Hollow Bastion
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Sep 13, 2026
Mayanna BerrinHOST
And he rolls up and one of the things that we talk about a lot on the show is the weird theming of like where you start the adventure is like this unfortunate like roulette wheel of like the fates deciding whether or not your life's going to go good or bad.
Mayanna BerrinHOST
Like Riku ending up on Hollow Bastion versus Riku ending up in Traverse Town.
Mayanna BerrinHOST
Different guy, different experiences.
Mayanna BerrinHOST
Roxas, born fully formed.
RachelHOST
Report 50.
RachelHOST
Hollow Bastion.
RachelHOST
I have visited many lands that seem, at first glance, to be unremarkable, and their strangeness only reveals itself after prolonged study.
RachelHOST
Hollow Bastion is not one of those lands.
RachelHOST
I emerged from the mists at what seems to be the foot of a mountain, but on closer examination, it was in a shape that no natural mountain could ever take, almost like an apple eaten down to the core, surrounded by waterfalls that flowed up instead of down.
RachelHOST
Atop this unlikely formation, there loomed a massive, decaying castle, doubtless a monument to the vanity of whomever sat within it.
RachelHOST
Do not complain that my edges are jagged.
RachelHOST
At any rate, I would soon learn that the castle was a monument to one Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, nay, Ansem the Wise, and that it reflected him in more ways than one.
speaker_0HOST
Report 50.
speaker_0HOST
Hollow Bastion.
speaker_0HOST
I have visited many lands that seem, at first glance, to be unremarkable, and their strangeness only reveals itself after prolonged study.
speaker_0HOST
Hollow Bastion is not one of those lands.
speaker_0HOST
I emerged from the mists at what seems to be the foot of a mountain, but on closer examination, it was in a shape that no natural mountain could ever take, almost like an apple eaten down to the core, surrounded by waterfalls that flowed up instead of down.
speaker_0HOST
Atop this unlikely formation, there loomed a massive, decaying castle, doubtless a monument to the vanity of whomever sat within it.
speaker_0HOST
Do not complain that my edges are jagged.
speaker_0HOST
At any rate, I would soon learn that the castle was a monument to one Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, nay, Ansem the Wise, and that it reflected him in more ways than one.
VictoriaHOST
He's gifted a new set of clothes with abilities to match, and they're off to their new adventure.
VictoriaHOST
Their first stop is back at good ol' Hollow Bastion, and they're reunited with Yuffie, Aerith, Leon, Cid, and Merlin, who are working tirelessly to restore Hollow Bastion.
VictoriaHOST
While securing a part of town with Leon, the organization showed themselves to our heroes and the lines were drawn between our light walkers and the dark dwellers.
VictoriaHOST
I'm going to apologize really quick in advance to everybody.
9 MINS LATER
VictoriaHOST
The staff implores him to do better as they're riding on his ability to love before the last petal falls, as that is how the spell will be broken.
VictoriaHOST
Then the rose is revealed to be the gate to the next pathway of worlds that Sora quickly opens.
VictoriaHOST
As the gummy ship heads out of Beast's castle, the ship forces them to head to Hollow Bastion on behalf of Merlin.
VictoriaHOST
He summoned them to take care of an item he found in the Zero District, the 100-acre wood storybook.
VictoriaHOST
Yes.
VictoriaHOST
We return to Twilight Town as well as Hollow Bastion.
VictoriaHOST
Yes.
VictoriaHOST
And so, yeah.
BrittanyHOST
And I'm the other half, Brittany,
BMONARRATOR
and I'll be leading today's episode on Twilight Town, Mysterious Tower, and Hollow Bastion.
BMONARRATOR
where Sora gets a crash course on his new mission, post-news, meeting new enemy factions and familiar friends alike.
BMONARRATOR
As a summary for Roxas' journal, life was great in Twilight Town with his friends, Hayner, Pence, and Olette.
11 MINS LATER
BMONARRATOR
All it takes is for the fairies to remember her and it's just the trick to bring the witch back to life.
BMONARRATOR
Maleficent rises from her discarded robe and the fairies hightail it out of there to tell Yen Sid, the witch gleefully cackles, she has returned.
BMONARRATOR
Alabastian Chip and Dale greet the Gummy Crew remotely from Disney Castle and find the only world available to travel to is Hollow Bastion, so off they go.
BMONARRATOR
Elsewhere in the Villainsvale sector of Hollow Bastion, Pete calls for Maleficent but doesn't find her here and instead finds Diablo the Crow.
BrittanyHOST
The three watch one last sunset together before Kairi Riku and the islands themselves fade away.
BrittanyHOST
Sora jumps off the tree and into the steps of Hollow Bastion.
BrittanyHOST
I feel like I can hear
VictoriaHOST
that.
BrittanyHOST
Like, obviously we see the battle of... what we did in Kingdom Hearts 1 and that one part that I hated every single fucking time to redo.
BrittanyHOST
So we see that part.
BrittanyHOST
And then them landing in Hollow Bastion, crazy.
BrittanyHOST
That fight scene, just being in that 3D, so cool.
VictoriaHOST
But for now, we'll just say the dark beach scene because we don't know any of that.
VictoriaHOST
But in general, so this dark beach scene, it only makes its best sense in Final Mix when the unknown comes to Hollow Bastion.
VictoriaHOST
And...
VictoriaHOST
he says like, I've been to see him.
VictoriaHOST
Road to War.
VictoriaHOST
Still in the restoration process, we're brought back to the events in Hollow Bastion.
VictoriaHOST
Everything from Sora seeing in Kairi's memory, Riku taking Sora's Keyblade, Sora's battle with the Unknown, Sora's battle with Ansem Riku, and of course, Sora releasing Kairi's heart back to her.
VictoriaHOST
It's the first time in the restoration that Sora finally remembers Kairi's name.
MichaelHOST
I know, it controls terrible.
MichaelHOST
And I know the combat's a little clunky in it, but to this day, Hollow Bastion and Kingdom Hearts 1 is still my favorite Kingdom Hearts level in the entire franchise.
MichaelHOST
And the music, the music's still top-notch.
MichaelHOST
And I think the story is by far the simplest and easiest to follow of any Kingdom Hearts game, which I think is also a plus.
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