My Changed Kingdom Hearts Opinions

Happy Thanksgiving if you're celebrating 🦃 Incredibly thankful for this community and everyone I've met in it. Just wanted to plug those videos I referenced toward the end right here: damo279's Union X dub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRUt8q2IwR4 Bio's Character Psychology series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBSuDFL8uAk&list=PLsy7FiFnqDNM6yeuTWVLjJSOPqd1PBoPq Sonny's Brainteaser: The Basement Incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpsAUUG3ykI

My crowning moment as a part of the Pat Community was donating $20 on stream to make Pat post "Dream Drop? What a Game!" on his YouTube Community tab. Knowing that he likes the game even less now makes it even funnier. Great video as always Patthew!

Starting discourse at Thanksgiving dinner like "No please, explain to me why you think the KH2 prologue is bad"

An often underlooked aspect of Xaldin is that he's one of the few Organization members who doesn't refer to Sora as "Roxas" at any point. Usually the other Organization members that don't follow that trend have met Sora before, like Xemnas or Axel, or simply predate Roxas' proper KH2 debut, like the CoM crew. But Xaldin has no problem distinguishing Sora from him without ever meeting him before. From all indication in his Final Mix dialogue, it's due to seeing him as inferior to Roxas, which is rather interesting.

I think the issue with the whole Dream Eaters thing being tedious is that DDD was originally a game released for a portable console so the idea was that if you wanted you could kill some time on a long trip by leveling up your Dream Eaters to get specific Commands. But when the game was ported to home consoles, thus you have to do all of that in the comfort of your home, it became a chore. It's the same deal with Birth by Sleep and what I imagine would've happened with 358/2 Days if it did get a full-blown remake for home consoles, people would've complained about how monotonous Days is because of its "Day/Mission" structure that was clearly made with portable gaming in mind.

I think besides from the two "literally just a movie now" games DDD is the only KH game hurt by the compilations. Grinding some friendship with your dream eaters on the bus randomly is a lot less annoying feeling than having to sit down at your tv and do it for a couple hours at a time. BBS was also hurt some but I feel like a lot less noticeably.

FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE WHO FUCKING LOVES DEAD MONEY. That DLC is so much better than people treat it, it's insane.

Losing my fucking mind seeing Days move up the tierlist, I am that little DS game’s strongest soldier and will always fight for it to be appreciated more

What sucks about the "Mickey abandoned Aqua" thing is how it spread around far enough people unironically believe it's a canon fact despite there being no evidence. It's practically been engraved into a large part of the fandom's psyche that Mickey somehow ditched her for a decade from people apparently thinking he knew she was there since the Final Episode/misunderstanding how the Realm of Darkness works and probably thinking the ten years were actually ten years for Aqua.

Michael Mouse went from an insult to just Mickey's defacto name. It's engraved into my skull at this point

Waiting for the separate video thesis on why “Dark Rescue is my middle name” is actually your all time favorite KH line now.

Shoutout to Daniel Floyd of PlayFrame for his 358/2 Days series, where he edited together all the DS cutscenes and the PS3 movie footage into one long "Let's Play".

An additional defense to KH2 Atlantica: go listen to the Japanese versions of the game-original songs! Their lyrical rhythm fits those songs far better since those words were designed in Japanese first. The translation to English created some akwardness to the lyrics because they had to adhere to the instrumentals already made.

Another thing i wanna say about days, it will always be one of the coolest because playable organization. That's where i really fell in love with a lot of the org members that don't get a lot of screen time like Xaldin and Lexeaus because seeing 6 lances flying around you then skewering some poor heartless and seeing 3 boss health bars disappear from a single hit are hilarious

I’m pretty happy with his change on Mickey, especially with how everyone uses a FICTIONAL mouse as a scapegoat for a REAL company’s misdeeds.

I enjoy Arendelle more than most because when I went through it, I saw it less as an adaptation of the movie and more a world that was based on the feeling of playing in the snow and I was there for that

18:48 There's also Everglow's timeline which was done a long while ago that basically does the same thing without having to deal with voicework. Even splices in cutscenes from the Back Cover movie and other relevant bits from the games when needed.

I will always love DDD even if the game itself isn't perfect. The nostalgia of the 3ds version and Riku's continued development carries the game for me. I think it was better as a 3ds game though. I liked the petting of the dream eaters and pokemon with the 3ds stylist. It just felt more suited for that.

Arendelle’s “doing the movie” plot is even worse than you might think. - K.o.C. also has a “doing the movie” plot and leaves a few important scenes out, but Sora and crew are at least engaging with the story. Well, for the first half anyway… - Pirates is pretty bad in the “doing the movie” department because it straight-up skipped a movie, most of the plot happens off-screen AND Sora’s gang have hardly anything to do with it… BUT the world does reenact several key scenes from its movie to provide some modicum of context, and it does have some of the best Square x Disney character interactions, especially in the last half. - Arendelle’s plot, unlike Pirates, happens exclusively off-screen, Sora and Co. have nothing to do with the plot, and the Square x Disney interactions are completely inconsequential. Sora interacts with each character like, once, and no one catches up at the end; literally side-lined after the Skoll fight. Arendelle is nothing. It’s a vast, white, nothing.

Props to Damian for basically becoming canon to the majority of the community 👏