If you ever want to play the games and understand the story more, the best way to do it is in chronological order. Light spoilers Ahead:
Kingdom Hearts in Chronological Order:
1. Kingdom Hearts X / X Back Cover / Unchained X / Union X (Events That Happened Before)
2. Kingdom Hearts Dark Road (Xehonart’s Story/Events That Happened Before)
3. Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep / Final Mix (Intro to the Wayfinder Trio)
4. Kingdom Hearts / Final Mix (Intro to Sora, Riku, and Kairi. Sora becomes a Keyblade wielder)
5. Kingdom Hearts Chain of memories / Re: Chain of Memories (Memories forgotten/Organization 13 introduced, Sora fights through Castle Oblivion to regain his memories)
6. Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (in tandem with Chain of Memories, Roxas is a member of Organization 13, shit happens)
7. Kingdom Hearts 2 / Final Mix (Sora is in stasis mode along with Donald and Goofy, Roxas questions who he is, Sora wakes up)
8. Kingdom Hearts Coded / Re: Coded (Data World stuff)
9. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (Sora and Riku take the Mark of Mastery test, Keyblade War lore, shit happens)
10. Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep 0.2: A Fragmentary Passage (Aqua’s Time in the Realm of Darkness. Goes in tandem with KH1 and leads into KH3.)
11. Kingdom Hearts 3 (Starts where the of A Fragmentary Passage left off. Sora needs to regain his power starting with a visit with Hercules in Olympus Coliseum/ Kairi and Axel train to be Keyblade masters, talks about Replicas, shit happens, Everyone is reunited, the Keyblade Wars happens, the X-blade is created once again, Xehonart’s a bitch and attacks Kairi, Sora saves her, Sora gets spirited away to somewhere else.)
12.Kingdom Hearts 3: ReMind DLC (KH3, but with more detail. Sora vs. Yozora, everyone connected to Sora tries to find him)
13. Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory (This may be a recap?)
Happy birthday Hanta Sero, aka Office Depot Spiderman- I mean Cellophane
Happy birthday, Tanjiro!
You don’t have to do this for the gods. Do it for Exandria. Cuz if Prodathos(sp?) gets released, it’ll be Calamity, part 2. Also powerful things that get released usually end up turning on the person that released them, which means Ludinus will probably end up being a puppet or die anyway.