wait.....solid!? like solid snake!? like thee solid snake!? hero of shadow moses!? like solid snake from metal gear solid, and liquid snake too!? metal gear solid reference!?!??!?!?
My 3-year-old son calls KH2:"gather" because he heard me abusing Magnega to farm. So now he'll occasionally come up to me and ask me to "play gather" so he can stand in front of the TV and try to mimic Sora.
I honestly thought that if Sora was put in smash, they would change the Mickey Keychain emblem to Sora's crown symbol, or something of similar importance to the series, without it being a Disney reference, but they still did it, so that was nice. I do wish there was more music though.
I'm not sure the validity of this, but I read on the internet (the most trusted source, I know) that Disney had very little concerns about Sora being in Smash. It was actually Nomura who was extremely hesitant about giving anyone reigns to his characters. So they might've even been able to go all the way with Disney references if they wanted to. Assuming that the translated interview article is accurate.
Oh man, you would not believe the difference between the ds and movie version of Days. The mission system, gameplay and pacing make it the most emotional and strongest story in the series BY far for me. It’s right below my favorite, just because of the experience it leaves you with. I love your KH vids tho so this was a delight to see
Exactly. I have a guide for 358/2 and I thoroughly enjoyed the game and 100%ing it. It’s one of my favorite in the series. I guess it’s just one of those things where “ya had to be there”
I'm surprised you haven't given them all a try. Re Coded does not have an enthralling story, but the gameplay is fun. And 358/2 days is monotonous especially going back to nowadays, but the story really sucked me in back in the day.
IMO Re:Coded and 358/2 Days are kinda opposite in that way-Re:Coded has a basically meaningless story with great gameplay (though I'm biased towards command decks over pure magic, like in the mainline games) and 358/2 Days has a great story (the best in the series, in my opinion) but kinda lame gameplay. 358/2 Days does have other characters being playable in Mission Mode, though, which I always appreciated. I think they both are probably among the best of the DS game library, even if they might not overall be among the best of the Kingdom Hearts game library.
The moments in Hollow Bastion works as a remembrance/tribute to Roxas are quite vital. Too bad it takes so much retreads to get to, but the TWEWY like gameplay helps to get you there.
To be fair it would probably feel like playing Persona 3 after playing Persona 4, Persona 3 was a great game but if you played Persona 4 first then Persona 3 is nearly unplayable with all the lacking QoL things added into Persona 4, playing those old handheld games after having played all the main line games would probably make them feel really clunky and chunky as a pose to playing them when they first came out so it wouldn't really be a fair representation and would probably score pretty low just due to being mechanically clunkier without the benefit of nostalgia to over look that chunkiness. It is a shame they didn't actually make them playable in the 1.5/2.5/2.8 remake collections I would have loved to play Re:Coded on the big screen but I am sure that they didn't port those 2 games because they would have had to do a lot of work to port a DS title to a device with only 1 screen and no touch screen. yeah I know they did it for DDD but that is probably because the bottom screen was pretty much only used for the Tamagotchi part of the game and so could be more easily ignored. Just found my ReCoded cartridge and I realized that I never actually got around to playing it despite buying it when it came out, I just had to many games to play at the time, I am going to have to boot that up and play now that I know where it is... I thought I had played it but nope after playing about 5 minutes it was just like "yeah I don't remember this type of FFX style leveling at all, I guess I never actually got around to it". (And yes I realize I say I am going to play it right after saying it will probably loose some value if played out of order, but at the same time I already own a physical copy of the game and didn't just go out and buy it so it is not like I am paying money to play it despite being out of order)
Hey! After watching your videos a few hears ago I finally beat my first critical mode run in KH2 and beat Sephiroth today after getting the Winner’s Proof. So i just wanted to say thanks for making great KH content and just great content in general
Kh3 was amazing but kh2 felt the most fun, including the forms and the final boss fight when you are blocking the 1000 beams with riku really hit different
Yeah, kh2 kicks ass. I love all three main entries a lot, and I have a good feeling kh4 is gonna be some thing really special. Kh3 had huge expectations, poor marketing, a really convoluted story to tackle, a whole different team, and some heavily troubled development. It's honestly a miracle it didn't turn out a complete disaster like sonic 06. They don't have to deal with that kind of stuff for kh4 though, so I'm really hopeful!
0.2 was honestly so fun imo. All the challenges made for an engaging way to extend game length while also being rewarding because of the cosmetics. We all know how much people obsessed over Sora's crown in KH2. It had decent combat, a great secret boss fight, and some of the best level design we've seen in the franchise with the worlds full of puzzles and interactive environments. While the game was only 2-3 hours long, you could easily go up to 10 hours trying to complete and collect everything. I wish KH3 had more stuff like that in their worlds. I feel like they started off doing that in Olympus with things like the forge giving you a new shield for goofy and the golden Herc statues you could find but it dropped off pretty hard in favor of lucky emblems and photo missions.
I think it was better than DDD due to story alone, but it was a slog to play. Starting over with each character to visit the same worlds got old quickly by the second character.
@@scottbecker4367 Yeah they feel like opposite DDD has a more fast pace gameplay, which is fun to play altough extremely unbalance *caugh* Ballons Command *caugh*, but goddamn the story is so dumb in DDD, and the way they handle time travel is.... just wow you manage to make one of the most confusing plot device even more confusing just wow. BBS is extremely unbalance and very slow to play, but it's story is more engaging and far less confusing than DDD, even tough I want to punch Terra in the face on pretty much every cutscene he is in. So I guess it's just a matter of if you prefer Gameplay over story or the opposite.
I think BBS was a solid game, but by God the gameplay was clunky. You could tell it was Osaka team's first go at the franchise. I think there's a lot to enjoy about the game, but the way combat just flows is all wrong and awkward. Switching straight over from KH2, which is flawless, to BBS is like going from day to night. In terms of the games with real-time combat, I honestly think BBS might only be surpassed in how bad it is by 358/2 Days, but even then I think there's a debate to be had there. And porting BBS to the PS4 only made those flaws so much more glaring. I enjoyed DDD's gameplay and combat more, but the story was worse, the Dream Eaters were annoying, and everything about the vibe of the game just felt...off. But of course, nothing compares to the absolute atrocities that are the mobile games. Those barely even count as games at all anymore.
@@scottbecker4367 remember, Terra, Aqua, and Ventus may have gone to the same worlds, but they didn't have the same experiences. They rarely even fought the bosses. Despite all three characters being in the same story, it's still different perspectives that better complete the story. Playing just one character in birth by sleep, wouldn't be enough to complete the story. Plus, Terra, Aqua, and Ventus play different enough to warrant playing through the game with all three characters.
@@Kira1Lawliet don’t forget the most infuriating part: they made the mobile game vital to the lore of the entire story, setting it up as the prologue for how the universe came to be. Seriously, the amount of vital information they put into that stupid mobile game is ridiculous, especially when it was a blatant cash grab
I personally make sure sora and riku have both different dream eaters as well as different command decks (with cure, cura and curaga being the only expections)
I absolutely agree with the Kh3 statement, it sucks that it wasn’t given the respect it deserves and I swear I played it again and even though it did not hold a candle on a ten foot pole to kh2 it was still fun and all the combat except for attractions where good, but kh2 that was literally one of my favorite games growing up, I still have my old ps2 and I still play the game because it was so fun, love the content man.
Eh, KH3 is garbage story-wise. KH2's story may start to confuse people, but it's still understandable. The introduction of Nobodies concept is easy to understand. The only confusion people have with the game is at the start, because it's very disconnected to KH1's ending and it requires playing Chain of Memories. "If a Heartless and a Nobody get destroyed, the person gets revived" what? No. That does not make sense at all. The Nobody must meet and join the purified Heartless for the person to be revived. Xehanort shouldn't have existed way longer than the end of Xemnas. The Organization 13's arc should've ended in 2.
As a ginormous Kingdom Hearts fan, I’d say my ranking is like this… 13. 358/2 Days 12. Re:Coded 11. Chain Of Memories 10. Re:Chain Of Memories 9. Dark Road 8. Union X 7. Melody Of Memory 6. Birth By Sleep 5. A Fragmentary Passage 4. Dream Drop Distance 3. Kingdom Hearts 2. Kingdom Hearts 3/KH3: Re:Mind 1. Kingdom Hearts 2 This entire franchise is honestly my favourite piece of entertainment ever and I cannot wait for Missing Link and especially Kingdom Hearts 4.
I love you Sunburned Albino, I don't know how many times I've rewatched your KH Boss Ranking videos, but I just wanted to let you know that Disney was actually all for Sora in Smash Bros. Surprisingly, Nomura was the one who was hesitant and was mostly responsible for our spikey haired hero's "neutered welcome" into the game as you put it. You're a respected member of the RUclips community and a lot of your viewers will take anything you say without a pinch of salt (including me most of the time), but it is understandable why you'd think it was Disney, especially after their cutthroat business practices and constant mistreatment of their popular IPs.
I've played Union X before, and since this wasn't on the list, I'll give a few pointers that might go into the middle/lower middle part of the list -The game had decent graphics, though repeated animations across many attacks -Cutscenes had interesting lore, which really expanded (and driven the series off the rail and over a cliff into even more craziness) -The gameplay was decent, if simple, though not very engaging, it's pretty much swiping and tapping, with some strategy elements involved (and also brute forcing your way through the last encounters, the last 50 or so story missions for example were super brutal, especially against specific encounters)
05. Dream Drop Distance: For these next two entries, they are kinda polar opposites in what each of them does right. DDD has flowmotion. This makes both the combat and platforming feel better than it ever has in any KH game to this point, if not a little broken as well. I personally thoroughly enjoyed it's worlds, despite the smaller roster of them, with Symphony Of Sorcery being one of my favorites out of any KH game! The bosses were good, though I could have used a few less dream eater ones. That brings me to the dream eaters. I didn't grow up playing Pokemon. I grew up playing with Chao, but this is not quite like that. Sure, they're somewhat cute, but I really never could be bothered to care about this whole aspect of the game. Between this and the "drop system", this ended up becoming a chore once I needed to defeat Julius. Still, there's plenty I like about this game and all of these top five entries I consider to be very good games. 04. Birth By Sleep: Ah, this game. I still think that between the visuals and sheer volume of content, that this game is very impressive for coming out on the PSP. Not the VITA mind you, the PSP! I think this game is easily on par with the numbered entries in the franchise. I love the multiple, interweaving campaigns. I like how absurdly powerful you can become if you work the command deck. I love the variety of worlds. I even like the Mario party board games! It also has an excellent array of secret bosses that are tough as nails and will cause you to curse consistently while engaging them! Yet, there are a few things that hold it back from a top three spot. One of these, is that it is in fact, a chore to complete. To level up all three characters and expand their deck to get all the skills you need is a daunting task, borderline intimidating! This is the longest KH game if you're looking to fully commit, simply based on having to do it three times! Get ready to sink a LOT of hours! This brings me to the other major reason which boils down to just how much of a grind it becomes, with lots of repetition. At the end of the day, however, I think BBS is a very rewarding game overall that gives you what you put into it. It's a marathon to be sure, but a full filling one! 03. Kingdom Hearts: The original Kingdom Hearts is charming in it's simplicity, especially considering how complicated the series would become. This gives it a special quality amongst the other entries. However, as the first, it also doesn't have some of the quality of life additions that the follow ups have. Yet, I will always have fond memories of this game because it was mine and plenty of others, first dip into the series. The world's were good, though looking back there are a couple that are done better later. The bosses were fun. This initial entry also really pushed the Disney villains, which start to take a backseat to the Organization after this game. The array of secret bosses was excellent! It's just a solid game all around. Improvements have been made since, but if this was the only kH game that existed, I'd still consider it a must own! 02. Kingdom Hearts 3: KH3 is bigger and prettier than any of it's former brethren, so why didn't it get the top spot on my list? Honestly, it almost could. I could easily flip these top three around. The sheer size of the world's in this game are incredible! Especially for Kingdom Hearts! It opens with a bang, with THE best version of Olympus in the series! No Hades fight though, unfortunately. Toy Box is awesome. Arendelle was surprisingly good! The Caribbean is a technical marvel, as you mentioned. Combat has been elevated to the point that you have so many options on how you want to destroy your enemies! They're absolute eye candy as well! Sora is fluid and agile. There's a perfect mix of his former abilities and flowmotion. Grand magic is devastating! In the end though, I think there are just a few things that might hold it back from the top spot. While I had no issues with it's pacing, things do go full anime towards the end and there's just a lot going on. It's a spectacle to behold, but there's just a lot of it. Actually, that's all I can think of and it's not even really a complaint. I guess I'll have to explain why this next entry does a few extra things to warrant the top spot! 01. Kingdom Hearts 2: Kingdom Hearts 2 is great! It's story is still relatively simple by this point in the series. The pacing is spot on. I know not everyone loved the length of the Roxas opening section, but I did. So much dramatic build up! The World's are great. Twilight town, Olympus Coliseum, Pride Lands, The World That Never Was...etc. The bosses are an excellent mix of Disney and organization members. The drive forms make combat so much more interesting than in the first game and are genuinely fun to use and build up. The climax at the end is still probably the grandest in the series! Xemnas is also my favorite main villain, with xehanort right behind him. The Sephiroth fight was even more fun this time around! Then you have the additional content that gave us the data battles and the mysterious, Lingering Will. The Cavern Of Remembrance is still one of, if not my single favorite area in any KH game. It was just such a mystery...and the fact that I couldn't progress through it because I hadn't taken the time to upgrade my drive forms on my first playthrough had me itching to explore the place. That music is also amazing! Sets the tone and atmosphere perfectly! So yeah, these positions might move around with time, but for now, I'm putting kH2 at the number one spot!
I like this list. Personally kh3 is my favorite but I kinda glad to see that kh3 is at least number 2. Don't get me wrong I respect this list a lot and I understand why most people don't like kh3 but I kinda glad to once not to see kh3 get so hated. Love your video and yes I also like kh2 as well ^^
I love kh3, it's also my favorite! He's right when he says that the people who dislike kh3 are in the minority so I hope you don't think you're alone in liking kh3. And of course I love kh2 as well, it's my second favorite.
@@Amunny offers little to no challenge the entire game except for the one optimal boss. No memorable intro or ending like in kh1 and 2. No memorable songs like simple and clean or sanctuary. The game was so easy people complained so much they finally decided to make a harder mode that’s when you know you fucked up lmao. Need I continue to explain why this game isn’t that good?
@@bigsirbry personally I don't agree with you on kh3 being a bad game. Disappointing? Understandable but i think just because a game is easy doesn't mean it's bad. I respect you don't like kh3 but personally I just enjoy it. Also some people actually like face my fear or don't think twice (well I'm one of them lol).
I will say one of the most fun playthroughs of kh3 is ramping up everyone's damage with the code and just seeing if you can one combo something before getting sneezed on
Yup, KH2 is inarguably the best one. Amazing, engaging story with fun and well thought out characters. Incredible synthesis, extremely satisfying combat and even on critical mode with limitations - the challenge always felt rewarding and only ever overwhelming in brief moments. I remember having it on PS2 as a kid and frothing over how much I enjoyed it - only to go back and play it again many years later when I replayed most of the series and still, it manages to capture that sense of wonder it instilled in me all those years ago. Solid content and a good list with just enough well timed jokes to keep me here without feeling like I'm being pandered to. Keep up the good work!
Sorry but I gotta disagree, there's one HUGE thing stopping me from putting KH2 at the top of my list and its the story pacing, it's just so bad. There's like 4 hours of extremely plot centric content at the beginning surrounding Roxas then into Sora and it hard stops at Hollow Bastion. After this point its a Disney slog with about 8 hours of pure Disney filler to the highest extent, with the excuse of "Sora is looking for Riku and the organization" yet they don't get any closer other than seeing Xaldin for like 2 minutes and having an extremely small Demyx fight. Its just so much, even though I love the gameplay and its story, the pacing is inexcusable imo
I love KH2 But it was wayy too easy safe for like a boss here and there. I also hate how you have to run through all the worlds AGAIN, it feels like square just went "Yeah we could have added more worlds or more content in those worlds. But instead, lets just make players go through them all, AGAIN." and the 2nd visits are noticeably shorter than the first. Like, you couldn't add this stuff into the first visit? The final boss(es) were very underwhelming as well, all of the phases safe for the last were ridiculously easy and even the final phase wasnt too bad, just more annoying than the rest. Also Furry sora, I never want to see that again. Though story wise, it's probably perfect. Its also the first RPG I've ever beaten, so it does have a small nostalgia factor to me
Solid list, I think the only thing I didn't like about it was BBS being so high up on it but at the same time I can understand a lot of the points he made.
Solid list. I’d put birth by sleep above chain of memories, otherwise you hit the nail on the head with your descriptions. Also you’re hilarious and I’m glad I sub :)
I remember I had to miss out on day 1 releases of Dream Drop and BBS because I didn't have the system. I got lucky being able to buy back my PSP and eventually getting a 3ds almost a year after dream drop released. Being a KH fan before the remixes was not cheap.
My only complaint with KH2 is that going to Disney worlds feel like such a chore (story wise and level design), so I can't say it's perfect. But other than that great list, love seeing a CoM & KH3 enthusiast!
I agree. Other than Atlantica, I disliked going to Olympus (first visit, didn't like that I couldn't use drive form), Agrabah (second visit, hated the carpet stuff and boss fight), and both visits of pride lands. I like Lion King and Lion Sora is cute but not being able to guard or dodge roll sucks.
@@SentientPotatoXIII one good thing about kh2, though i don't think this really docks your criticism at all, is that the pride lands are completely optional technically
I'm glad I found legit criticisms for kh2. Those Disney worlds served no purpose and were just retelling of the movies. (Except for Beast's Castle, Land of Dragon, Olympus Coliseum, Port Royal, and Space Paranoids.) Even Halloween Town took place after the movie and it's retelling the same movie again with Jack not learning anything from his movie.
@@Redxan600 also the level design wasn't that great. All the world's felt very flat with minimal platforming, except for cavern of remembrance. None of them felt fun to explore
0:23 actually, the gameplay makes 358/2 and Re:coded much more bearable IMO. When they put all that video and dense prose in one spot rather then here and their through a larger game it really made the whole thing get to be too much talking and reading. Broke the pacing really badly. It was already skirting the edge in Re:Coded case as a weird in between retelling game with some lore tacked on and then turning it into a book with cut scenes made it MUCH worse. However 358/2 falls apart the most in that format imo. Roxas's story in 358/2 really only works when you have the missions to actually DO. Just being told "and then Roxas killed some heartless" doesn't catch the feelings of the quotas your given and meet day after day, you really FEEL that OrgXIII is doing this big long project and your just a cog in it with those missions. And at the end of each day you wined down with that cut-scene, it makes you feel a bit like Roxas. Your just doing the job, and then coming to the clock and sharing and ice cream (cause it's DISNEY AND YOU CAN'T HAVE A BEER IN THE SAME PROPERTY AS MICKY NO MATTER HOW APPROPRIATE IT WOULD FEEL, also Roxas is like 15ish) with your work bud after a long day. It FEELS like you just got off your shift at the mall after school, and your 17yr old manager dude you got assigned to for training, who is super mature for someone who acts like he does is like "Hey, you. Want some icecream? You really busted your ass today, my treat" and your like "Sure. Thanks!" and it become something you do every day and you alternate who pays. It's where you sit around and BS. Then you start inviting this new girl in town, she's cool too. It just makes the whole thing feel mundane and grounded despite having the final fantasy DNA in it. It's cozy for a time. Then things start to go tits up, new girl gets sick and falls into a coma, Axel gets scouted by upper management and has to go to another store out of mall for bit cause they think he can keep that place together (spoiler he can't), but then she wakes up, but your connected somehow you don't know, and then YOU catch the werid and fall into a coma. and it's really just all down hill from there. That's what 358/2 FEELS like to play. The actual plot is a little different, but none of that feeling comes across in the summery/movie version.
Yo Kingdom Hearts jumping to a whole other universe would be insane.. honestly the charm of Disney worlds has ended for me but I’m sure kids still love it
Gameplay wise my guy. I love every single game in the series and I know he didn’t include days and recoded which in that case days would’ve been last for SURE and I don’t need to explain why but since that’s not the case BBS has to take it. I don’t mind the uniqueness of every playable character in the game but the combat is floaty and it’s one of the most broken games in the series when you have the artillery. And yes I can hear you saying “but DDD has balloon which you can beat the entire game with a deck of 5 of them and like 2 cures” I get that but BBS has like more than 10 broken Commands you can cHoose from along witH tHe abilities you can get wHicH you can obtain witHin 1/4 in tHe game and don’t even me started on SHotlocks so ye man I understand your sentiment but it’s more sensible to have BBS this low
@@onyxx5612 I personally disagree. alot of the stuff in bbs you dont even find out really unless you look it up and thats facts while baloonrs is slapped in your face is pretty obvious its good. Plus melding and post game fights and literally almost everything is better about bbs then dream drop. And this is coming from someone who likes ddd aswell. But who likes petting your pets lol. The one thing id probably give dream drop is better world design but thats about it.
Side topic of a question: How did you feel about the traveling modes, aka: Gummi Ships? I have an arguement between KH 2 & 3 in my own opinion. KH2's Gummi Ship travel mode had "paths" that I enjoyed the gameplay of the most (except Mission 3 segments in some areas, but even those weren't bad) along with some unique parts for your ship, while 3 had been developed by the Einhander devs and added exploration and "dogfights" (well, battle encounters) with superior boss encounters I won't soon forget along with more weapons and new systems, yet KH1's may lack most of everything being the first has a one-off: The Transformation mode for ships which was never seen in any of the other games.
I personally like 3 more than 2. Can’t really give a definitive why, just prefer the things it does better more and don’t mind the things it does worse. For example: I like the situation command system. While it is random, I think it’s a great way to combine all of Sora’s abilities into an easy to access system. I also like formchanges more than drives as they feel more varied and interesting. I don’t mind KH3’s mess of a story because I expected it from the get go. KH3 tried to tie together every game that came before it and while I can’t say it exactly succeeded, I felt it was good enough and for a Kingdom Hearts game, that’s high praise. I like KH3’s combat way more than 2. You have no idea how frustrating it was to play 3 first then go to 2. No airstep, no air guarding, worse graphics, drive form leveling. There were many times when I wished I was playing KH3 for one of these specific differences. I will give KH2 credit for one thing. That final world is COOL AS FUCK from start to finish. Completely blows 3’s out of the water with the spectacle. But to you people who think KH2 is the best in the series, I definitely see where you’re coming from. It was definitely fun to play and I probably sabotaged my own enjoyment of it by playing 3 first and getting used to its wildly different combat. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
@@mikeclark7026 ye but we gotta remember who we dealing with 😂 plus as much as a kh fanatic I am too, gameplay wise as I grew up, kh days is ass even to recoded and ye I would like to see it remade but I’ll still have to take that in consideration
To me, personally ofc, I really think KH3 and KH2 are at a toss up for best game. I love KH2 to death with all of my being, but there was something so satisfying about have a fresh new numbered game with reworked combat and new story content.
The worst part of KH1 on ps2 was the inability to skip cutscenes.... I lost many times to dragon maleficent as a kid and agonised rewatching cutscenes every time
I agree with liking the og Gameboy Advanced chain of memories. It was hard but fun. I would put DDD under BBS, but I didn't have much trouble with BBS to begin with and it's probably my second favorite behind KH2. Otherwise I mostly agree with your list. Always enjoy your videos man, keep up the good work. Edit: I do recommend giving 358/2 a chance someday. It wasn't a bad game, and the story was alright, but the gameplay was pretty solid and it had some interesting mechanics. Proud mode is quite difficult for once though. Be ready to get one or two shot constantly at the begining. It also had a street fighter style fighting game to it, but that was just a side thing you unlocked I believe. And you can change stuff up for each character, which was neat cause you can see their weapons change.
I've never understood people who say KH should step away from Disney. I mean, Disney owns the right to Sora and the rest of KH. How are they supposed to leave Disney when at any point Disney can just shut down the project? This doesn't mean that I wouldn't like other games in Kh, but you have to remember that Disney will never let it go.
They don't need any extra worlds. They have enough story going to just keep it in traverse town or other original worlds. The only reason you go to Disney worlds in 3 is because that's what you do in kingdom hearts none of the worlds really have anything to do with the story. I remember laughing super hard during frozen world because the ice girl like just completely ignores them
For handheld Re:Coded is actually my favorite because every world has a unique mechanic or gimmick for the world boss, ie Traverse Town becomes a sidescroll platformer while Wonderland is more of a trivia setup. I really didn't like KH3 at launch but have started a couple days ago to play through again to give the story another chance without the 16 year build up for expectations that nothing would be able to realistically meet
Skipping Days saved you the time from having to put it in the absolute bottom. Skipping Coded saved you the time from having to put it near the absolute top.
I think kh2s biggest flaw is how slow the drives level up. You have to go out of your way to grind them unless you want to be going anti form every other match trying to level up through the fights
The only thing I would switch for my list are CoM and BBS. I really enjoyed BBS (on PSP, PS4 and PC) and didn't really have the same complaints and CoM just didn't do it for me (apart from the story; also I never played it on GBA).
Always love the content bro fr fr 💯. KH Has a special place in my Heart not just gameplay wise but tHe actual real life stuff tHat you can take from it. Moving on from tHat if tHis was my personal list I’d probably swap COM and BBS just due to personal bias but at tHe same time tHis list is kinda Hard to argue against. Story wise BBS is one of tHe greatest However gameplay wise it’s pretty bad. One of tHe most broken games in tHe series wHen you acquire tHe firepower tHe abilities you can get witHout even making it Halfway tHrougH tHe game and for tHe people wHo like to do level 1 runs of tHat game don’t Have to do much to regret doing one tHanks to d links and don’t even let me have to mention shotlocks so ye. Everything else is explained well and I honestly believe for tHose including myself wHo played tHe DLC for KH3 if yozora wasn’t tHat asinine and literally rage inducing to figHt, kh3 would be 1 without a doubt. Abusing thunder in kh3 is GOD and I like tHe leveling keyblades tbh and tHe Ultima Weapon? WHEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW BOY DO I KNOW THAT KH3 version of tHe ultimate keyblade, ultima weapon is tHe best In tHe series AND it’s tHe easiest game to obtain it in tHe entire series so ye but kh2 just Has a special place in my Heart man and after being an Xbox person(and still am) not Having a ps3 to experience tHe final mix versions tHat was exclusive to Japan and waiting so long and it finally came to Xbox and replaying it again was amazing more tHan amazing. Getting tHe tHrill of playing tHe lingering will was satisfying learning Him each time and I always love figHting xemnas wHicH Is one of my top 5 organization members of all time because of His figHts (DDD being tHe weakest one of out all but hey) are so entertaining and ik since sora is waaaaay more developed in kh2 tHan it’s predecessor but SepHirotH is still no joke and figHting Him is just always a banger(THAT MEANS BRING HIM BACK WHERE HE RIGHTFULLY BELONGS NOMURA SINCE YOU SO KINDLY LEFT HIM OUT OF 3 and tHe entirety of final fantasy for tHat matter) wow man tHis series came a long way and it’s wHy it’s my number 2 series of all time and i really Hope tHat kh4 is tHe ultima weapon out of tHem all . You owe us Nomura let’s get it 💯✅
For me it's hard to say overall. KH1 has the best exploration and progression system. New abilities actually impact how you navigate the world and open up new pathways in old areas. Arguably the best level design too. The story is simple but impactful, with stakes that are well established and very high. Similarly the Disney worlds are quite well integrated with the whole council of villains and the fact that completing a world actually directly accomplishes something by saving it from the Heartless. Even though the later games surpass it a little bit IMO, the soundtrack still slaps. KH1 does suffer from some technical limitations though. While the worlds are well-designed, the environments often feel confined. Similarly the combat is a bit clunkier than the rest, but still held up surprisingly well on a recent replay and I like the utility spells. KH2 has the best combat, which feels so fluid and is combined with some well thought out and memorable boss battles. A story with a lot of cool characters and impactful moments, from 1k heartless and 'two!?!' to 'right back at you, buddy'. The organisation was great even if I think Xemnas is one of the weaker characters among them. The soundtrack was the best in the series. Mostly original and absolutely slaps. Where KH2 struggled was in the world design. The worlds were pretty bland and all boiled down to hallways and clearings with minimal platforming or exploration. The best section in the game is the CoR, which was clearly added in FM to give a taste of what could have been. KH3 is the most beautiful to look at and probably my favourite one to just freeroam in through the beautiful Disney worlds, even if the original worlds (with the exception of Scala), are kinda bland or barebones. The movement was awesome and the combat was quite good. The writing and story was where KH3 fell short for me. The dialogue got bad and the story was in my opinion poorly paced and full of contrivances. The soundtrack was good but I would have appreciated some more new tracks as opposed to rearrangements of old ones.
I find the card system really frustrating, but I have a ton of respect for Chain of Memories just due to how cool & delightfully creepy the story is. So unsettling to watch a 10 year old boy slip further and further into dementia, while being trapped within twisted false versions of the levels we loved from KH1. Org XIII was at its most mysterious and frightening, and the lore overall hadn't become so impossibly confusing yet, so you could still grasp what was happening if you paid enough attention. Quite possibly the best game on the GBA.
I agree with most of this list. One thing I don’t agree with is allowing other video game franchises into the series. Maybe a few more SE franchises like the Chrono series, but that’s about it. I want the series to tear down its boarders and allow the different characters to interact with each other. Like Jack Skeleton exploring the Monsters Inc. world. Jack Sparrow and his crew interacting with the Treasure Planet cast. Rapunzel and Flinn going on a double date with Aladdin and Jasmine. Hercules opening his own hero academy and maybe butting heads with Mr. Incredible on teaching styles. The possibilities are endless!
Pretty good analysis. I mostly agree. I'd swap KH1 and KH3 due to the fact that KH1 had originality and from a narrative perspective, the worlds mattered more to the overall narrative. Keep up the good work on these videos! Here's hoping you do the same with the God of War franchise!
The story of KH1 basically boils down to Riku: I found you Sora. Sora: Riku! I was so worried. We have to find Kairi. Riku: So you were so busy with your new friends that you didn't care about us? Seriously, Riku blatantly ignores everything Sora says, and that's what kick-starts the main conflict in the game.
9:00 You should do more research. Disney's involvement in KH is so much bigger than you think. I mean, even the Kingdom Key, the icon of the game, has the freaking Mickey Mouse symbol at the end of the keychain. I won't be surprised if Disney actually has more say about Kingdom Hearts than Square Enix does.
You're actually correct. When Sora ended up dropping into Smash, it wasn't Square that made it happen. Sakurai had to contend with Disney, who owns the KH IP
Finally a kh3 fan that knows his stuff. Anytime I ever hear any backlash (which to be fair the game does deserve) I point out pirates just like you did.
@@silenceundying you act like every single kh game doesn't have stupid discussions made with them, like the horrible synthesis is kh1 fm as mentioned in the video. Just because kh3 has bad aspects doesn't make it a bad game. And it's not just pirates, if a kh3 world does a world right, that world is among the best of the series. Toy box, big hero six, tangled, even Olympus was done well considering we've never actually explored the city or mt Olympus before.
As for 100% platinum completion I found Dream Drop Distance to be by far the most grueling. The fact there’s an in game trophy for maxing all 51 dream eaters affinity levels is absolutely bonkers I thought the link/ability boards were enough (and I found it cool it reminds me of FFX and X2) but your literally broke by the time you buy and sell everything for balloons and water barrels also the stagger, meaning everything stuns you heavily nothing you do stuns anything even bosses you cant even do the ole sonic blade spam like in BBS as cartoony DDD comes off I can’t ever see a kid or teen completing a game that gives 30 year olds a run for their money
Sad bout Days and Re:Coded not being on here. While Days was...experimental, to say the least, Re:Coded was easily the best mobile game of them all gameplay-wise. Birth By Sleep, eat your heart out. The only thing holding Re:Coded back was all the minigame bullshit and the fact that its story was even more skippable than 385/2 Days' story.
Solid list, I have KHII as the best game in the series (and one of the greatest games of all time) too. My biggest problem with KHIII (besides the slower floaty combat) was that it took 13 years to come out and still didn’t match the level of polish that KHII had.
I think Birth By Sleep kinda gets a bad rap. The story is super engaging and the fact that you can play as three different protagonists that go through different story events and have different fighting styles is really cool. Command melding is kind of annoying at first but once you start to understand and get the hang of it it's not terrible. The thing that really holds BBS back for me is the visuals. It really *looks* like a handheld game copy and pasted to a console, and I think if any game deserves a remake on the new console generations, it's that one. KH2 is kind of overrated for me. The Disney worlds feel like filler more so in 2 than in any other game except maybe DDD and the worlds themselves aren't interesting to traverse through in a physical sense.
Question: What would you change if given the ability to alter the franchise however you pleased? For example at the end here you mention how KH should branch into crossovers with other video games, so how would that affect previous titles if you could retroactively include them?
Get Nomura to give his notes to a more competent writer probably and let that person handle the rest of the franchise. Also rip KH from the clutches of Disney a little bit for more creative liberties so a franchises characters can be more directly involved with the main gangs tribulations. Toy Story got away with it, but look at Arandelle for a reason as to why it's a pretty big problem atm.
@@walter4180 I wouldn't be so quick to tear Disney away, simply because there's a chance they don't need to. I heard recently of a bill that would reduce corporation copyright down to the 56 years everyone else has, and that would mean most everything Disney created before 1967 would be fair game, including many of the titles and characters of KH1 and who knows how many potential options from other western animation. It could change Kingdom Hearts from Square+Disney to Square+Public Domain.
Remove the time travel aspect of DDD. It made the story go off the rails when everyone became Xehanort (except Xigbar because he's only half Xehanort).
KH3's far better than naysayers say it is, but let's just not forget that KH2 received just as nasty hatred when it first came out; It's the Disney tag. Some people just HATE Disney to hate them with no rhyme, or reason. Sure, all the power to them, but it doesn't change that KH is a well-made franchise (when it wants to be), and KH3's just the most spectacular example of how beautiful it can look. Mechanics-wise, though, that obviously will always go to KH2... Until a better game comes out, of course, which my pessimist doubts, but will continue to hope for.
I must be weird, because I did play recoded and 300 days… in fact 300 was my first kh game ever, followed by bbs. So my personal ranking is very very different. Bbs will always rank quite high for me. You have to remember it first came out on psp… and they didn’t change a thing when they brought it to playstation. I actually genuinely loved the combat on bbs I liked the commands too. I cant fully get behind this review because kingdom hearts players have the weirdest opinions because of how long the series has been going, we all experienced games at different times in our childhood.
The issue with what you said about Square Enix needing to be done with Disney is that Kingdom Hearts is owned by Disney. Sora, Kairi, Riku, they are all Disney characters, not Square Enix characters. Disney is the one who actually owns KH and it is copyrighted under their name, Square just makes the develops and publishes the games. Square only owns characters from existing Square Enix franchises, Cloud, Squall, Aerith etc. If Square was to add different videogame worlds, they would need Disney's explicit permission, and if they did distance themselves from Disney then Square Enix would need to make a completely different franchise altogether and abandon the current story that we have with Sora. Square cannot legally make any game that has characters from Kingdom Hearts (even original ones like Sora, Xion, Riku etc) without permission from Disney, even if you or I may want it to happen. It's why Disney was the one who was asked if Sora was allowed into Smash, not Square Enix. Disney. They own the franchise, they own all the characters except Square Enix original characters, so if we wanted to see all these cool things, it would mean either an entirely new franchise made purely by Square Enix or Disney would have to agree to everything. And we know Disney won't do that, it'll only be Disney and original worlds until KH is over as Disney would never let any other company into the game they own except the one developing it.
nah man, you can't say that the combat in bbs is laggy and clunky and rank the og kh this high, that doesn't seem fair tho. I understand, og kingdom hearts was the start and it was a decent game but I'd rank ddd over og Kingdom hearts...and bbs over ddd
I don't think there's many that wouldn't put KH2 or KH3 as their favorite. And tbh, I actually agree with this entire list. Also, I don't care what anyone says. Best worlds hands down was Re:Mind Scala and KH2 World that Never Was.
I personally don't think that KH must crossover with other games, the advantage of Disney worlds is that the gameplay time may be equal to the movies, doing that with another videogame that the story is about 5 hours long is complicated. What I think is that they must add more juice to final fantasy as they did in the first game. Letting sora use flare, última, holy, meteor and support magic could open even more the gameplay. That and adding more final fantasy characters and teaming up with them would refresh entirely the story, because they would actually think how to fit new characters in Disney worlds instead of replaying the movie just with the trio behind.
"You're just a speedy wrecking ball out there zipping around unleashing hell on your opponents" My thoughts exactly and once you learn how to actually play the game so you can handle critical AND learn some cheese strats it's like you're spanking your *ss in Xehanort's face the entire game. Also, KH3 is my favorite because the increased combat variety (only needed on crit) from 2 makes it so much more fun. KH2 is a blast, but it feels extremely tight to the point of it feeling like a math problem as opposed to 3's more free form feel.
I'd argue 358/2 Days would rank middle of the road on the list. The game is sorta repetitive, but the amount of playable characters is so astounding it even has Donald and Goofy. Each character also plays differently unlike BBS or DDD.
bruh, you ranked Re:CoM too high but aside from how you like what's imo the worst KH game (Re:CoM) I do agree that it's time KH starts distancing itself from Disney, especially given the Unreality it seems to be heading towards, it'd be nice to see more Final Fantasy characters and even some Final Fantasy worlds, it'd be pretty cool to pal around with Vann in Ivalice, help Lightning save Gran Pulse, and maybe even team up with Barret and the others to look for Cloud and get the long awaited resolution to that little plot point
I am actually doing the Zack versus Terra from Birth by Sleep fight on Critical right now. Zack just insta kills you with a BS attack that sends you into the air and constantly hits you. You just got to dash like crazy before he attacks you even if he is all the way across the stadium since he can teleport in front of you and end the fight instantly.
Huh? I agreed with nearly everything said.... I desperately wanted drive forms in 3 it just felt rewarding leveling them up in 2 and gaining growth abilities in base sora
I have the opposite view lmao Growth abilities being tied to drive forms was one of the more egregious design choices they made for 2. You're practically required to grind just to have some form of satisfying movement in and out of combat and even when those requirements were nerfed in FM, it was still bad. Like Nomura really thought tying DODGE ROLL to a form was a good idea.
i feel likesome of these r a little too objective, are these rankings purely gameplay wise? or story wise? because it feels like these rankings r purely gameplay wise based on how you're explaining it lol
“The worlds are all solid, except Atlantica which is liquid” brilliant
The fact that I saw this comment while hearing him say that is insane 😂
@@Tennessee-of5jkTrust me that happens to me all the time😂
wait.....solid!? like solid snake!? like thee solid snake!? hero of shadow moses!? like solid snake from metal gear solid, and liquid snake too!? metal gear solid reference!?!??!?!?
I think KH2's combat is still impressive even by today's standards.
Kh2 is the best game ever
It’s almost dumb how KH2 on PS2 checks every box of quality video game
Compared to other games nowadays, it is top 10 game design. WHY CANT GAMES BE GOOD NOWADAYS COMPARED TO OLDER GAMES BEFORE THE 8TH GEN
Sunburnt albino and kingdom hearts is always a good combo
The best 🤌🏽
Lmao no
you aint fucking serious are you ? Is it this time of the year again...
@@GokuTheGreat3441 lol what
My 3-year-old son calls KH2:"gather" because he heard me abusing Magnega to farm. So now he'll occasionally come up to me and ask me to "play gather" so he can stand in front of the TV and try to mimic Sora.
That's adorable
That’s absolutely precious
That’s so adorable, you should spam reflect, see if he can master defense
Back in the day my oldest sister just called kh2 the Disney video game and was always asking me to play it so she could watch 😅🖤
I honestly thought that if Sora was put in smash, they would change the Mickey Keychain emblem to Sora's crown symbol, or something of similar importance to the series, without it being a Disney reference, but they still did it, so that was nice. I do wish there was more music though.
I'm not sure the validity of this, but I read on the internet (the most trusted source, I know) that Disney had very little concerns about Sora being in Smash. It was actually Nomura who was extremely hesitant about giving anyone reigns to his characters. So they might've even been able to go all the way with Disney references if they wanted to. Assuming that the translated interview article is accurate.
@@littlebigb5370 at the same time they didn't like summons so they had to change names and how they look
I read somewhere that nitendo didn’t want Mickey, Donald, and goofy to appear in smash because there not video characters .
Oh man, you would not believe the difference between the ds and movie version of Days. The mission system, gameplay and pacing make it the most emotional and strongest story in the series BY far for me. It’s right below my favorite, just because of the experience it leaves you with. I love your KH vids tho so this was a delight to see
Exactly. I have a guide for 358/2 and I thoroughly enjoyed the game and 100%ing it. It’s one of my favorite in the series. I guess it’s just one of those things where “ya had to be there”
The only thing I have to say about this game is that the last missions take ages to finish just because the bosses tanks too much.
@@Rapthan76 I feel ya.
I couldn't bring myself to finish it, it was so boring. Maybe I will someday
@@Sebulba2000 you need to go into it with a different mind set.
Seriously, I get so stoked when I see you’ve posted a new video! I love your humor, tone, and game choices! Love you man!
I'm surprised you haven't given them all a try. Re Coded does not have an enthralling story, but the gameplay is fun. And 358/2 days is monotonous especially going back to nowadays, but the story really sucked me in back in the day.
IMO Re:Coded and 358/2 Days are kinda opposite in that way-Re:Coded has a basically meaningless story with great gameplay (though I'm biased towards command decks over pure magic, like in the mainline games) and 358/2 Days has a great story (the best in the series, in my opinion) but kinda lame gameplay. 358/2 Days does have other characters being playable in Mission Mode, though, which I always appreciated. I think they both are probably among the best of the DS game library, even if they might not overall be among the best of the Kingdom Hearts game library.
honestly for me, there's no redeeming qualities for coded, but the story and combat in 358/days is pretty good
The moments in Hollow Bastion works as a remembrance/tribute to Roxas are quite vital.
Too bad it takes so much retreads to get to, but the TWEWY like gameplay helps to get you there.
To be fair it would probably feel like playing Persona 3 after playing Persona 4, Persona 3 was a great game but if you played Persona 4 first then Persona 3 is nearly unplayable with all the lacking QoL things added into Persona 4, playing those old handheld games after having played all the main line games would probably make them feel really clunky and chunky as a pose to playing them when they first came out so it wouldn't really be a fair representation and would probably score pretty low just due to being mechanically clunkier without the benefit of nostalgia to over look that chunkiness. It is a shame they didn't actually make them playable in the 1.5/2.5/2.8 remake collections I would have loved to play Re:Coded on the big screen but I am sure that they didn't port those 2 games because they would have had to do a lot of work to port a DS title to a device with only 1 screen and no touch screen. yeah I know they did it for DDD but that is probably because the bottom screen was pretty much only used for the Tamagotchi part of the game and so could be more easily ignored.
Just found my ReCoded cartridge and I realized that I never actually got around to playing it despite buying it when it came out, I just had to many games to play at the time, I am going to have to boot that up and play now that I know where it is... I thought I had played it but nope after playing about 5 minutes it was just like "yeah I don't remember this type of FFX style leveling at all, I guess I never actually got around to it". (And yes I realize I say I am going to play it right after saying it will probably loose some value if played out of order, but at the same time I already own a physical copy of the game and didn't just go out and buy it so it is not like I am paying money to play it despite being out of order)
Yes, I can fully confirm Re: Coded is really enjoyable. I've played that one a lot on my DS
Dude, the Atlantica joke was so good, the layers, the truth, the timing. Literally perfect
Hey! After watching your videos a few hears ago I finally beat my first critical mode run in KH2 and beat Sephiroth today after getting the Winner’s Proof. So i just wanted to say thanks for making great KH content and just great content in general
I would kill for a RegularPat crossover to debate KH2/KH1. I think the energies would complement too.
Chain of Memories on the Gameboy was my introduction into the series. I was so confused but loved every second of that game
Kh3 was amazing but kh2 felt the most fun, including the forms and the final boss fight when you are blocking the 1000 beams with riku really hit different
Yeah, kh2 kicks ass. I love all three main entries a lot, and I have a good feeling kh4 is gonna be some thing really special. Kh3 had huge expectations, poor marketing, a really convoluted story to tackle, a whole different team, and some heavily troubled development. It's honestly a miracle it didn't turn out a complete disaster like sonic 06. They don't have to deal with that kind of stuff for kh4 though, so I'm really hopeful!
Kh3 is bland. It feels like if Wii sports resort was hd, and extremely unfun to play. (Oh wait….)
0.2 was honestly so fun imo. All the challenges made for an engaging way to extend game length while also being rewarding because of the cosmetics. We all know how much people obsessed over Sora's crown in KH2. It had decent combat, a great secret boss fight, and some of the best level design we've seen in the franchise with the worlds full of puzzles and interactive environments. While the game was only 2-3 hours long, you could easily go up to 10 hours trying to complete and collect everything. I wish KH3 had more stuff like that in their worlds. I feel like they started off doing that in Olympus with things like the forge giving you a new shield for goofy and the golden Herc statues you could find but it dropped off pretty hard in favor of lucky emblems and photo missions.
I do agree that Kingdom Hearts 2 is arguably the best Kingdom Hearts game, but I think Birth By Sleep is better than you give it credit for.
I think it was better than DDD due to story alone, but it was a slog to play. Starting over with each character to visit the same worlds got old quickly by the second character.
@@scottbecker4367 Yeah they feel like opposite DDD has a more fast pace gameplay, which is fun to play altough extremely unbalance *caugh* Ballons Command *caugh*, but goddamn the story is so dumb in DDD, and the way they handle time travel is.... just wow you manage to make one of the most confusing plot device even more confusing just wow.
BBS is extremely unbalance and very slow to play, but it's story is more engaging and far less confusing than DDD, even tough I want to punch Terra in the face on pretty much every cutscene he is in.
So I guess it's just a matter of if you prefer Gameplay over story or the opposite.
I think BBS was a solid game, but by God the gameplay was clunky. You could tell it was Osaka team's first go at the franchise. I think there's a lot to enjoy about the game, but the way combat just flows is all wrong and awkward. Switching straight over from KH2, which is flawless, to BBS is like going from day to night. In terms of the games with real-time combat, I honestly think BBS might only be surpassed in how bad it is by 358/2 Days, but even then I think there's a debate to be had there. And porting BBS to the PS4 only made those flaws so much more glaring. I enjoyed DDD's gameplay and combat more, but the story was worse, the Dream Eaters were annoying, and everything about the vibe of the game just felt...off. But of course, nothing compares to the absolute atrocities that are the mobile games. Those barely even count as games at all anymore.
@@scottbecker4367 remember, Terra, Aqua, and Ventus may have gone to the same worlds, but they didn't have the same experiences. They rarely even fought the bosses. Despite all three characters being in the same story, it's still different perspectives that better complete the story. Playing just one character in birth by sleep, wouldn't be enough to complete the story. Plus, Terra, Aqua, and Ventus play different enough to warrant playing through the game with all three characters.
@@Kira1Lawliet don’t forget the most infuriating part: they made the mobile game vital to the lore of the entire story, setting it up as the prologue for how the universe came to be. Seriously, the amount of vital information they put into that stupid mobile game is ridiculous, especially when it was a blatant cash grab
Crazy how solid KH1 still is holds up great.
I personally make sure sora and riku have both different dream eaters as well as different command decks (with cure, cura and curaga being the only expections)
I absolutely agree with the Kh3 statement, it sucks that it wasn’t given the respect it deserves and I swear I played it again and even though it did not hold a candle on a ten foot pole to kh2 it was still fun and all the combat except for attractions where good, but kh2 that was literally one of my favorite games growing up, I still have my old ps2 and I still play the game because it was so fun, love the content man.
Eh, KH3 is garbage story-wise. KH2's story may start to confuse people, but it's still understandable. The introduction of Nobodies concept is easy to understand. The only confusion people have with the game is at the start, because it's very disconnected to KH1's ending and it requires playing Chain of Memories.
"If a Heartless and a Nobody get destroyed, the person gets revived" what? No. That does not make sense at all. The Nobody must meet and join the purified Heartless for the person to be revived.
Xehanort shouldn't have existed way longer than the end of Xemnas. The Organization 13's arc should've ended in 2.
@@ShadowbannedAccount Smartest Kingdom Hearts 3 hater
As a ginormous Kingdom Hearts fan, I’d say my ranking is like this…
13. 358/2 Days
12. Re:Coded
11. Chain Of Memories
10. Re:Chain Of Memories
9. Dark Road
8. Union X
7. Melody Of Memory
6. Birth By Sleep
5. A Fragmentary Passage
4. Dream Drop Distance
3. Kingdom Hearts
2. Kingdom Hearts 3/KH3: Re:Mind
1. Kingdom Hearts 2
This entire franchise is honestly my favourite piece of entertainment ever and I cannot wait for Missing Link and especially Kingdom Hearts 4.
Chain of memories on gba is so good bro I would get a gba just to play it
I love you Sunburned Albino, I don't know how many times I've rewatched your KH Boss Ranking videos, but I just wanted to let you know that Disney was actually all for Sora in Smash Bros. Surprisingly, Nomura was the one who was hesitant and was mostly responsible for our spikey haired hero's "neutered welcome" into the game as you put it. You're a respected member of the RUclips community and a lot of your viewers will take anything you say without a pinch of salt (including me most of the time), but it is understandable why you'd think it was Disney, especially after their cutthroat business practices and constant mistreatment of their popular IPs.
you've done made so many Kingdom Hearts rankings that I coulda sworn you had already ranked the games lol
I've played Union X before, and since this wasn't on the list, I'll give a few pointers that might go into the middle/lower middle part of the list
-The game had decent graphics, though repeated animations across many attacks
-Cutscenes had interesting lore, which really expanded (and driven the series off the rail and over a cliff into even more craziness)
-The gameplay was decent, if simple, though not very engaging, it's pretty much swiping and tapping, with some strategy elements involved (and also brute forcing your way through the last encounters, the last 50 or so story missions for example were super brutal, especially against specific encounters)
05. Dream Drop Distance: For these next two entries, they are kinda polar opposites in what each of them does right. DDD has flowmotion. This makes both the combat and platforming feel better than it ever has in any KH game to this point, if not a little broken as well. I personally thoroughly enjoyed it's worlds, despite the smaller roster of them, with Symphony Of Sorcery being one of my favorites out of any KH game! The bosses were good, though I could have used a few less dream eater ones. That brings me to the dream eaters. I didn't grow up playing Pokemon. I grew up playing with Chao, but this is not quite like that. Sure, they're somewhat cute, but I really never could be bothered to care about this whole aspect of the game. Between this and the "drop system", this ended up becoming a chore once I needed to defeat Julius. Still, there's plenty I like about this game and all of these top five entries I consider to be very good games.
04. Birth By Sleep: Ah, this game. I still think that between the visuals and sheer volume of content, that this game is very impressive for coming out on the PSP. Not the VITA mind you, the PSP! I think this game is easily on par with the numbered entries in the franchise. I love the multiple, interweaving campaigns. I like how absurdly powerful you can become if you work the command deck. I love the variety of worlds. I even like the Mario party board games! It also has an excellent array of secret bosses that are tough as nails and will cause you to curse consistently while engaging them! Yet, there are a few things that hold it back from a top three spot. One of these, is that it is in fact, a chore to complete. To level up all three characters and expand their deck to get all the skills you need is a daunting task, borderline intimidating! This is the longest KH game if you're looking to fully commit, simply based on having to do it three times! Get ready to sink a LOT of hours! This brings me to the other major reason which boils down to just how much of a grind it becomes, with lots of repetition. At the end of the day, however, I think BBS is a very rewarding game overall that gives you what you put into it. It's a marathon to be sure, but a full filling one!
03. Kingdom Hearts: The original Kingdom Hearts is charming in it's simplicity, especially considering how complicated the series would become. This gives it a special quality amongst the other entries. However, as the first, it also doesn't have some of the quality of life additions that the follow ups have. Yet, I will always have fond memories of this game because it was mine and plenty of others, first dip into the series. The world's were good, though looking back there are a couple that are done better later. The bosses were fun. This initial entry also really pushed the Disney villains, which start to take a backseat to the Organization after this game. The array of secret bosses was excellent! It's just a solid game all around. Improvements have been made since, but if this was the only kH game that existed, I'd still consider it a must own!
02. Kingdom Hearts 3: KH3 is bigger and prettier than any of it's former brethren, so why didn't it get the top spot on my list? Honestly, it almost could. I could easily flip these top three around. The sheer size of the world's in this game are incredible! Especially for Kingdom Hearts! It opens with a bang, with THE best version of Olympus in the series! No Hades fight though, unfortunately. Toy Box is awesome. Arendelle was surprisingly good! The Caribbean is a technical marvel, as you mentioned. Combat has been elevated to the point that you have so many options on how you want to destroy your enemies! They're absolute eye candy as well! Sora is fluid and agile. There's a perfect mix of his former abilities and flowmotion. Grand magic is devastating! In the end though, I think there are just a few things that might hold it back from the top spot. While I had no issues with it's pacing, things do go full anime towards the end and there's just a lot going on. It's a spectacle to behold, but there's just a lot of it. Actually, that's all I can think of and it's not even really a complaint. I guess I'll have to explain why this next entry does a few extra things to warrant the top spot!
01. Kingdom Hearts 2: Kingdom Hearts 2 is great! It's story is still relatively simple by this point in the series. The pacing is spot on. I know not everyone loved the length of the Roxas opening section, but I did. So much dramatic build up! The World's are great. Twilight town, Olympus Coliseum, Pride Lands, The World That Never Was...etc. The bosses are an excellent mix of Disney and organization members. The drive forms make combat so much more interesting than in the first game and are genuinely fun to use and build up. The climax at the end is still probably the grandest in the series! Xemnas is also my favorite main villain, with xehanort right behind him. The Sephiroth fight was even more fun this time around! Then you have the additional content that gave us the data battles and the mysterious, Lingering Will. The Cavern Of Remembrance is still one of, if not my single favorite area in any KH game. It was just such a mystery...and the fact that I couldn't progress through it because I hadn't taken the time to upgrade my drive forms on my first playthrough had me itching to explore the place. That music is also amazing! Sets the tone and atmosphere perfectly! So yeah, these positions might move around with time, but for now, I'm putting kH2 at the number one spot!
Lol you should’ve just done your own video
@@BryGuyJohn you're not wrong about that...
Arendelle is overhated, yeah it's just the movie, but it at least tried to do new things like the Labyrinth of Ice
@@oliverpease6719 As a Zelda fan, the labyrinth was awesome to me. Probably my favorite part of Arendelle.
I like this list. Personally kh3 is my favorite but I kinda glad to see that kh3 is at least number 2. Don't get me wrong I respect this list a lot and I understand why most people don't like kh3 but I kinda glad to once not to see kh3 get so hated. Love your video and yes I also like kh2 as well ^^
Kh3 comes in last place on my list. Absolutely terrible game. Game was so easy a toddler could probably beat it.
I love kh3, it's also my favorite! He's right when he says that the people who dislike kh3 are in the minority so I hope you don't think you're alone in liking kh3. And of course I love kh2 as well, it's my second favorite.
@@Amunny offers little to no challenge the entire game except for the one optimal boss. No memorable intro or ending like in kh1 and 2. No memorable songs like simple and clean or sanctuary. The game was so easy people complained so much they finally decided to make a harder mode that’s when you know you fucked up lmao. Need I continue to explain why this game isn’t that good?
@@Amunny yeah I get what you mean and ayy that's wassup
@@bigsirbry personally I don't agree with you on kh3 being a bad game. Disappointing? Understandable but i think just because a game is easy doesn't mean it's bad. I respect you don't like kh3 but personally I just enjoy it. Also some people actually like face my fear or don't think twice (well I'm one of them lol).
I will say one of the most fun playthroughs of kh3 is ramping up everyone's damage with the code and just seeing if you can one combo something before getting sneezed on
Yup, KH2 is inarguably the best one. Amazing, engaging story with fun and well thought out characters. Incredible synthesis, extremely satisfying combat and even on critical mode with limitations - the challenge always felt rewarding and only ever overwhelming in brief moments.
I remember having it on PS2 as a kid and frothing over how much I enjoyed it - only to go back and play it again many years later when I replayed most of the series and still, it manages to capture that sense of wonder it instilled in me all those years ago.
Solid content and a good list with just enough well timed jokes to keep me here without feeling like I'm being pandered to. Keep up the good work!
Sorry but I gotta disagree, there's one HUGE thing stopping me from putting KH2 at the top of my list and its the story pacing, it's just so bad. There's like 4 hours of extremely plot centric content at the beginning surrounding Roxas then into Sora and it hard stops at Hollow Bastion. After this point its a Disney slog with about 8 hours of pure Disney filler to the highest extent, with the excuse of "Sora is looking for Riku and the organization" yet they don't get any closer other than seeing Xaldin for like 2 minutes and having an extremely small Demyx fight. Its just so much, even though I love the gameplay and its story, the pacing is inexcusable imo
@@pascables decent take, but counterpoint, kingdom hearts story is bad and convoluted anyway so best gameplay is best game.
I love KH2 But it was wayy too easy safe for like a boss here and there. I also hate how you have to run through all the worlds AGAIN, it feels like square just went "Yeah we could have added more worlds or more content in those worlds. But instead, lets just make players go through them all, AGAIN." and the 2nd visits are noticeably shorter than the first. Like, you couldn't add this stuff into the first visit? The final boss(es) were very underwhelming as well, all of the phases safe for the last were ridiculously easy and even the final phase wasnt too bad, just more annoying than the rest. Also Furry sora, I never want to see that again.
Though story wise, it's probably perfect. Its also the first RPG I've ever beaten, so it does have a small nostalgia factor to me
Solid list, I think the only thing I didn't like about it was BBS being so high up on it but at the same time I can understand a lot of the points he made.
Solid list. I’d put birth by sleep above chain of memories, otherwise you hit the nail on the head with your descriptions. Also you’re hilarious and I’m glad I sub :)
Well combat is very subjective after all. I personally loved the combat of bbs.
@@mellemadswoestenburg1296 yea same the combat of bbs is extremely rewarding once you figure it out
I remember I had to miss out on day 1 releases of Dream Drop and BBS because I didn't have the system. I got lucky being able to buy back my PSP and eventually getting a 3ds almost a year after dream drop released. Being a KH fan before the remixes was not cheap.
My only complaint with KH2 is that going to Disney worlds feel like such a chore (story wise and level design), so I can't say it's perfect. But other than that great list, love seeing a CoM & KH3 enthusiast!
I agree. Other than Atlantica, I disliked going to Olympus (first visit, didn't like that I couldn't use drive form), Agrabah (second visit, hated the carpet stuff and boss fight), and both visits of pride lands. I like Lion King and Lion Sora is cute but not being able to guard or dodge roll sucks.
@@SentientPotatoXIII one good thing about kh2, though i don't think this really docks your criticism at all, is that the pride lands are completely optional technically
@@ketchuplover6160 that part I actually found surprising. I usually don't skip it anyway tho, need the extra exp for the Roxas fight lmao.
I'm glad I found legit criticisms for kh2. Those Disney worlds served no purpose and were just retelling of the movies. (Except for Beast's Castle, Land of Dragon, Olympus Coliseum, Port Royal, and Space Paranoids.) Even Halloween Town took place after the movie and it's retelling the same movie again with Jack not learning anything from his movie.
@@Redxan600 also the level design wasn't that great. All the world's felt very flat with minimal platforming, except for cavern of remembrance. None of them felt fun to explore
0:23 actually, the gameplay makes 358/2 and Re:coded much more bearable IMO. When they put all that video and dense prose in one spot rather then here and their through a larger game it really made the whole thing get to be too much talking and reading. Broke the pacing really badly. It was already skirting the edge in Re:Coded case as a weird in between retelling game with some lore tacked on and then turning it into a book with cut scenes made it MUCH worse.
However 358/2 falls apart the most in that format imo. Roxas's story in 358/2 really only works when you have the missions to actually DO. Just being told "and then Roxas killed some heartless" doesn't catch the feelings of the quotas your given and meet day after day, you really FEEL that OrgXIII is doing this big long project and your just a cog in it with those missions. And at the end of each day you wined down with that cut-scene, it makes you feel a bit like Roxas. Your just doing the job, and then coming to the clock and sharing and ice cream (cause it's DISNEY AND YOU CAN'T HAVE A BEER IN THE SAME PROPERTY AS MICKY NO MATTER HOW APPROPRIATE IT WOULD FEEL, also Roxas is like 15ish) with your work bud after a long day.
It FEELS like you just got off your shift at the mall after school, and your 17yr old manager dude you got assigned to for training, who is super mature for someone who acts like he does is like "Hey, you. Want some icecream? You really busted your ass today, my treat" and your like "Sure. Thanks!" and it become something you do every day and you alternate who pays. It's where you sit around and BS. Then you start inviting this new girl in town, she's cool too. It just makes the whole thing feel mundane and grounded despite having the final fantasy DNA in it. It's cozy for a time. Then things start to go tits up, new girl gets sick and falls into a coma, Axel gets scouted by upper management and has to go to another store out of mall for bit cause they think he can keep that place together (spoiler he can't), but then she wakes up, but your connected somehow you don't know, and then YOU catch the werid and fall into a coma. and it's really just all down hill from there. That's what 358/2 FEELS like to play. The actual plot is a little different, but none of that feeling comes across in the summery/movie version.
Yo Kingdom Hearts jumping to a whole other universe would be insane.. honestly the charm of Disney worlds has ended for me but I’m sure kids still love it
Frozen is the reason why I don't play Kingdom heart 3 again
Could not agree more. KH2 is so good. The combat in that game is by far the best in the series and I love everything about it.
Sunburned Albino + Kingdom Heart= Good Content
Birth by sleep being 6th hurt me i just don't know how ddd could be above that
Gameplay wise my guy. I love every single game in the series and I know he didn’t include days and recoded which in that case days would’ve been last for SURE and I don’t need to explain why but since that’s not the case BBS has to take it. I don’t mind the uniqueness of every playable character in the game but the combat is floaty and it’s one of the most broken games in the series when you have the artillery. And yes I can hear you saying “but DDD has balloon which you can beat the entire game with a deck of 5 of them and like 2 cures” I get that but BBS has like more than 10 broken Commands you can cHoose from along witH tHe abilities you can get wHicH you can obtain witHin 1/4 in tHe game and don’t even me started on SHotlocks so ye man I understand your sentiment but it’s more sensible to have BBS this low
@@onyxx5612 I personally disagree. alot of the stuff in bbs you dont even find out really unless you look it up and thats facts while baloonrs is slapped in your face is pretty obvious its good. Plus melding and post game fights and literally almost everything is better about bbs then dream drop. And this is coming from someone who likes ddd aswell. But who likes petting your pets lol. The one thing id probably give dream drop is better world design but thats about it.
Side topic of a question: How did you feel about the traveling modes, aka: Gummi Ships?
I have an arguement between KH 2 & 3 in my own opinion. KH2's Gummi Ship travel mode had "paths" that I enjoyed the gameplay of the most (except Mission 3 segments in some areas, but even those weren't bad) along with some unique parts for your ship, while 3 had been developed by the Einhander devs and added exploration and "dogfights" (well, battle encounters) with superior boss encounters I won't soon forget along with more weapons and new systems, yet KH1's may lack most of everything being the first has a one-off: The Transformation mode for ships which was never seen in any of the other games.
9:10 according to Nomura Disney basically didn't involve themselves in smash at all. He's the reason there's no Donald or goofy in smash basically
I personally like 3 more than 2. Can’t really give a definitive why, just prefer the things it does better more and don’t mind the things it does worse.
For example:
I like the situation command system. While it is random, I think it’s a great way to combine all of Sora’s abilities into an easy to access system. I also like formchanges more than drives as they feel more varied and interesting.
I don’t mind KH3’s mess of a story because I expected it from the get go. KH3 tried to tie together every game that came before it and while I can’t say it exactly succeeded, I felt it was good enough and for a Kingdom Hearts game, that’s high praise.
I like KH3’s combat way more than 2. You have no idea how frustrating it was to play 3 first then go to 2. No airstep, no air guarding, worse graphics, drive form leveling. There were many times when I wished I was playing KH3 for one of these specific differences.
I will give KH2 credit for one thing. That final world is COOL AS FUCK from start to finish. Completely blows 3’s out of the water with the spectacle.
But to you people who think KH2 is the best in the series, I definitely see where you’re coming from. It was definitely fun to play and I probably sabotaged my own enjoyment of it by playing 3 first and getting used to its wildly different combat.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
"the worlds are all solid, except for atlantica, which is liquid"
this is the type of jokes i very much enjoy
358/2 would unironically be top 5. It’s a shame it didn’t get remade.
I still want it to be remade
@@ChandlerWithaZ
Me too.
Hopefully if they remake 1, they’ll do 358/2 with it,
@@mikeclark7026 ye but we gotta remember who we dealing with 😂 plus as much as a kh fanatic I am too, gameplay wise as I grew up, kh days is ass even to recoded and ye I would like to see it remade but I’ll still have to take that in consideration
To me, personally ofc, I really think KH3 and KH2 are at a toss up for best game. I love KH2 to death with all of my being, but there was something so satisfying about have a fresh new numbered game with reworked combat and new story content.
KH2 is such a treat, by far my favorite as well.
358/2 Days, the actual game, is really fun, especially the multiplayer. The movie version took all the good part (the gameplay) out
The worst part of KH1 on ps2 was the inability to skip cutscenes.... I lost many times to dragon maleficent as a kid and agonised rewatching cutscenes every time
Thank you, someone agrees with me that the Ruined Synthesis in the KH1 Final Mix, it was perfect in the original save for the white mushrooms
I agree with liking the og Gameboy Advanced chain of memories. It was hard but fun. I would put DDD under BBS, but I didn't have much trouble with BBS to begin with and it's probably my second favorite behind KH2. Otherwise I mostly agree with your list. Always enjoy your videos man, keep up the good work.
Edit: I do recommend giving 358/2 a chance someday. It wasn't a bad game, and the story was alright, but the gameplay was pretty solid and it had some interesting mechanics. Proud mode is quite difficult for once though. Be ready to get one or two shot constantly at the begining. It also had a street fighter style fighting game to it, but that was just a side thing you unlocked I believe. And you can change stuff up for each character, which was neat cause you can see their weapons change.
I've never understood people who say KH should step away from Disney. I mean, Disney owns the right to Sora and the rest of KH. How are they supposed to leave Disney when at any point Disney can just shut down the project? This doesn't mean that I wouldn't like other games in Kh, but you have to remember that Disney will never let it go.
I'd love if they did do Kingdom Hearts going through other game worlds. Persona 5 or Nier could be so much fun
They don't need any extra worlds. They have enough story going to just keep it in traverse town or other original worlds. The only reason you go to Disney worlds in 3 is because that's what you do in kingdom hearts none of the worlds really have anything to do with the story. I remember laughing super hard during frozen world because the ice girl like just completely ignores them
For handheld Re:Coded is actually my favorite because every world has a unique mechanic or gimmick for the world boss, ie Traverse Town becomes a sidescroll platformer while Wonderland is more of a trivia setup. I really didn't like KH3 at launch but have started a couple days ago to play through again to give the story another chance without the 16 year build up for expectations that nothing would be able to realistically meet
Skipping Days saved you the time from having to put it in the absolute bottom.
Skipping Coded saved you the time from having to put it near the absolute top.
I think kh2s biggest flaw is how slow the drives level up. You have to go out of your way to grind them unless you want to be going anti form every other match trying to level up through the fights
How did I know KH2 would be at the top of Albino’s list? Not that I’m complaining, I’d pretty much rank it the same way he did.
The only thing I would switch for my list are CoM and BBS.
I really enjoyed BBS (on PSP, PS4 and PC) and didn't really have the same complaints and CoM just didn't do it for me (apart from the story; also I never played it on GBA).
The GBA version is 100x better
not watching - 358/2 days for DS is valid game title and very much a worthy candidate for best KH game
Ok. But where was Kingdom Hearts 2 during Hurricane Katrina?
Always love the content bro fr fr 💯. KH Has a special place in my Heart not just gameplay wise but tHe actual real life stuff tHat you can take from it. Moving on from tHat if tHis was my personal list I’d probably swap COM and BBS just due to personal bias but at tHe same time tHis list is kinda Hard to argue against. Story wise BBS is one of tHe greatest However gameplay wise it’s pretty bad. One of tHe most broken games in tHe series wHen you acquire tHe firepower tHe abilities you can get witHout even making it Halfway tHrougH tHe game and for tHe people wHo like to do level 1 runs of tHat game don’t Have to do much to regret doing one tHanks to d links and don’t even let me have to mention shotlocks so ye. Everything else is explained well and I honestly believe for tHose including myself wHo played tHe DLC for KH3 if yozora wasn’t tHat asinine and literally rage inducing to figHt, kh3 would be 1 without a doubt. Abusing thunder in kh3 is GOD and I like tHe leveling keyblades tbh and tHe Ultima Weapon? WHEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW BOY DO I KNOW THAT KH3 version of tHe ultimate keyblade, ultima weapon is tHe best In tHe series AND it’s tHe easiest game to obtain it in tHe entire series so ye but kh2 just Has a special place in my Heart man and after being an Xbox person(and still am) not Having a ps3 to experience tHe final mix versions tHat was exclusive to Japan and waiting so long and it finally came to Xbox and replaying it again was amazing more tHan amazing. Getting tHe tHrill of playing tHe lingering will was satisfying learning Him each time and I always love figHting xemnas wHicH Is one of my top 5 organization members of all time because of His figHts (DDD being tHe weakest one of out all but hey) are so entertaining and ik since sora is waaaaay more developed in kh2 tHan it’s predecessor but SepHirotH is still no joke and figHting Him is just always a banger(THAT MEANS BRING HIM BACK WHERE HE RIGHTFULLY BELONGS NOMURA SINCE YOU SO KINDLY LEFT HIM OUT OF 3 and tHe entirety of final fantasy for tHat matter) wow man tHis series came a long way and it’s wHy it’s my number 2 series of all time and i really Hope tHat kh4 is tHe ultima weapon out of tHem all . You owe us Nomura let’s get it 💯✅
For me it's hard to say overall.
KH1 has the best exploration and progression system. New abilities actually impact how you navigate the world and open up new pathways in old areas. Arguably the best level design too. The story is simple but impactful, with stakes that are well established and very high. Similarly the Disney worlds are quite well integrated with the whole council of villains and the fact that completing a world actually directly accomplishes something by saving it from the Heartless. Even though the later games surpass it a little bit IMO, the soundtrack still slaps. KH1 does suffer from some technical limitations though. While the worlds are well-designed, the environments often feel confined. Similarly the combat is a bit clunkier than the rest, but still held up surprisingly well on a recent replay and I like the utility spells.
KH2 has the best combat, which feels so fluid and is combined with some well thought out and memorable boss battles. A story with a lot of cool characters and impactful moments, from 1k heartless and 'two!?!' to 'right back at you, buddy'. The organisation was great even if I think Xemnas is one of the weaker characters among them. The soundtrack was the best in the series. Mostly original and absolutely slaps. Where KH2 struggled was in the world design. The worlds were pretty bland and all boiled down to hallways and clearings with minimal platforming or exploration. The best section in the game is the CoR, which was clearly added in FM to give a taste of what could have been.
KH3 is the most beautiful to look at and probably my favourite one to just freeroam in through the beautiful Disney worlds, even if the original worlds (with the exception of Scala), are kinda bland or barebones. The movement was awesome and the combat was quite good. The writing and story was where KH3 fell short for me. The dialogue got bad and the story was in my opinion poorly paced and full of contrivances. The soundtrack was good but I would have appreciated some more new tracks as opposed to rearrangements of old ones.
I find the card system really frustrating, but I have a ton of respect for Chain of Memories just due to how cool & delightfully creepy the story is. So unsettling to watch a 10 year old boy slip further and further into dementia, while being trapped within twisted false versions of the levels we loved from KH1. Org XIII was at its most mysterious and frightening, and the lore overall hadn't become so impossibly confusing yet, so you could still grasp what was happening if you paid enough attention. Quite possibly the best game on the GBA.
I agree with most of this list. One thing I don’t agree with is allowing other video game franchises into the series. Maybe a few more SE franchises like the Chrono series, but that’s about it.
I want the series to tear down its boarders and allow the different characters to interact with each other. Like Jack Skeleton exploring the Monsters Inc. world. Jack Sparrow and his crew interacting with the Treasure Planet cast. Rapunzel and Flinn going on a double date with Aladdin and Jasmine. Hercules opening his own hero academy and maybe butting heads with Mr. Incredible on teaching styles.
The possibilities are endless!
I play my original KH1 on my original PS2 (big version) every few years.
It's relaxing over Christmas.
That’s one of the best kh ranked I’ve seen, kh mom is def better than bbs nd ddd. Great vid, kh3 stays my fav since remind release tbh.
Ah yes. A Chain of Memories enjoyer. Good to see I'm not the only one out there.
Pretty good analysis. I mostly agree. I'd swap KH1 and KH3 due to the fact that KH1 had originality and from a narrative perspective, the worlds mattered more to the overall narrative. Keep up the good work on these videos! Here's hoping you do the same with the God of War franchise!
The story of KH1 basically boils down to
Riku: I found you Sora.
Sora: Riku! I was so worried. We have to find Kairi.
Riku: So you were so busy with your new friends that you didn't care about us?
Seriously, Riku blatantly ignores everything Sora says, and that's what kick-starts the main conflict in the game.
9:00 You should do more research. Disney's involvement in KH is so much bigger than you think. I mean, even the Kingdom Key, the icon of the game, has the freaking Mickey Mouse symbol at the end of the keychain.
I won't be surprised if Disney actually has more say about Kingdom Hearts than Square Enix does.
You're actually correct. When Sora ended up dropping into Smash, it wasn't Square that made it happen. Sakurai had to contend with Disney, who owns the KH IP
Finally a kh3 fan that knows his stuff. Anytime I ever hear any backlash (which to be fair the game does deserve) I point out pirates just like you did.
@@silenceundying you act like every single kh game doesn't have stupid discussions made with them, like the horrible synthesis is kh1 fm as mentioned in the video. Just because kh3 has bad aspects doesn't make it a bad game. And it's not just pirates, if a kh3 world does a world right, that world is among the best of the series. Toy box, big hero six, tangled, even Olympus was done well considering we've never actually explored the city or mt Olympus before.
@@silenceundying Who plays kingdom hearts just for the story?
As for 100% platinum completion I found Dream Drop Distance to be by far the most grueling. The fact there’s an in game trophy for maxing all 51 dream eaters affinity levels is absolutely bonkers I thought the link/ability boards were enough (and I found it cool it reminds me of FFX and X2) but your literally broke by the time you buy and sell everything for balloons and water barrels also the stagger, meaning everything stuns you heavily nothing you do stuns anything even bosses you cant even do the ole sonic blade spam like in BBS as cartoony DDD comes off I can’t ever see a kid or teen completing a game that gives 30 year olds a run for their money
Sad bout Days and Re:Coded not being on here.
While Days was...experimental, to say the least, Re:Coded was easily the best mobile game of them all gameplay-wise.
Birth By Sleep, eat your heart out.
The only thing holding Re:Coded back was all the minigame bullshit and the fact that its story was even more skippable than 385/2 Days' story.
Solid list, I have KHII as the best game in the series (and one of the greatest games of all time) too. My biggest problem with KHIII (besides the slower floaty combat) was that it took 13 years to come out and still didn’t match the level of polish that KHII had.
People still believe the 13 years stuff
KH3 👏 TOOK👏ONLY👏 LIKE 👏 5👏 YEARS👏 TO👏 MAKE👏
Birth by sleep and ddd are much better than fking chain of memories. Shit made me quit the series so many times I can't count
9:51 having to grind for drive forms is one of many issues with 2
Love the video as always, but could you reupload the super senior novel you wrote with some simple name changes? I really liked it.
1 is my favorite, I understand 2 is the better improved game, however 1’s first play through was such a great adventure .
i need to see sora stabbing clickers
Albino posts: me happy
I think Birth By Sleep kinda gets a bad rap. The story is super engaging and the fact that you can play as three different protagonists that go through different story events and have different fighting styles is really cool. Command melding is kind of annoying at first but once you start to understand and get the hang of it it's not terrible. The thing that really holds BBS back for me is the visuals. It really *looks* like a handheld game copy and pasted to a console, and I think if any game deserves a remake on the new console generations, it's that one.
KH2 is kind of overrated for me. The Disney worlds feel like filler more so in 2 than in any other game except maybe DDD and the worlds themselves aren't interesting to traverse through in a physical sense.
Kingdom hearts 2 is my favorite game ever. You made my day with this
Kingdom hearts 2 final mix + is my all time favorite. Especially for the memories. Got it when I was 12 (26 now) The 1st is my 2nd favorite.
Question: What would you change if given the ability to alter the franchise however you pleased? For example at the end here you mention how KH should branch into crossovers with other video games, so how would that affect previous titles if you could retroactively include them?
Get Nomura to give his notes to a more competent writer probably and let that person handle the rest of the franchise.
Also rip KH from the clutches of Disney a little bit for more creative liberties so a franchises characters can be more directly involved with the main gangs tribulations.
Toy Story got away with it, but look at Arandelle for a reason as to why it's a pretty big problem atm.
@@walter4180 I wouldn't be so quick to tear Disney away, simply because there's a chance they don't need to. I heard recently of a bill that would reduce corporation copyright down to the 56 years everyone else has, and that would mean most everything Disney created before 1967 would be fair game, including many of the titles and characters of KH1 and who knows how many potential options from other western animation. It could change Kingdom Hearts from Square+Disney to Square+Public Domain.
Remove the time travel aspect of DDD. It made the story go off the rails when everyone became Xehanort (except Xigbar because he's only half Xehanort).
9:22 Disney had no problem with sora in smash it was actually tatsuya Nomura who was against it.
KH3's far better than naysayers say it is, but let's just not forget that KH2 received just as nasty hatred when it first came out; It's the Disney tag. Some people just HATE Disney to hate them with no rhyme, or reason. Sure, all the power to them, but it doesn't change that KH is a well-made franchise (when it wants to be), and KH3's just the most spectacular example of how beautiful it can look. Mechanics-wise, though, that obviously will always go to KH2... Until a better game comes out, of course, which my pessimist doubts, but will continue to hope for.
KH pretty much just has the Sonic game syndrome
Finally someone who not only likes Chain of Memories and best character Larxene but also likes Kingdom Hearts 3
I must be weird, because I did play recoded and 300 days… in fact 300 was my first kh game ever, followed by bbs. So my personal ranking is very very different. Bbs will always rank quite high for me. You have to remember it first came out on psp… and they didn’t change a thing when they brought it to playstation.
I actually genuinely loved the combat on bbs
I liked the commands too. I cant fully get behind this review because kingdom hearts players have the weirdest opinions because of how long the series has been going, we all experienced games at different times in our childhood.
The issue with what you said about Square Enix needing to be done with Disney is that Kingdom Hearts is owned by Disney. Sora, Kairi, Riku, they are all Disney characters, not Square Enix characters. Disney is the one who actually owns KH and it is copyrighted under their name, Square just makes the develops and publishes the games. Square only owns characters from existing Square Enix franchises, Cloud, Squall, Aerith etc.
If Square was to add different videogame worlds, they would need Disney's explicit permission, and if they did distance themselves from Disney then Square Enix would need to make a completely different franchise altogether and abandon the current story that we have with Sora. Square cannot legally make any game that has characters from Kingdom Hearts (even original ones like Sora, Xion, Riku etc) without permission from Disney, even if you or I may want it to happen.
It's why Disney was the one who was asked if Sora was allowed into Smash, not Square Enix. Disney. They own the franchise, they own all the characters except Square Enix original characters, so if we wanted to see all these cool things, it would mean either an entirely new franchise made purely by Square Enix or Disney would have to agree to everything. And we know Disney won't do that, it'll only be Disney and original worlds until KH is over as Disney would never let any other company into the game they own except the one developing it.
nah man, you can't say that the combat in bbs is laggy and clunky and rank the og kh this high, that doesn't seem fair tho. I understand, og kingdom hearts was the start and it was a decent game but I'd rank ddd over og Kingdom hearts...and bbs over ddd
Let's be real kingdom hearts is wonderful but we need final fantasy worlds midgar is a must have since we have cloud and sephiroth
I don't think there's many that wouldn't put KH2 or KH3 as their favorite. And tbh, I actually agree with this entire list.
Also, I don't care what anyone says. Best worlds hands down was Re:Mind Scala and KH2 World that Never Was.
I personally don't think that KH must crossover with other games, the advantage of Disney worlds is that the gameplay time may be equal to the movies, doing that with another videogame that the story is about 5 hours long is complicated. What I think is that they must add more juice to final fantasy as they did in the first game. Letting sora use flare, última, holy, meteor and support magic could open even more the gameplay. That and adding more final fantasy characters and teaming up with them would refresh entirely the story, because they would actually think how to fit new characters in Disney worlds instead of replaying the movie just with the trio behind.
I mostly agree but BBS is one of the best kh games, can’t condone this slander
Thank you for that BbS gameplay rant because it's exactly how I feel
"You're just a speedy wrecking ball out there zipping around unleashing hell on your opponents"
My thoughts exactly and once you learn how to actually play the game so you can handle critical AND learn some cheese strats it's like you're spanking your *ss in Xehanort's face the entire game. Also, KH3 is my favorite because the increased combat variety (only needed on crit) from 2 makes it so much more fun. KH2 is a blast, but it feels extremely tight to the point of it feeling like a math problem as opposed to 3's more free form feel.
I agree with 8 and top 4, and the criticisms on all the others are valid, just ordered differently in my mind. Fun as always, SBA!
Putting chain of meories above kh1, bbs and ddd is crazy
I'd argue 358/2 Days would rank middle of the road on the list. The game is sorta repetitive, but the amount of playable characters is so astounding it even has Donald and Goofy. Each character also plays differently unlike BBS or DDD.
KH3 is the most underrated game in the series, with DDD in 2nd place. These are both easily S tier games
bruh, you ranked Re:CoM too high
but aside from how you like what's imo the worst KH game (Re:CoM) I do agree that it's time KH starts distancing itself from Disney, especially given the Unreality it seems to be heading towards, it'd be nice to see more Final Fantasy characters and even some Final Fantasy worlds, it'd be pretty cool to pal around with Vann in Ivalice, help Lightning save Gran Pulse, and maybe even team up with Barret and the others to look for Cloud and get the long awaited resolution to that little plot point
I am actually doing the Zack versus Terra from Birth by Sleep fight on Critical right now. Zack just insta kills you with a BS attack that sends you into the air and constantly hits you. You just got to dash like crazy before he attacks you even if he is all the way across the stadium since he can teleport in front of you and end the fight instantly.
Glad I’m not the only one that names Dream Eaters after Pokémon lol so creative
Huh? I agreed with nearly everything said.... I desperately wanted drive forms in 3 it just felt rewarding leveling them up in 2 and gaining growth abilities in base sora
I have the opposite view lmao Growth abilities being tied to drive forms was one of the more egregious design choices they made for 2.
You're practically required to grind just to have some form of satisfying movement in and out of combat and even when those requirements were nerfed in FM, it was still bad.
Like Nomura really thought tying DODGE ROLL to a form was a good idea.
i feel likesome of these r a little too objective, are these rankings purely gameplay wise? or story wise? because it feels like these rankings r purely gameplay wise based on how you're explaining it lol