Most Recent Releases KINGDOM HEARTS collections (I.5+II.5, II.8, III + Re Mind (DLC)) available on PC, PS4, XBOX, Switch (Cloud) 2003 Lost Kingdom Hearts Pilot Animatic (archived copy): https://archive.org/details/kingdom-hearts-pilot-animatic
NEWS The Kingdom Hearts series are now available on Steam. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road has been delisted without any announcement. If you had redeemed the game previously you can still redownload it Development of KINGDOM HEARTS Missing-Link has been cancelled
Mobile games KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road is now delisted but you can watch the story on Youtube or download the apk to experience the story yourself
Aqua sure does spend a lot of time hanging out with little boys before she goes to the keyblade graveyard in bbs. >lost boys in neverland >young Sora and Riku on Destiny Islands Do you think she’s a… you know what?
So I played with all but one procode the entire olymp and now I reached twillight town and it really is tiresome against the demon tower. Also after learning that I actually still need to beat the entire limit cut boss fights WITH all pro codes enabled kinda makes me want to postpone this stuff to a ng+ run.
>>564834658 Honestly I wanted to do all normal bosses so I wouldn‘t need to do limit cut bosses. Only to realize that you need them either way. Would otherwise started with easy ones to try getting the trophies associated with them
>>564822651 I finished KH1 Atlantica on proud and I still don't understand why so many consider it bad. The swimming controls are good, It's not that long, and the enemies are simple to deal with provided you don't just mash attack.
>>564928004 Probably based on nearly everything else that guy mentioned being true. I wager it was real at one point, but that doesn't mean it's still happening.
>>564940164 I didn't like it, or flying in Neverland, because the clunky 3D movement can fuck with your combos and you're locked out of a bunch of your abilities. It's not a bad world, if you focus on magic then you won't even feel much different, but it just feels weird to play. >>564947106 COM is fine. I hate farming for cards, but the actual gameplay is fun.
>>564950945 >but the actual gameplay is fun. most people disagree, and it's all down to the game not letting you go through it by just spamming the x button
I bought the KH 1.5 2.5 whatever pack on steam and am currently getting my ass beat raw by the armor boss on proud mode, I know it's just a very tough skill check without any ability to dodge or block yet but should I just bitch out and try that critical mode mod? Does it work well or what?
>>564940164 The world hinges on you randomly interacting with the dolphin to unlock a different dolphin interaction in a different room with IIRC no hint that the second dolphin ride is unlocked.
>>564975246 I feel like I'm wasting items trying to revive Donald who gets knocked out almost immediately. I can tell he blows all his MP on the soldiers before the boss fight too.
>>564974735 If I'm going to start a new run I'd rather try that mod I mentioned, apparently it turns the game into more of a character action thing with combos and a style meter.
>>564977656 That's your issue right there. Don't bother healing your party members. You may not be able to block or dodge roll but you can still avoid the attacks if you're cautious and you'll have more healing for yourself if you don't heal Donald. You can also parry some attacks but that's probably not worth attempting.
>>564979217 I've never been one to use them that much in KH1, but I've always seen people say that you can make them more useful. Goofy gets something good late game. But you want to focus in on yourself in the early game because your own survivability isn't great until you get cure.
Finally finished kh2 after my epic games final mix save was lost 3 separate times with an original ps2 hard copy. Cool game, I prefer the first one just from its level design and the Disney stuff just seems more connected/cohesive but it was fun. Disappointed that I'm finding out that final mix added like half of the content people onions about No lingering will No data fights No critical mode to replay it now that I know what I'm doing No limit form No roxas fight which was really sad..was very anticlimactic for the meeting too be a 20 second cutscene Do I bite the bullet and replay it on epic games/pray, buy it on steam, emulate on pcsx2? Or just move onto bbs?
>>564979217 Try tweaking their settings if you're having trouble this early in the game. For the mid and late parts of the game they'll get useful abilities and you wouldn't even need to tweet their settings at all (maybe except for secret bosses)
>>564979217 Party members can be helpful in KH1 but there’s really no point in healing them because if they get knocked out they’ll get back up after like a minute by themselves. Just focus on keeping Sora alive. Also, don’t give party members any potions or ethers except before a tough fight, because they’ll just waste them on normal enemies.
>>564977656 i don't think that mod is one you should use in your first playthrough, it's really just for people on their nth replay that want something different also what the other anons said, don't bother reviving them (outside indirectly doing it by giving them items, and even then you might as well not do that either), especially given they not only revive by themselves after a while but later down the line they get abilities that make them revive even faster. FYI, you can press triangle (or Y on xbox, X on nintendo) to "call" them, that means they either help you or just come close to you (which might help them get out of danger) also also, don't be afraid to use whatever you can outside of the normal ass base attack, be it items, abilities, summons etc etc. Don't be a hoarder cause it makes the game(s) much more unfun, use everything you have as there's nothing you can't just get again
>>564981738 >Do I bite the bullet and replay it on epic games/pray, buy it on steam, emulate on pcsx2? Whatever you're more comfortable with but right now the "all KH games"package is 40 bucks right now on steam. The next time the games will be this cheap will be on Black Friday
>>564981738 pirate the pc version if money is an issue, whatever you do don't emulate the PS2 (or original versions) of the games as the remixes (aka the one you can buy on steam/epic) made most of them obsolete. Except for KH Days and Re:Coded, but that's only cause they aren't playable in the remix versions (they're just remade as "movies"), you can not only emulate those but there's specific emulators made for them to make them close to a normal console game. Days especially has like a million different projects on that note, but i'd say to get melon mix cause it supports both Days and Re:Coded
Also yes, replay it cause you didn't just miss that content, the gameplay itself is fundamentally different. You can just skip cutscenes if you feel like it anyway
>>564976328 Flounder tells you can use the dolphins to get through the strong currents and the second dolphin is unlocked by progressing through the world IIRC.
>>564940164 Swimming combat just isn't that fun, it's not the worse world though desu I don't really know what the worse world would even be in kh1 They are all pretty solid and offer something unique with at worse having a single "that part"
>>564985960 I would say Deep Jungle is my least favorite world to go through, but as you said It's still solid. Real shame 2 and 3 Disney worlds are uneven in design quality.
>>565024883 I first played BBS was on a PSP with a cracked screen and when I saw that cutscene I thought the evil stepmother and sisters blasted away to the sky like Team Rocket. It wasn't until the HD collections when I realized that they fucking died right there in the explosion
>>565027708 Cinderella and Aqua don’t even give a shit too. You’d think someone with a heart of pure light would grieve for them a little, even if they treated her like shit. She did have somewhere to be though I guess.
>>565187702 if we assume he retained literally everything of his Xehanort days (given Ansem and Xemnas still pretty much act as if they're their own people) he should've know what was going on already
Merch News: KINGDOM KEY D - Light Up Keyblade is now available for preorder at the japanese Bandai store Release date: October 2026
The keyblade has 3 modes that you can switch with the press of a bottom:
>DRIVE CHARGE MODE Plays the sound effects for when King Mickey comes to rescue you in KH2 (charging drive gauge, drive gauge at max ànd casting Healing Light).
>ATTACK MODE Plays the sound effects of the Kingdom Key D keyblade hitting enemies
>MUSIC MODE Plays two tracks from KH2: Mickey Mouse March and Vim and Vigor
>>565296289 this reminds me how until some time ago i hadn't noticed that, in [deep dive], after Roxas throws the oblivion at Riku he suddenly has KKD in its place, and when Mickey shows up at the end he has the KK
>>565323602 remember when in the gathering TVA randomly picked Sora, Riku and Mickey's keyblades off the ground? i wonder why they stopped making random shit like that in secret movies, i guess they think they can't goo too abstract or people will get mad the movie didn't happen as is in the next game
I realised something today, i do a yearly series replay and i have now replayed KH3 7 (SEVEN) times. It has been 7 years since it came out. What the fuck......
>>565609593 i'm 31 and i feel like people my age have been basically in sync with how timing changed over the years: in the past it took like a year for a game to come out, but as a kid a year felt like a very long time, now years fly by and games just take an actual long ass time to come out like no shit kids are all on fortnite, they can't be expected to actually wait until they can drive or even drink just to play the next game in a series they might like
>>565601650 i'm pretty sure everything works on both epic and steam versions, they're the same thing as whatever they did with the steam version they updated the epic version to be on par with that at worst it's just a matter of game version number, aka a mod made for an older version of the game, rather than the store you got it from
played KH2FM 3 times before moving onto Days and I'm just going back to 2FM like an addict because it's one of the best action games of all time. anyone have any experience with ReFined?
>>564822651 >Worst gameplay in the series >Copied KH1 worlds and made it even worse >Goes on longer than it should have >Abysmal final boss that they basically redesigned it for the data fights in 2 and 3 >Became rendered non-canon by the end making the whole journey worthless. Can't believe there are people who defends this piece of shit just because the story is decent.
Namine was introduced here. Riku's path of redemption was introduced here. Riku Replica showed up in KH3. Dark Riku in KH3 was Riku Replica's past self. Axel even writes he feels wrong for how he treated Riku Replica in one of his diary entries, and how he'd never treat Xion the same way.
Xion goes to Castle Oblivion, accesses the computer, and finds out how origins. Roxas goes to Castle Oblivion, and pasts out because as Nomura said, he was too close to Sora and Ventus, his other "selves". The dead COM members show in in KH3D and KH3. Sora being asleep at the end of KH1 is why KH2 even happens.
Jiminy wonders what the fuck Thank Namine means in coded. Sora talks about thanking Namine in a KH2FM exclusive scene before fighting Armored Xemnas a second time. Data Sora thanks Data Namine. Sora still wants to Thank Namine which is brought up in Final World.
Marluxia and Larxene's human selves ended up being more important due to KHUX shit. Marluxia's sister shows up in UX. Said sister is literally Sora's guide for KHIV.
>>565702576 COM's events are recapped in KH2 even if some details are left out. Sora forgets everything about castle oblivion nullifying his interaction with the characters stated outside of Namine. If Riku was the main character COM would have been a much better.
I can't wait for SEs debut PS6 game Kingdom Hearts 4. I'm sure it won't run terribly on old hardware and bomb on release. Not that anyone wanted a KH4 to begin with.
if Aqua took Sora and Riku to a tour of the worlds when she had a chance Ansem SoD would've done nothing, cause Riku wouldn't have been a chump about seeing other worlds
>>565928213 In March I was kinda panicking in line they'd run out. That seemed to be the inclination the cast members were indicating as I got near the front.
There are a lot of keyblades I've never bothered to use in this franchise. I think like half of KH1s keyblades I've never touched, funny enough, Oblivion, for as cool as it is, is useless to me in 1 so I never bother with it, or Oathkeeper by the time I get that too.
>>565960234 >any KH game Use the keyblades you like the look of. You can win with just the Kingdom Key, so anything else is a pure upgrade. Most are mid-tier sidegrades of each other, so unless you're farming for Ultima, you're fine to go with what you like. >KH1 (and BBS) The only choices that REALLY matter are +MP (for magic builds) or +STR, crit rate and length (for melee) >CoM Using different keyblade cards is necessary for some sleights >KH2 onwards (except 3) Keychain abilities >KH3 Whatever forms and shotlocks you like, since you can swap between 3 keychains mid-combat and you can level up the early game/shitty ones to do decent damage
>>565978191 DDD is a stat stick like 1 and BBS. When I replayed it last year I did find myself using different blades for Sora and Riku rather then the same ones.
I'm finally buckling down and cleaning up BbS 100% for the Steam achievements
Remind me again what gets locked in Final Episode? I've been putting it off but need to clear it for VR and MF It's JUST Radiant Garden right, and I can fight VR/MF in the Final Episode file?
>>566112048 Radiant garden it's locked for obvious plot reasons and land of departure is also locked during the Final Episode. Once you complete the episode you unlock the Vanitas Remnant and Mysterious Figure battles in the regular save files
>>566112648 Damn so I really do gotta double-back to 100% Aqua 'cause her Secret Episode stuff counts for Report completion Why is BbS so fucking annoying, it's like they did it on purpose
>>566319461 nah shit is fucking ass. Half of the final boss is just dodging retarded lasers that never stop long enough to give you an opening. Three times now I've just had to brute force each phase while spamming heal. Something I wasn't allowed to do for the entirety of the game up until now. This isn't clunkiness or difficulty, this shit is just poorly made and poorly explained. Last world is just being gang raped by hordes of enemies even when spamming magic. I'm hoping 2 is better or I'm just skipping to 3.
Whenever KH is brought up I feel like a baby bird whose mother regurgitating food into my face except with youtubers' opinions. Even IN KH parts of the internet. Especially those.
>>566351363 did you play Re:CoM? I've already managed to die twice in traverse town but I feel like I understand all the mechanics shown to me so far. I'm hoping it's just a fluke.
>>566352535 Yeah I replay Re: COM about every other year or so when I replay the whole series. The key imo is building decks based off what enemy cards you gain via the story and luck into.
>>566350379 Back in the day people didn't care as much about skipping things in general but I'm not sure how true that was for KH back then. I know it was after KH2 and in the modern day but back then stuff like episodic television and randomly tuning into shit was just so common. And now with Netflix/the internet and 'prestige' tv and serialized TV being more popular everyone forgot you can skip stuff and are very against it. Not that I think you should you should you just can.
And I think Nomura said KH2 was designed in a way you didn't need to play COM to play KH2 himself but google sucks so I can't find a source. It just comes across as more mysterious and weird. But the beginning of KH2 was weird and mysterious anyways. Nomura was clearly a fan of mindscrew 90s movies.
>>564822651 Never played 358/2 days or recoded Should I stick with the movie versions from the HD collections or should I try to play them with that Melon Mix emulator?
>>566384984 depends, idk if melon mix also changes stuff about the game itself but days can become kinda balls, so consider using cheats to give you like all panels if you try it and feel like dropping it re:coded instead is a definitive yes, do play it, but also keep in mind the movies added new shit to it that tie into the other games so watch the movie too
>>566393391 this reminds me of when i first read the KH manga and they talk about food, and it's all about japanese food as if Donald, Goofy and Jiminy were really actually japanese which is of course cause everyone involved in making it was japanese, but still
>>566416261 DQ always gets news on DQ day, which is the "soon" you mentioned. Plus, it's been literally 5 years since DQ12 has been announced with just a logo, and it's not even that likely they'll show it again this year either on the flipside it's not like they didn't constantly get games these past 5 years either
>>566421250 There's going to be game play apparently. So whatever it is it's much farther along than KH4. Pretty safe to assume we aren't getting anything real for the next few years.
>>566460626 >There's going to be game play apparently. there's always gameplay, doesn't mean it's not only for some dinky switch only spinoff. Or fucking DQX
>So whatever it is it's much farther along than KH4 i mean DQ12 got announced a full year before KH4, it would only make sense
>>566470374 googled this, found a reddit thread where the actual leak (and the user that posted it) got deleted so i only read some comments. One in particular, pic related, caught my eye as i had brushed off the fortnite shit for being fake ass but apparently this is true ass? Both the guy that leaked a bunch of stuff being fired (and sued too) by epic, and him leaking stuff for overwatch and kingdom hearts in fortnite (among others like south park, game of thrones and minecraft) and apparently this is all months old news now?
>>566470374 Even if it's fake, it's not like any legit leaker or insider of any kind will corroborate or speak doubt cuz KH is basically the black fucking plague for these dipshits.
Even that stupid 7R3 leak from the same site got someone trustworthy to speak about how it was "way off".
i fucking hate how this series attracts people who will just say fake shit while anyone who has seen something real is too weak in the knees or "Aaaah my relationship with Square" to bite the bullet.
i straight up dare someone to come out with cold hard proof of KH stuff and prove me wrong.
>>566538183 to be fair that one wasn't a "it's me ya boi xXxFaggotroNxXx with a new leak, follow me on all my socials" leak, those pics just appeared online. And yes, someone must have posted them first, but again i don't remember anyone going on twitter and taking ownership of the "leak"
>>566523962 >i straight up dare someone to come out with cold hard proof of KH stuff and prove me wrong. thing is most of the leakers just saw things other people shared with them and don't have hard proof, the ones who do have hard proof won't share it since it's probably not legal for them to do so (either because they're employees, former employees, or acquired the hard proof in legally questionable ways) and they're not willing to risk actual financial harm by sharing it
there's also the third group where they don't share stuff because they don't want square to realize they're doing other legally questionable stuff, which is where the people who have somewhat playable versions of khux and missing link are at, since those are the people with the privately leaked missing link assets that cover what was probably planned for the initial launch before it got canceled
If there are still people living in Scala and carrying out the traditions and lifestyle of the keyblade I hope they give at least a flimsy justification as to why they didn't send out death squads to kill Xehanort and Maleficent for almost causing the end of the universe
>>566560629 >>566560706 I think it would be interesting if they did end up taking the idea of 'world order' so seriously that people like Eraqus, Xehanort, and Yen Sid are viewed as weirdos. I think it's more likely it's a dead world.
>>566563654 Are there any characters that really take the world order seriously? I feel like Triton in KH1 is like the only character who gets on anyone’s case about meddling in other worlds’ affairs.
>>566567705 Despite what you might think Sora Donald and Goofy do care about world order. The few times they haven't are with people who already know of other worlds. They even make a point to reiterate it again in KH3. The events of KH1 with Maleficent are a consequence of NOT respecting world order. >>566568368 They do
>>566551463 >We had video from two to three people when the copies were circulating and there wasn't much teardown iirc i remember there were talks of suits being very angry about that, but also they 100% know it was gonna happen given the fucking ending or whatever got added as a separate update a few days after release, for this specific reason. Like i don't know of any other game that did this (besides the one straight up not having an ending until they added it as dlc, but this was a free update), so yeah i guess there was no big fuss cause they already expected it
>>566656575 Yes. This is bound to be announcement tweet of the TGS event announcement but they were stupid by using a stock image that uses a font that looks like the one on the KH title screen, so KH fans are being retarded again.
>>566618718 It's pretty likely. Cross gen at absolute minimum. Disney will want their characters to be portrayed as faithfully as possible And that means achieving cinematic visual fidelity. Disney's deal with Epic also incentivises them to promote Unreal 5, which KH4 will be used to showcase.
>>566682930 >Disney will want their characters to be portrayed as faithfully as possible And that means achieving cinematic visual fidelity. Disney doesn't care about it being that detailed, they just need to be recognizable which they will be on a PS5/Xbox One S/Switch 2 >Disney's deal with Epic also incentivises them to promote Unreal 5, which KH4 will be used to showcase. Unreal Engine 5 can run on everything currently out there, even Missing Link was gonna use it
Imagine Lea and Isa telling Ventus of all the evil shit they did since the last 11 years since they saw him. >Lea: So, then Vexen begs for his life and I kill him with a snap of my fingers. Then Sora's like "WHAT ARE YOU, PEOPLE?!" Shit was hilarious. >Ven: Lea, that wasn't a fun story at all. What is wrong with you?
Sora and Strelitzia will be like Serah and Noel for FFXIII-2. Sora will spend all this time with another girl, and have some charming scenes, but in the end, Sora will be with Kairi because she's the actual love interest, and the shippers will be annoyed.
>>565841445 bullshit like this should have been base kh3 super boss, not roller skates random heartless (its not even Ephemer's like in ReMind) Vader or Iron Man. something stupid like that as a super boss to tease the whole Unreality shit
>>566700989 >its not even Ephemer's like in ReMind Dark Inferno X isn't Ephemer's Heartless either. That's a form Darkness/Vanitas took to kick Sora out of Ven's heart. It's likely Ephemer died of old age and didn't leave behind a Heartless, and strength of heart doesn't correlate to a strong Heartless regardless, cause if it did Organization XIII would just hunt the Heartless that resemble them instead of all of them.
>>566704436 >Disney shit can't be a superboss who teases the next game Julius thematically ties in with Sora in DDD and the fact that Xehanort's plan in KH3 is to put pieces of himself in other people to create the darknesses.
I beat kh1 without finishing the coliseum, going to atlantica, or finishing pooh's world. It was final mix to so I missed probably all of the extra content.
>>566704261 >Forgetting about brown Wakka and brown prostitute in Agrabah
>>566668597 Play Final Fantasy 1 to 10-2 Watch all the Disney movies that were in Kingdom Hearts (and more good 90s and 00s shit like Treasure Planet, Gargoyles etc.) Play all the old good Disney games like Castle of Illusion, Goof Troop etc Read Don Rosa's and Carl Bark's Scrooge McDuck comic books
>>566937658 When the series is officially cancelled. Unfortunately, Square is still laundering Disney funds into development assets. So it will be a couple years.
>>566937658 When Nomura retires would be a good point. But he literally just did another artwork for the anniversary so he's not retiring any time soon
