Kingdom Hearts Series - Responding to 99 Hot Takes 

90% Ice Cold takes 10% Memes/Misunderstandings

Amused at the very early take saying remember when sora was the chosen one which is funny because like.... Kh1 is about how he is not but earns the keyblade through his strength of heart etc

This guy must have had a terrible brew of coffee because wow some of his takes were bad. Also one of the points that was deleted was that he ships Kairi with Axel.

"Xehanort was good all along!" No he wasn't. Misguided yes, but he knew he was causing harm.

I suppose that person’s cold takes must be sub-zero takes, cause those hot takes are 80% cold 😂

On points 4 and 5, technically Lea can formchange his keyblade back to chakrams as seen in the ReMind fight with the Seasalt Trio against Xemnas+Saix, but by the same token it's sort of Nomura wanting to have his cake and eat it too. Earlier on in the series when keyblades didn't formchange to everything it felt more unique for characters to have their own weapons.

*Says BBS ruined the series *Says DDD should’ve been like BBS Like, I know they only posted these takes for clout, but c’mon… at least be consistent. Most of these aren’t even “hot” takes.

40:00 I always Saw Xehanort not necessarily as some just pure evil douchebag but rather as a mad scientist. I believe in BBS he says something along the lines of "what then would another war bring" which implies that his motivation is pure curiosity. He knows that what he is doing is bad but he doesn't care because he seeks the knowledge that results from the ruin he brings.

"Who plats multiples of the games?" Me: *sweats in PS3 and PS4*

#3 is definitely the result of translation shenanigans. IIRC the original JP version of KH1 never used "Keyblade Master", but something more like "Keyblade Hero". Overall the language makes it easier to grasp that Sora was never meant to be The One And Only Hero Chosen by the One and Only Keyblade, just that he was THE ONE "hero" as foretold BUT separate from any explicit exclusivity to Keyblade-wielding. And suddenly it makes sense when Riku says what he says if you change it to mean "There can't be two Keyblade heroes." This isn't to say that at the time of KH1 there were already plans for the Keyblade War as a concept but just that the JP text made it sound a lot less exclusive and thus easier to slot in "and there were other folks who swung Keyblades" as added lore.

Holy crap! I thought I'd never see you again, but I guess RU-vid found out that I watched your dark cloud videos back in 2008! Glad to see that you're still uploading!

With some of their takes, it's kind of clear that they don't understand the story at all or just didn't pay attention to what's happening in the games.

I mean I thought kh1 and 2 always held up visually

For point 87, I think they were more asking 'why are they helping Xehanort?'. Like they'd been reformed and made into nobodies again iirc, but considering all they'd gone through, it doesn't seem like they should be as willing to help Xehanort, especially the ones that betrayed Xemnas already. I think that's what they were going for.

Oh god a Nomura and Yoko Taro crossover is the most cursed idea I've ever seen, I love it.

Lmao this is an interesting video from you. I can dig it, also biz axel has a limit in kh 3 where he uses his chakrams. He still has them but he uses the keyblade primarily now.

Take 50 and all the keyblade stuff is just for clicks, you can't have a "People should have LESS keyblades" while simultanously asking for more people having Keyblades. Same with the Take 50, asking for more characters like Namine and having more protagonism on Kairi and Namine's part while saying that the Original story parts shouldn't exist, if they didn't you wouldn't have Naminé nor would you have Roxas to "like".

45:00 When u realize Donald doesn't wear gloves, so he's putting his nasty ass feathers in Sora's mouth

Since KH3 was my first KH game Im kinda annoyed about all of the hate it gets. I enjoyed it so much. Even on my first playthrough without any lore knowledge as well. its my favorite for sure and loved so much of it. KH2 is good as well but I feel its pretty much on the same lv as kh3. A lot of people compare base kh3 to the newer kh2 port with all the extra content. But if we compare both of the base games they both were lacking content. I just think some takes about it are so stupid.

damn dude you really grew up from when I used to watch you way back in the day, hope you're well these days!

This might not be that hot of a take, but Oswald the Lucky Rabbit should be added to the KH series, obviously with some strong connection to Mickey.

The point about playing through worlds twice being better than KH3's world system is absolutely wrong. The worlds being longer and denser in 3 let them truly feel alive. Most of the stuff in 2 is just filler-ish.

95. Mivkey only knew for 1 year and yen sid told his ass not to go looking for her immediately

for the 77th take, you totally should have gotten a summon from the worlds he visits in game but a character you didn't fight alongside. So in Kh1 after deep jungle, instead of getting Tarzan as a summon, you get Turk or Kerchak. It doesn't have to be every world but imagine if after toy box you get to summon rex and he controls a mech or you assemble a cannon while he reads the instructions or you can call in the commandos, or slinky.

Hey Biz, totally unrelated question, but when do you think is KH4 releasing? 2025/2026?

37:58 here I don't think he meant "why did they come back to life" but instead "why did they rejoin the organization? What is their motivation?" I think this take comes from a major misunderstanding. He said in that take that they "only were in the org because they were gaslit into believing they needed it to get their hearts back" which isn't really true. There are multiple groups in the organization each with different reasons for being in it.

I do agree with having more characters from Square games in KH. It would be really cool to see Star Ocean characters in a Star Wars world

Some of the second visits were the best parts of KH2 :O Especially when the boss fights made it all worth it. The Experiment, Grim Reaper, inreally enjoyed Tron World (i forget the name) so i was extremely hype to go back. I wish there was a 2nd visit for Timeless River.

Max can't exist because it would mean Goofy's a deadbeat dad. Unless that's a plot point in KH4.

#5 he actually already does use keyblade transformation to turn them into chakrams...well also wielding his keyblade like his chakrams #89 despite wanting it or not, it hella fits the light and dark themes KH does #91 even now the difference of what they were trying to do between ansem, xemnas and xehanort are all fundementally different. the death scenes in the final fights for 3 really show they were after different things. xehanort at least from BBS was subtle written to have a specific motive behind his actions that im fairly sure people do miss, so the KH3 revieal of what he was doing was not suprising for me what so ever #94 god that situation on why who looks like who is a pain, if i recall its ventus was split and before sora was born came and mended vens heart which for what ever reason imprited the missing piece of vens existance on sora which is why vanitus looks like that because that is the missing piece(which unless you got basicly a blueprint of the heart there, this should not make sense), then when sora hearlessed him self, ven had ifluecned the body to change into his shape somehow, which compared to every other nobody, this shouldnt make sense since all their forms when it doesnt turn into the lower tiers keep the originals shape.

8:15 Saying the card mechanics in CoM are bad is the normal take, not the hot take. The hot take is that the card mechanics in CoM are actually GOATed and straight up the most fun system in any non-numbered KH game.

Biz, you're a national treasure! I always look forward to new videos from you :)

I do love how kh fans choose to misunderstand things and parrot opinions they hear constantly while claiming that everything they're saying is an original opinion that everyone will disagree with.

Please do more reaction stuff like this. I like to hear you talking about everything regarding Kingdom Hearts

Completely unrelated. Is that the song in the beginning from route 666(the motorcycle level) in Bayonetta?

The funniest thing about the time travel stuff is that technically speaking, time travel existed since KH2 and was actually integrated in a fun, Disney way... And then they did basically nothing with it.

87 feels like it's more a question of why those people are still working for Xehanort, after knowing he lied to them as Xemnas and having no motivation to actually be there anymore?

baffles me ppl still dont understand why its called 358/2 days 358 = the amount of days roxas was with the organization /2 days = reference to roxas and xion and their experiences they had during their days together at the organization.

Imperishable Night ~ Eastern Night at the beginning? Bizkit answering hot takes for 50 minutes? Best timeline so far.

"358/2 days title makes no sense" it makes sense if you think about it even a little bit. its a story that takes place over 358 days that spans the lives of two people

If I remember the 69th and 71st points they were like... really weird. I think one of them was that Kairi and Axel had too much sexual tension (gross) and I can't remember the other one

358/2 litterally means 358 days before the start of kingdom hearts 2

Whenever I see an image like the one at 21:50, I just think to myself how you could make diagrams like this for basically any series with more than 10 characters and point at it and be like "Look at how needlessly complicated the Mario series is!!"

I feel like the keyblade would be more special after the reval of the keyblade war. Kinda like how after Order 66 the Jedi and the concept of "the force" both became Legend to the point where some characters didn't know they ever existed (the Mandolorian) or straight up deny their existence (Han Solo). As much of a fan I am of KH2, the scene where Riku just inexplicably handing Kairi a Keyblade out of nowhere is what made them "not special". Side note regarding Axel with his Chakrams: I think they should explore the Idea of other types of magic weaponry. Like I get that the Keyblade is the only thing that can truly seal a heartless, but having what seems to be more and more characters using a one-handed sword make the series feel stale. The OG org 13 had such a weapon variety that makes each of them so memorable.

Cool video. Probably my weirdest take on KH is that the Final Fantasy chars are a mixed bag(given the backlash that base 3 got for excluding them). On one hand, I do love the fan service, and FF chars provide a ton of opportunities for post game hummanoid superbosses. Like imagine KH4 where Sora can fight against Gilgamesh, Dark Knight Cecil, and Clive. Pretty cool. However, the FF chars tend to be poorly characterized in Kh games. Cloud was turned into a stoic emo type when he wasn't that in OG FF7, and somehow they turned Aerith into a plank of wood. Def a mixed bag imo.

I think we already see Axel do a keyblade transformation in 3/remind since he does switch to his old weapon during his limit with Roxas and Xion.

Lea can still summon his chakrams. He does that by formchanging his keyblade as seen in Re:Mind. But I get what he's saying. Having Axel wield chakrams only would've been more special, whereas now he's just a lesser Sora.

Lea can still use his chakrams though?

Wow really enjoyed this Bizkit, would love to hear your hot takes then.

There are SO many things that I disagree with on the list, most of them just come from misunderstandings in the story. I understand why everyone thinks that in KH3, they suddenly made Xehanort a misunderstood good guy and then Dark Road came along to fix it when people started complaining... but that's all due to a mistranslation. In KH3, Xehanort describes his end goal as 'An empty world, pure and bright' when in the Japanese version, he says something along the lines of 'An empty world, pure and blank'. In the English versions, that mistranslation makes it seem like he's going to preserve the light and get rid of the darkness... when in ACTUALITY, he's planning on killing everything, destroying everything (including both light AND darkness) and then leaving the world as a blank slate for eternity and this is why I think Dark Road is a good game story-wise because once you understand that, Xehanort's motivations in Dark Road become so much clearer: he saw that the darkness in Baldr's heart was created because Baldr's friends had a light in their heart that was far brighter than his, they casted metaphorical shadows onto his heart that manifested as literal darkness, Xehanort notices this and is explicitly told about how it happened so he realises that the only way to destroy the darkness is if no light exists because if light exists, there will always be shadows and the stronger the light, the deeper those shadows get. Sorry about the rant, it just really annoys me that (at least in my opinion) Xehanort's motivations are clear and really well written but it all got ruined by a SINGLE mistranslation.

Regarding the "the key blade isn't special anymore" take, it is kinda true, but also sora was only the chosen one in KH1 by sheer luck that he happened to be right beside Riku when Riku fell to darkness and the keyblade decided that was pretty cringe. Honestly I don't even dislike the keyblade war aspect for making keyblade less special, I hate kh3 showing that Keyblade can just break and Yen Sid apparently has spares laying around to replace them. I'm fine with a lot of people having access to the super magical weapon, but I hate that they made the super magical weapon replaceable.

This was a good watch before work lol. Not entirely sure how some of these takes even exist, it's like if someone beat kh1 and went "but like, why does sora have a keyblade??" as if it wasn't a major plot point that's brought up constantly. Or beating Atlantic and having Triton explain why sora needs to not meddle in affairs of the world's and the going "but like, what's wrong with them helping out the world's??"

hot take: Bizkit looks more and more like a young Sir Christopher Lee

number 21 is such a very cold take. some of these are, these's probably 20 actual hot takes here

Great video biz! Btw, one of the takes this person deleted, was literally them saying that Kairi and Axel/Lea should have been in a romantic relationship... Considering the obvious reasons why that's insane and pedo to say. The backlash on that was super hectic.

Tidus and Waka are mentioned by Selphie in KH2. So we know there fine and still are playing there ball sports.

If you really are a kh fan, you accept the lore, no matter how complicated.

Most of this thread is just "KH Characters Bad, Want Didney Worl" and the rest is just the guy getting pissy that a story with a very strong core central theme isn't entirely fixated on it's own lore. Here's a real hot take: Mysterious Figure is hilarious, and that makes him better than every Superboss in KH3

A lot of people don't understand the plot and just hand wave it as shitty.

2:55 He does as an ally in KH3, both vanilla and remind

GUYS, we found the one mf who liked the attractions in 3

1: "Within it lies the heart of all worlds, Kingdom Hearts!" Spoken so plainly in the first game, and that basic description has been repeated several times throughout the series. How is that the hardest thing in this series to comprehend? 4-5: What? Lea's Keyblade does frequently Formchange into the chakrams. 9: Eh, fair point. Even Ansem, the fist KH-original villain, doesn't feel as special as he used to. 19: The "/2" part is probably the weird bit - especially when the official pronunciation is "Three-Five-Eight Days Over Two". 25: Goofy's "death", to me, feels absolutely unnecessary. What, some random rock flung by a random Heartless's attack on a random Nobody is what does him in? And this unequips all of his gear and abilities, too! Do you know what a pain it was to remember what all I equipped onto him?! What did that accomplish (besides I guess making Mickey ditch his cloak)?! 29: ...Maaychu does know that a lot of KH2's world stories ARE recaps, right? 32: My hot take: Xemnas's characterization is better in every game that came out after KH2. We barely get much out of him in KH2, but we see so much more of his manipulative nature in Days and 3D. 33: Agreed. Pride Lands felt like pure filler. It didn't even have anything to do with the big parts of the main plot (Organization XIII and Riku). Also, SCREW the second hyenas battle! 36: The real challenge was not cringing during "Swim This Way". If one can handle that, the rest is serviceable to good. 38: I blame KH2 for adding way too many FF guest stars at once. Like, sure, the Gullwings were funny, but they're barely around for much, and were only used to inform Maleficent where Leon was going. And...consider how minor Maleficent's influence is in KH2. 42: Speaking of, how many complained when Pete unwittingly summoned a door to Disney Castle's past? I can understand Merlin, a mighty sorcerer, but PETE?? 43: Hrm, only four of the True Organization's members were truly Xehanort. Everyone else were just carriers (including Terra). 44: Anime plus Disney magic. KH3 had to add a lot of the latter for it to keep up. 67: Tidus and Wakka were clearly back on Destiny Islands in KH1's credits. Selphie even brings up the new ball game they've been busying themselves with in KH2. 68: Wait, are you saying Pooh didn't evolve into an angel there? 79: I'm between 1, Chain, and Days myself. 84: One thought I have about Kairi is that she seems like a living Wayfinder, if that makes sense? Like, how she was able to channel Sora's power to gain the boost she needed to match memory-Xehanort. I hope that gets expanded on. 89: There's technically already a Marvel world in the series (San Fransokyo). Granted, it's the Disney version of Big Hero 6, but... 91: Not...exactly? He was still set on wiping out the whole KH universe to reset it all, and merely tried to justify his reasoning. Sora had to call out his skewed views, and Eraqus had to convince him to relent. He wasn't even "redeemed" - he just had no one left besides Eraqus to guide him to the beyond. 93: ...Castle Oblivion, Namine, Yen Sid, Xehanort - those caused his first four level resets. Those weren't Sora's doing. Abusing the power of waking, on the other hand, IS on Sora. 94: Something like Ansem, I guess - a heart that somehow manifested its own physical form? A...magic construct from the heart? That...That's all I can think of. (Roxas, Namine, and Xemnas are kinda the oddities among Nobodies, though, given that they were all spawned from bodies that housed multiple hearts.) 95: With the way time flowed in the realm of darkness, wasn't that 10 years like a month or two for Aqua? 96: Or they're just "keys". Like, having a key card that opens an electronic door doesn't exactly mean you have all the energy of that door...if that makes sense? Or maybe passwords would be a better example. (It's kinda why I feel like no x-blade will ever be exactly as powerful as Kingdom Hearts itself. Heck, the x-blade in KH3 was made from the clashes of 20 hearts, compared to the two for the BBS one.) 99: Agreed. It's stupid fun - the BEST kind of stupid ever.

Axel can indeed transform his keyblade back into the chakrams form as seen in KH3 and its remind dlc.

I do like the powerwild enemies. It feels like kh1 sora is fighting himself. The monkeys have his dash slide attack, they use jumping strikes, and try for small grounded combos, they're fun to parry and they aren't annoying to deal with. They're a kh1 fav, they have some high value cards in Re:COM so forget going 2 for 2.

Have you played the Nobody May Cry mod yet for KH2?

number 40: I think NWEWY was there because that was a Nomora project not just because it was a Square game

I actually agree on the art style for kh3. Compared to the old engine and how facial structures blurred the lines between final fantasy but cartoony was really good. the new art style look wasn’t on par with tetsuyas usual style direction and in large part it’s due to the super plastic look.

Hot take: I want everyone to have a keyblade

Lightsabers were only rare because all the jedi were wiped out same with the keyblade

I think in kh3 axel can transform his keyblade into a chakra-like weapon

I know it's an old video, but most of these takes are luke warm are best. With that said, if you want a hot take, Xion shouldn't have returned. It actively breaks the rules the game sets up since she is literally forgotten from that point on at the end of Days. The only reason she is back is because Nomura bowed to the fans and harmed the story in doing so.

I vastly prefer the art style of KH 1 and 2 but obviously the graphics of 3 are worlds apart, just goes to show graphics aren't everything.

I feel like most of the time when someone says they have a hot take, it probably common stuff most of the community already says lol

Hell yeah! We need more bizkit breaking shit DOWN

Something about the whole "why does roxas look nothing like sora?" thing, I don't think a nobody really HAS to look like their former selves. I guess the organization kinda set a precedent that they need to but if a nobody has to retain their aesthetic then why do lesser nobodies like dusks look nothing like an average npc? I don't think it's something that really matters all too much. I guess lesser nobodies just don't have enough power to retain their previous looks, if we need to explain it away and power level is what the key to a nobody looks like then the best explanation I can think of is that a nobody's form is based off of the source of a character's power rather than the body. This means riku's nobody would look like Terra, kairi's would look like aqua and sora's would look like ven (this explains roxas looking like ven) but then that explanation falls apart when you take into account namine is Kairi's nobody. So at the end of the day I don't think the aesthetic of somebody's nobody really has a specific source, it just kind of... Happens

What I take away from this is some people think "hot take" means "when you have an opinion of something"

My Hot take was Vexens change of heart in KH3. He said nothing and did nothing to imply a change of heart in every appearance he made. I recall Just a Pancake even joking about that. Definitely a for the plot but dont think too hard on it moment.

31:46 block missles with keyblade would be sent back? Press ((Triangle) to jump off rockets to close distance) there was other options to do this boss fight but yeah like he said Flow motion isnt as cool as it seems.

Babe wake up new Bizkit just dropped

I like this type of video, u shd ask Twitter followers for takes potentially

My own hot take has been that scrap CoM, and in KH2 Roxas should have been the protagonist with Sora's heart being inside him. This would have done two great things for KH meta-wise; establish an early precedent for swapping protagonists which would allow KH to push into the future rather than always reaching back into the past, and justifying the change in fighting style better than Sora just developing differently each game for no discernable reason. Make Roxas a Dusk Nobody which was given human form (thus explaining his unique appearance before the Ventus retcon) and had Sora's heart transplanted into, Sora having been defeated by one or more the Organization, and the reconstruction in the Twilight Tutorial being meant to overwrite Roxas' personality with Sora's, but failing due to Roxas regaining his memories. Now the conflict with the org members can have more weight to them than "I am not Roxas", and the big reveal at 1000 heartless could be a much more terrible truth of revealing Sora's fate. Then when Roxas beats a Boss Sora in his heart in TWTNW the heart completes him, and Two Become One would be the keyblade recognzing Roxas as his new master officially and taking that form to reflect his character (rather than just making him always use the Kairi and Riku keyblades). Also they should have made the excess of keyblades explained as being artificial replicas that aren't as powerful, exactly like how the stick is turned into a keyblade in the tutorial, and having that digital summon effect for Roxas' second keyblade when entering a drive form, and when Riku pulls out Kairi's keyblade from nowhere. Then by progressing the story instead of going backwards this can explain how there were so many keyblades in the future while still keeping Sora's and Mickey's special, and it would even be their formchange fusion that is the X-blade (which should look like Combined Keyblade minus the crown and poupu fruit).

What OST is playing at 1:40 onwards?? It sounds so familiar is it from a fighting game or something?

what's in the box? A boat

Hot take, gummi ship is fun i allways completed them in kh1,2,3

Re:coded was fun because of the coliseum…. That world was super fun for me

Hot take, Master Xehanort’s motivations weren’t revealed in KH3, but in KH1 and any other motivation would have been out of character

Oh boy thankfully this is Twitter if he does RU-vid comment sections this might get bad

"As an FFVIII fan: I hate what they do with Cifer in KH"... Thank you!!! 😅

The time travel machine been in kh1 do

Sora was never the chosen one.... Riku was.

Is that Imperishable Night music I hear? Biz 2hu fan confirmed?

5. Lea should have switched between the 2 weapons as a style. Also more strike raidy attacks. 24. Kh2 gummi ship stuff is actually fun. 33. Kh is better when they continue a movie plot rather than ape it. 82. The earlier games were better at separating the worlds out with their art style. A lot of kh3 feels like it could all take place on one planet. 87. Org members having hearts and Xemnas lying rather than not understanding them feels like a retcon. 91. There was a journal entry where he takes ven to the destiny islands to die in peace. I hate how they imply a level of kindness then dont deliver.

Some of these takes would be easily solved if the translation of the games' dialogue to English was done better

I don't think KH1 has aged well personally when going back to it. Gameplay wise

let’s go new YT vid

The ultima weapon is a moot point since YOU CAN ONLY GET IT EITHER POST GAME OR PRE-FINAL BOSS AND THERE'S NO NEW GAME+!

Wanting Pooh's nobody to be the final boss of the series is considerable a hot take?

These are interesting. My hot take kh2fm has some of the best gameplay but but alot wouldn't know cause for some reason they're turn off by the Disney stuff

17:28 . I hate this notion of just making the series the Squenix Fortnite, where every series should get thrown in. Awful idea.

The #69 and #71 were deleted because he was sexualizing riku (a 15-16 year old) and shipping kairi and Axel