ANOTHER 30 Obscure KH1 Things You Might Not Know

starting to think you like kh1 pat

Can confirm, “Aye aye Captain Sora” + the little salute is, in fact, fucking adorable.

Puppy #13 is the one that follows you around in the Dalmatian House dining room! I once checked back at the house before opening every new Dalmatian box in order to narrow it down. Following Puppy appeared after opening the 13,14,15 box in Wonderland. In the BradyGames Official Strategy Guide, there's a numbered sticker sheet of every single puppy as they appear in the house, so by looking at the backgrounds/poses of 13,14,15, you can tell that #13 is the one on the orange carpet of the dining room, always facing your camera!

MORE KH1 FACTS!? At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if the cure to cancer was hidden in KH1 this entire time

This one is kinda unknown but if you choose to give Donald or Goofy a potion in the armored guard boss fight after they "drop in" to help before officially being introduced. You can see their names to choose from like normal but Sora will only say "HERE" instead of their names since he doesn't know them but the player does from cutscenes

Okay that chimney thing is genuinely so friggin cool. I miss the interactive nature of this game so much. In comparison, the other games feel rather cold. Not bad in any way, but there’s just a genuine warmth with KH1 that I can’t find with the other games. And I’d say it’s nostalgia but I noticed that lack of warmth with the other games even as a kid.

The 6pm painting 'time flies' is the iconic shot of Castle Cornelia from the original FF, I feel like no one recognises it bc i don't think many people are familiar with it.

I can't believe there were still so many things to point out! I gotta say Pat you continue to make me appreciate KH1 more and more. What an incredible amount of detail for an experimental game they had no idea would become the series it is now.

Oh yeah, another weird thing in KH1 that we noticed on my roommate's blind playthrough is that Goofy seemed to...forlornly keep his eyes closed after the first gorilla encounter in the treehouse? We have it recorded, I'll have to find it and send it to you. It was either a really bizarre detail or a very obscure glitch, but it's stuck in my head ever since.

15:06 - 15:19 BRUH that had me on the fucking floor The dramatic “swoosh” sound effect being used for tigger drunkenly swaying to the sides followed by the famous KH1 character blank stare and that frame 1 rocket powered jump off the side of the screen brought me to tears

It’s a miracle that the team was given enough time for this much polish and attention to detail when so many games are rushed and released unfinished.

This game is incredible in terms of all the attention to detail. They considered so many clever little things that they didn't need to spend time on. I can't think of any modern day game with this level of optional consideration. If 'soul' in a video game is measured by attention to detail, I think KH1 is the most soulful game of all time.

“Wow, another one? I guess we’re just gonna go over the more general well known stuff he didn’t mention before, I’ll probably known most of th….” 26/30 were brand new to me. You’ve blown my mind about the game I thought I new best yet again! Especially those destiny island lines, those are all amazing

regular pat has slowly transformed me from diehard kh2 fan to accepting that kh2 really struggles in the charm department (and a few others) compared to kh1. thank you pat

Something I found neat that's probably only semi obscure is that you can do a barrel roll while you're riding the magic carpet out of the cave of wonders even though you can't do a barrel roll in the gummi ship until KH2. You do it by pressing Circle and there's a different animation depending on whether you're holding the stick vertical or horizontal

For #21, you can cheese the captain hook fight if you skillfully cancel the thunder spell cast after jumping by casting it right before you hit the ground. This will cause Captain Hook to do the lightning rod animation while preserving your MP. Do the cast cancel next to him so can have 2 to 3 free aerial hits before casting again. You can repeat this as long as you have the MP to cast thunder. Canceling the cast gives you the benefit to prolong your MP if you do misstime the cancel.

12:19 Honestly, after hearing that the residents of Halloween Town learned about Heartless from a book, I can't help but think Oogie got that book- probably a crash course for Heartless things- and forgot about it one day and left it just lying around somewhere for anyone to just stroll on up and be like "Ooh, what dat?"

This is why I love the KH series you could play it a million times and still discover new things they really put a lot of "heart" into this game and it shows. I can almost forgive them for the over complicated plot.

I love the additional Destiny Islands dialogue. My friends legit wouldnt believe it was real until I showed them proof and half the people thought it was a mod when I tweeted it out a while back. Insane how many extra hidden animations and other stuff like this were put in KH1 that they must have known 99.9% of players would never see.

For #19, I wonder if Xehanort has been to Halloween Town and Atlantica? He already was the type to actively travel the worlds unlike Eraqus and Yen-Sid, but also he probably went to those places during this travels as a young man after his encounter with the Master of Masters. Maybe Triton knew trouble when he saw it and decided that all Keyblade Wielders were trouble, and Xehanort left behind the book about Heartless, either on accident or on purpose.