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| [[File:Jiminy's Journal KHII.png|thumb|Jiminy's Journal.]] | | |name = Jiminy's Journal |
| {{nihongo|'''Jiminy's Journals'''|ジミニーメモ|Jiminī Memo|lit. "Jiminy Memo"}} are journals written by [[Jiminy Cricket]], containing information on [[Sora]] and the countless number of things he meets and discovers on his journeys through the [[Universe of Kingdom Hearts|''Kingdom Hearts'' universe]]. Being a form of [[Report]], the journal contains sections on the Heartless, other characters, story plots, notes on the worlds, mini-games, treasure chests opened, Trinity Marks (''Kingdom Hearts'') and hints of what to do next (''Kingdom Hearts II''). However, Jiminy's first journal is wiped clean at the beginning of ''Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories'' and again at the end, with only one sentence left: "Thank [[Naminé]]."
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| | |kana = ジミニーメモ |
| | |romaji = ''Jiminī Memo'' |
| | |world = N/A; carried by [[Jiminy Cricket]] |
| | |role = Records story and gameplay information<br>Guide for the Data Sora (''coded'') |
| | |first = ''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' (journal)<br>''[[Kingdom Hearts coded]]'' (character) |
| | |engvoice = N/A |
| | |japvoice = [[wikipedia:Mamoru Miyano|Mamoru Miyano]] |
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| The Journal is the first object to become a character in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series, first appearing in ''Kingdom Hearts coded''. Because of the Journal being used as both a character and plot device in ''Kingdom Hearts coded'', it is replaced in actual gameplay with a Computer System report which holds all information collected within the game and statistics. | | '''Jiminy's Journal''' is a journal written by [[Jiminy Cricket]] containing information on [[Sora]] and the countless number of things he meets and discovers on his journeys through the [[Universe of Kingdom Hearts|''Kingdom Hearts'' universe]]. It contains sections on the Heartless, other characters, story plots, notes on the worlds, mini-games, treasure chests opened, Trinity Marks (''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'') and hints of what to do next (''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''). However it is wiped clean at the beginning of ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]'' and again at the end, with only one sentence left: ''Thank [[Naminé]]''. The Journal is the first object to become a character in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series, first appearing in [[Kingdom Hearts coded|''Kingdom Hearts coded'']]. |
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| ==Story== | | ==Contents and Story== |
| ===''Kingdom Hearts''===
| | Jiminy's Journal has many contents, slightly differing between games. In general, all games' Journal includes entries on defeated [[Heartless]] and (in the case of ''Kingdom Hearts II'') [[Nobody|Nobodies]]. The entries feature a brief description of the Heartless, sometimes mentioning an attack of theirs or the main world that they appear in, and mentioning how many have been defeated. They all also include entries on the characters encountered over the course of the game; anybody that Sora meets is added, unless they are generic characters (such as [[Traverse Town]]'s townsfolk). If the character added is from a Final Fantasy game or a Disney film, their first appearance is noted also. |
| Jiminy is assigned by [[Queen Minnie]] to chronicle [[Donald]] and [[Goofy]]'s quest to find the "[[Keyblade|key]]". Jiminy introduces his journal to Sora after defeating the [[Guard Armor]] in [[Traverse Town]]. Jiminy rewrites the journal entries as the party learns more about the ongoing situation, and does not keep records of prior drafts.
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| ===''Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories''=== | | ===''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]''=== |
| Once the team enters [[Castle Oblivion]], Naminé uses her witchcraft to cause them to see the journal as blank. Jiminy refills the journal with the events of the castle, but after rescuing Naminé, the team learns that they will have to sacrifice their memories of the castle in order to heal Sora, including the words written in the journal. In order to remind themselves of their debt to Naminé, Jiminy writes the phrase "Thank Naminé" on the last page of the journal.
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| ===''Kingdom Hearts II''===
| | [[File:JournalKH.jpg|right|thumb|Main sections of Jiminy's Journal in ''Kingdom Hearts'']] |
| When Sora and his friends awaken in the [[Old Mansion]], they look through the Journal for hints as to how they got there, but only find Jiminy's message about Naminé. In response, Jiminy begins a second journal to begin chronicling their continuing journey, but keeps the old journal with him.
| | Jiminy's Journal in ''Kingdom Hearts'' has several top-level categories to further investigate. The categories include "Ansem's Report," which documents the pages from [[Ansem's Report]] for the player to read; "Story," which tells Sora's adventure world-by-world in story format, with the exclusion of the [[Destiny Islands]], [[Traverse Town]] and [[End of the World]]; "Characters," which then further breaks into 3 sub-categories ("Characters" for the general Kingdom Hearts characters such as [[Donald Duck]] or Sora, and characters from Final Fantasy; "Characters II" for all the world-specific Disney characters and the Summon characters; and "Heartless" for all defeated Heartless); "101 Dalmatians," which checks off each of the [[101 Dalmatians]] that Sora finds; "Trinity Marks," which number Sora's usage of [[Trinity Mark|Trinity Marks]]; and "Mini-Games," which record Sora's records on mini-games. By pressing {{Button|t}} while investigating an entry, the player may view and rotate the concerning character or Heartless' trophy. |
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| ===''Kingdom Hearts coded''=== | | ===''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]''=== |
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| [[File:Opening 01 KHREC.png|thumb|left|The mysterious message found in the journal by Jiminy.]]
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| After the team vanquishes Xemnas and Jiminy returns to [[Disney Castle]], he goes to organize his journals, but finds a message that he did not write: "Their hurting will be mended when you return to end it."<ref>In ''Kingdom Hearts coded'', the message is "We must return to free them from their torment."</ref> Jiminy asks [[King Mickey]] what to make of the message, but the King does not know, so at Chip and Dale's suggestion they decide to digitize the contents of the journal. Discovering that the data is filled with bugs, they create a [[Data-Sora]] to explore the [[Datascape]] created from the journal's contents and debug the data.
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| [[File:Beneath the Hood 04 KHREC.png|thumb|Jiminy's Journal in Data-Riku's Form.]] | | [[File:Journal (JP) Large Body.jpg|right|thumb|The journal as it appeared in ''Chain of Memories'']] |
| Soon after, a mysterious man clad in a [[black coat]] appears and reveals himself to be a Data-Riku, who has been given possession of the Journal's memories. Data-Riku guides Data-Sora as he destroys the bugs in each of the worlds in the journal, but he is kidnapped by Pete and Maleficent, who infest him with Bug Blox. Data-Sora battles Data-Riku, and enters his data to free them of the Bug Blox. When the data in the Journal is completely debugged, Data-Sora loses his memories.<!--There is a LOT more to the story of the journal than this-->
| | Jiminy's Journal is wiped clean upon entering [[Castle Oblivion]]. The journal in this game is like that in ''Kingdom Hearts'', but in this game it splits into three main areas. The first section is the Story section where it details each [[World]]'s storyline as well as [[Sora]]'s own story as he goes through [[Castle Oblivion]]. The second section is the Card Index. It separates the cards into their own types such as Attack, Magic, Map, and Enemy. It gives a description of each card and what it does. The third and final section is the Characters section. It splits all the Characters into the same sections in ''Kingdom Hearts''. It has Characters I, which are the main characters, ''Final Fantasy'' characters, summons, and the Organization. Characters II is the characters for each world Sora visits. The last subsection in the Characters is the Heartless section. It gives information about each Heartless. |
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| After the loss of the Data-Sora's memories, Mickey finds him in Traverse Town and takes him to a data version of Castle Oblivion. There, they meet and battle a Data-Roxas and eventually find a Data-Naminé. She tells them that the bugs were a side-effect of the real Naminé's tampering with Sora's memories, and that she summoned them there to inform them that those connected to the real Sora's heart are hurting and that Sora must venture out to save them from their individual fates.
| | ====Reverse/Rebirth==== |
| | It should be noted that in Reverse/Rebirth, Riku holds a journal similar to that of Jiminy's Journal, known as the D Report (D stands for Darkness). |
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| ===''Kingdom Hearts III''=== | | ===''[[Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories]]''=== |
| After Sora is sent the [[Gummiphone]] by [[Chip and Dale]], Jiminy decides to write his journal entries on it instead of on paper.
| | In ''Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories'', the Journal is altered and is now sorted much the same way as in ''Kingdom Hearts II''. The sections are Story, Characters, Card Index, Cards, and Minigames. The Card Index is a graphical view of all collected cards of any type. The "Charcters" section is now sorted by world. Cards and Story are identical to the old Card Index and Story Menus. |
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| Following the rescue of [[Aqua]] and [[Ventus]], the original seven [[Guardians of Light]], [[Donald]], [[Goofy]] and [[Yen Sid]] meet at [[The Mysterious Tower]]. [[Lea]] complains about the difficulty in being able to explain to Ventus the complex events that took place while he was comatose. As a solution, Jiminy sends a copy of his journal to everyone so they could all be primed on everything that happened so far in the battle against [[Xehanort]] and his various incarnations.
| | ===''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''=== |
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| ==Contents==
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| Jiminy's Journal has many contents pages, slightly differing between games. In general, each game's Journal includes entries on defeated [[Heartless]] and, in the case of ''Kingdom Hearts II'', [[Nobodies]]. The entries feature a brief description of the Heartless, sometimes mentioning an attack of theirs or the main world that they appear in, and mentioning how many have been defeated. They all also include entries on the characters encountered over the course of the game; anybody that Sora meets is added, unless they are generic characters (such as [[Traverse Town]]'s townsfolk). If the character added is from a Square Enix franchise or a Disney film, their first appearance is noted as well.
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| ===''Kingdom Hearts''===
| | [[File:KHII_Journal.jpg|thumb|right|Main sections in Jiminy's Journal in ''Kingdom Hearts II'']] |
| [[File:Journal KH.png|thumb|Main sections of Jiminy's Journal in ''Kingdom Hearts''.]] | | Again, the journal is wiped clean in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', as all the memories of Castle Oblivion have been removed by Naminé. We begin with only one phrase: "Thank Naminé." |
| Jiminy's Journal in ''Kingdom Hearts'' has several top-level categories to further investigate. The categories include:
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| *'''Chronicles''': tells Sora's adventure world-by-world in story format, with the exclusion of the [[Destiny Islands]], Traverse Town, and [[End of the World]]. There is also a subsection called "Sora's Story" which details major plot events in the game.
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| *'''Ansem's Report''': documents the pages from [[Ansem's Report]] for the player to read.
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| *'''Characters''': provides character profiles and brief descriptions.
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| **'''Characters I''': general ''Kingdom Hearts'' characters such as [[Donald Duck]] or Sora, and characters from ''Final Fantasy''.
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| **'''Characters II''': all the world-specific Disney characters and the Summon characters.
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| **'''Heartless''': all defeated Heartless.
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| *'''101 Dalmatians''': checks off each of the [[99 Puppies]] that Sora finds.
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| *'''Trinity Marks''': numbers Sora's usage of Trinity Marks.
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| *'''Mini-Games''': records Sora's records on mini-games.
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| By pressing {{Button|t}} while investigating an entry, the player may view and rotate the concerning character or Heartless's trophy.
| | The contents of Jiminy's Journal are separated by world. All world-specific characters may be viewed under "Characters" while viewing their world (for example, the player may choose [[Beast's Castle]] and then choose "Characters" if they want to view [[Beast]]'s entry). The Characters screen is different than in the previous games. Instead of a list of characters, it shows a small square with a picture of the character, divided into related groups. Sora, Donald, and Goofy all have entries under every world, with little difference in all world entries other than that of the [[Timeless River]], [[Atlantica]], [[Halloween Town]], the [[Pride Land]], and [[Space Paranoids]]. Any non-world specific characters, such as the Summon characters and discarded entries (such as that of a cloaked Organization member after the real identity receives an article), or the defeated Heartless and Nobodies, appear under the "Jiminy" selection (a picture of Jiminy Cricket). |
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| ===''Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories''===
| | The main sections in Jiminy's Journal are '''Ansem Reports, Character Files, The Heartless, The Nobodies, Treasures, Maps, Synthesis Notes '''and '''Character Links'''. In ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'' four more sections were added, namely '''Puzzles, Minigames, Missions''' and '''Combo Attacks'''. The most important part, however, is the '''Character Links '''section, which the portraits of the major characters are grouped in a page to show their relation, with heroes at the top while villains at the bottom. |
| [[File:Journal KHCoM.png|thumb|The journal as it appears in ''Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories''.]]
| | *[[Ansem the Wise|Ansem]] and [[King Mickey]] are grouped on the upper left corner. |
| The Journal in this game is like that in ''Kingdom Hearts'', but in this game it splits into three main areas.
| | *[[Naminé]] is on the upper right corner. |
| | *[[Donald]], [[Goofy]], [[Riku]], [[Sora]], and [[Kairi]] are grouped at the top center. |
| | *[[Maleficent]], [[Pete]] and [[Xehanort]] are on the lower left corner. (along with the [[Lingering Sentiment]] in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix]]'', probably because of his connection to Xehanort). |
| | *Finally, [[Organization XIII]], is arranged in rows of multiples of 2 except [[Xemnas]], for he is slightly under the middle right side. |
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| *'''Story''': summarizes each [[world]]'s storyline, as well as Sora's own story as he goes through Castle Oblivion.
| | The colors of the squares containing the faces of the characters determine the characters' alignment: '''blue''' indicates that they are '''Heroes''', '''green''' indicates that they are '''friends''', '''yellow''' could very well indicate that they are '''neutral characters''', while '''red''' indicates that they are '''enemies'''. Some other characters are placed in '''black''' squares, and '''Organization XIII members''' are placed in '''grey''' squares. |
| *'''Card Index''': separates the cards by types, such as Attack, Magic, Map, and Enemy. It gives a description of each card and what it does.
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| *'''Characters''': gives brief descriptions of the game's characters.
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| **'''Characters I''': main characters, ''Final Fantasy'' characters, summons, and appearing members of [[Organization XIII]].
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| **'''Characters II''': characters for each world Sora visits.
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| **'''Heartless''': gives information about each Heartless.
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| ===''Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories''=== | | ===''[[Kingdom Hearts coded]]''=== |
| In ''Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories'', the Journal is altered and is now sorted much the same way as in ''Kingdom Hearts II''. The sections are:
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| *'''Story''': summarizes each world's storyline, as well as Sora's own story as he goes through Castle Oblivion.
| | [[Image:Coded_06.jpg|thumb|left|190px|A Mysterious Message]][[File:The "New Unknown".png|thumb|190px|Jiminy's Journal in Data Riku's Form]] |
| *'''Characters''': gives brief descriptions of the game's characters, organized by the world in which they appear in.
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| *'''Card Index''': shows a graphical view of all collected cards of any type.
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| *'''Cards''': separates the cards by types, such as Attack, Magic, Map, and Enemy. It gives a description of each card and what it does.
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| *'''Minigames''': Displays quantitative records and data on Sora's performance in mini-games.
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| ===''Kingdom Hearts II''===
| | In ''Kingdom Hearts coded'', Jiminy's Journal has a much more important role in the storyline. After the events of ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', Jiminy is organizing his journal in [[Disney Castle]] and comes across something that he did not write. A page says, "We must return to free them from their torment." He asks [[King Mickey]] what to make of it, but the King doesn't know, so he digitizes the contents of the journal. The Data [[Sora]] goes through the digitized contents of the Journal and tries to debug the program. It is unknown who "them" is referring to in the sentence or where this sentence came from. In a recent scan, it shows that the Journal has something new after progressing through the game. It says, "Their torment has been lessened." Nomura has stated in an interview with Famitsu that the game will take place with the events from ''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' and possibly ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]''. |
| [[File:Journal KHII.png|thumb|Main sections in Jiminy's Journal in ''Kingdom Hearts II''.]]
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| The contents of the new Jiminy's Journal are separated by world. All world-specific characters may be viewed under "Characters" while viewing their world. For example, the player may choose [[Beast's Castle]] and then choose "Characters" if they want to view [[Beast]]'s entry. The Characters screen is different than in the previous games. Instead of a list of characters, it shows a small square with a picture of the character, divided into related groups. Sora, Donald, and Goofy all have entries under every world, with little difference in all world entries other than that of the [[Timeless River]], [[Atlantica]], [[Halloween Town]], the [[Pride Lands]], and [[Space Paranoids]]. Any non-world specific characters, such as the Summon characters and discarded entries, such as that of a cloaked Organization XIII member after the real identity receives an article, or the defeated Heartless and Nobodies, appear under the "Jiminy" selection, symbolized by a picture of Jiminy.
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| The enemies and characters which Roxas encounters during his week in the simulated Twilight Town are not recorded in the journal until Sora either encounters them himself, or in the case of the [[Twilight Thorn]], enters the simulated Twilight Town. Meanwhile, in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', the Organization XIII members who died in Castle Oblivion (Vexen, Lexaeus, Zexion, Marluxia, Larxene) are added to the journal once Sora enters the password for the [[DTD]] and accesses Ansem's computer files. In ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'', these journal pages are instead added individually, when Sora fights the respective [[Absent Silhouette]].
| | In Episode 4, the black coated man reveals himself to be the Journal incarnate, using the form of Data Riku to communicate with Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Jiminy and Data Sora. In the Data [[Olympus Coliseum]], the Journal tells Data Sora the reason he didn't reveal himself to him earlier is because he wanted Sora to become stronger. He discusses with Sora whether they are data or artificial, and the Journal says that it doesn't matter as long as they can make an impact to the world and help their friends. It is revealed the reason the video kept showing things Jiminy never wrote about is because it shows the Journal's sleeping memories. Even the Journal incarnate doesn't know the reasons for the mysterious messages appearing in the Journal, the [[Bug Block]] Corruption that appear in the Data Worlds, or what is happening to the Data World. |
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| In addition, the journal mistakenly claims that the Twilight Town trio were attacked by Heartless,<ref>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''''', '''[[Twilight Town]]'s report entry''': "Sora and his friends came by the mansion searching for clues, only to find Hayner and his friends recovering after being attacked by Heartless."</ref> when they were actually attacked by Nobodies.<ref>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''''', '''Hayner''': "We came here looking for Kairi. Then those white things attacked us..."</ref> | | In Episode 6 he is captured by the real-world [[Maleficent]] and [[Pete]]. It is revealed that Pete took him into the Data Hollow Bastion. When Pete is losing to Sora, he summons the [[Bug Block]]-controlled Journal to fight Sora. King Mickey appears and tells Sora that unless all the Bug Blocks are destroyed, the Journal will never wake up. |
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| The main sections of Jiminy's Journal are:
| | In Episode 7 the data Sora eventually manages to debug the Journal and awaken it. When the debugging reaches 100% completion, it is erased completely, taking Pete and Maleficent with it as well as wiping the data Sora's memories. However, a new message claiming that a door to a new world has been opened appears, and Mickey enters the data world once again to investigate for himself. |
| *'''Ansem Reports''': displays the [[Secret Ansem Reports]].
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| *'''Character Files''': displays brief character descriptions.
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| *'''The Heartless''': displays information and tips on the breeds of Heartless.
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| *'''The Nobodies''': displays information and tips on the breeds of Nobodies.
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| *'''Treasures''': displays treasures found and still hidden in each world.
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| *'''Puzzles''': shows puzzle pieces collected and still hidden in each world, and allows player to solve the puzzles for rewards. Only in ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix''.
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| *'''Maps''': shows world maps.
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| *'''Synthesis Notes''': displays data on past items synthesized.
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| *'''Minigames''': displays all minigames previously played and the record for those minigames.
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| *'''Missions''': displays achievements tied to certain minigames.
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| *'''Limits'''<ref>Titled '''Combo Attacks''' in the original ''Kingdom Hearts II''.</ref> displays each Limit and the record of maximum hits for those Limits.
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| *'''Character Links''': displays the characters for each world and the game as a whole in a grid-like sociogram, depicting their roles and relationships to other characters.
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| In the "Character Links", the colors of the squares containing the faces of the characters determine the characters' alignment, except for several profiles in [[Port Royal]] and [[Halloween Town]].
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| *'''Blue''' indicates that they are '''heroes'''.
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| *'''Green''' indicates that they are '''friends'''.
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| *'''Yellow''' could very well indicate that they are '''neutral characters'''.
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| *'''Red''' indicates that they are '''enemies'''.
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| *'''Black''' indicates that they are '''other characters'''.
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| *'''Grey''' indicates that they are a member of '''Organization XIII'''.
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| On the Character Links page for the main game, the portraits are arranged as follows:
| | ==See Also== |
| *[[Ansem the Wise]] and [[Mickey Mouse|King Mickey]] are grouped on the upper left corner. | | *[[Jiminy Cricket]] |
| *Naminé is on the upper right corner.
| | *[[King Mickey]] |
| *Donald Duck, [[Goofy]], [[Riku]], Sora, and [[Kairi]] are grouped at the top center. | | *[[Data Sora]] |
| *[[Maleficent]], [[Pete]], [[Xehanort]], and the [[Lingering Will]]{{FMII}} are in the lower left corner. | | *[[Riku]] |
| *Organization XIII is arranged in rows of multiples of two, except [[Xemnas]], for he is slightly under the middle right side.
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| *[[Report]]
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