(Don't mind the terrible viewing experience I was taking a trip down memory lane and emulating KH2 on my phone for the PS2 experience as for why I'm not sinking while I glide it's super secret hacker stuff also don't mind the random FPS icons)

Kinda cute watching him buzz around he's like a little pissed off identity crisesed puppy.

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Giving Aqua female friends closer to her age has become somewhat of a mission of mine. (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

I reckon these three would really hit it off (tragic stories included).

Aqua's outfit is inspired by Lali-Holley from Redbubble

It seems I'm stuck in eternal combat despite there being 0 enemies and I can't leave...what do I do? I don't wanna reload save I haven't saved in a while

THIS PAIN...THE PAIN I HAD TO GO THROUGH. THIS KEYBLADE CAUSED ME PAIN. Anyways, this keyblade is called End of Pain, from Dream Drop Distance! pretty fitting for the name. Now, you might be asking "How do I get this Keyblade?" You get this Keyblade after ending the pain that is in DDD.

How to ACTUALLY get it: You have to do 39 Special Portals to get this Keyblade for ONE character, so if you want to get this Keyblade for both Sora and Riku, YOU HAVE TO DO 78 SPECIAL PORTALS JUST TO GET THIS KEYBLADE FOR BOTH OF THEM. Every world in DDD besides TWTNW, has 6 Special Portals for both Sora and Riku, making that 12 Special Portals.l TWTNW only has 3, so that's 6. In order to KNOW where to find these

Special Portals, Sora and Riku need to look at the weather forecast to know what Special Portal is in a world. It won't tell you what area it is in, so you HAVE to look up a guide, and after finishing the world's that has one, you need to drop to the other character. Sometimes, there won't be a Special Portals showing up, so you have to drop again, and again, and again, and again...like 30-60 times. This is pain.

Everytime I see KH is re-releasing something, I'm just in absolue AWE of their negligence regarding this brilliant game, it's actually astounding that they would insult its legacy by only putting in the cutscenes, effectively turning it into a movie that people fast-forward through and forget about.

Seriously tho what's her issue lmao.

I've been on and off trying to progress my KH2 for 4 years now... This mf can't be beaten 😭

Edit: Damn this reddit is active haha by seeing a lot of people talk about how this aint even the most difficult one, made me restart KH2 on easy mode now... I hope it's a bit easier then

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Level 73

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I've beaten this game exactly once. It was one of the most frustrating experiences of my life, and apparently I was not fun to be around while I was playing it. I did not jive with the card mechanics at all, the combat felt stuttery and infuriating, and the Sora gameplay is extra annoying because Reverse/Rebirth is much better put the fuck together. Making the Sora gameplay feel like a BETA of Riku's gameplay.

I wanted to complete this game on my new system, but once I started playing it, I couldn't make myself continue. Even when I was winning it wasn't fun.

Watching the cutscenes online then hopping over to KH2.

This is the worst game in the series for me. Yes worse than Re:Coded (although I feel Coded has the most inconsequential story).

I am posting this here for no other reason than I wanted to admit defeat in public where people can hear me. Why? Because I would like a written statement I can point to when friends of mine ask me why I'm skipping this game. I genuinely don't care what the reception of this post is, I just want my feelings on record.

Finally got the collection in the mail and I had to celebrate by getting a huge poster online ✨

I think the Final Mix box art doesn't get talked about enough.

(The poster that comes with the Amazon order is cool too)

I've been thinking about this for a while now, probably way too much actually :D

What if Square Enix brought the χ saga back as a proper modern Kingdom Hearts game?

Kingdom Hearts χ / Unchained χ / Union χ contains some incredibly important lore for the entire series, especially with everything that came after it and is still connected to it, but at the same time a pretty big part of the fanbase never really got the chance to experience that story themselves. The original browser game was never officially released worldwide, Union χ was a mobile game that has since been discontinued, and then there was obviously the language barrier as well, which is actually a pretty big part of this for me personally.

I'm German and while I did play Union χ myself for a while, I never experienced the entire story properly because of that, and most of what I know about the later parts of the story actually comes from German lore videos, summaries and basically other people explaining to me what happened, which is kind of weird when you think about how important all of this has become for Kingdom Hearts as a whole :D

So instead of another movie or just a simple remaster...

What if we got KINGDOM HEARTS χ ReMIX?

A full 3D remake

And by remake I don't mean simply recreating the mobile game with better graphics and calling it a day. I mean actually rebuilding the worlds, missions and the entire story as a modern 3D Kingdom Hearts action RPG, while at the same time keeping the original story intact, because I really wouldn't want this to turn into some alternate version of χ just because we're remaking it.

You would still create your own Keyblade wielder, choose your Union and experience the events of χ / Unchained χ / Union χ through your own character, just now as an actual modern Kingdom Hearts game instead of the old browser/mobile format. The important part for me would really be that this is still the original χ story, not a sequel, not an alternate timeline and also not some new protagonist watching all of this happen from somewhere in the background. It's the story we already have, just finally rebuilt as a full Kingdom Hearts game that people can actually experience again.

Full co-op — including the story

This is probably the part where some people will disagree with me :D, but I'd actually love to see optional co-op throughout the entire game, and I don't mean having a few special multiplayer missions somewhere in a menu while the actual game is still completely single-player. If I want to play through the whole χ story with three friends, I think I should simply be able to do that, including exploration, normal missions, bosses and even the main story itself, while obviously still being completely playable alone if that's how you want to experience it.

But that creates one slightly weird problem: Who the hell is the protagonist during a cutscene? :D

Personalized co-op cutscenes

This is where I had an idea that I think could actually solve this without Square Enix having to rewrite the entire story around the sudden existence of four protagonists :D Basically, every player remains the protagonist of their own story.

Let's say four people are playing together. When a story cutscene begins, all four players see the same event, but the presentation is slightly different for each player. On Player 1's screen, Player 1's Keyblade wielder is the protagonist, on Player 2's screen it's Player 2's character and so on. The other players would still be there in your version of the cutscene, because I think it would be pretty weird if your friends just magically disappeared every time someone starts talking :D, but they'd basically appear as accompanying Keyblade wielders in the background rather than suddenly becoming additional main characters the original story never accounted for.

Dialogue and important interactions would always be directed toward your own character, regardless of whose screen you're looking at, so basically everyone experiences the original story as their story while still actually playing through it together. And when playing alone, obviously none of this would even matter and everything would simply work like you'd expect from a normal single-player Kingdom Hearts game.

Would something like this actually work for you, or would having different versions of the same cutscene depending on the player feel too weird?

Proper localization

This is probably one of the biggest reasons I'd personally want something like χ ReMIX in the first place, because not everyone who loves Kingdom Hearts is comfortable experiencing a dialogue-heavy RPG entirely in English or Japanese, and especially with Kingdom Hearts being... well... Kingdom Hearts :D, missing parts of conversations or not completely understanding something can become a pretty big problem rather quickly.

Like I mentioned earlier, I actually played Union χ myself for a while, but because of the language barrier I never properly experienced the entire story myself and eventually learned a lot of it through German YouTube videos and lore summaries instead. So technically I know what happened, but knowing what happened because someone explained it to you and actually playing through those events yourself are two very different things.

A remake would finally be the opportunity to give this part of the series the same treatment as the other modern Kingdom Hearts games and properly localize it into more languages, including German, French, Spanish, Italian and obviously whatever other languages would make sense, because I don't just want to know what happened in Union χ, I'd like to experience that story myself.

Additional content without changing the ending

Since the χ era basically gives us an entire world filled with Keyblade wielders, I think there would be a ridiculous amount of potential for additional missions, bosses, events and multiplayer content without actually having to mess with the original story. The one thing I absolutely wouldn't want is Square Enix changing or extending the canonical ending just because the game needs more content.

Instead, additional quests, events and challenges could simply take place during the period before the original finale, and once you've unlocked them you could basically play them whenever you want, regardless of whether you're still progressing through the story or have already finished it. The canonical ending would remain exactly where it belongs and story missions should remain replayable even after completing the game, because otherwise we'd have the slightly stupid situation where finishing the story means I suddenly can't help a friend play through earlier missions anymore :x So even after reaching the finale, I could still jump back into earlier parts of the game with friends.

The main story should survive the servers

And yeah... if we're already talking about co-op, events and potentially live-service elements, there's one thing I'd consider extremely important: Please don't let the actual χ story disappear again when the servers eventually shut down. Because otherwise we'd spend years asking Square Enix to bring back a game that disappeared, finally get a remake of that game, only for the remake to disappear again ten years later :D

The entire main game and its story should remain playable offline. Obviously online co-op, events and other server-dependent features could eventually stop working because servers don't run forever, but the actual remake itself should remain accessible and playable. Basically, live-service could add things to χ ReMIX without χ ReMIX itself being dependent on live-service to exist.

And then there's Dark Road...

Personally, I wouldn't even force Dark Road into the same game because, while it's obviously connected to all of this, I think there's actually enough potential there to make it its own thing. I'd rather see Kingdom Hearts Re:Dark Road as its own proper action RPG focused completely on Xehanort.

Instead of changing his story or suddenly revealing that he secretly met another seventeen extremely important people we've somehow never heard about before :D, Square Enix could use the opportunity to expand what is already there: more of his journey, more of his relationships, more of his time as a young Keyblade wielder and simply more time to actually watch him slowly become the Xehanort we already know. The rule I'd want them to follow would basically just be expand what we know, don't retcon it, because there's so much room in Xehanort's life to add things without changing the events that have already been established.

And yes, because this is Kingdom Hearts and apparently naming games normally would be illegal, obviously it would have to be called something like Kingdom Hearts Re:Dark Road Final Mix :D

So... would KINGDOM HEARTS χ ReMIX actually get you excited?

If Square Enix announced something like this tomorrow, would you actually buy it?

And since I've already spent way too much time thinking about a game that doesn't even exist :D, I'm really curious what other Kingdom Hearts fans would actually want from something like this:

• Would you want a full 3D action RPG, or something much closer to the original gameplay?
• Would you play it mostly alone or in co-op?
• Would you want additional missions, bosses and events, or should it stick strictly to the original content?
• How important would proper localization be to you?
• Would keeping the entire main story permanently playable offline matter to you?
• And would you rather see Dark Road included as part of χ ReMIX or get its own full remake?

You obviously don't have to answer every single one of these :D I'm mostly curious whether the general idea of bringing the χ saga back as a proper full Kingdom Hearts game is something the community would actually want in the first place, because for me probably the biggest thing would simply be: I don't want to watch someone explain the χ saga to me. I want to play it.

Just to be clear: I have no affiliation with Square Enix whatsoever. I'm simply a Kingdom Hearts fan (and a fan of many other Square Enix games) who would love to see this part of the series given another chance.

Doe anyone have the Japanese ver.?

Just curious besides KHIII you can't switch or have English subs or audio at all?

I'm only aware the global ver only has other languages and Japanese/dual audio on III

but is it the same for the Japanese ver?

thanks

I am very aware past ver. of these are Japanese only

I wanna remind you anything is possible if you truly believe, if you set your mind to it YOU CAN acheive it. 💛🙌✨