He's only missing a loading wheel and the dial up noise above his head.

Oh wow, I have no knowledge when it comes to music theory, but there were multiple times where the music shocked/surprised me in a bad way. It's a shame it's the way it is, but at least it was only used once

I had that riku headknocker! I found it at an anime shop in a mall not to far from me a few years back. I thought it was a bootleg based on how it looked but... it was riku so i had to have it. Can't believe it was a real thing

Imagine we find the lost episode and it's just a bunch of cheap walk cycles.

Only missed 3, Im only ashamed of one of those because I never played Coded, nor Union X.

There were a bunch of tornadoes made of Heartless in KH3, and that includes a mile-wide one that killed everybody. (Then they got better, because Kingdom Hearts is like that.)

Hmm. I wonder if there's a ranking video for the unversed out there.

This guy's got good taste. I am gonna fight him on the Carrier Ghost though. Due to Days having very janky aerial combat, you can just... chase it into the air by mashing A. Even during the main story if you have the right weapon equipped. If it gets too high up, it'll disappear and reappear back on the ground around the same time Roxas is about to land anyway. It is a biiiitch to try and nail with magic though. In general fighting Ghosts just sucks in Days since they teleport around _way_ more in that game than anywhere else in the series. So it's still F tier, just not FF. Shout outs to correctly placing Battleship in S tier though. Dude is slept on so much. I absolutely adore everything about it. The multiple parts, the fashion of the "captain" at the helm of the ship, the way it forces you to engage with Captain Hook, and how in the few colosseum matches it shows up in the thing will fly way up in the air and just start carpet bombing the stage, forcing you to choose whether to deal with the weaker heartless first so it will come down or immediately try to take out _at least_ the cannons. It's the perfect miniboss heartless. God I wish it would come back with even more janky bullshit. I'd also bring up the Fat Bandit a tier. Not only because it has a neat interaction where you can stun it by deflecting it's fireballs back at it, which I think nets some tech points if memory serves me right, but also because because I feel like putting it next to any of the armors is giving that subfamily too much credit. I do agree that one who's based around inflicting Silence is a nice way to force the player to pay attention, since the only quick way to knock them over is with magic, but also that specific armor will mostly show up in missions where you have an ally. And holy shit I hate missions where you have an ally in Days. They pretty consistently get in the way by either knocking enemies out of your attack range, shoving you away from them, or pissing off whatever they're looking at so it goes off to do it's own thing. And boy howdy am I going to have a _rant_ about that when we get to the color coded music bells. Final note about Days is I love the Deserter missions. I'm having fun figuring out how to best kill them off without getting a dozen boots shoved up my ass. It's super fun trying to optimize around how goofy they are. Especially since most attacks that hit a pretty wide radius have bad end lag, which means the Deserter can just... leave mid combo. Getting some luck so far with Thundara and Firaga, though. Also, did not know the Chimera was drawn that early in development. That's neat. The more you know~

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Good stuff.

The link is still missing. (I'm going insane)

He's just floating there... menacingly

How did you have the restraint to not pull out the selfie cam?

The gargoyle slander.

Looking forward to part 2 !

Thanks for the vid. Looking forward to the rest of the Heartless ranking videos. Wouldn't mind seeing ones for the Nobodies and Unversed too.

I got all 21 of them right but fuck me if a couple of them weren't straight up guesses. Weather channel goes hard apparently.

If u have double treasure magnet equipped while baffling jet balloon, it's tactics on you aren't very consequential and you can get away with defeating it without magic

3 wrong and it is harder than it should've been lmao

I feel like this game is just Sora or maybe Jiminy's fever dream- oh wait a minute! lmao genuinely a charming and interesting little game to look through, too. the music is actually quite nice for its lil' scope c:

Personally, I would've given plot points to the OG soldier for being the only Heartless that we actually see capture someone's heart. Still not amazing overall, but I would've bumped it up one.

Ok I went absolutely feral trying to find the Diamond Select Gallery figure of Donald fighting the Toy Trooper. Nobody has it, not even on Ebay! I want so badly want to free the little Toy Trooper from their torment lmao, I want to break out my toolbox and EXTRACT THEM. There's a ton of old listings on various sites and NONE OF THEM ARE IN STOCK ANYMORE

I've always wanted to see a heartless tier list, is an enemy that is very underrated in my opinion with all they bring Also your format and style is very great and something that funny enough I've always wanted to see in a video, so propa to you for that As for the tier, while it's very fair and all, my love for the soldier makes me want to be higher on the tier; yeah it's not as iconic as the shadow, but is the one that shows us the emblem heartless all together, making it an important piece in heartless history

I'm surprised Phantom is S-tier. The design is cool and the concept of how you're meant to fight it is a neat concept, but the actual fight itself is such a slog that I would've personally bumped it down to B. Will you do rankings for the other KH enemies? Nobodies, Unversed, and Dream Eaters? I imagine there's not enough of them to warrant individual videos (aside from maybe Dream Eaters), so you could probably merge them all into one video.

I was personally never a fan of the recolours that they did and much prefered the darker colors since it fit the heartless and their name more thematically.

The Guard Armor in Days actually feels more unique, and is actually somewhat of a threat. It can also regrow it's limbs, which regenerates it's core HP. Plus, the animation when it drops it's head is fun.

Ive always thought the boucywild/sniperwild was the cutest heartless

Looking forward to where you rank neo shadow in the next video

Hope you're having a good day

I would like to solemnly remind everyone of the often overlooked fact that all these heartless featured are in fact: people.

Ansem sod is an imediate s tier +

Damn i havent played since KH3 came out and it shows. I missed 4 out of the 21 (while i was playing something else tho) Thank god I just bought the whole series on steam so i can revise on this

I call the purple shadows “Shades” because it’s a similar name to shadow but being just different enough to work for them

What mixture of common heartless would you use as a custom party member thats slightly weaker than a keyblade warrior yet unique and powerful enough on its own using its unique abilities and moves to make it its own character? You can use only common kingdom hearts enemies no bosses. You're allowed to set your own restrictions to make it fun and arrange the abilities to allow your character to flourish in creative and satisfactory ways. Do this with nobodies too, and make your own heartless nobody chimera oc and see what their somebodies piwes might be!!

The Phantom had such a mystique to it. As a kid I only knew about it from reading the game guide in a bookstore. It being a secret boss (and finding out the game HAD secret bosses) was eerie in a way, and made the phantom a lot spookier. Plus it just deletes your party members, it felt like the only thing that could truly KILL your squad, really scary to an 8 year old. Easy S tier for me.

where are the balls, angel thingies, mages and sword shadows?

Bah heartless i perfer the dreameaters at least those where usable

Whoever loves the fat heartless where you can only hit it from the back (😉) is an idiot they be ruining the combo vibes 😂😂😂

This video is insanely high quality. Great work!

If I may: It's extremely cool that Ian still had the files for the soundtrack all these years later and willingly shared them with the fanbase when asked about it, and all things considered, despite the quick turnaround time and the technical limitations, he did a solid job on the soundtrack, however small the tracklist and however short the songs and jingles may be. It's very cool to know that, even though this was realistically probably just some contract job for a mobile game, he took the time to listen to the soundtrack of the source material and draw on that for his work. Shows a level of care that... I mean, let's be honest, it's a level of care you wouldn't really expect to see from an old flip phone era mobile game, especially this early in the franchise's lifespan, Disney branding attached or otherwise.

As a result of this video I will forever refer to the s tier as "Gong Tier" from now on

The Jet Balloon makes me want to tear my hair out

0:34 Ah it's that clip with the rendering error where Vanitas is shown in the Monster World as he goes through the door! That's not how the door is supposed to work!

35:30 Oh so that's where that "AAAAAARABIAN NIIIIGHTS" drawback in Kingdom Hearts χ series jump for Jumpchain came from. Speaking of which it seems like you duplicated Quest 34, Quest 160, and Quest 275 in order to fill out the chart. I saw that!

33:30 Does this look like the Heartless version of a D&D Druid? I'm not sure if it acts like one, but it looks like one at least.

30:09 No Large Body Heartless on A or S? They need to introduce some real Big Bangs!

24:50 Did you know about the Parasite Cage's ability to walk if placed in a room outside of its normal boss fights?

Took me a while to realise why there were ghosts in the atlantica and Monstro levels 😅

the fact that a group of mushrooms calling themselves Mushroom 13 and cosplaying as the highest ranking nobodies alone makes the heartless the superior enemy in the franchise. Heartless have so much personality that can't be beat