The Actual, True Kingdom Hearts Play Order
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- Опубликовано: 5 апр 2024
- Every other Kingdom Hearts series play order list is wrong. This is the true, most recommended, and absolutely correct play order. If you want to know how to play Kingdom Hearts, this video is for you. If you already know, this video is even more for you.
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The Current Play Order Sheet:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSFqq-F9ypDkXpQP5VilDoQOnmlAv8V1GWauVaAjK5UDksib3M3GPnlJIdkLOSC5y2zgToO0foaJWhX/pubhtml
An important note, there was a major mistake in the video near the end regarding the ordering of Union; the spreadsheet is corrected.
Awesome vid as always!
why is Neopets in that sheet? I don't think I saw it in the video
You really should have a chronological order imo
April Fools?
Gamechamp you forgot to mention you have to read almost every single piece of mythology, almost every bit of religious text and all of stephen hawkings scientific papers as required reading material to understand the shin megami tensei series. This includes decyphering ancient texts that haven't been translated yet just in case they contain relevant information.
Actually since the persona games include history lectures you also have to brush up on your history to.
Oh and thanks to blazblue crosstag battle including persona characters you also have to play every single blazblue game, senran kagura game, arcana heart game, akatsuki blitzkampf, under night-in birth and watch RWBY.
And since RWBY had a crossover with DC you need to read every DC comic. And every marvel comic since they have crossed over to.
Oh and since death battle and RWBY were both owned by rooster teeth when death battle made the episodes featuring the RWBY characters and the battle of tifa vs yang was partially and ad for the 3rd season of RWB you have to watch every single death battle episode.
Thankfully you've probably gotten a lot of the required reading material for at least some of the death battle contestants done by this point but that doesn't mean you can slack off on the rest so you have to read dragon ball (+z and super) and listen to every single justin bieber song released before the episode featuring him and friday by Rebecca black.
Also also since they use links smash bros gear for his first battle vs cloud you do have to play smash bros after all. Only n64, melee and brawl though. So you don't have to play the one that has Sora in it.
Honestly can't believe you didn't mention them.
If we are strictly academic about it, a “true play order” of kingdom hearts would require not playing a single game in the series until you’ve gone through every single final fantasy game referenced and have watched every single Disney movie that appears in the story. If you fail to do so you will not be aware of plot critical lore and get confused when a hitherto unmentioned naked man and his gorilla friends show up.
Edit: posted this 3 days before the premier, this is crazy.
...you get a medal
"3 days ago"
Well damn, I guess you called it...
And oh baby that's just the START
The fact that you posted this before the video actually premiered and then were completely right absolutely brings me to live.
well not EVERY final fantasy character or EVERY disney movies. just the ones that appear
"how many Kingdom Hearts games are there?"
AYO IS THAT jan Misali from seximal 🤯🤯🤯
At least 2
Next video pog?
Ah heck. Never thought I'd see you.
@@lapisdragon1237 Why Are People Always Surprised To See RUclipsrs On RUclips? I Work Here
This has convinced me to experience the Kingdom Hearts series in a brand new play order where you play chain of memories and then none of the other games ever
me too lmao
Im playing through the games with my girl she never has before and we beat 1 and got to OG chain of memories and she is obsessed and prefers it to kh1 🤣
Literally nobody is going to see this, but I just want to say that Miss Gamechamp's voice is so distinct that after watching one of her videos I hear everything I read narrated in her voice for about an hour or so. I am completely serious.
Atleast 8 people saw this, congrats.
It's happening to me now, too. This is pretty neat, actually. Thank you.
For the True Canonical KH X experience, you must micro-dose Gamerchamp videos so that all the text dialogue will be read in her voice, as she's the canonical main character of KH X-Chi + Unchained X + Union X. It just makes sense
Ive never seen an "im not THAT crazy" statement fall apart so quickly
well, she isn't that crazy. she's in fact much, MUCH more crazy.
@@MFG1243 Things were fine and dandy until that spinoff rhythm game, God! that got me off guard, thats too deep of a rabbit hole for me
me:
"Okay, I believe you."
20 minutes later:
"Okay, I do not believe you."
she is so unhinged lol
It's Gamechamp we're talking about here. That statement was never valid for her ever as far as I'm concerned. XD
I don't understand why people act like the Kingdom Hearts series is so complex and confusing, I find this video very straightforward
Nah gamechamp forgot to mention you have to read basically every single piece of mythology, folklore, religious text and piece of text stephen hawking has written as required reading material to understand shin megami tensei.
Massive oversight to leave that out
@@appelofdoom8211 And, if you aren't going willing to read any religious texts, the quote "Even if there is no god or buddha, there is Kamen Rider" applies here. You have to watch ALL of Kamen Rider. Ichigo, Nigo, V3, Riderman, etc., including ALL spinoff materials, which includes watching all of Super Sentai and Ultraman with Kamen Rider vs. Ultraman and the Super Hero Taisen movies.
Wait, there's more. Gigabash also has crossovers with Ultraman, meaning that you HAVE to play that game, and it ALSO includes a Godzilla crossover. You have to watch EVERY Godzilla movie. The original all the way to Shin Godzilla.
If that's not enough, Ultraman was also in the Super Robot Wars franchise, meaning you have to play those games, watch all the series that comprise them, and- OH WAIT, YOU HAVE TO PLAY EVERY YAKUZA GAME, EVERY DMC GAME, AND WATCH EVERY SEGA SATURN COMMERCIAL, BECAUSE SRW IS IN PROJECT X ZONE. AND YOU HAVE TO SPECIFICALLY PLAY FROM 0 TO DEAD SOULS, BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY GAME THAT CANONICALLY GIVES KIRYU A GUN, WHICH HE HAS IN PXZ.
@@appelofdoom8211I do not comprehend
@@appelofdoom8211 well another one on the list of supplementary material due to that damned rhythm game is One Piece, in order to understand One Piece you gotta read Mencius's book titled Mencius because in Chapter 1096 (which isn't even released in the anime yet), Bartholomew Kuma who is based on Bartholomew Roberts chooses the Nikyu Nikyu no Mi (Literally a bear paw fruit) over the Uo Uo no Mi (The fish fish fruit) which references the metaphor of picking righteousness over death with the same examples which is in the aforementioned Mencius. And before any of that you gotta consume every piece of media that has ever been put out because Eiichiro Oda is a MADMAN who references every single piece of media ever put out by mankind and also you gotta read Oda's one-shot manga Monsters because Ryuma is also a character in One Piece.
a minor oversight, it's just a few thousand chapters and uh probably everything because everything is derivative and nothing is wholly original without influence
@@PEARLSTOTHEPLAYERS also because persona was in blazblue crosstag battle along with RWBY you now have to watch RWBY and since RWBY had a crossover with the justice league you now have to read every single DC comic in existence.
Something I noticed with the Shin Megami Tensei requirement. The series features a lot of creatures, gods, deities and demons from a lot of religions, some not even appearing in the religion's respective reading material. This would require you to devote your life to each religion at least once to completely understand the references. In addition to this, there are plenty of Yo-Kai and urban legends that aren't tied to a religion. While it's definitely possible to encounter all of them, most players wouldn't be dedicated enough to track them down. A workaround is experiencing them through the Yo-Kai Watch series, which provides a clear index explaining their existence. Of course, Yo-Kai Watch didn't just magically appear into existence, it was released through different games, meaning the series is technically an episodic release. Persona also relies on a lot of Japan specific references. Through this, I've devised a pretty simple order to experience all of these.
So first in your current lifetime, convert to a religion that has reincarnation as a major element, let's just say Hinduism for example. This would provide insurance, both so you can devote multiple lives to different religions but also as a convenience to let you play more Kingdom Hearts. Of course this would have to happen before playing Final Fantasy so you can have the maximum amount of time. Die while converted and try your best to reincarnate into somebody born in Japan in 1998. This would put you at the ripe age to experience Yo-Kai Watch and also experience Japan around the time Persona 1-5 were created. This is the life you'll play Persona and Yo-Kai Watch in. After you play those games, you want to die 3 times and convert to Christianity, Islam and Judaism (You'll need to be reincarnated as a Jewish person for this step). Finally, you'll want to reincarnate to Buddhism. I saved this step for last because it has the biggest time investment and it'll also be the life you'll experience SMT and more importantly, the rest of Kingdom Hearts with. Overall, it's not the hardest barrier to entry and won't take you too long if you know what you're doing.
I love this, but I'm now curious: what series do you think _does_ have the hardest barrier to entry?
@@philiphunt-bull5817 My guess would be one that is based on multiple religions, one of which is incompatible with Buddhism, so you can't devote one lifetime to each.
This supports my assertion that yokai watch is smt for kids, and conversely, smt is yokai watch for angsty teens
@@wowlookatthis.9433 if SMT is Yokai Watch for angsty teens, what is Persona then?
Uh, you do realize adding this would require you to add literally every single peice of media to ever exist to our current knowledge... *ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT*
Fun fact. There's two Fate musou games. Which means the entire Fate franchise is prerequisite reading material. Good luck playing the multiple 100+ hour visual novels, countless manga, several anime, numerous videogames and the mobile gacha game just to play the spinoff of the series that has a spinoff thats required to play to understand the series that spawned the epilogue to Kingdom Hearts 3
But that means we also need to through the entire Nasu-verse, since Fate is just on of (I think?) 3 series in verse
I am not sure there is literally enough time in life to do all of the prerequisite material
@bestaround3323 just gotta follow that other comment that said since you need to understand religion and mythology anyways, you just need to convert to a religion with reincarnation as one of its beliefs
Ah, no, luckily we were spared *this*, because Fate/Extella and its sequel, Fate/Extella Link are not games developed by Omega Force, nor games published by Koei Tecmo, and thus do not belong in the Omega Force Musou game series canon.
@EOCB As far as I was aware, the Fate series includes everything Fate including non-canon stuff, making it canon cuz Nasu is insane. At least that's how I understand it
but wait - if you want to watch disney's hercules, you must read the prerequisite material that the story is based on. enjoy legally purchasing and reading all of Homer, Ovid and Virgil before you can even think about playing kingdom hearts
tbf it's not piracy if it's genuinely out of copyright lol
Thats the original. The translated versions are still under copywright laws@chocobofangirl
In a strange twist of Fate, Disney's Hercules is actually non-cannon to Heracles, The classic Greek tale that was also featured in the Epic accredited to Homer.
So you can actually skip that prerequisite material. (But almost none of the rest of Disney canon)
Before you start birth by sleep, you have to live for a year in a European castle to understand the importance of the stylistic choices behind the architecture.
Before KH1 you have to spend atleast a week with thieves in the Arabic world in order to understand alladins struggle. Also helps to kiss a princess somewhere along the way.
Of course this a no brainer we all agreed upon years ago, but of course you have to become a heart surgeon. I feel a bit silly for even mentioning something that obvious.
Sorry but unfortunately most of the actual originating material is lost media. All that you're suggesting is adaptations of adaptations of adaptations.
Hell, Hercules could've been based on a real neolithic chief and centuries of evolution in the stories got to the "modern" version of the story set in mycenaean Greece.
Insightful video! My only critique is you forgot to mention the point I should watch a cell phone recording of the Kingdom Hearts Concert -First Breath-. As I’m sure you remember now, this included the spoken conversation between Lingering William and Naminé regarding Terra’s soon encounter with Aqua. As all of the tracks at this concert are from the Kingdom Hearts series, this is an extension of the game’s theatre mode and cannot be ignored.
The Lingering Will speaking is actually a mistranslation, the official transcript says the conversation is between *Terra* and Naminé. But yes, we love technically-canon lore exclusive to Japan-only concert intermissions
Nomura really said "let's hide some lore in a concert" and absolutely no one stopped him
glad someone brought this up, its very integral.
I've played KH for about 15 years now, and LINGERING WILLIAM is the single greatest thing I've seen so far
She doesn't bring it up because it's not a videogame
You forgot Einhander, the PS1 shmup that KH3 draws explicit attention to.
oh god, this is an ACTUAL mistake in the video!
It's in the Docs she sent, Einhänder, along with Final Fantasy Versus XIII as Prerequisites for KH 3
I was talking to a non-gamer friend about this and I had to do a mental reset when he said "Yeah, to play kingdom hearts 3 I'd have to play kingdom hearts 1 and 2, and that just seems like too much."
The best part of playing KH is when you meet the TWEWY characters and stop playing KH to play TWEWY
True
Based
So true. Glad those characters got their own spin off
Good thing TWEWY was already an official part of the list before KH3D.
SAAAAME & then u find out the TWEWY characters are actually even cooler
358/2 Days being XIII is just a testament to the fact that this timeline is both
a. divine and intentional and
b. proof that the entirety of the heartsverse is seamlessly and flawlessly crafted in on itself to make every part of it not only important, but necessary
Also, the KH3, the game in which Xehanort finally was able to clash the 7 lights with the 13 darknesses to summon Kingdom Hearts, is the number 20. Nomura is a genius.
@@VSiFerI want to say "Gamechamp is e-girl Nomura" but I don't actually know enough about internet culture to know if that joke would be considered offensive.
So instead I am explaining the joke instead of saying it to assuage the plausible guilt
She is NOT joking that tidbit in the preinstall olympus coliseum is extremely relevant to days
what's it though?
@@barsabe Paul or whatever the hell the demon guy's name is tastes Paopu fruit and says something like "it's salty... but also pretty sweet," the same descriptors for sea salt ice cream, which could imply it's paopu fruit flavored! You can find the video of the playthrough in the list of sources in the description of the video as well if you want to see the exact dialogue
@@zekromfury HOLY WHAT
@@barsabe I KNOW! Like in the context of Days it's literally the three of them are sharing a paopu fruit basically every day! Their hearts are so connected!
@@zekromfuryWait, this is the description for sea salt ice? That means we also have to add the indie game "cross code" on the list since it has a ice cream consumable with that exact description and i just realized that it is a KH reference and therefore a kingdom hearts game.
"Gosh I'm getting into the KH series but I don't wanna miss super important beats, maybe I should follow her list"
*mentions TWEWY as a KH game after RECOM*
"maybe not"
Except for outside stuff added to the list, if you're committed, this list is legit
update: upon request of a friend i'm playing TWEWY anyway before going into DDD, since apparently DDD spoils that game lol
Really thought I was gonna have to play all of Metal Gear for a second there
Me too, I was so curious to see the justification for why Metal Gear Solid is a Kingdom Hearts game
@SirJorb Well, because SMT had a cross over with the devil may cry. There is a connection to MGS. See the creator of DMC 1 went on to create the company Platinum Games. They did the gameplay for mgs revengence. As such, it's important you play all of mgs to understand kingdom hearts
And... I'm surprised that the Mario series isn't getting mentioned here. Link's Awakening had references to Mario and Kirby and others, which also makes the Kirby series relevant, and due to the smash ability and Master Hand and Crazy hand playing active roles in Amazing Mirror, this just reverses the decision regarding the relevance of the Super Smash Bros. series...
tbf you should play all the metal gear games anyways because theyre just good
Monster Hunter is a prerequisite for Final Fantasy XIV, and I have good news about what is a prerequisite for Monster Hunter!
The best april fools joke because she's 100% serious and if i were interested in playing kingdom hearts i would follow her words religiously
I've never been so happy to be completely disinterested in a game series
This was not an April fools bit, it was quite a few days after. They were serious at the end when they said that this isn't a joke, the timeline gets a bit chaotic, but this isn't a bit.
@@jameswatts2338 *she
Also I was making a joke lol I know
@@tentativegazerhe, no woman has a voice that manly
@@_fire_fox_1152 kindly refer to the advice of one "low tier god" on this matter.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who thought "WOW Union Cross had the most heartbreaking scene in all of KH... WHY THE F**K IS IT A PHONE GAME!?"
Story of every KH fans life
"why the fuck is the sequel to Kingdom Hearts on the GBA?"
"Why the fuck are the next three sequels to Kingdom Hearts 2 on PSP, DS and a Japanese PHONE???"
Oh, if you've been skipping the phone games because they're phone games, OH BOY let me tell you there's quite a lot of plot twists VERY PERTINENT to the overarching story, moreso than you can even imagine, this is not a joke! Seriously, as someone who considers himself to have a pretty solid understanding of the lore, i was honestly floored when i saw some of the cutscenes, and I'm willing to bet you will be too! Personally speaking, my preferred way to experience union χ and dark road are the fandubs made by "damo279" (as much as I'd love to throw you the links, for whatever reason I've been having trouble with my comments dissappearing, so I'm doing a hail mary and hoping the problem is me putting a link in it. Incidentally, if this comment appears twice, it is because i posted it before the first one appeared in any way i could see lol). Anyways, sorry for the inconvenience, hope ya enjoy the fandub!
As the rules state, this play order is a *play order*, meaning it doesn't include auxiliary content from things like the manga or hotels, but there's a very odd and quick little addition you can make to your play through if you want!
On August 11th, 2016, Kingdom Hearts Concert -First Breath- was performed for the first time. It was of course an orchestral event but was billed to include the voice actors of Terra and Naminé at the performance. What wasn't informed in advanced was that it would include a fully voiced dialogue scene spoken in character between the two of them that has been deemed canon by route of word of god thanks to Nomura himself. The transcript isn't long, I'm not sure if there's a recording of it but it's quick to read, and it's deemed canonical in relation to Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep A fragmentary passage. If you want to add a little quick non-game engine rendered detour to your run, you can look up that quick little passage and through it in either release order (it'd go in between 16.99 and 16.991 in the list) or just read it before or after you finish Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep A fragmentary passage.
I think there's also a Xion's and/or a Kairi's letter in the second Kingdom Hearts Orchestra.
@@VSiFer Yep, that's in World Tour, but unlike in First Breath's case unless there's a full length video of the entire performance there's no transcript online as far as a brief google search brings me. There might be one in the Orchestra guide you could get during the performance, as that's also where a transcript of First Breath's dialogue is, but the wiki doesn't have anything new for World Tour transcript wise, it just says that there were canon conversations that were shown but doesn't actually provide a transcript for said conversations or where they become relevant in the timeline.
Even if TWEWY isnt ACTUALLY a kingdom hearts game, play it anyway because it's fucking awesome and one of the best games on the DS ever made
They speak the truth! TWEWY is goated!
Gamechamp has convinced me that TWEWY’s “cameo” in 3D is only because TWEWY is definitely a KH game.
I played it ages ago (when DS was contemporary) and enjoyed it. Has it aged well?
@@MichaelAronson absolutely.
Both it and it’s sequel are amazing
I wish I could mail you a photo of my face when you dropped rule 4 and I suddenly understood that you expect me to watch Disney Three Musketeers for my Kingdom Hearts superplaythrough
It's a good movie, you should watch it anyways
its a good movie
What about Runaway Brain?
This made me think about which Disney movies/shorts relevant to KH I haven't seen yet. Off the top of my head Aladdin 2, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Bambi, and Runaway Brain.
About Fist of The North Star, it has a Yakuza spinoff game, you know what that means.
And the yakuza games feature various toy cameos of other sega characters.
This eventually spirals into *nearly every single sega game being required reading material for the kingdom hearts series.*
Shin megami tensei had a Dante cameo so devil may cry gets added to the list, devil may cry was supposed to be resident evil 4 originally so Resi is part of that now as well. Since sora is in smash you already have a good number of games to go through anyway.
i didn't know anything about kingdom hearts before this video and now i'm afraid i know even less
10/10 video, another gamechamp banger
Pre Video Launch: Oh boy. I just bought the All in One Bundle. I hope this makes it easier for someone who hasn't played the series yet.
Post Video: Oh God.
I always tell people to buy it it’s insanely cheap on Amazon and you get cool boxes
@@Nexus-Flare Ironically, I did purchase it from Amazon
@@FlinnMeister as one should
But wait! Given the inspiration for Disney’s movies, you must also track down the original story’s versions from Europe or something!
And before watching Hercules, you must read *all* major literature on Greek Mythology. If it doesn't sufficiently bother you that they call Hercules by his roman name, but every other God by their Greek names, then you haven't read enough
@@kev1nno of course given how mythology develops, 99.9% lowball of media that are the basis for the versions of the figures we have now has been lost.
You don't mind spending the rest of your life trying to recover each version of the Heracles story right?
I'm going to discuss the plot twist spoiler, so some blank lines:
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Given that the games were released episodically and concurrently, I think it's quite likely that the plot twist that makes it relevant was conceptualized and developed after initial marketing for the remake. So, given you know the plot twist exists, it should be sufficient to play the remake up to the point that development decision was made, and at that point start playing the original. Since you're already acquiring Sqare Enix to be able to play the original you might be able to find out when that decision was made
Can you tell us what the plot twist is?
@@ChickenWrap3 I don't know any more than what was discussed in the video, sorry.
@@cad97At the end of the story of the original game, an organization that a group of main characters are a part of escape a world ending war by entering a digital simulation of the real world. The original game basically ends in a somewhat happy ending as they enter the simulated world and escape death. (The player doesn't know they are entering a simulation at this point but know they survived)
In the secret sequel that at first sight seems like a mobile port of the original... the same plot, events, cutscenes are happening word for word. This is because the leaders of that organization wiped the memories of everyone so they wouldn't have PTSD from the war. Obviously the player would have no clue. It's only really late in the new version where you start seeing the story diverge. Everyone in the story will talk about how a war is supposed to happen but then it actually won't happen and events will completely diverge. This is what the plot twist is about. If you only played the new version without knowledge of the OG the fact that the war doesn't happen won't seem like that big of a deal or the twist that it's all a simulation later won't register as hard. In a way you need to be tricked into experiencing the story twice to truly understand what the fuck is happening and enjoy the plot twists. Otherwise it feels like they are pulling stuff out of their ass when it's actually well thought out and mobile only players just don't have the context to appreciate it.
@@dooroflight4156I barely paid attention playing through Union χ Cross lol. So much content that it was hard to separate filler from valuable story content. The skip button wasn't helpful for making me invest in the story 😅
@@dooroflight4156not gonna lie, if this stuff becomes important in a later entry, they better make it widely available in some form. Idk make it a animated show or a remake or something. Just found out about the whole union X thing a few days ago and I'm still baffled why the no longer available mobile game has the biggest story in the franchise yet
I didn't know that in order to prepare for Kingdom Hearts 4 I need to play Neopets: The Darkest Faerie.
I love the part where she says "If you want to play all the Kingdom Heart games, you have to play all the Kingdom Hearts games"
Today I learned that I am actually very passionate about this subject, but I will reign in my thoughts to let Gamechamp share hers.
"This list is not a joke."
Ok I believe you.
"If you already played all of Kingdom Hearts, you probably did it wrong"
Me playing every game at release: 👁👄👁
If this is chronological, then my favourite bit will be when you have to play 358/2 and Chain of Memories both 1 handed at the same time for a bit.
*Edit for those coming after: I made this comment before the video was released.
The best part is when you have to buy three copies of BBS and play them all with two hands and a foot
my fav part is when you play dream drop and give the 3ds to someone else to play it for you while you sleep
My favorite part is when you set up an AI program to play Re:Coded for you
My favorite part is when you play 3 and have to disappear at the end of it
Don't forget playing 358 during the end portions of kh1 and keep playing till the start of 2
I can’t wait for Gamechamp to inevitably explain why Melody of Memory should be first in the order.
Well it is basically a plot summary
I was wrong. But what actually happened was so much more insane, and so much better than I could have ever imagined.
ACTUALLY You can't play KH3 all the way through until you complete Union X all the way through because an important ending plot twist in KH3 completely relies on you to play through the whole Union X campaign while simultaneously knowing that there was a promotion to include the names of numerous active players of the game as important Kingdom Hearts lore.
Correction: not ALL the way through. Union X was still not technically completely finished when KH3 released, and arguably the Union X finale spoils KH3. You just have to play through MOST of Union X before KH3 for the necessary context
Wasn't there a 7 Eleven-themed Keyblade too? Do we need to travel to Japan and back in time so that we can get the preorder code to get the true authentic experience? 🙃
If we're doing that, we'd also have to play the Switch cloud version of KH3 just for the Advent Red Keyblade.
@@JG0NEYou don't need to go back in time. You just need to buy the company that owns seven eleven and re-release the codes. Shouldn't be a problem since you have to buy square Enix anyway so that is some good passive income. I just wonder, is there a official KH Twitter page? And did they ever deleted a tweet that might become important later? We might have to unintentionally create a monopoly here.
@@thomasc.6190 nope, that's where I draw the line.
the HORROR upon seeing dragon quest heroes knowing youve just opened up the infinite winding expanse of musou games was indescribable omg
Finally someone who was brave enough to properly order the episodically released games as frighteningly real life timeline accurate as possible. I can finally loosely attempt to recreate the experience of being a Japanese child who bought Original Kingdom Hearts in 2002 that was actually Final Mix pulled from slightly in the future, And religiously followed the series from there in every bit and piece released in any capacity. Of course I just have all the games on Playstation 5 and smart phone to watch the dubbed and edited together movies of the mobile games, I’m sure buying a few DS games on top of that and personally begging G-Mode to port og Coded won’t be too hard.
This video should be included with every copy of KH media from now on. And I'm not even joking.
When you started talking about X and Union X and Unchained X, I knew how fucking correct you were. When I was showing the Kingdom Hearts series to a friend of mine, while not to the same extent, I did start pausing the cutscene compilations and breaking out the whiteboard. 10/10 video!
I'm very glad you brought up that spoiler section because I found out about it in ONE video of the many "Watch this before playing KH3" videos before KH3's release and no one else brought it up despite being kind of important as to why certain characters act the way they did.
i think you missed a crucial detail about smash brothers. you see, the reason why mario called sora over to the smash brothers universe is because he's the only one who can truly defeat galeem and darkhon, for galeem is a nobody and darkhon is a heartless.
they'll reference smash in KH4 and then he has to include it anyways
@@UnicornStormshe*
Goddamn you’re RIGHT!
They’re Tabu’s Heartless and Nobody!
-Me: Looking at the video length, wondering when the insane shenanigans would begin.
-Miss Gamechamp: 4:35
Gamechamp: *Voices 4 different disney character impressions*
Me: So, you've chosen to use voice training for evil?
Five.
The sheer whiplash I got when I realized that ZEEBO EMULATOR is how you can play the Kingdom Hearts Vcast. Truly an almost Stop Skeletons from Fighting crossover. (I'm assuming Vcast was a Brew OS game?)
So basically, if you want to understand the 40-hour Disney/Square Enix advertisements dressed up as video games, you first have to understand the entire history of human storytelling.
Cool, seems doable.
I’m definitely gonna call it “Buncha days” from now on
One minor correction/addition about the spiral of madness you enter at the end.
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy isn't actually a Final Fantasy spin-off series. It is a spin-off of the Final Fantasy Dissidia series, itself a spin-off series taking place in a parallel universe to FF1 and connected to the timeline of that game. When you previously said to play all Final Fantasy games, you didn't specify that FF spin-offs would be included. But as required reading for Theatrhythm, Dissidia adds another 3 console games, one of which is a "remake" of a Japan-only arcade cabinet.
This doesn't affect the rest of the sequence, only adds to it slightly. Or requires elaboration on what is referred to by "all Final Fantasy games."
This was a really great video, and I’d love to talk more about how I feel about it, but, you guessed it, this comment was released episodically
I'm super excited to see the next part of the comment and will be checking back
wheres the next episode
As a diehard fan, I can confirm that Gamechamp's order is the correct order
Miss Gamerchamp, I dont want to play this franchise anymore.
Kh is a commitment. The best
Why? KH is the second best RPG!
@@Gatorboy5678 I would call call it RPG very lightly lol
@@barsabe In my mind RPG is literally just a game where you level up and become stronger.
Just got to the part where she says playing TWEWY is required to play the entire Kingdom Hearts series and honestly? My only complaint is that she didn't take it far enough. Playing TWEWY should be a prerequisite for doing anything even vaguely adjacent to the idea of having a story. Day one of middle school language/literature and you're immediately assigned TWEWY as homework.
This is educational policy I can get behind.
“Wait, you’re telling me it’s all Musou games all the way down?”
Gamechamp: “Always has been.”
Totally agree Gamechamp that you have to play Final Fantasy 6,7, 8, 9, 10 and 13 before starting Kingdom Hearts. Glad someone finally said it 🙏
What about Final Fantasy 1-5? Those are essential entires in the series
@@thomasffrench3639 to my understanding, Final Fantasy 1-5 has no mention in Kingdom Hearts. Above are all the FF games that either have character representation or that are referenced in game. Could have missed a few though
@@dustinmartin6524 Are Final Fantasy VI characters in Kingdom Hearts?
@@thomasffrench3639 Setzer is in Kingdom Hearts 2 as the Struggle champion in Twilight Town
I've also seen people argue that Garland from Final Fantasy 9 is the same Garland found in Final Fantasy 1, which would make 1 required reading before playing 9 (I think his character is simply an homage to FF1 Garland, however, I could be wrong.) (Plus, if the theatrhythm games are required reading for Melody of Memories due to MoM being a gameplay sequel to theatrhythm then that would make the other Final Fantasy games required reading in the same sense whether or not they are ever referenced in Kingdom Hearts. Just like all the musou games become required reader once you hit the first musou title.)
Great list, and im very happy to see someone else who remembers Dynasty Warriors: Gundam. It was one of my favourite games when i was younger, and very few people seem to know it even existed in the first place.
One of my many sins is I played DWG as a Dynasty Warriors fan and had never seen Gundam before, it got me into the series
@@Gamechamp3000 I don't think I even knew what anime was when I first played DWG, I was just there for big robots fighting each other.
Champ, I have to say it was a wonderfully good thing to hear that you emphasized that gameplay and gameplay progression is another thing to consider for a list like this, and that games that are hard to get still belong on this sort of list.
With the way videogame preservation is nowadays it is good to hear those sorts of comments on why some games matter, even if they might seem like they don't.
You have to play "The Bouncer" as well. Because the game is referenced on Pence's shirt. You're welcome.
"I decided not to be crazy today."
Are you sure, Miss Game Champ? =P
I'm pretty sure the "read One Piece" step takes as much time as every other thing mentioned here combined
While I know it is considered required reading material and not a specific part of the play order, imagine having to read and/or watch One Piece in release order as well.
gotta love when the play order video is a compelling video game essay in disguise, I've never wanted to play kingdom hearts more than before
this video feels like a spiritual successor to the old "my goal in life is to play every video game that exists" gamechamp videos
I'm never going to play any Kingdom Hearts video, but I'm going to watch this video anyway.
But, theres a green star fish in KH1 KH2 and KH3.
@@_Chessa_ Oh well now I might consider it.
this is one of my favorite videos on youtube. I have never played a single Kingdom Hearts game, and when I have time to sit down and spend a year of my life on a single game franchise, this list will be heavily inquired by me. thank you for this genuine work of art
Do not give up on kh1. It's kind of a slow start
This order is inacurate because it doesn’t feature Damo 279’s incredible fandub of both Chi & Union Cross.
This is THE way to experience those games now.
Addendum: Zelda has a game in which Mario and Kirby characters appear and are crucial to the gameplay of said game, which opens up nearly every Nintendo game and any game a Nintendo character appears in, which opens up every game, movie, anime, manga, show, RUclips series, and religion in which a character who appears in Fortnite appears in, which in turn opens up nearly all narrative and interactive media ever released on planet Earth, save for the original cuneiform of Epic of Gilgamesh and the Emoji Movie (2017), both of which are just non-canon so you can skip them.
Pretty sure Pokemon was already opened by at least Dynasty Warriors, possibly sooner.
Also... this revelation just reverses the decision that was made regarding Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, as the Super Smash Bros. series becomes relevant due to Master Hand's and Crazy Hand's involvment in Amazing Mirror...
There’s a Nintendo character in fortnite?
@@andreworders7305 Snake
@pokechatter Pokemon was opened up by every Final Fantasy game since that would include Chocobo Mystery Dungeon, which then opens up every Mystery Dungeon game including Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Personally, I believe the following to be the correct playorder:
1. Kingdom Hearts 3 - This has a lot of characters in it, and it's good to be introduced to everyone nice and early!
2. 358/2 Days - Following up mostly on Roxas, Xion and Axel who we met in KH3. This explains more of their backstory.
3. DDD - This will explain more about Riku, who was kind of mysterious in Days.
4. Kingdom Hearts 2 - Still more Roxas, which is good to get out of the way. Also explains what happened to most of the organization from Days.
5. Chain of Memories - Might as well follow up with the rest of Org XIII.
6. Melody of Memory - A good break in gameplay, but you really need to understand this story before continuing on
7. Dark Road - The perfect time to catch up on some background lore about Xehanort, before jumping right back into his story
8. Kingdom Hearts 1 - Yes, this was the first game to release, but you can't actually play it until you know Xehanorts story, as otherwise you won't understand who this Ansem guy is or what he's doing.
9. Final Fantasy VII - Follows up on Cloud & Sephiroth, who were important in KH1 & KH2. Note: Sephiroth, depsite having silvery white hair, is not actually a Xehanort yet. This will remain to be the case until KH6.
10. Birth by Sleep - It very much is now time to follow up on some of the other people from all the way back in KH3, like Ventus, Terra and Aqua
11. Union X - [The funny joke that connects this to the rest of this playorder has been discontinued and is no longer available]
12. 0.2 - The sexiest game in the franchise! (Mickey goes shirtless in this one!!!)
13. Re:coded - honestly I dont care about this games story. The game is good though.
I assume KH4 will be somewhere in the middle
Nah this is cursed
I can fuck with this
You're going to hell for this one 💀
@@-Jamie-3410 Can't wait 💀
The objectively correct way to play it
The absolute insanity of the ending portion of this video is amazing
I have never watched a video that makes me scream "FUCK YOU" every 2 minutes, each time with growing incredulous joy, quite like this one has, well done!
Can't wait for the Kingdom Hearts: Every Video Game Known to Man collection so that I can play the series right!
I've been looking forward to this one since you started teasing it! I think that your videos were a validation for my release-order-only obsession much to the pain of my friends who just want me to play the third game in a franchise they love.
As someone who has tried (with much less effort than you mind you) to do the same thing I wholly anticipated some breaking up of games mid-way and starting with others, but anticipated it more with cameo fights and new versions of games and less with games that I had no idea released episodically! I honestly thought your list was pretty tame and agreeable. I expected this to be an over the top joke going in to it with playing every version of every game on every difficulty or something, but I genuinely wish I could have experienced things this way too.
I love the inclusion of FF, Disney and TWEWY as they are so integral to the experience of KH, love the idea of watching a Disney movie right before you play the world.
The suggestions for people to play specific versions of specific games without demanding every single FM and original really rings true with the ones I have played. GBA Chain is so crucial to me personally after having skipped it over for years out of a dumb kid assumption that it was either the exact same (or similar) but on a cramped GameBoy. I would love to try out all the other (lost media) versions of games I didn't get a chance to play.
I learned a ton about the history of the mobile entries that I skipped, and even some games that I played like 358, Coded and BBS being announced at once.
The spoiler section... I had no idea... And now I am EVEN MORE jealous of Japanese super fans that got to experience everything as it came out. I didn't understand or retain any of the stuff I did see from those games so I will have to give your order a go when I have infinite free time.
The rant near the end perfectly sums up how I feel with this obsession. There's always some new awesome thing that feeds from or into some other game/franchise/whatever else that you've never heard of before and you get to try something new just to see the lineage of it all. Kingdom Hearts rules for that exact reason as do a bunch of the other franchises that link to KH even just tangentially.
The Musou music kicked in and I started taking psychic damage. This video is wonderful, thank you Miss GamerChamp
Don't forget, before playing SMT, you have to be familiar with every religion/mythology it references, living or dead!
16:45 I’ve always refused to play TWEWY remakes because the DS version with the split screen is the DEFINITIVE WAY TO PLAY THE VIDEO GAME 😤
Nah, run the ds version on an emulator on Wii U so you get the dual-screen AND a comfy controller
@@liammccauslin912The carpal tunnel is essential to the TWEWY experience and cannot be skipped.
"Time to throw in a Twister" was an amazing gag, well done
Not even kidding, it took me like 3 seconds after you called it the "low depth edition" before I burst out laughing. Well done, ma'am. I salute thee. 😂
The ending twist had me cackling thank you so much. This is now one of my favorite RUclips videos.
I am impressed that you took this as far as you did and were serious about it.
I’m starting to wish we got more stuff along this line, maybe not having VG myths as often is better for your mental health.
Oh, and I might as well drop it in, can we get some Battle Network or Star Force VG myths in here n there? I know the BN collection released last year to great acclaim and it goes on sale fairly often. And there could be a lot of interesting ideas from it.
The kicker about having to play all of Fire Emblem is that Fire Emblem has directly acknowledged Smash Bros, with the Robin amiibo unit in Fates saying that he was just in a battle where he was launching fighters and they were launching him, and Fire Emblem Heroes directly quotes Byleth's reveal trailer in a Forging Bonds event.
Meaning you not only have to play Smash 4 before going into Fates, you also have to play all franchises represented in Super Smash Bros. And the fact that owning Melody of Memory unlocks a song in Smash Ultimate doesn't help that order.
And Ryu also appears in Fortnite. And Fortnite connects to *A lot of things.*
This eventually leads into watching family guy to understand kingdom hearts.
I still can't process how every video ms. gamerchamp makes is objectively the best video I have ever watched in my life every time they are released
I have never cared about Kingdom Hearts and will probably not play any of the games, but this was still an EXTREMELY funny video, there wasn't a single second I was not entertained. And it was a PLAY ORDER LIST. FOR 47 MINUTES.
Been actively playing the games in order and this video is so helpful! Thank u! ❤
Just started playing kingdom hearts for the first time last week. This is perfect timing
If I'm ever brave enough, I'll attempt this. For now, I'll just play the "All-in-One Package".
The way I smiled from cheek to cheek at “I LOVE that.” near the end. HERE’S TO A MILLION MORE KINGDOM HEARTS SHENANIGANS FOR MANY YEARS TO COME!!!
Ms. Gamer Champ, thanks to you I’ve gotten into the black hole rabbit hole that is Kingdom Hearts, I thank you for making me experience the feeling of Nostalgia compressed, coded and released as a video game series, and my week long addiction to listening to Simple and Clean, then week long addiction to Hikari, and finally my genuine adoration of Kingdom Hearts because of how emotional, beautiful, and just funny it is at times
That being said I’m not playing Dynasty Warriors 😂
The true play order is the friends we made along the way
This is the expected amount of chaos in a Gamechamp video, nothing wrong here.
Though TWEWY being a Kingdom Hearts game was very unexpected.
I was just about to go to bed when this video premiered, but I decided to give myself a little peek to know just what I would be getting into the next morning. Upon entering and immediately seeing her list The World Ends With You completely unironically, I knew I was in for a good watch.
This may be one of my favorite videos you've ever done, excellent job!
My big takeaway is that Tokyo Mirage Sessions is secretly reading material for playing the Kingdom Hearts series. A surprise, but a welcome one.
Also, if anything, I feel that at least Sora's Classic Mode route could be considered a play order release
thank you miss gamerchamp for constructing a play order than 83% of people wont listen to.
It’s gonna be crazy to watch this live and not know how long it’s gonna be…
Was just thinking i haven't seen a video from you in a while... glad I could fathom it into existence
I just got to the part where you tell us to play The World Ends With You, and I 100 percent agree that the World Ends With You is a Kingdom Hearts game. Hearing that music in the video made me very happy.
I cant wait for a KH3 Lvl 1 run!!!
SAME
Coming out in 2115
Probably BBS is coming first, alongside maybe a couple other ones. Likely going in… well… chronological order.
@BoltTheEmolga guess we need to wait for all the prerequisite reading lvl 1 runs to get finished
Having played through the I.5 and II.5 collection before KH3, so as to not repeat my mistake of missing CoM before playing KH2, (not realizing how incredibly important the mobile games were), it was really cool seeing someone else loving and accepting the insanity even more than I do.
Also, you forgot the required reading of every religious and mystical text, and several literary works for the SMT stuff!
this is an awesome birthday present thank you gamechamp3000 :)
Nice to see someone be upfront about release order! Especially so recently!
This is the funniest mental breakdown i have ever seen
the psychotic breakdown caused by series recursion from MoM was pretty great
The last ten minutes hit me with so much dread, thank you ms gamechamp
Gamerchamp… I did not expect this from you today. This is some truly cursed content.
You’ve gone off the deep end.