The (Simplified) Kingdom Hearts Timeline | The Leaderboard

[@TheLeaderboard]

The Leaderboard presents... The Kingdom Hearts Timeline. This is as simple and clean as it gets folks.

[@kingdomheartsfan3002]

Kingdom hearts 0.2 takes place between kingdom hearts birth by sleep and kingdom hearts 1 not between kingdom hearts birth by sleep and kingdom hearts dream drop distance

[@kingdomheartsfan3002]

Only the epilogue happens after dream drop distance

[@kingdomheartsfan3002]

@ lol

[@ChaosLordAwesomeness]

The intro with one with one world under kingdom hearts should have been labeled as Union x....just suggesting. Plus again and needs a little more research.

[@KonEl17]

I definitely understand how confusing they story is back when they first dropped but now that all the games are on ps3&4 it's fine to follow just long.

[@graysonwilson-cacciapalle7989]

Me: "Have you heard of my favorite game, Kingdom Hearts?" Person: "No, what's it about?" Me: "I have no clue."

[@Kareem-si7bg]

That literally happend to me 💀

[@vitorhenriquefarias8916]

it's about light vs darkness it's simple and clean

[@Motorboy02748]

Vitor Henrique Farias I see what you did there

[@alexxio8656]

Awesome game crazy convoluted story. Perfect for a mix between final fantasy's & Disney's heart renching storys and Disney's convoluted magic explaining everything so it's just saying a wizard did it with a pinch of jrpg drama and op characters.

[@Daddyvader7]

Vitor Henrique Farias true. It’s about light and darkness and the battle of the two. A lot of doors and keys and anime disney stuff

[@EveryThingGirl238]

"Don't know how many hearts Sora can fit in there, but he should start charging rent." I snorted.

[@franklinbadge1215]

Xehasnorted?

[@tornyiegrace1696]

lol

[@christiandelcarmen1278]

Well, he held 7 during the end of KH3 in the final battle so...

[@doubledownpleasegosubtotte4274]

@@christiandelcarmen1278 funny stuff

[@TTVArgusGuy]

Now let’s get the _complicated_ timeline

[@angelbless45]

This!

[@tenderquirkydragon8643]

Get ready for an hour long video

[@Shoop400]

@@tenderquirkydragon8643 Try a 3 hour lecture.

[@demetriusprime1505]

Lmao... You're not serious are you...?

[@donavonhoho]

PCP kingdom hearts lecture

[@getmeabeeryoupieceofshit-m2754]

So let me get this straight: An old man forgets his house keys and can’t turn off his lights. So he gets a bunch of heartless criminals to break into his house so he can turn off the lights. But his neighbor’s son Sora sees the criminals and he misunderstand and attack using his only weapon, his dad’s car key. Sora’s pet dog and duck who sees a piece of bread in Sora’s pocket, join in. But the criminals have car keys of their own. Thus beginning the car key war.

[@jamarikr4864]

Ligmer Ballz Lmao

[@cheesecakelasagna]

The best summary of the entire franchise I've ever seen.

[@RenAliceaFebus]

Why does this make more sense than the actual plot? (x .x)

[@neonikat827]

XD

[@Tails92Halcmm]

Old GM car keys, very pointy

[@Scoinsoffaterocks]

I find it funny how the franchise is supposed to be Disney meets Final Fantasy but most of the story just revolves around the OC characters. KH is literally fan fiction with a budget.

[@LeeEverett1]

I don't think they were expecting the first game to be as successful as it did, and they needed the title of Disney meets FF as a theme to garner new fans. Then the series just kinda developed its own identity after KH2.

[@Pleasestoptalkingthanks]

Dis is my oc Xexe, he has 5 Keybwades and he is better den Sowa and Mickey

[@inazumarai7690]

@@LeeEverett1 rip sephiroth

[@philipchau6019]

@@LeeEverett1 no it was meant to be an original story from the beginning

[@blastortoise]

"Original character characters" nice, but really like did you want it to be only disney or FF? Having original characters makes it to where it's not directly linked to one side on the collab.

[@TheNN]

Video: "In true Ansem fashion, he uses his favorite move." Me: "Darkness?" Video: "Betrayal!" Me: "Oh."

[@Coolio_Ash]

KEYBLADE

[@Firestar-rm8df]

@@Coolio_Ash Ok, I believe you.

[@EskChan19]

You mean the Mega Destruction Dark Ball of Darkness and Destruction?

[@TheNN]

You forgot to add 'Special Attack' to the beginning of that.

[@jrod53090]

Yep that was my chain of thoughts too. U can make a drinking game out of him saying "Darkness"

[@KirbyKips]

I heard somewhere that the reason Sora turned into a bug heartless was because his heart didn’t have much darkness inside of it.

[@vulpesvulpes6464]

That actually makes perfect sense!

[@bendystein7019]

KirbyKips but can you think how Kairi recognised Sora despite the fact that there's also more Heartless at the moment

[@crocuslament9680]

@@bendystein7019 She sensed his heart because he was able to hold on to his consciousness. I think. Edit: Also maybe she can just tell who all of the heartless were when they were human. and Sora was just the only one she cared about.

[@kyklous3657]

What about those mushroom heartless that are completely harmless? How little darkness do you need to turn into that?

[@OtterloopB]

I swear if Kingdom Hearts 3 ends up being a "it was all a dream" scenario, I'll never be able to eat ice cream again...

[@BladeOfLight16]

"I've been having these weird thoughts, lately. Like is any of this for real, or not?" They never did address those lines from the very first game. lol

[@GrandCatapult]

Meanwhile, Union Cross is hinting strongly at the active utilisation of dreams to protect the Light. And Ventus is in it, and so is Marluxia pre-nobody. You may need to run down your ice cream reserves.

[@mohammedalam9402]

aka Lost

[@Concobbers]

I had a nightmare of how kingdom hearts 3 came out and the end was all a dream

[@sakura368]

i think it was all a dream

[@JebSvS]

YOURE XEHANORT, HES XEHANORT, IM XEHANORT! ARE THERE ANY OTHER XEHANORTS I SHOULD KNOW ABOUT?

[@soraislxrd]

Meow...

[@dovington]

The 20 more you meet throughout the entire 11 games 😂😂

[@notsharp6148]

Aqua xehanort

[@reidepperson8534]

Meow

[@setyyppisuomesta8448]

Italian Xehanort

[@MrSpoonhands]

"Simplified": 20 minutes "Full": A walk across the states with a week long break in between

[@Morningelixir]

Death stranding

[@Captain.Mystic]

"Patience is key!" "Patience is the key!? I thought Memory was the key!?" "I thought the sword was the key."

[@straygameplaywalkthroughps6480]

Time Traveling Multi verse Clones are the key

[@Farne536]

Let your heart be your guiding key!

[@daleketchup7434]

“You guys have keys?”

[@aaronbarber6238]

As Captain Jack Sparrow said, “It is a drawing of a key.”

[@TheHipisterDeer]

"I thought dreams was the key"

[@ganon_t99]

One does not *SIMPLIFY* the kingdom hearts timeline!!

[@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE]

You can. You just cant in under 10 minutes

[@jamesfoster6506]

@@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE speed this vid up by 2 times and than its under 10

[@KugelKami]

you can tho. hell, you can with a simple pic pbs.twimg.com/media/DbPgApIX0AAwZ1i.jpg

[@Zayindjejfj]

Imagine if they did that thing where they have alternate timelines due to time travel.... The story would be much, much more confusing.

[@EvanFarshadow]

HMK does it really simplified and REALLY short (5 and a half minutes)

[@sethoneal2482]

Simplifying kingdom hearts is like baptizing a cat

[@adanna8552]

I don’t why this made me laugh so hard😂

[@Drewtendo]

@@adanna8552 Because it's the most accurate comparison.

[@chaserose5127]

Amen

[@shady5595]

Amen!

[@real_timeless]

That's hilarious

[@TheFoolishSamurai]

...my head hurts.

[@Sumthin_Unbearable]

Me too ...... I guess one piece is more simple

[@friarruse1827]

That's not even the half of it. Now you have to understand KHUX ( Kingdom Hearts Union Cross), which takes place before Xenahort and tells the story of the First KeyBlade war, where you will learn about the previous incarnations of The First Organization 13's Nobodies who will probably play a bigger part in KH4 and the KH games to come

[@pinkeeslvts]

Friar Ruse STAHP😭😭

[@kylelundgren5133]

This series is not that convoluted look at the Legend of Zelda timeline and tell me that's not completed and you're not completely stretch it to fill their inability to tell a story without throwing in 50 million gimmicks.

[@njzito]

This game is really simple

[@DiscordiaCosplay]

Thank christ for this video, because I was not starting over and playing 11 games just so I could play 3.

[@Bl4nKDZSTYLE]

Play the games better. U will not understand much

[@leomarescotti672]

@@Bl4nKDZSTYLE SPOILERZ Oh well you also have to play a cellphone game and a close browser game to understand the scene with the demon tower in the keyblade graveyard in kh3

[@njzito]

@@leomarescotti672 not really

[@dillonduke1662]

@@leomarescotti672 lol are you can just Google it, problem solved

[@harleytheapothecary7849]

you wouldnt have to play 11 games, there are only 8 and a demo up to KH3 and out of those 8: in the story so far three of them are so unimportant they are just cutscene compilations, dont play Re:com just look up the cutscenes, do the same if you dont like DDD, and BBS is suprisingly short. 3-4 games and a demo

[@loganharrison1079]

Just Incase anyone was wondering, all of the names with X in them are just anagrams of the names of characters in their original form. I’ll show you: Xehanort = No Heart Xemnas = Ansem Roxas = Sora Axel = Lea Those are just a few but you get the idea. Every character with an anagram in their name is linked with another. Either they’re a nobody version of their original selves or their anagram alludes to something else.

[@BladeOfLight16]

We don't know what Xehanort is an arrangement of. It could be No Heart, Another, or even A Throne. Or knowing KH, it's somehow all three at once.

[@Euphoryaaa]

I’m still trying to get used to the fact that “Lea” is pronounced “Lee”. That feels so wrong. They couldn’t just make is somebody name “Ale” or something...nah that’s just as bad. Axel is such a cool name. :(

[@1_.Unknown._1]

I believe the X comes from the X in X-blade, it's really weird how they spell it as chi-blade and it sounds like keyblade

[@React2Quick]

@@1_.Unknown._1 That's because it's a Greek symbol. And it translates a bit weird. So it comes out sounding like Keyblade.

[@rmsgrey]

@@1_.Unknown._1 The X is "explained" in DDD - it's called "The Recusant's Sigil" and Xehanort can use it to track people (in addition to presumably having other, yet to be revealed, properties). Luxu may or may not be an exception to the X-names thing.

[@Verlisify]

So Ansem is pulling some Orochimaru inside of Sasuke shit?

[@kylelundgren5133]

Precisely

[@terranortgaming]

Yup

[@garyweeks4489]

Basically 😥

[@doubledownpleasegosubtotte4274]

Oh boy

[@won8459]

I'm dead lmao

[@northernlightz5319]

This one is much better compare to last time. As a KH fan. This was a good refresher course for me. KH3 IS AROUND THE CORNER!!!!! I'm soo hyped!

[@khzero8347]

Same man! KH 3 is gonna be so awesome! KH is my favorite video game series!

[@ryumajin7568]

Wooooooooooooo I can't wait getting my copy at midnight in my local Gamestop Update/edit my GameStop sold copy's of the game on the 28th at 9pm due to an impending storm it was a good night very good night

[@Savagewolver]

Truth!

[@sageninja7260]

Was it good in your opinions?

[@northernlightz5319]

@@sageninja7260 yesss, 9/10

[@OrangeGraffiti]

Five minutes in... that was the best explanation I've seen so far for BBS and Ansem/Xenhanort. Thank youuuu

[@ricjones0531]

The Leaderboard: “will take him from zero to hero just like that!” Kh3: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT???

[@austynbrown2405]

The reason they love X’s in nobody’s names is because that is how they are tracked, by the X’s in their names. The X’s are actually pronounced as keys (it’s a Greek letter) it’s a complicated but awesome detail.

[@RenAliceaFebus]

Can you elaborate on that a bit? This piqued my interest in the whole X naming thing

[@luciddexterity4580]

Ro(x)as name is a mix up Sora’s name. Nobody’s that need to be unlocked... All the other nobodies share the same thing

[@kappa132]

the many x's come from x-blade..in greek x is pronounced as chi or he and lets say chi-blade sounds like key-blade

[@mars9380]

Imagine if Xehanort is a nobody of someone..

[@kocaimjensen]

@@luciddexterity4580 xemnas = X + emnas (ansem). Okay... Okay... Okaaaaay... My mind just blown.

[@LMEServicesMSP]

I've never once played a Japanese game with a coherent story

[@duecedajuice2678]

Agreed lol

[@njzito]

This one is

[@harleytheapothecary7849]

you know that mario is from japan right? and pokemon...

[@harleytheapothecary7849]

@Tyler Vincent fair

[@thebetaman]

@Tyler Vincent boi

[@raganark4214]

I remember loving KH1 and when KH2 came out, the whole first part of the game I was like "what?" I never realised a ton of side/back story games came out in between lol

[@02buddha02]

Yeah totally... I always thought the Roxas intro was so weird

[@Miju001]

The only side game between KH1 and KH2 is Chain of Memories lol, all the other spinoffs are between KH2 and KH3

[@lifeonmars03]

@@Miju001 man I hated chain of memories when I got it. Let down forsure

[@QueLoKevin]

@@lifeonmars03 when CoM came out, I thought it was just as good if not better than KH1. I thought the story was great and Sora actually had a personality in it rather than just being a generic main character that screams friendship at everyone. Plus the card system was super interesting

[@AtticusBeRockin]

Same here I skipped chain of memories cause I didn’t want to play a handheld GbA game with some shitty card system after the luxury of the ps2 with 3D environments and normal combat. To say I was confused when playing KH2 would be an understatement especially during the intro cinematic. While watching I was like who the F are all these people, and where the hell is this, and when did this happen?? 😅

[@horacejohnson1278]

Final fantasy has the most confusing plot Kingdom hearts: Hold my keyblade

[@chailatte8559]

@waylon lewin yup

[@michaeljames6737]

at least ff make sense

[@marioluigi3122]

Kingdom Hearts timeline is nothing compared to the FNAF timeline.

[@adamplayz5929]

@@marioluigi3122 nah

[@ci7210]

Even Metal Gear Solid is eaiser to follow

[@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE]

As we approach kingdom hearts 3's release: May your heart be your guiding key.

[@SaltedMallows]

That phrase is still cringe asf

[@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE]

It’s not that cringy when you realize that they are being literal.

[@SaltedMallows]

@@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE I mean its just not a smooth saying. I see what theyre going for they're trying to get their May the force be with you but it feels hand fisted. Its outta nowhere

[@JakeMcTevia]

Already have it tattooed across my chest XD

[@SaltedMallows]

@@JakeMcTevia I pray some meme stigma doesn't come out of tgat phrase then or something.

[@SaltedMallows]

Man Ive been absorbing these games for 11 years and I still watch these videos whenever they come out (Also if u like this u just got NORTED)

[@GrimRize]

I only played the 2 main games, the rest just seemed like cannon fodder to me, named stupidly among other things. All this 1.5, 2.5, HD remix, dream drop fuck off, very off putting.

[@fatherfintanstack8810]

Salted I hate getting Norted. That happened once already and I couldn't sit down for a week.

[@LeeEverett1]

Kingdom Hearts: Simple and straight forward story. Kingdom Hears COM: Hmm, basically the first game but with a new villain group. Not too bad! Kingdom Hearts 2: They've expanded on the villainous group from COM and introduced a bunch of new characters as well as a new enemy called Nobodies. Guess I can follow that. BBS: Wow, they have really expanded this game's universe! This is cool though. Days: Jeeze, what's with the spin offs. Where is KH3? Coded: Oh God, here we go again DDD: Wut KH3: The fuck is going on...

[@thebetaman]

KH4: *suicide*

[@blackchase6732]

kh has no spinn offs

[@champthephantomthief793]

KHUx:We are Xehanorts?!

[@mi12no]

Amazingly, every form of Xehanort, is a DICK! There's also a new one now, Young Xehanort, who is also, A DICK! That made my day XD

[@MadMillieX]

Wow, this was fantastic! I've only played KH 1, 2, and now 3 and I was so confused by the story progression 😅 This video was a perfect recap ✌️

[@blackchase6732]

play the fking games

[@yurikuki]

3:50 Aqua "The Real MVP" So true

[@tristanneal9552]

Absolutely great simple video! If anyone was wondering, the weird names with Xs in them are intentional. X seems to be a bit of a symbol for the organization (maybe because of Xehanort’s obsession with the chi blade?). In DDD they mark Sora with an X to follow him through his exam, and each Organization member’s name is an anagram of their human name with X added in. Xemnas is Ansem + X , then mixed up. Roxas = Sora + X. As a side note, I’ve always wondered is Xion is a visual anagram for No 1 (no one) since she never was a person.

[@Gemnist98]

It’s actually No. i, or Imaginary Number. That’s just the name Vexen came up for Xion when he created her, I suppose.

[@owaranaisora21]

Gemnist it also has a double meaning in Japanese. Take out the x and you’re left with “ion,” pronounced EE-ON in Japanese, which speaking to chemistry, has a non-zero charge. Finally, Xion’s name contains the Japanese words for "tide" (潮 shio) and Aster tataricus (紫苑 shion), which, according to Japanese floriography, means "I won't forget you" or "remembrance".

[@TwoToneMalone93]

Ign tried to do it in 5 min lmao

[@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE]

May their hearts be their guiding key.....

[@joined_shores_art]

They probably fucked it up

[@_recipeh]

And they failed miserably

[@M40M40Y1NP31]

dunkey have the best explanation video

[@ajfatca]

and it was terrible

[@mamba_kekw]

how did kingdom hearts get so convoluted? SquareEnix: We need the money

[@blackchase6732]

the fk kh isnt convoluted

[@repenexus518]

They were too attatched to Sora and had no restraint as writers. I bet they they had all of these cool scenes in mind, and then had no idea how to logically connect them all, so they made the poor connections up as they went along.

[@strugu27]

Seriously, I've never seen someone explain as well as you. I know the games, I know the story but I can't do better than you to explain this amazing story to my friends 👏

[@chrisxwavy]

I just binge played the series for the first time, via all in one package, I still have to play remind, but I loved this story man, I never played final fantasy so I didn’t know what to expect fr, but after finishing 3 it’s just so crazy to see where things began & how far they’ve come

[@HotlineCity]

the thing with organization 13 is their names are an anagram of their original names with an X added to them Roxas = Sora X Xemnas = Ansem X Axel = Lea X

[@jameslong672]

I never thought of that

[@MOOSHROOMKILLER3]

jameslong672 it literally shows it in the video when roxas gets introduced, you can see it spells sora

[@jameslong672]

@@MOOSHROOMKILLER3 calm down abit only said i didnt notice that, i know about sora and roxas but i disnt know about rhe other members

[@siyanneharper6361]

they could've just named Lea Alex, but ofc not...

[@khalidhenry3857]

Kingdom Hearts combines two of my favorite things: video games and Disney

[@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE]

A complicated story and Disney for me lol

[@farhadzuhdi5396]

More like Square and Disney. At least for me tho

[@Gunfighter150]

I swear this series idea must have been made by someone when they were drunk or high. Seriously the best explanation I can give to a newcomer of the series is this since I was a kid. “This is a crossover series between Final Fantasy and Disney that’s focus on original characters. There’s this thing called keyblade ms which can control or affect the heart/soul of people. There’s this thing called Kingdom Hearts that might be heaven or something. Just play the game and you’ll understand better with realization that Disney and Final Fantasy work well together.”

[@lonelywolf5659]

It's not really hard to understand if you play through the game you're get it. Saying it's overly convoluted is not really. Clearly you have not played the BlazBlue series which is much worse now that is convoluted.

[@Gunfighter150]

blade wind blade wind Yes, I have played that also and that story line is hard to explain too.

[@WestAfrican-m1v]

Have you ever read the book Invisible Man ?

[@aaronokemaysim7310]

I am a god. Not because I am all-powerful, Not because I am Invincible, B u t b e c a u s e I u n d e r s t a n d w h a t i s h a p p e n i n g.

[@njzito]

It's not hard to.

[@TobiLaroux]

Everyone is a god until they are proven wrong. "when someone asks if you are a god, you always say Yes"

[@Chrisdish]

What is a god, to a non-believer.

[@MissRandomNomad0o]

so you are all-knowing

[@fireflyaex2296]

GREAT. ive been forced into the series, and im still kinda lost...... help

[@Vega-lw5tl]

Holy shit, this is so overwhelming and it's just the simplified version ...

[@Samuel-uf3mj]

Ikr? I just started playing kingdom hearts after I got into final fantasy and I’m over here looking at the timeline like: “what the crap is going on?”

[@blackchase6732]

@@Samuel-uf3mj play the games in order of release

[@Samuel-uf3mj]

black chase67 so like KH 1, CoM, 358/2 days, 2, bbs, recoded and so on?

[@blackchase6732]

@@Samuel-uf3mj revers 358 and 2 bbs recoded watch it or not (its inconsequential ) 3d 0.2 fragmentarry passege kh back cover and get a look on union x s plot the basics and keyblade war back cover is a movie about it but it leaves a few things

[@Samuel-uf3mj]

black chase67 I just want to walk away from the series entirely because you have to remember so much crap. I just know that Sora is the chosen one to wield the keyblade and is supposed so set people free by killing heartless or something like that. But I see other people wielding them and I get confused. Once I’m finished with 3, I’m done.

[@Gaia_BentosZX5]

TO FURTHER CLARIFY: Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, is a classic case of stolen identity. While the real one is rotting in the Realm of Darkness, Xehanort uses this time to trick everyone that he's the REAL EFFIN' DEAL and not some poser. This plan backfires at the hands of Sora in KHII, when he realizes the jig is up. KHIII analogous to Char's Counterattack in Mobile Suit Gundam.

[@React2Quick]

Correct as Ansem Seeker of Darkness is the heartless I believe of Xeahanort and Xemnas is his nobody. While Diz is the real Ansem aka Ansem the Wise in disguise.

[@pout7164]

GaiaX5 makes sense huh

[@AnnoG]

My KH 3 predictions : - Sora and Kairi will finally seal the deal. - Sora's gonna let his anger take the place and be strong as fck at some point. - Lea will have a bromance with Ventus. - No I won't cry at the end, you will cry.

[@jaronhoward1926]

Anno.G the Lea/ventus thing makes is a great idea but I’m sure they will go the lame route and revive Roxas

[@AnnoG]

@@jaronhoward1926 I don't think they gonna revive Roxas. It should be the same as the "death" of Axel. Since Roxas is a simili, Ventus is going to wake up and remember everything as a simili so his story with Axel/Lea.

[@AchillesofOblivion]

well guess what happened...

[@AnnoG]

@@AchillesofOblivion It's ok if you cried man

[@santosony1]

The thing is that Roxas is Sora’s nobody. Not Ventus. Ventus has nothing to do with Roxas and they only look alike because he was already in Sora’s heart when Sora basically committed suicide lol causing Roxas to take on Ventus’ image. That’s why Vanitas looks like Sora but is the other half of Ventus. And literally nothing that you mentioned happened lol. I was looking forward to those things as well 😭😭 i wanted Ventus and Roxas to interact with each other! Maybe the next game..

[@sara215]

omg.....i'm in medical school and this was stressful to me lol

[@natesamadhi33]

Medicine actually makes sense. This doesn't

[@WestAfrican-m1v]

I know why, very unorthodox way of presenting something, simple, short, concise, entertaining is usually the best way to go about youtube videos.

[@StrictlyGaming_1]

Even with a confusing storyline i love the collaboration between Square Enix and Disney characters.

[@ricknguyen9346]

I watched 3 different videos on the timeline ranging from 30mins to 3 hours. This video has put all of it together for me. Thank you.

[@OrochiPops]

No Master of Master, Luxu, The Foretellers, the Black Box????? Some big pieces missing from the story.

[@Monty2289]

Just fuck Union Cross. It's not relevant until KH3 and that's if they focus on it enough to begin with.

[@atlas_vash]

Plus can anyone really explain any of that mess? Nobody knows who the MoM is or why he disappeared or what's in the box and his keyblade etc. So it's probably best to leave that out until they come up with more details

[@SuperVideo333]

I feel like all that stuff isn’t gonna be answered in kh3 but will be left for the other games after it

[@sumireravenclaw8034]

@@atlas_vash well techinally i think the keyblade no man was handed over to luxu and either 1: luxu opened teh box 2: handed the keyblade directly to MX since time travel has been confirmed in DDD. OR 3: he handed it to an apprentice and over the 100s or 1000 of years the keyblade has been passed down in generation to generations. but we do see someone in the kh3 trailer that has a keybalde with an eye on it that *kinda* looks similair to the noname blade.. so why is that? and what purpose does the keyblade have

[@atlas_vash]

@@sumireravenclaw8034 well yeah the keyblade was given to luxu and we have no idea if he opened the box or not and that'll probably not be answered in this game, and yeah of course he passed it on because xehanort has it so either eraqus and xehanort were his direct apprentices given the timeline or the second set of apprentices, and yeah the eye from no name can be seen on a few different keyblades but mostly ones for terra and riku and that's probably because they're directly connected to xehanort and it was passed to them

[@CVVLin]

Did anybody else get lost 5 min in

[@DNice5865]

lindsey henderson yeah I had to start it over then I got it

[@whatup53]

Yes

[@JerinHaynes]

6, but yuuuup

[@jaxtonlango3287]

It's actually pretty easy to understand

[@Umboon]

lindsey henderson I got lost 30 seconds in

[@mistamemewide]

KH? Timeline? SIMPLIFIED?! *_top 10 questions humans can’t explained_*

[@Ketharuil]

I dunno, I think Terra might have gotten the short end of the stick.

[@MightyWeeks]

I can only imagine the amount of work this video took. Thank you for catching me up to speed. Starting KH3 finally.

[@Candied_yamz]

Thank you SO MUCH for making this video. I tried watching the one that explains the whole plot that’s 30 minutes twice and still didn’t understand. I think I do now.

[@WestAfrican-m1v]

The girl is usually the most talented.

[@zeruszephuros5419]

"Aqua, the real MVP of birth by sleep" You earned a like, and a subscriber xD!!

[@bermfs3978]

What was 20 minutes (estimated time) felt like 20 hours of explanation. Why is Kingdom Hearts so complicated?

[@lifeoftalise4390]

Dood ikr

[@GamerKonata]

It's fairly simple if you played through all the games. The problem is on paper it doesn't make sense. The way the it's written sorta makes you wise to how the rules of the universe work early on, which makes everything else pretty straight forward.

[@onepunch2310]

I understand it by playing it but it’s a mouthful trying to explain it to others

[@GamerKonata]

@@onepunch2310 This is why I just tell my friends who want to get into the series to either play the games or watch the cutscenes. By nature any explained video will be confusing.

[@KingNoteBlock]

Also to be fair when Sora defeats both Ansem: Seeker Of Darkness and Xemnas this also rebuilds Terra-Xehanort's body while Xehanort's body is also reconstructed unknowingly.

[@xzachedelicxpsn2403]

Thank you so much for taking time to create this video. I didn't play the spin off titles and the confusion was real.... This video helped out tremendously!!!

[@bee-beargaming]

Thank you Leaderboard I've been trying to figure it out for the past week now. Now I understand it better. I used to know this stuff when I was younger but forgot over the years.

[@browny4114]

If you want a whole timeline search up everglow kingdom hearts timeline its way better than this explanation cause they missed out some very interesting and important part

[@SuperKen6184]

Of all the simplified KH storyline videos I’ve seen, this one is the best! Simple ( as you can get with this game) and you took your time with it and didn’t give yourself a time limit. I really enjoyed this video. 😊👍🔑 💙

[@nickanthropocene6502]

lol pleb

[@blastortoise]

It was simple from the get go, this video was made back in the day to capitalize on a meme said by idiots.

[@ehbtsincedayoneish]

"Only to have him mock you, by battling shirtless at the end". Hahahaha thanks for the memories what a quote.

[@KirbyKips]

9:23 There’s a reason why the members of Organization 13 have X in their names. In Birth by Sleep, Xehanort calls the keyblade the X-blade and says this: “X...a most ancient letter. Some say “kye,” but the meaning is the same. Death...a letter that spells endings.” So since Xemnas, a half of Xehanort, took over Organization 13, he put the symbol X into every member’s name. I think they explain this in 358/2 days.

[@JabamiLain]

I've been trying to make a fanfic universe of the "Kingdom Hearts" saga. And after A LOT of research of the saga's lore, its fanfics, the lore of "Once Upon A Time" and the original Greek mythology...I think I am ready to start writing it.

[@fryingpanman7501]

Thank God for this!! I could never finish the games, they got too hard for me in the last couple levels. And I never bothered with the spin off games. This is SO helpful to catch me up for KH3 next week.

[@pedrovinicius9753]

Theres no spin offs

[@JoseSantos-hb4nx]

Probably one of the best recaps out there, just one thing: 0.2 actually takes place during the ending of kh1.

[@gionova1]

It actually ends after KH ll. The last scene showed her walking up to Ansem the Wise at the beach in the realm of darkness.

[@nathanbenitez6856]

Also, only most of 358/2 days takes place after COM, not all

[@matthewwendt6521]

The stuff with Mickey and Riku is after DDD.

[@dulcetcherry6157]

I feel like it should also be mentioned why ventus looks like roxas and sora looks like vanitas...because that hella confused me for a good while. Infact I’m still not 100% sure on it but from what I’ve gathered, when Roxas was created after sora extracted his heart, Ventus’ heart went with sora’s nobody and stayed with roxas until ya know roxas went back to sora, roxas actually had a heart in 358/2 days it just wasn’t his own. Vanitas is a bit more confusing...if we take what the novels say as missing gap filler then when vanitas was born he didn’t have a face, he only developed a face after sora helped ventus which still doesn’t really make sense but it’s kingdom hearts so

[@lifeoftalise4390]

DulcetCherry same

[@Bluedragon094]

Vanitas looks like Sora because Nomura thought it would be neat.Nomura has this nasty habit of getting neat ideas but difficulty in actually connecting that neat idea harmoniously with the story. To his credit though, it's not like people aren't continuing to buy the games despite it.

[@noahroangoldwing]

Casual KH fan here. Am I the only person who prefers Roxas over Sora? I only played 358/2 Days, so that’s probably why

[@PinkHibiscus-eh9hy]

Roxas is so boring.

[@WestAfrican-m1v]

No you are not, Roxas is good and strong, Sora is a bit candid.

[@monoking29]

"Heals Sora with her magic hug" lol 😂

[@scottypham9554]

19 minutes and 5 seconds, still confused af. It's like when you zone out during a lecture for 2 seconds and then realize that there is no going back.

[@Chimzilla27]

Scotty Pham I know I’m still confused too

[@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE]

Really? I don’t find it that confusing

[@rmsgrey]

Kingdom Hearts is a big heart-shaped moon in the sky, and a great power source. Master Xehanort wants to control it, and has made many copies of himself (aiming for 13 because numerology) in the hopes that pitting 13 darknesses (his clone army) against 7 lights (the good guys) will somehow give him that opportunity after at least 3 previous attempts to control it or create an artificial version all failed. His schemes have included using time travel to bring his younger self to the present day, and splitting himself into a "Heartless" (his heart, going by "Ansem, Seeker of Darkness") and a "Nobody" (his body, "Xemnas") to get past various limitations on complete people, so those versions of him may be running around. From about a decade ago, we have three lost Keyblade-wielders - Terra, Aqua, Ventus - Terra's body was possessed by Master Xehanort's heart when Xehanort's old body was defeated. We know his heart was still linked to some part of Xehanort (probably Xemnas) fairly recently. Aqua fell into the Realm of Darkness where she's trapped until someone can find a way to rescue her. Ventus's body is asleep in a hidden chamber of Castle Oblivion, waiting for Aqua to rescue him, while his heart is asleep inside Sora's. Sora is the main playable character of the series, usually travels with his friends, Donald Duck and Goofy, and alternates between thwarting Xehanort's plans by saving the worlds, and falling into Xehanort's traps and losing his levels. Sora's best friends are Riku, another keyblade wielder, recently granted the rank of Master, who has gained an immunity to darkness after being possessed by Xehanort's Heartless, and wrestling with the temptations offered by its power, and Kairi, who has recently acquired the power to wield the Keyblade and is also a Princess of Heart - one of seven who have no darkness in their hearts, and are important to the worlds continuing to exist for whatever metaphysical reason. In Kingdom Hearts 1, Kairi's heart took refuge in Sora's, until he released it, along with his own, turning him into a Heartless briefly until Kairi's Princess-of-Heart powers restored him. However, brief though his time as a Heartless was, that also created a Nobody, according to the usual process - and a second Nobody linked to Kairi and her heart. Sora's Nobody, Roxas, taking on Ventus's appearance due to his heart also being involved, also inherited the ability to wield the Keyblade, though he didn't get any of Sora's memories, and was recruited by Xemnas, Xehanort's Nobody, as the 13th member of Organization XIII, a group of powerful Nobodies. Using Kairi's Nobody, Namine, and the special properties of Castle Oblivion, one of the Organization's members, Vexen, created two replicas - the Riku Replica, who was a straight-up copy of Riku, and Xion, a limited replica of Sora, designed to absorb and hold his memories, who also worked for the Organization for a time, alongside Roxas. Xion sacrificed herself so Roxas would absorb her and Sora's memories she held, then Roxas merged with Sora, meaning Sora holds Ventus, Roxas and Xion within himself. Namine also merged with Kairi. Roxas and Xion's best friend within the Organization, the Nobody Axel, sacrificed himself helping Sora, causing his original self, Lea, to reappear. Unlike Xehanort/Xemnas, Sora/Roxas and Kairi/Namine, normal Nobodies look like their original selves, so Lea looks like Axel. Lea is now a confirmed good guy, having rescued Sora from Xehanort's latest scheme, and has managed to manifest his own Keyblade, and is currently with Kairi, being trained. Rounding out the roster of contemporary keyblade wielders is none other than Mickey Mouse, who managed to acquire a special keyblade from the Realm of Darkness with the help of his old friend, Master Aqua, who he's now ready to try to rescue with Master Riku's help. Any clearer?

[@segamon]

@@rmsgrey thank you for that. ^_^

[@someweirdkid2380]

19 mins and 6 secs.

[@FunnyBuns1]

This was just what I needed to finally start kh3. I wanted to go into it with knowledge of the story. I gotta say I missed a shitload when I played these games as a kid, chain of memories on my gameboy advance. I am so glad Kingdom Hearts 3 had such an excellent compilation of the games to establish the backstory to play; I must say I was familiar with a lot of it and could keep up and not get confused when I watched the memories in the game. Also, did anyone see an extreme similarity between Ansem and Orochimaru from Naruto?

[@SubjectZero05YT]

Honestly, the story reminds me of my childhood. It didn’t need to make sense for me to have fun. I miss being a kid.

[@intronintron2608]

I see Kingdom Hearts like how I view life. When I was young, I KH was simple and with the world at my feet. Now, I realize how complicated it is with depressing stories.

[@WestAfrican-m1v]

I wouldn't say depressing, maybe a bit romantic, and joining two sides, the 'good one', and the 'bad one'.

[@willropa4226]

I once tried to explain to my brother how complicated Kingdom Hearts can be, it started and ended with me saying that there were 13 villains who were all technically 1 villain due to splitting soul/heart/body into pieces, time travel, and body snatching. He asked why that had to be, I just said welcome to Kingdom Hearts. His brain started to melt when I said there was also 1 protagonist that has like 9 independent versions of himself at the same time. (Sora, Roxas, Ventus, Vanitas, Xion, Shadow Sora, ReCode Sora. . . guess technically 7. . . it had to be 7😮‍💨)

[@WestAfrican-m1v]

sigh, that about sums it up, 😴

[@felixthecat5333]

A kingdom hearts timeline video that doesn’t have cringe pronunciations of the characters who would have thought?

[@felixthecat5333]

AshenShards1 _ I was actually referring to ign about the pronunciation thing

[@joined_shores_art]

Zenehort and Eraqueze Roxas is a garbage character no one cares about *use a fan made mmd model for a kh3 banner * *Ahhhhh man I sure love ign*

[@felixthecat5333]

s.leeves _ that quote will never be forgotten by the kingdom hearts fandom 😠

[@joined_shores_art]

@@felixthecat5333 they shall burn for their sins

[@RatchildUK]

@AshenShards1 _ Tell that to all the Americans who can't say Cecil and Zidane correctly.

[@makomomentai1605]

Thank you so much!!!! This was so helpful! Spent the entire month catching up on story by playing 1 and 2 and watching all the cutscenes I can and this was just what I needed! I still have some questions and curiosities but this will suffice!!

[@TheAffectation8724]

This confirmed what I knew, and filled in the gaps in my knowledge. I've seen a lot of recaps recently, and this was the best one yet.

[@GLET_theamateur]

10 minutes in. i gotta stop go to bed and re watch. i’m dipping. so much information

[@obrians-brown1307]

Ansem and Sephiroth never truly gone

[@unioncrossed7384]

if you don’t think axel is the best organization member then i honestly don’t know what to say to you

[@joelw2rapfanatic]

Sometimes I wonder how Nomura came up with everything passed KH1 . Like this story is so deep and metaphorical. I feel like he’s talking about angels vs demons in a fight for the key to heaven

[@snakeattacker2857]

They knew what they were doing in kh1 when that figure in the brown coat says those 5 words "this world has been connected"

[@jhonluigiecorda217]

I Feel Satisfied and Confused at the Same time After I Watch This....

[@vengfulfate2991]

I know this video is two years old, but fun fact! Ariel was almost a princess of heart, but for whatever reason, Antlantica's story didn't cover Ariel getting legs and a land-walking model for Ariel, which would be necessary for her to appear in Hollow Bastion, was never even created.

[@WestAfrican-m1v]

While I was reading your reply, I got stuck on the word model, in my language it means a simplified form of a phenomena.

[@Joi_to_da_World]

*Slaps Sora like a toyota* This boy can fit so many hearts.

[@bryancadents3559]

I love it. Ppl get upset how convoluted and crazy the KH timeline gets. But it reminds me when we were kids and created characters and stories with our toys. The good guys find strength, defeat the bad guys, but all we want is to keep playing. So we kept coming up with new ways for the bad guys to come back, more powerful than ever, and new challenges for the good guys to overcome, no matter how insurmountable they may seem. We used outrageous and sometimes ludicrous creativity to keep our characters going. I think that's one of the reasons KH is special to me. It brings me back to the outrageous creativity and outside-the-box thinking of childhood. Now that I've got a 2 year old showing his own fun child creativity, and another baby on the way, the KH3 jump back into childhood couldn't be coming at a better time!

[@miguelb5661]

Replaying through Kingdom hearts 2 (first time playing through Final Mix) and man, i feel bad for Roxas. they couldn't just let him live his final few days of summer in peace and kept messing with him. It's so sad his entire existence he's been fighting and always losing only to get brought back up to be messed with again. :'(

[@impulseki9896]

I knew all of this but I watched it anyway. It’s always good to have a refresher before kingdom hearts 3! 😂

[@jonathansanders3577]

You're an absolute saint for making this.

[@gaaraloversand]

Yes! Finally found a proper video, most of the other videos make constant jokes at the game which puts me off from actually understanding what they're talking about. Thankyou for this. Will be starting KH3 this week

[@tanequawoodson7609]

I believe Sora will save Everything

[@livingtoaster1358]

Ok I believe you

[@beannguyen1885]

okay i believe u

[@xdavier31]

And I believe Sora will save the world *Dun, Dun Dun Dun, Dunn Dunnn Dunnnnnn* Edit: messed up the end

[@saintsocramnymaia5511]

I believe aang will save the world

[@Amirulaqim07]

@@saintsocramnymaia5511 can or will?

[@hammelfleisch99]

Following story explanation considering Maleficent can be complicated for some newcomers , but just to summarize it for a few people here ( since her role is quiet important in 3 i guess ) : Maleficent got stabbed by Riku's "special keyblade" and ended up many many years (even before birth by sleep) in the timeline of "Kingdom Hearts Unchained X". There she learned that she is trapped in a data world and not in the real one ( which makes the "Re:Coded" game canon aswell , which nobody thought until a few months ago ). There she meets a mysterious person who we still dont know and learns that she can return.

[@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE]

Also to explain HOW she was even able to, the Data version of herself existed at that point in time. Remember, Xehanort said that time travel can only work if a version of yourself exists at that point in time. And in Malificent’s case, her data self. This means there are no limitations as to what version of you will allow you to time travel. This means that Ventus, Marluxia, and all of the Disney characters that appear through the data simulation and the Book of Prophecies have the ability to time travel to the point of time of the Keyblade war. All because their data versions (as well as the versions that were projected from the book of prophecies) exist at that point in time. But in the case of Marluxia and Ventus, they can time travel because they literally existed back then. Somehow.

[@comquats101]

Norted DetectiveBobbyFulbright TheSpiritofJUSTICE And Larxene!

[@CreativeCubeChannel]

What do you mean by "which nobody thought until a few months ago"? At the end of Re:Coded Mickey finds out about Aqua, Terra and Vens fate and writes the letter, Sora recieves at the End of Kingdom Hearts 2. So how would this not be canon, it's clearly connected to the other games.

[@felixgarcia2184]

I can tell kingdom hearts are a good game I even played the whole game , AND IM STILL LOST ☹️

[@vingram100]

The equal parts of shade and fascination with the Kingdom Hearts story make me so happy!!

[@Myron_The_Slavicwolf]

Fragmented passage ruins blank points, the secret ending of birth by sleep due to the fact that it takes place during the end of kingdom hearts 1 and a year before birth by sleep, meaning the fact that Terra and Ventus are still lost and that Sora's been saving the disney worlds shouldn't be a surprise to Aqua once Ansem the wise tells her, like it was supposed to be. It was supposed to be a really satisfying scene where she first hears SOMETHING about the realm of light and how this boy she met 11 years ago became this awesome keyblade wielding hero. If Mickey had told Sora about meeting aqua in the realm of darkness at this point in time, he could have finally saved her after 11 years, creating a much better bridge to KH 3. Don't get me wrong, blank points would still be confusing, but it'd be a better narrative in the grand scheme of things.

[@johnp.8749]

Im just imagining Xehanort who finally archives his goal to reach Kingdom Hearts but finds out that everything was a lie and Kingdom Hearts is just a big prison :D

[@coreymckee4844]

"simplified KH timeline"?? Lmfao🤣🤣🤣

[@goodguybrian9764]

Tbh 358/2 days is still my fav game in the series

[@KarateSnoopy]

Great video. I recommend searching for "Kingdom Hearts: Official Character Relationship Diagram" and looking at that graph while this video is playing to better understand all the characters and the relationships between

[@Zero-cu1wr]

Just bought the 1.5+2.5 collection. Can’t wait to play!

[@asherpeter2371]

Im not the only one who thinks axel has is the worst out of anyone in kingdom hearts axel had to deal with his 2 best friends dying

[@zunszo1340]

Thanks for making this video! It helped me understand a lot more but also revealed how many tangles they really had ._.

[@mariustan9275]

Who’s here after Sora got into Smash Bros?

[@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr]

I’m here because of Sora being added in Smash Ultimate.

[@richieosborn2639]

Me!

[@davyproductions6008]

I agree Ariel is a princess. That’s why I liked the video after you said that. 6:30

[@UndefinedEssence]

I think this is the by far the BEST "quick" explanation I've seen, and the only one I could actually follow. Thank you for laying it all out for us mortals. 😁

[@WestAfrican-m1v]

Barry Kramer has also a really good video, although it is too long, I feel like with these games, you have got to keep the magic flowing even on youtube, you don't need to tell us everything, just the strict necessary, and there is just so much you can do with the tunes you chose, the part of the games you show, the story you can tell, it could be your own.