Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories: Difference between revisions

The first world they go to is [[Traverse Town]], where they discover that [[Leon]], [[Aerith]], [[Yuffie]], and [[Cid]] have forgotten all about them. Strangely, though, they remember Sora, Donald, and Goofy's names, with Yuffie even mentioning that her heart still holds memories of them, even if her head doesn't. Leon gives Sora a tutorial on fighting and gives Sora a summon card, they leave Traverse Town.

The cloaked man from before appears once more after they arrive on the next floor, but a second cloaked man also appears and introduces himself as [[Axel]]. Cloaked man give Axel a card and ask him to challenge Sora instead of him, to which Axel agrees. Sora fends him off and is given more World Cards, all of them sampled from Sora memories and thus resemble worlds he already visited previously. Sora, Donald, and Goofy go through each floor, they relive their memories from their first adventure, but all of them are somehow distorted in a different way. The party realise that their heads are being manipulated as they begin to lose their original memories. By piecing together their distorted memories, they eventually discover that a [[Nobody]], [[Naminé]], has been reorganizing their memories at the orders of [[Marluxia]], the Nobody who led them to the castle, in order to put herself in [[Kairi]]'s place within Sora's memories and thus make him easy to control by the [[Organization XIII]] and Marluxia primarly. As the boy makes his way to the peak of the castle, Sora slays the Organization members [[Larxene]] and [[Vexen]] (although Axel is the one who puts an end to Vexen by blazing him out), as well as defeating the [[Riku Replica]] created by Vexen who has been progammed by scientist to be loyal to the Organization and later reprogrammed by Namine to think that he's the real Riku.

Meanwhile, [[Riku]] chooses to reject the peaceful sleep of the [[Realm of Darkness]] and is pulled through a Corridor of Darkness to the basement of the castle. He makes his way through the castle with the assistance of [[Mickey Mouse|King Mickey]], while fending off the temptations of [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness|Ansem]], who has left a piece of himself within Riku's [[heart]] and wants Riku to return to being his host, as well as repelling attacks from Vexen, [[Lexaeus]], [[Zexion]], and their Riku Replica, who want to use Riku as a weapon to counter Marluxia's use of Sora. Along the way, Riku discovers that not all of Ansem's temptations were actually made by Ansem—some were instead made by [[DiZ]], who was disguising himself as Ansem in order to test Riku's resistance to [[darkness]].

The Riku Replica instead chooses to reject its given memories entirely, and leaves to find his own purpose. Desperate to prove that he is his own person, he is persuaded by Axel to slay Zexion in order to take his power and become something that the original Riku is not, but he is disappointed when it doesn't make him feel any different. Riku, following advice from DiZ to seek Naminé, runs into his Replica at the basement resembling Twilight Town. Enraged, the Replica challenges Riku to a mortal fight. Real Riku wins, and tries to comfort his suffering Replica as the latter fades away. Afterward, Riku finds Naminé and ready to slay the girl for what she has done, but Naminé quickly explain the situation about Sora and two are befriended each other. Naminé offers to manipulate Riku's memories in order to lock Ansem's phantom away, but Riku declines and instead chooses to confront Ansem directly. DiZ supports Riku, by giving him black coat so the Organization won't be able to track him down and also giving him a card to the last basement floor. When Ansem emerges from the basement, Riku is ready to take him down. Riku manages to defeat part of Ansem's presense in him, but his power still lingers inside the boy.

After defeating Ansem, Riku and Mickey go to the crossroads outside the castle, where [[DiZ]] appears once again to ask if Riku will be following the road to [[light]] or the road to darkness. Instead, Riku replies that neither suits him and chooses the middle road. DiZ asks him if he takes to road to nightfall, to which Riku replies that he's not, and the road he choose is "the road to dawn".