Thank you. It’s beautiful. I was curious what it sounded like without it being slowed. 0-0 you did bring a lot of people together and had many people cry in various ways. Thank you.
Too late, am now questioning if now it turns out Sora will end up erasing his own existence and memories of himself in KH4 in exchange for giving everyone else a good ending in KH3
This makes me think of when I first played KH as a child and in the tutorial when that kid asks you what are you so afraid of, I chose getting old as my greatest fear. I felt relief knowing it was such a long ways away though. Then I played the game again recently at the age of 30 and seeing that question pop up on screen really hit me hard after going through all the trials and tribulations of adulthood only to have my childhood innocence staring back at me and asking "Is getting old really that scary?"
i had the same experience, choose the same thing. i think im still afraid of getting old, of being one day closer to having to deal with losing everything and dying. all the memories of myself feeling strong emotions, its like it faded away and doesnt exist anymore, like it doesnt matter anymore. whether i was happy or sad, successful or failed, it all just was engulfed by time. never to be seen again, outside the reflection of my eye. young people who choose that, i feel like what we were so afraid of losing, because you only understand loss when your older and have had time to lose something, to miss something, to regret something. i feared all those things and i still do. i guess i am human after all.
I'm the only person I've ever met that speaks of the tetrapharmakos. It works for me. I didn't make it up. An ancient, Greek philosopher named Epicurus crafted it about 2,300 years ago. 1, do not fear god. 2, do not worry about death. 3, what's good is easy to obtain. 4, what's terrible is easy to endure. These are the first four of forty doctrines that lead to a happy life according to Epicureanism. The tetrapharmakos banishes nearly all anxiety and existential dread. From there anyone may begin to live a happy life.
If you had the chance to make your childhood self feel your pain, would you do it ? You can't go back to then. But you can think how you should have seen this coming.
Goofy: Gorsh we're in silent hill sora, that means we've committed a great sin and are now stuck in purgatory in till we discover our selfs and come to terms with our trauma and guilt of the sin we did sora. Sora: wooah goofy that sounds like fun Donald: We need to find king mickey...
@@MrPK- Being realistic is important for life. But I also think having a good balance of fantasy helps as well, the ability to be able to imagine must also coincide with the ability to reason.
Almost 20. I know that's still fairly young but I already feel so old. I want to go back to my childhood so bad it hurts. I hate being an adult. I'm just constantly stressed, tired, and scared. I dont want to go through this anymore. Man now I want a hug
I never played the KH saga but I've always wanted to. My friend ended his life last year. This one song was actually played at his funeral. I remember Dearly Beloved playing as they led him out of the chapel and into the hearse, and when the piano deepened and the orchestra started, I remember just breaking down and crying over the casket. I had never heard this song before but something awoke inside me and I never forgot this one song.
"You have poured so many memories into me...given me so much...that I feel like I'm about to overflow. This puppet will have to play her part." "You'll be...better off now...Roxas."
Coming back and playing these games is a real, “leaving neverland” feeling. Like when you’re a kid it’s just a fun adventure with your homies Donald and Goofy, but you reach adulthood and go back and actually feel the weight and sadness of the narrative.
I had the opposite reaction... I reached adulthood and can't stop laughing at how bad the dialogue and story are. Which does make me really sad, I used to genuinely enjoy them a lot and all that's left now is hollow.
@@kinasakurabaThe best things in life happen naturally and quicker than we wish. The most complicated dissonance takes decades to create and lasts lifetimes as the burden of proof. One of the only constants are the expanding amounts of DARKNESS in our universe every moment, yet we as vessels are beings of LIGHT rather than taking form of what surrounds, we have individuality beyond that unfathomable darkness. Even when we succumb to emptiness. WE feel empty. We aren't empty. We continue regardless. Alotta people will tell you "It's all darkness out there, just empty space", yet here we are. Not vestiges of lifes essence waiting for the last grain of sand to fall, but a representation of what is shown in the darkness. Light. We are light. Bro, after losing to Sozora in 3 and they reference the first things sora says in the story in 1 through sozora's dialogue after sora "dies", "I've Been Having These Weird Thoughts Lately" is incredible story telling. Insane mix of nostalgia and despair. That kind of buildup is only possible through multiple years of story telling and following. I'm not trying to convince you, i'm just saying, its more about what you take away than what's presented. Practice humility and learn from everything.
@@tokcnyecko6055 To claim that someone growing up and seeing Kingdom Hearts cringe dialogue for what it is Is now a deciding factor in their emotional depth or that you could even fathom who that person is just because they criticized something you like Is definitely a show of your maturity. 🤷
a truth to this day of which we struggle, a pointless battle that is won with harmony, a point that humanity is what it is meant to be not what others make it out to be...life is such a fascinating thing to experience....dont you think so?
And in the end all returns to that single singularity where it all began. Where shadow, light, and inbetween converge into one. All our stories coming to a single point. It is there that the next version of us awaits. The only thing that is constant in reality is change itself.
This is what you hear when you realize that you can't get into the same games you once played to full completion as a child. Whether it be because you're busy or you find yourself no longer having fun anymore, you pick the game up, you play it...but you never finish it.
Getting older is hard. We’ve changed, Tom. The childlike innocence that fueled us as children sometimes creeps back up but almost as a reminder to keep growing as an adult.
Nostalgia drives us to revisit the past, but... in the end that's really all we can do; visit the past. We can never relive it the same way twice. So many games I bought to try and replay that I used to spend literally hundreds of hours on, and I just can't do it again. My time's limited, I know almost everything that will happen, and sometimes the grind in the game just feels like a chore to repeat. Goodbye childhood.
@@SeraphimDragon Nostalgia is a friend and an enemy. It lets us visit moments of our life which were happier, but it doesn't let us live them again the same way, also reminding us about how time flows, leaving a bitter taste.
I found out I was an accident recently, so I'm on the same boat... nothing in the grand scheme of things was done on purpose, everything born from the chaos of the universe will eventually cease to be, so fuck it. Let's just enjoy the light we have in our hearts while we still have it.
Any tempo any instrument, I'd always recognize this tune. When we're reborn in some extra dimension trillions of years from now we can use it to find each other.
"In your hand, take this key. So long as you have the makings, then through this simple act of taking...its wielder you shall one day be. And you will find me, friend-no ocean will contain you then. No more borders around, or below, or above, so long as you champion the ones you love." -Terra
“Take a look at this tiny place. To the heart seeking freedom, this Island is a prison surrounded by water. And so this boy, he sought out an escape from his prison He sought a way to cross over into other worlds, 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝙏𝙤 𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨..."
I always saw destiny islands as the physical manifestation of childhood memories. That place seems too perfect. The children could play on the beach forever and have as much fun as they wanted. The only reference to adults are when they need to be there and there might be a school system. Every major character has a connection to these islands and their journies begin when they are forced away from it. This is much like how our childhood memories are in this bubble of idealism that isn't exactly reality, but we choose not to disturb it when all of it is suddenly gone.
I remember playing Kingdom Hearts 1 for the first time and entering Destiny Island near the end of the game. It was empty. No friends, no upbeat music, no mini games and no way out. It was really depressing to see the Island like that.
I don't know if you intended this, but there's some white noise and the reverb makes some instruments sounds a little... artificial? Distorted? That's not a criticism - it works really well. It makes the music sound fake, which just enhances the feeling. It's a very haunting sensation that appropriately makes me feel like I don't belong. Really cool.
It is likely due to the soundbox of the Nintendo DS, which this iteration of Dearly Beloved was played from. This is the version from the start menu of Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded.
Didn't realize how liminal the Destiny Islands were until now. All of the kids look generic but somehow familiar, all of the random empty houses and structures scattered all over the place. No adults or other people in sight. A dark ominous presence all throughout the island but especially the tree cave
@@colbyboucher6391 Yeah Sherlock that was the point, but are they really? I mean Squall, Cloud, Cid and Yuffie are more or less exact copies of their game counterparts, while the FFX characters feel more like overly simplified background characters, like imitations, they dont even have any hi def facial animations or cutscenes which adds to the liminal feeling.
@@Dreigonix Nope I'm pretty sure the exact definition for the term is something that feels slightly familiar but isn't, and also a place that feels abandoned or unbelievable. Try again.
@@yderga8707 Liminal means either “relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process” or “occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold”. So a true liminal space would be, like, an empty hallway in a school or the empty open space in a mall. Interstitial places you only experience when _passing through_ on your way to other places.
I've always enjoyed the Dearly Beloved dubstep remix, but this takes it to a whole new level. There's a sense of peace, calmness, nostalgia, and heavy sadness. One of the first games my Father got me was Kingdom Hearts. He passed away in February at the age of 49. Whenever I hear this, it reminds me of him, and I think of that line "Wherever you go, I'm always with you." I love you dad.
This song gives me Deja vu in a way it reflects on things throughout my life that hasn’t even happened yet, or it turns my mind into an endless record of repeat that plays over and over to the point it scares me, but at the same time, it’s kind of comforting… I think.. That’s it’s just my way of telling myself that it’ll all be worth it in the end… But who knows… Only time will tell…..
I’ll admit, I got into the Kingdom Hearts games a little later in life despite owning the original game when it first came out (I didn’t get far because eight year old me thought you needed to win the raft race to continue the game and I couldn’t win it 😂). Six years ago, I picked the first game back up at a comic shop and it’s become an essential part of my life since. Hearing “Dearly Beloved” at the main menu, collecting raft supplies, exploring Traverse Town and the Disney worlds with Donald and Goofy, braving Hollow Bastion, and reaching the end of the game with that tear jerking “take care of her” line by Riku still hit me hard at the age of 28. All the people that have come and gone since picking up “Kingdom Hearts”, all the sacrifices I’ve made, the successes I’ve had, the things I’ve learned in life, Kingdom Hearts has stayed with me. Two fandoms that have made deep impacts on my life: Star Wars since I was four and Kingdom Hearts since I was 22. “May your heart be your guiding key…”
My mom didn’t understand value when I was a child, she told me I could sell my Ps2 for money. Biggest mistake ever. my brother, who had moved out for the rest of my life, left behind that ps2 and the OG kingdom of hearts. I grew up listening to beautiful music, since i was born, I was infatuated by kingdom hearts. I could feel the emotion and ideas behind the harmonies. But i never played the whole game. now that i’m 18 i bought every game on steam. I wish to have the understanding of this game like everyone else does. Wish me luck
This really resonates with me, seeing as how I have a dissociative disorder and would not exist the way I am, as me, along with many others here if horrible crap didn't happen, and that's something that I had such a hard time coming to terms with when we found out. Anyways thanks for attending my random partial trauma dump on a RUclips comment section. KH has always been a vital part of my childhood.
@@zamasterhando3399 well make it man. Things will get better, I'm on the way there. Some days I'm still down, and some days it hits really badly. But I will get better in time
I knew this was the recoded theme by how bitter it got me feeling, but hearing it slow with reverb just.. all of the childhood memories I had with KH just flooded my mind.. I’m now 21 all grown up
Indeed, as you're not really a biological adult until you are at least 25, and in some cases 30, so the road is still long yet. Let's just hope the Planet doesn't seek vengeance on us...
Gah, I love it when music has a liminal feel to them. It's sad, it's lonely, it's hopeful, it's melancholic, it's good, it's bad, it's all the things that ever were, never will be, and all the things that you never knew, yet you always knew. It is everything but nothing. You are existence itself, but you were never meant to exist.
The soundtrack that plays when you realize there really is nothing, that your dead loved ones don't know they existed or you existed, and that everything that means something to you now will find the same fate. I won't remember this song, this comment, or that I drew breath.
i'll never forget my first memory of kingdom hearts. i dont know how old i was but for some reason this memory is from a 3rd person perspective. i remember watching myself play in coliseum and finally beating cerberus in my sisters old room on her old playstation. the lights were off and when i finally beat it i ran out of the room to tell her that i finally did it. i'll never forget that memory and it comes back every time i listen to dearly beloved. kingdom hearts music always reminds me of a better point in my life and reminds me of how happy i used to be as a kid. When i was young i always thought that i would never grow old and all my friends wouldnt grow older either. we would just stay like that and be best friends forever! now i dont speak to a single one of them but i always hold them dear to my heart because their memories are what i truly cherish. memories never truly go away, even if you forget them. theyre always there in your heart.
I honestly thought this was going to be a mashup of "Never Meant to Belong" from Bleach and Dearly Beloved, but then I remembered that it was "Belong", not "Exist". Still a very good mix though!
I've been trying to put my finger on it.. but the piece pushed this way just makes me feel as though I've come to realize.. as I've aged.. every memory I cherished has become that.. memories.. friendships past... shows beloved making it to their end.. each piece of your child hood gets left up on the mantle to gaze upon.. and it gets harder to look at those memories as they fade into the hateful void that has begun to fill our minds as we age..
Life is like a melody. It can sound harmonic, or it can sound broken. Much like a puzzle, when life takes its course, then its up to us to fill in the gaps. Overcoming various obstacles and challenges throughout your life will grant you the pieces that you need to finish what you started, but what about those who can't? The truth is you can because, in reality, we all can. If someone else can do it, then so can you...because life offers that to you so that it can teach you how to endure those hardships. Life can't knock you down because you are a solid brick wall...no...the solid brick wall that can never be knocked down and will never, no matter what, be knocked down. Because you just stand back up, and take the pain. You can take as much pain as you want, but it will never knock you down because you just rise and rise from it again, and that, my friends, is how you achieve one, and if not just one, but all of your puzzle pieces. You might be fragile, but you're really just sturdy. Don't let anything bring you down no matter what, don't give up, stand back up, and, most important of all, help those who've fallen into their broken melodies...thus granting them harmony once more. Many of us have been there, and many of us are going down the same road. You can fight you're battles alone...or...you can fight them with others as one. Thank you for reading this, and I hope all of you have a blessed day.
I can tell that it it is a beautiful song indeed, but the way it echoes is in kind of saddened way? Close to constatly observing the sea. I wonder if it is the difference between Sora and Xehanort's perspective regarding the islads, one was seeing them as a warm homely place while the other belived it was prison surrounded by water.
I always felt a strong bond with KH franchise and the fans. You're all wonderful people. It's a healthy community full of kind people. Thank you. I'm old enough to have played KH 1 when it arrived in the USA. KH 2 was (still is) amazing when it came out. Birth by Sleep was the last KH game I fully played. I'm kind of older now, and I super busy with "adult life". If I had a little more time, maybe i would explore the KH universe with you guys.
It's a simple edit, but powerful. My heart actually clenched when it got past the intro to the full piece. It leaves an uncanny feeling and unimaginable saddness. When you look back at everything in this series, every single character has suffered immensely. The losses, the heartbreak, the time they will never get back, realizing you forgot people in the first place. It goes on forever. This whole thing started out as a kids game, but the haunting realization of all its consequences have come full circle when I heard this song. How much longer must these friends find and lose each other before they break? Sora almost did in KHIII. I would be crushed and hopeless when waking up on the other side with Yozora. Like, this is lit. This is his new reality where he can't see them anymore. The finality of that entire concept is what this song embodies for me. Accepting the end, and letting your entire being rest after years of fighting. Peace, if only brief.
I'm 32, I played KH1 and 2 both pretty much on release and they're among the precious few games I played beyond completion, to do everything I possibly could in them. I have struggled to play games at all for the past 5 years and can't think of many that I actually beat for a long time before that, but recently I've actually been playing through KH1.5 on the PS4 and while I don't do the long play sessions like I used to, I'm maybe getting through 2-4 hours a week, I'm sticking at it. Depression drained a lot of the enjoyment I got from things for a long time, but I'm working to learn how to pace things, to not get discouraged and stop altogether when I can only focus for half an hour at a time, that it's ok to come back another day when I do feel like it. My inner child is damaged and in pain, but I'm working to let it express itself when it can and let it retreat when needed and work on building trust with myself.
my heart will forever be on a beach that only exists in Your memory. In a quiet corner of your heart. The part that comes to life like a dry flower blooming When this music plays again;
Kingdom Hearts is one of my favorite memories as a child. I would hide away for hours, all day sometimes, and even stay up until the sun would rise getting lost in its beautiful world while wishing I could leave this one behind. The game will forever hold a special place in my heart.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my social worker. I told them I’m nobody, that I was never meant to exist. They told me “well you do exist, and wether or not it was meant to happen,it did. Even nobody can become somebody.” Then I played kingdom hearts 2 a year later and I loved Roxas. He was like me, a Nobody, but unlike me he had friends. He was somebody. Then dream drop distance told us Nobodies get hearts as they are alive
with the secret ending to kh3, it feels like either sora or yozora arent meant to exist as it feels like they exist in a different world. and not just "another disney world" but rather an entirely different universe. maybe even a game within a game.
The moment your life ends, you find yourself reliving every joy and sorrow you ever experienced. Each memory unfolds vividly, one by one-moments of laughter, heartbreak, triumph, and despair. But after every scene, you witness it again, this time without you in it. The group of friends you once cherished is now just three, not four. Your parents have two children, not three. The classroom you filled with energy holds only 21 students, not 22. Your first love shares her heart with someone else. The woman you married walks down the aisle with another. All the pieces of you-your drawings, your journals, your toys, the books you devoured, the saved progress in your favorite games-begin to fade, one by one, slipping away as though you never existed. And then, you find yourself sitting before God. His face is obscured, his presence both overwhelming and gentle. "My child," he speaks, his voice resonating with infinite understanding, "you have lived through beauty and pain. There were moments when you longed to leave this world, but there were also moments when you embraced it wholeheartedly. I ask you now: do you truly wish to disappear?" Tears stream down your face as the weight of everything crashes down on you. Your breath catches, your voice breaks, and from the depths of your soul, you scream: "No! I want to go back!" God raises his head, and as he does, you realize his face is your own. You have been staring into a mirror all along. The mirror shatters, fragments scattering into oblivion, and in an instant, you awaken. You're in a hospital bed, surrounded by the familiar faces of your childhood friends. It's 2010. You’ve been in a coma for two days following an accident. Eric sits nearby, engrossed in Pokémon HeartGold. Josh is the first to notice your eyes fluttering open. "Kyle!" he shouts. "Eric! Come here!" The room erupts into motion as they call for the doctors. Relief washes over everyone. You’ll leave the hospital tomorrow, but the truth lingers in your heart: Everything you thought was your life-every memory, every struggle-was nothing more than a vivid dream. A second chance. A reminder that life, with all its imperfections, is still worth living. That even in the moments you feel insignificant, you are the most important character in your own story. This time, you know better. This time, you will cherish it all.
Roxas is just the shadow we all have in us, "I need to eat! I'm tired!" but for the Kingdom Hearts universe, it's "I like ice cream!" and "Friends!". He exists just as much as Sora, just asleep when we're playing. The MC's nobody.
Not sure what it says about me that I looked at the title, I looked at the screenshot, I listened to the audio, and my first thought was Ansem, Seeker of Darkness Think about this playing as he tears a world apart and you watch a montage of its drawn-out collapse, piece by piece
It's strange seeing all the comments posting about their trauma really makes me reflect. Can I be here with you all when I'm the one who made my traumatic experiences? "No matter how hard you try, the truth will always set you free." That's that they say, but the truth is I'm a terrible person, and no matter how hard I try, I can't fix myself, or get those awful thoughts out of my head. I try and try, but the night terrors always creep in, making me do terrible things. It sucks being the person you fear the most. I feel trapped in a endless cycle; not because of my actions, or what I have done, but the thought of always having the ability to do those said actions again. If you surround yourself with people who are happy, and understand you, things do feel better. But when you are alone, or something awful has happened, you always get brought back to those places, and they never leave. You can push and push, but no matter how strong you are, you always fall. The hardest thing is helping those around you. Their pain and suffering will go away, but you spend so much time helping them you have no energy left for yourself. And It's not as easy as just pushing them away, because how are you suppose to stop helping the ones you love. No matter what, I always try my best to get a head. As I always say, take 2 steps back, but 3 steps forward, so you're always one step ahead.
This really hit me so deep. It makes me think how Roxas must’ve felt when his summer time was over… 😢 It must be the same for a lot of the other characters too.
I… This song who I normally play to feel full of joy, relaxation, love and so many other positive emotions now just reflexes the feeling of emptiness that has been growing inside me… The funny thing about that is not that it’s because of a grand reason, it’s just a student going through a really difficult time. But here I am just filled with nothing, listening to this song while feeling empty.
I was the only one out of 17 miscarriages to survive. But my mom grew to resent me as grew up. From body shaming me, to straight up telling me (knowing full well I suffer from depression) that I should unalive myself, because it would be doing her a huge favor. She finally cut me out last year when I got married. I'm in a much better place now. But I wish I could have just been an 18th....
Hey you okay? Sound like your mom went through hell a lot but to treat you like this after being her biggest blessing in life??? I really hope you're the happiest you've ever been as of now :( ❤️
@@cutekyara I'm okay. Most days, anyway. There are days where I still miss her, but I think that is natural. I'm doing better for myself. And I'm finally learning how to be in a family, thanks to my husband's family. Despite years of trauma, I still consider myself blessed. Just, some days are harder, where I wish I was never born.
@@soaringlupine The pain you went through is utterly heartbreaking. But, you’re still here, and that proves that you have a strong heart. I know it sometimes feels like the world is full of nothing but evil people out to hurt you, but like pearls in the ocean, there are some good people that once you find them, they will bring out the very best in you. They will lift you up to heights you never thought you could reach before, and they will give you hope where there is none. I’ll be honest, your pain will probably never go away, but I know you’ll find a way to use it to make you stronger, to the point the pain won’t bother you too much. Keep pushing on, and one day you’ll be free of the darkness around you. The family you have sound like truly good people, hold them close to you.
This sounds like those dreams you have when you're basically a kid again in the time period you grew up in at home or your old school. You sort of remember the setting of where you grew up, it's all familiar from how you remember it and yet it's not.
I stayed there levelling up from hitting wakas balls lol, to the point where u get block skilled, then i beat the shit out of riku lmao damn the water the trees, ah...............................................................................
Lmaooo on Proud mode I was lvling up on that island to ngl…. 15 or 20. Whichever got you scan ability due to choosing a specific dream weapon. 😂 i had to cuz even the bosses were tough.
Holding your dying friend and watching them turn into sparks of light while remembering all the good times. But you don't realize that your losing your memory of them and eventually wonder why your sitting on the ground crying
Whoa ok this comment section got sorta sad so I’m gonna try and inject something fun in here. Here’s some fun questions! You can answer as many as you’d like! I’ll answer them too. 1. What’s your favorite part of Kingdom Hearts? I like the feelings it gives me the most. 2. Outside of the series, are you a fan of Disney? I used to be, but I kinda resent them now. 3. Have you ever played Final Fantasy? If so, how did you feel about some of those characters in KH? I’ve never played FF besides FFXIV, so when I was a kid, all the FF characters were just sort of strangers to me. Cloud’s coolness transcends past his franchise, though, so I’m still always hyped to see him. 4. What’s your favorite KH original world? I think it’s obvious that mine is Destiny Islands- it’s just so perfect! 5. Do you have any KH OCs? Or did you make something up for your Union X player character? Are you thinking about playing Missing Link? Personally, I have three KH OCs and one of them will most likely be my Missing Link PC when it comes out. 6. What was your first Kingdom Hearts game? Mine was Re:Coded! Imagine how confused I was!
😭 SORA….!! Oh my heart breaks and yearns when I hear this theme 🤍 so much love for this game, the creators and community 🙏 thank you friend for sharing this rendition 🎶 ✨
I remember crying.. HARD.. the night the KH2 trailer dropped. I was so heavily invested in that story, when I saw Sora and Kairi and a new adventure, my little 12 year old brain had an emotion overload. I remember it vividly, because I don't think I've ever been more excited for a game to drop. When I was younger, even if I didn't understand each and every concept, I FELT so much more emotion while playing these games, I hung on every single word the characters said. Playing through Kh3 as an adult had a lot of eyeroll moments and was underwhelming.. but then I started playing Union Cross, learning the story behind it, and my mind is blown. It is incredibly convoluted, but it actually does have some structure and make sense when it comes to the characters, their origins. Bloodlines are going to end up being very important. Most of the story is based on Norse mythology, and is surprisingly dark and adult. (Talks about Heaven, Hell, Gods, etc.) I think people are going to be shocked by how serious KH gets. I guess what I'm saying is that the mainline series got so silly, I laughed at it too. The stupid mobile games actually have an insanely detailed and carefully crafted narrative based on Norse mythology and other ancient religions and beliefs. These ideas are what make it into Kingdom Hearts. It's actually amazing to see Nomura and the KH team put so much time and thought into it. For anyone curious about the true story and future of KH, damo279 has an amazing series of videos that Sum up the story very nicely and don't make you sit through 8 hours of cartoon cutscenes. Square Enix is a very strange company.. and the only gaming company to stay in my life always, from childhood to adulthood. I don't play have any consoles anymore, I don't really game anymore. I will always play Kingdom Hearts. I need to find out what happens next :).
(How do I tell them the title was just a reference to my KH oc...) Edit: ok ok some people said I was allowed to share so here goes. So, basically, if anyone here remembers Union X, this is where my OC comes from. Her name is Eliza, and she’s from the age of fairytales. Well, one of my headcanons is that the foretellers weren’t the only keyblade masters in daybreak town, and that there were other wielders tasked with training the next generation. (the players.) Eliza grew up in daybreak town, and when she was a kid (maybe about 11-12) she came across one of these masters in a marketplace. Absolutely starstruck by his cool vibes, and spurred on by her curiosity, she approached him, and begged him to train her. Obviously, the dude was like “who is this sassy lost child”, and tried to dissuade her away- he knew the foretellers were beginning to recruit younger people for their unions, but he didn’t agree with it at *all*- yet Eliza was persistent. He agreed after a few other encounters, and the two began training together. He’d had a terrible feeling for a while now about the future of daybreak town, and sensed something was terribly wrong, but Eliza’s eagerness gave him hope. After a few years of training, a fifteen year old Eliza was finally gifted the keyblade so many of her peers wielded- Starlight. She was excited to take the next step and collect lux like everyone else, but her teacher had other plans. See, by the time Eliza had received her weapon, there was already little time left for the age of fairytales. Hope hung in the air, but to those who has an inkling of the truth, it could only shield the impending darkness so much. Eliza’s teacher begun training her as intensively as he could. He’d begun to see the young wielder almost as one of his own, and the thought of her perishing in the upcoming conflict was inconceivable. Finally, as the disastrous tale met its finale, and the keyblade war began, Eliza ran out to fight, just like the others- but she was stopped by her teacher. He had a different plan for her, and this is kind of the point where I lose contact with canon, but it’s fine because there’s no real way to understand canon. The master has Eliza relinquish her beloved weapon, sending it away with orders to manifest itself again when “the time was right” Now, back to lore for a second- time travel works in two ways- either a special device is needed, you can travel to the past or future that already has a version of yourself, or you can send your heart forward- only once- if you have a treasured object, and someone who remembers you. If you have no one who remembers you, you go without your memory, but that treasured object reconstructs your body. Eliza’s teacher knew that her keyblade was beloved enough to do the job, as well as tough enough to survive the ages. Her memories however, were an issue… He knew, though, that Eliza was headstrong to reconstruct her memories from scratch. She would cling on to any fragments she could, and chase anything familiar, until the day her memories had reconstructed itself. With that, he told Eliza she was to go into the future, and tell the tale of the keyblade war to all who would listen, so that this tragedy would never be repeated. Eliza agreed, and he used his magic to basically send her through a tear in reality- one that had been made by a wielder in the present day, a tear so powerful it cost him his existence. Eliza awoke on a stained glass pillar, the only markings on it being a keyhole, an X, and a star symbol she’d never seen before. As she stood, a certain large key appeared in her hand, forcing her to aim forward as it opened up a portal to the unknown. With no other option, and no clue of what was happening, Eliza stepped through, finding herself in a small town, where the streets were waterways and an endless forest surrounded the town on all sides. Something was… quickly off, though. The people Eliza spoke to didn’t seem to remember her. Small bonds she had forged would quickly fade away, and strangers she passed by wouldn’t even glance at her. A few people she’d become true, real friends with remembered her, but by the time she’d figured that out, she’d become comfortable existing in her own little bubble, and was hesitant to open up again. Still, Eliza forged on, slowly reconstructing her memories over the course of a confusing year. As she did, it was… clear why she was like this. The tear in existence she had traveled through must have punished *her* too. Fate and the universe dealt out punishment for those who defied it, and Eliza supposed she was one of those, now. That still wouldn’t stop her from her mission. Eliza resolved to find other wielders, and tell them the tale that brought her here- one she didn’t quite understand, but one she’d lived through. That would be enough, wouldn’t it?
Not sure if I'm the first to say this, but this gives me strong "An Ending" vibes from Undertale. It's as if Sora messed up in his journey somehow and now, even after completing it, darkness still lurks in his heart because of his actions and failures.
![BLACK BAG - Official Trailer [HD] - Only in Theaters March 14](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Du0Xp8WX_7I/mqdefault.jpg)
Guys this is just the Re:Coded version slowed and reverbed with a distortion filter it’s ok I was just being edgy-
Thank you. It’s beautiful. I was curious what it sounded like without it being slowed. 0-0 you did bring a lot of people together and had many people cry in various ways. Thank you.
Too late, am now questioning if now it turns out Sora will end up erasing his own existence and memories of himself in KH4 in exchange for giving everyone else a good ending in KH3
"Sora... You're lucky. Looks like my summer vacation is... Over..."
❤❤❤❤
Roxas.... 😭😭😭
Jesus Christ the sovereign God loves you my friends :" )
@@joshua2400 If you have to tell others that someone they don't even know loves them, then you're selling something wicked.
That will forever hit hard. I’m also forever heartbroken at the people who never witnessed that scene
Edit: or this game
This makes me think of when I first played KH as a child and in the tutorial when that kid asks you what are you so afraid of, I chose getting old as my greatest fear. I felt relief knowing it was such a long ways away though.
Then I played the game again recently at the age of 30 and seeing that question pop up on screen really hit me hard after going through all the trials and tribulations of adulthood only to have my childhood innocence staring back at me and asking "Is getting old really that scary?"
i had the same experience, choose the same thing. i think im still afraid of getting old, of being one day closer to having to deal with losing everything and dying. all the memories of myself feeling strong emotions, its like it faded away and doesnt exist anymore, like it doesnt matter anymore. whether i was happy or sad, successful or failed, it all just was engulfed by time. never to be seen again, outside the reflection of my eye. young people who choose that, i feel like what we were so afraid of losing, because you only understand loss when your older and have had time to lose something, to miss something, to regret something. i feared all those things and i still do. i guess i am human after all.
Geez… this one hurts
I'm the only person I've ever met that speaks of the tetrapharmakos. It works for me. I didn't make it up. An ancient, Greek philosopher named Epicurus crafted it about 2,300 years ago.
1, do not fear god.
2, do not worry about death.
3, what's good is easy to obtain.
4, what's terrible is easy to endure.
These are the first four of forty doctrines that lead to a happy life according to Epicureanism. The tetrapharmakos banishes nearly all anxiety and existential dread. From there anyone may begin to live a happy life.
🤘😔
If you had the chance to make your childhood self feel your pain, would you do it ? You can't go back to then. But you can think how you should have seen this coming.
When Sora enters Silent Hill, and finds out Roxas was the real him the whole time.
Lol I just imagine sora fighting pyrimid head xD
Goofy: Gorsh we're in silent hill sora, that means we've committed a great sin and are now stuck in purgatory in till we discover our selfs and come to terms with our trauma and guilt of the sin we did sora.
Sora: wooah goofy that sounds like fun
Donald: We need to find king mickey...
Don't you fucking go there
Love the Silent Hill reference. Imagine if he was there, it’d be some adventure😂
And kairi drowned on the ocean making us fight starfish abominations
I guess this is what Dearly Beloved sounds like to at least half of the cast.
Sora is the therapy dog in a household full of depressed people
@@ZgermanGuy. so fucking accurate
HARSH-
BUT ACCURATE
Sora being the household himself as well
This is how it feels to grow up and realize how different, yet similar it all is to childhood. Never appreciate it until it’s gone.
near to make me cry D:
I had a moment like that yesterday wow
Cheers to you for the realness
@@MrPK- Being realistic is important for life. But I also think having a good balance of fantasy helps as well, the ability to be able to imagine must also coincide with the ability to reason.
Almost 20. I know that's still fairly young but I already feel so old. I want to go back to my childhood so bad it hurts. I hate being an adult.
I'm just constantly stressed, tired, and scared. I dont want to go through this anymore.
Man now I want a hug
@@Iisho* hugs*
The End. Thats what this sounds like. Not a climactic showdown. Just a deathbed, a treasured memory, and then the end.
Ven/nitas: "AND NOW, THE END"
Sounds relieving
I never played the KH saga but I've always wanted to.
My friend ended his life last year. This one song was actually played at his funeral. I remember Dearly Beloved playing as they led him out of the chapel and into the hearse, and when the piano deepened and the orchestra started, I remember just breaking down and crying over the casket. I had never heard this song before but something awoke inside me and I never forgot this one song.
🤍 stay well, friend
Your friends are your power. And you're theirs. I'm so sorry that you lost someone who shined so bright...
This sounds like old memories slowly fading away and suddenly youre starting to forget
"Who are you, again? Did I .... do this to you?"
“Mr. Sora isn’t able to have visitors today.”
Everywhere at the end of Destiny Islands
Those moments you know happend but are look behind a door you cant open
"I've been having these weird thoughts lately. Like, is any of this for real? Or not?"
"You'll forget me, but the memories themselves will never go away. Memories of you and me will always be together...forever, inside him." ~ Unknown
I could have sworn there were three of us. . . must just be my imagination.
"Count the chairs. When did we ever number more than 13?"
Wait, if that's true... then why can't I remember who I had ice cream with?
Loss of Xion in 358/2 was painful. The return in 3 was emotionally wrenching.
@@lunarlight279 arguably the only emotional moment in the entire game
"Angrily smashes computer with a keyblade"
*Roxas Hates Everything*
@@capofthink holy shit he jus like me fr fr
"You have poured so many memories into me...given me so much...that I feel like I'm about to overflow. This puppet will have to play her part."
"You'll be...better off now...Roxas."
Coming back and playing these games is a real, “leaving neverland” feeling. Like when you’re a kid it’s just a fun adventure with your homies Donald and Goofy, but you reach adulthood and go back and actually feel the weight and sadness of the narrative.
I had the opposite reaction... I reached adulthood and can't stop laughing at how bad the dialogue and story are. Which does make me really sad, I used to genuinely enjoy them a lot and all that's left now is hollow.
@@kinasakurabaThe best things in life happen naturally and quicker than we wish. The most complicated dissonance takes decades to create and lasts lifetimes as the burden of proof. One of the only constants are the expanding amounts of DARKNESS in our universe every moment, yet we as vessels are beings of LIGHT rather than taking form of what surrounds, we have individuality beyond that unfathomable darkness. Even when we succumb to emptiness. WE feel empty. We aren't empty. We continue regardless. Alotta people will tell you "It's all darkness out there, just empty space", yet here we are. Not vestiges of lifes essence waiting for the last grain of sand to fall, but a representation of what is shown in the darkness. Light. We are light.
Bro, after losing to Sozora in 3 and they reference the first things sora says in the story in 1 through sozora's dialogue after sora "dies", "I've Been Having These Weird Thoughts Lately" is incredible story telling. Insane mix of nostalgia and despair. That kind of buildup is only possible through multiple years of story telling and following. I'm not trying to convince you, i'm just saying, its more about what you take away than what's presented. Practice humility and learn from everything.
@@kinasakuraba i guess that speaks volumes of your emotional depth
@@tokcnyecko6055 To claim that someone growing up and seeing Kingdom Hearts cringe dialogue for what it is
Is now a deciding factor in their emotional depth or that you could even fathom who that person is just because they criticized something you like
Is definitely a show of your maturity.
🤷
@@iantaran2843 no, they’re correct. Even the naivety and childishness of the lines themselves bore a much greater subtext to the overall narrative.
“Long ago, people lived in peace, bathed in the warmth of light. Everyone loved the light. Then people began to fight over it.”
a truth to this day of which we struggle, a pointless battle that is won with harmony, a point that humanity is what it is meant to be not what others make it out to be...life is such a fascinating thing to experience....dont you think so?
And in the end all returns to that single singularity where it all began. Where shadow, light, and inbetween converge into one. All our stories coming to a single point. It is there that the next version of us awaits. The only thing that is constant in reality is change itself.
@@alchemxstxavier5225Very true my beloved brother 😢
@@alchemxstxavier5225 Stanley Kubrick taught me this. Well said.
@@ZeranZeranhas he mentioned this in interviews or in movies
“If there is something in there, inside us… then we would feel it, wouldn’t we?”
This is what you hear when you realize that you can't get into the same games you once played to full completion as a child. Whether it be because you're busy or you find yourself no longer having fun anymore, you pick the game up, you play it...but you never finish it.
Getting older is hard. We’ve changed, Tom. The childlike innocence that fueled us as children sometimes creeps back up but almost as a reminder to keep growing as an adult.
Nostalgia drives us to revisit the past, but... in the end that's really all we can do; visit the past. We can never relive it the same way twice. So many games I bought to try and replay that I used to spend literally hundreds of hours on, and I just can't do it again. My time's limited, I know almost everything that will happen, and sometimes the grind in the game just feels like a chore to repeat. Goodbye childhood.
God this hits me hard lately 😭😔
Cant relate. Still have fun with them.
@@SeraphimDragon Nostalgia is a friend and an enemy. It lets us visit moments of our life which were happier, but it doesn't let us live them again the same way, also reminding us about how time flows, leaving a bitter taste.
Sora: A shattered dream that's like a far off memory, a far off memory that's like a scattered dream.
"I wanna line the piece's up"
"Yours and mine"
As someone who literally isn’t “supposed to exist” this hits ❤️
Same. but that's ok we can enjoy things for ourselves without the need for validation from some sucky parent hehe.
I found out I was an accident recently, so I'm on the same boat... nothing in the grand scheme of things was done on purpose, everything born from the chaos of the universe will eventually cease to be, so fuck it. Let's just enjoy the light we have in our hearts while we still have it.
Any tempo any instrument, I'd always recognize this tune. When we're reborn in some extra dimension trillions of years from now we can use it to find each other.
its like I know what you mean bro
May your heart be your guiding key 🤍
It sounds so peaceful, but makes you feel like something is off. It's a sad song but it still sounds great. Makes it sound like KH is really over.
...but it isn't.
@@pkphantom its peaceful in a sad kind of way is what I meant
@@pkphantom not literally
"In your hand, take this key. So long as you have the makings, then through this simple act of taking...its wielder you shall one day be. And you will find me, friend-no ocean will contain you then. No more borders around, or below, or above, so long as you champion the ones you love." -Terra
“…remember what you said before. Im always with you too. I’ll come back for you. I promise!”
“I know you will.”
“Take a look at this tiny place.
To the heart seeking freedom, this Island is a prison surrounded by water.
And so this boy, he sought out an escape from his prison
He sought a way to cross over into other worlds,
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵
𝙏𝙤 𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨..."
I always saw destiny islands as the physical manifestation of childhood memories. That place seems too perfect. The children could play on the beach forever and have as much fun as they wanted. The only reference to adults are when they need to be there and there might be a school system. Every major character has a connection to these islands and their journies begin when they are forced away from it. This is much like how our childhood memories are in this bubble of idealism that isn't exactly reality, but we choose not to disturb it when all of it is suddenly gone.
The moment of listening to this while reading the title gave me a weird, relatable feeling.
I remember playing Kingdom Hearts 1 for the first time and entering Destiny Island near the end of the game. It was empty. No friends, no upbeat music, no mini games and no way out. It was really depressing to see the Island like that.
"Give me that thing of yours... That Dark Soul." - Abraham Lincoln to Captain Kirk aboard the Aluminum Falcon during the Horus Heresy.
This one wins. I don’t understand half the references.
Even when we do forget...we will always have a burning memory
The RUclips algorithm has made its decision. Thank you for this
I don't know if you intended this, but there's some white noise and the reverb makes some instruments sounds a little... artificial? Distorted? That's not a criticism - it works really well. It makes the music sound fake, which just enhances the feeling. It's a very haunting sensation that appropriately makes me feel like I don't belong. Really cool.
bitrate
Restoration at 12%
like a saferoom in a disney resident evil type place
It is likely due to the soundbox of the Nintendo DS, which this iteration of Dearly Beloved was played from. This is the version from the start menu of Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded.
Now that you bring it up, I am reminded of Everywhere at the End of Time. Not exactly the same idea, but similar in effect given the series.
Didn't realize how liminal the Destiny Islands were until now. All of the kids look generic but somehow familiar, all of the random empty houses and structures scattered all over the place. No adults or other people in sight. A dark ominous presence all throughout the island but especially the tree cave
I mean of course they're familiar, they're literally FF characters
@@colbyboucher6391 Yeah Sherlock that was the point, but are they really? I mean Squall, Cloud, Cid and Yuffie are more or less exact copies of their game counterparts, while the FFX characters feel more like overly simplified background characters, like imitations, they dont even have any hi def facial animations or cutscenes which adds to the liminal feeling.
That’s not liminal. People misuse that all the time. The word you’re looking for is “uncanny”.
@@Dreigonix Nope I'm pretty sure the exact definition for the term is something that feels slightly familiar but isn't, and also a place that feels abandoned or unbelievable. Try again.
@@yderga8707 Liminal means either “relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process” or “occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold”. So a true liminal space would be, like, an empty hallway in a school or the empty open space in a mall. Interstitial places you only experience when _passing through_ on your way to other places.
I've always enjoyed the Dearly Beloved dubstep remix, but this takes it to a whole new level. There's a sense of peace, calmness, nostalgia, and heavy sadness. One of the first games my Father got me was Kingdom Hearts. He passed away in February at the age of 49. Whenever I hear this, it reminds me of him, and I think of that line "Wherever you go, I'm always with you." I love you dad.
This song gives me Deja vu in a way it reflects on things throughout my life that hasn’t even happened yet,
or it turns my mind into an endless record of repeat that plays over and over to the point it scares me,
but at the same time,
it’s kind of comforting…
I think..
That’s it’s just my way of telling myself that it’ll all be worth it in the end…
But who knows…
Only time will tell…..
I’ll admit, I got into the Kingdom Hearts games a little later in life despite owning the original game when it first came out (I didn’t get far because eight year old me thought you needed to win the raft race to continue the game and I couldn’t win it 😂). Six years ago, I picked the first game back up at a comic shop and it’s become an essential part of my life since. Hearing “Dearly Beloved” at the main menu, collecting raft supplies, exploring Traverse Town and the Disney worlds with Donald and Goofy, braving Hollow Bastion, and reaching the end of the game with that tear jerking “take care of her” line by Riku still hit me hard at the age of 28.
All the people that have come and gone since picking up “Kingdom Hearts”, all the sacrifices I’ve made, the successes I’ve had, the things I’ve learned in life, Kingdom Hearts has stayed with me.
Two fandoms that have made deep impacts on my life: Star Wars since I was four and Kingdom Hearts since I was 22.
“May your heart be your guiding key…”
Me one moment: UNDERWATER TEMPLE, UNDERWATER MONK!
Me the next: Creepy Dearly Beloved.
My boys, somehow we gather up here again to reflect on all the crap we have done so far, have no worries tho, we all gonna make it
Battered, bruised-- limping, some of us.
But we push through. It's what we've always done.
Still going, yessir 💯🤝🤝 keep it up everyone!! Finding our way out there
The picture and music is like what Xion must have saw and felt during that brief moment where she was on Destiny Island
My mom didn’t understand value when I was a child, she told me I could sell my Ps2 for money. Biggest mistake ever.
my brother, who had moved out for the rest of my life, left behind that ps2 and the OG kingdom of hearts.
I grew up listening to beautiful music, since i was born, I was infatuated by kingdom hearts. I could feel the emotion and ideas behind the harmonies.
But i never played the whole game.
now that i’m 18 i bought every game on steam. I wish to have the understanding of this game like everyone else does.
Wish me luck
"The closer you get to the light, the stronger your shadow becomes"
Have fun. And make sure you check in on the friends and family between games.
"A shattered dream that's like a far off memory
A far off memory that's like a shattered dream
I want to line the pieces up, yours and mine"
This really resonates with me, seeing as how I have a dissociative disorder and would not exist the way I am, as me, along with many others here if horrible crap didn't happen, and that's something that I had such a hard time coming to terms with when we found out.
Anyways thanks for attending my random partial trauma dump on a RUclips comment section. KH has always been a vital part of my childhood.
KH helped me survive a pretty miserable childhood too. You're not alone.
I’m so sorry. I hope you’re doing okay these days
My family ruined my life. Chronic depression, dissociation, years of trauma. I haven't felt happiness in in 10 years.
@@zamasterhando3399 well make it man. Things will get better, I'm on the way there. Some days I'm still down, and some days it hits really badly. But I will get better in time
Seems like this is a theme, because KH helped in my childhood as well. I hope things are getting better for you.
Xion's existence be like
I knew this was the recoded theme by how bitter it got me feeling, but hearing it slow with reverb just.. all of the childhood memories I had with KH just flooded my mind.. I’m now 21 all grown up
Lots of growing yet…. I’m 23 and realising we are so young still
Indeed, as you're not really a biological adult until you are at least 25, and in some cases 30, so the road is still long yet.
Let's just hope the Planet doesn't seek vengeance on us...
Gah, I love it when music has a liminal feel to them. It's sad, it's lonely, it's hopeful, it's melancholic, it's good, it's bad, it's all the things that ever were, never will be, and all the things that you never knew, yet you always knew. It is everything but nothing.
You are existence itself, but you were never meant to exist.
This reminds you of memories that you never had, but wish you did😢
this should be kingdom hearts 4's game over music
The soundtrack that plays when you realize there really is nothing, that your dead loved ones don't know they existed or you existed, and that everything that means something to you now will find the same fate. I won't remember this song, this comment, or that I drew breath.
gahhdamn
All those moments will be lost, like tears in rain.
...it sounds, like longing for something for you'll never get back.
Yearning to do the past over again, but knowing that chance will never, ever come.
That title is literally how i feel about myself :/ people seem to love me, but i feel like i shouldnt be here
i too love adding a shit ton of reverb to things. it always feels so much better
I don’t even know how I got here but I’m glad to be here with you all
i'll never forget my first memory of kingdom hearts. i dont know how old i was but for some reason this memory is from a 3rd person perspective. i remember watching myself play in coliseum and finally beating cerberus in my sisters old room on her old playstation. the lights were off and when i finally beat it i ran out of the room to tell her that i finally did it. i'll never forget that memory and it comes back every time i listen to dearly beloved. kingdom hearts music always reminds me of a better point in my life and reminds me of how happy i used to be as a kid.
When i was young i always thought that i would never grow old and all my friends wouldnt grow older either. we would just stay like that and be best friends forever! now i dont speak to a single one of them but i always hold them dear to my heart because their memories are what i truly cherish. memories never truly go away, even if you forget them. theyre always there in your heart.
I honestly thought this was going to be a mashup of "Never Meant to Belong" from Bleach and Dearly Beloved, but then I remembered that it was "Belong", not "Exist". Still a very good mix though!
Unrelated, but have you ever thought that the Sea Salt trio looks like Ichigo, Rukia, and Renji?
@@pygmalion0451wait that’s so true
bro actually same hahahahaha
@@pygmalion0451 I can't unsee that now, and I can just picture them being best friends eating ice cream together!
So kh OST + bleach soundtrack= Slowed down Undertale/deltarune OST?
I've been trying to put my finger on it.. but the piece pushed this way just makes me feel as though I've come to realize.. as I've aged.. every memory I cherished has become that.. memories.. friendships past... shows beloved making it to their end.. each piece of your child hood gets left up on the mantle to gaze upon.. and it gets harder to look at those memories as they fade into the hateful void that has begun to fill our minds as we age..
Life is like a melody. It can sound harmonic, or it can sound broken. Much like a puzzle, when life takes its course, then its up to us to fill in the gaps. Overcoming various obstacles and challenges throughout your life will grant you the pieces that you need to finish what you started, but what about those who can't? The truth is you can because, in reality, we all can. If someone else can do it, then so can you...because life offers that to you so that it can teach you how to endure those hardships. Life can't knock you down because you are a solid brick wall...no...the solid brick wall that can never be knocked down and will never, no matter what, be knocked down. Because you just stand back up, and take the pain. You can take as much pain as you want, but it will never knock you down because you just rise and rise from it again, and that, my friends, is how you achieve one, and if not just one, but all of your puzzle pieces. You might be fragile, but you're really just sturdy. Don't let anything bring you down no matter what, don't give up, stand back up, and, most important of all, help those who've fallen into their broken melodies...thus granting them harmony once more. Many of us have been there, and many of us are going down the same road. You can fight you're battles alone...or...you can fight them with others as one. Thank you for reading this, and I hope all of you have a blessed day.
The soundtrack of my long gone childhood.
I can tell that it it is a beautiful song indeed, but the way it echoes is in kind of saddened way? Close to constatly observing the sea. I wonder if it is the difference between Sora and Xehanort's perspective regarding the islads, one was seeing them as a warm homely place while the other belived it was prison surrounded by water.
I always felt a strong bond with KH franchise and the fans. You're all wonderful people. It's a healthy community full of kind people. Thank you.
I'm old enough to have played KH 1 when it arrived in the USA. KH 2 was (still is) amazing when it came out. Birth by Sleep was the last KH game I fully played. I'm kind of older now, and I super busy with "adult life". If I had a little more time, maybe i would explore the KH universe with you guys.
It's a simple edit, but powerful. My heart actually clenched when it got past the intro to the full piece. It leaves an uncanny feeling and unimaginable saddness. When you look back at everything in this series, every single character has suffered immensely. The losses, the heartbreak, the time they will never get back, realizing you forgot people in the first place. It goes on forever. This whole thing started out as a kids game, but the haunting realization of all its consequences have come full circle when I heard this song. How much longer must these friends find and lose each other before they break? Sora almost did in KHIII. I would be crushed and hopeless when waking up on the other side with Yozora. Like, this is lit. This is his new reality where he can't see them anymore. The finality of that entire concept is what this song embodies for me. Accepting the end, and letting your entire being rest after years of fighting. Peace, if only brief.
I'm still grieving for you brother, wherever you are now
"You did it.. you got everything you could ever want.. there's no more pieces left to place.. but looking back at things, was it really worth it?"
I'm 32, I played KH1 and 2 both pretty much on release and they're among the precious few games I played beyond completion, to do everything I possibly could in them. I have struggled to play games at all for the past 5 years and can't think of many that I actually beat for a long time before that, but recently I've actually been playing through KH1.5 on the PS4 and while I don't do the long play sessions like I used to, I'm maybe getting through 2-4 hours a week, I'm sticking at it. Depression drained a lot of the enjoyment I got from things for a long time, but I'm working to learn how to pace things, to not get discouraged and stop altogether when I can only focus for half an hour at a time, that it's ok to come back another day when I do feel like it. My inner child is damaged and in pain, but I'm working to let it express itself when it can and let it retreat when needed and work on building trust with myself.
Same I'm 30 and I 1st got into kingdom hearts by seeing final fantasy character in the my friends brady kingdom hearts strategy guide
my heart will forever be on a beach that only exists in Your memory.
In a quiet corner of your heart.
The part that comes to life like a dry flower blooming
When this music plays again;
Roxas: "How can you just say that..even if it were true?"
Kingdom Hearts is one of my favorite memories as a child. I would hide away for hours, all day sometimes, and even stay up until the sun would rise getting lost in its beautiful world while wishing I could leave this one behind. The game will forever hold a special place in my heart.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my social worker. I told them I’m nobody, that I was never meant to exist. They told me “well you do exist, and wether or not it was meant to happen,it did. Even nobody can become somebody.” Then I played kingdom hearts 2 a year later and I loved Roxas. He was like me, a Nobody, but unlike me he had friends. He was somebody. Then dream drop distance told us Nobodies get hearts as they are alive
I am you, you are me
with the secret ending to kh3, it feels like either sora or yozora arent meant to exist as it feels like they exist in a different world.
and not just "another disney world" but rather an entirely different universe. maybe even a game within a game.
The moment your life ends, you find yourself reliving every joy and sorrow you ever experienced. Each memory unfolds vividly, one by one-moments of laughter, heartbreak, triumph, and despair. But after every scene, you witness it again, this time without you in it.
The group of friends you once cherished is now just three, not four.
Your parents have two children, not three.
The classroom you filled with energy holds only 21 students, not 22.
Your first love shares her heart with someone else.
The woman you married walks down the aisle with another.
All the pieces of you-your drawings, your journals, your toys, the books you devoured, the saved progress in your favorite games-begin to fade, one by one, slipping away as though you never existed.
And then, you find yourself sitting before God. His face is obscured, his presence both overwhelming and gentle.
"My child," he speaks, his voice resonating with infinite understanding, "you have lived through beauty and pain. There were moments when you longed to leave this world, but there were also moments when you embraced it wholeheartedly. I ask you now: do you truly wish to disappear?"
Tears stream down your face as the weight of everything crashes down on you. Your breath catches, your voice breaks, and from the depths of your soul, you scream:
"No! I want to go back!"
God raises his head, and as he does, you realize his face is your own. You have been staring into a mirror all along.
The mirror shatters, fragments scattering into oblivion, and in an instant, you awaken.
You're in a hospital bed, surrounded by the familiar faces of your childhood friends. It's 2010. You’ve been in a coma for two days following an accident.
Eric sits nearby, engrossed in Pokémon HeartGold. Josh is the first to notice your eyes fluttering open.
"Kyle!" he shouts. "Eric! Come here!"
The room erupts into motion as they call for the doctors. Relief washes over everyone. You’ll leave the hospital tomorrow, but the truth lingers in your heart:
Everything you thought was your life-every memory, every struggle-was nothing more than a vivid dream.
A second chance.
A reminder that life, with all its imperfections, is still worth living. That even in the moments you feel insignificant, you are the most important character in your own story.
This time, you know better. This time, you will cherish it all.
This fits perfectly for one of those cryptic endings or mysterious trailer like Sora monologuing or waking up in an unknown place.
“You’re going where I belong”
"Brazil."
Roxas is just the shadow we all have in us, "I need to eat! I'm tired!" but for the Kingdom Hearts universe, it's "I like ice cream!" and "Friends!". He exists just as much as Sora, just asleep when we're playing. The MC's nobody.
Not sure what it says about me that I looked at the title, I looked at the screenshot, I listened to the audio, and my first thought was Ansem, Seeker of Darkness
Think about this playing as he tears a world apart and you watch a montage of its drawn-out collapse, piece by piece
It's strange seeing all the comments posting about their trauma really makes me reflect. Can I be here with you all when I'm the one who made my traumatic experiences? "No matter how hard you try, the truth will always set you free." That's that they say, but the truth is I'm a terrible person, and no matter how hard I try, I can't fix myself, or get those awful thoughts out of my head. I try and try, but the night terrors always creep in, making me do terrible things. It sucks being the person you fear the most. I feel trapped in a endless cycle; not because of my actions, or what I have done, but the thought of always having the ability to do those said actions again. If you surround yourself with people who are happy, and understand you, things do feel better. But when you are alone, or something awful has happened, you always get brought back to those places, and they never leave. You can push and push, but no matter how strong you are, you always fall. The hardest thing is helping those around you. Their pain and suffering will go away, but you spend so much time helping them you have no energy left for yourself. And It's not as easy as just pushing them away, because how are you suppose to stop helping the ones you love. No matter what, I always try my best to get a head. As I always say, take 2 steps back, but 3 steps forward, so you're always one step ahead.
This is reminding me of the sad theme from Supernatural The Animation... still pissed they never released the soundtrack for that series.
This really hit me so deep. It makes me think how Roxas must’ve felt when his summer time was over… 😢 It must be the same for a lot of the other characters too.
Sora when kh4 gets cancelled
Oof
I… This song who I normally play to feel full of joy, relaxation, love and so many other positive emotions now just reflexes the feeling of emptiness that has been growing inside me… The funny thing about that is not that it’s because of a grand reason, it’s just a student going through a really difficult time. But here I am just filled with nothing, listening to this song while feeling empty.
I was the only one out of 17 miscarriages to survive. But my mom grew to resent me as grew up. From body shaming me, to straight up telling me (knowing full well I suffer from depression) that I should unalive myself, because it would be doing her a huge favor. She finally cut me out last year when I got married. I'm in a much better place now. But I wish I could have just been an 18th....
Hey you okay? Sound like your mom went through hell a lot but to treat you like this after being her biggest blessing in life??? I really hope you're the happiest you've ever been as of now :( ❤️
@@cutekyara I'm okay. Most days, anyway. There are days where I still miss her, but I think that is natural. I'm doing better for myself. And I'm finally learning how to be in a family, thanks to my husband's family. Despite years of trauma, I still consider myself blessed. Just, some days are harder, where I wish I was never born.
@@soaringlupine The pain you went through is utterly heartbreaking. But, you’re still here, and that proves that you have a strong heart. I know it sometimes feels like the world is full of nothing but evil people out to hurt you, but like pearls in the ocean, there are some good people that once you find them, they will bring out the very best in you. They will lift you up to heights you never thought you could reach before, and they will give you hope where there is none. I’ll be honest, your pain will probably never go away, but I know you’ll find a way to use it to make you stronger, to the point the pain won’t bother you too much. Keep pushing on, and one day you’ll be free of the darkness around you. The family you have sound like truly good people, hold them close to you.
We are footprints, we were here…
It hurts to say I’ve never played any of the kingdom hearts games but my god the series has some really nice music
This sounds like those dreams you have when you're basically a kid again in the time period you grew up in at home or your old school. You sort of remember the setting of where you grew up, it's all familiar from how you remember it and yet it's not.
i spent a lot of time on that island when I was a kid, I wish it were real, man what a beautiful island
I stayed there levelling up from hitting wakas balls lol, to the point where u get block skilled, then i beat the shit out of riku lmao damn the water the trees, ah...............................................................................
Lmaooo on Proud mode I was lvling up on that island to ngl…. 15 or 20. Whichever got you scan ability due to choosing a specific dream weapon.
😂 i had to cuz even the bosses were tough.
Xion’s second theme
When you really really hate yourself and you wanna die but people here love you and you don't wanna hurt them
we cast the same shadow
This is really nice... the title kinda hits me too (in a good way).
Gonna listen to this version now whenever I feel down, kingdom hearts is such a treasure
Holding your dying friend and watching them turn into sparks of light while remembering all the good times.
But you don't realize that your losing your memory of them and eventually wonder why your sitting on the ground crying
This is also another that sounds even more sad
which one is it??
"Silly. Just because you have a next life..."
Whoa ok this comment section got sorta sad so I’m gonna try and inject something fun in here.
Here’s some fun questions! You can answer as many as you’d like! I’ll answer them too.
1. What’s your favorite part of Kingdom Hearts? I like the feelings it gives me the most.
2. Outside of the series, are you a fan of Disney? I used to be, but I kinda resent them now.
3. Have you ever played Final Fantasy? If so, how did you feel about some of those characters in KH? I’ve never played FF besides FFXIV, so when I was a kid, all the FF characters were just sort of strangers to me. Cloud’s coolness transcends past his franchise, though, so I’m still always hyped to see him.
4. What’s your favorite KH original world? I think it’s obvious that mine is Destiny Islands- it’s just so perfect!
5. Do you have any KH OCs? Or did you make something up for your Union X player character? Are you thinking about playing Missing Link? Personally, I have three KH OCs and one of them will most likely be my Missing Link PC when it comes out.
6. What was your first Kingdom Hearts game? Mine was Re:Coded! Imagine how confused I was!
This plays every time someone on that island said you drowned at a young age. Oops, wrong franchise.
Is that a Serge reference?
@@nothanks7263 Yup, another islander game we all know and love.
😭 SORA….!!
Oh my heart breaks and yearns when I hear this theme 🤍 so much love for this game, the creators and community 🙏 thank you friend for sharing this rendition 🎶 ✨
Looking into a mirror to see a life that never was. You exist outside of what it means to be happy.
I remember crying.. HARD.. the night the KH2 trailer dropped. I was so heavily invested in that story, when I saw Sora and Kairi and a new adventure, my little 12 year old brain had an emotion overload. I remember it vividly, because I don't think I've ever been more excited for a game to drop. When I was younger, even if I didn't understand each and every concept, I FELT so much more emotion while playing these games, I hung on every single word the characters said. Playing through Kh3 as an adult had a lot of eyeroll moments and was underwhelming.. but then I started playing Union Cross, learning the story behind it, and my mind is blown. It is incredibly convoluted, but it actually does have some structure and make sense when it comes to the characters, their origins. Bloodlines are going to end up being very important. Most of the story is based on Norse mythology, and is surprisingly dark and adult. (Talks about Heaven, Hell, Gods, etc.) I think people are going to be shocked by how serious KH gets.
I guess what I'm saying is that the mainline series got so silly, I laughed at it too. The stupid mobile games actually have an insanely detailed and carefully crafted narrative based on Norse mythology and other ancient religions and beliefs. These ideas are what make it into Kingdom Hearts. It's actually amazing to see Nomura and the KH team put so much time and thought into it.
For anyone curious about the true story and future of KH, damo279 has an amazing series of videos that Sum up the story very nicely and don't make you sit through 8 hours of cartoon cutscenes. Square Enix is a very strange company.. and the only gaming company to stay in my life always, from childhood to adulthood. I don't play have any consoles anymore, I don't really game anymore. I will always play Kingdom Hearts. I need to find out what happens next :).
This is what it would have sounded like if Goofy didn't survive the hit from that rock
“How can you say something like that? Even if it is true?”
This might be unrelated but I am getting some heavy Klonoa vibes here
(How do I tell them the title was just a reference to my KH oc...)
Edit: ok ok some people said I was allowed to share so here goes.
So, basically, if anyone here remembers Union X, this is where my OC comes from. Her name is Eliza, and she’s from the age of fairytales.
Well, one of my headcanons is that the foretellers weren’t the only keyblade masters in daybreak town, and that there were other wielders tasked with training the next generation. (the players.)
Eliza grew up in daybreak town, and when she was a kid (maybe about 11-12) she came across one of these masters in a marketplace. Absolutely starstruck by his cool vibes, and spurred on by her curiosity, she approached him, and begged him to train her.
Obviously, the dude was like “who is this sassy lost child”, and tried to dissuade her away- he knew the foretellers were beginning to recruit younger people for their unions, but he didn’t agree with it at *all*- yet Eliza was persistent.
He agreed after a few other encounters, and the two began training together. He’d had a terrible feeling for a while now about the future of daybreak town, and sensed something was terribly wrong, but Eliza’s eagerness gave him hope.
After a few years of training, a fifteen year old Eliza was finally gifted the keyblade so many of her peers wielded- Starlight. She was excited to take the next step and collect lux like everyone else, but her teacher had other plans.
See, by the time Eliza had received her weapon, there was already little time left for the age of fairytales. Hope hung in the air, but to those who has an inkling of the truth, it could only shield the impending darkness so much.
Eliza’s teacher begun training her as intensively as he could. He’d begun to see the young wielder almost as one of his own, and the thought of her perishing in the upcoming conflict was inconceivable.
Finally, as the disastrous tale met its finale, and the keyblade war began, Eliza ran out to fight, just like the others- but she was stopped by her teacher.
He had a different plan for her, and this is kind of the point where I lose contact with canon, but it’s fine because there’s no real way to understand canon.
The master has Eliza relinquish her beloved weapon, sending it away with orders to manifest itself again when “the time was right”
Now, back to lore for a second- time travel works in two ways- either a special device is needed, you can travel to the past or future that already has a version of yourself, or you can send your heart forward- only once- if you have a treasured object, and someone who remembers you. If you have no one who remembers you, you go without your memory, but that treasured object reconstructs your body.
Eliza’s teacher knew that her keyblade was beloved enough to do the job, as well as tough enough to survive the ages. Her memories however, were an issue…
He knew, though, that Eliza was headstrong to reconstruct her memories from scratch. She would cling on to any fragments she could, and chase anything familiar, until the day her memories had reconstructed itself.
With that, he told Eliza she was to go into the future, and tell the tale of the keyblade war to all who would listen, so that this tragedy would never be repeated. Eliza agreed, and he used his magic to basically send her through a tear in reality- one that had been made by a wielder in the present day, a tear so powerful it cost him his existence.
Eliza awoke on a stained glass pillar, the only markings on it being a keyhole, an X, and a star symbol she’d never seen before.
As she stood, a certain large key appeared in her hand, forcing her to aim forward as it opened up a portal to the unknown. With no other option, and no clue of what was happening, Eliza stepped through, finding herself in a small town, where the streets were waterways and an endless forest surrounded the town on all sides.
Something was… quickly off, though. The people Eliza spoke to didn’t seem to remember her. Small bonds she had forged would quickly fade away, and strangers she passed by wouldn’t even glance at her. A few people she’d become true, real friends with remembered her, but by the time she’d figured that out, she’d become comfortable existing in her own little bubble, and was hesitant to open up again.
Still, Eliza forged on, slowly reconstructing her memories over the course of a confusing year. As she did, it was… clear why she was like this. The tear in existence she had traveled through must have punished *her* too. Fate and the universe dealt out punishment for those who defied it, and Eliza supposed she was one of those, now.
That still wouldn’t stop her from her mission. Eliza resolved to find other wielders, and tell them the tale that brought her here- one she didn’t quite understand, but one she’d lived through. That would be enough, wouldn’t it?
👀
I thought it was a reference to Roxas.
based tbh
I thought we were talkin’ about Nobodies in general tbh
Talk about em,,,
This will go down as my top 5 fav video game tracks
Not sure if I'm the first to say this, but this gives me strong "An Ending" vibes from Undertale. It's as if Sora messed up in his journey somehow and now, even after completing it, darkness still lurks in his heart because of his actions and failures.
Omg this comment has me on the verge of tears because I was thinking the same thing
"A far off nightmare like a scattered trauma. A far off trauma like a scattered nightmare. And I'm terrified to line the pieces up."
- Sora Sunderland
"Who else will I have ice-cream with!?"