

Because Axel and Marluxia have previously told Sora that the most precious memories are buried so deep within our hearts that they’re out of reach, Sora and friends realize that going deeper into the castle will help them remember all they’ve forgotten-they have to forget to remember. Sora suddenly “remembers” that she was a friend who played with him, Riku and Kairi on Destiny Islands, but he can’t remember her name. In between these scenes, we momentarily see flashes of a girl with blonde hair, blue eyes and a white dress, often seen drawing in her sketchbook. He meets several members of Organization XIII, starting with the cloaked figure, who is later revealed as Marluxia, and Axel, who tells Sora that the deeper he goes into the castle, the more memories he will forget.

Through each door, Sora steps into a different world he visited in Kingdom Hearts that he’s now reconstructed through his memories. That’s why you have the game’s awful card-based battle system, which might be why you skipped playing it…and which is probably why you’re here! Thus, Sora needs cards forged from memories to go through doors and progress deeper into the castle. The hooded figure from before steps through the entrance and lets them know that, while Sora and his friends are in the castle, they will be unable to remember every spell and ability they ever knew. Upon entering, the crew is convinced for some inexplicable reason that Mickey and their friend Riku are in the castle.

Bewildered by the message, the motley trio reaches a large castle-Castle Oblivion, which, if you read the first part of this series, you know used to be the Land of Departure. The three follow him, but eventually lose track of him and soon run into a figure in black robes who tells Sora that ahead lies something he needs but must lose something in order to attain. Instead of watching these games, which can amount to approximately 20 hours, why not read our (comparatively short) summaries for each game? Chain of MemoriesĪfter sealing Kingdom Hearts, Sora, Donald and Goofy are transported to a world where Pluto (King Mickey’s dog, of course) waits for them with an envelope signed by the king. Today, we’re moving onto the next three games in the series’s timeline: Chain of Memories, 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts II. Last time around, we ended with the first Kingdom Hearts, because this is the kind of series in which the first game is actually the third chronological game in the story.
