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We're entering the 2.8 Era with Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance! If you thought things were weird and confusing before, this is where it really gets weird and confusing. The true Kingdom Hearts begins here, one could say. We're trapped in a dream with the TWEWY gang. How important are they to the lore? Hopefully not at all! Sorry if we sound lost; we're not players! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

Re:coded is ending strong(?) with a trip to Data-Castle Oblivion, where we'll be seeing, and Sora will be forgetting, a whole lot of familiar faces! Will a new Black Coat Guy successfully goad him into beating up the data illusions of his friends for no reason, or will Sora obviously not do that? That would be a pretty weird note to end on, so the game helpfully throws twenty straight minutes of "next time on Kingdom Hearts" at us! Next time: Dream Drop Distance! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

On this week's installment of Re:coded, we're finding out whether it's really safe inside Riku as Sora enters the datascape within the datascape to debug his friend! This means a montage of backtracking, a lot of apologies, and a lot of apologies about apologies. Afterwards, the team will be getting to the bottom of the mystery of the journal. Well, one of them, anyway! Turns out there's a lot going on in this game, including a massive lore teaser from Maleficent who has no idea that she has no idea what's going on. Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

We're halfway through Re:coded and it's time to go on a friendship adventure! Can a data boy learn to love? Can a steamboat captain learn to hack? Kingdom Hearts says yes! We're talking about Olympus Coliseum and Agrabah this week, but really we're talking about Hollow Bastion and all the funny things that happen there. Also, Maleficent is here and she's being an evil grandma! This game was good the whole time! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

Beep boop! Time for a weird game! We're watching Re:coded, AKA Kingdom Hearts Somehow Goes Even More Off the Rails! This is a game mainly about Jiminy Cricket reading poetry in his eDiary. Who's writing the poetry? Well, that's a great question, and Chip and Dale are going to help us find the answer by... uh... Look, I don't have time to explain it all here, okay? This is the game where they go into the Data World. We'll (try to) make sense of it on the podcast! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

Okay, this time for real - we have finished Birth by Sleep! In our final installment, we're discussing the secret ending Blank Points and the playable secret episode A Fragmentary Passage (not to be confused with etc. etc.) We've got some Cool Terra to enjoy, some sad-hopeful Aqua, and basically no Ventus. There's even a special cameo from Roxas, Axel, and some girl we don't remember! Also we completely forgot to talk about the secret bosses. We'll do it next episode! Re:coded, here we come! Let's get weird! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

It took her entire route, but Aqua's story is finally getting interesting! This week, we're wrapping up Aqua Time with a trip to the Keyblade Graveyard, then starting Aqua Time 2 with a trip to Radiant Garden and uhhhh maybe somewhere else. Hopefully somewhere good! Next week, we're finishing Birth by Sleep for real for real with Aqua Time 3, also known as A Fragmentary Passage, not to be confused with the Kingdom Hearts game called A Fragmentary Passage! Great! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

We've been wondering what Aqua's character is, and the game has kindly provided us with some answers! It turns out, first and foremost, she's a bootlicker! Oh, okay! Let's watch in horror as Aqua takes a tour of four Disney worlds and intensely respects anyone and everyone who orders her around in them. Is this really what her game is about? Xehanort, can you please give her something else to do? Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

We're entering the endgame of Birth by Sleep, which in this case means we're entering the beginninggame of Aqua's story! As is tradition, it starts with a whole lot of Disney nothing! She's going on a tour of the worlds, learning about love or something? She just likes to watch people kiss. At least there's some good action to keep us entertained... or there would have been if the Fairy Godmother hadn't intervened to teach Aqua that murder is bad! Ugh!! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

Two boys down! That's what happens in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, thanks to Xehanort's machinations. In our third and final Terra Time, we're taking a quick trip to Neverland to fight the final boss, and then everything gets very bad for Terra very fast. What happened between him and Eraqus after Ventus got hucked? What was he up to at the top of that mountain with Xehanort? Nothing good, it turns out! Hopefully Aqua will have a better time than the others! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost