The sentence before ends in "Riku Repica", then it's "Riku's Replica Riku plunges into Replica Riku's Replica". I never thought of it that way, but it's hilarious. :D
Light side: "Hey we need 7 people, so we're going to go do that. Sora, go mess around." Sora: "Got it." Dark side: "Were going to figure out our 13, we still meating at the graveyard?" Light side:"Yeah." Dark side: "Okay, and hey, if you don't show up we'll just kidnap the princesses." Light side: "Oh, okay, yeah no we'll show up. Is that going to be plot relevant at all?" Dark side: "No, it will never be mentioned again." Light side: "Okay, cool. Sora how you doing?" Sora: "Cookin' with a rat!"
Honestly the story feels way better when it’s explained like this, especially when it comes to the Disney worlds. I had issues with the story pacing before but I think I can appreciate it a lot more now
Ehh it only sounds good on paper so that doesn't excuse the execution of what we got in the final product lmao. We shouldn't have to rely on recaps in order to fully understand the story, and I hope future games will take note...
@Player 1 I agree. I didn't want to have to watch recaps. BUT.... I started KH when KH1 was first released 20 years ago. At this point, I have forgotten most of what has happened. Im not young enough to have a lot of free time anymore. I am sure that when I retire, I will be going back to KH, and playing every title to 100% completion. But for right now, I am very happy that people are taking the time to do these recaps and giving me the ability to go back remember what happened..... especially with new stuff coming.... O_O
@@shannonosborne9850 an easy fix is for the series to stop making spin off games that are required to keep up with the story. There is no reason for a mobile game to be relevant to understand what happening now.
I’m geeking out about this, I didn’t realize his KH3 Recapitation was dropping today. 35:30 lmao “Riku’s replica Riku slams into Replica Riku’s Replica” that’s KH in a nutshell
This was such a treat, dying laughing at the repliku section, and the burning rage lingering will section and crying remembering playing through this game for the first time. Big ups Oni!
I don’t think even KH fans know what’s going on at this point. All I know is that this is probably the most fragrant use of the “power of friendship” trope ever, yet it somehow works
This dude said riku so many times I thought I was having a stroke, but then I remebered thats just kingdom hearts sometimes. Appreciated the Recap though 👍
Remember when the first game was about Sora looking for his friends? And then KH2 was about Sora...y'know, _finding_ them? With CoM in the middle telling a story about him learning to keep the faith in even the most dire of situations, and 358/2 giving tragic context to those unfortunate enough to be stuck in the middle of the war between Light and Darkness? Good times, man. It reminds me a bit of Sonic the Hedgehog haha. The first batch of Sonic games were blatantly just about environmentalism and the dangers of rapid industrialism. Then Sega said "Yeah, but what if it was about space gods and ancient prophecies instead?"
Thank you OBM, I've watched the walkthroughs and seen other's explanations, but this was actually one of the best explanations of the series I've seen.
I’m very glad this video came to be after Sora’s Smash inclusion, I have a soft spot for KH3, Switching Keyblades on the fly, Shotlocks, Keyblade Transformations, Summoning Amusement Park Rides, Fun side quests like searching for Lucky Emblems and Ingredients, Playing as different characters in the ReMind DLC and the fun Data Battles, I love KH3 for what it is.
omg, This story. Even the ending confused me and now I get what actually happened. I sort of understood why sora disappears at the end of the game while sitting with Kairi but wow. Thanks for clearing this crazy noodle soup up.
It's crazy that the other day, I watched all your Kingdom Hearts RECAPitations in one sitting. And then, I just now noticed that you uploaded this video! Honestly, this helped me a lot. I couldn't get myself to play Kingdom Hearts 3 because something about the direction and gameplay it went in just turned me off... It was the first Kingdom Hearts game I put down but thanks to this, I might just pick it back up!
@@Player-jh4ko I know it's been 2 months since I wrote this comment and I don't blame you for making that comment since KH3 is honestly, in my opinion, one of the most underwhelming KH games in the whole franchise. I still haven't picked back up KH3 yet because I'm currently playing all the KH games again (trying to 100% them on the hardest difficulty).
"...Sora fights back with his own army including -Dream Eaters- *REINCARNATED SOUL OF TORTURED YOUNG KEYBLADE WIELDERS WHOM DIED DURING THE KEYBLADE WAR I"*
Also, this feels a lot like Shenmue III. They have much deeper pockets, It didn't need any crowdsourcing, but it seems like they could have taken an opportunity to clean up all plot threads and give a proper resolution and decided to insert potential sequel storylines instead, along with further incoming confusion. But just like Shenmue, it was a game that was being looked forward to for years and years and years and instead of just giving people the conclusion that they would have preferred, they went this route.
I've come to understand the story of KH but now Nomura has created more questions than the ones he answered in KH3 lol. Who is the Master of Masters? What's Luxu's role in all this? Lastly, and most importantly, WHAT IS IN THAT GODDAMN BLACK BOX!? I want answers Nomura! XD
"Riku's replica ,Riku slams into Replica Riku's replica" That one sentence perfectly summarizes the complexity and sheer utter bull shit of the Kingdom hearts timeline
Final Fantasy 15 really was meant to be how Kingdom Hearts would be like or from how Nomura wanted it to be. It feels as though a part of what can be done and what appears in Kingdom Hearts does end up in FF15.
Sora is like the ultimate protagonist, when everything was lost he literally got a no the rest chance by learning that he can time travel, he really is broken. Best review I’ve seen so far by the way, thanks!!
Enjoyed this game a whole lot, as I do with the rest of the series. Best part was anything to do with Roxas, Lea/Axel and Xion. Complaint though is that I think there could've been more to allude to Xion return, rather than the character just being dropped in the final segment.
@@odindarkll3706 truth be told, I enjoy Kingdom Hearts, mainly for its own Kingdom Hearts aspects. After the first game, the Disney and Final Fantasy aspects have lost their luster, leaving whatever original content the series produces to be what garners my attention. The Disney aspects takes up a large portion of the game and if it were cut out, I think that there more time and depth can be used to flesh out on the original plot and characters. Sadly that will most likely not happen since maintaining this connection to Disney acts as a marketing scheme.
36:03 - I like how, when on screen, Mickey routinely gets his butt handed to him. Yet, when OFF screen, Mickey is super powerful and does some crazy stuff. EDIT: 38:00 - And THIS was probably the best scene in the entire game to me, complete with Roxas' music, which has got to be one of the most recognizable themes in the game. Just hearing the first 4 notes, you know what it is. There was one Medal in Union Cross that plays a super slow, super sad variant of the theme and starts with just those four notes almost feeling alone in the darkness. This one: th-cam.com/video/8aV7c1G2CuQ/w-d-xo.html (or search "KHUX Soundtrack: HD Roxas Art EX Medal BGM (The Other Promise)" here on TH-cam if you distrust links. Another good one is: th-cam.com/video/1LhbkxnkBbg/w-d-xo.html) Though I'm trying to figure out...if Ventus and Roxas were TWO of the hearts in Sora, and Xion was NOT one...who is the third? 39:30 - I did love how Terra was the Guardian the whole time. That was a neat story beat/twist to me. 44:00 - I like how the GAMEPLAY part of the video ends here, yet there's still roughly 10 minutes left in the video. :D 53:12 - OOOOH, that must be the DLC stuff? I saw a brief overview of Melody of Memories, so this all makes more sense now. Sora and Kairi doing the "fix the past" routine (e.g. pushing Chirithy out for Ventus to see her) was kind of cool. I still don't get WHY Sora disappeared when he did and not before or after, though. It's also strange to me how the bad guys seem to understand fully what he's doing, how he's doing it, and the cost it will require. Though it's odd to me that he still has his Keyblade when fighting Yozora, implying that he hasn't truly lost all of his power, even if he has no real direct way to get home...
xion was the 3rd one, and probably having the keyblade didnt meant losing all his power, it may be like on the begin of the game where he lost the awaking and other powers
@@dragonskynocturne7347 I thought so, too, but I'm not sure it was Xion. The main reason is that we see Sora release Ven's heart using the Power of Waking (when Aqua is fighting Vanitus), and we see Sora release Roxas' heart/Roxas' heart release from him. But we never see Xion's heart release from Sora, nor do we see him release it. He simply says her name and appeals to her, and she has a semi-breakdown as her mind returns to her. That's why I'm not sure if it was Xion or not. The Xion we encounter was already in a Replica body and her own person, while Ven was an empty body until his heart was returned, and Roxas was a heart waiting for a body for him to inhabit. Xion was already in a body, and it was not an empty shell, meaning she already had a heart or a...something...in it. And in either case, again, we didn't see her heart leave Sora to enter into her. Maybe it was supposed to be hers, but I'm not sure...
@@dragonskynocturne7347 Maybe. But Xion wasn't Sora's Nobody. She was Kairi's Nobody. Kairi, being a Princess of Heart, is supposed to have no darkness in hear heart at all. But while hear heart was in Sora, it apparently just took a little of his darkness when he freed her heart in KH1. As Sora's heart was also released, Sora's heart became his Hartless that you play as to get back to the ground floor, but also a Nobody, Roxas. The darkness with Kairi's heart got flung off, creating what would later become Xion. Kairi had no Heartless, because Heartless are (ironic given the name) hearts with darkness surrounding them and giving them the Heartless form (it's why a heart always comes out when you defeat them - that's the heart that was at their core returning to Kingdom Hearts). And she didn't EXACTLY have a Nobody, because her body was right there and Princesses of Heart apparently don't do that... ...normally. But because her heart had been in Sora, a piece of what WOULD have been Roxas joined with the darkness that Kairi's heart cast off, and this combined to form Xion. So Xion is technically Kairi's Nobody (so is Namine...again, sorta) as much as Sora's. And, in either case, as far as I could tell, her heart was never inside of Sora again. Roxas's was from the end of KH2, and Ven's was from the end of Birth By Sleep. But I'm not sure of any time that Xion's heart would have gone into Sora's heart to rest...
@@SubduedRadical dunno where you got kairi’s nobody from, xion is sora’s imperfect replica who looks like kairi because of sora’s powerful memories of her. She was created as a backup to sora/roxas and also to help roxas harvest heartless hearts for kingdom hearts, this is all shown in 358/2 days seems like you didn’t play it :)
'..versus Yozora waking up in another world....' I see what you did there. Honestly I tried to follow the whole last kh bit while playing as best as I could 🤣 but now I see how much I missed though... All in all I understood but did not make the "connections"
This video made the story so much better for me. Now I feel bad because Sora was used as a resolution to everyone else's story before him and he did it willingly.
Haven't played any of these games since the first one and that was when I was a kid and seeing a lot of the places from the first game is giving me f****** crazy nostalgia
Is this game worth playing? I really enjoy the story of KH but I heard that KH3 has pretty bad story telling. I know it has great combat but I honestly don't care about combat. I have experienced all of KH so far through TH-cam cutscene movies as I just got into KH after Sora's reveal in Smash.
@@mordor2594 Its pretty dissapointing how they handle the story, best thing I could tell you is keep your expectations pretty low and see if you're fine with it.
Yo thank you this made the story make a lot more sense to me and while I loved it originally and loved the game I appreciate it more now after this video!! Can't wait for kh4!!!
Awesome video! Its really well put together and concise. It would be awesome to see the other kingdom hearts game through this format. Youve earned yourself a new subscriber! Good work sir!
I feel betrayed. I supported the franchise over multiple games, hell, multiple platforms. I bought consoles specifically for these games. And this the story I get? This is the conclusion to the Xehanort Saga? This is the end of Ansem? This rushed attempt at an ending is what I paid for and waited for all these years…? Nahhh man. Miss me with that edit: also why does kairi look 11-12 here when she looked around 14-15 in KH2? and NO it's not "JuST tHE HaIRcUT" edit2: also also really cute how the man who just killed Kairi in cold blood gets a happy ending. so wholesome!!!
I only got into kingdom hearts with birth by sleep and haven’t played the rest and almost beat 3 but I don’t think anything has made me feel this much emotion before
I'd love to see some of the good guys do some time travel. In a perfect world, I'd actually have teleport all the Guardians of Light & the Twilight Town Gang to Scala Ad Caelum where they can all learn to use Keyblades.
This was so needed. I don’t know how you even understand this story fully. I feel Kingdom Hearts plot line has gotten away from itself a bit so I’m hoping the next entries reign it in some
36:13 Luxord activates his Trap Card...tells Sora that it's time to duel...through Sora's trust in the Heart of the Cards.... "SORA! IF YOU LOSE THE DUEL, YOU LOSE YOUR SOUL!"
Thanks for the recap. I just couldn't bring myself to play this game again. I've always loved the Kinddom Hearts' story and series mostly 😅 , but Kh3 gamplay and most of the story was a miss, so this video definitely made it more enjoyable.
If Xemnas and Ansem can coexist, it's because a heartless and nobody of a same person can coexist just fine. But when it comes to the original and the nobody, that's another story, normally Terra-Xehanort and Xemnas or Ansem shouldn't be able to coexist, it's just that the two latter came from the past and host a vessel.
I had just finished a Kingdom Hearts watch-a-thon of all the games (Including the X Back Cover [from 2.8 collection]) and you did a good job Are you gonna do a RECAPitation of Melody of Memories?
You are the unsung king of rpg/jrpg story telling. Your channel is the best thing I enjoy while cooking gaming and before bed. THANK YOU FOR YOU'RE HARD WORK. Truly the hero we need but not deserve !
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“Replica Riku plunges into Replica Riku’s Replica” whoa
😂
When i tell you I lost me shit lol
The sentence before ends in "Riku Repica", then it's "Riku's Replica Riku plunges into Replica Riku's Replica". I never thought of it that way, but it's hilarious. :D
When said that my mind went 🤯🤯🤯🤯
That blew my mind
Light side: "Hey we need 7 people, so we're going to go do that. Sora, go mess around."
Sora: "Got it."
Dark side: "Were going to figure out our 13, we still meating at the graveyard?"
Light side:"Yeah."
Dark side: "Okay, and hey, if you don't show up we'll just kidnap the princesses."
Light side: "Oh, okay, yeah no we'll show up. Is that going to be plot relevant at all?"
Dark side: "No, it will never be mentioned again."
Light side: "Okay, cool. Sora how you doing?"
Sora: "Cookin' with a rat!"
Accurate.
Hehe .. meat
“Xemnas tells Lea how’s he’s a worthless character” killed me lmfao
Lets not forget that Lea clapped back with "Yeah im useless but im a still a fan favorite fam"
@@es_three232 I loved that bit of fourth wall breaking.
Man, you need more appreciation for the sheer amount of puns you slip in under the radar.
Honestly the story feels way better when it’s explained like this, especially when it comes to the Disney worlds. I had issues with the story pacing before but I think I can appreciate it a lot more now
Ehh it only sounds good on paper so that doesn't excuse the execution of what we got in the final product lmao. We shouldn't have to rely on recaps in order to fully understand the story, and I hope future games will take note...
@Player 1 I agree. I didn't want to have to watch recaps. BUT.... I started KH when KH1 was first released 20 years ago. At this point, I have forgotten most of what has happened. Im not young enough to have a lot of free time anymore. I am sure that when I retire, I will be going back to KH, and playing every title to 100% completion. But for right now, I am very happy that people are taking the time to do these recaps and giving me the ability to go back remember what happened..... especially with new stuff coming.... O_O
@@Player-jh4ko I agree, KH3 was terrible. Literally a filler game.
@@shannonosborne9850 an easy fix is for the series to stop making spin off games that are required to keep up with the story. There is no reason for a mobile game to be relevant to understand what happening now.
I’m geeking out about this, I didn’t realize his KH3 Recapitation was dropping today. 35:30 lmao “Riku’s replica Riku slams into Replica Riku’s Replica” that’s KH in a nutshell
My Nobody! Don’t drop my mew gift phone!
Nobody: .... (can’t even move... hurry back, dolt!)
Me: Sorry, first time I got sent THIS HARD
XD
"Riku’s replica Riku slams into Replica Riku’s Replica" I need this on a shirt
I want it ON MY WALL
XD
Say that 5 times fast
He must just look at his script sometimes and just think “I wrote this and I still don’t entirely understand what this means.”
This was such a treat, dying laughing at the repliku section, and the burning rage lingering will section and crying remembering playing through this game for the first time. Big ups Oni!
"Drowning in a sea of darkness."
Its not a phase mom it's the PLOT LINE
Its cool that they used names from actual union players while Sora is surfing the keyblade wave. Nice touch.
and after finishing every KH recapitation, I STILL dont know what the fuck is going on
I don’t think even KH fans know what’s going on at this point. All I know is that this is probably the most fragrant use of the “power of friendship” trope ever, yet it somehow works
@@aidanbeesley3221 - So fragrant, the writer's department reeked of Drakkar Noir.
We’re going to square enix world that’s all that really matters
Zettaflare
Lol it weird because I completely understand the story but I can't explain it to anyone
Loved the yugioh puns in the battle against Luxord. But let's be real, with his accent it's far more of a "fancy a game of gwent?" situation
This dude said riku so many times I thought I was having a stroke, but then I remebered thats just kingdom hearts sometimes. Appreciated the Recap though 👍
😂
“Turning to face the storm that is approaching”
I see what you did there…
Meanwhile, the following Saga in this series follows Sora's mom looking for him to feed Sora his dinner
They spend the whole game tying up decades of loose plot threads only to hit you with the "haha jk here's the plot of the next six spinoffs"
Remember when the first game was about Sora looking for his friends? And then KH2 was about Sora...y'know, _finding_ them? With CoM in the middle telling a story about him learning to keep the faith in even the most dire of situations, and 358/2 giving tragic context to those unfortunate enough to be stuck in the middle of the war between Light and Darkness? Good times, man.
It reminds me a bit of Sonic the Hedgehog haha. The first batch of Sonic games were blatantly just about environmentalism and the dangers of rapid industrialism. Then Sega said "Yeah, but what if it was about space gods and ancient prophecies instead?"
Thank you OBM, I've watched the walkthroughs and seen other's explanations, but this was actually one of the best explanations of the series I've seen.
I have been searching all day for a story video on KH3, and then this premiers! Thank you so much!
I’m very glad this video came to be after Sora’s Smash inclusion, I have a soft spot for KH3, Switching Keyblades on the fly, Shotlocks, Keyblade Transformations, Summoning Amusement Park Rides, Fun side quests like searching for Lucky Emblems and Ingredients, Playing as different characters in the ReMind DLC and the fun Data Battles, I love KH3 for what it is.
And the combat is Devil May Cry levels of fun and satisfying.
omg, This story. Even the ending confused me and now I get what actually happened. I sort of understood why sora disappears at the end of the game while sitting with Kairi but wow. Thanks for clearing this crazy noodle soup up.
I wonder how the meeting of Nomura explaining the whole Rikus revelation went...
Good gawd I'm dying
"Thank you for taking the time to listen to this recap, I hope it helped."
Me, haven't played KH since KH1: ...wt actual f
ya this is my third video trying to catch up on the series. seems like alots gone on in 20 years 😂
@@Jeremy-dw2jt y’all ain’t real kh fans
It's crazy that the other day, I watched all your Kingdom Hearts RECAPitations in one sitting. And then, I just now noticed that you uploaded this video! Honestly, this helped me a lot. I couldn't get myself to play Kingdom Hearts 3 because something about the direction and gameplay it went in just turned me off... It was the first Kingdom Hearts game I put down but thanks to this, I might just pick it back up!
Ehh I wouldn't...
@@Player-jh4ko I know it's been 2 months since I wrote this comment and I don't blame you for making that comment since KH3 is honestly, in my opinion, one of the most underwhelming KH games in the whole franchise. I still haven't picked back up KH3 yet because I'm currently playing all the KH games again (trying to 100% them on the hardest difficulty).
"...Sora fights back with his own army including -Dream Eaters- *REINCARNATED SOUL OF TORTURED YOUNG KEYBLADE WIELDERS WHOM DIED DURING THE KEYBLADE WAR I"*
Also, this feels a lot like Shenmue III. They have much deeper pockets, It didn't need any crowdsourcing, but it seems like they could have taken an opportunity to clean up all plot threads and give a proper resolution and decided to insert potential sequel storylines instead, along with further incoming confusion.
But just like Shenmue, it was a game that was being looked forward to for years and years and years and instead of just giving people the conclusion that they would have preferred, they went this route.
I've come to understand the story of KH but now Nomura has created more questions than the ones he answered in KH3 lol. Who is the Master of Masters? What's Luxu's role in all this? Lastly, and most importantly, WHAT IS IN THAT GODDAMN BLACK BOX!? I want answers Nomura! XD
What's in the box?
Well, most ppl believe it to be the head of his mother.
It’s just a selfie the Foretellers took on polaroid film.
Truly the friends we made along the way.
This video has literally made me want to re play everything, thank you for this video, Oni.
"Riku's replica ,Riku slams into Replica Riku's replica" That one sentence perfectly summarizes the complexity and sheer utter bull shit of the Kingdom hearts timeline
It’s honestly impressive that Sully managed to scare one of the 13 darknesses, THE, not Xehanort’s, 13 darknesses
Made ya look!
After watching this I need to rewatch the others in order. Work is going to fly by now. Thanks Bro!
These are perfect to zone out to
please keep up these vids you are the only person that can explain stories the most entertaining and simple way
Final Fantasy 15 really was meant to be how Kingdom Hearts would be like or from how Nomura wanted it to be. It feels as though a part of what can be done and what appears in Kingdom Hearts does end up in FF15.
36:14 I love the Yu-Gi-Oh here.
Sora is like the ultimate protagonist, when everything was lost he literally got a no the rest chance by learning that he can time travel, he really is broken.
Best review I’ve seen so far by the way, thanks!!
Enjoyed this game a whole lot, as I do with the rest of the series. Best part was anything to do with Roxas, Lea/Axel and Xion. Complaint though is that I think there could've been more to allude to Xion return, rather than the character just being dropped in the final segment.
In other words, only the end of the game was enjoyable?
@@odindarkll3706 truth be told, I enjoy Kingdom Hearts, mainly for its own Kingdom Hearts aspects. After the first game, the Disney and Final Fantasy aspects have lost their luster, leaving whatever original content the series produces to be what garners my attention. The Disney aspects takes up a large portion of the game and if it were cut out, I think that there more time and depth can be used to flesh out on the original plot and characters. Sadly that will most likely not happen since maintaining this connection to Disney acts as a marketing scheme.
This must have been a ton of work. Thanks so much for this!
Bless you for recapping this batshit insane series lol
Not batshit insane. Batshit beautiful... Which is like flaming dog shit with a bow on it welding the kingdom key.
@@nikadgod5152 Ehh it's debatable lol.
@@nikadgod5152 This game however, I think most people can agree that it is batshit insane...
Is it just me, or this madlad on 29:30 just did a Gurren Lagann reference and right after it did a DMC one?
36:03 - I like how, when on screen, Mickey routinely gets his butt handed to him. Yet, when OFF screen, Mickey is super powerful and does some crazy stuff.
EDIT:
38:00 - And THIS was probably the best scene in the entire game to me, complete with Roxas' music, which has got to be one of the most recognizable themes in the game. Just hearing the first 4 notes, you know what it is. There was one Medal in Union Cross that plays a super slow, super sad variant of the theme and starts with just those four notes almost feeling alone in the darkness. This one: th-cam.com/video/8aV7c1G2CuQ/w-d-xo.html (or search "KHUX Soundtrack: HD Roxas Art EX Medal BGM (The Other Promise)" here on TH-cam if you distrust links. Another good one is: th-cam.com/video/1LhbkxnkBbg/w-d-xo.html)
Though I'm trying to figure out...if Ventus and Roxas were TWO of the hearts in Sora, and Xion was NOT one...who is the third?
39:30 - I did love how Terra was the Guardian the whole time. That was a neat story beat/twist to me.
44:00 - I like how the GAMEPLAY part of the video ends here, yet there's still roughly 10 minutes left in the video. :D
53:12 - OOOOH, that must be the DLC stuff? I saw a brief overview of Melody of Memories, so this all makes more sense now. Sora and Kairi doing the "fix the past" routine (e.g. pushing Chirithy out for Ventus to see her) was kind of cool. I still don't get WHY Sora disappeared when he did and not before or after, though. It's also strange to me how the bad guys seem to understand fully what he's doing, how he's doing it, and the cost it will require. Though it's odd to me that he still has his Keyblade when fighting Yozora, implying that he hasn't truly lost all of his power, even if he has no real direct way to get home...
xion was the 3rd one, and probably having the keyblade didnt meant losing all his power, it may be like on the begin of the game where he lost the awaking and other powers
@@dragonskynocturne7347 I thought so, too, but I'm not sure it was Xion.
The main reason is that we see Sora release Ven's heart using the Power of Waking (when Aqua is fighting Vanitus), and we see Sora release Roxas' heart/Roxas' heart release from him.
But we never see Xion's heart release from Sora, nor do we see him release it. He simply says her name and appeals to her, and she has a semi-breakdown as her mind returns to her.
That's why I'm not sure if it was Xion or not. The Xion we encounter was already in a Replica body and her own person, while Ven was an empty body until his heart was returned, and Roxas was a heart waiting for a body for him to inhabit.
Xion was already in a body, and it was not an empty shell, meaning she already had a heart or a...something...in it. And in either case, again, we didn't see her heart leave Sora to enter into her.
Maybe it was supposed to be hers, but I'm not sure...
@@SubduedRadical well still supose to be her, after xion is originaly sora nobody, and her heart my "awake" when he call her saying she can stop now
@@dragonskynocturne7347 Maybe.
But Xion wasn't Sora's Nobody.
She was Kairi's Nobody.
Kairi, being a Princess of Heart, is supposed to have no darkness in hear heart at all. But while hear heart was in Sora, it apparently just took a little of his darkness when he freed her heart in KH1. As Sora's heart was also released, Sora's heart became his Hartless that you play as to get back to the ground floor, but also a Nobody, Roxas. The darkness with Kairi's heart got flung off, creating what would later become Xion. Kairi had no Heartless, because Heartless are (ironic given the name) hearts with darkness surrounding them and giving them the Heartless form (it's why a heart always comes out when you defeat them - that's the heart that was at their core returning to Kingdom Hearts). And she didn't EXACTLY have a Nobody, because her body was right there and Princesses of Heart apparently don't do that...
...normally.
But because her heart had been in Sora, a piece of what WOULD have been Roxas joined with the darkness that Kairi's heart cast off, and this combined to form Xion.
So Xion is technically Kairi's Nobody (so is Namine...again, sorta) as much as Sora's.
And, in either case, as far as I could tell, her heart was never inside of Sora again. Roxas's was from the end of KH2, and Ven's was from the end of Birth By Sleep. But I'm not sure of any time that Xion's heart would have gone into Sora's heart to rest...
@@SubduedRadical dunno where you got kairi’s nobody from, xion is sora’s imperfect replica who looks like kairi because of sora’s powerful memories of her.
She was created as a backup to sora/roxas and also to help roxas harvest heartless hearts for kingdom hearts, this is all shown in 358/2 days seems like you didn’t play it :)
Thank you for this! I loved 1 & 2 but could not get through this game 😅
Well this was much more coherent then what the game tried to present. Thank you.
so very happy this episode came out, this is like the persona series without the slice of life.
I love both persona and Kingdom Hearts
persona sucks
'..versus Yozora waking up in another world....'
I see what you did there.
Honestly I tried to follow the whole last kh bit while playing as best as I could 🤣 but now I see how much I missed though... All in all I understood but did not make the "connections"
That Gurren Lagann reference was genius haha
This video made the story so much better for me. Now I feel bad because Sora was used as a resolution to everyone else's story before him and he did it willingly.
Good to have you back, Oni.
Well done sir, you are truly a gentleman and a scholar
“Heart of the cards” “dynamic entry” we love the references
Haven't played any of these games since the first one and that was when I was a kid and seeing a lot of the places from the first game is giving me f****** crazy nostalgia
I always love the casual blatant humor in this
Love how I find this in my recommended right after finishing KH3 and diving into ReMind. The timing is impeccable lol
Is this game worth playing? I really enjoy the story of KH but I heard that KH3 has pretty bad story telling. I know it has great combat but I honestly don't care about combat. I have experienced all of KH so far through TH-cam cutscene movies as I just got into KH after Sora's reveal in Smash.
@@mordor2594 Its pretty dissapointing how they handle the story, best thing I could tell you is keep your expectations pretty low and see if you're fine with it.
Yo thank you this made the story make a lot more sense to me and while I loved it originally and loved the game I appreciate it more now after this video!! Can't wait for kh4!!!
Awesome video! Its really well put together and concise. It would be awesome to see the other kingdom hearts game through this format. Youve earned yourself a new subscriber! Good work sir!
i loved the fact that they had all the user names of the people who played the mobile kingdom hearts game. when i saw my name i freaked lol.
I feel betrayed. I supported the franchise over multiple games, hell, multiple platforms. I bought consoles specifically for these games. And this the story I get? This is the conclusion to the Xehanort Saga? This is the end of Ansem? This rushed attempt at an ending is what I paid for and waited for all these years…? Nahhh man. Miss me with that
edit: also why does kairi look 11-12 here when she looked around 14-15 in KH2? and NO it's not "JuST tHE HaIRcUT"
edit2: also also really cute how the man who just killed Kairi in cold blood gets a happy ending. so wholesome!!!
Ok be honest.
How many times did you day darkness in this one?
Darkness - 56 times
Dark (including darkness) - 91 times
Thank you...I think your channel and xygor gaming are the best channel on yt honestly
Two words
“THANK YOU!”
You are a brave one to dig in this convoluted mess.
What happened in KH3?
Answer: whatever happens inside the minds of people who stare into the face of Cthulu.
That yugi oh bit with Luxord was cool
I only got into kingdom hearts with birth by sleep and haven’t played the rest and almost beat 3 but I don’t think anything has made me feel this much emotion before
I didn’t realize how much the Disney/Pixar stories foreshadow the main plot.
The puns and references with absolutely zero inflection or nothing. Amazing
The story of Kingdom Hearts is delightfully bonkers and I love it XD
The thing that I really need to know is how will The world ends with you affect KH lore in this case by the final scene
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't waiting for this
I never want to hear the word “replica” again lol
I'd love to see some of the good guys do some time travel. In a perfect world, I'd actually have teleport all the Guardians of Light & the Twilight Town Gang to Scala Ad Caelum where they can all learn to use Keyblades.
This was so needed. I don’t know how you even understand this story fully. I feel Kingdom Hearts plot line has gotten away from itself a bit so I’m hoping the next entries reign it in some
Was that Lindsey Sterling's Kingdom Hearts violin music I heard at the beginning??
53:00 Sir, it absolutely did not help. I am equally confused regardless of your excellent recap
Will you be making Nier Replicant 1.22 and Scarlet Nexus Recaps? Please make one for NEO The World Ends With You
Your recaps GOLDEN
Thanks for taking on this task! I have waited so long for this!
Sully stunned vanitas. Thats how broken he is
36:13 Luxord activates his Trap Card...tells Sora that it's time to duel...through Sora's trust in the Heart of the Cards....
"SORA! IF YOU LOSE THE DUEL, YOU LOSE YOUR SOUL!"
This popped up and I was like “Damn - 53 minutes!?”
I’m bout to watch tho lol
Thanks for the recap. I just couldn't bring myself to play this game again. I've always loved the Kinddom Hearts' story and series mostly 😅 , but Kh3 gamplay and most of the story was a miss, so this video definitely made it more enjoyable.
Finally a recap that does not make the game intentionally complicated for non KH fans.
35:14
Quite a mouthful
XD
Also a glimpse of an empty Replica!
Kaiba would be proud. 36:13
this was so funny and I love you for it. these puns are just *chefs kiss*
47:00 Give this man a mecha now! That would honestly be super sick in Kh4
If Xemnas and Ansem can coexist, it's because a heartless and nobody of a same person can coexist just fine. But when it comes to the original and the nobody, that's another story, normally Terra-Xehanort and Xemnas or Ansem shouldn't be able to coexist, it's just that the two latter came from the past and host a vessel.
36:20 hope those phones have enough space for Duel Links
XD
I absolutely love kingdom heart's but my lord the replica riku riku replica line encapsulates why I also hate it 😂😂😂
Those yu-gi-oh references on point my man
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I screamed with the Yugioh references!🤣💖🤘💪
I think this is your best work yet, thank you.
Thank you so much ! I played all the games and was a little confused
Been waiting for this!!! Thanks!!!
My BOI ! You make my shift go by so fast!❤️❤️❤️
I appreciate the yugioh references. 😂
I had just finished a Kingdom Hearts watch-a-thon of all the games (Including the X Back Cover [from 2.8 collection]) and you did a good job Are you gonna do a RECAPitation of Melody of Memories?
yes
You are the unsung king of rpg/jrpg story telling. Your channel is the best thing I enjoy while cooking gaming and before bed. THANK YOU FOR YOU'RE HARD WORK. Truly the hero we need but not deserve !
36:17 you are such a funny guy