hey there, merry christmas. this was supposed to be out uhhhh on christmas. santa was drunk on christmas eve. love you all, thanks for an amazing year. (tension rising, in fact, plays during non-bosses. idk why i said that)

My favorite bit of the final Xemnas fight is that when he captures Sora in the life drain beam he sometimes says "Can you spare a heart?" And considering Sora has like three hearts in him at the time it is a valid question.

It actually is explained in the kh recap book that the lingering will mistakes sora for riku because sora had gotten the keyblade that was supposed to be given to riku due to riku falling to darkness. He then realizes you aren't him so naturally assumes that you must be working for xeahnort since you stole said keyblade so decided to fight you to take you down before realizing you alright.

I actually have a headcanon regarding Demyx's "Dance Water Dance" attack. My theory is that he does that attack as a distraction so that he can escape. The whole time you're fighting those water clones, he's looking for his opportunity to slink away, and once you run out of time, he's already found his opportunity, and bolted. You lose, because you lost him.

"Who releases a KH2 Boss Ranking at 3AM?" Regular Pat(rick): "OH BOY 3 AM"

1:17:25 He actually casts a single fireball without his key in Days during the magic tutorial. They even went through the effort of giving him a key-less casting animation for that one single moment.

Blizzard Lord and Volcano Lord got their titles by buying a square feet of land each in Scotland.

Think my favorite part of the Final Xemnas fight is how he very quickly identifies Sora as a greater threat, being that he tries to fuck him up way more, but even Riku knows that, since he took two lightsabers to the face just to avoid Sora getting hit once. It's neat

The only time in the game when a party member is canonically inmortal is the one when you loose if they die.

"...shoot a beam through Xemnas in a move that is usually reserved for keyholes, but clearly works on assholes too." Well, I'm pretty sure this is the best line that has ever appeared in anything even tangentially related to Kingdom Hearts. Pack it in everybody, the discourse has peaked, it's all downhill from here.

"He's been trying to reach you about your Keyblade's extended warranty" I love this channel lol

I have an answer for the Demyx minigame-loss question if you're interested. If Demyx wins his minigame: (Encounter 1) Demyx succeeds in wasting Sora's time and escapes with the stone of Olympus. (Encounter 2) Demyx was always trying to escape rather than fight. So if he can buy time with his Water Clones then he can pull some kind of escape routine that ends the run. This is because if he wastes too much of Sora's time then he can't make it to the Final Fantasy Characters to help them with the Heartless (They are helpless without a Keyblade Wielder nearby). Also, If Sora is unable to defeat the 1000 Heartless before they get too close to the Radiant Garden centre then they will overwhelm and destroy the town. (In the Data Battle) He probably crashes the computer by putting too many models on screen at one time for too long, forcing you to restart the fight.

The obvious reason Mr Smee wasn't a super boss in BBS was because they already slapped mysterious figure in there and didn't want to make the player rage anymore they already were going to.

Apparently if you don't beat the water clones, Sora gets overwhelmed and Demyx gets away. So it's the equivalent of throwing a bucket of water on someone and running around the corner.

Honestly Sora slicing a building into a million pieces in a second with ease is really cool, but there is a single thing I rate above it. I really love the Session limit. Something about it is insanely cool to me, just seeing the two of them back-to-back unleashing attacks with names like "XIII Blades" hits the funny parts of my brain that make me go "Wooooaaaahhhh."

God my absolute favorite part of Twilight Thorn is the fact that it also eats horrible shit when you both fall from the sky. I also love how Roxas hits the ground so fucking hard he ***bounces*** which is very hard to do for dense objects falling

I literally just finished replaying KH2 for the first time since the original release, haha. How topical! I’m stuck by myself for the holidays, fighting boredom and a bit of loneliness, so a nice, feature-length RP video is just the ticket.

"wolf bear buffalo monster in a cape" I caught that

Pretty sure a design doc or something said Demyx was channeling a large spell during his water clone segments. Sorta a trade-off skill where he needs to be uninterrupted to complete the long casting time but in return it's guaranteed defeat if he casts it. No idea why they don't actually complete an animation for it or anything. Sure it might have gotten old if you failed multiple times, but as is, yeah it just looks weird for Sora to just be somewhat annoyed on the restart screen. Also raises the question why he doesn't just quietly cast that spell while you are doing... literally anything else anywhere, but those types of loopholes would leave you without a game.

Great ranking! Points out a lot of the brightest spots in an artistically uneven but always entertaining game. On the Dark Thorn: doesn't it strike anyone else that Dark Thorn is meant to evoke what a Heartless formed from the Beast would resemble, since the Beast is obviously never going to succumb to the Organization in the actual plot?

Xemnas has one of my favorite combat styles ever. The lightsabers, the spins and flips, the thorns, the barriers and orbs, and of course the lasers and the laser dome, it's just all so stylish.

Would definitely love to see a data boss discussion!

With regard to the Pete and Maleficent = Team Rocket thing, I've always wanted there to be a Great Mouse Detective world and for them to pick up Ratigan as their Meowth.

You have no idea how excited I was when I saw the run time on this video. I've been wanting longer ones forever

The main thing I forget going into these videos is just, how funny you make them. You throw in just little jokes that I never see coming and it just catches me off guard. Just throw some little guys into Xemnas's big building pylons, see what happens. Also I can't believe you convincingly argued why the Hydra is a more interesting boss fight than Sephiroth and like, you're right. It's. I never considered it beyond Get up on the hydra's back, despite enjoying it. Regular Pat really coming in swinging with unexpected but valid takes

I think the implication with the Demyx fight is that if Sora fails to kill the clones in time, Demyx just spawns more of them and Sora can't keep up.

That Sora "F*ck off" censor caught me off guard. Your little edits like this are charmingly funny.

Fun tip for Xigbar’s ultimate, literally just run in a perfect circle around the arena and nothing will touch you

17:27 “Cujo, or Cujaga given the circumstances…” God-tier joke right there.

This is a good list. Lingering Will is my favorite fight in the series so I would put him at the top but the bronze is fine. I’m just glad to see Ursula’s Revenge near the top where it belongs even if it’s not a traditional boss. Although, I couldn’t help but notice the omission of the optional superboss battle against Piglet in 100 Acre Woods. That one makes Sephiroth feel like solo Selphie

The moment when Xemnas busts out the laser ball is for me the most hype moment not just in the KH games, not just in gaming but probably in all of media. I died about 20 times because I thought I should just mash triangle, but even so it remains one of the coolest moments. Or as Xemnas would say: What a satisfying denouement.

So I always interpreted the Lingering Will recognizing Sora and then thinking he's Xehanort as him recognizing his keyblade instead. Then, when he realizes it's not Riku he's talking to, assumes it's Xehanort having stolen another body and goes apeshit.

Before the number 7 slot I actually thought to myself "So the next boss is gonna have more heads than the Hydra, right?" sarcastically, only to get a big smile on my face when you actually brought it up. Thanks for another great video! I look forward to seeing what the next year holds for you and your content!

Every time you have to stop a helpless npc not get killed in a video game, I’m calling it a don’t let Meg be murdered bar

I love Axel 2. The 13th struggle is SUCH a good track, and Roxas feels so good to play here.

God damn you used the die pun, I thought I was so clever for coming up with the die pun

As for Hercules being weak to barrels (which I should have commented on the KH1 Boss ranking) , it might be the most loosest reference to the shirt of Nessus. To cut the story down to the important detail; Heracles' wife was worried he found another lover and was tricked by a dying centaur named Nessus into giving Heracles a shirt soaked in a barrel of hydra venom. The shirt stuck and ate away at Heracles' flesh and the pain was so unbearable heracles threw himself into a pyre to burn it off.

10:15 "..treated with a bit more gravity" *shows footage of Dragon Maleficent* Oh yeah, she certainly gets treated by a lot of players gravities too.

When I saw the Lingering Will do all of his fancy keyblade morphing, I just saw that and said "I wanna do that!" Which is exactly what they did in KH3! It feels like being able to transform your Keyblade is a mark of great skill in the KH series. Even thought Sora loses all of his abilities, he just bounces right back so it makes sense that he can pick up some new tricks.

After all these years, I never knew you could lose the Barbossa fight if Jack dies, that's insane

Pat! Thanks for putting so much time and effort into this video, especially around the holidays! So excited to watch this.

I have no idea what the “My Own Worst Enemy” joke was, but the second time you brought it up was the biggest laugh I got in this video 😳

"Isn't it weird that Hades is Hercules' uncle?" Not as weird as how, since Triton is the Greek god of the seas and the son of Poseidon, Ariel's father is Hercules' cousin.

this video is funny af. some clever writing in here 🤣

I remember Storm Rider being one of the first bosses shown off for the game in an EGM magazine or something and being super hyped to fight it. Although I wonder if both it and the Shan Yu fight would’ve been improved if they’d done like the manga and made THIS the Clayton + Stealth Sneak equivalent and Shan Yu was riding it around. Make Xigbar responsible so he could actually show up for the first visit, then you could focus more on him the second round Also, as someone who first played KH2 on release when I was 15 and had been playing games for a decade… the Twilight Thorn fight’s cutscenes were still mind blowing

of all the KH rankings/tier lists I gotta say that yours are always my favorites. Maybe it’s just my appreciation for deadpan humor, but I thoroughly enjoy watching and rewatching these

24:44 "...but it's not everyday you get to team up with a walking, talking mustache clock to violently calm the nerves of this wolf-bear-buffalo monster in a cape." OMG, I love the reference! I still haven't seen the full musical, but that musical number is amazing for sure! 😊 That's a such an awesome reference, and this video is already really funny. Keep up the great work, Pat! I'm looking forward to the rest of this video and others. 😁👌🏼

I compared Cerberus's KH1 model with his KH2 model and they are the exact same 3d model. There are three reasons I believe for why Cerberus feels smaller in KH2: 1. Sora is slightly taller now. 2. The camera is further away from the action in KH2 compared to its predecessor. Bosses like Cerberus which previously dominated our field of vision by being so close to the camera are now naturally further away. I believe it's for this reason the game introduced several new bosses that are even bigger than any of KH1's bosses. 3. And this is probably the biggest reason Cerberus feels smaller: Sora's vastly improved agility. I KH1 just getting on top of Cerberus was such a huge challenge, even with abilities such as High Jump and Glide. While in KH2 Sora can easily jump over his body without needing any additional abilities.

Its finally here! And I would love a video on the data battles of the Organization. They're actually my favorite part about Kingdom Hearts, as well as your different enemies in the game.

I always thought that the Dark thorn was What beasts heartless would have been if xaldin had corrupted his heart enough to make it final. Like how darkside came from Sora at the beginning of KH1, I always imagined that the dark thorn was beasts version.

Y'know I always headcanoned Roxas's mastery of light as lightSPEED! Considering Reversal and how freaking fast he goes when you play as him in Remind it makes sense to me.

When I was a kid I got annoyed that my older brother said I couldn't beat Sepiroth, especially since my forms weren't leveled up.... Like... At all. So I sat down and grinded out attempts until I beat Sepiroth with no movement abilities. That's not a brag, it's a regret

I don't know if I'm talking out my ass here, but one other thing I've come to love about the Lingering Will is that, when you think about it, he's the closest KH has come to having a Dark Souls boss. Aesthetics-wise, I mean. Think about it, you travel to this mysterious war-torn wasteland, and there you find a sentient suit of armor, literally powered by a dead (for a given brand of death in the KH universe) man's rage. A walking symbol of the hatred and despair this man felt in his final moments, harkening back to something that happened long, long ago. Time has reduced him to a literal shell of his former self. All that's left is his combat prowess and a hatred that's grown so wild that he's started to mistake anyyone who even passes by for the subject of his rage. And everything about his story (in KH2 at least) is shrouded in implication and mystery. That all feels very souls like to me.

I love the thumbnail

Great video. I, too, have had a story arc.

I’d just like to echo the comments on how great it is to see your channel grow; I know I’ve had a very fun time watching your videos and live streams over this year. It’s great to see such positive comments from people, and you’re clearly working really hard on your content. I would also like to secondarily second the people asking for a data boss ranking video - that would be sweet!

1:09:10 something I literally just noticed when playing through the game yesterday, but he actually does have Demyx’s sitar, not just his water clones. If you look on the ground, it’s buried under what looks like a glass panel in the center of the floor. Luxord’s cards will also shoot out after a while, so he has the weapons of every single organization member fight in this game. I just thought that was neat. :)

1:16:05 what do you think Xemnas’ drink of choice is? I feel like he might be a “red box-wine drunk out of a glass that’s way too expensive and fancy for box-wine” type guy.

We've come full circle. I randomly got your first boss video in my recommendations after watching some KH stuff and have been subscribed since then. Nice to see a second!

33:27 is one of the most out of place but funniest bits I’ve seen in any video this week

I watched this legit all the way through once and I love to watch it again (5ish more times) while I am doing something else or going to sleep. Haha I guess you have a very soothing voice. Your videos are awesome. I cant wait to see your KH2 data battle ranking list.

it's been great to watch your channel grow over this year, and this video definitely feels like a culmination of 2021 for you. really appreciate the hard work on it around the holidays because PHEW that runtime, but every second was worth it. part of the reason kh2 has such an indelible impact is that final boss battle with xemnas. for all the meh fights sprinkled throughout as you illustrated with the lower rankings, xemnas' last stand has you walking away every time feeling satisfied on both a gameplay and story level in a way i'm not sure the series will ever be able to top with a final boss. i'd love to see them do it, but man. it's a tough act to follow. personally i probably would've put roxas as number one, but i'll admit that's mostly because i value a boss fight that can make me misty eyed. (on that note, i'm not holding my breath for a days boss ranking but i mean. can number one be anything but xion? her theme alone gets me in my feelings.) overall, i love watching your videos like this because it's nice to see all these battles and their game design elements broken down and analyzed. i think it can be easy to fly right past a lot of the excellent boss fight details that elevate this series when you play the games more casually, like i do. i've always thought darkthorn was the best heartless boss in kh2, for example, but i don't think i could've explained why. watching this, though, i was nodding along like yes that's exactly it, even though i'd never like...put it into words before. it really is a mark in the column for kh's game design philosophy that you can enjoy this stuff as a casual player, but also be rewarded for looking deeper and peeling back some of the layers. for whatever can be said about the kudzu plot at work, there's no denying the fact that this is a series that is a lot of fun to discuss. i've been playing these games for literally twenty years and i'm STILL learning new things about them. love that. i also tend to try and swap around who i support on patreon close to the new year sooooo, a good time to throw my support your way. looking forward to what you have for 2022!

He’s been trying to reach you about your keyblade’s extended warranty 😂

I had never seen nor heard about the Barbossa fight having an extra lose condition with Jack getting knocked out. But like it was said about it happening during the level 1 crit playthrough, I guess I am not too surprised that I have never seen it mentioned before.

I really enjoy your writing style. You have a great way of structuring really long thoughts in a way that prevents the listener from getting lost halfway through. Great work Pat

I like how when you destroy those 2 little things on the storm riders back he falls to the ground.

Your first boss video is what brought me to you, so this is the perfect Christmas gift for me 🤗

Should probably let you know, since you consistently noted confusion, lore has indicated that Heartless that haven't captured any hearts are called "Non-emblem" Heartless. It's stated that the normal form of Non-Emblem Heartless are often the Shadow enemies you most commonly encounter. However, there are mutations, most notably in the form of the Neo Heartless. So it's possible to encounter powerful Heartless that haven't collected any hearts. This is why a few of the heartless bosses don't have emblems and don't release hearts when defeated.

The KH1 boss ranking was how i found your channel so this really lifted my mood considering personal problems are happening rn

I’m slogging through the data battles on critical currently so this is the perfect video to watch while doing it! Great video as always :)

Haven't even started watching yet, but an hour and a half long video from Pat is an amazing Christmas gift!

going through your videos now. such quality KH content! i can tell it takes a lot of work. thanks =)

I remember waiting for KH2 after beating both stories in CoM, so I had that same reaction when I saw Axel, like "YOOOOOOO HE'S BACK! HOLY HECK!"

thank you for this christmas present pat

Hello from 2023! Rewatching all of Pat’s stuff to get me into the mood for my Disney trip in October!

Wow I found a new binge channel!! Thank you :)

I normally am against rating a video you havent watched to completion, but every time I see a new Regular Pat video, I hit it with the frame one thumbs up

Hahaha just took a swig of beer and then you said the Hades masseuse line - spat beer from my mouth and nose zzz. Great video Pat and thanks for another great year - looking forward to 2022

awesome video i totally agree with everything you said and you nailed it! Demyx's second fight was actually so traumatizing lol

I just found your channel and after watching the entire KH1 and KH2 boss ranking vids I'm subbed. This is some amazing work and you really deserve more attention for the quality of these videos. IU don't even like KH that much and I've having a blast.

Great ep. Been waiting for this for a while. Would happily accept Data Org ranking

I always viewed the Xemnas arena as a realm b/w the realms of Light and Darkness. Since TWTNW is already not in the Realm of LIght iirc, the Gummi Ship sequence before it comes into question, and if you pay close attention, the Gummi Ship Sequence background and the Background of the Final Xemnas are actually the same but with different colors

I think the best example of the heartless becoming less intimidating is the first visit to the tower. Literally starts the shadow fight with the cheerful music like here we go again beating these lil guys

So the KH3 ranking comes in 14 years? 👉👈

It's 10AM in Europe, perfect way to start the day, Merry Christmas Pat !

This actually gave me some good laughs. Good shit man

Dude you’re hilarious and the video was super entertaining. It’s crazy how many of our opinions align with each other hahah. Good job! Thanks for the good video.

Let’s gooooooo (literally a perfect video I wanted to watch tonight!)

You are a gem in the KZfaq gaming community ❤️

Now all we need is you to rank every boss in the entire series! C'moon, four hour long video let's gooooo

Oh man, that’s a great patreon stretch goal, gotta sub after that. So glad to see you upload again. Merry Christmas/happy holidays🎉

incredible upload pat 👍

Great list! Great way to end the year!

Btw this is my first video I watch from you and I gotta say good job, you're hilarious for starters and I really enjoyed your dry-ish humor so I might check out out more of your stuff not to mention it was a pretty good list

You earned a subscriber 😂 The quips here are great.

This had some pretty funny stuff lol! While I didn't agree with every ranking, I liked it! I enjoy these long-form videos to close out the year. Thank you! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends! :)

Late Christmas gift! Last year I really loved the KH1 video so I can’t wait to see this one.

I have been waiting for this Btw, Happy New Year Regular Pat 🎆🎉

Let me tell you how excited I was when I saw this video was up: Very. And i wasn’t disappointed in the slightest. Amazing ranking. I adore the way you intertwine jokes within yourself descriptions. It’s seamless and never fails to get a cackle out of me Regular pay rankings are the best

You made the right choice in picky Xemnas as the your favorite fight in KH2. The final mash triangle sess of the fight is so damn cool and I love how Dream Drop Distance worked it into its opening cinematic,also Dream Drops opening is my favorite.