Kingdom Hearts II/Awesome

• The triangle button might as well be renamed the "Awesome Button", since pressing it causes you to do some pretty awesome things.
  • Like deflecting 10+ of Sephiroth's lightning quick swings in 1 second.
• Pretty much any boss against one of the Disney villains. Something just cathartic about beating up villains you remember from childhood, all while awesome music plays.
• "The Battle of 1000 Heartless", in which Sora slaughters exactly one thousand Heartless all by himself. This particular battle had also given rise to The War Sequence Trope.
  • During the heartless attack on Hollow Bastion, Leon and Cloud manage to combine Back-to-Back Badasses and Snark-to-Snark Combat into one enjoyable scene.
  • It sadly becomes less awesome for both Sora and the players when you learn in the next scene that Sora did exactly what Xemnas wanted him to do, as he now has 1000 new hearts for his Kingdom Hearts.
• The Gummi Ship Course "Assault of the Dreadnought", which pits your ship against a massive fleet of Nobody warships, including their flagship, the titular Dreadnought.
  • The mission itself revolves around you fighting your way through the Nobody fleet so that you can enter the Dreadnought and destroy the reactor core for its Wave Motion Gun. Not only will destroying the core get you some rare Gummi Blocks, you are also treated to a gorgeous view of the Dreadnought blowing up.
• Auron's role in the Hercules stage is somehow even more awesome than anything he did in Final Fantasy X. He gets brought back from the dead by Hades to kill Sora, practically spits in his face in return, and goes off to team up with Sora and kick all kinds of ass.
  • "This is my story. And you're not part of it."
    • "No wonder no one wants to die"
• The final battle Sora and Riku vs. Xemnas. Special mention goes to the very end, with how Sora and Riku are able to coordinate their actions with very little words exchanged. That's the definition of Bash Brothers.
• Sora and Riku's Limit Break, Eternal Session. The coolest Limit Break of the game.
• Port Royal, as a whole, is an extremely wholesome experiance. You fight the Undead pirates, blast other pirates ships, essentially get a retelling of the movie and a sort of continuation on the second visit, fight Barbossa and an Aztec Grim Reaper heartless as bosses, and actually see blood- even if its just a cut on the hand. Jack Sparrow is as cool as he was in the movie, even being able to weld a keyblade for a short time; and it is interesting to see the stylised, anime-ish, and realistic characters clash (particularly Pete conversing with Barbossa.
• The scene before Barbossas boss fight, where The heros pull a Big Damn Heroes, there's a swordfight, and The Illuminator is introduced, letting Barbossa get a cool pose with it's Glowing Eyes of Doom.
• Shadow Stalker's and Twighlight Thorn's back-to-back boss fights.
• Timeless River, sort of celebrating the past of Mickey Mouse before Epic Mickey did.
• Tron smashimg Sark in the face with his disk in Space Paranoids.
• The Storm Rider boss fight where you can hitch a ride on the bosses back.
• Being able to combo Past!Pete into Present!Pete to, in effect make him hit himself with a shockwave.
• The Experiment, which shows how much research was put in as the creature is a mis-mash of background props from The Nightmare Before Christmas (For example its right arm is part of the scenery in Dr.Finkelstiens lab).
• Ken Page redoing his voice as Oogie Boogie.
• The Hostile Program, which is one of the few characters that isn't from Disney or Square Enix that isn't in the main cast, is fought as the boss on Spaces Paranoids first visit, and after which is where the game starts to heat up a little. (YMMV on opinion though)
• Shang knocking Shan-Yu over and then taking the Emperor in to safety.
• Taking down the Groundshaker in Pride Lands.
• The Prison Keeper, which is the first boss to have above three health bars, and lord help you if you are underleveled.
• The final Roxas vs Axel fight. Dual wielding keyblades? Check. Huge ring of fire? Check. Bashing away at Axel with these two keyblades while running sideways on the ring of fire? Double check.