Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days - Musique pour la tristesse de Xion
Game Track Setting:
- Xion scenes
- The World That Never Was
Memories:
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"Remember that one Kingdom Hearts Game where you work a dead end job just so you could hang with your friends every day but then you have to kill them?" WELL NOT UNTIL YOU REMINDED ME
— Chaos-Milk-Tea, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is a Playable Tragedy” (2019)
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back when i was too young and didn’t have a phone, i would listen to this on my tiny little nintendo DS while it was charging at night before i slept during middle school. 😢❤
— shysensei, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days OST - Dearly Beloved” (2025)
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I think out of all KH games I played so far (KH, KH2, KH Days, BBS, the beginning of CoM) 358/2 Days has one of the best stories. My fave os BBS, but this one comes so damn close to it. I just love that they didn't make Organization XIII the bad bad villians and gave them a really touching backstory, unique traits and made them loveable for the fans. The 'That's not true.. I would.' still gets me.
— keplerscat28, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358 2 Days Complete Soundtrack OST All Music Themes HD!” (2017)
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To quote a certain youtuber: "Kingdom Hearts isnt confusing its just alot to remember"
— EternalFellows, comment on “Kingdom Hearts Is Not Confusing” (2025)
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Broke: Days has a good story but bad gameplay Woke: Days has a good story BECAUSE it has bad gameplay In all seriousness though, I really think the only way to truly experience this game today in its full emotional glory is to be a lonely 11-year-old with nothing better to do playing through a couple missions each day on the bus rides to and from school, growing a little bit closer to the characters every day and developing just a hint of a childish crush on Xion. That’s how I played it at least, and it will be forever enshrined in my memory of that time in my life. The ending shattered me in a way I never really thought video games could do.
— MisterZebra42, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is a Playable Tragedy” (2019)
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The most epic storyline of Kingdom Hearts and the most emotional game for the Nintendo DS. The first game that made me cry.
— CherryPascalle, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days OST - Dearly Beloved” (2024)
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the first Kingdom Hearts game i ever played when i was a kid. hearing the menu theme gives me Goosebumps
— DatMentalGamer, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358 2 Days Complete Soundtrack OST All Music Themes HD!” (2022)
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"Tragedy has an expiration date" is a GREAT phrase, I'm gonna be unpacking that for weeks, that applies to so MANY works! People that want the deths to "stick", it DOES make me wonder, like, do they want the sadness to linger forever? Is that the kind of writing-tone they want for their colorful Japanese-anime-Disney crossover E-10-rated video game...? Just because something is 'over' or 'reversed' doesn't mean it LOSES its meaning. It still HAD an effect on the survivors. If the writers remember to include that, as character-development. Which aint always the case :P
— 86fifty, comment on “Kingdom Hearts Is Not Confusing” (2025)
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This was my first entry in the KH franchise, so it holds a very special spot in my hearth, but as I had been playing the other games afterwards I can see why some fans bashed 358/2 so much. Still my favorite story-wise, the ending still breaks me up to this day.
— DartzSoryu, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is a Playable Tragedy” (2022)
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When I was much younger my brother would have this open on his DS. I had a difficult time sleeping of course but this always made me feel safe and warm. Thank you to the best big brother in the world keeping the nightmares at bay.
— moozbot, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days OST - Dearly Beloved” (2024)
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played this as a child. very nostalgic, though I had no idea what was going on lol
— quicksilver2923, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358 2 Days Complete Soundtrack OST All Music Themes HD!” (2022)
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Around the 21 minute mark - the idea of first-hand and second-hand you describe here, reminds me of my AP World History class in high school. They used the terms, "primary sources" and "secondary sources" which I think conveys the idea you're talking about more clearly. Watching a no-commentary longplay or cutscene-movie of a game, or listening to an audiobook version of a novel, would both "count" as primary-source-interaction, under this definition. The video essays and reviews and explainers would count as "secondary" because they are written about the topic, by an outside person, presented with bias and separated in time and all that.
— 86fifty, comment on “Kingdom Hearts Is Not Confusing” (2025)
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The "ice cream line" still makes me tear the fuck up. Days was my first KH game and even my 8 year old self understood what the ice cream MEANT to Roxas. It's such a heartbreaking line because it's all Roxas knows. He's so young and naive, and he's watching everything he knows and loves fade away in front of him.
— goldencyclone4984, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is a Playable Tragedy” (2022)
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This nostalgia........holy shit, i never played kingdom hearts much but damn dude the music is majestic and beautiful ❤ it was a huge part of my childhood
— heisenbergpinkman2265, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days OST - Dearly Beloved” (2025)
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WHO is here for the love and resurgence after Kingdom Hearts 3? I cried maaaan
— gillysinlow, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358 2 Days Complete Soundtrack OST All Music Themes HD!” (2020)
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Your thesis is fundamentally true, but when you brought up Vanitas I immediately thought “do they know Vanitas is actually one of the 13 true darknesses and is hundreds if not thousands of years old?” and now I don’t know whether KH is actually that complicated or if I have a very specific mental illness
— Guiquipedia, comment on “Kingdom Hearts Is Not Confusing” (2025)
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The best storytelling use of the DS dual screens was during Xion's death scene. It is so beautiful how they show her fading out of everyone's memories on one screen while she's having her last conversation with Roxas in the other. I cry every time I watch that part.
— geesecheeseplz, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is a Playable Tragedy” (2022)
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i remember playing this game in SO much detail despite the fact that i was like 7?? id be on my grandmas stairs or in my bed at night playing for HOURS. i remember sitting on this title screen for so long bc this song went so hard lol. i miss it sm
— speakinopposites, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days OST - Dearly Beloved” (2025)
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This is one of my favorite games I remember when I first got it I always played it it was the one that got me into the series because at the time I didn’t have a ps2 I only had a GameCube and n64
— graymatter9431, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358 2 Days Complete Soundtrack OST All Music Themes HD!” (2020)
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I think the explanation for why Riku returned to normal from the explosion of Ansem's machine is a lot simpler than it seems. Ansem's machine was an attempt to digitize the Kingdom Hearts that Xemnas was making. When the machine explodes, it bursts into a great light. I think what is happening is simply a flood of light like that of the Kingdom Hearts that Ansem made in the first game, and that like in the first game where it had destroyed the physical form of Ansem, this light was strong enough to destroy the physical change in appearance that had overtaken Riku in KHII as a result of what still lingered of Ansem in his own heart's darkness.
— vincentadamsvga, comment on “Kingdom Hearts Is Not Confusing” (2025)
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Xion is the reason chain of memories happened in the first place. When you realize the purpose Vexen's replica project, why the organization occupied castle oblivion and manipulated Namine to extract Sora's memories, it's clear that Xion is as essential to the Kingdom hearts lore as anybody else.
— joncarlos1, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is a Playable Tragedy” (2019)
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I never cried so hard at the end of a game as I did this one I just felt so sad and empty but it was an amazing story wish I could replay it like the first time again
— linotinlegato1600, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days OST - Dearly Beloved” (2025)
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Woww, the nostalgia of hearing these songs. I remember this game was hard for me because i played this when i was super young. Its nice hearing the 2nd song because im mostly hearing that while walking around🤣😭
— InatorEdits, comment on “Kingdom Hearts 358 2 Days Complete Soundtrack OST All Music Themes HD!” (2021)
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A good 16 years ago I had a phone that could play custom ringtones (!) and the Destiny Islands melody was simple enough to type in and use. I still startle and look for my phone every time I hear it.
— kittenmitten94, comment on “Kingdom Hearts Is Not Confusing” (2026)
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