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I’ve fallen in and out of love with the series over the years. I was introduced to the series as a kid and had KH1 and KH2, but I only played through KH2 because I was frustrated by how janky KH1 can be.

No KH until (imo) 3 + ReMind came close

My discovery of the series came about completely on accident

I mean, we're talking real butterfly effect shit here

I'll be honest I was considering almost moving on from KH after 3; just burn out, you know? That mobile game shit and then 4 hooked me back like nothing tho lol

How so?

Okay, brace yourself, for this one's gonna be a long one

I was watching a video on Youtube. I don't even remember what it was, but I believe it was about Zootopia. And the credits segment of the video had a remix of River Flows In You, I kinda digged it, so I went into the comments and found someone linking a video to the full version.

I listened that on repeat a couple of times, until Youtube recommended me another remix from the same channel.

A remix of Dearly Beloved, with the cover from KH2. And I just had to click it, because what the firetruck are all these anime characters doing with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck?

So I clicked it and the music was just pure eargasm. I had to know more about this game, and well... the rest is history.

If I hadn't been watching Youtube at that moment and stumbled across that one video that caused this chain of events, I probably still wouldn't know what Kingdom Hearts is.

Oh damn that's way more interesting than mine- I saw a commercial for it on an old House of Mouse VHS lmao

Hell of a story u got there tho

In case anyone wants to listen to the remix that started it all for me;

still surprised a lot of players started with kh3

Every game in the series is someones first. Even 358 and Coded lol

my first was CoM when it came out

then I played 1

:Kek:

Either my parents or a young me probably picked out the KH games because I was a big Disney fan as a kid and the games had Disney characters on the front. I was still watching VHS tapes at this point.

a friend introduced me to the first KH. then we got our own copy

And then there's Ocean lol

Also btw, I didn't have a PS3 at the time when I discovered the game. So I had to play KH2 and KH1 on a PS2 emulator.

Which means even though I got into the series as late as 2016, I still had to go through the god awful unskippable cutscene before the Riku-Ansem fight a million times like the rest of you.

LEaD mE inTo EvERlaStinG daRkNess!

Ah yes, then you truly are one of us 😔😪

"Good" times....

Billy Zane's godly voice helped a little though

I watched Titanic and there's a scene where Zane's character says "Open your heart for me, Rose" and it gave me Vietnam flashbacks

I get why they didn't bring him back (don't necessarily agree) but man, I feel bad for Richard Epcar

He's such a good VA but Billy Zane's like, 20 minuets of dialuge in KH 1 can't be beat for me.

Richard Epcar is a great voice actor, the problem for me is that he doesn't really capture that same smooth voice that Zane had in KH1

It's not a bad voice, it's just a different one

I like both, but prefer Richard Epcar because he's one of my favorite VAs.

Yeah Zane gave it off like Ansem SoD was like this, smooth operator, cool and calculating.

Epcar makes him sound like a JoJo villian lol

Billy Zane encapsulates the seductive side of darkness, while Richard Epcar revels in its ferocity.

Either way, you win because you're getting a very enjoyable performance.

Thats a good way to look at it yeah

Xemnas makes nothingness sound sexy too 😔

> I get why they didn't bring him back

Y'know, I actually don't get why. I know he had some controversial role in another property. But that seems like such a weak reason to not bring him back when Disney has brought back voice actors and even on screen actors with much worse things on their record.

He criticized the mouse.

And you're not allowed to do that.