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This week, we're getting an exciting new perspective on Pinocchio and a fairly underwhelming familiar one! I never thought I'd be disappointed to leave Monstro so quickly, but here we are! We're also entering the Spellican Arc of Dream Drop Distance with a return to TWEWY Twaverse Twown, and a B-plot about Minnie Mouse being held hostage. All in all, a pretty good week of Kingdom Hearts! We'll be taking a break for a little while but we should be back in December! As the king of the universe always says: "see ya real soon!" Sam | Drew | Twitter…

Alright, let's get these out of the way! We're visiting the first proper Disney worlds of Dream Drop Distance: France and Computer! They're not good, but that doesn't mean we won't talk about them for two hours! If anyone without a 3DS was worried that they're missing out on some great Kingdom Hearts worlds, well, you're probably fine when it comes to these two. Also: we finally get to the bottom of Tron's stupid new name! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost

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