[Update] It seems like we got a bit of gameplay details.

- game switches combat to the touch screen when you trigger a Reality Shift
- you can also do this by pressing A and X at the same time
- when doing this in the Country of the Musketeers, the world changes into a touch screen comic bool
- this features Donald, Goofy, and Mickey as they help you fight the Nightmares
- press an icon on the touch screen to do a link attack with allied Dream Eaters
- Hornceratops can transform into a spiked ball
- Handsome Pegasus has Thoroughbred Ride as its link attack, which makes Sora or Riku ride the Dream Eater and rush enemies at high speed
- Comet drops a meteorite on the battlefield
- Wonder Jamboree makes a Wonder Nyah swell up like a balloon before belly flopping on Nightmares
- Unison Rush is a high speed physical attack
- learn new abilities by unlocking them with link points on a sphere grid-like board
- Ghost Clown and Scissor Beetle are two of the Nightmares you’ll fight in the game

[Update 2]
Even MORE details!

- Dream Eater types are called Spirits if they work with you, and Nightmares if they’re bad
- Nightmares are Obake Piero (Ghoul Clown) and Hasami Kuwagata (Scissor Beetle)
- Obake Piero can lick you to make you immobile for a while
- Hasami Kuwagata is good with guarding and long-range attacks
- Spirits are Handsome Pegasus and Tsunoceratops
- Tsunoceratops attacks its foes with its big horns
- Handsome Pegasus uses the power of wind for her attacks
- Riku and Sora can also unleash special Ability Links with their Spirits

It seems like Yen Sid’s Tower will be fully playable in the Fantasia world. I’m loving all the different areas you get to go through. It actually makes it feel like you’re part of the experience. We also get a small peak at Tron Legacy.

Oh, when did Rainbow Dash jump into Kingdom Hearts? Rainbow Pony Dream Eater FTW.

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Can’t you believe that Kingdom Hearts is almost hitting 10 years old? It feels just like yesterday that the original game for PS2 came out. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance is offering a bonus edition for the 10th anniversary. No info in known on what the special edition will include. The stand-alone game will cost ¥6,090. There is also a Kingdom Hearts 3DS Bundle that was mentioned on a post not too long ago. The game will be released in Japan on March 29th, 2012. If you pick up the game (Guaranteed for Pre-Orders) when it is first released, you’ll get a free AR card that will unlock a rare Dream Eater that is hard to obtain via in game.

A set of screens were recently uploaded by Square, but a big portion on them you’ve seen already. I picked out some of the ones that are new or you haven’t seen before.

We originally had some screens and then we found even more screens. There was one problem though, the quality of the scans were pretty terrible. Fuzzy with a bad quality chime to it. Thankfully, Hi-Res scans have recently been uploaded. These are very high quality and nice looking. These scans are worth a look.

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SQEX.INFO has recently started translating the latest Famitsu interview with Nomura. You’ll find numerous details about characters, settings, and more. Versus XIII and Theatrhythm details are also included. Here is a snippet of the interview. Since there is so much text, I don’t want to place it all on here. Click on the Source link for the rest.

Nomura: In Pinocchio’s world, there are new areas like the circus tents and other places from the original work introduced. Here Sora explores before Pinocchio is swallowed by Monstro, but after they are swallowed is when Riku’s side of the adventure takes place. I’ll tell you more details about Tron’s world in a later update, so please look forward to it.

—It looks like there will be a shooting type mini game where the characters scroll into the center of the screen this time.

Nomura: That’s the part we call “Dive”. In order to go to the next world, they “fall” into the dream of the next world. It sort of replaces the Gummi Ship sequence of the past games.

The truth about Lea’s appearance in the trailer!

—The scene where King Mickey confronts Maleficent caught our attention. At what time period does that scene occur?

Nomura: It occurs after Re:Coded, during the KH3D period. Since King Mickey is in possession of the “Data Worlds”, Maleficent is demanding that he hand them over. This scene occurs in between intervals of Sora and Riku’s adventure.

—Maleficent tells Sora and co. about the enemies with “hearts of pure light” and releasing the “seven keyholes of sleep”. Do these have some sort of connection with one another?

Nomura: You’ll see what she means when you play it, so please look forward to that. (Laughs.) The connections of the various mysteries and truths are what it builds up to.

—Well, can you tell us about “Lea” who interrupts the confrontation between the King and Maleficent?

Nomura: That’s Axel as he has returned to being human. In the same place are Zexion and Lexaeus too, they have also returned to being human.

—Do they have their memories of being Nobodies?

Nomura: They do.

—So their Heartless, you’re saying they were defeated somewhere along the line?

Nomura: Well Sora has defeated many Heartless before now, hasn’t he? To say that they returned to being human, their Heartless was probably included among those, huh? (Laughs.) Even when Sora became a Heartless, he was a normal Shadow type. The details of their Heartless aren’t really that important.

—I see. By the way, it seems Xigbar or any of the others were not present in that place…?

Nomura: In that scene, those guys had just been revived as humans. It’s not shown in the trailer, but there are other Members there, they have a conversation about what happened to the Members who are not there. They are in the place where they originally disappeared… In other words, they were revived in the place where they lost their hearts; everyone should be in the research lab. However there are Members who don’t appear there for some reason.

—After their conversation, Axel says he is leaving to search for something.

Nomura: That’s right.

—Will KH3D’s story be concerned with Organization XIII at all?

Nomura: Concerning Organization XIII, the secrets about what specific Members were up to during certain time periods will be revealed.

Source: Sqex

Look at this sexy beast. You can’t resist getting a 3DS now after looking at this. Hopefully, it will be released outside of Japan. The 358/2 Days one never came but the Birth by Sleep one did. I really want this smooth handsome baby to come stateside.

Source: GoNintendo