Top Ten Kingdom Hearts Bosses
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มี.ค. 2019
- HERE IT IS. SEVERAL YEARS IN THE MAKING. THE BEST KINGDOM HEARTS BOSSES.
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Thank you so much Josh for Kingdom Hearts month. These countdowns were amazing and brought me so much joy. The ending of KH3 left me depressed and these countdowns brought my joy back. Thank you so much and you deserve a break for making all these amazing videos! 10/10 on all of them!!
A fellow preston I see
Preston Rowland did the ending leave you depressed because you realised it was yet another cliffhanger? Cause it left me hyped but pessimistic to the idea that it'll come out anytime soon
Yes and no. It was bittersweet and sad at the ending. Which made me depressed bc it was sad. But I was also going through some stuff after losing my old principal to cancer when I first saw the ending which was mainly why I was depressed bc he was there for me all the time to make my day better and then just vanished. But I know that he is not in pain anymore and with God in heaven so I’m happy
Josh : Final Xehanort is only Number 9
Me:"Okay I believe you"
D A R K N E S S
KEYBLADE
Also, my name spelled backwards is Disney.
Mansex
quack
*Xemnas at number 2*
Axel: TWO?!
And Quibble Pants seems to have taken Josh over.
*People who haven't played Kingdom Hearts: "Why does it matter that there's this old dude?"*
*Kingdom Hearts fans since KH1:*
Fun Fact: Final Ansem's space ship thingy is called World of Chaos. Probably cuz it looked like Numora designed it and never stopped.
To be fair, that could be applied to the entire Kingdom Hearts series. Just Nomura going more and more Nomura.
Well at least Nomuras belts and zippers phrase seems to have calmed down now. Since he's found a new love with Buttons and Plaid.
I love how prevalent the Just a Pancake memes are becoming in the community. It's impressive how many jokes we've gotten from one creator.
Unfortunately he also started the meme that Xehanort was "redeemed" in the ending, which couldn't be further from the truth.
@@Kingdom850 I mean... he sorta WAS. He and Eraqus got to pass on happily to the afterlife and never had to repent his crimes. Dude basically got one ass whooping and then was let off Scot free.
@@goldencyclone4984 It's more like they made him admit defeat. Besides, there's no hell or heaven in Kingdom Hearts. Everyone goes to the same plcae when they die for good.
@@soul6733 Didn't say anything about heaven or hell, I said that they passed on happily to the afterlife. And sure they made him admit defeat, but he did not answer for or express remorse for any of the lives he ruined or people he killed. He got off easy.
@@goldencyclone4984 The heroes aren't as ruthless as he is. There's no need to make him suffer, especially when he was already dying anyway after the final battle. I thought it was pretty pathetic seeing him pour his heart out going on about how he's the only one who can set the world "right". Sora then telling him he doesn't get to decide his own destiny and has to accept that was perfect. You keep claiming he happily passed on, I see it as nothing but the characters pitying him due to how pathetic he is. He was so sure of himself, completely deranged cocky bastard who thought all his back up plans for his back up plans were going to help him win in the end. Yet Sora still beat him.
Number VI
"Sora believes in himself, Ansem turns into a boat, and the player mashes X a lot!"
Number II
"Sora believes in himself, Xemnas turns into a boat, and the player mashes X a lot. And sometimes Triangle."
Number IX
"Sora believes in himself, Xehanort turns into a goat, and the player mashes L2 a lot. Well, at least someone turned into a boat."
Men of culture, I see
Nana. Xemnas turned into a living castle Dragon. Because im near damn sure thet thing is MADE out of parts from the castle. Ansem only was a whale boat. Castle Dragon with throne brain is way cooler...Also did you look at Xemnas Cape in his armor? THAT MAN...knows what is stylish!
more of a dragon than boat.
Wanna know something ironic? There actually is someone who saw Roxas as his own person besides Axel and Xion. That person? Riku.
Please clarify, cause I genuinely don't at all see how Riku treated him anything other than cruelly. Maybe not as much as DiZ, but cold nonetheless. I guess he did pity him a bit though, but not enough to ever tell him the truth or give him any agency over his fate like he did with Xion. In fact now that I think about it, every single interaction they had over the course of the series was antagonistic up until the end of kh3 (and that's never explained).
@@DLxxx I say hes basically like Axel, he wanted to see his friend again. Thats the only reasoning I can come up with
Another person who saw Roxas as his own person, who certainly did not deserve what befell him and had every right to live for himself. Someone who refused to accept that Roxas was never meant to be and insisted that he should be given the chance to live a real life like everyone else.
That person?
Sora.
Except not really Riku deliberately fucks with him in Days by bringing out his inner Sora, making Roxas's already massive identity complex worse. If anyone Sora's the only person aside from his other nobodys that treats him like a person.
Xehanort's actions perfectly fit his motives stated in BBS, he was spreading darkness because he believed there was too much light in the world and he was trying to balance it, and his KH3 motives fall in line with this. Also, yeah, Nomura makes shit up as he goes, we've known that
WATCH XIGBAR SCENES AND TELL ME THIS WASN"T PLANED LUXU
@@MrSailing101 The Luxu twist was amazing, but that was absolutely not what he planned from KH2. I can believe he planned it when he made Luxu, but not when he made Xigbar.
@@aneonfoxtribute then explain how Xigbar always knew more than he let on, if he hadn't always been Luxu
@@MrSailing101 Because he was Braig. He was in on Xehanort's real plans before everyone else.
@@aneonfoxtribute that neither changes nor contradicts my point. He had the knew more than what he let on attitude even in BBS, even to Xeahanort.
I wish, i wish, with all my might...
For a KH3 DLC secret boss fight with Gilgamesh. WITH ACCOMPANYING REMIX.
YES!
"You called, mongrel?" Wait wrong Gilgamesh-
May it be better than in FFXV.
Nomura only put FF characters he designed.
Union cross x fot heartless Gilgamesh so we going to get that or he and kefka stuck on mobile
Um...the Nobody rant at the Xemnas segment was funny at first, but using captions to cover the fight over your rant called back to your super old text countdowns.
Never call back to text countdowns.
I think the captions are meant to represent his editor putting in his own anecdotes.
It was just meant for some comedy, and the text got the point across without need for emotion that can be told only through voice
Josh has talked about this fight so many times that if he kept doing it the same way it would get repetitive. It's difficult to task about how great something is and keep it interesting the whole time
So happy to see sköll on this list, he is my favourite boss in KH3
Not mine. Took 7-8 tries to beat it.
Even if the level before it was NOT the best it could have been...
And at least his Instakill time limit ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE!!!
Favorite bosses per game (that I played/finished)
KH1FM: Riku-Ansem
KH2FM: Data Roxas
BBS: Final Vanitas
DDD: Wargoyle
KH3: Final Xehanort
Say what you want, Wargoyle is one of the few bosses in DDD that didn't annoy me
Eh, I liked Rinzler the best out of all of the bosses from the Disney worlds, Holey Moley and the Clawbsters had too much chasing down, Pete and the Beagle Boys are way too hard to block and are annoying since you have to fight them one after the other, Chernabog's fight was a bit too short and easy, Wargoyle hit me way too much in far too quick succession, Riku's fight in the Grid was okay, but nothing to write home about, and Spellican is just the worst
jrpludacrous fun fact, the Wargoyle fight was designed to dis-incentivise blind button mashing
@@DMDarren doesn't stop me from spamming Fire and Balloon magic till he dies
jrpludacrous lol
Wargoyle was a pain, but commantis is where the true pain in the as is. I'm going in proud mode so I may have a squed perspective, also I haven't finished DDD yet.
Sköll Desperation Phase doesn’t instakill you if you run out of time. You just take a truckload of damage. Depending on how you’re doing in the fight it is often faster to let the attack connect.
Lol i had it connect twice my 1st time. Lessened the urgency after the 1st time
The false Ansem is Xehanort's Heartless and thus takes the form of Xehanort in his prime. Xemnas is Terra's body with Xehanort's memories making him both Terra and Xehanort's Nobody...from a certain point of view.
Ok. After saying EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE IN from the number 2 entry, and actually AGREEING WITH MY THINKING THAT ROXAS IS THE BEST KH BOSS EVER, you deserve some time off, my man. YOU DESERVE IT.
This was nice but the Ansem(Seeker of Darkness), Xemnas, Young Xehenort fight at the end of 3 will always have a spot on my list, atleast number 5. This battle had been a long time coming and the music that accompanies it(which is a mix of all three bosses' themes), is simply bliss. Their attacks compliment each other well, depending on your level if your not careful one combo from them will wipe you out. I even enjoyed their end dialog which basically boiled down to
Xemnas: I regret my choice and I miss my "friends"
Ansem: I thought about being good but things started going downhill so screw it
Young Xehenort: Suck my D*ck, Darkness forever
Well, Young Xehanort was a teenager, and as we all know, teenagers can be the biggest little sh*ts ever.
Edit: Whoopsie poopsie, I did an oopsie. *censors*
Also fun fact about the xeanort fight in his final faze where he's armorless you can skip the entire fight by using the stich summon on him which if done correctly will reduce his health to a womping 1hp which then allows you to do the finishing move and beating him in under 30 seconds , yea I think this was a major oversight considering he isn't the only boss who can be destroyed instantly by the summons
The final boss Kingdom Hearts III you have to put that on the list and Sora vs Roxas I love this battle
Top 10 most memorable moments in KH series...no matter if good or bad.
Starting off the list with Groundshaker? Insta-like. It's amazing not only for every reason you mentioned, but the sheer SCALE of it. It's a supersized behemoth that you fight while being half or less of your normal size. That is an absolutely massive difference, making toppling such a gargantuan monstrosity even more satisfying. One for the history books.
17:25
"Simple. Clean. BAM!"
Josh you sly fox...
The key thing to remember about the plot for kingdom hearts and why Sora and Xaonort have so many different variations of themselves is because they are both similar in one aspect. They both have another person‘s heart within them.
And with all the other different variations of Xaonort they all had their own wants but the end goal was still the same and it didn’t matter if sometimes those plans conflicted with each other and eliminated some members because they just start over again they were technically immortal so what does it matter if they had to restart a few times. And what did it matter how many more lives he would ruin.
Ah, Kingdom Hearts bosses and Rules of Nature... I’m so glad to see you’re still doing that
My favorite line from the Axel fight is: Come here, I´ll make it all stop.
It sounds both menacing and mercifull at the same time, like a friend who knows how much you are suffering but in a realistic way cannot stop, so he does the one thing he can do, try to end your misery.
Considering you pumped out 4 or 5 videos this month as opposed to the normal 2 (at least for this channel), I'd say time off is well deserved
"I'm not talking about that here........That's for later."
When?
Also I'm personally hoping that 'Too Much Darkness OR Light is bad.' is followed up on in the next arc, and the next arc's villain(s) are Knights Templar for the Light.
Personally, I'd like if the next arc villain thought that Light was absolute good and targeted people like Riku, who uses darkness, or even people of nothingness like Roxas, Xion, etc.
Or heck, just bring back the concept of Nothingness they built up in Chain of Memories and KH2.
They technically already did that (horribly) with Xehanort at the last second.
@@AntiVillain26845 A little, I'm talking a whole game.
So effectively taking a Galeem VS Dharkon route
We do have the Lost Masters for the next saga.
I love how I can follow Josh's rant during xemnas and his concerns are valid but I still think it can be explains when you use the power of fridge brilliance
xehanort's motivations, xemnas's personality, I think they were adjacent enough for me to believe it
Roxas is hard as all hell, especially the first ever time you fight him, but it doesn't make me rage like other hard bosses in KH. He's been through so much that you can't help but feel alright with letting him use you as a punching bag.
5:40 welp, at least they redeemed themselves for the 2.5 Remix
good list btw
EDIT: WOOOW You expressed my thoughts on Xehanort and the story perfectly. I 'll add this: in the BBS secret reports he says that he sees too much light as the problem, so that's a pretty blatant retcon for KH3
During the sköll fight I ran away from everything when he became giant dark thing and it still gave me the reaction command
Shame I'll be taking a week long Internet absence to bypass April Fool's Day when this goes live.
Guess I'll have to come back to it when next Sunday.
One of my favourite unsung bosses from Kingdom Hearts is Dark Aqua from 3. Sure she's not the most difficult, nor the most epic, but she's one of the few bosses that really displays her emotional state over the fight, kinda like the final fight with Xion. That one attack where a bunch of copies of her wander aimlessly is a perfect representation of how endless travels in the realm of darkness have changed her, to her various spell focused combos you used to play as suddenly being turned against you. It's a fight that really made me feel like I was bringing someone lost back to the light and there's few bosses in Kingdom Hearts that evoke such a feeling.
Coincidentally, I was trying to beat the data organization on Critical Mode today. When fighting Roxas I thought “Wow, the Roxas battle might be my favorite boss battle of the series”. Awesome to see you placed him in #1!
Thanks for the month of really great countdowns Josh!
I know you probably don’t want to even think about kingdom hearts for a year, I would totally be up for a video specifically on Kingdom hearts story. Maybe a year from now.
My favorite fight is against Dark Aqua. The tension, the music, and the fight were incredible and I loved the end of that fight. Bringing Aqua back home to the realm of light. I have waited years for that chance.
11:20 Was this a JustaPancake reference? >:]
WAS THAT A MOTHERFLIPPING JUST A PANCAKE REFERENCE!
**MEGA DESTRUCTION DARK BALL OF DARKNESS AND DESTRUCTION**
And Knuckles
10: JAEGER!
9: Definitely worth all the build up.
8: I expected this guy to show up, every other Kingdom Hearts Boss list I've seen has him on it.
7: Where was Sora during One More Day? He could have been a big help.
6: All we need is a freaking robot for Sora to get into and Kingdom Hearts would have become Evangelion in its first game.
5: I bet everyone had some heavy catharsis when they got to this fight (Also disappointed by the lack of the :D face when you mentioned mythology).
4: Basically the gold standard for brutal super bosses.
3: BURN BABY!
2: Predictable.
1: RULES OF NATURE!
My favorite boss in Kingdom Hearts is Sköll from KH3 in the Arendelle world. His design is awesome, he’s a pretty good challenging boss and his attack is basically dropping a sun sized ball of destruction onto you.
Xemnas' name is a mashup of Xehanort AND Ansem. It's pretty clever, actually.
It’s not. Its Ansem with an x added and then scrambled to make Xemnas
I laughed a lot when John went rant berserk during Number, perfectly shows how fans feel on the retcons and KH story telling.
My list
10. Rinzler (DDD)
9. Saix (KH3)
8. Ansem (KH1)
7. Xigbar (KH2)
6. Xemnas (KH2)
5. Anti Aqua (KH3)
4. Riku Ansem (KH1)
3. Terranort (BBS)
2. Roxas (KH2)
1. Xemnas, Ansem, and Young Xehanort (KH3)
The Sephiroth theme song gives me flashbacks to trying to beat him in KH2 during the one summer my brother let me borrow his copy.
The satisfaction of finally doing it was IMMEASURABLE
Enjoy you vacation man great vid.
Totally agree with Roxas as number 1. His boss fight was so conflicting, I felt terrible while fighting him.
Boss Roxas is so awesome, even his Re:Coded fight is good.
Totally understand the break. It's been a busy month for you. Take some time and enjoy yourself, Josh! We'll be here when your ready to come back!
My favorite is VS Saix in KH3.
Not just for the actual fight, for for what goes on around it, the triumphant return that happens, and the happy tears afterward.
Welcome back, Roxas and Xion.
I can understand liking the fight from a story perspective. Gameplay-wise, I always thought Saix was a little too repetitive.
The month started with Roxas, Axel, and Xemnas as the top 3, and it ends with Roxas, Axel, and Xemnas as the top 3.
Interior Crocodile Alligator Hah, nice!
"mega destruction dark ball of darkness and destruction"
Phil Rytz ouchie ouch
@@emblemblade9245 you have to be an idiot to get hit by the mega destruction dark ball of darkness and destruction
*& Knuckles
I cried when he mentioned about Roxas and his past! Like if you agree
Thanks for a great kh month. Especially this countdown which I waited quite a bit for.
Fantastic work and enjoy a well deserved break :D
Great list!
Nice list. Personally, I was expecting the boss fight against the combo of Ansem, Xemnas and Young Xehanort in KH3. Still I enjoyed the list.
1:20 IS THAT A MOTHERFLIPPIN' JUST A PANCAKE REFERENCE?
Honestly, I just wanna give Roxas a hug after all the shit he's been through. He really deserved that happy ending in KH3
Groundshaker is also great because it shows just how freaking evil Scar was that his Heartless turned into that monster upon death.
That rant about KH’s plot holes and retcons was one of the best parts of any YT video I’ve ever seen, and I couldn’t agree with your sentiments more.
11:20 was that a fricking Justapancake reference?!
Indeed
Have a good break Josh.
And great list.
Wow Josh, thanks for the birthday present.
Best bosses in Kingdom Hearts series: nearly every boss in Kingdom Hearts 2. They are just amazing. Especially the data organization battles!
Yup.
Only bad ones are Data Demyx and Data Luxord.
Swordking X4 yea I agree. Those types of bosses become a game of chance instead of skill
about what you said while your editor explained #2, im gonna quote you on this "its kindom hearts, dont question it"
Josh, the reason Xehanort's nobody looks like that is because the nobody is the animated body left behind and Xehanort was possessing Terra's body.
The reason nobodies are considered as nonexistant is because as far as they've aware they have no emotions and will not have an afterlife if they die, as opposed to Heartless which respawn eventually if anything that isn't a Keyblade kills them, and the Keybkade frees them. The fact that their hearts regrow wa skept a secret.
As for Xehanort's motivations...ehh, I'll go with "The Dark side Will Make You Forget." Kind of like how it screwed with Riku in game 1 even before Xehanort's heartless got involved. And that's not to mention all the Voldemort levels of self experimentation and mutilation he did to his own heart and body probably screwing with memory and the brain in general.
Go ahead and take the time off. You earned it. And I must say, this list was a simple joy to watch. Bosses like these are awesome.
In regards to the Arendelle level in KH3, I would recommend checking out Game Theory's video on it. Their theory on who the TRUE boss was meant to be REALLY makes the level a lot more interesting...
Honestly surprised out of all the kingdom hearts 1 bosses that made it, Kurt Zisa was not it. He was easily the best fight in that game.
Agree
I'd Knew Axel made the list and I'd actually remembered playing Kingdom Hearts 2
Hey Josh scorcher you have your break and editors to you have great day 👍
I love all the dragon ball z abridged references. Nice throwback to some older episodes
You know, with Skoll, you don't actually insta-die if the dark sun crashes into the ground when the timer runs out...
But you do take a TONNE of damage!
Believe me, I had it happen to me during a Lv.1 run I was doing of the game... It was brutal.
Hey you should do a top 10 list of your favorite kingdom hearts allies (besides Donald and goofy)
The rant at entry 2 was hilariously accurate to how most of us are about the series (as far as what I've seen)
You gotta love how number 8 is followed by number 18
Well done Josh. You’ve kept yourself quite busy. Enjoy your month-long break. See you back in May. 👏👍😁👍❤️🇺🇸🍻!
I die laughing when he said hans heartless runs around the Arena like scar
Not to mention that Axel Screams out
TH-cam ad: Turn up the heat
Me: Okay I believe you
Actually when I did the boss fight against the seeker of darkness in the first kingdom hearts game with V1.5 HD remix on the PS3, there must’ve been a glitch in my copy because there were a few times I died and instead of being taken all the way back to the beginning of the fight I was left right where I left off which was wonderful :-) especially like I said considering that I am a girl who is partially blind the pitch black room is just weren’t going to do it for me!
I love how josh favorite line from axel is "BURN BABY"
And reminder is set👍
I like how one of the reasons you like Skoll so much is because they did the Demyx thing *right.*
1:22 i am the only one in the WORLD who kinda liked antlantica yes from KH1 i dident have a problem with it.
I'm kinda in the minority where I like both incarnations of atlantica. Maybe I'm tone deaf or something but I didn't mind the musical segments in kh2 atlantica
My only beef with KH1's Atlantica was that it takes a while since you need to clear out all the Heartless for the dolphin.
Sadly i only played the first game i was going to get the 2.5 but the store did not have it
@@GamingWarlord64
Keep looking and you'll find it.
We appreciate the work you guys too. Take 5, Josh... or 30; you’ve earned it.
I love the choice of bosses. Ill admit, fighting roxas brought me to tears
You made Anti-Aqua the number transition scene.
You're really trying my patience Joshua.
i always thought your final video for kh month would be favorite characters from the series o well
Game Theory actually addressed the Arrendale boss, and what they came up with actually kinda makes sense. I think you'd enjoy it, Josh.
When you think about its probably why Roxas is so aggressive as a boss, especially in his data battle.
I can see a little bit of me in him, the play-style of hit first & win the fight.
Which makes it more feelsy since his AI is similar to me, to which this was one of those fights where I had to play on the defensive. It was en emotional ride after watching 358/2 days, and I could only feel a small rush of passion after finally putting him down.
thank you editor for explaining the number 2 spot for him :)
There's the old Josh. I enjoyed this thoroughly
GIANT MEGA DESTRUCTION DARK BALL OF DARKNESS AND DESTRUCTION
AND KNUCKLES
Matpat over at Game Theory actually deduced that Skoll was supposed to be *Elsa's* Heartless and that the level was cut down due to marketing. That would have been awesome!
Xemnas On Kingdom Hearts 2 Still Remains my all time favorite boss in the series. Just so hype.
The Xemnas rant was the best thing I've heard in a long time
I know that I was supposed to be reading what the editor was typing but I just kept agreeing with Josh's rant.
Tyler Witt That’s the fun of it lol
#1 RULES OF NATURE
15:48 - 18:05 geez he talk a lot that long i just died laughing
Nice to know my fav KH3 boss is his fav KH3 boss hehe. Yeah I was loving that Wolf fight too Josh.
I never played KH2 Final mix, so I never got to fight Roxas. Needless to say I am kind of glad I didn't because fighting Roxas would have torn me up inside. So my Fav Boss fight is your #2. That was epic!
true story, first time i saw Chernabog i nearly shit myself, i was like "ohhh... fuck!" as i was not expecting to fight him, hearing the remix to Night on Bald Mountain, i may as well have heard "smack my bitch up" playing in the background, cause i knew that this wasnt gonna be an easy one.