Kingdom Hearts Radiant Struggle

Kingdom Hearts Radiant Struggle is a team-based fighting game developed by Square Enix, marking their entry into the fighting game genre. It was released for the PlayStation 3 in 2007, coinciding with the release of Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix. It would later be ported to the PlayStation 4 under the title Kingdom Hearts Re:Radiant Struggle in 2019.
==Mechanics==
Kingdom Hearts Radiant Struggle plays similarly to most standard 2D fighting games like Street Fighter and BlazBlue, with characters fighting in small arenas and utilizing a variety of moves to string together flashy combos. Special Moves are performed with combinations of directional inputs and button presses. However, the similarities quickly vanish the more one looks at Kingdom Hearts Radiant Struggle, which incorporates various mechanics from across the Kingdom Hearts franchise in tandem with basic fighting game mechanics.
===HP, MP, Limit, and Rage===
Regardless of game settings or character choices, each player has three main gauges to keep track of on their HUD:
* HP is a large green bar stretching across the top of the screen, and measures your character's current vitality. Getting damaged reduces it. When it's fully reduced, you're defeated!
* MP is a thin blue bar underneath HP. Most of the game's Special Actions cost MP to use. You can gain MP by dealing or taking damage. Running out will briefly put you into MP Recharge, in which you become briefly incapable of using any Special Actions that cost MP, but your MP will completely refill at Recharge's end.
* Limit is a modest-looking orange meter at the bottom of the screen. Limit is used to unleash Limit Breaks - more powerful techniques that can turn the tide of battle.
* Rage is a stubby, jagged crimson meter next to MP. Rage is used to unleash a Revenge Burst (a blast of power that can be used while in histun, useful for escaping an enemy's combo) or a Furious Cancel (a surge of power that slows the flow of time and instantly cancels the user out of their current action, letting them immediately use a different attack at no MP cost). You can gain Rage by dealing or taking damage, and it also regenerates passively... albeit slowly.
===Party Members===
Kingdom Hearts Radiant Struggle is a team-based fighting game. Each player selects three characters and swaps between them mid-fight. Characters that the player isn't controlling are Party Members, and can be called in to perform special attacks at any time. Each character has their own HP and MP gauge, but Limit and Rage are shared between all characters.
==Characters==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
===Radiant Struggle (2007)===
Nearly all of the following characters were available with the base game when it was released in 2007. The one exception was KH1 Sora, who was a preorder bonus and DLC character.
The following characters were released in this time period:
===Absent Silhouettes (2007-2009)===
In the years after the game's launch, multiple Organization XIII characters were released as free DLC, both to fill out the roster and to advertise 358/2 Days for DS. There were also a few non-Organization characters mixed in - mostly characters from the first Kingdom Hearts, like KH1 Riku and Ansem.
The following characters were released in this time period:
===Departed Masters (2010-2011)===
Following Birth By Sleep releasing for the PSP, several characters from the game were added to Radiant Struggle over the course of two years. Players who owned Birth By Sleep would receive the characters for free, while everyone else would have to purchase them for $4.99 apiece.
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===Adrift In Nightmares (2012)===
Similarly to the previous wave of content, several characters from Dream Drop Distance for the 3DS were released as paid DLC, with players who owned Dream Drop Distance getting them for free. Unlike the previous wave, these characters were released all at the same time in one bundle, since there were only a handful of characters and interest in the game was starting to wane.
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===Re:Turn (2019-2020)===
In addition to all the DLC characters, Kingdom Hearts Re:Radiant Struggle also included several new characters from Kingdom Hearts III. More were added in the following year after the release of Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind.
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