In Aqua's reports in the Realm of Darkness is refers to the Shadows, Neoshadows and Darkballs as "Heartless"

MY CANON IS RUINED

Not only does this take place before the Heartless were given an official name, Kairi has no way of knowing about them, and in this context they really should have just called them "creatures of darkness" or something

blegh

 

Well as I said before, I appreciate attention to detail, but I also think it's kind of silly to just assume that everybody ever is going to play KH a certain way. I think it was Stan Lee who said "Every comic is somebodies first" and nthe same should be applied to games. What makes you so sure that someone won't think "I should start with Birth by Sleep, since it's the frst one chronologically... wait, what's a 'Heartless'?"

One smallmproblem with the comic analogy: comics are open-canon and friendly to newcomers. They do not have a required or intended order outside some.event arcs. KH is not like that. Most media is not like that.

One smallmproblem with the comic analogy: comics are open-canon and friendly to newcomers. They do not have a required or intended order outside some.event arcs. KH is not like that. Most media is not like that.

doesn't matter, there's a rule anybody who wants to create media knows, and that's that when you create a sequel or related work, you need to make it accessible to the people who happen to try that one first

doesn't matter, there's a rule anybody who wants to create media knows, and that's that when you create a sequel or related work, you need to make it accessible to the people who happen to try that one first

A rule that is consistently broken in popular serialized media, it seems, but I won't argue that the accessibility would help a lot of people who literally can't play the other titles, as it probably did in DDD.

Actually, Days' journal probably has to be the most canon.

Well, they are the journals of all the character's thoughts, so I guess that's true.