Kingdom Hearts is Really, Really Dumb – A First Time Experience
Kingdom Hearts is Really, Really Dumb – A First Time Experience
hi and welcome to the kairi appreciation club
massive thanks to GINGE: https://youtube.com/channel/UChZ5vb8ItKbXezI8uXaPRCg
if you want to experience the madness yourself – my notes: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uFJ0jRkXKGaQ7eWu6lQt9_lMIN8CmBh4?usp=sharing
thank you to Ryan from FortNine for the inspiration for the “thoroughly written” line in part III; your creativity in writing is infectious.
if you’re seeing ads before this video, i did not put them there. it’s a copyright claim and any revenue is given to them, fyi.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
0:01:38 PART I – Experiencing Kingdom Hearts
0:21:49 PART II – Explaining Kingdom Hearts
0:57:26 PART III – Understanding Kingdom Hearts
August 3, 2022 @ 7:12 pm
Wow, this is really good! Fortunately for me, I never cared about the KH story; I already knew Square Enix stories are stupid. The characters and the gameplay are what made it great (it surprises me that an FPS player could care less about story though; hmm). Really though, CoM actually had a pretty ok story.
August 3, 2022 @ 7:13 pm
Have you met our lord and savior darkness? This vid is going to my watch later for the commute to work tomorrow.
August 3, 2022 @ 7:16 pm
If KH alone is complicated for you then wait till you play any other jrpg
August 3, 2022 @ 7:17 pm
Holy cow, the editing, the dedication, the writing! Good stuff! Part 2. I know you were speaking English, I know that, but I didn’t understand a word of it lmao
August 3, 2022 @ 7:18 pm
Instant classic
August 3, 2022 @ 7:18 pm
Tim, you got that thing about Lea and Isa completely wrong. They’re weren’t even aware of Kairi’s existence at all. Those two were trying to look for this girl called Subject X that they’ve became friends with. It’s because of her were Axel and Saix in the Organization to begin with. Subject X was said to be 15 years old in one of the Secret Reports you can get in KH3’s postgame.
Kairi has nothing to do with Lea and Isa’s past.
August 3, 2022 @ 7:19 pm
I didn’t see anything about kingdom hearts 4
August 3, 2022 @ 7:20 pm
You just have to play it all to get it. And you will; play it all and get it, kingdom hearts is just… kingdom hearts. 😉
August 3, 2022 @ 7:20 pm
Wow! I haven’t seen this much depth, humor, and great editing before!
August 3, 2022 @ 7:21 pm
I’m gunna need some more bread sticks for this one.
August 3, 2022 @ 7:21 pm
This is unironically a good summary of the entire series
August 3, 2022 @ 7:22 pm
Your visual style is incredible in this. You gained a sub and great video
August 3, 2022 @ 7:23 pm
I’ve seen so many people recently shitting on my favorite game for no reason
August 3, 2022 @ 7:23 pm
damn, i haven’t seen this unique and high production commentary in a while. the comedy, the editing and the flow of the video is superb. well done.
August 3, 2022 @ 7:24 pm
Ayyyy welcome to the stockholm syndrome club!
August 3, 2022 @ 7:26 pm
The production quality of this is absolutely incredible. I love your presentation, and I’m definitely sticking round for more!
August 3, 2022 @ 7:28 pm
The editing quality of this video blows me away
August 3, 2022 @ 7:29 pm
This type of videos have gotten stale long ago, honestly. KH isn’t that complex if you been following the game, it just spans through many entries and consoles. You don’t like the series, fine, but it’s really annoying when people complain about it. Maybe read more complex literature and watch more complex movies to understand construction of narratives and plot points? Yea there some issues plot wise but that’s expected with anything that spans a continuity of 15 games over the course of 20 years. But kudos to all the work you put into making this.
August 3, 2022 @ 7:33 pm
YouTubers all have the same reaction to Kingdom Hearts and attempt to sound intelligent, pointing out all the “inconsistencies” instead of just playing the games maybe they’d figure out that there’s not actually a lot at all.
August 3, 2022 @ 7:33 pm
This has some nice NakeyJakey feeling to it! im subbing!
August 3, 2022 @ 7:34 pm
kingdom hearts 4 is coming
August 3, 2022 @ 7:36 pm
Excellently made video, but the moment I saw the crazy notes I knew I would be disagreeing by the end. While there is a ludicrously complicated plot to follow in KH if you want to follow it, the storytelling transcends video games and should be understood from an art perspective, focusing more on emotional understanding. For example, we can intuit that Riku’s arc throughout the series is an abstract reflection of a person experiencing depression and learning to love themselves and their own “darkness within.” We all make this sort of understanding when listening to music – the lyrics of a song might not be logically straightforward, but we make our own emotional understanding of what the song means to us. This is how all art works, especially the more abstract it gets, and there’s more than enough layered metaphors, symbolism, and abstract language in kingdom hearts to conclude that Tetsuya Nomura writes the series with artful intent, not necessarily as a puzzle to be solved. He’s just a brilliant enough writer to allow you to look at his work either way and it still works. Anyway, that’s my super long YouTube comment 2 cents
August 3, 2022 @ 7:37 pm
By far the best KH video I’ve ever seen. Also those notes are *chef’s kiss*
This masterpiece deserves so much recognition; the editing, commentary, and production quality are all amazing.
August 3, 2022 @ 7:38 pm
Holy shit this was awesome. One of the best análisis of the entire series and I’ve watched a bunch of them. Also having played most of the series when you described kh chi my head imploded ans the only thing i could think was "why"
August 3, 2022 @ 7:38 pm
I love how this video is all about you’ve finished Kingdom Hearts now that it has ended conclusively and they are not making any games anymore when they already announced Kingdom Hearts 4 is in development along with ANOTHER mobile game.
See you explaining those games in 5 years, bucko.
August 3, 2022 @ 7:38 pm
its solid million sub channel production
August 3, 2022 @ 7:39 pm
This is an awesome analysis! I’m excited to know what will you do next. You just got a new subscriber
August 3, 2022 @ 7:40 pm
How does this guys channel have no views or subs this doesn’t make sense
August 3, 2022 @ 7:41 pm
What a great video !!
You are a very good creator and I don’t believe my eyes when I see this video only has 2000 views.
Keep pushing and to stay on the theme…
"May your heart be your guiding key".❤️
August 3, 2022 @ 7:41 pm
some nakey jake vibes from this video pretty good
August 3, 2022 @ 7:42 pm
I love kingdom hearts as a whole series. I absolutely hated rechain of memories
August 3, 2022 @ 7:46 pm
Woah looks like I found a diamond in the rough. In a few years I’ll be like "Yeah I was watching that guy when he only had 609 subscribers"
(let’s make it 610)
August 3, 2022 @ 7:47 pm
Holy fuck.
I am so glad you got put in my recommended. The production value and the amazing visuals are such a surprise.
It is so weird how I am under the first 1k views of this vid and you are under 700 subs.
This deserves to blow up, keep at it king. You got a bright video carreer ahead 🙏❤🙏❤
August 3, 2022 @ 7:49 pm
you have brought such a clear amount of passion and technical analysis to this video, well done. as someone who thoroughly enjoyed most of my playthroughs of all the games in this series, I think you did them justice here.
August 3, 2022 @ 7:50 pm
Amazing! After being on a KH youtube spree recently, I was suggested a 1hlong video by a creator with 600ish subscribers and was keen on seeing what it would be.
Within the first minute I was hooked by the production value, great script and pace. The video gave me this warm fuzzy feeling that Kingdom Hearts always have done.
And then it comes, 17:15 into the video, the speech that just drove it all home. My exact experience with the Kingdom Hearts universe at the point of KH3 release. (I knew all about BBS, 358/2, Coded etc but had never given them much thought). Excellent video!
August 3, 2022 @ 7:50 pm
This might be the best Kingdom Hearts video on YouTube. High production quality, top tier clickbait that is admittedly not a lie in the title, and a recap of the franchise’s entire plot with only a couple missed details (Namely, the reveal in Dream Drop Distance that Nobodies actually do grow their hearts back). How somebody can release a video like this with a somewhat active channel and not have even 1000 subs is insane to me.
August 3, 2022 @ 7:52 pm
Kingdom Hearts X: Just Read the Wiki
August 3, 2022 @ 7:55 pm
I’m a long time Kingdom Hearts fan and I watched every minute of this video including the explanations. I went in here off recommendation from a friend and this was a really good watch. I can’t wait to see more of your videos in the future!
August 3, 2022 @ 7:55 pm
I actually discovered KH when my grandma and sister found this game at our nearby second-hand store, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days because they thought "this looked like something you might enjoy". And I did, a lot, I actually really loved and replayed it a thousand time, enough to remember some dialogue, which were in English, when I was a preteen speaking French and not making much efforts in class.
I didn’t have a choice as to the order I played games in but I could play 1, which was fine, but I couldn’t enjoy as much. I tried chain of memory, but I was barely a teen playing stupidly, I got stuck by not choosing HP enough, which meant dying a lot, and I didn’t really get to try to unstuck myself as I couldn’t play on the computer on which I played. I also had to borrow a psp from a friend in order to play BBS which he said was really great and which was my 2nd favourite. I skipped a few games because following spin offs is complicated and I had to buy most games in a second-hand store at the time.
I also played 3D but I got a bit disappointed with it I think, though I really enjoyed raising the dream pets and the game mechanics in the bus.
I think maybe my experience with the games was mostly for the story, and while everything is complicated and weird as described here, instead of feeling confused (I guess I expected it to be at one point and stopped trying to get it) I just felt like KH’s story often is "go around random worlds, it won’t matter until the end because we decided to let ou choose the order of things). 358/2 and BBS felt like they had a little more story compared to the other. KH 3 felt particularly blind, with the game also feeling extra easy on the hardest mode, and just a "let’s quickly wrap things up like it’ll feel deserved" at the end.
I don’t feel like giving this series a try again.
This is a bit long, but at one point I just wanted to share my experience with it. Thank you for sharing yours
August 3, 2022 @ 7:56 pm
2 minutes in and I’m sick of this dude’s voice. Done.
August 3, 2022 @ 7:58 pm
"Jesus christ Nomura please stop adding in new things to explain before I finish the previous talking poi-" *New information has been added to the pool*
August 3, 2022 @ 7:58 pm
Good video, dude!
August 3, 2022 @ 7:58 pm
I legitimately had a mild stroke after seeing your sub count. Blowing my mind man. Fantastic video.
But you misspelled vanitas. Lulz gottem. 0/10
August 3, 2022 @ 7:59 pm
Fantastic video! I played Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 for the first time recently myself. I was very confused by people saying KH1 has a simple story because I really had no idea what was going on most of the time. What even is Kingdom Hearts? Why is Mickey Mouse inside it? Why does Maleficent have so many simultaneous guests on her podcast? Why are they called heartless when they are just hearts with attitude problems?
By comparison I found KH2’s story a lot more comprehensible. I mean, heartless and nobody should totally swap names, but I really liked Roxas’ story and mostly understood what was happening in KH2.
August 3, 2022 @ 7:59 pm
Okay but like
Where did Roxas’ heart come from?
August 3, 2022 @ 8:02 pm
Kingdom Hearts is my favourite game series and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed your journey with it.
And how you tried to explain it. That part is always amusing.
August 3, 2022 @ 8:02 pm
This is a LOT of work for an hours worth of solid entertainment
I know it is said a thousand times on youtube, but man, this deserves some more views and more subs. I hope they come your way!
August 3, 2022 @ 8:02 pm
To explain why Roxas and Xion have hearts, well, Xehanort/Xemnas lied right to their fucking faces (which we kinda already knew, since the entire mission statement of Organization XIII was also a big, fat lie). Sure, all Nobodies start out without hearts, but as soon as they start developing their old personalities, emotions, and connections again, a new heart shaped by their memories materializes within them. Remember, in the world of Kingdom Hearts, a person’s "heart" has little to do with pumping blood through their bodies–it’s more analogous to their soul. So, as soon as Roxas, Xion, and all the other Organization members developed a strong sense of self and personality, a new soul was created for each of them.
So, the moment Roxas and Xion went from being shambling husks of themselves to walking, talking human beings with personalities, they obtained hearts.
August 3, 2022 @ 8:03 pm
Welcome to the club buddy. You’ll see the most dumbest writing of your life and just get used to it and roll with the punches.
August 3, 2022 @ 8:03 pm
I just finished the video and I must say…knowing this game series for 4 or maybe even more years,this video helped me out to actually understand it all way better than ever before…i must say i was very lost after kh3 especially with the dlc, even union x confused me so much. The production value was so amazing too!! also i love how often you say ‘dont think about it’ that is the number one sentence for kingdom hearts if i ever heard one.