Ranking Every Boss in Kingdom Hearts 3
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Music used (in order):
"Wonder of Electron" from Kingdom Hearts Re:coded (2010)
"The Promised Beginning" from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010)
"Traverse Town" from Kingdom Hearts (2002)
"Shipmeisters' Humoresque" from Kingdom Hearts
"Rowdy Rumble" from Kingdom Hearts II (2005)
"A Day in Agrabah" from Kingdom Hearts II
"Scent of Silence" from Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories (2007)
"Squirming Evil" from Kingdom Hearts
"Shrouding Dark Cloud" from Kingdom Hearts
"Dive into the Heart Destati (Third Inception)" from Kingdom Hearts III (2019)
"Rowdy Rumble -The Crazy Carriage-" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Titanic Clash" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Hunter of the Dark"" from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix (2011)
"Scala ad Caelum"" from Kingdom Hearts Union χ (2015)
"Eye of the Storm" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Wave of Darkness I" from Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep A fragmentary passage (2017)
"Vim and Vigor" from Kingdom Hearts II
"Skyward Striker" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Sinister Shadows" from Kingdom Hearts II
"Winnie the Pooh" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Unforgettable -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version-" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Aqua -Dark Dive-" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Tension Rising -Angelic Amber" from Kingdom Hearts III
"The Deep End -Rock Titan's Rage" from Kingdom Hearts III
"No Surrender!" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Anger Unchained" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Enter the Darkness -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version-" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Graveyard Labyrinth" from Kingdom Hearts III
"The 13th Dilemma" from Kingdom Hearts II
"Lord of the Castle -Marluxia-" from Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind (2020)
"Dawn of Hope" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Laughter and Merriment" from Kingdom Hearts II
"Hearts as One" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Critical Crossroad" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Dark Domination" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Replicas" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Key of the Brave" from Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind
"Nachtflugel" from Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind
"Forza Finale" from Kingdom Hearts III
"Seeker Ansem" from Kingdom Hearts III
"A Walk in Andante" from Kingdom Hearts II - เกม
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Badmouthing KH2 should be enough for almost anyone to blackout lol
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Repliku's last words being "Take care of her" actually was the intent and was what he said in the Japanese dub. Translators just dropped the ball and didn't catch it.
Inbetween this, the callback in Data-Xion's defeat quote that was also lost in translation, and whatever was going on with Saix's facial animations, I feel like KH3's localization really left a lot to be desired
@@BearfaxII could you elaborate?
@@joa6336 In relation to the Data-Xion quote: her defeat line, "This is... how it's supposed to be", was apparently translated from what in the Japanese version was the same line as "You'll be better off now... (Roxas)".
In relation to Saix's animations: one of his facial expressions was a lot softer and happier in the Japanese version of the scene with him and Lea on the clock tower, but in the English version he has his usual stern facial expression on in the same shot. A few people interpreted this as the localization team or perhaps some of the higher ups (something something Disney) thinking the scene felt "too gay" and wanted to change it, other people more charitably thought it was just an oversight. Either way, it's a weird and completely unnecessary change; gay or not, they've been friends since childhood, it only makes sense for him to be genuinely happy to see Lea despite their current circumstances at opposite sides of the Keyblade War.
@@BearfaxII they did this a lot for some ungodly reason. When Sora tells Kairi "I feel strong with you Kairi" he originally says "you are strong after all Kairi". Which was supposed to be a KH1 callback to that scene where Sora tells Kairi to stay put because it's too dangerous and she'll only get in the way. Now Sora finally understands that Kairi has strength of her own, that she CAN help and that she's not some helpless little girl who constantly needs protection. He finally sees her as his equal but the English Localization Team decided to change it, making the scene all about Sora instead of Kairi.
TBF, the localization team dropped the ball a LOT in KH3... between flubbing Riku's lines to make them less gay for Sora (and thus muddling his characterization...) and trying to push SoKai ship at the expense of Sora's characterization ("WHY HER?!" makes it seem like he'd care less if anyone but Kairi had been killed, where as the original line "WHY?! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!" fits WAY better to Sora's "my friends are my power!" characterization. And then later, "I thought we'd finally be together..." vs the original "I thought we'd finally all go home..."? Yeah)... it's a shit show.
So many of the dialogue changes with the Destiny Trio seem to be about erasing any strong feelings from Riku about Sora... and altering Sora's dialogue to push SoKai as hard as possible. I hate it. Sora loves his friends. He's gonna want to try and lift them up, not use them as a ladder to bolster himself (as a previous comment mentioned, "I feel strong with you" vs the original "You're strong, Kairi" lines). I HATE what the localization team has been doing. They were more subtle about it in previous games... probably because Nomura had a larger part in making sure his work was translated faithfully... but it did still happen. They've been trying to push SoKai from the start, and now there's strong evidence that if there IS an end game ship to KH, it's gonna be SoRiku (come on... Sora falling to his knees while clinging to Riku's hand and crying, "It's Riku! Riku is here!"? Kairi doesn't get that kind of treatment. lmfao), so they are pushing even harder on SoKai to the point of harming characterization... smh
i think the reason Sora freaks out at the sight of one Shadow is because he's used to there being "more where that came from"
kind of like how you don't see roaches out and about during the day unless there's just no space for them back at their nest, tipping you off to the presence of an infestation
he isn't referring to just that one Shadow when he yells "HEARTLESS!", he's freaking out because this place he thought would be a safe hideaway seemed for just a moment to have been invaded by an indefinite number of them
But that's just a theory...
Honestly I feel you're on the right track about that, yeah Sora's handles Quadrillians by the hour... but normal people that don't have a keyblade can't exactly fend for themselves, like back on destiny island in KH1.
@@marxxplaysgames Mhm! -It's a nice touch that he specifically calls out Donald and Goofy, who he knows can get into a fight with Heartless at a moment's notice, whereas it looks like Big Hero 6 need to suit up to start having a chance against them.- He'd be understandably worried about everyone and probably jumped to the conclusion that the visor was a device that lets you see hidden, lurking Heartless-a terrifying prospect, to be sure...
Edit: I noticed later that most of BH6 is suited up already, so that element is out.
That, and it’s not really HIM that he’s scared for, it’s the fact that he straight up watched a man get eaten by these things before, and he’d rather NOT see that happen with anyone much squishier than he.
So, maybe more like seeing your kid walk up to you holding a live rattlesnake
@@spindash64 Oh defo
“[sniffing sound] Roaches! ROACHES-“ Coryxkenshin, SSS# 29
Pat, never stop, you make me remember why this is my favorite video game series of all time without failure every time you upload something like this.
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My thoughts exactly (in regards to OP)
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Even if fights like The Kraken and Davy Jones aren’t the most mechanically interesting fights ever made, those battles really opened my eyes to how much I value the mood of a fight. The pouring rain, the music, the sense of urgency, it’s palpable and I’m so here for it.
I really loved the Port Royal representation on KH3, starting i thought "oh, tía knows something", "Is the Leviatan's appearance convenience of Kingdom Hearts or convenience of Jack Sparrow existing right there?"
And then everything clicked at the end, i saw THE moment where sora's (a bit of) trigger (and a lot of) *HAPPY* scheme started falling apart against Davy Jones, it was beautiful and actually made me want to watch the Pirates of the Caribean movies (and possibly edit the third movie by putting the scenes from KH3 to make a "definitive KH hype experience"
And also the fact that Sora punches Davy Jones _in the face._ no magic, no Keyblade, just straight up decks a motherfucker
While kh3 is my least favorite of the mainline games, Port Royal is in my top 3 favorite worlds. It was the peak world in this game and one of the best in the series to me for how explorable it is, the battles, atmosphere, just about everything about it I loved.
Alsso immaculate graphicss. Don’t know what it iss but that sssene lookss ssuper good
Fun fact about Skoll; He is named after the norse creature of the same name, a massive wolf that chased to sun as his brother chased the moon. His name meaning 'treachery' or 'mockery'. His DM, mostly called 'Black Sun', is also a small reference to the events of Ragnerok where Fenfier, son of Loki, devoured the sun.
and that was the peak of creativity that went into the frozen adverti- I mean fully fleshed out and functioning world of the video game Kingdom Hearts III.
This is the kind of stuff that makes a game more fascinating after I learn it
They put such a cool boss in the most lackluster area they called a world :/ Poor Skoll...
Fefnir
@@rowdyrobgaming8726 Fefnir is Loki's son and did something different. Skoll and Fefnir are two different wolves.
“sora, dumbassedly” is one of my favorite quotes ever now, thank u patrick
My fav was when he said " that'd be like my darkness manifesting as a hand me down ford escape" 😂
Regular Pat: Uploads long awaited KH3 boss ranking video
Me in disbelief: Thats...Nuts!
"These ranking videos are secretly essays in disguise."
Yes. That's why I watch them
about your existential questions about the toys, around the beginning sora asks "why don't those ones move?" and woody responds "i guess they haven't figured it out yet," implying that every toy is created with consciousness but needs to actually recognize it and learn to move on their own. so really it's like puppeteering an infant too young to hold its own head up.
Reading this out loud in my head, your explanation sounds darker than I remember. Nice
this is easily some of your best writing pat its insane
How can you possibly say that when you wrote this comment 2 minutes after this 1 hour video was uploaded
@@13EqualsB i watched it early cause im subscribed to regular pats patreon, which you can too for as low as 5 dollars!!
@@koumori9214 TOP TIER SHILLING
@@RegularPat YES SIR 🫡🫡
Ef yes
Davy Jones actually can teleport in the movies. He does it during Dead Man's Chest to warp onto the Black Pearl.
Granted, he doesn't seem to do it very OFTEN for some reason.
i had him do it alot somehow .... definitely didn't entirely like him teleporting around but it also wasn't a problem
not me crying over Pat reconciling with fictional corporate overlord icon Mickey Mouse.
God tier script writing and delivery as always Pat!
I had always thought that the World Terminus was how the Heartless traveled back and forth between different worlds in KH1, maybe confusing "terminus" for "terminal," like some sort of train station.
I like this headcanon
Terminus can actually refer to the endpoint terminal of a railway
@@noodle4542 The more you know!
The bosses in KH3 are so good! If I have a favorite, it would be the Nort Court. The synchronization, the wild mayhem, and the goodbyes from the bosses makes it the best.
this aged well
Also Oscurita di Xehanort is an S-Tier nostalgia nuke of a song.
god, Ansem and Xemnas got my heart's ass tbf, I really love those cutscenes
love Teen Nort's scene; he dies as he lived, a little fucking shit lol
@@sonicfan4511I second that.
I think part of the problem with Darkside in KH3 is that the side games kind of positioned it totally different in the interrim. 0.2 had those World of Darkness Darksides (you know, the ones we've known since KH1 lived there naturally), Days had it as a series of bosses you fought that got harder as you went up the family tree from Darkside to the Dark Follower, who had an additional attack to stop you from just standing in the back and pelting it with magic like a wimp, and Re:Coded has the initial Darkside encounter (which is markedly different from any other one in that Darkside itself is totally inaccessible outside of when it is attacking) go through three forms, with it getting buggier as it goes in and eventually becoming something that doesn't even look like Darkside, and then in the final boss fight shows up as a form Sora's Heartless takes with significantly more vicious attacks than any other version to that point, before turning into Anti-Sora directly.
But then it just... shows up in KH3, with even less attacks than it had in KH1? And then shows up in a gauntlet in the final true ending where it's barely gotten back to KH1 level, except now you can attack it at literally any time because your jump height and rising attacks can reach up even to its face at any point? Why? What's the point? He's not even remotely threatening then, you needed to give him more to do.
It might be to show sora is op now.
@@tumultuousv That showing only matters though IF you have prior knowledge... yet prior knowledge also shows that Sora handles massive groups like a Warrior's game and is inherently more powerful.
I love that you actually appreciate Kairi. Too many people treat her like Sakura. “sHe HaS nO pErSoNaLiTy…” Glad someone sees her value
Yeah, her issue is more that she doesn’t get enough chances to SHOW that Fire in her. Even in base KH3, there’s some there, but not really touched on as much.
@@spindash64 I personally wish she shows more of her personality from KH1. Since like KH2, she's just felt mostly like a damsel in distress with the old Disney princess personality if that makes sense. I still like her as a character, but I wish she showed how she acted in the first game.
@@phantom-X2086 she's in a coma for half of KH1 but I catch your cold.
@@GribbleGob I meant the character she showcased throughout when she wasn't in that comatose state
I admit, I love shitposting about how Kairi is boring and has no personality, but it only frustrates me because I feel like when she was first introduced, she had this “spunky low-key tomboy” vibe about her that I greatly appreciated. Her introduction was calling Sora a lazy piece of shit and telling him to get moving.
I feel like we haven’t gotten to see that much after KH1, which just annoys the hell out of me. She had a personality, and it could have been a lot of fun. But a side-effect of them focusing on stuff that wasn’t her, and her being stuck in the role of “that girl Sora saves” prevented them from diving into the personality it felt like they’d started building for her. Hence why I roast her.
Thanks for your hard work, Pat! Your writing style always makes my day 😁
Thank you!! That makes MY day!
Gotta disagree on the Anti Sora segment being hard to tell when it'll end! The gold arrows that are normally used for form changes tells you how close you are! (At least I'm pretty sure)
Your right but on a first playthrough it may not be obvious
That sounds similar to Ven fighting Vanitas in BBS, but that also wasn't immediately obvious to many.
that ending... I've been around since the days when you hit 1K and despite the fact I've dipped in and out as life's happened, I'm so proud of all you've done and even though I've only managed to pop into any stream of yours for a grand total of 10 minutes, your journey has been incredibly inspiring. your scripts (and unscripted content too) has put me in stitches on several occasions and your more opinion based content never feels very forced down the throat at any point. looking forward to whatever's next! also stellar thumbnail and obscure references btw the lump moment slapped
Agree on 13 seekers, so unsettled at first, maybe a bit of fear, so walking over a few feet and getting greeted with a barrage of attacks was so memorable and evoked a lot of emotion and hype. Which was hard to come by for me in KH3
And even technically knowing WHAT they are doesn’t really address the fear of HOW they are. Not, “how are you doing”, but “how the fuck are you still moving?”. Is Xehanort literally controlling them like marionettes? Are they operating on just enough awareness to be sentry bots? Are they something else?
@@spindash64 My headcanon is that Xehanort is controlling them, messing with Sora before basically making the armor.
I've always thought it was the keys MX collected that controls these marionettes and taking a literal form (since Xehanort was collecting them like keys pretty much after they get defeated).
I just finished reading the Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days novel recently (though, I still have yet to beat the actual DS game), and as a MAJOR fan of the sea salt trio and their stories, I REALLY can't wait to see your 358/2 Days video!
That and it's been almost a year since I officially became a Kingdom Hearts fan! Thanks so much for helping me stay invested in this marvellous series, Pat! It means a lot!
Your Baymax voice when you said
“Oh no. Guess I’ll just go
fuck myself.”
Was /so/ spot on perfect that I had to pause for almost three whole minutes because I was rofling so hard. Another excellent video; I’d been waiting for this one for a while! Thanks for giving me some honest to god laughs and consequently brightening my day, I don’t think I realized how much I needed that. As ever, you continue to be my all-time favorite KH channel, and I can’t wait to see what else you come up with next! All the best, and happy holidays!
I like how Kairi throws the key blade as part of her combos, I hope sora can get some moves like that in the future and maybe even using the chain on his keyboard to swing it around and stuff, especially with how we see him use the keychain for traversal
The wordplay is off the charts, Pat. For real though, incredible video. My roommates and I are going through III blind as a final game before he moves away and this came at the perfect time. I'm very happy to reminisce about the game as I prepare to send off one of my best buds at the same time, so in an odd way this was real comforting. Thanks for the incredible work, dude.
Every time you post a video, I always think: will this be the video that beats the manga video as my new nighttime “fall asleep” video? And damn every time it is! That’s a compliment btw. Your writing has been so good, especially in this video! I love how you balance informative analysis of each fight with your usual deadpan humor. Great stuff👍
Also, I love the clip of Vexen being hit by fire. Very much for me specifically✌️
Wishing you a happy end to women’s history month and cheers to December, women’s history month💕
Your writing was completely on point this video! Perfect mix of dissecting the good and bad points of the various boss fights, as well as amazing quips and comedic bits. I can really see the thought and effort you put into this :)
I never realized that u could use goofy bombardment ( the attack where sora throws goofy) to force the lump of horror out of its invincible phase, just like how goofy can insta kill the sand heartless things
I found this out during my most recent run though on complete accident
Man you never fail to deliver Pat, that one Katy Pericles joke was hilarious damn. Love the way you wrote this down, I mean they're always a banger but this one has been your best so far imo.
EDIT: Real happy for you to try and engage more with positive comments than the haters. I can't imagine what that's like in an internet standpoint, but happy holidays and enjoy your school break, my guy
I'm so happy to see that somebody else says 'Yeetus Vanitas' for the Monster's Inc. segment. I cracked up so hard at that bit on my first playthrough.
The long-awaited ranking video…! Absolutely a fan of the analysis and witty writing, it’s been really fun relistening to the prior boss rankings like podcasts and the KH3 ranking’s an amazing evolution
Thank you so much for your videos, Pat. I love Kingdom Hearts, and I have been watching your stuff since 2019. I hope you have a great holiday season. Here's to many more years of awesome things.
Thank you for sticking around!!
My first playthrough of KH3 was after he was announced for Smash, on Critical, and I thought the hardest had passed with BBS, thinking that the last Keyblade Graveyard was the hardest the games would get. I had heard KH3 was overall easier than the others, forgetting that Critical was added when Remind came out. When I played this game, I think this might be consistently the hardest in the series. I remember taking a lot of attempts on numerous bosses, every end of area boss took like 10-20+ attempts. Keep in mind, I had binged the entire series up to this point, and thought I was used to early game struggle to mid-late game ease until the very end. But this game was constantly kicking my ass, there were some regular enemy encounters that would often wreck my shit. But overall, no boss was as hard or as fun as the “Nort Court” that shit took me at least 3 hours to fully get through, and it was mostly the first phase being a bitch. I think the worst part is, even if you beat one Nort and then die after damaging the remaining alive ones, they respawn at full health, which only made it take longer. And then Armored and Final Xehanort were somehow harder, and the Remind fights ducked with the menu. Still, I think I love this game, and Sephiroth in KH2 might still be my favorite fight in the whole series. And no, I have yet to beat the Data Org fights in Remind, I kinda lost motivation to play KH after steamrolling the entire series over the course of my senior year of high school, but am getting through it every now and again.😊
Holy shit this was way longer than I thought it was gonna be wtf
This was such a blast of a video! Loved it all the way through! Keep up the great work, Pat. You really have the genuineness that isn’t seen in a lot of content creators!
I'm glad to always see a video from you Pat. I can always feel the passion and love for the series you have in each video and I regularly go back to your older vids just cus I feel you have such interesting analysis. I've always wanted to try and make content for KH but have always stopped myself. Then I see you make a jump for it and find your own success and it inspires me. Thank you for all the hard work and if I was in a better financial situation I'd be happily supporting you on patreon
Random thought regarding the world terminus in KH1: I always thought those were gateways the Heartless used to get to those worlds. Meaning you actually do travel back to the worlds. I could be wrong of course.
Edit: also that video was fucken great!
I'm always impressed at your script work, the way you can riff out metaphors like crazy without skipping a beat is amazing. Once I recover from a great joke, you're already making the next one. Its so exciting whenever you release videos, this is one of your best ones yet!
Your commentary on the Davy Jones fight just convinces me more that I wish somehow we could play Roxas v Riku in HD. The DS graphics are not enough.
edit: The cameo from Richard Epcar was so sweet
I appreciate you and your uploads, Pat.
Your content is top notch, of all the channels I watch your one of very few (less than 5) that I feel doesn’t put on a persona or fake anything for views, you seem genuine and legit enjoy making way you do, and in this day and age is something incredibly rare on TH-cam, for what it’s worth, your the only creator I’ve considered supporting on patreon. Take the good and the bad, your not human otherwise and if you ignore tha negative how can you grow. All the best
I remember being here since I discovered your channel from the COM video shortly after it came out. Your videos have always been incredibly enjoyable and here's to another year of awesome stuff!
The CoM one is a deep cut!! Thank you for sticking around!
Pat, your words on Ansem reminded me (no pun intended) how much I love this franchise and will probably still be playing this franchise, even as my fingers' dexterity and reflexes begin to fade, there will always be more to seek.
I was not expecting a Lump reference when I started this video. Super deep-cut! 😊
You know, the thing I've always loved about your videos is even when I don't agree with that you're saying, you articulate your points so well that I can totally see where you're coming from.
Fantastic job on this! Data Xemnas, Data Marluxia (though you're not counting data fights here), Yozora, Lump of Horror and Davy Jones were my favorite fights in this game and it was cool to see you talk about them.
I started watching back when you had like 300 followers maybe
I was always looking for kh vids that wherent all about big revelas and leaked stuff and your stuff really was exactly what I was lookibg for. Thanks to ur stuff i also found out about lots of other channels that do that.
You are like my favorite TH-camr now for what ever thats worth. All that to say thanks for the great vids !
Thanks so much!!
Another great Video, Pat, your channel is the reason I started playing through all the games this year again ✨️🙌 my favorite game series of all time and so happy to see your videos about it. And the people getting together to get that "Ansem Birthday Video" is on anorher level, so great and sweet from the people as well ✨️👌 happy holidays to you as well and greetings from Germany ✌️🇩🇪
Fantastic video, as always. Took me right back to a couple months ago when I played kh3 for the first time. The feels are somehow still very real
Ah, finally had the time to watch the whole video. Another witty, funny, and AMAZING video!!! Thank you for all of your hard work!!!
Another great video. Thank you for taking the time to make all of your great videos.
Pat you are the reason I finally made the push to get more into this series finally getting and playing these games this year. So far I have played 1, finally finished com after never beating it as a kid, and 2. I’m going to be moving on to bbs soon and hopefully have the rest of the series finished next year. These are games I wish I had played as a kid I’m loving them. Also as a side note your comedy game has been consistently improving this video had me laughing so much.
always appreciate the thoughtfulness and humor you bring to videos like this. i think i commented something similar god...a year and a half ago now? but it feels worth mentioning again that i found you randomly during a kh1 replay i was doing where i thought, hey i wonder if someone's done a guide for the treasures in this game, and came across your early video doing just that. i distinctly remember being like yeah yeah i'll just jump around through the video and maybe have to listen to this guy dryly explain how to reach some of the tricky ones. and instead i found myself entertained by a treasure walkthrough video and going to check out your other stuff. it was completely unexpected and something i've always appreciated about your work: you make a genuine effort to be entertaining even when the subject could easily be straightforward, and go the extra mile with videos like this, never taking things too seriously but also never shying away from your emotional investment in this series. great to see you still doing this with the same energy i enjoyed so much back then.
i will say that i had to drop out of being a patron for a while because i switched jobs and had some financial insecurity for a minute there, but i'm planning to be back in the new year. i know every person counts, and i hope we can get you to that sweet, sweet 150 and beyond.
So hyped for this. Started marathoning KH when sora was announced for smash and found your channel around the same time. KH has since become one of my favourite franchises, and your channel one of my faves on the platform, so (Count Dooku voice) I’ve been looking forward to this
(Anakin voice) My powers have doubled since the last time we met, count.
It's been such a wild ride. I remember back when your level 1 playthrough on the first game was relatively new and it blew me away. Keep surprising the KH community!!
These are always my favorite videos of yours, I've watched the first 2 a ton when at work, excited to have more XP
Great video, sounds like one of the best birthday presents you could have gotten. Looking forward to your future videos.
Commenting for the algorithm. But also to say that I can’t believe you keep outdoing yourself. You’re already on track making yourself better and better. Excellent stuff. 👍
Happy to be a patron! All the support Pat 💖💖
My interpretation if the Dark Inferno is that it might be the heartless form taken by a keyblade wielder, or maybe the collective darkness of many keyblade wielders who didn't have enough darkness in their hearts to fully turn. You fight both versions in the keyblade graveyard and his swords are kinda vaguely keyblade-ish in shape.
I love every video you put out Pat. Can’t wait for a whole another year of great content to watch.
Every time I watch a new video from you, it lets me appreciate you and this series in new and unexpected ways. Thank you for giving this channel to us, Pat!
Small personal note on the Nort Quart:
While I totally agree that the "titans of the series" comment mainly should include Ansem and Xemnas with the BBS funny keyblade storm in the background, I have a little bit more personal history with it.
My first KH game was 3D, and Young Xehanort was an incredibly challenging fight for me. It destroyed me over and over, knocked me down and then time-stopped me to stab me again. So when I walked into Nort Quart, every member felt more important; the original villain, the villain who I enjoyed the most, and the boss that crushed me years and years ago and singlehandedly started my love for KH bosses.
Fantastic video, by the way
I love this video a ton, just a few things I can comment on:
12:13 That's actually just the Flying Dutchman, it's just a persistent little octopus head.
15:00 Dude, I'd LOVE to fight Mozenrath from the animated series too, no joke XD
24:42 There ARE arguments I saw (TV Tropes did a bang-up job of it too) to justify why each hero is in which world, so there can be some speculating done there. Basically; Riku had the same godly expectations Hercules did and fell to temptation that required them to prove themselves, Aqua and Davy Jones were both masters of their crafts forced to go through matching 10 years of Hell only to be abandoned by people they cared about, Ventus and Woody share the fear of being left behind by their loved ones and ended up at the mercy of a psychopathic kid wanting to kill them, Mickey and Rapunzel are two nobles estranged from home who were rescued and given new motivation by roguish-type handsome guys, Goofy and Anna were both enamored with the idea of following destiny until it led them to toxic people that hurt them, Donald started with Sully's professional-only approach to their respective charges until they grew to genuinely care for them, and finally both Axel/Lea and Hiro lost someone dear to them and their stories are more about the aftermath of them dealing with the grief.
48:16 Yeah screw Unknown-Xehanort.
53:57 I mean, thematically it makes sense. Gothel is SO obsessed with keeping appearances, her youthful look, that the Heartless STILL just looks like her AS a Heartless.
01:01:10 Aaaactually the light balls he drops are purely for aesthetics XD You're supposed to check the Action Command gauge for this (the golden arrows that show up over the command menu as you're building up a bigger one) But you're right that it isn't as clear as it could be.
Also, the order you fought the Nort Court is the one I like to do it in. With matching keyblades for each.
Keep being amazing, man!
Love the KH series and you do a great job covering it! Keep up the good work
I love kingdom hearts reviews. There is something about it that is really comforting to me. Kingdom hearts was one of the first videogames I played with my best friend at age 8 so it's a series that has stuck in my memory. Thanks for the awesome review and the genuine words at the end speaking to us viewers. Keep at it my friend, keep giving it your all!
Kingdom hearts fills a surprisingly hard to fill niche today of a series that KNOWS it is utterly absurd in its premise, but refuses to let that hold it back from taking itself seriously. Very few other stories can have Donald Duck grieving for watching the 14 year old he basically adopted by accident _commit suicide,_ and yet Kingdom Hearts does that without it feeling “edgy” or “forced”, because the characters still act with earnestness
Found these on my recommended list. This 'series' earned you a sub. Love the love.
Haven't seen a video of yours before but the jokes and insight is top tier, keep it up!
Hell yeah!!!!!!!!!! I was rewatching your kh2 ranking a couple days ago, thanks for the food 🙏
This is an awesome vid I was waiting and it was worth the wait
41:50 You know I actually do dig Xigbar and Luxord being the joint boss. Maybe they could make it minigame-ish too, like you have to find the Luxord Card before Xigbar finds the Riku card. And Xigbar seems like the type who would be down for Luxord's games.
Thanks for the portal 2 reference. I appreciated that.
Love the video and I look forward to see where this journey goes as well!! :)
Sometimes calling someone a "content creator" feels derogatory to me because it evokes the sterile feeling of something being created purely to be consumed, digested, and quickly forgotten about. That's never what Pat's videos feel like to me. It sincerely feels like he's building a library of videos that I actually want to return to and revisit later, rather than just a curiosity I've seen on my homepage with no staying power. It's in part because he takes the essay approach and puts real thought into what he's saying rather than just speaking on the fly. But it's more than that because they feel pretty painstakingly produced. It would be so easy to make a ranking where you just put up footage of yourself fighting each boss and talking over it, but the imagery used really effectively demands the audience's attention and enhances the already smartly written commentary (and that's to say nothing about the hundreds of clever visual and editing gags and easter eggs).
I really don’t care THAT much about Kingdom Hearts but Pat really makes a compelling case for why this franchise is actually worth talking about. And I’ve worked in the field of documentary post-production, and I can say with authority that there are famous or well-regarded filmmakers making archival footage-based feature-length theatrical or broadcast released documentaries that have put less effort into their final product (in both planning and editing) than Pat has here in his own feature-length video. Whatever success he has had or will have is totally earned, and probably not enough.
Also, this comment makes it feel like we're talking about serious business but rest assured Pat is extremely funny and strikes the perfect balance between taking the material seriously (to provide substantial and insightful commentary) and understanding how funny and ridiculous it is (in order to make fun of the franchise and himself) with some really funny writing, visuals, and editing.
not me about to straight-up sob. Thank you so much. I know it might seem pretentious or too self-serious, but I really do want my channel to feel like a library of projects instead of "a channel with videos on it." Obviously it's still that, but I really do want each one to feel like an experience. Obviously there are memes and off-the-cuff things thrown in, but I try to make it apparent that they're like a "sub-series" separate from what I consider the real chronology of the channel. Thank you again for saying all of this
30:10 I think its implied that, at least in the Kingdom Hearts universe, the toys need a connection to humans to become sentient kinda like how nobodies grow hearts. In the Toy Story movies, it seems like they just sorta pretend to not be sentient. Of course that leads to the age old question of why Buzz freezes when Andy's in the room despite not believing he's a toy but I would assume the writers just kinda didnt think about that.
One thing I hoped you mention during King of Toys is ‘Skyward Striker.’ That was one of the most epic songs I’ve ever heard, and it’s only found in the final battle in the Toy Story level of all things.
Great video! I feel validated that a lot of our options lined up about these bosses haha
I love a long Regular Pat video so much. You spoil us with the quality of your content.
1:00:58 Technically, there is a bar that shows that. The Formchange gauge goes up as you collect the little light orbs. But I can also see that being hard to notice.
You definitely made me realise the deeper feel of the Replica-Norts and their creepy vibes. I never thought about them the way you did, and it has opened my eyes now that you explained them in a more precise way, other than them basically being Replica-True-Org-Member-Xehanorts.
But other than that, amazing video, good luck on your New Year's Resolutions next year. You can do more and seek more
Thank you, Pat! Because of these videos I finally decided to pick up the Kingdom Hearts series and earlier in the year I beat Kingdom Hearts for the first time using only the Kingdom Key and without equipping Combo Plus and things like Strike Raid and Ragnarok. Recently I did the same for KH2. Can't wait to do it for KH3 once I've examined this video 30 times like I did for the other two rankings. You're the best Door to Darknesser on the site!
Superb work as always Pat!
I love your deadpan humor so much, thank you for this video!
God bless you fr thank you for all the quality content you put out
Awesome! Thank you so much for this video!
Yo I discovered your channel just a few days ago (while being sick during the holidays >_< ), and I gotta say, the stuff you make has really made a shitty time a lot better. Keep doing what you’re doing man
I love the lip synch when you said "What an absolute menace" in Yozora's entry
Learning all of Yozoras attacks over days of grinding to practice for whenever I get there on my lvl 1 all pro codes critical mode run was honestly really fun. I've even almost got down how to dodge the mecha attack without any summons.
58:55. No Pat that's not choking. Choking is when you get a piece of food stuck in your throat. What Xehanort is doing is strangling Sora and Aqua, totally different. He just loves strangling people! But yeah, another incredible boss ranking video, thank you for the early holidays gift. Your kh1 boss ranking is how I found out about your channel. I was actually so impressed with how you write your videos that I showed them to my sister who became a fan of your stuff as well. If you don't make anymore videos this year then I wish you happy holidays and a great new year!
Your humor and wit is incredible dawg
In the winter of 2021 I got covid from work and had to self isolate at home. How did I spend those two weeks locked in my room? Watching your videos and playing Kingdom hearts! I hated that job at the time but your uploads just make it feel so nostalgic. It wasn't even that long ago! That's the magic of your writing. Thank you Pat 😊
fantastic video as always. much love
Ah, been looking forward to this since the Patreon early release and only just got to it. Top quality as always
New here, so obviously not part of your journey but really cool to see you’ve grown from the early days you talk about. Here’s to many years to come, dude
you're part of it now!
patty puttin' out another banger video, great job :)
This really flew by. I've laughed, so much.
I had to pause the video at 1:07:54 after the “Yo Zora!” line because I was crying laughing 😭
I've watched your KH1 and 2 boss rankings so many times in preparation for this video.
I clicked on this video by chance, only expecting to watch 20 or so minutes while I ate some dinner, but I really enjoyed listening to your perspective on the game! You had some good takes - like the creepiness of the Replica Xenahorts, I hadn’t really thought of it quite like that before.
The jokes made me laugh too. Now I want to play this again.
Idk why it took me so long to finally watch this one, but man you are hilarious, its really impressive just how many jokes you continue to shoot off from boss to boss 😂
this video is absolutely brilliant, top tier as always
Your quips are killing me, it made this video so much better 😂
This is such a great vid!! I'd say as usual but it does feel like a big step up in terms of writing and editing so props on that!
(Also hi this is sylvanshroom on twitch, s/o to the stream community for being rly chill and fun and making for a regular (haha) delight of my week)