Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: Difference between revisions

Long before [[Sora]] took up the keyblade, 10 years before the first ''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' there were other keyblade masters and apprentices that existed. One day, one of these masters and his apprentice disappeared, foreshadowing a disaster to come. Another master, sensing the impending danger, sent three apprentices to find [[Master Xehanort]] and his cohort (the 'Dark Soldier' dubbed by fans). [[Maleficent]] has been suspected as the main antagonist in this game, causing the disappearance of [[Master Xehanort]] and his apprentice, thus causing this 'great disaster' which was mentioned by [[Aurora]] in ''Kingdom Hearts''. Many mysteries and any unexplained ideas about the keyblade will be answered and many connections to the main characters we know today will also be answered as well.

In Ultimania, when asked about ''Birth By Sleep'', Nomura answered: "Birth by Sleep will be a very important game that collects everything about the series into one story. With the three main characters, the story is as big as one of the numbered Final Fantasies. We put in a lot of connections to it in Days, and I think that a lot of questions and unknowns from the previous game will be answered in Birth by Sleep. Also, there will be quite a few original characters from previous making an appearance.This game is set the farthest in the past of any other, so it connect to KHI, but the main characters are three that haven’t appeared in the other games. So how their story will end, which will of course be shown in the game, will leave you wondering even more after the game has finished."

The characters for ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'' have been revealed thus far from the trailers of TGS 2007 and TGS 2008, Jump Festa 2008 and 2009 and through various interviews with Tetsuya Nomura and his staff working on this project.

As of yet the Heartless have not been confirmed, however in the trailer at the end of ''Kingdom Hearts II'', the Heartless symbol, without the crosses through the center, is still located on the "Way To The Dawn" Keyblade, so the Heartless symbol at least is present to some extent.

It is speculative as to how many other worlds will be present in the game thus far since in many interviews it has been implied there will be a "normal feel of Disney worlds with one or two worlds where you will be surprised". Since the plot of the game apparently focuses around the [[Princesses of Heart]], it is likely that [[Agrabah]], [[Wonderland]] and [[Beast's Castle]] will appear in the game. There will also be a timeshift in the worlds since this does take place a decade before the first ''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' (i.e. a young [[Hercules]] in the Coliseum or a young [[Sora]] and young [[Riku]] in Destiny Islands). It is possible that because of this, [[Atlantica]] could appear since [[King Triton]] knew about the Keyblade before the events of the original Kingdom Hearts. In the ''Kingdom Hearts'' manga, Yuffie said that [[Maleficent]] destroyed their world and that Cid rescued [[Leon]], [[Yuffie]] and [[Aerith]] when they were still kids. "Pinocchio's World" Dubbed by Nintendo Power was to appear in ''[[Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days]]'' (like [[Snow White's House]] was rumored to as well), but was removed for reasons unknown and could be included in the game (since [[Monstro]] escaped the world when it was destroyed and [[Geppetto]] began searching for [[Pinocchio]] after that occurred). The only summons that have yet to have their worlds present in any ''Kingdom Hearts'' games are [[Stitch]], [[Dumbo]], [[Bambi]] and [[Chicken Little]], so it could be possible that one of them (if not all of them) will have their worlds represented in the game. Confirmed locations include: