Ranking Every World in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (Part 1)
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00:00 - Intro
01:15 - No. 12
02:34 - No. 11
05:27 - No. 10
09:16 - No. 9
13:23 - No. 8
17:00 - No. 7
23:39 - Outro
Music used (in order):
"Dice and Shine" from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010)
"Magical Mystery" from Kingdom Hearts II (2005)
"Dearly Dreams" from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010)
"Olympus Coliseum" from Kingdom Hearts (2002)
"The Promised Beginning" from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010)
"Mickey Mouse March" from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010)
"Keyblade Graveyard Horizon" from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010)
"The Worlds" from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010) - เกม
My favorite thing about BBS is that Aqua and Terra are just a fighting couple while their son Ventus watches from the crack in the door
Does that make Roxas his long lost twin recruited by Koney?
i heard in the japanese version of the Radiant Garden scene, Ven wasn't told to bring two grown ups to disney town, but to bring his parents lmfao
@@zaqareemalcolm shit like this makes me wonder how ventus is canonly 16. like hes my favorite character but he acts younger than sora i thought he was 14 before i looked it up
@@zaqareemalcolm i kinda interpreted the "two grownups" as that
Does this make Xehanort the evil uncle who shows up in Thanksgiving to screw everyone over?
Honestly the one thing I love about Olympus Colosseum is that Zack explicitly asks Aqua on a date, like theirs no euphemisms, theirs no subtlety and it just feels like a guy asking a girl he just got to know if she wants to grab lunch sometime. Honestly it’s fucking hilarious and really makes me wish we’d see Zack again so they could crack a joke about it
i do wonder if Zack is still...with us, in this KH universe
@@RegularPat he’s one with the planet now
@@BigBoy257 wait... if cloud, airth, yuffie and cid are from radiant garden, then... HE WAS OFF WORLD WHEN IT GOT TAKEN OVER! LEON'S STATEMENT ABOUT WORLD BOUNDARIES HAS BEEN SO WRONG THE PAST IGNORED IT! WHICH MEANS HE COULD LIVE! Bbs 2 just has a dating minigame, calling it now.
Y'all forgetting the cutscene that ends with a black feather from a certain angelic one-wing?
@@L3X1N why did the comment alone give me chills
Town Near Thebes is still one of the funniest area names in the series.
Why's that?
@@MegaSpideyman ~ For me, it's because no one cared enough to name it something proper even though it's at least the population size to be a town.
@@Bewear.the.Adjuster Ah, ok. That's fair.
I think my favorite area name in the series is in KH2 Agrabah. There is a place called Agrabah so the title card lists it as Agrabah Agrabah.
@@Bewear.the.Adjuster for me it sounded like "Oh, I want Thebes in the game, but it's so geographically far from the Olympus that we can't geographically put it there", so they made a clone town and called it like that.
Laguna's manager turning down BBS is so funny a concept.
King Michael catches me off guard every time I swear
I think a big thing on Keyblade Graveyard is that this is the first big game in KH that turns from these worldly threats to character threats. Like, yes Xemnas and Ansem are characters you fight, but they are more emblematic of what happens in the KHverse (the end of the worlds (not the world) and a giant wave of nothingness.), while BBS is specifically about how XEHANORT and no one else fucks things up for these people. And that kinda translates to the worlds, where Xehanort just fucks around in a random ruin because he’sobsessed with dead kids.
I was gonna try correct you, but I suppose that is true... from a certain point of view.
Just that last sentence ROFL
9:40 I think the issue with the prologue of KH2 wasn’t “it’s taking too long to get to Disney” I feel the issue was “it’s taking too long to experience combat” Destiny Islands managed some action and exploration white Twilight Town had very little. Birth by Sleep identified the issue but corrected the wrong area
I always played as Ven first cuz i thought "well he's the Sora-esque one so i should start with him, right?"
I honestly think saving Terra for second or third makes BBS as a whole a much stronger mystery story and doing Terra second helps break up the Ven and Aqua playthroughs which can feel kinda monotonous back-to-back since their Disney world visits feel very similar (they kinda go through the standard movie stuff as opposed to Terra hanging out with the villains all the time)
Overall the order which you play the game really doesn't matter that much and going TVA probably makes the story much easier to digest but idk it's still fun to debate
Playing it atm I'm playing ven first, purely bc I was joking with my friends about how he is boneless roxas. Playing as ven first definitely helps communicate his naivity given that it means it's the first time you're experiencing all the worlds too
yeah i played ven terra aqua my first time too.
and thus commences the BBS era of the Regular Pat channel
gotta say, im excited
I'd love a deep dive from you into a fragmentary passage. I thought it was so well done and I wish it was longer. I loved the little side quests and the ability to change Aquas clothes as a reward (if I'm remembering correctly).
Would love to do a dedicated 0.2 video at some point
Cant say the amount of joy these videos bring me
*Me, who didn't interact much with the KH fandom until recently:* Wait people thought Terra was Riku's dad, and that Aqua was Kairi's mom?
sometimes you get "Terra is the Guardian" and sometimes you get "Roxas is Sora's separated-at-birth brother"
@@RegularPat To be fair, when I first started learning about BbS years ago, I thought Ventus was somehow Sora's older brother, so I shouldn't be too surprised about these other fan theories
@@RegularPat for the Roxas thing if you look at it at an angle and squint, it's almost in the right direction
I gotta say the first time I played BBS, I did it in the worst order and picked Aqua FIRST, so I was -so- confused by Keyblade Graveyard when BRAIG turns up. It's not made any better because she's usually the last to each world.
I would definitely watch a Terra defense video
Danny Devitto's character was always a creep, in his first scene in the movie he was staking some Nymphs
@Jezo timuri
I'm sorry that a weird way of say not enough sceentime for the belove icon phil
Greek mythology was not always family friendly, and adaptations like the Disney movie and Rick Riordan Percy Jackson books to various degrees sanitised some of the more family unfriendly stories. For example, in mythology Hercules, or Heracles, was driven mad by Hera and killed his wife which is why he needs to to the twelve labours.
“Maybe [eleven years] is what it takes, and that’s what happens sometimes.” [shows picture of Dream Eaters after UX reveal]
*silent sobbing*
15:40 The gizmos and hands serve as a callback to the gummi ship hangar in kh1 and kh2. The mechanisms themselves show up in KH1 when Donald and Goofy first went to the gummi ship hangar a cutscene. While I don’t recall if the hands show up in the gummi ship hangar in kh2, I do remember seeing those same gears in the room.
The hands are how Donald and Goofy get thrown into the Gummi ship :) Remember the hands holding Donald by the tail? :D
Finally, my favorite KH game.
I started high school when that came out. I still remember going nuts with my psp over how amazing of a KH portable game it is compared to 358/2 Days.
I went fully blind with the game, so you can probably guess how I reacted about the plot twists, but overall, it was truly an experience that aged well. I'm gonna replay the final mix version soon.
Personally, my favorite BBS world would be Radiant Garden, because of all the new areas that are introduced there, as well as intriguing character interactions(Terra with Braig, Ven with Lea and Isa, Aqua with Kairi, and the short Wayfinder trio reunion).
2nd favorite is probably Castle of Dreams(as Ven).
You're genuinley such a funny guy, the jokes are so unexpected but land every time
It’s true
You can tell that he's naturally funny, but his degree in creative writing allows him to tactfully weave them into his script. I love it.
“Pete tries to #stopthesteal” i just replayed bbs and this joke never occurred to me, despite how obvious it is.
A fun thing I discovered about the final phase of Ventus V Vanitas is that in the collection version, the final command is actually bugged and can miss. I had to redo the fight three times.
I think the thing that sets BBS apart is the legitimate variety that Terra, Aqua, and Ven play. They’re not just reskins, they’re unique. They really made each character like 1/3 of a game without there being an obvious weak link.
if you're talking about gameplay, there is a weak link: Terra
he attacks slower, worse dodge, awful magic to the point that some of his keyblades actively DOCK it. he's not strong enough to make up for these either
I finally got around to watching cutscenes from KHUX & one of the first things Ephemer talks to you about is that the worlds you visit are just holograms of different areas.
It now makes me wonder if Mirage Arena is something left over from the UX or post-UX era.
9:10 Speaking of pattern recognition, the way Terra enunciates "You _were_ just playing me" indicates that he suspected all along that Hades was trying to manipulate him. When Hades revealed himself, Terra was not surprised in the slightest. A far cry from the "gullible" guy who really didn't have much reason to distrust people he ultimately went along with (including Xehanort, whom Eraqus trusted even after Xehanort scarred him, and even Captain Hook).
Yeah, we could definitely have gotten more out of the Land of Departure. Is there more to it than the castle? What else is in the castle aside from the throne room and the bedrooms? How do Keyblade Masters train? (Aside from the "screw it, go into another dimension and figure it out on your own" pattern shown in DDD with Sora and Riku and 3 with Kairi and Lea... Why did Sora and Riku have to relearn everything again?) Eraqus' voiceover suggested that it was important, but they never explained how or why. In fact, the whole role as "seat" of Keyblade Masters was replaced by Scala'acala (to me, it sounded like Christopher Lloyd was gargling marbles in that line delivery, for some reason), so we really don't know what LoD's purpose is aside from having an even more on-the-nose diving board name than Outset Island.
Yeah im pretty sure the only people who fooled Terra into trusting them is Hook and Xehanort, both of which he didn't have complete information. Every other villain he encountered he was already on guard; it's very blatant with the Snow White's Queen.
@@zaqareemalcolm Also considewriing Hook is the very first person he meets and there really is no reason to distrust him at the time (I mean he has a clue after all, who is he to turn away from it?) And after realizing it, he immediately switched sides and actually did some trickery himself.
And considering Xehanort's repertoire of being a master mainpulator in foreseeing plausible routes for his plan, even tricking his best friend, why is anyone surprised he's able to trick a kid? Like almost all of them didn't suspect him at the time, especially considering his title as a master and he foresaw their mark of mastery?
People really only take it into face value at very surface with only two evidence that shows him being tricked and it gets tiring after seeing it once.
I'd say Disney Town's placement was quite fine, I enjoy the world cause I can get Superglide early :D
I'm so overwhelmed that this man so confidently said to his patrons that he didn't remember Phil being pervy in the movie.
Great video! Completely agree with your keyblade graveyard takes. They kinda shot themselves in the foot with making such an epic, mysterious, hype inducing cinematic before the game even came out. The concept is incredibly cool but actually a little bland to explore. Although I do love the detail of a hole in the mountain with a huge crater where something massive (an attack? zettaflare??) destroyed parts of the landscape. It's a nice bit of lore-through-level-design. Also I miss those days of theorizing about the KH2 secret ending, i remember watching it the first time and being 'Roxas is dead??? they just murdered Roxas right in front of us?' I was kind of disappointed when Ven just kinda unfroze himself through sheer willpower, and that him shattering his frozen keyblade on his way down the cliff had no significance.
Also, 9:52 , you should NEVER take IGN reviews into account for anything.
The World That Never Was was also in a cinematic before KH2 came out, but at least they really expanded on it with the Organization castle. if only they did something similar with the Graveyard
@@KringleDingle i blame the psp's umd space for that because I imagine had they originally kept BBS on the PS2 they could have had the same kind of scale for environments for a game with three playable scenarios, the only reason other PSP games had more expansive explorable spaces is either they downscaled the graphical power to blockier levels or in the case of FF Type 0 made it multi-disk
Funny that you say that no one needs to visit the mirage arena. While you don't have to story wise Terra still needs to go there to get a secret report for some ungodly reason. It's the secret report I always have to look up on new playthroughs because why would anyone think that only Terra would get a secret report there for achieving a certain arena rank.
I guess it ties into the whole "Terra seeks greater strength" thing, but I admit that's kind of a stretch. xD
It’s a specific arena match Terra needs to complete for the report page.
Not only that but another Mirage Arena match is also the only time the game hides a character-specific Keyblade too
More often than not, by the time you get Darkgnaw for Terra you already have no use for it lol.
I’m so glad someone coined the term “Olympus fatigue” because I’m still suffering it today. I couldn’t even be spared from it via the music in DDD. It’s almost made me hate the actual movie just on sheer oversatuation.
I’m convinced Nomura or someone on the dev team has an obsession with Hercules.
Anyway, this video couldn’t have been timed any better since I literally just finished platinuming this on Critical with all three characters.
Honestly, this didn't even feel like a part one - I'm just excited to watch your videos, can't wait for the second one but this scratches the itch perfectly fine! ☺️
It’s hilarious how Minnie doesn’t bat an eyelid at delivering exposition on the Million Dreams award three times over.
I agree that the Keyblade Graveyard is underwhelming as a playable area *because* it’s so significant, I was always sort of like “oh that’s it??… oh well” when playing it
i wonder...perhaps maybe if you had something like scaling up the side of the cliff or more traversing the actual area...one thing I was disappointed was how you could never few the actual graveyard without triggering the last cutscene essentially the whole wasteland side was what you got but the actual graveyard of keyblades was out of reach.
22:00 I know that’s what the creators recommend but I feel it’s better if you do Ven first as then there’s tension as to wether or not Terra is on a dark path and you actually learn Ven’s past alongside him
I have to disagree with one comment you made. I clicked on this video because all parts of my brain went, "Pat Video! YAY! Must watch and rewatch because we like Pat!"
The video of the century!! I am so excited🎉🎉🎉🎉
I think part of my affinity for Disney Town stems largely from my childhood nostalgia for family vacations to Walt Disney World. Disney Town resembles the style of the Toon Town section of the park very well, as you pointed out, and it really helps me to not feel as bad about being unable to afford a vacation in my adulthood.
Gizmo Gallery might have visually inspiration drawn from the Mickey MouseWorks shorts (which were later repurposed for House of Mouse, and which may have also informed the comedy involving Pete here), but the level design reminds me a LOT of N64 platformers specifically. Tick Tock Clock from Super Mario 64 is the obvious first comparison, but it also feels laid out a lot like a 3D collectathon. Considering the minigame-oriented nature of the world, that's a pretty cool coincidence if it wasn't intended.
Also thank you for appreciating the Fruitball game, I always have to argue with people about how amazing the sheer chaos of that minigame is.
TVA is the intended order? I played it AVT and found a lot of enjoyment from it, and would suggest anyone play it in that way too, I mean I initially just picked it based on who I wanted to play most, but looking back on it even with a foggy memory; A might "spoil" a lot but she's the one that brings the whole story together, V is just kind of it's own thing but naturally comes after the ending of A because you want to find out what happened with V's side of things, and finding out what happened to T is a really good ending in my opinion.
might be worth a video to give your opinion on "best way to play through the game for new players"
TVA is only the intended order mainly because it was written in that order, which I guess can be seen by the decreasing amount of missing context between the stories.
I imagine it might also have to do with the learning curve for each of the characters too since irrc, alot of players felt out of the three Aqua is not the most accessible/beginner friendly character to play at in the first couple of worlds being very command and magic reliant at a point of the game where such options are naturally lacking (unless you go grind command board or something lol), and especially with the "whack everything first" style of play intuitive to KH games.
I think ATV may be the best way, though I can see AVT too. I think the point is Aqua makes a great starting character.
I nearly cried during the Wayfinder reunion in KH3. I never once felt even a bit sad during BBS. It didn't do a good job of establishing the relationships
I think DisneyTown spot is perfect, unlike Olympus here. I would say it’s a bit of an upgrade from just the castle portion in KH2 (Not counting Timeless River) and a neat way to incorporate a mini game world without using a book or making it a musical.
Also as for Lands of Departure. I definitely agree that it should’ve been more explored and expanded upon both exploration and narrative wise. I always just went with the concept that it was the last resort for Keyblade wielders to train in peace. But looking back it would’ve been so cool if it got it’s own COR or Atleast you got to explore the remaining ruins of the castle to evoke a sense of loss&sadness for this world. I really hope in a future game that we’ll get to explore more of it with Kairi/Aqua during their training. Maybe they could include a area similar to Mount Olympus.
You are quickly becoming one of my favorite TH-camrs lol
Thank you Regular Pat
There's no need to rank the worlds in Days, Coded, or Chain of Memories, since those are all from KH1 or 2. So looks like we're getting Dream Drop Distance next year and 3 the year after that.
For Re:coded he could probably cover the gimicks + minigame modes of those worlds.
But why? They hage different designs and stories. I get chain of memories, but days and coded? Absolutely not
CoM probably doesn't need to since all world designs and exploration are absolute garbage. :) Worst one to ever explore in in all KH stories because you literally explore in a box and it's connected to RnG. ^^
One of my 10 favorite games ever. Very happy with the current results!
Lol I need you to talk more about the weaponry used on the Terra Defense Hill. That is so funny!
Really enjoy relaxing and watching your videos, wholesome funny content about my favourite subject (kingdom hearts.) keep it up.
To be honest, I always found the Mirage Arena funny. I imagine it's always been there in the void for Keyblade wielders to just hang out and have fun and no one knows why it's there, and it honestly brings me great joy imagining Xehanort and Eraqus going on a date there to play some Kingdom Hearts Fortune Street.
Still hate that they cut all the multiplayer features out of the HD releases, though, because my partner and I love Command Board and wish we could play it against each other. still, it is incredibly humorous seeing the CPU players use a space that allows you to warp anywhere on the board to simply move one space to the right.
Yeah, a lot of the callbacks were pretty cool, especially those for Xehanort and Ven.
LOVED that.
This vid makes me wonder if you'll do a In Defense of Terra video.
Ventus prologue in Land of departure may have not been as long as Sora’s prologue in destiny island or Roxas in twilight town, but I still enjoyed it.
I think it's fair to say a lot of the issues you mention with BBS's worlds (which are totally valid) are due to technical limitations of the PSP. That's probably why land of departure / keyblade graveyard are super underdeveloped. I mean they certainly found ways to make KG more interesting in KH3, at least.
And having to work three storylines into each world as well, so many maps will be accessible to two or three of the characters. Out of all the worlds, iirc it’s Ven in Castle of Dreams who has all the free play maps exclusive to him (Aqua does use the wardrobe room to do an escort mission with Jacques, but that’s scripted and Aqua can’t return there). The technical limitations on NCPs is also highly noticeable, with the standing in the world NCPs all being established Disney characters, and a couple of cutscenes bringing attention to crowds that simply aren’t rendered (Terra in Castle of Dreams and the Coliseum).
My theory on the mysterious tower having those chambers in kh2 but not in bbs is that because the heartless were invading the tower yen sid just created fake rooms using his magic in order to prevent the heartless from reaching him that easily.
"it's not like he was double-booked and his manager said he was only available for one project" except that's actually exactly what happened with Laguna IIRC, the higher ups literally said "he can only be in one of these, pick which that is" and they decided against including him in such a small role in BBS so that he could be in D012 instead
Disney Town is one of my favorite worlds in the series. It's so colorful it just makes me feel good being there, the mini games give you some activities to do, and the layout is fun to explore. I end up using it as my home world whenever I play bbs.
The prologue is not only good, but it’s my favourite part of KH2, and I will go to bat for it any day.
Obviously the rest of the game is way better to play, but I fell in love with the prologue on my first playthrough, and it’s never left me.
Thing I do like about Keyblade Graveyard is seeing the enormous terrain-shaping scars of war implying that some serious God-tier magic was being thrown around during the Keyblade War. Hundreds -- if not thousands -- of people clearly died here, and the world still remembers. Gave the place this atmosphere that something _BAD_ happened here, and if you don't stop Xehanort, it'll happen again.
BBS is easily one of my most favourite games, probably because it was on the PSP and I played it literally everywhere, I've replayed it like at least 20 times
I was so happy seeing that you uploaded a new video after I came home from work. Keep doing your awesome content and thank you very much!
Was genuinely rewatching your KH1 and 2 world rankings last night and woke up to this! Does life get better?
I've only played BBS in KH 2.5, but my theory about the length of the intro is that the game was made with the PSP in mind. So they might expect you to want to get right to the action if you only have 30 minutes on the bus to school or whatever.
I also feel that is the reason for the command board design, which gives you frequent, miniature level-ups.
Disney town was okay but I think I liked Land of departure a little better. your description was spot on. Keyblade graveyard could have been way cooler, they should have had you running through Mountains and Valleys filled with cast aside keyblades, I would have probably put land of departure barely above it. I was super under leveled when I made it to the final boss fights as Ventus and Aqua so the difficulty spike was a bit of a pain but I think I enjoyed playing Aqua here the most because her fights felt the like you had the most autonomy, and didn't just have to memorize the attacks and counter each respectively
I always figured it was "Town Near Thebes" because if they called it "Thebes" they'd have to make it much bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if they had actually planned on making all of Thebes explorable but ran out of time, or just decided it wasn't in the budget
I can accept Enchanted Dominion not being last because I legit forgot Olympus Colloseum was in the game. Also, I got your same problems with the land of departure (or the problems you mention in that section, I guess) but for some reason I weigh them a lot heavier, to the point where BBS was close to my least favourite in the series until I replayed it in like October. I appreciate it a lot more now, though. Terra is my boy, and I was screaming at Xehanerd right alongside him.
Yes, Terra is so good!! I love him. He's just a sweet, naive doofus who wants to help everyone and make his dad proud.
Thank you very much for your content and your efforts! Love your Videos!!
Your videos always make my day so much better ☺️
omg i was also at disney world during that "year of a million dreams" thing!! i totally kept that lanyard for years afterward until we moved. i had no idea why or how we got those passes though so thank you for that context haha
The fact that Zack is in this game and Cloud is in his post-SOLDIER gear in kh2 and looking for sephiroth in kh1 means that Zack canonically died brutally in front of Cloud at some point between BbS and KH1
See, in the KHII secret ending, I had it the other way around. I thought Aqua was Riku's mom and Terra was Kiari's dad. And for some reason that Ven was Sora's dad.
I understand forgetting that Aqua fights Ventus-Vanitas at the end there, but unfortunately as a former speedrunner that fight is burned into my skull as the most frustrating part of the otherwise-pretty chill Lv1 Crit lategame.
Nice video Pat! As usual. Can you rank the Bosses of BBS later?
I love your content ;~;.
You’re also somewhat an inspiration that’s keeping me motivating with my channel so thank you
Am I the only one who found it weird the BBS portraits never had flinching/low HP faces? And not even in the PS3/PS4 versions?
Great video dude
Xehanort wasn't really lying to Terra to be honest, there wasn't anything wrong with controlling darkness as long as it's balanced by light, Terra would've been a pretty good master, while aqua almost killed a fucking family because she smelled darkness, thanks to the teachings of Eraqus, a light obsessed dumbass that was ready to murder his adoptive son the moment a chance of darkness being freed was presented.
In Terra's perspective he's just a master with a more open view on things helping him with his flaws better than the people that are treating him like shit.
Eraqus is the real villain, he's the reason the trio gets separated and taken advantage of in the first place, caused several chest lockpicking threats to multiple people, and all he does is hug his homie to paradise and not even give terra the title of master...
It baffles me that someone like Eraqus gets the Master title when he has the kind of mindset that would cause more problems than solve.
Hell, as much as I don't like Dark Road, the end of Episode 3 only emphasizes that Eraqus really shouldn't have gotten that title. I don't care what standards the Keyblade Masters had at that time, extremism is almost never the answer.
@@Vigriff I don't know, by that time Darkness hadn't really showed any proper benefits that being extremely against it sounds only reasonable choice. The bigger problem is that Eragus was simply too bland character who was not allowed to counterbalance Villain Sue's extremism in sensible manner.
Eragus has more gravitas for his stance and his decision to attack Ven was mostly just lazy writing. It could have been done, but required more build-up.
Overall the series hasn't really given any proper reasons to let darkness run amock so to see Eragus being some big bad cause he sees what darkness does and is not really willing to let that slide is just weird. It would have worked better if Terra's journey's had given any substantical real reasons to let darkness have a chance (no... not just purple-colored beams) and really challenge master's perception. If anything Eragus was right as Terra got possessed in the end.
And honestly, Terra seeing Xehanort as some sort of comfort and "open minded" is just a way how Xehanort fooled Terra.
im so happy i been waiting for this
To what you said about Land of Departure, I think that a good solution would have been to add a day where you see them actually train. No, not just spar with each other or whatever, I mean where you see Eraqus demonstrating something with all three, or just Aqua and Terra, attempting to learn it - or it could be less obvious, since both of them are nearly masters, it could have a seniors during the last week of high school vibe where they're kinda just doing their own thing but still within the routine and structure of regularly scheduled lessons. Perhaps that vibe could contrast Ven who's still very much learning things, and be at a much earlier stage in becoming a master, and that would make his conflict a lot more palpable as well as further flesh out Terra and Aqua by virtue of that comparison.
But I guess what's the point about reminicing on what could be, lol. Hey, maybe the community will make a "Kingdom Hearts Retold" giant mod project that attempts to make the game and story suck a lot less, make the powerful moments and message clearer and more powerful. Ah, oh well, just a dream.
Hi I don't know why I'm here five months later and surprised to see my own comment
just wanted to say that it's worth noting Mirage Arena in its original release was where you'd go for multiplayer, which BBS had, and that's why it's not at Olympus and is why it's so weird and non-canony. that's also why you have those weird team commands and emotes, because you were meant to PvP and Co-op with them. Alas. I really hope somebody figures out how to reintroduce that assuming Square didn't absolutely gut the feature in porting it to the collections.
Oh. and command board. you could play that with other people too. kind of a "oh wait, that makes complete sense" moment.
I 100% get why people dunk on BBS, but it irks me a lot because the PSP original is soooo much better in admittedly small ways but it's in _many_ small ways. I always kinda feel conflicted and outside the conversation with BBS because I remember loving it on PSP when I was 14 or whatever but being eh on it on PC now 8 years later.
‘Eyyy! Excited to watch.
I need to actually beat/play through BBS...
BBS is definitely overhated, it really doesn't deserve as much hate as it gets. Sure the gameplay is clunky and this is where the classic "story problems" people complain about come in, but overall, it really is much better than some of the others. I mean, could you honestly say you'd rather play Days, Coded, or even Dream Drop?
Idk thats just my opinion but I think BBS is definitely in the top 5 at least, it's probably in my top 3. I really enjoy the expanding of the story, which allows me to look past the gameplay issues, which are even excused because it was originally made for the PSP.
I love and appreciate the thought and effort you put into these videos 💖
great, as always
Another fine video Mr. Pat.
Oh yeah, btw, Mirage Arena was originally multiplayer on the PSP versions, which allowed players to do Arena Battles, Command Board, Rumble Racing & a PvP mode.
That’s why Rumble Racing is in the Mirage Arena
Everytime I sign in I look for a new video from you.
Another awesome video as always bro.
I really liked the Keyblade Graveyard, but I am surprised DisneyTown was so high up, I really hated going through that "world" of minigames 😅
Keep being awesome bro and making awesome content 👌🏼💯
Ice Cream Beat is the worst
I think Disney Town was supposed to be a sort of "breather" from the other worlds we've visited. Ever since Radiant Garden, the story kinda took a dark turn (with Terra revealed to be working with Xehanort and whatnot). We needed a little cheering up before things get serious again
On the Laguna thing:
The voice actor might have only had the time/desire to do one game or the others voice work for Laguna.
If they do bring back Huey Duey and Louie it’s be cool to see them have their reboot personalities instead of just the 3 colors
You could make the keyblade graveyard far more interesting physically and mechanically by having keyblade platforming shenanigans and some scattered around with environmental storytelling about what may've happened to the person wielding it.
Honestly one of the best things they could do for the keyblade graveyard is to show that there were keyblade users of literally giant proportions since there are giant humanoids in the Cannon of multiple Disney properties. you can have it be a thing where you have to platform on top of a giant keyblades that are in the area and all that. I mean we have heartless that are literally Giants why not also have a few people that fight heartless be that size
when i first got to disney town i legit almost cried because i got the vibe of Toontown
I'm pretty sure Disney Town is based off Toontown the old Disney MMO which was active and popular at the time of this game's release, it resembles it's first hub area pretty well.
Would genuinely love to hear your thoughts on Terra in more depth 👀 everyone is so mean to him lol
I like the artstyle, the creative command decks, and the story isn't the worst of these games. What I don't like is the sheer amount of frame traps you can fall into because of the floaty controls. I also have this problem with kh3 and partially ddd when I'm in flowmotion. Still really good games, but are definitely flawed bc of their combat systems
disney town is definitely supposed to be based off of ToonTown from the disney parks, specifically disneyland and maybe the toontown pc game, but it’s definitely more theme park based than anything else
I think the most frustrating thing to me about the keyblade graveyard is that it was still a wasteland in khux.
It was *always* a graveyard. Kh2 made it seem like the fossil of some past domain, but we go to the beginning and its just...its still just this. Its not a fossil, its just some place people insist on fighting
I think Disney Town might be a callback to that online multi-player game Disney had back in the early 2000s I believe it's ToonTown Online or something like that
The addition of the stairs by the time of KH2 makes sense because Yen Sid added more rooms to be better at defending the tower. Also, the Mysterious Tower assets were reused for Symphony of Sorcery in Dream Drop Distance.
I...I... Never thought about where the heck Terra and Aqua came from. There's no town in the LoD. What the heck, man, why did you put that into my head?
Oooh more world rankings
I dunno if this has been said yet, but the reason why the trio don't fight together in Keyblade Graveyard is because they are still being driven apart by Xehanort.
Woke up and physically pogged getting the notification
17:34 Why not have a massive crater section where you have to navigate and platform around the remaining areas of rock that weren’t blasted apart during the Keyblade War? Maybe even end up during a scripted QTE where one of the rocks cracks off and you have to quickly parkour over the embedded keyblades in the rocks to move? Maybe you end up at the bottom and have to navigate through a cavern where you see the brutal and intimate fighting. You could actually plan the level where it starts rather open and clean, referring to how honorable and compassionate the Keyblade Wielders were at the start, it was an ideological war, but then narrow the scope of the level before you meet Xehanort where you realize how much the Keybladers were corrupted until all that was left was fighting for fightings sake, in the vague hopes of reaching Kingdom Hearts. That would definitely add a layer of “hold the phone” when Xehanort says he wants to initiate another one. Because you know what ended up happening beforehand, and you know how bad that would be.
7:41 Yes! Phil was a weird perv in the movie aswell.
I like how in MoM Yen Sid tells us to warn the people of the Land of Departure despite there being no one else there