VA Story Mode

**STORY**

"***Story mode** is...well...the **main storyline** of this game including our intermediate-ish tracks and the optional Casual mode.*"
— VA 2 official description

**Story Mode**, or **Story** for short, is the first game mode in *KINGDOM.exe - Visual Arcade 2*. It can be accessed from the game's Main Menu at any time, and the progression saves automatically.

Story mode is the main mode of the game where it tells the story about the game's main character, a quiet girl, as it plays through levels and meets new friends along the way, all while avoiding white obstacles and hazards that might damage or even break the character. When the player successfully completes a level, that level will be available for play in Freeplay Mode.

It is recommended for first time players to play Story Mode first unless they've experienced the game firsthand before. It is also for players who wanted to go for a more casual experience and for those who are willing to unlock more levels and features in the game.

After completing Story Mode, the Chapter Select is unlocked. Chapter Select allows players to repeat the game's levels or story sequences at their own leisure. In addition, the player can also start completing Challenges to unlock scenery at the game's Main Menu.

## Mechanics

* If the player hasn't started Story Mode yet, the player can start a new game at the game's main menu. It has it's own 2 minute tutorial level that can also be played in the Freeplay Mode, Moneko.
* If the player has completed Story Mode, they can access Chapter Select. This is explained above.
* If the player hasn't fulfilled the aforementioned requirements, the player can continue their recent progress in Story Mode.

## Notes

* Players cannot earn Visualpoints when completing levels or doing feats in Story Mode. They cannot enable Spectral Mode either, unless they have access to Chapter Select.
* If the player has a difficult time playing through Story Mode, especially if they're unfamiliar with the Boss Battles, one can enable Casual Mode, doubling their health and making the problematic level much easier.
* This gamemode can be played in Multiplayer Mode. However, it can only be played through the usage of other controllers.
	+ Regardless of each player while playing Story Mode, the character shown during the story sequences and level selections will always be Kanade.
* Prior to completing them, Termination Shock, Interlaced and HYPE are the only levels that are pre-unlocked in Freeplay Mode.
* The player can play all of the levels at random in Challenge Mode.
	+ It is not recommended for a first-time player, however, since most - if not, all - of the game's available story Boss Levels contain spoilers.
	+ Levels created by the community that is noteworthy will be also added here.
* The full list of artists whose work is used in the game is as follows: Geoxor, Kubbi, Geoplex, Sabrepulse, Kommisar, Tokyo Machine, Creo, Nitro Fun, MDK, Chipzel and Shirobon.
	+ For the 1st part: Geoxor, Kubbi, Sabrepulse, Tokyo Machine, Nitro Fun, Chipzel, Shirobon, Big Giant Circles, Cardi, Mike Geno, Plesco, Creo and Azazal.

## History

The first level in Visual Arcade 2 was released with Moneko through the playlist of Visual Arcade. At this time, the story was not planned out very much.

Around 5/5/2021, an image teaser for the story was released, showing Cross looking completely different with the corrupted plants taken directly from the story.

On 6/1/2021, a mini-ARG was held with some more documents directly from the story hidden in S4TURN's 1000 subscriber announcement video. These documents all described and revealed certain things in the story and are visible here. The files revealed are below:

...it has been 3 months since Kanade has returned in our universe. She is probably still inside the universe where The Heart is. Did it really take that long to find?
...Decided to research a bit more. I still need data and someday I have to send the reports to THAT universe. As an android, it's my job to collect data and know more about other universes and my own but not much really happened. I feel like researching is just null and void at this point with how I'm never able to make use of it.
I'm getting bored of this. Where’s the adventure? The great mission? The uh...anything?... I have this power, and nothing happens that lets me use it. That sucks. Then again, sometimes I wonder if that's for the best. After all, I barely understand it myself.

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[Transcript Date: Unknown]
The names of conversation members have been redacted.
[1]: Alright is this working?
[2]: I hope so... I haven't test it out yet.
[1]: So the name of your device is "The Orb" right?
[2]: Yep.
[3]: Say [2], have you ever heard of the rumor?
[2]: What?
[3]: I just thought this might be related to our work so... It's basically Subject #404 has escaped.
[2]: Wait what? How? Is that true?
[1]: It's just a rumor. Calm down now.
[3]: Haven't found out if it's true yet though but we can at least go to the subject's room. Do you want?
[2]: Sounds good to me.
[1]: Yeah! We can go then I'll write it down if it's true or not.
[1]: We ain't spreading fake news here.
[3]: WONDERFUL!!!
[2]: Alright let's go...

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[Log 415 - Date Unknown]
Me and my team went fact checking of Subject #404's escape. It's true... The glass is broken and she isn't inside. Where did Subject #404 go? She might destroy our project without us knowing! Oh I'm glad I wrote this down oh no...
I spread this news to everyone and of course they also checked. Now we are panicking about Subject #404's escape. You know that she's a really dangerous demon and plus she uses plants from another universe as bombs! We have to find her. If she has destroyed The Orb, everything will be ruined. Inside that is all data stored in this universe and that might cause malfunction.
Alright, we stored The Orb inside the bunker but still... I doubt that's gonna work but I don't think she knows about the bunker after being trapped inside here for like, 4 years. Maybe I should've activated the Extra Safety Chamber but it was too late. I'm just too dumb still thinking about that.
You know what? Maybe I should go steal The Heart from another universe. If I remember, that universe is called KINGDOM.exe right? But...the weird thing is that Subject #404 was actually... Argh nevermind! I shouldn't think about that. I should focus on how I will steal it from them. I don't care if their universe fell, all that matters is that this universe is safe.
[Log 421 - Date Unknown]
I did steal The Heart and it was perfect. Well I guess I will do what I meant to do. Store this heart and absorb it's power but... I just noticed something completely wrong is going on. Is someone after us? That's it! That stupid human from that universe ("Kanade" it was called?) came out of ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE, DESTROYING EVERYTHING, AND TRACKING ME DOWN. Holy crap all I wanted is to keep our universe safe! Now The Heart's power is destroying a certain place - not by me, but COMPLETELY ACCIDENTALLY by this "Kanade". She summoned something that can make Subject #404 capable of destroying this universe.
"Kanade" may not know it yet...but they've made a new enemy.
[Log 422 - Date Unknown]
Looks like I have been defeated... Kanade took The Heart back but she didn't go back to her universe but instead she went to this place where it was getting destroyed because of The Heart's power. If I remember... It's called Gensokyo? I should create documents about this and I wont let Kanade know about Gensokyo. I should redact the name and it's history. Why is she even going there? Does she know that something is going on? Who knows... Well, looks like Subject #404 is able to track where Kanade is and proceeds to go to Gensokyo with her. I dunno, I never trusted or planned this but... We'll die out soon anyway.
In the meantime, I noticed something... Kanade has a companion that she protects to save her universe. Knowing their history, they should perform well with their focus.

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Protagonists are androids that makes their universe stable with their follwing Avatars. If one's Avatar dies, their universe die too. They come from a USB also known as the Guardian Pod. It crashes to their universe where their Avatar awaits. There are a lot of them and every universe has it. There are no universes with no Protagonists and Avatars so that's why they make their universe stable and protected but the question is... Why do they even exist? They are just mere androids with their weird companions. Well, no one knows but we all know that they are still in charge of all of this. In some research, researchers found a module that can track Protagonists along with their Avatars to gather information and that is

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On 6/21/2021, additional information was revealed:

"In ████████, inhabitants have their own culture due to having separate places. For example that there's an island and a forest. ████████ inhabitants has their own title and they called ███ █████. It was unknown if this place still exists but some say they do. Many years later, The Heart's power had targeted ████████ and destroy everything in it. It's just like a videogame since it glitches and everyone who went in that place with glitch as well but Protagonists and Avatars don't. To fix this, there is only one way to do that and you have to take The Heart out before the whole land of ████████ gets completely destroyed. Today, a Protagonist from another universe has come and try to fix this since they were the owner of The Heart but they do not notice that someone's after them. Will they survive? Who knows."

This entire page contains **SPOILERS** for the **Story Mode** of *Visual Arcade*. It is recommended to play the entirety of Story Mode before proceeding this page!

You have been warned.

This article or a section of an article needs to be **rewritten** to a higher standard of quality!

## Map 1: ████████ Island

Before the story starts, a cutscene where Mari worries about Kanade being not here for 3 months already. She decided to track down The Heart again and found that The Heart is trapped in the ruins, deactivated. Of course this made Mari worry because if The Heart has been destroyed, KINGDOM.exe will be destroyed as well without the Avatar dying yet. After that part, another part of the cutscene was shown. After Mary's defeat, Kanade noticed that The Heart isn't here and found out that The Heart is in a land where she doesn't know and flew off.

The story starts off with Kanade landing on a glitchy island. In front of her is a shrine, the player must go to that shrine in order to progress by pressing A (controller) or Enter (PC). After pressing the following keys, you will enter the tutorial level named Moneko by Geoxor will begin. After passing that level, the player can now proceed.

In this, the player must complete 7 levels in different directions of the island. There's a shortcut to them by obtaining the compass. To obtain the compass, you must talk to a glitchy person in front of you and he will hand you a compass. This you can teleport through the levels. The levels in this map are Termination Shock, Interlaced, HYPE, Cascade, Tokyo Skies, Enigma and Aether. Once those levels are beaten, the player is introduced to their first boss fight in New Game. The boss of the level starts out as the default look of Cross but it later evolves or mutates into a completely different look. The player must dodge all of Cross' attacks until the end.

After the boss fight, a heart will float up and slowly grow for a bit. Then, it will start glowing and spinning, getting larger then it will "explode" and un-glitch the island. After that, the heart will point towards Kanade and "stab" her, and then glitchy particles fill the screen temporarily until it is just the grey void, which fades to black.

### Levels

* Moneko - Tutorial sequence
* Termination Shock - Can be played in any order
* Interlaced - Can be played in any order
* HYPE - Can be played in any order
* Cascade - Can be played in any order
* Tokyo Skies - Can be played in any order
* Enigma - Can be played in any order
* Aether - Can be played in any order
* New Game - Boss Level

### Trivia

* To get a feel of the game's vibe and music, this is the only chapter where the Player can listen to a sample of the music before playing. This is done by going to the area where you enter the level, but not entering.
* This is the only map that you can get achievements by doing stuff.

## Map 2: ████████ Bay

Kanade was found lying down and it appears that she's in a glitchy bay. A heart came down to her with a TV on it. The heart drops the TV down and Kanade catches it and she recognized who he is. The TV is Static, Kanade's Avatar while Kanade being Protagonist6. The heart created a path by taking off grass around the places where the levels can be found.

To progress, you have to beat 5 levels in different directions of the bay. The compass can still be used as a teleporter but if you don't have it, you can't go back and take the compass in other words, you're too late. The levels in the map are Overworld, Last Tile 海底撈月, 10000, Airborne Robots and