10 Creepy/Unsettling Things in Kingdom Hearts

[@s-o1224]

I'm pretty sure the creepiest thing is the fact that someone trapped dogs in boxes, even underwater.

[@MegaSpideyman]

Was gonna say Cruella de Ville, but she wouldn't leave them there, 'specially not alive.

[@s-o1224]

@@MegaSpideyman nah we all know it was Mickey Mouse haha

[@OzzyNe0n]

The creepiest thing is that they were able to survive there.

[@megadiabrous]

what???? context pls???

[@s-o1224]

@@megadiabrous haha in kh1 you find some chests with 101 dalmatians to collect them all and get power ups

[@TheFreshMakerHD]

Isnt the keyblade graveyard the literal final resting place of thousands of children forced to kill each other in the name of 'light'? That's pretty spooky if you ask me

[@TsuchiRolll]

I was just about to post this

[@sephirothcrescent5768]

So effing true man.

[@wat5058]

Also was about to post it.

[@amilueur]

You're making it sound far more dramatic than just "a graveyard for a religious war."

[@amilueur]

I guess my point is, it's haunting, but let's not ham it up with the whole "children were LITERALLY FORCED to kill each other!!" Like, yeah, but war-ready empires don't have children... Just soldiers-in-training and future mothers. The concept of protecting a boy's innocence is only widespread in the USA and Europe, from the 1950's onward. Asian countries have mandatory military training, crime tears through the third world, etc.

[@obeserob5027]

The most unsettling thing in KH is that when nobodies are restored to full people they feel their death a second time. Which is why in DDD even was still unconscious. He was feeling the intense flames all over again from axel

[@MegaSpideyman]

That is a horrible experience.

[@vtheory7531]

Agreed! And they retain their wounds and still feel pain from them, which would be extra horrible for those who died in more brutal ways like Vexen and Zexion

[@sephirothcrescent5768]

@@vtheory7531 And Marluxia and Demyx if you take the Manga into consideration in the manga Sora Literally stabs Marluxia in the face and Demyx,bruh don't get me started on Demyx's Manga Death that one was BRUTAL!... DX he got a bunch of Icicles stabbed all over his body imagine reliving that when you gain yer human body back.

[@hadriennostrenoff9135]

In which game do you learn about that ?

[@obeserob5027]

@@hadriennostrenoff9135 KH3 and dream drop distance hint at it. Nomura flat out said it in an interview once

[@NE-ch6fm]

Creepiest moment for me would be going to Ursala’s lair in kingdom hearts 1 and having to swim past all the malformed creatures at the bottom

[@mauriciogarcia4795]

You mean Ursula's garden. If you remember from the film, they're merpeople who couldn't pay back their debt to her and were turned into polyps.

[@martingouws3876]

It's not so much creepy as sad, but the ending of KH1 litterally made my 12 year old self burst into tears when Kairi got pulled back to Destiny Islands. It was stated that the world barriers would go up again and no one would remember Sora. Nomura didn't write keyblades to have the ability to open paths between the worlds yet so I kinda thought that all the effort Sora went through to find her was in vain and he will never see her again

[@OzzyNe0n]

I don't recall it being said that no one would remember Sora. In fact, in the scene where that is revealed, Leon literally states the opposite: "We may never meet again, but we'll never forget each other."

[@martingouws3876]

I just re-watched the scene🙈 you're right. My memory was a bit foggy

[@reddodeado301]

Despite remembering the cutscene incorrectly, CoM did make it so that the majority of people would forget about Sora while his memories were being repaired. That's why Kairi and Selphie don't remember him at the start of KH 2.

[@masterseal0418]

Now that’s what I call a bittersweet ending!

[@divaalfirman3295]

But.....but.......he promised!

[@OyanKen]

I've always found the story of Pooh kind of disturbing. The setting is always so bland and empty at first, you have to go and retrieve parts of the world that on Pooh's perspective, no longer exist, and he is just there

[@Lyu-Phy]

Yeah like a state of ever forgetting. Reminds of Alzheimers. Kinda unsettling.

[@muadz6629]

I find it ironic, since it's basically the most innocent KH world

[@g-ohm831]

I remember it swept me in emptyness on windy rainy days

[@leenaalmoabed9924]

Whats more sad is that only 20% of people finished it witch means 80% of people left pooh to commit suicide

[@OyanKen]

@@leenaalmoabed9924 LOL

[@StevenBryceWroten]

Yeah, the music or lack thereof can really set the tone and mood for a scene.

[@s-o1224]

Yeah it gave me the same feel as when there was no music in mario galaxy after unlocking some stars. It freaks me out so much and in kh2 I was getting the jitters.

[@ilicia_08]

When Riku Replica shouts “NOOOOO!” wham Larxene is going toward him always gets me. It’s hard to describe. It kinda scares me? Like I’m scared because he’s scared? His scream is like pure fear. Sort of like a chill down my spine? Kinda make my heart drop a little...I dunno how to describe it. But anyway that’s some darn good acting David Gallagher.

[@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE]

Larxene in CoM was legit terrifying

[@CaptainCJ97]

She has no chill

[@Lyu-Phy]

@@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE KH Chain of memories is a pretty dark game in itself yeah. Feels different, I would say more mature than other KH games.

[@masterseal0418]

Yeah baby! Good for him! Anyway, that is one of the reasons why I hate Larxene.

[@Biklingchan85]

One thing that kinda creeped me out a little in the Kingdom Hearts games was when Namine was describing the true nature of Xion, and how she said that she (Xion) didn't originally have a face. I think there's something about something that's supposed to resemble a human not having a face that was always unsettling for me, that's why mannequins can be so creepy.

[@FrogworfKnight]

Vanitas was also in a similar boat. He originally didn't have a face either, until Ven's heart touched Sora's.

[@pajamamel4351]

one creepy thing that has stuck with me for years is the shadow roxas from the seven wonders part of twilight town. after you beat it and walk away, and it just appears again? yeah.

[@alejandro-vr9gv]

They never explained that😯

[@mauriciogarcia4795]

@@alejandro-vr9gv Yeah, I agree. That's creepy when you think about it. Then again, after you defeat it, it disaperates into data and numbers. We can only assume that Ansem the Wise created Shadow Roxas as part of the simulation.

[@alejandro-vr9gv]

@@mauriciogarcia4795 good call, after seeing this comment about Shadow roxas , i checked youtube and the internet for answers and no one talks about it 😯

[@izunia8436]

Actually it's another nobody in disguise like the other wonders makes me wonder if you guys were paying attention to the scene

[@t_g_gamerftw5075]

There are two potential answers 1: Based off of info from Re:Coded, Tron's world, and Union X 2: Based off of the info of Nobodies developing their own hearts 1: Basically when Ansem the wise tries simulating hearts and even a world, he inevitably also simulates the darkness in those worlds and hearts. The shadow roxas you fight against is in fact data, as we see it disappear into 0-1's when you defeat it. The simulation has created artificial people, with artificial hearts, but the hearts their simulated from will have darkness in them, and thus the artificial hearts will have darkness too. And just like pureblood heartless in the real world, that are born from the darkness in these artificial hearts, the shadow Roxas you fight is darkness born in the form of data that was born from the copied hearts. However the darkness the shadow roxas represented does not just disappear when defeated/deleted and the darkness in those simulated hearts still exist and will create more pureblood heartless. Instead the pureblood defeated will release it's darkness which is then consumed by the purebloods that remain and becomes stronger and more real. Thus the shadow roxas you see afterwards is essentially a ghost in the machine created by a virus introduced into the system by the simulated hearts of people, it will keep popping back up no matter how much you destroy it, and you defeating it only makes it stronger and more dangerous. There is no easy solution for this darkness, and it will eventually consume the simulation world, with the only countermeasure of sealing off the entire data world and then deleting it/resetting. 2: Roxas as a nobody has been becoming his own person with his own heart over the course of days, and now at the end of his journey at the start of Kh2 he practically has his own heart, shown by the fact that he is capable of feeling real emotions as we see with his hatred of Diz. As such he is the only being in the simulated twilight town with his own complete heart, and thus his own darkness. The second shadow roxas is thus the pureblood heartless created from the darkness in the only heart in that entire world, having just found a suitable form to take after Roxas encounters the data shadow Roxas. Thus that is quite literally a manifestation of Roxas's darkness.

[@couchpotato3197]

The creepiest level that's the most overlooked is Hunchback of Notre Dame in DDD. The bleak graveyard that leads to the crypt with hundreds of skeletons piled on top of eachother and probably thousands and thousands more we dont see, the entire city engulfed in flames and they included that scene where Frollo grabs Esmerelda and sniffs her hair because his entire motivation for burning the city and killing was repressed sexuality and lust for Esmerelda.

[@abrilpendleton6036]

Akira Yamaoka (creator of the music of Silent Hill) said: Silence is also music and as such expresses a lot as well.

[@bobbily4570]

To me, KH1 was the best game in terms of plot and story progression. Its also the creepiest to me. Especially in a game where at the end, the world is literally titled "The End of the World". Some of the other creepy elements where scenes where the "league of villains" would gather around the table in Hollow Bastian with their faces pretty much blacked out.

[@namelesschannel93]

I always thought roxas' memory hallucinations were pretty disturbing when you think about it. To not know who you used to be, and then to experience memories that aren't yours. Imagine waking up one day, eating breakfast, and then all of a sudden you're experiencing WW2 combat. Not only that, but his memories get so fucked that he ends up experiencing a memory that isnt even sora's. I'm talking about that scene from Days with riku, zexion, you know which one I'm referring to. Just feels odd. I didnt think much of it as a kid, but, playing it now, pretty weird.

[@supersaiyankb5779]

This. Personally roxas had the most weight in my opinion because it was like he was being forced to be a puppet against his will. Then we he gets his will he’s forced to fight his best friend THEN get his memory wiped again.

[@masterseal0418]

Unlike FF8 we didn’t get to see a glimpse of a faceless portrait of the protagonist!

[@AxelTheAussie]

I only just recently got into Kingdom Hearts but the glitchy images of Kairi during those moments genuinely unnerved me

[@kanekikingstorm2113]

When it comes to luxu taking over the bodies of other people, there’s three possible things that may happen to the hearts of the original bodies that he possesses: 1. The heart of the original person may be forced out of the body, like what Xehanort attempted to do to Terra when he stole his body. The hearts would likely pass on without a body to use. 2. Their hearts simply become fused to Luxu’s, similar to what happened to the hearts that were in sora. Because as it’s stated by Ienzo “their hearts have melded with Sora’s and have lost a voice of their own”. It would add a extra layer on why Luxu’s personality being so different, because there’s faint traces of other personalities melded into his own. 3. Their hearts were cast into the realm void of light and darkness. This is what happens to Terra’s heart in KH3. I can’t exactly remember the exact circumstances, but it’s where his heart is when it’s not moved into the Guardian, as terra notes that “it is a realm without light and darkness, and it isn’t the realm of sleep.”

[@Vigriff]

I like to think it's the second option considering how long Luxu lived for.

[@kanekikingstorm2113]

@@Vigriff its still a terrible fate though. Your body stolen by a stranger, and youre forced to watch this being use it against your will for his own purposes, and all you can do is watch helplessly

[@Vigriff]

@@kanekikingstorm2113 I never said it was a good thing, just making the best possible guess.

[@kanekikingstorm2113]

@@Vigriff oh im not saying that you were. Its just how i structured the sentence. My apologies for the confusion. Makes you wonder how the master of masters is holding up

[@SeanWheeler100]

Oh so Luxu only possessed Xigbar in KH3? Braig wasn't Luxu?

[@lanepalmer]

Why did I never notice the kingdom hearts moon symbol behind the door in KH1!?

[@meteornome2556]

Analog TV?

[@Lyu-Phy]

Its pretty subtle imho, I had to look up pictures of it and even then looked for it lol.

[@t_g_gamerftw5075]

It's was very hard to see back in the day when TV's weren't so high quality. You had to have the brightness up pretty high to make it noticeable.

[@Chilemex15]

Gosh I agree so much on the silent moments, they're always so effective and they send chills down my spine every time! We're so used to having background music when we play KH, and when they take that away to create some sort of special atmosphere, even if it's just for a few seconds... It works SO well. Great video!

[@couchpotato3197]

I loved this video so much! Honestly Kingdom Hearts just starts creepy with its insane station of awakening scenes. People underestimate how ethereal KH can be. Everything you mentioned was something I loved. Keep it up! This is a great halloween video too.

[@xblade149]

Holy crap didn't see the silhouette heart holy crap

[@tuckinatorinator787]

That's Kingdom Hearts. The door is only the Door to Kingdom Hearts. Brought down into the darkest part of the Dark Realm and covered in Darkness with it's light still shining deep inside but unable to escape. Basically a Giant Heartless Allegory. I wonder what would happen if they were able to completely Free Kingdom Hearts from Darkness. It can be summoned but it'll soon after be dragged back down.

[@FrancistheBrave]

Not gonna lie when I first played kh1 back on the ps2. The game gave me an eerie vibe lol

[@venom2830]

9:43 Also when you visit Land Of Departure after Xehanort destroys it!

[@MegaSpideyman]

Absolutely.

[@skyhart1377]

That's what I was thinking. It's a nice attention to detail. Especially from the view of Aqua.

[@totalradlad]

Gosh, that honestly scared me the first time I went there. It's all dark and you can't go back to the castle. No music plays. And it gets even scarier when you realize that's where one of the most overpowered superbosses is fought. I definitely just grabbed the treasure chests and left as soon as I could when that happened.

[@venom2830]

@@totalradlad The sound of the wind is pretty creepy 😰

[@totalradlad]

@@venom2830 Definitely.

[@IMVADER2]

Honestly, I think Chain of Memories was the reason for me to have a fear of losing memories, and wanting to hold onto them as much as possible. I was probably 10 or 11 at the time of the GBA release, so I got very fooled with the Naminé being a long forgotten friend "plot twist." Honestly it's so obvious nowadays, but that terrified me as a kid...losing memories of a friend, and a good friend at that. And now at 27, I've seen my grandma on my dad's and my grandpa on my mom's side just lose their mind from old age before passing days later...just really puts things into perspective. Curse you Noumura, for choosing such a terrifying concept for a kid's game.

[@Neku628]

I'm sorry she has dementia. It's one of the many reasons why getting old is scary.

[@ballman55555]

I love seeing other people delve deeper into the lore and tiny details!!! Especially going into the emotions and the intent of scenes, like along the lines of the music. Also have you thought about going into the Manga at all? P.S. you should definitely do a deeper video on The Word That Never Was!!

[@NovayonKH]

I've only read the days manga so far but it was really cool, that might actually be a fun idea to look into them 🤔 I'll probably do a Deep Deep Exploration on TWTNW in the future!

[@MegaSpideyman]

@@NovayonKH Would love you to do 1 on End of the World and KH's Hollow Bastion, too.

[@tuckinatorinator787]

@@NovayonKH their was always something disturbing about that world to me and as more information about the Worlds and how Heartless work gets revealed the more sadness I feel for that place. Some world's are closer to the Realm of Darkness and in those World Heartless run wild and are almost impossible to be controlled. When Worlds reformed after the war the people are the last things to be restored and until then Heartless roam their world's unimpeded. When they are reformed no one even recognizes that anything changed and continue with their lives. The World that Never was is close to the Realm of Darkness, every couple steps you get chased by Heartless, Nobodies make it their home and their are areas that look rough. Crashed cars, collapsed buildings, broken bridges. I can only imagine what happened when the people finally returned only to have the full force of the Dark Realm brought down on them just because of how close their world happened to be to it.

[@jennytulls6369]

I haven't read it, but I heard there's a scene where Demyx trips on funny mushrooms in Wonderland, and that makes me smile every time

[@almondmilkbone]

11:17 As a person who lost memories of early childhood abuse, playing this game and reading about memories that reside on the other side of my heart, it really shook me

[@demvian9780]

So, Xigbar/Luxu is like Ozpin/Oscar/Ozma in RWBY. They both have their soul/heart jump to another being post-mortem just so they'll keep living, eventually merging with their victims.

[@Paladont]

7:30 I assumed that was about the rare vendor heartless that spawns after you turn around in that spot. A joke as if this cute gumball machine was scaring people. But who knows, I wonder if the Japanese translation is more clear

[@NovayonKH]

Oh maybe, I haven't played the game so I just had the cutscenes and that picture to go off

[@BlaxeFrost-X]

I've been into kingdom hearts since long ago... i've never saw that big black heart behind the white door in kingdom hearts 1, i never ever saw it, now everything suddendly makes sense!!

[@RoxLOL]

The most unsettlling thing about the Keyblade War, is that most of if not all the participants, were teenager, young adults at most

[@The88DjDragonChannel]

There are two creepy moments that stood out most to me in the entire franchise. The first one fits in the 'music cut / utter silence' section, which takes place in Birth By Sleep after Xehanort killed Master Eraqus and demonstrates his power in the Land Of Departure. Before you head out to the Keyblade Graveyard, you have the opportunity to go back to the once bright and adventurous lands, which is now left with a destroyed castle and darkened skies. Also, just like Twilight Town in KH2, you hear absolutely nothing but the soft howling of the wind, as you gaze upon the crushed ruins of the Wayfinders' home and training grounds. The second moment was at the end of La Cite Des Cloches in Dream Drop Distance, where Riku encounters Frollo and his winged Nightmare monster. This creature's giant wings cause a strong wind which blows Frollo off the Notre Dame and into the fire, while he has a creepy ass smile on his face. Frollo's death is this case is a lot more terrifying than the orignial version.

[@OzzyNe0n]

When you think about it, Nobodies are basically zombies in all but name.

[@meteornome2556]

Emblem Heartless are even more Zombie like in function.

[@couchpotato3197]

Kingdom Hearts has a real mad scientist almost oldschool horror vibe to it with all the human experimentation and monsters. Even creating Kingdom Hearts and the xblade felt like mad science. Its just mixed with disney magic. Its kind if amazing.

[@tuckinatorinator787]

@@couchpotato3197 from what's happening in the Mobile game if you want to talk about Dark Science, Dark Magic, and Old School Horror apparently just like Light has an Origin Darkness has an Origin and The Darkness is essentially and Eldritch God without form, taking any form it wants making many versions of itself all at once to be everywhere and can possess others to achieve it's own ends. And the Master of Masters has declared War on it after it destroyed the Universe he originally came from and The Darkness has decided to play MoM's game and hunt him down and destroy his plans to kill the Darkness permanently. It is like Moby Dick but if it was written by HP Lovecraft and adapted by Disney.

[@OzzyNe0n]

@@meteornome2556 But Nobodies are more zombie-like when it comes to how they're created (reanimated corpses of people who have lost their hearts).

[@gustavoneridesouza120]

@@OzzyNe0n and their ghostly appearance and dead colors just add to it.

[@kurro6795]

For me it was literally when everything was the storm that came in and blew Sora which began his journey to a different world and when he tried to catch Kairi she phased right through him like she was a ghost. Also 2.8 With Aqua being trapped in realm of darkness and fighting huge swarms of heartless... day in and day out not knowing what date, nor time , or whenever you'll see you love ones again or eat or sleep she even had to fight herself in there ... Creepiest thing of all.

[@empty_melodies]

Creepy moment for me was KH1 in Neverland when Riku summons that dark Sora being

[@masterseal0418]

*CRAWLING IN MY SKIIIIIIIIIIIN*

[@empty_melodies]

@@masterseal0418 THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEALLLLLL

[@aegisxiii2384]

I really like your videos. Attention to details is huge in KH and luckily you are here to analyse it.

[@CpyrightClaim]

When you realize the thousands of Keyblades in the Keyblade graveyard belong to teenagers

[@mastercontrO]

Wow 👏 😮 Bravo this video was brilliant this video made me think that Kingdom Hearts is not as innocent of as people may think I liked how you used the word cosmic horror to describe some the aspects of Kingdom Hearts that great word to describe all of it.

[@RobSny94]

Omg I would love to see the final boss fight from KH1 with 3s graphics

[@Dreigonix]

It’s basically a biopunk version of the Halberd from Kirby. Pretty crazy stuff.

[@williamjackson8782]

4:12 “I betcha there’s a lucky emblem around here”

[@keeganlafferty1395]

DONA- oh wait wrong party member, GOOFY!!!!!

[@williamjackson8782]

@@keeganlafferty1395 The fact you knew that was Goofy specially tells me you've made the Ultima Weapon

[@keeganlafferty1395]

@@williamjackson8782 well actually I was initially going to yell at Donald for no reason but then I realized that was a Goofy line, but yeah, who hasn't made Ultima in a mainline KH game?

[@keeganlafferty1395]

@Dillon Howington shame

[@Hiperchili7]

It's pretty creepy to me the recent discovery of Strelitzia "ghost" carrying around Marluxia in ReCoM, i mean wtf is she?

[@Dreq458]

luxu: master, I've lived so long and killed so many to sustain myself... I just want to die now. MoM: you can die when I say so! I *control* you. I control the universe!

[@mindlessdrawing3336]

For me the creepiest part of all the stuff that you've mentioned is Luxu snatching other people's bodies. I prefer not to think if the heart of the person that he takes over goes into a state of sleep or not, it's disturbing thinking that the person whose body he steals is awake and seeing everything that a guy who he / she doesn't know is doing with his / her body and not knowing what that stranger is going to do next, it must be a terrifying experience...Terra has gone through a similar experience that must have been traumatic for him (btw I hate Terranort / Apprentice Xehanort after KH3, f*** that man) and yet some people in the KH fandom are harsh with him and call him stupid, lmao Plus I also find very creepy the fact that the villains refers to other characters as ''vessels'' and see them just as objects to throw and use. Thanks for making this video, people need to realize that the KH games are not only for kids just because Mickey Mouse appears in them and that they might not be very suitable for children, I'm aware that these games aren't realistic in their depiction of violence but if I had kids I probably would think twice about letting them play those games. I don't know if it's been kept for the HD remaster but there's a QTE in BBS where Xehanort tries to kill Terra by choking him and in KH 3 Terranort tried to kill Aqua and Ven by making them fall to the ground from a very high height, and some people still think this franchise is childish because it contains Disney characters, allow me to laugh at your faces, LOL.

[@blessedevelyn339]

If you study adrenochrome and pizzagate you will see that Mickey/Disney is part of it. Or you can call me stupid for the next 30 years lol until you "accidentally found out I was right all along

[@OzzyNe0n]

Nomura once said in an interview that the series is actually NOT for kids.

[@blekkelvadellafoce4838]

Really good video, i am italian and i like your Voice as your slow way to deal with Kh, it gives me time to dive into narration and understand all the concepts. Keep it up 👊🙂

[@sullivanmoores9264]

“Holy demonetization!” I CAN’T THAT’S AMAZING😂😂

[@MegaSpideyman]

Love that you pointed out the early quiet of End of the World. I just did that over on a KH Discord!

[@Venom87542]

The one thing that always creeped me out was when in Kingdom Hearts II when you have to go to the data Twilight Town to get to the World that Never Was and when you try to go up the stairs from the lab to the mansion, Sora just says, "Something doesn't feel right...." Idk why, I just feel like now that the simulation has been abandoned by Ansem, I feel everything in it just went haywire or something. I mean heck they don't even explore it in 3 either they just use the lab and leave.

[@wksers_serks]

I always had incredible curiosity towards Dark hide (the mysterious heartless Aqua faced at the end of the secret episode ). To me, he always seemed special and quite mysterious, I legit thought he has some lore, for how different he feels to me.

[@Numba003]

I’m glad you mentioned the Lich from KH3. Of all the stuff in that game, that heartless ushering hearts into the abyss is super creepy. Also, that sound effect when you beat it adds to the creepy effect. Stay well out there everybody, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊

[@masterseal0418]

*After seeing time freeze* Roxas: “What is going on!?”

[@WayToDawn72]

It's funny, Ive played the kingdom hearts games over and over for the past 18+ years that I've taken for granted a lot of what is mentioned as normal. But hearing it explained as such, yeah there is a lot of disturbing things from the word Go. I'd like to through my hat in and include The End of the World in general. When you reach World Terminus and the facsimile of the Destiny Islands you see how empty and desolate the worlds are, all the while it's namesake theme playing in the background. It gets even worse as you listen to Ansem reprise his monologue in the Destiny Islands and watch the world become destorted and in ruin. To add insult to injury the world breaks open where you reencounter the Darkside heartless responsible for bringing the world to ruin, and a one on one rematch against Ansem, with Forze del Male playing, almost like he is reenacting the fight in front of the Final Keyhole when he possessed Riku.

[@BrennySpain]

Really nice lost overall. Gotta agree with you about the kh1 endgame. It’s so intense. There really was no other video game quite like it at the time.

[@maldon3659]

Well, I would say Apprentice Xehanort's experiment with Kairi was a success considering it led him to both Sora and Riku

[@annamarie-k3y]

Another one is how creepy the Toy Box level was, the unsettling thought of being used as a puppet against your allies

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

In all my years playing Kingdom Hearts, I seriously never noticed that heart-shaped black cloud behind the Kingdom Hearts door in KH1 until you brought it up.

[@zerospeed1498]

Just think about it, Xehanort created the emblem heartless, there are hundreds of thousands of them maybe more running around, just how many people did he experiment on, truly terrifying

[@theinfernoburns]

Take a shot every time Nova says "sinister"

[@dilbert8280]

i personally find the daybreak town tower under scala ed caleum just drowned in water quite unnerving like when i first saw it i was shook lol

[@davidposton4]

Ironically enough the ad for melody of memories played before the video 😂😂

[@Xalocin]

The end of the world in KH1 is still the creepiest KH moment for me. The subtle music, hearing your footsteps mainly, seeing fragments of other Disney worlds fallen to the darkness, The experiment room in hollow bastion. Man, that was otherworldly for my kid self^^ Not to mention the enemies there: invisibles, those angel heartless, darksides, behemoths and freakin chernabog.

[@ella_p.2440]

Guys this is so weird, a Kingdom Hearts ad just popped up before the video started...

[@GameMaster-pz9pw]

These videos are the best.

[@blazingdragon6232]

*The one thing I can think of that's creepy from kingdom hearts is.....all The mysterious hidden bosses*

[@carterstrophe_]

I love your videos so much. Thank you for making them 🥰 happy Halloween

[@X-j-rt4go]

I absolutely love Vexen, he’s probably one of my favourites, even if his fights in CoM are awful

[@DnVFMVs]

the anseam/xehenort experiment probably has a reference to the victims of unit 731 although it taboo in Japan

[@thetronwarriors4817]

What's unit 731

[@kanekikingstorm2113]

Its about human experimentations

[@DnVFMVs]

warning dont look it up

[@stampoulisrafail7836]

@@thetronwarriors4817 Some things are better left unsaid....

[@Dreigonix]

@@thetronwarriors4817 Quite possibly the most heinous of all the war crimes committed in WW2, and it’s something the Japanese government denies to this day. The researchers responsible were secretly granted immunity by the US in exchange for the data they gathered from their human experimentation, similar to Project Paperclip, and that’s a pretty dark stain on our history as well.

[@DreamerFromTheDepths]

Something worth mentioning is that no other Kingdom Hearts game outside of Kingdom Hearts 1 ever got the PEGI fear icon on the back of the box, unfortunately it seems like the ESRB doesn't have specific icons like that so you would never be warned about that in America, and when I was younger KH 1 made me feel anxiety before I even knew what the word was.

[@jaydr0id568]

kH1s tutorial music creeped me out when I was younger and set the tone for the rest of the game for me.

[@masterseal0418]

Yep. Destati, although spooky, is pretty badass when you’re on Aurora and Belle’s hearts.

[@raisercruise7408]

I think the Halloween town boss from Days was also creepy tbh lol

[@muadz6629]

The amount of existential crisises within the characters of the series is unreal. Never even thought of that until now lol

[@hzn2729]

First time played this game it freaked me out. It was still the freakin tutorial! Till this day i regret being a chicken

[@kalebdavis7080]

Unrelated, but DDD is where the story fell apart for me. Sora goes back to being a complete idiot, all the Xehanort stuff, Xemnas and Ansem, seeker of darkness becoming old man xehanort instead of terranort, etc.

[@mikeklein4205]

Just wanna say that all your videos are so chill, love the content. Keep it up!!

[@boscar998]

I think the scariest part of Kingdom hearts is Sora journey in DDD, the world who visits except Travers town will themselves with people that already go away from that place and also the fact that Sora with every world he visit is going to enter an eternal dream

[@betwixtyiff8773]

The thing that always sticks out to me is the Gazing Eye. This symbol we'd come to know throughout the franchise, being associated with so many characters only for the revelation in Back Cover that it was a part of some sinister being to keep watch on the future in the most terrifying of neutral senses? Still gets me

[@s-o1224]

Who else used to be scared of the T-1000 demodogs mix. I'm talking about nobody dusk's haha.

[@mastertyler8971]

Happy you mentioned the demogorgon from stranger things

[@slateoffate9812]

There's also the Final World existing at all, when worlds like Olympus having their own afterlives. This means where a KH universe inhabitant goes after death depending on geography.

[@KittyKatKandi]

it makes sense for the keyblades in the graveyard to have some kind of remnant of their owner in them because of their nature as essentially being an extension of the heart - it’s such a cool detail!

[@KittyKatKandi]

also i always found it creepy in CoM when Aerith held Sora back and told him ‘But i’m not really me. I don’t remember the things I should. And I sense things I shouldn’t. Sora, beware your memories.’

[@HandheldGamer1991]

That laughter was from him?!?! Holy shit so many years have passed and only now i learn about this? How?!?

[@leilaclarridge5807]

Apprentice Xehanort seemed especially twisted for a 'Nort, even compared to the old man himself. At least Master Xehanort had a warped sense that what he was doing would benefit the world in the long run, one that was inspired by the tragic loss of everyone he loved when he was Sora, Kairi and Riku's age. Apprentice Xehanort just seemed like he did everything he did purely for the hell of it. I think it's less that he knew who he really was all along, as suggested by Braig during the cutscene in BBS where he and Ansem the Wise's other Apprentices lost their hearts, and more that he's a horrific amalgamation of everything wrong with Terra, Master Xehanort, and even Eraqus, who was somewhere in there as well, with none of the positive traits that those three people had, either because Master Xehanort kept them restricted, or as I prefer to think, the nature of Apprentice Xehanort's creation made him inherently Chaotic Evil and straight up incapable of doing good things. There's children in the Final World. I wonder what happened to them... There's something scary about having so much unfinished business, or being so attached to something in the world of the living that you simply can't move on. Sora was lucky that he was self aware enough to escape, and had the ability to escape in the first place. The Keyblade Graveyard was already there even before the first Keyblade War happened at the end of KHUX. In the scene where the Unions gather on the battlefield that would become the Graveyard, we see that it was already a desert. It can be guessed that the Foretellers chose that place to keep the fighting away from inhabited areas, as the pre-War world must also have had regular people who weren't involved in the whole mess, but fat lot of good that did when it resulted in the entire world getting shredded anyways. But I wonder, was the desert a naturally occurring one in an arid location that doesn't get much rain, or did something happen even before that created that barren landscape? It's hard to choose a favorite antagonist. Some are cool, some are fascinating, some make you feel sympathetic for them, and some scare you. Reason number 58 for why KH1 should be remade: World of Chaos being gross as hell in a new engine. Also, the End of the World being reimagined in the context of post KH1 lore. There are so many Heartless that it's hard to choose which one's my favorite. Same with Nobodies, Unversed and Dream Eaters. With so much variation in designs, behaviors and combat styles, something is bound to be someone's favorite. That aside, the Heartless are rather mysterious entities. They have existed since before the first Keyblade War, even the Emblems that were originally stated to have been created during AtW's, and then AX's experiments. Granted, those Emblems were simply manifestations from the Book of Prophecies, but how do you explain the ones that appeared during Teen Xehanort's time? With the loss of one's heart comes the loss of everything that makes someone who they are. Ansem's Apprentices were once good people, but as they were manipulated into doing terrible things by AX, they lost themselves to his evil and charm until they were no longer the people they once were. They truly became nobody, just shadows of their former selves that Xemnas was free to mold into his perfect minions. I think that Luxu and MoM are both eldritch abominations, MoM at least always has been one while Luxu became one over the years. I mean, you can only stick your eyes on so many Keyblades and related weapons until I start realizing you may have way more eyes than what an actual human has, while Luxu became an amalgam of all the people he assimilated until they became some sort of uncaring, unfeeling blob that is happy to hurt everyone around it until its role is accomplished, no matter who has to suffer. They say that Nothing is Scarier The Land of Departure was likely designed by Eraqus' ancestors to be a sort of safe house for important things. Rather than Castle Oblivion's design being Aqua's own idea, that's just the form that TLoD takes when it's in lockdown mode, causing time to stop inside in order to protect objects and people from the ravages of time. It makes sense, since if it was made by Blain, who possibly could be Eraqus' grandfather, he probably made it to contain the secrets of Daybreak Town, Scala Ad Caelum, and his own. That's really more headcanon on my part, but it's interesting to think about.

[@reddodeado301]

It's probably just a bug on the PS2 version, but in Twilight Town, if you die and then start a fight after reloading, the combat music does not kick in the first time. It's silent until you start another one.

[@calebgoodman2076]

One thing that that makes the creation of Emblem Heartless even more disturbing is we don’t know what they did to develop them. I can only assume that since they didn’t have powers it would have had to be relatively graphic. Imagine the screaming and possible evisceration. It makes me a little sick.

[@sophiakitsune7749]

Lets be real here, the creepiest thing in Kingdom Hearts is that Larxene face xD

[@gagejoseph91]

More about Castle Oblivion, listen to the music of the 13th floor closely. Sure, it's dark and ominous and all that, but listen closer. The drums are playing a steady heartbeat throughout the song. Ven's heartbeat.

[@TheSiriusSigma]

I honestly think a wonderfully creepy and sinister detail has to be the occultist Replica Xehanort designs and the Armored Goat Xehanort. Clearly inspired by Baphomet, the pagan symbol for balance and a Satanic iconography. Also nice parallelism since the Lost Masters wore animal masks themselves.

[@jbcatz5]

Re:coded has a couple of really creepy aspects. The Agrabah level at one point Jafar freezes everyone except for Data Sora, who has to navigate a green tinged frozen city where there’s no background music and a spectral Jafar tries to eat up your timer. There’s also the depiction of Castle Oblivion within the data scape, where Data Sora doesn’t just have his memories jiggered around, he meets and forgets everyone. That’s not even the creepiest thing, in each world room instead of the Chain of Memories style platforming it’s the stark white architecture with images of the world on the walls and NCPs not seeing the area as it is. The Coliseum is also a bit eerie with how it’s been turned into a labyrinth where contact with a Shadow triggers a FFVII type turn based fight. At the heart of re:coded is one of its eeriest aspects. Data Sora’s digital nature raises an existential point with how Mickey, Donald and Goofy treat him, even though he’s ones and zeroes how much of him is Sora? He’s even able to grow his own heart and get his own legitimate Keyblade despite being a data construct less than half a day old and based on pre-Kingdom Hearts Sora (who notably never worries about Kairi despite that being physical world Sora’s main goal). We know DiZ can convert physical beings to data and back, what’s to stop someone using something like Jiminy’s Journal to create a doppelgänger of someone? Diaz’s simulation of Twilight Town manifested a sort of copy of Roxas in Shadow Roxas in the Sunset Terrace area. I thought that would play a bigger role in KH3 rather than being a one-off like Dark Link in Ocarina of Time.

[@PrincessofKeys]

I always thought of those Nobodies moving so creepily.....just look at them slithering around!!!! Also makes me wonder how many nobodies are out there with strong wills that keep their human forms though. If they existed they probably live in the world that never was in the buildings

[@rafaelleone678]

In the GBA version of CoM, Axel actually cuts Vexen with his chakram.

[@masterseal0418]

And then snapped his fingers to cause Vexen to spontaneously combust. No wonder why Axel/Lea is the Kingdom Hearts series’ version of Raiden/Jack The Ripper from Metal Gear(Both were voiced by Quinton Flynn)!

[@TheElementsAreWithMe]

Wait what? If you beat the experiment boss fight you get experience on wisdom form? How the hell is this news to me now? I play KH2 about 20 times.

[@kexith]

Also in recent Union X the Darkness told Malificient to use the Ark but that her body won't survive the journey, somehow i don't think that's going to be a pain free experience!

[@HeatherVioletNoble]

If only I could play the kingdom hearts 3... HEAVY SIGH

[@jenaesabir3908]

The creepiest thing is the clown at the beginning of pranksters paradise

[@FlameOC]

You forgot the dead princesses

[@carsondiaz667]

How you liking Melody of Memory. I expect videos man lol

[@DemiTrusdale3]

I guess it’s old, but the thing that creeps me out are the nobodies, with a little n, the mobs.. For the most part, the only nobodies we see are shells that modeled themselves after the Nobodies, with a capital N, aside from dusks and creepers. But how were they made? You’d think that there would be multiple N’s of the same type, Heartless come in countless varieties, that somehow blend with the world, and yet, the nobodies are linked to the Nobodies. The only clue I see rests with Xehanort. Himself. He planned to fill 12-13 Nobodies with the same heart and mind... What if the Nobodies did the same to fill their ranks? Sending heartless to worlds to take hearts and make nobodies, Taking the dusks who weren’t strong willed enough to retain themselves, and turning them into their own soldiers. I base that on axel’s words in kh2... at the beginning he was worried about ‘getting turned into a dusk” if he screwed up his mission. How would that go, y’know? I base my assumption on the fact that Xehanort was methodical. Everything he did, seemed to be built up from everything he tried.

[@beloved1541]

I like these videos!

[@Aseruxx]

The most unsettling thing about KH is the story of part 3.

[@sthrasher127]

i love your videos!!!

[@vanessalaplaige8806]

I’ll say it but the most unnerving heartless (to me at least) are the berserkers. They embody the notion of « you’re not in charge sir ». The weapon is wielding the nobody and not the other way around. It seems like the nobody is just not there it feels like you know those who wield souledge and inevitably become nightmare in soulcalibur (note there are only two people who were nightmare in the soulcalibur series: Siegfried (the most well known) and Graf Du Mat (who is Rapahael)).

[@theartoonnerdologist411]

Great video I’m new to kingdom hearts and I even made a playthrough

[@kardonis8937]

MoM is adorable, dunno what you're on about ;)

[@MrAuthor3DS]

He seem as adorable as Nui Harime, if I'm honest...

[@jamespetersen6439]

I wonder if luxu could be the master of master. He does teach xehanort how to travel in time so what's saying he wasn't traveling in time. Plus would make more sense on him vanishing.

[@amirgarcia547]

While it’s not exactly intentionally creepy, when I fought the Guardian Armor again in the Traverse Town revisit only for it to become the Inverted Armor, it scared me shietless as a kid.

[@OzzyNe0n]

Not intentionally creepy? It's a Heartless. I would assume it's meant to be scary.