Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep: Difference between revisions

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All three of the characters are equally important story-wise. The game focuses on several main themes such as Ven's identity and connection with Sora as well as the mystery behind the memories of the original series' primary villain, Xehanort. Each character's story takes between 8 and 15 hours plus additional prologue and epilogue chapters, for a total of at least 30 hours of gameplay.

 

The player can play the three different routes in any order they so choose, but the recommended route (and the route that makes the most sense story-wise) is Terra, Ventus, then Aqua.

 

* [[Aborted Arc]]: What kick-starts the plot is the rise of the Unversed and the threat they pose to the Princesses of Heart. The three worlds with the Princesses are visited first, but once you hit Radiant Garden they're forgotten and subsequent worlds focus solely on fighting the Unversed. Fittingly, Radiant Garden is where the three begin to follow their own agendas. Terra {{spoiler|believes himself a failure and is charmed into becoming Xehanort's apprentice}}. Thereafter, he's focused on trying to find Vanitas and put an end to him. Ventus never had the mission, and is intent on finding Terra, and Aqua is essentially scrambling to find the both of them and keep them together.

* [[Absurdly High Level Cap]]: The game contains the standard level 99 cap. Just playing normally without any [[Level Grinding]] will have you beating each character's story with their levels in the ''30s''. This results in it being very easy to be over-leveled without realizing it -- if you backtrack through the worlds to get the items you missed, you may end up being around Level 40 or higher, at which point most of the final bosses are incredibly easy to beat.

** This is Terra's standard reaction to just about everything he encounters. Although this seems to be more to do with the nuances of Jason Dohring's acting method rather than Terra's characterization.

** Willa Holland (Aqua) dabbles a bit in it too. That being said, both characters ''can'' emote, but Terra is usually subtle about it (if his friends {{spoiler|and later on, Xehanort}} are the subject of choice, ''then'' Terra starts to break out the passion).

** The final Mix also includes graphics related to the ''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D]]'' Demo(most strikingly the title card). The 2 best guesses to why they're there so far is that they either used BBS graphics as a placeholder for the actual game or they intended to have some sort of demo for ''Dream Drop Distance''.

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: While the game's normal ending is a [[Downer Ending]], the secret ending implies that this is what will eventually happen to the main characters. After all, {{spoiler|although they lost, the three really fought like lions and they DID manage to derail most of Xehanort's scheme by destroying the χ-blade and Vanitas. I mean, come on, all that effort should be rewarded.}}

* [[Enemy Without]]: As the tutorial prologue shows, Ventus literally has a broken heart; all the darkness got ripped clean out of it, and he'd have died of this if not for the outside intervention of a mysterious force. Things get a little more sinister when it becomes clear that his shadow didn't just go away, either...

 

 

* [[Escort Mission]]: Each character has to clear one in the first batch of worlds.

* [[Eye Scream]]: At his first canonical appearance, Braig still has two functional eyes. At the end of the game, he's wearing his famous eyepatch. Figure out what happens.

* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Master Xehanort has yellow eyes. Braig's remaining eye becomes golden after being blasted in the face with a beam of darkness (and around the same time, he's developed darkness-related powers to back up his gun skills). Not to mention Terra's turned yellow at the end of the secret movie in ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix''. And Vanitas has them as well. Gold eyes are usually associated with someone who's been exposed to the power of darkness and/or uses it (in his guise as DiZ, even Ansem the Wise had them). As do [[The Heartless]] (the ones that aren't [[The Faceless]] anyway,).

* [[Fastball Special]]: Aqua is both the thrower (with Stitch) and the... throwee (with Prince Phillip). Ven follows the same pattern with Stich and with Hercules.

* [[Field of Blades]]: The Keyblade Graveyard. The ruins of many keys who took on the powers of their masters are here in the place, where there was a fight between light and darkness.

* [[Hard Mode Perks]]: If you begin a game on Critical, you start with five command deck slots for attacks, instead of the three you start with on the lower difficulties.

* [[Harmless Freezing]]: Nope! Ventus getting frozen is certainly ''not'' harmless, as it clearly hurts a lot and nearly gets him killed. For that matter, getting frozen in itself causes a lot of damage in gameplay and sets you up for even more (both you, and the enemies).

* [[Hero Antagonist]]: [[Lilo and Stitch|Gantu]]'s either this or a type of [[Knight Templar]].

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|During the credits, Mickey blames himself for all the crap that happened and tries to turn in his Keyblade. Yen Sid won't have any of that.}}

* [[Title Drop]]: You'll have to wait until [[One Hundred Percent Completion]], though.

* [[Title Theme Drop]]: What is probably the most poignant arrangement of "Dearly Beloved" yet plays during the scene detailed under "[[Say My Name]]".

** ''All three'' of the main characters.

*** Terra: After accepting the darkness in his heart, he gains great strength {{spoiler|but ultimately weakens his heart to the point that Master Xehanort can possess his body. Xehanort thinks that he's won, but Terra [[Determinator|refuses to submit]], [[Heroic Willpower|his mind and soul re-animating his suit of armor]] [[Unstoppable Rage|through hate and anger]]. Terra ([[Animated Armor|as the Lingering Will]]) then proceeds to ''kick his own ass'' (at this point, Xehanort was theoretically at his ''prime''), and--to this day--is still fighting Master Xehanort for control of his body. His response to when MX [[Hannibal Lecture|triumphantly boasts that]] [[Crazy Prepared|his grand scheme could take one of several routes]]?. [[Shut UP, Hannibal|A confident smirk.]]}}

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: The one time Master Xehanort loses his cool, {{spoiler|by all appearances, he's already won, having taken Terra's body. But then a force-field surrounds them, Terra's ''armor'' rises up to face him, and he snaps. "Your body submits, your heart succumbs--''so why does your mind resist?!''"}}

* [[Voices Are Mental]]: A variation; see this game's section on the "[[Fridge Brilliance]]" page.

** If you never played ''[[No Export for You|The Final Mix]]'' (or defeated [[Bonus Boss|Sephiroth]]) in the prior games, ''Birth by Sleep'' is a Wake Up Call ''[[Nintendo Hard|Game.]]'' To wit: [[Complacent Gaming Syndrome|No, you can't]] [[Button Mashing|bash X to win.]] Yes, [[Mooks]] ''can'' kill you. Yes, bosses can [[Genre Savvy|blink out of your stunlock combos]] and [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|stun-lock YOU instead]]. No, you cannot simply MAX out your shotlock to get free hits in, [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|the computer will simply dodge it]]. Yes, your [[Limit Break|finisher]] ''can'' [[Hoist by His Own Petard|become a liability.]] [[Overly Long Gag|No, you can't just use Aeroga to incapacitate]] {{spoiler|Eraqus}} without waiting for him to finish his attack...

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Once he realizes Ven's importance to Xehanort's scheme, Eraqus tries to kill Ven to save the universe.}}

** The Final Mix Secret Ending {{spoiler|qualifies as well... as it shows that the worlds aren't quite destroyed when consumed by the darkness...}}

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Opening of large treasure chests comes with swinging camera angles and dramatic Keyblade swings to open the chest.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: We never see the Dwarf Woodlands' Queen's final fate. Her profile in Aqua's episode implies she met the same end as her movie counterpart, but off screen.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Happens several times. {{spoiler|During the trio's reunion in Radiant Garden, Aqua calls Terra out for his alliances with Malificent and the Evil Queen.}} Later, when you get to Disney Town, Terra is greeted by this for stepping on the racing track.

** During Terra's story, Master Xehanort preaches the virtues of this idea to him, telling him that Eraqus's complete opposition of darkness is as bad as succumbing to darkness, and that the proper way to protect the worlds is to wield both in equal measure. {{spoiler|He's full of crap. He just wants to get Terra to give into the darkness and feeds him this line of thought to encourage him down that road. There may be some truth behind what he's saying, but as they say, the best lies are the ones made out of truth.}}

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Aqua.

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