If there's one thing I would never want to leave the Kingdom Hearts series...it's Yoko and her magic. This battle turned out just as I expected it to be-even more, as the game does let you play as both Riku and Sora. I just wished Aqua had many more HP bars, since this battle deserves to last way longer, and a different moveset from the one you fight in 0.2 Nonetheless a truly epic rendition of Aqua's theme. And I hope you never used Attractions during this fight.
Better yet. They should add an option in the menu to turn them off permanently. There's been too many times I've accidentally used one even if I didn't want to. It's seriously annoying...
It kinda takes the epicness out of the fight, especially the 10,000 battle, “this is gonna be an epic fight!, use the train attraction to finish them off -_- ‘
@@MasterJunior93 It's very easy to accidentally use them considering how many commands can appear. That's why it would be better if we were given an option to turn them off. I'd say a lot of people would be happy about that considering the amount of hate I've seen for attraction flow in different videos
I’m glad you recognized how awesome this theme is too. It’s beautiful. I can literally hear Aqua’s entire journey in this melody. God Yoko, NEVER LEAVE US!
I haven't had a kingdom hearts song send chills this powerful down my spine since the 2.5 version of rage awakened. Also I'm getting a strong dark souls vibe from this song. It reminds of the abyss watchers.
i wouldn’t actually put the blame on players since the Osaka Team thought putting attractions and form changes all on the same button was a good idea 🤷♂️
Considering how powerful Aqua could become in BBS, Anti-Aqua should have been waaaaaay more difficult than she was. The whole time I was fighting her, I was expecting her to eventually start dishing out dark versions of her powerful exclusive commands from BBS, stuff like Dark Ice Barrage, Dark Firaga Burst. Dark Magic Hour, Darkbloom (Dark Lightbloom.) I mean, she did have moves from what looked like a dark version of her Spellweaver command style, and Shadow Clone Guilt Trip (which kind of got to me a little bit, honestly,) but as great as this fight was, it could have been so much greater.
@@tatianaa6833 I assume Aqua was at her peek Considering that Riku & Mickey couldn't beat her, Plus by this Time Riku was a Master, had a New Keyblade helped from Repliku & New Resolve. The Darkness must've been using her Entire Being to Fight.
HeadhunterTelesto I felt the same way about Young Xehanort, Xemnas, and Ansem. They were so powerful either as secret bosses and/or final bosses in general, so their respective skill sets should have been much more reflective of that strength (since it is stated they are going all-out here, whereas in the secret battles they were merely testing the players’ strength).
@@soralight_x She wasn't at her peek clearly: Aqua didn't fight Riku and Mickey directly, Mickey was inside the demon tower (and she never fought him actually) and Riku fought her AND the demon tower at the same time, he didn't fight her directly, like Sora did. Do you seriously believe that, if Aqua were at her peek, she would have need a demon tower? Of course not, there is a massive difference between the 2 and Aqua wouldn't need an heartless to defeat him.
@@tatianaa6833 She was controlling the Demon Tower that Mickey & Riku were having trouble dealing with as well as the thing that trapped Mickey. Aqua was clearly above the Demon Tower as she fought & defeated both the Tower & Tide singlehandedly at some point.
Honestly the part which hurt me the most and will definetly define itself as a staple in this series is when Aqua seperates herself into a multitude of illusions. They all say things which are designed to make not only Sora, but the player feel her pain. When I experienced this myself I had to pause the game and take a moment to cry. Aqua did not deserve what happened to her. We should have been there for her sooner and yet all we can do is give her the release she needs from her suffering. Destroy the darkness, return it to light.
Jacob Chapman a real fan feels sorrow for Aqua and understands her tragedy. How about you make like a dusk and get out of this comment section you nobody.
I feel like Aqua was saved too easily, like if there were more health bars and possibly two fights like fighting her with Riiku and him losing, then sora comes in and fight her with Riku as a party member add some amazing dialogue in there, and some small battle commands clashing with aqua or her smacking us around. Final cutscene could be it seems like aqua has one but then sora feels something from ventus that pushes him not to give up and then he cuts through the darkness in aqua and she slowly starts to turn back to normal with more sad lines. They take her back to destiny islands and she the regains consciousness and sees riku and sora as terra and ventus like in the game.
I;m sure that Somewhere along the line they'll Add Extra Boss Phases, more Story Bosses, Colisseum Battles & More. On a Side Note, Critical Mode & Extra Story Content was Confirmed for 2019!
@King of Light You're right, she's awfully powerful: she fell UNDER the realm of darkness, lost her keyblade, got corrupted by the darkness and she didn't die or turn into an hearltess, and, despite this, she still managed to return in the dark margin. Remember she didn't have her keyblade and she had no means of fighting the heartless, as she said, and STILL manage to return. This is weakness? Of course not, strenght of heart, determination and power all combined, that's why Aqua is my favourite character of the series. It's incredible to think that she was still able to put a fight against Sora and Riku after all this mess.
@Bruno Ricardo Riku couldn't do anything to her: Riku got defeated by the demon tower, got his keyblade broke, even if he had protection, he wasn't alone and he stayed down there for what? few hours? Aqua instead defeated the demon tower by her own, having no protection and her keyblalde didn't break, she also destroyed powerful heartless such as demon tide, red eye, dark sides and let's not forget that even weak heartless are stronger in the dark world. She even defeated her own phantom. Then she got corrupted by the darkness due to Ansem, she fell under the realm of darkness, lost her keyblade and STILL managed to return in the dark marigin and yet Riku couldn't do anything to her. And let's not forget that all of this corruption thing doesn't have an effect on her, unlike Riku that he took games for him to overcome his darkness (he was even afraid of it in RECOM), so Riku and Aqua are not comparable. Riku is strong, but compared to Aqua, is weak.
Vivi L'antieroina nel tubo I agree with Both you & King of Light. Aqua is Without a Doubt 1 of the Best & Most Gifted Keyblade Wielders In History! As for Sora, well he’s Blessed. 😁😇
What a fantastic song. This and The Final World's theme are just breathtaking. Imagine using pirate ship during this fight. What kind of inhuman monster would do that... I really wish there was a way to disable attractions when you start a new game. And critical mode as well. Hell, I'd settle for a LV 1 run that let you learn abilities but not stat boosts.
You can do a level 1 run on proud, however if you don't increase your stats through cooking and keyblade upgrades, your damage eventually bottoms out and you start doing chip damage, which adds unnecessary difficulty. I hope they update level 1 to have a higher damage minimum like in Kh2fm level 1.
@@xshobux Yeah I'd do a level 1 run if all the Bonus abilities gave the regular level up abilities as well. I wonder if there's a complete list of abilities and what level they stop at. I might just cap my level when I get my last ability during my next run. I'm kinda bummed out that SE hasn't came out with a "We hear you" news post. But the team is on a break now, so I can understand why they haven't haha
@@soralight_x Stop making this excuse, that should've have been there since the beginning. I'm tired of Square completing games 2 years after they come out. What about the loyal customers who bought the game since say one?
As much as I felt this boss should've been harder(I demand some balance changes Nomura, no exceptions or whatever sort of excuse he might try to pull about dlc or updates since its not actually confirmed), it felt almost appropriate that Sora was strong enough to overpower Aqua in her current state. Like it was the sworn duty of Sora and Sora alone, the person she had put all of her hopes into, to banish the darkness thay had engulfed her and return her to light. I'm not sure about everyone else but for me, every hit I dealt had meaning(especially since the slippery blueberry kept dodging). For me, this fight was fun and unique not because it was difficult or challenging(it wasn't but I feel like it wouldn't have added anything more to what I was already feeling) but because everything about it was symbolic and meanigful and it felt amazing to he a part of that. Again, that was just my experience but its definitely a favorite KH moment of mine
This was definitely the best boss in the game. Music was great, setting was great, tone was amazing & if you didn’t abuse attractions the fight felt really cool.
@@Gamelover254 No attractions, no tranformations. The definitive way to do it in my opinion. Should've come up with a different moveset other than 3rd Phantom Aqua tho. Still a great fight regardless.
It was they cut the amount of bars down for some reason. I'm still confused about that since like that small boss fight in pirates looked like he had 10 bars or more.
Probably in test versions they super buffed the HP of bosses bosses to increase the likelihood of a bug occurring during the encounter. Blizzard has done this with their bosses ever since they made PTR a thing in World of Warcraft.
Definitely one of the best moments and boss fights in the game. You could feel the sadness and anger Aqua has throughout the fight and you can't help but smile (and maybe shed a tear) seeing her reaction after hearing that she's home/back in the realm of light. Also I won by smiting Aqua with lightning which I felt was appropriate.
Bless you for including the intro bit! I hope you'll be uploading the full soundtrack, because you always do the music ripping true justice. I do have a question though. Can cutscene music be ripped from this game? The rendition of The Deep End used during Aqua's brief fight with Ansem's guardian is so good and very different from the one featured in the Rock Titan battle. I'd love to be able to listen to it without voices and sound effects.
And the cutscene that plays when Lea's Keyblade is destroyed, Kairi is kidnapped and Roxas returns (before the Saïx battle), but it only plays in a cutscene. Best music in the whole game.
This is one of my top favorite boss fights in KH 3. I daresay I enjoyed it more than the fight against Xehanort even. Everything in this fight was beautiful and had so much meaning to it. You could really feel Aqua's pain and distress built by a decade of loneliness in the dark. I think this OST is also one of the best tracks in the game and there are a lot of beautiful tracks.
And I hope you never used Attractions during this fight. YES!! I told my friend NOT to use Pirate Ship when it appeared in the menu. I didn't feel disappointed at all. We both got the feels
its tragic to her lose to darkness when we saw her in birth by sleep trying all she could to help her friends and the world from darkness, but the darkness was too much then she was lost in darkness for 10 years all alone surrounded by heartless and darkness,,,, and finally she became an easy target to be turned,, thats why its sad because we got to see her fall from grace, its sad to fight against some1 who 1s was the hero u played with but now she turned rogue.
I actually got it contact with Everglow, he unfortunately doesn't have the tracks anymore. So once they were taken off UA-cam for copyright, they were gone for good :,(
My favorite boss is a tossup between this or Saïx, for the emotional impact of Xion and Roxas fighting beside me. But the entire time fighting this boss I couldn't get it out of my head how amazing this theme was. And the part where she splits into many phantoms and they all talk about being abandoned, that hurt.
Tbh I wish this could have been a mid game boss. Having to fight here in multiple stages/phases, making it all the more difficult to rescue Aqua. This went by and happened way too fast. All in all this soundtrack is a Masterpiece. Amazing job Yoko.
I agee, this could have been just the first stage of her fight and, after this, the true fight starts and maybe Riku join Sora and defeat her toghether or Ventus from inside Sora gives him the strenght to defeat her and set her free from the darkness. Maybe the darkness weakened her, because i can't explain the fact that she was able to survive in the realm of darkness form more than 10 years, facing heartless that easily defeated Riku AND Mickey, while her alone was able to defeat the demon tide/tower, phantoms and darksides, defeated many enemies on her own such as Vanitas and Terranort, fell under the realm of darkness, losing the keyblade, so having no means of defeating the heartless, as she said to Mickey, but still managed to return, but she was set free in just one fight. But still, she has demostrated to possess a very strong heart (she didn't loose her heart to the darkness in more than 10 years in a place full of darkness, even when she fell under the realm of darkness), power and determination. The soundtrack is emotional and makes me cry, yoko is a genius.
I;m sure they'll make this Fight more Interesting late this Year, & add a Phase2 to Aqua's Battle as well as many other Boss Fights. a Huge DLC Expansion was Confirmed for 2019
Sora Light I hope your right! Kinda have big expectations for this DLC hopefully they show something at E3 cause some things in this game could’ve been a lot better especially this fight
Speedy 3303 Me too. The Free DLCs will be released separately at different dates this year while the Paid DLC will be come as a Huge Expansion late this year. I also have High Expectations, we might get Additional Story Modes like Reverse Rebirth from CoM.
Sora Light I would love that! hopefully it’ll be something like that, would improve the game quiet a bit too. Hopefully Square will release some details over the Summer I’m gonna guess the big DLC will release between Oct-Dec
This fight was the most emotional for me and deserved pure Kingdom Key keyblade and Lil use of magic. Anything else ruins the fight. If I had to change anything, it would be: 1) Give her more health bars! 2) Mix in some more of Zodiac Aquas move set 3) increase her difficulty or her damage output (Critical Mode) 4) Turn this Musical Masterpiece Up during the fight!
This montage is great as always, dude! Matching the form changes with some of the big hits in the song is so nice to look at. Now we just need some No HUD mods and stuff!
I absolutely love this rendition of Aqua's theme! It conveys everything it needs to about this fight. (And I love that this is one of the few, if not the only, fights that can't be interrupted by the Attraction music. Even if you activate one, the boss theme continues to play.) Anyway, here's what I hear in the music: Darkness. Despair. Hopelessness. Aqua is completely surrounded by all these things and more. She can't escape on her own. She's completely broken. But what's this? 0:26 comes in with those trumpets showing her a glimmer of hope on the horizon. A dim, grey light, but hope nonetheless. Sora has come. And he's saving her. And, as the fight concludes, she reaches out, and Sora reaches back. She's finally, after eleven long years in the dark, in the Realm of Light again.
I what I really enjoy in the moment of this fight is that the begin of saving the Birth by Sleep trio. FINALLY, after all this years, Aqua meets Sora and Riku, and they FINALLY managed to take her back to the world of light. At long last, we are fixing the stuffs. It's truly marvelous in my point of vier.
*still haven't finished the game so please go easy on me* This battle got me tied up in all sorts of emotions. Almost to the point of tears. I knew we weren't gonna kill her here but to see her like this kinda broke my heart a bit and I kinda screamed at the TV "AQUA WE GETTING YOU OUTTA HERE" Sad it wasn't longer. I loved this fight
Anti aqua one the saddest fights I had too do. I didn't wanna hurt one of the best characters of the franchise. She was corrupted left for dead and who saved her? The boy that everyone makes fun of for failing his exam.
Anyone think square will add a patch to update this fight? Increase her health bars and moveset (Phantom Aqua even had 2 different methods of fighting) Also I feel she should have had a second phase.
That would be great but I honestly wouldn’t make a lot of sense ? I mean sure she was Norted from Ansem’s guardian/terra but it just wouldn’t count as a data battle .
@@underscore55 I mean, I know, after all even Demyx and Vexen are no data battles and they even got norted and benched, while Anti-Aqua isn't rlly norted, more just possessed by dorkness, so I understand that it wouldn't make sense, but DANG this battle is amazing, tho the boat ride really ruins the mood! XD
“You shouldn’t have abandoned me” “I wandered the shadows endlessly” “No help ever came” “You don’t know what true loneliness is” “I waited for so long” “Now you can share in the terror I felt”
I love how they add an epic feeling to this song. The opera like singing definitely helps, along with the slow pacing of the wind & string instruments. And that ping sound adds a droning yet industrial feeling to it.
I think Riku should've been the one to fight aqua, since hes been in the darkness much longer and was able to combing it with light in his fighting style, even becoming a keyblade master through it.
The worst thing about this fight are those stupid attractions. I accidentally finished her off with the damned pirate ship, like really?? Nevertheless, stupendous job as always Everglow
You can also immediately cancel the attraction after you start it with L1. I did that often when I accidentally started one. I mean, the attractions are fun for just generic enemy fights, but they really shouldn't have been enabled in boss fights.
Wouldn’t it be crazy if Aqua has DID? That Anti Aqua becomes an alter ego when Aqua is in a lot of stress? I’m enjoying the Greeting Data a lot and I’m using it as a means to create stories about the scenario.
This fight was the KH2 Roxas boss fight of KH3. Seriously, this fight DESERVES a second form! Maybe a Ghost Drive form??? And why is Attraction Flow an option!!!??? Who would use attraction flow on Aqua, ruin everything!
I hope in the rumored many small dlc's they add either a cavern of remembrance way to fight old bosses or battle gates, but like beefed up max level versions
As many others has said Attractions shouldn't even be available during boss fights at all, I got goosebumps all over during the entire ordeal but it was a bit annoying trying to actively avoid the attraction commands
Any advices to improve my Guard without relying on Keyblade Transformations? I mostly end up using Guard either so soon that Sora lets his Guard down just before getting puch, or just when the enemy hitbox already touched me.
Absolutely love this theme! Was wondering if it was possible for you to rip and upload Shaded Truths and The Thirteenth Discretion remasters from KH3?? I've looked around and I don't think anyone has, they're some of my personal favorites!
If there’s one thing I feel they missed spectacularly, it was making Riku and Aqua permanent teammates in the Keyblade Graveyard, and not giving them team attacks to pair up with Sora. Battling with and against these characters showed SO MUCH POTENTIAL, and they didn’t follow up on it. (I wouldn’t say no to Kairi being a permanent ally either, but... you know... Nomura apparently can’t make her anything but a *coughcoughdeceasedcough* damsel in distress.)
There was one moment in the keyblade graveyard where I thought we were going to fight with Sora, Aqua & Riku against the Demon Tornado. Why did that never happen!?!? I get Aqua wanted to stick with Ven considering how protective she is, but Riku and Aqua needed at least one moment or duel together. The thing with kh3 is that none of the matchups were very surprising. Sora & Riku Sora, Kairi & Lea Sora, Xion & Roxas Sora, Ventus & Aqua Sora, Riku & Mickey Those are all characters we’ve seen interact with eachother a million times before (except Sora who is in every match). How much more interesting would it have been if say Aqua teamed up with Kairi or Riku. Or if Lea teamed up with Ven. I still like KH3 but I really wished we saw the group interact more. I’m looking forward to the DLC where it looks like Sora might not butt in every fight.
Honestly this whole fight perfectly encapsulates why Mickey should have been playable for this fight. All of Aqua clones lines feel awkward when delivered to Sora because he barely remembers her while Mickey has had a friendship with Aqua and feels guilty over having to leave her in 0.2
The music ingame needs to be louder, I hardly heard some of the best tracks. also would have been much more intense if proud mode was actually.... hard. I beat every boss my first try except Xehanort and Dark Inferno.
Yeah I couldn’t hear the theme when fighting Aqua. Now that I hear it, I feel like I missed out on an experience. I’m replaying the game with headphones.
Aqua join my in the darkness. Sora join you in the darkness? No... No I not here to join in the darkness even if i don't want to hurt you but I have to I here to save you!
Yoko has a gift she’s always able to bring so much emotion to each scene her music is used in you can also tell her experience with ff15 helped with kh3 soundtrack I hope I can make music as beautiful as this woman can
If there's one thing I would never want to leave the Kingdom Hearts series...it's Yoko and her magic.
This battle turned out just as I expected it to be-even more, as the game does let you play as both Riku and Sora. I just wished Aqua had many more HP bars, since this battle deserves to last way longer, and a different moveset from the one you fight in 0.2
Nonetheless a truly epic rendition of Aqua's theme.
And I hope you never used Attractions during this fight.
Lol I actually beat her with the Pirate Ship 😂
Everglow can you shorten this song?
Evergloooooow... continue the timeline! Please?
*cough* >_>
Everglow what happen to your OST playlist my dude?
Aqua appears as a playable character, a party member, and a boss all in the same game.
That’s my girl! 😂
Riku too
@@kamiru2993 Not really, considering the Riku you fight is not the exact same Riku that is a party member and a playable character
I seriously did not expect to play as her but it does make sense for her to be the one to beat Vanitas's ass again. It was a pleasant surprise.
Naomi except vanitas defeated aqua
Honestly i think Atractions should be disabled in 1 on 1 fights like this and the organization itself it ruins the moment
Better yet. They should add an option in the menu to turn them off permanently. There's been too many times I've accidentally used one even if I didn't want to. It's seriously annoying...
It kinda takes the epicness out of the fight, especially the 10,000 battle, “this is gonna be an epic fight!, use the train attraction to finish them off
-_- ‘
You know, you have the option to NOT use them. Just let the timer go out and stick to form changes.
@@MasterJunior93 It's very easy to accidentally use them considering how many commands can appear. That's why it would be better if we were given an option to turn them off. I'd say a lot of people would be happy about that considering the amount of hate I've seen for attraction flow in different videos
Use the L2 to cycle through attraction.
I’m glad you recognized how awesome this theme is too. It’s beautiful. I can literally hear Aqua’s entire journey in this melody. God Yoko, NEVER LEAVE US!
I love it, yes it is literally is singing her journey
She’s the VGM goddess! No one can go wrong with her music! 👌👌👌
So glad someone managed to capture the intro, thank you so much ❤️💕
“You better have not used Attractions.”
SHOOT, I’VE BEEN SPOTTED!
I haven't had a kingdom hearts song send chills this powerful down my spine since the 2.5 version of rage awakened. Also I'm getting a strong dark souls vibe from this song. It reminds of the abyss watchers.
Might thoughts exactly heheh
Same here, this soundtrack enters in my heart and makes me cry.
Who was the goof that thought putting a Pirate Ship in this fight would be a good idea?
It's a time-honored Kingdom Hearts tradition that people turn into boats during battles, and now, Sora has that power
@@NthDoctorWho sora and the pirate ship will be the final boss of kh4
i wouldn’t actually put the blame on players since the Osaka Team thought putting attractions and form changes all on the same button was a good idea 🤷♂️
SuperButterBuns be like: YOU LIKE BOATS AQUA???
The people who liked boats
Considering how powerful Aqua could become in BBS, Anti-Aqua should have been waaaaaay more difficult than she was. The whole time I was fighting her, I was expecting her to eventually start dishing out dark versions of her powerful exclusive commands from BBS, stuff like Dark Ice Barrage, Dark Firaga Burst. Dark Magic Hour, Darkbloom (Dark Lightbloom.) I mean, she did have moves from what looked like a dark version of her Spellweaver command style, and Shadow Clone Guilt Trip (which kind of got to me a little bit, honestly,) but as great as this fight was, it could have been so much greater.
I thought the same thing, the potential of making this boss fight harder and longer was endless. But most likely the darkness weakened her.
@@tatianaa6833 I assume Aqua was at her peek Considering that Riku & Mickey couldn't beat her, Plus by this Time Riku was a Master, had a New Keyblade helped from Repliku & New Resolve. The Darkness must've been using her Entire Being to Fight.
HeadhunterTelesto I felt the same way about Young Xehanort, Xemnas, and Ansem. They were so powerful either as secret bosses and/or final bosses in general, so their respective skill sets should have been much more reflective of that strength (since it is stated they are going all-out here, whereas in the secret battles they were merely testing the players’ strength).
@@soralight_x She wasn't at her peek clearly: Aqua didn't fight Riku and Mickey directly, Mickey was inside the demon tower (and she never fought him actually) and Riku fought her AND the demon tower at the same time, he didn't fight her directly, like Sora did. Do you seriously believe that, if Aqua were at her peek, she would have need a demon tower? Of course not, there is a massive difference between the 2 and Aqua wouldn't need an heartless to defeat him.
@@tatianaa6833 She was controlling the Demon Tower that Mickey & Riku were having trouble dealing with as well as the thing that trapped Mickey. Aqua was clearly above the Demon Tower as she fought & defeated both the Tower & Tide singlehandedly at some point.
Wish the game would add a dlc that lets you repeat boss fights :/
I would love that!
You mean like a boss rush? Great idea!
Maietsu You mean like those data battles?
Yes a boss fight thing having some unique colered battle portal for each boss fight and then put a battle portal at destiny islands for a boss rush
So, like DDD, i would honestly love that.
Honestly the part which hurt me the most and will definetly define itself as a staple in this series is when Aqua seperates herself into a multitude of illusions. They all say things which are designed to make not only Sora, but the player feel her pain. When I experienced this myself I had to pause the game and take a moment to cry. Aqua did not deserve what happened to her. We should have been there for her sooner and yet all we can do is give her the release she needs from her suffering.
Destroy the darkness, return it to light.
@@Wizard_Pikachu that's awfully rude to say
@@Wizard_Pikachu If you think crying is retarded, there's something awfully wrong with you.
Jacob Chapman a real fan feels sorrow for Aqua and understands her tragedy. How about you make like a dusk and get out of this comment section you nobody.
Wah wah wah wah wah
@@Wizard_Pikachu hurrdurr it's retarded to cry you can't be emotionally inflicted by fiction xdddd. Get back in your cave
This was a dramatic battle...until I got to summon the Pirate Ship disneyland ride and juggled her with that leading to her defeat.
KelvinBelmont same
Hehe I did the same thing
I purposely avoided ruining this battle with attractions
*Heavy* : The burning you feel? It is shame.
You're fighting one of the most emotional battles in the game and you're riding teacups and ships and rollercoasters?
I feel like Aqua was saved too easily, like if there were more health bars and possibly two fights like fighting her with Riiku and him losing, then sora comes in and fight her with Riku as a party member add some amazing dialogue in there, and some small battle commands clashing with aqua or her smacking us around. Final cutscene could be it seems like aqua has one but then sora feels something from ventus that pushes him not to give up and then he cuts through the darkness in aqua and she slowly starts to turn back to normal with more sad lines. They take her back to destiny islands and she the regains consciousness and sees riku and sora as terra and ventus like in the game.
Just make the Dark World an hour long instead of just a boss fight. Make it a journey to the beach.
I;m sure that Somewhere along the line they'll Add Extra Boss Phases, more Story Bosses, Colisseum Battles & More. On a Side Note, Critical Mode & Extra Story Content was Confirmed for 2019!
@King of Light You're right, she's awfully powerful: she fell UNDER the realm of darkness, lost her keyblade, got corrupted by the darkness and she didn't die or turn into an hearltess, and, despite this, she still managed to return in the dark margin. Remember she didn't have her keyblade and she had no means of fighting the heartless, as she said, and STILL manage to return. This is weakness? Of course not, strenght of heart, determination and power all combined, that's why Aqua is my favourite character of the series. It's incredible to think that she was still able to put a fight against Sora and Riku after all this mess.
@Bruno Ricardo Riku couldn't do anything to her: Riku got defeated by the demon tower, got his keyblade broke, even if he had protection, he wasn't alone and he stayed down there for what? few hours? Aqua instead defeated the demon tower by her own, having no protection and her keyblalde didn't break, she also destroyed powerful heartless such as demon tide, red eye, dark sides and let's not forget that even weak heartless are stronger in the dark world. She even defeated her own phantom. Then she got corrupted by the darkness due to Ansem, she fell under the realm of darkness, lost her keyblade and STILL managed to return in the dark marigin and yet Riku couldn't do anything to her. And let's not forget that all of this corruption thing doesn't have an effect on her, unlike Riku that he took games for him to overcome his darkness (he was even afraid of it in RECOM), so Riku and Aqua are not comparable. Riku is strong, but compared to Aqua, is weak.
Vivi L'antieroina nel tubo I agree with Both you & King of Light. Aqua is Without a Doubt 1 of the Best & Most Gifted Keyblade Wielders In History! As for Sora, well he’s Blessed. 😁😇
What a fantastic song. This and The Final World's theme are just breathtaking.
Imagine using pirate ship during this fight. What kind of inhuman monster would do that... I really wish there was a way to disable attractions when you start a new game. And critical mode as well. Hell, I'd settle for a LV 1 run that let you learn abilities but not stat boosts.
You can do a level 1 run on proud, however if you don't increase your stats through cooking and keyblade upgrades, your damage eventually bottoms out and you start doing chip damage, which adds unnecessary difficulty. I hope they update level 1 to have a higher damage minimum like in Kh2fm level 1.
@@xshobux Yeah I'd do a level 1 run if all the Bonus abilities gave the regular level up abilities as well. I wonder if there's a complete list of abilities and what level they stop at. I might just cap my level when I get my last ability during my next run. I'm kinda bummed out that SE hasn't came out with a "We hear you" news post. But the team is on a break now, so I can understand why they haven't haha
yeah, plus its barely been a week. give it a bit of time, i'm sure we'll hear something soon
I am ashamed that I did It, pretty much a ping pong game.
Critical will probably be patched in in a few weeks, I'm pretty sure that's what happened with 0.2.
5:21 Riku's aerial finish slashes basically like up with the music here, and it's great. :D
This fight was waaaaaaay too short. I wanted more rage and mellodrama.
I'm sure they;ll add Fillers & Extra Boss Battles Phases along the Line.
@@soralight_x Stop making this excuse, that should've have been there since the beginning. I'm tired of Square completing games 2 years after they come out. What about the loyal customers who bought the game since say one?
@@omnis1182 It's called an opinion not an excuse. Sorry you see things from a Negative perspective but if you want to feel that way so be it.
Edgy
As much as I felt this boss should've been harder(I demand some balance changes Nomura, no exceptions or whatever sort of excuse he might try to pull about dlc or updates since its not actually confirmed), it felt almost appropriate that Sora was strong enough to overpower Aqua in her current state. Like it was the sworn duty of Sora and Sora alone, the person she had put all of her hopes into, to banish the darkness thay had engulfed her and return her to light. I'm not sure about everyone else but for me, every hit I dealt had meaning(especially since the slippery blueberry kept dodging). For me, this fight was fun and unique not because it was difficult or challenging(it wasn't but I feel like it wouldn't have added anything more to what I was already feeling) but because everything about it was symbolic and meanigful and it felt amazing to he a part of that. Again, that was just my experience but its definitely a favorite KH moment of mine
This was definitely the best boss in the game. Music was great, setting was great, tone was amazing & if you didn’t abuse attractions the fight felt really cool.
@@Gamelover254 No attractions, no tranformations. The definitive way to do it in my opinion. Should've come up with a different moveset other than 3rd Phantom Aqua tho. Still a great fight regardless.
I swear Anti-Aqua's HP seemed larger when it was first previewed.
It was they cut the amount of bars down for some reason. I'm still confused about that since like that small boss fight in pirates looked like he had 10 bars or more.
In the reveal trailer for this boss fight she had 9 bars, now she only has 6.
Probably in test versions they super buffed the HP of bosses bosses to increase the likelihood of a bug occurring during the encounter. Blizzard has done this with their bosses ever since they made PTR a thing in World of Warcraft.
You'd be right actually. it used to have the same amount as final mirror aqua... They shrunk it down
I’m so ready to see you upload your story Play through along with the timeline...
this gets me thinking that everglow is going to try a mod that allows sora and riku to fight aqua
Guren Nash and more HP for Aqua
True
Everglow will give us the boss fight we deserve
Definitely one of the best moments and boss fights in the game. You could feel the sadness and anger Aqua has throughout the fight and you can't help but smile (and maybe shed a tear) seeing her reaction after hearing that she's home/back in the realm of light. Also I won by smiting Aqua with lightning which I felt was appropriate.
Bless you for including the intro bit! I hope you'll be uploading the full soundtrack, because you always do the music ripping true justice. I do have a question though. Can cutscene music be ripped from this game? The rendition of The Deep End used during Aqua's brief fight with Ansem's guardian is so good and very different from the one featured in the Rock Titan battle. I'd love to be able to listen to it without voices and sound effects.
And the cutscene that plays when Lea's Keyblade is destroyed, Kairi is kidnapped and Roxas returns (before the Saïx battle), but it only plays in a cutscene. Best music in the whole game.
@@OathOfTheThirteenth Agreed!
This is one of my top favorite boss fights in KH 3. I daresay I enjoyed it more than the fight against Xehanort even. Everything in this fight was beautiful and had so much meaning to it. You could really feel Aqua's pain and distress built by a decade of loneliness in the dark. I think this OST is also one of the best tracks in the game and there are a lot of beautiful tracks.
This legit sounds like something SoulsBourne music I love it!!!
God this OST is dope
(choir plays)
I’m not crying...I’m telling you I’m not crying
😭
BRO THAT MUSIC WAS INSANE!! It was so great that I actually lost focus and almost died lol
Yes yes YES. Might be my favorite track in the game. For sure top 5
Good idea to have the fight playing instead of the vid just being the music and a still image.
Bless you for using guards and reflect versus boss fights. All the casual reviewers are just dodging and taking the attack head on
Only because the actual hits don’t do that much, which is a complaint about the game in general. It being too easy.
@@Gamelover254 I figured out that it's probably your armor, after fighting dark inferno, he doesn't much more if you have armor on.
And I hope you never used Attractions during this fight.
YES!! I told my friend NOT to use Pirate Ship when it appeared in the menu. I didn't feel disappointed at all. We both got the feels
Nah attractions made this fight better. You are all a bunch of snowflakes
These montages give me life thank u
I cried during this whole fight......
its tragic to her lose to darkness when we saw her in birth by sleep trying all she could to help her friends and the world from darkness, but the darkness was too much then she was lost in darkness for 10 years all alone surrounded by heartless and darkness,,,, and finally she became an easy target to be turned,, thats why its sad because we got to see her fall from grace, its sad to fight against some1 who 1s was the hero u played with but now she turned rogue.
Bloodboune .. feels like a little like it
On the bright side, the Attractions don't switch the music out.
If it did then I'd think it's dumb
How I wish every Kingdom Hearts HD soundtracks would be re-uploaded again... or maybe at least upload every soundtracks on the backup account...
Were they dumped becuz of copyright? I loved to hear his extended 1.5 Lord of the Castle video when I study and then I couldn't find it anymore
I actually got it contact with Everglow, he unfortunately doesn't have the tracks anymore. So once they were taken off UA-cam for copyright, they were gone for good :,(
Thank you for this; I was on the verge of tears this whole time.
This gives me a very nice souls vibe
My favorite boss is a tossup between this or Saïx, for the emotional impact of Xion and Roxas fighting beside me.
But the entire time fighting this boss I couldn't get it out of my head how amazing this theme was. And the part where she splits into many phantoms and they all talk about being abandoned, that hurt.
Ok, this makes up for the lackluster final boss theme.
Exactly. Hopefully and update can change it to something Yoko Shimimora would make.
Tbh I wish this could have been a mid game boss. Having to fight here in multiple stages/phases, making it all the more difficult to rescue Aqua. This went by and happened way too fast.
All in all this soundtrack is a Masterpiece. Amazing job Yoko.
I agee, this could have been just the first stage of her fight and, after this, the true fight starts and maybe Riku join Sora and defeat her toghether or Ventus from inside Sora gives him the strenght to defeat her and set her free from the darkness. Maybe the darkness weakened her, because i can't explain the fact that she was able to survive in the realm of darkness form more than 10 years, facing heartless that easily defeated Riku AND Mickey, while her alone was able to defeat the demon tide/tower, phantoms and darksides, defeated many enemies on her own such as Vanitas and Terranort, fell under the realm of darkness, losing the keyblade, so having no means of defeating the heartless, as she said to Mickey, but still managed to return, but she was set free in just one fight. But still, she has demostrated to possess a very strong heart (she didn't loose her heart to the darkness in more than 10 years in a place full of darkness, even when she fell under the realm of darkness), power and determination. The soundtrack is emotional and makes me cry, yoko is a genius.
I;m sure they'll make this Fight more Interesting late this Year, & add a Phase2 to Aqua's Battle as well as many other Boss Fights. a Huge DLC Expansion was Confirmed for 2019
Sora Light I hope your right! Kinda have big expectations for this DLC hopefully they show something at E3 cause some things in this game could’ve been a lot better especially this fight
Speedy 3303 Me too. The Free DLCs will be released separately at different dates this year while the Paid DLC will be come as a Huge Expansion late this year.
I also have High Expectations, we might get Additional Story Modes like Reverse Rebirth from CoM.
Sora Light I would love that! hopefully it’ll be something like that, would improve the game quiet a bit too. Hopefully Square will release some details over the Summer I’m gonna guess the big DLC will release between Oct-Dec
This fight was the most emotional for me and deserved pure Kingdom Key keyblade and Lil use of magic. Anything else ruins the fight.
If I had to change anything, it would be:
1) Give her more health bars!
2) Mix in some more of Zodiac Aquas move set
3) increase her difficulty or her damage output (Critical Mode)
4) Turn this Musical Masterpiece Up during the fight!
You really want orange attacks in this fight
This is my jam at the gym and watch my reps skyrocket!!! 😤👊🏻
This montage is great as always, dude! Matching the form changes with some of the big hits in the song is so nice to look at. Now we just need some No HUD mods and stuff!
I absolutely love this rendition of Aqua's theme! It conveys everything it needs to about this fight. (And I love that this is one of the few, if not the only, fights that can't be interrupted by the Attraction music. Even if you activate one, the boss theme continues to play.)
Anyway, here's what I hear in the music:
Darkness. Despair. Hopelessness. Aqua is completely surrounded by all these things and more. She can't escape on her own. She's completely broken.
But what's this? 0:26 comes in with those trumpets showing her a glimmer of hope on the horizon. A dim, grey light, but hope nonetheless. Sora has come. And he's saving her. And, as the fight concludes, she reaches out, and Sora reaches back. She's finally, after eleven long years in the dark, in the Realm of Light again.
I what I really enjoy in the moment of this fight is that the begin of saving the Birth by Sleep trio.
FINALLY, after all this years, Aqua meets Sora and Riku, and they FINALLY managed to take her back to the world of light.
At long last, we are fixing the stuffs. It's truly marvelous in my point of vier.
*still haven't finished the game so please go easy on me*
This battle got me tied up in all sorts of emotions. Almost to the point of tears. I knew we weren't gonna kill her here but to see her like this kinda broke my heart a bit and I kinda screamed at the TV "AQUA WE GETTING YOU OUTTA HERE"
Sad it wasn't longer. I loved this fight
Mickey. You're too late.
Anti aqua one the saddest fights I had too do. I didn't wanna hurt one of the best characters of the franchise. She was corrupted left for dead and who saved her? The boy that everyone makes fun of for failing his exam.
Oh hey, it's that fight when I was crying my eyes out, saying "I'm sorry" over and over again T.T
Anyone think square will add a patch to update this fight? Increase her health bars and moveset (Phantom Aqua even had 2 different methods of fighting) Also I feel she should have had a second phase.
It's her theme music but.... *DARKNESS*
Excellent
I really wish, Anti-Aqua would have had a data fight as well, such a cool boss, with an amazing soundtrack! 💙
That would be great but I honestly wouldn’t make a lot of sense ? I mean sure she was Norted from Ansem’s guardian/terra but it just wouldn’t count as a data battle .
@@underscore55 I mean, I know, after all even Demyx and Vexen are no data battles and they even got norted and benched, while Anti-Aqua isn't rlly norted, more just possessed by dorkness, so I understand that it wouldn't make sense, but DANG this battle is amazing, tho the boat ride really ruins the mood! XD
“You shouldn’t have abandoned me”
“I wandered the shadows endlessly”
“No help ever came”
“You don’t know what true loneliness is”
“I waited for so long”
“Now you can share in the terror I felt”
I love how they add an epic feeling to this song. The opera like singing definitely helps, along with the slow pacing of the wind & string instruments. And that ping sound adds a droning yet industrial feeling to it.
If you think about it, she completely has a new command style that's inbetween Dark Impulse and Spell Weaver
HD versions of these songs plus your editing!? Keep these montages coming!!!
I like the fact this is the only time sora and riku use that keyblade fusion thing from DDD
I think Riku should've been the one to fight aqua, since hes been in the darkness much longer and was able to combing it with light in his fighting style, even becoming a keyblade master through it.
Riku did Fight Aqua, just not as Directly as Sora did.
@@soralight_x indirect confrontation does not count
There was a KH3 ad before the video xD
The worst thing about this fight are those stupid attractions. I accidentally finished her off with the damned pirate ship, like really?? Nevertheless, stupendous job as always Everglow
Yeah. They really need to implement an option to turn attractions off. That would be perfect
Just don't use it. You can change the situation command with L2/LT
@@joa6336 I know. It's just annoying seeing them pop up 24/7.
You can also immediately cancel the attraction after you start it with L1. I did that often when I accidentally started one. I mean, the attractions are fun for just generic enemy fights, but they really shouldn't have been enabled in boss fights.
@@Firestar1992 I know you, can cancel them, just the fact that they exist are dumb
Wouldn’t it be crazy if Aqua has DID? That Anti Aqua becomes an alter ego when Aqua is in a lot of stress? I’m enjoying the Greeting Data a lot and I’m using it as a means to create stories about the scenario.
A KH Dark Souls-esque battle theme. This theme REALLY resembles a LOT the Abyss Watchers one in DS3
This fight was the KH2 Roxas boss fight of KH3. Seriously, this fight DESERVES a second form! Maybe a Ghost Drive form??? And why is Attraction Flow an option!!!??? Who would use attraction flow on Aqua, ruin everything!
Sora: Realm of Darkness?
(Anti Aqua appears in front of you)
Sora: Ah Sh*t here we go again...ready for round 2
I waited for so long.
No help ever came.
I hope in the rumored many small dlc's they add either a cavern of remembrance way to fight old bosses or battle gates, but like beefed up max level versions
As many others has said Attractions shouldn't even be available during boss fights at all, I got goosebumps all over during the entire ordeal but it was a bit annoying trying to actively avoid the attraction commands
Please upload the key of light that plays when the Union cross keyblade come in!!
Cool how this is the only boss fight ever to be done in the dark margin.
I earned the respect of someone who thought I was weird by finishing off Aqua with the Meow Wow Balloon. I still do other dumb things too :p
"Join me into the darkness."
It would be amazing if some did a mashup of all Aqua's theme from the games. So far I only saw one with a mashup of BbS and Phantom Aqua.
Any advices to improve my Guard without relying on Keyblade Transformations? I mostly end up using Guard either so soon that Sora lets his Guard down just before getting puch, or just when the enemy hitbox already touched me.
Super Gamer Lalo get good and time better
dude what about the music that plays when riku fights aqua?? its like UA-cam doesn't want it uploaded...i cant find it
That's "Wave of Darkness I".
Absolutely love this theme! Was wondering if it was possible for you to rip and upload Shaded Truths and The Thirteenth Discretion remasters from KH3?? I've looked around and I don't think anyone has, they're some of my personal favorites!
I killed Anti-Aqua with the pirate ship just for lols the first time, but I went back to my old save and did it without the attractions.
This fight was so good
As always, awesome job Everglow! Are you going to extend these KH3 soundtracks? I really hope so lol
This boss fight was amazingly well designed and way better than 0.2's Zodiac phantom aqua fight. Osaka fucking gets it
Where can I download the thumbnail wallpaper?
Just need that Vanitas (slow version with piano), Ventus, Terra, Xion, and Roxas’s theme
Where can I get this picture of the crowned Sora? Would love to have this as wallpaper
If there’s one thing I feel they missed spectacularly, it was making Riku and Aqua permanent teammates in the Keyblade Graveyard, and not giving them team attacks to pair up with Sora. Battling with and against these characters showed SO MUCH POTENTIAL, and they didn’t follow up on it. (I wouldn’t say no to Kairi being a permanent ally either, but... you know... Nomura apparently can’t make her anything but a *coughcoughdeceasedcough* damsel in distress.)
There was one moment in the keyblade graveyard where I thought we were going to fight with Sora, Aqua & Riku against the Demon Tornado. Why did that never happen!?!? I get Aqua wanted to stick with Ven considering how protective she is, but Riku and Aqua needed at least one moment or duel together.
The thing with kh3 is that none of the matchups were very surprising.
Sora & Riku
Sora, Kairi & Lea
Sora, Xion & Roxas
Sora, Ventus & Aqua
Sora, Riku & Mickey
Those are all characters we’ve seen interact with eachother a million times before (except Sora who is in every match). How much more interesting would it have been if say Aqua teamed up with Kairi or Riku. Or if Lea teamed up with Ven.
I still like KH3 but I really wished we saw the group interact more.
I’m looking forward to the DLC where it looks like Sora might not butt in every fight.
If Anti Aqua (I call her Demon Aqua) were to come back, I can see her whispering in Aqua’s ear: Let me out...I want to share...Let me share.
What happened to the extended osts on your channel?
Honestly this whole fight perfectly encapsulates why Mickey should have been playable for this fight. All of Aqua clones lines feel awkward when delivered to Sora because he barely remembers her while Mickey has had a friendship with Aqua and feels guilty over having to leave her in 0.2
Nope, you're wrong. It was very good to do that. That was epic.
I meant to finish off Anti-Aqua with Ancient Light but ended up using Plasma Encounter’s finisher instead
I think we need another Boo Ray! Special from Master Xehanort himself.
The music ingame needs to be louder, I hardly heard some of the best tracks. also would have been much more intense if proud mode was actually.... hard. I beat every boss my first try except Xehanort and Dark Inferno.
Yeah I couldn’t hear the theme when fighting Aqua. Now that I hear it, I feel like I missed out on an experience. I’m replaying the game with headphones.
I heard it just fine 😕 Maybe you need a better sound system? Idk
Hey Yoko, you got Dark Souls in your KH
Please do more I love it.
Aqua join my in the darkness. Sora join you in the darkness? No... No I not here to join in the darkness even if i don't want to hurt you but I have to I here to save you!
I keep fighting her to the last health bar then let her kill me so I can retry the fight because I love this fight and song waaaay too much.
I think this is my favorite theme out of kingdom hearts 3
Can't wait for that roxas/xion track
Anyone know when the OST of kh3 will be released??
You know what kind of therapy we call this? Bashing someone over the head with a giant key. Works every time.
Can you not have ads in the middle of the video please? It interrupts the music.
How does the teleportation works after you block? I don't get it really
Its an ability that allows you to dodge (and retaliate)in different ways after an attack breaks Sora's guard
Yoko has a gift she’s always able to bring so much emotion to each scene her music is used in you can also tell her experience with ff15 helped with kh3 soundtrack I hope I can make music as beautiful as this woman can
Reminds me of lady Maria a bit