Kingdom Hearts - Disneycember
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- Doug takes his shot at reviewing Disney games for Disneycember. What're his thoughts on the first installment of one of the most famous game franchises ever? Find out now as DisneyCember 2021 kicks off!
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Kingdom Hearts is a 2002 action role-playing video game developed by Square for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It is the first game in the Kingdom Hearts series and is the result of a collaboration between Square and The Walt Disney Company.
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I don't blame you...
Been watching all the older disneycembers I missed before this, am SO ready for this :) And.... then he plays a game I never played...
This was an interesting mini game I remember playing a lot
Please do The Simpsons Movie, The Proud Family, Disney's Recess, Milo Murphy's Law and Amphibia this year please Doug.
This is a franchise I respect more than I actually enjoy. The story is way too complicated for its own good, the random giant spike in boss difficulty is frustrating as hell, and the shockingly small amount of Disney worlds in 3 felt insulting to me
Fun fact: James Woods goes out of his way to voice Hades as much as possible, he loves that character and thank God too, he's fantastic
Rumor has it he even had Disney sign a contract saying only he is allowed to voice Hades and if that’s true then damn, that is some serious dedication to a role.
Someone to care for, to be there for, I have James Woods.
Fun Fact: James Woods came to my house before which was wack
As Hades yes. As fictional James Woods, kinda. As the real Woods… dude’s just crazy af.
@@benwasserman8223 Crazy cool, funny crazy, or just plain crazy?
Doug’s reactions to the Kingdom Hearts games during his livestreams is exactly how I would imagine a grandpa who grew up with Disney movies reacting to Kingdom Hearts, confused as hell but charmed nonetheless.
Yup he's our grandpa boomer reviewer who discovers something we all knew about for 10 Years.
What he said about turned based combat was the most zoomer thing possible
@@Konata990 well can you really blame a guy who has never played that game before and is starting to play now?
@@Igna-hp8xx true
Wait till he really gets through some of the more explaining bits in the other games.
That's when it starts getting really convoluted.
Also, 3 kinda drops it with its mini-game fest and so many things to do it overloads your brain. Not that having tons of things to do is bad.
Kingdom Hearts is something that SHOULD NOT WORK.
Yet it DOES. And it's amazing. Convoluted as hell. But amazing.
It's held together by zippers.
And some buckles.
But mostly zippers.
@@Jimbobob5536 its quite simple tho.. Its just one dude with a bunch of horcruxes fucking with worlds. Not that complicated.
I was surprised when I first saw the trailer to this video game and it was a crossover unlike anything that I have ever seen before. I would like to thank Sqaure Enix for introducing to the world of JRPG’s and I am proud of it. 🤘😎
Truer words have never been spoken
It sure sucked me in as a teenager. It also brought me down the rabbit hole of an even better video game series. It's a little thing called Final Fantasy.
Kingdom Hearts is something truly special. Something for all of us who remember it well can never forget the beautiful things its given us. The wonderous otherworldly music we have heard while playing. There will never be nothing like it again in video game history.
It sure is crazy.
It really is special i mean it sounds liek such a cracked out idea but it works
On that note, it would have been cool of Doug talked about the music too.
Your very right there!
It’s my number one favorite Disney-based video game of all time. I was very impressed with it’s concept and very surprised, when I first saw this on the commercial.
The fact that Doug had the hardest time in the game in the chillest area in the game (apparently) seems… really fitting somehow 😂😂
100 Acre Wood is a great big pain in the arse!
Even as a big kh fan
Kh1 100 acre wood and the platforming is a massive pain that makes finishing that world a chore and a half
The platforming is indeed annoying in KH, but Doug's rant on Pooh was undeserved. If you watch the livestreams (which can be found on TH-cam) Doug was mainly frustrated because of timing. He had just defeated Maleficent and Riku and felt it was stupid to do little things like try to get honey when he had just finished such epic boss fights. He lambasted the game because of his own choice to do optional mini games late.
@@UltimateGamerCC
Yeah. The stupid swing mini game got me enraging.
Heather actually said that some of the hardest levels that she had to go through, Doug got through in one try. Granted it was on beginner level, but she was still gobsmacked when he took down Big Ursula in one try.
"The story to Kingdom Hearts isn't *that* complicated."
The story: [How to play 5-D Chess with Multiversal Time Travel]
To be fair, the first one was very straight forward. And then the story took a nosedive into WTF territory in the sequels.
For what’s essentially a dude with a bunch of horcruxes fucking with worlds(For SCIENCE!), the story gets complex as hell
Fun fact, there was actually a Kingdom Hearts cartoon that was originally supposed to air on Disney Channel in the early 2000s, but was scrapped early on.
It would have been so surreal seeing this hypothetical cartoon airing along side House of Mouse
"Mickey Mouse VS Sephiroth, only on Disney channel."
Would they have based it on the manga?
@@Dilbert1999 Maybe, I did love Kairi in the manga. She had more sass and was a bit of a scrapper at times.
I mean, she bit Axel's arm and nearly took off his head with a boat oar.
@@Dilbert1999 Not likely. The project began development in 2002, and the first volume of the KH manga wasn't released in Japan until 2003, and by the time it was finally translated and released outside of Japan, not only was the pilot long dead, but KH2 was only two months away.
Every KH expert in the universe is resisting the incredibly strong urge to explain the intricate story of the series' lore and just let Doug have his nice Disney-Anime game.
Hey, I can respect not everyone wants to get into the existential angst hiding below the surface. Enjoying the silly and cool stuff primarily is perfectly ok lol
IIIIIIII I have NO idea WHAT you're talking about....heh....heheh....
Tbf there's not much in terms of plot in the first game. But them going as straightforward as possible was definitely just incase the game didn't perform well enough to continue on.
Actually, all I'm caring about is the fact that they're not "anime" characters. There's been very little attention given to the other half of this successful crossover.
Actually, all I'm caring about is the fact that they're not "anime" characters. There's been very little attention given to the other half of this successful crossover.
On the first day of Christmas, the Critic gave to me,
A sword that is also a key!
Yay it’s back!
Hey, you’re back!
And so it begins.
It's that time of year again!
@@alibrennan5977 Not him, the original guy is called Theme Park Avenue
Metaphorically Speaking: You know that grumpy older guy in Christmas Movies who hates Christmas and then by the end of the film he loves it? When I played Kingdom Hearts for the first time back in 2006, it literally...softened my heart. I already loved Final Fantasy, but it brought me back to loving Disney again, after thinking I had moved on from it.
Nice
You mean Ebenezer Scrooge.
@@rhiannonthrasher7747 I mean the Ebenezer Scrooge archetype :)
Same here. I was about 13 and felt I was "too old" to like Disney animated things anymore. But the game worked so well and it got me to say screw it and just like what I like.
I'm glad Doug enjoyed it. I feel the first game is the most coherent and complete in the series, though the pathing in some worlds is unintuitive. Really wish KH3's Disney and FF elements were more meaningful to the plot, and that the core plot was spread out rather than just relegated to the last 5 hours.
This game is almost 20 years old & Simple & Clean is still an amazing song to this day.
Hell yeah! It is THE Kingdom Hearts theme that not even the newer theme songs for the later games can top!
@@wchan39 big facts...though tbh "face my fears" is pretty close
It's no "Eyes on me" but definitely one of Squares better songs
Along with Sanctuary as well! The Skrillex song in the 3rd game is pretty solid too
Utada Hikaru, ladies and gentlemen!
As a kingdom hearts fan, I can agree the controls were convoluted. With the Winnie the Pooh tree, there was actually a button you could press that would auto climb up to where Pooh is.
The part of the Atlanta I hated, still do but I accept it
The thing is at that part he didn’t activate the mini game. He just climbed the tree when he saw it.
Even though that auto-climbing in itself is quite sketchy.
This is where the fun begins. Speaking of which, can't wait for the Clone Wars one.
He's already done reviews for all of the seasons individually.
@@davidstone281 but he did those as a build up for his DIsneycember video, so I'm looking forward to a more concise opinion now that he's had time to sit on it.
This was actually my first video game ever, and as such, it holds a special place in my… heart…..
Wasn’t going for a pun, initially, but eventually just went with it.
But does it hold a place in your HEARTLESS?!? lol
Sorry, just had to take the low-hanging fruit here...
First game I played and completed by myself. As the perpetual “player 2” at my gamer friends’ houses, it was so satisfying. Always will be special because of that.
I guess you could say without the game you'd be HEARTLESS. You'd feel like a NOBODY. The DARK DARKNESS would overtake the LIGHT in your life because even though LIGHT is LIGHT and should be stronger than DARKNESS, DARKNESS is still DARK and therefore LIGHT's opposite and can overcome the LIGHT with DARKNESS.
...
SORA, DONALD, GOOFY!
@@ShadyDoorags I mean, I already felt like a nobody, regardless, lol.
Man, seeing these clips brings back some “nostalgia” of when I watched Doug play this game. Was a fun ride honestly, seeing his overall reactions to the controls, story, and frustrations most of us had to endure when we first played this. Everything he’s pointed out here brings back my memories of when I battled thru this game, experiencing the same pros and cons. The first gaming console and game I ever bought with my own money thanks to layaway (back in the day). So fun to relive this in a way with him.
This game is chest filled with Nostalgia and precious memories. I loved exploring famous Disney worlds, fighting off famous villains such as Maleficent and Hades, the story and characters were so emotional to me. This is one of the best games I played when I was a child.
On the first Disneycember, my critic gave to me:
A blade in the shape of a key
🗝🗝🗝🗝🗝
Ah memories
@@watchforever1724 it’s good to be back. Something funny is last December, I started this with 200 subscribers. It’s been quite a year!
@@ThemeParkAvenue could be because of your content talking about theme park rides
@@watchforever1724 that’s the main reason. I’ve tried my best to make good videos.
"They want something good vs bad maybe with a LITTLE something complicated in between a "I am your father" moment."
Yeah THAT KH moment was Riku, the BEST FRIEND of Sora, and a GOOD GUY (even he was kind of an ahole as a kid) falling to the darkness and then redeeming himself to hold off Ansem in Hollow Bastion. Even as a kid I remember that cutscene in Hollow Bastion of Sora losing the keyblade to Riku just shredding my emotions. And the best thing about it, is that it's BUILT up PERFECTLY for Riku to be a villain. And not even a full villain, just a child, a LITERAL CHILD (people forget these kids are like in their mid teens during this), who was manipulated by Maleficent to do her bidding.
You see these little glimpses of him in the beginning just being a jerk to Sora, making fun of him, being really tense all the time even for a kid, and his whole attitude during certain worlds, like Monstro make you go "this....Riku tf you doin". Then when Riku DOES go full betrayal, it hits like a truck, yet at the same time, you kind of saw it coming. You just didn't want to believe he'd actually betray Sora. So it hurts all the more when he does. That stuff with his interactions with Sora in the worlds, is so good, that I kinda wish they HADN'T shown cutscenes of him with Maleficent in Traverse Town. Let the kids work it out that something wasn't right with Riku. And for Riku to redeem himself by holding Ansem off and helping seal the door, made me SCREAM "Hail yeah" cause I loved Riku and it hurt to see him be so grossly manipulated. Riku is *EASILY* one of the best characters in the entire series. He's the exact reason why so many people love Kingdom Hearts-he's complex, yet still simple enough to relate to. That kind of balance is something kingdom hearts does REALLY well and it's a staple of the series to be complex yet simple and clean. It's weird, but it works.
Sora is the kind of character that kids can look up to-cheerful, upbeat, kind always willing to do what's right, even if it isn't easy. But Riku is the kind of character everyone can RELATE to.
Plus, thankfully, Riku even gets his own redemption arc in Chain of Memories!
@@sjk8495 OMG I KNOW RIGHT?! And his relationship in that game with King Mickey is so cuuuuute like....oh my boy. When he collapsed after realizing he wasn't alone....I wanted to hug him lol
@@sjk8495 Which is then made pointless in KH2 where he needs that blindfold to keep his darkness at bay, when CoM was all about him accepting said darkness.
Couldn’t have put it better myself, and as a kid I loved it when shows were more than just “go save the princess”. Sure I liked my Disney Afternoon shows where every episode was selfcontained, but the whole reason I started gravitating towards anime at an early age was because I wanted some more, something deeper, something more complex. I was evolving and I wanted the stories I consumed to do the same. I wanted ONGOING stories with 3 dimensional characters I could relate to and aspire to be like. Not just these one and done sort of deals.
Also, god I love that line! “You won’t use me for this!”
@@PikaLink91 the blindfold is symbolic. he simply wore it so that his "his eyes couldn't lie" about the darkness he uses. There was nothing holding back his darknesss. He completely unleashed it to beat Roxas.
For me I liked all the little details. Like when you first gather Ansems reports all the even or odd ones Ansem sounds like a wise and benefolent ruler. Then you get the remaining odd or even reports and now you see the mad scientist.
It's funny in the Ducktales cartoon when Donald gets knocked out and I'm like "That's what happens when you spam Heal for every bump and cut you got nothing for when you need it." still 20 years later and I haven't let it go.
One deviantart idea I'd love to see happen Goofy with Captain America's shield.
The art of Goofy with Cap's shield does exist! I just googled it 😊
It never fails to make me feel old when someone says “I grew up on Kingdom Hearts” since I was already 23 when I played this.
Joking aside I really loved this game. Putting Disney and Square together was a fantastic Chocolate/Peanut Butter combo we didn’t know we needed, and having Donald and Goofy as my constant companions was perfect (they’re my two favorites). Beating Sephiroth with the Kingdom Key is an accomplishment I wish I could find the recording for (curse growing up before TH-cam).
I'm like you. I didn't play this game until 2006, and by then I was already 25. I still loved it, but like you (and Doug), I missed out on the initial hooplah.
I can't even say that phrase because I got into KH super late into my life.
I was 6 when the first game came out. Even though I was aware of the series (I heard about it through commercials on Disney Channel), I never brought myself to play the games and I was a huge Disney fan at the time. The only thing did I did was listen to Utada Hikaru's songs from the games - My Sanctuary being my top favorite. I was 22 when I finally decided to give the games a shot.
@@jacob4920 oh no, I WAS there during the initial hooplah! I was part of said hooplah! The magazine previews, commercials, and that killer song sold me instantly. I got it soon after release, birthday, I believe. But I was in college when I did. As Kingdom Hearts 3 approached, people were saying they grew up with the series, playing it when they were kids. Me? I grew OLD with the series! 😭
@@SAPProd Ah, well then I'm alone.
I saw it on the shelves, for years, but I'm not one to be reeled in by advertisements, or internet hearsay. It's only when my cousin showed me a bit of the game (he owned it at the time, and highly recommended it) that I decided: "Okay, I'll try it."
Clearly it made an impression on me, because it's one of the few video games in my life that I've actually played all the way to the end (most games I burn out on before I get to the end).
Hell, I just became a massive fan of this franchise around a year ago despite knowing of it since I was 6.
Doug needs to play Knights Of The Old Republic next year for Disneycember, if he's doing video games now he should play it and review it.
For him, I’d wait for the remake. Original KOTOR’s controls & gameplay have not aged well.
@@Phanthief95 Plus, whether KOTOR can count is iffy since it came out before the Disney purchase. But Fallen Order, that one is definitely eligible!
@@Phanthief95 Try reading up the chief writer for the remake. At best you’ll be trading poor controls and a great story for better controls and a much inferior story.
Fun fact: James Woods came to my house and I’m an avid kingdom hearts fan. All I knew at the time is that he was a movie actor and what not which was wack.
I've never played Kingdom Hearts, but its always been something I've sort of been eyeing. I feel like this as well as Sora getting into Smash might be my ticket to finally pick it up.
Clear your calendar, then. It is a saga.
There are about 13 titles and they're all canonical.
I say play Metal gear solid, or if you really want a RPG fix Chrono trigger is for you.
Only played 1 and 2 in released date and 2 more birth by sleep and 358\2, if you haven't touch Kingdom hearts yet I really really really suggest you do it's a wild ride. Need to get around and play 3 already lol.
if you have a ps4 get iiiiiiiiit... its cheap as heck to get the games.... the all in one package has all the games except melody of memory(after 3)... for like 30 bucks... it is cheap as heck to get into it now
The Orchestra version of Vector to the Heavens absolutely slaps :D
God damn I just love it
The entire score slaps. Yoko Shimamura is a genius
Nice to see Doug get into the series. He knows the “spin-offs” are vital to the story, right? He didn’t play 3 before BBS and 3D, right? Oh boy.
He only played the numbers titles, but expressed interest in doing a couple of the spin-offs next year
@@rckblzr
He should, they honestly make the latter two numbered titles make a lot more sense.
He played 1, 2 and 3 and had the others summarized so it wasn’t going in completely blind to be fair!
While the controls in this first game are sometimes frustrating, I’m just grateful that these games exist at all. :) I find it hard to be mad at it simply because of the concept (except the vines in Tarzan, those I can always be mad at). Bless these games.
Thank you for the amazing vid! So excited for Disneycember. :)
The vines really aren't that bad--there's a trick to bypass them. In the Hippo's Lagoon, if you make it all the way to the end, you can climb up a thin tree and trigger the cutscene automatically. Slightly less intensive for your effort.
Forget the vines, that Jungle Slider mini game was pure hell
Kingdom hearts in a nutshell: Mickey, Donald, Goofy and some anime kids beating the shit out of people with keys.
Ok I believe you
Yep
*and also DARKNESS
@@majoraslayer64 yes darkness too and a Convoluted timeline that predates the fnaf timeline.
This game managed to make so many Disney characters badasses, with King Micky being the most badass one
My favorite game. This game saved me as a child. It is my absolute favorite and will always have a special place in my heart. There’s a reason me and so many others are die hards for this series. I really should go and watch Doug’s walkthrough
This might be the first review that didn't include the words "Final" or Fantasy".
Props.
Never played Kingdom Hearts but wanted to as a kid. Picking this up on PC tonight!
One of the greatest ideas Disney ever came up with.
It’s so great to see doug’s analogical mind and style go over this game.
This is gonna be a great disneycember
Edit: correction, Disney didn’t come up with this. Thanks in the comments
i mean disney wouldn’t have come up with it without nomura’s help
Square came up with it not Disney
Also one of the most convoluted storylines that anyone has ever came up with
well calling it "disney's idea" is a bit if a strech
It was square, Disney like always just profits from it
Yeah Doug the story of this game even as a fan of KH is pretty complicated and not gonna lie as much I liked the first game the controls are just dated even the camera controls were pretty wonky. Thank god this was fixed in the newer KH games.
it's not like they have anything in common all KH games are completely different from one another gameplay-wise the only thing that remains is the 3 hit combo
If you want to experience the Kingdom Hearts series in its entirety then...oh boy ya might wanna have some acetaminophen on hand.
i find it better to ignore the lore and simply focus on the fan service and gameplay.
That is the better way of going through the series most definitely.
@@timwilliams1217 you got that right i played most of The game's. From the beginning i lost track of what's happening since 365 days over 2.
Imo it's easy to digest if you're playing each game with a few exceptions. The scene I'm especially thinking about is that long 10 minute plot dump cutscene that's before the boss fight against Demyx in KH2FM.
But I will say it's a little annoying KH3 references plot details from the mobile game "Union Cross" which was about the ancient keyblade war. I really do hope they at least make another CG movie of the rest of the plot because I don't have the attention span to sit through the uninteresting presentation of the cutscenes in said mobile game.
11:52 Okay, the thing with that part, is that that's not the actual character talking. Its some kind of apparition that took on the form of that character (Selphie), and was using it as a means of asking Sora that question, sorta like how when a hero goes on a spiritual journey, they're asked these questions that allow them to know themselves better. Also, its part of the gameplay, as the answers are what determine how you level up through the game.
Doug talking about Kingdom hearts is definitely something I bet most of never saw coming.
We kinda knew it was gonna happen considering he said about it on community tab
Preach, when Doug said that he would start reviewing video games, I never would have guessed that Kingdom Hearts would be the first one up!
@@watchforever1724 I mean we knew it was happening, just saying when it was it was definitely unexpected.
@@BugsyFoga I kinda expected considering it’s Disney
nope, sure didn't
Never played any of the Kingdom Hearts game, but they look so freaking cool! And now since Sora has joined Super Smash Bros Ultimate as the final fighter, I REALLY want to play the Kingdom Hearts games.
They really are a lot of fun.
if you do pick it up, get the "all in one" version, it's every game without the phone games union X and dark road (which i would recommend watching the story of Union X and dark road on youtube anyway)
The game play is generally fun, but the only games I actually enjoy the story's of are the first, chain of memories, and birth by sleep. The others are not bad, I just have different tastes in storytelling now than when I was a kid.
The great thing now is that it is so much easier to play them now compared to the 2000s and early 2010s before KH3. These days at minimum you just need a phone and a PS4.
Back then you needed a GBA, PS2, PSP, DS and 3DS. And of course the games.
@doogie Five-Four I agree.
Altogether, everyone:
SIMPLE AND CLEAN IS THE WAY THAT YOU’RE MAKING ME FEEEEEL TONIGHT
ITS HARD TO LET IT GOOOO
- Turtle Goofy, 2021
Doug "Seven parts to fight this goddamn guy and I don't think there was a save point"
Really? the final rest and world terminus (Pooh section) weren't close enough to the bosses to save the game? Huh, that's strange, I always found every single save point in a world at least relatively close to where you needed to go.
Also, Heather was possibly one of the worst guides to this game I've ever seen, A ton of the information she spouts out was flat out incorrect. I would've done the job for nothing and you'd know the ins and outs of the game, every minute detail and then some.
Glad you got to play Kingdom Hearts! There’s a reason Kingdom Hearts (and Kingdom Hearts II) are frequently cited as some of the greatest video games of all time.
I cannot believe it has been 10 years since Disneycember was born! Time sure does fly.
God I feel old
Yeah time flies fast
Likewise, time just flies! Happy 10th Disneycember Anniversary! 💕
I think I was either in the 8th grade or a freshman when it started
been watching all the old ones, I missed quite a few
I was in high school when Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 came out. I'm now 30, and I STILL absolutely adore these games.
I honestly wish I was able to play this as a kid (especially since I've been a Disnerd for a long time). I often find it interesting how well the characters blend in with the Disney movie atmosphere.... SOMETIMES. Other times, it's a stretch, imo. (Where's Sora, Donald and Goofy in Wreck-It Ralph's world?) Also, holy crap, I'm early!
Wreck-it Ralph was put into the now-defunct mobile game, so the jury's out on if it'll pop up again as a level in a future game.
Not there yet.
Ralph is a summon in Kingdom Hearts 3
ON THE FIRST DAY OF DISNEYCEMBER THE CRITIC GAVE TO ME:
A kid beating villains with a key!
First thing I did was scan the comments for this!
Awww When Disney wasn't afraid to do something as out there as teaming up with Square Enix, to make a video game where the most iconic Disney characters, as well as the most iconic Final Fantasy characters, fighting for a key that is as large as waste high. Also, it's in the hand of a kid who uses it like a sword, to fight monsters alongside Sir Goofey and Wizard Donald. Hearing this, you would think it's just in the realm of possibility to be plausible, but there's no way creative power, time, and money was spent on something so ludicrous. And that's the amazing part. This crossover game looks beautiful in animation, and shot composition. I'm really surprised Nostalgia Critic didn't mention this in the review, but the music score for this game is absolutely incredible, and most of the soundtrack is an original score produced for the this new crossover video game IP. This was definitely a gamble, and man did it pay off for both companies. Btw, let's not forget that this game created an epic battle that no child could've imagined happening in any form of media, Donald and Goofy, and friend, fight Sephiroth in a high stakes battle to the death, all the while "One-Winged Angel" is played throughout the battle.
Sadly, Disney 20 years later would've never agreed to something so un-formulaic with no guarantee of a profit, so what's the point. Art and artistic integrity matter not to a company that brought the audience the soulless film "Lion King 2019". They definitely wouldn't allow iconic characters like Donald and Goofy, let alone Mickey Mouse, to ever be in something they don't have absolute control of. Also, Disney would be VERY angry and upset today to see the scene where Sora goes into a book and meets an obvious life-like portrayal of a dear friend to Disney, the President Xi Jinping of China.
I hope Disney looses the credibility that it garnered through animated films like the original "Lion King" or "Toy Story". They use to be these trail blazers of animation, but now those who care about the art of filmmaking all know that their hacks who have a lot of money, can spend a relatively small amount of their vast wealth to create something un-original, and still make money, cause people still think of the Disney from 20 years ago when they see a trailer/poster with the Disney logo on it today. Considering "Lion King 2019", so quickly became the highest grossing animated movie of all time, I have very little hope that the average movie goer will look past their excited expectations, that Disney logo that has a history of great animated films, and their nostalgia of Disney.
I am so glad to hear your thoughts on Kingdom Hearts! I am happy to have been a part of these streams. Thanks for giving it a chance and continuing to put out awesome content. Kingdom Hearts is a wild ride…you just have to get on and have fun. I’m so happy you did!
It's so refreshing hearing Doug talk about a video game for once honestly, it's nice hearing how he approaches that
I think it's kind of a shallow view of Riku in KH1. It's a story of fearing your friends are moving on without you and dealing with manipulative adults. It's so good but no one seems to get it.
I get what they were trying to do with Riku, but it was so rapidfire rushed it came off as incredibly sloppy and poorly written. Literally Riku runs off on his own, then Sora meets Donald and Goofy and then the next scene we see Riku being shown with Maleficent and "oooh look, Sora made new friends, he doesn't need you anymore." It really just speaks to how incredibly naive Riku has to be written to immediately eat that up so much so that he doesn't even stick around to hear Sora's side of the story, and becomes his enemy for the rest of the game.
I mean Sora does absolutely nothing to provoke Riku and even asks for them to search for kairi together.
Rikku also has no reason to trust malifecent over is lifelong friend
I dunno. I think they built it up enough to be believeable. Even in the beginning, Kairi wanted to get Sora away from Riku cause she could sense his growing darkness. He was a bit of a jerk to Sora even when they were at home without outside influence. And even in future games the one thing Riku cares about more than anything are his friends. He'll do anything to keep them safe. Heck he couldn't even face Sora after taking on Ansems form due to guilt. Even though he did it FOR Sora. I personally think hes a very well written character. Remember he was around 13 Ish so a CHILD could easily be manipulated by an adult like Malifecent. Happens all the time in reality.
@@TheRibottoStudios he was 15 in kh1
it's childish, most people get it but seen it done much better
Kingdom Hearts as a series is my favorite thing ever, nothing else in any kind of media tops it for me.
Glad you enjoyed KH1 even with its first game problems.
Same. Despite hating the direction the story went in DDD and 3 the series as a whole is near and dear to me and my favorite series in any media.
These KH streams were a genuine highlight of this year. Thank you so much for giving them a chance Doug.
Depending on how analytical you are, it can be hard to get into Kingdom Hearts now if you didn't grow up with it. Like one thing I find is that anime and jrpg fans who missed it for whatever reason tend to be more critical of it since they compare it to other shows and games in those media. I think it's good that Doug isn't into JRPGs and not really big on anime since that means that despite being able to see its flaws, that's not weigh on him and he can find more to enjoy in it and see what it's going for even without a personal connection to the series.
yeah that like the people making essay about why the nen/ki/chakra/haki/ or whatever the hell was called the spirit energy from bleach is the best power system of all animes and other animes are shit because they don't have a complex power system like that and im like: look if i want to get suck into the story and characters i have to be emotionally conected, and the details don't make you emotionly conected too, theres just details. in fact what pretty much what kill the matrix sequels and the star wars prequels to many of us was because they went way too much into details to the point we didn't give a shit about the story and characters, world building in the details is fine but focus more in the characters journey and the story progresion if you want people to get hooked, thats the number one priority on storytelling at least if we are talking about big epics like star wars, lord of the rings, and even avatar. Just like doug said in his jupiter ascending review: "if you get emotionally invested on these characters you will stand any type of information or exposition from this world, or else you won't give a shit about nothing"
Yeah, but I bet he'd still heavily criticize the complicated plots of the later games and claim the first game's narrative is best for being simple enough for most players to follow. Remember, one of the main faults he found with Monsters Inc was that it's too complicated for kids to follow. Obviously, I disagree with his review on that movie, but imagine that critique increased ten fold when he talks about Chain of Memories and II.
@@jlev1028 he only played the core games, he didn't played any of the spin offs. He liked a lot KH2, he also enjoyed KH3 even if the story wasn't his cup of tea.
@@motor4X4kombat Technically, there are no spinoffs in Kingdom Hearts (discounting Melody of Memory).
@@jlev1028 im mean the "in between" games, just like star wars trilogy he only judge each episode without mention something about the clone wars or the mandalorian, even if they had good expantion in those.
I love Kingdom Hearts it's basically one of my top 10 favorite video games to play.
Finally a review on Kingdom Hearts! This game was got me to really buy the PS2, when this game came out in 2002, I was mind blown by the graphics and gameplay, especially with the crossover of Disney and Final Fantasy characters!
I remember playing this SOOO many years ago in college. i remember being in Atlantis over and over again to try to get Thunder Gems, specifically, by defeating this one type of enemy so I could unlock the Ultimate Keyblade. Yeah, it was a pain in the ass. I also remember Sephiroth as a hidden boss and he was SO tough. He was, by far, the hardest fight in the game. The final boss, I do now kind of remember it being a pain but nowhere near as hard. That said, I loved this game back then.
Thank you for giving my favorite game of all time an honest to God shot. It fills me with much joy to here you enjoyed it. It you decide to dive in to the heart of the others as well.... Good luck.
Since I know that he's going forward with the series, I'm happy he's got the golden rule down pat in part 1: the spectacle takes priority over story sensibilities
I am curious to know what games he went through, the intro only showed 1, 2, and 3, and I'm wondering if chat yelled at him enough to play the other ones for this damn series to make sense
As someone who did see his streams, he did expressed interest in playing the other games. He only played 1, 2, and 3 this year but he did research the other games before going into e main numbered titles.
Boy is that going to melt his brain if he hasn't.
Ah it's good to have Disneycember back! In fact, I think I'll do a thing where I keep track of the stuff Doug reviews and label them as good, okay/meh, and bad to see where most of the stuff leans towards. I kind of did that to myself in the past, so now it's time to do so for real!
Good: Kingdom Hearts
Okay/Meh:
Bad:
So yeah, a good start to DisneyCember 2021! And on another note, yeah Square Enix is apparently infamous for multiple final boss phases. And another thing to add is that when it comes to video game crossovers, Kingdom Hearts is one of the most well-known ones alongside Super Smash Bros.! And fun fact: Super Mario 64 inspired Kingdom Hearts!
I started watching nostalgia critic 4 years after playing my first KH game - so it's really cool to see one of my favourite youtubers as a kid look at one of my all time favourite childhood games =)
The camera is the only unbeatable enemy you have to fight the whole game.
I got to play Kingdom Hearts around Christmas back in 2003, so Christmas and Kingdom Hearts go hand-and -hand to me. I'm probably one of the few people that really loves the first Kingdom Hearts, but that doesn't mean I dislike the sequels. Kingdom Hearts is definitely a great series with great gameplay, a fantastic musical score, and memorable characters. While the rest of the sequels go in radical directions and constant recons, the first game will always have a special place in my heart.😊😅😍
I don't think you are at all alone in this. Many fans, me included, like to think Kingdom Hearts as a standalone, magical game.
Magic wears thin as sequels go along.
I remember seeing the commercials when I was 10 and *needing* this game. So I begged my parents for s PS2 just to play it. It was the first time I ever attempted a JRPG and it didn't do it for me haha. Never played them again after, but it still has a warm place in my heart, no pun intended.
This series means a lot to me, not because I played it as a kid though. This was my lockdown activity. During the first lockdown when I became unemployed, to keep my sanity and give me a task, I played through EVERY Kingdom Hearts game. I even started a blog about it. It gave me a reason to wake up in the morning, and a sense of purpose in the weirdest way. Honestly the themes of light and darkness and the sappier moments really worked for me all the more during that f***ed up time.
For some people Covid sanity was Animal Crossing; for me, it was Kingdom Hearts. Kingdom Hearts was there for me when I needed it, and I'll be forever grateful.
I would love a doug game review segment , even if he just watches the cutscenes and talks about the story. Imagine is Doug played spiderman or God of war.
He should Criticize anything Nostalgic.
Ah yes, kingdom hearts boss battles. Yeaaaah, there wasn’t a save.
There are several checkpoints in the final boss gontlet, if you died you would have to start from your last save.
This is one of those games where when I first encountered it, I was "uh, really?" Then I actually played it and absolutely loved it. My wife doesn't like to play RPG games but loves watching the story unfold, so she watched me play it. She absolutely squee'd with delight when Beast showed up (Beauty And The Beast is one of her favorite animated movies).
This was such an awesome video! I'm really excited and I hope this leads to more video game reviews like this. I know that JRPGs aren't most people's cups of tea but I think that the story of some can prove strong enough to outweigh the not always favorable battle mechanics and such. I find myself drawn to them for the story even though sometimes they are IMPOSSIBLY hard and INFURIATING but it doesn't matter because I'm enjoying the journey I am on and I know that the struggles I go through will just make me appreciate the character's strengths more. A friend of mine just bought all the kingdom hearts games and started playing them, so it was weird funny timing for this video to be released. And like I said, I hope this leads to more VG reviewing content! :)
So happy to see Disneycember back ! It makes my day to finish work and come to a funny mini review
My older brother was massively into Kingdom Hearts when we were growing up as kids during the 2000s. I have such fond memories of watching him play the first two games in his room all the time because he was much more of the gamer than I was at the time (and also, I was probably a bit younger compared to the age demographic for this type of game to have the ability to play a game like that even though it was Disney and rated E). I wish I played the games at the time when we were growing up and I was happy that I got to finally start playing a little bit of the first game years later while I was in my third year of college. My boyfriend at the time owned a PS4 and he got me the PS4 re-release of the first two games together and I was playing the first couple of levels with him in his dorm. Sadly, we broke up a month after we started our senior year three years ago, so I haven't had the chance to revisit the game since then and it's currently sitting on my shelf at home. Hopefully, I will find a way I can play this game fully and experience the entire thing like my brother got to.
Update: I finally got myself a PS2 slim this week and just started playing Kingdom Hearts today! I can’t wait to play through it and continue with the others after I finish! There are other PS2 games from my childhood that I want to revisit again and PlayStation was big for me and my brother growing up. 😁
These games are still awesome even with their downfalls and the game play is always fun for me even when it's frustrating. I wonder if the star wars games that are still canon are gonna be in this year's reviews
Thank you so much for reviewing my favorite video game. Really enjoyed your twitch streams. Aswell.
I look forward to your kh2 review.
May your heart be your guiding key Doug. And everyone at channel awsome
I grew up playing Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II. Even all these years later, I retain a deep nostalgia and love for these games and enjoy going back to them from time to time. I feel lucky to have grown up during the PS2 and NGC era because of all the titles that really brought a lot of joy to my childhood.
This was my first PS2 game, and I immediately loved it. At least until the second Riku fight in Hollow Bastion. It took me so many tries to beat him, and you couldn't skip the cutscene before the fight. But I've played the Final Mix remasters on PS3 and PS4. In fact, I'm playing through the entire series again now.
Damn! I left the following comment before scrolling through others, so I guess that fight pissed off a lot of people!
Riku I wanted to kill with a shovel, after… doing stuff with the handle. He was a tough boss that I had to fight a few times, which is fine, but the battle had a long-ass talking cutscene, which I for some reason couldn’t skip (I’m an elderly 35-year old coot who actually played the game in 2003, so maybe the scene is skippable in the re-release, or I just stupidly couldn’t find the right button). Anyone else have that issue?
@@RussianJackal The Final Mix version does add the option of skipping cutscenes. As well as adjustable difficulty (though the secret ending is inaccessible on Beginner), two additional scenes (one being Riku arriving in Hollow Bastion), and an additional boss fight.
11:43 Playing this game when Kingdom Hearts came out in 2002, I grew with it, I mean its understandable Doug I mean you would of loved this. For me and others its cemented with childhood and it's basically about that. This part is a dream sequence of Soras beginning journey. Asking questions like this is saying too the playing of what you want in life or what your afraid of. As a kid I never understood that but I was amazed by the game when I got it. Today or this year started replaying it and got the orginal ps2 and guidebook becouse I live this game. This part is retrospective, it's an undertone with the creator that said it's an existential game what added into it. Vague as you said yes how it comes across becouse your seeing something there too it. Its basically the intro of childhood, the 2000s generation, the time where we are in this tinted glass, our curiosity about the world around us. Something that has light with the character and the player themselfs. We have curiosty, we ambitions, we are unsure, we are afraid, we sees the white doves representing love deepest part. It's done in a simple way but has an undertone that I could recognise years later. Hollow Bastion and End if world have toned too them too. Destiny Island has a tone with peace tranquility as the kids want to explore well, the adventure or adult world, that's why you dont see the adults in this. There is so much to say about this first game. Besides the spin offs and how it ties with them, this was the first game with it's own message and can be by itself. Its beautiful heartfelt game that the creator had an idea what he was doing.
This story is like something you find under the floor boards of the lonely old man's apartment.
A story that makes no sense, but you can see the passion that was put into it.
I still remember being in highschool and friends telling me about this game that has all these Disney characters in it but also characters from Final Fantasy. I was not a huge fan of either but what stuck with me the most is the main theme. It just drilled into my brain and stayed there for years.
I have played every single one of these games and absolutely love them
The first KH is a great beta for the masterpiece that is KH II. It improves so much for gameplay & story. I hope Doug gives it a go, to see just how deep the rabbit hole gets.
as long as you play kingdom hearts chain of memories then you learn what a namane is. and 352/2 days to find out what a roxas is. and birth by sleep to find out what an xehanort is. the only game you don't need to play is re coded to be fair. god kingdom hearts is so convoluted sometimes. but hey thats why i love it.
Pretty sure it showed him playing II and III in the beginning montage
That Tarzan level... So much time there... I have flashbacks watching you play that
One of my favorite games of all time. I'm so glad I got to witness your Kingdom Hearts journey, Doug.
It was a DELIGHT seeing you play through the games on Twitch. It's a shame you didn't play the side games, would have loved to see you rip into a few of them but still it was fantastic to see you not only play the for the first time but actually enjoying yourself playing them. Though I have to say, Heather gave you A LOT of incorrect information during the streams but at least they didn't affect the gameplay.
Nostalgia Critic and Kingdom Hearts! What a Disneycember.
I for years asked Nostalgia critic to review this game! Love it!!
i 've been waiting a year for this, doug absolutely delivered
I didn't watch the preview video earlier, so seeing him covering video games was a great surprise
After Sora making it into Smash, this was the perfect year to do the series as part of the Disneycember
Damn 10 years of Disneycember that’s interesting to know it happened
There was a over 3 hours video i watches just on people's reaction to Sora in smash. I was excited too. There's a reason he was the most voted on character on the ballet and that they saved him for last.
I love Kingdom Hearts so much.
This Is something I've been wanting to see for Years
I'm so happy to see Doug finally cover kingdom hearts
So kingdom hearts made Doug stop playing the last of us 2?
I say that's a positive
It was a good decision
I am incredibly intrigued that Doug has chosen the Kingdom Hearts games for this month
Maybe this will be his best one yet?
Lol I laughed so hard a 11:27 just seeing peter pans body floating over em as they were still fighting.
I love how many phases the final part has. It makes it feel like you have to keep going to finally stop him.
If things other than movies and TV are on the table, Doug should consider reviewing some Star Wars EU for the next Disneycember, at the very least Knights Of The Old Republic.
If he starts doing comics and books things will never end.
@@videogamesworld01 he 's already at that point
Kingdom Hearts is such a great game. The first games I had that got me into the series were 358/2 days and recoded for the DS
But to be honest some of them are kinda forgettable sometimes
"I'll come back for you, I promise!"
That last battle - you get no saves you got to be a MAN and just beat the bleep out of it and just keep going its endurance.
Kingdom Hearts is at its best when Kingdom Hearts characters fully interact with Disney characters. Later games, for the sake of getting certain movies into the games, had Sora and the gang not interacting with certain Disney characters that much.
But did you beat Sepiroth at the coliseum?
..."is the story bioshock, No."
....the storyline to this series makes bioshocks look like a Mario game.
This game defines nostalgia for me, my all time favorite game hands down.
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Basically me and with the Tarzan jungle vine level.