The crossroads motif is a pretty big thing. The World Ends With You, for instance, has the Scramble Crossing, and the whole concept of the Reaper's Game starts with the entry fee: losing something important to you, with the potential to win it back along with your life.
"A young man trading his soul with devil for the ability to play the guitar..." OK ONLY ONE GUY IN ENTIRE SAGA HAVE A GUITAR SO PLEASE NOMURA REVEAL DEMYX=MOM!
Omg... that is so significant.... wait... the meeting between aqua and terranort in radiant garden was also at a sort of crossroad (if you look on the floor there is a cross in the middle of the square where they fight) and Aqua gained the ability to save Terra somewhat by giving him amnesia but lost herself to the realm of darkness... Jesus it was there the whole time!!!!!!
Given Nomura’s symbolic interest in crossroads, I find it interesting that the letter “X” is used so frequently throughout KH (e.g., names of Organization members, the Dissident’s seal in DDD, etc.). An “X” is perhaps the simplest symbolic representation of a crossroad, so I imagine its use has been very intentional from pretty much the beginning. Cool to hear Nomura’s interpretation!
It could be why the X is in Nobody names. In the original story a man gives up his soul in order for the ability to play guitar. But in KH, a person gives up their heart and obtains a new life. So to symbolize they've been through the crossroads they add an X into their name. SoraX becomes Roxas. AnsemX becomes Xemnas
@@Fefnir-d1c Ansem Seeker of Darkness's nobody is Xemnas, not Xehanort. Xehanort is their Somebody. Furthermore, X isn't in Nobody names, it's in the Organization's names. Namine is a nobody but she doesn't have an X in her name, and Xion *isn't* a nobody but she *does* have an X in her name. Some may argue the last point but Xion literally *isn't* a nobody, she's an experimental replica.
In light of the Pokemon leaks which revealed the untold secrets and the why behind so much, this new Nomura post where he was told to just give a snippet for the fans but revealing this about crossroads being so significant even though I'm sure not a single soul thought anything of it, has me itching for a Kingdom Hearts leak. I want to see Nomura's notes on everything and the design choice implementations. This was gold that Nomura drop especially after a dry spell for what felt like ages
WOW man!!! I've been sick in and out of hospitals for YEARS, so it's been quite a while since I last saw you!! You look amazing! I'm so glad to be here. And gosh was I screaming like a cheerleader today when I found out KH3 Re:Mind, Missing Link AND KH4!!!! were announced already and YEARS ago by that measure!!! Dear God is it good to be alive.
6:37 I love this observation, the hero ALWAYS meets with the villain during these crossroads: Sora-Ansem (KH 1), Aqua, Terra, Ventus-Xehanorth (BBS), etc… so it makes me think that Sora will NOT meet with another hero (Riku/Strelitzia) but an antagonist: either Yozora, Luxu or Master of Masters. It would make for a killer introduction to KH IV for sure.
Imagine the pressure being the translator for Nomura in English when you know every fan is going to pick your words apart to try and find some secret meaning that's not even here in the original Japanese.
I still can't believe they set up "See you in Shibuya" only to have Sora die, wait at the scramble crossing in front of 104, and not have that be Neku's world!
Neku and co did seem like they would have a role in a future game from their all too tiny plot in DDD, and the dreamworld connects worlds beyond light and dark or else Riku wouldn't have dreamt of Quadratum himself through his link to Sora
After this message I'm pretty convinced the Primordial Darkness's are in the box and waiting to be released like Pandora's box to possess the Foretellers and Luxu to be our main antagonists in this new saga. Good to see something after all this time to at least talk about something while we still wait.
If they do it right, they can really make that an emotionally heavy scene. The level of shock that this is what the master had planned for them and then Luxu letting it happen immediately right there would crush my soul 😢
Well it sounds like this is something he's really excited for, at the very least he might have the skeleton of what he wants figured out already. Though it is still important to keep in mind he's more of a rule of cool writer rather than one that plans ahead. He does a pretty great job at connecting everything but if he get's an idea he thinks is really cool he'll act on it first and then connect it later. I'd still expect that same type of approach to some degree
That's an interesting thought to have Sora at a crossroads waiting for someone that will never come. My first thought was Riku, with the whole riku = blue light from the car to Sora's red, but who knows.
I think Sora lost something more than technically his life (and powers) in KH3. He loses those in Re:Mind when he misuses the power of waking AGAIN to go back in time and save Kairi. But before that, in the main game, after he misuses it for the first time to gather himself and save the others, Young Xehanort tells him he's ALREADY paid the price for that. And considering he says to Chirithy at the start of Re:Mind that he'd "already restored *_SIX_* hearts" instead of *_SEVEN_* I have a bad feeling about this (and I'm pretty sure I know who he's forgetting here :D)
Grateful for a message? Why not furious that it will be an even longer wait for 4 then we had for KH3? Or how about the fact that all of the most important lore in the series is locked away in mobile games? Or how about the fact that those mobile games don’t even exist anymore?
@@aroccoification The wait sucks but I'd rather that they take their time crafting a better paced story than what happened with KH3. As for the mobile game, I'm suspecting that it's probably because Square saw it as a $$$ opportunity but it seems like a number of them (like KH Union Cross, FF Opera Omnia and Brave Exvius) are being shut down, so Missing Link is probably too risky to put out at its current state if they want to cut their losses. Maybe they're reevaluating their plans as a whole since they keep saying that their games aren't meeting sales expectations.
@@glazed9110they’re definitely scrapping missing link or trying a way to put it on a different platform like the switch or something. I think thats the only reason KH4 news has been delayed
@ the amount of time they’re taking is not relevant to quality as we saw with the 7 years they had for kh3. And squat may have commissioned the KH mobile game but nomura is the one who chose to put essential plot in the mobile games. The mobile games should not have been essential to play to have the lore of the series
There is also a background song in the OST of KH3 named Critical Crossroads. When I saw it and listened to it before ever playing KH3 I imagined it would be the song playing in the moment Terra, Aqua and Ventus finally reunited. It instead is played as one of the battle themes in Scala ad Caelum together with Replicas and Dark Domination. That point in the story is surely a critical crossroad!
i think the whole thing about yazora will be he can see spirits with his one eye in the spirit and the other eye is in the normal relm hes gonna have to link sora and rikku together again
That idea of it being the one time no one meets him at the crossroads would go hard if it ends up true, and would be an interesting point in Sora's journey since in kh3 he had that whole meltdown of not feeling worthy alone
At that moment I believe Sora as a person probably if not likely didn't believe in himself and I think in KH4 this might still hold true here when he has no one to support him.
OH MY GOODNESS! There was another crossroads moment in the Union cross story! Where Ava and luxu fought! There is three paths and a broken post in the water indicating that there was a bridge there once a it makes a CROSSROAD!
If a kh character showing up at a cross roads means they going to meet someone, then wouldn't sora standing at shibuya square and everything else we've seen suggest either yuzora or marluxia's sister? Like numora might be a mad lad, but that doesn't mean everything has a complicated answer.
Interesting update for sure. I think if we get something this substantial at the end of the month in celebration for KH3’s 6 year anniversary, then we can pretty much guarantee that they are gearing up for something major this year…
@2:30 Robert Johnson, the first of the Delta Blues singers, Delta being "Missisippi Delta." The Blues and the spirit of Rock and Roll were birthed by this legend.
in the opening of neo:the world end with you rindo is in the same spot of sora in the kh3 ending at the shibuya crossroad and the lyrics of the song say " BREAK THE SILENCE, REGAIN YOURSELF. WE'RE LOSING YOU" shit this is insane! i have to finish this game asap.
I’m just saying, they left off where they did in the trailer for a reason. Edit: To clarify, the BBS crossroads that play before the fight between the Wayfinders and Xehanort/Vanitas. That scene cuts off abruptly and Terra/Aqua/Ven no longer have capes or the 2nd keyblades. What if this wasn’t just for stylistic purposes but rather because the first cutscene is set in the future? Think about how we know that Sora Riku and Mickey are all going to be missing soon, the Wayfinders are currently on their own mission anyway, and we still don’t actually know what creature Terra is standing on. All that with the added detail that they don’t see Xehanort walking towards them… just a dark figure.
With your comment mainly in regards of the wayfinders not just Ventus playing a role still in future stuff makes me wish for an idea for the trio along with the remaining dandelions that remain alive as far as we know to form a team to confront the fortellers, just be a cool idea as some of the fortellers metaphorically reflect them specially the wayfinders
hey jared here is a little something for you this actually reminds me of something ive seen about xigbar about a man who made a deal with the devil got 7 magic bullets once the all 6 were used the 7th will be shot by the devil at someone the man loves xigbar s title shares a name with that
It reminds me of how the term "star-crossed lovers" came from Romeo and Juliet. Which, despite what pop-culture would have you believe, isn't a romance. Romeo and Juliet have fairly little stage time together the entire play, and only share one conversation before getting married. What it really is, is the tragedy that young "love" wasn't enough to stop the family feud. It took two tragic, senseless suicides to bring an end to it. Peace between the families was gained, but their children were lost. The "star-crossed" thing is supposed to refer to how fate brought Romeo and Juliet's downfall, though scholars have pointed out both their decisions played a big role too. I'm not even sure if the play itself wants you to believe they're really in true love rather than regular teenage infatuation. But either way, neither Juliet nor Romeo deserved what happened to them. They were children who lost their futures because the adults in their lives created a conflict that the next generation got swept into. Something that has a lot of parallels in Kingdom Hearts.
Nomura bringing up the crossroads I think is also alluding to the very likely reveal that the “Daybreak Town becomes Scala ad Caelum, Scala ad Caelum becomes Traverse Town, Land of Departure, Radiant Garden, Twilight Town, and maybe more” theory is probably being realized in Missing Link
@OhKayEl The Recusant's Sigil, the 'X' is given to members of Organization XIII by Xemnas. The guitar is the instrument from the folklore Nomura spoke of in his message. Demyx wields a sitar.
My theory of what the Foretellers and Luxu may have lost? What if it was Ava? She isn't there with them and what happened to her I'm pretty sure is still more-or-less in the air.
Great Video like always. BBS came out when I was 17. Insane. Try not to feel old Mode activated. Where is your Hair gone Jared? It is so short. Oh noooo...
It's funny on how games turning 'this number of years' old doesn't make me feel old. I just turned 43 btw lol. What makes ME feel old is when my relatives my age have kids are now adults since I remember when they were babies lol. First time I felt this was when I was in my mid-30s and one of my oldest first cousins' daughter graduated HS (I was in HS when she was born). I was like, "WAAAA??? You can't be that old already!?" Also a similar effect is happening now with my parents' generation become elderly. My dad retired from work last year and his older brother just turned 70 the other day. The idea of my parents, aunts, and uncles getting old is a bit unsettling to say the least. As a KH fan, I always geek out whenever Nomura says something lol. I can't help it. His attention to detail when it comes to Symbolism is one of the reasons why I call him a genius lol.
I don't quite understand... What did the BBS trio obtain? You could argue, Aqua "gained" safety for Ven. Ven gained a second (or third? fourth?) chance at life. But Terra? What did Terra gain? He lost his body and was trapped inside Terranort for 10+ years. I am probably overthinking it, but its interesting.
They all kinda had the same goal to protect each other and thwart Xehanort. Terra specifically wanted to protect his friends and avenge Eraqus by stopping Xehanort, the price was his body. Aqua wanted to protect Ven and Terra, the price was getting trapped in the realm of darkness. Ven wanted to prevent the x blade from being forged and the price was his heart being fractured again. BBS is a story of tragedy and the heroes sorta got what they wanted but their efforts only really delayed Xehanort's plan at such a great cost. They were all lost, not dead at least 😅 but eventually came back and ultimately at the end of 3 saw Xehanort defeated and got a small reunion with their master. The game doesn't exactly mirror the devil's crossroads because they aren't explicitly looking to gain something but rather ensure the safety of their friends and prevent Xehanort from winning
Demyx seems like a more significant character than we realise. All of this has exciting potential foreshadowing for the Lost Master arc but he specifically came to mind when Nomura mentions a “deal” and the instrument. He may be more important to the larger story and I’m looking forward to it.
I would say the first cross road appearance is ansem at the door on destiny island. The door that tied that world to the others but more of a symbolic way
5:22 we don't know what's in the box?! Surely I can't be the ONLY ONE who heard Pete tell Maleficent in KHIII that they're looking for "the Black Box with the Book of Prophecies in it" right? Did Cynical and everyone else just miss that?! 😮 I think you guys could do with a few more playthroughs. I've completed it 10 times as it is now my favorite KH game, dethroning KH1. After you complete Olympus Pete says it while digging. Unless Pete and Maleficent are wrong. However, it makes sense because in X Back Cover, we see the Book of Prophecies, but when we see the box Luxu has the book is NOWHERE to be found. 🤔
I don't think they said out loud at any point the book of prophecies is in the black box but it makes sense with how Maleficent's character wants to achieve greater things like the "knowledge of the future", I skipped the lore of recoded but she seemed more mature to me in KH2 and she avoided Sora and his friends the entire game so it makes sense I guess.
@danielc.b6347 they said it out loud. Trust me. I've played the game 10 times and I just looked up the Olympus Cutscenes to check. Pete's EXACT words are "are you sure this black box with the Book of Prophecies is for reals?!"
I just noticed that in the Sebuya Crossroad, there's a green screen with a white triangle on it and some japanese words (the triangle is 100% a kanji but come on man, this is way too much to be a coincidence)
From hearing you talk about this, it could be that from the KH3 Re:Mind fight w/ Yozora could be that he's saving Sora from the MoM. He was in the trailer for KH4 either looking at or creating KH in the sky & Yozora could be the one to show up and help/save Sora from his fuckery.
Watching The Gathering at the time was insane, had no idea where the series was going. Looked more like Dark Souls or something, what we got was not what I thought at all, I imagined something a lot more in the past
This man knows what he's doing. He's a genius and knows how to rope his audience and play the strings. He gives just enough to get us going and still has secrets. He doesn't buckle under the pressure from the fan base. I'm sure he's watching all of it unfold. Just like a character in the shadows, manipulating and plotting. Love it all.
You know I wonder if we’re are ever going to see Terra, Aqua, and Ven duel wield like they did in the KH2 secret movie. Or if that’s actually no longer considered cannon.
I can just imagine Nomura lighting up a fat one with the homies and suddenly he gets all philosophical and metaphysical, and then suddenly he's like "holy shit, that's good! I gotta tweet it" 😂
I've never been so heavily invested in a series like I am with KH. Literally been here since day 1 and this year i'll be 33. I hope we continue to get more KH4 info through this year and that Nomura takes his time to give us an amazing game and doesn't rush anything 😌
I'm still catching up on games that are 10+ years old by going through my Steam and 3DS library and sometimes I wonder just how much they'll do for me as a gamer that wants to experience what they have to offer... and then you bring up that KH2 is about to be 20 years old and I've replayed that game at least a dozen times in the past decade alone and STILL want to replay it again TODAY. Wow. Just wow. Really puts into perspective just how freaking much it holds up all these years later. Meanwhile I can't really bring myself to replay KH3 for a third time. Once at launch, once through ReMind, and.... yeah, I don't wanna touch it again. KH2FM is still the GOAT of the series. Going on 20 years. Just some thoughts. And and opinions. Nothing more.
Okay...KH 4 begins with Sora awaiting Someone at a crossroads, I'm cool with that. Suddenly a blazing streak of light zooms right by him, suddenly coming to a stop right there, 50 meters away give or take. The waves from the sonic boom would rustle up all the surrounding dirt and dust, shrouding what it was that almost hit Sora. Sora would then approach said dust-cloud and suddenly voices could be heard. "I have no idea about the we've landed in but at least everything is still standing". "Your mom chased your cat through that gate and now we have to find them out here, in 'this' era."
I’d for sure love an in between game similar to BBS following the Lost Masters and potentially the dandelions. It seems almost necessary for IV to make sense and connect to UX. The idea that the return is apocalyptic is interesting… could explain why Sora’s in an alternate reality, akin to data world contingency plan. And Maleficent’s involvement HAS to be explained more, I’m convinced she’s now housing the final 13th darkness, most likely the strongest.
They definetly need to break silence soon and communicate at least, Normura kinda sounded like he was fed up about keeping quiet too at the start of his message. I can appreciate that Square hit a roadblock and needed to retool everything. However that was mostly caused by the higher ups poor decisions so it's no excuse for the radio silence. I don't expect a full release date but I think one or two trailers and some posters plus the developers being able to talk about it more is not unreasonable to ask.
Also that the master of masters and the rest of them are the gate keepers so to speak and they're while purpose is to guide sora and yazora to the final confrontation but lushu wants sora to win and deny yazora his wish to get his soul.
Birth By Sleep turning 15 and Kingdom Hearts II turning 20 this year still feels so unreal, we’re all getting old.
Time comes for us all
Kingdom Hearts 3, the game we waited so long for, turns 6 in 20 days. 6 years ago... Time is going by too fast.
I was 3 when KH2 released and like 7 turning 8 when BBS released, but didn't play either of them until 2017 lol.
Im so tired of 20s and 30s being considered old...its not like 60 70 THATS old....
I definitely feel old played them all though. I’m 38 now and where did the time go. 😂😢
Nomura: “Delivers a message about KH.”
Me: “THE SACRED TEXTS!”
cynical is our prophet xD
meaning sora is the "M" word,, that ends with an M
Lisan al gaib
This made me laugh out loud thank you haha
@@DeathandBeeZ I never took shrooms but I imagine it's what I'm feeling like now. Everything is connected
The crossroads motif is a pretty big thing. The World Ends With You, for instance, has the Scramble Crossing, and the whole concept of the Reaper's Game starts with the entry fee: losing something important to you, with the potential to win it back along with your life.
They were in the DDD game too
"A young man trading his soul with devil for the ability to play the guitar..." OK ONLY ONE GUY IN ENTIRE SAGA HAVE A GUITAR SO PLEASE NOMURA REVEAL DEMYX=MOM!
ADD THAT TO THE PILE OF MORE HINTS LEADING TOWARDS HIM 👀
NAH NO WAY, NOMURA YOU SLY FOX
Sitar*
@@RandomVids0987 same family
So is a violin. It’s still wrong
Words don’t describe how happy I am he left a message for us all
Omg... that is so significant.... wait... the meeting between aqua and terranort in radiant garden was also at a sort of crossroad (if you look on the floor there is a cross in the middle of the square where they fight) and Aqua gained the ability to save Terra somewhat by giving him amnesia but lost herself to the realm of darkness... Jesus it was there the whole time!!!!!!
Shibuya Crossing is unironically becoming one of the most important locations in video game history right now.
True. Especially at the 104 building sparkling at the center of the crosswalk.
TWEWY was my first experience with it, and now I can recognize it by sight just from playing that game...
Not only Video games even
Shibuya is everywhere, you cant escape it and it's peak!
Given Nomura’s symbolic interest in crossroads, I find it interesting that the letter “X” is used so frequently throughout KH (e.g., names of Organization members, the Dissident’s seal in DDD, etc.). An “X” is perhaps the simplest symbolic representation of a crossroad, so I imagine its use has been very intentional from pretty much the beginning.
Cool to hear Nomura’s interpretation!
It could be why the X is in Nobody names. In the original story a man gives up his soul in order for the ability to play guitar. But in KH, a person gives up their heart and obtains a new life. So to symbolize they've been through the crossroads they add an X into their name. SoraX becomes Roxas. AnsemX becomes Xemnas
@@Fefnir-d1c Ansem Seeker of Darkness's nobody is Xemnas, not Xehanort. Xehanort is their Somebody. Furthermore, X isn't in Nobody names, it's in the Organization's names. Namine is a nobody but she doesn't have an X in her name, and Xion *isn't* a nobody but she *does* have an X in her name. Some may argue the last point but Xion literally *isn't* a nobody, she's an experimental replica.
"Cross" is also another way to say X as well.
In light of the Pokemon leaks which revealed the untold secrets and the why behind so much, this new Nomura post where he was told to just give a snippet for the fans but revealing this about crossroads being so significant even though I'm sure not a single soul thought anything of it, has me itching for a Kingdom Hearts leak. I want to see Nomura's notes on everything and the design choice implementations. This was gold that Nomura drop especially after a dry spell for what felt like ages
Now I can say: 2025 will be a good year for the Kingdom Hearts franchise. Spark of hope that all of us needed!
WOW man!!! I've been sick in and out of hospitals for YEARS, so it's been quite a while since I last saw you!! You look amazing! I'm so glad to be here. And gosh was I screaming like a cheerleader today when I found out KH3 Re:Mind, Missing Link AND KH4!!!! were announced already and YEARS ago by that measure!!! Dear God is it good to be alive.
6:37 I love this observation, the hero ALWAYS meets with the villain during these crossroads: Sora-Ansem (KH 1), Aqua, Terra, Ventus-Xehanorth (BBS), etc… so it makes me think that Sora will NOT meet with another hero (Riku/Strelitzia) but an antagonist: either Yozora, Luxu or Master of Masters. It would make for a killer introduction to KH IV for sure.
5:40 HE SAID THE THING
I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THIS
I was going to go with "Roll credits"
Ding
Bro made a 8 min video yappin about KH street crossings.. I‘m in.
Imagine the pressure being the translator for Nomura in English when you know every fan is going to pick your words apart to try and find some secret meaning that's not even here in the original Japanese.
Calling it now. Nomura pulls a Kojima and appears in Kingdom Hearts 4 as a hidden boss to be immortalized forever.
He is MoM lol
I still can't believe they set up "See you in Shibuya" only to have Sora die, wait at the scramble crossing in front of 104, and not have that be Neku's world!
Then the extra messages you get after beating KH3 icon is has the “arrow-theme” from TWEWY? And nothing from that??
Then again after Neo:TWEWY…
I mean Neku is in the 3ds game so seems like he’s in shibuya only time will tell hopefully kingdom hearts 4 comes out in 2026
Neku and co did seem like they would have a role in a future game from their all too tiny plot in DDD, and the dreamworld connects worlds beyond light and dark or else Riku wouldn't have dreamt of Quadratum himself through his link to Sora
After this message I'm pretty convinced the Primordial Darkness's are in the box and waiting to be released like Pandora's box to possess the Foretellers and Luxu to be our main antagonists in this new saga. Good to see something after all this time to at least talk about something while we still wait.
If they do it right, they can really make that an emotionally heavy scene. The level of shock that this is what the master had planned for them and then Luxu letting it happen immediately right there would crush my soul 😢
I really hope tetsuya nomura takes time to write out how the series will end in case anything happens to him
I was actually just talking about that with my sister fingers crossed he has done so. 🤞
He plans on ending the series soon. So I'm more than sure his team knows what to do
Ye he is going to retire, or so i heard
@@flash686I hope that it will be a Hayao Miyazaki situation where he returns again and again after retiring.
Well it sounds like this is something he's really excited for, at the very least he might have the skeleton of what he wants figured out already. Though it is still important to keep in mind he's more of a rule of cool writer rather than one that plans ahead. He does a pretty great job at connecting everything but if he get's an idea he thinks is really cool he'll act on it first and then connect it later. I'd still expect that same type of approach to some degree
That's an interesting thought to have Sora at a crossroads waiting for someone that will never come. My first thought was Riku, with the whole riku = blue light from the car to Sora's red, but who knows.
I think Sora lost something more than technically his life (and powers) in KH3. He loses those in Re:Mind when he misuses the power of waking AGAIN to go back in time and save Kairi. But before that, in the main game, after he misuses it for the first time to gather himself and save the others, Young Xehanort tells him he's ALREADY paid the price for that. And considering he says to Chirithy at the start of Re:Mind that he'd "already restored *_SIX_* hearts" instead of *_SEVEN_* I have a bad feeling about this (and I'm pretty sure I know who he's forgetting here :D)
You have no idea how freaking grateful I am right now at least he left a message ABOUT DAMN TIME
Grateful for a message? Why not furious that it will be an even longer wait for 4 then we had for KH3?
Or how about the fact that all of the most important lore in the series is locked away in mobile games?
Or how about the fact that those mobile games don’t even exist anymore?
@@aroccoification The wait sucks but I'd rather that they take their time crafting a better paced story than what happened with KH3. As for the mobile game, I'm suspecting that it's probably because Square saw it as a $$$ opportunity but it seems like a number of them (like KH Union Cross, FF Opera Omnia and Brave Exvius) are being shut down, so Missing Link is probably too risky to put out at its current state if they want to cut their losses. Maybe they're reevaluating their plans as a whole since they keep saying that their games aren't meeting sales expectations.
@@glazed9110they’re definitely scrapping missing link or trying a way to put it on a different platform like the switch or something. I think thats the only reason KH4 news has been delayed
@ the amount of time they’re taking is not relevant to quality as we saw with the 7 years they had for kh3. And squat may have commissioned the KH mobile game but nomura is the one who chose to put essential plot in the mobile games. The mobile games should not have been essential to play to have the lore of the series
There is also a background song in the OST of KH3 named Critical Crossroads. When I saw it and listened to it before ever playing KH3 I imagined it would be the song playing in the moment Terra, Aqua and Ventus finally reunited. It instead is played as one of the battle themes in Scala ad Caelum together with Replicas and Dark Domination. That point in the story is surely a critical crossroad!
So Demyx is actually the physical embodiment of this as a man with a guitar…..RIGHT???
i think the whole thing about yazora will be he can see spirits with his one eye in the spirit and the other eye is in the normal relm hes gonna have to link sora and rikku together again
That idea of it being the one time no one meets him at the crossroads would go hard if it ends up true, and would be an interesting point in Sora's journey since in kh3 he had that whole meltdown of not feeling worthy alone
At that moment I believe Sora as a person probably if not likely didn't believe in himself and I think in KH4 this might still hold true here when he has no one to support him.
OH MY GOODNESS! There was another crossroads moment in the Union cross story! Where Ava and luxu fought! There is three paths and a broken post in the water indicating that there was a bridge there once a it makes a CROSSROAD!
You mean the place where they clashed? I'm not seeing what you're describing. I may be dumb.
Riku's ending in CoM is also very explicitly about a crossroad
The road to dawn
I was genuinely shocked that it didn't get mentioned. It was the "crossroads" moment that stuck out to me more than any other in the series
If a kh character showing up at a cross roads means they going to meet someone, then wouldn't sora standing at shibuya square and everything else we've seen suggest either yuzora or marluxia's sister? Like numora might be a mad lad, but that doesn't mean everything has a complicated answer.
15 years? Dang, time flies! BBS is probably my favorite tbh. And the crossroads comment is quite intriguing!
square enix : nomura its bbs s 15 anniversary write something for it nothing to crazy or too big
nomura : i got you fam
Glad to see you’re still giving us update been watching since high school
Interesting update for sure. I think if we get something this substantial at the end of the month in celebration for KH3’s 6 year anniversary, then we can pretty much guarantee that they are gearing up for something major this year…
@2:30 Robert Johnson, the first of the Delta Blues singers, Delta being "Missisippi Delta."
The Blues and the spirit of Rock and Roll were birthed by this legend.
Woah! I've never noticed that crossroads repetition
in the opening of neo:the world end with you rindo is in the same spot of sora in the kh3 ending at the shibuya crossroad and the lyrics of the song say " BREAK THE SILENCE, REGAIN YOURSELF. WE'RE LOSING YOU" shit this is insane! i have to finish this game asap.
Imagine the Shibuya Crossing is actually "built" over the keybalde graveyard
first drop of KH news in god knows how long, god damn I am starving lmao
It’s 5 am right now and I’m wide awake for this! Yay! ❤️
wild to come back to gamersjoint after so long looking for kh info.
Kingdom Hearts II is one of my all time favorite games, and the fact that it's turning 20 is absolutely insane.
Seeing you get back in your groove, making videos; especially KH videos feelsgoodman. Been following you since 2014. Keep on keepin’ on dude
I’m so excited! Thanks for this video I’ve wondered about updates on kh
I’m just saying, they left off where they did in the trailer for a reason.
Edit: To clarify, the BBS crossroads that play before the fight between the Wayfinders and Xehanort/Vanitas. That scene cuts off abruptly and Terra/Aqua/Ven no longer have capes or the 2nd keyblades. What if this wasn’t just for stylistic purposes but rather because the first cutscene is set in the future?
Think about how we know that Sora Riku and Mickey are all going to be missing soon, the Wayfinders are currently on their own mission anyway, and we still don’t actually know what creature Terra is standing on. All that with the added detail that they don’t see Xehanort walking towards them… just a dark figure.
With your comment mainly in regards of the wayfinders not just Ventus playing a role still in future stuff makes me wish for an idea for the trio along with the remaining dandelions that remain alive as far as we know to form a team to confront the fortellers, just be a cool idea as some of the fortellers metaphorically reflect them specially the wayfinders
they removed the capes because the psp couldn't handle the cape's physics
My addiction has been fueled. Thanks nomura 👍
You could say they are all at different crossroads. Waiting for the other to show up.
hey jared here is a little something for you
this actually reminds me of something ive seen about xigbar about a man who made a deal with the devil got 7 magic bullets once the all 6 were used the 7th will be shot by the devil at someone the man loves
xigbar s title shares a name with that
IT'S 8 AM AND I WAKE UP TO DIS!?!?!?!?
5:40 *roll credits*
It reminds me of how the term "star-crossed lovers" came from Romeo and Juliet. Which, despite what pop-culture would have you believe, isn't a romance. Romeo and Juliet have fairly little stage time together the entire play, and only share one conversation before getting married. What it really is, is the tragedy that young "love" wasn't enough to stop the family feud. It took two tragic, senseless suicides to bring an end to it. Peace between the families was gained, but their children were lost.
The "star-crossed" thing is supposed to refer to how fate brought Romeo and Juliet's downfall, though scholars have pointed out both their decisions played a big role too. I'm not even sure if the play itself wants you to believe they're really in true love rather than regular teenage infatuation. But either way, neither Juliet nor Romeo deserved what happened to them. They were children who lost their futures because the adults in their lives created a conflict that the next generation got swept into. Something that has a lot of parallels in Kingdom Hearts.
That was a super interesting reading of the star-crossed lovers!
FF versus 13 was suppose to be this!!!
Nomura bringing up the crossroads I think is also alluding to the very likely reveal that the “Daybreak Town becomes Scala ad Caelum, Scala ad Caelum becomes Traverse Town, Land of Departure, Radiant Garden, Twilight Town, and maybe more” theory is probably being realized in Missing Link
Bro, did you forget about the crossroads with riku, mickey, and diz at the end of chain of memories?
Devil Myth + Guitar =
De + My + X
How did the guitar become the X?
@OhKayEl The Recusant's Sigil, the 'X' is given to members of Organization XIII by Xemnas. The guitar is the instrument from the folklore Nomura spoke of in his message. Demyx wields a sitar.
BRO FJSHEJWKEIEH OMG
❤❤❤ super thanks for new info
if the keyblade graveyard and the shibuya crossing are linked, would all the dead keyblade wielders now be residents in shibuya too?
Like LOST when during seasons 5 and 6, changes the island location with the wheel spinning...
Thanks for uploading so fast
This is so deep and it seems Kingdom Hearts just keeps getting deeper
I could listen to this guy yap about KH all day
That man was legendary blues musician Robert Johnson. Also the 1st member of the 27 Club.
My theory of what the Foretellers and Luxu may have lost? What if it was Ava? She isn't there with them and what happened to her I'm pretty sure is still more-or-less in the air.
There's also the crossroads at the ending of Riku's side of chain of memories, where DiZ was waiting for him
Great Video like always. BBS came out when I was 17. Insane. Try not to feel old Mode activated.
Where is your Hair gone Jared? It is so short. Oh noooo...
The crossroads motif is really cool appreciate an explanation from what Numora said
2:37 Not Remind me only Demyx but also Ghost Rider 💀🏍️
7:32 💔⚫ Shadow The Hedhehog also appears at this Shibuya CrossRoads, as well Reynatis, TWEWY NEO and Alice in Borderland...
It's funny on how games turning 'this number of years' old doesn't make me feel old. I just turned 43 btw lol. What makes ME feel old is when my relatives my age have kids are now adults since I remember when they were babies lol. First time I felt this was when I was in my mid-30s and one of my oldest first cousins' daughter graduated HS (I was in HS when she was born). I was like, "WAAAA??? You can't be that old already!?" Also a similar effect is happening now with my parents' generation become elderly. My dad retired from work last year and his older brother just turned 70 the other day. The idea of my parents, aunts, and uncles getting old is a bit unsettling to say the least.
As a KH fan, I always geek out whenever Nomura says something lol. I can't help it. His attention to detail when it comes to Symbolism is one of the reasons why I call him a genius lol.
I don't quite understand... What did the BBS trio obtain? You could argue, Aqua "gained" safety for Ven. Ven gained a second (or third? fourth?) chance at life. But Terra? What did Terra gain? He lost his body and was trapped inside Terranort for 10+ years. I am probably overthinking it, but its interesting.
They all kinda had the same goal to protect each other and thwart Xehanort. Terra specifically wanted to protect his friends and avenge Eraqus by stopping Xehanort, the price was his body. Aqua wanted to protect Ven and Terra, the price was getting trapped in the realm of darkness. Ven wanted to prevent the x blade from being forged and the price was his heart being fractured again. BBS is a story of tragedy and the heroes sorta got what they wanted but their efforts only really delayed Xehanort's plan at such a great cost. They were all lost, not dead at least 😅 but eventually came back and ultimately at the end of 3 saw Xehanort defeated and got a small reunion with their master. The game doesn't exactly mirror the devil's crossroads because they aren't explicitly looking to gain something but rather ensure the safety of their friends and prevent Xehanort from winning
@@carlosbanderas6789 Good explanation!
Demyx seems like a more significant character than we realise.
All of this has exciting potential foreshadowing for the Lost Master arc but he specifically came to mind when Nomura mentions a “deal” and the instrument.
He may be more important to the larger story and I’m looking forward to it.
Thank you I'm glad we got some thing! Nomora is obviously the master or masters.
Oh mighty Jared, flipper of chairs and slapper of meats on table, what word hath Nomura blessed us with this fine day?
5:40 he said the thing!
I think the 104 building in Shibuya is just a reference to the World ends with you game, and it will be a new crossover in the next KH
I am so hopeless for 4 rn that this PHYSICALLY made me cry lol. Thank you Papa Nomura❤️
I would say the first cross road appearance is ansem at the door on destiny island. The door that tied that world to the others but more of a symbolic way
Crossroads in KH games means that you can play as multiple characters in the game, like Terra, Ventus and Aqua in BBS or Sora and Riku in COM
looking extremely Frutiger aero today, fellow jared, keep up the good work
5:22 we don't know what's in the box?!
Surely I can't be the ONLY ONE who heard Pete tell Maleficent in KHIII that they're looking for "the Black Box with the Book of Prophecies in it" right? Did Cynical and everyone else just miss that?! 😮 I think you guys could do with a few more playthroughs. I've completed it 10 times as it is now my favorite KH game, dethroning KH1. After you complete Olympus Pete says it while digging. Unless Pete and Maleficent are wrong. However, it makes sense because in X Back Cover, we see the Book of Prophecies, but when we see the box Luxu has the book is NOWHERE to be found. 🤔
I don't think they said out loud at any point the book of prophecies is in the black box but it makes sense with how Maleficent's character wants to achieve greater things like the "knowledge of the future", I skipped the lore of recoded but she seemed more mature to me in KH2 and she avoided Sora and his friends the entire game so it makes sense I guess.
@danielc.b6347 they said it out loud. Trust me. I've played the game 10 times and I just looked up the Olympus Cutscenes to check. Pete's EXACT words are "are you sure this black box with the Book of Prophecies is for reals?!"
Time to wait another 1000/2 Days!
I just noticed that in the Sebuya Crossroad, there's a green screen with a white triangle on it and some japanese words (the triangle is 100% a kanji but come on man, this is way too much to be a coincidence)
Some of The OSTs for the xehanort fights at the end of kh3 are called “critical crossroads”
Imagine he meets xehanort at the crossroads FULL CIRCLE with that line from kh3
From hearing you talk about this, it could be that from the KH3 Re:Mind fight w/ Yozora could be that he's saving Sora from the MoM. He was in the trailer for KH4 either looking at or creating KH in the sky & Yozora could be the one to show up and help/save Sora from his fuckery.
Watching The Gathering at the time was insane, had no idea where the series was going. Looked more like Dark Souls or something, what we got was not what I thought at all, I imagined something a lot more in the past
This man knows what he's doing. He's a genius and knows how to rope his audience and play the strings. He gives just enough to get us going and still has secrets. He doesn't buckle under the pressure from the fan base. I'm sure he's watching all of it unfold. Just like a character in the shadows, manipulating and plotting. Love it all.
You know I wonder if we’re are ever going to see Terra, Aqua, and Ven duel wield like they did in the KH2 secret movie. Or if that’s actually no longer considered cannon.
When you have the “All notifications bell on” and its been 16 minutes since upload… why TH-cam?
I can just imagine Nomura lighting up a fat one with the homies and suddenly he gets all philosophical and metaphysical, and then suddenly he's like "holy shit, that's good! I gotta tweet it" 😂
I still love the theory that what’s in the box is just something that will help either light or dark to prevail over the other
I've never been so heavily invested in a series like I am with KH. Literally been here since day 1 and this year i'll be 33. I hope we continue to get more KH4 info through this year and that Nomura takes his time to give us an amazing game and doesn't rush anything 😌
I wonder if he's a fan of the Supernatural TV Series. The Crossroads myth plays a heavy role in many seasons.
I was reckoning the same thing
YES I wonder that as well 😂
so true
The person waiting at the crossroads is the Player (You, Me).
I'm still catching up on games that are 10+ years old by going through my Steam and 3DS library and sometimes I wonder just how much they'll do for me as a gamer that wants to experience what they have to offer... and then you bring up that KH2 is about to be 20 years old and I've replayed that game at least a dozen times in the past decade alone and STILL want to replay it again TODAY.
Wow. Just wow. Really puts into perspective just how freaking much it holds up all these years later. Meanwhile I can't really bring myself to replay KH3 for a third time. Once at launch, once through ReMind, and.... yeah, I don't wanna touch it again. KH2FM is still the GOAT of the series. Going on 20 years.
Just some thoughts. And and opinions. Nothing more.
Okay...KH 4 begins with Sora awaiting Someone at a crossroads, I'm cool with that. Suddenly a blazing streak of light zooms right by him, suddenly coming to a stop right there, 50 meters away give or take. The waves from the sonic boom would rustle up all the surrounding dirt and dust, shrouding what it was that almost hit Sora. Sora would then approach said dust-cloud and suddenly voices could be heard. "I have no idea about the we've landed in but at least everything is still standing". "Your mom chased your cat through that gate and now we have to find them out here, in 'this' era."
I really hope that the World Ends With You characters show up in KH4.
he saw your last video, he stubbled across it when he was catching up on lore 🤣
Shibuya incident at the crossroads OOOOOOOOOOOOO 😮
2:36 at the beginning scene remember the movie (ghost rider 1)
I’d for sure love an in between game similar to BBS following the Lost Masters and potentially the dandelions. It seems almost necessary for IV to make sense and connect to UX. The idea that the return is apocalyptic is interesting… could explain why Sora’s in an alternate reality, akin to data world contingency plan. And Maleficent’s involvement HAS to be explained more, I’m convinced she’s now housing the final 13th darkness, most likely the strongest.
Damn i didnt even know BBS came out on my birthday until today
2025 may indeed be the year for huge news for KH!!
They definetly need to break silence soon and communicate at least, Normura kinda sounded like he was fed up about keeping quiet too at the start of his message. I can appreciate that Square hit a roadblock and needed to retool everything. However that was mostly caused by the higher ups poor decisions so it's no excuse for the radio silence. I don't expect a full release date but I think one or two trailers and some posters plus the developers being able to talk about it more is not unreasonable to ask.
Neku finds sora at the crossing
Also that the master of masters and the rest of them are the gate keepers so to speak and they're while purpose is to guide sora and yazora to the final confrontation but lushu wants sora to win and deny yazora his wish to get his soul.