KH3D icon.png

Symphony of Sorcery: Difference between revisions

From the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, the Kingdom Hearts encyclopedia
Jump to navigationJump to search
(Considering the fact that both of their adventures didn't intertwine with each other during the plot (except for the end), I don't think it's possible to place their events in chronological order)
(→‎Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance: There still is plot crossover, which should be represented. Doing the Sides is iffy enough when the plots are totally independent, but this isn't)
Line 42: Line 42:
While carrying buckets of water in the tower, Mickey spots Yen Sid's sorcerer's hat on his desk. Making sure that no one was around, he puts it on and begins casting magic, unknowingly summoning [[Spellican|a Dream Eater]]. As Sora arrives, he witness Mickey casting magic spells, bringing in a few waves, shooting stars, thunderclouds and the Dream Eater Mickey accidentally summoned, which then attacks Sora and knocks him out cold.
While carrying buckets of water in the tower, Mickey spots Yen Sid's sorcerer's hat on his desk. Making sure that no one was around, he puts it on and begins casting magic, unknowingly summoning [[Spellican|a Dream Eater]]. As Sora arrives, he witness Mickey casting magic spells, bringing in a few waves, shooting stars, thunderclouds and the Dream Eater Mickey accidentally summoned, which then attacks Sora and knocks him out cold.


When Sora reawakens, he recognizes that he is in what appears to be [[Mysterious Tower|Yen Sid's tower]]. However, since a sleeping Mickey, who is covered in darkness, does not recognize him, Sora guesses that he was in another dream world, of the days when Mickey was training to become a Keyblade master. Communicating telepathically with Sora, Mickey explains that a musical book has been possessed by darkness through a monster, trapping Mickey in the book and preventing anyone from entering, and the only way to defeat the darkness is to retrieve a Sound Idea. Recognizing the Dream Eater that escaped Traverse Town, Sora offers to help Mickey, which the latter summons an unpossessed book that Sora enters with his Keyblade.
When Sora reawakens, he recognizes that he is in what appears to be [[Mysterious Tower|Yen Sid's tower]]. However, since a sleeping Mickey, who is covered in darkness, does not recognize him, Sora guesses that he was in another dream world, of the days when Mickey was training to become a Keyblade master. Communicating telepathically with Sora, Mickey explains that a musical book has been possessed by darkness through a monster, trapping Mickey in the book and preventing anyone from entering, and the only way to defeat the darkness is to retrieve a Sound Idea. Recognizing the Dream Eater that escaped Traverse Town, Sora offers to help Mickey, which the latter summons an untainted book that Sora enters with his Keyblade.


Making his way through the magical realm within the book, Sora soon finds the Sound Idea in the Fields, but was then confronted by [[Xehanort|the unknown man]], who explains that he will be waiting for Sora in [[The World That Never Was|an area beyond sleep]]. Sora returns to the tower and Mickey tries using the Sound Idea on the possessed book. When it failed, Mickey concludes that one Sound Idea was not enough to rid the darkness from it. Sora reassures him, saying that he has a friend out there that was helping him and "picking up his slack". As Sora closes his eyes, another Sound Idea appears, allowing Sora to use them to create [[Dearly Beloved|a powerful song]] that enhances its power to destroy the darkness in the book, although Mickey was yet to be recovered. Now being able to enter the book, Sora goes in and fights the Spellican in the Sorcerer's Apprentice area, freeing Mickey and allowing him to wake up. With his spirit back in his body, Mickey thanks Sora with a friendly handshake. Leaving to fetch the water before he gets into trouble, Mickey runs to the door, but not before bidding Sora farewell and that he will see him soon, to which the latter agrees to. After a [[Keyhole]] appears, Sora seals it, and continues on his journey.
Making his way through the magical realm within the book, Sora soon finds the Sound Idea in the Fields, but was then confronted by [[Xehanort|the unknown man]], who explains that he will be waiting for Sora in [[The World That Never Was|an area beyond sleep]]. Sora returns to the tower and Mickey tries using the Sound Idea on the possessed book. When it failed, Mickey concludes that one Sound Idea was not enough to rid the darkness from it. Sora reassures him, saying that he has a friend out there that was helping him and "picking up his slack". As Sora closes his eyes, another Sound Idea appears, allowing Sora to use them to create [[Dearly Beloved|a powerful song]] that enhances its power to destroy the darkness in the book, although Mickey was yet to be recovered. Now being able to enter the book, Sora goes in and fights the Spellican in the Sorcerer's Apprentice area, freeing Mickey and allowing him to wake up. With his spirit back in his body, Mickey thanks Sora with a friendly handshake. Leaving to fetch the water before he gets into trouble, Mickey runs to the door, but not before bidding Sora farewell and that he will see him soon, to which the latter agrees to. After a [[Keyhole]] appears, Sora seals it, and continues on his journey.

Revision as of 07:29, 14 September 2013

Symphony of Sorcery

Symphony of Sorcery KH3D.png
Symphony of Sorcery Logo KH3D.png
Japanese シンフォニー・オブ・ソーサリー

Romaji Shinfonī Obu Sōsarī
Game Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

Origin Fantasia (1940)
Themes Header.png

KH3D tracks
Field theme - L'Apprenti Sorcier
Battle theme - Symphony No.6 "Pastoral" Op.68
File:Pastoral (Sora, Symphony of Sorcery, Field & Battle) KH3D.ogg
Battle theme - The Nutcracker Suite Op.71
File:The Nutcracker Suite (Riku, Symphony of Sorcery, Field & Battle) KH3D.ogg
Other worlds
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts
Dive to the Heart | Destiny Islands | Disney Castle
Traverse Town | Wonderland | Olympus Coliseum
Deep Jungle | Agrabah | Monstro
Atlantica | Halloween Town | Neverland
100 Acre Wood | Hollow Bastion
End of the World | Realm of Darkness
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories
Castle Oblivion | Twilight Town
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts II
Mysterious Tower | Radiant Garden
The Land of Dragons | Beast's Castle | Timeless River
Port Royal | Pride Lands | Space Paranoids
The World That Never Was | End of Sea | Keyblade Graveyard
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts coded
Datascape
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Land of Departure | Mirage Arena
Dwarf Woodlands | Enchanted Dominion | Castle of Dreams
Disney Town | Deep Space
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
La Cité des Cloches | The Grid | Symphony of Sorcery
Country of the Musketeers | Prankster's Paradise
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts χ[chi]
Daybreak Town
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts Union χ[Cross]
Game Central Station | Niceland | Cy-Bug Sector | Candy Kingdom
Introduced in Kingdom Hearts III
The Final World | Secret Forest | Olympus
Toy Box | Kingdom of Corona | Monstropolis
Arendelle | The Caribbean | San Fransokyo
Scala ad Caelum | Quadratum

Symphony of Sorcery is a Sleeping World that is featured in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, the second to be based on the Disney film, Fantasia. Like Timeless River and Country of the Musketeers, Symphony of Sorcery is a world from Mickey's past, in particular during the period where Mickey was Yen Sid's apprentice. As a world based on music, all the sounds of battle are replaced with musical notes, and dialogue is only present in specific cutscenes.

Development

Since the conception of the first Kingdom Hearts, Tetsuya Nomura had wanted to include a world based on Fantasia, but was unable to and ended up only including Chernabog as a boss in End of the World, though in a battlefield very similar to the Night on Bald Mountain segment.[1]

Setting and Areas

Main article: Mysterious Tower

The Symphony of Sorcery is a world composed of the dreams of the Mysterious Tower's past. New to the familiar tower are Mickey's songbooks, which serve as portals to three new, beautiful locations.

For Sora, Mickey summons a pink songbook based on The Pastoral Symphony. It leads to the Cloudwalk, an expanse of clouds and rocky pillars connected by rainbows, beneath a brilliant blue sky. The Cloudwalk connects to a forested Glen filled with twisters and stormclouds, which itself ends at the stormy Fields, a rainbow-colored field dotted with pavilions and the hiding place of the first Sound Idea.

For Riku, Mickey summons a blue songbook based on the Nutcracker Suite, where everything is larger-than-life. The songbook opens up on the Moonlight Wood, a patch of flowers in the midst of night. Across a shining lake lies the Golden Wood, where the leaves themselves sprinkle pieces of Munny. At the top of that forest is a path to the wintry Snowgleam Wood, a frozen landscape containing icy slides, floating snowflakes, chilly ponds, and the second Sound Idea. However, once Riku retrieves the Sound Idea, Young Xehanort appears and casts him into the Bald Mountain, lair of the demon Chernabog.

The final red songbook, based on The Sorcerer's Apprentice, contains a simple Precipice above the sea where the Spellican lurks. When Sora arrives, he chases the Nightmare onto a starry road flowing through the sky, which also contains a miniature arena filled with multicolored asteroids and a stellar river.

The Symphony of Sorcery's Reality Shift, Melody Catcher, is vital for exploring the realm of the songbooks. It allows Sora to summon new clouds and rainbows in the Cloudwalk, calm the twisters in the Glen, and sweep away the stormy night in the Fields. Conversely, Riku uses the technique to open flower buds and part weeds in the Moonlight Wood, sprout a bower of leaves in the Golden Wood, and summon giant snowflakes in the Snowgleam Wood.

Story

Between Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts

Sometime after Terra-Xehanort's descent into darkness, his Heartless, Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, attacked many worlds. These worlds were consequently swallowed by the darkness. One of these worlds was Symphony of Sorcery. Although it was restored after Sora defeated Ansem and destroyed the End of the World, Symphony of Sorcery remained in a state of deep sleep, rather than returning to the Realm of Light. Trapped within the Realm of Sleep, it was plagued by Nightmare Dream Eaters.

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

Template:Section-stub

Characters

Enemies

Dream Eaters

Other

Gallery

Notes and references