Kingdom Hearts cutscenes on YouTube are my favorite TV show to rewatch

Getting caught up on Kingdom Hearts is a heck of a process. However nothing makes me snicker and cry fairly just like the crossover fever dream that’s this sequence, regardless of what number of occasions I’ve skilled it — and that’s why, every time I wish to revisit the video games, I simply rewatch all of the cutscenes on YouTube as a substitute.

The Kingdom Hearts sequence is usually made up of RPGs, and though they aren’t 100-hour time sinks like Persona 5 or Dragon Quest 7, they’re about 30 hours every. I’m not that into the fight grind in these video games; the acrobatic Keyblade swinging appears cool in motion, however it doesn’t take way more effort than urgent the assault button time and again. That’s all good if you wish to sit again and hearken to a podcast, or flip your mind off totally — however the story of Kingdom Hearts is the half I really like probably the most.

I do know what you’re pondering. “Actually, Maddy? You just like the story in Kingdom Hearts? That is the sport with corny Disney film crap in it. How does that mesh together with your love of horror films and Metroid?” Initially, reader, it’s spectacular how effectively you realize me. Second of all, Kingdom Hearts is a comedic masterpiece, and I’ll go to my grave defending its weird setups and oddly paced dialogue.

If you happen to watch all the cutscenes on YouTube, I’m fairly positive you’re going to agree. You’ll begin out laughing at Donald Duck’s retorts and Squall’s gruff-voiced seriousness; there may be additionally nothing like watching Aerith and Goofy stick with it a dialog in regards to the nature of existence and magic. However then, in some unspecified time in the future, after the primary hour or two of patently absurd character juxtapositions, you would possibly notice you want the unique characters on this story, too: the childlike pleasure and innocence of the protagonist Sora, or the emo boy affectations of his bestie Riku. (There’s additionally a woman named Kairi, however this was 20 years in the past, when feminine characters have been solely allowed to be objects of affection.)

By the point you get to the top of Kingdom Hearts 2, you would possibly even be prepared to wade into the considerably weirder waters of the intervening video games that bridged the hole between 2 and 3. There shall be much more lore and much more characters with the letter X of their identify. And as soon as once more, all of it’ll go down loads simpler in case you watch it as a sequence of cutscene compilations on YouTube — ideally skilled as a background TV present on a second monitor. Let the weirdness wash over you. Luxuriate in it, all the best way as much as the newest sport within the sequence, Kingdom Hearts 3. Stay by means of, snicker at, and study to like the full-length efficiency of Elsa’s “Let It Go” as skilled by Donald, Goofy, and Sora.

If you happen to ask me, watching the video games on this manner is a significantly better expertise than watching any of the abstract movies that Kingdom Hearts followers have tried. It’s simply not the identical to listen to someone else clarify what number of variations of Xehanort exist on this universe. Possibly if there have been an precise Kingdom Hearts anime, I’d advocate that, however since that doesn’t exist, watching all the cutscenes in online game launch order has to suffice.

Did I point out Mickey Mouse is on this sequence, and he wears a Matrix trench coat? As a result of he’s a badass? And sure, he nonetheless has that squeaky voice? Why aren’t you watching this but? It’s gold, I inform you. Gold!