The overarching hero of Kingdom Hearts is a teenage boy named Sora. Without a puzzle piece, for instance, you might be left clueless on key characters such as Ventus. Unlike most video games' spinoff titles, every Kingdom Hearts is canon, where everything is deemed essential. A couple of them aren't as fully featured as Kingdom Hearts proper, but each one carries forth an essential narrative thread another piece to an ever-expanding (and forever complicated) puzzle. Since 2002, 10 games in the Kingdom Hearts canon have been released.

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (2012, Nintendo 3DS, PS4).

Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded (2008, Nintendo DS, PS3, PS4).

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (2009, Nintendo DS, PS3, PS4).

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004, Game Boy Advance, PS2, PS3, PS4).

Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage (2017, PS4).

Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (2010, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, PS4).

Kingdom Hearts ? Back Cover (2017, PlayStation 4 Note: Back Cover is only a cinematic movie, set during ?.) / Kingdom Hearts ? (2013, Browser, Android, iOS).

So buckle up folks, because by the end of this we'll all be adopting Goofy's voice and saying, 'Gawrsh, how could anyone be expected to comprehend all this?' Every Kingdom Hearts game, in chronological order:

I figure for the casual sorts of players who haven't played every side game in the series or don't need to know every tiny bit of lore, this still-extensive retelling will suffice. The Prequels: Long Before the Events of Kingdom Heartsįor the sake of brevity, there will be a lot I overlook in this condensed Kingdom Hearts primer. (Yes, that Mickey.) They're successful-somewhat-though by the end Mickey and Riku find themselves separated from their friends yet again.Īnd that's when it starts to get crazy. Sora's in search of Kairi and Riku, while Donald and Goofy need to find King Mickey. Together, the three set out on an adventure to find their friends.

Young and naive, he quickly meets a ragtag group of familiar Final Fantasy characters, before literally bumping into Donald and Goofy (of Disney, obviously).

Sora, the hero of this tale, awoke alone in Traverse Town. But before that could happen, a terrible storm blew into their peaceful island living and the three were torn apart. Together they lived on an island, where they one day decided to build a raft to sail far away. There was just a boy and his two best friends: Riku and Kairi. At the start of Kingdom Hearts, things were relatively simple.

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