Did you know that of you raised e to the power of pi times i (yes the imaginary one), and then subtracted 1, you would get 0? Wait sorry it's plus 1 I double checked
Aside from Olympus, all the KH worlds had this winding sort of level design where rooms had multiple entrances and exits and it was easy to get lost. It really felt like you were exploring an unknown world instead of just going from room to room. Wish the future games in this series kept this focus on exploration.
I really like the Dive to the Heart art of the bosses. It’s the perfect blend between cool, fun, and silly, especially for characters like the Queen of Hearts
I love how casually solving 20 year-old mysteries has become a theme recently, like the damage calculations for magic, or the alphabet in Mario Sunshine. You never fail to surprise me with your exhaustive research, and I absolutely love it
Your mention of the heart cards being the suit most loyal to the Queen made me realize that all the cards that are painting the roses red are clubs. Mind blown!
I agree that Wonderland is one of the best worlds in Kingdom Hearts. Its nonsensical nature plays perfectly with Sora's initial venture into the unknown. Also on the topic of design I'm fairly certain that the world was designed to be akin to a pop-up book as you push and pull objects to find new things. An excellent deep dive nonetheless!
@@PhoenixAlaris93 Bro literally had to get a team of, at this point researches with how much they had to dive into the game, to figure out the damage of blizzard like.. yeah, can't blame him lmao
@@PhoenixAlaris93 Not actually mad at him, nothing but mad respect. I'm just mad I'm not watching the entire KH series being deep-dived right now, lol.
Special restores armor, power and shields all to full, its like a gummi-ship elixir. but its also the only item that restores the haste bar. Edit: oh god the spell equations. i guess that your DEF reduces magical damage too which...i've always known that KH has no magic DEF but am only now thinking about it.
It’s crazy to to think that after 20 years I’m still learning new things about this game. I had no idea that knocking the Queen down freaks out the Hearts or that you can extinguish the stove!
Another excellent rundown of part of one of my all time favorite games! And it doesn’t surprise me one bit that you’re friends with Pat, haha - he’s another creator of truly surpassing quality. I cannot *wait* for the rest of this series! Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together and share it with us; I sincerely hope you’re proud of your work. You continue to be, as ever, an inspiration to small channels like mine. And I don’t know if I can come up with a more sincere compliment than that.
I think the Thunder emote for the White Mushroom is supposed to be intense sunlight, so he wants a rainstorm? Definitely not a correlation I ever made naturally.
I always thought the nature of Wonderland's environmental design was based on the Ride version of it at Disneyland with flats as backgrounds and sides.
the bizzare room is so genius to me, one room but flipped so many ways and so fleshed out. I've never seen a game rival it with such a unique level design.
Wonderland is absolutely among my favourite KH worlds, and so I am so glad to see it getting its flowers … so to speak. Loving this video series so far-I am grateful to have been sent here by your boy, Regular Pat!
I can not fully put into words just how much this channel rocks. It feels like you're taking every good part from every youtuber I've ever watched and putting them into a single video every time you put one out.
Instant like for EPIC and the use of thunderbringer. Love it! Your videos on KH are phenomenal. They bring up so much nostalgia for me and I am so looking forward to the rest of the worlds for KH1 (perhaps 2 and the other games as well!?). Amazing content and thank you for approaching KH with the love and care so many of us in the community have when it comes to this game. Cheers!
Never played this game, but your style and depth to breakdowns is so amazing! Great work, the bit about Euler's Number was so funny, thanks to all who helped with that!
first video i’ve seen on your channel; i’ve been a kingdom hearts fan since like 2007 but i actually learned something new! love it when creators pay attention to those small details that often go unnoticed. and it’s nice to see regular pat offering assistance ☺️
It depends whether you count the Bizarre Room as one room or five (and the Queen's Court and Tea Party Garden may each be two rooms - one for the regular room and one for the battle(s))
I love this series! You are doing such a great job! Also so glad you're friends with Regular Pat who also has amazing content! ALSO, I love the use of Dark Chronicle music! I am SO impressed! That game is so underrated, I would love it if you did a breakdown like this for it? :D
the amount of dedication you had with finding out the spells' damage values, is astonishing. perhaps someone could make an abridged version of your info and upload it as a section in the wiki entries for those spells.
I really liked how wonderland was the first world I visited as it was my go to movie as a kid. I’d go to my nanas house and watch it on video so it definitely was the perfect world for me in particular nostalgia wise.
I’ve never once thought about it, but I think I agree with Wonderland being the mechanical peak of Kingdom Hearts world design. It’s basically the only world in the series designed first and foremost around being an interesting video game level, rather than telling a story. It’s fueled mainly by the pure vibes of Alice in Wonderland rather than specific plot beats or setpieces from the movie. The only other world that seems designed for gameplay first is Olympus, which allowed the devs to include diegetic optional tournaments for fairly easy extra content, but the design is obviously much less elaborate there. Most other worlds are built as a way to get players from one cutscene, setpiece, or boss fight to another.
uhm excuse me "that first town" is a location in kid icarus uprising which is an action third person shooter not an rpg smh my head I can't believe the inaccuracies here.
Couldn't help but bring up the small oddity in the cutscene at 30:24, where the unusual camera placement causes the doorway's texture on the left and right to be seen in a bit of a noclip situation, if that makes sense. I think it's mostly due to the increased aspect ratio of modern ports, that definitely wasn't meant to be seen
Lot of neat details and fun things I didn't know about or actually bothered looking for in the 20+ years of playing, but that's what makes it fun to see. My favorite detail, because it's one I never actually bothered to keep track of, is that the cage gets lower every time you hit the tower. That's cool. What isn't are the Donald and Goofy nickname jokes or rather how many there were in almost rapid fire succession. They pretty much wore out their welcome around the fourth time you did it. It's not that I didn't find them amusing, for the first few I did, it's more that the amount of them within such a short space of time made them more tiring than funny. Edit: I also will add that I might have heard it more than you did actually did it. But it certainly seemed like a lot so that's why I had to mention.
I'm glad we get a bit of Wonderland appreciation. I've seen mostly complaints about it but honestly I think it's genius. A bit confusing, maybe, but I think people are over-exaggerating. This mind-fuckery of a level is exactly what video games are made for imo. Excellent video! 5 stars!
I tried finding the source where I heard it first but had no luck, perhaps you'll be more successful than I was, but I remember learning not too long ago about some aspects of the development of the original Kingdom Hearts and one element that jumped out for me was that they mentioned that the initial idea for the worlds was that they were all like set pieces inside studios (or something like that), but that idea was later scrapped. The only reason I remember it is because it served as a possible explanation as to Wonderland's weird world design. Wish I had more information about that than just a vague memory of learning it from some unspecified place.
Love the video but with one disagreement. Mechanically Wonderland is the most confusing world. I can’t tell you how many times I got stuck playing this as a kid. For example, the prompt to push in the bed in the bizarre room is very easy to miss. This has been reinforced recently watching my wife’s frustration playing through this world for the first time. It’s been bad enough that she rage quit the boss and I don’t know if she is going to go back to the game, which is a shame.
When it comes to trying to respect the World Order, the obvious gaping hole in the argument is that the Heartless are not part of each world's natural course of events - at least not as we encounter them in the game, where they're being manipulated and controlled by outside forces, so doing nothing isn't allowing things to unfold as they "should" anyway. On a separate note, while it's certainly possible that magic damage is calculated using Euler's number, I suspect Euler doesn't get a look in internally. Looking at the formulae produced, e^-0.173 is (to within rounding errors) 2^-0.25, which means the formula can be rewritten as A+B*2^((m-d)/4) except Thunder replaces the m with 2m. Of course, it's also possible that rather than performing the calculation every time, the game simply uses a lookup table based on that calculation - you'd only need as many entries as possible values for m-d (2m-d for Thunder).
My guess with the mushrooms wanting to be hit by thunder is that they are under a bright light and want thunder clouds to block it? Idk... that still doesn't make a ton of sense but it's something. lol
Ok, I must somewhat critique you regarding 31:53 While I know, or at least hope, that the example shown is very exaggerated, it paints a faulty picture of the capabilities of party members in this game, be it D&G or any of the guests. KH1 is, in my experience, the absolute pinnacle of their potential if you want to really work with them, which comes from having fully finished playthroughs of 1 and 3 where Sora's only allowed task is to finish boss fights. Tried it in 2 as well, but that game has different mechanics that didn't support the "My Friends Are My Power" run, so alas. As the clip here shows, Trickmaster, and by extension all bosses, will swing for Sora with almost all of their targeted strikes, so you going in and out, baiting strikes to dodge while Donald was stuck in a revive loop in the middle is why he had no chance and the loop happened. If you want to have your party members last longer on the field, Sora has to be the diversion in boss fights, directing the attacks away from them somewhat so they can get to work. And work they do! I noticed a severe lack in the boss bio of mentioning that Goofy's Rocket ability also has that same stunning effect on Trickmaster that Thunder spells do, and given it's upward trajectory and early access, it's likely designed for fights like these in the early game. Also, I can't overstate enough the importance of customizing your allies, both their AI and their equipment. You may have said that "all stat boosts go to Sora, no question", but I say that, due to Strength caps for each boss and Sora's potent arsenal, there's more choice that can go behind stat boosts beyond going "dibs" every time. Programming your allies in a deliberate manner is also important. Goofy especially, his arguably best normal move, where he holds his shield forward and charges, is under "Defensive Maneuvers", surprisingly, so adjusting for that and giving him one of the bigger shield models, which improve his Recoil value, as well as Strength boosting accessories make him a force to be reckoned with, ESPECIALLY in the late game. Same with Donald, or other casters later. Knowing which spells are managed by which behavior in the Customize menu is huge in planning ahead, and, formulae of madness aside, it's still obvious that more MP = better results, no question, so not just Sora should have access to MP-boosting gear. Not just Donald, either, guests can really benefit, too. And on the subject of Donald, the duck has a Strength build in him, too, and it is truly hilarious to see him two-shot certain end-game Heartless with minimal effort. TL;DR, all this is to say that KH1 allies have the best potential in them, if you just work with it. Of course they'll get KO'ed often in the line of fire in boss fights, but it's up to the player to make sure that doesn't happen. Great videos, I'm just very passionate about this topic in particular. Keep them coming!
Quick addendum: one of the main reasons why KH1 is the best when it comes to your allies is due to the sheer control the player has over their targeting behavior on a moment-to-moment basis, as simple as it may be. Being able to press Triangle and just point at your locked-on target to have your team focus that one, or call them to you with no active lock-on present, is huge for battlefield tactics, especially when combined with the aforementioned fact that bosses focus exclusively on Sora. Non-bosses can change their attention to your allies, of course, and maybe, sometimes, that's exactly what you need.
I know you mostly don't cover glitches, but there's one in Wonderland that's really entertaining. First, when you enter the court, you save and make a backup save just in case. Then you enter the Lotus Room and see the initial cutscene with Cheshire Cat. After that, you open the journal, exit out, and go back into the court. When you talk to the cards and other NPCs, they spit out a bunch of garbled text. Talking to one of the cards gives you "A very merry unbirthday to you." and Sora's response is "I'm tingling all over". This will cause a softlock, so that's why it's recommended to keep a backup save in case something goes wrong. Once you leave and come back I think it all goes back to normal. I did it and it was funny to see Alice talking with Sora and having nonsensical dialogue.
A weird video game thing to think about is I think this world is the most we see Sora eat and drink until KH3, I could be wrong but I'm not counting Roxas eating the ice cream
I feel like the "world order" thing was always just more of a meta-textual statement, that none of these properties would merge together at the end of the game for a giant war between disney characters or whatever, and we can see that's been true for the whole series; even the invented worlds like twilight town and hollow bastion tend to stay in their lane. I could be wrong but I'm guessing disney is very apprehensive about doing literal two-main-characters-at-once crossovers in a game where that's already happening each time with sora. The identity of both characters and their worlds get pretty diluted, but it also carries this unrestrained charm that's hard to come by in any other game but perhaps super smash brothers. Fitting that toy story was added to kh3 when one of the central draws of crossover media is getting to open up the toy box and play with all your disney and final fantasy dolls at the same time.
havnt tested it in recent years to remember if it's in FM but i know for a fact at least in vanilla kh the chest in the initial drop will change depending on progression in the story. It's one of the softest ff6 references in the series when you are in the town of Narshe you can get like 5 chests that all become better items if you leave them in the early game.
in my mind, this will always be the "euler's number" episode of Game Break Down
So much for video games making us dumber.
Did you know that of you raised e to the power of pi times i (yes the imaginary one), and then subtracted 1, you would get 0?
Wait sorry it's plus 1 I double checked
When are we getting the @RegularPat video going into excruciating detail about the specifics of magic damage in KH1 👀
Thanks for shouting this channel/ series out Pat. I’m already binging these videos and really enjoying them. 🙏
It's impossible to not cringe hearing "Yoo-ler"
Cheshire: This, is KH1 Blizzard.
Sora: Dear god...
Cheshire: There's more.
Sora: No...
It contains a bucket
It contains Euler's Number
Aside from Olympus, all the KH worlds had this winding sort of level design where rooms had multiple entrances and exits and it was easy to get lost. It really felt like you were exploring an unknown world instead of just going from room to room. Wish the future games in this series kept this focus on exploration.
Honestly, blizzard being powered by compound interest is probably the biggest plot twist in the series.
the extreme math for the damage calculation is the final fantasy leaking into this game
And just like in final fantasy you ignore all of it and smack the ennemy repeatedly =p
I really like the Dive to the Heart art of the bosses. It’s the perfect blend between cool, fun, and silly, especially for characters like the Queen of Hearts
I love how casually solving 20 year-old mysteries has become a theme recently, like the damage calculations for magic, or the alphabet in Mario Sunshine. You never fail to surprise me with your exhaustive research, and I absolutely love it
Peak has dropped yet again
Your mention of the heart cards being the suit most loyal to the Queen made me realize that all the cards that are painting the roses red are clubs. Mind blown!
I agree that Wonderland is one of the best worlds in Kingdom Hearts. Its nonsensical nature plays perfectly with Sora's initial venture into the unknown. Also on the topic of design I'm fairly certain that the world was designed to be akin to a pop-up book as you push and pull objects to find new things. An excellent deep dive nonetheless!
For some reason, this level brings a question into my mind: "Is he a clone or a perfect copy?" How mysterious.
And why is he 6 inches tall?
But would you f**k with him?
@@guardedbasketI’d be if I could.
I had NO IDEA you could hit the Queen in the tower fight, what on EARTH. How are you still surprising me with this series?!
Criminally underrated channel. The wait between videos is torture!
Given the research he has to do and all the custom stuff that needs to be made, can you blame him? That shit takes time to do.
@@PhoenixAlaris93 Bro literally had to get a team of, at this point researches with how much they had to dive into the game, to figure out the damage of blizzard like.. yeah, can't blame him lmao
@@PhoenixAlaris93 Not actually mad at him, nothing but mad respect. I'm just mad I'm not watching the entire KH series being deep-dived right now, lol.
The time effort and quality of these videos are amazing. Thank you for these.
Special restores armor, power and shields all to full, its like a gummi-ship elixir. but its also the only item that restores the haste bar.
Edit: oh god the spell equations. i guess that your DEF reduces magical damage too which...i've always known that KH has no magic DEF but am only now thinking about it.
The thunderbringer reference was perfect
It’s crazy to to think that after 20 years I’m still learning new things about this game. I had no idea that knocking the Queen down freaks out the Hearts or that you can extinguish the stove!
Another excellent rundown of part of one of my all time favorite games! And it doesn’t surprise me one bit that you’re friends with Pat, haha - he’s another creator of truly surpassing quality. I cannot *wait* for the rest of this series! Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together and share it with us; I sincerely hope you’re proud of your work. You continue to be, as ever, an inspiration to small channels like mine.
And I don’t know if I can come up with a more sincere compliment than that.
I think the Thunder emote for the White Mushroom is supposed to be intense sunlight, so he wants a rainstorm? Definitely not a correlation I ever made naturally.
I always thought the nature of Wonderland's environmental design was based on the Ride version of it at Disneyland with flats as backgrounds and sides.
the bizzare room is so genius to me, one room but flipped so many ways and so fleshed out. I've never seen a game rival it with such a unique level design.
Wonderland is absolutely among my favourite KH worlds, and so I am so glad to see it getting its flowers … so to speak. Loving this video series so far-I am grateful to have been sent here by your boy, Regular Pat!
My favorite Disney world in all of Kingdom Hearts. All the charm that makes KH1 so special. Love this series of videos.
I can not fully put into words just how much this channel rocks. It feels like you're taking every good part from every youtuber I've ever watched and putting them into a single video every time you put one out.
Amazing videos homie. Also shout out the Dark Cloud 2 music at the end, wildly underrated games
Instant like for EPIC and the use of thunderbringer. Love it!
Your videos on KH are phenomenal. They bring up so much nostalgia for me and I am so looking forward to the rest of the worlds for KH1 (perhaps 2 and the other games as well!?). Amazing content and thank you for approaching KH with the love and care so many of us in the community have when it comes to this game. Cheers!
Never played this game, but your style and depth to breakdowns is so amazing! Great work, the bit about Euler's Number was so funny, thanks to all who helped with that!
Love seeing the murals for each boss
15:02 - The Magic rabbit hole (heh) truly is an endless now
It's a good Saturday!
Glad someone is talking about the good things on the gummi ship!
Fun fact, in the manga it is revealed that the Cheshire Cat is directly in league with the Disney Villain brigade.
Fantastic analysis! I really like the layout you made for enemy info. And VERY fascinating research regarding the true calculations for magic damage.
37:00 you can't sneak dark cloud 2 music past me sir.
I started a new playthrough of KH1 on Proud for the first time and just hit Wonderland. What perfect timing, and what an excellent breakdown!
Was that dark cloud 2 music holy crap that Nostalgic
Can you do a side episode telling more of the behind the scenes story of the insanity of figuring out the magic system rules?
first video i’ve seen on your channel; i’ve been a kingdom hearts fan since like 2007 but i actually learned something new! love it when creators pay attention to those small details that often go unnoticed. and it’s nice to see regular pat offering assistance ☺️
Shoutouts to the time a few weeks ago where when playing for the first time goofy hit the griddy on the giant fireplace
“Are you the dreamer, or merely part of someone’s dream?”
All the Xenoblade references in just this episode makes me want a Breaking down series on Xenoblade chronicles
36:50 I recognize dark cloud palm brinks when I hear it! Specifically vs metal flotsam
Wait, wait... Wonderland is ONLY five rooms? No, that can't be...
The rabbit hole, the bizarre room, the Queen's court, the lotus forest, and the tea party garden. Yep, only five rooms.
The bizarre room could be a world all by itself to be fair
It depends whether you count the Bizarre Room as one room or five (and the Queen's Court and Tea Party Garden may each be two rooms - one for the regular room and one for the battle(s))
I am absolutely hooked by your stuff. It's so impressively put together. Great work!
happy jumpscare from Dark Cloud 2 music
I love this series! You are doing such a great job! Also so glad you're friends with Regular Pat who also has amazing content!
ALSO, I love the use of Dark Chronicle music! I am SO impressed! That game is so underrated, I would love it if you did a breakdown like this for it? :D
This is fantastically detailed! Great work!
I love all of the disney background details i never noticed!!!
PLEASE keep uploading these
Always love the amount of detail and hard work you put into your videos!
the amount of dedication you had with finding out the spells' damage values, is astonishing. perhaps someone could make an abridged version of your info and upload it as a section in the wiki entries for those spells.
This KH Breakdown series is a TREAT to watch
"Is that eulers number" made me laugh in disbelief, insane how bizzare the calculation is compared to fire
They provide an updated/corrected formula for Fire damage too.
i literally checked your channel last night for this series and here you are the next day with a vid bless 😩😩
God, I love KH1 SO much. The vibes are still so amazing all these years later.
Ah dude, that Moebius theme was *P E R F E C T !* XD
I really liked how wonderland was the first world I visited as it was my go to movie as a kid. I’d go to my nanas house and watch it on video so it definitely was the perfect world for me in particular nostalgia wise.
Loved that EPIC: the musical reference
I love these videos! Been waiting for the next one
You're the reason why we now know how KH1 magic works? Thats pretty cool.
Dark chronicle song at the end tho ❤
I’ve never once thought about it, but I think I agree with Wonderland being the mechanical peak of Kingdom Hearts world design. It’s basically the only world in the series designed first and foremost around being an interesting video game level, rather than telling a story. It’s fueled mainly by the pure vibes of Alice in Wonderland rather than specific plot beats or setpieces from the movie. The only other world that seems designed for gameplay first is Olympus, which allowed the devs to include diegetic optional tournaments for fairly easy extra content, but the design is obviously much less elaborate there. Most other worlds are built as a way to get players from one cutscene, setpiece, or boss fight to another.
So far, in my playthrough of KH1 (that this channel inspired!) this has been my favorite world.
uhm excuse me "that first town" is a location in kid icarus uprising which is an action third person shooter not an rpg smh my head I can't believe the inaccuracies here.
I love this series, can’t wait for the next part
Couldn't help but bring up the small oddity in the cutscene at 30:24, where the unusual camera placement causes the doorway's texture on the left and right to be seen in a bit of a noclip situation, if that makes sense. I think it's mostly due to the increased aspect ratio of modern ports, that definitely wasn't meant to be seen
Oh heckyeah, I absolutely have come to adore your breakdowns so much
I'm so happy to hear you do a deep dive on Wonderland, 2CPhoenix!!! 😍😍😍
Lot of neat details and fun things I didn't know about or actually bothered looking for in the 20+ years of playing, but that's what makes it fun to see. My favorite detail, because it's one I never actually bothered to keep track of, is that the cage gets lower every time you hit the tower. That's cool.
What isn't are the Donald and Goofy nickname jokes or rather how many there were in almost rapid fire succession. They pretty much wore out their welcome around the fourth time you did it. It's not that I didn't find them amusing, for the first few I did, it's more that the amount of them within such a short space of time made them more tiring than funny.
Edit: I also will add that I might have heard it more than you did actually did it. But it certainly seemed like a lot so that's why I had to mention.
I'm glad we get a bit of Wonderland appreciation. I've seen mostly complaints about it but honestly I think it's genius. A bit confusing, maybe, but I think people are over-exaggerating. This mind-fuckery of a level is exactly what video games are made for imo. Excellent video! 5 stars!
Fantastic video, as always. Can’t wait for the next part!
Im so excited for the rest of this series
There are so many DETAILS in this world, thank you so much, also thank you for all the magic math xd
amazing video, I love this series!
Once again the art is my favorite!!!!
freaking epic the musical jumpscare i swear
This series is awemazing.
I’m glad you had such a rewarding unbirthday.
I tried finding the source where I heard it first but had no luck, perhaps you'll be more successful than I was, but I remember learning not too long ago about some aspects of the development of the original Kingdom Hearts and one element that jumped out for me was that they mentioned that the initial idea for the worlds was that they were all like set pieces inside studios (or something like that), but that idea was later scrapped. The only reason I remember it is because it served as a possible explanation as to Wonderland's weird world design. Wish I had more information about that than just a vague memory of learning it from some unspecified place.
Wonderland is strong ammo in the KH1 vs KH2 argument
Magic, with interest.
This is such a banger series, if only these could come out faster
Love the video but with one disagreement. Mechanically Wonderland is the most confusing world. I can’t tell you how many times I got stuck playing this as a kid. For example, the prompt to push in the bed in the bizarre room is very easy to miss. This has been reinforced recently watching my wife’s frustration playing through this world for the first time. It’s been bad enough that she rage quit the boss and I don’t know if she is going to go back to the game, which is a shame.
i really like your deep dives on these worlds!!!!!
When it comes to trying to respect the World Order, the obvious gaping hole in the argument is that the Heartless are not part of each world's natural course of events - at least not as we encounter them in the game, where they're being manipulated and controlled by outside forces, so doing nothing isn't allowing things to unfold as they "should" anyway.
On a separate note, while it's certainly possible that magic damage is calculated using Euler's number, I suspect Euler doesn't get a look in internally. Looking at the formulae produced, e^-0.173 is (to within rounding errors) 2^-0.25, which means the formula can be rewritten as A+B*2^((m-d)/4) except Thunder replaces the m with 2m.
Of course, it's also possible that rather than performing the calculation every time, the game simply uses a lookup table based on that calculation - you'd only need as many entries as possible values for m-d (2m-d for Thunder).
I was expecting a comment on the terrible recoloring of the Large Body.
My guess with the mushrooms wanting to be hit by thunder is that they are under a bright light and want thunder clouds to block it? Idk... that still doesn't make a ton of sense but it's something. lol
2CPhoenix has uploaded and my day is a little bit better :)
I hope you do all the return trips throughout this series
And all the keyblades and weapons❤
Ok, I must somewhat critique you regarding 31:53
While I know, or at least hope, that the example shown is very exaggerated, it paints a faulty picture of the capabilities of party members in this game, be it D&G or any of the guests.
KH1 is, in my experience, the absolute pinnacle of their potential if you want to really work with them, which comes from having fully finished playthroughs of 1 and 3 where Sora's only allowed task is to finish boss fights. Tried it in 2 as well, but that game has different mechanics that didn't support the "My Friends Are My Power" run, so alas.
As the clip here shows, Trickmaster, and by extension all bosses, will swing for Sora with almost all of their targeted strikes, so you going in and out, baiting strikes to dodge while Donald was stuck in a revive loop in the middle is why he had no chance and the loop happened. If you want to have your party members last longer on the field, Sora has to be the diversion in boss fights, directing the attacks away from them somewhat so they can get to work.
And work they do! I noticed a severe lack in the boss bio of mentioning that Goofy's Rocket ability also has that same stunning effect on Trickmaster that Thunder spells do, and given it's upward trajectory and early access, it's likely designed for fights like these in the early game.
Also, I can't overstate enough the importance of customizing your allies, both their AI and their equipment. You may have said that "all stat boosts go to Sora, no question", but I say that, due to Strength caps for each boss and Sora's potent arsenal, there's more choice that can go behind stat boosts beyond going "dibs" every time. Programming your allies in a deliberate manner is also important. Goofy especially, his arguably best normal move, where he holds his shield forward and charges, is under "Defensive Maneuvers", surprisingly, so adjusting for that and giving him one of the bigger shield models, which improve his Recoil value, as well as Strength boosting accessories make him a force to be reckoned with, ESPECIALLY in the late game. Same with Donald, or other casters later. Knowing which spells are managed by which behavior in the Customize menu is huge in planning ahead, and, formulae of madness aside, it's still obvious that more MP = better results, no question, so not just Sora should have access to MP-boosting gear. Not just Donald, either, guests can really benefit, too. And on the subject of Donald, the duck has a Strength build in him, too, and it is truly hilarious to see him two-shot certain end-game Heartless with minimal effort.
TL;DR, all this is to say that KH1 allies have the best potential in them, if you just work with it. Of course they'll get KO'ed often in the line of fire in boss fights, but it's up to the player to make sure that doesn't happen.
Great videos, I'm just very passionate about this topic in particular. Keep them coming!
Quick addendum: one of the main reasons why KH1 is the best when it comes to your allies is due to the sheer control the player has over their targeting behavior on a moment-to-moment basis, as simple as it may be. Being able to press Triangle and just point at your locked-on target to have your team focus that one, or call them to you with no active lock-on present, is huge for battlefield tactics, especially when combined with the aforementioned fact that bosses focus exclusively on Sora. Non-bosses can change their attention to your allies, of course, and maybe, sometimes, that's exactly what you need.
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Im all in for kh 1. But i would love if you do a breakdown of Colony 9 and tephra cave in xenoblade. Are wonderful and teaching you about the game.
4*(MP-1)+20 can be simplified to 4*MP+16, you know.
For what it's worth, adding the clips from the movies is worth the effort for me.
I know you mostly don't cover glitches, but there's one in Wonderland that's really entertaining. First, when you enter the court, you save and make a backup save just in case. Then you enter the Lotus Room and see the initial cutscene with Cheshire Cat. After that, you open the journal, exit out, and go back into the court. When you talk to the cards and other NPCs, they spit out a bunch of garbled text. Talking to one of the cards gives you "A very merry unbirthday to you." and Sora's response is "I'm tingling all over". This will cause a softlock, so that's why it's recommended to keep a backup save in case something goes wrong. Once you leave and come back I think it all goes back to normal. I did it and it was funny to see Alice talking with Sora and having nonsensical dialogue.
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28:19 I actually use this image all the time. I love to use this whenever I see a dumb twitter post or something.
A weird video game thing to think about is I think this world is the most we see Sora eat and drink until KH3, I could be wrong but I'm not counting Roxas eating the ice cream
I love how you utilize Octopath music, every time lmao
I feel like the "world order" thing was always just more of a meta-textual statement, that none of these properties would merge together at the end of the game for a giant war between disney characters or whatever, and we can see that's been true for the whole series; even the invented worlds like twilight town and hollow bastion tend to stay in their lane. I could be wrong but I'm guessing disney is very apprehensive about doing literal two-main-characters-at-once crossovers in a game where that's already happening each time with sora. The identity of both characters and their worlds get pretty diluted, but it also carries this unrestrained charm that's hard to come by in any other game but perhaps super smash brothers. Fitting that toy story was added to kh3 when one of the central draws of crossover media is getting to open up the toy box and play with all your disney and final fantasy dolls at the same time.
havnt tested it in recent years to remember if it's in FM but i know for a fact at least in vanilla kh the chest in the initial drop will change depending on progression in the story. It's one of the softest ff6 references in the series when you are in the town of Narshe you can get like 5 chests that all become better items if you leave them in the early game.
That's true of every chest in the game. They all have 3 tiers to them