KH2-Era Sora Ring

Play Elden Ring as KH2-era Sora: the model KINGDOM HEARTS III uses in its intro, with the Kingdom Key and his real KH3 animations.

What you get

• Sora's moves: light attacks are his ground combo and finisher, heavy is his rising spin slash, plus his air combo, dodge roll, run, high jump, and KH3 animations for flasks and getting hit.
• KH3 Guard and counter: block a hit, break the attacker's poise, then strike back with RevengeImpact.
• Keyblades and Double Form: the Kingdom Key, Oathkeeper and Oblivion, one per weapon slot. Wield two weapons and Sora fights in KH3's Double Form with its own moves and finish. His attacks hit wider and harder, as in KH3.
• NEW: the Gummi Ship: Torrent becomes KH3's Highwind. Jump twice while riding and it takes off and flies over the map with KH3's controls, boosts with roll and speed lines, flaming engines, and "Blast Away! -Gummi Ship II-" playing.
• NEW: KH3 spells (first step): Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, Cure and Aero. Press Y while locked on to cast.
• Moving around: KH3's glide, ledge climb, swimming and diving. No fall damage.
• Kingdom Hearts look: KH2's title screen logo, KH3 save points at sites of grace, KH3 lock-on markers, the KH3 camp menu look and a wide KH3-style camera.
• Heartless and Nobodies: giant rats are Shadows, Demi-Humans are Helmed Bodies and Wandering Nobles are Dusks, in bigger groups as in KH3.
• Kingdom Hearts sound: Sora's KH2 battle shouts, the Keyblade's KH3 swing and hit sounds and KH1's lock-on sound.
• Music: "Night of Fate" in fights, and Kingdom Hearts themes across the world: Limgrave, Stormveil and Godrick, Caelid, Liurnia and Raya Lucaria, the Carian Study Hall, Mt. Gelmir, the Mountaintops and Snowfield, the Haligtree, and bosses like Malenia and Preceptor Miriam.
• Also: three times the runes, you keep your runes when you die, a photo mode, a pause button, 120 FPS, skipped splash screens, ultrawide support and no colour fringing.

Needs: Elden Ring 2.7.1, KINGDOM HEARTS III + Re Mind, and KINGDOM HEARTS HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX, all installed. On the first start, Melty builds Sora from your own copies of the games (nothing from them is shipped), then starts Elden Ring offline. Single player. Sora Ring uses its own save file, copied from yours the first time, so your normal save is never touched.

Every feature can be turned off or adjusted in sora_ring.ini.

Credits: theperez75 (made with Claude). Model and pose engine adapted from ER Mario by Delta (MIT). fromsoftware-rs, CUE4Parse, OpenKH, VGAudio and vgmstream, plus techiew's SkipTheIntro, DisableRuneLoss, UltrawideFix and RemoveChromaticAberration patches (TechieW and iArtorias, MIT), all used under their licenses. KINGDOM HEARTS and Sora belong to Square Enix and Disney; Elden Ring to FromSoftware and Bandai Namco. A free fan mashup, not affiliated with any of them.