Everyone hates the pirates world because they make you gather 300 crabs, but if you go explore the world in stead of sitting on that one island, it easily becomes the most fun world in the game
The World That Never Was is the best KH2 world. It was the first dark city world, and we saw the world so much in cutscenes before we actually got to it. The foreshadow was constantly there. Finally getting there through the Twilight Town Lab and fighting the nobodies with Axel was a hell of an intro.
@@hydellas678 yeah it had a creepy vibe. Like the world made you feel lonely but also like you were being watched and followed the whole time. It was so cool
KH1 Traverse Town has a special place in my heart, as a kid after going exploring disney worlds i often came back to just vibe to the music and walk around the town.
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To me Kingdom hearts 2 lazy afternoons is cheifs kiss, my absolute favourite music of all time, plus the world of twilight town is beautiful but what a story behind it as well in nearly all the Kingdom hearts games 🥳
For me personally my favorite in KH3 is actually Olympus. Climbing the mountain and playing the start of the game finally in unreal engine in a brightly lit location versus 0.2 felt amazing.
I never fully understood the hate for the Caribbean. I love the ship combat and sailing across the sea, finding treasure, and one of my favorite bosses in the games. It's just such a fun world and I hope we get more like it.
I know it may be an unpopular choice, but my favorite Kingdom Hearts 1 world is actually Wonder Land. Assuming you’re going in the intended level order Wonder Land is the first world you’ve EVER visited, and it’s because of that that I have such a soft spot for it. Also, even though you can tell that it didn’t get as much love as other worlds, they still tried their best to capture the whimsical & whacky feeling of the movie. Additionally, it does a really good job at solidifying the tonal whiplash of the game. Starting in such a lovable whacky place and then ending in a giant heartless infested hellscape.
And wonderland has my favorite keyblade in kh1. Don't t really know why, but lady luck is one of my favorite keyblades to use in both kh1 and kh union cross.
KH1- The End of the World: I absolutely loved the mystery behind this world. And having an entire section be completely invisible is so cool. There’s so much to explore and we CANT. Plus the colors and heartless were outstanding and the Chernabog fight is epic. Hollow Bastion might’ve won but I hated it as a kid. CoM- Castle Oblivion: All the fun stuff happens there lol. It counts. KH2- Twilight Town: I love this place so much. It feels alive even with its technological limitations. Jobs, Skating, Mystery, this world has everything I want in a Kingdom Hearts world. Hollow Bastion is cool and almost took this spot but I don’t want to live there. 358- [N/A]: Never had the game. BBS- The Land of Departure: I thoroughly enjoy the way this world is built, even though it’s small. Returning to this world was so powerful to me. Watching Terra vs Eraqus, and the following destruction of the world we knew as home. It hit hard. This world gets a bit more of a boost due to the memorable boss fights such as Eraqus’s Armor, No Heart, and of course he who shall not be named. KHC- [N/A]: Never had the game. DDD- Traverse Town: It’s like home, but more of it. KH0.2- Castle of Dreams: There was a lot to consider with each of the destroyed worlds here, but I enjoy the time antics of this one and how we were introduced to the game through it. It incentivizes exploration all around and it just felt perfect for Aqua and this dark chapter in her story. KH3- The Caribbean: There’s no contest. I’ve never looked forward to exploring a world in its full than I was with this world. It’s so much fun (until I get in the water and I get Subnautica flashbacks). The treasure just feels a little more valuable here too because you had to go seek it. KHX- Daybreak Town: Kinda hard to give it to anything else. But I want to explore this place more than any other world. Scala ad Caelum was really close, but it’s just not free enough. The music almost made me pick it though. MoM- [N/A]:
In my opinion, the best worlds are KH1: tbh I can't pick just one. They're all so good. KH2: It's a tie between Pride Lands and Space Paranoids. Pride Lands because of the unique movements and gameplay. Space Paranoids for having one of the best contributions to the story. BBS: Deep Space. Not just because I like Lilo & Stitch, but it's because the Wayfinder trio teaches Experiment 626 about the importance of friendship. DDD: I wanna say a tie between Les Cites de Cloches and the Country of Musketeers. Mainly because of how implemented it is. KH3: It's a three-way tie with Toy Box, Monstropolis, and The Caribbean. And it's because of how well implemented they are along with the rest of the other worlds. And the unique gameplay for Toy Box and The Caribbean.
I really enjoyed Fantasa in 3D. While it was still pretty linear, it has a good bit of verticality and diverisity with the different areas. I actually really enjoyed the music gimmick too and thought it was really charming
The Caribbean is peak kh world design. The amount of exploration, the ship combat, and overall size along with the NPCs all around really makes it an immersive experience.
Dude I swear for years I've been the only person in the world who's loved Olympus in Re Coded. I'm a turn based rpg lover, and ones with timed button inputs to extend combos in particular are my favorite. Re Coded is my favorite KH game for gameplay because it mixes up the formula so much
Kh1: Destiny Islands or Wonderland Kh2: Timeless river Bbs: Radiant Garden (and the realm of darkness if counting 0.2bbs) 3d: Prankster's Paradise (probably because of the amount of trouble kh1 monstro was giving me as a kid) Kh3: The Caribbean for the exploration
Personally, my favorites are mainly non-disney ones, especially "Traverse Town". Speaking of the Disney world (this is kind of funny), a few days ago I dreamed that KH4 was out and the first world we go to on the other side "the fictional side" was Hercules's, but in a time where he was still a kid. I don't know where this came from but I liked it.
@@princesspikachu3915 Actaully, I happened to watch few episodes of the TV series last year for the first time, I never even knew about it exising before. I sitll love that KH4 version I dreamed of, kind of remind me a little with "Genshin Impact"
Favorite worlds KH1: Hollow Bastion, Traverse Town, End of the World, Deep Jungle KH2: The World That Never Was, Twilight Town BBS: Keyblade Graveyard, Radiant Garden KH3: Frozen, Big Hero 6, Tangled, POTC
Kh 1: Deep Jungle (the vines didn’t annoy me as much as it does most people) Kh 2: Pride Lands (I am a hopeless fan wanting more of this world in via Lion Guard) Kh DDD: Country of the Musketeers (we get a Disney DVD movie from my childhood here) Kh 3: The Caribbean (makes me feel like I’m on a real oceanic adventure this one)
i do agree with this list for the most part, except for kh3. my pick for that game is the Final World. yes, it may not have that big of a level design, but i found that world to be the most visually pleasing out of all of the worlds in kh3 (both the ocean and the cube part of it). and the music is just the cherry on top.
Best worlds for me: KH1 - End of the World, mainly for its aesthetic and its atmosphere. To this day, it still for me has the most otherworldly feel of any of the worlds in this series, and I'll never forget the feeling of that world I experienced when I was a kid. KH1 was also the first game I ever beat, so EotW served as the first final level I ever experienced. It was magical. Hollow Bastion has more stuff to do, sure, but it doesn't beat EotW's feel for me. KH CoM - Yeah, they're all technically the same, but I'll go with Castle Oblivion just because it was new and I dig the all-white aesthetic. KH2 - Twilight Town, particularly Roxas' story. I still hold that Roxas' prologue was one of the best moments of storytelling in the KH franchise. The feel of that cozy little town and all the life they breathed into it was just so warm and comforting. I love TWTNW and HB/RG, but again, its a mood over play preference for me. But I also really love TWTNW, and Space Paranoids and Pride Lands take my top picks for Disney worlds. KH Days - Not gonna lie, I didn't play Days that much when I was younger, so I don't really have a strong connection to any of the worlds in this game. I'll probably go with TWTNW just to give it a spot here. KH BBS - Definitely Enchanted Dominion. Not even a contest for me. Sleeping Beauty was one of my favorite Disney movies as a kid, and finally seeing that world realized after years of wanting to see it in a KH game for all of Maleficent's appearances was a really good payoff. Maleficent's castle is also imo one of the more underrated levels of gameplay in the series. KH coded - I can't really not give it to Olympus Coliseum on this one. The dungeon-style layout and the throwback to classic FF-style turn-based RPG combat was a neat love letter to Square's roots. Although, points taken off for making us have to go through it over and over again to get every boss. KH DDD - Symphony of Sorcery. Fantasia was the first Disney movie I ever saw, in fact the first movie I ever saw period. After seeing Chernabog in KH1, I never imagined they would or could actually turn Fantasia into a proper world, but they did, and it was glorious. In terms of sheer gameplay, I think I might prefer TWTNW or The Grid, but in terms of level design and atmosphere that world was tops for me. KH Union X - I guess I'll give it to Daybreak Town, why not. Lore importance, plus relatively nice aesthetic. KH 0.2 - Technically it's all one world, but in terms of sections, my favorite is the Mirror Realm section because of how trippy it is, plus the puzzle-solving gameplay. KH 3 - The Caribbean. Oh god, hands down the Caribbean. I spent SO MUCH TIME exploring that world. One of the best experiences I've ever had playing one of these games. I also really loved Olympus for its level design and The Final World for its juicy rich atmosphere and feel. Scala was really cool looking, but I don't feel we really got enough of it, even in the DLC. Yeah, it's gotta be a pirates life for me on this one. KH Dark Road - No.
More than 20 years since Kingdom Hearts came out and I just discovered you can freeze the giant bubbles in Hollow Bastion... Don't know how but that's the only game of the franchise that keeps surprise me every now and then with something new
I feel like I gotta say my favorite world in BBS is Enchanted Dominion. So much plot development happens in just the world, it has a decently sized area to explore if youre looking at the entire TVA exploration, the atmosphere and music are gloomy but perfect, and its the last time Maleficient actually had weight to her name. Also, let alone as well that this is the true first time Terra is controlled by darkness in a destructive way. It really is where the plot takes its course with beautiful aesthetics to accompany it.
Kh1: deep jungle. The only time you see tarzan. Its world is huge and it is fun to platform the hippos, vines, roots and have a wild time kh2: halloween town- getting to go to both halloween and christmas town makes the world a complete package, though I do miss Oggie's tree house from kh1 with the ribcages in the walkway and how you actuallly had to beat the tree house as a boss. kh days: twilight town: the world that quite literally is the home of roxas. And home is where the (Sora/ roxas's) heart is. kh bbs: neverland. For far too long, we needed to actually visit the real neverland and boy did it deliver. Shout out also to enchanted dominion for raiding Malificent's castle kh recoded: I did not play much, but destiny islands was cool as you played it as an actual world kh ddd: la city des cloches. They did Quasimodo's story justice. The boss fights, as well as the buildup to them, is just perfection. The music and atmosphere is also very dire and epic. It just adds to the world kh3: caribbean. When I saw at world's end in theaters, I knew the davy jones' boss fight in kingdom hearts was inevitable. The exploration and combat went smoothly as the waves
KH1- Traverse town, Neverland, The jungle book KH2- Olympus coliseum, Hollow bastion, The world that never was KH 358/2 DAYS- Twilight town, Neverland, The world that never was KH BBS- Radiant Garden, Deep Space KH Re:Coded- Olympus coliseum, Destiny Islands, Castle oblivion KH Union X- Daybreak town, Wreck it ralph KH3- Pirates of the caribbean, Keyblade graveyard, Quadratum
Personally, my favorite world in Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth By Sleep A Fragmentary Passage was the realm of darkness. This world is so giant and it took up a majority of the time. It even gave Aqua a whole lot of character depth and really did its best to break her down and have her learn many valuable lessons.
I have played the first Kingdom Hearts countless times since I was a little kid, and I never knew you could freeze the water bubbles in Hollow Bastion. Wow!
Favorite world in KH1 is "End of the World." It gives you that liminal spaces vibe; the worlds you enter in that world aren't the real worlds, the inhabitants and other life in those worlds are gone, and the music makes the whole thing give a weird feeling that I can't explain.
So I'll do my personal faves: KH1: Hollow Bastion. I agree with you pretty hard. It's a fantastic world for several different reasons. One thing I never understood about this world in KH1 though is where are we in comparison to the town? Is this Ansem's Castle? Is it that big tower in the background of KH2. Btw, my other faves are Halloween Town and Traverse Town (a lotta towns.) KH2: Disney Castle/Timeless River. Ever since I played KH1 for the first time, I wanted to go to Disney Castle with it being on the map. Finally being able to go there was so damn cool! But then we get to the best part: Timeless River. This is one one of the coolest Disney worlds for it represents an important part of Disney's history in such a fun way! And the fact that Sora's design is based off of old Manga like Astro Boy is a fantastic touch. The only issue is that it's just too damn short! BBS: Hard agree with Neverland. Nice to finall explore it properly. It also gave us "Put Peter Pan in his place!" So that's a plus! KH3: God, 3 has fantastic worlds. I 100% agree on The Caribbean! But my runner up is probably Toy Box. The scales and exploration to this world just feels wonderful. But what really makes it for me is how Galaxy Toys is a scrapped concept from Pixar themselves! In an interview it was said that Pixar wanted to have a toy store to this caliber in one of their movies, but were never able to. I always love seeing scrapped ideas come back to life in some fashion. But knowing that something THIS big is a revived idea from Pixar is just so fucking cool.
That’s my favorite part too. Currently saved my game in that area. Re:Coded is probably my favorite one gameplay wise. It’s my favorite portable title and I have all of them except the phone game.
I completely agree with kh1: hollow bastion, khbbs: neverland, and khddd: traverse town. but for kh2, I'd have to go with twilight town. I just love how interconnected the world is. it's like a maze. it doesn't quite have the same coziness as traverse town but it is still cozy, and really fun to explore. not to mention that wistful feeling you get playing as sora while also knowing that you spent a lot of time here as roxas. I've also never played days or recoded, but the idea of a turn based world actually does sound pretty cool. I wouldnt mind a full turn based kingdom hearts game, where you can choose a party of 4-5 of your favourite heroes and fight using all of them.
I think that leaving Union X out of the ranking is un fair, frol the bastly improved scripts and extra characters in the disney worlds to the fidelity to the source material in the scenarios, the worlds were huge and full of details, Union X's worlds were pretty good in my opinion.
Mine are: KH: Traverse Town KHII: Beast’s Castle KHIII: Kingdom of Corona BBS: Enchanted Dominion (wish it had more to explore tho.) DDD: kingdom of Musketeers
About half the titles I haven’t played as of yet, but I’ve watched play throughs of all the games I haven’t played on TH-cam, so for those I’ll go off of my viewing experience: KH1 (played): End of the World. This world has such a feeling of finality to it, especially with how it harkens back to the opening moments of the game with its music. It’s telling you everything you’ve done in the game has come down to this Re:Com (played): Castle Oblivion. It’s one of the only unique areas in the game other than Twilight Town, and I loved all the Marluxia fights 358/2 (somewhat played): Probably Twilight Town for all the emotional moments that happen in that world. Also the music is just such a vibe KH2 (watched): The World that Never Was. For me, it’s just one of the greatest endgames I’ve seen in any video game, every second of this world felt climactic. And Xemnas is one of the greatest final bosses I’ve ever seen in a video game BBS (watched): Keyblade Graveyard. Despite it being pretty much a barren wasteland full of keyblades, just the overall feel and vibe I get with this world gives me chills. If an area in a game is able to make me stop and take in all that I’m looking at, even if it’s not much of anything, but because the overall atmosphere of the area’s making me do that, it instantly becomes a favorite for me Re:Coded (played): Hollow Bastion. It was cool to actually have to rely on Donald and Goofy to attack for the first part of the world, then having to delve into Riku’s data to restore him while also restoring your own powers was interesting way to do things in my opinion DDD (played): Traverse Town or Symphony of Sorcery. Traverse Town cause of the added things to the world, Symphony of Sorcery because of just how unique the world was from all the other worlds in the game. It was kinda surreal to be moving around and fighting in these fantastical areas with nothing other than classical music playing in the background KH3 (watched): The Final World. The world has such a peaceful ambience to it, which ambience like that is one of my favorite things to look at. An endless sea of sky and clouds that seems to stretch infinitely. It’s a world that could make you stop and think about things, contemplate things on a deep level. It can make you self-reflect. At least that’s what the world did for me KH4 whenever it comes out: it’s already going to be Quadratum, no questions asked. It’s Sora in the real world
Good list my man! Here's mine: 01. Kingdom Hearts - Hollow Bastion: I agree with you that while Traverse Town is an excellent hub, Hollow Bastion with it's whole slowly ascending the castle thing and it's multiple secret areas, is the best world in the first game. 02. Rechain Of Memories - Castle Oblivion: The final "world" of the game is actually extremely hard and kind of a painful chore to slog through, but gets the pick because of it's aesthetic and the fact that it's the only unique world that's not being rehashed in the game. 03. Kingdom Hearts 2 - Hollow Bastion: The battle with the 1000 heartless is very cool and all, but even with it's inclusion I don't think I would put the world at number 1 if not for the Cavern Of Remembrance, which as you already stated is THE best post game secret area in the series. 04. 358/2 Days - Neverland : It is pretty hard to pick any specific world from this entry simply due to their structure, but I'm going with Neverland simply for the unique take on the world and also because I found gliding around the locale to be fun. 05. Recoded - Agrabah - Like with Rechain and 358, Recoded suffers from rehashed environments once again and while I appreciate Square trying something new with Olympus Coliseum, it's still turn based combat which isn't my cup of tea, leading me to go with Agrabah because of the Cave Of Wonders area being different from the original instead of just variations of the same reused rooms found in the other worlds. 06. Birth By Sleep - Radiant Garden: I will concede that Birth By Sleep has by far the best version of Neverland, but my pick goes to Radiant Garden once again for it's importance to the story events and it's beautiful architecture including that one fountain room. 07. Dream Drop Distance - Symphony Of Sorcery: My favorite world in DDD bar none, Symphony Of Sorcery is a magical experience and I love the incorporation of Fantasia with the music gimmicks and the many colorful environments, making it truly something special in the series catalogue. 08. 0.2 A Fragmentary Passage - Castle Town: While the game technically takes place in one world, the Dark World, Castle Town is my favorite area and it's an excellent introduction with it's eye catching visuals and great sense of verticality among it's rooftops and floating platforms. 09. Kingdom Hearts 3 - Olympus: It's a VERY tough call between the Caribbean for all the reasons you mentioned and Olympus, but ultimately I gotta go with another absolute banger of an introduction with this being the best version of the world and an excellent example of how expansive Kingdom Hearts 3's worlds really are...plus the golden visuals of the realm of the gods combined with the ability to rail grind amongst the clouds is just awe inspiring! 10. Melody Of Memory - ???: All of them...I guess...
Loved the vid. I agree with alot of ur choices here especially ddd cuz traverse town is so good in ddd. I would like to see a vid of ur least favorite worlds
Recoded was my first kh game to play and it was really good in that it barely spoiled anything from previous games and had a more gameplay focused approach,making it a way to get more kingdom hearts on the go in a good way
Ironically enough for Riku, he himself has been left with not just one, but two replacement keyblades, with his first being a constant reminder of his fall from grace and how he may never be the true Kingdom Key wielder ever again due to his immaturity and the Keyblade itself remembering that
Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden might just be my favorite world in all of video games. Yes because of the gameplay in each iteration, yes because of the set pieces and massive cutscenes we get, but so much of it for me is the looming atmosphere, from the visuals to the music. In KH1, it was the atmosphere of a gauntlet leading into your enemy's stronghold as you explore a world ravaged by them with a mysterious past. In KH2, it was the atmosphere of that world beginning to heal and reconstruct into what it once was, but with the scars of what had happened still marring it and with the enemy who once invaded it still at large. In BBS, it was the atmosphere of seeing this world in its full former glory, but with the context of what would ultimately happen. I get that there's not much more you can do with Radiant Garden story-wise, but if we do see it again, I'd love to see it explore what lengths they're willing to go to defend it after what had happened. Maybe even get a flashback to the actual siege and show how brutal it all actually was.
When it comes to the Olympus Coloseun turn based gameplay, I tottally agree. I, myself, have a really hard time liking turn based games in general, but I LOVED that mechanic in coded. Probably because it isn't just turn based, but also interactive, when it comes to timing your attacks and blocks. That is probably why my all time favourite turn based game is The Child of Light, that has a simular gameplay gimmick when it comes to timing your attacks.
For Kingdom Hearts 1, my favorite world has to be Forbidden Jungle the hardest part about FJ is knowing where to go once that's done your golden. Hollow Bastian and me have a complicated relationship it's better in KH2 but for KH1 I hate it with a passion. Best thing about it is the story but it's such a confusing maze. Now don't get me wrong I enjoy a maze as much as the next guy but KH1 HB was next level ridiculous. For KH2 I have to agree with you, even today there are things I have yet to complete in Holoow Bastian/Radiant Garden. Xephiroth fight is way too hard, and getting through the caverb haven't done that yet either, so haven't even attempted the data battles. I also haven't beaten the Lingering Will either. For Days I also agree with ya Twilight Town is the best, not only do we spend the most time there, the best story happens there, also when doing the 1.5 remake/remaster or whatever it was almost the only world they focused on, Twilight Town, The World that Never Was, and maybe one or 2 cutscenes in other worlds but yeah. For Kingdom Hearts Recoded, I wouldn't say Olympus Coliseum is the worst but it's not the best in my opinion, for me the best was Castle Oblivion the whole concept of the hurt and Roxas lashing out at Sora etc... it was heartwrenching etc... The worst world in Coded though has to be Wonderland because of the inklings hate it with an absolute passion. In BBS my favorote world has to be Stitch's world I forget the name but yeah just love seeing each characters story develop Stotch as a character which has it make more sense as to why he joins Sorabin KH2 Hollow Bastian War/Battle In DDD, my favorite world has to be Notre Dame mainly due ti nostalgia as I loved Hunchback of Notre Dame film and getting to live the story with Sora was amazing. For KH3 it has to be The Kryblade Graveyard, the first part was a bit confusing almost like Sora using a real life check point so none ofnthe characters remember dying and make the same choices even Sora but things just work out this time that was weird but besides that we got an even bigger fight against not just Heartless, but Nobodies, and Unversed similar to KH2 1000 Heartless sequence. Also it had led all the way up to this point since post KH2 and it was amazing to see.
KH1 is Hollow Bastion, KH2 is Pride Lands, KH358/2 days is Twilight Town, Kingdom Hearts BBS is Deep Space,Kingdom Hearts Re Coded is Castle Oblivion, Kingdom Hearts DDD is The World That Never Was And Kingdom Hearts 3 is San Fransokyo.
For the games I have played KH BBS - I also love Neverland especially the platforming, and it was so big that traveling in it feels fun in my opinion KH 358/2 Days - I also agree with Twilight Town because of the size of the world, traveling in it is fun, the moments that happened in Twilight town I enjoyed, my real issue is the fact that you come back and forth, and it got annoying. KH Re:Coded - Honestly I pick Wonderland, I enjoyed it a lot, and also I liked the shoot em up gimmick.
Hmmm, for me KH1 it's "The End of The World" Just for it's theme and what it is. KH2 "The World That Never Was" Similar reasons. Days, Coded and DDD I honestly don't know, I only played them once so my opinions are limited. BBS, same as you Neverland. KH3 I think Olympus does it, it's the start and really embodies what they wanted to do with the worlds in that game perfectly.
I think KH1 Wonderland is one of the most underrated worlds in the series. Exploring that world feels like a really fascinating puzzle with how they mess with different orientations of the bizarre room. I loved finding all the secret intractables and pathways. Plus, Lady Luck is a pretty sick Keyblade if you’re going for a high magic build.
pirates of the Caribbean for 3 is DEFINITELY the best choice IMO! the ship gimmick is obviously based off of the Pirates of the Caribbean Online game, since it’s basically just a modern version of that. i was so happy when i saw the gimmick because of how much i played that game. if kingdom hearts decides to make a gimmick out of another disney MMO, like toontown, that would make me IMMENSELY happy.
Kingdom hearts 2 was the only kingdom hearts game that was dubbed into Spanish (Spain), hopefully one day they'll dub it again. I loved hearing Sora with the same voice as Ash Ketchum 😂
Kh1:deep jungle, destiny islands or halloweentown Kh2: pride lands, land of dragons or Olympus(I loved the underworld part so much lol) Bbs: probably gonna have to say Neverland Days: I agree with twilight Town Ddd: prankster paradise Kh3: toy box, monstropolis or San fransokyo
Agreed with all except KH2. I still would put The World That Never Was at number one for KH2, but its mainly for the artistic style & climax of the story. Radiant Garden was a close 2nd for me though. ❤
Olympus Collesium in Recoded also has the advantage of the most optional content. I spent most of my time playing coded just doing all the optional content in OC. It's my favorite world too, mainly because of that.
My favorite world in DDD was Le Cite Des Cloches mainly because I really like the soundtrack and flowmotion gimmick used there. The boss Nightmare was also rather cool in that world. It is nearly impossible to choose a second favorite world from that game though, as all had something going strongly for them.
I pretty much agree, but I personally preferred Monstropolis in KH3. Vanitas and the Unversed were a match made in heaven for that world, and getting a post-movie plot for it was awesome.
Kh1: Traverse Town, Hollow Bastion, Deep Jungle Kh2: Halloween Town, Radiant Garden, Pride Lands BBS: Neverland 358: Twilight Town DDD: Traverse Town, Thr Three Musketeers world Kh3: Pirates, Monsters Inc, and Kingdom of Corona i was so damn hype for those Completely forgot about that turn based part of recoded that game is a big blank for me outside of the final fight . Rechain: None but I guess Twilight Town had me feeling the happiest about the game.
My top 2 picks for each game Kh1 - traverse town/hollow bastion Kh2- timeless river / radiant garden Kh3- the Caribbean /Olympus Birth by sleep - never land / Disney town Dream drop distance - pranksters paradise/traverse town
If you did do Chain of Memories the answer would be Twilight Town. At the time of its release before KH2 was out that was your first taste of that world and it was such a cool thing to take in for the first time. Made me so excited for KH2 back then. Well worth the price of admission
KH1: Monstro KH2: Timeless River & Radiant Garden BBS: Deep Space & Neverland DDD: Tied between Prankster’s Paradise, Symphony Of Sorcery & Country Of The Musketeers KH3: Toy Box & Caribbean (along with Olympus, but non-Olympus worlds, it’s these two)
I will have to admit that lost choices reflect mine as well. Most of my memories of KH1 are from Hollow Bastion, but Traverse Town os closer to my heart, and Radiant Garden in KH2 is indeed the best hub world. I had a ton of fun in Neverland in BBS and Traverse Town in DDD is my favorite world
KH1 and KH2 were just built different. I've finally accepted the fact that we'll probably never reach those heights again and I've made peace with that.
I can appreciate all the picks made, with one exception. And I'm afraid to say that the world chosen for DDD was the incorrect choice. Symphony of sorcery is not only the best world in DDD, but is arguably the best world in Kingdom Hearts as a whole.
My list. KH1 - Disney Worlds: Deep Jungle (fantastic story, interesting and varied world design and my favourite minigame (Tarzan's slide) in the whole series). - Original Worlds: End of the World (to me, the best final world in the series, surely the darkest and most unsettling one; it also reminds me to the last part of Final Fantasy X (the one inside Sin) and that, for a big FF fan like me, is an enormous plus). KH ReCoM -DW: 100 Acre Woods (it's actually the most unique in the whole game and personally i like ReCoM's minigames better than the ones in KH2). - OW: Destiny Island (the only time that they were a real world and they were fantastic in both story and rooms design, especially if you use the White Mushrooms room card). KH2 - DW: tie between Space Paranoids and the combo Disney Castle + Timeless River (the only two worlds in KH2 that didn't need two visits to put up a story that wasn't simply "the movie's story with Sora, Donald and Goofy). - OW: Radiant Garden (fantastic story with a lot of iconic moments; the mediocre and flat world design (typical of every KH2 world aside from, maybe, Twilight Town) is saved by the cavern of remembrance. KH 358/2 Days Can't judge, i've never played it or watched anyone play it. KH BbS - DW: Neverland (fantastic platforming, great verticality, beautiful settings and some of the best hidden chests in the game). - OW: Radiant Garden (aesthetically one of the most beautiful representations of the city). KH ReCoded - DW: Olympus Coliseum (as you said Jared, it's one of the most unique and experimental world in the entire KH franchise and, contrary to you, i like turn based JRPG). - OW: Hollow Bastion (another experimental world; the first part of the HW in which you don't have the keyblade and you have to rely on Donald and Goofy it's really interesting). KH DDD - DW: la Cité des Cloches (one of my favourite Disney movies, with a lot of interesting and fascinating characters and profound themes; sadly, they put the Hunchback of Notre Dame in a game that, aside from world designs, has done everything wrong). - OW: Traverse Town (the only thing that the otherwise terrible DDD completely nailed: they have managed to improve an already great world by enlarging old areas and adding new marvelous districts; the addition of the TWEWY gang (although i didn't exactly like the game) is another plus to this world). KH3 - DW: Toy Box (the best story for a Disney World since KH1 and one of the best in the entire series; design wise the world is still high level and it's one of the few worlds in KH3 that bringed back those world interactions typical of KH1). - OW: Scala ad Caelum (visually, it's probably the best world in KH history and in two rooms it have more interactivity than the whole Monstropolis, Arendelle, Corona and San Fransokyo; unfortunately, it's still too small).
Love this style of video! Would like to see more opinion style videos from you, get to know what you really like/dislike from the series as a whole. One topic that I think you could do that is like this is what is your favorite iteration of a world that's appeared multiple times. I.e. Olympus has appeared in almost every KH game, but which one is your favorite and why? Agrabah, Wonderland, Neverland, Halloweentown etc
the pirates world and toybox are my picks for the best world in kh3 toy story is one of my favorite series of movies, and i also love indoor shopping malls, which is exactly what galaxy toys is. and we get to be shrunken down, too!
My favorite worlds were halloween town in kh 1 ,2, days and melody of memory, symphony of sorcery in ddd, Olympic arena ( I know that's not the name but I don't know how to spell it ) in recoded, and toybox in 3
Pride Lands was my favorite world. As a kid, I'd spend hrs role-playing as the "next king of pride rock," and basically, copied the movie's plot verbatim. I skyrocketed in levels because of the monsters on top of pride rock, and hardy wanted to leave - Sora's lion form so much fun to move around and jump.
My favorite too. And I did the same thing. I graduated the year that KH2 came out and that was how I spent break back in 2006. Running around as Lion Sora and gushing how adorable he is as a furry and just grinding levels in the Pride Lands long after those credits rolled. Heck I still do that because I still have the game, PS2, and memory card saved state. I had to replace the PS2 but I still have the game and Memory Card so I can still play it.
Everyone hates the pirates world because they make you gather 300 crabs, but if you go explore the world in stead of sitting on that one island, it easily becomes the most fun world in the game
Agree
And the music!
What's the problem with the crabs? It doesn't take that long nor it's hard. It's just a small quest to make you explore the island.
The ship stuff isn’t fun, but exploring the islands is.
My favorite world in KH3.
KH1: Hundred Acre Wood
KH2: Hundred Acre Wood
KH3: Hundred Acre Wood
KHBBS: Hundred Acre Wood
The World That Never Was is the best KH2 world. It was the first dark city world, and we saw the world so much in cutscenes before we actually got to it. The foreshadow was constantly there. Finally getting there through the Twilight Town Lab and fighting the nobodies with Axel was a hell of an intro.
I really liked the Realm of Darkness in 2.8 and Birth By Sleep. I loved how big the world was and how the music was so eerie
I liked that too tbh. It kinda creeped me out a bit but it intrigued me as well.
@@hydellas678 yeah it had a creepy vibe. Like the world made you feel lonely but also like you were being watched and followed the whole time. It was so cool
@@Alexis-vm8ng True that.
It was the only world lmao, I hope that was good
@@Christian-gr3gu Bro obviously. I’m talking about how the 2.8 version of the Realm of Darkness was my favorite
KH1 Traverse Town has a special place in my heart, as a kid after going exploring disney worlds i often came back to just vibe to the music and walk around the town.
Jared I fucking love you man, love to see you doing well, back into the swing of things and pumping out lots of great content like the good ol' days. Been following you since 2015 and you're hands down the best KH content creator on YT and one of the best in general. Keep up the great work my man!
Ayyy thanks for the love Kevin bro! 💚
To me Kingdom hearts 2 lazy afternoons is cheifs kiss, my absolute favourite music of all time, plus the world of twilight town is beautiful but what a story behind it as well in nearly all the Kingdom hearts games 🥳
Ever hear the cover version of it with OoT's Kakariko Village sound font? It works surprisingly well!
@@tss3393 I did and I have that on my music library, it's so good 🎶🎶
@@tss3393 I have so many remastered and remixs and piano versions of the song 😂
For me personally my favorite in KH3 is actually Olympus. Climbing the mountain and playing the start of the game finally in unreal engine in a brightly lit location versus 0.2 felt amazing.
And gaining abilities slowly
Jaw dropping is the word for it indeed :)
Olympus is incredible in KH3
I never fully understood the hate for the Caribbean. I love the ship combat and sailing across the sea, finding treasure, and one of my favorite bosses in the games. It's just such a fun world and I hope we get more like it.
I know it may be an unpopular choice, but my favorite Kingdom Hearts 1 world is actually Wonder Land. Assuming you’re going in the intended level order Wonder Land is the first world you’ve EVER visited, and it’s because of that that I have such a soft spot for it. Also, even though you can tell that it didn’t get as much love as other worlds, they still tried their best to capture the whimsical & whacky feeling of the movie. Additionally, it does a really good job at solidifying the tonal whiplash of the game. Starting in such a lovable whacky place and then ending in a giant heartless infested hellscape.
And wonderland has my favorite keyblade in kh1. Don't t really know why, but lady luck is one of my favorite keyblades to use in both kh1 and kh union cross.
Not as controversial as mine which is Forbidden Jungle
@@dunkbuscusgaming7016 SAME!! Always went to the Tarzan world first too
@@dunkbuscusgaming7016 you mean deep jungle?
I loved wonderland I loved interacting with the flowers and the paintings. All the puzzles made the world really fun
I have played Kingdom Hearts since I was 10 years old and I just learned you can freeze the bubbles in Hollow Bastion and climb up them 😱
Wait you can fucking *WHAT*
Game is as old as I am, played it my whole life and I've just now found out
Same x.x
He made it sound like everyone knew this, after more than a decade for me I am just hearing about this!
WTF?!?!?
I’m very glad I’m not the only one that didn’t know this when he showed it in the video lol
KH1- The End of the World: I absolutely loved the mystery behind this world. And having an entire section be completely invisible is so cool. There’s so much to explore and we CANT. Plus the colors and heartless were outstanding and the Chernabog fight is epic. Hollow Bastion might’ve won but I hated it as a kid.
CoM- Castle Oblivion: All the fun stuff happens there lol. It counts.
KH2- Twilight Town: I love this place so much. It feels alive even with its technological limitations. Jobs, Skating, Mystery, this world has everything I want in a Kingdom Hearts world. Hollow Bastion is cool and almost took this spot but I don’t want to live there.
358- [N/A]: Never had the game.
BBS- The Land of Departure: I thoroughly enjoy the way this world is built, even though it’s small. Returning to this world was so powerful to me. Watching Terra vs Eraqus, and the following destruction of the world we knew as home. It hit hard. This world gets a bit more of a boost due to the memorable boss fights such as Eraqus’s Armor, No Heart, and of course he who shall not be named.
KHC- [N/A]: Never had the game.
DDD- Traverse Town: It’s like home, but more of it.
KH0.2- Castle of Dreams: There was a lot to consider with each of the destroyed worlds here, but I enjoy the time antics of this one and how we were introduced to the game through it. It incentivizes exploration all around and it just felt perfect for Aqua and this dark chapter in her story.
KH3- The Caribbean: There’s no contest. I’ve never looked forward to exploring a world in its full than I was with this world. It’s so much fun (until I get in the water and I get Subnautica flashbacks). The treasure just feels a little more valuable here too because you had to go seek it.
KHX- Daybreak Town: Kinda hard to give it to anything else. But I want to explore this place more than any other world. Scala ad Caelum was really close, but it’s just not free enough. The music almost made me pick it though.
MoM- [N/A]:
You have great tastes.
In my opinion, the best worlds are
KH1: tbh I can't pick just one. They're all so good.
KH2: It's a tie between Pride Lands and Space Paranoids. Pride Lands because of the unique movements and gameplay. Space Paranoids for having one of the best contributions to the story.
BBS: Deep Space. Not just because I like Lilo & Stitch, but it's because the Wayfinder trio teaches Experiment 626 about the importance of friendship.
DDD: I wanna say a tie between Les Cites de Cloches and the Country of Musketeers. Mainly because of how implemented it is.
KH3: It's a three-way tie with Toy Box, Monstropolis, and The Caribbean. And it's because of how well implemented they are along with the rest of the other worlds. And the unique gameplay for Toy Box and The Caribbean.
I really enjoyed Fantasa in 3D. While it was still pretty linear, it has a good bit of verticality and diverisity with the different areas. I actually really enjoyed the music gimmick too and thought it was really charming
I applaud you taking the time to do this- I really couldn't choose because I love the game so much.
The Caribbean is peak kh world design. The amount of exploration, the ship combat, and overall size along with the NPCs all around really makes it an immersive experience.
Dude I swear for years I've been the only person in the world who's loved Olympus in Re Coded. I'm a turn based rpg lover, and ones with timed button inputs to extend combos in particular are my favorite. Re Coded is my favorite KH game for gameplay because it mixes up the formula so much
Kh1: Destiny Islands or Wonderland
Kh2: Timeless river
Bbs: Radiant Garden (and the realm of darkness if counting 0.2bbs)
3d: Prankster's Paradise (probably because of the amount of trouble kh1 monstro was giving me as a kid)
Kh3: The Caribbean for the exploration
i have been waiting to explore destiny island again since start of kh1, ffs i hope we can go back to it in kh4, also the main island
Personally, my favorites are mainly non-disney ones, especially "Traverse Town".
Speaking of the Disney world (this is kind of funny), a few days ago I dreamed that KH4 was out and the first world we go to on the other side "the fictional side" was Hercules's, but in a time where he was still a kid. I don't know where this came from but I liked it.
Traverse town and Hollow bastion from KH1 are so nice, a feeling and atmosphere that will never come back..
Maybe you dreamed about kid Hercules because maybe you watched the TV series and your subconscious mind really wants it again.
@@princesspikachu3915 Actaully, I happened to watch few episodes of the TV series last year for the first time, I never even knew about it exising before.
I sitll love that KH4 version I dreamed of, kind of remind me a little with "Genshin Impact"
Favorite worlds
KH1: Hollow Bastion, Traverse Town, End of the World, Deep Jungle
KH2: The World That Never Was, Twilight Town
BBS: Keyblade Graveyard, Radiant Garden
KH3: Frozen, Big Hero 6, Tangled, POTC
Kh 1: Deep Jungle (the vines didn’t annoy me as much as it does most people)
Kh 2: Pride Lands (I am a hopeless fan wanting more of this world in via Lion Guard)
Kh DDD: Country of the Musketeers (we get a Disney DVD movie from my childhood here)
Kh 3: The Caribbean (makes me feel like I’m on a real oceanic adventure this one)
i do agree with this list for the most part, except for kh3. my pick for that game is the Final World. yes, it may not have that big of a level design, but i found that world to be the most visually pleasing out of all of the worlds in kh3 (both the ocean and the cube part of it). and the music is just the cherry on top.
Wait what?? I've been playing kh for 10+ years and never realised that you can freeze the bubbles into platforms.
How tf u not know that
@@AlexSilva-x Lol, I suppose I never thought to try
@@YvettH Don't worry, I've played the game almost 10 times at this point and still didn't know this as well LOL.
Best worlds for me:
KH1 - End of the World, mainly for its aesthetic and its atmosphere. To this day, it still for me has the most otherworldly feel of any of the worlds in this series, and I'll never forget the feeling of that world I experienced when I was a kid. KH1 was also the first game I ever beat, so EotW served as the first final level I ever experienced. It was magical. Hollow Bastion has more stuff to do, sure, but it doesn't beat EotW's feel for me.
KH CoM - Yeah, they're all technically the same, but I'll go with Castle Oblivion just because it was new and I dig the all-white aesthetic.
KH2 - Twilight Town, particularly Roxas' story. I still hold that Roxas' prologue was one of the best moments of storytelling in the KH franchise. The feel of that cozy little town and all the life they breathed into it was just so warm and comforting. I love TWTNW and HB/RG, but again, its a mood over play preference for me. But I also really love TWTNW, and Space Paranoids and Pride Lands take my top picks for Disney worlds.
KH Days - Not gonna lie, I didn't play Days that much when I was younger, so I don't really have a strong connection to any of the worlds in this game. I'll probably go with TWTNW just to give it a spot here.
KH BBS - Definitely Enchanted Dominion. Not even a contest for me. Sleeping Beauty was one of my favorite Disney movies as a kid, and finally seeing that world realized after years of wanting to see it in a KH game for all of Maleficent's appearances was a really good payoff. Maleficent's castle is also imo one of the more underrated levels of gameplay in the series.
KH coded - I can't really not give it to Olympus Coliseum on this one. The dungeon-style layout and the throwback to classic FF-style turn-based RPG combat was a neat love letter to Square's roots. Although, points taken off for making us have to go through it over and over again to get every boss.
KH DDD - Symphony of Sorcery. Fantasia was the first Disney movie I ever saw, in fact the first movie I ever saw period. After seeing Chernabog in KH1, I never imagined they would or could actually turn Fantasia into a proper world, but they did, and it was glorious. In terms of sheer gameplay, I think I might prefer TWTNW or The Grid, but in terms of level design and atmosphere that world was tops for me.
KH Union X - I guess I'll give it to Daybreak Town, why not. Lore importance, plus relatively nice aesthetic.
KH 0.2 - Technically it's all one world, but in terms of sections, my favorite is the Mirror Realm section because of how trippy it is, plus the puzzle-solving gameplay.
KH 3 - The Caribbean. Oh god, hands down the Caribbean. I spent SO MUCH TIME exploring that world. One of the best experiences I've ever had playing one of these games. I also really loved Olympus for its level design and The Final World for its juicy rich atmosphere and feel. Scala was really cool looking, but I don't feel we really got enough of it, even in the DLC. Yeah, it's gotta be a pirates life for me on this one.
KH Dark Road - No.
KH1: Deep Jungle
KH2: Pride Lands
Days: Beast's Castle and Halloween Town
BBS: Castle of Dreams
Coded: Hollow Bastion
DDD: Traverse Town
KH3: Toy Box
More than 20 years since Kingdom Hearts came out and I just discovered you can freeze the giant bubbles in Hollow Bastion... Don't know how but that's the only game of the franchise that keeps surprise me every now and then with something new
I feel like I gotta say my favorite world in BBS is Enchanted Dominion. So much plot development happens in just the world, it has a decently sized area to explore if youre looking at the entire TVA exploration, the atmosphere and music are gloomy but perfect, and its the last time Maleficient actually had weight to her name. Also, let alone as well that this is the true first time Terra is controlled by darkness in a destructive way. It really is where the plot takes its course with beautiful aesthetics to accompany it.
Kh1: deep jungle. The only time you see tarzan. Its world is huge and it is fun to platform the hippos, vines, roots and have a wild time
kh2: halloween town- getting to go to both halloween and christmas town makes the world a complete package, though I do miss Oggie's tree house from kh1 with the ribcages in the walkway and how you actuallly had to beat the tree house as a boss.
kh days: twilight town: the world that quite literally is the home of roxas. And home is where the (Sora/ roxas's) heart is.
kh bbs: neverland. For far too long, we needed to actually visit the real neverland and boy did it deliver. Shout out also to enchanted dominion for raiding Malificent's castle
kh recoded: I did not play much, but destiny islands was cool as you played it as an actual world
kh ddd: la city des cloches. They did Quasimodo's story justice. The boss fights, as well as the buildup to them, is just perfection. The music and atmosphere is also very dire and epic. It just adds to the world
kh3: caribbean. When I saw at world's end in theaters, I knew the davy jones' boss fight in kingdom hearts was inevitable. The exploration and combat went smoothly as the waves
Kingdom Hearts: Tarzan/Deep Jungle
Re: Chain of memories: Castle Oblivion
Kingdom hearts 2: Hollow Bastian
Kingdom hearts 3D: Traverse town
Kingdom Hearts 3: Pirates of the carribean
KH1- Traverse town, Neverland, The jungle book
KH2- Olympus coliseum, Hollow bastion, The world that never was
KH 358/2 DAYS- Twilight town, Neverland, The world that never was
KH BBS- Radiant Garden, Deep Space
KH Re:Coded- Olympus coliseum, Destiny Islands, Castle oblivion
KH Union X- Daybreak town, Wreck it ralph
KH3- Pirates of the caribbean, Keyblade graveyard, Quadratum
I think you meant Deep Jungle for KH1 XD
Personally, my favorite world in Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth By Sleep A Fragmentary Passage was the realm of darkness. This world is so giant and it took up a majority of the time. It even gave Aqua a whole lot of character depth and really did its best to break her down and have her learn many valuable lessons.
god I can't describe with words how much I love everything about Hollow Bastion in KH1. the story, the puzzles, the fights, THE MUSIC.
yessirrr
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I DID NOT KNOW THAT...
Thank you.
Kh1: hallow bastion
Kh2: world that never was
358: halloween town
3d: hunchback world
Kh3: pirates world
Port Royal is not just my favorite KH2 world, but my favorite world period.
I have played the first Kingdom Hearts countless times since I was a little kid, and I never knew you could freeze the water bubbles in Hollow Bastion. Wow!
Favorite world in KH1 is "End of the World."
It gives you that liminal spaces vibe; the worlds you enter in that world aren't the real worlds, the inhabitants and other life in those worlds are gone, and the music makes the whole thing give a weird feeling that I can't explain.
So I'll do my personal faves:
KH1: Hollow Bastion. I agree with you pretty hard. It's a fantastic world for several different reasons. One thing I never understood about this world in KH1 though is where are we in comparison to the town? Is this Ansem's Castle? Is it that big tower in the background of KH2. Btw, my other faves are Halloween Town and Traverse Town (a lotta towns.)
KH2: Disney Castle/Timeless River. Ever since I played KH1 for the first time, I wanted to go to Disney Castle with it being on the map. Finally being able to go there was so damn cool! But then we get to the best part: Timeless River. This is one one of the coolest Disney worlds for it represents an important part of Disney's history in such a fun way! And the fact that Sora's design is based off of old Manga like Astro Boy is a fantastic touch. The only issue is that it's just too damn short!
BBS: Hard agree with Neverland. Nice to finall explore it properly. It also gave us "Put Peter Pan in his place!" So that's a plus!
KH3: God, 3 has fantastic worlds. I 100% agree on The Caribbean! But my runner up is probably Toy Box. The scales and exploration to this world just feels wonderful. But what really makes it for me is how Galaxy Toys is a scrapped concept from Pixar themselves! In an interview it was said that Pixar wanted to have a toy store to this caliber in one of their movies, but were never able to. I always love seeing scrapped ideas come back to life in some fashion. But knowing that something THIS big is a revived idea from Pixar is just so fucking cool.
I really loved Olympus Colosseum in Re:Coded, I used to play through that world several times trying to see how far I could get into it
That’s my favorite part too. Currently saved my game in that area. Re:Coded is probably my favorite one gameplay wise. It’s my favorite portable title and I have all of them except the phone game.
KH1 :Halloween Town
KH2: Pride Lands
Coded: Olympus Coliseum
Days: Twilight Town
Birth by Sleep: Deep Space
DDD: The Grid
KH3: The Caribbean
I completely agree with kh1: hollow bastion, khbbs: neverland, and khddd: traverse town. but for kh2, I'd have to go with twilight town. I just love how interconnected the world is. it's like a maze. it doesn't quite have the same coziness as traverse town but it is still cozy, and really fun to explore. not to mention that wistful feeling you get playing as sora while also knowing that you spent a lot of time here as roxas.
I've also never played days or recoded, but the idea of a turn based world actually does sound pretty cool. I wouldnt mind a full turn based kingdom hearts game, where you can choose a party of 4-5 of your favourite heroes and fight using all of them.
I think that leaving Union X out of the ranking is un fair, frol the bastly improved scripts and extra characters in the disney worlds to the fidelity to the source material in the scenarios, the worlds were huge and full of details, Union X's worlds were pretty good in my opinion.
Am I the only one that didn’t know you could freeze the bubbles?!
Mine are:
KH: Traverse Town
KHII: Beast’s Castle
KHIII: Kingdom of Corona
BBS: Enchanted Dominion (wish it had more to explore tho.)
DDD: kingdom of Musketeers
About half the titles I haven’t played as of yet, but I’ve watched play throughs of all the games I haven’t played on TH-cam, so for those I’ll go off of my viewing experience:
KH1 (played): End of the World. This world has such a feeling of finality to it, especially with how it harkens back to the opening moments of the game with its music. It’s telling you everything you’ve done in the game has come down to this
Re:Com (played): Castle Oblivion. It’s one of the only unique areas in the game other than Twilight Town, and I loved all the Marluxia fights
358/2 (somewhat played): Probably Twilight Town for all the emotional moments that happen in that world. Also the music is just such a vibe
KH2 (watched): The World that Never Was. For me, it’s just one of the greatest endgames I’ve seen in any video game, every second of this world felt climactic. And Xemnas is one of the greatest final bosses I’ve ever seen in a video game
BBS (watched): Keyblade Graveyard. Despite it being pretty much a barren wasteland full of keyblades, just the overall feel and vibe I get with this world gives me chills. If an area in a game is able to make me stop and take in all that I’m looking at, even if it’s not much of anything, but because the overall atmosphere of the area’s making me do that, it instantly becomes a favorite for me
Re:Coded (played): Hollow Bastion. It was cool to actually have to rely on Donald and Goofy to attack for the first part of the world, then having to delve into Riku’s data to restore him while also restoring your own powers was interesting way to do things in my opinion
DDD (played): Traverse Town or Symphony of Sorcery. Traverse Town cause of the added things to the world, Symphony of Sorcery because of just how unique the world was from all the other worlds in the game. It was kinda surreal to be moving around and fighting in these fantastical areas with nothing other than classical music playing in the background
KH3 (watched): The Final World. The world has such a peaceful ambience to it, which ambience like that is one of my favorite things to look at. An endless sea of sky and clouds that seems to stretch infinitely. It’s a world that could make you stop and think about things, contemplate things on a deep level. It can make you self-reflect. At least that’s what the world did for me
KH4 whenever it comes out: it’s already going to be Quadratum, no questions asked. It’s Sora in the real world
Drinking game: every time Jared says "to that of", take a shot. You'll get plastered every video lmao
Good list my man! Here's mine:
01. Kingdom Hearts - Hollow Bastion: I agree with you that while Traverse Town is an excellent hub, Hollow Bastion with it's whole slowly ascending the castle thing and it's multiple secret areas, is the best world in the first game.
02. Rechain Of Memories - Castle Oblivion: The final "world" of the game is actually extremely hard and kind of a painful chore to slog through, but gets the pick because of it's aesthetic and the fact that it's the only unique world that's not being rehashed in the game.
03. Kingdom Hearts 2 - Hollow Bastion: The battle with the 1000 heartless is very cool and all, but even with it's inclusion I don't think I would put the world at number 1 if not for the Cavern Of Remembrance, which as you already stated is THE best post game secret area in the series.
04. 358/2 Days - Neverland : It is pretty hard to pick any specific world from this entry simply due to their structure, but I'm going with Neverland simply for the unique take on the world and also because I found gliding around the locale to be fun.
05. Recoded - Agrabah - Like with Rechain and 358, Recoded suffers from rehashed environments once again and while I appreciate Square trying something new with Olympus Coliseum, it's still turn based combat which isn't my cup of tea, leading me to go with Agrabah because of the Cave Of Wonders area being different from the original instead of just variations of the same reused rooms found in the other worlds.
06. Birth By Sleep - Radiant Garden: I will concede that Birth By Sleep has by far the best version of Neverland, but my pick goes to Radiant Garden once again for it's importance to the story events and it's beautiful architecture including that one fountain room.
07. Dream Drop Distance - Symphony Of Sorcery: My favorite world in DDD bar none, Symphony Of Sorcery is a magical experience and I love the incorporation of Fantasia with the music gimmicks and the many colorful environments, making it truly something special in the series catalogue.
08. 0.2 A Fragmentary Passage - Castle Town: While the game technically takes place in one world, the Dark World, Castle Town is my favorite area and it's an excellent introduction with it's eye catching visuals and great sense of verticality among it's rooftops and floating platforms.
09. Kingdom Hearts 3 - Olympus: It's a VERY tough call between the Caribbean for all the reasons you mentioned and Olympus, but ultimately I gotta go with another absolute banger of an introduction with this being the best version of the world and an excellent example of how expansive Kingdom Hearts 3's worlds really are...plus the golden visuals of the realm of the gods combined with the ability to rail grind amongst the clouds is just awe inspiring!
10. Melody Of Memory - ???: All of them...I guess...
Loved the vid. I agree with alot of ur choices here especially ddd cuz traverse town is so good in ddd. I would like to see a vid of ur least favorite worlds
Recoded was my first kh game to play and it was really good in that it barely spoiled anything from previous games and had a more gameplay focused approach,making it a way to get more kingdom hearts on the go in a good way
Ironically enough for Riku, he himself has been left with not just one, but two replacement keyblades, with his first being a constant reminder of his fall from grace and how he may never be the true Kingdom Key wielder ever again due to his immaturity and the Keyblade itself remembering that
great video, kingdom hearts games are my favorite video games ever
Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden might just be my favorite world in all of video games. Yes because of the gameplay in each iteration, yes because of the set pieces and massive cutscenes we get, but so much of it for me is the looming atmosphere, from the visuals to the music. In KH1, it was the atmosphere of a gauntlet leading into your enemy's stronghold as you explore a world ravaged by them with a mysterious past. In KH2, it was the atmosphere of that world beginning to heal and reconstruct into what it once was, but with the scars of what had happened still marring it and with the enemy who once invaded it still at large. In BBS, it was the atmosphere of seeing this world in its full former glory, but with the context of what would ultimately happen. I get that there's not much more you can do with Radiant Garden story-wise, but if we do see it again, I'd love to see it explore what lengths they're willing to go to defend it after what had happened. Maybe even get a flashback to the actual siege and show how brutal it all actually was.
The Kingdom of Corona is probably my favourite KH3 world. Could you do a video on your most hated worlds from the series?
When it comes to the Olympus Coloseun turn based gameplay, I tottally agree.
I, myself, have a really hard time liking turn based games in general, but I LOVED that mechanic in coded. Probably because it isn't just turn based, but also interactive, when it comes to timing your attacks and blocks.
That is probably why my all time favourite turn based game is The Child of Light, that has a simular gameplay gimmick when it comes to timing your attacks.
For Kingdom Hearts 1, my favorite world has to be Forbidden Jungle the hardest part about FJ is knowing where to go once that's done your golden. Hollow Bastian and me have a complicated relationship it's better in KH2 but for KH1 I hate it with a passion. Best thing about it is the story but it's such a confusing maze. Now don't get me wrong I enjoy a maze as much as the next guy but KH1 HB was next level ridiculous.
For KH2 I have to agree with you, even today there are things I have yet to complete in Holoow Bastian/Radiant Garden.
Xephiroth fight is way too hard, and getting through the caverb haven't done that yet either, so haven't even attempted the data battles.
I also haven't beaten the Lingering Will either.
For Days I also agree with ya Twilight Town is the best, not only do we spend the most time there, the best story happens there, also when doing the 1.5 remake/remaster or whatever it was almost the only world they focused on, Twilight Town, The World that Never Was, and maybe one or 2 cutscenes in other worlds but yeah.
For Kingdom Hearts Recoded, I wouldn't say Olympus Coliseum is the worst but it's not the best in my opinion, for me the best was Castle Oblivion the whole concept of the hurt and Roxas lashing out at Sora etc... it was heartwrenching etc...
The worst world in Coded though has to be Wonderland because of the inklings hate it with an absolute passion.
In BBS my favorote world has to be Stitch's world I forget the name but yeah just love seeing each characters story develop Stotch as a character which has it make more sense as to why he joins Sorabin KH2 Hollow Bastian War/Battle
In DDD, my favorite world has to be Notre Dame mainly due ti nostalgia as I loved Hunchback of Notre Dame film and getting to live the story with Sora was amazing.
For KH3 it has to be The Kryblade Graveyard, the first part was a bit confusing almost like Sora using a real life check point so none ofnthe characters remember dying and make the same choices even Sora but things just work out this time that was weird but besides that we got an even bigger fight against not just Heartless, but Nobodies, and Unversed similar to KH2 1000 Heartless sequence.
Also it had led all the way up to this point since post KH2 and it was amazing to see.
KH1 is Hollow Bastion, KH2 is Pride Lands, KH358/2 days is Twilight Town, Kingdom Hearts BBS is Deep Space,Kingdom Hearts Re Coded is Castle Oblivion, Kingdom Hearts DDD is The World That Never Was And Kingdom Hearts 3 is San Fransokyo.
For the games I have played
KH BBS - I also love Neverland especially the platforming, and it was so big that traveling in it feels fun in my opinion
KH 358/2 Days - I also agree with Twilight Town because of the size of the world, traveling in it is fun, the moments that happened in Twilight town I enjoyed, my real issue is the fact that you come back and forth, and it got annoying.
KH Re:Coded - Honestly I pick Wonderland, I enjoyed it a lot, and also I liked the shoot em up gimmick.
havent u played the main games? xD
Hmmm, for me KH1 it's "The End of The World" Just for it's theme and what it is.
KH2 "The World That Never Was" Similar reasons.
Days, Coded and DDD I honestly don't know, I only played them once so my opinions are limited.
BBS, same as you Neverland.
KH3 I think Olympus does it, it's the start and really embodies what they wanted to do with the worlds in that game perfectly.
I think KH1 Wonderland is one of the most underrated worlds in the series. Exploring that world feels like a really fascinating puzzle with how they mess with different orientations of the bizarre room. I loved finding all the secret intractables and pathways. Plus, Lady Luck is a pretty sick Keyblade if you’re going for a high magic build.
pirates of the Caribbean for 3 is DEFINITELY the best choice IMO! the ship gimmick is obviously based off of the Pirates of the Caribbean Online game, since it’s basically just a modern version of that. i was so happy when i saw the gimmick because of how much i played that game.
if kingdom hearts decides to make a gimmick out of another disney MMO, like toontown, that would make me IMMENSELY happy.
Kingdom hearts 2 was the only kingdom hearts game that was dubbed into Spanish (Spain), hopefully one day they'll dub it again. I loved hearing Sora with the same voice as Ash Ketchum 😂
Just, please no.
wtf
Kh1:deep jungle, destiny islands or halloweentown
Kh2: pride lands, land of dragons or Olympus(I loved the underworld part so much lol)
Bbs: probably gonna have to say Neverland
Days: I agree with twilight Town
Ddd: prankster paradise
Kh3: toy box, monstropolis or San fransokyo
I grew up with Kingdom Hearts and am only just now hearing that the Hollow Bastion bubbles can be frozen into platforms o.o
Agreed with all except KH2. I still would put The World That Never Was at number one for KH2, but its mainly for the artistic style & climax of the story. Radiant Garden was a close 2nd for me though. ❤
Finally someone giving the Caribbean the love it deserves.
Olympus Collesium in Recoded also has the advantage of the most optional content. I spent most of my time playing coded just doing all the optional content in OC. It's my favorite world too, mainly because of that.
I am going to say the final Castle Oblivion stages of Chain of Memories were hype in the pre KH2 days.
Loved the video Jared!
KH1: Traverse Town
KH2: Twilight Town
BBS: Radiant Garden/Hollow Bastion
KH3: Toy Box (I love Toy Story)
My favorite world in DDD was Le Cite Des Cloches mainly because I really like the soundtrack and flowmotion gimmick used there. The boss Nightmare was also rather cool in that world. It is nearly impossible to choose a second favorite world from that game though, as all had something going strongly for them.
I pretty much agree, but I personally preferred Monstropolis in KH3. Vanitas and the Unversed were a match made in heaven for that world, and getting a post-movie plot for it was awesome.
Kh1: Traverse Town, Hollow Bastion, Deep Jungle
Kh2: Halloween Town, Radiant Garden, Pride Lands
BBS: Neverland
358: Twilight Town
DDD: Traverse Town, Thr Three Musketeers world
Kh3: Pirates, Monsters Inc, and Kingdom of Corona i was so damn hype for those
Completely forgot about that turn based part of recoded that game is a big blank for me outside of the final fight .
Rechain: None but I guess Twilight Town had me feeling the happiest about the game.
Glad you’re back at full power my dude I’ve missed ya
My top 2 picks for each game
Kh1 - traverse town/hollow bastion
Kh2- timeless river / radiant garden
Kh3- the Caribbean /Olympus
Birth by sleep - never land / Disney town
Dream drop distance - pranksters paradise/traverse town
Kh1: destiny islands, and I ain’t kidding, the music is beautiful and going to a bunch of islands is my ideal setup for a game
KH- Hallow Bastion
KH2 - World that never was
BBS- Radiant Garden
DDD- Traverse Town
KH3- Caribbean but I also love Scala
If you did do Chain of Memories the answer would be Twilight Town. At the time of its release before KH2 was out that was your first taste of that world and it was such a cool thing to take in for the first time. Made me so excited for KH2 back then. Well worth the price of admission
KH1: Monstro
KH2: Timeless River & Radiant Garden
BBS: Deep Space & Neverland
DDD: Tied between Prankster’s Paradise, Symphony Of Sorcery & Country Of The Musketeers
KH3: Toy Box & Caribbean (along with Olympus, but non-Olympus worlds, it’s these two)
The Caribbean was my favorite world in KH3 and yes I loved the pirate ship fights. Close 2nd was Toy Box.
Love these type of videos!!!
Kh3 Caribbean could be its own game with how in depth the mechanics are.
Demyx is the reason I like grinding levels in the beginning of the game. I’m usually lv.50 by that time.
I will have to admit that lost choices reflect mine as well.
Most of my memories of KH1 are from Hollow Bastion, but Traverse Town os closer to my heart, and Radiant Garden in KH2 is indeed the best hub world.
I had a ton of fun in Neverland in BBS and Traverse Town in DDD is my favorite world
KH1 and KH2 were just built different. I've finally accepted the fact that we'll probably never reach those heights again and I've made peace with that.
I can appreciate all the picks made, with one exception. And I'm afraid to say that the world chosen for DDD was the incorrect choice. Symphony of sorcery is not only the best world in DDD, but is arguably the best world in Kingdom Hearts as a whole.
My list.
KH1
- Disney Worlds: Deep Jungle (fantastic story, interesting and varied world design and my favourite minigame (Tarzan's slide) in the whole series).
- Original Worlds: End of the World (to me, the best final world in the series, surely the darkest and most unsettling one; it also reminds me to the last part of Final Fantasy X (the one inside Sin) and that, for a big FF fan like me, is an enormous plus).
KH ReCoM
-DW: 100 Acre Woods (it's actually the most unique in the whole game and personally i like ReCoM's minigames better than the ones in KH2).
- OW: Destiny Island (the only time that they were a real world and they were fantastic in both story and rooms design, especially if you use the White Mushrooms room card).
KH2
- DW: tie between Space Paranoids and the combo Disney Castle + Timeless River (the only two worlds in KH2 that didn't need two visits to put up a story that wasn't simply "the movie's story with Sora, Donald and Goofy).
- OW: Radiant Garden (fantastic story with a lot of iconic moments; the mediocre and flat world design (typical of every KH2 world aside from, maybe, Twilight Town) is saved by the cavern of remembrance.
KH 358/2 Days
Can't judge, i've never played it or watched anyone play it.
KH BbS
- DW: Neverland (fantastic platforming, great verticality, beautiful settings and some of the best hidden chests in the game).
- OW: Radiant Garden (aesthetically one of the most beautiful representations of the city).
KH ReCoded
- DW: Olympus Coliseum (as you said Jared, it's one of the most unique and experimental world in the entire KH franchise and, contrary to you, i like turn based JRPG).
- OW: Hollow Bastion (another experimental world; the first part of the HW in which you don't have the keyblade and you have to rely on Donald and Goofy it's really interesting).
KH DDD
- DW: la Cité des Cloches (one of my favourite Disney movies, with a lot of interesting and fascinating characters and profound themes; sadly, they put the Hunchback of Notre Dame in a game that, aside from world designs, has done everything wrong).
- OW: Traverse Town (the only thing that the otherwise terrible DDD completely nailed: they have managed to improve an already great world by enlarging old areas and adding new marvelous districts; the addition of the TWEWY gang (although i didn't exactly like the game) is another plus to this world).
KH3
- DW: Toy Box (the best story for a Disney World since KH1 and one of the best in the entire series; design wise the world is still high level and it's one of the few worlds in KH3 that bringed back those world interactions typical of KH1).
- OW: Scala ad Caelum (visually, it's probably the best world in KH history and in two rooms it have more interactivity than the whole Monstropolis, Arendelle, Corona and San Fransokyo; unfortunately, it's still too small).
Love this style of video! Would like to see more opinion style videos from you, get to know what you really like/dislike from the series as a whole. One topic that I think you could do that is like this is what is your favorite iteration of a world that's appeared multiple times. I.e. Olympus has appeared in almost every KH game, but which one is your favorite and why? Agrabah, Wonderland, Neverland, Halloweentown etc
the pirates world and toybox are my picks for the best world in kh3
toy story is one of my favorite series of movies, and i also love indoor shopping malls, which is exactly what galaxy toys is.
and we get to be shrunken down, too!
I grew up with these games and never knew that you could freeze the bubbles in Hollow Bastion!
The World That Never Was and Hollow Bastion were the two worlds in KH2 where I went to grind
“They’re basically just rooms themed to that world” is he talking about chain of memories or kh2?
LMAO
My favorite worlds were halloween town in kh 1 ,2, days and melody of memory, symphony of sorcery in ddd, Olympic arena ( I know that's not the name but I don't know how to spell it ) in recoded, and toybox in 3
Here for assemble of the key blade warriors
Be me: A KH fan for over a decade without knowing you could freeze the bubbles underneath Hollow Bastion
Most of the KH original worlds are just a vibe. Especially Twilight Town and Travers Town
When I played Re:coded, I used Olympus collesseum to level up my keyblades.
Pride Lands was my favorite world. As a kid, I'd spend hrs role-playing as the "next king of pride rock," and basically, copied the movie's plot verbatim. I skyrocketed in levels because of the monsters on top of pride rock, and hardy wanted to leave - Sora's lion form so much fun to move around and jump.
My favorite too. And I did the same thing. I graduated the year that KH2 came out and that was how I spent break back in 2006. Running around as Lion Sora and gushing how adorable he is as a furry and just grinding levels in the Pride Lands long after those credits rolled. Heck I still do that because I still have the game, PS2, and memory card saved state. I had to replace the PS2 but I still have the game and Memory Card so I can still play it.
Nah, starting with Hollow Bastion for KH1 ??? As a kid, it scared me with its ambiance and music dude
For me, every world in Dream Drop Distance is my favorite. But the tough world for me when I first played was The Grid.
Tell me why I’ve been playing kingdom hearts for YEARS and I’ve never ONCE known you can FREEZE THE BUBBLES