Kingdom Hearts 1 | The Beginning of the Retrospective | Fall of the Kingdom Part 1

That beginning part talking about Riku's fight basically teaching you not to be greedy with button mashing attacks... I can't believe Kingdom Hearts trained me for Dark Souls.

I was just complaining on another video that kingdom hearts fans are terrible at retelling the story of kingdom hearts. This is the first time I've seen someone actually tell the story instead of just giving a list of disconnected events that only really matter in context. With this video, you provided all the necessary context and didn't bog anything down with explanations of future games that are unrelated every couple seconds. I also really love all the tech talk since I'm making a kingdom hearts dark seeker saga demake for GBA.

It's a bit out of context but I just wanted to say it. It still baffles me to see that despite how good your retrospective video are, you still only have such a small amount of subscribers and view count. Yet you keep on pushing some of the best content available on youtube. I might not always agree with what you say, but you are a wholesome source of inspiration for me to not give up on my goals even though I have almost zero chances of my content ever being noticed. I genuinely hope that you will soon blow up and have the opportunity of making a living out of this.

I never thought about how the fights against the kids on destiny island are for teaching you the combat and game mechanics. It's so interesting how game designers teach you sneakily, without you realizing it's happening. Game design really came a long way in the ps2 era.

One thing I always think about with the intro of the Raft building is that it's not an ACTUAL desire to leave, but moreso an activity done by kids who are starting to gain a desire of exploration. They always come to the island in a bay [as we see it later from the mainland in this and KH2] with rowboats, but they still are close to home. It's an activity that represents their desire for independence, and foreshadows them eventually going on their own. Its something for them to do together, an activity that makes them happy. Or maybe these three were planning to go out to sea with about 2 days of food and half a days worth of water, considering how they act I can see that happening they all share about 13 braincells that mostly belong to Riku on the best of days.

I've wondered for about 10 years why Sora felt that he knew Hollow Bastion and why he felt like he knew the picture in Deep Jungle. I put 2 and 2 together and knew that that cadtle in the picture was Hollow Bastion but I never understood why Sora felt like that. Now it makes sense that it is because of Kairi. Thank you for answering this question for me after 10 years.

No idea if you'll see this, but thank you for making these videos. Just came from the MGSV video. I have some form of autism, used to be called Aspergers. I have a tendency to take things at face value more than I'd like. Enough so that I can't see the depth of things that others can. I know there's more to these stories than I can see, so this is helpful for me. Helps me sound smarter when I talk about it. Thanks for your work, I deeply appreciate it!

Tinker Bell actually helped me a LOT during my fight with Dragon Malfeficent on the ps2.

Kairi bringing Sora back always cracks me up. "Don't worry Sora, this time I'll protect you" immediately calls to Sora for help

It makes perfect sense that Triton would be extremely suspicious of anyone wielding a Keyblade, especially at this point in the story. No matter how positive the actions are this time. It suits his character very well.

The part where sora goes from being a shadow to a human again I always felt is like how Ansom is basiclly a bodyless shadow himself before enhabiting riku. Sora having a strong enough will and emotion to basically awaken and take his own shape again. Talk about achievements in ignorance.

I have so much love for KH1. It is by far my favorite game of all time. I am 29 and I have been playing it for 22 years!! It never gets old and I've been replaying it for years. Your video here really shows your love for this masterpiece of a game and I really enjoyed it, thank you :)

This series was really special to me growing up. It's been amazing reliving it through someone who's passionate about the games. You get Dearly Beloved, and that's the main thing to me. Thank you, I"m really looking forward to the rest of the series!

Yk what’s crazy? Tarzan was right, Kairi was in Sora’s heart :0

Ansem: "let your heart-" Me, having played through 95% of the franchise already: "Be your guiding key."

I don't think I've seen anyone as critical of KH1's story as you are, and I'm thankful of that. Personally I think KH1 has the best wtitten story, but even then it's only adequate at best for a video game. Not good, but does enough of a job to keep most interested in the narrative of the game.

Oh this clunky fucker will always have a huge place in my heart!!!! Lol many of nights spent on school days with my brother and sister trying to take out Sephiroth and Ansem and Ice Titan and just messing around looking for dalmatians ❤️❤️❤️. Still one of my favorite games of all time despite my nostalgia, i can critique it but i can never hate it. Great video!!!

Oh man that summer of 6th grade truly was a life altering experience. I decided to watch Naruto therefore branching me into anime and Japanese culture and I noticed just beneath my dad's Tv stand a strange checked ps3 videogame case. A young boy sitting on the throne in a anime-esque sense with a gold crown, DopNald n Gooby, (two other "games" spliced on the cover)I couldn't pinpoint exactly the emotions that looking at gave me but I just knew this game was gonna be something else. Something I needed to experience. I load it in and.......I can't even describe how dearly beloved made me feel. This ethereal experience, I for but a moment transcended the bounds of my humanity and gained consciousness into another realm. I sat there staring at the screen not entirely ready to start the game and miss out on this beautiful masterpiece. Kh1 will always be with me, in my heart blah, blah, blah. But My favorite rendering? Of Dearly Beloved is without a doubt 358/2 Days. This was the second time Dearly beloved made me reach out from within myself into another dimension and yet again I was appalled at the beauty. Too bad the gameplay is pretty poopy but Roxas is my favorite character and thank you Kingdom hearts. You are one of my Dearly Beloved pasttimes. -My Friends Are My Power. 👑🗝️⚔️

I've been addicted to "retrospective/analysis/video essay" types of media recently; something about seeing a lengthy 2+ hours of content, filled with nostalgia, hits the spot. Kingdom Hearts being one of, if not my top, favorite games/series of all time, I was so excited to see someone had tackled this beast of a topic. Every minute of the entirety of 3+ hours flew by and I am only that much more excited to fire up video 2 about CoM, right now. Thank you for spending so much time making not only this video, but the others in this playlist I now have saved forever. You've earned the subscription and like, everyone else should follow suit. Cheers !

I work 12 hour shifts so I'm always looking for long form videos that I can listen to without having to watch the video the entire time so I'm. Glad I came across your channel, these videos are really well made and well narrated I hope to see you gain more subs ill definitely be watching every video so keep up the great work!