Understanding Kingdom Hearts (and every other story) | Unraveled
Understanding Kingdom Hearts (and every other story) | Unraveled
Everyone wants to get caught up on Kingdom Hearts’ story before the new game comes out. But Brian David Gilbert will do you one better: he’ll help you understand EVERY story.
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June 23, 2022 @ 3:00 am
I’m pretty sure Unraveled is just in reference to BDG’s mental state at this point.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:01 am
You know he wasn’t far off. His guess was pretty close
June 23, 2022 @ 3:01 am
The only thing that makes this so confusing is that there’s only really 10 real characters and practically everyone else is each other, memories of another person, fusions between them, a clone, a future/past version, etc.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:02 am
This legitimately helped me figure out the ending of my second novel 😂👏🏻
June 23, 2022 @ 3:02 am
honestly he was closer than you’d think
he was sure fuckin right about kairi continuing to not matter
June 23, 2022 @ 3:02 am
I am going through his Unraveled playlist again, and ONCE AGAIN you have brought joy and laughter from your pain to my melancholy Friday. Thank you
June 23, 2022 @ 3:04 am
Ok, I’m back after watching this video when it first came out and I am now older, wiser, and have gone through the entirety of every piece of kingdom heart content. And like… He wasn’t exactly WRONG about his prediction of KH3.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:05 am
I was concerned this would be a straightforward gag of forcing kingdom hearts to fit the 12 points and throwing away inconvenient lore
And then the first correction came.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:06 am
I’ve only played the 3rd game because it was on Xbox game pass
June 23, 2022 @ 3:06 am
This video has been out for 2 years, I’ve watched it over 10 times on that time span and I’m just starting to understand the story line
June 23, 2022 @ 3:07 am
instructions unclear: still don’t understand kingdom hearts
June 23, 2022 @ 3:09 am
"Union Cross isn’t important"
Nomura: Hahahahahahaha. Yes it fucking is!
June 23, 2022 @ 3:11 am
Hey can we get an update?
June 23, 2022 @ 3:14 am
Fuckin hero’s Magic Roundabout here
June 23, 2022 @ 3:14 am
Riku got a haircut in kh3 so you definitely got it
June 23, 2022 @ 3:14 am
The worst part about the "monomyth" is every cishet white youtuber thinking they know everything about media analysis because they know this structure lol
June 23, 2022 @ 3:14 am
7:06 elden ring
June 23, 2022 @ 3:14 am
This made me very happy.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:16 am
That tie is bomb.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:16 am
KH 4 really retroactively threw a wrench into this
June 23, 2022 @ 3:17 am
5:45 brian is crying rn after the kh 4 trailer
June 23, 2022 @ 3:17 am
I’ve never learned so much without processing any information before
June 23, 2022 @ 3:21 am
"Kairi will continue to not matter." A few years later and truer words have never been said.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:22 am
why do they all look like wizard 101 characters
June 23, 2022 @ 3:22 am
Why does the villain’s journey sound like Professor Zoom’s origin story in reverse?
June 23, 2022 @ 3:23 am
Rewatching this for the umpteenth time, I think it’s funny when he has to make the circle cave in (6:28) to fit the nonsense cause it’s like the overarching story is having a stroke
June 23, 2022 @ 3:24 am
I heard someone say the MCU was more confusing than kingdom hearts and I remembered this video.
Kingdom hearts is like if the entire series of events in the MCU, every movie, tv show, short or one-shot all happened to the same 5 people over the course of a month.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:24 am
This video is the representation of my autism trying to explain the connection between very far away franchises and how they live in the same universe
June 23, 2022 @ 3:25 am
His prediction for KH3 was actually pretty spot on.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:28 am
He forgot the Dream Drop Bucket!
June 23, 2022 @ 3:28 am
You ask too little of me he says, Brian, you knew going into this that even the task of explaining kingdom hearts in it’s entirety, is a task for only those with hours on their hands.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:28 am
"Kairi will continue to not matter!"
Well you got at least one thing right.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:28 am
You need a Pulitzer Prize for putting the plot of KH into words we can all understand.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:30 am
Honestly, this video makes me glad i havnt played this gamr
June 23, 2022 @ 3:31 am
In case you don’t have enough Kingdom Hearts explanation, you can watch barry Kramer’s Good Enough Summary of Kingdom Hearts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjiHufVEc7g&ab_channel=BarryKramer
June 23, 2022 @ 3:39 am
So, umm… It’s just occured to me that… Brian David Gilbert has a degree in Creative Writing. He could, in actuality, make a comprehensive explanation of Kingdom Hearts if he wanted to.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:42 am
I return to this video purely for Clayton’s show stealing performance.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:44 am
1:27
June 23, 2022 @ 3:46 am
"Antihero’s cradle" sounds unironically legitimate
June 23, 2022 @ 3:48 am
sorry is in bbs tho, but oh well
June 23, 2022 @ 3:49 am
Something that will always piss me off is that nobodies are bodies without a heart and heartless are hearts with no body.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:49 am
Lmao
June 23, 2022 @ 3:49 am
I came in here hoping to understand Kingdom hearts. Jokes on me.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:50 am
this is the greatest video ever uploaded to this website.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:50 am
Or maybe the whole story is just overconvulted BS and the writers have been trolling their fans from the get go, just to see what they can get away with.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:52 am
Cant decide whether this video is making fun of Kingdom Hearts plot, the monomyth, or both
June 23, 2022 @ 3:52 am
Today my mom asked me where I got the idea of writing my Bachelor’s Thesis about the hero’s journey, and I had to tell her it was because I saw a video online about a man in a suit losing his mind over kingdom hearts
June 23, 2022 @ 3:54 am
I’m applying this in my own writing.
June 23, 2022 @ 3:54 am
Skyrim: A bunch of guys with swords and there’s a dragon
Game of Thrones: A bunch of guys (and girls!) with swords and there’s _3_ dragons
Bleach: Guy with sword and a talking cat(?!)
Kingdom Hearts: What is a story? Well stories are when…..
June 23, 2022 @ 3:55 am
I love how this video casually demonstrates how overly analytical trope theories usually only "work" because they overgeneralize story concepts and then apply them to a comparatively narrow band of literature.