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Kingdom Hearts Community Thread: Now everybody can be a Keyblade Wielder!
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Come on, you're one step away from that Haunted Mansion world
I have a feeling there will be HD (HD HD? D
releases for the franchise around KH3's release timeframe. It'll probably be there.Also I spent the weekend getting wrecked by Demyx and his cloning antics. Then I used Fira. Talk about turning the tables, that fries the water clones in like 1/4 the countdown.
Andrefpvs
Member
Nomura reads GAF confirmed
I honestly think they will include a DDD movie with KH3 (only if you preorder, of course T_T). Can't remaster the whole game because of the dual screen mechanics.
I'm just wondering how they will re-cap the rest of the series for newcomers. I can see the possibilty of another remaster as mentioned above, but it seems unlikely considering the possible licensing issues with regards to a digital release.
R10Neymarfan
Member
Licensing issues will most likely be redone. I imagine the original ones were done back in 2001! Time to get a new one in there.
So I just started playing KH: Birth by Sleep for the first time.
I love the command system.
Now here's my big issue with the game. Starting back to 0. Beat Terra on Proud. Now I have to do the same thing with Ventus and Aqua, which would be fine except I have to re-level everything. It's basically 3 separate games. A bit annoying.
My motivation to play through Ventus took a huge hit as the game is boring without better abilities.
I love the command system.
Now here's my big issue with the game. Starting back to 0. Beat Terra on Proud. Now I have to do the same thing with Ventus and Aqua, which would be fine except I have to re-level everything. It's basically 3 separate games. A bit annoying.
My motivation to play through Ventus took a huge hit as the game is boring without better abilities.
it's actually not too hard to meld good abilities during the first few worlds. you can look up a melding guide if you wish
I totally know how to, but it's just the time needed. And lacking high jump / air slide for a while again
And lacking high jump / air slide for a while again
Yeah, that made me lose some enthusiasm when I started Ven's story.
Going from Terra to Ventus on Proud mode is surreal. You can feel the speed, but you can also feel the weakness. I had just cleared Radiant Garden the last time I played.
11AM. I don't think the show floor opens to the general public until 10 so I'm gonna have to haul ass that day if I'm gonna avoid the crowd that happened today.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
Sunday??? fuck this
Napalm_Frank
Member
Zero expectations but a new world would be cool.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
Star Wars world incoming probably
That was confirmed for the theme parks, so maybe.
I personally don't think Kingdom Hearts III is necessarily the place to introduce Star Wars into the franchise. Would maybe be better if they'll wait for Kingdom Hearts IV and tie Star Wars stuff more closely to a new post-Xehanort storyline than introduce some major SW characters & stories into the finale of the current Disney focused KH that is extremely busy building up to an epic finale & the conclusion of the current storyline & tying up a lot of loose ends.
If SW is going to be a part of the KH franchise, I think it needs to be so in a huge way, not just a single world in a game focused on finishing the Xehanort storyline that has a million other things to worry about. Darth Vader or such could/should be a big part of the new storylines and accomplices to the future threat much like some classic Disney villains have been to Xehanort. Kingdom Hearts' story needs a bit of a soft reboot with Xehanort's defeat (or whatever happens) and I think the new beginning that is supposedly KHIV would be the optimal time to introduce SW to KH. Start KHIV with a big SW-introducing & including bang instead of wasting potential by having as important & powerful a character as Darth Vader just pop out of somewhere when he hasn't been any kind of part of the story before the finale.
If SW is going to be a part of the KH franchise, I think it needs to be so in a huge way, not just a single world in a game focused on finishing the Xehanort storyline that has a million other things to worry about. Darth Vader or such could/should be a big part of the new storylines and accomplices to the future threat much like some classic Disney villains have been to Xehanort. Kingdom Hearts' story needs a bit of a soft reboot with Xehanort's defeat (or whatever happens) and I think the new beginning that is supposedly KHIV would be the optimal time to introduce SW to KH. Start KHIV with a big SW-introducing & including bang instead of wasting potential by having as important & powerful a character as Darth Vader just pop out of somewhere when he hasn't been any kind of part of the story before the finale.
Darth Vader showing up in an empty clearing with Duel of the Fates playing would be awesome.
Protagonist Jake
Member
New KHIII info at 2 P.PM EST, so about 12 hours~
Get turnt
Get ready for 4 minutes of this.
LOL
Get ready for 4 minutes of this.
Get ready for 4 minutes of this.
This will be me if I don't make it into the panel.
Edit: I'm in the secret waiting basement. 4 and half more hours.
Double edit: we're about to start filing in but we still have an hour.
D23 live stream on periscope
KH currently being shown
https://www.periscope.tv/w/aKDIEjExNTk5OTM4fDYyNzgyMjUzHcSMerRkXAKepyi41GnNtOCTA5QqgT-lhniwyLqxOdE=
KH currently being shown
https://www.periscope.tv/w/aKDIEjExNTk5OTM4fDYyNzgyMjUzHcSMerRkXAKepyi41GnNtOCTA5QqgT-lhniwyLqxOdE=
Get ready for 4 minutes of this.
Bastard. Oh well, we got a new world annoucement out of it. But not the one everybody was predicting, lol.
WeaponKnight
Member
Amazing, I loved the movie!
I need to see Big Hero 6 now.
Most interesting thing about this reveal is the potential it opens up for worlds, it means more CG movie worlds seem more likely, which in turn makes Pixar more likely. I'm totally fine with this, while it will be sad not to visit some old worlds a final time at the end of the saga CG Disney/Pixar movies really lend well to the new artstyle (and the same type of disney worlds we see in Kingdom Hearts with nothing feeling out of place) in 3 so i'm most welcome to most of the worlds being based off of them.
And the other one is that world being set after the movie, it shows that there's plenty of interesting options for world plots rather than just following the movies with a abridged plot. After the Tangled world reveal and now this i've strongly got the impression that the Disney worlds will feel more original and involved like the original Kingdom Hearts rather than a sideline (even if we do have keyblade war 2.0 and final installment of this saga going on inbetween it all) again this time.
Edit: Dunno how I forgot that we've had post-movie plotlines in Kingdom Hearts before. Still I don't think we've got one that starts out from there as a introduction to the world.
Most interesting thing about this reveal is the potential it opens up for worlds, it means more CG movie worlds seem more likely, which in turn makes Pixar more likely. I'm totally fine with this, while it will be sad not to visit some old worlds a final time at the end of the saga CG Disney/Pixar movies really lend well to the new artstyle (and the same type of disney worlds we see in Kingdom Hearts with nothing feeling out of place) in 3 so i'm most welcome to most of the worlds being based off of them.
And the other one is that world being set after the movie, it shows that there's plenty of interesting options for world plots rather than just following the movies with a abridged plot. After the Tangled world reveal and now this i've strongly got the impression that the Disney worlds will feel more original and involved like the original Kingdom Hearts rather than a sideline (even if we do have keyblade war 2.0 and final installment of this saga going on inbetween it all) again this time.
So far only Twilight Town and Olympus Colosseum have been confirmed, but there was a world that was shown at a 2.5 launch event that could have been The Land of Departure, chances are we'll end up going there to
Wakeup Ven
Edit: Dunno how I forgot that we've had post-movie plotlines in Kingdom Hearts before. Still I don't think we've got one that starts out from there as a introduction to the world.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
Now, not only do you have to buy different game systems to keep up with Kingdom Hearts, you also need to actually watch the disney movies now
Well, Nomura did mention in the recent interview I described earlier in this thread that he's aware of the criticism that the stories in the Disney worlds have become a bit too separated from the KH story and that's one thing they are trying to fix in KHIII. The stuff that happens during the worlds should be more connected to what is happening in the game now.
oreomunsta
Banned
Now, not only do you have to buy different game systems to keep up with Kingdom Hearts, you also need to actually watch the disney movies now
This isn't new though... If a player didn't watch Pinocchio, for example, what would they think when they see that the Pinocchio world in Kingdom Hearts takes place in the belly of a whale?
Besides, they're Disney movies. They don't exactly have the toughest of plotlines to figure out
If there was a world based on something like Synecdoche, New York, then players would be in some big troubleThis isn't new though... If a player didn't watch Pinocchio, for example, what would they think when they see that the Pinocchio world in Kingdom Hearts takes place in the belly of a whale?
Besides, they're Disney movies. They don't exactly have the toughest of plotlines to figure out
If I remember correctly, KH2's Halloweentown takes place after Nightmare Before Christmas while the KH1 world takes place before.
Is it? I assumed it must have been doing at least slightly well for Disney to triple down on it. And I think Disney Interactive lit a fire under Square Enix' butt to get that thing finished. I'm really glad that they're finally taking notice of the KH fanbase. Maybe that means we'll finally start seeing some Kingdom Hearts merchandise in Disneyland.
I don't play Disney Infinity but I'm keeping that King Mickey power disc and figure that they handed out after the panel.
Also, no one really mentioned this but they said that they new reward for 100% collection in 3.0 is the keyblade as an unlockable weapon.
So I'm watching a youtube video of the "movie" version of dream drop distance and damn, so much story in this compared to the other Nintendo handheld games. I hate playing handheld games, so it's really annoying this didn't have an HD remix.
I wonder how they will summarize BbS and DDD in KH3 as there's so much story content that most people will have missed.
I wonder how they will summarize BbS and DDD in KH3 as there's so much story content that most people will have missed.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Christopher Lloyd pls
They might just avoid giving Master Xehanort any dialogue at all, considering his Japanese actor died relatively recently as well. Considering the increased prominence given to Young Xehanort in 3D and the teasers for III, it wouldn't be that odd to refocus towards mainly depicting Xehanort in that form, with Terra-Xehanort standing in for the 'current' Xehanort.
If they do decide to recast him, in English it'll probably be Corey Burton. It'll be sort of weird having him voice characters that used to be played by Christopher Lee, Tony Jay and Leonard Nimoy in the same series...
You can get up to speed in the series just by playing DDD. Everytime someone in that game references something that happened in a past game, a prompt pops up that tells you that you unlocked a flashback cutscene or plot summary of one of the past games. That's how I learned about Coded without playing Coded for a while.
Something about going with Terra-Xehanort/Youngnort to me or purposely keeping Master Xehanort quiet most of the game wouldn't feel right to me, like they're purposely avoiding giving him any lines after his two voice actors passed. If it was intended originally rather than being written around then I don't mind though, I just don't want it to feel like it was forced because of the actors passing when Master Xehnaort in his regular old form has been the face of Birth By Sleep and to a extent the main nort/reveal at the end of DDD pulling the strings.
I'm not sure who'd replace both voice actors for him, but I remember some folks not being sure on if Nemoy would reprise Master Xehanorts role in Dream Drop Distance and thinking he'd be replaced by someone else so I don't think people would mind a soundalike even if it's not the same. (that and we've had it happen with both Ansem The Wise and SoD now)
I'm not sure who'd replace both voice actors for him, but I remember some folks not being sure on if Nemoy would reprise Master Xehanorts role in Dream Drop Distance and thinking he'd be replaced by someone else so I don't think people would mind a soundalike even if it's not the same. (that and we've had it happen with both Ansem The Wise and SoD now)
That's great to hear. Glad they took that on board and are trying to fix it.
I can't help but picture a hilarious scene with Master Xehanort appearing to his younger self and going "We've gotta go back Norty!" now.
NHarmonic.
Member
Young Xehanort is the worst villian design (by KH standards), and most uninteresting of them all. I'd be very disappointed if old master xehanort has no relevance on kh3.