Ok, I believe you.

Can confirm, this happened to me

Damn! I almost got this on my 1st playthrough! (Sarcasm) (Beat Riku-Ansem on my 88th attempt!)

That's not true... he calls you a femboy.

I'm pretty sure he says "it's morbin' time"

Had a similar experience, TV brightness was dark and I was too dumb to notice or change it. I ended thinking the lower floors of Hollow Bastion was some dark maze and stumbled around for hours.

i had the same experience lol-- I actually talk about this exact scenario in my "Top 10 scariest non-horror moments in games" video from Halloween

Same here. I honestly thought that it was actually "Darkness" itself talking to me back then.

I remember our terrible CRT actually made it really hard to figure out how to leave the Secret Place, especially with the way the camera would lock in at certain parts

Og ps2 and low brightness tv meant I could never figure out what was going on in the secret place 😭😭😭

Darkness in his heart grow more in Lore logic

If you lose to someone. Your Darkness in your heart will grow to beat someone (Logic) And after you beat someone. You will be in high risk of becoming a heartless monster.

This is basically the nemesis system in the shadow of Mordor games that’s unfortunately patented:/

and if you beat Kurt Zisa, without dying once, Riku turns into the mysterious figure (Ansem) and summons Lingering Will to tag team against you. Only by beating lingering will before MF will you unlock the Ultima Weapon 2 with even stronger stats than the one you get through synthesis.

Instructions not clear, ended up fighting Yozora after Maleficent

Followed these instructions but Riku got the third to last hit. From then on, in every room, Pete would spawn in and constantly chase me. If I defeated him, he'd just spawn in the next room. Do not recommend.

That's so heart-warming! The developers were thinking about kids who would have trouble and gave them an extra leg up so quietly they (most likely) wouldn't even notice

@@misteryA555 I mean.. it'd be very obvious when you talked to other kids who would have played "yeah his Vaporeon was easy" 'Wtf you talking about he has a Jolteon'

I was going to make the exact same comment. He got a thumbs up from me for that simple fact alone lol

not so sure about the "obviously" fake part; there are games which would lower the difficulty for you if you were dying too often. There are games that would make big changes to the story or gameplay if you did (not do) a small thing. For instance, in the original FFVII you may not get Yuffie in your Party if you answer "incorrectly" to her dialogue, when you 1st meet her. In Elden Ring you get a different ending if you do some random action while being... naked.

@@turbotrup96 the thing is that in the current age of the internet no gaming "myth" is real, if it was then people all over reddit and message boards would confirm it, and if not then it's just made up.

@@RadinV1 I guess it wouldn't last so long without anyone testing it.

You dont seem to realize how exploitable KH is with save acum

By "Mickey's Keyblade", you mean the Keyblade of Darkness, aka, the Kingdom Key D, right?

There's an FF9 myth I heard that if you choose the name Zidane, instead of Dagger for Garnet like 2 hours into the game, Steiner would give Vivi the Octogon Staff which gave Firaga, Blizzaga, Thundaga spells at disk 1 when you'd normally get it on disk 3 at the earliest. The old internet myths were fucking awesome tbh, sure I may have wasted 8 attempts trying to get that staff, but looking back on it now the amount of asshole points it took to lie about that must have exceeded typical amounts.

@@bayardkyyako7427 In FF7, you had to name EVERYBODY Sephiroth, and you would get.... A ridiculously funny playthrough.

???

Yeah, he should've tested it on the original smh

Xemnas on the cross does line up with his Jesus statue in La Cite des Cloches

Man... that Shinra building thing sounds like an awesome creepypasta!

Which ones?

@@PinkiePieParties idk, just any

its not

@@johangodojolo8652 I know. It just seems familiar.

Even way back then, I remember that theory depressing me. I thought the idea of a normal kid from an island going on adventure with Donald and Goofy to other Disney worlds was wondrous---and the thought of waking up and it all being a dream made me sad.

I can see it being possible in a future where he just wakes back up on destiny island as an adult sora. Before he met ansem he was just s normal kid in a regular life with no magic, keys or anything. You cant just randomly bring all that and disney into reality like that plus the infamous senseless story about darkness. I sincerely hope it doesnt end like that though

@@Kyubeyisbestboy I would start crying. I hate the "It was just a dream" type of story.

It's not pointless. It wounds your pride so you're more invested in defeating Riku later

I too sought the King's Charm...

I mean, a mickey summon wouldn't even make sense, as cool as it would be.

Oh man you had the easy myth, I read about The Micket Trials (yes Micket not Mickey) where the ~first~ thing you needed to do was save Axel by not letting him get hit by or hit a single nobody in Betwixt and Between, and then it just went from there.

@@buggr bruh😂

I remember that one! Oh holy shit, way to awaken a memory I haven't thought of since I was like.... 7? Or something like that. Wow

@@zingodoom It motivated me to 100% the game at least. But I'm not gonna lie I felt a little defeated when I found out it wasn't true. Lol

I remember trying really hard to get it but the gummy missions made me give up

Thanks for bringing that letdown back lol

I love the logic of "oh yeah once you have nothing else to do, you get something that would be useful in getting 100%"

That one actually has some grounds since in early trailers there is literally footage of Sora IN Disney Castle, and in interviews they confirmed it was planned for the game but cut because they couldn't think of any meaningful narrative reason for Sora to go there, since it was supposed to be a world safe from Heartless and basically the "opposite" of End of the World.

feels accurate at least

that was for you Frost

Why a watermelon? What would it do?

Were they not true? If so, then what's the real truth behind them?

There IS real concept art in of Lion Chainsaw Sora fighting Chernabog who’s waist-deep in the ruins of Hollow Bastion, which would have been a major shift from what happens in the final story. But I don’t think Nomura’s ever gone into detail about it nor do I think it meant no Ansem. Just confirms Chernabog was one of the earliest Disney villains considered

@@Redxan600 the source of the Chernabog being the final boss is A: a piece of concept showing lion boy sora fighting Chernabog in hollow bastion but there's still no indication he was meant to be the final boss and B the person on tv tropes citing the Australian collectors edition of birth by sleep which came with an art book that said this. But people have that art book and no such thing is said.

Not just moxie but gumption. And stick-to-itiveness

i did the exact same lmao

I was thinking the same thing when he selected Final Mix

@@MrJoshuawicker considering our KH 1 isn't even the original KH 1 who knows, our version already has some final mix content in it because Final Mix was in development when our version was about to come out

it's…a popular fan theory, but unsubstantiated by anything in the text or supplementary material. even if true, it would be a retcon at best.

@@TalysAlankil I'm pretty sure it's in an ultimania

@@TalysAlankil Interviewer: "Why can Roxas dual-wield?" / Tetsuya Nomura: "Sora can wield two Keyblades at once because he has Ventus's as well as his own. As Roxas is a part of Sora, he also can use two. In Days, Roxas awakened his ability to dual wield after fighting Xion. In KHII, once Sora absorbs him, he can also dual-wield."

@@pedrogarcia8706 Retroactive retconning from the genius writer himself lol

@@pikachufrankie I'm not saying it was the plan the whole time, but I think by the time final mix came out the plan at least for bbs and days was pretty solidly fleshed out.

This but unironically

You could actually be onto something. Could be only in the vanilla version as well

I think the reason why some people disliked the riku fights was because of the lack of a skip scene button. Or it's just a skill issue

Definitely check them out! But for the love of God, play them in release order 😂

The actual correct translation would be closer to "at dinner," with it *maybe* considered "over drinks" if he was talking very casually. Very different from "while drunk"

@@LastGreatDen I was not aware of that. Thank you. Of course, Nomura getting inebriated before a meeting of some form where he suggested the idea (which I think started out as just another retread of past KH worlds) is funnier.

"Past memories" is another name for oblivion, I think

Yep, the Japanese name for oblivion is 過ぎ去りし思い出 (Sugisarishi Omoide), lit. "Passing Memories"

@@AbandonedVoid OMFG that makes sense, dude seriously thank you! You dont understand, this has been some weird mystery for me since I was literally 8 years old. It always bothered me and was in the back of my head and I could never find any information on it in the past like 20 years. I began believing that maybe I just had a weird dream and dreamt that whole thing up because I never found any answers no matter where I looked or who I asked. It was my own personal like mandela effect my whole childhood. Seriously man thanks for solving this decades old personal childhood mystery for me, I hope you have a wonderful day and your life is filled with happiness and purpose

I vividly remember this happening as a kid, I'm positive this one is real. It may have been removed, accidentally or otherwise in Final Mix or the 1.5 ReMix versions but I'm very sure this isn't a false memory. Another one that may or may not be true is that as a kid I remember that after the cutscene where Riku tells Sora about the paopu fruit and he throws it off the bridge, you can actually see it in the water the next day and even during the invasion. Kinda want to try emulating vanilla, US region KH1 to see if either of these are true now.

So I booted up vanilla, US Kingdom Hearts 1 to test out both the paopu fruit thing and the Heartless in the Seaside Shack rumor. The seeing the paopu fruit in the water thing was total bunk, my child brain made that up. But I was so certain the Heartless in the Seaside Shack thing was real, but I just couldn't get it to happen. I tried every possibility too, I waited in the room for like 5 minutes before getting the Keyblade, tried entering and exiting the room to see if it was a random chance, tried both again AFTER getting the Keyblade and even tried killing a bunch out Heartless outside before trying again. Still nothing. I was so certain it was real but nothing came of it. Literally the only other variable I can think of is that maybe it only happens on vanilla KH1's "Expert" difficulty but that just changes stats so I doubt it.

@@ExaltedUriel Yeah, I thought the same thing on the heartless spawning in the shack, my original copy didn't work anymore so I tested it on emulator with the vanilla version of KH1, sped up the emulator and everything to wait for around 30 minutes and never had anything happen, it just seems like such a vivid memory that I wasn't able to believe it could have just not happened

No, this definitely happened on my original PS2 run. I was playing either the US/Euro English version.