This song perfectly conveys 3 things 1) Obscuring and unknown 2) Threatening and Dangerous 3) Urgency and Panic All three of these going through Roxas’s head the first time he sees a Nobody, as well as us.
"First time he sees A nobody" bro thats the motherload of nobodys! Thats the bigest THING Roxas has ever seen (not counting memory wipe) and 8 y/o me was feeling the same dread as Roxas, to this day this song gives me chills 😅
I always liked the little detail of how Dusks always took time to do a gloating dance before delivering the finishing strike to their enemies. It made the little buggers feel way more sadistic than they looked/acted.
In KH 358/2 manga those little fuckers scribbled on the face of the comatose Roxas and even plugged up his nose. Due to a misunderstanding, Xion thought Xemnas did it.
Fun fact: for those who like to listen to their own music while gaming, and those who play age of calamity, this music goes INSANELY well with the "Calamity strikes" main story mission
Can we talk a moment about the redone voice lines for Roxas in combat? He sounds considerably less... Roxas-like. And more Ventus-like. Its almost criminal to remove him going "RAH!" when finishing a combo.
@@kevinkaslana9060 A good amount of Roxas’s voice clips were recycled from Days on the DS as well which honestly works very well! It is kinda strange that they replaced almost all of his voice clips from the original version of 2 with the exception of Kay, Cmon, Er, Oww etc with Clips from BBS that are Ven’s but he stills sounds good it’s just not exactly the same.
@@narutoboy423 kh2 was released before bbs, that’s why roxas looks different in the original kh2 on the ps2. in the final mix they tried to make him look more similar to ventus because ventus’ character wasn’t fully developed when kh2 first came out.
I remember this song playing while fighting Beast and my girlfriend saying "that's really dramatic music" 😂 I love this soundtrack but I do see her point
0:42 That’s the only thing I love about this version That little moment where the violin goes up It doesn’t do it in the other versions but it sounds amazing There’s A video on TH-cam that’s called KH2 + KH3 Tensions Rising DualMix by D MAS. Listen to ittttttttt.
Kingdom Hearts 2 probably had the best battles, a mix of player-driven and cutscene-driven. The best of both worlds. You get the intensity and the player agency of the interactive sections whilst the well-timed reactions turned the fight into a cutscene for a short while. These cutscenes would generally be really well choreographed so you get to see what the player character can do. It's unfortunatley the best way to make an interactive fight feel like something out of a movie like the Matrix at the moment. VR should hopefully change things by suggesting a response to you and letting you do the rest from a special position, such as consciously aiming a sword to parry another sword whilst you're falling to the ground? Eh, the ultimate fantasy of an action game is an interactive and well-choreographed battle between the player-character and a boss character.
@MrWereverForever some worlds yes deep jungle is pretty annoying and some look the same but traverse town is probably the only world that doesn't have the problem of looking the same but I just like being let lose in a non linear level to explore
It’s fr my favorite game of all time right next to Arkham city. 3 was fire don’t get me wrong but think it was just being 13 an playing the game around that time idk I’ve beat 2 like 8 times no 🧢
Imma be honest, I just started getting into Kingdom Hearts again and I started noticing the differences in the music. I prefer the original if I’m being honest. It’s still a great remix.
@@theidioticgamer893 It's a (worse) remaster of KH2's PS2 soundtrack. A good number of songs are better in the remaster, but the original blows some tracks like this one out of the water
@@theidioticgamer893 except it is. Most of the tracks got remixed, listen to desire for all that is lost, both versions and you will definitely hear a difference.
I agree for a lot of these tracks. I liked the synthetic violin over the real one for tracks like KH2’s overworld theme and The Thirteenth Struggle, but I blame some of that on nostalgia. The biggest problem about the remastered tracks is the bad equalizer. Sometimes, there are instruments in tracks that you were supposed to hear, but you can barely hear them anymore when remastered. An example is in A Fight to the Death where you’re supposed to hear the piano play a segment of Dearly Beloved, but it’s barely audible. Another example is the piano that was originally GOING TO TOWN at the beginning of Sinister Shadows is now blown off the radar by the violas/drums/cellos. I can still recognize the instruments but I get saddened about it because other friends and my spouse might not even realize and appreciate all of the detail of the music you’re supposed to hear and feel when their first playthrough is the remastered game.
Demyx: “Huh? Oh you!” (Turns around and pulls off hood) Demyx: “Wait a sec! Roxas?” Sora: “Excuse me?” Demyx: “Roxas?!” Demyx: “Oh It’s no use.” (Shuffles through pocket and pulls out a note) Demyx: “Let’s see here. ‘If the subject fails to respond, use aggression to liberate his true disposition.’ Right, did they pick the wrong guy for this one.” Sora: “Your bizarre.” Demyx: (Pulls out Olympus stone) Goofy: “Hey he’s gotta be the thief!” Demyx: “Hey! Now that’s just plain rude!” Demyx: (Holds up the stone and summons sitar) Demyx: “Dance water dance!” After battle: Demyx: “Ugh. Oof. Roxas, come back to us!” (Disappears through a dark corridor)
>Appears out of nowhere >Has the most fluid animation known to man for something that mirrors the Darkside encounter's scale from the first game >great music >Introduces the franchise to reaction commands to show how battles can be extra dynamic >refuses to elaborate >is never rematched, or seen from ever again after this instance (aside from an unused fight in DDD) >dies
I used to hate this version of the song but as I listened to it more often with headphones, and just in game while playing it, I have a much better appreciation for it and almost like it more than the original. It just kinda sounds a lot worse when coming out say phone speakers as opposed to with headphones.
I dont hope Sora in Smash, but at least he can be arranged into it as a Special Mii Swordfighter, like Cuphead and Sans, but with this music alongside it
I see nobody in this comments section mentioning Twilight Thorn, so let's rectify that. God, I love how unnatural it looks. The way it wiggles around, stretches its limbs unnaturally, and how it always seems to have this waviness to it. I like that about all the standard Nobodies, really. It's simultaneously angular and jarringly smooth and also abrupt with its movements. Standard Nobodies are always in motion, seemingly unable to stand still.
But what makes Twilight Thorn so striking is that he's so big. I'm kind of accustomed to smaller enemies moving around all jittery-like (think of the Flood Unversed from BBS, or even some of the Heartless), but the Twilight Thorn? It's like, Darkside-level huge but still moves around as frenetically as an insect
I personally think both of them are perfect for the unnatural danger conveyed by the, twisted, bendy, disturbing, emotionless husks they're connected to.
@@jinthekingkazama1159 the opposite actually, the original one feels more intense... this one feels like they are trying to censor the drums and the piano... in other words: the drums doesn't sound as intense as on the original ost.
INFORMATION: Help the CPUs defeat Dark Purple! Use Reaction Commands to send blasts of Share Energy towards the Dark CPU! ((A little Megadimension Neptunia VII stuff :P))
3Crafters But we shouldn’t have NEEDED a dlc to get a higher or tougher challenge. That is just bullshit. Does that happen in ff7, no. After you beat Normal mode (which is pretty tough), there’s a hard mode added to the game. No update, no dlc... none of that. And even then, the limits and reaction commands are still the (don’t touch anything and win style)
@@cloudshines812 well that's the game's mechanics, your critics won't change them, you can either decide to not use it (it's not like you HAVE to use then to finish the game, you decide if you use it or not) or simply don't play the game and watch the cutscenes... problem solved
@@cloudshines812 One. Play on critical mode. Two the Final Mix versions of previous games are literally just DLC in concept. And "This game shouldn't have needed DLC" is literally a fallacy to claim.
Everyone’s saying the original sounded significantly better, but I personally can’t really tell the difference except for the fact that this one has cool violin instruments and the original doesn’t. I gotta give them more of a listen to notice it.
There's so much more going on in the mid and bass levels in this new version. I think because the older version didn't have so much going on in those ranges, it was more appropriate for the snare to be louder and more pronounced. In this version, the lower register carries everything. It's more balanced IMO.
This song perfectly conveys 3 things
1) Obscuring and unknown
2) Threatening and Dangerous
3) Urgency and Panic
All three of these going through Roxas’s head the first time he sees a Nobody, as well as us.
"The first time he sees a Nobody?" He IS one!
@@OzzyNe0n canonically, he doesn't know that because of the fake personality Diz gave him.
"First time he sees A nobody" bro thats the motherload of nobodys! Thats the bigest THING Roxas has ever seen (not counting memory wipe) and 8 y/o me was feeling the same dread as Roxas, to this day this song gives me chills 😅
"Please Master, PLEASE! Compose Yourself!"
-Cogsworth
Lol I remember that
I thought Cogsworth was saying "control yourself"
LOL this is why I love kingdom hearts
I instantly activated valor form lol
"Dance Water Dance"
-Demyx
Dance water dance.... thank hades demyx was going easy on us.... THIS Time
Demyx time 😎
Demyx should have been one of the last Organization members to fight, he was way too hard to be an early boss.
@@Horneroid I agreed. But he decided to make him an early hard boss
@@yamigivo2693 Wait do you think Demyx was originally a late game boss? Because in the manga he lasts till the world that never was.
@@Horneroid idk but it didn’t occur to me after what you just said there. That he could’ve been a later boss because he’s pretty strong
I always liked the little detail of how Dusks always took time to do a gloating dance before delivering the finishing strike to their enemies.
It made the little buggers feel way more sadistic than they looked/acted.
In KH 358/2 manga those little fuckers scribbled on the face of the comatose Roxas and even plugged up his nose. Due to a misunderstanding, Xion thought Xemnas did it.
Imagine losing a fight and ya enemy starts Fortnite dancing on you before delivering the final blow
Lyrics: Re-Ver-Sal Re-Ver-Sal Re-Ver-Sal
×100
Come on you hit x at least like 2 times
I can't unhear it now. Argh ! C'mon dude ! This meme is dead.
you know
this actually works
@Gabriel Gaster, just listened to the original version that had this exact same comment
@@theoneandonly9924
It was a good comment.
Fun fact: for those who like to listen to their own music while gaming, and those who play age of calamity, this music goes INSANELY well with the "Calamity strikes" main story mission
I can see it
I bet that goes hard
This isn’t a fun fact, this is a suggestion . I am fuming right now. i cant believe someone just did this.
And both this song and the song from that mission give me anxiety lmao but love both
@@Matt-ok5nx exactly why aoc goes with anything
This is what Corona hears when it sees the two gummy vitamins you had
😆
not the gummy vitamins coming for carona LOL
the flintstone gummy vitamins
why not 7?
My first thought was the kingdom of Corona and was confused why they care about the vitamins. Then I was like oh right. Lol
Can we talk a moment about the redone voice lines for Roxas in combat? He sounds considerably less... Roxas-like. And more Ventus-like. Its almost criminal to remove him going "RAH!" when finishing a combo.
Wait they were redone? I thought they had just literally took Ventus Voice Lines from BBS and gave them to Roxas
Yes. In the remaster, Roxas' grunts were made almost identical to Ven's grunts. A little bit of a shame, but I think it's cool.
@@kevinkaslana9060 A good amount of Roxas’s voice clips were recycled from Days on the DS as well which honestly works very well!
It is kinda strange that they replaced almost all of his voice clips from the original version of 2 with the exception of Kay, Cmon, Er, Oww etc with Clips from BBS that are Ven’s but he stills sounds good it’s just not exactly the same.
@@narutoboy423 kh2 was released before bbs, that’s why roxas looks different in the original kh2 on the ps2. in the final mix they tried to make him look more similar to ventus because ventus’ character wasn’t fully developed when kh2 first came out.
roxas’ original battle quotes are so much better.
"Don't stop moving, or the darkness will overtake you!"
Get Goin'!
"Why?"
Don't Ask, Just Do it!
"I tried going after Kairi, but she slipped away from me. After that, Saix caught her. That's another member of the Organization. Saix. S-A-I-X."
GOT IT MEMORIZED
This version of Tension Rising will always be one of the best out of the series
Other than PS2 KH2's
precisely💯💯💯💯
Tension Rising (Reaper's Revenge) would like to have a word with you
@@soudakatt it sucks.
@@johnpantag472 bro nah
The homework: *is due at **11:59*
The clock: *shows **11:00*
The homework: *isn't done yet*
Information: Finish your homework before you get an F !
🔺️ guess
I remember this song playing while fighting Beast and my girlfriend saying "that's really dramatic music" 😂 I love this soundtrack but I do see her point
its supposed to be dramatic.
@@johnpantag472 but against Beast, it’s not exactly the most fitting.
Lol, this music playing when they is seemingly nothing of significance on screen
Please, master! Please! COMPOSE yourself!
It's a crime to not include this song in smash..
I can feel my own "tension rising" while listening to this. *shudders in memory of crit run*
0:42
That’s the only thing I love about this version
That little moment where the violin goes up
It doesn’t do it in the other versions but it sounds amazing
There’s A video on TH-cam that’s called KH2 + KH3 Tensions Rising DualMix by D MAS.
Listen to ittttttttt.
Same XD
I miss Roxas.
let's just say he's on KH3... i won't say more than that
Well he's in kh3 if u played it by now
@@naoaquieopatrickpatrick8565 the voice acting doesn't felt like roxas, its like we having 2 ventus
As a playable character… I really do miss him
Ah, a fellow Gunbreaker :)
While i overall prefer the original, the violin at 0:42 just sells this for me.
incredible detail!
I personally really like this version of the song
Kingdom Hearts 2 probably had the best battles, a mix of player-driven and cutscene-driven. The best of both worlds. You get the intensity and the player agency of the interactive sections whilst the well-timed reactions turned the fight into a cutscene for a short while. These cutscenes would generally be really well choreographed so you get to see what the player character can do. It's unfortunatley the best way to make an interactive fight feel like something out of a movie like the Matrix at the moment. VR should hopefully change things by suggesting a response to you and letting you do the rest from a special position, such as consciously aiming a sword to parry another sword whilst you're falling to the ground? Eh, the ultimate fantasy of an action game is an interactive and well-choreographed battle between the player-character and a boss character.
The world's were too linear for my liking. They are called world's for a reason. Should have made them like kh1
Or you can spam the reaction command
It's shit.
@MrWereverForever some worlds yes deep jungle is pretty annoying and some look the same but traverse town is probably the only world that doesn't have the problem of looking the same but I just like being let lose in a non linear level to explore
It’s fr my favorite game of all time right next to Arkham city. 3 was fire don’t get me wrong but think it was just being 13 an playing the game around that time idk I’ve beat 2 like 8 times no 🧢
Imma be honest, I just started getting into Kingdom Hearts again and I started noticing the differences in the music. I prefer the original if I’m being honest. It’s still a great remix.
This is no ducking remix what the duck are you Talking about
@@theidioticgamer893 It's a (worse) remaster of KH2's PS2 soundtrack. A good number of songs are better in the remaster, but the original blows some tracks like this one out of the water
@@theidioticgamer893 except it is. Most of the tracks got remixed, listen to desire for all that is lost, both versions and you will definitely hear a difference.
I agree for a lot of these tracks. I liked the synthetic violin over the real one for tracks like KH2’s overworld theme and The Thirteenth Struggle, but I blame some of that on nostalgia.
The biggest problem about the remastered tracks is the bad equalizer. Sometimes, there are instruments in tracks that you were supposed to hear, but you can barely hear them anymore when remastered. An example is in A Fight to the Death where you’re supposed to hear the piano play a segment of Dearly Beloved, but it’s barely audible. Another example is the piano that was originally GOING TO TOWN at the beginning of Sinister Shadows is now blown off the radar by the violas/drums/cellos. I can still recognize the instruments but I get saddened about it because other friends and my spouse might not even realize and appreciate all of the detail of the music you’re supposed to hear and feel when their first playthrough is the remastered game.
Dance, water, dance!
I hate you e.e
Wrong theme.
When the chihuahua has you cornered and you cant escape @0:30
@@ErikaWeiss633 No, not the wrong theme. This theme plays when you _first_ encounter Demyx, in the Underworld.
Yeah, except Demyx doesn't put up _that_ much of a fight. In fact, he goes easy and then chickens out.
2015: This is cool music!
2016: This is epic music!
2017: This is awesome music!
2018: This is super duper great music!
2019: *ROBLOX HOTEL*
Yes BLOXTON HOTELS
@@smoreblox3485 5 months ago! Wow!
Demyx: “Huh? Oh you!” (Turns around and pulls off hood)
Demyx: “Wait a sec! Roxas?”
Sora: “Excuse me?”
Demyx: “Roxas?!”
Demyx: “Oh It’s no use.” (Shuffles through pocket and pulls out a note)
Demyx: “Let’s see here. ‘If the subject fails to respond, use aggression to liberate his true disposition.’ Right, did they pick the wrong guy for this one.”
Sora: “Your bizarre.”
Demyx: (Pulls out Olympus stone)
Goofy: “Hey he’s gotta be the thief!”
Demyx: “Hey! Now that’s just plain rude!”
Demyx: (Holds up the stone and summons sitar)
Demyx: “Dance water dance!”
After battle:
Demyx: “Ugh. Oof. Roxas, come back to us!”
(Disappears through a dark corridor)
Sora: Guy's a broken record.
Demyx: "Please come back to us!"
Sora: "No"
Demyx: *Summons Sitar*
Demyx: *'So you have chosen DEATH"*
U forgot the part where Sora says "Guys a broken record!"
This song gave me goosebumps as a kid
if you asked me. this might be the best battle theme ever created. just my opinion. but its lived rent free in my head for almost 20 years.
This song is so good 😂❤❤
>Appears out of nowhere
>Has the most fluid animation known to man for something that mirrors the Darkside encounter's scale from the first game
>great music
>Introduces the franchise to reaction commands to show how battles can be extra dynamic
>refuses to elaborate
>is never rematched, or seen from ever again after this instance (aside from an unused fight in DDD)
>dies
I played all three versions of this music at the same time, they dont match sometimes but I think its actually the best version of this song.
dance water dance
Dance Water Dance
DANCE WATER DANCE
*DANCE* *WATER* *DANCE*
Bro this song should’ve made smash one of if not the best battle themes in gaming history
I used to hate this version of the song but as I listened to it more often with headphones, and just in game while playing it, I have a much better appreciation for it and almost like it more than the original. It just kinda sounds a lot worse when coming out say phone speakers as opposed to with headphones.
It sounds much bigger than the original
Yesssir
@Cloud Shines81 why?
it's because of that string section hitting hard instead of being midi
I can imagine this song in smash
I dont hope Sora in Smash, but at least he can be arranged into it as a Special Mii Swordfighter, like Cuphead and Sans, but with this music alongside it
@@SparkGamer-24 NOPE. Sora is in SMASH! :D
This song is however not in it :/ Oh well
This theme can play in your mind when your worst fears EVER, COME TO LIFE!!!!!!
POV: You're fighting a boss in 358/2 Days
Or as I like to call it the main mini-boss theme
DaNcE wAtEr DaNcE
When you see a spider in your room
I see nobody in this comments section mentioning Twilight Thorn, so let's rectify that.
God, I love how unnatural it looks. The way it wiggles around, stretches its limbs unnaturally, and how it always seems to have this waviness to it. I like that about all the standard Nobodies, really. It's simultaneously angular and jarringly smooth and also abrupt with its movements. Standard Nobodies are always in motion, seemingly unable to stand still.
But what makes Twilight Thorn so striking is that he's so big. I'm kind of accustomed to smaller enemies moving around all jittery-like (think of the Flood Unversed from BBS, or even some of the Heartless), but the Twilight Thorn? It's like, Darkside-level huge but still moves around as frenetically as an insect
I’ll never forgive them for removing it from DDD
My Mother is Chicken Hearted Scared of that Creature. xD
Dance water dance
Nico: ohh! He said the thing!!
Uh oh...uh oh
This is what my depression hears when it sees the same show I’ve watched multiple times come on screen
This song is so good
"D A N C E W A T E R D A N C E"
Dance water, dance
In gameplay, this is the superior version. But separately i prefer original :)
ELIZABETH HE DIDN'T SIGN THE CONTRACT
What does that mean?
when you missed the school bus and you are running late to school
Why do i hear boss music?
I love this song
I like the old one better tbh. The Remix is cool and all but the original theme is preferable.
Not for me.
I personally think both of them are perfect for the unnatural danger conveyed by the, twisted, bendy, disturbing, emotionless husks they're connected to.
@@Spiralpaladin
This one is louder and harder than the other one which is lower and softer that's why i like this one better.
@@jinthekingkazama1159 the opposite actually, the original one feels more intense... this one feels like they are trying to censor the drums and the piano... in other words: the drums doesn't sound as intense as on the original ost.
@@naoaquieopatrickpatrick8565
That's your opinion, and everyone has opinions, but i disagree with you.
After careful consideration I'd say this version is better. Granted I heard this one first
Now i know why the nobodys dance while fighting
INFORMATION: Help the CPUs defeat Dark Purple! Use Reaction Commands to send blasts of Share Energy towards the Dark CPU!
((A little Megadimension Neptunia VII stuff :P))
Axel : Got it memorized?
Press triangle to lunarsault!
So damn good
"Hey! This Mother Fucker Got The Fake J's" - Slick Goku
For me this is like taking 3 line of powder 10 years still have the effect
Not bad roxas
The KH3 version perfected it
Oh no! The rain is causing the cave to flood!
Dance, water, dance ❤
Maaan why does kh3 have so few reaction commands
Because the combat style seems to be: let’s give the players no challenge whatsoever and they don’t even need to touch the controller to win
@@cloudshines812 well re mind dlc fixed the difficulty problem... at least the higher difficulties became... harder...
3Crafters But we shouldn’t have NEEDED a dlc to get a higher or tougher challenge. That is just bullshit. Does that happen in ff7, no. After you beat Normal mode (which is pretty tough), there’s a hard mode added to the game. No update, no dlc... none of that. And even then, the limits and reaction commands are still the (don’t touch anything and win style)
@@cloudshines812 well that's the game's mechanics, your critics won't change them, you can either decide to not use it (it's not like you HAVE to use then to finish the game, you decide if you use it or not) or simply don't play the game and watch the cutscenes... problem solved
@@cloudshines812 One. Play on critical mode.
Two the Final Mix versions of previous games are literally just DLC in concept. And "This game shouldn't have needed DLC" is literally a fallacy to claim.
When Keef gets real.
This is the better match of destiny’s force
I kinda wish we fought twilight thorn again as Sora.
Sora fighting Twilight Thorn and Roxas fighting Darkside 👌 Imagine the tag team of those 2 together
I call on the Moons pale Light
Why is it missing some counterpoint at 0:58? It's little details like that that make me prefer the original.
A medallion get it!
To the heartless Sora is a impossible 2 - hit boss in standard mode tbh
I wish we had shotlock in this game
KH 3 Re:Mind may be epic and all, but nothing, NOTHING beats KH 2
Fight back against the darkness
The real question is this: 2.5 ost? Or 2? Cause some of the songs have changed dramatically in 2.5
Everyone’s saying the original sounded significantly better, but I personally can’t really tell the difference except for the fact that this one has cool violin instruments and the original doesn’t. I gotta give them more of a listen to notice it.
Soldier heartless hear!
Gotta say.. Replacing the trumpets with MORE violins was a mistake.
i only play kingdom hearts for the music, and nothing else.
Actually i lied, i also play for goofy.
This sounds like angelic amber
I went back to this and the original and forgot how they went all in🫨
DONALD HEAL!
When there's 10 minutes left on the test:
Madara with the second boulder:
This plays so much on kh days. But I guess it's kind of Roxas's theme
Me in roblox hotel story fight: me AUTO JENJUTSU AND BRING PACKS OF REVERSE CARD UNO
*camera rapidly zooming in and out*
They should of combined the original and 2.5 remix together honestly.
Check this out: th-cam.com/video/UvcWUSi7yq0/w-d-xo.html.
forgeting your iphone 11 passcode:
Yeah i know thats different game but- camping vibes
HEY!!! THIS MF GOT THEM FAKE JS!!!!
Needs more SNARE barely even audible when it was such a major part of the original. Though poor mixing is a general issue with the remastered themes.
There's so much more going on in the mid and bass levels in this new version. I think because the older version didn't have so much going on in those ranges, it was more appropriate for the snare to be louder and more pronounced. In this version, the lower register carries everything. It's more balanced IMO.
This is the worst music to hear when you walk down an alley
Nobody nobody NOBODY!!!
ram ranch
B.I.H.
emeraldfrick
I don't believe it it's that giant white thing
Pijack ...
Funny haha AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WERE ARE GONNA DIEEEEEEEEEEEEE DUDJJDJDJEJDJDJJDJDJD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WERE DEADDDDDDD song
Woodken ghaou
It's pijas
Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like a nokia ringtone?
Twilight Thorn is the EASIEST boss
Sad we only see 1 battle, as if the Darkside is Square Enix's Charizard