right?!?!? I wanted to play through all the games but fuuuuccckkkk having all the games go across so many systems made it impossible. Cant wait to pick it as soon as gamestop opens up
Frank Lopez I think there’s a bundle on Playstation, right now, with all of the remade Kingdom Hearts game + Kingdom Hearts III! It’s a little costly, though, like $100+
So in short, Xehanort, Xehanort, Xehanort again, Some guy that's Half Xehanort, and I think maybe another Xehanort, as well as a bunch more including Xehanort's Heartless and Nobody, are going to battle with Sora, Sora's Nobody, Sora's Nobody's Nobody, Sora's Nobody's Body, and Sora's Nobody's Nobody's Body. In other words 13 Xehanort's versus 7 Sora's. Let's go.
Xehanort Xehanort Xehanort? Sora's Nobody's Nobody, Sora's Nobody's Body, and Sora's Nobody's Nobody's Body? I know the series but who are the people you are referring to?
@@leebonakiss9379 I've played 1 and 2 atleast 3 times over, since they were on the PS2. I never got a chance to play the other 129 spin-offs/sub games since they were spread over 14 other consoles. As hyped as I am at a KH3 I know 90% of relevant information is hidden in those.
No wonder it took 13 years for KH3. It takes that long to understand the plot... I know right?? Why did Disney and square have to make a story intended for kids so insanely complex? I bairly can follow this as an adult...my nephew watched this with me and his response was .."huh"..."ow my head.." geez uncle v that was confusing.."
I've watched many KH story summaries, and they typically fall into either the "Here's the entire story as fast possible" or "Here's a detailed explanation, but it's gonna take a bit of time". Of all the longer story summaries, I genuinely think this one may be the best one yet made. Excellent work!
@@bradevangelista7305 first of all , he's isn't butthurt. Secondly, he's just saying that Terry is an expert in law . So stop being butthurt you fuckhead and get the fuck out
King Jae Same. A lot of it is lore that shows up once or twice (Riku doesn’t look like Ansem after the explosion. Why? Because somehow explosions can purify disguises made of darkness 🤷♂️
@@Kidd0Wycked Not Square or Disney's fault that your brain is so fucking short. Quit your fucking crying. If you don't like a long, though-out story then this franchise isn't for you. You bring up nostalgia boner yet you're only here to play 3 and that's obvious. the fuck are you doing here if you don't care about the series. get out.
The KH story is like driving, for hours, making turns & asking for directions, only to realize you never meant to as far as you did & then you just choose stop at the closest convenient place.
I was a junior in high school when KH2 came out. I graduated high school, went to college, did 6 years in the military, started a career, got married, and had a child. I'm almost 30 and I still haven't played KH3. At this rate, if they ever do make a KH4, my grand kids will be lucky if they get to play it.
It has been stated that Kingdom Hearts 3 will be the last of what they call "The Xehanort Saga", and that they do indeed intend to make more games in the series beyond this saga. So there will be another game, but I doubt it will be called kingdom hearts 4, since to many would expect it to be a continuation of the Xehanort saga
klausiboy kristensen Why would anyone expect a game called kingdom hearts 4 to follow the xehanort saga? The creators have already stated that Sora will remain the main character of kingdom hearts after kh3. So it makes sense to continue the numerical titles.
Well, I just figured, that since Kingdom hearts 1-3 had covered the Xehanort saga, they might want to kinda make a reset on the titling or something like that. Basically, Square has been so all over the place with their titles, that I just half expect them to start naming their games like "Kingdom Hearts, A new light saga part 1: Next frontier" or some crazy stuff like that xD I honestly feel like it's misleading in the first place to have numerical naming for the Kingdom hearts games in the first place, since a lot of softcore fans will guess that the only games that matter are the main titles, which couldn't be further from the truth, so it might be wishful thinking, but I hope they drop the numerical naming
whattheheckification well, I'm kinda ready to move on from Sora, personally. I'm just not ready to move on from all of the awesome characters connected to him :/
@@blingsing5383 partly. Lactose, being the heart of the ice cream, had been removed and distributed amongst the other dairy. Without Lactose, Ice Cream slowly lost control to it's nobody, Sea Salt.
MrDylanHM it’s definitely a way to sell to the maximum amount of fans possible. Excuses to have Cloud, Sephiroth, Aerith, FF8, Disney, and so many other characters that the ads will show as having a huge presence (they did on the first one at least), and then you realize they basically are minor characters, one time boss battles, and basically just to essentially name drop. That said, I still love this and will keep playing and buying. I like that it usually doesn’t take itself so seriously unless you do a breakdown like this. ‘Contrivance Tornado,’ is perfect though.
Suggestive Gaming I commend you bro ..you managed to piece together 13 yrs of Disney & Square confusing plot that most of us couldn't even begin to make sense of..13yrs later.. you earned my respect at the very least. :D
Ooo so THAT happens, I get it! *25 seconds later* Wat? WAT?! WHAAAAT?! *25 seconds later... again* Oooh so THAT happens! yeah! *25 seconds later yet again * WHAAAAAT?!
I feel like this was put together already so well for anyone to understand, but it's still too much to take in. So many things will make more sense if only we had time to play everything. Thank you very much. That was the best Brain Aneurysm I've ever had.
oo nga eh sir gloco, kung may oras lang tlagang maglaro, nung unang laro ko kasi i didnt paid attention dun sa story, which i really regretted, i only enjoyed the game, not the story :( ngayon napakarami kong tanong tungkol sa storya ng game, which led me into this vid... skl
Just playing the games isn't enough, the challenging thing is remembering all of the tiny little pieces that are all equally important as the big picture!
"Yeah I got time I can watch a quick video summarizing Kingdom Hearts's story, it can't be that complicated." (five days later) "Wh at the Fukc is a Kigndom Hearts!"
You explain everything very well and yet... it's still so confusing... Time travel by itself is a headache but KH adds body jumping, multiple personalities, and alternate worlds 0_0
I imagine the conversation in the Writer's room going like this: "Okay, guys, listen up. The Developers want us to create a Kingdom hearts 3, no spin-off or prequel this time. You know the drill: bring the notes we had from writing all the previous games and the LSD tags, it's gonna be a long week.
Considering where Kingdom Hearts the original starts you really gotta wonder how much of this story was planned out and how much was hastily thrown together and hoped would make sense eventually
Based on how Mickey didn’t recognize Terra when the met up in the lab after he was possessed, I’m going to go with the assumption they just threw a lot of stuff together and hoped for the best
Very little was planned out before clearly. Even post KH2 it's been game by game story writing. Gotta give Birth By Sleep credit though, it's a really solid prequel to KH1,2,and sorta Chain of memories, and it is a total retconn. KH1 and 2 weren't originally written with much space for a prequel story, and the game actually tells a compelling story that explains some things about KH1 and 2 to those who have paid attention the the overarching story.
The way I see it, it was probably written in three or more waves. 1) Kingdom Hearts is its own story, written with an open-ended conclusion, but no exact direction yet. 2) Chain of Memories was written with KHII in mind for sure, since it introduced the first seen members of Organization XIII. Kingdom Hearts II concludes itself, with hints of a future. 3) With little hope for a KHIII anytime soon, three games were announced in close proximity, but far apart in release: 358/2 Days, Birth By Sleep, and Coded (eventually Re:Coded for the West). These were obviously written together, but some MAJOR hints in BBS indicate to me that the plot twists in Dream Drop Distance were conceived ahead of time: Braig's and Isa's eyes are brown and blue respectively in BBS, but after Terra wipes out one of his eyes, Braig appears again... with gold eyes. Isa (or rather, Saix) has gold eyes in KHII, meaning the choice to give his BBS self blue eyes had to be consciously hinting the same twist. ???) I don't know if KHIII is still part of wave 3 or if it's in a post-wave 3 era of storytelling. Wave 3 seems to be about setting up the premise of KHIII, but the plot of KHIII may have been written and developed after this setup was finished, starting a potential wave 4. Either way, whatever KHIII is, we know that 2.8's BBS side story with Aqua (BBS 0.2) was originally supposed to be the intro to KHIII, so it probably belongs to whatever wave KHIII is in. But that's just how I see it. A lot of each game is likely written as it goes (like most stories), but you can at least tell that most of the major plot elements and twists after KHII were planned ahead to a significant extent.
I always figured, that the whole "Everybody calls Lea Axel instead of his proper name"-thing was a joke on Lea/Axel's catchphrase "Got it memorized". People got his name so heavily memorized, that they couldn't be bothered to replace it with his actual name
its okay though guys, cause now we have the x-blade which is the new keyblade that does what the keyblade does but doesn't really do because its does what it does... so confusing, i mean to be fair, the first game had Ansem being able to make a keyblade so... idk it has gone really far overboard though.
I think that Keyblades are way rarer than they seem, but appear to be very common, simply because of their relations with each other and where they are, normal people in the universe wouldn't ever have a chance to get one, let alone see one. Then again, you could site Unchained, considering that several groups of people were given keyblades. There may be something that I'm missing in regards to that, but I don't feel like looking that up, this was just something that I thought of and heard some others talking about.
King I mean, I wouldn’t say it was “smooth sailing”, as shit really started to get dumb with kh2. Like Kingdom Hearts going from a door to a moon, Riku having Ansem TSODs’ appearance, who wasn’t actually Ansem but ??Xehanort’s??? heartless, who stole the real Ansem’s name because reasons. Oh, and a Secret Ending that completely fucked the lore till BBS. KH2 is my favorite game in the franchise but they really started to mess things up then. The story, as interesting and emotional that it’s been, snowballed into this convoluted and disastrous mess by the finale. It honestly killed a lot of hype I had for KH3, and I’ve been playing this franchise since the beginning. Kingdom Hearts 1 was simple: Sora was the chosen wielder of the keyblade, no one having 738373 identities, no time travel, none of that. Just a simple story of a kid trying to find his friends and save some worlds from the Heartless. Why did they have to go and fuck that all up?
After that compressing of 13 years of games into half an hr, and a couple aneurysms and strokes, all i could tell was ventus = sora = roxas but at the same time ventus =/= sora =/= roxas
Aqua, Terra, and Ventus's hearts are linked. Vanitas is Ventus, but not really. Ventus' heart later took refuge in Sora, who is also Roxas and Xion, and linked to Kairi who is also Namine. DiZ is really Ansem, but not the same Ansem who's also Xehanort who is also Xemnas. Then there are the Data versions of everyone. Riku's heart is linked to Sora's, as is Axel's who is also Lea. Xigbar is also Braig and became Xehanort. Oh, and Maleficent also likes to float around and pretend that she's the villain, even though she's totally not. Not convoluted AT ALL. Although it is easier if you keep in mind, as Vaugn Monger's friend said, "Everyone is either Xehanort, or inside Sora's heart," which is actually a pretty accurate summary.
When the story is told in order like this, yeah I suppose so. But if you've been playing the games ad they come out, Mickey is already well established to be a Keyblade master lol
It's almost like the series started off in a completely different place and they didn't plan for even a quarter of the backstory that convolutes the plot now...
I've watched like 3-4 videos before landing here... Do you really think this is one of the best you've come across?! I've never played a KH game before, and it feels like you have. So I'm trusting your opinion, haha :).
In case you haven't watched it: Yen Sid has been around since 1940 in Fantasia. His name was revealed in the introductory clip before the actual sequence he's in, and I think they even say it's "Disney" backward in that, but It's been a WHILE since I've watched Fantasia, so don't quote me on that. Anyway, the sequence "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is where he comes from. He's the sorcerer in question, and Mickey is his apprentice. That's why his hat MAY look familiar(all the art and merch of Mickey in the red robe and signature blue, moon-and-star-patterned hat). That's also why they have that connection in Kingdom Hearts. It's just for different reasons.
KH's story is like a 5 yr old trying to explain their day at the fair. No matter how many times it's explained, you just gotta smile and nod without understanding one bit of what you heard. Thanks for the summary though!
@@btaylor545 playing kh 1 and 2 only will not make you understand the fulls troy, they play a piece in the lore, but a very small piece. Birth by sleep, dream drop distance really lay down the foundation of what this story is really about.
This is actually the BEST summary I have seen thus far. I know its hard to keep track especially if you havent been playing since day 1, but this is about as good as it gets guys
Agreed. I think a little more explanation on Dream Drop distance (towards the ending) would have helped. But aside from that I would definitely say this is one of the best summaries of the entire KH saga. Especially considering how convoluted time travel can be to explain.
Seriously? He casually referenced coded by saying that Mickey found evidence of Ven and co.'s survival (and said nothing else about the game), and with DDD he didn't give the ending and just said "This game is stupid" - like, five times.
Each person has their own preference on things and mine is on this KH vid summary. Try as you might but you guys can't change my mind about this. I love this video. Period.
New person: "I wanna get into Kingdom hearts so where do I start? Die hard fan: "Whoooo Oooo Oooo first you gotta play the mobile game then Birth by sleep, O then kingdom hearts 1, then dream drop distance, then Kingdom hearts 2 then-" Casual fan (only played Kingdom hearts 1 and 2, never the heldhand games or remades or ports or remixes): "Just watch this video, but you really should play KH1 and KH2 at least"
My guy Riku has been possessed more than every demonic account in the history of Catholic exorcisms. Dude may as well just stay Ansem/Xehanort or whoever at this point smh....
Really great but listed some missed points that are fairly important. -When Ventus and Vanitas merge Ventus and Vanitas have a battle within their own heart. Ventus defeats Vanitas by shatering the X-Blade since it was made from both of them Ventus essentially sacrificed himself to take him out. This act saves Aqua and Mickey and what lead him to a comatosed state -After Terra becomes possessed a piece of his will is salvaged inside his armour bringing it to life as *"Lingering Will"* this form is able to defeat Xehanort possessing Terra's body allowing Terra's heart to gian some ground and weaken Xehanort, partly why hes been dormant all this time. To this date Lingering Will is still wondering and no one knows where it is. -Aqua leaves Ventus's body in their home world *"Land of Departure"* which is transformed into *"Castle Oblivion"* a twisted Labyrinth with the purpose to protect Land of Departure's secrets and now Vantus's body. -Aqua confronts Xehanort possessing Terra's body and does battle, Terra's previous efforts have left Xehanort weakened as Xehanort appears confused and disorientated. Terra is able to briefly take back control to perform a suicide attack which plunges him and Xehanort into darkness, but Aqua chases Terra-Xehanort and sends him back while leaving herself trapped in the darkness. Terra-Xehanort no longer evil or a threat atm is discovered by Ansem the Wise who helps him and eventually makes him one of his many students. -After Sora beats Riku possessed by Ansem Riku is able to regain control and hold back Ansem letting Sora and Kairi escape but Riku is banished to the Realm of Darkness afterward which is how he appeared on the other side of the door to darkness. -When in Castle Oblivion Riku and Sora encounter and fight various members of the organization and *Riku Replica"* a dark counterpart of Riku created to trick Sora as part of the routine to manipulate his memories and to tempt riku to fall back into darkness and be a useful tool to them. Riku's own darkness resurfaces to take the shape of Heartless Ansem who he battles and eventually defeats to gain control of his own Dark Powers. -Its worth noting that Roxas is pretty strong once Xion is no longer siphoning his strength as he is able to wield two keyblades (Sora & Ventus's) and overpower Riku and Sora on separate occasions -In KH2 Riku disguised as a cloaked figure and doesn't meet up with Sora till much later because hes ashamed of himself as hes taken on Ansem's form and using Darkness but hes been leaving clues and a trail on how to reach Organization XIII's stronghold.
xehanorts heartlesses which calls himself ansem, but yeah I should be more specific. I see the confusion of having a backstory with two characters that share the same name
@@Flotsome alright I haven't played the game's but why do ventus, roxas and perhaps vanitas I don't know for sure look like Sora? I really need to buy those games
Vanitas took on Sora's appearance because when Ventus's heart spit and Sora healed Ventus he supplemented the darkness that was ripped from his heart allowing him to heal. Vanitas and Ventus are connected so Vanitas inherited that appearance. Roxas Sora's nobody looks like Ventus because of how much Ventus has unknowingly had an influence on Sora (its what essentially enabled him to wield a keyblade in the first place).
Yes coded was definitely the series main downfall as it originally released on a JP only cell phone marketplace. A few years later down the line it was re-released on the Nintendo DS in a "remastered port" and then finally it was released one last time on PS3/4 in the 2.5 HD remix as a movie, (along with 358/2) as both games were well liked by some but heavily criticized by the general public and hardcore main series fans (Seriously just watch the movies, the games are cancer)......But yeah Coded was a mistake
Its easier to swallow if you remember this is a battle of science at its core. The masters of masters was a scientist, Ansem a scientist, Xenahort a scientist. Key wielding scientist...
@@PivotDJ That's actually a really great way of thinking about it. I went in thinking it was all magic and fantasy, but the story is probably more sci-fi than anything else.
Here's my hot take: Nomura was clueless when making this story. I genuinely believe he just did a bunch of stuff he thought would be "cool" and then worried about tying it together later. Like "Diz" standing for "Darkness in Zero?" Yeah right, he though Diz was a "cool" name and came up with that bologna later. UGH!! Sorry I'm actually very upset about Nomura's influence on SE. If anyone happens to like these games and his works, I apologize. I think most KH games are fine games but the narrative, character building, themeing, and substance is all crap. FFIX was one of the best games ever made. I think it's odd that gaming peaked in 2000. : - (
@@graceggale Hey Chad its Giraffe. It didn't peak we didn't get Hyper Light Drifter or Furi until recently. DOn't lose hope. Also to be fair VErsus would have been great, trust visionaries on creative works there's a means to the madness. Had they convinced him to switch to Unreal Engine sooner we'd have gotten a great FFXIII-Versus
They're all people who used to have regular names. But once they become nobody's, their name gets jumbled up with an X thrown in. Sora=Roxas, Axel=Lea, Xemnas=Ansem, Xigbar=Braig, Xaldin=Dilan, Vexen=Even, Lexaeus=Aeleus, and so on, I'm not doin them all. Lol
Its like they took a few guys from Disney and a few guys from final fantasy and during the writing every week the other group would get to write the next scene. Then they mashed it all together as a finished product.
Played this game in high school..I’m 29 now and my wife is like why do you want to get this game...*thinks of how long it’ll take to explain*..this isn’t part of my childhood this is my childhood
Wow, you did great job. I bought the KH package about a month ago and beat all the games in the order they were released in but was still bit confused. You really tied everything together well. Super excited to play KH3.
This is amazing, you've done an outstanding job. I know nothing of you or your channel, but because of this one video I subbed. Thank you for this, truly.
That is pretty much the nature of Kingdom hearts games though. You almost always have a starting world that has nothing to do with anything disney related (Destiny islands, Traverse town and Land of Departure), some story and events that have nothing to do with disney, and then suddenly, introduce Donald, Goofy, Mickey and/or some other disney themed character/world. So yeah, I think it's fitting that Mickey casually shows up a little ways in the video like it's the most natural thing xD
As someone who only played the console games KH 1 & 2 on PS2, this was a much needed update going into KH3! Since I didn't get a PS3 or P4 all of the prequels and side stories from final mix versions seemed impossible to learn in 2018. This was the video we needed!!
Yo, same-ish. I grew up watching my brother play them. To this day I am still tormented by the phrase: "Dance, Water Dance" from the battle I never won as an 8-year-old.
There's only like two side stories tbh. As you can see from this video, a bunch of titles (like Birth By Sleep and Dream Drop Distance) are just as important as KH2.
So basically the story is: a guy named Xehanort want to create a giant war to see what will happen after. He tries with many plans but each one get stopped by a kid named Sora or someone related to him.
So....most of these is just fluff? What do you actually necessarily need to know to just pick up KH3? 1-2? Just 2? 2 and the games afterwards, only the games afterwards? Does any of this stuff make sense with time or does nobody really get it and just think their own part?
@@emetanti It's recommended to play all the games since there are reoccuring characters and plot points in later games. The best order is KH1 > CoM > KH2 > 358/2 Days > BBS > Coded > DDD > Back Cover (which is a movie) > 0.2
Lil Roach Dogg I'm pretty sure that hearts in KH are basically the soul of that person. So a heartless is actually a heart that has been consumed by darkness, while a Nobody is a body without a heart (or soul) that grow their own personality and (in some cases) their own heart.
He's essentially Voldemort if Voldemort was able to master time travel and atcually use it to his advantage to place various Horcruxes throughout time, making it impossible for Harry to destroy any of them by the time the final battle hits. So basically, if Voldemort was half as smart as Xehanort is, Harry would have been fucked.
@@elliottfoster3901 bro same I played the first two when I was real young like 9 and I understood it now I'm 23 and just finding out theres all these other games and there's so much story and I need to watch this because I'm hella confused playing the games now
The names are the only thing confusing you? And apparently this is a great way to see how the story goes in these games?! Im just saying that god damn how convoluted can a plot be :D
Jocke1234 I personally am pretty good at understanding convoluted things like time travel, alternate timelines, other selves (clones, other halfs, alternate universe versions, etc.), politics, etc. But I never was that good with names, especially in real life. :(
This Guy I can somehow wrap my brain around the plot here but it has just way too much stuff for me to handle it completely 😅 Even if it was laid out without the time travel things in it i would probably be lost..
I actually understand Kingdom Hearts now. What's more surprising is that all the side games connect and come back around full circle. I'm actually impressed by not only by the amazing work done here with this video (thanks for going the chronological route ^_^) but the fact that it actually all connects in a somewhat believable manner. This was an awesome video, thanks!
Never in my life could I have imagined any series that includes Donald Duck and Goofy as prominent main characters could be so convoluted and confusing.
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Playing this game as a kid, I had no idea it was this complicated. I just smacked things until they died.
Lmfao. I played because I loved the colors! (Jk)
LowSoulGamers lmao same
Never finished the games as a kid, furthest i got was going back to twilight town .....this hammer nobodies annoyed me
Played it because I thought the trailer for the 1st game was the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Same
I feel like I'm trying to prepare last minute for an exam lol
I'm cramming! I need a coffee or a red bull!
LMAO RIGHT!?!?!?!
So true 😂
right?!?!? I wanted to play through all the games but fuuuuccckkkk having all the games go across so many systems made it impossible. Cant wait to pick it as soon as gamestop opens up
Frank Lopez I think there’s a bundle on Playstation, right now, with all of the remade Kingdom Hearts game + Kingdom Hearts III! It’s a little costly, though, like $100+
It really doesn't help that almost every character has 4 different names, 10 clones, and 5 alternate existences.
everyone but xehanort has only 2 names at most
and across like 6 consoles, dont forget all the dream worlds, data worlds, and memory trips.
You probably thought that this Organization was the real threat...
NOPE! Xehanort Testa!
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@@MrInuhanyou123 you missed the point
After this Mickey went back to his clubhouse like nothin happend
Lmfaooo
Lmaoo
And fucked Minnie’s brains out
@@anthg4563 WTF 😂😂
OML I’M WHEEZING
This video made me realize that I had absolutely NO IDEA what was going on in ANY of the Kingdom Hearts games.
I know right
SAAAAAMMMEEE
I know I kinda felt that way too lol after this.
Except for the one with aqua i actually understand it
i smell darkness.... inside YOU!!
So in short, Xehanort, Xehanort, Xehanort again, Some guy that's Half Xehanort, and I think maybe another Xehanort, as well as a bunch more including Xehanort's Heartless and Nobody, are going to battle with Sora, Sora's Nobody, Sora's Nobody's Nobody, Sora's Nobody's Body, and Sora's Nobody's Nobody's Body.
In other words 13 Xehanort's versus 7 Sora's. Let's go.
Sabeta I’m dead
Holy shit, you´re actually right-
RIP TheDanielmeeks
Xehanort's plan is just steven and the stevens.
Xehanort Xehanort Xehanort? Sora's Nobody's Nobody, Sora's Nobody's Body, and Sora's Nobody's Nobody's Body? I know the series but who are the people you are referring to?
"Jiminy Cricket, who had been chronicling Sora's adventures in his journals, jammed his umbrella into his eye to finally end his torment"
For real he must have lost his mind 😂
I'm dying.......
SoundwaveCooper Damn.. that was pretty good.
I still don't know how he write everything down and STILL lost it
Lmfao
I've decided I'm not smart enough to play video games.
Me too brother.
This is basically just an intensified memory game
@Doggle Indeed :P
Same man
Same here.
At 5 minutes in I'm like
: Wow I thought this would be more complicated
At 10 12 minutes in
: Yep I have no idea what's happening
same
@@FlowKomOkay I believe you
funny enough I was able to follow nearly all of it. But it requires u to stay concentrated on wht he's saying and hav lil to no distraction. lol
lol yea i can see how it could be confusing if you haven't played 1 and 2
@@leebonakiss9379 I've played 1 and 2 atleast 3 times over, since they were on the PS2. I never got a chance to play the other 129 spin-offs/sub games since they were spread over 14 other consoles. As hyped as I am at a KH3 I know 90% of relevant information is hidden in those.
Old man is bad. First world in kingdom hearts 3 is Hercules. Got it.
No wonder it took 13 years for KH3. It takes that long to understand the plot...
I still dont understand it
@FFFUUUUUUUU lol 🤣
Xeonort Young Xenornot Master X Xemnas Ansem Xigbar Xenornot 2.0 all this shit I knew but didn't Kno at the same time
Dead!
No wonder it took 13 years for KH3. It takes that long to understand the plot...
I know right?? Why did Disney and square have to make a story intended for kids so insanely complex? I bairly can follow this as an adult...my nephew watched this with me and his response was .."huh"..."ow my head.." geez uncle v that was confusing.."
All of this over a fancy lockpick
...Ansem is that you?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The most powerful substance in their universe, and they use it to make a key.
2 minutes in and I had to restart the video because I zoned out and missed crucial info
Yep
Id get 10 mins in and fall asleep. 3 times that happened
is this going to be on the test?
oddiemonsta Yesn’t
Yes so take notes
oddiemonsta probably not
Yes are you shtewpid
I've watched many KH story summaries, and they typically fall into either the "Here's the entire story as fast possible" or "Here's a detailed explanation, but it's gonna take a bit of time". Of all the longer story summaries, I genuinely think this one may be the best one yet made. Excellent work!
Thank you so much! That really means a lot to me.
Yeah this was a really good video. You guys should check out best guy ever's kingdom hearts 101 university lecture.
One "KH Lore" video literally just gave the story of BBS. Ug.
It was comprehensive and chronological which is impressive given how INSANELY convoluted the story-line and characters are.
Agreed
Something you'd only hear in KH lore: "Meanwhile, Mickey Mouse, a keyblade master and king of his world..."
Chip and Dale analyzing data is what got me xD
This is just the Disney version of Star Wars. Mickey is Yoda.
Then went back to teaching kids
@@matthewrawe3004 lol I can't-
No literally. All of this before the words Mickey Mouse are said sound like this deep philosophical storyline and then “Mickey mouse”
As someone who studied law, this shit is more complicated than that.
Josh Halley stop getting so butthurt for criticizing a game. I love the game to death but if there flaws I’ll point it out
@@bradevangelista7305 first of all , he's isn't butthurt. Secondly, he's just saying that Terry is an expert in law . So stop being butthurt you fuckhead and get the fuck out
Agreed!
99% of law is “You took my stuff. I want it back.”
Strillion bro hes being sarcastic
And to think it all started with "What if Final Fantasy met Disney?"
To think it all started with... "What will make us F*ck loads of money?*
Actually it started with two people making idle chat in an elevator which then lead to them asking: "what if we combined final fantasy and Disney?"
@@trisryan4161 It ACTUALLY started with sony wanting a game that can compete with Super Mario 64 made from Nintendo. So sony hit up square and dis.
@@naruto123407 yeah, they were wanting to compete with Mario. But kingdom hearts was sparked by that conversation in the elevator.
@@trisryan4161 of course
This is the best way to explain it but I still feel confused
King Jae Same. A lot of it is lore that shows up once or twice (Riku doesn’t look like Ansem after the explosion. Why? Because somehow explosions can purify disguises made of darkness 🤷♂️
because the series is RIDDLED with plot holes and deus ex machina devices. time-traveling ansem makes absolutely NO sense.
bro I had to rewind before I even made it to 5 minutes lmao I'm slowwwww
@@Kidd0Wycked Not Square or Disney's fault that your brain is so fucking short. Quit your fucking crying. If you don't like a long, though-out story then this franchise isn't for you. You bring up nostalgia boner yet you're only here to play 3 and that's obvious. the fuck are you doing here if you don't care about the series. get out.
King Jae it’s like you need more explanation but the game didn’t give anymore either.
The KH story is like driving, for hours, making turns & asking for directions, only to realize you never meant to as far as you did & then you just choose stop at the closest convenient place.
I was a junior in high school when KH2 came out. I graduated high school, went to college, did 6 years in the military, started a career, got married, and had a child. I'm almost 30 and I still haven't played KH3. At this rate, if they ever do make a KH4, my grand kids will be lucky if they get to play it.
It has been stated that Kingdom Hearts 3 will be the last of what they call "The Xehanort Saga", and that they do indeed intend to make more games in the series beyond this saga. So there will be another game, but I doubt it will be called kingdom hearts 4, since to many would expect it to be a continuation of the Xehanort saga
klausiboy kristensen
Why would anyone expect a game called kingdom hearts 4 to follow the xehanort saga?
The creators have already stated that Sora will remain the main character of kingdom hearts after kh3. So it makes sense to continue the numerical titles.
Well, I just figured, that since Kingdom hearts 1-3 had covered the Xehanort saga, they might want to kinda make a reset on the titling or something like that. Basically, Square has been so all over the place with their titles, that I just half expect them to start naming their games like "Kingdom Hearts, A new light saga part 1: Next frontier" or some crazy stuff like that xD I honestly feel like it's misleading in the first place to have numerical naming for the Kingdom hearts games in the first place, since a lot of softcore fans will guess that the only games that matter are the main titles, which couldn't be further from the truth, so it might be wishful thinking, but I hope they drop the numerical naming
klausiboy kristensen
I hope they don’t drop the numerical naming, unless sora stops being the main character at some point.
whattheheckification well, I'm kinda ready to move on from Sora, personally. I'm just not ready to move on from all of the awesome characters connected to him :/
5 minutes in: Ok I’m kinda understanding things
“Aided by another keyblade apprentice, Mickey Mouse”
Huh
I'm sorry I laughed so hard at this
when i heard it i had to pause and chuckled
Someone please explain where Mickey Mouse came from
@@gonnaregretthis2926 the original game was all about going to different Disney worlds.
Oh my god none of you have played the previous games before have you? I was just here for a refreshing
This is like inception, but on drugs and friendships.
Right
And DARKNESS
That rhymed.
After watching this several times I think i finally got it, Sea Salt Ice Cream is really Lactose Free :D
Yes but it’s also ansem
@@blingsing5383 partly. Lactose, being the heart of the ice cream, had been removed and distributed amongst the other dairy. Without Lactose, Ice Cream slowly lost control to it's nobody, Sea Salt.
"Complex" isn't really the word for it, I think I'd call it "an absolute contrivance tornado."
I'm dead, but like legit. I had to rewatch this to pla kh3
MrDylanHM it’s definitely a way to sell to the maximum amount of fans possible. Excuses to have Cloud, Sephiroth, Aerith, FF8, Disney, and so many other characters that the ads will show as having a huge presence (they did on the first one at least), and then you realize they basically are minor characters, one time boss battles, and basically just to essentially name drop.
That said, I still love this and will keep playing and buying. I like that it usually doesn’t take itself so seriously unless you do a breakdown like this. ‘Contrivance Tornado,’ is perfect though.
It’s intricate is what it is lol
The tornado titan.
This was more complicated than my engineering thesis
hahaha
This is nuts 🥜
you have no idea
I've been into consulting for a short while and seen some really complicated shit, and still, they got nothing on Kingdom Hearts' complexity.
Working on gens without any clue what you doing too? Same goes for me. (dbd reference)
Suggestive Gaming I commend you bro ..you managed to piece together 13 yrs of Disney & Square confusing plot that most of us couldn't even begin to make sense of..13yrs later.. you earned my respect at the very least. :D
Ooo so THAT happens, I get it!
*25 seconds later*
Wat? WAT?! WHAAAAT?!
*25 seconds later... again*
Oooh so THAT happens! yeah!
*25 seconds later yet again *
WHAAAAAT?!
I took away my like I gave you cause I wanted to keep it at 69..
You're welcome
I feel like this was put together already so well for anyone to understand, but it's still too much to take in. So many things will make more sense if only we had time to play everything.
Thank you very much. That was the best Brain Aneurysm I've ever had.
So sinasbe mo Gloco lalaruin mo ung Kh3 without playing the other games? 😲
@@ronanmax23 Played I and II , Didn't get to play the others.
Hahaha marami kang itatanong pag nag kh3 kana
oo nga eh sir gloco, kung may oras lang tlagang maglaro, nung unang laro ko kasi i didnt paid attention dun sa story, which i really regretted, i only enjoyed the game, not the story :( ngayon napakarami kong tanong tungkol sa storya ng game, which led me into this vid... skl
Just playing the games isn't enough, the challenging thing is remembering all of the tiny little pieces that are all equally important as the big picture!
THIS IS THE WORST 3AM IDEA IVE EVER HAD
steph omg im watching this at 3 am too
Man.... kindred spirits! 😣😂
wat, so am i
"Yeah I got time I can watch a quick video summarizing Kingdom Hearts's story, it can't be that complicated."
(five days later)
"Wh at the Fukc is a Kigndom Hearts!"
Yes im watching this now 3.20 and fuck
6:36 "Ansem becomes wise to their plan..." Oh, I got what you did there!
You explain everything very well and yet... it's still so confusing...
Time travel by itself is a headache but KH adds body jumping, multiple personalities, and alternate worlds 0_0
It is a bit much
Bro i get the story and its still confusing to me🤣
This also explains why it's taken over 10 years for kingdom hearts 3 to come out. The dev's trying to figure all this zhit out
LMFAO this had me dead 🤣🤣
So true, I want to get this game so bad since I loved the first 2 but damn is this story beyond anyone.
I imagine the conversation in the Writer's room going like this:
"Okay, guys, listen up. The Developers want us to create a Kingdom hearts 3, no spin-off or prequel this time. You know the drill: bring the notes we had from writing all the previous games and the LSD tags, it's gonna be a long week.
The_Pyromancer False. Despite how spread out the series is, there are no spin-offs in the series. Every game is canon.
crazitomali lol
10? kh2 came out in 2006. try 12 years lol
cant wait to play kingdom hearts 3.5 remix complete edition shippuden revengance ultimate featuring luigi brothers
And also featuring Dante from Devil May Cry
And Knuckles
No Waluigi though.
2019
New funky mode
'He made me feel like I had a heart'
the line that spawned a thousand fanfics
Can you repeat it in English?
kids have heart people get kidnapped disney worlds are fun
Big key causes fight, rinse, repeat x29
I lost my shit when you said "...followed by another Keyblade Apprentice Mickey Mouse"
same Xd
Considering where Kingdom Hearts the original starts you really gotta wonder how much of this story was planned out and how much was hastily thrown together and hoped would make sense eventually
yeah, it seems forced. Prequels are usually less complicated and used to explain.
Based on how Mickey didn’t recognize Terra when the met up in the lab after he was possessed, I’m going to go with the assumption they just threw a lot of stuff together and hoped for the best
Very little was planned out before clearly. Even post KH2 it's been game by game story writing. Gotta give Birth By Sleep credit though, it's a really solid prequel to KH1,2,and sorta Chain of memories, and it is a total retconn. KH1 and 2 weren't originally written with much space for a prequel story, and the game actually tells a compelling story that explains some things about KH1 and 2 to those who have paid attention the the overarching story.
The way I see it, it was probably written in three or more waves.
1) Kingdom Hearts is its own story, written with an open-ended conclusion, but no exact direction yet.
2) Chain of Memories was written with KHII in mind for sure, since it introduced the first seen members of Organization XIII. Kingdom Hearts II concludes itself, with hints of a future.
3) With little hope for a KHIII anytime soon, three games were announced in close proximity, but far apart in release: 358/2 Days, Birth By Sleep, and Coded (eventually Re:Coded for the West). These were obviously written together, but some MAJOR hints in BBS indicate to me that the plot twists in Dream Drop Distance were conceived ahead of time: Braig's and Isa's eyes are brown and blue respectively in BBS, but after Terra wipes out one of his eyes, Braig appears again... with gold eyes. Isa (or rather, Saix) has gold eyes in KHII, meaning the choice to give his BBS self blue eyes had to be consciously hinting the same twist.
???) I don't know if KHIII is still part of wave 3 or if it's in a post-wave 3 era of storytelling. Wave 3 seems to be about setting up the premise of KHIII, but the plot of KHIII may have been written and developed after this setup was finished, starting a potential wave 4. Either way, whatever KHIII is, we know that 2.8's BBS side story with Aqua (BBS 0.2) was originally supposed to be the intro to KHIII, so it probably belongs to whatever wave KHIII is in.
But that's just how I see it. A lot of each game is likely written as it goes (like most stories), but you can at least tell that most of the major plot elements and twists after KHII were planned ahead to a significant extent.
Facts dude. It’s kind of annoying tbh.
Alright, so Xenahort is evil and he's going to try an do some evil shit, so we gotta stop him.
Cool, got it.
That's about as far as I got too
Thank you for saving me 30 minutes of my life
*The old dude that jumps in different timeline*
lmaoooooo
Yeah I can't deal with this shit. I just want cool anime/disney crossover, emotional music and themes, and beating back the darkness.
well explained, thank you :)
Woaaa
Bang han
“Got it memorized?”
burn baby
hahahaha love it
Luis Galvan no
I always figured, that the whole "Everybody calls Lea Axel instead of his proper name"-thing was a joke on Lea/Axel's catchphrase "Got it memorized". People got his name so heavily memorized, that they couldn't be bothered to replace it with his actual name
❤️❤️❤️
You get a Keyblade! You get a Keyblade! And you get a Keyblade!
its okay though guys, cause now we have the x-blade which is the new keyblade that does what the keyblade does but doesn't really do because its does what it does... so confusing, i mean to be fair, the first game had Ansem being able to make a keyblade so... idk it has gone really far overboard though.
WE ALL GET KEYBLADES
EVERYBODY GETS A KEYBLADE!!!!
I think that Keyblades are way rarer than they seem, but appear to be very common, simply because of their relations with each other and where they are, normal people in the universe wouldn't ever have a chance to get one, let alone see one. Then again, you could site Unchained, considering that several groups of people were given keyblades. There may be something that I'm missing in regards to that, but I don't feel like looking that up, this was just something that I thought of and heard some others talking about.
EVERYONE GETS A KEYBLADE!!!
thanks for this easy to follow guide to brain damage
LMAO
Sorry you can't understand a simple story.
@@Dotoku14 really it's not really that symple
Ngurah Dwijaksara 666 likes
@@Dotoku14 Yes a simple easy to follow not completely insane convoluted story @_@
Kingdom hearts in a nutshell
Everyone is Sora
Everyone else is Xehanort
You didn't know how literal this actually is
@@thewiseoldfox ever thought that this was a joke
@@Dragon_Mastr1 yes. I know it was a joke.
@@thewiseoldfox then why did you reply to me
@@Dragon_Mastr1 because you posted this before the end of UX
GOT IT MEMORIZED?
I love you so mch for this reference
@@idecayi7102 TRUE KH FANZ UNITE!
nope
called me?
im shocked i manage to remember most of the story, holy dam i was mostly on the nose, im so ready for KH3
When you’ve seen all the games and still watch this cause it’s confusing as heck.
Its that final fantasy part of kh imo. I couldnt keep up w/ ff
Lol me.
Everything was smooth sailing until dream drop distance
King I mean, I wouldn’t say it was “smooth sailing”, as shit really started to get dumb with kh2. Like Kingdom Hearts going from a door to a moon, Riku having Ansem TSODs’ appearance, who wasn’t actually Ansem but ??Xehanort’s??? heartless, who stole the real Ansem’s name because reasons. Oh, and a Secret Ending that completely fucked the lore till BBS.
KH2 is my favorite game in the franchise but they really started to mess things up then. The story, as interesting and emotional that it’s been, snowballed into this convoluted and disastrous mess by the finale. It honestly killed a lot of hype I had for KH3, and I’ve been playing this franchise since the beginning.
Kingdom Hearts 1 was simple: Sora was the chosen wielder of the keyblade, no one having 738373 identities, no time travel, none of that. Just a simple story of a kid trying to find his friends and save some worlds from the Heartless. Why did they have to go and fuck that all up?
I feel like a game developer in japan literally just wanted their disney fan fic to be a game then lost control of their life.
😂😂😂😂 bruh and who wouldve thought we would all be his cult following
What do you expect of a series born because two guys from separate companies on adjacent floors in the same building shared an elevator ride.
I wanna know what Nomura smoked when he wrote the plot of this game
@@nikkoh15 ik
Then the Fan fic turned into more fan fic
It's almost like the writers were just making stuff up as they went along
After that compressing of 13 years of games into half an hr, and a couple aneurysms and strokes, all i could tell was ventus = sora = roxas but at the same time ventus =/= sora =/= roxas
Actually Ventus =/= Sora = Roxas = Xion Just to make it even more headache inducing for ya.
To quote a friend of mine; "Everyone is either Xehanort, or inside Sora's heart."
Uh... Where does that put Vanitas then?
Or should I just shut up? 😅😂
I think everyone's just having an Orgy with themselves.
Aqua, Terra, and Ventus's hearts are linked. Vanitas is Ventus, but not really. Ventus' heart later took refuge in Sora, who is also Roxas and Xion, and linked to Kairi who is also Namine. DiZ is really Ansem, but not the same Ansem who's also Xehanort who is also Xemnas. Then there are the Data versions of everyone. Riku's heart is linked to Sora's, as is Axel's who is also Lea. Xigbar is also Braig and became Xehanort. Oh, and Maleficent also likes to float around and pretend that she's the villain, even though she's totally not. Not convoluted AT ALL.
Although it is easier if you keep in mind, as Vaugn Monger's friend said, "Everyone is either Xehanort, or inside Sora's heart," which is actually a pretty accurate summary.
I have no idea how you condensed such highly detailed storytelling into about 35 minutes. Insane work
Did the events of A Goofy Movie happen before or after the Keyblade War?
It all happened in goofys mind when he got hit with that rock
Gawrsh!
@@smashchachi9047 didnt he killed someone and was in court?
Edit. Yheah the goofy in trial incident.
These are the real questions, people.
Doesn’t matter anyways he gonna hyuck you up regardless
Xehanort with org 13 is the definition of the „fine I’ll do it myself“ meme
“However aqua, aided by another key blade apprentice MICKEY MOUSE”
that shit got me weak
The true master
I was so caught off guard how they just implemented mickey and his allies without any previous info😂
yeah, this is the moment when you just stop the vid and think for a minute. 10 minutes. 2 hours, i mean.
*giggles in the background*
You did an amazing job with this video but you forgot one crucial thing. You forgot to mention that Yen Sid's name backwards is Disney.
And Eraqus
Omg nooo wayyyyy I never knew that or haven’t thought bout that
and he is the evil mastermind behind everything
shinzombie whattttt
ok i believe you
Everyone is Xehanort, and everyone else is Sora, but everybody wants to be Ansem. There. I explained the entire series for you.
Meteornome exactly
No I mean really tho
Wait, what?
You forgot about DARKNESS!!!!!!!
Then who's nobody?
Wait a minute, so you're telling me seasalt ice cream was part Xenahort all along?! That's crazy!
Pretty much!
I didn’t know this
"Another key blade apprentice, Mickey Mouse" wow that really just come out of left field doesn't it?
he's basically yoda. and he's only ever referred to as 'the king', 'your majesty' or 'king mickey' in the games. sounds better that way.
When the story is told in order like this, yeah I suppose so. But if you've been playing the games ad they come out, Mickey is already well established to be a Keyblade master lol
Terra are Anakin, Xehanort are Palpatine, Eraqus are Mace windu
StrikeDuelist that's such a great comparison
It's almost like the series started off in a completely different place and they didn't plan for even a quarter of the backstory that convolutes the plot now...
It’s crazy how Kingdom hearts 3 is almost 2 days away and no ones summary is as good this one, I watched this video everyday since E3 2018
I've watched like 3-4 videos before landing here... Do you really think this is one of the best you've come across?!
I've never played a KH game before, and it feels like you have. So I'm trusting your opinion, haha :).
It’s almost unreal that it’s actually around the corner
JoshuaG144 I live in the u.s. also so for us it’s still around the corner
i preordered and i live in usa im playing rn
Danny Boyy ^
Been playing kingdom hearts games for years and it took me this long to realize Yen Sid is legit just Disney backwards ):
And Eraqus is an anagram of Square (from Square enix). So he was sort of their Yen Sid counterpart
Mind blown
It could be worse. It took me years to realize Alucard was Dracula spelled backwards...
Spencer DeMent 😲😳🤨🧐😵
In case you haven't watched it: Yen Sid has been around since 1940 in Fantasia. His name was revealed in the introductory clip before the actual sequence he's in, and I think they even say it's "Disney" backward in that, but It's been a WHILE since I've watched Fantasia, so don't quote me on that. Anyway, the sequence "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is where he comes from. He's the sorcerer in question, and Mickey is his apprentice. That's why his hat MAY look familiar(all the art and merch of Mickey in the red robe and signature blue, moon-and-star-patterned hat). That's also why they have that connection in Kingdom Hearts. It's just for different reasons.
You could write a college paper on this and your teacher would give you an A because they too did not understand the complexities of this madness.
KH's story is like a 5 yr old trying to explain their day at the fair. No matter how many times it's explained, you just gotta smile and nod without understanding one bit of what you heard. Thanks for the summary though!
That is the most accurate statement on the KH story ever
😂😂😂😂😂😂
No joke I played kingdom hearts 1 and 2 (back when they released) and watched this and I still have no idea what's going on.
@@btaylor545 playing kh 1 and 2 only will not make you understand the fulls troy, they play a piece in the lore, but a very small piece. Birth by sleep, dream drop distance really lay down the foundation of what this story is really about.
And i thought metal gear was complicated :S
This is actually the BEST summary I have seen thus far. I know its hard to keep track especially if you havent been playing since day 1, but this is about as good as it gets guys
Thanks brah
This and Frustrated Jacob's as well.
And that says enough for me that its just a story that went waaaaay out of hand waay to quick. Plus donald n goofy n final fantasy
same. iv played sence the get go. and this is the best one iv seen
Agreed. I think a little more explanation on Dream Drop distance (towards the ending) would have helped. But aside from that I would definitely say this is one of the best summaries of the entire KH saga. Especially considering how convoluted time travel can be to explain.
This has to be by a mile the ONLY video that very well explains in details and in its entirety the full story of Kingdom Hearts. Excellent job.
Bite Me His video is pretty great, but it excludes X and Coded, and completely glosses over DDD because... he hates the story?
I thought he went over coded and DDD nicely
Seriously? He casually referenced coded by saying that Mickey found evidence of Ven and co.'s survival (and said nothing else about the game), and with DDD he didn't give the ending and just said "This game is stupid" - like, five times.
GameTrailers explanation was better.
Each person has their own preference on things and mine is on this KH vid summary. Try as you might but you guys can't change my mind about this. I love this video. Period.
New person: "I wanna get into Kingdom hearts so where do I start?
Die hard fan: "Whoooo Oooo Oooo first you gotta play the mobile game then Birth by sleep, O then kingdom hearts 1, then dream drop distance, then Kingdom hearts 2 then-"
Casual fan (only played Kingdom hearts 1 and 2, never the heldhand games or remades or ports or remixes): "Just watch this video, but you really should play KH1 and KH2 at least"
BIG SMOKE lol the mobile game is such a good source for starting out though.
You CANNOT MISS Birth By Sleep. It had the best story and brilliant character build for the trio. imo
Technically you should start with Kingdom Hearts X.
My guy Riku has been possessed more than every demonic account in the history of Catholic exorcisms. Dude may as well just stay Ansem/Xehanort or whoever at this point smh....
I swear it's easier to explain all the laws of physics than Kingdom Hearts
CyberShiroGX agreed
Really great but listed some missed points that are fairly important.
-When Ventus and Vanitas merge Ventus and Vanitas have a battle within their own heart. Ventus defeats Vanitas by shatering the X-Blade since it was made from both of them Ventus essentially sacrificed himself to take him out. This act saves Aqua and Mickey and what lead him to a comatosed state
-After Terra becomes possessed a piece of his will is salvaged inside his armour bringing it to life as *"Lingering Will"* this form is able to defeat Xehanort possessing Terra's body allowing Terra's heart to gian some ground and weaken Xehanort, partly why hes been dormant all this time. To this date Lingering Will is still wondering and no one knows where it is.
-Aqua leaves Ventus's body in their home world *"Land of Departure"* which is transformed into *"Castle Oblivion"* a twisted Labyrinth with the purpose to protect Land of Departure's secrets and now Vantus's body.
-Aqua confronts Xehanort possessing Terra's body and does battle, Terra's previous efforts have left Xehanort weakened as Xehanort appears confused and disorientated. Terra is able to briefly take back control to perform a suicide attack which plunges him and Xehanort into darkness, but Aqua chases Terra-Xehanort and sends him back while leaving herself trapped in the darkness. Terra-Xehanort no longer evil or a threat atm is discovered by Ansem the Wise who helps him and eventually makes him one of his many students.
-After Sora beats Riku possessed by Ansem Riku is able to regain control and hold back Ansem letting Sora and Kairi escape but Riku is banished to the Realm of Darkness afterward which is how he appeared on the other side of the door to darkness.
-When in Castle Oblivion Riku and Sora encounter and fight various members of the organization and *Riku Replica"* a dark counterpart of Riku created to trick Sora as part of the routine to manipulate his memories and to tempt riku to fall back into darkness and be a useful tool to them. Riku's own darkness resurfaces to take the shape of Heartless Ansem who he battles and eventually defeats to gain control of his own Dark Powers.
-Its worth noting that Roxas is pretty strong once Xion is no longer siphoning his strength as he is able to wield two keyblades (Sora & Ventus's) and overpower Riku and Sora on separate occasions
-In KH2 Riku disguised as a cloaked figure and doesn't meet up with Sora till much later because hes ashamed of himself as hes taken on Ansem's form and using Darkness but hes been leaving clues and a trail on how to reach Organization XIII's stronghold.
xehanorts heartlesses which calls himself ansem, but yeah I should be more specific. I see the confusion of having a backstory with two characters that share the same name
@@Flotsome alright I haven't played the game's but why do ventus, roxas and perhaps vanitas I don't know for sure look like Sora? I really need to buy those games
Vanitas took on Sora's appearance because when Ventus's heart spit and Sora healed Ventus he supplemented the darkness that was ripped from his heart allowing him to heal. Vanitas and Ventus are connected so Vanitas inherited that appearance.
Roxas Sora's nobody looks like Ventus because of how much Ventus has unknowingly had an influence on Sora (its what essentially enabled him to wield a keyblade in the first place).
@@Flotsome holy shit I'll definitely buy those game's for the ps4
@@Flotsome kingdom hearts should have a anime of 300 episodes to explain all of this because I don't know if game's are gonna cut it.
The sheer amount of work gone into this video is staggering, I'd forgotten so much! Thank you!
Got it memorized? 👉🏼🤨
This deserves top comment
Okay I believe you
The Toy Room - Read that in Axel/Lea’s voice. lol
Lol Axel's favorite catch phase
Love it
I was following all of this just fine until D A T A S O R A.
yup... Coded was a mistake, it really shouldn't have been made canon only to be used a plot device to say "Hey, go save these people, we need them!"
I agree it sounds weird but if you remember Roxas was digitized after the fight with Riku pre KH2.
Yes coded was definitely the series main downfall as it originally released on a JP only cell phone marketplace. A few years later down the line it was re-released on the Nintendo DS in a "remastered port" and then finally it was released one last time on PS3/4 in the 2.5 HD remix as a movie, (along with 358/2) as both games were well liked by some but heavily criticized by the general public and hardcore main series fans (Seriously just watch the movies, the games are cancer)......But yeah Coded was a mistake
Its easier to swallow if you remember this is a battle of science at its core. The masters of masters was a scientist, Ansem a scientist, Xenahort a scientist. Key wielding scientist...
@@PivotDJ That's actually a really great way of thinking about it. I went in thinking it was all magic and fantasy, but the story is probably more sci-fi than anything else.
as a person that i have been following the series since the first kingdom hearts,This is the best explanation is of the series i've seen , great job
I had to clear away my childhood memories for this to be processed
You know after watching this, you just see how CLUELESS Sora is to everything. It fits us players playing him primarily.
skyjlv I really hope it stays that way
@@NYRAPPERFULL This shit is bananas
Here's my hot take: Nomura was clueless when making this story. I genuinely believe he just did a bunch of stuff he thought would be "cool" and then worried about tying it together later. Like "Diz" standing for "Darkness in Zero?" Yeah right, he though Diz was a "cool" name and came up with that bologna later. UGH!!
Sorry I'm actually very upset about Nomura's influence on SE. If anyone happens to like these games and his works, I apologize. I think most KH games are fine games but the narrative, character building, themeing, and substance is all crap. FFIX was one of the best games ever made. I think it's odd that gaming peaked in 2000. : - (
skyjlv it all makes sense.
@@graceggale Hey Chad its Giraffe. It didn't peak we didn't get Hyper Light Drifter or Furi until recently. DOn't lose hope. Also to be fair VErsus would have been great, trust visionaries on creative works there's a means to the madness. Had they convinced him to switch to Unreal Engine sooner we'd have gotten a great FFXIII-Versus
*”Hey Kid, you wanna touch my Keyblade??”*
Ummm... I need an adult
@@CityStarrTx I am an adult
samtrue3 lmao oh god this would make a great tfs abridged series
The police wants to know your location.
Yes Sir, try if your Keyblade fits the hole.
THIS WOULD BE A LITTLE EASIER IF ALL OF THEIR NAMES WASNT CHOSEN BY SLAMMING A KEYBOARD
Truth.
@Nii Lantei Bright-Davies ohh that makes much more sense
They are all Ansem man
They're all people who used to have regular names. But once they become nobody's, their name gets jumbled up with an X thrown in. Sora=Roxas, Axel=Lea, Xemnas=Ansem, Xigbar=Braig, Xaldin=Dilan, Vexen=Even, Lexaeus=Aeleus, and so on, I'm not doin them all. Lol
What’s Xehanorts real name then?
Its like they took a few guys from Disney and a few guys from final fantasy and during the writing every week the other group would get to write the next scene. Then they mashed it all together as a finished product.
YEN SID - DIS NEY
Well shit..
Oh wow...
FUCK OMG
OMG MY LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE!
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“Ansem becomes wise to his plan...”
I see what you did there.
Thanks for noticing! Sometimes my weird word play is worth it
Played this game in high school..I’m 29 now and my wife is like why do you want to get this game...*thinks of how long it’ll take to explain*..this isn’t part of my childhood this is my childhood
My friend me and u both I'm 30 now lol we were kids
how is a game your whole childhood wtf
Badass Gamin true haha!
Jeremy Yoder kingdom hearts is at the forefront of all my childhood memories..as video games go. Red/blue version are up there too
@@terrythompsonjr so it's a part of your childhood
Wow, you did great job. I bought the KH package about a month ago and beat all the games in the order they were released in but was still bit confused. You really tied everything together well. Super excited to play KH3.
Was House of Mouse developed after the KeyBlade War was settled for good?
bruh I give this comment 5 stars
Lol
Tough like the toons: Riku????
Bruhh😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao
i would just like to say, the research and the editing put in this video did not go ignored. i love this video so much
Thanks so much Hae!
Everytime he says something new I have to forget 5% of my memory to make space for it
This is amazing, you've done an outstanding job. I know nothing of you or your channel, but because of this one video I subbed. Thank you for this, truly.
Thanks man 👍
This is really great! Well done on untangling the story!
Ily
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I’ve been listening to your music nonstop. It’s INCREDIBLE
I love how the video starts normally then five minutes in Mickey Mouse is casually mentioned out of nowhere
That is pretty much the nature of Kingdom hearts games though. You almost always have a starting world that has nothing to do with anything disney related (Destiny islands, Traverse town and Land of Departure), some story and events that have nothing to do with disney, and then suddenly, introduce Donald, Goofy, Mickey and/or some other disney themed character/world. So yeah, I think it's fitting that Mickey casually shows up a little ways in the video like it's the most natural thing xD
I had this literal exact thought and paused to look at the comments to see if anyone else felt the same way. Lmao
As someone who only played the console games KH 1 & 2 on PS2, this was a much needed update going into KH3! Since I didn't get a PS3 or P4 all of the prequels and side stories from final mix versions seemed impossible to learn in 2018. This was the video we needed!!
Yo, same-ish. I grew up watching my brother play them. To this day I am still tormented by the phrase: "Dance, Water Dance" from the battle I never won as an 8-year-old.
There's only like two side stories tbh. As you can see from this video, a bunch of titles (like Birth By Sleep and Dream Drop Distance) are just as important as KH2.
@@drudle Since we haven't played since KH2, we don't really know what happened. The explanation helped tho.
The Kingdom Hearts storyline is like a rubix cube...you have to go back and forth again and again till it's finished
The Rubix cube at least made sense xd
So basically the story is: a guy named Xehanort want to create a giant war to see what will happen after. He tries with many plans but each one get stopped by a kid named Sora or someone related to him.
"and I would have gotten away with it if not for you meddling kids!"
Sounds like jojos bizarre adventure lol
So....most of these is just fluff? What do you actually necessarily need to know to just pick up KH3? 1-2? Just 2? 2 and the games afterwards, only the games afterwards? Does any of this stuff make sense with time or does nobody really get it and just think their own part?
The TL; DR of the TL; DR
@@emetanti It's recommended to play all the games since there are reoccuring characters and plot points in later games. The best order is KH1 > CoM > KH2 > 358/2 Days > BBS > Coded > DDD > Back Cover (which is a movie) > 0.2
Less than 10% in:
"This is a being known as Ansem, a piece of Xehanort's future self traveled back in time."
Big Boss lmao I feel you bro
Muramasa S Thanks. I know the story well so I'm ok but clearly this is *not* a video for newcomers.
Big Boss But what's a nobody? Actually, what even is a heart in the context of KH?
Big Boss i havent played KH in about 10+ years i remembered each character but not their origin or anything so am i new comer?
Lil Roach Dogg I'm pretty sure that hearts in KH are basically the soul of that person. So a heartless is actually a heart that has been consumed by darkness, while a Nobody is a body without a heart (or soul) that grow their own personality and (in some cases) their own heart.
Master Xehanort is basically a square enix voldemort who trues to put parts of his soul in horcruxes. And everyone else is harry.
He's essentially Voldemort if Voldemort was able to master time travel and atcually use it to his advantage to place various Horcruxes throughout time, making it impossible for Harry to destroy any of them by the time the final battle hits. So basically, if Voldemort was half as smart as Xehanort is, Harry would have been fucked.
김혜지 YESS I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING!!!!!
I've never even seen Harry Potter and this makes more sense.
I feel like the story of Kingdom Hearts was created by a 9 year old with ADHD.
As someone with ADHD who played it when I was 9 you are correct pretty sure I understood it then too
haha
Yeah super-human capacities.
@@elliottfoster3901 bro same I played the first two when I was real young like 9 and I understood it now I'm 23 and just finding out theres all these other games and there's so much story and I need to watch this because I'm hella confused playing the games now
That's Nomura for ya.
I gotta watch this a few more times to get it all down because all THE NAMES ARE THROWIN ME OFF LOL.
The names are the only thing confusing you? And apparently this is a great way to see how the story goes in these games?! Im just saying that god damn how convoluted can a plot be :D
Same😭
Jocke1234 I personally am pretty good at understanding convoluted things like time travel, alternate timelines, other selves (clones, other halfs, alternate universe versions, etc.), politics, etc. But I never was that good with names, especially in real life. :(
This Guy I can somehow wrap my brain around the plot here but it has just way too much stuff for me to handle it completely 😅 Even if it was laid out without the time travel things in it i would probably be lost..
Your still just as confused 7 Minutes in and i went to the comments to see what other people said. Lost af
So many characters.....so many events.....if there was a test on this I’d fail..
DROPPING OUT FAST AF
Bwhahaha I’m right there with you man, all these weird names are confusing as hell its hard enough with my memory and normal names.
It is more confusing since one guy has like 5 different names.
id get a maybe 70% score.
You blank out for like 5 seconds and your completely lost i had to play the beginning like 3 times before i caught on geez
I did the same thing as well. Glad I wasn't the only one!
Me too
I literally had to play the beginning in .75 speed lol then I sped it up when it got to the stuff I already knew
still playing and I'm like wah?
I'm crying I'm laughing so hard at this comment
Okay KH is the only game where I want darkness to win BECAUSE CAN WE JUST END THIS TRAIN WRECK ALREADY
I both understand this and don't, and that's okay - Just hit things until the credits roll.
- A brief summary of Kingdom Hearts
Yep, that's the plan
@@owenfolks6 except half your time is watching dialogue cut-scenes so bad, you want to smash your console.
I actually understand Kingdom Hearts now. What's more surprising is that all the side games connect and come back around full circle. I'm actually impressed by not only by the amazing work done here with this video (thanks for going the chronological route ^_^) but the fact that it actually all connects in a somewhat believable manner. This was an awesome video, thanks!
There really aren't that many side games. I mean, a bunch of them are as integral to the plot as KH2 is.
I finally understand it and I only had to watch it six times
Never in my life could I have imagined any series that includes Donald Duck and Goofy as prominent main characters could be so convoluted and confusing.