i agree that the premise is SUPER cool. the thing is, it doesn't feel like a kingdom hearts game to me. like, it's like a similar setting and ideas (keyblades, hearts, darkness and light) but the characters, the mystery, the stakes feel weightier. like this feels like writing that's too good for kingdom hearts and should have been it's own original story.

All true, and to add kh also had scrapped ff13 hidden in it. And it got darker but really it always had potential, above all it is se made it. Its kinda like how dark legend of Zelda is but i guess making it toony partially hid dark in story. I mean if some these storries were books, what would we imagine as read

so he CAN write a good, compelling female character? he just chooses not to do the same with kairi

Strelitzia is really not that amazing. The way she's written isn't that different from Kairi. We see her for only a few moments before she is killed, and made completely useless. Kairi and Strelitzia are both compelling characters, if only Nomura would put them to use.

@@zen-ari3774 for myself my love for strelitzia's character comes from how very blatantly the story says that she was meant to play a bigger role (as a union leader) even if it is undercut by her untimely death (which can be an interesting writing tactic. she had her goal of talking to the player character and was SO CLOSE to doing so, and missed them by a few minutes and then died not fulfilling her goal. it's how you make deaths in writing more impactful when you hammer home their reasons for being/acting/what they fight/live for) and then with the nod's to her character, and the background knowledge of how kh characters rarely stay dead, there's now a good chance strelitzia COULD come back and relevant again. what makes her interesting is that she has always had potential to be important. ...and now that i think about it kairi has too. and nomura just REALLY doesn't seem to want to do anything actually useful with her (unless melody of memory has anything to say about that). oh snap you're right. i love both characters, think they got shafted too soon, and nomura apparently hates female characters being consistently important (aqua being not that great of a character imo is a whole other can of worms)

Incredible?

Xehanort died.

*Sora has commit Master Of Masters*

@@Fragmentsinfractals488 yeah but he was a villain and super duper old and died like 5 times before that, and even then he got a "happy" ending where he got carried up into KH heaven by the best friend he stabbed in the back.

i mean cant they just kill Strelitzia's shadow and nobody to revive her? or just open kingdom hearts or somethin

KHUX has the best story of all KH Games.

@@sinom not sure I'd call it the best of all the KH games, imo KH1 is more solid, but of the modern ones? certainly. it works because, beyond maybe maleficent, there isn't a million connections to a bunch of other games to make it work. sure seeing the origins ventus, marluxia, and larxene is nice for old players, but they're unique characters to this individual game. the plot is simple, yet still deep, and is completely standalone, something no other modern KH game can do. Hell, look at KH3, which basically requires you to have played at least DDD to get a semblance of whats up. sadly it's let down by subpar gameplay and a rediculous amount of filler.

The mobile game releases actually story so rarely that i cant call it good. But streletzia barely has any screen time or character development. We just know shes really nice, liked our character. And then died before she could eb a u ion leader. Thats about all we know about her tbh

Not anymore lol

Buddy. This is Kingdom hearts. It's confusion city lul

@@10tailedbijuu Vanitas' true origin is still unknown.

Absolutely, we cannot rule out that it was Darkness posing as Gula. It's possible that if our character wasn't there then Skuld may have ventured in alone and she may have been targeted for her rulebook instead of Strelitzia

@@damo Which brings up how the may-have-been Darkness knew the contents of the Lost Page, which was noticably more detailed and didn't line up with what was said about it in Back Cover, only mentioning the person with the sigil. I can't help but wonder about the eyes on Vanitas' keyblade and Riku's Soul Eater. Assuming Vanitas is associated with Darkness, or at least knows of them, could one of those eyes be Darkness', allowing them prophetic abilities similar to the Master?

100% Agree! That's the point of this video, to try and lay down two years of story in a format that's hopefully more digestible to the wider KH fandom

I always saw Back Cover as more of a supplement to the mobile game, not a replacement unfortunately, and Strelitzia wasn't even introduced by the time the KHx Back Cover movie came out on the PS4. Given how important she is to the overall story, let alone everything else that has happened in the years since, I'm sure at some point there will be a game/movie telling this story to those that never got around to playing the mobile game

@@damo It would be awesome if the rumored disney+ show covers this story but I doubt disney would want a show focusing on their main characters being an illusion. But here's to wishful thinking!

But thing is we have seen that the only way to bring people like her back, is to use the power of waking, which is very hard to get in the first place. In soras case her overused it and “died “

Nah she's dead... sarcasm off.

@@jethawk1172 I mean lore-wise, yeah it's hard to get. But so are the Dragonballs.

Though I get what you're saying, however big bro needs a motive/goal for his character, so no doubt he will try to bring her back or at least gets closure Depending on what is needed for the plot, after all Isa is also searching for a girl and no doubt he has to succeed

@@lucym7294 isn't Isa searching for Skuld? But yeah you're probably right.

If we're following the biblical analogy, it probably comes down to free will. And I think nonviolent resistance is part of it; the scene where the MoM is talking to Isa makes it seem like he regrets the Keyblades.

I believe so