Final Fantasy

The story begins in Twilight Town, a year has past since the events of Kingdom Hearts. Sora is looking for his lost friend Riku, and Donald and Goofy are searching for their King Mickey. On their quest, they will join up with new friends, encounter new foes and face many dangers in both worlds that are familiar and new.

"Walking this road,
Without you,
To remake forgotten promises and meet you at roads end."

"Faded Memories,
Reconstucted Memories,
A dream - a dream of you,
In a world without you."

"A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory.
A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream.
I want to line the pieces up --
yours and mine."

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There will be many faces from Kingdom Hearts that will be showing up again in KH II. As well as these characters, there will be a whole bunch of new characters that will make their appearance in Kingdom Hearts II

New Final Fantasy Characters:

Auron - Final Fantasy X
Yuna, Rikku and Paine - Final Fantasy X-2
Tifa - Final Fantasy VII
Vivi - Final Fantasy IX
Seifer, Fujin and Rajin - Final Fantasy VIII
Setzer - Final Fantasy VI

New Disney Characters:

Pete - Disney Cartoons
Cogsworth, Chip, Lumiere and Mrs. Potts - Beauty and The Beast
Meg, Pegasus - Hercules
Mulan, Captain Li Shang and Shan-Yu - Mulan
Chicken Little - Chicken Little

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Many new worlds will be open for exploration in Kingdom Hearts II.

New Kingdom Hearts worlds:

Twilight Town
Destiny Islands
Hollow Bastion
The World That Never Was (Deep Dive City)

New Disney Worlds:

Beast's Castle (Beaty and the Beast)
Land of Dragons (Mulan)
Port Royal (Pirates of the Carribean)
Timeless River (Steamboat Willie)
Pride Lands (The Lion King)
Space Paranoids (Tron)

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Kingdom Hearts II features a new and improved battle system, which will offer a number of new additions from the KH system. These include an increased selection of commands, which will allow for special attacks and also co-operative attacks between Sora and other members of the party.

Another new addition to the battle system, is known as the Drive mode. In this mode Sora will be able to transform himself into various different forms. Which will alter/improve his skills and abilities, some forms even allow Sora to merge with other party members. Although some of these forms will have their bad side effects, such as not having the ability to use magic.

The different forms that Sora can gain access to are:

Standard Form, Valor Form, Wisdom Form, Master Form and Final Form.

To activate the Drive mode, Sora will have to collect yellow balls from defeated enemies, until the Drive Gauge is full. Once in Drive mode the gauge will gradually decrease, until it reaches 0 and Sora will return to his normal self.

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The gummi ship, which was used in KH as a mode of transportation, will be returning in Kingdom Hearts II. Although this time round, the gummi ship will be more of an optional mini game.

Many changes and improvements have been made to the Gummi Ship gameplay. These changes include:

The speed of the ship, the pace of gameplay etc. will be alot faster.
Two ships will fight alongside your ship.
Nobody ships can be fought against, aswell as Heartless ships.
Like in the main battle gameplay, Reaction commands will be available to use.
There will be mid-flight bonuses up for grabs.
The whole ship can turn around.
Bosses can be fought during flight's.
While in flight, the ship can take multiple routes.

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Theme Song

Utada Hikaru, who wrote/sang the theme song for Kingdom Hearts, Hikari and Simple and Clean, has returned to write and sing the theme song for Kingdom Hearts II. The Japanese song, titled "Passion", will be sung with different lyrics in English, for the english release and will be called "Santuary".

Official Web Sites:

Link: Official Japanese WebSite
Link: Official USA Website

For more information, Final Fantasy Extreme will be completing its Kingdom Hearts 2 section sometime in the coming weeks.

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