The Complete Kingdom Hearts 2 Drive Form Breakdown Collection

[@MultiSonicRules]

Something that I didn't realize until watching it all over is that Final Form implements something from each form before while adding on top of it. It has the physical prowess of valor, magical prowess of wisdom, the aerial stylings of master, and the speed of anti form. In fact, Final seems to pull some moves straight from Anti, taking the feral power of it and reigning it in to be far more controlled, especially with the AoE dash finisher and the dive aerial finisher.

[@AnthonyLeachman-sc6es]

This should be in kingdom hearts 4 and happy ending like little mermaid

[@TotallyRealAlphaCrimsonWeaver]

Anti Sora when hanging: EVERY SECOND YOUR NOT RUNNING, IM ONLY GETTING CLOSER…

[@Matthew.Niverse]

Love the use of Sora's Smash renders for the thumbnail, with just Wisdom Form because Valor Form uses the same pose as regular Sora

[@BioRoxas]

Yeah I tried to pick out some unique ones rather than the usual renders of those drive forms

[@UltimateTS64]

But the Wisdom one in Smash is kinda inaccurate because it uses the DDD costume instead of the KH2 one

[@zacpadilla2432]

Both the smash renders are technically “inaccurate” cause they use KH1 hair and body. But it doesn’t really bother me

[@GoldPrince2468]

@@UltimateTS64 Right form; wrong drip.

[@matthewcabagelover9993]

hello matthew. i follow you on instagram

[@turkeysandwich1703]

During the breakdown for master form, I’ve noticed that he’ll never actually hold the Keyblade in his left hand, he just levitates it constantly, even while swinging it. I realize that this is meant to show that the Keyblade in his left is for casting magic while the one in his right is meant for physical offense

[@turkeysandwich1703]

Actually looking again, it’s even funnier that I noticed this because he won’t actually cast magic with the second Keyblade while he’s firing off spells lol

[@maesonroode4969]

@@turkeysandwich1703It does look like he holds it while falling though

[@roninwarriorsfan]

You forgot to mention how each form levels up: Valor - each hit equals 1 exp point Wisdom - take on the heartless Limit - final hit from each limit break equals 1 exp point Master - collect drive gauge restoration orbs (range of 1-3 exp points) Final - take on the nobodies Anti - doesn't level up.

[@RedDragonForce2]

That has a different video dedicated to it.

[@faysik]

What i actually came for. 20 year old forgotten knowledge and tryina help my son play the game now lol Thank you

[@axinhedgelion8417]

@@faysikBio Roxas said everyone knew this

[@bennefib]

imagine if KH3 gave you the same drive forms with new moves, distinct keyblade attacks and MASTERED versions where the attacks drastically changed.

[@MegaPokefan97]

I imagine it could be a transformation (think Oathkeeper's and Oblivion's transformation)

[@patirnuss]

This fact with some rewriting of the bosses till the graveyard would put it above kh3 in my opinion

[@avian12311]

This is EXACTLY what I was HOPING it would be, or at least some interesting variation of it but sadly, that's not really what we got :(

[@bennefib]

​@@avian12311dude there's a new mod that does exactly that, valor has magic based finishers, wisdom uses the grand magic finishers, master form is combo crazy and final form is the ultimate fusion of that and ultimate form, if you need the link let me know

[@elcuartetodeeren6507]

I mean, some of soras forms act as the next logical step of drive forms: Mirage staff and Arrow guns/launcher: Wisdom Second forms: Limit Double form: Valor/Master Ultimate: final Rage: Anti

[@tylerfrancom8538]

I freaking love how feral anti form is

[@superadam64]

0:10 Transition was smooth AF

[@Shady_Fungus]

I felt so much Nostalgia watching this. I love the description of how Sora fights and the visual details. I can’t believe that at the time this was on the PS2 of which I can now appreciate the details of it’s combat.

[@amconners]

I hadn't seen these before but I'm happy to have them now. The anti-form one was especially helpful; I /really/ love anti-form but hadn't had a good idea of what the individual attacks actually were until watching this (it's always felt like one long indistinguishable combo to me).

[@AntiSora2]

One defining thing of this series will be the attention to detail when it comes to the animations, unlike a lot of games, the motions feel so fluid and almost natural that you don't realize the complexity of them and how unnatural they really are.

[@davidbettcher8843]

The forms look amazing in Tron's world. 7:15 - 7:32 Thank you SO MUCH for pointing this out! I never noticed that! 29:55 - 30:00 That's a cool detail.

[@Demonskunk]

That transition from KH3 sora to KH2 sora was fuckin’ SHARP.

[@vizardkurosaki15]

Love how Sora break dances while using Firaga in Final form

[@zacpadilla2432]

This was a surprise. I needed something to binge. Thank you

[@venny5417]

I feel like I need to point out that the extra stats you mentioned in Valor Form are actually coming from the second keyblade you have equipped in that form. The same happens with Master and Final. And also why Wisdom and Limit don't raise stats at all. So Drive forms by themselves don't really boost your stats.

[@venny5417]

apparently I can't read. he did point this out in the video

[@Abe01-98]

Throughback into nostalgia, the blitzing striker/ the maestro of magic/ he who masters power and wisdom/ power dwells in the hearts/ no limits holding back/ true to its final power C: I love quoting them like poems

[@cosmicneko7225]

with how cool these forms are, it really makes me wish final mix gave us a keyblade with unlimited drive just to mess around with

[@MrRickChase]

taking a deeper look at the anti-form. I'd always understood this was in reference to pureblood heartless and Sora's short time as a shadow, but it's interesting now taking a deep-dive into his movements in this form. attack 1: shadow swipe attack 2: curl(?)/2-handed bash from the soldier heartless (not pureblood but I digress) attack 3: lunge to handstand from neoshadow(?) ground finisher: darkball

[@ultimafire2001]

So once you get Final form, you can essentially clean slate Anti form to allow you to use Limit on Xemnas

[@josephallen3978]

I never realized how amazing the animations for these forms are! Espeially final!

[@jstar3382]

man this game just got the combat right. In 1, it feels like you hit too slow, and in 3 the hits are so wide and fast that without watching something like a breakdown (hmmm) it just feels like Sora is flailing. In 2, you hit enough times to combo like crazy but also still be aware of what you're doing.

[@spaghettiking7312]

Those little boxes you add on the right showing an example of the abilities please my autism in a way words can't describe.

[@repetaki]

oh i love how this was the series that i found you just after the final form breakdown had come out... it's been quite long hasn't it..?

[@robertobear1749]

I feel like something that was glossed over but still notable is that magic and standard attacks can be linked together in a combo. This means you can use either a magic or a physical finisher regardless of which you were using at the time. This is most notable with Wisdom Form because Shoot allows you to continue you combo at range without Combo Master, and Magic Spice boosts the magic finishers. Otherwise this of course applies to Base and Final form as well. For Master Form using magic doesn't increase the combo counter due to Endless Magic, but you can still chain freely between physical attacks. Also my memory seems to be off but I think Master form is the only one where you can chain magic in the air? I might need to go test that again later. Edit: Wisdom form uses base form's aerial magic so it doesn't chain. Aerial magic in Final Form oddly follows the Master form's rules on Endless Magic while in the air.

[@coockabura8685]

It always surprises me how much is really going on when you are button mashing to vanquish the Darkness

[@Deegman7043]

I’m actually working on a sora vrchat avatar and this video has been incredibly useful so I can make sure to get all the particles and effects on sora just right, thank you!!

[@dノノ-t8h]

Limit form was so good it became it’s own keyblade in KH3

[@spartanwar1185]

All the forms feel so awesome to use in their own ways Makes me wish i didn't need allies for most of them, and also wishing i had more drive gauges to enter all of them more often with too lol

[@Eliphaschoas]

I would have loved it if anti-form was like the other forms, where you could level it up and gaining a growth ability from it.

[@MasterJunior93]

28:15 you'll be able to tell that you'll get Anti-Form when your drives drop down to 0, even with a maximum of 9.

[@KingdomHeart556]

Final Form is the dopest shit I’ve seen in KH so far 😮😮

[@Ssj1227]

13:06 when I first play kh2 (I never got to play the original, just the remix) I didn’t realize it was built for magic cause I’d never watched any videos on kingdom hearts 2 before. When I figured that out, honestly I use it more than valor.

[@papaphonzo8703]

They really snapped when they made KH2

[@teejm1ck78]

21:10 the timing of the Drive activation and the music playing in the background made me hella nostalgic man. Damn you, now I’m gonna play KH2😂

[@Gothaman1]

the wisdom form flame orbs are simple the next level version of magic, they dont exist in lower level spells. so the flame orbs are firaJA rather than firaGA

[@XantusWolf]

i wish anti/rage where normals Form. (even if im the only Person that Like those form)

[@BioRoxas]

Right? That would be cool!

[@johnpantag472]

It can be a normal form. You equip the that keyblade that I don't remember the name of it that has light & darkness as an ability and you will activate anti form every time you go into a drive form.

[@XantusWolf]

@@johnpantag472 I mean yes, but I mean something like "selec I don't know the English word äh selected I just really really like his Heartless form

[@johnpantag472]

@@XantusWolf in the final mix version of kh2 equip the Two Become One keyblade. Everytime you go Into a form with that beyblade you will go to anti form/rage form/ heartless form.

[@panduvandal]

@@johnpantag472 when beyblade gave you the power of darkness

[@Schwenne1994]

17:30 Ars Arcanum is still the weirdest Move in Soras Toolkit. Simply because only the "The End" Part actually adds to the revenge counter of Bosses, meaning that you can actually kinda loop it, if you have infinite MP (Or are good at using ethers) and only use the "Bash" part, skipping the "The End" Part. Probably an oversight that this is an option, but man does it make it powerful

[@Xahnel]

Do you do Kingdom Hearts lore? Because if so, can we talk about Sora's Heartless? Because Sora's Heartless is getting *really* strong. He started out as just a lil shadow, with basically no darkness in his heart, and then he was a heartless through the entirety of CoM, and CoM was a really intense game full of emotional torment and blackmail and abuse, and just because Sora can't remember it, doesn't mean the memories and the darkness that filled his heart from that experience went anywhere. The chain was broken, after all, not erased. And then Sora's darkness came back, overtaking his body completely and sending his keyblade fleeing and generally being his most powerful form change in 2 if you enable boss defeats with antiform. And then in 3, it's back and even more powerful and now the keyblade is either willingly working with it or is being forcibly dominated by it so it can whap the crap out some baddies. Can we talk about how Sora's Heartless was never properly reintegrated with Sora and Roxas, and is just constantly present, ready to break out when given the chance throughout 2? Sora's Heartless and Roxas were never destroyed. They didn't come back together like is proper and natural. I don't think Riku and DiZ even noticed what was actually going on. Can we talk about how it and Sora seem to have come to some sort of understanding by 3, since Sora and his darkness are so perfectly in sync he has access to rage mode from nearly the word go and his heartless can just handle his keyblade now? What happened to his heartless in DDD, another dark game full of villians darkening Sora's heart? Did the possession of Xehanort force an internal reckoning between Sora and his darkness? Or did the darkness just learn better control from Xehanort, allowing it to use Sora's keyblade? Can we talk about how the only character to ever directly address Sora's wild and untamed beastial darkness mode is Xehanort, and only by stealing Sora's light in a boss fight? Why doesn't Riku, the one perpetually walking the path to dawn, ever address Sora about this? "Hey, Sora, I noticed while we were busting down Xemnas's front door, you turned into a Heartless a few times." "Hey, Sora, while we were trying to save Aqua, you turned into a Heartless a few times, what's up with that?" Can we talk about Sora's heart being so good and pure that even when his darkness consumes it, it wants nothing more than to protect his freinds? Sora's shadow hunted down Kairi just to make sure she escaped Hollow Bastion safely. Antiform never harms a freind. Rage mode is never a threat to the warriors of light. Please, someone needs to talk about this because it drives me mad whenever antiform and rage form come up.

[@phillipbrown9228]

0:46 In Re:CoM, when Riku enters Dark Mode, it's the same animation, but purple.

[@krisjolt]

A small note regarding the Master Form, the animation isn't bugged out. When starting to spin the Keyblade, he rotates his hand to be a bit similar to how Wisdom Form does it. This happens so fast, you'd think that the Keyblade goes through his arm. It's not as fast as Marth's grab in Melee tho lol.

[@rhyme2702]

Keep up the good work loveing it ❤️

[@omegalegion1769]

32:44 it's like a dark version of ultra instinct when he attack this way

[@WileyRyley]

Fun Fact: Valor DOES use Magic, it's his finishing combo where he slams into the ground and causes an energy spike to erupt from the ground, knocking back enemies who fail to guard.

[@TimothyGod]

Nope, the move doesn't specify that it scales off of magic, like explosion does

[@CaptScrotes]

Man the special effects in the KH games are second to none

[@michaeloverton04]

I feel almost confident that fighting bosses add to the Anti form counter. I remember in Beast's Castle when I activated it, and the next time I tried to use a form was against Xaldin less than 10 minutes later, only to get Anti-Sora again.

[@Ally-ht4od]

final foem and anti are sooooo good the combos for anti and the magic in final just use the magic its soo good

[@spider59er35]

6:06 clears throat….. *Simple and Clean*

[@aguywithgames3135]

It’s a bit harder to tell due Twilight Town’s warmer colors overpowering it, but it seems the background once again changes to a specific color whenever you use a Limit Command with Limit Form. It even seems to be the same exact colors too, neat!

[@Ryuryusu]

Looking back at this I’m reminded that anti form actually has a percentage to get it it was so common for me that when I fought data Vexen I didn’t realize that it was being taken from me

[@avian12311]

Ever since 2005, I've been calling Anti Form the "Heartless Form" as it's basically Sora as his Heartless form, and as such, Heartless can't wield true Keyblades, so he is forced to use his claws and instinct as the other Heartless do. Sora, his Nobody Roxas, and his Heartless "Anti Form", all combine to be Sora as he is imo ❤

[@stevesamuals2651]

Hmm... Does this mean we'll get a compilation of all the Ultima keyblade guides and a guide to all the dream eaters in DDD? Perhaps even a video on all the 358/2 days characters?

[@chaoswolf2903]

i miss these forms and really wish they were in 3..... at least the costumes if nothing else. but i would have liked to see oathkeeper be the drive form keyblade letting you use one of the drives as your form change...

[@hackerninjaexe5791]

Welp at least the anti form was in 3 even tho it's called rage form for its mastering of the form

[@berryAsda]

Another fact: the judgement from strike raid pursuits the locked-in enemy

[@underscore55]

Loving the videos as always

[@IGSA101]

Master form with all your combo plusses has some cool tech of alternating between spell casts and physical attacks. This is most easily done against the grim reaper since blizzard and thunder will stun it briefly.

[@ddflames9564]

Can we take a moment to realize how dope this video is

[@1thepieman]

If I could time travel, I'd go back to 2006 with this video so I could win all those forum arguments. Yeah... kinda petty.

[@marcoa6319]

If Sora kept Drive Forms in KH3, how would it fit with the new battle system?

[@DZlegend]

Could activate like it did in kh2 but have a finisher prompt when the meter is built up. Or just work like double form

[@marcoa6319]

@@DZlegend Personally I would have the Drive Forms be Situation Commands to help fit the KH3 battle system. The drive forms would be a series of transformations similar to how Light/Dark Form evolves to Double Form. I would be excluding Limit Form because most of its elements have been incorporated into Second Form. Speaking of, 2nd form would’ve been Sora’s base form but more powerful. I’m also excluding Anti-Form as it would be seen as a liability for Sora. The Drive Forms would be triggered by hitting markers on enemies similar to those for activating Attraction Flow. Either Valor or Wisdom form being activated depending on if you attack or use magic on the enemy. Once you go to either Valor or Wisdom and fill up the Situation gauge, you go on to Master form and then to Final form. In simple terms: Valor/Wisdom -> Master -> Final Form

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

in limit form you forgot to mention the extra detail that the keyblade takes the shape of the KH1 ultima weapon during last arcana.

[@patirnuss]

Limit Form till this day best Transformation for sora

[@axinhedgelion8417]

Wisdom form’s MP charge is full in 20.35 seconds exactly. I had to use a stopwatch.

[@TheSuicune7]

Fun fact that I found out about a month ago. If you use final form Fire on armored Xemnas as a finisher, Sora will Teabag him

[@KingdomHeart556]

As much as I never use it, Wisdom form looks so sick

[@DeftestAphid2]

It's really odd that Valor Form doesn't boost just strength and defense, which goody is technically known for....

[@Vidyn727]

Thanks for the video Bio! Do you plan on doing a compilation of the kh3 data battle breakdowns?

[@Andrew_cake99]

That feeling when you're getting ur qss handed to you by a boss than you go valor form and be like Ohhhhh now we throwing down>>>

[@AfroAviator626]

Valor for was like going Super Saiyan and final was super saiyan 3 or God

[@OzomaLp]

Some Attacks are Magic based and get a boost from the Magic stat. For example: Explosion got's stronger from the magic stat even if it is a combo finisher. I guess at least the ground finisher of the Valor form where you shoot light attacks before you could be magic based and so it would make sense that the magic stat goes up even if you can't cast magic in this form. I don't know how high up your stats was when you testet the Wisdom Form but there are Defense Barrieres which don't allow to do more damage until you hit a certain Stat level. Since your recording in the video showed the cave of remembering it could be that your stats were to low for this region.

[@TimothyGod]

Nope, the move doesn't specify that it scales off of magic, like explosion does

[@OzomaLp]

@@TimothyGod Well does explosion show it somewhere? I mean the only way I found out was by trying it out. But never tried the Valor form that much.

[@user-um1yl9pj1b]

I hope Kingdom Hearts 4 brings back drive forms it's such a cool mechanic formchange in Kingdom Hearts 3 is good but the drive forms hit different.

[@Joshua_Shadow_Manriguez]

Also, with Negative Combo + Fenrir, Final Form legit goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[@jethiliusavalar6449]

So what im getting is... Valor = strength Wisdom = magic Master = best of both things Final = god mode Anti = uh oh Limit = i heard u liked kh1

[@Yeraus]

Awesome!

[@avian12311]

Also, 15 year old me back in 2005 considered the Forms to be, basically, Sora going Super Saiyan in his own way 😂 It's essentially still the same, especially Valor, Master & Final

[@reffa2858]

0:09 Smooth Transition....

[@johanandersson8252]

Sora used Giga Impact.

[@Tobby_the_53rd]

i know this is a old video now, but, about the wing pattern on Sora's Anti Form, doesn't looks like Riku's keyblade? i guess it was the Soul Eater

[@FloatzelMan]

I tried the Switch version and the controls are hard to master. Both movement and camera controls feel so oversensitive and no way to change sensitivity. Does the Kingdom Hearts series control better on PS4? I'd try it myself but PS4 has no demo versions to try.

[@BioRoxas]

Yeah I would say it probably controls better on ps4

[@N.G.H.]

I think Magic Spice ability unique to Wisdom form changes the finishers of the spells at the end of a combo and makes them bigger and more explosive?

[@falscher2]

Has probably be pointed out, but the Anti-Form symbol also shows up on Xemnas unless my eyes deceive me

[@DanielRamirez-cj5yg]

Does this thumbnail insinuate that final form is his light form and antiform is dark?

[@teodoris7880]

I really like the KH2 better. It has far more substance (and slightly more style) than KH3.

[@kalythai]

Didn't cover using Limit form's special interaction while fighting Roxas?

[@nicholasjones7881]

I noticed you never mention how to boost the drive forms. Was it one of those things you felt wasn't needed because the game has been around for a long time?

[@kingkongsta4051]

Here’s to hoping a version of these dope forms will be in kh4 what I would give to see sora swinging key blades without even touching them in unreal engine 5🥵😂

[@samflood5631]

Valor Form: Fun and Addictive Wisdom Form: Good if you want to use magic and stuff Master Form: Ok Final Form: The Best Form Ever Limit Form: Ok Anti Form: The worst as I end up turning into this thing during a boss fight and I always lose thanks to this form.

[@bone0chan]

do you think sora has rage and anti form becuase he was a shadow heartless that was given a new body by kairi princess of light magic?

[@ThatGuyDownInThe]

I have played this game since I was 12 and I'm 28 and never knew about limit form......

[@BioRoxas]

You probably played the original game!! They released a “Final Mix” version years later that added a bunch of things to the game like limit form, the organization members in a boss rush mode that makes them even harder, and a secret boss!

[@DkKombo]

Imagine the drive forms being redone to include more moves or redone moves with all that was added. Like slightly more mobility and ways that wisdom form shoots out magic shots or anti form using magic and spaawnung clones and chains.

[@raheemaslam7363]

Are you going to make a video for the base combat for kh1,2 and 3 Sora?

[@hamzahargrave2410]

Hey, it's me again. Can you tell me the sauce to your pfp again?

[@raheemaslam7363]

@@hamzahargrave2410 oh yeah the guy is called shadow lifeman

[@Hirouka1]

Also in ps2 versions of kh2 the wisdom form bullets penetrate so fat body heartless dont repel.

[@pattouco]

Great video. What will be your next Complete Breakdom Collection Video?

[@TheElectrifiedBrony]

Aw I'm sad you didn't mention technical things like fire in certain forms or ars Arcanum not adding revenge value to bosses

[@empty_melodies]

God I love KH2

[@michaellovegrove9467]

How is this game already nearly 20 years old. Help

[@donalddiehl2912]

you think you can do character breakdowns on the wayfinder trio?

[@vaulthunterfromterra4053]

Would the magic stat effect Valor Form’s “Brave Shot”?

[@XboxKing317]

What are Anti points and how do you get them?

[@LawPoppy]

why coulndt they just put this in kh3 man...

[@rickeytwolegs2112]

I hope drive forms return in KH4 i prefer them to keyblade form changes