Kingdom Hearts: Champions of the Heart

Kingdom Hearts: Champion of the Heart is a fighting game based off the Kingdom Hearts franchise developed by Square-Enix, released in 2022 to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Announced at E3 2021, the game involves many characters from across the Kingdom Hearts series ranging from Sora & friends, the Organization and some characters from Disney & Final Fantasy.
== Gameplay ==
Champions of the Heart plays similarly to the Dissidia Final Fantasy games, as a reference to how that series came to fruition when Tetsuya Nomura was initially reluctant to make Disney characters fight each other.
Characters move around in a fully three-dimensional map that they can interact using the Triangle button (Playstation)/X button (Switch)/Y button (Xbox). Using their special weapons and abilities, they can unleash special moves called Limit Breaks once their AP gauge is full that can be activated with the X button (Playstation)/B button (Switch)/A button (Xbox).
== Characters ==
=== Starting Roster ===
Character Name 	Limit Break 	Voice Actor
Sora 	Ragnarok 	Haley Joel Osment
Donald Duck 	Zettaflare 	Tony Anselmo
Goofy 	Goofy Tornado 	Bill Farmer
Riku 	Darkstorm 	David Gallagher
Kairi 	Spiral Bloom 	Alyson Stoner
King Mickey 	Holy 	Bret Iwan
Roxas 	Continuous Swing	Jesse McCartney
Xion 	Event Horizon 	Alyson Stoner
Lea 	Explosion 	Quinton Flynn
Aqua 	Spellweaver 	Willa Holland
Terra 	Zantetsuken 	Jason Dohring
Ventus 	Pulse Bomb 	Jesse McCartney
Master Xehanort 	XIII Rengeki 	Christopher Lloyd
Ansem, Seeker of Darkness	Darkness Aura 	Richard Epcar
Xemnas 	All-Vanity 	Paul St. Peter
Xigbar 	Critical Snipe 	James Patrick Stuart
Xaldin 	Dragoon Storm 	David Dayan Fisher
Lexaeus 	Ayers Rock 	Dave Boat
Saix 	Berserk 	Kirk Thornton
Luxord 	Jackpot 	Robin Atkin Downes
Marluxia 	Bloom-Out 	Keith Ferguson
Larxene 	Voltic Rush 	Shanelle Grey
Master Eraqus 	Guren 	Mark Hamill
Young Xehanort 	Wild Arcanum 	Ben Diskin
Vanitas 	Dark Cannon 	Haley Joel Osment
Maleficent 	Dragon Form 	Susanne Blakeslee
Pete 	Temper Tantrum 	Jim Cummings
Aladdin 	Slash Frenzy 	Scott Weigner
Hercules 	Burst of Energy 	Tate Donovan
Peter Pan 	Storm's Eye 	Christopher Steele
=== Unlockable Characters ===
Character Name	Special Move 	How to Unlock 	Voice Actor
Cloud Strife 	Omnislash 	Fight in Olympus Coliseum seven times 	Steve Burton
Sephiroth 	Supernova 	Complete Arcade Mode as Cloud 	George Newbern
Leon 	Renzokuken 	Fight in Traverse Town eight times 	Doug Erholtz
Yuffie 	Doom of the Living	Complete Arcade Mode as Leon 	Mae Whitman
Auron 	Divider 	Complete Arcade Mode as Hades 	Matt McKenzie
Jafar 	Genie Jafar 	Complete Arcade Mode as Aladdin 	Jonathan Freeman
Hades 	Flame Claws 	Complete Arcade Mode as Hercules 	James Woods
Captain Hook 	Present Bomb 	Complete Arcade Mode as as Peter Pan 	Corey Burton
The Beast 	Howling Moon 	Defeat Maleficent in Arcade Mode in Hollow Bastion 	Robbie Benson
Mulan 	Dragonblaze 	Fight as all characters originating from Disney Renaissance films	Ming-Na Wen
Woody 	Rocket Ruckus 	Play as Young Xehanort in Toy Box 	Jim Hanks
Neku Sakuraba 	Dream Eater Swarm 	Complete Arcade Mode as all starter characters 	Jesse David Corti
Riku Replica 	Helm Split 	Complete Arcade Mode as Sora, Riku and Kairi 	David Gallagher
=== DLC Characters ===
Character Name	Special Move	Voice Actor
Ephemer 	Union χ 	Michael Johnston
Skuld 	Union χ 	Sarah Nicole Robles
Ava 	Union χ 	Isabela Moner
Aced 	Union χ 	Travis Willingham
Gula 	Union χ 	Kevin Quinn
Invi 	Union χ 	Karissa Lee Staples
Ira 	Union χ 	Matthew Mercer
Yozora 	Summon Gigas	Dylan Sprouse
== Stages ==
* Dive to the Heart
* Destiny Islands
* Traverse Town
* Hollow Bastion
* Radiant Garden
* Twilight Town
* The World That Never Was
* Land of Departure
* Keyblade Graveyard
* The Final World
* Scala ad Caelum
* Daybreak Town
* Agrabah
* Olympus Coliseum
* Neverland
* Beast's Castle
* Land of Dragons
* Toy Box
* Disney Castle
== Arcade Mode ==
Arcade Mode is a series of fights recreating key moments from the Kingdom Hearts series along with scenes from Disney films and Final Fantasy games. The battles vary between each character; for example Sora's Arcade Mode starts with a fight against Riku on Destiny Islands as a reference to Kingdom Hearts, and ends against Master Xehanort at Scala ad Caelum as one to Kingdom Hearts III.
== Trivia ==
* Many characters were planned to appear in the game, but were cut for reasons varying from being barely seen fighting in the series or not fighting at all at the time the game was released. These include Vexen, Zexion, Demyx, Merlin, Yen Sid, the Master of Masters, Tifa, Aerith, Cid, Seifer and Namine.
* The Realm of Darkness was planned to be a stage, but was also cut because the developers wanted thirteen stages based off original worlds and seven based on Disney worlds, though there is a chance it could become DLC.
* With the exception of Yozora, all DLC characters share the same Limit Break due to all of them originating from Kingdom Hearts χ.
* Skuld is voiced in the English version of the game by Sarah Nicole Robles (Luz Noceda from The Owl House) and in the Japanese version by Miyuki Sawashiro.
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