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Lucy Valentine (Boonta Vista, Savant-Garde) and the lads hop in their Gummi Ship and make for Hollow Bastion as they cover the infamous Square and Disney RPG crossover of 2002: Kingdom Hearts. Topics include Tetsuya Nomura’s incredible character designs, the dated gameplay, and what it means to create a game where Donald Duck is seduced by a gorilla.

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Savant-Garde: Hosted by Lucy Valentine (Boonta Vista) and Jesse Black (Sludgefest). Savant-Garde is almost certainly the world’s only podcast where one autistic ex-wife and one OCD ex-husband unpack the disgracefully disordered worlds of Adrian Monk and the Good Doctor, Shaun Murphy, through the lens of two very normal brains.

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Media Referenced in this Episode:

Kingdom Hearts. Dir. Tetsuya Nomura. 2002

The Collaborative History of Disney & Square Enix to the Development of Kingdom Hearts by Evan “ScooterNape” Phillips. Reddit.

TGS 2004: Tetsuya Nomura Q&A by Anoop Gantayat. IGN. Updated June 30th, 2016.

Iwata Asks: Nintendo 3DS Vol. 12: Dream Drop Distance.

TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com

Interstitial: “Kingdom Hearts 4.3 Prologue: A Maritime Fragment: H(earts). M(inds). S(ora). Titanic Trailer (Version 1.5)” // Written by A.J. Ditty // feat. A.J. Ditty as “Sora/Donald/Goofy/Billy Zane/Mickey/Announcer”, David Armstrong as “Winnie the Pooh/Eeyore/Fabrizio/Shipmaster/Jack”, and Eleanor Philips as “Rose/Margaret”

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August Armour

The way im going to to absolutely feral when i clock out of work and finally listen to this ❤️❤️❤️

Charli Christine Marker

My mom wouldn’t let me play Final Fantasy X for years in the mid-2000s because she walked in on the first cutscene with Rikku and asked why I was “watching pornography” :( (She also thought the idea of “Sin” was Satanic :( )

Ciara Rhiannon

Brian calling X and Ocarina bad games is....idk if disappointing even comes close lol

GentlegearMark

Oh Fella's, you have no idea how excited I got hearing "There She is" in the interstitial. Still hanker for an episode on Yeston some time (even if you guys hate listen, I'd still love to hearing about why).

NowhereMan661

Cartoons and games have ruined many a developing teens sexual preferences, you're not alone Josh.

Mordred Hansen

Hearing Lego Racers, my brain re-unlocked that looping theme music instantly

Laura Platt

Between this and SnapCube's Real Time Fan Dub, Kingdom Hearts fans/haters/hater-fans have been EATING

Mason Shrader

Yall need to do KH2, because as a fellow KH Freak with AJ, I need to hear y’all cover my favorite.

Typhoon Jim

if you repeat the name david boreanaz enough times to the "become as gods" song from nier automata I'm sure something happens

Overzealous Euthanasiast

Kingdom hearts has been to me the platonic example of "writer making shit up as they go along with zero respect for the past and zero respect for their audience" -i think if they went the super smash brothers cutscene route of having no dialogue and just visual storytelling It would make a hell of an improvement, and I won't have to hear the incessant words "hearts" and "darkness" rinsed into total meaningless as they pretend it's the most dramatic meaningful shit ever neither lol

Zipzapzop

Fear and loathing world for kingdom hearts world

Ilian Petit

4:20 immediately had my brain play Chase from the Lore Dump podcast going "IT'S THE PROGENITOR OF ALL HEARTS !" I have never played these games

Hunter Reese

I feel attacked. I built crazy gummy ships and did all the missions

Camoose the Uncrackable Egg

Unironicly, a Robinhood world using the Disney one and animating it to look like the classic movie would be really cool.

Zipzapzop

Epic mickey soon????

Hunter Reese

I also got the Ultima blade and did all the endgame shit....

OLO

AJ's the biggest freak in the world for playing Proud Mode. Critical Mode in KH2 sure, that's respectable, but Proud Mode is a joke mode meant to send 10 year olds to hell forever

I love the lagoon

I please need you to cover the rest of the games purely because Brian's love/hatred/obsession makes me feel deeply seen.

Nick

I cannot enough recommend Birth By Sleep for the KH heads, it's a genuinely excellent JRPG on it's own merits. It's also the cleanest and most straightforward presentation of lore the franchise had ever managed.

Steven Pennington

in the 2000s i accidentally bought a japanese ps2 (was trying to get an american one because american games were cheaper than australian ones) and that lead me to buying and playing thru japanese kh2 (i dont understand japanese) snd i think that did more to ruin my life than anything else.

Amanda B

I have never played a Kingdom Heart and I never will, but I do recommend watching the recently completed Chip and Ironicus Let's Play of both Kingdom Hearts and Chain of Memories instead of actually playing - ChipCheezumLPs on YouTube

Clemmo

Having never really interacted with kingdom hearts except knowing that it exists, this episode feels like an acid trip.

Caleb Brian

God I can't wait for a Theo episode

Dergon

As someone who had the GBA game as a kid and rented the 1st one with some friends and stayed up all night playing it - I'm firmly on Josh's side.

Dergon

Didn't stop me from buying all the fucking remakes like a loser, though. Lmao

Ben Schrager

What if Lucy called her Patreon the “Boonta Vista Social Club”? Huh? What then?????

Brandon Chinn

Our dad bought us a PlayStation 2 and Kingdom Hearts but also had no idea about the memory card necessity, so our first weekend with the game was replaying the opening over and over and seeing how far we could get before someone forced us to turn it off. I think we got to the Olympus Coliseum once or twice.

Josephine

So your saying its the simplist and cleanest KH game?

jhater

1st of all : obligatory BDG Unraveled Understanding Kingdom Hearts (and every other story) mention. 2nd of all please do Epic Mickey.

Elizabeth Power

I have never played Kingdom hearts, but that commercial was absolutely unhinged; please do a real episode about Titanic, it would probably be interesting.

Lowell Phillips

As Lucy's weakest soldier I'm proud to be two days late to the episode.

Nathan Woods

I'm convinced games like kingdom hearts have endured exclusively for two reasons: the mental illness known as Disney Adults, and a concept that Google AI thinks it's called "Cherished Scarcity" - you could only afford the one game, so you got the one with Goofy in it, and built core memories around it because that was the only option in the limited gaming time you were allowed

Alex

"Lock the gates, Goofy, take my hand And lead me through the world of self."

Broth Mirepoix

Speaking of Disney Adventure Mag comics, I'd die [positive] if you did an episode on Bone

Bentivegitantus

The interstitial genuinely made me google to try to figure out the ASCAP licensing for Emotional Titanic Flute. That's an interesting one. Props to Celine's sister (Mx. Phillips?) belting out that last line too!

Shiv

Tuning in for a topic I know less than nothing about bc I adore Lucy and our wonderful hosts

Shiv

i’m even weaker I just hit play

Jared Whalen

Gawrsh guys, this is one of the most delightfully unhinged episodes in recent memory, up there with Supermarket Sweep and the Boss Baby Duology. I hope we're getting a KH2 ep some point -- can't really sleep on that Goofy Tron fit, and an interstitial direct from the Gummi Garage seems apt.

Zipzapzop

On the subject of 2000s Disney games I would highly recommend the treasure planet rts