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OKAY, Kingdom Hearts 3 liveplurk

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I've played and watched just enough of these games to inevitably be hilariously confused going through this

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but to start, my ultra-high-level macro understanding of the plot:

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>Xehanort wants the light and the darkness to be in balance, or wants the darkness to win, or something

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>Xehanort arranges for vessels of his heart to exist at different points throughout time (Organization XIII) so that he can time travel between them

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>The point of this is something involving getting the original true Xehanort to a specific point in time so that he can Do A Bad Thing

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>The bad thing probably involves the X-blade or however you type it

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what I'm more hazy on is, high level, what makes Sora's heart important to all this

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game START

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I don't know what this place is but it looks AWESOME

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is this a young Eraqus

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game so far:

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>Intro cutscene

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>Main menu

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>Start game

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>Cutscene

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>Another intro cutscene

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>Walking through the void looking at old cutscenes

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CHooses Balance+Warrior

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Giant Heartless defeated

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oh sweet a story recap

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these are actually very punctual and helpful

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so basically after KH1, Organization XIII fucks up Sora's brain so hard that half the cast spends like four games trying to unfuck it

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OH is Sora important because of his connection to Ventus and therefor to the x-blade that Xehanort wants to reforge

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OK that recap is a decent place to stop for tonight

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but it was helpful!

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As far as my understanding goes Sora's ridiculously good at connecting with people, which makes him 1) a charismatic hero and 2) a great candidate for heart-sharing and bodyjacking.

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Also Sora being connected to Ventus doesn't have to do with plans for the X-blade, I think.

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Xehanort has tried twice to forge the X-blade: once with Ventus and Vanitas (pure light vs. pure dark), once now with the 13 darks/7 lights.

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I don't get all the logic but the 13/7 thing has to do with the fact that the original X-blade (which existed long ago during the prequel mobage game...or something???) got split into 20 pieces of that ratio.

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Sora and Ventus are both relevant to Xehanort's current plan in that he wants to bodyjack both of them as 2/13 of his Xehanorts, Sora having a malleable heart and Ventus currently lacking his heart.

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Ventus being part of both plans is mainly convenience, as plan 1 left Ven sleeping/hiding with Sora and prime real estate for plan 2.

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THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING ANYWAY, I spent part of the last week binging the games I hadn't seen to catch up and that's...a fair few.

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so Sora's not a destined hero so much as he's just

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Like That

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also question, as of the start of KH3 where is SOra

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is he still on that beach from the end of KH2

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is he sleeping in a pod

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it's unclear

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Sora being Like That is...extremely accurate.

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Also the whole memory/gameplay selection thing is inside his head I think???

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After KH2 Sora went off for his Mastery exam organized by Yen Sid, all of DDD happened, and 3 picks up with Sora getting more instructions post-exam. So physically, he starts in Yen Sid's tower.

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yeah I assumed as much

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oh there was a third comment

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OK so Sora's, like, around

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he's okay right now

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Sora is Mostly Okay, as far as anyone who gets bodyjacked and depowered is okay. He's currently not a Xehanort Horcrux, but Xehanort still wants to make him one.