For something as decidedly family-friendly as Kingdom Hearts claims to be, The Hunchback for Notre Dame is such a strange choice.For reference, this is the "Hellfire" song I mentioned during this episode when talking about how dark this story is.First off, I have, since the time of the recording,...

At last, we are in the home stretch on the Kingdom Hearts Primer. This is the last sub-series in this major project that has taken Sam and I over a year and tons of our sanity. Finally, we will have recapped all the story you need to know for Kingdom Hearts 3.After the long and grueling season on...

Welcome to the Re:Coded section of the Kingdom Hearts Primer. It's just to be a great and long-lasting season.Syke.Yeah, not much happens in Coded. So we won't spend much time on it. In keeping with that theme, I won't dedicate many words to it.I will point out that Sam did a great job in editing...

Here it is, the final episode of the Birth By Sleep segment of the Kingdom Hearts Primer.Sam and I harp on this a lot, and it's one of our biggest problems with the reveal in Blank Points: One of the easiest ways to lose me in the plot of a big franchise is to give is to negate loss or death in...

It's getting close, guys. Big reveals are going on and there's a lot to take in. Buckle up!So much goes on in this episode that it's difficult to delve into it in a single post. The big problem is something I've talked about multiple times in these write-ups: Birth By Sleep obsessively explains...

Welcome to the beginning of the end... for Birth By Sleep.By far my favorite moment of this episode is when Sam, after doing some plot calculus in his head, comes to the conclusion that this game, when taken in context with that which (in terms of release date) came before, makes the whole...

At last, we're solidly in Act 3.We've suddenly gone from not much happening at all, to a lot happening all at once. Out of all the new topics introduced, there are two big ones: Eraqus and the X-Blade. We'll table the X-Blade talk for now. Instead, I want to focus on Eraqus and his questionable...

This is the last world before we can get back to the main plot.To make something clear in these posts, I want to say that although we constantly complain about how gullible Terra is, that's not inherently a flaw with either his character or the story. Gullibility is a trait, like any other. It can...

Well, we were going good for a while, but now is filler time.We've talked about the whole "Prequel" problem before, and I don't have much to add on that point. That said, Sam is right to note how egregious it is almost every detail in Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 was explained away by some cosmic mishap...

It had to happen eventually. With all LPs, especially with Kingdom Hearts, you reach the eventual filler episode.It's just that we spent this episode talking about filler in Kingdom Hearts. It's a subject I've pontificated over numerous times in this series. I see no need to go over it again.