Ranking Every World in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance 

People who say that Arendel is just watching the movie clearly haven't played 3D

⁠​⁠​⁠@@AeonKnigh432 I have and still say Arendel is just watching the movie. Edit: at least in 3D you feel like you’re talking apart in the events half of the time.

@@HeadHunter-mv2ht I disagree. I really don't want to sit by while some old guy and a goth woman wax poetic about the nature of computers or whatever.

​@samlewis6487 so what?? You'd rather watch frozen ft sora, Donald, & goofy?? Loser. No one loves you

@@AeonKnigh432as opposed to just watching a ice lady sing a song and fall down a mountain 3 times and then fight a snow wolf.

And it has like 8 passwords so yeah DDD was needed for MoM probably😭😅

Or the actual "real world" in Tron: Legacy became a sleeping world and, in true KH fashion, the Grid is just a core slice of that.

Can we talk about how they went from an incredibly uncrackable 47-character password to a much more guessable 15-character one. Great safety check, Tron.

@@xenothekami888 Thanks, Xehanort.

I mean you at least have to be able to *type* it to begin with, heaven forbid you get ONE character wrong on that password.

I kinda feel the same, but I dunno, I feel Treasure Planet deserves to be in a main console game and being given the KH3 Caribbean treatment as opposed to what I assume would've just been exploring a scaled down version of the RLS Legacy and a few areas of Treasure Planet itself.

DDD was the last non-mobile side game. We didn't even get a Switch exclusive. Because spending 3 years making a crappy cloud port of KH III was SO MUCH BETTER than putting a team on a smaller, Switch original title.

You _do_ know hurt.

@@Volvagia1927 A switch port of KH3 was always going to be crappy. But hey, Switch got the definitive version of Melody Of Memory outside of PC.

@@KeybladeMasterAndyI wouldn't say that when NieR and DragonQuest are fine enough. But even if they insisted on keeping 3 as a cloud game because reasons. Why couldn't the 3PS2 games, 1 PSP game and 2 movies get native ports?

Jupes my beloved

They were my favorite clothing brand as well as Gatito and Natural Puppy. I could see myself wearing them irl.

I honestly think Julius is more of a product of Sora's imagination than a real character (like a nightmarish version of Pete), so it makes kind of sense for him to appear in a dream world.

​@@saxor96 if that was the case then why can riku fight him

@@escahfaidhe755 Well... Because of the whole plot of DDD. Riku is inside Sora's dreams for the entirety of the game after all.

​@@saxor96 why can Sora fight him then? Aren't Sora's worlds the actual Dream Worlds?

@@odd-eyes6363 They're still dream worlds and are influenced by the people present there. I don't see the issue here.

I hate that I love this name so much lol

Riku gets to be a master at the end of the game because he has the magical power of lucid dreaming

It’s less that Sora is dumber and rather that people overstate how smart he is in the previous games. Especially since now he doesn’t have Goofy or Donald to help him.

@@pn2294 He’s dumber.

@@pn2294 Sora has never been the brightest bulb. People seem to confuse him being agitated and hostile towards organization 13 with him being smarter because he’s giving them sass and not treating them as a joke.

​@@oreotaku4017He does come across as quite a bit less stupid in KH2 and 3 though. That "this is so unfriendly" line doesn't feel like something this character would say at this point in his development.

Agreed. It's like how the hero's power in My Hero Academia is One for All, and the villain's power is All for One.

In spanish, it's Even more clear, since the words are uno para todos y todos para uno (todos being a way to Say everyone)

I came to mention My Hero Academia, but @ShyRanger already did it. I'm still tempted to write a whole ass essay about the matter and why it's so good. But I won't. That'd be inappropriate. I'll just rant about this series' greatness to myself like I'm sure Pat talks to himself about Kingdom Hearts. But you're right though.

Wait, I thought “all for one” meant “if one of us is in danger, we all help them.” Like a camaraderie thing. I suppose it still applies, since battle is when the aforementioned danger shows up.

@@AshZucchini8168 That's what it originally meant, but it can be interpreted in other ways, like the idea of everything belonging to just one person. It's the case in the manga/anime series I and another user mentioned. The English preposition "for" is vague, so it invites many interpretations.

It's top 3 for me! I don't prefer it to 1 or 2 but I do really love it. I think it has some serious flaws for sure, and it kinda gets worse the higher you pump the difficulty, but it has so so much charm that makes me always so excited to revisit it.

I would rather play DDD then play kh3 to be totally honest with you all 😅

Re:Coded is SO much worse; I don't know how people hate DDD

Dream Drop Distance was one of my first 3DS games alongside Pokémon X and Epic Mickey Power of Illusion. I never really finished it because I got stuck on Xemnas.

You're not alone there!

That's a fascinating take. It'd lead into them throwing him into other worlds, other times, and eventually into sleep within sleep.

Something confusing to me is that KH1 is older than that movie. Did the movie base it off of KH, or was there an older version of MDG saying that?

@@superwooper5210 Wow, bizarre. Apparently the phrase wasn't even in the JP version of KH1, the localizers added it in. They just got lucky with a coincidence I guess.

Makes sense. Big churches are decorated with them.

It's color scheme also kind of reminds me of stained glass

That's GBA CoM.

Ok, best is kinda pushing it. Kh1 Kh2 and possibly even Kh3 are so much better. I also prefer BBS over DDD. Sooooo

​@@IcedCube0310" i also prefer BBS over DDD" BATTLE OF MID.

@@matheus-nice TRUE

Even reading the comment made me wince

Well it's because... um... Assembly the Wise? Accessed that computer? So maybe he somehow input info on the Keyblade into it? Or the person who made the Grid has knowledge of the Keyblade?

@@AeonKnigh432 I always thought Assertation the Wine just copied the Grid and used that for Radiant Garden? Both of those are still possible I guess.

The only logical explanation I can come up with is that information being accessible from tron's disk but being he's not the same tron....yeah it's questionable overall

I've always assumed CLU just has the ability to fully scan and get all the data on anything.

@@DarkOverlord96 Everyone on the grid gets an Identity disc that maintains any and all information on the user, CLU doesn't have any more or less power than any other programs while on the grid beyond his influence. What they could've done is give sora a false impression on CLU similar to sam in Legacy and allow him to access his disc that way he'd know every detail about sora.

Nice! 🙂

5:40 "But The Grid is still a program, or virtual space, that had to have existed in some other world, and that world couldn't have been Radiant Garden, since The Grid wouldn't exist as a sleeping world if that were the case, because Radiant Garden never fully fell to darkness in the KH1 era." So, the missing piece of the explanation is "where did The Grid come from?" What world was it originally contained within, whence Ansem the Wise yoinked it?

Yeah my understanding is the sequence of events goes like this. Ansem the Wise visits the earth world Tron takes place in with Flynn's Arcade and copies Space Paranoids. After he leaves, the plots of Tron 1 and Legacy happen in Tron world. Tron world falls to darkness after Ansem, Seeker of Darkness' attack before KH1. KH1 happens and Tron world becomes a sleeping world. KH2 happens and Sora enters Ansem the Wise's copy of Space Paranoids. DDD happens and Sora and Riku enter the sleeping Tron world during the events of Tron Legacy. It's very convoluted, but it IS DDD.

He literally said this in the video.

Not just that, but From says the original was destroyed, hence wht it's in the dream realm.

Thought this was funny too because Sora surely would definitely be concerned by this given how he unknowingly had Kairi in him for the entirety of KH1 and the only way he got her out was self-sacrifice. Considering the Org in this game were trying to soften Sora’s resolve and make him more receptive to darkness, giving him doubt and anxiety reflecting a situation he already experienced is a great idea.

I mean, Xion did. Kind of

​@@homestuck_officialWilling to and truly wanting to are different things.

Same here, MD&G: Three Musketeers was actually a big part of my childhood, I practically had it on repeat and if I heard any of the songs I'm sure it would activate something in me like a sleeper agent, lmao

stay vigilant, steven

its because Vanitas is specifically talking about Ven, he doesn't know the other two trapped in their heart.

I always take that scene as more of Young Xehanort trying to gaslight Sora because when you think about Sora and Master Xehanort. Both are opposite when it comes to opening their hearts. Xehanort is imposing his will over other hearts, while Sora is allowing other hearts to be healed or act as temporary haven.

Y'know with Roxas & Xion being so thematic with discovering one's self, and also being associated with a tower, I feel like there's a bit to explore with Quasimodo.

While I do ultimately agree that I think The Grid might not be a sleeping world, I think your take has some significant flaws. It seems unlikely that Sora and Riku are really just inhabiting the same space at roughly the same time and just keep missing each other as you suggest. For one, it would be really odd for NONE of the characters to mention the other newcomer to one or the other. Something like Flynn telling Riku that they just met another boy with a weapon just like his, or Quorra mentioning that she wished Sora was there to help deal with CLU/Commantis. Something like that. Think back to bbs, where the disney characters are constantly mentioning the other members of the trio they've met. 'That Terra guy helped me and won the games', 'Oh, that's Ventus' treasure', things like that. You get none of that with the grid crew. To your point about the Riku in Monstro...no, that very much is the Dark Riku from KH3, it's sort of his soft reveal as a member of the true organization, even if we didn't really know that at the time because DDD discourse in general ran on "it's all a dream but what's the secret meaning" logic. Riku has nothing to do with the anti-black coat, Nomura has literally stated in interviews that the ABC really is just a particularly strong Nightmare, in the same way that Redeye is just a particularly strong Heartless, or the Iron Imprisoner is a particularly sreong Unversed, or the Dark Inferno in KH3 (for now, at least). I wouldn't necessarily be surprised if some of that got retconned in the future, especially since the ABC shares a lot of aesthetic real estate with the Darklings, but I doubt any such retcon would involve the ABC taking the time to chill with Pinocchio in Monstro for no reason. Your claim that the ABC is the Riku in Monstro really only seems to stem from two points, being that, well, they're both wearing black cloaks, and I guess that you fight him as Riku? It's not much. Back to the Grid, I think if we believe what Xemnas said to be true, I think it is more likely that Sora does visit the real version of that world, but Riku is going through Sora's dream of that world. After all, Sora is the only one who gets the " This world is real" speech, and Riku spends the majority of the adventure in Sora's dreams specifically. You can sort of make the dream eaters still appearing work as Sora still being tethered to the Realm of Sleep via the Organization's designs, and the dream eaters being pulled into the real world by proxy. In a way, it sort of echoes the Space Paranoids heartless breaking out of the system and appearing in Hollow Bastion in KH2, funnily enough.

​@@NN-ge2wf ​oh ehy, finally someone actually willing to discuss stuff! hello! about the grid thing, it totally get what you mean, and i am not 100% sure of it either, i suppose nothing is against the possibility that it was just sora who ended up in the real grid, and it wouldnt really change much, but i think its not as farfetched as you think. many things in ddd are left purposefully ambiguous or in the air, because a lot of information can only be correctly read after knowing the plot twists at the end that recontectualize everything that has happened in the game. if the game did the bbs trick of mentioning the other characters, it would give away that aspect, and also, it would break the game because sora and riku would absolutely try to wait and find the other first before continuing. oh no, seems like you got the nomura interview on the topic mixed up! because he actually said the opposite! but lets go in order. so first, it cant be anyone from kh3, because the one you're referring to is repliku. there is no way, no hows, that repliku would just show up for no reason in monstro, not say A WORD or insult, and then disappear into the aether. secondly, it literally cannot be anyone from kh3 because this particular riku doesnt have golden eyes, which is the giveaway for the seekers even in this game. thirdly, the connection to the antiblack coat. first off, the animations abc uses are the same as riku's, it does the same battle stance that is unique to him and always a giveaway to riku being related and same sword swiping animations, people have compared them and i would send you the links if i could here, if you look you should be able to find em. secondly, what nomura actually said on the matter. what the coat originally was meant to be was a nightmare version of sora's dream eater that would have fought one another, so originally he said it would have been a dark meow wow. the same concept is in union cross, where player has a chirithy and a dark chirithy, the latter starting out as a normal identical chirithy before maturing into the nightmare version. if you rewatch the cutscene of the battle, the camera deliberately shows how riku and abc have mirrored dream eater symbols too. riku is a dream eater, so if a dark version of him should exist, it is very obviously abc. then, there is the most important aspect of this, the thematic and narrative reasons for this! the abc riku only appears when sora's heart is reminded of the events of kh1 in monstro, which is the world where riku actively becomes antagonistic towards sora, which causes riku to end up there instead of prankster's paradise. here, we see the kh1 events repeating, but now our riku has the chance of a do-over and can help pinocchio instead, while the role of kh1 riku takes shape as the not-speaking riku. as the game progresses, and sora is led through layers of sleep into nightmares and darkness, with the way he is first put to sleep is by young xehanort mimicking riku's reaching out hand pose. the riku in monstro is as such a recreation of kh1 riku, the one who hurt and even tried to kill sora, causing sora a lot of unspoken and bottled up pain he has been carrying even now, to give you an example it is the kh1 riku betrayal that causes roxas to cry for the first time. so, the monstro riku developed like the dark chirithy did in union cross until it actively traps sora in the nightmares. riku betraying and hurting sora is quite literally sora's "biggest nightmare", alongside im sure losing again kairi and riku and needing to find em again but not managing to, which we also see in the nightmare visions. so, this makes the actual riku's intervention and huge proclamation of devouring the abc nightmare as one more statement of his complete devotion to sora and never letting him down again like he did before, smashing to a pulp the literal representation of what he did in kh1 and sora's fears it may happen again. as i said, yeah the "both in the grid thing" is not completely flawless (unlike the abc being the nightmare version of riku which doesnt have a single aspect that is incongrous with everything else, tho id be happy to hear if you have anything that i may have missed), just sora is in the real world would work, but i still am unsure because of the reasons i said, and also riku getting the real ending in sora's heart doesnt make sense because sora never witnessed that, and also the dream eaters being around is not a good argument since they can exist in the real world too supposedly. they are in the real world when riku is going to find sora, and they are in kh3 and tecnically union cross.

2012 truly was the LATEST you could do Hunchback and not get major backlash from it.

Not Japanese, ISLANDER. The he has the tan skin and dark hair of a Pacific Islander ethnicity, which makes him visually similar to the darker fearures of the Romani gypsies, hence why Frollo mistakes him for one.

@@Cri_Jackal Come on man you said the correct word and then instantly followed it with the slur. You were so close.

​@@Cri_Jackal Some sort of islander ethnicity is a fair take, but if you're gonna go that route, it'd probably be Ryukyuan?

​@@Evnyofdeath GYPSY

Do they know where he's going? Or are they only following him?

Like number 14: Xion

Does Julius even come from a Runaway Brain world, though? For all we know he might come from one of the "Classic Disney" worlds.

Also, on the topic of Sora and Riku, my personal wish for KH4 is for Riku to be a permanent 4th party member, maybe even with an FFXV-style player-switching mechanic. Yes, even to play as Donald and Goofy. It's a silly wishlist idea, but I feel like with XV and VIIR doing the same, it's not unlikely!

Should have called it Jupiter Monkey or something

The brainrot takes it's toll.