Roxas, a boy in Twilight Town with no memory of his past, spends a slow, warm prologue in a beach town before things come apart and he is drawn into a much larger conflict. Kingdom Hearts II reconnects with Sora, Donald, and Goofy as they travel between worlds drawn from Disney films, from Pirates of the Caribbean's Port Royal to the Underworld of Hercules, while an organization called XIII plots behind everything. The combat is faster and more fluid than the first game, the worlds are bigger, and the story rewards players who have followed the lore.