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Kingdom Hearts & Capturing the Darkness of Childhood

137K views · Jul 17, 2025 · Gaming

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  • @Shanmania · 10 hours ago · pinned

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  • @Yookusagra · 1 year ago

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP3piBQfRVM&amp;t=1303">21:43</a> My dear departed grandmother bought me a PS2 in 2003 specifically so I could play KH1. She never played but she loved to watch me play, and she provided color commentary. When Leon said &quot;you know what? I really don&apos;t know&quot; in response to Sora&apos;s &quot;what happened to my home?&quot; grandma scolded him, &quot;you really don&apos;t care, either!&quot; To this day I can&apos;t replay KH1 without hearing her say that.

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  • @rynzero_ · 1 year ago

    This looks like a good spot to find some ingredients

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  • @timrob12 · 1 year ago

    What Kingdom Hearts does so cleverly is taking these iconic Disney characters like Mickey, Donald and Goofy and putting them in a darker and more serious stor without ruining their personalities. And I love that.

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  • @porygonlover322 · 1 year ago

    I love the door in the secret place because it&apos;s such a thing you&apos;d find in a place where you played as a kid. There&apos;s just this weird-ass wooden doorframe with solid wood blocking it in the middle of nowhere, maybe it&apos;s a shed that got boarded up or something but you know you&apos;d be in big trouble if you messed with it

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  • @CaptainCJ97 · 1 year ago

    They really caught lightning in a bottle in this game

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  • @jay_gabriel144 · 1 year ago

    Kingdom Hearts 1 just has a different vibe still my favorite in the series

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  • @mattyice9535 · 1 year ago

    &quot;Never forget Sora, you are the one who will open The Door to Light.&quot;

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  • @zrochief · 1 year ago

    Still think Kingdom Hearts 1 is still an unprecedented masterpiece of a game.

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  • @Fug_the_Pug · 1 year ago

    Listening to you talk about 100 acre wood, the ending scene of that world makes me tear up every time, both in KH1 and 2. It does a really good job of embodying both what makes Winnie the Pooh so special and the strong themes of loving your friends that is so integral to Kingdom Hearts.

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  • @ClowdsBand · 1 year ago

    Very glad you brough up Yoko Shimomura. I was at the Game Developers Conference the year when she won the lifetime achievement award. I also think that this track in hollow bastion is the best thing she has written up to this point, maybe ever. It&apos;s so good.

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  • @Bobbybillybillbob · 1 year ago

    When people complain about Sora becoming a &quot;weak Shadow&quot; of a Heartless, I always interpret that as the Shadows are the beings with little darkness in their hearts vs a giant like Darkside who is a being with alot of darkness from one&apos;s heart

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