*Funnier fact:* While I already knew about Anti's shadow, it took me watching both this and the showcase video to find out about Rage's. So we both learned this today.
I feel as though it is anti form, Sora just learned how to control it. Honestly think about it? Why was it even a thing in KH2 if going into it had no effects on Sora from a narrative standpoint? And there is the fact that they two forms seem to be the same in every way save for the obvious differences such as the presence of a keyblade and the mechanics says a lot for me.
I always felt that Anti-Form wasn't so much "taken over by darkness because of his lust for power" and more a consequence of what Forms ARE. Partly because I don't really see Sora as HAVING a "lust for power", and because...well: In KH2, Forms are when Sora basically opens his heart up to allow a friend's heart to join with his - either Donald, Goofy, or both/one of them + a guest character/friend (Sidenote: Anyone else as happy as I am that they finally added a "guest" character slot...or TWO?! Been asking for that since KH1!) Anti-Form, to me, was that when he opened his heart, sometimes his heart might be too weak from doing this too much (hence the hidden Anti-Form meter in the game which determines when you enter it) and/or while it was "open", like a door or a window, some darkness could seep in. With his heart open, causing it to draw in all his friends' hearts as well as ambient darkness, once the darkness has reached enough mass (e.g. the Anti gauge having built up enough), the darkness is sufficient to act, corrupting the Form change for the duration, during which Sora friends' hearts work to repair him and return them all to normal - which is why it takes two of them/all party members. (Granted, this is me inserting my own view of hearts, saying that the hearts are kind of "acting on instinct" to repair Sora, but seriously - where ARE his friends during the transformations if not merged within his heart?) This also explains, to me, why Final Form - which is supposed to indicate mastery of the Form system via Roxas' remerging/accepting being part of Sora - takes both party members' hearts into Sora, but ALSO always subtracts 10 from the Anti-Form gauge (making him less likely to go into Anti-Form when using other Form transformations) and NEVER "fails" (e.g. never makes you go Anti-Form.) The idea is that in Final Form, Sora's heart opens, but Roxas' heart inside of him shields from darkness slipping through the opening into his heart and corrupting the transformation, AS WELL AS repairing any of the "damage" from other, more imperfect transformations (Valor, Wisdom, and Master Forms) by reducing the Anti gauge. It's just my personal theory, I guess, since everyone else seems to have interpreted it as "abusing his powers", "lust for power", etc, but I always thought it was more just a consequence of having to open his heart to his friends' hearts for the mergers, which would allow ambient darkness a chance to slip through the opening as well, building until there was enough of it to corrupt the Form change and require purging/healing while TEMPORARILY awakening the dormant Heartless (from KH1) born of the natural darkness in Sora's heart, which is then under Sora's loose control as he acts more on instinct, but still fights his enemies. Again, with Final Form having Roxas' heart inside of Sora basically acting as a guard and healer to prevent the entry and heal any current damage. Basically: Sora is unique in the series for having the most open and welcoming heart (and no less than 2 and as many as 3 people riding around inside of it at any given time), but Anti-Form was what happens when darkness floods through the opening, Final Form when Roxas was acting as a bouncer keeping it out, and Rage Form is, instead, Sora taking the darkness and semi-mastering it, channeling that inner Heartless while still maintaining his own heart (as symbolized by him still wielding the Keyblade), overcoming its power instead of being overcome by it, and using it to do good.
This theory would also explain why Anti-form is more likely to occur when fighting Org members, as well as why you will never trigger Anti Form if you use a Drive outside of combat, as there would be more ambient darkness around the Org since they have hostile intent (as opposed to Heartless which attack more-or-less indiscriminately), and an absence of enemies would result in less chance of the transformation being interferef with.
@@thrasher698 Thank you guys for the positive reaction! It was always just a pet theory of mine. And I had forgotten I even made this post until seeing this reply in my feed. : )
Kind of a VERY late theory but I think the reason you cannot use items, magic, or shotlocks (in story) is because Rage form Sora only wants to attack and defend. Like stated, Rage form is Sora's last resort, his darkness resonated with his will to stay alive and fight. So everything he does in that form is about fighting. Since magic and items require knowledge to use and shotlocks require focus, a being that only know that he needs to fight and survive does not need to use those if his raw strength is enough to do what he knows.
Amazing that the entire series is that Darkness is suffering, negativity, and cuases people to turn evil but no one thinks to ask Sora, "hey buddy, why are you channeling darkness?"
@@TotallyRealAlphaCrimsonWeaver that was the same animation for KH2 drive forms (including anti). Sometimes I got screwed over by Anti form and lost progress
Honestly, i think Rage Form is as the name says, Rage Sora enters in that form, using the darkness (in this case RAGE) to unleash RAGE or the darkness inside him Maybe rage generated by the frustration he might have by easily being taken by Xehanort, failing his exam. Being powerless to save everyone, powerless to save The BbS Trio alongside the 358 trio. Anger of always losing his friends. And many more things that can also associate with games before DDD. It's a mini theory i have. And with the Riskcharges, he may submerge more into darkness/rage, by sharing the rage Roxas, Xion and Ventus might have It sounds stupid i know but idk xd
Not to mention, the last battle with Xehanort theme in KH3 is a remix of Rage Awakened, and Sora has to use Rage Form in that battle. And Terra also failed the mark of mastery exam because of Xehanort, now that you mention it...
"Sharing the rage Roxas, Xion and Ventus might have" "You should share some of that anger with Sora." -Ansem the Wise to Roxas KH 2 It all makes sense now...
Now when will Anti/Rage form be mentioned by the other character's. They've seen him do it multiple times, but they never say anything. There should be a conversation atleast about it.
I would like at least a reaction from the party members every once in a while especially the ones who just met sora i mean they just met him have seen for themselves and heard from the "experts" that these enemys are darkness and that darkness is bad then boom sora seemingly becomes one and they just keep trusting him
That would be a really cool thing to see if in game you went automatically rage form and the party members see this and ask why and how it happens, showing some concern
@@taffmeister584 Goofy: Sora. why did you turn into that heartless-lookin' form back there? Sora: Because if I channel the darkness I heal myself completely as a last resort. Donald: Really? Lemme try! * Turns to Anti Donald* * heals all enemies more than Sora and Goofy.* Sora and Goofy: gee thanks.
We need a Darkness keyblade that form changes to a variation of Rage Form. It doesn't have the full heal or risk charge mechanics, but it does have shotlocks and dark versions of spells. Dark Fire is the same homing split fire we all know, Dark Blizzard is a super short range front facing icy pulse that does heavy damage and has a very high freeze chance (Old Xehanort icing Ven was my inspiration for this), Dark Thunder discharges a slow moving orb that releases an AoE DOT electricity bubble, Dark Water erupts around Sora in a geyser of poison, Dark Aero creates a vacuum around Sora to pull in enemies before slicing them with a radial wind blade attack, Dark Cure heals only 25% as its equivalent normal Cure but also makes physical attacks siphon health while MP is recharging after using it. The unmaxed shotlock would just be a flurry of sequential teleporting back slashes for every target, the maxed shotlock would be Dark Splicer.
Something i would like for the eventual Final Mix DLC(We all know is going to happen), it's that we get the Keyblades of the other guardians of like, and for Riku they could do this, we get the dark versions of the spells on the formchange, we get dark aura as a finisher for that Keyblades formchange, and as a shotlock max Dark Splicer... Tell me that doesn't sound cool, using Braveheart and doing this moves :D
@@zstryde501 Only if you're doing damage. The very minor heal you get from the proposed Dark Cure would still leave you well in the danger zone even at Dark Curaga and you only heal more by hitting the enemy, a dangerous prospect in some fights. To top it off the siphoning only lasts for the duration of your MP Regeneration so MP Hastes, orbs, and ethers would actually be detrimental for Dark Cure.
I think Sora gains more power with each risk charge because he's separating the other hearts from his body (visually represented by the crystals floating around him each time he does this) thus becoming more and more "alone."
Interesting to note that the dark energy balls that Sora summons for Rage Form's Finish command are actually the same as - or extremely similar to - the balls dropped by the Darkside in 0.2, that fall from the sky and sort of burst with those spines whenever they come into contact with something.
The spikey dark balls that show up in the finisher are the same ones that fall from the sky in the Enchanted Dominion area of Dark World from 0.2, when Aqua was fighting all those Darksides. It's a neat callback to Sora's shadow from his first dive to the heart being a Darkside itself, and how the data version of his heartless could turn into a Darkside. It represents Sora literally channeling his dark side!
With you saying that Rage form is more of Sora channeling the darkness as a last resort, I feel like that too but also the fact that it also represents Sora’s rage in a battle due to about to lose. Makes sense right? Other than that thanks for the analysis! It sheds light on how it works and also show just how he’s attacking
You using my boy's theme while describing Rage Form? You, sir, have won a sub. Also Rage form reminds me ALOT of Terra's Dark Impulse command style. Mostly in the way they both whip themselves around while swinging their Keyblades.
I can’t be the only in that find Rage Form to be very similar to Black Spider-Man, or Symbiote, in general like Venom and Carnage? Love the video and I really liked the theory of the three hearts inside Sora, it actually gave me a new perspective view of Rage Form since I didn’t like it much before, but now it makes more sense and I think I’m gonna try to use it more often. Also, I like how you’ve added Rage Awakened OST in the background since the video is about Rage Form xD
Something he didnt mention. Your invincible for a moment when you risk charge. Its useful for escaping combos from endgame bosses and forcing your way into an opening. It also MAY reset your combo count against the enemy as it has a knockback effect.
@@benjamin7746 it can be, only if you know that it Will kill every thing, the power is awesome, but riskcharge makes you get in even mor danger than the one you were to get rage form
I like to think of Riskcharge as more of Sora using parts of his own Heart to power up the darkness inside him. No idea why. Also I think Rage Form is less of Sora channeling new darkness to save himself, but rather him taking control of Anti Form, hence the exact symbols while he's in his KH2 outfit.
You might have forgotten some things, but I can't confirm. I just remember this. When I went into Rage Form, and then used Flare Force while in the form, I remember getting kicked out of Rage Form.
Interesting to note that the final limit looking move summons dark orbs that look just like the ones the darkside horde caused to fall out of the sky against Aqua.
Maybe the reason shot locks, Magic, and links aren’t available in this form are because Sora isn’t (canonically, we all know we’ve puposely triggered a few times and we all know how to use it) experienced with this form. Like, since he rarely has occasion to use it, he doesn’t know exactly how to channel the darkness in different ways.
I'm sorry, but I'm still a scrub at KH2 Anti Form, I literally didn't know there were ANY combo modifiers until I saw a video where someone got the form during the Demyx fight, and started spamming the combo where you just start with X and then mash square.
5:00 this honestly looks likes blood splashing out of the floor when the keyblade hits. The orbs that appear also seem to splash blood around. And then there’s like this pool of blood covering everything. Idk how I didn’t noticed before, what is that though? It can’t really be blood right
I kinda figured that the name alone would signify that Rage Form is a direct result of Sora's anger. And him turning into a dark silhouette is the darkness in his heart being manifested by said anger (since anger is associated with darkness in this series). Also, when Xehanort forces Sora into Rage Form in the final boss, I like to think of it as Xehanort feeding off of Sora's rage and anguish from having Kairi struck down.
When Rage Form Sora holds his Keyblade like how Ventus does on one of the attacks, the attack actually looks like Ventus' first finish command animation from BBS; slashing back and forth before doing a spinning slash.
I’m working on putting all the little hints to sora darkness together! I think his darkness will always be something never really talked about but shown in the background
The 3 riskcharge may resemble the 3 hearts sleeping within him. Ventus, Roxad, and Xion. Which may explain why in the final fight against xehanort, you cannot activate riskcharge when he takes your light away.
I know this is really late, but I never really thought that the designs on rage for looked like flames, but more like the mist or tentacles of darkness that are usually produced by sora in this for (or the finisher in the fight against xehanort when he is stripped of light)
It sounds to me like it still draws from the same spring as Anti Forme, but with Sora now being aware that this darkness is in him, he can control it rather than being overwhelmed by it. The name also would imply that he is also drawing from, well, RAGE: not just the immediate anger of being hurt, but the compounding frustration of “not being good enough”, “nothing without friends”, or just plain tired of this conflict. We’ve seen at several points that Sora is hurting more than he lets on. Here, it’s all let out
According to the wiki, you do gain +5 strength and +3 form seconds per Riskcharge, and the combo finisher's damage multiplier increases by 0.2 per Riskcharge, starting with a multiplier of 1.0, and having one of 1.6 at max Riskcharges. The uppercut attack that can spawn pillars with Riskcharges does two hits with a power multiplier of 0.6, with each pillar basically just adding another hit with the same values as a single base hit (same power multiplier of 0.6, adding the same Form Value of 6, dealing 1 Reaction Value, and adding 0.5 Revenge Value). Assuming that each pillar can do their own hit on a single target, it's basically doing double and a half damage.
My personal theory for antiform and rage form Is as a result of sora turning Into a heartless and regaining his body from being a heartless without need for roxas to perish meaning sora would technically still be a heartless and that both forms are him turning back Into a heartless but retaining his human body and at first with antiform It was the darkness consuming him but rage form Is him harnessing the darkness and using It to his advantage
7:37 Furthermore on the idea that those three crystals are representative of Ventus, Roxas, and Xion. Notice that every time Riskcharge is used, a red orb emerges from Sora before shattering into one of those crystals to revolve around him. Various times in Kingdom Hearts we get to see "hearts" leaving and returning from and to a body, appearing as orbs of light. The red orbs that emerge could easily be a visualization of the hearts of those three, by this theory.
Rage Form is the Kingdom Hearts equivalent to Devil Trigger from the Devil May Cry series. Who knows if KH4 could get Sora to have his own Sin DT like what Dante gained after stabbing himself with the Sparda in DMC5, but with Sora stabbing himself with a replica of the Kingdom Key D.
Rage/anti form has always been my favorite. You should have seen my face when I saw it pop up in kh3 lol. Also.. *endgame spoiler* I wonder why sora was forced into rage form at the end. Was it because he gave it all he had against MX and it wasn't enough? But that wouldn't make sense since he had another phase after turning back into normal sora
Depending on what keyblade you currently have equipped, depends on what keyblade sora will use in rage form. Found this out when I used rage form with ultima weapon and the ultima weapon was the same color as sora in rage form.
Theory here, maybe each time he uses the charge move, due to there being three different stages of it, is him going further into those 3s separate pain of being alone, manifesting them into a physical state that, while it hurts him, causes the darkness to grow and become stronger
Yknow what wouldve been interesting with rage and anti form? I think it wouldve been cool during his time within the forms he would growl and snarl whilst he attacked.
Is that more damage with the first hit or is the damage more for all of the attacks? I was testing it on some of the bosses and the damage didn't seem to increase when I riskcharged.
Don't know if you've been told but the third person in sora is revealed in the 1 million keyblade battle, not xion she was already back by then since she was data to begin with.
1. DAMN SON I DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THE CRYSTALS 😂 2. Im still upset the story never addressed Sora using the darkness with Anti in 2 and Rage in 3 3. Any ideas on why the name changed? Other then "Sora is pissed cuz he is about to die" or is that just it?
Hmm well we can kind of infer that soras darkness is growing and he hasn’t learned to control it in 2 which is why it’s a kind of punishment form. Rage form is after sora deals with his darkness a bit. This is a more controlled form where he is a bit more in control than when he was in anti form. I’m not exactly sure why it’s called rage form. Sorry 😅
Bio-Roxas I think it because Sora a short temper. You see the worst of it in Chain/Re:chain of memories. He does have a lot on his shoulders. That can be extremely frustrating and even Rage inducing
Correction to who are the three hearts. Xion was not the third heart in Sora. It is kinda confirmed by Nomura, but it is going to be explained on how Xion came to be in an upcoming DLC.
Ya true! I wonder who the third heart is! I also wonder if maybe the Xion we see in KH3 is one pulled from the past. That would still keep the present Xion in Sora, but that's confusing xD
Wait, what? The third "unknown" heart within Sora had been there just about as long as Roxas, so it makes sense for it to be Xion. Can you provide a link for where Nomura confirmed that? I thought I read all the translations of KH3 Ultimania, but maybe I missed one.
@@avaricsymphori correction. Confirmed by Ienzo's dialogue. One of the hearts residing in sora was Roxas. The second heart has resided in Sora for longer, (Ventus). And the third heary resided in Sora for even longer, for most of life (unknown). And Xion never really had a heart. She was created by Sora's memories of Kairi. Watch the cutscene when Ienzo calls Sora after monstropolis.
@@lawrencemoreno5902 I think you have that slightly off; I quote Ienzo (quoting Ansem): "I have discovered three unique hearts inside of Sora's. One is Roxas. The second has been with Sora for nearly as long. And a third has resided in Sora's heart for even longer - most of his life, in fact." Ventus can't be the heart that resided in Sora "for nearly as long" as Roxas; Ventus was within Sora for 10+ years longer than Roxas, and that's not "nearly as long" by any standard. Xion is the only heart that would qualify for the same time period as Roxas, and Ventus was the heart that was with Sora for most of his life (considering Sora is 16-17 years old in KH3). Darn, I was hoping for some new goodies from Nomura that I missed...
The head cannon I came up with for Rage Form and the drive forms is they each use a different source of power. For Valor Form Sora merges with Goofy who is a defender type character armed with a shield to boost his physical abilities as well as deactivating magic ability to strengthen his physical abilities even further like shutting off one of the 5 senses to sharpen the others, the rise in the anti-meter is caused by the physical exhaustion that comes from using the form. For Wisdom Form Sora merges with Donald and shuts down his physical abilities to focus on using magic, the rise in the anti-meter is due to mental exhaustion caused by the form. Limit Form is used by drawing out the power within Roxas to boost both physical and magic power but not to the extent of Valor or Wisdom Form but more like being able of fight at 100% constantly but the physical and mental strain caused isn’t as extreme as with Valor or Wisdom Form. Master Form is combines both Valor and Wisdom Form together by merging with both companions in the party fighting with both the physical strength of Valor Form and the magic ability of Wisdom Form at the cost of greater amounts of exhaustion. Anti Form is caused by the exhaustion and dark emotions built up over the course of Sora’s journey, the fear from constant adversaries that keep getting stronger or the pressure caused when fighting powerful opponents like the Organization members, the growing feeling of hopelessness due to his missing friends, and the fear of losing the friends fighting with him, the feelings of exhaustion caused by pushing his limits by using the drive forms, and the desire for more power when activating drive forms draws out the darkness within his heart and consumes his friends within himself in order to keep them safe however because Sora believes darkness to be evil he rejects the form splitting his focus on trying to repel the opponent before him and escaping the form noted by the form having low attack power but high speed it is focusing on escaping instead of fighting and it is also the reason why Sora can deactivate the form when not in combat since he can put all of his attention on deactivating the form the loss in defense is due to Sora’s constitution being unstable while in the form because the darkness that is fueling his body is being rejected the drop in the anti-meter is due to the darkness being being drained and the negative emotions being let out. Final Form is achieved in a different way: whenever Sora uses a drive form he feels a faint flicker within himself and every time he uses a drive form he reaches for that small feeling within but he can’t reach it on his own but with the help of his friends he was able to just reach it, and when he does a torrent seemingly endless amounts of power is unleashed activating Final Form unlike the other drive forms Final Form doesn’t leave Sora exhausted after using the form and that gives Sora the confidence he needed, after using the form Sora is reassured, with the help of his friends he can achieve a power far beyond anything he has ever felt before it gives him the hope that as long as he and his friends stand together everything will be okay. Rage Form is the controlled version of Anti Form after learning that darkness isn’t evil and accepting it he now willingly uses the form by using the fear/panic caused when he is low on health to provide a second wind both healing him entirely and providing him with more power Risk Charge is used by drawing upon the feelings of loneliness from Ventus, Roxas, and Xion in a random order, using this technique weakens Sora’s willpower by draining his hope but strengthens the darkness that fuels Rage Form, the reason why Sora can still use Risk Charge even after the three are freed from his heart is because even though they aren’t in his heart anymore the feelings of loneliness he had drawn out by using Risk Charge have now become a part of Sora because he had to experience those feelings in order to fuel the darkness
How did you get Rage form to trigger outside galaxy toys? I doubt there was enough time to get footage for all of Sora’s moves, and the fact that you have rage form in a peaceful area itself.
At first i was playing this game, i was kinda surprised that sora could do an "anti-form" form as he wishes and meanwhile in kh2 you need a certain keyblade to trigger it as you wish in chance of 9 of 10 and the 1 of 10 chance are the ultimate form And when you explain they are different, I'm surprised how Sora's development could channel darkness power without becoming a darkness itself
Rage form is really interesting, I got the part where Sora is forced into this form spoiled for me so I practiced with it and it turns out it's a stupidly good form as long as you manage your health properly.
Kazumi Ash Dark Form ;) Idk what I would actually call it though xD maybe it could still be called Rage Form since it’s the same form just with a different finisher. I’d love to see the dark aura like attack be the finisher instead of the orbs of darkness attack
just a quick question what would happen if activated his rage form with the ultimate keyblade or that old keyblade that summons form the old keyblades of light?
Ultima Weapon and Starlight? I think the keyblade held in the form just becomes a shadowy version of whatever keyblade you were using before activating the form.
Interesting that it was first called Anti-Form when Sora's darkness only took the form of a heartless after Vanitas (Edgy Sora) was introduced it became Rage form. Vanitas's unversed are born from negative emotions. Rage can be considered a negative emotion.... I'll say no more.
It's kind of unfortunate that, if you turn formchange animations off, it doesn't use a different animation that's similar to the anti-form special animation.
It’s probably more of a symbolic thing! It also makes the same sound as when a heart is pulled out. You can hear this in birth by sleep and the end of Kh3 with the lich.
To test your theory about the 3 crystals being Roxas, Ventus and Xion - does Sora's rage form still have those crystals when Xehanort forces him into it in the final battle?
Its more anger. He definitely has a bunch of mental problems that hasn't been dealt with. In fact, hes been holding it all in. Which would result in even more anger and mental problems.
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*Fun fact:* Neither Anti nor Rage form cast a shadow. Pretty neat, huh?
WHAT THE HECK?!
*Funnier fact:* While I already knew about Anti's shadow, it took me watching both this and the showcase video to find out about Rage's.
So we both learned this today.
Oh really? XD Well that's awesome that you noticed that!
*Funniest fact:* I don't have anything to say here, I just wanted to complete the conjugation.
Didvax i didn't even knew these games had shadows
It's like a mastered Anti-form.
Exactly or I could say is the complete form of Anti form so Rage Form is more Powerful than Anti Form.
I feel as though it is anti form, Sora just learned how to control it. Honestly think about it? Why was it even a thing in KH2 if going into it had no effects on Sora from a narrative standpoint?
And there is the fact that they two forms seem to be the same in every way save for the obvious differences such as the presence of a keyblade and the mechanics says a lot for me.
Blade Ponds I think it was there to punish those who abuse the Drive Forms.
@@Mr_Triscuit It's a result of his transformation into a heartless in kh1
Anyone know how to make rage form strong
Soon Sora will be able to do the Mega Destructive Dark Ball of Darkness and Destruction .
And Knuckles
But that attack never works
@@cheslap it worked on aqua.
But it was just a prank
It did on Aqua.
She must have been an idiot to get hit by it
I always felt that Anti-Form wasn't so much "taken over by darkness because of his lust for power" and more a consequence of what Forms ARE. Partly because I don't really see Sora as HAVING a "lust for power", and because...well:
In KH2, Forms are when Sora basically opens his heart up to allow a friend's heart to join with his - either Donald, Goofy, or both/one of them + a guest character/friend (Sidenote: Anyone else as happy as I am that they finally added a "guest" character slot...or TWO?! Been asking for that since KH1!)
Anti-Form, to me, was that when he opened his heart, sometimes his heart might be too weak from doing this too much (hence the hidden Anti-Form meter in the game which determines when you enter it) and/or while it was "open", like a door or a window, some darkness could seep in. With his heart open, causing it to draw in all his friends' hearts as well as ambient darkness, once the darkness has reached enough mass (e.g. the Anti gauge having built up enough), the darkness is sufficient to act, corrupting the Form change for the duration, during which Sora friends' hearts work to repair him and return them all to normal - which is why it takes two of them/all party members. (Granted, this is me inserting my own view of hearts, saying that the hearts are kind of "acting on instinct" to repair Sora, but seriously - where ARE his friends during the transformations if not merged within his heart?)
This also explains, to me, why Final Form - which is supposed to indicate mastery of the Form system via Roxas' remerging/accepting being part of Sora - takes both party members' hearts into Sora, but ALSO always subtracts 10 from the Anti-Form gauge (making him less likely to go into Anti-Form when using other Form transformations) and NEVER "fails" (e.g. never makes you go Anti-Form.)
The idea is that in Final Form, Sora's heart opens, but Roxas' heart inside of him shields from darkness slipping through the opening into his heart and corrupting the transformation, AS WELL AS repairing any of the "damage" from other, more imperfect transformations (Valor, Wisdom, and Master Forms) by reducing the Anti gauge.
It's just my personal theory, I guess, since everyone else seems to have interpreted it as "abusing his powers", "lust for power", etc, but I always thought it was more just a consequence of having to open his heart to his friends' hearts for the mergers, which would allow ambient darkness a chance to slip through the opening as well, building until there was enough of it to corrupt the Form change and require purging/healing while TEMPORARILY awakening the dormant Heartless (from KH1) born of the natural darkness in Sora's heart, which is then under Sora's loose control as he acts more on instinct, but still fights his enemies. Again, with Final Form having Roxas' heart inside of Sora basically acting as a guard and healer to prevent the entry and heal any current damage.
Basically: Sora is unique in the series for having the most open and welcoming heart (and no less than 2 and as many as 3 people riding around inside of it at any given time), but Anti-Form was what happens when darkness floods through the opening, Final Form when Roxas was acting as a bouncer keeping it out, and Rage Form is, instead, Sora taking the darkness and semi-mastering it, channeling that inner Heartless while still maintaining his own heart (as symbolized by him still wielding the Keyblade), overcoming its power instead of being overcome by it, and using it to do good.
Bro this theory is awesome as fuck and I love it
Makes sense to me
This theory would also explain why Anti-form is more likely to occur when fighting Org members, as well as why you will never trigger Anti Form if you use a Drive outside of combat, as there would be more ambient darkness around the Org since they have hostile intent (as opposed to Heartless which attack more-or-less indiscriminately), and an absence of enemies would result in less chance of the transformation being interferef with.
@@thrasher698 Thank you guys for the positive reaction! It was always just a pet theory of mine. And I had forgotten I even made this post until seeing this reply in my feed. : )
This theory is so good, it's one of the best things i've ever read it, thank you so much for sharing this with us
Ansem: Use the darkness Sora
Sora: No...
Ansem: Pretty please ?
Sora: Sure
...
Riku: Hey, that's my line !
Hey that's Just a pancake reference
Kind of a VERY late theory but I think the reason you cannot use items, magic, or shotlocks (in story) is because Rage form Sora only wants to attack and defend. Like stated, Rage form is Sora's last resort, his darkness resonated with his will to stay alive and fight. So everything he does in that form is about fighting. Since magic and items require knowledge to use and shotlocks require focus, a being that only know that he needs to fight and survive does not need to use those if his raw strength is enough to do what he knows.
Basically, it’s the form that tells everyone that Sora needs therapy.
Don Solo *_HE NEEDS THERAPY_*
Hurting is caring
Amazing that the entire series is that Darkness is suffering, negativity, and cuases people to turn evil but no one thinks to ask Sora, "hey buddy, why are you channeling darkness?"
Dance Soar Vim because protagonist needs ways to symbolize their mental state after years of fighting this bitchass bald guy.
After what happened in KH1, KH2, D3, and KH3. Yeah, he needs therapy.
Seeing him transform without the animation is pretty awesome.
Right? I thought it was cool how the darkness kind of slides down Sora as he transforms!
@@BioRoxas and also that glass ball breaking affect around him brings so many memories...
*not all of them are good, however*
I'm not gonna like your comment for it to stay at 123
@@fink_rat AYO?!
@@TotallyRealAlphaCrimsonWeaver that was the same animation for KH2 drive forms (including anti). Sometimes I got screwed over by Anti form and lost progress
Honestly, i think Rage Form is as the name says, Rage
Sora enters in that form, using the darkness (in this case RAGE) to unleash RAGE or the darkness inside him
Maybe rage generated by the frustration he might have by easily being taken by Xehanort, failing his exam. Being powerless to save everyone, powerless to save The BbS Trio alongside the 358 trio. Anger of always losing his friends. And many more things that can also associate with games before DDD.
It's a mini theory i have. And with the Riskcharges, he may submerge more into darkness/rage, by sharing the rage Roxas, Xion and Ventus might have
It sounds stupid i know but idk xd
That’s not stupid!
I can definitely see that. Especially because we do see sora getting frustrated at his powerlessness a couple times in KH3.
Not to mention, the last battle with Xehanort theme in KH3 is a remix of Rage Awakened, and Sora has to use Rage Form in that battle.
And Terra also failed the mark of mastery exam because of Xehanort, now that you mention it...
And then about how all that affects kairi
"Sharing the rage Roxas, Xion and Ventus might have"
"You should share some of that anger with Sora."
-Ansem the Wise to Roxas KH 2
It all makes sense now...
Now when will Anti/Rage form be mentioned by the other character's. They've seen him do it multiple times, but they never say anything. There should be a conversation atleast about it.
There really should be. Especially because his party members don’t disappear when he goes into rage form so they can see his darkness xD
I would like at least a reaction from the party members every once in a while especially the ones who just met sora i mean they just met him have seen for themselves and heard from the "experts" that these enemys are darkness and that darkness is bad then boom sora seemingly becomes one and they just keep trusting him
@@delinkwent7375 I know right.
That would be a really cool thing to see if in game you went automatically rage form and the party members see this and ask why and how it happens, showing some concern
@@taffmeister584 Goofy: Sora. why did you turn into that heartless-lookin' form back there?
Sora: Because if I channel the darkness I heal myself completely as a last resort.
Donald: Really? Lemme try! * Turns to Anti Donald* * heals all enemies more than Sora and Goofy.*
Sora and Goofy: gee thanks.
0:22 'The name of the form's name...'
Speech level: 100
Lol
We need a Darkness keyblade that form changes to a variation of Rage Form. It doesn't have the full heal or risk charge mechanics, but it does have shotlocks and dark versions of spells. Dark Fire is the same homing split fire we all know, Dark Blizzard is a super short range front facing icy pulse that does heavy damage and has a very high freeze chance (Old Xehanort icing Ven was my inspiration for this), Dark Thunder discharges a slow moving orb that releases an AoE DOT electricity bubble, Dark Water erupts around Sora in a geyser of poison, Dark Aero creates a vacuum around Sora to pull in enemies before slicing them with a radial wind blade attack, Dark Cure heals only 25% as its equivalent normal Cure but also makes physical attacks siphon health while MP is recharging after using it. The unmaxed shotlock would just be a flurry of sequential teleporting back slashes for every target, the maxed shotlock would be Dark Splicer.
Something i would like for the eventual Final Mix DLC(We all know is going to happen), it's that we get the Keyblades of the other guardians of like, and for Riku they could do this, we get the dark versions of the spells on the formchange, we get dark aura as a finisher for that Keyblades formchange, and as a shotlock max Dark Splicer... Tell me that doesn't sound cool, using Braveheart and doing this moves :D
These are great ideas for magic!! Each is pretty unique and I love the idea of siphoning hp during mp charge.
great idea. life steal is broken tho.
@@zstryde501
Only if you're doing damage. The very minor heal you get from the proposed Dark Cure would still leave you well in the danger zone even at Dark Curaga and you only heal more by hitting the enemy, a dangerous prospect in some fights. To top it off the siphoning only lasts for the duration of your MP Regeneration so MP Hastes, orbs, and ethers would actually be detrimental for Dark Cure.
Oblivion would go great with rage form
I think Sora gains more power with each risk charge because he's separating the other hearts from his body (visually represented by the crystals floating around him each time he does this) thus becoming more and more "alone."
I like this theory
It checks out. Sora himself says his friends are his power and I don't see any other way for him to generate that much darkness for the finisher
1:00
Yup Donald dead
... *Likes video*
Interesting to note that the dark energy balls that Sora summons for Rage Form's Finish command are actually the same as - or extremely similar to - the balls dropped by the Darkside in 0.2, that fall from the sky and sort of burst with those spines whenever they come into contact with something.
Whoa good eye! :o I never noticed that!
Sora changed to Rage form automatically when he had enough of the game 🤣🤣
I love how they make it that he's actively using his own darkness. when he transforms it he consciously dives into the darkness
The spikey dark balls that show up in the finisher are the same ones that fall from the sky in the Enchanted Dominion area of Dark World from 0.2, when Aqua was fighting all those Darksides. It's a neat callback to Sora's shadow from his first dive to the heart being a Darkside itself, and how the data version of his heartless could turn into a Darkside. It represents Sora literally channeling his dark side!
Ya that was a really nice touch!
With you saying that Rage form is more of Sora channeling the darkness as a last resort, I feel like that too but also the fact that it also represents Sora’s rage in a battle due to about to lose. Makes sense right? Other than that thanks for the analysis! It sheds light on how it works and also show just how he’s attacking
You using my boy's theme while describing Rage Form? You, sir, have won a sub. Also Rage form reminds me ALOT of Terra's Dark Impulse command style. Mostly in the way they both whip themselves around while swinging their Keyblades.
I can’t be the only in that find Rage Form to be very similar to Black Spider-Man, or Symbiote, in general like Venom and Carnage?
Love the video and I really liked the theory of the three hearts inside Sora, it actually gave me a new perspective view of Rage Form since I didn’t like it much before, but now it makes more sense and I think I’m gonna try to use it more often.
Also, I like how you’ve added Rage Awakened OST in the background since the video is about Rage Form xD
I'm glad it gave you a new perspective on Rage Form c:
Something he didnt mention. Your invincible for a moment when you risk charge. Its useful for escaping combos from endgame bosses and forcing your way into an opening. It also MAY reset your combo count against the enemy as it has a knockback effect.
Long story short: Rage Form is badass and we all should be grateful we have it 😂
Btw.....probably not the best form for critical mode 😓
Actually its saved my butt a few times
It deals massiv damage in lv1 cm so its really useful xD
A lotta damage, but since everythig kills you in 3 hits, better dont use the triangle command until theres only one left
@@isrockcarmona6837 im currently doing a critical lvl 1 run and rage form is one of the best option you have in every situation.
@@benjamin7746 it can be, only if you know that it Will kill every thing, the power is awesome, but riskcharge makes you get in even mor danger than the one you were to get rage form
I like to think of Riskcharge as more of Sora using parts of his own Heart to power up the darkness inside him. No idea why.
Also I think Rage Form is less of Sora channeling new darkness to save himself, but rather him taking control of Anti Form, hence the exact symbols while he's in his KH2 outfit.
I think an interview stated that rage form was sorry channeling the darkness through rage? I can't remember.
You might have forgotten some things, but I can't confirm. I just remember this.
When I went into Rage Form, and then used Flare Force while in the form, I remember getting kicked out of Rage Form.
Ya that is something I forgot to mention! Any situation commands that you use while in rage form will take you out of the form
Interesting to note that the final limit looking move summons dark orbs that look just like the ones the darkside horde caused to fall out of the sky against Aqua.
Ya that’s really interesting! We do see Sora’s darkness symbolized as one of those giant heartless in Kh1
I've only entered rage form once and it was on accident during the titan battle in Olympus. It was really cool
Your theory actually makes a LOT of sense. See, this is why I love when a theory is sound: Solid evidential support.
Maybe the reason shot locks, Magic, and links aren’t available in this form are because Sora isn’t (canonically, we all know we’ve puposely triggered a few times and we all know how to use it) experienced with this form. Like, since he rarely has occasion to use it, he doesn’t know exactly how to channel the darkness in different ways.
I'm sorry, but I'm still a scrub at KH2 Anti Form, I literally didn't know there were ANY combo modifiers until I saw a video where someone got the form during the Demyx fight, and started spamming the combo where you just start with X and then mash square.
5:00 this honestly looks likes blood splashing out of the floor when the keyblade hits. The orbs that appear also seem to splash blood around. And then there’s like this pool of blood covering everything. Idk how I didn’t noticed before, what is that though? It can’t really be blood right
Wow you covered more in this video then I did for mine's glad I watched it.
I kinda figured that the name alone would signify that Rage Form is a direct result of Sora's anger. And him turning into a dark silhouette is the darkness in his heart being manifested by said anger (since anger is associated with darkness in this series).
Also, when Xehanort forces Sora into Rage Form in the final boss, I like to think of it as Xehanort feeding off of Sora's rage and anguish from having Kairi struck down.
When Rage Form Sora holds his Keyblade like how Ventus does on one of the attacks, the attack actually looks like Ventus' first finish command animation from BBS; slashing back and forth before doing a spinning slash.
Does it really? I’ll have to check that out!
@@BioRoxas Yeah, it seems like a stretch but the attack looks almost identical. 😅
in the end, every heart returns to darkness. Anti sora needs to be explained at this point...
I’m working on putting all the little hints to sora darkness together! I think his darkness will always be something never really talked about but shown in the background
The risk charge I thought was sora breaking his own heart to gain power meaning each of the crystals is a fragment of his heart.
You forgot to mention you can use other commands in rage form (Duck Flare,Donald Meteor, Goodys Bombardment,etc)
So essentially Rage Form is Sora feeling their pain, from what he learned in Re:Coded. wow
Additionally, it's the pain that Roxas felt that he gave to Sora in DDD.
I Nvr thought about the form that way 👍😁👍 I am looking forward for more of ur vids
Glad I showed you something new c:
This form is awesome due to it being unique and a better ver. of Anti form and more fun to use
Ya for sure! c: Anti was so hard to actually stay alive in!
Anyone else notice rage forms finisher summons 7 balls of darkness? Reverse final form finisher ? They both look similar 🤔
rw:@6:18 the heartless boss kinda reminds me of GREYMON from DIGIMON.
This was super useful when I was using reference for these for game animation, thank you so much for making these video breakdowns! =)
0:07 That was an awesome transition
The 3 riskcharge may resemble the 3 hearts sleeping within him. Ventus, Roxad, and Xion.
Which may explain why in the final fight against xehanort, you cannot activate riskcharge when he takes your light away.
Using Rage Awakened in the background was genius
I know this is really late, but I never really thought that the designs on rage for looked like flames, but more like the mist or tentacles of darkness that are usually produced by sora in this for (or the finisher in the fight against xehanort when he is stripped of light)
Ooh yeah I can see that
Favourite form. Downside is you have to be pretty much dead.
It sounds to me like it still draws from the same spring as Anti Forme, but with Sora now being aware that this darkness is in him, he can control it rather than being overwhelmed by it. The name also would imply that he is also drawing from, well, RAGE: not just the immediate anger of being hurt, but the compounding frustration of “not being good enough”, “nothing without friends”, or just plain tired of this conflict. We’ve seen at several points that Sora is hurting more than he lets on. Here, it’s all let out
According to the wiki, you do gain +5 strength and +3 form seconds per Riskcharge, and the combo finisher's damage multiplier increases by 0.2 per Riskcharge, starting with a multiplier of 1.0, and having one of 1.6 at max Riskcharges.
The uppercut attack that can spawn pillars with Riskcharges does two hits with a power multiplier of 0.6, with each pillar basically just adding another hit with the same values as a single base hit (same power multiplier of 0.6, adding the same Form Value of 6, dealing 1 Reaction Value, and adding 0.5 Revenge Value).
Assuming that each pillar can do their own hit on a single target, it's basically doing double and a half damage.
My personal theory for antiform and rage form Is as a result of sora turning Into a heartless and regaining his body from being a heartless without need for roxas to perish meaning sora would technically still be a heartless and that both forms are him turning back Into a heartless but retaining his human body and at first with antiform It was the darkness consuming him but rage form Is him harnessing the darkness and using It to his advantage
7:37 Furthermore on the idea that those three crystals are representative of Ventus, Roxas, and Xion. Notice that every time Riskcharge is used, a red orb emerges from Sora before shattering into one of those crystals to revolve around him. Various times in Kingdom Hearts we get to see "hearts" leaving and returning from and to a body, appearing as orbs of light. The red orbs that emerge could easily be a visualization of the hearts of those three, by this theory.
Anti-form/Rage form is connected to the time when sora became a heartless.
Rage Form is the Kingdom Hearts equivalent to Devil Trigger from the Devil May Cry series.
Who knows if KH4 could get Sora to have his own Sin DT like what Dante gained after stabbing himself with the Sparda in DMC5, but with Sora stabbing himself with a replica of the Kingdom Key D.
Rage/anti form has always been my favorite. You should have seen my face when I saw it pop up in kh3 lol. Also..
*endgame spoiler*
I wonder why sora was forced into rage form at the end. Was it because he gave it all he had against MX and it wasn't enough? But that wouldn't make sense since he had another phase after turning back into normal sora
I think xehanort triggered it! It seemed like he was able to take all of the light away from sora.
Anti-Form / Anti-Sora sounds cooler imo
Fun fact: Rage Form’s pattern looks extremely similar to Blitz Form pants design
Depending on what keyblade you currently have equipped, depends on what keyblade sora will use in rage form. Found this out when I used rage form with ultima weapon and the ultima weapon was the same color as sora in rage form.
Theory here, maybe each time he uses the charge move, due to there being three different stages of it, is him going further into those 3s separate pain of being alone, manifesting them into a physical state that, while it hurts him, causes the darkness to grow and become stronger
Yknow what wouldve been interesting with rage and anti form? I think it wouldve been cool during his time within the forms he would growl and snarl whilst he attacked.
Yeah I’m sure it does more dmg. I’m doin a lvl 1 play through and it does a lot more charge
Is that more damage with the first hit or is the damage more for all of the attacks? I was testing it on some of the bosses and the damage didn't seem to increase when I riskcharged.
Bio-Roxas to me I noticed all abilities do more dmg.
Hmm ok! I’ll have to do more testing
Same rage form has always been a thank gods its finally here now time to do bullshit amounts of damage whenever I got it.
It’s so satisfying to finish a boss with rage form.
Don't know if you've been told but the third person in sora is revealed in the 1 million keyblade battle, not xion she was already back by then since she was data to begin with.
Whoa is that confirmed? I know he appears there but I didn’t think that meant he was in his heart 🤔
@@BioRoxas yeah even in-game the reports at least strongly suggest it, xion was more in touch with lea and roxas anyway.
I’ll have to check that out! Thank you :) never noticed that!
Went from one of the most hated forms to one of the best
1. DAMN SON I DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THE CRYSTALS 😂 2. Im still upset the story never addressed Sora using the darkness with Anti in 2 and Rage in 3
3. Any ideas on why the name changed? Other then "Sora is pissed cuz he is about to die" or is that just it?
Hmm well we can kind of infer that soras darkness is growing and he hasn’t learned to control it in 2 which is why it’s a kind of punishment form. Rage form is after sora deals with his darkness a bit. This is a more controlled form where he is a bit more in control than when he was in anti form.
I’m not exactly sure why it’s called rage form. Sorry 😅
@@BioRoxas Glad you replied and yea I agree I do just wish the game would say more about it tho
Me too! I think soras darkness will always be something that is told through inferred moments.
Bio-Roxas I think it because Sora a short temper. You see the worst of it in Chain/Re:chain of memories. He does have a lot on his shoulders. That can be extremely frustrating and even Rage inducing
Maybe it's shrouded in darkness because recharges are part of soras heart which is why he takes literal damage for breaking them off to fight with
Correction to who are the three hearts. Xion was not the third heart in Sora. It is kinda confirmed by Nomura, but it is going to be explained on how Xion came to be in an upcoming DLC.
Ya true! I wonder who the third heart is!
I also wonder if maybe the Xion we see in KH3 is one pulled from the past. That would still keep the present Xion in Sora, but that's confusing xD
I thought it was the guy from cross who while having a really cool scene came out of nowhere for me.
Wait, what? The third "unknown" heart within Sora had been there just about as long as Roxas, so it makes sense for it to be Xion. Can you provide a link for where Nomura confirmed that? I thought I read all the translations of KH3 Ultimania, but maybe I missed one.
@@avaricsymphori correction. Confirmed by Ienzo's dialogue. One of the hearts residing in sora was Roxas. The second heart has resided in Sora for longer, (Ventus). And the third heary resided in Sora for even longer, for most of life (unknown). And Xion never really had a heart. She was created by Sora's memories of Kairi. Watch the cutscene when Ienzo calls Sora after monstropolis.
@@lawrencemoreno5902 I think you have that slightly off; I quote Ienzo (quoting Ansem):
"I have discovered three unique hearts inside of Sora's. One is Roxas. The second has been with Sora for nearly as long. And a third has resided in Sora's heart for even longer - most of his life, in fact."
Ventus can't be the heart that resided in Sora "for nearly as long" as Roxas; Ventus was within Sora for 10+ years longer than Roxas, and that's not "nearly as long" by any standard. Xion is the only heart that would qualify for the same time period as Roxas, and Ventus was the heart that was with Sora for most of his life (considering Sora is 16-17 years old in KH3).
Darn, I was hoping for some new goodies from Nomura that I missed...
While in rage form you can immediately revert if you have an attraction or team attack
The first time I triggered Rage form, I didn’t know what was going on and why I could suddenly spam teleport everywhere. It freaked me out pretty bad.
Anti and rage form are still my favorite forms because it interest and unique to me
They are so cool! C: they’re some of my favorite forms too
Between anti-form and rage form when it comes to deaths anti-form:7, rage form: 0 so far
Ya it’s definitely a lot easier to stay alive in rage
That is so true in many levels
The head cannon I came up with for Rage Form and the drive forms is they each use a different source of power. For Valor Form Sora merges with Goofy who is a defender type character armed with a shield to boost his physical abilities as well as deactivating magic ability to strengthen his physical abilities even further like shutting off one of the 5 senses to sharpen the others, the rise in the anti-meter is caused by the physical exhaustion that comes from using the form. For Wisdom Form Sora merges with Donald and shuts down his physical abilities to focus on using magic, the rise in the anti-meter is due to mental exhaustion caused by the form. Limit Form is used by drawing out the power within Roxas to boost both physical and magic power but not to the extent of Valor or Wisdom Form but more like being able of fight at 100% constantly but the physical and mental strain caused isn’t as extreme as with Valor or Wisdom Form. Master Form is combines both Valor and Wisdom Form together by merging with both companions in the party fighting with both the physical strength of Valor Form and the magic ability of Wisdom Form at the cost of greater amounts of exhaustion. Anti Form is caused by the exhaustion and dark emotions built up over the course of Sora’s journey, the fear from constant adversaries that keep getting stronger or the pressure caused when fighting powerful opponents like the Organization members, the growing feeling of hopelessness due to his missing friends, and the fear of losing the friends fighting with him, the feelings of exhaustion caused by pushing his limits by using the drive forms, and the desire for more power when activating drive forms draws out the darkness within his heart and consumes his friends within himself in order to keep them safe however because Sora believes darkness to be evil he rejects the form splitting his focus on trying to repel the opponent before him and escaping the form noted by the form having low attack power but high speed it is focusing on escaping instead of fighting and it is also the reason why Sora can deactivate the form when not in combat since he can put all of his attention on deactivating the form the loss in defense is due to Sora’s constitution being unstable while in the form because the darkness that is fueling his body is being rejected the drop in the anti-meter is due to the darkness being being drained and the negative emotions being let out. Final Form is achieved in a different way: whenever Sora uses a drive form he feels a faint flicker within himself and every time he uses a drive form he reaches for that small feeling within but he can’t reach it on his own but with the help of his friends he was able to just reach it, and when he does a torrent seemingly endless amounts of power is unleashed activating Final Form unlike the other drive forms Final Form doesn’t leave Sora exhausted after using the form and that gives Sora the confidence he needed, after using the form Sora is reassured, with the help of his friends he can achieve a power far beyond anything he has ever felt before it gives him the hope that as long as he and his friends stand together everything will be okay. Rage Form is the controlled version of Anti Form after learning that darkness isn’t evil and accepting it he now willingly uses the form by using the fear/panic caused when he is low on health to provide a second wind both healing him entirely and providing him with more power Risk Charge is used by drawing upon the feelings of loneliness from Ventus, Roxas, and Xion in a random order, using this technique weakens Sora’s willpower by draining his hope but strengthens the darkness that fuels Rage Form, the reason why Sora can still use Risk Charge even after the three are freed from his heart is because even though they aren’t in his heart anymore the feelings of loneliness he had drawn out by using Risk Charge have now become a part of Sora because he had to experience those feelings in order to fuel the darkness
Honestly i like to think that rage form is like an evolved version if anti form
Oh definitely! You can see that when you go into rage form in his KH2 clothes
I Think My Theory That The 3 Red orbs Are His Friends And His Hearts Or Its Nobody Heartless And Dark
Is I'm the only one that let those heartless whoop my ass until I get rage form and then start whooping ass?
How did you get Rage form to trigger outside galaxy toys? I doubt there was enough time to get footage for all of Sora’s moves, and the fact that you have rage form in a peaceful area itself.
It took a couple hours of triggering rage form, doing a combo or two and then resetting the fight to test out other things haha
I think that hurt is kinda starting to take effect
At first i was playing this game, i was kinda surprised that sora could do an "anti-form" form as he wishes and meanwhile in kh2 you need a certain keyblade to trigger it as you wish in chance of 9 of 10 and the 1 of 10 chance are the ultimate form
And when you explain they are different, I'm surprised how Sora's development could channel darkness power without becoming a darkness itself
Rage form is really interesting, I got the part where Sora is forced into this form spoiled for me so I practiced with it and it turns out it's a stupidly good form as long as you manage your health properly.
Ya it’s really good tbh! I was thinking it would be like kh2 but Rage Form is so much better than anti xD
@@BioRoxas it's more controllable than anti form
For sure!
At 3:02, this combo reminds me of Ventus's first basic finisher in Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.
Oh that’s really interesting!
@@BioRoxas The beginning part at least! I also enjoyed watching your videos and breakdowns for everything, keep it up Bio!!!! 😊
I could honestly see a special Keyblade having this Formchange, just without Riskcharge.
Ya that would be awesome!
@@BioRoxas Not sure what I would call it. What would you call it?
Kazumi Ash Dark Form ;)
Idk what I would actually call it though xD maybe it could still be called Rage Form since it’s the same form just with a different finisher. I’d love to see the dark aura like attack be the finisher instead of the orbs of darkness attack
@@BioRoxas I meant the Keyblade itself, but that's a pretty cool name for the form!
Basically. Rage form, is where Sora completely controls the darkness inside of him and turning it into raw power.
Jayden Hamilton well.... not completely but he is getting better.
Risk Charge also stuns when you use it. I use it during the inferno battle to extend combos
Right I forgot to include that >.> thanks!
Where does this darkness come from tho? Isn't channeling darkness done by negative feelings such as sadness, loneliness, anger, etc?
I use the rage form almost all the time, the more you wound yourself, typically by risk charging, you get stronger
Is it just the first and last hit of the combo? I haven’t seen any footage of other attacks hitting harder when risk charging
just a quick question what would happen if activated his rage form with the ultimate keyblade or that old keyblade that summons form the old keyblades of light?
Ultima Weapon and Starlight? I think the keyblade held in the form just becomes a shadowy version of whatever keyblade you were using before activating the form.
Hmm, if the crystals represent Roxas, Zion, and Ventus, what about Vanitas?
Vanitas as we knew him is no more, but that darkness that speaks to Sora when he dives to Ventus's heart in Re:Mind..... I wonder.
@@Semudara
He's clearly still around, and he's got a heart, or at least part of one.
Anti form is a punishment, rage form is a choice made out of desperation
Interesting that it was first called Anti-Form when Sora's darkness only took the form of a heartless after Vanitas (Edgy Sora) was introduced it became Rage form. Vanitas's unversed are born from negative emotions. Rage can be considered a negative emotion.... I'll say no more.
It's kind of unfortunate that, if you turn formchange animations off, it doesn't use a different animation that's similar to the anti-form special animation.
Yeah there are 3 crystals that look like hearts but remember when he's saved the 3 of them he can still use risk form
It’s probably more of a symbolic thing! It also makes the same sound as when a heart is pulled out. You can hear this in birth by sleep and the end of Kh3 with the lich.
I would’ve thought everything you said was facts lol nice vid
To test your theory about the 3 crystals being Roxas, Ventus and Xion - does Sora's rage form still have those crystals when Xehanort forces him into it in the final battle?
I don’t believe you can riskcharge during that section. I do believe you can riskcharge during the fight before that though.
Why does he have rage form? he doesn't have a heartless anymore
I can’t to see you do ultimate form
Ya I'm excited to do that one too c:
"you can mash x"
I still prefer Anti-form and it's combo finishers but I do love Rage form!
Sora doesn't seem like a person who has a lust for power. 🤔
Its more anger. He definitely has a bunch of mental problems that hasn't been dealt with. In fact, hes been holding it all in. Which would result in even more anger and mental problems.
How do you even do the finisher for rage form ??? I really don’t understand.
You have to riskcharge three times before you gain access to the finisher.
Bravo another banger
Rage form is so cool looking!!!
With how much kh3 and rage form gets shit on i legit am at a point where I think I'm the only person who actually likes it
My only problem with this form is how hard it is to use its finisher
Without dying? XD
In the finisher did you notice the number of dark balls summoned? There are 7 😮
Oh interesting! Idk if I knew that!