Kingdom Hearts: Deleted Content

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My name is ShadyRiku & welcome to Kingdom Hearts Deleted Content.
In this video I showcase all the Deleted Content that I could find for Kingdom Hearts (PS2, 2002). Deleted Content just means anything that was planned to be included in the game at one point or another during it's development, but ultimately never made it into the final game.

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*Prologue* (00:00)
Sources (2:01)

*Intro* (5:00)

*Characters* (5:37)
Sora (5:42)
Riku (7:48)
Destiny Islands Trio (8:07)
Donald & Goofy (8:58)
Irvine (FFVIII) (11:04)
Selphie (11:54)
Rikku (FFX) (12:07)
Aya (Parasite Eve) (13:09)
Tifa (13:42)
Vincent Valentine (FFVII) (14:11)
Ansem (14:29)
Pete (14:44)
Walt Disney (15:06)

*Worlds* (15:22)
Disney Castle (15:30)
Toy Story (16:26)
Wild Western World (17:11)
Atlantis (18:45)
Pride Lands (19:18)
The Jungle Book (19:39)
Over 20 Worlds Planned (20:00)

*Worlds (Part 2)* (20:17)
Destiny Islands Treehouse (20:25)
Destiny Islands World (21:45)
Neverland (22:53)
Sora's Room (23:15)
Traverse Town Concept Art (24:49)
Disney Castle Concept Art (25:55)
Agrabah World Icon (26:22)
The Hollow Keep (26:51)
Crumbling Island (27:35)
Minor Area Changes (29:04)
Coliseum Gates (29:13)
Hippo's Lagoon (29:20)
Camp (29:32)
1st District (29:57)
Traverse Town Atmosphere (30:08)
Concept Art (30:24)
Secret Place (30:33)
2nd District (31:03)
Cavern of Hearts (31:23)
Main Street (31:35)
Desert (32:03)
Chamber 2 (32:29)
Torture Chamber (32:44)
Concept Art (32:57)

*Story* (33:12)
Main Character (33:29)
Original Characters (33:56)
Opening Cutscene (34:13)
Destiny Islands (35:22)
Kairi as a Playable Character (37:28)
Altered Cutscenes- Destiny Islands #1 (37:43)
Destiny Islands #2 (37:52)
Destiny Islands #3 (38:07)
Destiny Islands #4 (38:38)
Traverse Town #1 (38:58)
Traverse Town #2 (39:23)
Traverse Town #3 (39:58)
Altered Cutscenes Recap (40:48)
Riku Clock Tower Cutscene (41:36)
The Robed Man (42:07)
Ariel as a Princess of Heart (42:52)
Disney Heroes (43:58)
The Boss of the Heartless (44:56)
Maleficent (45:13)
Darkside (45:33)
Chernabog (46:03)
Ansem (46:21)

*LIKE & SUBSCRIBE!* (46:30)

*Gummi Ship* (46:38)
SS GummiBlock (46:53)
Interior (47:11)
Sora in the Cockpit (47:40)
Default Design (47:53)
Gameplay (48:09)
Battles (48:23)
Mini-Games (48:41)
Clearing Traps (48:49)
Alternate Scenes (48:54)
Monstro Boss Battle (49:22)
Hook's Ship (49:38)

*Gameplay* (50:52)
MP Cost (51:11)
Magic Animations (51:44)
Thunder (51:47)
Fire (51:52)
Character Icons (51:59)
First Person Mode (52:31)
Command Menu Colour (53:36)
Enemy Collision (53:50)
Summoning (54:26)
Animated Attacks (55:20)
Keyblade Effect (55:42)
Keychain Ability (56:00)
Halloween Town (Guillotine) (56:12)
Halloween Town (Jack's House) (56:34)

*Enemies* (57:32)
Assault Rider (57:32)
Fat Bandit Unused Animation #1 (58:14)
Fat Bandit Unused Animation #2 (58:54)
Blobby Monster (59:10)
Dinosaur Skeleton (59:26)
Early Heartless Designs (59:58)
Air Soldier (1:00:05)
Soldier (1:00:14)
Guard Armor (1:00:44)
Spear Heartless (1:00:49)
Dynamite Heartless (1:00:59)
Hornet Heartless (1:01:09)
Early Heartless Designs (1:01:28)
Heartless Symbol (1:01:33)
Oogie's Manor ((1:01:44)
Phantom World of Chaos (1:02:04)

*Other* (1:03:04)
Bahamut Summon (1:03:15)
Kingdom Hearts Logo (1:04:09)
Unused Agrabah NPC (1:05:09)
Unused Music (1:06:20)
"To Our Surprise" (1:06:38)
"To Our Surprise" (Unused Version) (1:06:59)
Unused Trumpet (1:07:23)
"To Our Surprise" + Trumpet (1:07:48)
"To Our Surprise" (Unused Version) + Trumpet (1:08:10)
Summon Animations (1:08:32)
The Kairi & Riku Keyblades (1:09:12)
Outfit Changes (1:10:50)
Quotes (1:12:05)
Alice's Glass Panel (1:14:37)

*OUTRO* (1:15:50)

*END SCREEN* (1:16:30)

*SOURCES*
DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS I HAVE HAD TO LEAVE A PINNED COMMENT IN THE COMMENT SECTIONS WHERE I LINK ALL THE SOURCES USED IN THE VIDEO

*USEFUL LINKS & INFO*

*MUSIC USED*
Prologue: 🎵 "Hikari- Orchestral Version" 🎵
Intro: 🎵 "Dearly Beloved" 🎵
Characters: 🎵 "Kairi I" 🎵
Worlds: 🎵 "Traverse Town" 🎵
Worlds (Part 2): 🎵 "Bustin' Up on the Beach" 🎵
Story: 🎵 "Treasured Memories" 🎵
Gummi Ship: 🎵 "Blast Away (Gummi Ship III)" 🎵
Gameplay: 🎵 "Welcome to Wonderland" 🎵
Enemies: 🎵 "Monstrous Monstro" 🎵
Other: 🎵 "Hand in Hand" 🎵
Other: 🎵 "Scherzo Di Notte" 🎵
Outro: 🎵 "Dearly Beloved- Reprise" 🎵

"Enjoy :)"
-ShadyRiku

[ShadyRiku]

*SOURCES USED* (Had to post here due to the character limit in the description)

[DisneyNAW]

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.

[camilomartinez]

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.

[yazmenakamura]

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).

[CharlesBennettProductions]

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.

[SweetyMiki]

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.

[vengfulfate]

I find it very interesting how much 'water' was clearly the original theme for the space between worlds. The GummiShip was originally a submarine, both apparent Gummi bosses we can see are aquatic (Monstro and Hook's ship), and now I'm wondering what this all means for the Dive to the Heart being connected to water even in the final game. Instead of a void of darkness, and ocean of darkness, with little bubbles of safety where light can flourish...

[NoraNoita]

31:00 there's only a scene with young Sora and young Riku who enter the cave as sort of test of courage that only Riku sees the Keyhole, as well as the player I guess through Riku's eyes, I always thought of it as Sora not being ready yet, but Riku was already ready.

[angelb.]

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.

[TheHaddonfieldRegistry]

I did always like that Donald and Goofy were in their casual outfits at the end, it made it feel like the quest really was over for now, because why else would they change?

But embarrassingly, I never noticed how their Disney Castle outfits were different from their main game outfits... Can't say why, but I just never realized until you pointed it out.

[UndertakerUber]

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.

[Dimumouto]

Not gonna lie, those "Disney-fied" pieces of Sora, Riku, and Kairi are actually REALLY good. Shows how solid the designs of the main trio are if they can look good in 2 entirely different art styles.

[greenhowie]

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.

[Akumarupup]

27:00 Those designs for the princess "coffins" are sick NGL.

[MastaGambit]

This just donned on me: What if Sora's discarded clothes on the floor of his bedroom are a reference to his prototype design

[TheRealSwood]

13:54 One person already commented about this, but I think it needs a bit more clarification. Sephiroth was introduced in the localized versions of KH1 (such as North America and Europe). However, the keybalde you get for beating him, One Winged Angel, and the cutscene with Cloud and Sephiroth meeting were only in the Final Mix version. Obviously, you were quoting a Nomura here, but he either misremembered this or was talking from the perspective of Japanese audiences.

[X_Nexus]

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.

[Faceless_time_traveler]

Kingdom Hearts 1 is such a fascinating game, it's filled with secrets, Easter eggs and more than an hour-worth discussion about cut content. I wish the other games in this series paid more attention to details like this

[barsabe]

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!

[BlindGaming]

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