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    Kingdom Hearts I just finished making Sora and Riku's Mirage Split and Nightmare's End keyblades! 🌟 They fit together, but can also be pulled apart. Made out of EVA foam.

    September 04, 2020

    Kingdom Hearts I just finished making Sora and Riku's Mirage Split and Nightmare's End keyblades! �� They fit together, but can also be pulled apart. Made out of EVA foam.

    I just finished making Sora and Riku's Mirage Split and Nightmare's End keyblades! �� They fit together, but can also be pulled apart. Made out of EVA foam.

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 08:49 PM PDT

    Why is this so accurate?

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:06 AM PDT

    That's impossible

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 07:21 PM PDT

    Sora is heartless

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:58 PM PDT

    Have a custom wallpaper

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 08:11 PM PDT

    I totally get Ven’s pain

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:49 PM PDT

    Wario is just Marios Nobody

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:01 PM PDT

    First meme here

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:59 AM PDT

    Riku the Indestructible

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:01 PM PDT

    The people in Traverse Town are kinda weird...

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:02 PM PDT

    Strelitzia Art by Nomura

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:48 AM PDT

    Something i just thought about.

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 12:38 PM PDT

    Square did TT dirty

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:33 PM PDT

    [Union X spoiler] Someone said it

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:29 AM PDT

    Sora and Olette are serious about this! If there’s a Lucky Emblem, then, those two will find it!

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:55 PM PDT

    That’s it. An Easter egg from The Enigma of Salazar House

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:21 PM PDT

    Replaying Kingdom Hearts has helped me reconnect with my childhood in the most intimate way imaginable

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:37 PM PDT

    This is gonna be long but I selfishly feel the need to gush about my experience with revisiting KH1 over the past week or so.

    I first played KH1 when I was 6, back in 2001. My parents divorced when I was a baby and I'd visit my dad on the weekends. He got a PS2 around the time of (but not for) birthday and kept it at his place. Amongst the sports games was a peculiar looking game, Kingdom Hearts. I had remembered seeing commercials for it and thinking it looked cool and my mom must have passed on the message to dad.

    That first night I popped it in I was hooked. From the moment the I hit the title screen I had been hooked by Dearly Beloved and the all too relatable image of Sora prodding the ocean with that longing expression on his face. When I started a new game though I went from hooked to absolutely enthralled. I had played on his Dreamcast before so I was aware of what 128 bit systems could look like, but Kingdom Hearts made games like Sonic Adventure or Crazy Taxi look absolutely disgusting in comparison.

    Fast forward to the game and I had never played anything so unique or smooth before. I'd spend hours exploring Destiny Island and battling the other kids for hours without progressing the story. The game did a wonderful job of establishing its childlike view of utopia and it had captured me perfectly. I'd soon get the strategy guide from the local Blockbuster after getting stuck at a couple early sections.

    Over the next 7 or so years KH would become more and more of an obsession to the point that it would feel more like a lobe in my brain rather than a simple interest. I wrote fanfictions, crudely drew OCs. I dreamt KH, I lived KH and I was at my happiest when playing KH. In highschool though, I'd drift away from the franchise. Hard to say exactly why. Part of it was online gaming blowing up, part of it was a growing depression and isolation that would see me almost quit video games altogether for a year or so.

    Regardless, my run with the franchise was kinda caput. I'm sparing many details of course and I did play Birth by Sleep in Sophomore year due to the PSP being my go-to system for /many/ years but the fact is that I drifted from KH hard. So hard that over the next 10 years I'd barely even think about KH let alone play any of the games, new or old.

    Fast forward to last week, and I finally gave the series a chance again. It was available on Game Pass so I downloaded it and expected to have a fun trip down memory lane. I admit that having friends that were into KH made me jealous. I had drifted from the series and up until a couple years ago I had really known many current KH fans. Seeing them still be so in love with something I had unintentionally left behind had me wanting to revisit the series for some time, it just hasn't happened until now.

    In any case, from the moment I watched the intro cutscene again I was absolutely floored. Instantly a rush of nostalgia hit me like a truck. Every step I took was a step I vividly remembered taking as a child, all those years ago. Every secret, every battle, every line of dialogue. Despite not having played KH1 in over a decade it was as if I was back in my old house, playing the game again as a child. The memories I'd recall of the game became so vivid that I'd start to recall where I was as a child, what I was thinking, what else I had done that day, how school had been that week etc etc

    The thing about my childhood is that it was difficult for me. Childhood trauma coupled with supportive yet frustrated parents led to me feeling very distant and isolated. I lost my father a year after I'd first play KH, my mother would marry an abuser, and I responded by just sort of shutting down. I became dependent on the fiction I'd interact with, mainly video games. The world I lived in were the ones created by my PS2, my Xbox or my Gameboy.

    The result of that trauma and isolation is that I've sort of lost my childhood, in many ways. Its so hard for me to recall events from being a kid. I'm constantly told stories by family or childhood friends that I simply have no recollection of from ages as late as 13/14. Its this bleak, blank space in my head where few memories reside and the ones that do exist are fuzzy and unpleasant to recall.

    While replaying Kingdom Hearts 1 though, that has changed. I've been able to place and recall so many moments of being a kid/preteen. Entire days if not weeks of my life fill my head, memories both good and bad. Memories so vivid and lucid its as if I'm inside of a dream, spectating. In a literal sense, I've been able to recall childhood dreams, journal entries. Entire chapters of fanfiction have bubbled up and become embarrassingly easy to recall.

    Not only have I simply adored every second I've spent playing this game and grinding out a 100% perfect save file, but I've also been able to reconnect and reconcile with some of the emotional burden I've carried with me for so long. I've opened up with my parents, partner and close friends in ways that I haven't been able to in years. I've discovered this newfound optimism and confidence in interacting with coworkers and family alike.

    As silly or ridiculous as it may sound, Kingdom Hearts has helped me rediscover my past and contextualize that with my present. Suddenly I've been able to understand myself better and work towards overcoming mental blocks and personal anxieties.

    Watching the ending cinematic for the first time in ages left me utterly helpless. The moment that Kairi and Sora are forced to let go, with Simple & Clean playing the moment their hands disconnect, left me an emotional wreck. Can't remember the last time I cried that much. Rewatching the secret movie and remembering just how off the wall excited I was to see that as a kid, remembering how I connected with my uncle through our shared love of JRPGs.

    This entire experience has been so magical and I so eagerly look forward to replaying Chain of Memories and 2. Seeing as 2 was my favorite as a kid and the one I put the most time into, I have high hopes! I don't know if I'll make it through the entire series, but I'm so overjoyed to know that I'll always be able to enjoy at least the original forever. I'm even happier to understand and remember how important this series was to me as a kid and how its still helping me as an adult.

    I don't expect anyone to read this essay, obviously, but I felt compelled to share and some friends encouraged me to write about what I've been experiencing, so here I am!

    "Regardless of warnings, the future doesn't scare me at all"

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    Found all the emblems without looking up locations. Took forever!

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:09 PM PDT

    Xemnas’ first attack on Sora in the final battle

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:02 PM PDT

    Sora with the big brain

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:58 AM PDT

    25 hours of my life well spent

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:37 PM PDT

    Been working on a KH3 accurate Ends of the Earth - I had to get creative with some of the sections as it doesn't get a lot of screen time. Now to start converting for 3d printing!

    Posted: 04 Sep 2020 12:08 AM PDT

    Nomura, what is the meaning of this ?

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 07:40 AM PDT

    KH3 in a Nutshell

    Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:45 PM PDT
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