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"Normal Person Order" and involves thorough instructions on how to follow Nomura as an auteur over the years. Absolutely preposterous lmao well done

oooh wow thank you for doing this work! It’s so nice to have this all in one place and I appreciate the clear explanations and links!

im always saying this

from experience, dreamwidth.org (old journaling site) and archiveofourown.org (ao3, fanfiction site, but they host fan analysis and resources like this as well) are going to have the formatting most like gdocs. tumblr is close, but less versatile. slightly easier than a whole website,

huge respect for including the 4 most relevant disney movies (tho i think i would also rec sorceror's aprentice like someone in comments did: thats smart) and suggesting to watch advent children and versus xiii. good place for non disney familiar people (they do exist!) to begin

I think this is good for a game series like kingdom hearts!

you know what sure I will start this

Saving this solely because I am introducing a friend to KH properly after 12 years (finally) and this helps me if I ever get stuck (especially because I never reach the secret endings because I am an Easy/Normal mode player)

We like to pretend

i’m assuming most people will ignore the relevant media list and just use it mostly to check if there’s something they are specifically interested, i pulled out twewy because it’s more important in ddd than all the other cameos and is what a lot of the team worked on before days

it is so funny to me how Days has become a beloved entry in the series when everyone absolutely HATED it when it came out lol anyway this is the most sicko definition of "normal" possible but unfortunately I have to agree that this is the best blend of comprehensive and reasonable. bravo I guess

Basically going release order is the way to go and that means the giant bundle and emulating 358/2 I went into 3 knowing very little of coded and the mobile games and other than some random box being carried I know basically everything?

if you're interested i have a ton of resources to just get started super easily here on my site!!! i also am MORE than happy to help out with website-making; i think everyone should have a website and i would be so happy to answer questions and help out

thats right, more people should play Twewy

I miss when Kingdom Hearts was like a real series of video games rather than homework.

Yeah pretty sure its just the order they leave the land of departure in: Terra leaves, Ven chases after, Aqua has to clean up

Saving this so I can pull it out when I do my dumb little gay project

This hit me in a Hugo Weaving "I was there, Gandalf" way. Excellent work, people want to deny it but the Versus XIII stuff is SO REAL. A cursory look at the KH4 trailers tells you this is right.

whichever you wish. i prefer playing KH2 on crit but yeah the difficulty is up to you

Imagine my shock, along with a freebie for Infinite Warfare and Spider-Man: Far From Home. Some real fun VR toys

Days got done so dirty by not being an available game anymore. It just doesn’t hit the same without playing the day by day of Roxas and Xion. ;; (Would also argue that re:coded got done dirty too. The gameplay was the one good thing and it’s just fucking gone.)

OMG this is exactly what I need THANK YOU

i think that game's story is really cool too. i haven't felt bothered by that mention, at least it helps set up the world of that game compared to everything disney-wise i kind of forgot about that textbox after like 10 minutes tbf with how dense the story gets

it was very difficult prior to watching that video to understand the difference between chi and union cross lol. near everyone says it's a remake of the first game but also kind of not

adding 13-2 and LR to the play order… sickos YES

this is a silly useless piece of semantics, but i feel like at least until we see whether or not it becomes a returning world you can cut like four hours off the completionist path by specifying KH3 predates toy story 4 and 5

This post made me finally decide to go to get the full series while it was on sale just to notice it ended today haha.

you know it's good when it starts with "watch Sleeping Beauty"

Was curious how this was gonna be, then I saw TWEWY in the recommended side media after KH2, and I knew this guide was Objectively Correct.

yes it is that. you would be surprised how annoying it can be to actually do this though for kh

*Days after 2 I wrote the wrong thing

You probably should watch the Union X fandub before playing 3 but it's not super necessary, and you can watch Re:Chain of Memories cutscenes instead of playing it if you find the gameplay too bad, since it is bad.

Understanding Nomura as a creative is pivotal to truly experiencing this series and I think this is the first list that really acknowledges that

I think I did the correct and normal thing where I listened to Lore Reasons then I watched a like 100-episode YT playlist that recaps the lore in chronological order beginning with the mobile game, and then I listened to lore reasons again

This is.... beautiful

lol yeah thats why i had to underline like hey usually they just bring characters in but. you should play FFX lol

This is actually a good list, not bad

Oh yeah, in my head Days is the only one you can do this with because the episodic nature of the game lends itself to the comics medium the best. It's just very damning that the manga spinoff conveys the story better than the custom-made cutscene compilation they've been selling since 2013.

As someone that played the first 2 when they came out (so I was 7 and 10 respectively) and never really dove DEEP into the lore this is all fascinating to me.

I love clarifying that there is only 25 minutes of relevant narrative in a rhythm game. Only KH would have even considered this.

well originally it was 2 collections and days was on the first one which made sense purely on a workload perspective with 2 games and 1 movie per release. why they didnt re-order the menu for the complete collection WHO KNOWS

*looks menu* yeah you're right play days after 2

yeah noticied it why didn't they put it in chronological order when they did 1.5+2.5

it's getting more difficult to play through kh without knowing about brain. but this is okay because more people should know about brain

honestly i think its more likely i fix this going the other way by toning down the references in the other paragraphs to which game is and isnt important. i kinda wanna leave that to the player, i dont want to tip my hand either way. i'm assuming the reader is someone who wants to play everything

That being said I need to give you your flowers, this is a large undertaking and its pretty complete all things said. You covered a lot of bases and even included relevant info on pretty niche subjects. Everyone will have an opinion but you laid out what needed to be here and that's what counts

I'm not sure why I expected there to be jokes in here. Thankfully, this is legitimately more or less the answer I would give as well (though admittedly I opted for the DS movies, only watched any Versus XIII stuff *after* seeing the KH3 superbosses beaten, and I've never truly touched FFX).

you're a hero for this

Thank you for this!

"I assume you know who Mickey Mouse is" Whom amongst us truly knows The Big Cheese

Hopping in with a quick rec for Ellipsus as a gdocs replacement!

yeah i havent watched it all myself because i dont wanna watch hours of union x again lol but from what i saw it seems fine, i just went with the same channel for both games for consistency in the guide

there's also the kingdom hearts theatre videos which are extremely high effort and fandub lots of text only scenes and i found them like great then they immediately start editing 358/2 and the 2 prologue into the same game and its like. well okay thats no longer the same thing lmao

Please tell me this is an intentional shitpost.

Here's an honest Q How much do you need to know about the Disney *parks* lore for KH, especially KH3? Nomura *allegedly* came up with a few of the ideas at DisneySea (sea-salt ice cream etc) so is much (IYHO) knowledge needed here or does this get myopic?

I like that one of the four essential pieces of outside media is Winnie the Pooh

I also look forward to your Gundam guide for normal people as well🙏

This is a good list and one that I'll keep handy for future use, thanks!

Thank you for this, I needed something to deploy on my Normal friends that are KH-curious

Excellently done. Gets my Seal of Approval. Anyone that has wanted to get into (or back into) Kingdom Hearts in prep for 4 but don't want to go full Sickos with it, this is The Core Text in as close to an ideal order as you can get without overcomplicating it.

it’s definitely one of the weirder edge cases lol but with how important it is to ddd i wanted to pull it out of jsut the crossover list

there's also the gayblade. we can't forget about the gayblade and how it tricked a bunch of people into doing secret 4th sherlock episode conspiracies for kh3

Anyone that goes that far is waaaaaay outside of any definition of "normal person".

People should just watch that trailer anyway. It heals the soul

like making accounting software for a dog

Thank you so much!!! A great document to read just when I started playing kh1

this one doesn't start with The Epic of Gilgamesh smdh

it's beautiful...

Yeah! Plus it's 1) short and 2) good

Thanks for this!! I’ve played all of these multiple times over the years (including TWEWY - appreciate that one tossed in) but when it all comes to switch I’m going to make a KH pilgrimage play through, and this guide will be very helpful 💕

In the eventuality I get back to KH (my first attempt stopped 2h into Chain of Memories lol), this is exactly the kind of guide I'd be looking for. Hopefully I'll find the time someday, until then it goes in my Links Hall of Fame.

great guide, only note is that imo re:coded suffers the most with watching the movie vs playing the game because none of the lore in it is very interesting or particularly important from what i remember but the gameplay is among the best in the series. def one id advise ppl to seek out if they can

that's really awesome! i would slightly push back against the notion that re:coded fared better than days in the conversion to a movie though. it's a really fun game!

With all due respect why are you turning video games into comic books

the bbs requirements are so annoying i kinda can’t believe they never patched it in the rereleases considering how narratively important it all ends up being