Here’s a scan from Dengeki Magazine:

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I’ve worked out each battle:

Top-Left: Xemnas
Top-Middle: Lexaeus
Top-Right: Marluxia
2nd Line-Middle: Zexion
2nd Line-Right: Larxene
3rd Line-Left: Xigbar
3rd Line-Middle: Axel
3rd Line-Right: Roxas
Bottom-Left: Vexen
Bottom-Middle: Demyx

There’s also This Interview which has been translated:

Tatsuya Kando:
When thinking about it, was there room time-wise? The end of the project involved both the motion team in Tokyo and Osaka, and it was one large spectacle. The amount of finishing it up and to go, became one’s satisfaction. I want the emotions of satisfaction to one’s heart’s content from the entire motion staff by the sweat of one’s eyebrow.

Yasuhiko Hasegawa:
When the story of Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix was heard to be in the making, work was belittled so much because I felt that it was going to use up the capacity of the ROM with Kingdom Hearts II. Now, the capacity was worked variously, and as for the production, the Re: Chain of Memories production was decided too. It became a work that far exceeded the expectation. To work with the data of Kingdom Hearts was becoming anxious since the texture had to be re-written again. Also, the Kingdom Hearts II production was finished, and the production of the Kingdom Hearts series was fulfilled, too. The results and the end are large, always. The mastering of the improvements were faced at last, safely, last week (interview).

Nomura: Because the Organization XIII battle becomes harder after making the assumption of the challenge after beating it once, I want you to challenge it after it raises the level, and the abilities and equipment are enhanced.

Interviewer: Can you do nothing in the mode that I have?

Nomura: As a result, Sephiroth, who was thought to be the strongest in Kingdom Hearts II is now lower than the Organization members in terms of ranking from the strongest. However, the Organization members are not the strongest ones.

Interviewer: There is a higher enemy?

Nomura: The strength of the Organization XIII, and there is an enemy named “___ no _”. Here, it’s thought that becoming strong and managing to find the capture method of beating the Organization XIII is so that it’s not possible to break if there is no technique of the player after finding the capture method of the new secret enemy. I prepared him for the people who felt that Sephiroth was weak.

Interviewer: With all these strong enemies, it will be hard to see the secret movie won’t it?

Nomura: Yes, defeating all these enemies are the conditions. As also are the completion of Jiminy’s Journal and defeating the strongest enemy. (If Jiminy’s Journal doesn’t show the entry of defeating the strongest enemy, the condition hasn’t been met either and is considered incomplete.) However, that doesn’t mean you are fighting the most invincible enemy. I have expectations to see how many players will be able to see this movie by their skills.

The card battle system of Re: Chain of Memories is possible to play well if the player knows the depth of it, though it may take some time gaining experience. How to fight changes only in the place where the deck is changed, too. It is likely to be able to win easily as long as the deck is rearranged to the enemies who can’t win. There is such a place where the card battles taking place are interesting. Of course, the tutorial is prepared for the beginner.

The search element of the map has increased once it became 3-D and has a changed aspect. Because the door has disappeared, the map where the door is seen within a few yards of the place has happiness that’s like looking for the door in the GBA version. Where the confused arrows of the Olympus Colisseum are shooting from the statues are an occupying 3-D element.

It is recommended to play in the order of: Re:CoM’s Sora’s chapter -> Re:CoM’s Riku’s chapter -> KHII:FM chapter. I think that order is comprehensible in the story. A certain service is prepared. A new cutscene having a presentiment of Kingdom Hearts II to the ending of Re: Chain of Memories is added. I want you to see it by all means.

The announcement of the new Kingdom Hearts project may be earlier than the Square-Enix Party. However, I think it’s possible to visit it by all means because I prepared a surprise.

A Light in Chaos Blog user made some extra notes:

- The HP bar of Sora is long for an abnormal unit (more than half of the screen).

- I think the Demyx battle is especially long. The Xemnas’ battle, Xigbar’s battle, and Axel’s battle are also long.

- The maximum value of the drive gauge is nine.

- Is there a previous continuation about the map that can challenge the Organization XIII? A red line that shows the pause of the map in a simple map, begins.

- The order of the row is not the order of the number (of Organization members appearing on the magazine’s page). By the way, the entrance of Axel’s battle is at the nine o’clock position. When speaking of the clock, one assumes the map’s entrance is to be six o’ clock.