Operation Backlog Completion 2025
Sep 022019
 

Get ready, because we have a lot of Kingdom Hearts news coming up.

First, a new trailer for the Kingdom Hearts 3 DLC “Re:Mind” has been announced for September 9. Hopefully it will shed a little more light on what we can expect.

But that’s only the start.

As we speculated last week, a special Keyblade War event has begun in the Japanese version of Kingdom Hearts Union Cross. It appears to be a standalone event, rather than specifically coming up in the story, at least for now.

It’s the 4th anniversary of KHUX in Japan, and Nomura released a special message about it, translated here by KH Insider.

Nomura has been working on the main scenario of Union Cross, and four story updates are planned for October. He shared two screenshots related to the first two of these updates.

The first one appears to be the Master of Masters talking to Luxu, telling him something about when he (the Master) was a child. The second shows Ava meeting with Brain, who says her message has been received. Both of these are significant, the first because it sounds like we’ll be learning about the Master of Masters’s past, and the second because it implies Ava chose Brain after all.

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Ever since Brain was confirmed to be the “virus” in the system, it seemed clear he was the impostor union leader who took Strelitzia’s place… but if Ava chose him, then the actual impostor (and possibly murderer) is most likely someone else.

Of course I’ll be speculating about this in more detail over at my Kingdom Hearts theory site.

Finally, Nomura gave a general update on his current progress: he’s finished the Re:Mind scenario and the first two KHUX story updates, but before he returns to working on the rest, he needs to work on a “mystery request” related to “a yet-unannounced 3rd ‘line’ of KH.”

What does that mean?

A third line of Kingdom Hearts sounds like it could be something separate from the console games and the mobile game (if we take those to be the first two lines, which is my theory).

Is it a game? A parallel universe? Something related to the new Kingdom Hearts novel series from Scholastic?

Whatever it is, it sounds like we have a lot of exciting Kingdom Hearts updates to look forward to. Oh, and Nomura mentioned that “mind boggling” changes might be on the way to KHUX, giving only the hint “double feature.”

What do you think Nomura is talking about? What will the “3rd line” of Kingdom Hearts be? Are you looking forward to the Re:Mind DLC trailer? Share all your thoughts in the comments below, and join me in my current Kingdom Hearts confusion/speculation (the natural state for Kingdom Hearts fans).

Aug 262019
 

We haven’t talked about Kingdom Hearts Union χ in a long time, partly because I’ve long since stopped playing it.

However, I’ve still been keeping up with the story updates (of the Japanese version, since it’s well ahead of the English version) and now it seems like something big is being teased.

The official Twitter account recently said “The time to remember is arriving” and “History will soon unfold.” Meanwhile, fans have noticed ads on Crunchyroll showing what appears to be the Keyblade War.

If you haven’t been keeping up with KHUX’s story, the basic premise for the split from the original browser game is that the characters were taken into a new realm with their memories rewritten so they don’t know the Keyblade War occurred.

This sounds like the player character might be about to remember the Keyblade War, possibly making it a playable section of the game for the first time. Of course, the strange part is that this is apparently being teased for the English version of the game, even though the story is further ahead in Japan.

Is it coming to the Japanese version first and it’s just being teased because it’s such a big event? Is it a bonus scenario coming to the English version since we never had the browser game?

Right now it’s unclear, but between this and the upcoming release of the Kingdom Hearts χ novel, maybe the mobile game’s story is about to be tied up in preparation for the future of the saga.

Personally, I still think Kingdom Hearts Union χ should be remade as a console game once its story is complete, so we can play through the events free of the mobile game structure, but that might be asking too much. In the meantime, what do you think the game is teasing?

Mar 102017
 

The mobile Kingdom Hearts game, Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ, is about to receive a major update in Japan.

This update will bring a new multiplayer mode and new story missions that sound as though this is the “Season 2” where Unchained χ will split from the story of Japan’s Kingdom Hearts browser game, χ [chi]. And maybe because of that split, it’s also receiving a new name: Kingdom Hearts Union χ [cross].

(Since it’s now Union Cross, I’m not sure if the letter is an X or a χ now. Either way, at least the abbreviation KHUX still works.)

Now, if you want to go through the game completely blind, you probably should stop reading here. If, however, you want to see where Season 2 will take the story and join the rest of us in utter confusion about a certain character, check out the Union χ announcement trailer.

It seems that after the Keyblade War, five new Union leaders will be appointed from the Dandelions. The first is Ephemer, the second is Skuld, and the third is…

Ventus?!

How?!

This update raises other questions as well. For example, what happened to the new five Unions, since they aren’t around by the current era?

But the biggest question is definitely how Ventus could be around in the aftermath of the Keyblade War.

Is he a time traveler? Are the others time travelers? Is this a Sleeping World, and Ventus visits it while he’s trapped in sleep?

So many questions.

Here’s hoping we catch up quickly to these exciting Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ plot developments… preferably with a little less filler along the way.

What do you think is up with Ventus appearing alongside Ephemer and Skuld?