Port Royal



Port Royal is a world from Kingdom Hearts II.

Based on Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Port Royal and Atlantica follow Disney Castle in availability. It is a dark world, with only specific areas touched by the moon's light. The first boss of Port Royal is Captain Barbossa and the Illuminator, while the second boss is the Grim Reaper.

First Visit
Sora, Donald and Goofy arrive at Port Royal and notice something different about this world. They find Pete talking to Barbossa and fight his pirates. After a few tries they are hinted by Pete that the pirates are vulnerable in moonlight.

After defeating the pirates, Sora and Co. meet Will Turner and Jack Sparrow. They all join together to get back the Black Pearl and rescue Elizabeth Swann from being killed as part of Barbossa's plan to lift the curse.

Upon reaching Isla de Muerta, Jack and Will go ahead to get Elizabeth while Sora, Donald, and Goofy stay behind. After a while Will runs out with Ms. Swann but not Jack.

Turns out the pirates needed Will's blood, the blood of a pirate.

Barbossa and his pirates catch up and attack the Interceptor.

They leave everyone on the ship to fight heartless while they take Will with them to free the curse. Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Jack catch up to Barbossa and end up fighting his pirate minions, while Jack is busy fighting Barbossa himself.

Jack is distracted by Sora's yelling and is stabbed by Barbossa but doesn't die because he is cursed also. Barbossa yells for Pete's help who calls in his special heartless, the Illuminator, which has the power to cause all light to go out.

They defeat the heartless and Barbossa and Pete runs off again.

Jack finally defeats Barbossa after throwing a medallion with his blood on it to Will, who has a medallion with his own blood on it.

Will drops the two medallions in the chest, which causes the curse to be lifted and Barbossa to be mortal. Jack then shoots Barbossa and he dies.

Now that all is calm, everyone heads back to the Black pearl and Jack's compass glows.

Sora shoots a beam of light at it opening another path to a new world to explore.

Second Visit
On the second visit, Sora, Donald and Goofy discover that the medallion issue is far from over. They have to travel around Port Royal and find 4 Gambler Nobodies hidden around the Ship Graveyard and Isla de Muerta and steal the medallion each one holds. Once this is done, the trio plus Jack battle the evil Grim Reaper, who can only be attacked when all 882 medallions are in the chest.

Characters
As a side note, two characters (both important in the films), were referenced in the game. At the Fort in Port Royal, if Sora examines the cannons, he finds a note: "For use in pirate attacks - Commodore Norington." Norington was an English commodore who attempted to arrest and execute Jack for his pirate activity. Then, of course, the story acknowledges "Bootstrap Bill" Turner both as Will's father and the one member of Barbossa's crew who failed to pay the blood sacrifice, seeing as Barbossa strapped him to a cannon and threw him overboard. (Of course, if you've seen the other two movies, you know that Bootstrap escaped by making a pact with Davy Jones and is now in service on board the Flying Dutchman, but none of that has come up in the games yet. Possibly not ever.)

Trivia

 * As an inside joke, Sora mentions that Port Royal looks and feels stranger than any other world that they've ever visited before. Though the reason is never specifically stated, it is obvious that the reason is because everything but Sora, Donald, Goofy, Pete, the Heartless, Luxord, and the Nobodies in Port Royal are "realistic" instead of "cartoonish."  This was because as of yet Port Royal and Space Paranoids are the only worlds based off of a live-action movie.
 * The original battle level in Port Royal is 20, while later on it is 34. The theme music in Port Royal is Nights of the Cursed.  Its battle music is He's a Pirate!
 * The battle music in Port Royal on LV.34 is an arranged version of the famous "He's a Pirate!" track from the movie.
 * In the American and European verson of Kingdom Hearts II some cutscenes have been edited, such as that Will is not aiming a gun to his head when he is threatening to commit suicide and Barbossa's sword is never in Jack's chest. Also, undead pirates do not catch fire and their guns have been changed to crossbows. And an interest note is the famous speech of Barbossa in the Black Pearl due to the total remove of the mention of lust and women.
 * In one of the "rooms" in the ship graveyard, an anchor can be attacked, thus making it swing across the room, damaging anything in its way.