The Worst Game in the Series - Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep

I've been working on this video for upwards of a year. Rather, I've been ignoring this video for most of that time. I despise this game, and didn't want to spend 20-30 hours editing it, and yet, here we are.
A massive thank you to my friend IanWaffles ( / @kirbysonicteam ) for sticking with me and getting on my ass to finish this thing. Without our long, looooooong talks about how bad this game is, I don't think I ever would have appreciated just how much of a failure it was. He does really great analysis videos; check out his Mugi shitpost, and also his serious analyses of Rika, Overhaul, and, of course, Kingdom Hearts!
Clips used in video, or other credits:
"I'm losin' the plot here" - Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
"okay I believe you" - Just a Pancake, Kingdom Hearts in a nutshell series
Cape physics clips - This is what happens in... Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest. [FE14 Plot Review] by Faerghast
Final Fantasy XIII clip - FFXIII speedrun by LewdDolphin (RPG Limit Break 2016)
KHBBS PC camera mod - Keytotruth on Nexus Mods
And most importantly - Tetsuya Nomura and all of the folks on Square Enix' Osaka team, whose failures give me life and happiness, and in all seriousness, a man and team that I respect and admire in many ways, and who I wish the most happiness in a hectic and impossible industry.
All gameplay footage from every game was captured by me.

[@senescence57]

I picked this video back up a couple days later and I was like "damn, maybe we shoulda let BBS's plot cook".

[@vsn_aks]

Ok I believe you

[@YouCanCallMeIz]

It's never said that kairi "borrowed" a keyblade from Riku. He GAVE her one. It has a completely different design from his, and he never takes it back or anything. Also, Sora didn't get the ability to use a keyblade from Ventus. The kingdom key chose him, even though it was bequeathed to Riku. I don't mean any offense, neither do I want to start an internet argument, but it bothered me a little so I thought I'd correct that.

[@Beanoverlord]

I didn’t think anyone could be wrong for 3 hours, that’s gotta be a record chief.

[@devchekhov7512]

I don't understand why these writers can't treat Aqua as an actual master with the stamina, strength and maturity required for that title. It's like there's some unwritten rule in KH that female characters have to play the damsel in distress when "push comes to shove."

[@jasonshannon7768]

You could have just made a 5 second video with an image of the mysterious figure but ok this works too

[@SuperSteve180]

Remember when Keyblades CHOSE their wielders; now you can just go and get another one from Keyblades R Us.

[@themckinneyshimmy3773]

I respectfully disagree with a decent amount of this but you make very valid points, this was the first step in KH becoming overly complicated, but I think DDD was even worse about that and while I still love the games including these 2, I miss the simple times before Bbs

[@dzigayu4944]

While I personally dislike Dream Drop Distance infinitely more than any other game in the series, I still appreciate everything you've brought here. To this day I see so many people defending this game both gameplay and story wise which I just never got, it always marked a severe downfall in quality for KH games for me.

[@mariohurtado4275]

I would rather play BBS 100 times, than playing 10 minutes of Chain of Memories

[@Haydawg06]

i'm 5 minutes in and every complaint has been from a misunderstanding of Kingdom Hearts lore (even prior to BBS, lots of BBS lore was established in 2 if you actually beat it) or from a misunderstanding of things, I just got to the part where you say "It's not a competition between them so why are they fighting" It wasn't to see who was better it was to make sure neither of them would exploit darkness which is why Terra failed.

[@Wandermidget]

Just a reminder that Aqua was about to kill 3 ultimately "innocent" humans (even if they are jerks) because she heard that they might have darkness inside of them.

[@elolawynladriel]

What do you think about Vanitas appearance?

[@garfieldbuilder9542]

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep is NOT the worst entry in the KH games!

[@SandwitchZebra]

I think the forgetfulness of Ventus’s story is only highlighted in the character selection. All three of their descriptions describe some personality traits before also describing an aspect of their characters outside of personality.

[@pikachufrankie]

It’s kind of weird to say that BBS is the worst KH game (barring the mobile game), since I’ve played it the most out of every KH game. But… it really is the worst. The combat is the worst the series gets, as it’s a broken, convoluted, exploitable mess. As for the story of BBS… yeah no. It’s the beginning of the end times. It’s not the WORST story in KH, as that goes to KH3, but it’s pretty bad. It’s a much worse Revenge of the Sith; it’s like all good aspects of the movie was stripped away, and replaced with cardboard cutouts to represent where those things WOULD be (such as the story and characters).

[@_Ikelos]

You open with "BBS has none of the nuance or theming of Kingdom Hearts" but every point you make is just you being bewildered and confused by actual nuance.

[@alsaiduq4363]

While i get that you dont like how the keyblade is less special as the series moves foward, i don't get it how is Retcon to have multiple keyblades or that was always finite.

[@aaronammann4236]

okay, the protection charm was how Kairi was able to meld into Sora's heart.

[@ilucasz]

Dream Drop Distance's glossary explains that the Keyblade of Heart is actually a third type of Keyblade, although we know almost nothing about it than it's type and that it IS a Keyblade. There are a total of three types: Light (which almost everybody on the cast uses including Riku, Sora AND Xehanort), Dark (Mickey's Kingdom Key D) and Heart (that one from KH1 that doesn't have much to do with the plot).