**SPOILERS** Understanding Kingdom Hearts Timeline and X

[ForwardSlashDownPoke]

So, Kingdom Hearts 4 and Kingdom Hearts Missing Link have both been recently announced which puts the total of Kingdom Hearts entries at something like 17 games. Kingdom Hearts Dark Road was already released with an online version of the game, but has been pulled from the market only to get a re-release of an (offline) version of the title set to be available on August 24th, 2022 (with some final chapter Dark Road content). I'm studying these games, and their story, and figured that other people could help me out. I'm not new to the series, but I set myself up to specifically be on Dark Road when it comes out. From what I understand, the best order to play the entire series in is:

 

-1 Kingdom Hearts

-2 Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

-3 Kingdom Hearts II

-4 Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

-5 Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

-6 Kingdom Hearts Coded

-7 Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance

-8 Kingdom Hearts X

-9 Kingdom Hearts X Back Cover (CGI Movie)

-10 Kingdom Hearts X Unchained

-11 Kingdom Hearts Union X

-12 Kingdom Hearts Union X Dark Road

-13 Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: A Fragmentary Passage

-14 Kingdom Hearts III

-Kingdom Hearts III Re-Mind (DLC)

-15 Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memories

 

#15 Would be the last game you want to play in the series, so far as I understand as of currently. My questions are mostly about the "X" games, since most of them are entirely unplayable at this time. I'm aware that you can go in to Union X and watch the cut scenes from the game, but that you cannot play the title anymore. The original X was exclusive to Japan, so far as I know, and a browser based video game. X Unchained was basically the original X game, but also functioned as a sequel to the original with some additional content, then so far as I know: Union X is the same thing as X Unchained. Back Cover is a CGI movie that you can still get (and that I already have) that is a re-telling of the original X events from the "foretellers" perspective.

 

Can someone break down for me how all of the X games work (minus Dark Road, because I will play that starting on launch day; I just finished the 3D/PS4 version of Dream Drop Distance. What's the story of these games and what should I cover before playing Dark Road because I'm a little lost with these games at this point. 

[Justin11]

I only ever played kingdom hearts x unchained

On 8/17/2022 at 7:38 PM, ForwardSlashDownPoke said:

Kingdom Hearts X Unchained

I did play this game on a vacation and a friend of mine brought the game along with him so I just played it a few times.

I like the game design and the story line as well, though I haven't played any other release of this game but I was so eager to play more titles from this series.