All of a sudden, he receives a Keyblade out of thin air to ward them off. until he happens upon monsters that look similar to the previous game’s Heartless. Roxas is having a good time with his friends. Roxas looks a lot like Sora (Winter Version). But there are similarities to the carefree start of Sora’s adventure, suggesting that we’re in for something of an homage to KH1. Why are we playing as him? Why are we suddenly in a place called Twilight Town, instead of any of the areas we remember from the previous game? It’s unclear. But this isn’t Sora - it’s Roxas, a teen that looks a whole lot like a blond version of Sora. Kingdom Hearts 2 begins with a spiky-haired hero, just like Kingdom Hearts does. If you skipped right ahead to KH2, there’s a whole bunch of weird stuff you missed out on, as you’ll quickly tell. But Kingdom Hearts does not obey earthly logic. In the interest of expediency, this shouldn’t be an issue, right? Two follows one, according to basic number theory. Let’s say you made the jump right from Kingdom Hearts to Kingdom Hearts 2. Riku and King Mickey end up getting stuck on the wrong side of the door. Square EnixĪll’s well that ends well, right? Nah. He looks mostly the same! Just way more buff and with an even less practical outfit. This is what Riku looks like when he’s possessed by Ansem. King Mickey shows up to help the gang seal away the darkness that was let out when someone opened the door to a hallowed, all-powerful place called Kingdom Hearts (!). Sora fights Riku - and Ansem - into submission, causing his best friend to remember his true self.
That would be Ansem, who is an extremely powerful, human-looking version of a Heartless. It’s a bummer, but things wrap up fairly neat and tidy at the end: Riku isn’t actually evil, but instead possessed by someone who is. When Sora finally reunites with Riku toward the end of his journey, he discovers that his best buddy is also working for the bad guys now.
To do so, he must defeat Maleficent and other villains she’s teamed up with. Sora is the only one who can get rid of them and brighten up the world, thanks to the Keyblade. The darkness is the result of an infestation of Heartless - which are darkness incarnate - that is seemingly controlled by Sleeping Beauty’s iconic witch Maleficent. (The Disney crossover is seriously never explained, so let’s just leave it at that.) Donald, Goofy, and Sora team up to find King Mickey Mouse, Kairi, and Riku, respectively, who have all disappeared in the eye of that universe-engulfing storm. He also meets two new companions, Donald Duck and Goofy, who are on the hunt for their own missing friend. Square EnixĮven in this place, Traverse Town, Sora finds darkness in every corner. He’s the playable lead of Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2. Sora comes out on the other side of it with a fancy sword, the Keyblade, and his foot in a strange new land, but his friends are nowhere to be found.
Their dream is realized when a storm brings darkness to their world, sweeping Sora away with it. He’s also a teen with dreams of venturing far away from his home on Destiny Islands - as do his lifelong best friends, Riku and Kairi. Sora is a hero cut from a familiar, Square Enix JRPG cloth: He’s got plenty of zippers on his clothes, very spiky hair, and a strangely beautiful face. Prepare yourself for a journey into some truly wild places. If you want a simple recap of what happened in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2, we’re here to quickly catch you up. But we also can guess that many people played Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2 when they were much younger, and are now coming back to check out Kingdom Hearts 3. It’s not unfair to assume that complete newcomers are now perking their ears up, wanting to know more about this series. You know the basics: Anime-styled heroes join up with Disney characters to take on Disney villains and anime-styled villains. Kingdom Hearts 3 is almost here after years of waiting, and perhaps you want to be equipped to handle the current conversation - but have very little idea as to why.
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