How To Fix Kingdom Hearts PART 2

**WATCH PART 1**
• How To Fix Kingdom Hea...
This one took me a whole month to produce. I poured way more into it than I probably should have. Again, it's very long. 1.25x/1.5x speed recommended.
BIG thanks to Napstio for all the custom Kairi clips. Please go check out the KH2FM mods they've been doing; it's truly amazing work. / @napstio8399
And of course a special thanks to all the artists and KZbinrs whose content I use.
Intro: (0:00)
Part 1 RECAP: (1:04)
Overall Series Gameplay Changes: (3:53)
Quick Retcon: (6:04)
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days: (6:46)
358 Gameplay: (24:32)
Kingdom Hearts II: (26:29)
KH2 Gameplay: (1:13:16)
Kingdom Hearts Coded: (1:16:31)
Outro: (1:18:18)

[@cryptonix02]

And now Kingdom Hearts is coming to the Switch! NOMURA WATCHED THIS VIDEO! (i'm joking, but still, big W)

[@VergilLover69]

Almost like poetry... It rhymes 🤔

[@Stachelbeeerchen]

Cloud version! We can finally play as cloud!

[@mojonoahgamer5647]

I have an idea for Re:Coded. I am taking inspiration from the upcoming Ever Crisis game and basically turning Kingdom Hearts into the same JRPG format as the previous Final Fantasy Games. A similar event that tackled this change in format was the Data Hades fight against Sora, Hercules, and Cloud. Like Re:Coded, it will be events taken in Jiminy’s journal. It could be recreated events that happened throughout all games up to KH3 (despite Jiminy not being present in BBS, 365 days, 0.2, or DDD; I’m sure something could be worked in). Union X will not be included. The title will also be called Kingdom Hearts: Coded Records.

[@wightrabbit]

With how this story is going, I want to see a series of KH based on THIS now. Seriously, this is awesome

[@cryptonix02]

❤️

[@laycedjayce7952]

No cap

[@malikhallsmith]

frfr

[@raidensparrow5075]

Really well done The Roxas and Xion falling in love makes it more heart breaking when Xion fades away.

[@yungmuney5903]

I feel like Maleficent is way too iconic to be removed from the game. I think she should just be a secret superboss to parallel with FF's Sephiroth, that'd be sick.

[@cryptonix02]

I admittedly glossed over her role in this game. I just couldn't find a good place to squeeze her in. The end of the game is already super dense. Plus her being a reoccurring villain never really stood out to me much. I don't know.

[@aaronbentley6373]

I feel that Maleficent should be replaced by Hades in this game. He was never defeated in KH1. I think Pete and Hades would be hilarious together - they don’t have to be important to the story, just comic relief like Team Rocket.

[@watershipfalls5520]

@@cryptonix02 I think she should replace Ansem as the one screwing with Riku's heart in Chain of Memories, She was the one who Manipulated him first, Not Ansem.

[@1992holycrap]

Let's be honest, Xemnas being "pure light" makes *way* too much sense, considering how many light-based powers and abilities he has.(the dude's main weapons are two lightsabers ffs) I'm very interested to see how you'll eventually tackle BBS(and possibly 0.2) and DDD, since many of the series' biggest narrative-related headaches originated from those particular games imho. Also: while I respect your choices, I personally don't think it's a good idea to give Naminé a keyblade, since I think she works much better as a spellcaster.

[@SoaringxDragon]

Aqua was primarily a magic/spell caster type fighter. Her personal command style is spellweaver which uses her magic to attack.

[@atruenobody6189]

Honestly, i'm not fond with it. The concept of the nobodies and nothingness is in my opinion the best idea Nomura ever had for KH, because it broke with the old and way to often used idea of light vs darkness, and that the former is good while the latter is evil, which we all heard countless times since our first childhood fairy tales. To not have hearts made the organization great and tragic villains, because you could understand and empathize with their goals and actions, while they themselves couldn't feel the slightest bit of regret about what they were doing. The only two exception to that are of course Roxas and Namine, the problem here is, how SE explained that. The most logical and simple answer would have been, that their somebodies still exist and that their connection with them and their hearts allowed them to have emotions as well. I will never stop to wonder, why they didn't used that explanation. That Xemnas uses lightsabers simply shows, that SE had no clue how to visualize nothingness as a power and weapon. What i agree about is that light shouldn't be just good and darkness bad. At least for darkness, the games after CoM slightly got in that direction, but i as well would have prefered to see how light is misused by a villain, causing the heros to wonder, if darkness really is just evil and if light can be good, if it can be used for death and destruction. But that should be it's own story. BBS, KH1 and 3 were about the threat of darkness, while CoM, KH2 and Days told about the threat by those, who were abonded by light and dark. After KH2 ended i thought it to be the perfect moment, to introduce the threat of light. What i find even more regrettable though, is that they never did anything with nothingness after KH2. Because if we are honest, it's a way more terrifying force than the other two. A world might be burned by light or frozen and swallowed by darkness, it still exists and might recover. But nothingness? It is just absolut anihilation, leaving nothing behind that could recover.

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

​@@atruenobody6189I think if anything becoming a Heartless should split your heart between Light and Dark, there's too much white/light imagery with Nobodies and Org XIII to not connect them to Light. Nothingness doesn't really work as well with this story considering how stark Light and Dark are as concepts and how Light is treated as the superior entity and no creatures exist from it. In the end it just convolutes things further, Nobodies are very weird and out of nowhere as an idea for this franchise beyond being the aftermath of someone succumbing to Darkness. Not a fan of him completely removing the Heartless and Nobodies as a concept though.

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

Didn't Monty Oum give Naminé Keyblades? Lol, dude was ahead of everyone else

[@atruenobody6189]

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 The heart is ALWAYS split in light and dark, that's the whole point of the story. When one becomes a heartless, it's completly consumed by darkness and the light is completly pushed out. The heart doesn't break in the process, but is ripped from body and soul, which are annihilated in the process, if one has not a strong will and becomes a nobody. The concept works perfectly. And light is far from the superior entity you envision, for the heartless exist without it and are pure dakrness. How exactly are nobodies connected to light? The concept of their existence and the way the Organization was originally intruduced ("Good or evil, I cannot tell." -Namine) and acted, makes them as "grey" as possible.

[@dunkbuscusgaming7016]

I think a cute little interaction that could happen between Kairi and Namine is when she finds out that Namine is a fragmented piece of Kairi's heart Kairi starts referring to her as her sister even calling her Sis or Sissy at some points. In my personal opinion it'd be really cute and I can just see this version of Kairi doing it.

[@cryptonix02]

I can imagine something like that in the scene where Namine and Kairi talk on Destiny Islands. 🤭

[@dunkbuscusgaming7016]

@@cryptonix02 yep that's what I figured too.

[@chaoitcdie6444]

Basically a “Kairi is mid sentence but freezes upon remembering what she had just recently learned about that dark spell, causing her to look at Namine and go “are you a fragment of me? Does that make me your big sister?””

[@dunkbuscusgaming7016]

@@chaoitcdie6444 personally I find that way too cringy I'm more thinking it just happens without her even realising it after she learned of Namine being her fragmented piece of her stuff happens and maybe Naimine gets in trouble or is being attacked and so without even thinking Kairi goes Sissy! Or Sister! Or something like that or maybe even Namine could go Big Sis help me and so Kairi does and smiles at Namine asking Namine if she just called her sis making Namine blush and so they both start calling each other sisters and etc... But that's just my idea end of the day it's up to him to what will happen in his version of Kingdom Hearts.

[@zhun9989]

Kairi out here collecting siblings (Cloud and Naname) like baseball cards

[@Technosavy-vc7bq]

Description: 1.25 or 1.5 speed recommended Me: "And ruin the integrity of this masterpiece?!?"

[@cryptonix02]

Haha I just want to save y'all some time. 😅

[@darielvillatoro8365]

A siblings relationship between Axel, Roxas and Xion would be more appropriated. After all, Roxas and Xion are technically siblings in a strange way. And I've always seen Axel sort of like the older brother of the trio. That's my opinion thou', I've always liked fraternal relationships over romantic relationships.

[@dinrufarore]

I agree. Since this version of KH is supposed to be emphasizing the ways relationships strengthen the heart, it would also be cool to stagger the different examples of romantic, fraternal, and platonic bonds to show that they're all important and they all make us stronger

[@PaintSplashProductions]

I second this!

[@JMobster9]

Completely agree. It would be pretty awkward for Roxas and Xion to get together considering they both come from the same person in an ontological level.

[@PaintSplashProductions]

@@JMobster9 That's why I don't ship him with his heart hotel. They're more of a family then anything else

[@sonicsenryaku6205]

@@dinrufarore I actually don't hate the idea of Xion and Roxas being an item. The platonic/fraternal bond condition is satisfied due to Roxas' attachment/interactions with Hayner, Pence, and Olette; bonds that we know strengthen his resolve in seeing himself as his own person so it's not like Xion and Roxas hooking up would undermine that thematically. It would be a nice way to show that all forms love in a person's life are important and that one shouldn't necessarily devalue the other despite them being different in their method of human connection

[@natedogmarik2554]

That Atlantica section was a pure masterpiece you sir had me hooked with your channel but now I'm fully all in on the content

[@cryptonix02]

What do you know, Kingdom Hearts actually ended up on PC after I made this video. Let's gooooo! Now it will be easier to record gameplay! 😭

[@VergilLover69]

Inhales* NIOICE 😎😎😎

[@KrishGandhi787]

Lol

[@TheCottonCandyQueen]

You: Apologizing for putting in great moments and pulling stuff out of your ass. Me, through tears from all this emotion, and the girls fix up: No keep going

[@TonySnacc]

As much as I like these changes, the shipping thing is a little.. ehh? The main theme in kh is friendship. My friends are my power, my friends are missing, I love my friends, I would die for my friends, blah blah. Romance isn't really a factor, even if Kairi reaaaallllly wants it to be every now and again. I just think everyone should be Bros, with a heavy emphasis on group dynamics rather than individuals. Everyone should have individual relationships of course, but putting too much emphasis on 2 people gets you a Soriku vs Sorikai situation; Kairi and Riku don't seem to care about each other, Riku and Sora are the only characters with actual chemistry, etc. oh and also let people keep their bitch privileges. you can be a good person even if you aren't the nicest, NOMURA. pls let Elrena, Lauriam, Roxas, Kairi, Lea and Ienzo be at least a little bitchy, they've earned it OH AND ALSOx2. If you keep Ienzo's canon backstory/age, does that mean that he's technically Kairi's uncle/slightly older sibling? because MAN that is UNCOMFORTABLE

[@cryptonix02]

Shippings are totally hit or miss for some people. In the end, I definitely added it as pure fan service because of how popular ships are in the community. I will say that I don't think friendship should be the *only* theme. There's a lot of themes I'm aiming for in my rewrite. I love bitchy characters as well. Any time I feel it necessary, I'll give them some sass. Ienzo and Ansem the Wise aren't all that related in the original and I'm not making them any more so. I agree; that would be weird.

[@taiga738]

Yeah there's also the risk of accidentally implying romantic relationships are more important than romantic ones/are essential to become real people if you make Roxas and Xion falling in love what proves they're real people despite how they started. While I can see why people ship them, I always liked how it was more about them and Axel being friends than about any potential romantic feelings they could have, especially since even by the end they still have a fairly limited understanding of what it's like to really get to live their lives. That's incidentally why I like Roxas' icecream line despite how much people make fun of it. Those little details really add to the tragedy of how short their lives were up to that point and how little they really got to experience as they tried to figure themselves out.

[@Mqstodon]

@@taiga738 it's not even implied, that's what he straight up said in the video. And it's just gross

[@taiga738]

@@Mqstodon Media conditions people to see romance as an essential life experience and component to a happy ending/prime tragedy fodder so they often don't really stop and think about what those tropes are really saying or the subtext that can come from handling non human or frequently dehumanized characters that way. It takes time to really question and unlearn stuff like that so I'm hoping he just didn't think about the implications of changing the narrative that way. I see similar issues come up when people try to adapt anime tropes or emulate things they see on tv.

[@infinitedreamer9359]

@@taiga738 Here's the thing though.Just because a piece of media shows that one or more characters are in a romantic relationship,that doesn't have to be the end of it. One of the traps I see romantic relationships fall into is the characters stop being individuals and don't have lives outside of each other's. So the easy way to fix that is to show the couples lives and interaction with other people outside of their romantic relationship. Like,take Riku for instance. In this rewrite he might be romantically interested in Namine,but that doesn't have to be only relationship we see. He could have scenes of interacting with Mickey,Sora,and Yen Sid in different ways. Sora would be his best friend and sort of like a brother to him,Yen Sid would be his mentor,something of a father figure someone he respects,and Mickey would be a friend he grew close too because he helped him with stuff he was dealing with at the time. All it takes is to show different kinds of relationships is showing more interactions between all of the characters. There's no need to downplay the romance just to show that other kind of relationships are important. Also,if it helps,you don't have to have the characters be couples that quickly either.Slow burn works best for romances anyway.

[@goofye3229]

I'm really loving this rewrite series. I love all the changes you made to the characters to make them more interesting, especially Kairi and Namine. Your creativity in your editing and amazing sense of humor (especially that Atlantica song LOL) in these videos have me wanting more. I've just subbed and will be sticking around to see more of this!

[@sojannedos]

To be fair, Atlantica is necessary to get an Orichalcum + for the Ultima Keyblade. I absolutely hate the level though, lol. Great video! I love this version of Kingdom Hearts! I hope Nomura considers redoing everything.

[@sephandremanticore5438]

Unfortunately, reality...

[@nixuniverse5240]

I always do that shit with the sound off

[@yungmuney5903]

Which could easily be moved somewhere else.

[@mr.snowdensneighborhood4711]

As someone who is a huge fan of the series, your retelling is now the definitive story for me. Fantastic work, truly. I’m not sure if you do collaboration videos, but if you do I think it’d be awesome to tackle some kingdom hearts material together.

[@magicblade1480]

Loved the first video since I've been waiting for someone to tackle the worst aspect of my favorite franchise. You are doing god's work man, keep it up!

[@epsil0gue246]

Hopefully, there is an alternate universe where ALL of your rewritten story happens, because this is AMAZING!

[@mayhewstorm1473]

The reunion between Nosis and Kairi almost made me tear up fr.

[@Mitcham28]

Your editing is incredible dude. I was seriously so captivated by both of your videos, having just found you recently. I agree with all of these changes and I was seriously thinking about writing a fanfic of this alternate universe. It seriously got me passionate about Kingdom Hearts again, which the franchise has failed to do for me for years. Thank you for this video and your hard work put into it. I’m seriously looking forward to more.

[@thelancingman]

that Atlantica mix tape tho

[@samuely6423]

turning 358 into a love story was ingenious my dude!

[@honeybeeami2654]

Actually cheering when you make changes I’ve been wishing for ages to have been the actual story. Youve really got a way with storytelling and setting up plots

[@kreedi7758]

This is just me: When they destroyed Way to the Dawn in III, Mickey said that Kingdom Key D was damaged. He said he needed to repair it. My brain said: "Why did they implement Union Cross mechanics?" I thought that Star Cluster was just some kind of material reinforcement to retain Kingdom Key D's structural integrity. That's in game 3. I know this thought no longer works following your remake. Also beautiful "Atlanatica Sucks."

[@coopigeon619]

This version of Kingdom Hearts is canon to me. It's more coherent, emotional, and better developed. I love it. Keep up the good work man, this is phenomenal 🙌😎

[@thedarkestnightmare616]

Man, this is excellent. I love this series of yours. As for what I'd add.. well.. For the rewrite overall.. Billy Zane still voices Ansem, because dude.. Billy Zane IS Ansem in my opinion.. I like Richard Epcar but his Ansem voice.. just sounds like a deeper voiced Raiden. And I'd also add.. two boss fights against Gnosis/DiZ: The first where Roxas fights him as the end boss of the prologue, and the second where you actually control Axel while confronting him in the Org's Castle.

[@striker07927]

But DiZ has been shown to be weak how would he even fight?

[@thedarkestnightmare616]

@@striker07927 I dunno, maybe compensating for his lack of strength with.. Magic or some kind of invention?

[@striker07927]

@@thedarkestnightmare616 I can see that but I bet his health would be really low

[@mrinternet009]

The roxas one would just be hit based because your fighting a diz hologram, id say about 20 hits cuz why not

[@djangoleonhardt337]

Wow, Just, Wow. Your version of the story is so good I really wish It was real. I expecially love the development of Kairi and Gnosis characters. Well done, dude. Can't wait for the next part.

[@Furinalover2736]

I am really loving this rewriting series of yours. It is a joy to watch and take this in. You made kingdom hearts more interesting and fun for me.

[@albertremong]

Hey, just wanna say that I enjoy your content! Please keep it up and do take your time with these KH rewrite series. Looking forward to the next part!

[@quarlalexis9082]

I like your version of KH much better and I wish it was canon. I also wish more people watched your videos.

[@deyvantwo5426]

Now i'm REALLY invested in to your KH rewrite, this is good stuff!

[@schpoopl]

You have some incredible editing for humor, the that’s not true cutting in was hilarious

[@basilminitiate8332]

Excited to see this! I liked your cosmology changes in the first one

[@MantaKizaemonFTW]

This series of videos is so entertaining as well as pretty good in terms of the changes

[@WhosNyGeal]

Dope asf...the amount of time and creativity along with editing this must’ve took. Bruh square needs to hire you 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💯🔥

[@jadeepicpgaming]

Lowkey have just started watching your rewrite and fucking love it. I know a lot of people are a little pissed about the romance but I think it's a pretty good inclusion as to just make it more consistent in the series especially considering I view one of KH's (Especially KH3's) central themes to be the love between people, no matter if it's platonic or romantic. A lot of people I feel really look down how much love comes in tandem with friendship. Like especially in relation with Sora and Riku. Personally I've always view them as loving each other but in a very platonic and almost brotherly way. (I can kinda see Riku being into Sora but I also think it's looking a little too deep into their relationship. It's never really staged as romantic, just that they really care for each other.) Also not to mention that Riku and Namine have always kinda had a thing for each other, especially considering the actual games of Re:Com and Days. (Also saw your comment that you're not doing Terraqua, thank god. I hate that ship on so many levels almost as much as Terra's gameplay) Point is I think the relationships are very well explored in your take and honestly don't see the problem with exploring a lot of Riku and Namine's in KH2, it flows pretty nicely and makes a more consistent narrative through the game considering DDD is probably going to not have as many interactions. One thing I will say is I'll miss the Ice-cream line from Roxas. While at surface level stupid and dumb, I love the symbolism it carries. It basically representing the love and knowledge of friendship they have with each other and since they're incomplete it's all they really know.

[@pyrokineticfantasies8964]

So I love rewrites of any series to be honest, so I’m glad i found this one! And I’d also like to thank you for making these so interesting and easy to follow, I’ve been using your videos to listen to in place of music and I’ve gotten so much done. Thank you for this amazing rewrite and for providing such amazing content (:

[@cryptonix02]

Thank YOU for watching!

[@coopigeon619]

I also love how you wrote Kairi and Namine's part in the story. Thank you for developing them into more agency.

[@sseellaaa5954]

I just found this series and this is canon on my head now!

[@Jay-kx4jf]

you can get around so many of them having KBs by using transformation. like Namine has a keyblade, but she chooses to use it as a book instead. giving them some unique combat personality.

[@liamfaulds5884]

Awesome video, can’t wait for the next part, super hyped for birth by sleep

[@ketumii8373]

You should really make this a series. You have a lot of really great, really cohesive ideas for media and I love hearing them!!!

[@colerowe8890]

I watch your kingdom hearts rewrite part 1 and 2 I like your idea Keep up the good work sir

[@joeyjose727]

Your Ansem the Wise impression is so good wtffff that scene towards the end really got me

[@Quintinthegreat]

I really enjoy your re-write. It's more entertaining than the actual story and I wasn't sure if that was going to happen. Keep up the good work! I almost wish Saix wasn't going to be a legitimate bad guy in this story. I like how he had a minor redemption arc in KH3 and acted as a double agent to the Organization. That being said, if that KH anime gets made, I nominate you to be the director. I also like how drew emphasis on the Kingdom Key and Kingdom Key D and how they're the most powerful keyblades in existence.

[@tritonslullaby]

I just found your videos. I love your brain. And voice lol. I've never been this invested in KH

[@Soulinescent]

1:00:30 I think you handled it well here, because not all battles are meant for Sora. Not everything is about Sora. That's one reason I like your headcanon.🙃😊👍

[@TheLanydx]

I vastly enjoy the rewrite of Days, and 2.

[@SPGojiFan]

Your changes for 358/2 Days is just the best. This is what it should've been. I mean, I'd also like to change where both can summon either Oathkeeper or Oblivion (one fanart shows that Xion can wield both). But yours is a nice detail. And yes! I ship Roxas and Xion big time. Turning Days into a Love story would make the game flow much better and more emotional. And I'm glad we're on the same page the whole context for the plot. Well said!

[@zangbang9886]

That scene with Kairi using the old raft they built to finally leave is glorious, getting goosebumps right now man.

[@misterkampusy4256]

I'm chili and I'm a fan of the saga but I think it would be more like you put it in your videos

[@aliciaparker9142]

I legit cried over kairi reunion with her grandpa I'll love play your version of kingdom hearts it's shame you not part of the writing department in this game that how talent your ideas are

[@Sleepy12ftPanda]

"Roxas wields Oblivion because Xion is still a part of him." *_MY HEART!!!!!!!_*

[@DeathofInk]

Again, you're ideas are brilliant and I'm loving them! I forgot to mention this in my comment in part 1, but I'm so glad to know time travel is scrapped. I do not care for that element, hurts my head no matter how many times I go back to it. So satisfying that you gave Kairi not only an active role in the story, but also a story arc to get invested in! Everything about it is ten times better then what the games themselves have bothered to do with the poor girl. Same for Naminé, this version of events feels better suited for her. I also agree with the Riku romance btw. ;) Heck I enjoy the love story you made for II and Days, it's kinda sappy but then again so is the content from Disney after all. XD Loved your Under the Sea inspired song, VERY fitting to how pointless that whole world was.

[@motherfuckingenterprises7436]

Probably Destiny Islands are surrounded by multiple corridors of light, and Kairi just fell through one or many of those, ending with her in Hollow Bastion, like a gag moment. I dunno. Or maybe one of the org members goes to patrol and when he is teleporting, Kairi jumps in, but because the portal was about to close it de-stabilizes and Kairi falls in Hollow Bastion.

[@cryptonix02]

I like you.

[@motherfuckingenterprises7436]

@@cryptonix02 ... In which sense?

[@CurtisJensenGames]

That was actually some pretty good singing! I don’t know, if you can skip it, might as well leave it in, just make it clear to the player “Hey Sora, no heartless here, have a good one!”

[@thatbluegamet]

39:08 didn’t realise you were going to break into song but you made the best part of the video right here

[@JetblackJay]

Roxas plays exactly like kh1 sora

[@cryptonix02]

I remember seeing a movement comparison between KH1 Sora and KH2 Roxas, and Roxas was actually still slower than KH1 Sora.

[@JetblackJay]

Maybe

[@tempest2789]

I gotta say, your version of KH's story is REALLY good, man. I love it. However, I do think the romance aspect is a bit... unnecessary. These characters are mostly 14-16 years old and it does feel a bit too on-the-nose to make them say "I love you" romantically when the story is more about the power of friendship [Yes, I know 14-16 y.o. can fall in love, but I think confessions should be saved for when they become young adults (18-21) and can be considered more mature, and leave the romance more subtle while they're young]. Not only that, but I feel like Roxas-Xion and Kairi-Sora being flat out romances can take away from their trio dynamics with Axel and Riku, respectively. For example, when you talked about Kairi being disappointed in not going directly to Sora because Naminé wants to help Riku. That got me serious Sakura being obssesed with Sasuke flashbacks from the "Naruto" series. Riku and Kairi are supposed to be really close and Kairi being "sad" over having to spend time searching for one of her best friends, is a bit... Asshole-y of her. On the other hand, Sora should show worry about both of them, not just constantly being worried sick about his beefy -boyfriend- best friend Also, I don't think Mickey ever met Terra 🤔 Yes, he should know Terranort isn't Xehanort because he knew Xehanort as an old man, but he has no idea what Terra looks like. Asides from that, great work! I find it really funny how you sometimes have to come back to revise something or tell us to screw ourselves 😂😂 Have a like and a new sub P.S. Your singing was iconic, omg 😂😍

[@JabamiLain]

I think the romance is a good idea. But I agree, maybe the pairs'romance should be a bit more subtle given their ages.

[@tempest2789]

@@JabamiLain Agree to disagree. I don't think romance is necessary for the development of the characters, personally. It really adds nothing to a story all about the power of friendship. But I understand people want to see the characters being romantic for... Some reason Power to you, my dude

[@esil8617]

Honestly I think this is amazing.

[@stevenirizarry1304]

Removing the heartless and the nobodies really rubs me the wrong way but the backstory of xenonort, the key of hearts, and the imbalance of light and darkness is perfect

[@isaiahrivers7117]

I also thought of this but thinking about it kinda actually made me wonder on what it would be like to add kinda Hayner Pence and Olette (the Twilight Town Trio) more into the story like they also appear at the world that never was and to be involved with the story even in the games like have it where when Sora in the gang leaves to the final level then Saix will kidnap them for some reason and put them in the same cell as Kairi only to be rescued or in the rewrite Xemnas would order to any org to kidnap them to make fragmental beings out of them or something although they would still be saved and stay with Sora and the gang till the end and probably in feature games or so they would wield their own keyblades to fight or so. I mean yeah they probably don't add anything to the story and their probably not important and i'm not asking you to add them in the rewrite it's just consider how they were kinda involved in KH2 with wanting to save Kairi and trying to save Ansem/Gnosis in KH3 i feel they could've also been important characters and to be in the story consider they want to know what the heck is going on.

[@airoe_ltd2108]

You mentioned Sora losing his memories in castle oblivion but not Donald and Goofy. Maybe they argue a few times thinking Donald and Goofy may be lying to him, which shows Sora not being 100% good. As a hint to Sora using anti-form later, since he has to use Them to transform.

[@sethdahoodedbandit]

For Kairi getting off Destiny Islands and traveling around, would maybe one of the Wayfinder Trio speeders work? Even if she paddles the raft to further out in the ocean, it could just be floating out there? Or stuck on some rocks or a reef? They're not exactly using them at the current moment, haha! I've listened to your rewrite a few times, so this one piece was kinda bothering me a bit as a point, even if it's not that necessary to justify. Just struck me as an interesting idea! Also, I've been so in love with this rewrite. It's basically canon to me at this point! Great work!!

[@domagojcar6554]

Your Diz impression is almost like the original voice, props to you my gentleman

[@randomfan2270]

As someone who knows absolutely nothing about Kingdom hearts. This sounds amazing!

[@mart3151]

Hello! Just wanted to say first that I absolutely LOVE these videos and I hope you will do more in the future when you have time! As a big fan of the KH saga myself I always loved many things about it (and hated many others *coff coff* DDD *coff coff* ) so I always wished to see the HUGE potential the story in this series has and I'm so happy that you're bringing it to life with your videos! Keep up the good work and take as much time as you need to to do them. I just wanted to ask a quick question tho: if Xehanort is no longer trying to impersonate Ansem (since the name change of Ansem the wise) why does Ansem seeker of darkness still call himself Ansem? Where did he get that name (this question could be also expanded to Xemnas since his name is anagram)? Sorry if I ask you this, maybe you pointed it out already in your videos but I really didn't see this, so if you could help me with answering the question I would really love that! Again, thank you for your videos and keep up the REALLY good work!

[@cryptonix02]

Thank you so much for the kind words! I actually didn't come up with an origin for the name Ansem. I didn't think it was as important as getting rid of the name confusion. Admittedly I was lazy; I could have thought of something, but it just didn't seem worth it.

[@quick_impact_23]

This is amazing. I love it. You are amazing. 11/10. Extra for good singing voice

[@TheLAHOMIE]

39:08 the real reason why he took forever to upload part 2

[@cryptonix02]

Haha no, the song and music video was actually one of the first things I finished (even though it went through a few stages of getting it perfect). Editing the sheer bulk of it was honestly just brutal. Everything took forever, downloading cutscenes (the project files for this video was 106 GB's), sifting through looking for shots I can use, I worked in Photoshop a lot editing certain graphics, I worked in Audition editing music... I think I'm just inefficient at editing. 😅 I think back to how long it took me to edit Xion wielding Oblivion (a lot of clone stamping), as well as all the other characters wielding their weapons, making smoother edges around certain images with transparent backgrounds, editing the picture of Kairi and her grandparents, Hollow Bastion 2nd visit was particularly just bulky and hard to trudge through, I had to completely compress the shit out of the music that plays when Kairi meets Gnosis so you could actually hear most of it in the background... those are only a few examples. Pretty much every part there's a minor detail I spent way too much time on.

[@misterkampusy4256]

One thing that bothered me in kh 3 was the power of waking ABecause I think I come out of nowhere, I propose that it be a power that all the masters of the sword key possess And you could say that it could only be used to awaken hearts that are linked to the master so sora would be the only one next to aqua The other thing is that you could say that kairi used that power when She can do it.

[@misterkampusy4256]

A and if when you get to kh 3 when you can't of the disney worlds you could put that in each there is a clue to unlock the power of awakening Sora travels these worlds to finally Get to sanfrasokyo and use it to save the baymax chip thanks to the connection you got when living with hero and baymax

[@noahdean9685]

I love that ed Edd n Eddy joke around 36:14.

[@Billyblue98]

Alright, going back to the first video: THE KEY OF HEARTS I do like the idea of having two (or maybe more, not necessarily a Light and Dark version) special Keyblades spawning from the Key of Hearts, but I don't think they should be anyone's base Keyblade. I won't go into any particular designs or anything, but instead of the Kingdom Key and Kingdom Key D, how about. . the Key of People's Hearts (not the actual Keyblade of People's Hearts because I agree with you on that one), the Key of World Hearts, and let's throw in a third, the Key of Realm Hearts. The plot of the first game would be around Disney villains racing to acquire the Key of World Hearts through the Worlds' Keyholes, and it's final location would be Hollow Bastion's Keyhole, and Riku keeps it out of Ansem's hands once he's able to act as himself again or comes to him after Ansem's defeat, whereas Mickey locates and attains the Key of Realm Hearts in the Realm of Darkness, and the Key of People's Hearts is made available to Sora due to all the bonds he's made throughout the game. All three of the special Keys can open gateways to their respective domain, the Key of Realm Hearts being used to more comfortably travel between the Realms of Light, Darkness, and Between, the Key of World Hearts being used to travel between Worlds much faster, and the Key of People's Hearts being used to trace connections between people, as well as having some kind of authority over their domains as well. While other Keyblades can attain a fraction of what each Key can do, each of the Keys show their relevance at the end of the game. And they each become relevant in the finale of KH1. Sora uses the Key of People's Hearts to cast Ansem out of Riku, but the stress of the battle causes it to go slightly haywire, which still causes Riku to end up in the Realm of Darkness, Ansem uses the Key of World Hearts to travel to the remnants of Destiny Islands, and Mickey uses the Key of Realm Hearts to close the Door to Darkness. However, each of the Keys sort of short out in response to their jobs being done and go into hiding once again. I get that it's a bit of a bigger change than necessary, and I didn't even mean to talk so much about it, but I just, like I said, didn't want Sora's base Keyblade to be as special as you made it. I never really cared for them being unique anyway, so making it something that the characters don't have reliable access too seemed like it fit. THE HEART (and by extension Heartless and Nobodies) I don't really agree with everything said here, and luckily, for me at least, I've done a lot of thinking about this on my own time. The Heart is mostly about a person's emotions, and the Soul is their personality. Which is part of what you said, but I don't make them the same thing. Though I do agree that the Heartless and Nobodies are kind of given the same description early on, but they are differentiated later in the series, and I think I can easily explain that as Ansem simply did not fully realize what he was observing at first with the Heartless. With Nobodies dissapearing to another world while Heartless show up in the place of their original selves, I can understand someone making that mistake. But, here's how I handle it. The Heartless aren't really heartless, they *are* Hearts, corrupted and taking form, and the Nobodies are the *Souls* attaining a form of their own, and they immediately, but slowly, start forming a sort of pseudo Heart. It will never be a true replacement for the Heart they were once connected to, but unless you're a big scientist you won't truly notice until they start showing some big signs.. The body disappears, lying dormant, waiting for what it has lost. SO I'd keep Ansem and Xemnas as being Terra-Xehanort's Heartless and Nobody still. XEHANORT'S GOALS I do agree that making a more consistent motivation for Xehanort can work. I'll have to see how you finish this off in a later video. I personally would rather Xehanort specifically not have such a redeemable motivation, but it definitely works, though I get the feeling when you go over Birth By Sleep, since Xehanort still ends up taking over Terra, that there will still be points where it's not exactly sufficient to explain his actions. FINAL FANTASY I do agree we don't need to go deep into the source material, I do want to at least stick a bit closer to it. Each original world (or most of them at least) corresponds with a Final Fantasy setting. Destiny Islands is FF10, and has Yuna instead of Selphie, Radiant Garden is FF7 and Squall isn't from there, Traverse Town is FF9 and Sora meets Zidane, Freya, and Steiner there, Twilight Town is FF8 and Squall *is* there. PRINCESSES OF HEART I'd keep them in, but I wouldn't put as much of an emphasis on them being specifically 7. I'd just make it that the villains are collecting enough Hearts Pure of Light in order to upset the balance of Hollow Bastion's special Keyhole, and they just happen to have some Pure Hearts that they are already acquainted with and that's why they go after some of them in particular, though that does make Snow White, Cinderella, Kairi, Belle, and Alice odd targets. Aurora is known by Maleficent and Jasmine is known by Jafar. Well I did say there isn't an emphasis on their being specifically 7, and aside from the Header I just call them "Pure Hearts" instead of "Princesses of Hearts". . . Yeah let's have Hades kidnap Hercules. Why not? Actually Kairi's targeted because of Ansem, so now that's 4. . . Ariel was originally planned to be one of them so just put her back in that role. Maybe Peter Pan can be important here too, though I'm not sure the group would be able to capture him. Hook definitely can't. So that's 5 not counting Peter Pan. Maybe at that point they start getting desparate and go after ones they don't know very well. Also, lemme just tack this at the end here, after Sora spawns a Heartless, because I'm keeping that, his regular Keyblade disappears with him, but Kairi starts fighting the Heartless with the Key of People's Hearts, and then is able to use her powers as a Pure Heart to recall Sora's body to him. Which. . . at first seems fine, but Sora. . actually, people notice that Sora and Kairi are both acting a little odd, but no one can quite put their fingers on why. More on that later. CHAIN OF MEMORIES I would honestly be tempted to say just get rid of Castle Oblivion entirely, but no, I won't do that. I might say it could be one of at least two or three worlds you traverse, still definitely a shorter game, but eh. I don't really know. I'm not too sure about scrapping Riku Replica entirely. I think he worked fine for the plot that was there, but I'm not sure what I want to do with the plot myself so I don't really know about Riku Replica right now. I do know what I want to do with Sora though. His memories will not be a priority here, possibly at all. What the Organization is doing is merely research at first, or maybe they've discovered one of the special Keys here and they just need to actually obtain it, but it got complicated when they discovered Namine, and also when Sora showed up. For Namine, I would rather cut out her specific ties to memory, but maybe still give her some power over Hearts instead. The Organization is having Namine mess with Sora's Heart, see what they can do to it before it breaks, which ends up revealing that he, not specifically his Heart but Sora in general is already kind of broken, and the Organization immediately clues in to why, but the player wouldn't know until KH2. It's that he doesn't have Roxas. Sora *needs* Roxas. Namine doesn't have a very developed pseudo Heart yet so she doesn't really see a moral problem at the moment, but she does have a fascination for Sora. She wants to know what makes him tick, but her contact with him does eventually make her feel something. First guilt, but then she begins to feel possessive over him, which doesn't sound very good, but in spite of that, her Pseudo Heart, like Kairi's real Heart, is definitively Light, going into the whole Light isn't necessarily Good idea. Either way, Namine still tries to help fix Sora, but as she's gaining emotions now, she also comes to understand fear when it comes to Larxene and Marluxia. But anyway, the issue with Sora is that as he stresses himself he starts deteriorating slowly back into a Heartless, but Namine is able to slow down and start reversing the process, and because of their growing bond, Sora is also able to obtain the Key of People's Hearts once again and uses it to defeat Marluxia. Speaking of Marluxia, I don't think he and Larxene should necessarily be good guys, though I do understand your thought process. I don't really feel like going into Union Cross at all, but I do like at least bits and pieces of the game. I think Lauriam and Elrena should be able to help the good guys, but Marluxia and Larxene are not so charitable. Elrena might even prefer existing as Larxene, if Larxene's dialogue in one of the mangas is anything to go off of. SHIPPING RIKU AND NAMINE I don't really have an issue here. It's not my first choice, but with how I would handle things, for most people at least, it would end up a little awkwardly, not even considering how I decided Namine acts towards Sora. But I'm tempted to keep it. I'm fine with running loose with ships. Namine just becomes fascinated with Riku as well, the way he has taken up the Darkness to fight for good. Maybe Namine could want both him *and* Sora. I'm cool with that. Oh boy this was long. And it's about *LAST VIDEO*. I'll just send and make a response actually about this video as a reply to myself.

[@Billyblue98]

Alright, now this video ROXAS, NAMINE, AND XION Okay, so since in my comment I said I'd be keeping Heartless and Nobodies. . Roxas and Namine are still Sora and Kairi's Nobodies respectively, but to talk about how you're handling it. . I just. . I guess there isn't any particular issue (in it of itself, but it makes a Roxas x Xion romance very eugh), I just don't really like it. But for my counter-idea, I do want to talk about Xion for a bit. I do think I have an idea aside from making her still be a Replica. The Organization isn't making a Replica of anyone in particular, so she's less a Replica and more so just an Artificial being in general. She's an android, I guess. And she's not specifically meant to copy Sora's powers, but that does end up seeming like the ideal scenario to the Organization so that's why she ends up doing that. XEMNAS'S GOAL I was actually going to skip this because I don't really know what to say or do about it. I'm not sure I'd keep it but it seems like a big change that I kind of have to acknowledge in some way. . . Actually wait, perfect idea. I have said before that I'm not too sure I'm keen on Xehanort having the redeemable motivations, but something about Xemnas makes me feel like he could pull it off. Personally I think it would take reworking some of his actions still, but it works better for him specifically than Xehanort as a whole. But I do still think the Nobodies fighting the Heartless works pretty well. ROXAS AND XION I'm personally still having them use Sora's Keyblade (remember, I'm not making Kingdom Key the special Keyblade), but this is where things get strange. At first, Roxas has trouble summoning it at times, because Sora's still using it in Castle Oblivion. Sometimes he gets it, but a few times afterwards he summons a completely different Keyblade, the *Wayward Wind*, which causes confusion. I just want to note right now that I'd change up Ventus's appearance a bit. Roxas is just Sora with different hair, and Ventus uses Roxas's model. What I'd do is keep Roxas the same but give Ventus somewhat different features and even lighter hair than Roxas, so no one's going to mistake Roxas for Ventus, but maybe they can spot some similarities. But back to 358, the confusion for the rest of the Organization only deepens when Xemnas starts having Xion absorb power from Roxas, because now *she*'s the one with Wayward Wind. I think I'll probably say that recruiting Roxas was a gamble to begin with, because Xemnas wasn't sure Roxas could summon the Kingdom Key, and when Roxas also summoned Wayward Wind is when it was decided that Xion would copy Roxas's powers. ROMANCE Also, since instead of making them more connected like you did (again, eugh), I further distanced them by making Xion not even actually a replica of Sora, Roxas and Xion falling in love is even more valid. You're welcome. However, I also wouldn't mind Roxas getting to meet Namine somewhat early on in the game and forming a bond with her. Roxas and Xion are already forming theri own Pseudo Hearts by their friendship with each other and Axel, and Namine's is being formed by her contact with Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Riku. Namine meeting even just Roxas will help speed up the process, but this also serves another purpose. I want to make a point here that, even though they are Sora and Kairi's Nobodies and they do thus have some kind of connection to each other already, that doesn't mean they'll feel the same way about each other as Sora and Kairi feel about each other. Remember, they don't have their original Hearts, just their Souls. They can form their original relationship easier than most once they have Pseudo Hearts, but their initial interaction is simultaneously familiar and. . hostile. Namine is at first hostile towards him because he's with the Organization, and Roxas is initially distrusting because he doesn't understand their connection. But they cross paths a few more times and form their own bond. It'll probably be romance. I'll be honest I'm throwing romance between Sora's whole trio and throwing in Roxas, Namine, and Xion. The ending for Roxas and Namine will remain as going back to Sora and Kairi, but they don't necessarily *have* to like each other, that just makes things a lot less awkward. But also, since Sora and Namine got to interact, I also want Roxas to cross paths with Kairi as well, earlier, in the real world. Roxas gets along with Kairi quicker than Namine since Kairi doesn't have a reason to distrust Roxas's coat. Also I like Riku and Xion having feelings for each other too so that can end up happening. THE GOAL Simply put: They're once again trying to find the Keys, similar to your idea but themed after my alterations. Also: I'm letting Roxas meet the Twilight Town gang still. . I'm letting him meet them more often. And they will remember him in KH2. XION'S FATE Xion does end up still taking a lot of power from Roxas, and in turn this causes Sora's recovery to slow down and actually he starts to destabilize back into a Heartless again in spite of Namine's best efforts. In the endgame, Xion doesn't necessarily *need* to be destroyed by Roxas in order to give his power back, but that would definitely be the quickest way to go about it. But speaking of their confrontation, I want them to each summon their own Keyblades before then. Not Sora and Ventus's Keyblades, *their own.* I don't quite know when the best point for Xion would be, but for Roxas it could be when he decides to leave the Organization. I would place it as when he fights Saix, but I have a better idea now. He can't beat Saix at first, but then he summons the Key of People's Hearts *briefly* and overtakes Saix. Then when Roxas summons two Keyblades at once upon returning to The World That Never Was he's specifically summoning his own personal Keyblade and either Sora's, more likely, or Xion's, less likely, but perhaps explainable. Xion fades into a seashell in the game. Maybe Roxas uses the seashell to call upon Xion's power? Anyway, the Keyblades quickly change into Oathkeeper and Oblivion anyway, I just thought it would be interesting to point out. SORA'S RECOMPLETION In light of how I'm handling Sora after KH1, Sora upon waking up is hesitant to go all out. Donald and Goofy didn't keep up with the exact process of bringing Sora back, just that Namine needed him in the pod. So Sora awakens and none of them are fully aware of what went wrong a year ago anyway, nor that Sora's not in danger of deteriorating back into a Heartless anymore. Anti Form gives them all a scare, but the fact Sora comes back on his own puts them slightly at ease. REALIZATIONS ABOUT XEMNAS I'm skipping over a few things because the only changes I have are implied by what I said earlier, or just not necessary to change. With Xemnas, I feel I should say something though. So, the realization of who he is doesn't cause confusion because he's a Heart of Pure Light, it's more so that if he's his motives are confusing and now they have a chance to ask, why he'd antagonize the Heartless but still cause chaos in the worlds, which he would respond simply that he does not have to answer to such simple quandaries and that his motivation really should appear obvious. ROXAS CONFRONTS SORA AND NAMINE RETURNS TO KAIRI So, I think something interesting would be to have Sora sometimes seem not quite at 100%, throughout the whole game, whether by being distracted or have his strength seem somewhat inconsistent. That would be because Roxas never really accepted his fate, and his Pseudo Heart is lashing out at Sora's Heart every so often. Even though he always felt a pull towards Sora once he was placed so close to him, a pull that Namine is now feeling towards Kairi, for their Pseudo Hearts are still just replacements, and long to connect with their real Hearts. And likewise, now that Namine has traveled a short while with Kairi, she's noticing something. Even though Kairi isn't deteriorating like Sora, due to being a Heart of Pure Light, Kairi definitely isn't behaving quite like herself. In short, Kairi and Sora have been disconnected with their personalities, relying on pure emotion, which isn't too off considering the both of them were pretty emotionally driven to begin with, but still they were acting odd. Donald and Goofy noticed with Sora at Castle Oblivion, and the Islanders noticed with Kairi. After reuniting with Sora, that's when Namine decides to fade back into Kairi, expressing that this is how things have to be, and while Roxas has accepted his fate after his duel with Sora, Kairi's now complete self is able to tell that he hasn't fully joined with Sora, but they don't have time to dwell, as they're coming very close to having to confront Xemnas. But what I would want is that Roxas temporarily takes control of Sora in the middle of his fight with Saix. Sora was having trouble but Roxas is able to come out victorious. And when in canon Roxas and Namine stepped out to talk to Sora and Kairi, like you did in this video, is when I'll place Roxas speaking to Sora once more, and truly coming to terms with being a part of Sora. And what I would reveal here is that when Namine faded into Kairi, she was still conscious and could talk to Kairi from inside her, and they've been working together, and now that Roxas and Sora can see eye to eye, they do the same. Alright, I *think* that's it.

[@striker07927]

Look I love this Rewrite the editing is amazing,The way you handle Kairi is tons better,The Atlantica song made me laugh and of course *Roxas and Xion including Riku and Namine scenes gave me life* ☺️ But I only have one thing I want to point out.Why is the ending of KH2 so sad I mean I would imagine at least Kairi still hung up on her grandfather’s death but Sora and Riku coming back would make her forget and after some comforting from Sora would make her feel a little down in the dumps but happy that Sora and Riku came back and everyone being confused about the Darkness and Light at the end is... I don’t know how to call it but I was disappointed after hearing it I mean yeah it’s confusing and they don’t know what to fight for I understand that but just giving them more baggage is what makes me feel disappointed that it’s just a really simple answer but they still dwell on it is just stupid

[@cryptonix02]

I think another contributing factor to the sadder ending is Roxas' parting words atop TWTNW. Since it's basically the scene from DDD, in that scene Roxas transferred the emotions he felt to Sora. If you remember in DDD, the act of doing so had a very powerful effect on Sora, almost bringing him to tears and deeply upsetting him. And also because I mentioned how Riku and Namine feel more remorseful for what they did to Roxas and Xion, knowing they took practically everything from them. Overall our heroes aren't necessarily depressed or down in the dumps, but there's just a lot of grief that they now feel. I didn't write the ending beat for beat, but I still imagine Sora being optimistic and doing his best to uplift everyone's spirits (like you mentioned as well). Our heroes are still determined to do whatever they can to save everyone, they're just... confused. That's where Birth by Sleep comes in.

[@striker07927]

When you put it that way it does make sense can’t wait for part 3! but I think the reason they didn’t give Yen Sid a Keyblade is because he was retired and he didn’t really need to pop up in the story so no I don’t think giving Yen Sid a Keyblade was necessary

[@cryptonix02]

@@striker07927 In fairness, I didn't exactly explain what I wanted to do with Yen Sid having a Keyblade. That's an oversight on my part. The only time we'll ever see Yen Sid's Keyblade will be at the Keyblade Graveyard in KH3.

[@BattlerUshiromiya9999]

Concerning the quick retcon section To help with giving a reason to allow creatures of light to keep the naming convention “nobody”, thanks to FFXIV I started to view darkness as active/chaotic energy while the light is viewed as peaceful/stagnant energy. Basically, if a heart is balanced with dark and light it would be filled with emotions at a healthy level, darkness allowing you to feel while light brings peace and tranquility/stability. Too much darkness and it would max out emotional turmoil like anxiety depression rage stuff like that. Too much light and you don't feel anything essentially making you numb or emotionally distant. Another way to spin it would be darkness encouraging individuality/self-awareness while light encourages uniform/homogenization. Getting back to my point, this would make the naming convention of nobodies make sense since they are homogenized creatures with no real will of their own as hinted at already in the KH games since nobodies are usually shown following orders while heartless are treated more like animals that, if you show them prey, they will attack relentlessly.

[@CableFF7Forever]

One of the small changes you mentioned was making all FF characters come from Radiant Garden (except for Tidus, Wakka, Selphie, Gullwings and Auron) and by doing that I came up with some really interesting ideas. Why not have Cloud, Sephiroth and Zack all by guards at the Castle? Cloud and Zack were the young Newbies and Sephiroth was the defender of light (Dilan and Aeleus were Gnosis's private guard). That would explain how Squall, Aerith, Yuffie and Cid all know Cloud in KH1 (as it was mentioned in KH2 that Cloud, Zack, Sephiroth and Tifa weren't from Radiant Garden). Maybe when Ansem took over Sephiroth, believing he had been betrayed by the denizens of light he swore to protect, turned on Cloud and Zack. Sephiroth kills Zack and Cloud escapes with Squall, Yuffie, Aerith, Tifa, Cid and Rinoa (never forget she was teased in a letter Squall got at the end of KH2). Cloud ends up leaving to hunt down Sephiroth and Tifa and Rinoa follow after him. Idk would be cool for them to have their own stories that are somewhat tied to the main plot but not integral. Would be neat to see what you think considering you didn't touch upon it in both videos (as for Auron he would just remain a mystery, the Destiny Island FF gang are just kids and the Gullwings are just treasure hunting fairies). Could still have Zack going to Olympus in BBS to train and it would make sense why Cloud would be there in KH1, retracing his steps

[@catrfish269]

“And because the story is to bland, Donald and Goofy should fall in love” LMAO I can totally hear him say that with all these ship pairings lol

[@vadandrumist1670]

I too, have made a "How to Fix KH", though only in text. Since I was looking for things I considered broken more than could be improved mine is a bit shorter than either one of your videos, but it may contain some ideas you'd appreciate. I also tackle the problems per-game rather than focus on information we get in the future. KH1: Has relatively few problems. While parts could be touched up the story more-or-less flows without issue. That changes right around the end though. First, I'd hold off on Riku getting his Dark-Mode outfit at least until he's been possessed by Ansem, and give him yellow eyes when that happens too. Then at the very end we need A: the door-to-darkness must be outright explained as leading to the Realm of Darkness where Kingdom Hearts sleeps, since its easy to be under the impression that that's supposed to actually be the door to Kingdom Hearts. Second the door must open to reveal the Realm of Darkness, *then* light bursts from it to show that Kingdom Hearts is in there, just far out of sight rather than conspicuously absent once the door is opened. Third, we must see Ansem enter the door before being fading completely, and changing form back into Riku to explain why he was on the other side. Finally, Kairi needs to be seen wishing to be with Sora, and magic happens in some way as to explain why she's just there on some sand at the end. Now that we're done with the end, let's go to the beginning. That voice either needs to A: Be clearly distinguished as Mickey with an explanation of why he is doing this, B: Be instead the keyblade itself, and changing the aesthetics of the Sword/Rod/Shield to match the rest of heart-related objects in KH. I choose the latter (since the former just adds more questions) and change the Dream Shield to Save the King, Rod to Save the Queen, and Sword to Ultima Weapon except just the sword. Intermission: Keyblades. *The* keyblade is as passed down as usual, with it being noted that the keyblade's default appearance depends on the wielder. Sora's will end in his crown chain whereas Mickey's will have his Mickey silhouette on his bit instead of the crown silhouette. Keychains as-is are too ambiguous. Theoretically them come from connections, but how does that work? Is it connections to worlds, or if it's people do multiple people result in a single keyblade? Why is it that keychains can be obtained just by defeating people, but the long-lasting friendship with Donald and Goofy doesn't produce one? My solution is keychains are formed through the connections of those who would have the potential to wield the keyblade. This also means that for the brief period Riku gets it it changes to Oblivion (different keychain since the crown is Sora's thing), and certain keyblades like Diamond Dust and One-Winged Angel are no longer a thing. The Ultima Weapon being synthesized will be regarded as the synthesis creating a key to unlock the keyblade's full potential rather than simply forging a keychain in and of itself.

[@vadandrumist1670]

KH2: Here's were the problems pile up. Let's see... 1: A nobody is supposed to be the body, but Sora has a body while Roxas exists (also Kairi with Namine). 2: Roxas looks nothing like Sora in conjunction with this supposed to be being his physical form. 3: "Ansem is actually Xehanort" pointless retcon, and the beginning of a bad habit. 4: Nobodies have emotions despite not having emotions, making their entire goal pointless, also the ambiguous "they could fade away at any moment" thing. 5: Riku becoming Ansem becoming Riku. There will be a few changes I'll be making to supplement my solutions, and one big one I'll explain in the next intermission. The easiest one I'll tackle right here; Either no stupid retcon with pointless surprise, or Ansem the Wise is Ansem/Xemnas' father that retired from the throne. Next, Riku/Ansem. DiZ's device doesn't do something weird like digitize hearts, but instead is meant to break the dark bonds between hearts like how the artificial emblem-heartless (as will be properly explained in this game, since despite pureblood heartless being hearts overtaken by heartless they do not release hearts and we need to explain why emblem heartless are different) collect hearts and bind them into Kingdom Hearts upon destruction. Thus when Riku is hit it's specifically with a darkness separating device which should help rational why he lost Ansem's form. As for the Nobody's Heart problem firstly, no resurrection upon being destroyed along with the heartless. That's just a get-out-of-jail-free card that causes more problems than solutions. Second when a pureblood heartless is destroyed it does return to the nobody, but due to being overtaken by darkness, purified of darkness which is integral to the being, and now housed in a broken body having emotions surface is still a rare thing, and it doesn't stop the breakdown of the body thus explaining why even nobodies with hearts need Kingdom Hearts. Now the real elephant's in the room, as well as my biggest change which will affect the entire story. To solve the Sora/Roxas, Kairi/Namine problem... Roxas and Namine are not the nobodies of Sora and Kairi. Namine is specifically an original character, and Roxas is a nobody housing Sora's heart. Now on to the story proper. Until I say otherwise everything explained here is flashbacks. The organization is called "Organization 13" due to originally having 13 founders. The keyblade was passed onto Sora because O-13 eliminated the keyblade wielder before him, and does the same to Sora in the time between KH1 and 2. Sora will have been fighting them long enough to no longer be a kid, and took out at least Larxene and Marluxia. When Sora was eliminated his heart entered Roxas (a creeper nobody at the time), allowing him to use the keyblade (still the Kingdom Key). Through this they're able to have a first-hand look at the keyblade and R&D figure out how to make artificial keyblades. Namine (still under control of the organization, and called... Innxmae or something) erases Roxas' old memory to make him easier to control, and later implants Sora's memories into Xion (a full-fledged Nobody) as part of the effort to make an artificial keyblade. Speaking of, they do that by studying the keyblade now that they have Roxas to let them see it, using their research into creating an artifical Kingdom Hearts to ease the task. The initial keyblade is piddling (as Riku said, fighting fire with sparks) and eventually unsuable, but when Roxas destroys Xion's heartless and her heart returns to her she's able to use a proper artifical keyblade (which is the pink one she uses in the last phase of her boss fight). Roxas befriends Namine (who regularly meets him to check on his memories) until she goes rouge (and takes up her old name), then Xion goes rouge, and Roxas gets her keyblade before being captured by Riku. Flashback segmants over. Now, DiZ wants to erase Roxas identity entirely and replace it with Sora's while Roxas is in the data world, but while in there Roxas recovers his memories and by destroying the computer (something DiZ did not expect), and using the keyblade on the data representation of Sora Roxas is able to return to the real world as himself, because Roxas wants to live. Small note, it'll be revealed that using two keyblades at once is incredibly taxing on Roxas, with him collapsing after fighting Axel and Riku being able to use Xion's keyblade (taking the form of Oblivion after she goes rouge, and Roxas' keyblade changes into Oathkeeper in reaction to that once he has them both) is partially due to Roxas not having the willpower to take it back until he's defeated Riku in combat due to the strain attempting to do so puts on him. Now Roxas wakes up as the complete protagonist of Kingdom Hearts 2. Part of the narrative will be Roxas' guilt over taking away Sora's chance of resurrection, which will particularly sting when it's revealed to Donald and Goofy (who don't know what happened and are now looking for Sora as much as they are Mickey, though Roxas wielding the keyblade brings up questions, he's unable to break the news to them at the time). When Roxas encounters O-13 members there is no "I am not Roxas." since he is Roxas. When Roxas fights Sora in his heart Sora fights like a permanent Limit Form (partially illustrating Xigbar's comment on how Sora (now Roxas) was a dud and not half the hero the others (Sora and his predecessor) were), and wielding at least some of his old spells. When Roxas defeats Sora it's not by getting back his own keyblade, but taking Sora's Kingdom Key (which immediatly transforms into Two-Become One as Roxas' default) and defeats him, with the station of awakening changing to Roxas to signify him truly being chosen by the keyblade as well as becoming his own person. Meanwhile Riku and Namine infiltrate Castle Oblivion as well, and using the research and devices there get Riku and Kairi artificial keyblades. Namine without a black coat has been fading away slowly, but through Kairi's princess of light powers enters Kairi's heart like Sora did with Roxas, and Kairi did with Sora come to think of it. When Roxas, "Ansem", and Kairi do the hand holding it'll be Sora taking Roxas' place as Riku does with Ansem. And as one last touch the Lingering Will fight is specifically going to be mentioned as having the portal to it being a gate through time. P.S. Cloud is a nobody, and Sephiroth is his heartless. The organization may or may not be responsible.

[@vadandrumist1670]

Intermission 2: Now to explain the meta-reasons why Roxas is the new protagonist. KH has a bit of a problem where rather than progressing the story it keeps on reaching further and further back to stir up conflict. I'd say this began with "Ansem is Xehanort", and has gone to such extreme's as to the very original keyblade wielder with a plan to end darkness once and for all. If that happens the drive of conflict is gone, and with it the potential for future stories. Additionally we can't have a proper ending as seen with Sora now. He will never have a happy ending unless the franchise itself ends because they are unable to move past him as the central protagonist. By establishing the second game several years later with a new protagonist the precedent has been set for relatively clean slates going forwards. With this established there'd be no fuss with KH-BBS (now KH4) being set centuries in the future rather than a prequel, KH-DDD/3 (now KH5) set a decade later with two new protagonists, and who knows what else after that. I'd say this is akin to how Drakenguard/Nier functioned, with central characters pushed to the periphery and iconography being cycled out (like how the Kingdom Key is replaced with Two-Become-One). Speaking of BBS... BBS: The biggest problems are 1: What are unversed as opposed to other incarnations of darkness, 2: the wayfinder trio sucks at friendship, 3: Eraqus and Terra are idiots for trusting Xehanort. 4: The X-blade. Problem 2 is simple; extend LoD and have all the flashbacks not be flashbacks. Problem 2 will be solved by Xehanort having made regular visits if not staying most of the time (so they believe) at LoD and helping mentor Terra regularly. Since this is now in the future he can even mention "Master Riku" as a historical wielder of darkness. Finally, Problem 1 needs to not just be "negativity", but something directly related to darkness like Vanitas specifically calling himself a "heartless without his heart" or something. Now, the X-Blade. Somehow in Ventus all-along, but then able to be forged by a heart of equal light and dark (or something), then forged by mere fighting between 7 lights (who may use darkness) and 13 darkness (who may use light) of which actually fighting isn't necessary and creates only 13 keyblades in a light/dark ratio of 1/12. Basically a mess, and that's not even getting into it supposedly being the cause of the keyblade war despite not making a single appearance or mention in KH-Union. In this case the answer is simple. The true keyblade merged with the true keyblade of darkness, becoming the X-Blade which was eventually fought over. Also, the X-blade's appearance looks like a child's fanfiction. It in no way represents both light and dark, and clashes horribly with other Kingdom Hearts related things like the Stations of Awakening and Door to Darkness. In my version it's the Combined Keyblade (usually formchanged for convenience) sans the crown at the top and paupu fruit chain, and when Ventus fights Vanitas in the SoA Ventus wields Mirage Shift while Vantias wields Nightmare's End. As for repercussions of my previous changes these new keyblades are confirmed to be artificial, Ventus and Terra do not resemble Roxas and Young-Ansem, and Vanitas doesn't resemble Sora. Also if the events relating to the future do happen all the characters will be original. When the X-Blade breaks that is when it breaks into the 7/13, and in KH3 the crux of the story isn't some weird ritual, but the heroes and villains battling over the shards. Terranort obtains one of the Dark X-Blade shards early which is how a portal to the Realm of Darkness opens up after his boss fight. Speaking of KH3... P.S. An overlooked problem was Lingering Will being a formchange god despite barely using the mechanic in BBS. Simply have them use the mechanic more as part of shotlocks, finishers, and limits (because all these games are mainline and therefore do not have quirky spinoff mechanics). P.P.S. In the final battle Xehanort will not somehow summon Kingdom Hearts itself out of nowhere. While it looked cool it makes absolutely no sense.

[@vadandrumist1670]

KH3: Problems, 1: Power of Waking, 2: The X-Blade (partially already dealt with), 3: Xehanort's plan, 4: Everyone is useless. 5: Pointless worlds. For the first problem, Power of Waking is not time travel, there is no time travel outside of that one specifically weird bit, and if there is any more it will follow those rules. The Power of Waking is for reviving hearts lost in darkness, originally created to restore nobodies since the problem of nobodies would only repeat itself without a feasible solution. For 5 we already have a solutions; they need to find the X-Blade shards, they need to find a way in and out of the Realm of Darkness (which is supposed to be hard to do) to save Aqua, and the worlds can be divided up between Not-Riku (accompanied by Mickey), and Not-Sora (accompanied by Donald and Goofy). Now onto Xehanort's plan. Firstly Xehanort needs the hearts of keyblade wielders to act as glue for the X-Blade, and so everyone has to be sacrificed on both sides to fight the 7/13 ratio. Not-Sora, Not-Riku, and Mickey survive due to shenanigans (Not-Sora being replaced by Lingering Will and Heartless Terra for example) and along with Donald and Goofy team up for an epic final showdown within Kingdom Hearts itself. Xehanort's plan will be to use Kingdom Hearts' power to restore the broken keyblades of the graveyard and scatter them throughout the worlds, all while watching from Kingdom Hearts itself. If he still needs a sympathetic twist then his end goal would be to use the power of a new keyblade war to restore the worlds into one whole, which is in a way alluded to in BBS already. P.S. To make everyone on board with the sacrifice thing, and to keep with Xehanort's plan Xehanort put fragments of his heart in the 13 that grew and ultimately possess them completely by the end. Like Young Xehanort they all wield keyblades that have aspects of the Gazing Eye (that's it's name now) as well as have the Xehanort aesthetic. Also, no black coats. They should all either have original outfits, or if they must be in uniform those blue and red armored robes Xehanort's replicas wear. Possibly they could have their usual keyblades and unnorted appearances in the data-boss versions (which would include your keyblade allies as well as them). Next, everyone is useless. In KH3 power dynamics vary to ridiculous degrees in both gameplay and story. For example Terranort takes out keyblade wielders easily when he first shows up, only to struggle against Aqua and Ventus in the fight immediately following even when fighting alongside Vanitas. Speaking of Aqua, she fights completely differently as a boss than playable, and as an ally she (and all the other keyblade wielders except Roxas who has superarmor, invincibility, and increased aggression) is worse than even just Donald or Goofy. So in regards to gameplay all the keyblade allies need to function like the FF crew in KH2 but with the strength of superbosses, and/or they have maximum aggression and smart dodging & blocking with all the spells, shotlocks, and formchanges/finish commands they'd otherwise possess (at least Mickey, Not-Riku, and Not-Sora would be this). Additionally Seeker of Darkness boss strength will depend on difficulty, with Critical Mode giving them superboss strength as it is their "canon" strength. In regards to story after the total party wipe Not-Sora isn't an idiot and just rushes in like before, instead they retreat and train via second world trip. Let's say defeating Dark Inferno is considered the final exam for them to go forwards. Maybe fight the SoD in weaker forms before continuing. Speaking of the party wipe, the Final World is Kingdom Hearts since that makes more sense than just a world that... spirits end up in and people can just visit. It's literally referred to as "where hearts return to" and we don't having any clue what Kingdom Hearts really is so why not? Speaking of Not-Sora is able to resist fading entirely by being saved by the power of the keyblade shards he'd have collected throughout the story. As for Scala Ad Caelum, what with Kingdom Hearts being the heart of all worlds Xehanort is able to use the keyblade to recreate it within Kingdom Hearts, simple as. Finally the ending. The problem with the "World of Fiction" is that we already have that with 100 Acre Woods, so it's not exactly some super special thing, and also my god just let Sora rest already. As such since we are already following a rule of different protagonists (and it would be a nice pattern if just every two games were directly connected) Not-Sora does completely sacrifice himself in this one to free and restore those who were sacrificed to forge the X-blade, since that would involve direct contact with the essence of Kingdom Hearts itself. At most he may be able to be reborn without his memories in an unknown world (as Yozora in Quadratum) [I swear I came up with this before KHUx's ending]. As for the new conflict, we don't have anything concrete, but let's say the first game would be the KHUx arc with more focus on the world and the foretellers. Also still no time travel, Master of Masters can just be a seer. We already have a setup that even if it was stopped from completely succeeding Xehanort was able to revive countless keyblades, so we wouldn't even need that big a jump for a new era of many keyblade wielders. Daybreak Town could even have been built on the Keyblade Graveyard or some such.

[@laststrike4411]

Christ, and I thought *I* was spergy... I don't get your point with Kingdom Hearts in KH1. It's right behind the DtD. The door is there to channel that power, from my understanding.

[@vadandrumist1670]

@@laststrike4411 I believe I put in as much effort as the topic required. Large topics necessitate depth that cannot be matched in just a few sentences. As for my point I suggest you rewatch the cutscenes as not once is Kingdom Hearts shown, beyond the door or otherwise. I do not know your basis for the DtD being something that channels the power of KH, but as there is such confusion and the purpose of the KH1 changes is to clear up this I maintain that my idea has merit. Everything that happens post final boss is pure confusion that each change I made was an attempt to clarify.

[@isaiahrivers7117]

I wonder what it would be like if someone made a fan comic or whatnot out of this.

[@raptorkvn]

That Atlantica Sucks song, oh man! Love it! Love it!!!!!

[@323starlight]

I mentioned him in the previous video, but Joshscorcher did a 'lets fix 358/2 days' video and some of the suggestions he made was having the option to take certain members up to the twilight tower for ice cream. Giving an opportunity to flesh them out as characters. Another idea he had was making all the organization members (with the exception of Xemnas) playable. Josh also put forth the idea that Xion should be Kairi's Heartless. Much like how originally, Ansem was Xehanort's Heartless. Giving Kairi and Xehanort a bit of a connection.

[@johnhorton1527]

Now this i like

[@MommyHappy25]

I can’t wait for days

[@lordlofus1399]

Kh2 needs to fix some of the bosses christ almighty

[@bryanmontemayor6640]

Thank you for making Kairi important.

[@evanrose4943]

This is how kingdom hearts was written in an alternate dimension

[@Zeke931]

What I like about this is it makes Sora's keyblade actually unique and important. The Kingdom Key being what it is lost importance after the first game when keyblades started flying everywhere.

[@nim856]

Keep going!

[@watershipfalls5520]

Let me just say I enjoy your take on Kingdom Hearts, It's so much more Nuansed and less confusing.

[@Allegro42]

God damn, hahahahaha I´m enjoying this like a bastard. You are so great and this rewriting is awesome hahaha, I wanted to congratulate you. I will watch the next part! Greetings!

[@MommyHappy25]

I got a change about saix and axel friendship have subject X be hinting in kh2 and days and make that the reason why saix is so like the way he is in days and kh2

[@MommyHappy25]

Instead of it being a way of making saix a character

[@BishopTDE]

I like your DiZ voice. It's strangely good.

[@JetblackJay]

You need more subs

[@misseli1]

While I understand the appeal of remaking the older games to match the animation style of KH3, I think the stylistic animation of the older installments is part of their charm. And honestly, I don't think KH1 Sora looks as good in the new style. But that's just my personal preference.

[@marshallseldon4200]

Side note have you read the manga versions of KH1,2,chain of memories and 358? If so what are your thoughts on their adaptations?

[@cryptonix02]

From what I've seen, a lot of the additions and changes to the story in the manga have been very well done. I would love to see it adapted to an anime some day.

[@UltimateLegoFan324]

Very interesting stuff

[@yungmuney5903]

2:07 *Anti-Villian

[@cryptonix02]

I had already recorded the audio by the time I saw your previous comment. 😩

[@wish7540]

Take a couple steps down on the romance, it’s a bit too strong. But aside from that I’m loving this. I think Xion should look a bit different, but their relationship is good, riku and namine could be less intense for now, still got a good amount of content to get through having the relationship build more with time would be good.

[@wish7540]

Also I feel namine should “die” you’ve made riku and namine’s relationship really overt and nothing is stopping them now which is kinda boring. Need some spice on that. Namine dying after being so important for so long would be intense. really I think the biggest issue with your writing is how much attention you put towards romantic relationships. These relationships are probably never going to end, so creating them in only one game and then keeping them interesting for the rest is a tall order. It’s better to slowly build it over multiple games. Atleast xion and roxas has strong story relevance which is why I like it. Their game is very character driven, they are learning how to be people and that pushes them together, mimicing what they see and then becoming an actual couple with feelings with each other works out. It also justifies his emotions even more when he freaks the fuck out in the start of kh2 remembering everything. Namine and riku are just happening for shits and giggles tbh they did not need to be a couple nor does add anything to them individually, for this type of relationship it’s better for it to build over a LONG period of time.

[@cryptonix02]

@@wish7540 I definitely agree that there isn't necessarily a "point" to the relationship between Namine and Riku beyond fan service... in fact, the SOLE reason I decided to amp up the romance in the series is purely fan service. I've been in the Kingdom Hearts fandom since KH2 and the level of obsession and fan content surrounding hypothetical relationships between characters in the series is incredible. Go on Wattpad, go to deviantart, go to pixiv, go on KZbin and look up pairings of characters and there are literal ANTHOLOGIES of artwork and fan-fictions surrounding the shippings of Kingdom Hearts. While I hear your criticism about it being a weaker point from a narrative perspective (in the grand scheme of things, why does it matter? does it develop their characters in a meaningful way? not really), there is clearly a widespread appetite for more romance in Kingdom Hearts that Square-Enix has never delivered. Now your point about building up their relationships over time and the problem of making their relationship stale is perfectly valid and I hear you. Like you said, Roxas and Xion makes sense, and I'd add because they don't get to spend much time together in the series having their relationship develop as fast as it did makes the most sense. And if you couldn't tell already, Sora and Kairi's relationship will develop about as fast as it does originally. I would argue, however, that Namine and Riku's relationship isn't really developing THAT fast. They've flirted a couple times and that's it. They're more focused with the mission than anything; they just sort of... like each other. Is that not how most normal relationships work? They each play their role in the story and have their own agencies, while their growing feelings is just a bonus. Not here to invalidate your criticism, as I know that the level of "boy and girl exist, therefore they date" tropes is overdone, and my intention is not to push gross heteronormativity. I'm literally just adding fan-service in the way I think makes the most sense. It's hit or miss, surely. Namine dying, on the other hand... 🤔 interesting. Not a huge fan of the "girl dies to motivate male protagonist" trope.

[@OhHeyMarc]

This entire video could've just been that Atlantica bit and I'd still be on board.

[@JuliUlrich]

1:04:58 I cried with this scene man. It was beautiful I we did need an scene like this in the games

[@dink7458]

I don't mind anti form from a story perspective you know, using too much drive forms but in terms of gameplay i can't fucking stand it. Theres nothing more frustrating especially on higher difficulties than wanting to use a form but going into anti form and probably dying. It should instead work like rage form in kh3. A last resort for sora before dying. It'll still take your whole drive gauge and you'll take more damage, but you'll still be able to use RCs, guard and dodge (because in kh2 for some reason you can't) as well as revert in a similar way to the riskcharge system in kh3. And at the end after the saix fight and sora restores balance to his heart, you can select anti form as normal and revert normally without losing health just like any other form when sora learns to control darkness.

[@ursmarrings27]

Fanfiction? what are you talking about? This is just a highly conceptual design/narrative exercise here!