The (Simplified) Kingdom Hearts Timeline | The Leaderboard
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- Опубликовано: 17 янв 2019
- After 14 years since Kingdom Hearts 2, Kingdom Hearts 3 is finally releasing unto the world. It's safe to say that we all need a refresher on what's going on in the world of Kingdom Hearts. So join The Leaderboard as we bring you the simplified Kingdom Hearts Timeline and explore the deep and convoluted story that it is.
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The Leaderboard presents... The Kingdom Hearts Timeline. This is as simple and clean as it gets folks.
Kingdom hearts 0.2 takes place between kingdom hearts birth by sleep and kingdom hearts 1 not between kingdom hearts birth by sleep and kingdom hearts dream drop distance
Only the epilogue happens after dream drop distance
@ lol
The intro with one with one world under kingdom hearts should have been labeled as Union x....just suggesting. Plus again and needs a little more research.
I definitely understand how confusing they story is back when they first dropped but now that all the games are on ps3&4 it's fine to follow just long.
So let me get this straight:
An old man forgets his house keys and can’t turn off his lights. So he gets a bunch of heartless criminals to break into his house so he can turn off the lights. But his neighbor’s son Sora sees the criminals and he misunderstand and attack using his only weapon, his dad’s car key. Sora’s pet dog and duck who sees a piece of bread in Sora’s pocket, join in. But the criminals have car keys of their own. Thus beginning the car key war.
Ligmer Ballz Lmao
The best summary of the entire franchise I've ever seen.
Why does this make more sense than the actual plot? (x .x)
XD
Old GM car keys, very pointy
Me: "Have you heard of my favorite game, Kingdom Hearts?"
Person: "No, what's it about?"
Me: "I have no clue."
That literally happend to me 💀
it's about light vs darkness it's simple
and clean
Vitor Henrique Farias I see what you did there
Awesome game crazy convoluted story. Perfect for a mix between final fantasy's & Disney's heart renching storys and Disney's convoluted magic explaining everything so it's just saying a wizard did it with a pinch of jrpg drama and op characters.
Vitor Henrique Farias true. It’s about light and darkness and the battle of the two. A lot of doors and keys and anime disney stuff
I find it funny how the franchise is supposed to be Disney meets Final Fantasy but most of the story just revolves around the OC characters. KH is literally fan fiction with a budget.
I don't think they were expecting the first game to be as successful as it did, and they needed the title of Disney meets FF as a theme to garner new fans. Then the series just kinda developed its own identity after KH2.
Dis is my oc Xexe, he has 5 Keybwades and he is better den Sowa and Mickey
@@LeeEverett1 rip sephiroth
@@LeeEverett1 no it was meant to be an original story from the beginning
"Original character characters" nice, but really like did you want it to be only disney or FF? Having original characters makes it to where it's not directly linked to one side on the collab.
"Don't know how many hearts Sora can fit in there, but he should start charging rent."
I snorted.
Xehasnorted?
lol
Well, he held 7 during the end of KH3 in the final battle so...
@@christiandelcarmen1278 funny stuff
Now let’s get the _complicated_ timeline
This!
Get ready for an hour long video
@@tenderquirkydragon8643 Try a 3 hour lecture.
Lmao... You're not serious are you...?
PCP kingdom hearts lecture
Rule #1 on the Kingdom Hearts Timeline: Don't ask questions
@Tyler Vincent already dreamed about it and thought about it.
@Tyler Vincent rule #5: don't talk or even asking about LIGHT and DARKNESS
@@mikashi1593 some very lore stuff
Rulec#85 Xehanort is not Xehanort
Thats stupid. How u expect to get answers if you dont ask questions?
YOURE XEHANORT, HES XEHANORT, IM XEHANORT! ARE THERE ANY OTHER XEHANORTS I SHOULD KNOW ABOUT?
Meow...
The 20 more you meet throughout the entire 11 games 😂😂
Aqua xehanort
Meow
Italian Xehanort
I heard somewhere that the reason Sora turned into a bug heartless was because his heart didn’t have much darkness inside of it.
That actually makes perfect sense!
KirbyKips but can you think how Kairi recognised Sora despite the fact that there's also more Heartless at the moment
@@bendystein7019 She sensed his heart because he was able to hold on to his consciousness. I think.
Edit: Also maybe she can just tell who all of the heartless were when they were human. and Sora was just the only one she cared about.
What about those mushroom heartless that are completely harmless? How little darkness do you need to turn into that?
Video: "In true Ansem fashion, he uses his favorite move."
Me: "Darkness?"
Video: "Betrayal!"
Me: "Oh."
KEYBLADE
@@Coolio_Ash Ok, I believe you.
You mean the Mega Destruction Dark Ball of Darkness and Destruction?
You forgot to add 'Special Attack' to the beginning of that.
Yep that was my chain of thoughts too. U can make a drinking game out of him saying "Darkness"
I swear if Kingdom Hearts 3 ends up being a "it was all a dream" scenario, I'll never be able to eat ice cream again...
"I've been having these weird thoughts, lately. Like is any of this for real, or not?" They never did address those lines from the very first game. lol
Meanwhile, Union Cross is hinting strongly at the active utilisation of dreams to protect the Light. And Ventus is in it, and so is Marluxia pre-nobody.
You may need to run down your ice cream reserves.
aka Lost
I had a nightmare of how kingdom hearts 3 came out and the end was all a dream
i think it was all a dream
...my head hurts.
Me too ...... I guess one piece is more simple
That's not even the half of it. Now you have to understand KHUX ( Kingdom Hearts Union Cross), which takes place before Xenahort and tells the story of the First KeyBlade war, where you will learn about the previous incarnations of The First Organization 13's Nobodies who will probably play a bigger part in KH4 and the KH games to come
Friar Ruse STAHP😭😭
This series is not that convoluted look at the Legend of Zelda timeline and tell me that's not completed and you're not completely stretch it to fill their inability to tell a story without throwing in 50 million gimmicks.
This game is really simple
"Simplified": 20 minutes
"Full": A walk across the states with a week long break in between
Death stranding
"Patience is key!"
"Patience is the key!? I thought Memory was the key!?"
"I thought the sword was the key."
Time Traveling Multi verse Clones are the key
Let your heart be your guiding key!
“You guys have keys?”
As Captain Jack Sparrow said, “It is a drawing of a key.”
"I thought dreams was the key"
So Ansem is pulling some Orochimaru inside of Sasuke shit?
Precisely
Yup
Basically 😥
Oh boy
I'm dead lmao
Thank christ for this video, because I was not starting over and playing 11 games just so I could play 3.
Play the games better. U will not understand much
@@Bl4nKDZSTYLE SPOILERZ
Oh well you also have to play a cellphone game and a close browser game to understand the scene with the demon tower in the keyblade graveyard in kh3
@@leomarescotti672 not really
@@leomarescotti672 lol are you can just Google it, problem solved
you wouldnt have to play 11 games, there are only 8 and a demo up to KH3 and out of those 8: in the story so far three of them are so unimportant they are just cutscene compilations, dont play Re:com just look up the cutscenes, do the same if you dont like DDD, and BBS is suprisingly short. 3-4 games and a demo
The Leaderboard: “will take him from zero to hero just like that!”
Kh3: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT???
Simplifying kingdom hearts is like baptizing a cat
I don’t why this made me laugh so hard😂
@@adanna8552 Because it's the most accurate comparison.
Amen
Amen!
That's hilarious
The reason they love X’s in nobody’s names is because that is how they are tracked, by the X’s in their names. The X’s are actually pronounced as keys (it’s a Greek letter) it’s a complicated but awesome detail.
Can you elaborate on that a bit?
This piqued my interest in the whole X naming thing
Ro(x)as name is a mix up Sora’s name. Nobody’s that need to be unlocked... All the other nobodies share the same thing
the many x's come from x-blade..in greek x is pronounced as chi or he and lets say chi-blade sounds like key-blade
Imagine if Xehanort is a nobody of someone..
@@luciddexterity4580 xemnas = X + emnas (ansem). Okay... Okay... Okaaaaay... My mind just blown.
I remember loving KH1 and when KH2 came out, the whole first part of the game I was like "what?" I never realised a ton of side/back story games came out in between lol
Yeah totally... I always thought the Roxas intro was so weird
The only side game between KH1 and KH2 is Chain of Memories lol, all the other spinoffs are between KH2 and KH3
@@Miju001 man I hated chain of memories when I got it. Let down forsure
@@lifeonmars03 when CoM came out, I thought it was just as good if not better than KH1. I thought the story was great and Sora actually had a personality in it rather than just being a generic main character that screams friendship at everyone. Plus the card system was super interesting
Same here I skipped chain of memories cause I didn’t want to play a handheld GbA game with some shitty card system after the luxury of the ps2 with 3D environments and normal combat.
To say I was confused when playing KH2 would be an understatement especially during the intro cinematic. While watching I was like who the F are all these people, and where the hell is this, and when did this happen?? 😅
One does not *SIMPLIFY* the kingdom hearts timeline!!
You can. You just cant in under 10 minutes
@@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE speed this vid up by 2 times and than its under 10
you can tho. hell, you can with a simple pic pbs.twimg.com/media/DbPgApIX0AAwZ1i.jpg
Imagine if they did that thing where they have alternate timelines due to time travel.... The story would be much, much more confusing.
HMK does it really simplified and REALLY short (5 and a half minutes)
This one is much better compare to last time. As a KH fan. This was a good refresher course for me. KH3 IS AROUND THE CORNER!!!!! I'm soo hyped!
Same man! KH 3 is gonna be so awesome! KH is my favorite video game series!
Wooooooooooooo I can't wait getting my copy at midnight in my local Gamestop
Update/edit my GameStop sold copy's of the game on the 28th at 9pm due to an impending storm it was a good night very good night
Truth!
Was it good in your opinions?
@@sageninja7260 yesss, 9/10
Final fantasy has the most confusing plot
Kingdom hearts: Hold my keyblade
@waylon lewin yup
at least ff make sense
Kingdom Hearts timeline is nothing compared to the FNAF timeline.
@@marioluigi3122 nah
Even Metal Gear Solid is eaiser to follow
Five minutes in... that was the best explanation I've seen so far for BBS and Ansem/Xenhanort. Thank youuuu
Just Incase anyone was wondering, all of the names with X in them are just anagrams of the names of characters in their original form. I’ll show you:
Xehanort = No Heart
Xemnas = Ansem
Roxas = Sora
Axel = Lea
Those are just a few but you get the idea. Every character with an anagram in their name is linked with another. Either they’re a nobody version of their original selves or their anagram alludes to something else.
We don't know what Xehanort is an arrangement of. It could be No Heart, Another, or even A Throne. Or knowing KH, it's somehow all three at once.
I’m still trying to get used to the fact that “Lea” is pronounced “Lee”. That feels so wrong. They couldn’t just make is somebody name “Ale” or something...nah that’s just as bad. Axel is such a cool name. :(
I believe the X comes from the X in X-blade, it's really weird how they spell it as chi-blade and it sounds like keyblade
@@1_.Unknown._1 That's because it's a Greek symbol. And it translates a bit weird. So it comes out sounding like Keyblade.
@@1_.Unknown._1
The X is "explained" in DDD - it's called "The Recusant's Sigil" and Xehanort can use it to track people (in addition to presumably having other, yet to be revealed, properties).
Luxu may or may not be an exception to the X-names thing.
I've never once played a Japanese game with a coherent story
Agreed lol
This one is
you know that mario is from japan right? and pokemon...
@Tyler Vincent fair
@Tyler Vincent boi
Amazingly, every form of Xehanort, is a DICK!
There's also a new one now, Young Xehanort, who is also, A DICK!
That made my day XD
how did kingdom hearts get so convoluted?
SquareEnix: We need the money
the fk kh isnt convoluted
They were too attatched to Sora and had no restraint as writers. I bet they they had all of these cool scenes in mind, and then had no idea how to logically connect them all, so they made the poor connections up as they went along.
3:50 Aqua "The Real MVP"
So true
the thing with organization 13 is their names are an anagram of their original names with an X added to them
Roxas = Sora X
Xemnas = Ansem X
Axel = Lea X
I never thought of that
jameslong672 it literally shows it in the video when roxas gets introduced, you can see it spells sora
@@MOOSHROOMKILLER3 calm down abit only said i didnt notice that, i know about sora and roxas but i disnt know about rhe other members
they could've just named Lea Alex, but ofc not...
I swear this series idea must have been made by someone when they were drunk or high. Seriously the best explanation I can give to a newcomer of the series is this since I was a kid. “This is a crossover series between Final Fantasy and Disney that’s focus on original characters. There’s this thing called keyblade ms which can control or affect the heart/soul of people. There’s this thing called Kingdom Hearts that might be heaven or something. Just play the game and you’ll understand better with realization that Disney and Final Fantasy work well together.”
It's not really hard to understand if you play through the game you're get it. Saying it's overly convoluted is not really. Clearly you have not played the BlazBlue series which is much worse now that is convoluted.
blade wind blade wind Yes, I have played that also and that story line is hard to explain too.
Wow, this was fantastic! I've only played KH 1, 2, and now 3 and I was so confused by the story progression 😅
This video was a perfect recap ✌️
play the fking games
As we approach kingdom hearts 3's release: May your heart be your guiding key.
That phrase is still cringe asf
It’s not that cringy when you realize that they are being literal.
@@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE
I mean its just not a smooth saying. I see what theyre going for they're trying to get their May the force be with you but it feels hand fisted. Its outta nowhere
Already have it tattooed across my chest XD
@@JakeMcTevia
I pray some meme stigma doesn't come out of tgat phrase then or something.
Ign tried to do it in 5 min lmao
May their hearts be their guiding key.....
They probably fucked it up
And they failed miserably
dunkey have the best explanation video
and it was terrible
"Heals Sora with her magic hug"
lol 😂
omg.....i'm in medical school and this was stressful to me lol
Medicine actually makes sense. This doesn't
Absolutely great simple video! If anyone was wondering, the weird names with Xs in them are intentional. X seems to be a bit of a symbol for the organization (maybe because of Xehanort’s obsession with the chi blade?). In DDD they mark Sora with an X to follow him through his exam, and each Organization member’s name is an anagram of their human name with X added in. Xemnas is Ansem + X , then mixed up. Roxas = Sora + X.
As a side note, I’ve always wondered is Xion is a visual anagram for No 1 (no one) since she never was a person.
It’s actually No. i, or Imaginary Number. That’s just the name Vexen came up for Xion when he created her, I suppose.
Gemnist it also has a double meaning in Japanese. Take out the x and you’re left with “ion,” pronounced EE-ON in Japanese, which speaking to chemistry, has a non-zero charge. Finally, Xion’s name contains the Japanese words for "tide" (潮 shio) and Aster tataricus (紫苑 shion), which, according to Japanese floriography, means "I won't forget you" or "remembrance".
Man Ive been absorbing these games for 11 years and I still watch these videos whenever they come out
(Also if u like this u just got NORTED)
I only played the 2 main games, the rest just seemed like cannon fodder to me, named stupidly among other things. All this 1.5, 2.5, HD remix, dream drop fuck off, very off putting.
Salted I hate getting Norted. That happened once already and I couldn't sit down for a week.
Holy shit, this is so overwhelming and it's just the simplified version ...
Ikr? I just started playing kingdom hearts after I got into final fantasy and I’m over here looking at the timeline like: “what the crap is going on?”
@@Samuel-uf3mj play the games in order of release
black chase67 so like KH 1, CoM, 358/2 days, 2, bbs, recoded and so on?
@@Samuel-uf3mj revers 358 and 2 bbs recoded watch it or not (its inconsequential ) 3d 0.2 fragmentarry passege kh back cover and get a look on union x s plot the basics and keyblade war back cover is a movie about it but it leaves a few things
black chase67 I just want to walk away from the series entirely because you have to remember so much crap. I just know that Sora is the chosen one to wield the keyblade and is supposed so set people free by killing heartless or something like that. But I see other people wielding them and I get confused. Once I’m finished with 3, I’m done.
Seriously, I've never seen someone explain as well as you. I know the games, I know the story but I can't do better than you to explain this amazing story to my friends 👏
I just binge played the series for the first time, via all in one package, I still have to play remind, but I loved this story man, I never played final fantasy so I didn’t know what to expect fr, but after finishing 3 it’s just so crazy to see where things began & how far they’ve come
"Only to have him mock you, by battling shirtless at the end". Hahahaha thanks for the memories what a quote.
"Aqua, the real MVP of birth by sleep"
You earned a like, and a subscriber xD!!
I dunno, I think Terra might have gotten the short end of the stick.
I am a god.
Not because I am all-powerful,
Not because I am Invincible,
B u t b e c a u s e I u n d e r s t a n d w h a t i s h a p p e n i n g.
It's not hard to.
Everyone is a god until they are proven wrong. "when someone asks if you are a god, you always say Yes"
What is a god, to a non-believer.
so you are all-knowing
GREAT. ive been forced into the series, and im still kinda lost......
help
My KH 3 predictions :
- Sora and Kairi will finally seal the deal.
- Sora's gonna let his anger take the place and be strong as fck at some point.
- Lea will have a bromance with Ventus.
- No I won't cry at the end, you will cry.
Anno.G the Lea/ventus thing makes is a great idea but I’m sure they will go the lame route and revive Roxas
@@jaronhoward1926 I don't think they gonna revive Roxas. It should be the same as the "death" of Axel. Since Roxas is a simili, Ventus is going to wake up and remember everything as a simili so his story with Axel/Lea.
well guess what happened...
@@AchillesofOblivion It's ok if you cried man
The thing is that Roxas is Sora’s nobody. Not Ventus. Ventus has nothing to do with Roxas and they only look alike because he was already in Sora’s heart when Sora basically committed suicide lol causing Roxas to take on Ventus’ image. That’s why Vanitas looks like Sora but is the other half of Ventus. And literally nothing that you mentioned happened lol. I was looking forward to those things as well 😭😭 i wanted Ventus and Roxas to interact with each other! Maybe the next game..
TO FURTHER CLARIFY:
Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, is a classic case of stolen identity. While the real one is rotting in the Realm of Darkness, Xehanort uses this time to trick everyone that he's the REAL EFFIN' DEAL and not some poser. This plan backfires at the hands of Sora in KHII, when he realizes the jig is up. KHIII analogous to Char's Counterattack in Mobile Suit Gundam.
Correct as Ansem Seeker of Darkness is the heartless I believe of Xeahanort and Xemnas is his nobody. While Diz is the real Ansem aka Ansem the Wise in disguise.
GaiaX5 makes sense huh
Also to be fair when Sora defeats both Ansem: Seeker Of Darkness and Xemnas this also rebuilds Terra-Xehanort's body while Xehanort's body is also reconstructed unknowingly.
Kingdom Hearts: Simple and straight forward story.
Kingdom Hears COM: Hmm, basically the first game but with a new villain group. Not too bad!
Kingdom Hearts 2: They've expanded on the villainous group from COM and introduced a bunch of new characters as well as a new enemy called Nobodies. Guess I can follow that.
BBS: Wow, they have really expanded this game's universe! This is cool though.
Days: Jeeze, what's with the spin offs. Where is KH3?
Coded: Oh God, here we go again
DDD: Wut
KH3: The fuck is going on...
KH4: *suicide*
kh has no spinn offs
KHUx:We are Xehanorts?!
KH? Timeline? SIMPLIFIED?!
*_top 10 questions humans can’t explained_*
Of all the simplified KH storyline videos I’ve seen, this one is the best! Simple ( as you can get with this game) and you took your time with it and didn’t give yourself a time limit. I really enjoyed this video. 😊👍🔑 💙
lol pleb
It was simple from the get go, this video was made back in the day to capitalize on a meme said by idiots.
Thank you so much for taking time to create this video. I didn't play the spin off titles and the confusion was real.... This video helped out tremendously!!!
This was just what I needed to finally start kh3. I wanted to go into it with knowledge of the story. I gotta say I missed a shitload when I played these games as a kid, chain of memories on my gameboy advance.
I am so glad Kingdom Hearts 3 had such an excellent compilation of the games to establish the backstory to play; I must say I was familiar with a lot of it and could keep up and not get confused when I watched the memories in the game.
Also, did anyone see an extreme similarity between Ansem and Orochimaru from Naruto?
No Master of Master, Luxu, The Foretellers, the Black Box????? Some big pieces missing from the story.
Just fuck Union Cross. It's not relevant until KH3 and that's if they focus on it enough to begin with.
Plus can anyone really explain any of that mess? Nobody knows who the MoM is or why he disappeared or what's in the box and his keyblade etc. So it's probably best to leave that out until they come up with more details
I feel like all that stuff isn’t gonna be answered in kh3 but will be left for the other games after it
@@atlas_vash well techinally i think the keyblade no man was handed over to luxu and either 1: luxu opened teh box 2: handed the keyblade directly to MX since time travel has been confirmed in DDD. OR 3: he handed it to an apprentice and over the 100s or 1000 of years the keyblade has been passed down in generation to generations. but we do see someone in the kh3 trailer that has a keybalde with an eye on it that *kinda* looks similair to the noname blade.. so why is that? and what purpose does the keyblade have
@@sumireravenclaw8034 well yeah the keyblade was given to luxu and we have no idea if he opened the box or not and that'll probably not be answered in this game, and yeah of course he passed it on because xehanort has it so either eraqus and xehanort were his direct apprentices given the timeline or the second set of apprentices, and yeah the eye from no name can be seen on a few different keyblades but mostly ones for terra and riku and that's probably because they're directly connected to xehanort and it was passed to them
Kingdom Hearts combines two of my favorite things: video games and Disney
A complicated story and Disney for me lol
More like Square and Disney. At least for me tho
I watched 3 different videos on the timeline ranging from 30mins to 3 hours. This video has put all of it together for me. Thank you.
I've been trying to make a fanfic universe of the "Kingdom Hearts" saga. And after A LOT of research of the saga's lore, its fanfics, the lore of "Once Upon A Time" and the original Greek mythology...I think I am ready to start writing it.
Thank you SO MUCH for making this video. I tried watching the one that explains the whole plot that’s 30 minutes twice and still didn’t understand. I think I do now.
Thank you Leaderboard I've been trying to figure it out for the past week now. Now I understand it better. I used to know this stuff when I was younger but forgot over the years.
If you want a whole timeline search up everglow kingdom hearts timeline its way better than this explanation cause they missed out some very interesting and important part
Even with a confusing storyline i love the collaboration between Square Enix and Disney characters.
one of the very best summaries of all games ive seen!!! as someone who only played kh and kh2, i surprisingly feel pretty lost now that im jumping back into kh3 so this explanation really helps!!!! thank you leaderboard!! i feel very much caught up (as much as i can without actually playing all previous games). Now i feel much more informed of the story plot going forward in my kh3 gameplay!
19 minutes and 5 seconds, still confused af. It's like when you zone out during a lecture for 2 seconds and then realize that there is no going back.
Scotty Pham I know I’m still confused too
Really? I don’t find it that confusing
Kingdom Hearts is a big heart-shaped moon in the sky, and a great power source.
Master Xehanort wants to control it, and has made many copies of himself (aiming for 13 because numerology) in the hopes that pitting 13 darknesses (his clone army) against 7 lights (the good guys) will somehow give him that opportunity after at least 3 previous attempts to control it or create an artificial version all failed. His schemes have included using time travel to bring his younger self to the present day, and splitting himself into a "Heartless" (his heart, going by "Ansem, Seeker of Darkness") and a "Nobody" (his body, "Xemnas") to get past various limitations on complete people, so those versions of him may be running around.
From about a decade ago, we have three lost Keyblade-wielders - Terra, Aqua, Ventus - Terra's body was possessed by Master Xehanort's heart when Xehanort's old body was defeated. We know his heart was still linked to some part of Xehanort (probably Xemnas) fairly recently. Aqua fell into the Realm of Darkness where she's trapped until someone can find a way to rescue her. Ventus's body is asleep in a hidden chamber of Castle Oblivion, waiting for Aqua to rescue him, while his heart is asleep inside Sora's.
Sora is the main playable character of the series, usually travels with his friends, Donald Duck and Goofy, and alternates between thwarting Xehanort's plans by saving the worlds, and falling into Xehanort's traps and losing his levels. Sora's best friends are Riku, another keyblade wielder, recently granted the rank of Master, who has gained an immunity to darkness after being possessed by Xehanort's Heartless, and wrestling with the temptations offered by its power, and Kairi, who has recently acquired the power to wield the Keyblade and is also a Princess of Heart - one of seven who have no darkness in their hearts, and are important to the worlds continuing to exist for whatever metaphysical reason.
In Kingdom Hearts 1, Kairi's heart took refuge in Sora's, until he released it, along with his own, turning him into a Heartless briefly until Kairi's Princess-of-Heart powers restored him. However, brief though his time as a Heartless was, that also created a Nobody, according to the usual process - and a second Nobody linked to Kairi and her heart. Sora's Nobody, Roxas, taking on Ventus's appearance due to his heart also being involved, also inherited the ability to wield the Keyblade, though he didn't get any of Sora's memories, and was recruited by Xemnas, Xehanort's Nobody, as the 13th member of Organization XIII, a group of powerful Nobodies. Using Kairi's Nobody, Namine, and the special properties of Castle Oblivion, one of the Organization's members, Vexen, created two replicas - the Riku Replica, who was a straight-up copy of Riku, and Xion, a limited replica of Sora, designed to absorb and hold his memories, who also worked for the Organization for a time, alongside Roxas. Xion sacrificed herself so Roxas would absorb her and Sora's memories she held, then Roxas merged with Sora, meaning Sora holds Ventus, Roxas and Xion within himself. Namine also merged with Kairi.
Roxas and Xion's best friend within the Organization, the Nobody Axel, sacrificed himself helping Sora, causing his original self, Lea, to reappear. Unlike Xehanort/Xemnas, Sora/Roxas and Kairi/Namine, normal Nobodies look like their original selves, so Lea looks like Axel. Lea is now a confirmed good guy, having rescued Sora from Xehanort's latest scheme, and has managed to manifest his own Keyblade, and is currently with Kairi, being trained.
Rounding out the roster of contemporary keyblade wielders is none other than Mickey Mouse, who managed to acquire a special keyblade from the Realm of Darkness with the help of his old friend, Master Aqua, who he's now ready to try to rescue with Master Riku's help.
Any clearer?
@@rmsgrey thank you for that. ^_^
19 mins and 6 secs.
Thank you so much!!!! This was so helpful! Spent the entire month catching up on story by playing 1 and 2 and watching all the cutscenes I can and this was just what I needed! I still have some questions and curiosities but this will suffice!!
9:23 There’s a reason why the members of Organization 13 have X in their names. In Birth by Sleep, Xehanort calls the keyblade the X-blade and says this: “X...a most ancient letter. Some say “kye,” but the meaning is the same. Death...a letter that spells endings.”
So since Xemnas, a half of Xehanort, took over Organization 13, he put the symbol X into every member’s name. I think they explain this in 358/2 days.
Thought I should learn more about sora since he is in smash now and I’ve never played the games before.
*I still don’t understand*
Did anybody else get lost 5 min in
lindsey henderson yeah I had to start it over then I got it
Yes
6, but yuuuup
It's actually pretty easy to understand
lindsey henderson I got lost 30 seconds in
What was 20 minutes (estimated time) felt like 20 hours of explanation. Why is Kingdom Hearts so complicated?
Dood ikr
It's fairly simple if you played through all the games. The problem is on paper it doesn't make sense. The way the it's written sorta makes you wise to how the rules of the universe work early on, which makes everything else pretty straight forward.
I understand it by playing it but it’s a mouthful trying to explain it to others
@@onepunch2310 This is why I just tell my friends who want to get into the series to either play the games or watch the cutscenes. By nature any explained video will be confusing.
I can only imagine the amount of work this video took. Thank you for catching me up to speed. Starting KH3 finally.
Honestly, the story reminds me of my childhood. It didn’t need to make sense for me to have fun. I miss being a kid.
Thank God for this!! I could never finish the games, they got too hard for me in the last couple levels. And I never bothered with the spin off games. This is SO helpful to catch me up for KH3 next week.
Theres no spin offs
I feel like it should also be mentioned why ventus looks like roxas and sora looks like vanitas...because that hella confused me for a good while. Infact I’m still not 100% sure on it but from what I’ve gathered, when Roxas was created after sora extracted his heart, Ventus’ heart went with sora’s nobody and stayed with roxas until ya know roxas went back to sora, roxas actually had a heart in 358/2 days it just wasn’t his own. Vanitas is a bit more confusing...if we take what the novels say as missing gap filler then when vanitas was born he didn’t have a face, he only developed a face after sora helped ventus which still doesn’t really make sense but it’s kingdom hearts so
DulcetCherry same
Vanitas looks like Sora because Nomura thought it would be neat.Nomura has this nasty habit of getting neat ideas but difficulty in actually connecting that neat idea harmoniously with the story.
To his credit though, it's not like people aren't continuing to buy the games despite it.
Thanks for making this video! It helped me understand a lot more but also revealed how many tangles they really had ._.
I think this is the by far the BEST "quick" explanation I've seen, and the only one I could actually follow. Thank you for laying it all out for us mortals. 😁
Awesome work, thank you for putting this out! I only really played 1 and 2, so this was great! I can't wait for the game to drop! 33 more hours! :)
This confirmed what I knew, and filled in the gaps in my knowledge. I've seen a lot of recaps recently, and this was the best one yet.
9:23 "this series really likes names with X in them." There is a reason for all the Xs and I'm surprised it wasnt picked up on that much. All of the Organization's names are anagrams of their true forms with an X added, which also is because Xs can be seen in the logos of heartless. Examples, Sora = roXas, Lea = aXel, Ansem = Xemnas. And Xehanort = No Heart, just as an JYI.
Best recap I've watched. Helped fill in the details of events after the 5 part recap in kh3
Probably one of the best recaps out there, just one thing:
0.2 actually takes place during the ending of kh1.
It actually ends after KH ll. The last scene showed her walking up to Ansem the Wise at the beach in the realm of darkness.
Also, only most of 358/2 days takes place after COM, not all
The stuff with Mickey and Riku is after DDD.
Looks like we got the next best compressed KH summary on RUclips, and with good humor 👏🏾
Thank you so much for making this!! this is the best explanation I have ever seen, and I am READDYYYYY
Im just imagining Xehanort who finally archives his goal to reach Kingdom Hearts but finds out that everything was a lie and Kingdom Hearts is just a big prison :D
Sometimes I wonder how Nomura came up with everything passed KH1 . Like this story is so deep and metaphorical. I feel like he’s talking about angels vs demons in a fight for the key to heaven
They knew what they were doing in kh1 when that figure in the brown coat says those 5 words "this world has been connected"
Replaying through Kingdom hearts 2 (first time playing through Final Mix) and man, i feel bad for Roxas. they couldn't just let him live his final few days of summer in peace and kept messing with him. It's so sad his entire existence he's been fighting and always losing only to get brought back up to be messed with again. :'(
I've never played the game but the story seemed so interesting and i enjoy watching gameplay. Saw clips of KH3 but i was entirely confused so this helped me understand the storyline a lot! Thanks for the video!!
Excellent explanation of an amazing series! 👍🏻 Well done! All time favorite game for me is KH2.5 FM. That battle system is excellent!! ❤️
if you don’t think axel is the best organization member then i honestly don’t know what to say to you
"simplified KH timeline"??
Lmfao🤣🤣🤣
Great video!!! I am so nostalgic and excited for tomorrow!!!
Wow out of all the videos I've watched this one is actually not that bad to grasp (the graph of xehanort helped alot)! Thank you so much!!!!
Who’s here after Sora got into Smash Bros?
I’m here because of Sora being added in Smash Ultimate.
Me!
The X in their names are like a cross between their real selves and their dark counterpart, like Roxas take out the X and you can put up Sora, Zexion becomes Ienzo and so on just Kairi doesn't make sense to me unless Naminé means something I'm unaware of.
I think it's because 1) Naminé is not an organization member and 2) her name is from a word related to the ocean, just like Kairi's.
This is the best explanation by far. Great job and thank you!
I see Kingdom Hearts like how I view life. When I was young, I KH was simple and with the world at my feet. Now, I realize how complicated it is with depressing stories.
I played 1 and 2. And a few DS games. Then I quit playing.
Thanks for the video, didn't realize there was so much going on
I knew all of this but I watched it anyway. It’s always good to have a refresher before kingdom hearts 3! 😂
The equal parts of shade and fascination with the Kingdom Hearts story make me so happy!!
Thanks for the simplified explanation! now i'm a little less confused, but still slightly confused, so that's something. Love the video btw!
A kingdom hearts timeline video that doesn’t have cringe pronunciations of the characters who would have thought?
AshenShards1 _ I was actually referring to ign about the pronunciation thing
Zenehort and Eraqueze
Roxas is a garbage character no one cares about
*use a fan made mmd model for a kh3 banner *
*Ahhhhh man I sure love ign*
s.leeves _ that quote will never be forgotten by the kingdom hearts fandom 😠
@@felixthecat5333 they shall burn for their sins
@AshenShards1 _ Tell that to all the Americans who can't say Cecil and Zidane correctly.
Me: did you simplified kingdom hearts?
The leaderboard: yes
Me: at what cost?
The leaderboard: just to be more confused with Kingdom hearts 3 and the Re-mind dlc
As someone who really enjoyed the original 2 and somewhat played a couple of the spin offs, I found this video extremely helpful! Thanks :D
Wow, after watching a lot videos on KH story recap, this is the first summary of the whole series that makes you at least feel that you kind of get most of the mess called KH plot )) Thanks for the huge work for making this video ))