Everything Right and Wrong With Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix

Well, this video is gonna make more than a few people angry. Also, I just realized that I uploaded this a day before my channel's third anniversary. I swear that wasn't intentional.

To me, the three hour prologue was a reminder that this franchise hits different when you play through the games in canonical order rather than release date order. Finishing this prolouge after going back and forth between Chain of Memories and 358/2 days (I did have to emulate the latter using melonDS for a single screen gameplay experience) truly made me appreciate Roxas as a character more so than the release date order would have. He's not just "Sora but edgy", he learned to become his own person by realizing that despite being branded as something that can't feel emotion (a Nobody), he was able to make his own memories that were wholly unique from Sora's. Those memories, coupled with the fact that Ventus' heart transfered to Roxas when he and Sora separated, filled the hole inside where Roxas' heart WOULD be if he was always his own person. Roxas is unfortunately an example of reverse character development executed poorly (instead of seeing the character improv as a person, we see them at their highest potential first and then later on we're shown how they got to that point), as i feel like I would've been indifferent if I went through this prologue before Days.

"Why does Riku run like he's been shot in the hip?" Yeah, Riku runs like Napoleon Dynamite.

44:42 Hey Fluttershy 👋

Fun facts: 1. Sephiroth is able to be challenged as soon as you get to the Study. 2. If you tell Cloud Sephiroth’s location you will get the Fenrir upon informing Sephiroth, The keyblade you get from him may have a not good ability on paper but when used you can see Lingering Will gets stunned when hit so if you get a good combo up you can defeat the armor quickly 3. Thanks to the Fenrir you can easily skip his DM with the right skills unequipped. I hope this was helpful

13:44 Nice old-timely voice!!!

Great video. This is, in my opinion, the best one. I can't wait for the other kh videos.

Ugh I remember the first time I fought the Lingering Will and yeah the ptsd is strong with this one. When I got to that point I hoped I could finally beat him and I did so in one of the most bizarre ways I've beaten a boss. Basically the strategy I looked up on winning the fight was this-Jump, hit, jump, hit and so on until I finally got Lingering Will's health to 0. At first I thought it was a joke but then I tried it and yeah this method really saved me the stress of repeatedly fighting him. Good luck on future secret bosses some of them really broke me.

I'm getting a kingdom hearts tattoo my very first one very soon, so it's interesting you post this today.

Yeah, when people say they hate Demyx, we were SPECIFICALLY referring to his harder DATA version. Of course he has nothing on Lingering Will. There's a good reason Lingering Will is widely considered the hardest enemy in Kingdom Hearts, up till KH3 DLC.

James Woods as Hades!!! That is all I wanted to say!!!

Been a while since your last video glad to have you back. Edit: ok now i modified the error, Can i get my comment hearted again ?

44:43 The Flutternope!!!

Underrated channel

What?! You beat Demyx on Crirical mode first try?! Damn, i feel inadequate. My inferior gaming skills aside, if you think this game is bad with re-telling the same OG Disney stories, wait till you get to Kingdom Hearts 3, which granted is kind of 50-50 but still. And yeah, i thought it was ridiculous that The Little Mermaid's story was re-done 1 year later

12:18 As soon as you played the footage of Hercules fighting Hydra, I knew you'd sin that because just about every video does. (Not saying you aren't allowed to, just saying I knew you were going to sin that)

13:36 kinda reminds me of the car from bendy in nightmare run

13:21 If it makes you feel any better, I'm not going to reference that either in my video on this game, nor will I mention Winnie the Pooh being public domain (even though it'll have been public domain for at least 2 years at the time the video's up)

I didn’t use any of the Drive forms since there was no combo list anywhere for Valor despite using X and 🟪 for unique moves, and I died almost instantly at The Land of Dragons since I was playing on Critical. Wisdom is also too slippery and you have no melee moves which made sense. But at the same time while starting out, I also hated the Magic system as well. I hate how fire became a ring of fire, blizzard became a singular ice, and thunder becoming less of an AOE attack. Cure could’ve saved it, but it uses up all MP, which made sense, but that meant there is no way to replenish MP unless I wait. MP orbs do NOTHING in the auto-regen phase. That meant I saw no reason to use magic either. Reflect also seemed like a guard— THE ONLY GUARD— but it costed MP. No thanks. It wasn’t until I grinded for the Drive Forms cause they were the ONLY way to even get a DODGING MOVE. On top of that, Dodge Roll is also nonexistent unless you grind limit form. You get a worse version of dodge when grinding for Wisdom. I almost dreaded the first act of this game cause of Critical mode obviously, but also cause I felt like I have little options to combat enemies. Blocking also felt pointless since you could still get hit by other enemies or even the enemy you’re blocking anyway, and that was a big problem in Timeless River, especially with the Hot Rods. I was also peeved off at the camera system of the game. Yeah you can see more, but it may be the worst camera in the series because you cannot switch targets. AT ALL. I gave up on Port Royal cause I just learned that the controller I’m using has an awful deadzone now, and this game demands that you push the stick ALL the way forward to even run from enemies, meaning I died a lot. Port Royal had these pesky men and I had poor reaction for those gunners. After what was probably a year, I used a different controller that worked, and not only that, I began to use magic a little more. Blizzard is their weakness since they are skeletons after all. This world may not have been the highlight, but I did somewhat enjoy it. I still hated the lock-on system to the point where I relied on the auto-lock since it was better and can change who you’re attacking as well as the fact that this game felt more hack-and-slashy compared to the original. I even learned to use the Drive Forms since as it turns out not only do they replenish your health back to full, which makes Cure nearly useless, but it also replenishes your **MP** AS WELL, giving me all the reason to use magic! Sure it costed a bit of Drive, but it’s worth paying for since Drive can be replenished by any enemy almost. This was why I used Limit the most (before Final was used cause the Two Become One was literally the only way to unlock it) since the limits are powerful, can straight up be abused since the limits replenish HP, and thus, if you have the right Abilities, can replenish MP as well, allowing for many Sonics or Raids, and you are invulnerable with some of them. Plus you can use them at ANY battle, meaning free heals and MP with the cost of around uhhhh FOUR drive gauges. It wasn’t until Hollow Bastion’s second visit that I learned to love this game and this franchise as a whole, as I appreciated the silly idea of a SE and Disney crossover. It’s magical in a sense. Despite all the ranting and complaining I’ve made… my goodness, I haven’t played a game where I actually prefer the SEQUEL of the game over the original, in a LONG time. Combat’s great, story’s great, even the bosses were great, even the Data Battles despite kicking my behind. And the ending’s just the cherry on top. Yeah the final phase could be more interesting in terms of gameplay, but it was an awesome way to finish nonetheless.

Hey Tony is this a cool concept? Special type of energon turning humans into cybertronians