Sounds About Light

Three hundred games into Kingdom Hearts, we're finally going to learn what darkness is! In this week's extremely eventful installment of KHUX, we've got some lengthy Master of Masters lore dumps... some twists... maybe some turns? "That all sounds great," you say, "but will there be gratuitous logistical discussions about who gets in which pod?" You better believe it!! Sam | Drew | Bluesky

Things are really starting to pop off in this weird game for phones! A boss from Chain of Memories just had an offscreen boss fight against a boss from Kingdom Hearts 1, and the winner has claimed a victory pod to travel through data to get into the real victory pod and travel through time. That's not even the main thing that happens this week. We're mostly dealing with some Capital-D Darkness and getting deep into the mechanics of when a bunch of guys become a cloud and the cloud has to become a bunch of guys. What would the…

The Kingdom Hearts murder mystery continues! Our brainy union leaders are hard at work trying to find some answers (which is to say, Brain is looking into it) while Dennis is hard at work doing the plot of Wreck-It Ralph offscreen and will be back next week. We've got some challenging Master of Masters dialogue to discuss, and our reward is some severely bonkers Maleficent plot. Why is she here again? Don't worry, it'll all make sense! This game makes sense! Anyway, none of this matters. Here comes Janice Weatherly! Sam | Drew | Bluesky

He's called Brain for a reason. Unrelated, happy 69th episode! We're back in Daybreak Town for some more KHUX. Our favorite little chibi anime boys are investigating a little chibi anime murder, while the player goes to investigate a Disney movie. We've got several uninterrupted minutes of Chirithy narration in this one. In order to understand the stakes of Kingdom Hearts Union χ, one must first understand the mechanics of the Cy-Bugs from Wreck-It Ralph. I've always said this. Sam | Drew | Bluesky

Okay, now we finished Kingdom Hearts 3! In our 13th (nice) episode about this game, we discussed the 13 (nice) secret reports and the secret cutscene. The game might be over, but it's not done throwing new story hooks at us! Who is Subject X? How do you pronounce that most ancient letter? Is Japan real? Kingdom Hearts is going in some weird directions, if you can believe it, and we're cautiously excited! Sam | Drew | Bluesky

We finished the dang game! More or less! In our not-final episode on Kingdom Hearts 3, we're discussing the lengthy final battle with Xehanort and the equally lengthy series of endings upon endings. We've gotten all the logistics out of the way and it's time to enjoy some emotional payoffs! More bad chess! Twists! Turns! What more could you want from a game? Journal entries to read? Those will be next week! Sam | Drew | Bluesky | Cohost

On this week's episode, Sora mostly runs around killing people. I've got his kill tally up to 22 at this point, but that number has become extremely muddled and I'm no longer sure what death even is in this universe. Anyway, moving away from that existential headache, let's get to the relevant existential headaches of the week! What is the soul? What is the identity of a man created by combining two people and ripping them back apart again and again? Can someone truly say they've chosen their fate when their fundamental nature as a being was determined from the…