agree that a lot of KH3's bosses weren't as remarkable as previous games (though there were some great ones in there of course)
I played each game on the hardest difficulty (available at the start), except KH2, which I played on proud mode instead of critical. my thoughts on the difficulty are:
KH1 is by far the hardest in the series, it's absolutely brutal throughout the entire game. each time you reach a new world, you have to catch up to the enemies. enemies deal a ton of damage. bosses could vary in difficulty, but were usually really tough. the end was also incredibly tough, the invisibles were brutal. and that enemy gauntlet at the end was ridiculous.
DDD is second place I'd say. although overall not as hard as KH1, its difficulty is quite consistent, and it gets quite challenging at the end.
BBS... generally, the earlygame is quite tough, with some tough basic enemies as well as bosses, but it gets easier near the end of radiant garden, while keyblade graveyard is quite tough again. however, in terra's story, olympus is absolutely brutal. but I imagine the difficulty of each story will depend on your commands. each story was easier than the last I feel, because I understood the commands and command styles better with each story.
KH3 is similar to my general impression of BBS: it starts of really tough for the first couple worlds, but gets very easy after that. olympus and the first half of the toy box were absolutely brutal on critical. I got stuck on some of the basic enemy gauntlets: the first one in olympus, the one in the burning building, the minotaurs, and the one with the monster toys in the toy box. angelic amber was also ridiculously difficult, and the titans were super tough as well. but after angelic amber, the game gets really easy, even on critical. it's only at the 3 norts at the end of keyblade graveyard that the game gets quite tough again.
the avalanche sequence in the frozen world was extremely difficult though, but not in a good way. one of the few parts of the series that I think is actually just awful, together with data vexen.
as for KH2... well, I played it on proud, so it was of course easier than the other games. but I got a similar impression to KH3: it starts off quite tough, but gradually gets easier. atleast on proud, KH2 didn't really ramp up in difficulty near the end though, but there were a couple difficulty spikes, namely roxas, xaldin and demyx. cavern of remembrance was incredibly difficult too.
I totally agree that 3 is the easiest game, mainly due to the lack of critical mode at launch, with that I think the difficulty comes back, even though it might not be the hardest critical I think it is the most fun
That's all without any DLC consideration because a Risk Taker playthrough is where you have to think about EVERYTHING you have and how to use it, made every boss so much better than pretty much everything else that has come before giving us a great challenge without ever needing to step into BBS Mysterious Figure territory
15:10 I never understand that emotional thing they tried with Hero here... I mean, they make seems like was a big deal to destroy the chip, but that was just the battle chip Hiro made... Baymax "heart" is the original chip that Tadashi made (that is with current Baymax)
I could understand if he got emotional over the original body, that was made by his brother and all... but the battle chip?
Jafar, Ursula and Oogie didn't come back for KH3 because you can't go 0-3 with a teenager and his animal pals without looking like a complete joke.
And less importantly because they were dead.
7:40 I'm worried that this thing is memorable for HOW unmemorable it is. Its just a fish. Why the hell is there this fish we fight?
1:17 never took you for a Portal fan. You are a man of good taste.
"the suite life of zack and bullshit" your alternate names for everything get me every time. that and your impersonations.
It makes me extremely happy to hear another soul enjoy Kingdom hearts 3. Recently I watched a video that I expected to be about the story of Kingdom hearts and how tragic it is, but it was actually just bashing on the game for almost 2 hours. That upset me as I actually think the game is overall very well made and good
If I were to be allowed to make one big change to kh3 from a story perspective with that changing gameplay is that I would have it so for every world it gets two visits especially twilight town and upon arriving at the keyblade graveyard sora actively has to do the second visits going beyond what was revealed in the first visit and subverting it for example ignoring specific bosses or story events as sora is trying to figure out a way to ultimately change the fate that happened at the keyblade graveyard (all of this being the Power of waking ultimately hitting home just how much sora abused it as ultimately changing the fates of all the Disney worlds
While this video was super fun, I really do think you should have included the data fights. In kh2 they are remixed versions of the previous ones, but here they really are fully new fights imo, and a huge high point in this game, I just feel they are missing
I like the stylization of kh 2 way more than the graphics of kh3. kh3 is beautiful with nothing to look at.
One thing I hoped you mention during King of Toys is ‘Skyward Striker.’ That was one of the most epic songs I’ve ever heard, and it’s only found in the final battle in the Toy Story level of all things.
42:59 Pat: I wish Repliku would've said "Take care of her"
Funnily enough in the Japanese version he said "Take care of her"
This was such a blast of a video! Loved it all the way through! Keep up the great work, Pat. You really have the genuineness that isn’t seen in a lot of content creators!
15:05 - I dunno, I don't really see much forced sentimentality to the deal with Dark Baymax?
Like, Baymax 1 was originally created by Tadashi before he ended up dying in a fire and was serving as a means for Hiro to actually cope with the loss of his older brother and the emotional damage it did to him, not to mention you could maybe call Baymax 1 a kinda co-founder to the Big Hero 6 squad [even if that was kinda just out of simple programming Means to an Ends of "If it will help Hiro"]
So come to the end of the movie where Baymax 1 sacrifices himself by helping Hiro escape from Null Space with a Fist Bump, it no doubt felt like he lost his brother again in a way, so it makes sense he'd be on the fence on what to do with Dark Baymax, as to keep the "like a brother" thing going, it'd be like if one of your siblings went missing was presumed dead suddenly came back but wanted to burn down an orphanage and seemingly the only way to stop them was to kill them
Though I guess there's a bit of semantics because after Disney did a Sonic Forces before Sega, it was revealed that Baymax 1 also gave Hiro his health care chip, and I dunno for sure if Baymax's personality is contained in that, but if it is that begs the question on if Baymax 2 is actually Baymax 1 but effectively respawned courtesy of Hiro managing to build a new body, and in that case it does make Hiro being down about Dark Baymax actually kinda iffy, but eh
FINALLY someone that does a list considering EVERYTHING a boss fight involves: music, lore involvement, combat, the envoirment...
Not just: "fight easy therefore fight bad"
26:26
Were party members (Goofy) always capable of jumping that high in this game or is this just another teleport shenanigan?
When you said that you wished repliku said take care of her to Riku, you're saying that as wishful thinking or a complaint to the localization? Because, if that's the former case, that IS the actual Japanese line and one of the worst mistranslations of the series.
On the topic of that battle, I think the xigbar and repliku combo were chosen to be parallels to sora and Riku, repliku and Riku are obvious, but I've got the sneaking suspicious, mostly born from other people analysis, that xigbar is gonna be paralleled to sora in the future. The major example I have rn is the my friends are my power adjacent smackdown sora does to xigbar in ddd specifically, linking them together.
Now, going back to laughing my ass off to this fantastic video~
I never realized how perfect Davy Jones is as a KH villain. He's literally a heartless Disney villain.
KH3 is for sure the easiest game in the series (or at least mainline), but I found it’s critical mode to be WAAAAAY harder than other games’ hardest difficulties
Pat you keep me young, man 🤣😭😭🤣🤣😭 I swear your little quips keep me crying laughing 😭😭🤣