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Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind
キングダム ハーツ III Re Mind Kingudamu Hātsu III Re Mind
Developer(s)	Square Enix
Publisher(s)	Square Enix
Release date(s)	Playstation 4: January 23, 2020 / January 23, 2020 / January 23, 2020 Xbox One: February 25, 2020 / February 25, 2020 / February 25, 2020 PC: March 30, 2021 / March 30, 2021 / March 30, 2021 Nintendo Switch: February 10, 2022[1] / February 10, 2022[2] February 10, 2022[2]
Genre	Action role-playing game
Game modes	Single player
Ratings	ESRB:Everyone 10+
Platform(s)	PlayStation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch Personal computer

"The other tale that unfolded during the climax of KINGDOM HEARTS III."

—Tagline

Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind (stylized asKingdom Hearts III Re_𝄌Mind) is aDLC expansion forKingdom Hearts III. It consists of three episodes:Re Mind, an extra story that takes place during the climax of the game; theLimitcut Episode, a series of boss battles that continue the story a year after the game's conclusion; and theSecret Episode, a final boss fight that hints at the story's future.

Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind was officially announced at theKingdom Hearts Orchestra -World of Tres- event on June 8, 2019, and it is the first major downloadable expansion in theKingdom Hearts series. It was released worldwide on January 23, 2020 for the PlayStation 4, on February 25, 2020 for the Xbox One.

Kingdom Hearts III andKingdom Hearts III Re Mind were released as a single game on March 30, 2021 for PC via the Epic Games Store and later Steam^[3], and on February 10, 2022 for Nintendo Switch as a Cloud version as part ofKingdom Hearts Integrum Masterpiece.^[4]

Story[edit]

Re Mind[edit]

Luxord confronts Xigbar about his suspicions of the black box.

InThebes, afterXigbar watchesMaleficent andPete conclude their search for theBlack Box there,Luxord appears before him. He mentions an old parable about a white goat and a black goat, his point being that while he has been loyally following his orders to find the box, he's questioning who gave them in the first place. Xigbar claims it must have beenXemnas, but Luxord already asked him and concluded that Xigbar gave the order, and wonders why. Xigbar says the box has important information guarded by generations of Keyblade wielders. Luxord says he is only searching for it now because others seek it, and Xigbar needs to find the box first to keep his connection to it a secret. He asks Xigbar who he really is before leaving; Xigbar asks the same of him.

Seventy-five years earlier, a youngXehanort meets withthe Master of Masters in theKeyblade Graveyard after receiving ablack coat with which to ward off the darkness while traveling the worlds. Xehanort tells the man that all the darkness and selfishness he's seen across the many worlds he's visited have caused him to lose his faith in humanity. Determined to bring order to the chaos, he resolves to remake the worlds. He says his decision will become clear after his upcomingMark of Mastery exam, but the man tells Xehanort the results don't matter because he's already made up his mind. He says Xehanort will soon outgrow his coat, for he'll be powerful enough to control the darkness without it. Xehanort asks if he's a fortune-teller, but the man makes numerous claims about his identity before telling Xehanort his name, revealing himself to be one of the Lost Masters.

Saïx reports the status of Xehanort's vessels.

In the present era,Master Xehanort mentions his past encounter to Xigbar andSaïx. Xigbar insists on focusing on more important matters, like the fact that their loss of Sora has left them without a thirteenth vessel, and only the three of them are there now. Saïx and Xigbar list the other members' statuses and missions, saying the Nobodies that became human and then Nobodies again are themselves, Luxord,Marluxia, andLarxene, while their allies from the past transferred to replicas are Ansem, Xemnas,Vanitas, Riku Replica, and Young Xehanort. Xigbar says that leaves them two short of thirteen. Xehanort says he implanted Terra-Xehanort's heart from the past into Terra's recompletedbody. Saïx discusses theReplica Program, in whichVexen created twenty replicas, the first twelve of which were barely human puppets, and that the first prototypes were theRiku Replica and thenNo. i. He says five of the last six are currently vessels for their past members, leaving one left. He explains how No. i was erased from memory, but remained in Vexen's records, and that its heart's link to Sora's memories should make it an adequate thirteenth member. Xigbar and Saïx leave to do their parts in the plan, then Xehanort says, "May your heart be your guiding key."

Shortly after Master Xehanort's defeat, in order to saveKairi,Sora uses thepower of waking to return toThe Final World, where he meetsChirithy, who tells him he will disappear if he saves her. Determined to save Kairi despite the consequence, Sora is guided by Chirithy to the crack he made in time, who tells him he'll have to traverse the Guardians' hearts, seeing everything they saw and feeling everything they felt, until he reaches Kairi's heart. He begins by experiencing the doomed first version of theSeven Guardians of Light's battle withTerra-Xehanort as several of his allies, first asVentus, whose heart he is forced from by an entity calling itself "Darkness", which manifests asDark Inferno χ. After Sora defeats it, he entersAqua's heart, but her fear and despair manifests asAnti-Aqua. After defeating her, he passes through the tear and into his ownStation of Calling. There, he meets withNaminé, who says she's brought out Terra's strongest thoughts to aid them.

Sora and Naminé witness the second version of the Guardians' battle withTerra-Xehanort and his subsequent battle with theLingering Will. Sora tells her to go to the world of ocean and sky while he saves Terra. Sora leaps out of Terra's thoughts to save the Lingering Will from theDark Figure, but after the Lingering Will sacrifices itself to save Sora, he is forced to fight Terra-Xehanort alone. After theDark Figure grabs Sora, Terra-Xehanort launches a wave of darkness at him. Then Sora's own past self begins the final fight against thereal Organization XIII at the Keyblade Graveyard with his allies, and his future self remains unseen until Terra is restored. As soon as Terra is restored, future Sora is seen in Terra's heart, which Sora says must have protected him from Xehanort's blast. Sora returns to his own past self, then transitions into Roxas's heart as he witnesses everyone's memories of Xion return as her heart displaces her past self's. There, Sora agrees to help Roxas and his friends reclaim theirRecusant's Sigils from Xemnas, after which Sora returns to his past self again.

After Xehanort strikes Kairi down, Mickey remotely contacts Sora and tells him that Xehanort crystallized Kairi as an insurance policy until Kingdom Hearts is opened as a last resort, but they can still save her. Sora enters the portal generated from Xehanort to travel toScala ad Caelum ahead of his past self to find Kairi. At Scala ad Caelum, he follows apparitions of Kairi and completes a series of puzzles to find five fragments of her heart there. Then Master Xehanort appears to him and explains that he crystallized Kairi, split her into seven fragments, and hid them. But Sora's past self shows up, so Sora is forced to re-enter himself before finding the other two fragments.

Sora jumps into Riku while he and the other Guardians engage in a battle withReplica Xehanorts. They're all sucked into keyhole-shaped portals exceptMickey, during which Sora jumps into his heart, and he narrowly limps out of there and repels the replicas with Sora's help. Sora finds the remaining fragments and rejoins them by connecting to the Guardians' hearts. Kairi is restored, the Replica Xehanorts merge into Armored Xehanort, and she and Sora defeat it together, finishing it off with the Guardians' help. The Guardians notice Sora and Kairi's absence just before they open the way through Kingdom Hearts to join past Sora at Scala ad Caelum after his final battle with Xehanort. The pair then end up in The Final World, where they invite Chirithy to come home with them. They secretly witness the other Guardians' journeys home, bringing Chirithy to Ventus and Naminé's heart to her replica body. Finally, Sora and Kairi share a final moment sitting together on apaopu tree before he fades away.

Xigbar, who survived the Keyblade War, retrieves theNo Name and theBlack Box and summonsIra,Aced,Invi, andGula, revealing himself to be an incarnation of their fellow Keyblade apprentice,Luxu. He begins to recount his actions to the foretellers, with Maleficent and Pete watching from afar. In a flashback to their youth,Eraqus and Xehanort begin a new game ofAlba & Ater enacting a battle between seven dark pieces, and then placing a white piece on the board.

Sora and Riku, separated and disoriented, awaken inQuadratum, a world filled with modern buildings, skyscrapers, cars, and signs. The two walk the streets observing where they are; Sora finds himself at acrosswalk staring at abuilding with the number "104" displayed, while Riku stares at alarge building. As Riku walks past the large building,Yozora, the protagonist ofVerum Rex, sits alone atop watching him down below.

Elsewhere, on the roof of another skyscraper some distance away,The Master of Masters frames the full moon with his hands, then forms a heart shape over it using his fingers, symbolizingKingdom Hearts.

Limitcut Episode[edit]

Following Master Xehanort's defeat, Riku visits theLand of Departure, where Terra tells him that he's so strong that there's nothing left that he could teach him. Riku sees Terra, Aqua and Ventus off as they don theirKeyblade Armor and leave to go on a journey in theRealm of Darkness to find Sora.

One year later, Riku goes toMerlin's House inRadiant Garden to visitLeon,Cid,Aerith andYuffie to try and uncover any clues to Sora's whereabouts. Riku mentions that Mickey, Donald, and Goofy have been searching for clues in every past world Sora's been to, the Twilight Town gang have been studying Roxas and Xion's memories for such clues, and Kairi has been asleep inAnsem the Wise's laboratory since Sora disappeared, where Ansem and his remaining apprentices have been searching her heart for clues. After a year of hard work merging the data on his computer with that of Ansem's and Twilight Town's, which he says are all connected to the same network, Cid recreates Sora's battle data in a simulated version of theGarden of Assemblage, along with theReal Organization XIII's Recreated Data, in the hopes of yielding some answers, but their data is so powerful, Cid can only access it after Riku uses Sora's data to defeat the strengthened digital copies.

After all thirteen copies are defeated, the data analysis says Sora's data still hasn't been updated, forcing Riku and Leon's gang back to square one. TheFairy Godmother then appears atMerlin andYen Sid's request to aid them, and has Riku recountthe strange dream he's been having: He finds himself inQuadratum surrounded by tall buildings, while Yozora observes him from atop a skyscraper. He can't recall what happens next, but she claims she knows, because dreams are her specialty. She explains that the wizards sent her to Riku because, due to his time in Sora's dreams, the key to finding Sora might be in his dreams, "and the other two." Kairi's sleeping body in Ansem's lab and the daytime version of The Final World are then shown.

Secret Episode[edit]

Sora wakes up in a nighttime version of The Final World, and desperately calls out to whoever he can. A young man answers back and appears before him. Sora recognizes him asYozora, the protagonist ofVerum Rex whom he learned more about from a girl he met before, and is surprised to discover that Yozora is actually a real person. Yozora appears to know exactly who Sora is and claims that he is tasked to "save" him, but suddenly questions whether that is truly Sora at all. To Sora's shock, he summons his crossbow and sword and transports them to the 104 building inQuadratum, where a fearsome battle ensues.

After Sora defeats Yozora, Yozora fades away into light and Sora ends up in the daytime version of The Final World. Meanwhile, Yozora is woken up from his slumber in the back seat of a car by his driver, who addresses him as "Commander" and asks him whether he thinks "it" impressive. Sora and Yozora both wonder whether or not their encounter was real or just a weird dream. Sora then states that none of this makes any sense to him.

Worlds and characters[edit]

Content[edit]

• Re Mind contains new story cutscenes and gameplay elements, including the options to replay certain battles in theKeyblade Graveyard against members ofReal Organization XIII as Riku, Aqua, and Roxas. Players will be able to exploreScala ad Caelum and play as Kairi in the final battle against Xehanort.^[5]
• Limitcut Episode contains new story scenes and the Data Analysis feature, allowing players to battle theReal Organization XIII's Recreated Data of the Real Organization XIII in theGarden of Assemblage.^[6]
• Secret Episode contains new story scenes and boss battle againstYozora.^[6]
• Data Greeting feature. It allows players to choose various locations, props, effects, and characters and arrange them in a wide variety of ways and snap photos.^[6]
• Slideshow feature. All photos players have saved in their Albums can be arranged into unique slideshows, with various transition effects and background music.^[6]
• Premium Menu. Upon starting a new game file, in addition to their current chosen difficulty level players can implement a second difficulty option with diverse settings.^[6]
  • EZ Codes: Allows settings designed to make the game extremely easy, such as automatic HP recovery, one-hit kills and auto-guarding against enemy attacks.
  • PRO Codes: Allows settings designed to give additional challenges, such as disabling certain abilities and constant HP drain.
• If players purchased theRe Mind + Orchestra DLC bundle, the completeKingdom Hearts Orchestra -World of Tres- feature is available via the "Orchestra" selection from the Downloadable Content menu.
• An English voiceover option for Japanese copies.

Notes and references[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official NA Site
• Official JP Site

• Kingdom Hearts III
• Games

• Articles with non-canon sources