Kingdom Hearts IV

Oh for sure

I just want it to be in more focus on sora riku and Kairi as a main party now

I can't say things felt more predictable about KH3 back in 2013

Granted, I... wasn't actually part of the KH community back in 2013

I only discovered the franchise as late as 2016

I'm a boomer- been rocking this shit since 2002

Not sure if I regret it or not lol

You're still here, so you probably don't

At least I wouldn't stick with a fandom as crazy as KH for 20 years if I regretted getting into it

Fair

I think what I always loved about Kingdom Hearts is how batshit it allows itself to be, and takes it self almost completely seriously lol

Indeed

For me it was just the overall vibe I got from first playing it

I got to the end of Roxas segment in KH2 and fell completely in love. I hadn't even gotten to the crazy shit yet

I also hadn't played the first game yet either

I started on KH2

Not a bad choice- 2 is still the goat for me, unfortunately lol

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