THERE ARE FLASHING LIGHTS AT 19:03-19:40. SKIP THIS PART IF YOU'RE SENSITIVE TO THAT. Looking back, it's obvious that I completely botched the Back Cover portion of the video. I got a whole bunch of details wrong. I didn't even really acknowledge Union X despite saying that I would talk about it. It's fair to keep in mind that I made this video for 2 specific people, back when I had zero subscribers. I never expected it to get this much attention, so I didn't put in the effort to really know my stuff. If I did it today, then yeah, I would definitely have done more research. Especially because a lot more happened with Union X since then. But as it is, I admit that portion of the vid is bad. I'm still proud of the rest of it though. Patreon: patreon.com/askyouruncle Second Channel: th-cam.com/channels/Te9VxCT_zeVBYo1t43AUwg.html Twitter: twitter.com/AskYourUncle3 Instagram: instagram.com/askyouruncle0/ Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/1IL0wF7ZOBmS7o9n3WoUKZ Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/askyouruncle/1647995763 TH-cam Music: th-cam.com/channels/bTd3h8fiOtjUJL0yFd9Cjw.html Bandcamp: askyouruncle.bandcamp.com/
I can't understand the people so committed to following the most convoluted way to tell a light vs dark story. Honestly post kh2 I just stopped caring, the only thing I'm really invested in now is the gameplay, maybe some cool character moments and what worlds are included
@@cryguy0000 If anything, patronize the masterpiece game final fantasy xiv with literally the best writing ever in any medium period, the last 2 expacs are the best stories ever told
25:22 I don't speak Japanese, but I heard Kokoro (heart) and Yami (Darkness) enough times in that monologue to understand about as much as I needed to.
When's the last time that an anime repeated the words "心" (こころ/heart) or "闇" (やみ/darkness) to the same extent as Kingdom Hearts has done? There's a character in To Love Ru called darkness-chan and the masochistic paladin in Konosuba called darkness, but I've never heard the word "darkness" repeated several times over in any anime that I've watched.
It's kind of strange that this video was made for a handful of specific people but still functions as a pretty good summary of the games in question. Here's hoping you get more success from all this!
Yeah that pretty much helped me because I wasn't deep into the whole series plot which is xehanort and the keyblade war, I was too focused about roxas' story to care but now I'm good, I'll be able to follow the rest of the story.
I really love how Riku passes because OrgXIII just has no interest in him. Sora failed because an entire group of insanely powerful people who were not at all part of the test, hijacked it against the proctors knowledge and kidnapped him. This would be like failing a math test because someone swapped the tests to not include questions about math but instead extremely personal information about the past of one specific student. That student would do fine and everyone else would fail and the teacher just shrugs and fails everyone. KH is a fucking nightmare where nothing makes sense.
42:10 Well... "In Latin and English, the Seven Deadly Sins are: superbia (pride), avaritia (greed), luxuria (extravagance, later lust), invidia (envy), gula (gluttony), ira (wrath), and acedia (sloth)." So I guess the Master of Masters' real name is Superb.
I'm just imagining this big conspiracy theorist running up to him saying, "You're Superb!" And MoM just being like, "D'oh stop it you. I am pretty great, I know."
Not like it really means anything. The characters have jack all to do with the sins in any way. Plus, their animals (minus Invi) don't match their sins.
3:29 is the most absolute, gigachad move I've ever seen in a video. I said to myself "No fucking way" and decided to call and the second I heard "Welcome to Square Enix Customer Support, I started laughing maniacally. I watched your 5 1/2 hour Kingdom Hearts 3 video, as well as the part one to this video and thought they were all very well-produced, but this timestamp moment definitively made me a fan of you, your content, and your humor. Holy shit, that was brilliant!
Yes, Simple and Clean has always had that line. I decided to listen to lyrics closely as a kid during the KH1 op; and figured out it was a song about commitment.
When CoM GBA was the newest game, I would replay the final Marluxia battle over and over again just to listen to Simple and Clean in the credits. Yeah that lines always been there.
The English translation is nothing like the original Japanese. Hikaru Utada was told to change the lyrics so they match the beat of the song. Btw, the original lyrics for Hikari are pretty wild.
@@Xanegoh that's...thats what translating any song from one language to another entails. Direct translations are messier, they need to be tweaked to fit; trimmed down, words flipped around or changed entirely while still keeping the initial "feel"...or sometimes dropped entirely, if it would take too long.
The strangest thing about UX is that you never learn what actually happened in the Keyblade War. The original ending had your character fight in it, but you're just a grunt who never sees the important stuff like the x-blade being forged and shattered, how everyone ended up dying and how that was enough to shatter the World, or seeing how the foretellers got to the future.
Well... about that... the game states the war started back when the Master of Masters was a child. That would mean the final battle was just a small part of the war wouldn’t it?
@@calebgoodman2076 Sorry. Tracking things started getting hazy ever since MoM said Darkness and the entire pureblood Heartless race used to be a single person. So much "tell don't show."
@@chrisdaughen5257 Darkness was a single person? What, did it just spread like a STD? “Yeah, this Dr. Paul, at the clinic. Just wanted to call and tell you that your test results came back today. Got some terrible news: You’ve got Darkness within Darkness. If you know who you contracted it from, that would be a great help.” “Uh.. the toilet seat?”
@@alwaysangry2232 To collect the most Lux. Maybe each Union thought any of the others had the traitor and thought it was best if they had as much Lux as they could. Why it mattered which Union had the most is unknown since Lux is never used in the story for anything.
That sounds like something out of the English Dub for Digimon. Also, it is still weird hearing Xion's voice come out of Ventus' body even if it's just Xigbar's perception of her.
@@umario251 That’s true. To an extent at least. Ven hasn’t reincarnated unlike Xehanort but he would definitely be older than Eraqus who is around Xehanort’s age and as far as I know he isn’t a reincarnation.
@@calebgoodman2076 yeah true, it just depends on how you define age, if you define it by a hearts age then they're the same unless you count reincarnating and remolding your heart to have it's age reset
@@umario251 God this series has turned into something so uneventful. Just read your comments. Shit just happens in this game and there is nothing to make of hit.
The only thing I’m interested in is how they’re going to do vs 13 and why it’s inevitably going to turn out as bad ff15 despite not going through development hell. MoM is so nothing, it’s the least interesting “mystery” of the entire series. And yozora wouldn’t be interesting in the least bit without the meta nonsense surrounding it.
Thank you. I'm glad people are finally starting to see the light. Square-Enix has turned this series into a dumpster fire in terms of story. Their mindset is "Just slap on some Disney worlds, press Triangle to see awesone moves, put a secret ending and watch the money rain" after Kingdom Hearts 3 I've given up. Sora is not Mario, Link or Sonic the Hedgehog, you can't expect him to carry this series forever. Let a new hero arise, new story, new characters.
Let me tell you about the writing process of the Kingdom Hearts series. Nomura barges into the writers' room overly excited and goes "Wouldn't it be cool if (insert nonsense plot twist)?" Writers look at each other, incredulous. "Ok Nomura-san...and how do we tie that to the plot?" Nomura shrugs: "We'll make a flimsy side game and make shit up as we go along to explain it. Get writing!" Nomura barges out of the room. This happens on average 3 times a day.
I feel like you speak perfectly to adults who grew attached to kingdom hearts at a young age but realized all the nuance with age 😂😂 I love watching these vids.
1:18:12 I'm SORRY riku, did you say "by my self" Sure maybe the raft part of the raft plan was all you, but the Food,water,sail,rope,ECT was a joint effort of kairi and SORA. If it were up to your efforts alone the trio would be dead from starvation at sea!
Man, it's actually kind of funny, he's just referring to the part of building the raft and then he pretends to complain about the effort he had to do because the other kids (including Sora and Kairi) see him as the "the strong kid", when on the 2nd day Sora had to start his own task of looking for food the raft was already finished 😆
Also, I think Maleficent was able to get away with the reference to "the powers of Hell" because that's a direct quote from Disney's Sleeping Beauty (thanks for the corrections, comments). She says it near the end when confronting Prince Philip. Back in the 50s they were more OK with that, I suppose.
Not Snow White, Sleeping Beauty. Also "Hell" in this context refers to the place, and therefore is not a curse word, thus the G rating. Hunchback of Notre Dame also has a G rating, and they have a whole freaking song called Hellfire, the word damnation is also said and that came out in 1996. But if you think that's shocking, watch Pinocchio, also rated G, where the word "jackass" is said about 5 or 6 times. What's funnier is this becomes a double pun and is clearly being used as a swear word. Now that is getting past the censors!
@@Zinervawyrm Probably less "Getting past the censors" and more "Disney throwing its weight around". A pretty large amount of animated films from the bigger names in animation could squeeze a lot in and keep the G rating from as far back as the 50s all the way through the early 80s. Heck Don Bluth's/MGM's"Secret of Nimh" film had at least one Swear, some genuinely scary action, and gruesome character death's including: One character being crushed to death (Offscreen but you do see a hand sticking out), the villain dieing to a thrown knife in the back (with blood shown), and one character having his throat slashed open and clinging to life long enough to throw the aforementioned lethal knife. This is one of my favorite films from my childhood. ^^;
God I am so glad I graduated from Kingdom Hearts to Final Fantasy, that x Back Cover segment caused me serious psychic damage. Sure Final Fantasy has convoluted plots but you can usually jump into literally any of the games and you'll be told the whole story and given a real ending. I don't have to play an online-only mobile game to understand and enjoy FF13-2, no stupid "spinoff" bullshit dragging out the plot for 20 YEARS
Three Fun Facts: The time machine Ven, Marluxia and Larxene used appears near the end of the first game, Dream Eaters are the reincarnated dead from Daybreak Town’s destruction and Xehanort is the reincarnation of your player avatar.
I wish xehanort could have been a reluctant villian thinking he was doing good and even actually helping Terra. A bit by explaining blancing light and dark and that he would train him. Would have caught us off guard and we could have had some sympathy for him.
With that japanese part of Terra speaking, I realised that even in Japanese they say ‘kokoro/heart’ and ‘yami/darkness’ so many times it loses all meaning, haha
union cross scream is a pure representation of how i feel about kh story after 3. it does not need to be even more confusing to both long time fans and especially newcomers to the series.
funnily enough my first game was union cross and then I played in order with the rest, it wasn't confusing surprisingly when you play in that order considering by the time I got to 2.8, the later lore filled stories got released, then KH3 came and then finally the end of union cross, wasn't too bad lmao
This is proof not every story needs Naruto-level worldbuilding, which is saying alot with how dumb it got with the Otsutsuki and Sage of 6 Paths stuff.
@@KaiKrimson56 Why bring up Naruto as an example with its same level piss poor worldbuilding. Surprisingly enough ux might very well be the best story out of the series
33:45 - I thought the keyblade choosing Sora at Destiny Islands was partially retconned by him wielding it as a proxy of Ventus, since Sora was harbouring his heart; getting the keyblade back from Riku in Hollow Bastion is when he became worthy of it entirely on his own merits.
@@sora_keychain5510 actually saying the kingdom key is riku’s is still sort of wrong, it’s not inherently sora’s either though since it’s still the keyblade of the world of light(the importance of which has kind of diminished over time but whatever)
@@sora_keychain5510 For that matter, drive forms aren't Sora's actual power so it's not like he can ACTUALLY dual wield. Nomura said something about it being a full manifestation of his potential
I now really want you to do a complete timeline and critique of the entire Kingdom Hearts series in this and the rage at 3's style. This, from someone who never had any previous interest in the series.
Watched your kh3 vid and was shocked at how consistently funny and entertaining a 5 hour video could be. Going through the rest of your uploads and they’re great. Idk if video essays are specifically you’re thing but you’re great at them!
Coming fresh off the last video, I came in waiting for the kh2 summary, but I've played it so many times that I didn't miss this video not having it. Everything else was phenomenaly done
Okay I know I'm super late in getting to this amazing video and the others that go along with it But did you seriously time 1:15:32 to match with Young Xehanorts time stop muffled music to the cutscenes when mickey used STOPZA THAT IS SO FUCKING BRILLIANT AND I LOST MY MIND WHEN I HEARD THIS!
Seeing the "Unchained [chi]"/UX rant, I can only assume this script and publishing was before the big ending infodump a month prior to closure, but I'm not about to go back down that rabbit hole at this time of night to check. But, do want to remark on this glimpse into the partial-information periods of "understanding" KH lore, and wonder how much clarity and/or misconception I'll've had once more lore comes out (which, we now know, will be late 2022 with Dark Road's further delays, oh BUDDY).
Imagine you finished vanilla KH or if you were lucky, KH2FM (japanese only release) and wondering who the "Enigmatic Warrior" is and why he's so badass and then someone from the future forces you to watch this explanation
Kingdom Hearts is the reason why Nomura should never be put in charge of writing a story. There's a reason why KH1 has the best story in the series: Nomura wasn't responsible for writing it.
Yeah there was a Time when Just KH 1, KH Chain of Memories and KH 2 existed and it was Totally fine as Trilogy without The Overcomplicated Shit that was made after KH 2.
33:00 The Keyblade of the Realm of Light is different from the individual keyblades created by the hearts of people like Riku. It is sentient and chose Sora. Mickey's Keyblade is the same, but for the Realm of Darkness. They even pop up in the same location in the Islands, but in different realms.
This made me fucking laugh. I loved it. It just makes me realize even more how some parts didn´t make any sense at all, but whatever, plot has to continue and it´s kingdom hearts.
After watching your entire KH3 video, i’ve watched the one prior to this and now almost done with this video. I cannot stop watching your content, even if it was 20 hours, you are amazing at commentary and humor over long periods of time and its super impressive. Keep it up.
You loosing it from the Fragmentary Passage title made me loose my shit. an old joke but goddamn did the editing make it hilarious. Though that could also be because it's 1 am and I am tired.
Wait... wait... the plot in Union cross is the same as the... summons from FF13? "Maybe if we cause enough trouble, the Creator will come back and actually talk to us"...?
One thing you probably didn't know the Developers of DDD messed up the world order and made the grid before Prankster's Paradise despite the fact that Prankster's Paradise chronologically comes before the Grid
that's something that's pretty common with Osaka, apparently in BBS the early world order for Terra is also fucky because Dwarf Woodlands is supposed to be second and Castle of Dreams is third and in KH3 it's possible that the Carribean is supposed to be after BH6 rather than vice versa
@@Cross-chan Wow but I mean how do they do that 3 times when they get to work on 2 side games which they seemed to improve dramatically with DDD and then kinda get complacent when they were trusted to make KH3 the most important numbered title
Don't forget that it doesn't make any sense for The Grid to be a sleeping world when it's based on a sequel to Tron even though there already was a Tron world in KH2 and Legacy didn't exist yet when they made that world. I know Space Paranoids is a copy of The Grid, but it's still dumb.
1:15:25 can we just appreciate that he CAREFULLY synchronized Young Xehanort theme from KH3 into this scene so that the ending of the drop matched up perfectly with Mickey casting Stopza and it expanding on to the organization's seats? I LOVED THAT, please, do more of these.
Lingering will was pretty easy Cause you have allies and can cheese it Duck flare Elixir Until you run out of elixir Then use stick for magic Regen (Summon get magic dismiss duck flare) And that's how I beat lingering will critical mode
Birth by sleep is almost completely unplayable for me now. I agree, I definitely loved the fuck out of the game when I was younger. But good lord is it boring as anything and I can’t meld for and level 3 characters in one game ever again.
i know that KHUx is a lot to go through, but some of the details you mentioned were very off. ex: Ava's union is called "Vulpes"; her secret mission was to train the Dandelions, the people she specifically chose not to participate in the keyblade war so that the keyblade legacy will continue. She sacrificed everyone else in Vulpes to the war
I love this video, but I don’t really see Terra as dumb, more so gullible. Terra was constantly that making bad decisions was good, so it makes sense that he continues to make em throughout the game. I dunno, maybe I’m dumb too
I can't believe they expected fans to jump through so many hoops to understand such a vague story that constantly "subverts youre expectations" in the most monsense ways to justify sequels. They even went as far as continuing the story in a goddamn mobile game, TWICE. Nah, im good. I just hope KH4, combat wise, is more KH2 and waaaay less KH3.
Honestly, I was getting mad when you weren't understanding most of the Union X story when it was literally told pretty clearly... then I looked at when this video was uploaded and realised that the final update where everything gets explained wasn't even out yet so now I just feel stupid. All in all, great video, can't wait for this to eventually blow up! XD
@@juangalvez2404 Actually, if anything, Union X makes everything make more sense I'd argue. There are people who have done a full playthrough of the game and recorded all the cutscenes for people to watch. It's especially important to phase 2 of Kingdom Hearts because it introduces the main villains for the next part of the series (the Willful Darknesses if that wasn't obvious enough) and also, Sora will probably end up fighting the Master of Masters at one point because he either mistakes him for the villain or because he knows that what he's doing does eventually lead to a positive outcome but he just doesn't agree with the steps that MoM is taking to get there... that's what I think at least.
@@lukasruston8618 Alright, I just looked it up... There are at least five hours of footage. I'm gonna finish watching AskYourUncle chew KH3 out for five hours, then dive into this. And if it does make things make more sense, I will continue to resent it because if it's that important then WHY IS IT IN A MOBILE GAME?
@@juangalvez2404 The same could be said about the rest of the series tbh but it isn't a game anymore I don't think, they've turned it into basically a cutscene viewer as far as I can tell.
@@juangalvez2404 >Kingdom Hearts 1 starts a whole new franchise on ps2 >Its Sequel is on the fuckin Gameboy Advanced >Kingdom Hearts 2 on ps2 >prequel on Nintendo DS >Birth By Sleep which is like an "prologue/sequel of Union X" is on PSP >Kingdom Hearts 3 >DLC to fix the ending >Sequel is a fuckin rhythm game in a action rpg franchise
Thank you for this, I only played 1, 2, chain of memories, then went into 3. It hurt so much that I was in a lost. I couldnt get the DS or PSP versions when they came out. and when they finally ported to other consoles, I wasnt even aware. Now I FINALLY get all this, time line, replica shit and 1,500 versions of Roxas's lol
Kingdom hearts is like that nut you shouldve held back. Felt great at the beginning but you didnt think about what happens after, until your eyeballs deep in debt paying for a child to go to college
23:53 so.....instead of his body remaining there as a husk to become a nobody he just disappears..... _Kingdom Hearts please, keep your own lore intact_
@@askyouruncle Oh I was referring more to Xehanort not Terra. He literally extracted his heart out of his old body and it just disappears. And we know its not Xemnas, because Xemnas is Terra's body's Nobody(man Kingdom Hearts is wild)
@@Whodjathink watching these videos I wondered do people ever just die and their body just remains, not disappearing and staying dead? Like Kiari being slashed by Xehnort in 3. But I guess you’d have to avoid being struck by a keyblade in any shape or form lol
@@courtneythompson6179 The answer to that is usually....uuuh...a complicated "No". If their body does remain usually they become a nobody. Or they're supposed to....and a Keyblade has touched someone before and made a whole new body, Xehanort when he made Vanitas.
@@courtneythompson6179 Also I think in the Re:Mind DLC they show Sora went back in time, failed to save Kairi, then went through everyone's hearts to find a connection to Kairi and save her, so technically she did "die" but uuuuh.... _time travel shenanigans_
I’ve realized Yen Sid in the KH is most likely not a normal keyblade master. As well I hope people don’t really actually think the concepts of this story are purely just physical like an organ or a body part…right? We’re all just having a laugh for fun right??
I still love BBS unironically and it's still my favorite outside of KHII. Yes, flaws and all, Terra is my favorite character out of the whole series, because he's such an idiot, but he's a good intent idiot. Also, I had to replay the part: "Peter Pan is dark and wants the light box. This works because Terra is as dumb as a stump." Because I laughed so hard, I couldn't hear anything you said after.
The reason the Foretellers' names are the way they are is because they're named after the 7 deadly sins in Latin. I.E. M.O.M is Superbia (Pride) Ava as in Avaritia (Greed) Ira (Wrath) Aced as in Acedia (Sloth) Gula (Gluttony) Invi as in Invidia (Envy) and Luxu as in Luxuria (Lust).
im a fan of KH, 100%. but after the Data org intro, i actually fell asleep during this and ended up towards the end. it wasnt even late, it was like 3pm.
Dude you are a god, having the resolve to replay Kh games and catch when they reference scenes is amazing. 21:40 I never would of understood that dialogue having played 7 out of the 9 KH games
Alluding to the fact that you made this for a certain group of people, it's still compiled better than KH3. Which legitimately feels like a compilation of jumbled garbage aimed to please: 1. Disney Corporate suits 2. fans of the previous games but not the entire series 3. The next generation they aim to confuse with endless branching spinoff stories
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THERE ARE FLASHING LIGHTS AT 19:03-19:40. SKIP THIS PART IF YOU'RE SENSITIVE TO THAT.
Looking back, it's obvious that I completely botched the Back Cover portion of the video. I got a whole bunch of details wrong. I didn't even really acknowledge Union X despite saying that I would talk about it. It's fair to keep in mind that I made this video for 2 specific people, back when I had zero subscribers. I never expected it to get this much attention, so I didn't put in the effort to really know my stuff. If I did it today, then yeah, I would definitely have done more research. Especially because a lot more happened with Union X since then.
But as it is, I admit that portion of the vid is bad. I'm still proud of the rest of it though.
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I wouldn't have even bothered trying to analyze that trash so at least you tried
this series went from '' wow I have no idea what's happening, let's figure it out'' to ''wow, I have no idea what's happening and I'm glad I don't''
I have no idea about the foretellers... what's a universe cross?
Preach it.. I gave up a long time ago on the writing of this series. Imagine following this trash lol
I can't understand the people so committed to following the most convoluted way to tell a light vs dark story. Honestly post kh2 I just stopped caring, the only thing I'm really invested in now is the gameplay, maybe some cool character moments and what worlds are included
@@cryguy0000 you're still gonna patronize this trash? yikes
@@cryguy0000 If anything, patronize the masterpiece game final fantasy xiv with literally the best writing ever in any medium period, the last 2 expacs are the best stories ever told
25:22 I don't speak Japanese, but I heard Kokoro (heart) and Yami (Darkness) enough times in that monologue to understand about as much as I needed to.
Sounded like Naruto audio to me
Guess we don't need subtitles to play Kingdom hearts in Japanese
When's the last time that an anime repeated the words "心" (こころ/heart) or "闇" (やみ/darkness) to the same extent as Kingdom Hearts has done? There's a character in To Love Ru called darkness-chan and the masochistic paladin in Konosuba called darkness, but I've never heard the word "darkness" repeated several times over in any anime that I've watched.
@@linkskywalker5417 you don't have to go that far. Yu-Gi-Oh does it.
@@xeienar Does what? Repeat the word "darkness" over and over again?
It's kind of strange that this video was made for a handful of specific people but still functions as a pretty good summary of the games in question. Here's hoping you get more success from all this!
Yeah everything besides union cross and what we know in dark road
When you provide, well put thought, you add value to anyone who might be interested in said thought. It's almost a life lesson really
Yeah that pretty much helped me because I wasn't deep into the whole series plot which is xehanort and the keyblade war, I was too focused about roxas' story to care but now I'm good, I'll be able to follow the rest of the story.
I really love how Riku passes because OrgXIII just has no interest in him. Sora failed because an entire group of insanely powerful people who were not at all part of the test, hijacked it against the proctors knowledge and kidnapped him. This would be like failing a math test because someone swapped the tests to not include questions about math but instead extremely personal information about the past of one specific student. That student would do fine and everyone else would fail and the teacher just shrugs and fails everyone.
KH is a fucking nightmare where nothing makes sense.
This is such a truth
The worst part is, if he didnt fail Sora would have been able to skip the pointless disney worlds in KH3.
DDD was the downfall of KH in terms of story imo
@@thatsastick13 heavily agree
And it doesn't even matter because as far as I can tell there's nothing to gain from being called a "keyblade master" aside from bragging rights
That unbridled rage at Ventus being in Union Cross is just [chef's kiss]
42:10 Well...
"In Latin and English, the Seven Deadly Sins are: superbia (pride), avaritia (greed), luxuria (extravagance, later lust), invidia (envy), gula (gluttony), ira (wrath), and acedia (sloth)."
So I guess the Master of Masters' real name is Superb.
Or Supe.
Repu
Knowing Nomura, it probably could be Xuperbia.
I'm just imagining this big conspiracy theorist running up to him saying, "You're Superb!"
And MoM just being like, "D'oh stop it you. I am pretty great, I know."
Not like it really means anything. The characters have jack all to do with the sins in any way. Plus, their animals (minus Invi) don't match their sins.
3:29 is the most absolute, gigachad move I've ever seen in a video. I said to myself "No fucking way" and decided to call and the second I heard "Welcome to Square Enix Customer Support, I started laughing maniacally. I watched your 5 1/2 hour Kingdom Hearts 3 video, as well as the part one to this video and thought they were all very well-produced, but this timestamp moment definitively made me a fan of you, your content, and your humor. Holy shit, that was brilliant!
Yes, Simple and Clean has always had that line. I decided to listen to lyrics closely as a kid during the KH1 op; and figured out it was a song about commitment.
When CoM GBA was the newest game, I would replay the final Marluxia battle over and over again just to listen to Simple and Clean in the credits.
Yeah that lines always been there.
The English translation is nothing like the original Japanese. Hikaru Utada was told to change the lyrics so they match the beat of the song. Btw, the original lyrics for Hikari are pretty wild.
@@Xanegoh Yeah, the english version is really good. The japanese direct translation just makes me feel things.
@@Xanegoh that's...thats what translating any song from one language to another entails. Direct translations are messier, they need to be tweaked to fit; trimmed down, words flipped around or changed entirely while still keeping the initial "feel"...or sometimes dropped entirely, if it would take too long.
@@PointsofData I mean, yeah I know that. Look up the lyrics for Dragostea Din Tei. They are 100% nothing like the original Romanian.
The strangest thing about UX is that you never learn what actually happened in the Keyblade War.
The original ending had your character fight in it, but you're just a grunt who never sees the important stuff like the x-blade being forged and shattered, how everyone ended up dying and how that was enough to shatter the World, or seeing how the foretellers got to the future.
Well... about that... the game states the war started back when the Master of Masters was a child. That would mean the final battle was just a small part of the war wouldn’t it?
@@calebgoodman2076 Sorry. Tracking things started getting hazy ever since MoM said Darkness and the entire pureblood Heartless race used to be a single person. So much "tell don't show."
@@chrisdaughen5257 Darkness was a single person? What, did it just spread like a STD?
“Yeah, this Dr. Paul, at the clinic. Just wanted to call and tell you that your test results came back today. Got some terrible news: You’ve got Darkness within Darkness. If you know who you contracted it from, that would be a great help.”
“Uh.. the toilet seat?”
and why was ppl fighting again?
@@alwaysangry2232 To collect the most Lux. Maybe each Union thought any of the others had the traitor and thought it was best if they had as much Lux as they could. Why it mattered which Union had the most is unknown since Lux is never used in the story for anything.
22:00 the original line was "Why do you always have to stare at me like I just drowned your gold fish?" in the DS version of 358/2.
Truly the biggest loss of all when moving from the game to the movie.
That sounds like something out of the English Dub for Digimon. Also, it is still weird hearing Xion's voice come out of Ventus' body even if it's just Xigbar's perception of her.
@@KaiKrimson56 Yeah that line is garbage
Fun fact: At 13:00, in the original Japanese dub, Ventus was told to bring his "parents" instead of "two grownups."
USA must have not liked Terraqua.
Well... Terra and Aqua aren’t that much older physically. 21 and 18 respectively. Also if we’re getting technical Ven is older than Xehanort.
@@calebgoodman2076 if we get super technical they're the same age since xehanort's heart was just reshaped into a new one
@@umario251 That’s true. To an extent at least. Ven hasn’t reincarnated unlike Xehanort but he would definitely be older than Eraqus who is around Xehanort’s age and as far as I know he isn’t a reincarnation.
@@calebgoodman2076 yeah true, it just depends on how you define age, if you define it by a hearts age then they're the same unless you count reincarnating and remolding your heart to have it's age reset
@@umario251 God this series has turned into something so uneventful. Just read your comments. Shit just happens in this game and there is nothing to make of hit.
Julius being the guardian of Sora's heart is my new head canon
I'm not the least bit interested in the master of masters, kingdom hearts 3 showed me that the series is destined to underwhelming plot points.
I'm assuming you feel the same way as me with how they cheapen big moments of sacrifice, yeah?
The only thing I’m interested in is how they’re going to do vs 13 and why it’s inevitably going to turn out as bad ff15 despite not going through development hell.
MoM is so nothing, it’s the least interesting “mystery” of the entire series. And yozora wouldn’t be interesting in the least bit without the meta nonsense surrounding it.
Thank you. I'm glad people are finally starting to see the light. Square-Enix has turned this series into a dumpster fire in terms of story. Their mindset is "Just slap on some Disney worlds, press Triangle to see awesone moves, put a secret ending and watch the money rain" after Kingdom Hearts 3 I've given up. Sora is not Mario, Link or Sonic the Hedgehog, you can't expect him to carry this series forever. Let a new hero arise, new story, new characters.
They kinda overplayed their trap card after chain of memories
Let me tell you about the writing process of the Kingdom Hearts series. Nomura barges into the writers' room overly excited and goes "Wouldn't it be cool if (insert nonsense plot twist)?" Writers look at each other, incredulous. "Ok Nomura-san...and how do we tie that to the plot?" Nomura shrugs: "We'll make a flimsy side game and make shit up as we go along to explain it. Get writing!" Nomura barges out of the room. This happens on average 3 times a day.
That's pretty accurate
Started with your kh3 is a waste of effort video, the algorithm knows I eat these mega long video essays up
I feel like you speak perfectly to adults who grew attached to kingdom hearts at a young age but realized all the nuance with age 😂😂 I love watching these vids.
1:18:12 I'm SORRY riku, did you say "by my self" Sure maybe the raft part of the raft plan was all you, but the Food,water,sail,rope,ECT was a joint effort of kairi and SORA. If it were up to your efforts alone the trio would be dead from starvation at sea!
Man, it's actually kind of funny, he's just referring to the part of building the raft and then he pretends to complain about the effort he had to do because the other kids (including Sora and Kairi) see him as the "the strong kid", when on the 2nd day Sora had to start his own task of looking for food the raft was already finished 😆
@@mindlessdrawing3336 What weirder is I think Sora DOES help build the raft, I remember him picking up wood for the raft.
Also, I think Maleficent was able to get away with the reference to "the powers of Hell" because that's a direct quote from Disney's Sleeping Beauty (thanks for the corrections, comments). She says it near the end when confronting Prince Philip. Back in the 50s they were more OK with that, I suppose.
Not Snow White, Sleeping Beauty. Also "Hell" in this context refers to the place, and therefore is not a curse word, thus the G rating.
Hunchback of Notre Dame also has a G rating, and they have a whole freaking song called Hellfire, the word damnation is also said and that came out in 1996.
But if you think that's shocking, watch Pinocchio, also rated G, where the word "jackass" is said about 5 or 6 times. What's funnier is this becomes a double pun and is clearly being used as a swear word. Now that is getting past the censors!
@@Zinervawyrm Probably less "Getting past the censors" and more "Disney throwing its weight around". A pretty large amount of animated films from the bigger names in animation could squeeze a lot in and keep the G rating from as far back as the 50s all the way through the early 80s. Heck Don Bluth's/MGM's"Secret of Nimh" film had at least one Swear, some genuinely scary action, and gruesome character death's including: One character being crushed to death (Offscreen but you do see a hand sticking out), the villain dieing to a thrown knife in the back (with blood shown), and one character having his throat slashed open and clinging to life long enough to throw the aforementioned lethal knife. This is one of my favorite films from my childhood. ^^;
God I am so glad I graduated from Kingdom Hearts to Final Fantasy, that x Back Cover segment caused me serious psychic damage. Sure Final Fantasy has convoluted plots but you can usually jump into literally any of the games and you'll be told the whole story and given a real ending. I don't have to play an online-only mobile game to understand and enjoy FF13-2, no stupid "spinoff" bullshit dragging out the plot for 20 YEARS
How the HELL did Pete and Maleficent get into Disney Castle?
The Cornerstone of Light should’ve kept them out like it did in KH2.
Oops.
They got stronger using the power of plot convenience.
Three Fun Facts: The time machine Ven, Marluxia and Larxene used appears near the end of the first game, Dream Eaters are the reincarnated dead from Daybreak Town’s destruction and Xehanort is the reincarnation of your player avatar.
This series just keeps on giving and I hope it never ends
I don't know what's crazier, trying to make sense of what's said here or the fact that it's all true
WHAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTT
Excuse me? Actually?
@@zero123alpha6 Yep. It’s all true.
I wish xehanort could have been a reluctant villian thinking he was doing good and even actually helping Terra. A bit by explaining blancing light and dark and that he would train him. Would have caught us off guard and we could have had some sympathy for him.
With that japanese part of Terra speaking, I realised that even in Japanese they say ‘kokoro/heart’ and ‘yami/darkness’ so many times it loses all meaning, haha
union cross scream is a pure representation of how i feel about kh story after 3. it does not need to be even more confusing to both long time fans and especially newcomers to the series.
funnily enough my first game was union cross and then I played in order with the rest, it wasn't confusing surprisingly when you play in that order considering by the time I got to 2.8, the later lore filled stories got released, then KH3 came and then finally the end of union cross, wasn't too bad lmao
This is proof not every story needs Naruto-level worldbuilding, which is saying alot with how dumb it got with the Otsutsuki and Sage of 6 Paths stuff.
@@KaiKrimson56
Why bring up Naruto as an example with its same level piss poor worldbuilding.
Surprisingly enough ux might very well be the best story out of the series
33:45 - I thought the keyblade choosing Sora at Destiny Islands was partially retconned by him wielding it as a proxy of Ventus, since Sora was harbouring his heart; getting the keyblade back from Riku in Hollow Bastion is when he became worthy of it entirely on his own merits.
No, his Keyblade is Riku's, but the reason for his and Roxas' duel welding is because of Ventus
@@sora_keychain5510 actually saying the kingdom key is riku’s is still sort of wrong, it’s not inherently sora’s either though since it’s still the keyblade of the world of light(the importance of which has kind of diminished over time but whatever)
@@sora_keychain5510 For that matter, drive forms aren't Sora's actual power so it's not like he can ACTUALLY dual wield. Nomura said something about it being a full manifestation of his potential
I completely forgot how much original KH2 Roxas sounds like McCartney's Zuko voice sometimes.
I'm so glad AskYourUncle is secretly the entire Square support hotline
"Hey guys, my names joe"
(Do I really wanna listen to Joe for an hour?)
"DreamDropBoyfriend07"
(..... Continue)
You shoulda stopped the comment halfway through
I now really want you to do a complete timeline and critique of the entire Kingdom Hearts series in this and the rage at 3's style. This, from someone who never had any previous interest in the series.
I too want this
Watched your kh3 vid and was shocked at how consistently funny and entertaining a 5 hour video could be. Going through the rest of your uploads and they’re great. Idk if video essays are specifically you’re thing but you’re great at them!
Coming fresh off the last video, I came in waiting for the kh2 summary, but I've played it so many times that I didn't miss this video not having it. Everything else was phenomenaly done
Okay I know I'm super late in getting to this amazing video and the others that go along with it
But did you seriously time 1:15:32 to match with Young Xehanorts time stop muffled music to the cutscenes when mickey used STOPZA THAT IS SO FUCKING BRILLIANT AND I LOST MY MIND WHEN I HEARD THIS!
I was waiting for someone to hear that
As soon as I saw that I came down to the comments to see if anyone else pointed it out because this shit is so fucking good lol
1:01:52 there's no way this is real LMFAOOOO
14:41
We all have Stockholm Syndrome for this franchise now. I’m sorry it had to be this way.
I attempted to skip Terranort's shpeil by pressing the right arrow at about 25:02 and instead he just said _Darkness_ right away.
And we see Xigbar AKA Braig
( *after KH3* )
AKA Luxu
( *after KHDR* )
AKA Bragi . OH MY ! EVERBODY IS LUXU NOW?!
Literally laughed out loud at "Anakin"
"sans mouse" should not have cracked me up as much as it did.
Your summary of Xehanorts backup plans was top tier, thank you my guy Joe mama
Seeing the "Unchained [chi]"/UX rant, I can only assume this script and publishing was before the big ending infodump a month prior to closure, but I'm not about to go back down that rabbit hole at this time of night to check. But, do want to remark on this glimpse into the partial-information periods of "understanding" KH lore, and wonder how much clarity and/or misconception I'll've had once more lore comes out (which, we now know, will be late 2022 with Dark Road's further delays, oh BUDDY).
Imagine you finished vanilla KH or if you were lucky, KH2FM (japanese only release) and wondering who the "Enigmatic Warrior" is and why he's so badass and then someone from the future forces you to watch this explanation
"The man takes Sora back to his secret cave so he can Nort him"
Gold.
Kingdom Hearts is the reason why Nomura should never be put in charge of writing a story. There's a reason why KH1 has the best story in the series: Nomura wasn't responsible for writing it.
Well he still made a story interesting enough to keep people engaged for 10+ years
dude please create more content i genuinely cannot think of any video that’s made me laugh this much
Man, remember the good old days when KH1 and KH2 actually made sense and worked within their own continuity? Then everything in this video happened...
❤❤❤❤
Yeah there was a Time when Just KH 1, KH Chain of Memories and KH 2 existed and it was Totally fine as Trilogy without The Overcomplicated Shit that was made after KH 2.
33:00 The Keyblade of the Realm of Light is different from the individual keyblades created by the hearts of people like Riku. It is sentient and chose Sora. Mickey's Keyblade is the same, but for the Realm of Darkness. They even pop up in the same location in the Islands, but in different realms.
this channel voices every single frustrating thought i've ever had about kh spin offs over the years, and for that, i thank you lol.
This made me fucking laugh. I loved it. It just makes me realize even more how some parts didn´t make any sense at all, but whatever, plot has to continue and it´s kingdom hearts.
As somebody who has been catching up with the twewy lore the past few days, I can say that the most accurate part is Joshua calling himself omniscient
After watching your entire KH3 video, i’ve watched the one prior to this and now almost done with this video. I cannot stop watching your content, even if it was 20 hours, you are amazing at commentary and humor over long periods of time and its super impressive. Keep it up.
Amen! Genuinely really enjoyable content.
"I'm you, but Sora."
Okay I _DON'T_ believe you!
"Xemnas tosses some buildings, Sora tosses some Balloons" man that cracked me up
This guy is the darkness of the KH community and I love it
the light would probably be Justapancake but he is sleeping.
You loosing it from the Fragmentary Passage title made me loose my shit. an old joke but goddamn did the editing make it hilarious. Though that could also be because it's 1 am and I am tired.
34:49 I mean... that's literally the lyrics in Simple and Clean so, not surprising xD
Wait... wait... the plot in Union cross is the same as the... summons from FF13? "Maybe if we cause enough trouble, the Creator will come back and actually talk to us"...?
Wow. 3:31 I thought the guy included his real number
It's Square Enix support center in California
One thing you probably didn't know the Developers of DDD messed up the world order and made the grid before Prankster's Paradise despite the fact that Prankster's Paradise chronologically comes before the Grid
that's something that's pretty common with Osaka, apparently in BBS the early world order for Terra is also fucky because Dwarf Woodlands is supposed to be second and Castle of Dreams is third and in KH3 it's possible that the Carribean is supposed to be after BH6 rather than vice versa
@@Cross-chan Wow but I mean how do they do that 3 times when they get to work on 2 side games which they seemed to improve dramatically with DDD and then kinda get complacent when they were trusted to make KH3 the most important numbered title
Oh my fucking god that would explain the weird presentation of plot stuff that the player would already know by that point.
@@Cross-chan Wait, you mean people don't play Terra's worlds in that order? That's the order I always did it. I guess I just was lucky then?
Don't forget that it doesn't make any sense for The Grid to be a sleeping world when it's based on a sequel to Tron even though there already was a Tron world in KH2 and Legacy didn't exist yet when they made that world. I know Space Paranoids is a copy of The Grid, but it's still dumb.
24:52 Wouldn't it make more sense if he removed the arm armour thingy, too?
Looks cooler, I swear
Was just randomly recommended. Did not disappoint. I snorted coffee up my noise from cackling. Awesome video
Try cocaine next time, then I'll be funnier.
16:35 made me ugly laugh. This is probably my new favorite KH channel lol that and Regular Pat
I appreciate it, but I wouldn't say I'm a KH channel. I'm definitely done making content for it for the time being.
@@askyouruncle
Ah, well I really dig your sense of humor, so I'll probably like what you make regardless!
Love these essays
laughing hard af, huge thanks for making this video!
1:15:25 can we just appreciate that he CAREFULLY synchronized Young Xehanort theme from KH3 into this scene so that the ending of the drop matched up perfectly with Mickey casting Stopza and it expanding on to the organization's seats?
I LOVED THAT, please, do more of these.
Sora loses levels faster than Samus loses powerups.
Lingering will was pretty easy
Cause you have allies and can cheese it
Duck flare
Elixir
Until you run out of elixir
Then use stick for magic Regen
(Summon get magic dismiss duck flare)
And that's how I beat lingering will critical mode
Birth by sleep is almost completely unplayable for me now. I agree, I definitely loved the fuck out of the game when I was younger. But good lord is it boring as anything and I can’t meld for and level 3 characters in one game ever again.
i know that KHUx is a lot to go through, but some of the details you mentioned were very off. ex: Ava's union is called "Vulpes"; her secret mission was to train the Dandelions, the people she specifically chose not to participate in the keyblade war so that the keyblade legacy will continue. She sacrificed everyone else in Vulpes to the war
I love this video, but I don’t really see Terra as dumb, more so gullible. Terra was constantly that making bad decisions was good, so it makes sense that he continues to make em throughout the game. I dunno, maybe I’m dumb too
Holy shit you are underrated! I didn't expect much laughs from a KH retrospective. Keep up the good work bro!
3:30 this man left the number for Square Enix customer support LMAO
I can't believe they expected fans to jump through so many hoops to understand such a vague story that constantly "subverts youre expectations" in the most monsense ways to justify sequels. They even went as far as continuing the story in a goddamn mobile game, TWICE.
Nah, im good. I just hope KH4, combat wise, is more KH2 and waaaay less KH3.
Honestly, I was getting mad when you weren't understanding most of the Union X story when it was literally told pretty clearly... then I looked at when this video was uploaded and realised that the final update where everything gets explained wasn't even out yet so now I just feel stupid. All in all, great video, can't wait for this to eventually blow up! XD
Where is this? I must know how little sense it all ends up making.
@@juangalvez2404 Actually, if anything, Union X makes everything make more sense I'd argue. There are people who have done a full playthrough of the game and recorded all the cutscenes for people to watch. It's especially important to phase 2 of Kingdom Hearts because it introduces the main villains for the next part of the series (the Willful Darknesses if that wasn't obvious enough) and also, Sora will probably end up fighting the Master of Masters at one point because he either mistakes him for the villain or because he knows that what he's doing does eventually lead to a positive outcome but he just doesn't agree with the steps that MoM is taking to get there... that's what I think at least.
@@lukasruston8618 Alright, I just looked it up... There are at least five hours of footage. I'm gonna finish watching AskYourUncle chew KH3 out for five hours, then dive into this. And if it does make things make more sense, I will continue to resent it because if it's that important then WHY IS IT IN A MOBILE GAME?
@@juangalvez2404 The same could be said about the rest of the series tbh but it isn't a game anymore I don't think, they've turned it into basically a cutscene viewer as far as I can tell.
@@juangalvez2404
>Kingdom Hearts 1 starts a whole new franchise on ps2
>Its Sequel is on the fuckin Gameboy Advanced
>Kingdom Hearts 2 on ps2
>prequel on Nintendo DS
>Birth By Sleep which is like an "prologue/sequel of Union X" is on PSP
>Kingdom Hearts 3
>DLC to fix the ending
>Sequel is a fuckin rhythm game in a action rpg franchise
"A cannon".
And that's when I've spat my water.
I swear mom is sora. He tries to be a cool adult but when something trivial happens he responds in an almost sora way lol.
Thank you for this, I only played 1, 2, chain of memories, then went into 3. It hurt so much that I was in a lost. I couldnt get the DS or PSP versions when they came out. and when they finally ported to other consoles, I wasnt even aware. Now I FINALLY get all this, time line, replica shit and 1,500 versions of Roxas's lol
Man I hate that reveal with kairi and xehanort why does everything have to be connected and planned it's like no one can just be their own person
My favorite thing about Ventus' final Vanitas is that Last Word can goddamn MISS.
Kingdom hearts is like that nut you shouldve held back. Felt great at the beginning but you didnt think about what happens after, until your eyeballs deep in debt paying for a child to go to college
This video reeks of darkness and JustAPancake references, it's the best video I've seen in my fking life
23:53 so.....instead of his body remaining there as a husk to become a nobody he just disappears..... _Kingdom Hearts please, keep your own lore intact_
Well to be fair, he didn't lose his heart. His body just had a stronger heart put inside. Losing your heart is what makes you become a nobody.
@@askyouruncle Oh I was referring more to Xehanort not Terra. He literally extracted his heart out of his old body and it just disappears. And we know its not Xemnas, because Xemnas is Terra's body's Nobody(man Kingdom Hearts is wild)
@@Whodjathink watching these videos I wondered do people ever just die and their body just remains, not disappearing and staying dead? Like Kiari being slashed by Xehnort in 3. But I guess you’d have to avoid being struck by a keyblade in any shape or form lol
@@courtneythompson6179 The answer to that is usually....uuuh...a complicated "No". If their body does remain usually they become a nobody. Or they're supposed to....and a Keyblade has touched someone before and made a whole new body, Xehanort when he made Vanitas.
@@courtneythompson6179 Also I think in the Re:Mind DLC they show Sora went back in time, failed to save Kairi, then went through everyone's hearts to find a connection to Kairi and save her, so technically she did "die" but uuuuh.... _time travel shenanigans_
I’ve realized Yen Sid in the KH is most likely not a normal keyblade master. As well I hope people don’t really actually think the concepts of this story are purely just physical like an organ or a body part…right? We’re all just having a laugh for fun right??
I still love BBS unironically and it's still my favorite outside of KHII. Yes, flaws and all, Terra is my favorite character out of the whole series, because he's such an idiot, but he's a good intent idiot.
Also, I had to replay the part:
"Peter Pan is dark and wants the light box. This works because Terra is as dumb as a stump." Because I laughed so hard, I couldn't hear anything you said after.
Agreed on that little aside between Ansem and Riku, it being cute and I wish they did more with it.
The only ones I fully enjoyed are 1 and 2 and too a lesser extent re chain of memories but that’s about it
Did you know, that The Power of Waking was actually intended to be The Power of Baking? Yeah, Sora was supposed to be the Master Of Desserts!
The Bakening...For bakas !!!
The reason the Foretellers' names are the way they are is because they're named after the 7 deadly sins in Latin. I.E. M.O.M is Superbia (Pride) Ava as in Avaritia (Greed) Ira (Wrath) Aced as in Acedia (Sloth) Gula (Gluttony) Invi as in Invidia (Envy) and Luxu as in Luxuria (Lust).
im a fan of KH, 100%. but after the Data org intro, i actually fell asleep during this and ended up towards the end. it wasnt even late, it was like 3pm.
That Ventus rant had me in stitches
Ive never played or intended on playing Kingdom Hearts, and yet your 3 long form videos were beyond enjoyable to watch. Keep it up
I envy you, if someone had told me that this was what the series would turn into, I would have just said "No thank you" and tried a different game.
Your comedy is just great, looking forward to seeing more of your video essays in the future! 😄
Dude you are a god, having the resolve to replay Kh games and catch when they reference scenes is amazing. 21:40 I never would of understood that dialogue having played 7 out of the 9 KH games
“I’m you but sora BYEEEE”
Kingdom hearts 4. Sora goes to zootopia and he's finally a lion furry like nomura wanted
i have watched all your kh essays multiple times each you have real talent for videos like this looking forward to your next project
Came for an indepth analysis.
Stayed for the comedy lmao. I fucking love this video so much
Alluding to the fact that you made this for a certain group of people, it's still compiled better than KH3. Which legitimately feels like a compilation of jumbled garbage aimed to please:
1. Disney Corporate suits
2. fans of the previous games but not the entire series
3. The next generation they aim to confuse with endless branching spinoff stories
“Suck my chack xehanort” that line is just so perfectly delivered
I’m gonna call that number
Also 43:26 the dude just snapped