Kingdom Hearts: Waking Destiny

Details
In this adition to the Kingdom Hearts series, the player will be allowed, once again, to play as three different characters and discover their story lines. The three characters you get to play as are: Sora, Ventus, and Riku. Since Ventus is only playable later on in the game, so he starts off with a higher level. Each of them have different events that they go through and they meet up at different parts of the story. Each character will have signature moves and abilities such as dark type moves for Riku, and light based attacks for Sora and Ventus. Although Sora and Ventus both can be considered warriors of light, they will have different ways and styles of using their power. Also, different keychains for the character's keyblades will be obtained after different events in the story. This game shall be played on the Playstation 3 and Nintendo 3DS. Controls for this game are going to be similar to Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2. The command system found in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep will be brought back, too.

Story
After the events of Kingdom Hearts 2, Sora, now being back on Destiny Islands, relaxes with his two best friends Riku and Kairi. But, after a storm much like the one that hit Destiny Islands in the first game, a portal opens up leading to another world that has not been visited by Sora. Sora curiously steps through this portal and finds himself in the World of Darkness. But, what he doesn't know is that Riku followed him into the portal.

Sora's Story:
After winding roads and running into countless Heartless and Nobodies, Sora ends up at a beach. On one of the rocks on the shore, sits Aqua. Sora introduces himself and Aqua quickly realizes that Sora is the person the "man dressed in black" told her about. As Aqua is explaining to Sora what the man was telling her, they were surrounded by Heartless. Drawing their keyblades, they eliminated them together.

After defeating the Heartless, Sora realizes Aqua didn't introduce herself completely. Sora asks Aqua where she is from and how she winded up in the World of Darkness. Aqua, then tells Sora the events that took place |about 11 years ago. After hearing what happened to Ventus, Sora asked her if she believes he will wake up once again. Aqua replies to Sora telling him that he may possibly be awake already.

Sora quickly decides that they should find Aqua's long lost friend, Ven. Aqua tells Sora that she last left him inside Castle Oblivion. Sora quickly realizes that he has been there before and tells Aqua. Aqua tells him that she is the only one who can find him so, Sora has to stay close to her or, as her master, Eraqus said, he "will be lost to oblivion". Although they do not know where to go to get to Castle Oblivion, they set off for their destination.

Riku's Story:
Upon entering the portal, Riku was also transported to the World of Darkness. But, he was taken to a different part of the world. Alone, Riku sets off looking for Sora. Along the way, he runs into many Heartless and Nobodies. Coincidentally enough, he finds himself back at Castle Oblivion. Riku then goes inside and half expects the Orginization XIII to be waiting for him. Remembering the fact that Sora and company destroyed the Organization XIII, he relaxes a little.

Looking around the main hall for Sora, he runs into more Heartless and quickly defeats them. After the little Heartless are destroyed, a Darkside rises from the center of the room. Riku goes after it head on. Having difficulty defeating the Heartless, he then retreats to the next room. Now, remembering the events in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, going from room to room causes a little bit of confusion.

Thankfully, cards are no longer needed to change rooms. Each room is a different world once visited by Sora and company. Riku travels through each room/world and deals with different problems in each area. He fights many Heartless and a few Nobody bosses along the way.

Meeting up:
The game, then cut in where Sora and Aqua are walking on a dark road. After talking a little about their homes, they realize they're at Castle Oblivion. Entering Castle Oblivion they encounter Heartless and together they take them out. Aqua takes the lead and leads Sora through different rooms in Castle Oblivion. After advancing through different rooms/worlds, they find themselves in a room representing Traverse Town.

In the First District, they find Riku surrounded by Heartless and Nobodies. They rush to his rescue and all three of them destroy their foes. After the battle is over, Sora and Riku happily greet each other and then Sora introduces Aqua to Riku. After they are done getting to know each other, Riku then tells Sora and Aqua about what happened when he entered the portal and about what he went through while in Castle Oblivion.

Aqua then informs Riku that she is the only one who can navigate through Castle Oblivion correctly. Sora breaks in and tells him that they are looking for Aqua's friend Ventus. Riku agrees to go with them to find Ven and they set off to find Aqua's lost friend.

Finding Ventus:
The three keyblade weilders finally enter a blank room with a chair at it's center. Reclining in the chair is Ventus, sleeping. Auqua rushes to Ven's side and picks him up and holds him. Sora apporaches Aqua and Ventus and reaches out to touch Ven. When Sora's hand comes in contact with Ven, a flash of light illuminates the room. Sora then drops to the floor and goes unconcious. Aqua quickly sets Ven back in the chair and rushes to aid Sora and Riku rushes to him as well.

In Sora's dream, he finds himself back in the Station of Awakening. The face of the pillar has both Sora and Ventus on it. Standing a few feet in front of Sora is Ventus. Ventus introudces himself to Sora and thanks him for opening his heart to him. Sora then asks him why he had to join hearts with him in the first place and Ven tells him his story. Sora realizes that Ventus and Roxas look extremely similar but brushes the matter aside.

Sora and Ventus wake up simultaneously and Aqua rushes to help Ventus. Sora and Ven then explain how Ventus had to join hearts with Sora to Riku and Aqua. When they finish explaining, Heartless rush in and the four of them battle. The player is now able to choose which character they want to be: Sora, Riku, or Ventus. Which character the player chooses does not matter. After the Heartless are disposed of the four discuss what they should do now that they're all together. Sora suggests that they should find a way back to their homes and everyone agrees with Sora's plan.

Homeward Bound:
Just before leaving Castle Oblivion, the player can once again choose which character he/she wishes to play as. Once again, it does not matter which character the player chooses, the storyline will not be altered. Sora, Riku, Aqua, and Ventus fight their way out of the Castle Oblivion area and make it back on the road again. Sora and company travel on the winding roads and battle Heartless and Nobodies along the way. In their travels, they find scattered houses and they investigate each one of them.

Inside these houses are different people, each of them are old friends of Sora that he met in his previous adventures such as Cloud, Aerith, Yuffie, Tifa, Tidus, Wakka, and many others. But, in each of the houses the people are sheltered in, there is a boss guarding the hiding character. After defeating the boss of each house, the person or people taking shelter in the house will join Sora but will not be playable. Sora and company talk with each found character and ask them how they ended up in the World of Darkness. Each of them say that the exact same storm that hit Destiny Islands hit their home worlds as well and they're not sure why or how it happened.

Final Difficulties
After finding all the lost characters and defeating the bosses gaurding them, the party then reaches a temple at the very end of the road. Again, the player can choose which character he/she wishes to be. All of the characters walk inside of the temple to investigate and they find themselves trapped inside. Since the way they came in is blocked off, they choose to continue their investigation.

Going from room to room, they encounter many Heartless and Nobodies. Each room mysteriously has a few designs and details that represent each world the characters belong to. After going through each room, the party ends up at a final door. Inside this final door in a massive ballroom-like designed room. At the very far end of the room is circle shaped addition having numerous portals leading to each world.

Excitedly, all the party members rush off to the portals but are only to be stopped by a massive shadowy creature. This creature calls himself the Omega Shadow. The Omega Shadow represents a massive dragon and is completely black and has eyes shaped like the Unversed and colored the same way as shadows. He tells everyone that they now belong to him and they will soon submit to darkness. He tells everyon that it was he who created the storms in each of the worlds and opened up the portals just to lure them into the World of Darkness just so he could destroy his biggest threats in each world. The Omega Shadow explined that this was his attempt to do what Xemnas, Ansem the Seeker of Darkness, and Xehanort could not accomplish; filling all the worlds with darkness. Sora argues that together they will overpower him and return everyone back to their homes.

The Omega Shadow, then makes cages made of shadow ensnare each character. But, Sora, Ventus, and Riku avoid the enclosing cages. Together, they take on the Omega Shadow. For the final time, the player gets to choose their character to battle with. After a long grueling battle, the three defeat the Omega Shadow and free all of the caged characters. As the Omega Shadow is fading away, he tells Sora, Ven, Riku, and Aqua that no matter what they do, darkness will always win in the end. Then, he disappears.

Home at Last
After saying goodbye to eachother, the characters enter the portals that lead them back to their homes. To make sure that the portals to the World of Darkness could not be abused again, Sora, Ven, Aqua, and Riku seal each of the portals. After all the portals are sealed, Aqua and Ventus thank Sora and Riku for helping them getting reunited. Ventus remembers that he forgot to ask Aqua what ever happened to Terra and she says that she wasn't really sure.

Sora asks Ven and Aqua about Terra and they explain that he is another one of their friends. Sora then tells them that if they were to stay with him and Riku, they could help find their friend Terra. Aqua and Ven discuss the matter and decide to go back home with them due to the fact that their home was destroyed my Xehanort. Together, Sora, Riku, Ven, and Aqua enter the portal leading to Destiny Islands and the game ends.