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Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+

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Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ is a 2007 expanded release of the 2005 action RPG, adding new scenes, bosses and music to the original game.

11 Interesting Facts About Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+

Interesting Facts (8)

  1. #001

    Limit Form, Sora's new Drive Form, was absent from Kingdom Hearts II (2005), and it is the only Drive Form that Genie cannot copy when summoned.

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  2. #002

    Every arena where the Organization XIII members from Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004) are fought is a rebuilt version of the backdrop from their boss battle in Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories (2007) — or, for Vexen and Marluxia, from their second boss battle.

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  3. #003

    Like Kingdom Hearts Final Mix, this game uses English audio with Japanese subtitles. One difference is that the Final Mix-exclusive scenes are dubbed in Japanese rather than left silent as in the first Final Mix. This includes voice actors for the Organization members killed off in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004), some of whose scenes and optional boss battles had no English voice actors at the time. The Japanese audio for the original cutscenes remains available through Theater Mode.

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  4. #004

    Day 4 gained a new prologue scene, "Taking Care of the Rat," in which Axel balks at Organization XIII's order to eliminate Roxas before going through with it.

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  5. #005

    In a new Hollow Bastion scene, "The Hidden Room," Xemnas enters the Chamber of Repose beneath the castle and addresses a suit of armor as a "friend."

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  6. #006

    A new scene in The World That Never Was, "How It All Began," shows Riku defeating and capturing Roxas while giving in to the darkness in his heart.

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  7. #007

    "The Other Promise" plays during the Roxas fight and also replaces "Organization XIII" in the cutscenes immediately before and after the battle.

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  8. #008

    This is the only Final Mix release to add new cutscenes with audio to the main game. The Final Mix version of Kingdom Hearts (2002) left such scenes silent, while the Final Mix version of Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (2010) added new cutscenes only to the unlockable Secret Episode mode (the Re:Mind DLC for Kingdom Hearts III, similar to the Final Mix upgrades, took a comparable approach to Birth by Sleep). English versions of the Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix cutscenes did not exist until Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix (2014), since this release was originally Japan-only, with the minor exception of scenes adapted for Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (2009). It is also the only Final Mix version to bring in actors through voice recordings or new cutscenes who were not part of the Kingdom Hearts II (2005) cast.

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Easter Eggs & References (3)

  1. #009

    Limit Form, a Drive Form added for this release and absent from Kingdom Hearts II (2005), calls back to Kingdom Hearts (2002) and Kingdom Hearts Final Mix in both its look and how it plays. It is also the sole Drive Form that needs no fusion with party members, so Sora can trigger it while on his own.

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  2. #010
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    Lingering Will, the new secret boss, is designed as a link to Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (2010) through both his look and his lines. That game revealed his real identity as Terra, one of its playable characters, whose soul became trapped in his Keyblade Armor after Xehanort took his body in its finale. His dialogue here also nods to Birth by Sleep's other two playable characters, Ventus (known as Ven) and Aqua.

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  3. #011
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    The new secret ending, absent from Kingdom Hearts II (2005), makes further references to the events of Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (2010) and presents numerous scenes from the closing events of Birth by Sleep.

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