Kingdom Hearts Series - Responding to 99 Hot Takes

[@schmatthewneyan87]

90% Ice Cold takes 10% Memes/Misunderstandings

[@PixelHeroViish]

Which misunderstandings are you referring to, actually? I can't say anything stood out like that to me 💀

[@thenagito]

@@PixelHeroViish Several very glaring ones in fact. If you're more interested I can rewatch and mark them all down for you, o one who hasn't been paying attention clearly Edit: Unless I cannot read subtext and you're being sarcastic, in which case I apologize

[@trashley5972]

Amused at the very early take saying remember when sora was the chosen one which is funny because like.... Kh1 is about how he is not but earns the keyblade through his strength of heart etc

[@Bizkit047]

These people prob shut the game off as soon as they beat Ansem and didn't see Mickey either.

[@BananaGatorProds]

Hes a chosen one with extra steps

[@SuperPlaytendo]

This guy must have had a terrible brew of coffee because wow some of his takes were bad. Also one of the points that was deleted was that he ships Kairi with Axel.

[@bullworthless]

This is why its hard to be into the casual fanbase. Its filled with a bunch of weirdos lmao

[@PixelHeroViish]

Which ones specifically?

[@aidenreed680]

​@@PixelHeroViishit was #71 on this...terrible thread

[@PixelHeroViish]

@@aidenreed680 Oh sorry, I was asking which of these takes OP found terrible, yeah the deleted #71 is definitely silly but that's about it

[@tigerfestivals5137]

Why's that a bad point? It's just a ship

[@HellfireComms]

"Xehanort was good all along!" No he wasn't. Misguided yes, but he knew he was causing harm.

[@vadandrumist1670]

Misguided all along also seems wrong. I mean, the retcon is that he wanted to recreate the keyblade war to obtain the X-blade, when he originally wanted the X-blade to recreate the keyblade war, and that was just to see what would happen. His ends were about as evil as his means.

[@SynsityGW]

i'm sure what he meant was, not every bad guy needs to end their story with some sort of redemption. let bad guys be bad guys. let them go out like larxene and call sora a loser and be like i'm taking my secret to the grave bitches PEACE

[@DannyMJ34]

baffles me ppl still dont understand why its called 358/2 days 358 = the amount of days roxas was with the organization /2 days = reference to roxas and xion and their experiences they had during their days together at the organization.

[@Litten-sb7eg]

Thought it was because Roxas was a half of Sora. But thag makes alotta sense too.

[@trust3474]

40:00 I always Saw Xehanort not necessarily as some just pure evil douchebag but rather as a mad scientist. I believe in BBS he says something along the lines of "what then would another war bring" which implies that his motivation is pure curiosity. He knows that what he is doing is bad but he doesn't care because he seeks the knowledge that results from the ruin he brings.

[@Bizkit047]

IIRC a BBS secret report elaborates he wants to balance Light & Dark and thinks Light has too much of a hold, but outside of that he still comes off as super evil, so the last second pivot of trying to get everyone to slightly feel bad for him at end of KH3 is just a tad too silly

[@PixelHeroViish]

@@Bizkit047 Honestly I'd write that up to not giving that bit the time it needed to really settle or showing the cast at least try to understand how his "good" motive lead to "I will do evil shit and ruin people's lives instead of just asking for help like a normal person" Plot points like that need a lot of time in the oven for sure

[@JellyMyst]

That's just another reason that the whole wanting to reset everything for its own good was a stupid twist at the end of KH3.

[@jonathonwild7350]

​@@Bizkit047I don't really know if the intent was to make us feel bad for him. Sora is the audience standin and Sora isn't having any of xehanorts shit in that scene.

[@Voltricity435]

agreed. no one in that scene agrees with xehanort or forgives him for what he did or feels bad for him (except maybe eraqus but only because they used to be good friends). i'm sure htat scene was to just explain xehanort's motivations outside of secret reports and nothing more@@jonathonwild7350

[@kungfuvoodoo9889]

On points 4 and 5, technically Lea can formchange his keyblade back to chakrams as seen in the ReMind fight with the Seasalt Trio against Xemnas+Saix, but by the same token it's sort of Nomura wanting to have his cake and eat it too. Earlier on in the series when keyblades didn't formchange to everything it felt more unique for characters to have their own weapons.

[@CoBud91]

I think Axel just summoned his old chakrams like how Riku can summon Soul Eater still in Deep Dick Drop

[@Deoxys_Used_Mimic]

*Says BBS ruined the series *Says DDD should’ve been like BBS Like, I know they only posted these takes for clout, but c’mon… at least be consistent. Most of these aren’t even “hot” takes.

[@ElJosher]

I suppose that person’s cold takes must be sub-zero takes, cause those hot takes are 80% cold 😂

[@OneGamer2EnvyThemAll]

#3 is definitely the result of translation shenanigans. IIRC the original JP version of KH1 never used "Keyblade Master", but something more like "Keyblade Hero". Overall the language makes it easier to grasp that Sora was never meant to be The One And Only Hero Chosen by the One and Only Keyblade, just that he was THE ONE "hero" as foretold BUT separate from any explicit exclusivity to Keyblade-wielding. And suddenly it makes sense when Riku says what he says if you change it to mean "There can't be two Keyblade heroes." This isn't to say that at the time of KH1 there were already plans for the Keyblade War as a concept but just that the JP text made it sound a lot less exclusive and thus easier to slot in "and there were other folks who swung Keyblades" as added lore.

[@Iffem]

"This isn't to say that at the time of KH1 there were already plans for the Keyblade War as a concept" weeeeeeell... the story that Kairi's Grandma tells her in that one flashback is about the Keyblade War... they just never named Keyblades as the weapons that were used in that fight

[@OneGamer2EnvyThemAll]

@@Iffem Well, even if I'm wrong in that sense that just further solidifies my point that Sora was never going to be the lone Keyblade wielder from the jump.

[@AwkwardFellow]

this absolutely, king triton and genie both also mention meeting keyblade wielders before and the key of hearts exists in that game too.

[@cantbehelped]

"Who plats multiples of the games?" Me: *sweats in PS3 and PS4*

[@Bizkit047]

Doing all KH plats on both PS3 & PS4 was deff quite the time sink lmao

[@SynsityGW]

*flashbacks to doing recom plat on ps3*

[@Qazqi]

Oh god a Nomura and Yoko Taro crossover is the most cursed idea I've ever seen, I love it.

[@kungfuvoodoo9889]

One thing that always stuck out to me with Nier Automata was how the designs of 2B and 9S are very similar to Riku's in 358/2 Days, the full black outfit + blindfold and white hair so the thought of a crossover is kind of tempting from that point of view. Can't say I picture the two properties meshing super well together, like FF in the other KH games were a bit of a stretch but it was sort of like pairing something kid-friendly with something more adolescent-friendly (and FF14 having the crossover Nier raid was kind of on the other end of that spectrum) whereas KH+Nier would be like pairing kid-friendly with... well I guess mature is one word but specifically things like sexual themes/undertones, violence/blood (even though main characters were androids they still had blood-like fluids that would spurt out when they got stabbed) and probably most importantly the themes of utter despair, existential dread and nihilism in the story of Nier, just doesn't really seem like a good fit for the KH universe. Sure they could tone it down like they did with the FF characters but it would kinda take away from the experience IMO.

[@nooffense6666]

Yoko will get one look at white haired characters like Riku and be like "let's kill them in the most depressing way possible"

[@va_amias]

The absolute Touhou OST jumpscare at the start got me checking to see if I had Imperishable Night running in the background lol

[@RiskOfRayne]

I do love how kh fans choose to misunderstand things and parrot opinions they hear constantly while claiming that everything they're saying is an original opinion that everyone will disagree with.

[@runemaster8656]

That's what happens when you grow up with youtubers. I was guilty of doing this too until I decided to look at the series retroactively and form my own opinion.

[@birdiesfrijoles8324]

Holy crap! I thought I'd never see you again, but I guess KZbin found out that I watched your dark cloud videos back in 2008! Glad to see that you're still uploading!

[@phantom-X2086]

With some of their takes, it's kind of clear that they don't understand the story at all or just didn't pay attention to what's happening in the games.

[@nachos1162]

Yeah the axel not using chakrams thing I was like "Uh... He still uses them, his keyblade transforms between the chakrams and the blade" and then the "358/2 days title made no sense whatsoever, but it's the best side game!" had me question if they watched the cutscenes or played the game, or shit even knew the premise of the game. It's pretty obvious where the title came from when you play/watch it, 358 days over 2 characters.

[@flamingosalad3541]

damn dude you really grew up from when I used to watch you way back in the day, hope you're well these days!

[@Darthlightskin]

Lmao this is an interesting video from you. I can dig it, also biz axel has a limit in kh 3 where he uses his chakrams. He still has them but he uses the keyblade primarily now.

[@Bizkit047]

Fair point, but that does make it more of like a cameo weapon

[@Darthlightskin]

@@Bizkit047 yea, that’s true

[@tophat_darkness]

It's not just in the limit, he throws them at Xion in a cutscene, it definitely is a keyblade transformation.

[@S_F_Brew]

I mean I thought kh1 and 2 always held up visually

[@Bizkit047]

The ports help a lot with that. KH2 aged pretty well for a PS2 game though both mechanically and visually (can pass as a PS3 game)

[@sinom]

37:58 here I don't think he meant "why did they come back to life" but instead "why did they rejoin the organization? What is their motivation?" I think this take comes from a major misunderstanding. He said in that take that they "only were in the org because they were gaslit into believing they needed it to get their hearts back" which isn't really true. There are multiple groups in the organization each with different reasons for being in it.

[@flamma1114]

Since KH3 was my first KH game Im kinda annoyed about all of the hate it gets. I enjoyed it so much. Even on my first playthrough without any lore knowledge as well. its my favorite for sure and loved so much of it. KH2 is good as well but I feel its pretty much on the same lv as kh3. A lot of people compare base kh3 to the newer kh2 port with all the extra content. But if we compare both of the base games they both were lacking content. I just think some takes about it are so stupid.

[@phantom-X2086]

Agree 100%. People keep saying KH3 lacks a lot of content, but base KH2 did too.

[@michaeltafila6102]

Kh 1 is my first but I love kh3 just as much as the others the hate it gets is unwarranted at times the criticism I get but hate is sometimes unbearable

[@yazcona13]

The reason people compare KH2fm to KH3 is because, its been over 10 years. And you made the same if not worst mistakes than Kh2 base game. HOW?!

[@user-vc6]

I grew to love kh3 more then 2fm but mainly because limit cut. The base game is slightly worse then original kh2 and I think if you do my test youll completely agree First off I will say the optimal kh2fm experience is far and away critical mode level 1 .. this setting isn’t just a weird challenge it feels like the most optimized difficulty in the game like the entire game was designed around it, if you haven’t done this play through plus post game ( many fans have during the 10 year wait for kh2) and been extremely intimate with every single gameplay. You’ll probably think kh2fm is lacking a bit Ive done this with every game in the series. The base game of Kh3 was pretty good but not kh2 level. That said the limit cut makes it my favourite because of how insanely good the limit cut fights are at lv1 .. after that dlc I felt kh3 lived up to the wait .

[@Venitas751]

45:00 When u realize Donald doesn't wear gloves, so he's putting his nasty ass feathers in Sora's mouth

[@CaptainCJ97]

Oh lord

[@poleon2003]

33:04 one thing to add on this is that KH1 was originally gonna have a simple Disney like story early on in development but Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi looked at it and said to Nomura that a story like that isn't good enough and thought that it would be WAY too simple for the average Final Fantasy fan which would be attracted by the game because of the Final Fantasy crossover in it so Nomura changed to story more to help appeal more to Final Fantasy fans

[@Minishroom123]

The funniest thing about the time travel stuff is that technically speaking, time travel existed since KH2 and was actually integrated in a fun, Disney way... And then they did basically nothing with it.

[@HellfireComms]

The point about playing through worlds twice being better than KH3's world system is absolutely wrong. The worlds being longer and denser in 3 let them truly feel alive. Most of the stuff in 2 is just filler-ish.

[@blivveries]

Whenever I see an image like the one at 21:50, I just think to myself how you could make diagrams like this for basically any series with more than 10 characters and point at it and be like "Look at how needlessly complicated the Mario series is!!"

[@Ender41948]

Almost like trying to centralize a moving story into one image is misleading or something. Go figure.

[@KalleDemos666]

Take 50 and all the keyblade stuff is just for clicks, you can't have a "People should have LESS keyblades" while simultanously asking for more people having Keyblades. Same with the Take 50, asking for more characters like Namine and having more protagonism on Kairi and Namine's part while saying that the Original story parts shouldn't exist, if they didn't you wouldn't have Naminé nor would you have Roxas to "like".

[@PerseusisRad]

For point 87, I think they were more asking 'why are they helping Xehanort?'. Like they'd been reformed and made into nobodies again iirc, but considering all they'd gone through, it doesn't seem like they should be as willing to help Xehanort, especially the ones that betrayed Xemnas already. I think that's what they were going for.

[@PixelHeroViish]

Yeah it could be that, I always assumed they were threatened into joining or at least gaslit

[@TheGershon]

2:55 He does as an ally in KH3, both vanilla and remind

[@KeybladeBrett]

If I remember the 69th and 71st points they were like... really weird. I think one of them was that Kairi and Axel had too much sexual tension (gross) and I can't remember the other one

[@Wannapineappl3]

ewww yeah I can see why they'd delete that

[@TheSilverWing]

The other point was essentially the person calling Riku a bottom. I remember reading it before it got deleted and feeling really grossed out.

[@charleslonon9207]

for the 77th take, you totally should have gotten a summon from the worlds he visits in game but a character you didn't fight alongside. So in Kh1 after deep jungle, instead of getting Tarzan as a summon, you get Turk or Kerchak. It doesn't have to be every world but imagine if after toy box you get to summon rex and he controls a mech or you assemble a cannon while he reads the instructions or you can call in the commandos, or slinky.

[@RareTruffle]

I think we already see Axel do a keyblade transformation in 3/remind since he does switch to his old weapon during his limit with Roxas and Xion.

[@JonathanRiverafrickinnice555]

Yeah they already established he can do that.

[@Rowlet216]

This might not be that hot of a take, but Oswald the Lucky Rabbit should be added to the KH series, obviously with some strong connection to Mickey.

[@HellfireComms]

I agree with that. He should be the Quadratum version of Mickey.

[@dances_with_incels]

He could be his nobody

[@A-Spoto]

8:15 Saying the card mechanics in CoM are bad is the normal take, not the hot take. The hot take is that the card mechanics in CoM are actually GOATed and straight up the most fun system in any non-numbered KH game.

[@Sunkhrist]

Some of the second visits were the best parts of KH2 :O Especially when the boss fights made it all worth it. The Experiment, Grim Reaper, inreally enjoyed Tron World (i forget the name) so i was extremely hype to go back. I wish there was a 2nd visit for Timeless River.

[@trust3474]

I feel like the keyblade would be more special after the reval of the keyblade war. Kinda like how after Order 66 the Jedi and the concept of "the force" both became Legend to the point where some characters didn't know they ever existed (the Mandolorian) or straight up deny their existence (Han Solo). As much of a fan I am of KH2, the scene where Riku just inexplicably handing Kairi a Keyblade out of nowhere is what made them "not special". Side note regarding Axel with his Chakrams: I think they should explore the Idea of other types of magic weaponry. Like I get that the Keyblade is the only thing that can truly seal a heartless, but having what seems to be more and more characters using a one-handed sword make the series feel stale. The OG org 13 had such a weapon variety that makes each of them so memorable.

[@PixelHeroViish]

I yearn for the day where we can just weapon switch like it's DMC without limitation because the character mastered Keyblade transformation or the like

[@pikachufrankie]

The issue is that the KH story was very clearly never written with the war in mind, as opposed to Star Wars, which was mentioning the fall of the Jedi and The Clone Wars all the way back in A New Hope. Not comparable situations.

[@drantino]

#5 he actually already does use keyblade transformation to turn them into chakrams...well also wielding his keyblade like his chakrams #89 despite wanting it or not, it hella fits the light and dark themes KH does #91 even now the difference of what they were trying to do between ansem, xemnas and xehanort are all fundementally different. the death scenes in the final fights for 3 really show they were after different things. xehanort at least from BBS was subtle written to have a specific motive behind his actions that im fairly sure people do miss, so the KH3 revieal of what he was doing was not suprising for me what so ever #94 god that situation on why who looks like who is a pain, if i recall its ventus was split and before sora was born came and mended vens heart which for what ever reason imprited the missing piece of vens existance on sora which is why vanitus looks like that because that is the missing piece(which unless you got basicly a blueprint of the heart there, this should not make sense), then when sora hearlessed him self, ven had ifluecned the body to change into his shape somehow, which compared to every other nobody, this shouldnt make sense since all their forms when it doesnt turn into the lower tiers keep the originals shape.

[@GhilliedWDB]

31:46 block missles with keyblade would be sent back? Press ((Triangle) to jump off rockets to close distance) there was other options to do this boss fight but yeah like he said Flow motion isnt as cool as it seems.

[@alexsanderivan6511]

I do agree with having more characters from Square games in KH. It would be really cool to see Star Ocean characters in a Star Wars world

[@QuadPlaythrough]

Max can't exist because it would mean Goofy's a deadbeat dad. Unless that's a plot point in KH4.

[@roiitzkovich4545]

Lea can still summon his chakrams. He does that by formchanging his keyblade as seen in Re:Mind. But I get what he's saying. Having Axel wield chakrams only would've been more special, whereas now he's just a lesser Sora.

[@lukasruston8618]

There are SO many things that I disagree with on the list, most of them just come from misunderstandings in the story. I understand why everyone thinks that in KH3, they suddenly made Xehanort a misunderstood good guy and then Dark Road came along to fix it when people started complaining... but that's all due to a mistranslation. In KH3, Xehanort describes his end goal as 'An empty world, pure and bright' when in the Japanese version, he says something along the lines of 'An empty world, pure and blank'. In the English versions, that mistranslation makes it seem like he's going to preserve the light and get rid of the darkness... when in ACTUALITY, he's planning on killing everything, destroying everything (including both light AND darkness) and then leaving the world as a blank slate for eternity and this is why I think Dark Road is a good game story-wise because once you understand that, Xehanort's motivations in Dark Road become so much clearer: he saw that the darkness in Baldr's heart was created because Baldr's friends had a light in their heart that was far brighter than his, they casted metaphorical shadows onto his heart that manifested as literal darkness, Xehanort notices this and is explicitly told about how it happened so he realises that the only way to destroy the darkness is if no light exists because if light exists, there will always be shadows and the stronger the light, the deeper those shadows get. Sorry about the rant, it just really annoys me that (at least in my opinion) Xehanort's motivations are clear and really well written but it all got ruined by a SINGLE mistranslation.

[@Cheesepoop]

The localization for KH screwed over a lot of shit

[@HellfireComms]

Lea can still use his chakrams though?

[@brunoestevez6545]

I actually agree on the art style for kh3. Compared to the old engine and how facial structures blurred the lines between final fantasy but cartoony was really good. the new art style look wasn’t on par with tetsuyas usual style direction and in large part it’s due to the super plastic look.

[@thomasstolz9777]

Please do more reaction stuff like this. I like to hear you talking about everything regarding Kingdom Hearts

[@QuadPlaythrough]

87 feels like it's more a question of why those people are still working for Xehanort, after knowing he lied to them as Xemnas and having no motivation to actually be there anymore?

[@teoteo900_4]

Imperishable Night ~ Eastern Night at the beginning? Bizkit answering hot takes for 50 minutes? Best timeline so far.

[@alm3na284]

A lot of people don't understand the plot and just hand wave it as shitty.

[@boukabachefaiza9308]

He seems that he doesn't even like the games or the characters

[@dannelinio]

hot take: Bizkit looks more and more like a young Sir Christopher Lee

[@runemaster8656]

I just can't agree with DDD being a "terrible story". It showcases Riku's growth and Sora's naivety. Yeah the time travel muddies some things but overall it's far from egregious.

[@pikachufrankie]

Nah bro, the writing for that game is pretty atrocious.

[@runemaster8656]

@@pikachufrankie To each their own. I always dismissed DDD but I've come to appreciate what it does well.

[@tombecker381]

Tidus and Waka are mentioned by Selphie in KH2. So we know there fine and still are playing there ball sports.

[@LilianOrchard]

Most of this thread is just "KH Characters Bad, Want Didney Worl" and the rest is just the guy getting pissy that a story with a very strong core central theme isn't entirely fixated on it's own lore. Here's a real hot take: Mysterious Figure is hilarious, and that makes him better than every Superboss in KH3

[@boukabachefaiza9308]

What do you expect from someone who sexualized children

[@niklasw.1297]

GUYS, we found the one mf who liked the attractions in 3

[@TheBlueLink3]

I also liked them, so now you have two people haha.

[@slayerstarx7109]

You know the attractions are bad when even people that likes kh3 like myself don’t really like their inclusion either. I always turn them off

[@mjkoolaid1511]

95. Mivkey only knew for 1 year and yen sid told his ass not to go looking for her immediately

[@nachos1162]

This was a good watch before work lol. Not entirely sure how some of these takes even exist, it's like if someone beat kh1 and went "but like, why does sora have a keyblade??" as if it wasn't a major plot point that's brought up constantly. Or beating Atlantic and having Triton explain why sora needs to not meddle in affairs of the world's and the going "but like, what's wrong with them helping out the world's??"

[@hmmmmname]

I vastly prefer the art style of KH 1 and 2 but obviously the graphics of 3 are worlds apart, just goes to show graphics aren't everything.

[@Nexit1337]

358/2 litterally means 358 days before the start of kingdom hearts 2

[@tab-xp8fb]

I think it's more 358 days split between two people (roxas and xion)

[@zorquil]

358/2 Days literally means you play through 129 Days! (Still upsetting that only 93 are playable. Just needed to add a few more days to the game...)

[@TimothyGod]

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[@Wannapineappl3]

number 21 is such a very cold take. some of these are, these's probably 20 actual hot takes here

[@theimpersonator7086]

Cool video. Probably my weirdest take on KH is that the Final Fantasy chars are a mixed bag(given the backlash that base 3 got for excluding them). On one hand, I do love the fan service, and FF chars provide a ton of opportunities for post game hummanoid superbosses. Like imagine KH4 where Sora can fight against Gilgamesh, Dark Knight Cecil, and Clive. Pretty cool. However, the FF chars tend to be poorly characterized in Kh games. Cloud was turned into a stoic emo type when he wasn't that in OG FF7, and somehow they turned Aerith into a plank of wood. Def a mixed bag imo.

[@Iffem]

Cloud and Aeriths' respective writings seemed to be based on how they are in Advent Children... but there they have real good reasons to be like that (Cloud is isolating himself due to the Geostigma, and Aerith is kinda... dead.)

[@Arcana_zero_studios]

I do like the powerwild enemies. It feels like kh1 sora is fighting himself. The monkeys have his dash slide attack, they use jumping strikes, and try for small grounded combos, they're fun to parry and they aren't annoying to deal with. They're a kh1 fav, they have some high value cards in Re:COM so forget going 2 for 2.

[@unnamed_protagonist]

Regarding the "the key blade isn't special anymore" take, it is kinda true, but also sora was only the chosen one in KH1 by sheer luck that he happened to be right beside Riku when Riku fell to darkness and the keyblade decided that was pretty cringe. Honestly I don't even dislike the keyblade war aspect for making keyblade less special, I hate kh3 showing that Keyblade can just break and Yen Sid apparently has spares laying around to replace them. I'm fine with a lot of people having access to the super magical weapon, but I hate that they made the super magical weapon replaceable.

[@bnashee]

"358/2 days title makes no sense" it makes sense if you think about it even a little bit. its a story that takes place over 358 days that spans the lives of two people

[@RICHman99100]

Completely unrelated. Is that the song in the beginning from route 666(the motorcycle level) in Bayonetta?

[@artorias6321]

Axel can indeed transform his keyblade back into the chakrams form as seen in KH3 and its remind dlc.

[@wendigoswithhats8593]

If you really are a kh fan, you accept the lore, no matter how complicated.

[@nachos1162]

Something about the whole "why does roxas look nothing like sora?" thing, I don't think a nobody really HAS to look like their former selves. I guess the organization kinda set a precedent that they need to but if a nobody has to retain their aesthetic then why do lesser nobodies like dusks look nothing like an average npc? I don't think it's something that really matters all too much. I guess lesser nobodies just don't have enough power to retain their previous looks, if we need to explain it away and power level is what the key to a nobody looks like then the best explanation I can think of is that a nobody's form is based off of the source of a character's power rather than the body. This means riku's nobody would look like Terra, kairi's would look like aqua and sora's would look like ven (this explains roxas looking like ven) but then that explanation falls apart when you take into account namine is Kairi's nobody. So at the end of the day I don't think the aesthetic of somebody's nobody really has a specific source, it just kind of... Happens

[@AwkwardFellow]

The thing is that the reason the Org look like themselves is because they were created the normal way. They kept their forms due to having a strong heart as explained in Days and 2. Ansem, Xemnas, Roxas and Namine were all created while someone was possessed/had another heart inside them so they don’t look exactly like the person they technically are the nobody/heartless of, but rather a mixture of the hearts released at the time. So Namine and Roxas being blonde because Ven’s heart was in Sora along with Kairi’s, and Namine has powers relating to Sora as his body was used in the process of making her. Roxas is pretty much her other half that uses Ven and Sora’s hearts + Sora’s body. (It’s not confirmed but I like to chalk up him being able to contact Kairi in 2 as his connection to her heart being in the mix, but they never went anywhere with that so who knows.)

[@ailurophilekia6565]

What I take away from this is some people think "hot take" means "when you have an opinion of something"

[@GoTELuckyCharms]

26:18 I'm gonna give it to him dancers are bullshit, especially when they're paired with sorcerers.

[@wingsailor]

Great video biz! Btw, one of the takes this person deleted, was literally them saying that Kairi and Axel/Lea should have been in a romantic relationship... Considering the obvious reasons why that's insane and pedo to say. The backlash on that was super hectic.

[@nyxdrinkingmilk]

the other take they deleted was "riku is a bottom" which received deserved backlash too so either this guy doesn't know what they're saying or they're just a weirdo

[@wingsailor]

They just did it on purpose for the attention / clout@@nyxdrinkingmilk

[@charlieotoole5343]

Hey Biz, totally unrelated question, but when do you think is KH4 releasing? 2025/2026?

[@calebstultz2813]

Have you played the Nobody May Cry mod yet for KH2?

[@Wannapineappl3]

number 40: I think NWEWY was there because that was a Nomora project not just because it was a Square game

[@CrownedGamer101]

Heavily disagree on the time travel aspect! I think it was an amazing aspect to the series and done insanely well! And it all seemed to work out in my opinion

[@Arcana_zero_studios]

The ultima weapon is a moot point since YOU CAN ONLY GET IT EITHER POST GAME OR PRE-FINAL BOSS AND THERE'S NO NEW GAME+!

[@Taken4GrantD]

Wow really enjoyed this Bizkit, would love to hear your hot takes then.

[@TophDaGreat]

My Hot take was Vexens change of heart in KH3. He said nothing and did nothing to imply a change of heart in every appearance he made. I recall Just a Pancake even joking about that. Definitely a for the plot but dont think too hard on it moment.

[@EpiKerCovers]

Sora was never the chosen one.... Riku was.

[@MrAuthor3DS]

1: "Within it lies the heart of all worlds, Kingdom Hearts!" Spoken so plainly in the first game, and that basic description has been repeated several times throughout the series. How is that the hardest thing in this series to comprehend? 4-5: What? Lea's Keyblade does frequently Formchange into the chakrams. 9: Eh, fair point. Even Ansem, the fist KH-original villain, doesn't feel as special as he used to. 19: The "/2" part is probably the weird bit - especially when the official pronunciation is "Three-Five-Eight Days Over Two". 25: Goofy's "death", to me, feels absolutely unnecessary. What, some random rock flung by a random Heartless's attack on a random Nobody is what does him in? And this unequips all of his gear and abilities, too! Do you know what a pain it was to remember what all I equipped onto him?! What did that accomplish (besides I guess making Mickey ditch his cloak)?! 29: ...Maaychu does know that a lot of KH2's world stories ARE recaps, right? 32: My hot take: Xemnas's characterization is better in every game that came out after KH2. We barely get much out of him in KH2, but we see so much more of his manipulative nature in Days and 3D. 33: Agreed. Pride Lands felt like pure filler. It didn't even have anything to do with the big parts of the main plot (Organization XIII and Riku). Also, SCREW the second hyenas battle! 36: The real challenge was not cringing during "Swim This Way". If one can handle that, the rest is serviceable to good. 38: I blame KH2 for adding way too many FF guest stars at once. Like, sure, the Gullwings were funny, but they're barely around for much, and were only used to inform Maleficent where Leon was going. And...consider how minor Maleficent's influence is in KH2. 42: Speaking of, how many complained when Pete unwittingly summoned a door to Disney Castle's past? I can understand Merlin, a mighty sorcerer, but PETE?? 43: Hrm, only four of the True Organization's members were truly Xehanort. Everyone else were just carriers (including Terra). 44: Anime plus Disney magic. KH3 had to add a lot of the latter for it to keep up. 67: Tidus and Wakka were clearly back on Destiny Islands in KH1's credits. Selphie even brings up the new ball game they've been busying themselves with in KH2. 68: Wait, are you saying Pooh didn't evolve into an angel there? 79: I'm between 1, Chain, and Days myself. 84: One thought I have about Kairi is that she seems like a living Wayfinder, if that makes sense? Like, how she was able to channel Sora's power to gain the boost she needed to match memory-Xehanort. I hope that gets expanded on. 89: There's technically already a Marvel world in the series (San Fransokyo). Granted, it's the Disney version of Big Hero 6, but... 91: Not...exactly? He was still set on wiping out the whole KH universe to reset it all, and merely tried to justify his reasoning. Sora had to call out his skewed views, and Eraqus had to convince him to relent. He wasn't even "redeemed" - he just had no one left besides Eraqus to guide him to the beyond. 93: ...Castle Oblivion, Namine, Yen Sid, Xehanort - those caused his first four level resets. Those weren't Sora's doing. Abusing the power of waking, on the other hand, IS on Sora. 94: Something like Ansem, I guess - a heart that somehow manifested its own physical form? A...magic construct from the heart? That...That's all I can think of. (Roxas, Namine, and Xemnas are kinda the oddities among Nobodies, though, given that they were all spawned from bodies that housed multiple hearts.) 95: With the way time flowed in the realm of darkness, wasn't that 10 years like a month or two for Aqua? 96: Or they're just "keys". Like, having a key card that opens an electronic door doesn't exactly mean you have all the energy of that door...if that makes sense? Or maybe passwords would be a better example. (It's kinda why I feel like no x-blade will ever be exactly as powerful as Kingdom Hearts itself. Heck, the x-blade in KH3 was made from the clashes of 20 hearts, compared to the two for the BBS one.) 99: Agreed. It's stupid fun - the BEST kind of stupid ever.

[@cruelcumber5317]

I have to really disagree on adding FF summons to the games because it kind of misses the point of why summons are how they are. Taking an FF mechanic and making it use Disney characters is literally the way the crossover of the two series is done.

[@Invangar]

Some of these takes would be easily solved if the translation of the games' dialogue to English was done better

[@makemelaugh5431]

Wanting Pooh's nobody to be the final boss of the series is considerable a hot take?

[@tylerlane8221]

Lightsabers were only rare because all the jedi were wiped out same with the keyblade

[@pikachufrankie]

17:28 . I hate this notion of just making the series the Squenix Fortnite, where every series should get thrown in. Awful idea.

[@KewlImp]

I know it's an old video, but most of these takes are luke warm are best. With that said, if you want a hot take, Xion shouldn't have returned. It actively breaks the rules the game sets up since she is literally forgotten from that point on at the end of Days. The only reason she is back is because Nomura bowed to the fans and harmed the story in doing so.

[@Soundwave_0908]

I don't think KH1 has aged well personally when going back to it. Gameplay wise

[@Bizkit047]

It's a bit bare bones compared to KH2 & 3 for sure, but still decently solid.

[@Renteka-Bond]

Kingdom hearts 1 still runs laps around the majority of action RPGs to this day, imo. It's relatively clunky compared to 2, but 2 is arguably one of the best action RPG combat systems to exist.

[@Chelaxim]

​@@Renteka-BondAlso compared to character action games around the same time Devil May Cry 1 and Onimusha 1 had fixed camera angles and didn't have melee aerial combos.

[@GhilliedWDB]

11:53 Had to add your own personal hot take huh?

[@sh4d0wfl4re]

Hot take, Master Xehanort’s motivations weren’t revealed in KH3, but in KH1 and any other motivation would have been out of character

[@madmaster0015]

My hot take is that KH series at its core is also a platformer/metroidvania and they should double down on those elements more than the combat.

[@Shay3w]

Kingdom Hearts should have ended at KH2. Both Body and Heart of Xehanort destroyed therefore he can't come back (even tho when you do that it brings the guy back ???? instead of having both heartless and nobody at the same place for them to reunite and bring the original back would make more sense BUT idk nomura).

[@pikachufrankie]

Nobody in-game ever said that destroying the Heartless and Nobody would bring back the OG until the secret ending in ReCODED. As far as the story of 1 -> 2 are concerned, once the Organization members died, they DIED.

[@Shay3w]

@@pikachufrankie but here we are unfortunately

[@TimothyGod]

​@@pikachufrankiehence it shoulda ended at 2

[@pikachufrankie]

@@TimothyGodShould’ve? Maybe, maybe not. I think 358 days over all was a good addition to the story, and that game came out after 2. If the games had stopped THERE, I think that would’ve been pretty satisfying.

[@Gamesmarts194]

I feel like most of the time when someone says they have a hot take, it probably common stuff most of the community already says lol

[@DanmakuMaster]

Is that Imperishable Night music I hear? Biz 2hu fan confirmed?

[@nunothedude]

Hot take, gummi ship is fun i allways completed them in kh1,2,3

[@RedCornix]

5. Lea should have switched between the 2 weapons as a style. Also more strike raidy attacks. 24. Kh2 gummi ship stuff is actually fun. 33. Kh is better when they continue a movie plot rather than ape it. 82. The earlier games were better at separating the worlds out with their art style. A lot of kh3 feels like it could all take place on one planet. 87. Org members having hearts and Xemnas lying rather than not understanding them feels like a retcon. 91. There was a journal entry where he takes ven to the destiny islands to die in peace. I hate how they imply a level of kindness then dont deliver.

[@matpancakes]

The #69 and #71 were deleted because he was sexualizing riku (a 15-16 year old) and shipping kairi and Axel

[@hipsterroxas2626]

What OST is playing at 1:40 onwards?? It sounds so familiar is it from a fighting game or something?

[@hipsterroxas2626]

BIZ/COMMENTS I NEED TO KNOW PLEASE

[@TetsuDaMS]

Babe wake up new Bizkit just dropped

[@superlazykyle]

Hell yeah! We need more bizkit breaking shit DOWN

[@bullworthless]

Here's a hot(maybe lukewarm?) take. Sora, Donald and Goofy are the best trio. I don't need to elaborate, if you've played all the number games, then you know how good they are as a group.

[@slayerstarx7109]

Ehhh that seems like a room Temperature take to me. Usually the popular opinion is the sea salt trio being the best and the runner up is usually that trio. Either them or bbs trio

[@bullworthless]

@slayerstarx7109 I mean you said it yourself, people usually put Seasalt and Wayfinder trio above SDG. I'd consider 3rd place out of 4 main character trios a pretty heated take.

[@ryanmann5497]

Re:coded was fun because of the coliseum…. That world was super fun for me

[@thegamewin100]

Oh boy thankfully this is Twitter if he does KZbin comment sections this might get bad

[@Bizkit047]

Twitter is way more of a bloodbath when it comes to KH discourse than YT comments