Kingdom Hearts: Deleted Content

SOURCES USED (Had to post here due to the character limit in the description) Concept Art: www.khwiki.com/Category:Kingdom_Hearts_artwork_ima… KHWiki: www.khwiki.com/Removed_content KHFandom: kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Removed_content_in_t… KH Design Document: www.khinsider.com/news/Hidden-Treasure-The-Kingdom… E3 Beta Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wak9M4qnayo&ab_channel=TheArchivist IMDB KH Trivia: www.imdb.com/title/tt0322968/trivia/ The Cutting Room Floor: tcrf.net/Kingdom_Hearts Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/svd34… KH Ultimania Gallery Comments: www.khinsider.com/news/A-Look-Back-KINGDOM-HEARTS-…

Regarding Chernabog...VERY EARLY in development, Chernabog was meant to be the true villain and evil mastermind of KH1, but Nomura and Disney eventually decided to create an original character as the main villain, aka Ansem. However, they still wanted to incorporate Chernabog into the game, and they even considered having Chernabog be Ansem's final boss form (after he would absorb all of the darkness to become all powerful). But they eventually decided against that too.

1:14:01 The Japanese subtitles for the lines “Come on, guys! We’ve got to save Sora” and “Please, Sora… Don’t go” are a little clearer than their English translations. The first one is 「みんな！ソラを消しちゃダメだ！」and more literally translates to, “Everyone! We can’t let (them) erase/extinguish Sora!” The verb is specifically transitive, which implies someone acting upon Sora. The manner of speech befits Goofy or Donald. The other line「お願い… 消えないで。」 translates more literally as “Please… don’t disappear.” I think you’re exactly right about this being a line from Kairi. I’m guessing it’s meant to be from the scene where he unlocks his heart.

Picking Tarzan in kh1 instead of Jungle Book was a good choice because we still have a chance to get Jungle Book. But we will probably never get Tarzan again due to rights issues. The Walt Disney statue may have been planned to be in the place that the Lady and the Tramp statue is. As for the Western World maybe it was the Apple Dumpling Gang lol idk.

The Disney's Atlantis world would have served a purpose in the KH lore by showing comparison between the Heart of Atlantis and Kingdom Hearts, two sources of light which potentially could destroy the world if fallen as weapons to the wrong hands. Plus, there would have been a possibility that Leonard Nimoy (Master Xehanort's original voice actor) would have voiced King Kashekim Nedakh of Atlantis once again. There was also a rumor of Gargoyles-themed world that would have appeared in Kingdom Hearts 1 as well, as I had once checked in the wiki of deleted content of KH. This was mostly a hint of from a Gargoyles' con panel, where they revealed the possibility of a world within the KH universe.

I can't believe our family friendly shady friend made a video that ISN'T a guide! This is what I've been expecting since god knows how long, awesome!

The keyhole on the door was removed becaus only Riku was suposed to see it.

Interestingly enough the sentient slabs in Monstro at 32:30 make an appearance in Re: Chain of Memories' version of Monstro, and it does attack Sora. Killing it will grant HP orbs.

Sephiroth did NOT first appear in Final Mix. He first appeared in the Localized Version of Kingdom Hearts on the PS2, along with the Ice Titan and Kurt Zisa (Phantom was in the Original Japanese Version of PS2 Kingdom Hearts, and Xemnas was the ONLY Secret Boss that Final Mix Introduced).

1:07:00 I did my own investigation, and I think the knucklehead that originally discovered this "unused" song actually made a mistake while doing some data mining. The specific track used for combat in Wonderland is called "BGM 118", and the corresponding instruments it uses for the track is referred to as "WD 118" in the files. Upon taking BGM 118 and applying the instruments used for Deep Jungle's non-combat music, referred to as "WD 101" in the files, it makes the song sound exactly as it was demonstrated here in the video. I also explored the other tracks in the game's files and didn't find any other collection that produced said music. I can't say for sure what might have happened, and I don't say this as an insult, but I think whoever claimed that was an unused song either wrongly configured their playback software and thought they uncovered cut content, or they wrongly reported this "discovery" in bad faith just to see if their false report would go unnoticed.

Man gutted that Kairi was planned to have way more personality initially, I did always think she had a bit more sass or personality in 1 and then subsequently became very mellowed out and maybe the way more animated intentions for the trio in the early drafts survived a little bit for her

Alway such banger getting to know so much Informations of the game that i love for almost my whole life

In the game files for Traverse Town, there is also some unused text about a race in the 2nd District that involved the Postcard system as well (similar to the race against Riku in Destiny Islands)

The early darkside to me looks like it could’ve had roots from the pink elephants from Dumbo

hope Atlantis and Treasure Planet get put in a Kingdom Hearts game some day

32:38 These things appeared in Kingdom Hearts Re:CoM, right? I remember they would drop orbs if you hit them, maybe cards, too

I would suggest you do not take that Ariel comment too seriously. IMDB, like Wikipedia, can be edited by anyone. Remember, this was the same site that used to put fake voice actors for character on KH3's page back in 2013-15. Since dedicated fan sites/wikis have covered and translated these materials from Ultimania and this is not stated anywhere but IMDB, you should not use it in future videos imo. Point is, never trust IMDB. Please don't take this as me criticizing your content entirely, this video is really really good. I just wanted to take the time to tell you for any future videos like this.

To our suprise unused sounds very old final fantasy.

Actually some of the Ultimanias /have/ been translated and printed in English. I think they still sell them on Amazon.

Sora's Mother is a weird topic that can't really be discussed purely based on in-game lore. By this point, Sora's grown up even if time stops at Destiny Islands but he also never thinks about his family. This is kinda problematic for Disney. They have two options in the future: reveal Sora's memory was altered to forget his Mom or reveal that he never actually had a Mom. They won't make Sora realise he abandoned his family and completely forgot when he got swept up in adventure - it might hit a little too close to home for some fans.