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The Game:
Kingdom Hearts II was the third game released in the Kingdom Hearts series, and the last time where the games actually got released in chronological order for quite a while. It was initially released in December 2005 in Japan, and in March of 2006 for the U.S., and naturally not too long after, a Final Mix was released in 2007 with an exclusive Japan release. There was a second version called version called Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+ that had an updated version of Kingdom Hearts II along with Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories. It wasn't until 2014 where the Final Mix version of this game got an international release as part of the Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX collection on the PlayStation 3. It was then released once more in 2017 as part of the Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX collection for the PlayStation 4.
The Story:
Picking up a year after Re:Chain of Memories, this game doesn't even follow Sora at all until a good two or three hours into things. The prologue instead follows a mysterious Keyblade wielder called Roxas, who eventually vanishes into Sora, where the real game finally begins. The remaining members of Organization XIII, who should really rename themselves at this point, continuously hound Sora, playing mindgames with the hero and unleasing Nobodies and Heartless into the various Disney worlds as they attempt to form their own Kingdom Hearts. Sora, Donald, and Goofy also search for King Mickey and Riku, the latter of the two seeming to have vanished from everyone's radar, as nobody knows where to find him.
About the LP:
This playthrough will also not be live. Although there is a secret ending, all it contains is a preview of Birth by Sleep, which I've played through already and is a game that's nearly a decade old by this point, so I will not be unlocking it. That being said, there are a lot of optional things in this game that I will be covering which includes:
-All worlds, including the optional Atlantica and Hundred Acre Woods
-All second visits to Disney worlds, even the optional ones
-The Mushroom XIII minigames
-The Absent Silhouettes
-The Data Organization XIII fights, maybe. I'll make a poll about it in the next post.
-The Lingering Will superboss
-Getting the Ultima Weapon
And as always, I will be playing the version included on the HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX for the PlayStation 4.
As a warning, since it came up in the Sandcastle thread, I WILL be talking during cutscenes, just so people know if that kind of thing bothers them.
Schedule:
If nothing hinders me, I plan on adding a new episode each Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Spoilers?:
All spoilers are allowed, as the game is well over a decade old. Spoilers for any other game in the series are also fine, up to and including trailers for Kingdom Hearts III.