March 07, 2025

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep | Bonus

3 hours 3 minutes

You have to listen to this 3 times to get Brendon, Stephen, and AJ's unique POVs on the episode.

Discussed: Histories with the series, AnyAustin on YouTube, Video Game Podtimism's Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days ep with Brendon, Hexensteph's Reports, each character's story, listener questions
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Timecodes:

(01:42) - The show's history with the series

(04:53) - Quick Final Mix

(06:08) - Stephen's history with the series

(13:34) - Brendon's history with the series

(29:18) - A little bit about the prep

(35:32) - Hexensteph's Reports

(45:50) - The format of the episode

(46:22) - SPOILER WARNING

(48:17) - Welcome to Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

(01:00:25) - The mechanics

(01:11:38) - Ventus

(01:34:07) - The Worlds by Yoko Shimomura

(01:34:31) - Terra

(01:56:40) - One more thing about Terra

(01:58:14) - Aqua

(02:10:20) - The final (Mix) episode

(02:15:18) - The secret ending

(02:19:56) - 0.2

(02:27:29) - Listener questions

(02:27:46) - Emo to exuberant spectrum | Brooks

(02:31:32) - More characters from teh Enix-verse? | ednank

(02:33:48) - Give us your best Jacques | jared

(02:34:20) - Make a KH-like | external organs

(02:41:09) - Comparing the Disney worlds | GJ

(02:44:05) - KH combat? | GJ

(02:47:43) - Blunt rotations | Chase

(02:50:40) - Foxygo? | Andrew W

(02:50:59) - Lessons for KH 4? | Youngster Joey

(02:54:25) - Anything to revist? | undercooked

(02:57:42) - Opinion of KH3? | king maya

(03:00:06) - Which BBS storyline? | king maya

(03:00:36) - Closing remarks

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