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Terra's story is flying by like a Keyblade hoverbike chasing a race car-shaped Unversed on a racetrack! We've got a few Disney worlds to get through this week, but what we're really here for is our funny guy Braig. Have you ever wondered what happened to his eye, or what else happened to his eye? You'll find out about one of them this week! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

Oh, gosh. Well, it looks like it's time to meet our favorite little quiet boy man, Terra. He may not have passed his Mark of Mastery exam, but what he lacks in control over his inner darkness, he makes up for in lack of control over his inner darkness! The Disney villains are gonna have a field day with this guy. Somebody, please, for the love of Mickey, help this Keyblade himbo. Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

I hope you're sleepy for birth (????) because it's time to wrap up Ventus's story already! We'll miss this sweet little mouse disguised as a boy, but we've got two more friends to get to know over the next few weeks. For now, let's enjoy this thrilling conclusion featuring some extreme sicko Xehanort Reports, a Braig cameo, and the story of from whence Vanitas was riven. Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

The true Kingdom Hearts begins here, as we approach the end of our time with Ventus. If you know Birth by Sleep, you've been waiting for it: it's the first mention of the infamous χ-blade! It's a real ordeal to talk about in an audio format, so we're sorry if it's an ordeal to listen to! Besides that, Ventus is meeting an experiment eventually known as Stitch, and (some of) the Lost Boys. Also Donald and Goofy are here! What a game! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

These games haven't been about friendship enough, so this week we're entering the Ventus Loneliness Arc! He and his friends got in a single confusing fight, so now he has to rethink his entire life. Maybe he'll find some new friends in Radiant Garden or Olympus Coliseum? Definitely not in Disney Town. There's only one guy there who's looking for friends, and we can all agree he'd be better off dead. (For his own sake!) Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

The true Kingdom Hearts begins here! We're jumping back in time to meet some new (old) friends in Birth by Sleep! This game has three playable characters and we'll be starting with Ventus, a certified Sweet Little Boy who looks exactly like Roxas for some reason. We'll also be meeting Eraqus and Xehanort, who -- wait, we already met a Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts 2? Hm. Well, it's probably just a coincidence. It's a very common name these days! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

Okay, this time for real, we actually finished Kingdom Hearts 2! We've got a lot of Xemnas to deal with, across five or six phases of boss battle. We've got some smiles, some grimaces, some laughs, some tears, and there's even a Tron part! This game really has it all. What a journey! A lot of it was even good! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

Disclaimer: you are going to hear us talk for about an hour and a half about Kingdom Hearts 2 and how this is the last time we're ever going to talk about Kingdom Hearts 2. Well, we're wrong. This week, we're talking about the first half of Sora's time in The World That Never Was! It turns out we really underestimated just how much stuff would happen in the last hour or so of the game, so please enjoy our second-to-last discussion of Kingdom Hearts 2! Xemnas is barely even in it! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

We've made it through the boring Disney world revisits, and our reward is a very good Disney world revisit! We're saying goodbye to our friend Tron, who we love very much. He may have his silly limits, but this is one computer we'd never let starve. After that, we're off to Twilight Town, and after that, we're off to Twilight Town! We've also got some final emotional sendoffs for Axel and Roxas. Too bad we're already all cried out from Tron! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

We're fast approaching the end of Kingdom Hearts 2, and for some reason that means we've got three more kind of not very good Disney worlds to slog through! They're not terrible, at least. We've got confusing Luxord antics in Port Royal, Jack Skellington learns the meaning of Christmas again(?), and Simba gets bullied into success. Cool, cool, cool, great, great, great. The true Kingdom Hearts begins next week! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost