Episode 42: The KINGDOM OF DARKNESS
Nillin and Serena talk about Kingdom Hearts and what we can get out of viewing Deltarune through its lens, plus what makes it such a weird, unique and enduring story.
Topics: Forgetting about Disney. The pervasive aesthetic influence of KH on 2000s youths. Light-dark duality across fiction. Mickey Mouse is here. The world without adults. There’s so many of these games dude. Sora gets shot with a gun. KH1 has a gonermaker sequence. Twilight Town and Hometown. Inexplicable mechanics. Soul/heart mechanics…does this remind you of anything? Is Gaster DiZ? Yoko Shimomura arranged Megalovania. Riku is the most susceptible to cartoon villains of all time. Kris-Riku parallels. The Only Girl and other weird gender stuff. The force of protagonism. Theorybait all the time.
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