One benefit of the fact that Birth by Sleep is a prequel to everything that came before it, the story is pretty self-explanatory and clear on its own. Terra, like Riku, is constantly battling the darkness inside him. The three characters here and the three characters of the main games are literally linked together in the story. You also do see Sora, Riku and Kairi and you begin to learn how they became part of this story at all. He very nearly succeeds, but the combined efforts of the three characters puts the weapon, the protector of Kingdom Hearts, out of his reach. Xehanort is on a quest to reforge the X-blade (here, using the greek letter X, so it's pronounced key-blade) because he wants to restart the Keyblade War, believing that darkness and light should be in equal balance, rather than seeing darkness consumed by light. You learn a great deal more about Xehanort, the ultimate big bad of the series, who is expertly voice acted by the great Leonard Nimoy (incidentally, the other Keyblade master of the story Eraqus, is voiced by Mark Hamill in a perfect, and likely intentional, bit of sci-fi franchise combat). While most of the other spinoff games in Kingdom Hearts aren't strictly necessary to get the most important story beats, Birth by Sleep is absolutely vital to the larger story. While Ventis is a good balance of the two, the closest to Sora of the three.Īnd speaking of Sora, the events of Birth by Sleep are more than directly related to the main games. Aqua's abilities are more geared toward magic than combat. Terra is big and forceful, a Keyblade tank, if you will. Each playable character arrives in each world at a different time and/or in a different place, so while all of the Disney Princess' worlds tell a story more or less identical to the classic Disney movie, you have to play all three characters to get the whole story.Įach character also plays differently. ![]() Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty all make appearances along with later Disney films like Lilo & Stitch. You get to play through an entire collection of Disney worlds that we haven't seen before. In addition to new playable characters, Birth by Sleep is full of new places to go exploring as well.
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