Kyo on 29 Oct 2009 12:00 am
A Message From Nomura
Sorry for the delay, guys. I’m having some computer troubles and have to use a different one for the time being.
Tetsuya Nomura has posted a message on the Kingdom Hearts Official Blog.
KHInsider has graciously provided a translation.
Creator Message – Tetsuya Nomura
A blog? How modern. Or, no… I guess it’s a little late for that. Nevermind. I’m the director Nomura.
The staff asked us to write our first entry, but I was just too busy. But it was around TGS that Yasue was going to update, so I put a stop to it. I’m very sorry.
Between then and now we’ve already announced the release date. Now all we have to do is finish it. But we still have tons of things to do, and we’re in the middle of running around trying to get everything finished. Right now on my desktop I have 5 files containing work for Birth by Sleep, 4 for Coded, and 7 for other titles.
They’re listed in order of precedence, and now as I’m writing this the time for these files has finally come.
Of course there are not only written documents, but pictures I have been needing to draw have been waiting for me to get around to it. Right now the most important being the package art for Birth by Sleep.
Today I have to go to edit the Staff Roll. Since there are three main characters in Birth by Sleep, we also have different Staff Rolls for each one. We already have experience making two for Chain of Memories, but this time it’s a little bit different and we have a little bit of a trick with each, so it’s quite difficult.
In the Kingdom Hearts series when we put the music into the Staff Roll, we aren’t just lining up the music second by second, but frame by frame. So we’re working hard to find a good way to time it.
We also still have the Opening Movie, the Secret Movie, the CM and the PV to edit. But that will be on a later day. Next week we will be working on the CM for FFXIII.
So we’re working quite hard now, and I have to get going. I have to get to the editing studio. When I have another opportunity I will write again soon. Thank you.
Director
Tetsuya Nomura
on 29 Oct 2009 at 7:30 pm 1. KH Fan
um the message was kind of confusing.
on 29 Oct 2009 at 9:11 pm 2. Kyo
He is a confusing man
on 29 Oct 2009 at 10:46 pm 3. Michael
You guys should make Kingdom Hearts (Online) mmorpg. I’ll be EPIC to fight heartless/nobodies and bosses with other players.. and create ur own character. and chat! u will get alot of people playing, trust me. =)
on 29 Oct 2009 at 11:26 pm 4. master x
cool stuff. this definitely brightens my day up especially since it hasn’t been going too well lately, I also like that idea Michael, but should be careful how they make the game like that, otherwise there could be the odd company with ‘blah blah blah’ copyright issues (i.e. Blizzard the most notorious of these mmorpg game companies)
on 30 Oct 2009 at 4:59 am 5. Hikari
Ahahahaha. Nomura’s quite funny!
Looking forward to new blog entries. Thankyou for posting this!
on 31 Oct 2009 at 5:54 am 6. Kimberly
So what exactly was he saying? Did he say that their working on Kh3 but they did or didn’t give it a release date yet???? Im sooooo confused lol anyone please explain it to me! thank you =]
on 31 Oct 2009 at 10:45 am 7. Hikari
No mention of Kingdom Hearts 3 yet, Kimberly. What he was trying to convey is that he’s currently focused on the finishing touches for Birth By Sleep, and then will work on Coded and other titles (I have no idea if he is referring to other Kingdom Hearts games for the future, or simply other games, such as Final Fantasy XIII).
on 31 Oct 2009 at 12:25 pm 8. KH Fan
honestly, i dont think they should make KH an mmorpg because it would take up memory of the game to put that in there causing less levels and less cutscenes with voice acting. and why would you want to customize your characters looks anyways the whole point of the game is to play as the character tetsuya nomura sets for us. There really is no need for online play, if they made it online the game would be too easy all it would really do is cause lag and take up memory.
on 31 Oct 2009 at 4:35 pm 9. master x
good point KH Fan, plus I’d rather not have this series get watered down and milked like a precious cow’s utter and become a money grab for all like Warcraft has become, yeah it is pretty fun, but its just lost its touch over the years though I found. That’s why I pray that KH will never reach a fate like that.
on 31 Oct 2009 at 9:53 pm 10. NICJ
I think what he is trying to say is he is very busy and that he may not meet deadlines
on 01 Nov 2009 at 12:43 am 11. Zarye
hey i think the KHII Final Mix secret ending will be a major boss fight in BBS! aha! i can’t wait for it. somebody please prove my theory right. maybe they’ll also explain how aqua dies..
on 01 Nov 2009 at 12:43 am 12. Zaryn
hey i think the KHII Final Mix secret ending will be a major boss fight in BBS! ha! i can’t wait for it. somebody please prove my theory right. maybe they’ll also explain how aqua dies..
on 01 Nov 2009 at 4:37 am 13. master x
first off that secret ending has been confirmed as a scene from kh bbs that is NEAR the end of the game, but not the end of the game itself. Secondly, there is no evidence that Aqua has died either. I know I know that Aqua’s armor is in the Chamber of Repose… but so what? Does that prove that she’s dead? No, not by a mile. For all we know, she could have abandoned her title as ‘keyblade master’ and gone into hiding like I have been reiterating for the longest time. A big reason that I also hint at this is because I’m thinking like TN for a moment.
If I were to make a sequel involving KH BBS, 358/2 days, and coded I would take the main components of each game and put them together like a jigsaw puzzle: Xehanort and his memories (mixed with Terra, Aqua and Ventus in some form because of Aqua’s papou fruit charms ‘bringing them back together some day’!!), Roxas in some form, and the mysteries of KH coded as well.
In the same way I question whether Terra could be Xehanort for many reasons. While he does have the body build for it, hair, attitude even, etc. It has been said that Xehanort appeared after a long fight of keyblades occurred and then those ‘masters’ disappeared aka the “Keyblade Wars”.
TGS 2009 trailer’s clearly stated from Master Xehanort’s words that here lies the ruins of many keyblades and their masters from the “Keyblade Wars”!!!!! So then that means that Xehanort would have had to have been discovered by Ansem the Wise much earlier than the timeline of KH BBS!!!! Call me up on this people, but let’s put two and two together.
It makes sense now, because in the KH 2 Secret Ansem Reports Ansem keeps reminiscing about his ‘time’ spent with Xehanort and his apprentices which was hinted at being years and years instead of just one. It really is starting to click to me it’s not even funny.
In other words, ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here first from master x himself. Not everything is as it seems, never judge a book by its cover, etc.
on 01 Nov 2009 at 5:32 am 14. Kimberly
Great so he wasn’t talking about the third one…ugh im sooooo tired of waiting. =’[
I hope Nomura makes KH3 if not theres going to be many disapointed fans including me…
Is there any news once so ever if hes going to make a 3rd one? An when it will be comming out?
on 01 Nov 2009 at 3:09 pm 15. vexas
how are you cunfused? did he say kh3 anywhere in that update no and its not even being worked on yet,aand wont be out for at lest 3 years from now or more.
on 01 Nov 2009 at 3:10 pm 16. Sonicspeed
That’s very interesting theory master x. It could make for a very good storyline if it’s true too. Considering other apprentices of Ansem the Wise have been shown in BBS but not Xehanort it might be true. Terra has also been rumored to be the enigmatic soldier or whatever he’s called that was some secret boss in one of the Final Mixes, however, and unless Terra has a Heartless, Nobody, and body existing at the same time (like Sora, on a side note where is Sora’s Heartless?) then some theory is wrong. Also what about Vanitas? He also appears, very mysteriously it seems at the moment whereas Terra, Aqua, and Ven seem to have appear more normally (used lightly for Ven because something seems to happen to him since he’s different), after the Keyblade Wars. Just throwing some ideas out there
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Of course Aqua can’t be dead cause BBS is supposed to be the most important game leading up to the next KH game directly in the series involving Sora. Knowing Tetsuya Nomura he won’t leave out main characters from BBS so Terra will definitely be there (Xehanort or not) and so will Aqua and possibly Ven depending on what he is and what happens to him in BBS.
on 01 Nov 2009 at 6:12 pm 17. Heavydude
They should put more playable characters in KH3 than Sora, what about Kairi, she should still have that flower keyblade Riku gave her towards the end, and bring in more FF Characters, tons more.
on 01 Nov 2009 at 8:35 pm 18. master x
very true, but that moment Sora had fighting the enigmatic soldier was proven to be non-canon though and just a bonus in Kh 2 final mix though, which is where ppl got their odd theories right or wrong in many senses. However I do still agree as well that Vanitas ‘cannot’ be written off as something insignificant like what the KHinsider community has been convinced, because what they are looking at is physical evidence and nothing more. Vanitas I believe plays a very large part in this story and maybe much bigger than Terra or MX combined believe it or not.
The fact in the TGS 2009 trailer he wields his keyblade like Riku with his Soul Eater is throwing our KH logic out the window all together and also since Aqua gave Terra and Ven papou charms in the game means we will of course see them in the future (likewise with kairi when she and Sora handed each other papou fruit in KH 1). Xehanort I personally believe is Master Xehanort one in the same now and that possibly he could have either: reverted back to his youth in the game at the expense of wielding the keyblade, but not his ’supernatural powers’ or perhaps Vanitas may in fact have combined his powers with MX himself becoming the Xehanort we all know today.
on 01 Nov 2009 at 9:51 pm 19. no heart
i understand what tetsuya nomura is saying but why are they calling it birth by sleep is confusing cecause isnt that not roxas being born i guess it has to do with ven looking like roxas and thats some good thery off master x
on 01 Nov 2009 at 10:12 pm 20. master x
thank you my good man. The reason why it is called Birth by Sleep btw will be revealed in the game lik Kh 358/2 days with its name.
on 01 Nov 2009 at 10:21 pm 21. Kimberly
Well i can tell you how im confused Vexas, cuz lets see here.. who ever posted his message on here put it under NOT ONLY a message from Nomura but put it under also KH3 on the side bar, Yeah so excuse me for being confused about it.
on 01 Nov 2009 at 10:50 pm 22. Zaryn
wow master x, i never really thought of that. good point. and i never said that would be the final battle, i did mean towards the end of the game. but Ven gets frozen near the end of battle so i wonder how they’ll revive him? also, verrryy good point about Aqua. that’s a great possibility. another theory of mine is that maybe in some way Terra is apart of Xemnas(Xehanort’s nobody), that would explain why he referred to Aqua’s armor as “friend” in the Room of Repose. it makes sense because obviously Ven is apart of Roxas(Sora’s nobody), which would explain the striking resemblance. hopefully they go over this in BBS or KHIII. and yeah, Sonicspeed, where is Sora’s heartless??
on 02 Nov 2009 at 12:27 am 23. Sonicspeed
I don’t know much about the Final Mixes so I was just throwing that out there. I also didn’t think about the meaning of the name Birth by Sleep. Someone is obviously disappearing for someone to be born (duh). The birth could very possibly be Xehanort that we all know and love/hate. The sleeper could be anyone by the looks of it right now lol.
on 21 Nov 2009 at 1:31 am 24. Zexion104
Hello, i want to ask the question that has not been asked. I heard a rumor like all rumors i don’t like to believe them but this one made me wonder. dose Sora die in the third game? Ive been pondering this for a year, trying to find something that proves them wrong but have not found any thing yet. again it was just a rumor but that i wanted to ask and see if it were true or not.
on 21 Nov 2009 at 6:09 am 25. master x
we don’t know nothing about any new game at all besides KH BBS which is yet to be released at all. Besides, if any rumors of death have gone around its Riku dying, not Sora. KH is Sora’s story… Tetsuya’s words not mine. The guy would have to have a pretty good reason to end this series if it involved Sora dying (i.e. lack of interest from fans not likely, lack of profit again not likely because of great popularity, etc.). Nope, I believe the series of kh could go on for a very long time creatively.
on 21 Nov 2009 at 3:25 pm 26. Sonicspeed
I would say anything involving death of the main characters would be just a rumor with Disney involved. It’s not very often that a “good guy” every dies in Disney movies/games/etc.
on 22 Nov 2009 at 5:22 pm 27. Tyreeq
Awesome but before you even get started on making a kH3 you have to make KH2 final mix + come out for ps2.
on 22 Nov 2009 at 5:41 pm 28. Kingdom Hearts # 1 obssesed fan
I love the fact that you are making a KH3 but Please Testuya think about the poor North american fans that have not played kingdom Hearts II final Mix +. That game is awesome and you know its a little unfair that the game is only sold in in asia. In KH2 FM+ theres nex areas like the Caveren of Rememberence & Garden of Assemblege.You also have 2 new keyblades,new abilities and items.A new drive form [ limit form ] ,10 new never before seen cutscenes, Thetere mode,critical mode and you can fight Zexion, Malarxia, Roxas, Vexen, Lexeus, larxene and Terra the Enigmatic Soldier.Please make KH II FM+ come out in North America before you do anything else! Please Testuya Nomura think about the North American fans. They feel very sad.
on 23 Nov 2009 at 9:28 pm 29. KindomHearts [Best Video Game ever]
Before kingdom hearts 3 even comes out Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix + better come out in North America [U.S.A]. Please Testuya Nomura! I really want to play that game!!!!!!
on 23 Nov 2009 at 9:32 pm 30. Kingdom Hearts die hard #1 fan in the world
Finally!!!A Kingdom Hearts 3 !
on 23 Nov 2009 at 11:48 pm 31. Zexion104
Yeah im glad to here hes not dieing but Riku is cool to. wonder why he has to die? but i wish i could get a chance to play the remix. from what it sounds like it is very good. Also is cloud going to be in the next game? and i would like to know if it is possible that Axel could be Zack’s nobody off of Final Fantasy 7. looks very much alike. but Axel is sooooo much better, i wish he never faded! :[
on 24 Nov 2009 at 1:19 am 32. H-dude
Hey, dudes!! I see you’re all cheering for
Kingdom Hearts 3!!
Well… Tetsuya Nomura hasn’t even thought of making a sequel to Kingdom Hearts 2,
so please, READ before you POST!!!
By the way, ZEXION104, Axel is NOT Zack’s
Nobody, because in KH 358/2 Days Saïx calls Axel “Lea”, his real (human) name.
“Axel” minus the X = Lea!!!
on 24 Nov 2009 at 11:35 am 33. Zexion104
i wonder were that is in the game. i have it but a friend is playing it till i get a new ds. i guess i haven gotten that far. but who is this Lea person?
on 24 Nov 2009 at 4:15 pm 34. Sonicspeed
First off a third game hasn’t been announced yet and second off until it happens Riku does not die. There have been no valid rumors ever proving that.
Lea is Axel’s name before turning into a Nobody. We don’t know who he was yet, but maybe we’ll find out in BBS.
on 24 Nov 2009 at 5:58 pm 35. H-dude
Thanks for the backup, sonicspeed!
on 25 Nov 2009 at 1:01 am 36. master x
sonicspeed is a very bright man on the subject that is for sure H-dude. who knows, perhaps we will see some of the other somebodies of org. XIII in KH BBS, some as cameos or whatnot and in some odd form or another. I think TN said he’d been planning to make a manga based on the inbetween years of KH BBS and KH 1 wehre Org. XIII is first developing into what they’d become as a group of nobodies, the building of the Castle that Never was along with The World that Never Was and the search for more organization members to make their group complete.
on 26 Nov 2009 at 5:18 am 37. Zexion104
That would be an awesome manga! ^_^
on 27 Nov 2009 at 4:10 pm 38. gmanh
even anounced yet) what i think TN is doing with suqare enix is just trying to by time for KH3 there for the reles (sorry bout the spelling) of coded in Japen for the mobile KH 358/2 days in both japen and north america and the soon to be relesed BBS in Jpaen with a pending date in the U.S this couls all make for a few years still. I mean look how lomg it took for coded or 358/2 days to come what like 2-4 years after KH2 just think about what i am sying here if it took them that long to make those two games along with BBS it could take a very long time to make KH3, and for all we know at the moment KH3 could being made right now there just taking a very long time to do so because of other progects including FF and the new KH games expesaly now with diney having takein over marvel im just saying here.
on 27 Nov 2009 at 6:16 pm 39. xemnas #1
I want to make a statement that none of these other goofballs typing a response had the damn guts to tell. I heard a rumor going around that Zack, Angeal, and Genesis from Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core were gonna be in the new game. Also gmanh in your previuos letter you spalled Japan like Jpaen! Get you vocadulary right man!
on 27 Nov 2009 at 6:23 pm 40. xemnas # 1
To all you Kingdom Hearts and final Fantasy fans worldwide I just wanted to announce I’m getting fist dibbs on Kingdom Hearts 3.As for SonicSpeed and H-Dude you guys think you’re all pro’s when it comes to Kingdom Hearts , well guess what I’m the # 1 fan with every game and theres nothing you can do about it!
on 27 Nov 2009 at 7:03 pm 41. xemnas # 1
I know buy Know all you guys are gonna want to backfire at me for my previous responses but I just wanted to tell a couple of features I’m looking foward to be in Kh3:
. Ansems Castle [ Hollow Bostion ]
. Terra Aqua and Ven from BBS as allies.
. Storyline with Zack, Genisis and Angeal in it.
. New drive forms
. lilo & Stitch world, Chiken little world,return of Tarzan, Traverse town and Monstro.
. Sephioroth get’s defeated!
. New Keyblade’s
. New items
. New Synthesis Items and way more!!
From Kingdom Hearts # 1 fan xemnas # 1.
on 27 Nov 2009 at 7:03 pm 42. xemnas # 1
I know buy now all you guys are gonna want to backfire at me for my previous responses but I just wanted to tell a couple of features I’m looking foward to be in Kh3:
. Ansems Castle [ Hollow Bostion ]
. Terra Aqua and Ven from BBS as allies.
. Storyline with Zack, Genisis and Angeal in it.
. New drive forms
. lilo & Stitch world, Chiken little world,return of Tarzan, Traverse town and Monstro.
. Sephioroth get’s defeated!
. New Keyblade’s
. New items
. New Synthesis Items and way more!!
From Kingdom Hearts # 1 fan xemnas # 1.
on 27 Nov 2009 at 11:07 pm 43. master x
don’t double post, it takes up space please and thank you.
on 28 Nov 2009 at 9:59 am 44. Zaryn
xemnas #1 please keep your idioic statements to yourself. yes, we all have ideas of what should be in KHIII but until TN or SE confirm them, nobody cares what you think.
+ you sound like a loser who rides KH nutz 24/7 and throws cosplay get-togethers every weekend. i like KH alot too but you won’t ever hear me say i’m their #1 fan. Slap yourself
[just sayin]
on 28 Nov 2009 at 10:06 am 45. Zaryn
though it would be cool for Zack, Angeal, and Genesis to appear in KHIII, it would make absolutely no sense with the storyline and probably confuse the younger audience.
[besides, what the hell would Zack and Angeal fight with? they both don't have the buster sword anymore so it would just be stupid]
on 28 Nov 2009 at 4:24 pm 46. xemnas # 1
Thank you for the backfire Zaryn.
on 28 Nov 2009 at 4:26 pm 47. xemnas # 1
Thank you Zaryn.
on 28 Nov 2009 at 4:38 pm 48. xemnas # 1
Okay, Okay sorry everybody make’s mistakes. I didnt mean to doubl post. Here’s what happened : I was trying to fix one of my mistakes in the first letter so i back spaced and fixed my vocab, I know what you are thinking what kind of idiot make’s those type of mistake’s!? Well I do and it will be the last time. Also I haven’t played Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core since Januery 2008 because I was so addicted to Kingdom hearts. You call me a loser zaryn? Okay i’ll admit that I did show off a little bit with the letter’s yesterday but i’m not here to make a huge apology letter! let’s just get off of this whole backrire thing and go back to just writing normal responses.I’ll let you off with a warning kid stop the backfiring so i don’t have to embarass you every day with my letter’s.
on 28 Nov 2009 at 4:41 pm 49. xemnas # 1
Nothing Personal Zaryn! By the way have you ever tried my website it can be very useful when it comes to upcoming KH and FF games.
on 29 Nov 2009 at 6:39 am 50. Zaryn
how the h3ll are you gonna embarrass me over the internet idiot? and what’s with this “backfiring” BS? start making sense please. and i use that website every day and it doesn’t say shxt about KHIII and definitely nothin bout Zack, Angeal, or Genesis. kthanxbye.