Then, a bunch of mirrors ask him questions about his personality. Sora, the perpetually peppy protagonist, falls into darkness before landing on a stained-glass window of his own likeness. (I assume this is a very subtle metaphor for the battle between light and dark.) A voiceover asks, “Have you heard of the ancient keyblade war?” before everything descends into a melodramatic music video where dark tendrils of clouds pull people into seeming nothingness.
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Things start with a bleached-white oceanside city full of windmills and towers before shifting to a pair of spiky-haired characters playing some kind of chess variant. The game doesn’t ease you in all that well. So how does Kingdom Hearts III play out if you’re brand-new to the series? Get ready for a long, confusing ride. With Kingdom Hearts III, I finally caved to curiosity. I pondered why Donald Duck was a mage and questioned the zipper-laden outfits that Nomura designed for Mickey Mouse. Over the years, I would idly wonder how Goofy and Cloud Strife could exist in the same universe.
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For years, I’ve been on the outside, curious about the series but not willing to invest in playing all of the supplementary material required to understand what’s going on. Where does that leave new players? While Kingdom Hearts III is saddled with an unenviable history that makes it incredibly daunting to jump into, it’s also one of the biggest games of the year, mashing up two pop culture behemoths into something strange and fascinating.
The impenetrable nature of the plot has become an ongoing joke to the point that even series creator Tetsuya Nomura can’t keep things straight. The series may have started out as a relatively lighthearted mashup of Disney and Final Fantasy, but over the years, it only became increasingly convoluted. The ensuing decade was filled with spinoffs with bizarre names like 358/2 Days, Birth By Sleep, and 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, each of which further complicated the franchise’s ever-growing mythos. It’s coming out 13 years after Kingdom Hearts II, and during that extended layoff, the series was quite busy. No game launching in 2019 has as much baggage as Kingdom Hearts III.
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