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Kingdom Hearts X: Your Keyblade, Your Story
Long, long ago, when all the worlds were still one, there was a place called Daybreak Town. Here, under the leadership of the Foretellers, Keyblade wielders spent their days collecting light for their Unions-and you were no exception, fighting the darkness alongside your pal Chirithy (that's me!). But then, one day, you made an unusual new friend who warned you there was more to this world than met the eye. Meanwhile, conflict was building among the Foretellers and Unions, one that threatened everyone's future-including yours.
162 pages, Paperback
First published December 24, 2019
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June 19, 2020
I bought this book to gain the plot in place of playing the mobile game. I tried the mobile game for a bit, but I'm not a fan of playing games on my phone as opposed to a console.
This is told in the first-person perspective of the cat Chithiry, and also second person as is is "Your Keyblade, Your Story" addressing the reader as "you." I don't have a problem with this if it is done well, but this translation and writing is absolutely terrible. It was like reading an eight-year-old's fanfic. It would have been cool if they made this a choose your own adventure story in relation to the worlds, but kept the Union plot the same/required for the reading.
The plot with the Unions was slightly better. It was a bit more detailed and the writing/translation wasn't quite as cringy, so it was nice to get that at least.
This is told in the first-person perspective of the cat Chithiry, and also second person as is is "Your Keyblade, Your Story" addressing the reader as "you." I don't have a problem with this if it is done well, but this translation and writing is absolutely terrible. It was like reading an eight-year-old's fanfic. It would have been cool if they made this a choose your own adventure story in relation to the worlds, but kept the Union plot the same/required for the reading.
The plot with the Unions was slightly better. It was a bit more detailed and the writing/translation wasn't quite as cringy, so it was nice to get that at least.
November 24, 2020
Maybe 2.5- 3? I am not sure what to say about it. It was a weird read. It has different people we follow. We follow foretellers and a 'you'. I loved the bits and pieces of the foretellers. That was written well. The 'you' and 'I' felt weird and almost like fanfiction written by writing exactly what happend on the screen. 'you walked around the corner and saw heartless. You slayed them and walked to another corner, with more heartless. You defeated these too. Then you walked down the corridor and even more heartless. No problem for you.' stuff like that. It felt weird to me and not well written.
I would have loved to just follow the foretellers. Get to know them more and really understanding what was going on. Because it's still vague.
Maybe some following of ephemer you lead you into the new union or something. Though I did like the ending with 'you'. It made it more personal. The battles were okay and it set the tone for the war.
The thing that bothered me though was that the 'you' is a boy. They probably have someone in mind for the role, but than just make it a guy and never name him. Now the 'you' was lost to me because I am a girl.
There is an open ending to this story and I wonder if they will give it another light novel or if they just leave a gap and let you start on Birth by sleep. I would hate that, because union cross is needed to understand how Ventus ended up in birth by sleep. I need a union cross recap.
KH wouldn't be KH when you don't end up with more questions than when you started.
I would have loved to just follow the foretellers. Get to know them more and really understanding what was going on. Because it's still vague.
Maybe some following of ephemer you lead you into the new union or something. Though I did like the ending with 'you'. It made it more personal. The battles were okay and it set the tone for the war.
The thing that bothered me though was that the 'you' is a boy. They probably have someone in mind for the role, but than just make it a guy and never name him. Now the 'you' was lost to me because I am a girl.
There is an open ending to this story and I wonder if they will give it another light novel or if they just leave a gap and let you start on Birth by sleep. I would hate that, because union cross is needed to understand how Ventus ended up in birth by sleep. I need a union cross recap.
KH wouldn't be KH when you don't end up with more questions than when you started.
July 5, 2024
You are drawn to Daybreak Town as a Keyblade Wielder, saving worlds from Heartless as Foretellers and Chirithy watch over the progress of their Unions...but dark secrets have begun to grind everyone's trust, and war seems imminent -yet could that be just what the Master of Masters wants? Kanemaki and Amano bring Kingdom Hearts fans a decently summarized rendition of the titular game, a bit clunky on its pacing but sweet and mysterious where is needs to be. Is there even a point to fight when the darkness seems so unstoppable?
December 2, 2021
Man, this one was TERRIBLE! Read it in one sitting, but let me tell you...that was a LONG two hours!
April 20, 2022
I feel like Union Cross is a little confusing. My guess this is right after Birth by Sleep.
February 26, 2021
Per questa recensione, c'è da fare una piccola premessa. Solitamente, quando leggo un libro ispirato a un'opera videoludica, dunque uscito a posteriori, tendo a fingere di non saper nulla di quella saga o del singolo capitolo.
Con Kingdom Hearts X non c'è stato bisogno di fingere, visto che l'ho giochicchiato un po' a tempo perso, non prendendolo seriamente, essendo alla fine uscito per cellulare.
Questo libro vuole raccontare contemporaneamente due storie: la trama principale, Union X, e una storia precedente, la X Back Cover (di cui esiste il film, adorato e causa primaria di una miriade di teorie).
Con la premessa fatta di Union X, ovvero che si tratti di un gioco per smartphone, riscontriamo già uno dei primi problemi. Nel gioco ci si può creare l'avatar, quindi il protagonista della trama sei tu, lettore. Seriamente, tutta la storia di Union X è raccontata in seconda persona singolare, cosa che mi ha turbata non poco, e quando i personaggi interagiscono con il protagonista, chiedendogli informazioni su di lui, non viene data risposta. il protagonista sei tu, sei libero di rispondere come vuoi, sei libero di immaginarti i dialoghi (eh insomma, non è proprio così che dovrebbe funzionare un libro). Questo capitolo dovrebbe introdurci ad una gigantesca Guerra dei Keyblade, ma alla fine nelle avventure del protagonista non succede granché.
Ho trovato personalmente molto più intrigante ed interessante la storia di Back Cover. Qui seguiamo le vicende dei Foretellers, gli allievi del Maestro dei Maestri: Luxu, Ava, Ira, Invi, Aced e Gula. Il Maestro svanisce poco dopo che gli allievi vengono a conoscenza di un Libro delle Profezie,a cui manca una pagina e gli eroi del Keyblade iniziano a sospettare l'uno verso l'altro per capire chi sia il traditore. questa parte è stata una lettura molto godibile e molto intensa.
Consiglierei il libro forse solo per questa storia qui, ma purtroppo non è sufficiente a salvare tutta la baracca.
Con Kingdom Hearts X non c'è stato bisogno di fingere, visto che l'ho giochicchiato un po' a tempo perso, non prendendolo seriamente, essendo alla fine uscito per cellulare.
Questo libro vuole raccontare contemporaneamente due storie: la trama principale, Union X, e una storia precedente, la X Back Cover (di cui esiste il film, adorato e causa primaria di una miriade di teorie).
Con la premessa fatta di Union X, ovvero che si tratti di un gioco per smartphone, riscontriamo già uno dei primi problemi. Nel gioco ci si può creare l'avatar, quindi il protagonista della trama sei tu, lettore. Seriamente, tutta la storia di Union X è raccontata in seconda persona singolare, cosa che mi ha turbata non poco, e quando i personaggi interagiscono con il protagonista, chiedendogli informazioni su di lui, non viene data risposta. il protagonista sei tu, sei libero di rispondere come vuoi, sei libero di immaginarti i dialoghi (eh insomma, non è proprio così che dovrebbe funzionare un libro). Questo capitolo dovrebbe introdurci ad una gigantesca Guerra dei Keyblade, ma alla fine nelle avventure del protagonista non succede granché.
Ho trovato personalmente molto più intrigante ed interessante la storia di Back Cover. Qui seguiamo le vicende dei Foretellers, gli allievi del Maestro dei Maestri: Luxu, Ava, Ira, Invi, Aced e Gula. Il Maestro svanisce poco dopo che gli allievi vengono a conoscenza di un Libro delle Profezie,a cui manca una pagina e gli eroi del Keyblade iniziano a sospettare l'uno verso l'altro per capire chi sia il traditore. questa parte è stata una lettura molto godibile e molto intensa.
Consiglierei il libro forse solo per questa storia qui, ma purtroppo non è sufficiente a salvare tutta la baracca.
March 1, 2023
3.5 stars
The expectations are always low for novelizations or tie-in novels, and this one did its job pretty well. It's a good option for people who don't want to look up the cutscenes online but still want to understand the story. I do wish it had included the other half of this narrative, the story of unchained with the new union members, but maybe one day they'll release that (and maybe even Dark Road at some point). The player character is referred to as he/him in the novel which took me out a bit since I am a woman who played the game with a female character, but that is mostly unavoidable. I guess the translators didn't feel like committing to genderless pronouns, or they thought it would be too difficult and awkward. Obviously, I prefer the cutscenes, but this was a fairly decent experience.
The expectations are always low for novelizations or tie-in novels, and this one did its job pretty well. It's a good option for people who don't want to look up the cutscenes online but still want to understand the story. I do wish it had included the other half of this narrative, the story of unchained with the new union members, but maybe one day they'll release that (and maybe even Dark Road at some point). The player character is referred to as he/him in the novel which took me out a bit since I am a woman who played the game with a female character, but that is mostly unavoidable. I guess the translators didn't feel like committing to genderless pronouns, or they thought it would be too difficult and awkward. Obviously, I prefer the cutscenes, but this was a fairly decent experience.
April 4, 2020
Lovely little book. This is great for anyone who is unable/not wanting to play the Kingdom Hearts X mobile game, and just want the core story-line. It starts from the events of Back Cover and covers the events of "your" character, and the events of the Foretellers, all the way until the end of X.
Union Cross is mentioned at the end but not covered, hopefully we'll see a light novel for that come into fruitation soon!
Otherwise, a nice little story that sets the foundation for such an epic series!
Union Cross is mentioned at the end but not covered, hopefully we'll see a light novel for that come into fruitation soon!
Otherwise, a nice little story that sets the foundation for such an epic series!
March 30, 2022
Okay, no joke, I've been very lukewarm about the KH novelization so far, but this is actually a much neater way to get this story than any of the other ways it's been delivered to us so far. The browser-mobile game-movie trifecta was such a mess. Not to mention this does away with most of the padding (and obviously it doesn't take months between updates) so it's actually possible to retain all the information. I just hope someday this gets re-adapted as a full game rather than another cash grab, because it's such a good fucking story.
April 24, 2024
This was pretty damn good! Union Cross is my least favourite Kingdom Hearts game by far, but this novelisation made me realise how underappreciated the story of UX actually is. It cut away most of the Disney portions that dragged the mobile game and focused mostly on the Foretellers. The second person perspective was done well, too—I don’t think there’s anyone to narrate this story better than Chirithy.
October 19, 2020
Non è il libro che mi aspettavo. Ripercorre gli eventi di Unchained X fino a qualche aggiornamento passato del gioco per mobile. Forse è proprio il suo essere un'opera incompleta, basata su un gioco che sta venendo aggiornato mese dopo mese, a renderlo poco appetibile alla lettura.
May 11, 2022
A good prequel to Kingdom Hearts if you don’t want play the mobile game. It shows how and why the Keyblade War happened and who were the people who were responsible for the outcomes and the characters who tried to stop the bad outcomes from happening. Nice short book.
April 6, 2021
I love Kingdom Hearts so also this one. While the book didn’t reveal anything new, I did have fun reading it in this way too.
January 12, 2022
i luv kh lol
February 19, 2022
the whole Unchained X story in book form.
still confusing af. goddamit Nomura.
I hope Union X will be released as a novel too. So I can read all the madness
still confusing af. goddamit Nomura.
I hope Union X will be released as a novel too. So I can read all the madness
March 23, 2022
The book itself was an easy read and condensed the plot line of Back Cover but I was hoping it would add more of the story from Unchained and Union Cross
January 23, 2025
I liked the way information was revealed, or withheld. It felt true to the games
March 3, 2020
This was a very easy read for me and I'd recommend to anyone of any reading level and who enjoys the video game franchise.
While I'm still confused by the storyline itself of Kingdom Hearts, this helped jog my memory of the actual app's story. It's been a while since I'd played the early version, anyhow.
The unique thing about this book is that it's told in the second POV. Not a lot of novels can brag about successfully gaining attention that way, but while it's still a gamble for writers to do so, the reason being was, as I suspect, to keep the readers from guessing who the main character is (please tell us who it is already, Square Enix!). So, kudos for the cleverness, but I'm still wary of it coming off as "vague".
While I'm still confused by the storyline itself of Kingdom Hearts, this helped jog my memory of the actual app's story. It's been a while since I'd played the early version, anyhow.
The unique thing about this book is that it's told in the second POV. Not a lot of novels can brag about successfully gaining attention that way, but while it's still a gamble for writers to do so, the reason being was, as I suspect, to keep the readers from guessing who the main character is (please tell us who it is already, Square Enix!). So, kudos for the cleverness, but I'm still wary of it coming off as "vague".
November 26, 2025
2 1/2 stars
Oddly written 2nd-person narrative that makes the protagonist and their actions very wooden. Then again, the game it's based on is very similar.
Oddly written 2nd-person narrative that makes the protagonist and their actions very wooden. Then again, the game it's based on is very similar.
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