Kingdom Hearts Story Recap! (KH1 - Coded)

[@ThemSensay]

"At the cost of a hot new summer look" I almost choked laughing there.

[@bebopjelli2]

"congratulations 12 year olds, your hearts had a kid" Lost it at that! Its such a good way of describing what happened too. I never thought of it like that!

[@rmsgrey]

I think they're supposed to be 14, but, yeah.

[@timothymclean]

And it makes it all the more tragic that DiZ ends up driving said kid into, effectively, killing herself by merging with Kairi. Even though Kairi was fine un-merged, which is the only theoretical excuse for condoning what he did to Roxas and Xion. On the bright side, I hear KH3 brings all three of Sora and Kairi's heart-kids back.

[@rmsgrey]

@@timothymclean Yeah, the only argument I can think of for wanting to merge Namine with Kairi is that Namine might not be stable as an independent entity - she barely exists, after all, so she might be doomed to fade either way...

[@Artista_Frustrado]

-"& peacefully live the rest of their... ah $#!t" I lost it so hard at that, Dan doesn't always swear, but when he does is a thing of beauty -you know when you put it like that, Heart-baby Namine makes a lot more sense -Dan is slowly but surely becoming Larxene Elemental of Sass -yeah there are some explanations to the different Kingdom Heartses; but the gist of it is that neither Ansem nor Xenmas got to the actual one-

[@PangolinMontanari]

I wish you would make lore videos about ALL OF THE THINGS. The texture of the format you use is so pleasing.

[@DaenGaming]

This summary is incredible. Glued to my screen the entire time, you hit the perfect balance between really clear explanation of the story, engagement, and humor. Really well done!

[@Atraira]

ok I'm 2:30 in and I gotta say you do BY FAR the best job of explaining this ridiculous plot out of any plot recap video I've seen. edit: ok now I actually understand what's going on with these games and it's pretty cool

[@lukmasterjr]

Moral of the story: Kingdom Hearts isn't complicated, just stupidly convoluted for no apparent reason. For real though, the disjointed story-telling. seemingly innocuous moments that become incredibly important later (see: Sora stabs himself) and games scattered among a handful of consoles does not help this series

[@TheMoocow2009]

6:27 (Organization XIII's) Kingdom Hearts ... "really doesn't like being converted to data", and Kingdom Heats I's ... "is light, tbh". This is why this is the best story recap.

[@AlvoriaGPM]

* Stands in front of a wall-sized cork board papered with pictures of KH characters and about 300 meters of various colors of string attached to push pins. * Oh yeah! Super easy to follow!

[@Overhazard]

Hopefully, you've put Sora in the middle, because everyone else is either connected to Sora or actually IS Sora.

[@bumblebeebee31]

oh boy have you seen brian david gilbert's video? cause that's what it is

[@ChrisWood]

“Okay, I think I got it.” ............ “Nope. Still lost.” (Although I will say that this recap was the most effective at making me at least *feel* like I understood the lore.)

[@DoctorDroplet]

Like I said before, I am loving sassy Dan.

[@Distruptor18]

This is basically Kingdom Heart's plot as narrated by Larxene. I love it.

[@LDSkyknight]

#facts

[@readingtoomuchintothings834]

"Isn't this FUN!?" - everyone's reaction to the side effects of Kingdom Hearts becoming a franchise as oppose to the one shot I am sure Nomura thought it was going to be at the start.

[@Valtharr]

I doubt he would have put in a cliffhanger ending AND a secret ending if he thought it would only be one game

[@SparrowFae]

Best summary of 358/2 Days: "And everything is sad."

[@nathanjxaxson]

That was impressive. I'm not even sure Nomura himself could sum it all up.

[@missedthebandwagon976]

6:29 - "Isn't. This. Fun?!" It is when you explain it, Sassy Dan.

[@clefspear6975]

Dan, you need to make a career- no, like a full blown career- out of kingdom hearts commentary. You have no idea how great at this you are!

[@Burori1]

"And that brings us to Kingdom Hearts 2. Jesus there's so much left!" Boy Howdy is there!

[@jordanbrown8662]

At the end of Coded, I felt confused all over again, even though I'd actually experienced, in some form or another, all of the games so far that you've covered in Story Mode, and had actually fully played 358/2 Days and Coded on the DS, but this helped to get me back on track, thank you. I'm also really excited for your Birth By Sleep playthrough, as I haven't actually played it or even experienced it 2nd hand through others.

[@Donarex]

I watched all your play throughs, got lost, tried to read an article summing it all up, got even more confused. But this has cleared it all up!

[@EagleGamer15]

The best recap of Kingdom Hearts I've ever seen.

[@pinkwings8036]

KH brings out people's inner madness and sass and I love it. Quote Barry Kramer: WHAT DO YOU WANT NOW YOU CREEPY RAT?!

[@seanmurphy3430]

KH1: A simple story of light defeating darkness and friendship overcoming even the toughest of obstacles. Every game since then: How can we make this as complicated as humanly possible? Memory manipulation? People splitting into multiple identities? Digital or otherwise fabricated versions of all the worlds and characters? TIME TRAVEL!? Why not ALL OF THE ABOVE? And instead of devoting all of our time to exploring the implications of those ideas on the themes and characters, or even making sure the audience has a good grasp on how they work, we're just going to move right along so we can spend more time recapping Disney movies and introducing MORE CHARACTERS! I DON'T KNOW HOW WE GOT HERE BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO STOP NOW! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[@VerbalLearning]

I want off Nomuras wild ride.

[@seanmurphy3430]

Oh, also we're going to use the most confusing terminology possible, i.e. a Heartless is a being with a heart but no body, while a Nobody is a being with a body but no heart. Why isn't it the other way around? Because we're making this up as we go along and because FUCK YOU, THAT'S WHY. (This has always bothered me.)

[@Mikesean45]

I stand by the position that KH1 isn't much more complicated than any other game in the series. Its story is just told better, in a way that's easier to digest.

[@StormyStories]

11:10 "So that Namine can work on restoring Sora Uninterupted, and everything is sad." It's so real!^u^ this has been the best recap I've ever seen! And I've seen some really good ones!^u^

[@samuelturner6076]

6:07 Oh, that’s a way of thinking if it that I’ve never thought of, Dan why did you curse me this way :P. 11:03, ok that’s just a blessed image, Dan I love that joke. Time for best girl’s game, I can’t wait for tomorrow.

[@einootspork]

I really appreciate how you're actually explaining this all as clearly as possible. I hope you do one before you play Kingdom Hearts 3, because I can't wait to see how you deal with the story getting even more convoluted than it already is here.

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

I've never played any of these games but I follow them and I'm familiar with a few lets plays, and I'm into JRPGs generally and such (and I've watched KHIII already) but I have to say: *this was one of the best story summaries I have seen.* It was so clear, so concise, referencing only the most relevant and catalysing information. It ALMOST gets away from you because after all, its kingdom hearts and its a mess, but its perfectly written and honestly its totally followable. Like superbutterbuns says: its not complicated, its just a lot to remember XD

[@chcoman123]

I love how Dan finally thinks he has a grasp on what's happening in the plot. But the next three games are by far the most complicated and change so much of what was already established...its crazy.

[@ijl007]

Thank you so much for the recaps. Its great to get these refreshers as I work my way through KHs.👍

[@ZorlockDarksoul]

The summary was super helpful, not to mention entertaining in its own right. Even having watched all your KH videos up to this point, and having only played 1 and 2 on my own, I was still confused about a couple things, so thanks for this!

[@missedthebandwagon976]

My brother and I laughed out loud a couple times during this. Excellent work! Thank you so much for the explanation on Naminé, I've never understood how she was created until today!

[@bobbik.5372]

Yeeeeeee I am LIVING for all of this, Dan, thank you for putting it all together 💜

[@azukar8]

Having watched Dan’s full recap, I was amazed to come back to this and realise he’s even MORE sassy and exasperated here

[@adonaiblackwood]

This is a fantastic re-cap!

[@Kupokween]

Amazing recap!! And funny. Thanks for the help and laughs!

[@Soumein]

At this point, I'm ready for Ansem's Heart laser having at least 6 repurcussions, like making an Anti Riku-Xehanort Nobody or something.

[@Fr0zen0RB]

There's just something delightful when thing are simply explained as "because reasons"

[@datenegassie]

Okay so if I understand this correctly, a person can split up into two beings. One of them has a heart but no body, the other has no heart but has a body. The being with a heart but no body is the Heartless, the being with a body but no heart is a Nobody. Wouldn't the names make more sense when they're switched around?

[@AnAngryGranny]

Huh, This is actually a really good point.

[@rmsgrey]

In KH1, there was no Nobody - you just have the beings that seek out and devour hearts, and appear whenever a heart is consumed by darkness (and may or may not actually be the disembodied hearts) - called, more or less naturally enough, the Heartless. Then they introduced a second half of people and called them Nobodies and said they were based on the body left behind when the heart was consumed. And so things get weirder from there.

[@AnAngryGranny]

"And so things get weirder from there" is a perfect summary of the series, i think

[@coastersplus]

The only argument that I think can even begin to make sense here is that dumb point about needing hearts to have emotions. Heartless don't seem to have any emotions or intelligence whatsoever, the important Nobodies definitely have some emotions no matter how much they and everyone else denies it.

[@rmsgrey]

@@coastersplus Heartless are driven by pure instinct/emotion. Nobodies (at least the important ones) are suggested to remember and mimic emotions rather than actually feeling them. There are more elements to throw into the mix that only get revealed in games Dan hasn't got to yet, so I'm not going to go into detail either.

[@asyrdal4059]

Wh-whoa. Holy cow, that was a LOT of information.

[@dvklaveren]

There's actually 4 elements to each person; The Body, The Heart, The Soul and The Memory and it appears that the Memory is kind of integral to all three of the latter ones. People's memory can be manipulated and caused to fade away under a lot of conditions and recalling someone's influence on events can cause them to be resurrected as was the case for Malificent. That is why data seems to be able to interact with people's hearts, because the data is something tangible. That is why DiZ/Ansem and Naminé seem to be able to collaborate on uploading people's memories and 'data'.

[@bumblebeebee31]

The fact that I understood this. I'm sending this to my friend to explain what the hell I've been doing for the nearly two months since sora has been in smash. I'm just enjoying the madness honestly it's been a very "just roll with it" experience

[@restlessDSM]

Riku: professional memory reprosessor.

[@Overhazard]

And remember that Disney approved all of this. They have a lot of trust in Tetsuya Nomura.

[@exoskeletons]

God, you could just *hear* Dan giving up once he reached the coded recap

[@Valtharr]

Dan, I think you should have mentioned that, at the end of Coded, Maleficent and Pete set out to find a certain book. That's important. Kinda.

[@johndkleckner]

It's important, but without the context of the mobile game and KHIII, it's not really worth mentioning (yet)

[@MrAuthor3DS]

I'm sure we'll come aCROSS the answer eventually.

[@arkiandruski]

Love the salt thrown into this recap.

[@knurbsi]

Very well done - good work and thank you.

[@favioferreira8921]

Thank you. I had a headache, but after watching this video my brain is now jelly.

[@peggyliepmann5248]

What's really wild is that in the moment, you could swear this whole thing makes sense.

[@Sientir]

This was amazing and excellent! You also had some fantastic jokes in there. Thanks for this. :D

[@timothymclean]

6:00: "Your hearts basically had a kid"...how did you make that moment even weirder than it already was? 10:21: Assuming I recall dialogue from two games ago correctly, Namine just said that the disruption that turned out to be Xion would _delay_ Sora's resuscitation, and that DiZ wouldn't allow that. Which is part of why I hate him so much for driving two kids to -commit suicide- end their existences, and not caring one bit because they're not _really_ people.

[@MrAatch]

Well Namine also tells Xion that she can't just remove Sora's memories without Xion herself also unravelling. DiZ didn't know that at the time though, so that part still stands.

[@psyched1804]

Tomorrow we finally get to Kingdom Hearts: The Best One, and I am stoked!

[@ahmedlateef8669]

I'm so hyped for BBS. One of my favourite KH games, right alongside KH2.

[@Xene4Games]

Hey, don't mock the Scientist King! The bigger the explosion, the better the alche... scientist. And try to blow a massive hole into a huge moon-heart-thing.

[@MatthiasPendragon]

Maybe the most frustrating part of this series metaphysics to me is that "Body" and "Soul" clearly do not mean what we think they do. Roxas is Sora's Body + His Soul. Namine is Kairi's Soul + Sora's Body. That shouldn't be possible on it own, but then Sora stops being a heartless and gets his body and soul back... But Roxas and Namine continue to exist. That means that there are now three Sora "bodies" and two Sora "souls." The only way I can make sense of it is if "Body" does not mean physical matter, but something like "form" or "image." Roxas and Namine are then made up of the "form or image" of Sora, which at least makes more sense then trying to explain how there are three Sora bodies co-existing at once. As for Soul, you can make some sense of it if Soul means "animating force." An animating force could be split among three beings without necessarily diminishing.

[@brockmckelvey7327]

This is an amazing recap. I'm excited to see Dan play through my favorite set of Kingdom Hearts games: Birth by Sleep, Dream Drop Distance, and my new ultimate favorite, Kingdom Hearts 3

[@isadoracostahamsi163]

Brock McKelvey wait. How many are left? O.O

[@rmsgrey]

@@isadoracostahamsi163 It's not precise, but you could call KH3 the tenth Kingdom Hearts game without being very wrong. Dan has covered five so far. Birth By Sleep is basically Kingdom Hearts 0 - on a similar scale to KH1 and KH2; DDD is maybe 2/3 of that; the X games are most likely going to be another MST3K of the cutscene video (though Back Cover isn't exactly a retelling of X and doesn't touch at all on the Union Cross events that have happened more recently - the game is episodic, and isn't done yet); 0.2 is just a few hours to play unless you're ultra-completionist; and KH3 is around 30 hours.

[@ChroniclerC]

I'm sure there's already a dozen people shouting at you what "important" things you forgot to note, but one such thing that I think might maybe possibly be plot-relevant to track is who has keyblades and which ones. Like, Sora, Roxas, and Xion all use the Kingdom Key, oftentimes simultaneously to each other or even multiples of it by the same person. Riku is also able to command the Kingdom Key for a brief period, and uses Soul Eater (I think that's the name) after that. King Mickey uses either Star Seeker or a golden Kingdom Key (I think I've heard people call it the Dark Kingdom Key because it was found in the world of darkness, but I'm unclear on that part myself), although it's unclear if they are separate keyblades or just different forms of the same weapon. And near the end of KH2, Kairi is handed and successfully wields a thus-unknown flowery keyblade.

[@1000PaperLilies]

this is FUN. i'm having FUN. because video games are FUN. and kingdom hearts in particular is SO. MUCH. FUN. [cries]

[@EyeballMouth]

You know what they say...simple and clean

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

♪ sImPlE aNd ClEaN iS tHe W A A A Y T H A T Y O U ' R E

[@coastersplus]

MAKING ME F E E E E E E E L T O N I I I G H T

[@krzuker]

Nobodies have bodies and Heartless have hearts. Got it. Also, has Sora's mom just been wondering where he is this whole time? I assume she was restored to existence with the rest of the Destiny Islands. At least I hope so...

[@CS1theFirst]

I can't help but think how much less convoluted the Kingdom Hearts games would be if they never did a Tron world. No data, no virtual worlds, no "they put bugs in him!". All those weird plot points stem directly from getting to do a computer world.

[@Valtharr]

...what? all the data stuff is completely unrelated to the Tron world(s)

[@lorecraftlp6155]

@@Valtharr tron set the precedent for entering computer worlds and manipulating data directly, like it was reality.

[@sparksbet]

Given that Roxas's data world was a thing before the Tron world was even introduced, I feel like this isn't the case. Perhaps if Tron never existed irl they wouldn't have come up with the idea, but I don't think the decision to include Tron in KH2 affected much.

[@Jenkyblep]

Oh BLESS YOU SIR 🙏🙏🙏 i was so lost but i get it now (also drinking liquid during this would be a terrible idea, you caught me with SO MANY surprise chortles 😂)

[@Kaosubaloo]

I think that the other important take away from Days & Coded is that beings without hearts can eventually...grow? Let's say get their own. It's not something that's stated explicitly but there is an absolute ton of subtext about it in both games. I suspect (genuinely don't know) that it's going to come up again.

[@AusSP]

Oh, yeah. That's definitely a thing. Not to say anything specific, but Roxas is so rarely treated as another aspect of Sora, as much a completely different character, independent of the Nobodies whole stated roles as "literally just that guy but without passion", which is completely different from how anyone else is treated. Probably because a lot of Kingdom Hearts is "This is how it normally works... Except everything the protagonist does is an exception because reasons. And here's a new game that explains the reasons."

[@oakenshadow6763]

"Itsn't. This. Fun?!" 6:28 Don't worry. They didn't really mention him, either. >XD 13:48

[@VerbalLearning]

Nomura's wild ride never ends.

[@Slash-XVI]

Birth by Sleep starting tomorrow, I better practice once more... ...ahem... GATHER!..THUNDER!

[@damrod]

Weirdest part of the whole story is that it somehow makes sense so far when you think about it, even if it also brings a lot more questions that need to be answered... So, when will we get you trying to explain how the whole princess of heart will work? :P Oh and Dan, do you have also something planned for the smartphone version?

[@KaoruMzk]

damrod Back Cover, more than likely.

[@damrod]

@@philster4015 Wasn't that the DS one? I was referring to the one where we go way back in time and get to join a group of wielders for some reason.

[@xela144]

But backcover only tells a small part of story, you still need the mobile game since backcover is a alternate perspective to what the player is dealing with. But then again, Union X is not quite the right game to play for the sake of the order. You have the browser game that you can no longer play but tells the whole story of the key blade war and is taking place at the same time of backcover, then you get the mobile game that takes place after the war in a data scape where the war never happened so the dandelion key blade wielders survived. Oh boy this just got confusing and long just to explain backcover...

[@damrod]

@@xela144 So, is that browser one best watched before or after back cover?

[@KaoruMzk]

@xela144 Also, I think Union X’s story technically isn’t finished yet. I don’t play it but I’ve been told story updates are still being released so... hopefully we get a Re:Union X for Switch someday or at least another movie that covers those events.

[@Kalnaur]

I'm going to say right now that this recap rivals the official one included in Kingdom Hearts III. Also, by god the sass is great.

[@ImperatorPenguin]

And welcome to more of my snark at this tangled gordian labyrinth of plot threads.

[@Actual_Mr_G]

Makes sense to me!!

[@MiseFreisin]

Maleficent is confused... She thought it was a "Date Escape" but now it seems to have become a ..."Dad Escape"???

[@benparker1822]

An intermission? Yay. Now I can go pee and restock on soda!

[@xela144]

6:08 you know, when you put it like that... yeah they kind of did didn’t they? Oh that is weird!

[@Welderr]

Thaaaaank you!

[@KumaKaori]

13:43 Dan, thank you for doing this, so I didn't have to.

[@kaptenteo]

So... what are the rules that govern whether or not somebody's Nobody turns into a fully fledged character or a simple husk of aggression?

[@memmermiller]

At 2:50 I’m still confused. So what’s the difference between a “nobody” and a “heartless”? A nobody is body + soul without a heart, right? And a heartless is ...?

[@Mikesean45]

The darkness in a person's heart. No body or soul included.

[@damrod]

A nobody is just the body without heart and soul. A heartless is just the heart caught by darkness. And the soul is the thing that combines both again in order to become whole again as far as i got that explanation in the game and this vid.

[@memmermiller]

Thank you, that helps ^__^

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

@@memmermiller The trick is that whatever the name implies there isn't (eg: heart-less) its actually JUST that thing. A heartless is just a heart, and a "no-body" is just a body (+soul I guess). Its annoying that they call the thing that doesn't have something, by the thing that remains (not what it doesn't have which is how the words work). Couldn't they have just called something without a heart, a heartless?! Its basic linquisitics, no?! haha But nnnooo... this is KH XD

[@memmermiller]

Satyasya, no wonder I’m confused, then 😂

[@PetelProduction]

you forgot maleficent mentions the book of prophecies.

[@puddingball]

This really confirms for me that the first kingdom hearts is really the best. Retreading the same worlds over and over and over again kind of takes the pace out of the story. I can't wait until Dan does the X-blade story. Luckily that's a nice and concise game without too much side-tracking....

[@AstolfoGayming]

Nice and simple plot. So far.

[@Neukku]

WAIT. YOU ACTUALLY MADE KH LORE EASY TO FOLLOW?! SOMEONE GIVE HIM A GODDAMN NOBEL PRIZE.

[@yakurbe7039]

Wait, why wasn't Kiri's comatose body a nobody too tho? How exactly is Sora doing anything, like closing doors and playing children's card games, while his body is off being Roxas? When Riku embraces the darkness in his heart why doesn't he become a heartless (and also a nobody)? Why isn't Real Ansom a heartless after he went all angsty in the realm of darkness? How come like half of the villains aren't heartless? I'm not sure I understand the metaphysics of this series.

[@memmermiller]

7:57 if you click this time stamp and repeat the names a couple of times, it sounds like Dan is just having a stroke and forgot how to English 😂

[@Mylifeofdragons]

I'm pretty sure the proper pluralization is "Kingdoms Hearts"

[@jkristoff88]

Is anyone going to tell Dan that it actually gets MORE complex from here? Especially after KH3

[@jafortune]

So...how many Soras are there? Sora, Data Sora, Roxas, Xion, I know we're getting at least one more Sora from BBS. So 5? Am I missing any Soras? I really hope that's all the Soras.

[@rmsgrey]

There's a scene later with dozens of Soras, and another later still where you get to collect Soras and the game cuts you off when you hit 333 (with still left)...

[@tparadox88]

Kingdom Hearts 4 is just that scene in Being John Malkovich where Malkovich goes into his own head, but with Sora.

[@justember794]

Dope.

[@rekipstar]

ok so since sora's heartless and nobody both merged back into him and if someone's heartless and nobody both die, the original comes back will sora come back to life as soon as he dies bc killing him also kills his heartless and nobody??

[@tparadox88]

Until Coded, this was actually not terribly convoluted. If all of this was compressed into just KH1 and 2, I might be interested enough to complete them even though the actual game mechanics are the fastest way to turn me off. I don't remember the previous story recap, but I think I didn't watch it because I still thought I was going to finish watching the KH1 playthrough. But my interest fell dramatically once the game left the Disney worlds and got on with the plot at Hollow Bastion, and I was really busy at that time and couldn't watch let's plays, and eventually I got so far behind I gave up on KH Story Mode. (Still a lot further than I got in my own, lost in Wonderland for two hours until I decided I was done playing forever) I've heard KH3 devotes like five hours of its cutscenes to talking about what happened in every previous game.

[@MaraK_dialmformara]

Is Hollow Bastion Radiant Garden's Nobody?

[@pontuslidekil6840]

good job Dan!

[@Mikesean45]

6:27 wait, I thought OG Kingdom Hearts was the totally natural Heart of All Worlds, not created by anyone?

[@liamwhite3522]

How can you have the heart of all worlds when each world still has their piece of that heart, and Sora made sure a lot of worlds couldn't give up their hearts?

[@rmsgrey]

Kingdom Hearts is pure darkness that's the source of everything, and key to the infinite power of darkness. Kingdom Hearts is pure light that's the source of everything, and key to the infinite power of light. Kingdom Hearts is deep in the realm of darkness. Kingdom Hearts is hidden somewhere in the realm of light. Kingdom Hearts can be summoned using a special keyblade made from the hearts of the seven Princesses of Heart - totally unique beings chosen from birth. Kingdom Hearts can be made by smooshing together as many hearts freed from Heartless as possible. That about sums up what we "know". Stick around for the end of BBS and you might learn more about Kingdom Hearts - that contradicts at least half of what we already "know" about it...

[@Mikesean45]

@@rmsgrey Well, we know that Kingdom Hearts is light since that's what killed Billy Zane-Ansem. We know that door led to the Realm of Darkness, so that's probably where Kingdom Hearts is. And the Org 13 Kingdom Hearts was artificial, not *the* Kingdom Hearts.

[@rmsgrey]

@@Mikesean45 So, yeah, Kingdom hearts is Retcon... Barring anything lurking in the secret reports, as of KH3, we still don't really know what it is - just what a bunch of people say about it. Personally, I suspect even Nomura hasn't decided what the true nature of Kingdom Hearts itself is yet.

[@saint23thomas]

For some reason, listening to someone try to explain the story of Kingdom Hearts always feels a bit like watching the last scene from In the Mouth of Madness.

[@marekpopioek7259]

So if Heartless and Nobody defeated form whole person, do we have a 1,5 Sora in our Sora? Formed from his Hearthless (healed by Kairi) and two of his Nobodies Roxas and Xion. And can we have double Sora with Namine as well???

[@rmsgrey]

Xion isn't (wasn't) a Nobody.

[@coastersplus]

Spoiler warning: Just you wait, he's gonna get yet another heart.

[@cyberrb25]

"Who said this was difficult?" -- said no one ever.

[@TimeFreeze]

Does anybody get why "Dark Riku" looks like Ansem/Xehanort???

[@MrAatch]

So that one actually *does* make sense (mostly). Ansem basically becomes a personification of Riku's darkness during Chain of Memories, so "Dark Riku" looks like him because that's what his darkness "looks like".

[@fablion6324]

Oh boy...

[@linkdude09]

Why does this sound and feel his dark souls recap. Geez Disney got dark

[@rolandreams1783]

Wait what about kingdome hearts union cross x chi

[@frozen_sistersforever3870]

So technically shouldn’t 358/2 days come after chain of memories if you are to play the games in order?