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UPDATED INFO~!!
A look at Terra's Keyblade~!! Its really cool~! xD
I never knew a keyblade can bend like that
That's right!! KH Vids got hold of a three second video of KH:358/2 gameplay~!! xDD
KH:358/2 Footage
Two videos, one about the history of Kingdom Hearts and the other one has a little bit of KH.
KH Retrospective
FF Retrospective Part XI
FROM THE SQUARE ENIX North America WEBSITE ITSELF~!
Los Angeles (September 21, 2007)
Square Enix, Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan, Square Enix), a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software and services, announced three new titles in the award-winning KINGDOM HEARTS series at the Tokyo Game Show 2007 held in Makuhari Messe. The new titles are KINGDOM HEARTS 358/2 Days for the Nintendo DS™, KINGDOM HEARTS Birth by Sleep for the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, and KINGDOM HEARTS coded for mobile phones. These titles are currently only confirmed for release in Japan. Release in other territories will be determined at a later date.
A NEW CHAPTER IN THE KINGDOM HEARTS SERIES
Still we have to wait and see if they are going to be release international.
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days / released on the DS
358/2 Days in Anticipate 2008 Release
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Organization XIII, No. 13, Roxas
The untold story of a new protagonist
In single player mode, go and explore all of the Disney worlds! Then in multiplayer mode, go and do missions with your friends!
Story
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Twilight Town.
As always, Roxas and Axel are watching the sun from the clock tower.
Their mission as members of the Organization: find and destroy Heartless, and collect their hearts.
And at the end of that mission, they always meet up at that clock tower, eat ice-cream together and chat about the day's missions.
"Do you know why the evening sun is red? It's because light has lots of colours, and of all of those, red reaches us from the furthest away."
"What're you getting all proud about, Axel?"
Two who should not have hearts, continuing to engage in their exclusive conversation.
This is the untold story of Roxas's time in Organization XIII...
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Trailer
o The ending scene of KH Re:CoM is shown. Sora is seen sleeping in order to regain his memory.
o Words appear: "The other side is returning to Sora to sleep."
"Whenever crossing, the mind comes back."
o The scene of Roxas and Axel are shown sitting on the clock tower of Twilight Town.
o (Tomo's note: Taking this from Game Watch's post because it's the exact same thing here.) Roxas and Axel are watching the evening sun from the clock tower at the station as usual. The duty of the two people, who belong to the Organization, is to deal with the Heartless and to collect "Hearts". They always meet in the clock tower at this station at the end of each duty. They talk about their duties, while eating [sea-salt] ice cream together.
o They pull the sea-salt ice creams out of their mouths.
o Axel: "The sunset, do we know why it's to be red?"
Axel: "It is anything because it reaches until there are some colors in its light, and especially red which is the furthest color."
Roxas: "Why is Axel in a good mood?"
o The scene changes to inside the white room where Roxas is with the other Org. XIII members being introduced.
o It seems, this is the scene where Roxas enters the Organization.
o A scene of Axel and Saix talking about Castle Oblivion.
They are at "Memory's Skyscraper". Saix is standing on the stairs. Axel walks and turns his back towards him.
Saix: Axel, Xemnas sent me a message."
Saix: "There is a member in Castle Oblivion who is a betrayer."
Szix: "Erase him as soon as we find him."
Axel looks back but only his left side of his face shows.
Axel: "Is this really an instruction from Xemnas?"
Does Saix's expression deepen?
o The King meets a man with a black hood in the forest.
o The King looks mysterious himself. (He is wearing his black hood appearance.)
o The King is surprised and pulls out his keyblade momentarily, at the same time, pulls down his hood.
o ~Battle Scene~
o Roxas is manipulated (controlled by player), and the Heartless are being knocked down. The enemy is a Darkside.
o The operation to glide is possible to be used in the air.
o In addition, the scene that have the members of the Org. XIII members struggling in a joint battle seems to be the first multi-player of the KH series.
o The screen appears to be divided into four, and the players are able to operate Roxas, Xigbar, Saix, and Axel.
o The HP and MP bars are confirmed to be located in the lower right hand side of the screen. However, the normal command menu from the regular KH series doesn't appear.
o Xemans is talking the white room where the Organization XIII are gathered.
o The Org. members are all with deep expressions.
o Xemnas: "Today is a day, in which, we should be commemorating."
o Xemans: "A new companion came to join us. ....... It is the the 14th."
o The person who is called the 14th in appearance is a girl who is wearing a black hood. She walks towards the center of the room with a smile. Her face isn't able to be seen.
o The expressions of the Org. members varies from each member. Vexen and Larxene laugh. Marluxia and Leaxus express a little anger through their eyebrows. (Tomo's note: Remember, Org. members can only fake emotion.)
Vexen then starts to move. (FF&KH notes that his chair seemed to be awfully low.)
Axel moved his hand to his mouth.
Roxas' expression to be surprised to see the 14th member (or confused).
o Axel and Roxas are flying/hopping on the roofs of houses of Twilight Town.
o Roxas: "...Ahead of me, I see Xemnas...." (FF&KH user notes that his/her memory is vague about this part.)
o Roxas looks at the sunset on the clock tower again: "I will disappear from this world in 151 days."
Nomura Interview Translation (358/2 Days) (Completed)
Interviewer: Is the beginning of 358/2 Days going to focus on Roxas' birth?
Nomura: The part of his birth will be started as the Prologue, however the game really s tarts from when he enters Organization XIII.
Interviewer: Will this game have an already predicted ending, that Crisis Core had?
Nomura: Where do you think the end is? The point is, How did it get to where it end, for Roxas to leave the Organization? The detail of that will be in this game. (Basically, we may already know the end, we just don't know how it got to that point, like Crisis Core)
Interviewer: Does the progress of the story mean going through Disney Worlds, just like previous Kingdom Hearts games?
Nomura: It's not entirely a story that progresses by going to other worlds, but stories will be progressing.
Interviewer: Is the 14th member a new character of the KH Series? It appears as though the character is...a woman?
Nomura: I should bring it up now, that the XIV member is not Namine, since some people believed it to be Namine by seeing the trailer. However it will be explained as to why there's no pillar for this character, as well as why she never appeared in Kingdom Hearts 2.
Interviewer: In the trailer we see 4 different playable characters simultaneously, is this possible?
Nomura: The Multiplayer can be done with 4 people, or less. Not only is it a feeling of Multiplayer, it gives a feeling of freedom as well, because multiplayer mode will have no relation to the story of the game. But it is possible to choose less then four, for the multiplayer content.
Interviewer: What is the progression of Mutliplayer.
Nomura: The point is to basically beat, a given Mission. For instance defeating an enemy or whatever the aim of the goal is. Various purposes range from small reasons, to big reasons. There is a strong competing feeling for Mutliplayer so sometimes the players may forget what the point of the goal is.
Interviewer: Is multiplayer mode possible for one player only?
Nomura This volume with Multiplayer mode, was rather messy, so we had to design a growth Leveling up system. For example, when Axel is used in Multiplayer mode, Roxas will gain some extra experience from this. Also you are able to customize your character freely. (He didn't go into detail about the Customization part, so it's unsure)
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
- The full meaning behind the title can only be understood once you complete the game.
- The first idea that came from this game was to show the daily life of the Organization.
- This is based off of after Roxas entered Organization XIII, this game will also revolve around the one year when Sora is asleep. (A direct sequel to COM basically)
- Roxas has doubt, and begins to believe if it's better to leave the Organization or not.
- The scan says that the 14th member is not Namine, however IS a key character to the story.
- You will still be going through Disney Worlds
- Roxas vs Riku will be in the game!
- There is a system that allows you to see the memories of Sora.
- Multiplayer mode is not related at all to the story.
- ALL XIII MEMBERS can be used in Multiplayer mode.
- Every member has a unique style of gameplay, also once you defeat the boss you can replay the mission again as much as you want to. There are different missions for each character.
- You can draw for fun in the second screen.
- Everytime you complete a mission, one of the Organization chairs raise a bit higher.
- The scenes in KH2FM+ featuring Roxas and Axel have now been done in full work detail.
- Roxas will be having a few different forms, such as Sora did when entering Disney Worlds.
- The story of the game will not be entirely understandable for those that do not have the game, however they won't enjoy it as much.
- Other characters will be appearing there as well, including various Disney Characters.
- However most of the conversations in this game will be revolving around Roxas.
- Those who played Kingdom Hearts II should understand the story even more, and may even understand why this game was put onto the DS.
- The 14th Member is a female who has influenced Roxas in his future actions, however she is too much of an important character in the story to talk about.
- In the event scenes, there will be a little movie, there also may be an opening movie to the game.
- The voice is becoming a issue with capacity but I am trying to find various ways to compress it into the game.
- During this we are re-doing the cutscenes of 358/2 Days as well, this is because on the DS there is a weak design to the data and for every update to the hardware we push 358/2 Days further.
- Even though we have a low capacity problem Nintendo has made it far, even their Rom capacity is going up!....Slowly (laughs)
- The order of Single Player to summarize it up is "Go to mission, Clear Mission, Return to HQ, Prepare for next mission, go to next mission." There are also small mini events you can do such as after beating a mission join Axel for some Sea Salt Icecream.
- Missions that are beaten in Single Player can be played in Multiplayer mode.
Updated
Functions and Restrictions of KH on the DS
- There were many thoughts about making the game, before moving it to the DS.
- One of the thoughts was the capacity of the game, while the other one focused more on.
- The second thought was more on the use of the double screen, and the touchpen.
- When the story of the game was told, everyone was really interested in it, and wanted to work on it right away and deserved special production.
- The main problem of putting it onto the DS was the fact that the polygons of the characters dropped, although we tried our best to keep the cutscenes at least to the feel of the KH series. We are currently trying to fix the polygons for the gameplay to make it as smooth as possible.
- A chat option is added into the multiplayer mode, allowing other players to chat with each other.
Button Operations
- Nomura believes that the KH series feel of combat has kept that feel in 358/2 Days.
- He still will not utilize the touchpen in terms of gameplay.
- The buttons in the demo at JF have been re-arranged.
- Because this time the game will not be able to use an analog stick it doesn't really fill like the main stream of the KH series to begin with, although we are aiming to get the best feel we can give for a KH game.
- The only complaints about the game given was the having to use the cross pad buttons instead of the Analog stick.
- We adjusted it though, and added a bit of connection between speed, combo and other actions during gameplay.
- The LM gauge is used as co-operation techniques as well as very dangerously powerful attacks.
- The Organization members in 358/2 Days in Multiplayer Mode will have moves from the original KH2, however due to restrictions we might not be able to have all their moves in there.
- Originally the chairs moved up or down when failing or succeeding a mission, we might change that a bit.
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep / released on the PSP
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This is a story of awakening, one which connects to the grand beginning of the Kingdom Hearts story.
The PSP's high-level graphics aility is taken to its very limits.
A new set of three protagonists compose three different scenarios.
The controls, system and graphics follow those of the series so far, while at the same time bringing a whole new feeling to the system!
Story
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The legendary Keyblade is said to hold phenomenal power.
Some legends say that long ago, its wielder saved the world, while some say that he brought chaos and ruin upon it.
[Ansem Report 8]
Before Sora gained the Keyblade, there were many "Keyblade Masters" in the world.
One of those Masters, Master Xehanort, and his only disciple suddenly disappears, an omen of the great disaster that would subsequently erupt.
And as soon as one Master realises this, he tells his three disciples that they must track down Master Xehanort at all costs...
Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
Trailer
o The beginning scene is from the ending of KH to its opening.
o "Sleep gives birth to the concealed fate in the far past."
o The boy with different clothes, and has the same face as Roxas, is talking to the person known as Terra who has dark hair. The boy who looks like Roxas is called "Ven" by Terra.
o Terra: "Are you the one who, at one time, saved me?"
Ven: "Because, you are my friend."
Ven starts to laugh because he said it. Is Terra [on] a rock? Terra jumps off and puts a hand on Ven's shoulder.
o Terra: "Thank you, Ven." (Tomo notes: This scene seems very familiar..) Terra is shown to continuously face the elderly man who appeared in the Secret Movie of KHII:FM+ in the wilderness. (The voice and appearance of Xehanort is quite different from his appearance in KH although, the elderly man is called "Xehanort".)
o Elderly man (Xehanort): "It was believed that you would reach it at last."
Elderly man (Xehanort): "The wall of light and dark is exceeded. It is the original me."
Elderly man (Xehanort): "Impatiently waiting, often reaching last, Terra!!"
The elderly man spreads out the palm of his hand, gladly. Terra, on the opposite side, is angry.
o Xehanort meets Ven (Roxas?) in the Olympus Coliseum.
o (It is considerably vague of what the elderly man's final words say.)
Elderly man: "It's been a long time."
Ven: "Who? You know me ----------!?"
Ven is surprised to recall something.
Elderly man: "It seems you lost something"
Elderly man: "However, it is not eternal. To obtain what is lost."
Elderly man: "Everything is regained. The truth is gripped and is taken only now." The elderly man waves his hand in a movement as if to summon magic.
Ven (Roxas?) watches with an expression that becomes confused and fear.
o Afterwards, the world of the wilderness appears again.
o Terra: "I have my friend."
Terra: "What was done to answer a burning Xehanort and his mind?"
o Terra calls out the keyblade in his right hand. The effect is the same as the man in armor of mystery who "stays put thoughtfully" that appeared in KHII:FM+. Same person?
o ~Battle Mode~
Scene shows that player can operate Terra. (Yay!)
The setting is the forest from "Sleeping Beauty". A castle can be seen that's darkly covered with roses?
At the battle field, Terra jumps over well towards the roses. He is fighting with advance Heartless and not Nobodies.
The Heartless jet-black shadow is about five times the size of a regular shadow Heartless (?). It had a vector shape head.
Terra used familiar commands such as: "Flight", "Fire", "Blizzaga", "Sandaga", "Air hit" (on the left command list), "Fire blitz", "Air lift", and also "Air volley".
o The scene has changed completely to the wilderness.
o The person wearing a black helmet and black clothes (person who appeared in KHII:FM+'s Secret Movie) encounters Ven.
o The person of mystery blows off Ven.
o The King summons and uses the keyblade to momentarily protect a fallen Ven. The King is wearing clothing colored black and grey that we haven't seen up until now. The keyblade in his hand is the Starseeker.
o Terra and the elderly man (Xehanort), who are in the wilderness with fallen Ven, face each other again.
The scene has changed completely, and this time, the elderly man starts to appeal for something.
Elderly man (Xehanort): "The person who has been tied to the darkness doesn't have the qualification to use the keyblade."
Elderly man (Xehanort): "The man is a demon who has already been tied to the darkness."
Elderly man: "Please, I ask of you to correct my mistake!"
o Terra: "I used this power for my friend even though, the mastering is ordered!" (FF&KH notes: Perhaps, this "instruction of mastering"... Although, this part is vague, it's not popular.) Terra is watching the coast. (Coast of Twilight Town because of the evening time?)
o There are two boys who are playing using wooden swords and Terra watches from a grove. (Sora and perhaps, Riku?) Terra and the two boys are the only ones in the area.
o Ven is watching from a similar coast looking down. He has little expression on his face. This place isn't Destiny Islands. It's Twilight Town (?) because it's evening.
Ven: "Because he's a friend, please erase me."
Nomura Interview Translation (BBS)
Interviewer:So what about the development of Birth by Sleep?
Nomura:The developer of re:COM will be working on KH: BBS. During Development, the production of KH: BBS was stopped, for the production of re:COM. At first it felt a bit weird starting the project again. I believe this project started before the other two, of the three Kingdom Hearts games, and I also believe it will be the last to hit the market.
Interviewer: It still relates to Birth of Sleep? (KH2 FM+'s secret ending)
Nomura: The Secret Ending, is an image for a scene in BBS, therefore the title of the game is also the same. However because it is difficult to express a violent battle as a playable content, The Secret Ending, is an image to the end. (Is he hinting that this is how BBS will end or something else?)
Interviewer:How much talk was put into it, for this, as it seems to be the past to the "KH" Series.
Nomura: The game is the farthest in the past timeline of Kingdom Hearts, and will take 10 years ago from the KH series. There is a screenshot of two children playing on the beach, and I believe the fans can understand what that means.
Interviewer: In the Story it's said that "Three Scenarios spelt by Three Heroes". Is there a relation between each scenario?
Nomura:: There are three Heroes, Terra, Ven, and another character in KHBBS. A story is already prepared for all three of them. Therefore in a way you can say three games were made at the same time. (Laughs) It's difficult to zap through the explanation right now due to Scenario creating. However the beginning will be a bit hard to understand, but by completing all three Scenarios you will understand the entire story.
Interviewer: Do the names of the three heroes represent something?
Nomura: In Kingdom Hearts, Sora meant Sky, Riku meant Land, and Kairi meant Sea. In this game, the three meanings make a large impact on the game.
Interviewer: Are all three Scenarios happening around the same time?
Nomura: All of the Scenarios do take around the same time, however there are also some gaps between the timelines. Also there are times when all three heroes will meet.
Interviewer: Is the playing order decided yet?
Nomura: I believe it would be better if we gave the players a freedom of choice. However this is still being talked about, but I believe it would be better to choose whoever you want out of the three.
Interviewer: What place is the story's viewpoint from.
Nomura: To bring a point. The word that comes up in Kingdom Hearts 2, is Xehanort. The game will bring up answers to several things though like. "Why is the Elderly person who appears in BBS bring up the same name?" and "Why is he wearing the same clothes as Ansem in KH1?" Another thing I want to bring up is that Ven has the same hairstyle, face, clothes, and voice to Roxas who appears in the Kingdom Hearts series. Who is he?
Interviewer: Is the voice actor of Ven the same as Roxas?
Nomura: Yes, it is the same actor. Therefore the person who played, will only look at Ven as Roxas from KH2.
However, is Roxas and Ven really the same character?
Moreover, what's the mystery for the existence of Ven, and Roxas?
These are keys that can be fully understandable, when playing KH: BBS. You will be able to seperate Ven from Roxas with ease, I will hint though by connecting the Story between Roxas and Sora, you will understand who Ven is.
Interviewer: May I believe that the one you fight in KH2FM+, and Terra are the same person? Because they both use a very similar kind of Keyblade.
Nomura: If they really are the same person, or not is uncertain, though it doesn't matter if you think they are the same person.
Interviewer: In BBS, after all three are divided, the king appears?
Nomura: It may be deeply related to the story, however I cannot tell rather or not that is a "King" from that current age. This is because the development of BBS will be a very serious story.
Interviewer: In BBS is the gameplay done by choosing action commands lined up in command list?
Nomura: I believe it is neccessary to say first. The Command Menu that was shown to the public (A.K.A scans, and video) has now changed. A system close to that of re:COM has been created successfully feeling like a command deck. However the present screenshots show it was a bit too close to the idea of re:COM. The battle screens you see in the images now, have already been changed. However the operating sense is similar to that of the Kingdom Hearts series. The gameplay has a slight influence from the DS game "It's a Wonderful World"
Interviewer: Are there any features for the Growth System? (Leveling System)
Nomura: A new Growth System has been added into the game, it is when you have to match four obligations with the scenario (?). We tried this variously because it was a bit hard with the PSP. However we made the best use of it's Analog.
Interviewer: Are there new enemies you can confirm that are not shown in the screens?
Nomura:The new enemy is not a Heartless, or a Nobody. Because the story takes place before even they appear. I can give out more information little by little as time passes, an example being like the Shadow enemies that are heartless, and the Dusk enemies that are nobodies.
Interviewer: With the PSP will it be possible for two people to Communicate by any connection method?
Nomura:: It's too early to answer that however, there will be some features that will be taking advantage of the PSP.
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
- Development for this game started a bit early, but it was interrupted by the development for re:COM
- Ven is the male's Alias and his real name is longer.
- There is a mystery of who each character is.
- The keyblade Master is someone who has not appeared in any of the series yet.
- The story is set to be Complex and Serious
- The Story Advances with three people, each with their own different gameplay.
- The Battle system is new compared to the ones in previous KH games.
Kingdom Hearts: Coded / released on the Mobile Phone
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An unlimited range of Disney worlds, distributed to your mobile phone.
An adventure spanning across many diverse, rich Disney worlds.
A new system and new graphics put high-end mobile phones on the same level as game consoles!
Our first collaboration with Disney's Internet division, the Disney Internet Group.
Story
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This story revolves around a single fragment of Jiminy Cricket's "Jiminy Memo".
Following the events of "Kingdom Hearts II", Jiminy returns to Disney Castle. Jiminy has been reading his memo along the way, and a single page makes him stop in his tracks.
This page contains a mysterious message:
"We have to go back, to heal their pain."
But no matter how much he racks his brains, he can't remember what the page is referring to.
The King turns the Jiminy into data, and begin to investigate. And in a world traced by the Jiminy Memo, the Destiny Islands, a sleeping boy awakens.
Thus Sora's new adventure in the Data World begins.
Kingdom Hearts Coded
Trailer
o The title of "KINGDOM HEARTS NEW CONCEPTS, NEW TITLES" is displayed with the beginning image in a form of waves.
o It shows the ending scene of KHII. Sora, Riku, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy are in Destiny Islands' play island laughing together in the water.
o The words appear: "Flow of time."
"The secret is solved."
"The world extends."
o It begins with an image of Jiminy Cricket narrating the scenes. (FF&KH user notes that the words that are placed down as Jiminy speaks are made to look very vague.)
o "My two journals are completed. One of them became blank because of Castle Oblivion. The words that were written in the journal said, 'Give thanks to Namine' .........eh?"
o One strange sentence that was written in Jiminy's Journal that should've become blank by KH:CoM: "It's necessary to return to healing their wounds."
o Jiminy finds the strange sentences and reports them to the King in a panicking manner.
o The King sees the strange sentences on the Journal.
o King: "I know only one person, in the world, who can solve this mystery....No, only him!"
Jiminy: "Ah!!"
o Sora appears standing on Destiny Islands wearing KHI clothing. A special effect surrounds Sora's body looking like he's being forwarded by a computer which momentarily hangs.
o Sora holds up his keyblade laughing proudly and begins to run.
o ~Battle scene begins~
o Sora, with Donald and Goofy following behind him, are walking into Traverse Town.
o The Heartless attack. Sora is shown moving a pile of blocks.
o Are there a variety of mini game elements such as puzzle games built in?
o In "Debugging mode", Sora's movement quickens, and various of actions join together when the command is executed. (Is it like the reaction command triangle button of KHII?)
o The scene where Sora goes off to the first stage in KH which is Traverse Town is shown at the end. Pluto tries to lick Sora's face and Sora wakes up in the back of the alley in Traverse Town.
o Sora chases Pluto and runs to the center of the town.
o Sora: "Here is where...?" which he remembers from the first volume of KH. (It's a bit different, although, it sure looks like the beginning scene of Traverse Town.)
o The King comes out of the back of the alley with a hand held up and walks toward Sora. (The King is in his usual clothing and not the clothes of the Org. XIII.)
o King: "Sora, your travel started here. However, I was here on that day too. Let me speak the truth."
Nomura Interview Translated (Coded)
Interviewer: "The Screen is Horizontal, even though the game is for the cellphone, why is this?"
Nomura: This is not just the length screen but also a model screen specification for the most recent cellphones. It is what we assume the game to look like when it's released to the public. The method for the horizontal screen has already been talked about, it is a basic horizontal screen size.
Interviewer: Is the screen in 3D incase of Pseudo (?)
Nomura: The Background is 3D, and the characters are 2D. The Development of this game is still in progress, and we plan to have the game both 3D, and 2D. The reason is so that we can have the game available to a range of cellphones. The reason we developed this idea, is because we wish to send this game overseas.
Interviewer: What shape will the delivery form take?
Nomura: Unlike the situations in larger game development, we always thought the world of Kingdom Hearts could be made mobile. For instance, there is a huge amusement park, and the main attraction is KHc (Kingdom Hearts Coded). It can be like an entrance to an Amusement park, free of charge, allowing you to visit each world. That is the delivery plan of KHc. We plan on taking full advantage for the mobile phone.
Interviewer: Will the storyline be based on Sora's adventures in Kingdom Hearts?
Nomura: The timeline is based on after Kingdom Hearts II, Jiminy's Journal is analyzed, and the adventure will take place in that. Therefore data of Sora will appear, not Sora. The world that was shown was a stage, though this was through the time of COM, and re:COM over the memory of Sora.
Interviewer: What will this game be able to do?
Nomura: This is going to be a puzzle game, mixed with action. Data is being displayed, and there are some bugs in Jiminy's book. The area must be analyzed in order to find the bug that is violating the data, and then you need to remove the bug. However some may get a bit more confusing as there will be ladders Sora will use to get to higher areas.
Interviewer: When do you think this game will be released?
Nomura: You may have to wait a while, as there are still some problems with the specs of cellphones for now. However we are not asking you to wait for 2, or 3 years. (Possibly this means around a year or so)
Interviewer: Will these works be connected with the "New" KH game?
Nomura KHc features Sora, however the DS, and PSP both are completely different stories, though I cannot say what they are yet. I can say these titles are not the last of the series, and all three will connect to a New Kingdom Hearts Game sooner or later
KH: Coded
- Is considered to be the brother of Agito XIII
- Nomura wanted to make it a playground for the fans.
- THis game will clerify where Riku and the King was during KH1
- THe Debugging Mode is used to move from the Data to the real world
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Since these pictures are too big I am giving the links.
Roxas
About KH DS Game
Belle
Mansex
MANGA TWIST
CLICK IF YOU DARE Spoiler Spoiler
Short Stories Vol 1 Cover Revealed!
Titles of the short stories:
Nothing but Blue
The Twilight
ATLANTICA
AGRABAH
100 Acre Wood
Some like it cold
Future and past
Total Eclipse
The Short Stories will be released on November 20th, though I have no idea if that's Japan or North America release date.
The latest GanGan Comic has released a promotional image of Kingdom Hearts Short Stories Vol 1, Other Diamons. There is also information about it, the Short Stories will be covering Sora's adventure in Agrabah, 100 Acre Woods, Atlantica, also Cloud, Sephiroth, Namine, Riku, and the King's stories are told. (Interesting Sephiroth and Cloud has a story in this as well).
Nomura admiring his own art after the first day of TGS was over, and decided to write his own signature on it.
Yoko Shimoura, the composer of Kingdom Hearts, standing right next to the Sora Statue.
HQS
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What the scans say... Well partly. xD;
1st high quality scan
Attacks:
Rush
Rush
Air Break
Air Break>Fight
Air Break
2nd HQ scan
Scene 1: The dream I had
Scene 2: The Chosen of the Keyblade
Scene: Why is Axel happy?
3rd HQ scan:
Scene 1: A member that went to Castle Oblivion is a traitor
Scene 2: Is that really from Master Xemnas?
Scene 3: The Fourteenth.
4th HQ scan:
The first scene with the attacks is too small to see
Scene 2:
Attacks:
Firaga
Blizaga
Rush
Rush>Ariel Slam
Air Break
6th HQ scan
Scene 1: I'm tired of waiting, Terra
Scene 2: I believed that you would struggle
Scene 3: What did you do to his heart?!
Scene 4: *the Kanji is too small to figure out*
Scene 5: To obtain, you must lose it.
Scene 6: Have I met you?
HQ scan 7
Scene 1: This power... I'll fight for my friend!
Scene 2 (the small one on the left): Thanks,Ven
Scene 3: I have a friend.
Scene 4: Because he's a "friend", I want to [???].
HQ scan 8
Scene 1:*I can't recognize the Kanji*
Scene 2: Ah!
Scene 3: Everyone's dissapearing from the Jiminy Memo!
HQ scan 9
Scene 1: I was here, too, on that day
Scene 2: Let's speak the truth
A new item from Square-Enix, these Keyholders A.K.A Keyrings are set for a October release, for 1,995 yen ($17 approximately).
Pictures of the Theater but with new shots. -resized the images-
I will update this thread when new info comes~!! >w<
To keep up with all the info go to KH2 VIDS.NET
UPDATED INFO~!!
A look at Terra's Keyblade~!! Its really cool~! xD
I never knew a keyblade can bend like that
That's right!! KH Vids got hold of a three second video of KH:358/2 gameplay~!! xDD
KH:358/2 Footage
Two videos, one about the history of Kingdom Hearts and the other one has a little bit of KH.
KH Retrospective
FF Retrospective Part XI
FROM THE SQUARE ENIX North America WEBSITE ITSELF~!
Los Angeles (September 21, 2007)
Square Enix, Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan, Square Enix), a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software and services, announced three new titles in the award-winning KINGDOM HEARTS series at the Tokyo Game Show 2007 held in Makuhari Messe. The new titles are KINGDOM HEARTS 358/2 Days for the Nintendo DS™, KINGDOM HEARTS Birth by Sleep for the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, and KINGDOM HEARTS coded for mobile phones. These titles are currently only confirmed for release in Japan. Release in other territories will be determined at a later date.
A NEW CHAPTER IN THE KINGDOM HEARTS SERIES
Still we have to wait and see if they are going to be release international.
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days / released on the DS
358/2 Days in Anticipate 2008 Release
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Organization XIII, No. 13, Roxas
The untold story of a new protagonist
In single player mode, go and explore all of the Disney worlds! Then in multiplayer mode, go and do missions with your friends!
Story
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Twilight Town.
As always, Roxas and Axel are watching the sun from the clock tower.
Their mission as members of the Organization: find and destroy Heartless, and collect their hearts.
And at the end of that mission, they always meet up at that clock tower, eat ice-cream together and chat about the day's missions.
"Do you know why the evening sun is red? It's because light has lots of colours, and of all of those, red reaches us from the furthest away."
"What're you getting all proud about, Axel?"
Two who should not have hearts, continuing to engage in their exclusive conversation.
This is the untold story of Roxas's time in Organization XIII...
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Trailer
o The ending scene of KH Re:CoM is shown. Sora is seen sleeping in order to regain his memory.
o Words appear: "The other side is returning to Sora to sleep."
"Whenever crossing, the mind comes back."
o The scene of Roxas and Axel are shown sitting on the clock tower of Twilight Town.
o (Tomo's note: Taking this from Game Watch's post because it's the exact same thing here.) Roxas and Axel are watching the evening sun from the clock tower at the station as usual. The duty of the two people, who belong to the Organization, is to deal with the Heartless and to collect "Hearts". They always meet in the clock tower at this station at the end of each duty. They talk about their duties, while eating [sea-salt] ice cream together.
o They pull the sea-salt ice creams out of their mouths.
o Axel: "The sunset, do we know why it's to be red?"
Axel: "It is anything because it reaches until there are some colors in its light, and especially red which is the furthest color."
Roxas: "Why is Axel in a good mood?"
o The scene changes to inside the white room where Roxas is with the other Org. XIII members being introduced.
o It seems, this is the scene where Roxas enters the Organization.
o A scene of Axel and Saix talking about Castle Oblivion.
They are at "Memory's Skyscraper". Saix is standing on the stairs. Axel walks and turns his back towards him.
Saix: Axel, Xemnas sent me a message."
Saix: "There is a member in Castle Oblivion who is a betrayer."
Szix: "Erase him as soon as we find him."
Axel looks back but only his left side of his face shows.
Axel: "Is this really an instruction from Xemnas?"
Does Saix's expression deepen?
o The King meets a man with a black hood in the forest.
o The King looks mysterious himself. (He is wearing his black hood appearance.)
o The King is surprised and pulls out his keyblade momentarily, at the same time, pulls down his hood.
o ~Battle Scene~
o Roxas is manipulated (controlled by player), and the Heartless are being knocked down. The enemy is a Darkside.
o The operation to glide is possible to be used in the air.
o In addition, the scene that have the members of the Org. XIII members struggling in a joint battle seems to be the first multi-player of the KH series.
o The screen appears to be divided into four, and the players are able to operate Roxas, Xigbar, Saix, and Axel.
o The HP and MP bars are confirmed to be located in the lower right hand side of the screen. However, the normal command menu from the regular KH series doesn't appear.
o Xemans is talking the white room where the Organization XIII are gathered.
o The Org. members are all with deep expressions.
o Xemnas: "Today is a day, in which, we should be commemorating."
o Xemans: "A new companion came to join us. ....... It is the the 14th."
o The person who is called the 14th in appearance is a girl who is wearing a black hood. She walks towards the center of the room with a smile. Her face isn't able to be seen.
o The expressions of the Org. members varies from each member. Vexen and Larxene laugh. Marluxia and Leaxus express a little anger through their eyebrows. (Tomo's note: Remember, Org. members can only fake emotion.)
Vexen then starts to move. (FF&KH notes that his chair seemed to be awfully low.)
Axel moved his hand to his mouth.
Roxas' expression to be surprised to see the 14th member (or confused).
o Axel and Roxas are flying/hopping on the roofs of houses of Twilight Town.
o Roxas: "...Ahead of me, I see Xemnas...." (FF&KH user notes that his/her memory is vague about this part.)
o Roxas looks at the sunset on the clock tower again: "I will disappear from this world in 151 days."
Nomura Interview Translation (358/2 Days) (Completed)
Interviewer: Is the beginning of 358/2 Days going to focus on Roxas' birth?
Nomura: The part of his birth will be started as the Prologue, however the game really s tarts from when he enters Organization XIII.
Interviewer: Will this game have an already predicted ending, that Crisis Core had?
Nomura: Where do you think the end is? The point is, How did it get to where it end, for Roxas to leave the Organization? The detail of that will be in this game. (Basically, we may already know the end, we just don't know how it got to that point, like Crisis Core)
Interviewer: Does the progress of the story mean going through Disney Worlds, just like previous Kingdom Hearts games?
Nomura: It's not entirely a story that progresses by going to other worlds, but stories will be progressing.
Interviewer: Is the 14th member a new character of the KH Series? It appears as though the character is...a woman?
Nomura: I should bring it up now, that the XIV member is not Namine, since some people believed it to be Namine by seeing the trailer. However it will be explained as to why there's no pillar for this character, as well as why she never appeared in Kingdom Hearts 2.
Interviewer: In the trailer we see 4 different playable characters simultaneously, is this possible?
Nomura: The Multiplayer can be done with 4 people, or less. Not only is it a feeling of Multiplayer, it gives a feeling of freedom as well, because multiplayer mode will have no relation to the story of the game. But it is possible to choose less then four, for the multiplayer content.
Interviewer: What is the progression of Mutliplayer.
Nomura: The point is to basically beat, a given Mission. For instance defeating an enemy or whatever the aim of the goal is. Various purposes range from small reasons, to big reasons. There is a strong competing feeling for Mutliplayer so sometimes the players may forget what the point of the goal is.
Interviewer: Is multiplayer mode possible for one player only?
Nomura This volume with Multiplayer mode, was rather messy, so we had to design a growth Leveling up system. For example, when Axel is used in Multiplayer mode, Roxas will gain some extra experience from this. Also you are able to customize your character freely. (He didn't go into detail about the Customization part, so it's unsure)
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
- The full meaning behind the title can only be understood once you complete the game.
- The first idea that came from this game was to show the daily life of the Organization.
- This is based off of after Roxas entered Organization XIII, this game will also revolve around the one year when Sora is asleep. (A direct sequel to COM basically)
- Roxas has doubt, and begins to believe if it's better to leave the Organization or not.
- The scan says that the 14th member is not Namine, however IS a key character to the story.
- You will still be going through Disney Worlds
- Roxas vs Riku will be in the game!
- There is a system that allows you to see the memories of Sora.
- Multiplayer mode is not related at all to the story.
- ALL XIII MEMBERS can be used in Multiplayer mode.
- Every member has a unique style of gameplay, also once you defeat the boss you can replay the mission again as much as you want to. There are different missions for each character.
- You can draw for fun in the second screen.
- Everytime you complete a mission, one of the Organization chairs raise a bit higher.
- The scenes in KH2FM+ featuring Roxas and Axel have now been done in full work detail.
- Roxas will be having a few different forms, such as Sora did when entering Disney Worlds.
- The story of the game will not be entirely understandable for those that do not have the game, however they won't enjoy it as much.
- Other characters will be appearing there as well, including various Disney Characters.
- However most of the conversations in this game will be revolving around Roxas.
- Those who played Kingdom Hearts II should understand the story even more, and may even understand why this game was put onto the DS.
- The 14th Member is a female who has influenced Roxas in his future actions, however she is too much of an important character in the story to talk about.
- In the event scenes, there will be a little movie, there also may be an opening movie to the game.
- The voice is becoming a issue with capacity but I am trying to find various ways to compress it into the game.
- During this we are re-doing the cutscenes of 358/2 Days as well, this is because on the DS there is a weak design to the data and for every update to the hardware we push 358/2 Days further.
- Even though we have a low capacity problem Nintendo has made it far, even their Rom capacity is going up!....Slowly (laughs)
- The order of Single Player to summarize it up is "Go to mission, Clear Mission, Return to HQ, Prepare for next mission, go to next mission." There are also small mini events you can do such as after beating a mission join Axel for some Sea Salt Icecream.
- Missions that are beaten in Single Player can be played in Multiplayer mode.
Updated
Functions and Restrictions of KH on the DS
- There were many thoughts about making the game, before moving it to the DS.
- One of the thoughts was the capacity of the game, while the other one focused more on.
- The second thought was more on the use of the double screen, and the touchpen.
- When the story of the game was told, everyone was really interested in it, and wanted to work on it right away and deserved special production.
- The main problem of putting it onto the DS was the fact that the polygons of the characters dropped, although we tried our best to keep the cutscenes at least to the feel of the KH series. We are currently trying to fix the polygons for the gameplay to make it as smooth as possible.
- A chat option is added into the multiplayer mode, allowing other players to chat with each other.
Button Operations
- Nomura believes that the KH series feel of combat has kept that feel in 358/2 Days.
- He still will not utilize the touchpen in terms of gameplay.
- The buttons in the demo at JF have been re-arranged.
- Because this time the game will not be able to use an analog stick it doesn't really fill like the main stream of the KH series to begin with, although we are aiming to get the best feel we can give for a KH game.
- The only complaints about the game given was the having to use the cross pad buttons instead of the Analog stick.
- We adjusted it though, and added a bit of connection between speed, combo and other actions during gameplay.
- The LM gauge is used as co-operation techniques as well as very dangerously powerful attacks.
- The Organization members in 358/2 Days in Multiplayer Mode will have moves from the original KH2, however due to restrictions we might not be able to have all their moves in there.
- Originally the chairs moved up or down when failing or succeeding a mission, we might change that a bit.
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep / released on the PSP
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This is a story of awakening, one which connects to the grand beginning of the Kingdom Hearts story.
The PSP's high-level graphics aility is taken to its very limits.
A new set of three protagonists compose three different scenarios.
The controls, system and graphics follow those of the series so far, while at the same time bringing a whole new feeling to the system!
Story
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The legendary Keyblade is said to hold phenomenal power.
Some legends say that long ago, its wielder saved the world, while some say that he brought chaos and ruin upon it.
[Ansem Report 8]
Before Sora gained the Keyblade, there were many "Keyblade Masters" in the world.
One of those Masters, Master Xehanort, and his only disciple suddenly disappears, an omen of the great disaster that would subsequently erupt.
And as soon as one Master realises this, he tells his three disciples that they must track down Master Xehanort at all costs...
Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
Trailer
o The beginning scene is from the ending of KH to its opening.
o "Sleep gives birth to the concealed fate in the far past."
o The boy with different clothes, and has the same face as Roxas, is talking to the person known as Terra who has dark hair. The boy who looks like Roxas is called "Ven" by Terra.
o Terra: "Are you the one who, at one time, saved me?"
Ven: "Because, you are my friend."
Ven starts to laugh because he said it. Is Terra [on] a rock? Terra jumps off and puts a hand on Ven's shoulder.
o Terra: "Thank you, Ven." (Tomo notes: This scene seems very familiar..) Terra is shown to continuously face the elderly man who appeared in the Secret Movie of KHII:FM+ in the wilderness. (The voice and appearance of Xehanort is quite different from his appearance in KH although, the elderly man is called "Xehanort".)
o Elderly man (Xehanort): "It was believed that you would reach it at last."
Elderly man (Xehanort): "The wall of light and dark is exceeded. It is the original me."
Elderly man (Xehanort): "Impatiently waiting, often reaching last, Terra!!"
The elderly man spreads out the palm of his hand, gladly. Terra, on the opposite side, is angry.
o Xehanort meets Ven (Roxas?) in the Olympus Coliseum.
o (It is considerably vague of what the elderly man's final words say.)
Elderly man: "It's been a long time."
Ven: "Who? You know me ----------!?"
Ven is surprised to recall something.
Elderly man: "It seems you lost something"
Elderly man: "However, it is not eternal. To obtain what is lost."
Elderly man: "Everything is regained. The truth is gripped and is taken only now." The elderly man waves his hand in a movement as if to summon magic.
Ven (Roxas?) watches with an expression that becomes confused and fear.
o Afterwards, the world of the wilderness appears again.
o Terra: "I have my friend."
Terra: "What was done to answer a burning Xehanort and his mind?"
o Terra calls out the keyblade in his right hand. The effect is the same as the man in armor of mystery who "stays put thoughtfully" that appeared in KHII:FM+. Same person?
o ~Battle Mode~
Scene shows that player can operate Terra. (Yay!)
The setting is the forest from "Sleeping Beauty". A castle can be seen that's darkly covered with roses?
At the battle field, Terra jumps over well towards the roses. He is fighting with advance Heartless and not Nobodies.
The Heartless jet-black shadow is about five times the size of a regular shadow Heartless (?). It had a vector shape head.
Terra used familiar commands such as: "Flight", "Fire", "Blizzaga", "Sandaga", "Air hit" (on the left command list), "Fire blitz", "Air lift", and also "Air volley".
o The scene has changed completely to the wilderness.
o The person wearing a black helmet and black clothes (person who appeared in KHII:FM+'s Secret Movie) encounters Ven.
o The person of mystery blows off Ven.
o The King summons and uses the keyblade to momentarily protect a fallen Ven. The King is wearing clothing colored black and grey that we haven't seen up until now. The keyblade in his hand is the Starseeker.
o Terra and the elderly man (Xehanort), who are in the wilderness with fallen Ven, face each other again.
The scene has changed completely, and this time, the elderly man starts to appeal for something.
Elderly man (Xehanort): "The person who has been tied to the darkness doesn't have the qualification to use the keyblade."
Elderly man (Xehanort): "The man is a demon who has already been tied to the darkness."
Elderly man: "Please, I ask of you to correct my mistake!"
o Terra: "I used this power for my friend even though, the mastering is ordered!" (FF&KH notes: Perhaps, this "instruction of mastering"... Although, this part is vague, it's not popular.) Terra is watching the coast. (Coast of Twilight Town because of the evening time?)
o There are two boys who are playing using wooden swords and Terra watches from a grove. (Sora and perhaps, Riku?) Terra and the two boys are the only ones in the area.
o Ven is watching from a similar coast looking down. He has little expression on his face. This place isn't Destiny Islands. It's Twilight Town (?) because it's evening.
Ven: "Because he's a friend, please erase me."
Nomura Interview Translation (BBS)
Interviewer:So what about the development of Birth by Sleep?
Nomura:The developer of re:COM will be working on KH: BBS. During Development, the production of KH: BBS was stopped, for the production of re:COM. At first it felt a bit weird starting the project again. I believe this project started before the other two, of the three Kingdom Hearts games, and I also believe it will be the last to hit the market.
Interviewer: It still relates to Birth of Sleep? (KH2 FM+'s secret ending)
Nomura: The Secret Ending, is an image for a scene in BBS, therefore the title of the game is also the same. However because it is difficult to express a violent battle as a playable content, The Secret Ending, is an image to the end. (Is he hinting that this is how BBS will end or something else?)
Interviewer:How much talk was put into it, for this, as it seems to be the past to the "KH" Series.
Nomura: The game is the farthest in the past timeline of Kingdom Hearts, and will take 10 years ago from the KH series. There is a screenshot of two children playing on the beach, and I believe the fans can understand what that means.
Interviewer: In the Story it's said that "Three Scenarios spelt by Three Heroes". Is there a relation between each scenario?
Nomura:: There are three Heroes, Terra, Ven, and another character in KHBBS. A story is already prepared for all three of them. Therefore in a way you can say three games were made at the same time. (Laughs) It's difficult to zap through the explanation right now due to Scenario creating. However the beginning will be a bit hard to understand, but by completing all three Scenarios you will understand the entire story.
Interviewer: Do the names of the three heroes represent something?
Nomura: In Kingdom Hearts, Sora meant Sky, Riku meant Land, and Kairi meant Sea. In this game, the three meanings make a large impact on the game.
Interviewer: Are all three Scenarios happening around the same time?
Nomura: All of the Scenarios do take around the same time, however there are also some gaps between the timelines. Also there are times when all three heroes will meet.
Interviewer: Is the playing order decided yet?
Nomura: I believe it would be better if we gave the players a freedom of choice. However this is still being talked about, but I believe it would be better to choose whoever you want out of the three.
Interviewer: What place is the story's viewpoint from.
Nomura: To bring a point. The word that comes up in Kingdom Hearts 2, is Xehanort. The game will bring up answers to several things though like. "Why is the Elderly person who appears in BBS bring up the same name?" and "Why is he wearing the same clothes as Ansem in KH1?" Another thing I want to bring up is that Ven has the same hairstyle, face, clothes, and voice to Roxas who appears in the Kingdom Hearts series. Who is he?
Interviewer: Is the voice actor of Ven the same as Roxas?
Nomura: Yes, it is the same actor. Therefore the person who played, will only look at Ven as Roxas from KH2.
However, is Roxas and Ven really the same character?
Moreover, what's the mystery for the existence of Ven, and Roxas?
These are keys that can be fully understandable, when playing KH: BBS. You will be able to seperate Ven from Roxas with ease, I will hint though by connecting the Story between Roxas and Sora, you will understand who Ven is.
Interviewer: May I believe that the one you fight in KH2FM+, and Terra are the same person? Because they both use a very similar kind of Keyblade.
Nomura: If they really are the same person, or not is uncertain, though it doesn't matter if you think they are the same person.
Interviewer: In BBS, after all three are divided, the king appears?
Nomura: It may be deeply related to the story, however I cannot tell rather or not that is a "King" from that current age. This is because the development of BBS will be a very serious story.
Interviewer: In BBS is the gameplay done by choosing action commands lined up in command list?
Nomura: I believe it is neccessary to say first. The Command Menu that was shown to the public (A.K.A scans, and video) has now changed. A system close to that of re:COM has been created successfully feeling like a command deck. However the present screenshots show it was a bit too close to the idea of re:COM. The battle screens you see in the images now, have already been changed. However the operating sense is similar to that of the Kingdom Hearts series. The gameplay has a slight influence from the DS game "It's a Wonderful World"
Interviewer: Are there any features for the Growth System? (Leveling System)
Nomura: A new Growth System has been added into the game, it is when you have to match four obligations with the scenario (?). We tried this variously because it was a bit hard with the PSP. However we made the best use of it's Analog.
Interviewer: Are there new enemies you can confirm that are not shown in the screens?
Nomura:The new enemy is not a Heartless, or a Nobody. Because the story takes place before even they appear. I can give out more information little by little as time passes, an example being like the Shadow enemies that are heartless, and the Dusk enemies that are nobodies.
Interviewer: With the PSP will it be possible for two people to Communicate by any connection method?
Nomura:: It's too early to answer that however, there will be some features that will be taking advantage of the PSP.
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
- Development for this game started a bit early, but it was interrupted by the development for re:COM
- Ven is the male's Alias and his real name is longer.
- There is a mystery of who each character is.
- The keyblade Master is someone who has not appeared in any of the series yet.
- The story is set to be Complex and Serious
- The Story Advances with three people, each with their own different gameplay.
- The Battle system is new compared to the ones in previous KH games.
Kingdom Hearts: Coded / released on the Mobile Phone
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An unlimited range of Disney worlds, distributed to your mobile phone.
An adventure spanning across many diverse, rich Disney worlds.
A new system and new graphics put high-end mobile phones on the same level as game consoles!
Our first collaboration with Disney's Internet division, the Disney Internet Group.
Story
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This story revolves around a single fragment of Jiminy Cricket's "Jiminy Memo".
Following the events of "Kingdom Hearts II", Jiminy returns to Disney Castle. Jiminy has been reading his memo along the way, and a single page makes him stop in his tracks.
This page contains a mysterious message:
"We have to go back, to heal their pain."
But no matter how much he racks his brains, he can't remember what the page is referring to.
The King turns the Jiminy into data, and begin to investigate. And in a world traced by the Jiminy Memo, the Destiny Islands, a sleeping boy awakens.
Thus Sora's new adventure in the Data World begins.
Kingdom Hearts Coded
Trailer
o The title of "KINGDOM HEARTS NEW CONCEPTS, NEW TITLES" is displayed with the beginning image in a form of waves.
o It shows the ending scene of KHII. Sora, Riku, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy are in Destiny Islands' play island laughing together in the water.
o The words appear: "Flow of time."
"The secret is solved."
"The world extends."
o It begins with an image of Jiminy Cricket narrating the scenes. (FF&KH user notes that the words that are placed down as Jiminy speaks are made to look very vague.)
o "My two journals are completed. One of them became blank because of Castle Oblivion. The words that were written in the journal said, 'Give thanks to Namine' .........eh?"
o One strange sentence that was written in Jiminy's Journal that should've become blank by KH:CoM: "It's necessary to return to healing their wounds."
o Jiminy finds the strange sentences and reports them to the King in a panicking manner.
o The King sees the strange sentences on the Journal.
o King: "I know only one person, in the world, who can solve this mystery....No, only him!"
Jiminy: "Ah!!"
o Sora appears standing on Destiny Islands wearing KHI clothing. A special effect surrounds Sora's body looking like he's being forwarded by a computer which momentarily hangs.
o Sora holds up his keyblade laughing proudly and begins to run.
o ~Battle scene begins~
o Sora, with Donald and Goofy following behind him, are walking into Traverse Town.
o The Heartless attack. Sora is shown moving a pile of blocks.
o Are there a variety of mini game elements such as puzzle games built in?
o In "Debugging mode", Sora's movement quickens, and various of actions join together when the command is executed. (Is it like the reaction command triangle button of KHII?)
o The scene where Sora goes off to the first stage in KH which is Traverse Town is shown at the end. Pluto tries to lick Sora's face and Sora wakes up in the back of the alley in Traverse Town.
o Sora chases Pluto and runs to the center of the town.
o Sora: "Here is where...?" which he remembers from the first volume of KH. (It's a bit different, although, it sure looks like the beginning scene of Traverse Town.)
o The King comes out of the back of the alley with a hand held up and walks toward Sora. (The King is in his usual clothing and not the clothes of the Org. XIII.)
o King: "Sora, your travel started here. However, I was here on that day too. Let me speak the truth."
Nomura Interview Translated (Coded)
Interviewer: "The Screen is Horizontal, even though the game is for the cellphone, why is this?"
Nomura: This is not just the length screen but also a model screen specification for the most recent cellphones. It is what we assume the game to look like when it's released to the public. The method for the horizontal screen has already been talked about, it is a basic horizontal screen size.
Interviewer: Is the screen in 3D incase of Pseudo (?)
Nomura: The Background is 3D, and the characters are 2D. The Development of this game is still in progress, and we plan to have the game both 3D, and 2D. The reason is so that we can have the game available to a range of cellphones. The reason we developed this idea, is because we wish to send this game overseas.
Interviewer: What shape will the delivery form take?
Nomura: Unlike the situations in larger game development, we always thought the world of Kingdom Hearts could be made mobile. For instance, there is a huge amusement park, and the main attraction is KHc (Kingdom Hearts Coded). It can be like an entrance to an Amusement park, free of charge, allowing you to visit each world. That is the delivery plan of KHc. We plan on taking full advantage for the mobile phone.
Interviewer: Will the storyline be based on Sora's adventures in Kingdom Hearts?
Nomura: The timeline is based on after Kingdom Hearts II, Jiminy's Journal is analyzed, and the adventure will take place in that. Therefore data of Sora will appear, not Sora. The world that was shown was a stage, though this was through the time of COM, and re:COM over the memory of Sora.
Interviewer: What will this game be able to do?
Nomura: This is going to be a puzzle game, mixed with action. Data is being displayed, and there are some bugs in Jiminy's book. The area must be analyzed in order to find the bug that is violating the data, and then you need to remove the bug. However some may get a bit more confusing as there will be ladders Sora will use to get to higher areas.
Interviewer: When do you think this game will be released?
Nomura: You may have to wait a while, as there are still some problems with the specs of cellphones for now. However we are not asking you to wait for 2, or 3 years. (Possibly this means around a year or so)
Interviewer: Will these works be connected with the "New" KH game?
Nomura KHc features Sora, however the DS, and PSP both are completely different stories, though I cannot say what they are yet. I can say these titles are not the last of the series, and all three will connect to a New Kingdom Hearts Game sooner or later
KH: Coded
- Is considered to be the brother of Agito XIII
- Nomura wanted to make it a playground for the fans.
- THis game will clerify where Riku and the King was during KH1
- THe Debugging Mode is used to move from the Data to the real world
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ART
Since these pictures are too big I am giving the links.
Roxas
About KH DS Game
Belle
Mansex
MANGA TWIST
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Short Stories Vol 1 Cover Revealed!
Titles of the short stories:
Nothing but Blue
The Twilight
ATLANTICA
AGRABAH
100 Acre Wood
Some like it cold
Future and past
Total Eclipse
The Short Stories will be released on November 20th, though I have no idea if that's Japan or North America release date.
The latest GanGan Comic has released a promotional image of Kingdom Hearts Short Stories Vol 1, Other Diamons. There is also information about it, the Short Stories will be covering Sora's adventure in Agrabah, 100 Acre Woods, Atlantica, also Cloud, Sephiroth, Namine, Riku, and the King's stories are told. (Interesting Sephiroth and Cloud has a story in this as well).
Nomura admiring his own art after the first day of TGS was over, and decided to write his own signature on it.
Yoko Shimoura, the composer of Kingdom Hearts, standing right next to the Sora Statue.
HQS
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What the scans say... Well partly. xD;
1st high quality scan
Attacks:
Rush
Rush
Air Break
Air Break>Fight
Air Break
2nd HQ scan
Scene 1: The dream I had
Scene 2: The Chosen of the Keyblade
Scene: Why is Axel happy?
3rd HQ scan:
Scene 1: A member that went to Castle Oblivion is a traitor
Scene 2: Is that really from Master Xemnas?
Scene 3: The Fourteenth.
4th HQ scan:
The first scene with the attacks is too small to see
Scene 2:
Attacks:
Firaga
Blizaga
Rush
Rush>Ariel Slam
Air Break
6th HQ scan
Scene 1: I'm tired of waiting, Terra
Scene 2: I believed that you would struggle
Scene 3: What did you do to his heart?!
Scene 4: *the Kanji is too small to figure out*
Scene 5: To obtain, you must lose it.
Scene 6: Have I met you?
HQ scan 7
Scene 1: This power... I'll fight for my friend!
Scene 2 (the small one on the left): Thanks,Ven
Scene 3: I have a friend.
Scene 4: Because he's a "friend", I want to [???].
HQ scan 8
Scene 1:*I can't recognize the Kanji*
Scene 2: Ah!
Scene 3: Everyone's dissapearing from the Jiminy Memo!
HQ scan 9
Scene 1: I was here, too, on that day
Scene 2: Let's speak the truth
A new item from Square-Enix, these Keyholders A.K.A Keyrings are set for a October release, for 1,995 yen ($17 approximately).
Pictures of the Theater but with new shots. -resized the images-
