“He did it… He broke down Kingdom Hearts” youtu.be/4OEsXpxqCPc?...

A Deep Dive (to the Heart) of Kingdom Hearts

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I absolutely love this but I’ll also take this opportunity to explain that I didn’t JUST do this to be funny. When writing I get VERY self-conscious of repeating myself, and I usually combat this using synonyms, but with proper names… well I had to figure something out

@crimsonvulpes1.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Compilation of every "Donald & Goofy" joke made by @2cphoenix.bsky.social #Kingdomhearts

Day 39: Unknown This one's by a different artist, @cabletown.bsky.social to really drive home how he just... doesn't belong in the world of KH1. The art is absolutely stunning, and only gets cooler the longer you look at it. I especially like the detail of which symbol is covered by his hand...

Enemy gauntlets, obscure achievements, and everyone’s traumatizing favorites: superbosses. The final stretch before the finale wound up stretching to nearly 3 hours. youtu.be/88hDMgyMdF0?...

Endgame | The Kingdom Hearts Breakdown

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Day 38: Sephiroth Nothing I can say will add to how badass this mural turned out.

So this is how 2026 is gonna be, huh?

Day 37: Ice Titan Anyone else just... never get anywhere close to beating this guy until well into adulthood? Kinda crazy how inapplicable nearly every combat skill in the game is, but I'll give him this, he is certainly memorable.

Day 36: Kurt Zisa A Fan-Favorite and for good reason. Icarus did lament to me that his design, especially with the placement of his shoulders, was especially difficult to draw, but as always, it came out looking absolutely wonderful.

Day 35: Phantom Crazy how Sora fights at least 4 unique Grim Reaper stand-ins that I can think of across the series, but Phantom did it first, and honestly, best.

Day 34: Rock Titan A silly boss to be sure, but no less deserving of the mural treatment than some already covered. I always liked fighting him as a kid, I wasn't really conscious of what bosses were and weren't hard, so I thought I was a badass beating something so big on my first try.

Day 33: Hades I had an idea way too late in the process to commission an additional orange "angry" mural of this guy so I could switch between them during his boss bio, but even without that, this is one hell of a mural. A favorite villain of mine, shame his voice actor is such a tool.

Day 32: Behemoth WOW this one is purple. Consider it a defiant scream in the face of all the recolors in Final Mix, justice for the purple heartless!

Got to meet my childhood incarnate this weekend, @chuggaaconroy.bsky.social A huge thanks for inspiring myself and countless others onto the road of video-creation, it’s been a blast!

Day 31: Ansem Riku This one actually turned out a LITTLE busy for my liking, but there were a lot of iconic aspects I wanted captured, and the Ansem Silhouette really hits all the right notes.

Day 30: Maleficent It's not fair, there's really no contest, but this is my favorite by a long shot. The rising fire effect was directly inspired by one used by Disney's imagineers in rides like Haunted Mansion. The flames are drawn on a larger circle, which is rotated behind the mural.

Day 29: Maleficent Running out ways to praise Icarus for how much he SLAYS the Disney baddies. His quality is insane, seeing what he cooked up for each mural very quickly became one of my favorite parts of each video.

Day 27: Dark Riku As I said in the day 2 post, I basically wanted the original Riku Mural to exist SO we could copy its composition, and I think that goes pretty hard.

@2cphoenix.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Day 2: Riku! This one almost didn't happen, since his initial fight on Destiny Islands isn't STRICTLY a boss fight, but given the parallels to the late-game fights that ARE, I decided last minute that this one deserved the same gravitas, and I'm extremely glad I did!

Day 27: Hercules Honey you mean Hunkules. One of the worst bosses, but one of the best murals. Love the 12 labors represented in the outer circles, and of course, the real MVP of the fight, the barrels.

Day 26: Captain Hook Never would have anticipated it'd be the case, but this is probably my second favorite mural of them all, the colors, the composition, Hook should not be allowed to look this good.

Day 25: AntiSora Had a ton of fun with this one, fans of the series will recognize it as being based off of Sora's official mural, with a few obvious differences. My personal favorite is the use of the Dark Coastline as the background.

Day 24: Oogie's Manor I gave Icarus almost no direction this one, though I did request the moon and purple globs. As such, he based the pose entirely off a scene from the game. This actually worked SUPER well, cuz I got to do a cool transition with it, which really made this piece stand out.

Day 23: Oogie Boogie Doing the best he can, I feel like this mural is probably the closest Icarus and I got to what Square would actually make if they made these murals themselves. Oogie as so much iconography to play off of, and this mural is a gift that keeps on giving. I can't believe my eyes.

Day 22: Lock, Shock and Barrel This fight could have done SO much more, but at the same time, I'm almost glad it didn't. Genuinely Sora's biggest weakness in KH1 is dealing with multiple threats at once, so these three probably had to be as simple as they were.

Day 21: Giant Ursula The first properly difficult fight in the game, I asked Icarus to really make her feel big and imposing, and man did he ever. Something silly I just realized about this fight, Ursula's crown comes out of absolutely nowhere and is never addressed.

Day 20: Ursula Do I even need to say it at this point, give Icarus a Disney Villain and he will simply COOK. I haven't ranked these or anything, but if I did, this would be a shoe-in for top 5.

Day 19: Glut Technically in all the official game stuff his name is just Shark, but c'mon, this is Glut and we all know it. Once again, I love the murals with bright white on them, as they really pop when I add the VFX, and Glut's pearly whites made this otherwise forgettable boss stand out.

Day 18: Yuffie Absolutely love this one. The idea being that if Cloud's mural is surrounded in Materia, Yuffie would naturally get TONS of Materia. All the colors really made this one stand out in my memor, and looked especially dazzling while glowing.

Day 17: Parasite Cage Not too much to say on this one, though this was the point where Icarus began to complain that a lot of what I was asking him to draw was really ugly. Can't really argue with this one.

Day 16: Genie Jafar Being bad never looked this good. Yeah it's no one's favorite boss, but he has style, and he has Gilbert Gottfried

Day 15: Jafar Another major Disney baddy, another PEAK design. Each of the circles on the border represents one of the spells he casts either in the game or in the movie, and I especially love the touch of some of them actively being cast by Jafar. This is simply one of the best.