Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories: Difference between revisions

The game focuses on [[Sora]], [[Donald]] and [[Goofy]] making their way through a [[Castle Oblivion|mysterious castle]] and reliving their memories of ''Kingdom Hearts'', but with a card-based battle system. Aspects of the storyline are essential to understanding ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'' and also later entries in the series.

[[File:Promise of a Reunion 01 KHRECOM.png|thumb|left|Sora is invited to Castle Oblivion.]]

After Ansem, Seeker of Darkness is [[Kingdom Hearts I|defeated]] all worlds are restored, but there still ho sigh of King's return. [[Sora]], [[Donald Duck|Donald]], and [[Goofy]] walk on the path on lush green field discussing where Mickey could be, when they see [[Pluto]] going somewhere. The trio start to chase him.  

Pluto leads them to a crossroad. Not sure which path to take, a mysterious man in a [[black coat|black cloak]] approaches party and speaks to him, but his words are incomprehensible. The crossroads becomes one path and it leads trio to [[Castle Oblivion]]. The cloaked man appear before Sora, sampling his memories by going through him. After that, he tells party that in this castle "To to find is to lose. And to lose is to find" and then gives Sora a [[cards|card]], which he create from boy's memory. The man explains to trio how to use these cards and then disappear in [[Corridor of Darkness|black portal]]. Sora then use the card to proceed through the castle.

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, and the party then 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 one 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 Nobodies and later reprogrammed by Naminé 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 again. Riku denies and go through the Castle's basements, repelling attacks from Vexen, [[Lexaeus]], [[Zexion]], and Riku Replica as well. The Organization wanted to use Real Riku as a weapon to counter Marluxia's use of Sora if he succeed in doing so. Along the way, Riku discovers that not all of Ansem's temptations were made by actual Ansem—some were instead made by [[DiZ]], who was disguising himself as Ansem in order to test Riku's resistance to [[darkness]].

 

[[File:Marluxia's Graceful Blade 01 KHRECOM.png|thumb|right|Marluxia is behind all schemes in Castle Oblivion]]

At the top of the castle, the 13th floor, Sora is ready to put an end to the rogue Nobody. After intense battle, Marluxia defeated by Sora's hands, making him fifth member of the Organization to die. Due to the damage done to Sora's memory, Naminé offers Sora a choise: to restore his memories, although it means he will forget everything in the castle or keep fake memories placed in him and leave Castle Oblivion right now. Sora asks Naminé to return the way that he was. Naminé agrees, but tells Sora that it will take a long time. Sora, Donald, and Goofy is ready to do this and go to rest in the [[Memory Pod|capsules]] provided by Naminé.

 

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, and Riku is ready to take him down. Boy manages to defeat part of Ansem's presense in him, but his power still lingers inside Riku.

After defeating Ansem, Riku and Mickey go to the crossroads outside of 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 choose the middle road. DiZ asks him is he takes road to the nightfall, to which Riku replies that he's not, and the road he chose is "the road to dawn".