A new Kingdom Hearts 3 mod makes King Mickey fully playable. Being a crossover between Disney and Final Fantasy, the Kingdom Hearts series features guest appearances from several of the House of Mouse’s most iconic characters — with Donald Duck and Goofy being chief among them as main protagonist Sora’s companions. Naturally, Mickey Mouse himself is one of the many classic Disney characters appearing in Kingdom Hearts, serving as the wise king of Disney Castle and a powerful recurring ally throughout the series.
In fact, players can temporarily take control of King Mickey in Kingdom Hearts 2, with the mighty mouse arriving to help Sora should he be defeated in certain boss battles. Though his range of attacks is fairly limited in comparison to Sora, many fans enjoyed being able to unleash Mickey's considerable power as he gives Sora a chance to regain his bearings. Additionally, Mickey is playable in the Nintendo 3DS spin-off Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days in the game’s bonus Mission Mode, and Ventus and Aqua can use his D-Link abilities in Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. However, most of the time Mickey is non-playable, though he does lend his Keyblade to a small handful of battles in both Kingdom Hearts III and its connected ReMind DLC.
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Still, some Kingdom Hearts fans wish they could play as King Mickey more often, and a new mod by RedReaper777 allows them to do exactly that. Posted on Nexus Mods (via The Gamer), this Kingdom Hearts 3 mod replaces 2.9 Riku's data with King Mickey’s pre-existing character model and moveset — with RedReaper777 even swapping out Mickey’s Thundaga attack with the Holy spell he uses during his brief playable stints in
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