A Kingdom Hearts speedrunner is trying to platinum one Kingdom Hearts per day, and has already had to restart a few times.
Twitch streamer and speedrunner Desa35 is well-known within the Kingdom Hearts community, having done platinum speedruns of each Kingdom Hearts game already and achieving some pretty impressive times. Desa35 is taking it one step further with his latest challenge, however, as he's now attempting to platinum one Kingdom Hearts game every day until he finishes them all.
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Anyone who has played a Kingdom Hearts game before will know that not only are all of them at least 30 hours to complete, but closer to 40 if you plan on platinuming them. The trophies in Kingdom Hearts games almost always ask the player to fully finish every aspect of the game, which can sometimes be down to randomised elements like materia drops.
As reported by eXputer, so far Desa35 has managed to platinum both the first Kingdom Hearts and Re: Chain of Memories, managing to do both in under 24 hours each. Despite those victories, the streams haven't been without issue so far, as Desa has actually had to restart the streams several times now. The first time was because of the first Kingdom Hearts' infamous 101 Dalmatians bug that can cause the whole game to crash.
The second time was due to Desa accidentally saving over five hours of progress in his Sora run of Chain of Memories, causing him to just outright restart the run. It's only going to get worse from here as pretty much every Kingdom Hearts game has a few known issues that can stop speedrunners in their tracks instantly.
Interestingly, it doesn't seem like it's actually possible to
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