Pride Lands



The Pride Lands is a world from Kingdom Hearts II.

The Pride Lands, despite the name, pertains to the three main parts of Africa that Simba explored during the events of The Lion King. This includes the Pride Lands itself, Pride Rock, the African Rainforest, and the Elephant Graveyard. Obviously, it is based off of the movie The Lion King.

The Pride Lands is very much like the Deep Jungle, a world from Kingdom Hearts.

Forms
While visiting Pride Lands, Sora, Donald, and Goofy change their forms into the forms animals native to Africa in order to blend in, albeit Donald and Goofy have their original facial features. Sora is transforms into a lion cub, Donald into a bird, and Goofy turns into a tortoise. Because of this, Sora cannot use any of his Drive Forms and/or Summons.

Ending Credits
In the ending credits, Rafiki is showing the newborn cub of Simba and Nala to the animal kingdom on Pride rock. Upon doing so, The pride lands are seen transformed into the lush tropical paradise not shown in the game. This new enviroment may and may not be subject for Pride lands to be in the next game.

Trivia

 * Jiminy Cricket mentions the actual world in his journal in Kingdom Hearts
 * Pride Lands was originally going to appear in Kingdom Hearts, but was removed due to time constraints.