I had a dream...

[NeoCracker]

Overall plot isn't really developed much until later no, but I find the little snipets on the characters you learn and just how Maleficents group si being run to be quite interesting.

Just got Aladin, and Genie mentions hering about a Keyhole some 200 years prior. Probably irelevant to the story overall, though that is something I found interesting he mentioned. Nothing of note happens until a ways into the cave of wonders either.

areThe only things to note i Jafar lets on about their plan, saying they need seven princesses to open the final door. I believe this is the only real information on their plan Sora has heard to date. Regardless, and that Riku seems to be on their side now. Maleficent seems to be using Kairi as a means to get Riku to help, though it doens't appear as they she is keeping Kairi captive, so much as she is able to help Riku get to her. Not to much is clear as of yet.

Just got Swallowed by Monstro, and now Sora has a flashback of him and Riku going intot he Secret Area back on destiny Island, where they were disapointed to not find any monsters to fight. They instead decide to go see the new girl living at the mayors house. Cut back to inside of Monstro.

A few pointless dialogue scenes, and you (Not Sora) see Riku walking through a tunnel, and you then see Pinnocio following after. Sora and Co traverse the depths of the Whale to find him. You immidiately find Riku, who seesm awefully hostile. towards Sora, and runs off with Pinnochio so you can 'play a game' or something along those lines.

Another cutscene emergest with Riku and Maleficent talking, and Riku showing an extreme distaste for her as she warns him of the darkness in his heart, claiming that the Heartless feed off of it.

Riku and Sora meet shortly after, Riku questions Sora's intent to save Kairi, as Pinnochio screams in the distance. The two follow after. Not really much to say here. It seems clear Riku is being strung around, and he hates the people he works for, a lot, and his goal is to ultimately save Kairi.

Riku helps save Pinnochio, though he seems to have alterior motives. He hints that Kairi's lost her heart, and he may be able to use Pinnochio to somehow restore her.

After encountering Riku again, he shows just how obsessed he's become with saving Kairi, going as far as to giving Pinnochio's own life no thought, if it means saving her. He escapes as youf ight a heartless. He does so through a dark portal he creates, showing you just how he has been getting around.

You are then treated to a scene were Maleficent explains to him that if they can obtain the Seven Princesses, they can open the door to the world of all hearts, and perhaps then they can save Kairi.

Only other thing to note is Ansem's Report 1. Here Ansem speaks of the darkness in peoples hearts, and how it can consume them. He is unaware of how the darkness is born, but it's safe to assume he is reffering to the Heartless once the Darkness takes over. He wished to learn what it is in order to save his world from it.

Anyway, on to Atlantica. It should be noted King Triton knows of the Key Bearer, and states that they bring Ruin where they go. He tells you to get the smurf out of his ocean basically. I am curious as to how Triton knows of the Key Bearer though. Outisde of that, you beat Ursala, seal the keyhole, and move on to the next land.

The lovely Haloween town. ^_^ I'll just take the time to say how much ass this world kicks appearance wise. There is one interesting point brought up though. Jack and the Doctor are trying to create a heart that will control the heartless, and Oogie wantsit so that he may control them. This says that not all the villains you encounter have the ability to control the Heartless. It's a gift Maleficent gave to Riku, and one that Jaffar seemed to possess as well. Perhaps not all Villains have really accepted the power of Darkness? Perhaps it has more to do with Oogie himself? Oogie seems to be able to use the power of Darkness though, given he submits to it for the final fight. So I'm guessing that Maleficent only gave a few of the villains the power to control Shadows, the only ones so far being able to are Jaffar and Riku.

Regardless, I'm now reading Ansem Report 3. Ansem the creatures Heartless, theorizing that they were people who lost their hearts. He determined that these heartless are devoid of Emotion.
Ansem report seven speaks in part of Gummi's, though the real information it gives you is apparently he opened some kind of door, and thats when the gummi's came in meteors, he begins theorizing about other worlds.

Just ran into Riku in Neverland, and he seems as hateful as ever. He has found Kairi, and Sora is trying to convince him to switch sides. And it seems hook can't control Heartless either. Other then that, it was revealed Riku ran off to Hallow Bastion, Maleficent's home base it seems. And sora still seems to believe he can save Kairi, of course. ;p

And finally we are treated to a flashback from Riku gazing upon the Door at destiny Island, only this time you see a Key Hole.

Maleficent warns Riku about overusing his dark powers as someone shows up at Hallow Bastion, allegedly arriving there through shear force of will, even though is world is destroyed. Maleficent proceeds to awaken further powers in Riku.

Finally to Ansem report 9. King Mickey found his way to this world, and spoke with Ansem about many things. It seems Ansem's opening the door allowed for travel between worlds. Mickey told Ansem the Legend of the Key Blade, which means he has known about the Key-blades for some time now. It's curious as to just how this is.

Edit: And now to finish KH 1 off.

Now que flashback 'like' story with Sora. Kairi is being told a sotry of people who were overcome by darkness, and the old women telling the story speaks of scattered worlds, adn a bright light in the darkness. This makes it sound as though some of the elders of Destiny Islands knew about the other worlds.

On to Hallow Bastion, Riku jacked my Key Blade, claiming I was his 'delivery boy' and didn't have what it took to save Kairi. In the fastest double backstab ever, Donald and Goofy follow after Riku, then within the hour jumped back to my side..

Anyway, Sora's heart proved stronger and won back the Key Blade and Riku ran off. One other thing to note, however, is beast. He managed to get to Hallow Bastion through force of will. No gummi's or darkness, just shear awesome. But yes, it is interesting that is even possible,

Regardless, we finally see the creepy shrouded figure back from Destiny Island again. He tells Riku 'The heart that is strong and true shall win the Keyblade.' He tells Riku his heart was weaker then Sora's, but by plunging even further into Darkness, his heart shall grow stronger.

He also mentions Riku showed no fear when going through the door to Darkness. I believe he has been connected to Riku since the events at destiny Island because of this. Riku not seeming phased by his appearance seems to hint at a connection as well.

Further into Hallow Bastion, you see Riku talking to Maleficent, who is completely un-phased by Riku's strange new voice. I believe that she was in cahoots with the shrouded man because of this. Unable to open the Keyhole here at Hallow Bastion, however, it is noted that they are unable to fully reveal the Keyhole without her heart. Riku also possesses a Keyblade of his own now.

Malificant also reveals her plan to use the Darkness to conquer all worlds, believing herself above the darkness's control. However, that quickly changes in just a few short moments. After you beat her, Riku reveals his Keyblade unlocks ones heart, and when doing so to Maleficent, the darkness overpowers her. After beating her again, Riku says she was being used by the Heartless since the beginning.

Following after Riku you end up in the chamber all the Princesses are kept. Sora immediately realized that this 'Riku' isn't really Riku. 'Riku' proceeds to say that Kairi's heart has been resting inside of Sora this whole time, which could explain the flash back Sora had to one of Kairi's memories, instead of his own.

And I'm going to be the first to say how smurfing creapy it was to hear Sora say 'Kairi's Inside me?"

Anyway, 'Riku' reveals himself to really be Ansem, the Seeker of Darkness. After defeating Ansem, he disappears. Sora and gang now want to wake up Kairi, in order to finish the final Keyhole to lock it. To do so, Sora picks up the Keyblade Ansem left behind, and used it to unlock Kairi's Heart by... stabbing himself. I know this makes sense given everything thats happened so far, but its kinda creepy that he does it with a smile.

Kairi wakes just in time to see Sora disappear, and we cut to Sora 'falling into Darkness'. Kairi doesn't take this very well.

A white haired man suddenly appears and approaches Kairi, however a spirit like form of Riku appears in front of him saying, 'No, you won't use me for this.' and the other make an escape. It's a safe assumption that this is the same body that you fought, only it no longer looks like Riku, but Ansem.

Regardless, I am currently running around as a Heartless. Not even a cool one, but one of the dinky smurfs that pop up everywhere. Anyway, Kairi somehow recognizes you as Sora immidiately as many heartless begin to attack. She grabs sora as a swarm of Heartless jump on her, but they are blown off in a burst of light, revealing Sora, good as new.

Anyway, the attack on Hallo wwas renewed, and the Keyhole sealed. Turns out this is the Homeworld of Ansem and the FF Characters you've met. Now I'm off to the heart of Darkness to confront Ansem, after winning Hades Cup and getting the last report of course.

And now, a recap of the reports.

1) Ansem begins to study and research the darkness in peoples hearts.

2) Ansems experimetns lead to the creation of creatures born of darkness from peoples hearts.

3) Ansem named these test subjects 'Heartless' due to their lack of emotion.

4) Ansem learns Heartless feed on living peoples hearts through his experiments. He beleives heartless are the darkness that exist within ones heart.

5) Ansem opens the door to his world, and found a powerful mass of energy on the other side.

6) Ansem believes it is the heart of the world, and that it is the Heartless's ultimate goal.

7) Ansem comes to believe thier are other worlds out there, and that he opening the door somehow connected the worlds.

8) Ansem creates an machine capable of artificially producing Heartless. It seems succsesful. Artificial Heartless are marked.

9) Ansem meets King Mickey. H heres the legend of the Keyblade, and desires to know more about it.

10) Ansem willingly plunges himself into Darkness and begins searching for the Keyblade and the Princesses, hoping to discover what exactly lies at the center of worlds, convinced at this point it is the world of heartless.

And now I'm in the last area. I appeared on Destiny Island and am speaking with ansem. He tells Sora that all worlds begin and end in Darkness, and that Riku oppenly accepted the Darkness to escape his world, and that he can no longer return from Darkness. He then says Darkness is the hearts true essence, and Sora fights this theory.

After beating up Ansem a couple times, I'm an in a world of darkness, at the center of which, acording to Ansem, lies Kingdom Hearts. And there he is defeated one last time.

He goes on to say that the Keyblade alone cannot seal the door to Darkness. He proceeds to open the Door to Kingdom Hearts, asking for the Power of Darkness. However when the Door Opens, there is a massive light that exits from it. The Heartless can now be seen on the other side of the door as the three try to close it. Riku suddenly appears on the other side, helping to close the door from there.

Multiple Darksides appear behind Riku, but are destroyed. by a Mickey, who is also weilding a Keyblade. He helps to close the door, saying that him and Riku will be able to find a way out. With that, the door to Kingdom Hearts is closed,and Riku and Mickey seal the door shut with their Keyblades.

Kairi appears to Riku, Here the two are sepearted, as Sora promises to find Kairi again, and she drifts away as the End Credits and final Video roll...

Thank god they made a sequal, this game on it's own leaves so damned much to answer.

Anyway, Credits roll and your three are walking around a grassy plain, wondering where to find Micky and Riku, asking about a Door to the Light. Pluto appears, and leads the three somewhere, with a letter from King Mickey in his mouth, to god knows where.

The words "Remember Sora, you are the one who will open the Door to the Light' appears. And now for the secret ending.

A guy dressed in a dark cloak appears, along with some heartless. It appears to be a mysterious dual Keyblade user, who asks where Sora is. Riku appears to be watching from above, and many phrases flash through the screen.

Anyway, endgame stats.

Heartless Defeated: 5805
Times Defeated: 28 (Mostly in the begining actually. )
Attacks deflected: 1210
Times hit by an enemy: 2313
Total Item Usage: 24
Party Member Knockouts: 85
Curative spells cast on a friend: 85

In my next post, before I start my Chain of Memories playthrough, I'll have a quick synapsos of whats happened.