Riku on 03 May 2007 01:19 pm
More KHII:FM+ Ultimania Photos *Updated*
TheWertle has done a couple more photos of Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ Ultimania. The first is conceptual artwork of an armoured version of Xemnas. The second is conceptual artwork of a Final Boss Nobody named “King” in The World That Never Was. Click them to enlarge them:
Also, Zexion’s “Mirage Book” is actually called “Lexicon” (a reference book). It’s now confirmed that his element is “Illusion” as well.
Update: TheWertle also took a photo of some sketches by Tetsuya Nomura of Marluxia’s Final (3rd) Form:
on 15 May 2007 at 12:03 am 30. kari123
pony
on 08 May 2007 at 11:38 pm 29. Riku
I doubt we’ve seen the end of Maleficent and Pete, because they’re keeping the Disney connection, and they need to keep main Disney Villains as well as the ones unique to the various worlds.
on 08 May 2007 at 12:25 pm 28. vinan123
If Maleficent and Pete are still alive, they’ll have to be wiped out eventually. But then we’d have to play as Sora… It doesn’t make any sense.
on 08 May 2007 at 2:36 am 27. Shakespeare
But in the original KH2 trailer, it was Ven who picked up the Way To Dawn Keyblade…just food for thought about who has which alignments.
Maleficent and Pete just kinda…dropped out of the picture right there at the end. They could have escaped, certainly. If Disney is going to continue to be a part of KH (which it probably will), then Maleficent will need to still be around. (Besides, everyone thought RUFUS was dead, and he managed to make it out alive.)
on 07 May 2007 at 10:14 pm 26. Ace of Diamonds
Thanks for the Clear Up Riku & Shakespeare. So, it has to be Reincarnation. Either Aqua was born again into Kairi, or Namine. Since she represents the Path of Light, Ven representing Twilight, Xehanort representing The Way to Dawn, and The Old Man following the Path of Darkness, there’s gotta be a connection. Same with Ven. I find no coincidence that Ven & Roxas look EXACTLY alike. There’s far more to that story.
Vinan123, last time was saw Pete & Maleficent, there were charging into battle into an ARMY of Shadow Heartless. But if I recall, the Castle was destroyed during the Sora/Riku/Xemnas fight right? Unless they used the power of Darkness to escape at the last minute. Maleficent did mention something about re-decorating the Castle with her own touch of Darkness.
on 07 May 2007 at 7:30 pm 25. vinan123
What happened to Maleficent and Pete anyway?
on 07 May 2007 at 1:45 pm 24. Shakespeare
Maybe Xemnas is just weird…maybe the armor is haunted…maybe he just likes the idea of being able to taunt the people who were once his comrades even after they’ve died as part of some superiority complex. I personally think it’s the latter; he’s mocking the fact that he survived while the other 3 didn’t (even though the E.S. is still alive).
Riku didn’t have a Heartless because he was never turned into one. He was taken by the Darkness, but never actually lost his heart. It would have been against Maleficent’s best interests to let Riku be turned into a Heartless; she needed him whole.
Sora had to use Riku’s Keyblade to remove his own heart because Kairi’s heart was inside his own. It’s fully detailed in Secret Ansem Report 9*, but considering how much of KH1’s climax surrounds the fact that Kairi’s heart is hidden and hasn’t become a Heartless (just like the six other princesses), we’ve known these things for a while.
(* - Secret Ansem Report 9
[…]
Naminé is a Nobody, created when a young girl’s heart left her body.
Yet she has no corresponding Heartless.
This is because the “young girl” in this case was a princess.
Kairi, a resident of Radiant Garden over which I had ruled, was one of the Seven Princesses that uphold the realm of light.
With no darkness in her heart, Kairi produced no Heartless, and instead of vanishing, her body remained in the realm of light.
In other words, both the Nobody called Naminé and the Heartless—proof of a lost heart—are extremely unstable beings who lack the bodies needed to produce a Nobody. Therefore, they also lack Kairi’s memories. One reason for this may be that Kairi’s heart did not return to the darkness when separated from her body, but rather migrated to another vessel…deep within Sora’s heart.
[…]
Quotes taken from UnlimitedGamer.net)
on 07 May 2007 at 1:35 pm 23. Riku
At the start of the game, Kairi’s heart went to Sora when she passed through him in Destiny Islands. She was a Heartless, but as her heart and body were of pure Light, she didn’t take on Heartless form. So she stayed in human form and unconsious instead, while Naminé was born a pure Light Nobody.
on 07 May 2007 at 1:17 pm 22. Ace of Diamonds
One last thing, if Kairi had a nobody, shouldn’t she have a corresponding heartless? I mean in Hollow Bastion in the first game, Sora used Riku’s Dark Keyblade to release his heart in order to free Kairi. He was turned into a Heartless, and at the same time, had a corresponding Nobody in Roxas. Same with Xehanort. He turned himself into a Heartless to go after Sora & The Keyblade, and at the same time, he had a corresponding nobody in Xemnas who led Organization XIII. If Kairi had a nobody in Namine, she has to have a corresponding Heartless, right? Riku never had a heartless, his heart was too weak, and was tempted into the Darkness too easily.
on 07 May 2007 at 1:06 pm 21. Ace of Diamonds
But why would he talk to a suit of armor? Is he talking to the spirit of the armor, or something? It seems too weird to me.
on 07 May 2007 at 5:04 am 20. Shakespeare
Ace, remember that in Advent Children, Sephiroth says almost the exact same line when he returns (’Hisashiburi da na…Kuraudo’), and he certainly isn’t asking Cloud for help. Besides, in the full cutscene, it shows that Xemnas IS just talking to the armor; it’s in a heap on the floor.
And Kairi didn’t have a Heartless. There was no Darkness in her heart, and since the Heartless are born from the Darkness in one’s heart, it’s not physically possible. Plus, her heart was hidden away inside of Sora’s throughout KH1.
I agree with what you have to say about Mickey. One of the 3 knights (Aqua) picks up Mickey’s Kingdom Key in the KH2 secret trailer (though they all seem to use their own in the KH2:FM+ trailer). It’s entirely possible that he got his Keyblade here.
on 07 May 2007 at 3:32 am 19. Ace of Diamonds
Sorry, JForever, my “Jack of all Trades” name doesn’t seem to work anymore I would post comments and they wouldn’t appear on the site, so from now on, everybody, I’ll go by Ace of Diamonds.
on 07 May 2007 at 3:31 am 18. Ace of Diamonds
Then we have King Mickey. I believe that in the past before Mickey was King, he trained under Yensid. When Yensid learned of this new evil, he figured that Mickey was ready. He handed him the Star-Seeker Keyblade, and sent him off. Perhaps, King Mickey obtained his own Kingdom Key when we saw him in the Realm of Darkness at the end of Kingdom Hearts 1.
on 07 May 2007 at 3:29 am 17. Ace of Diamonds
JForever, honestly, I couldn’t even answer that for you. I’ve heard rumors about Zexion being in someway related to Aqua(the female knight). Last time we heard from Xigbar, he told Sora, “…but man, did it pick a dud this time” “You don’t look like you’re half the hero the others were.” It must mean that Xigbar had an encounter with past Keyblade weilders. Either he fought with them, or he fought against them. Of course there’s Xemnas. In the cutscene, he was talking to the female knight’s armor, saying, “It’s been a while, old friend”. Remember, Xemnas is just Xehanort’s Nobody. It techincally still is Xehanort. He probably was asking the Female Knight for help. You can’t just talk to armor. Which means the Keyblade War took place in the past, but not too far back in the past. Then, the mystery of Roxas. Roxas seemed to be the main point right now. He was focused on more than Sora. It would explain my reincarnation theory. Maybe Roxas being born was predetermined. Xehanort knew that by using Sora’s friends, he’d sacrifice his own life to save theirs, and Roxas was born out of Sora. But then, there’s Kairi. If Namine is her nobody, then maybe Aqua is her heartless?
on 06 May 2007 at 3:59 pm 16. Riku
We had them before KHInsider. I got them from KH-Vids.net who got them from GameFAQs’ TheWertle who’s given us permission. No plagiarism involved.
on 06 May 2007 at 2:50 pm 15. boardoxmage
Wow, these submissions are taken almost verbatim from www.khinsider.com
good job on plagiarizing.
on 06 May 2007 at 3:44 am 14. Galanoth
hey, the new proyect of Nomura has been revealed. its like KH: CoM. is a explanation about the history of Kingdom Hearts 3, and say what was doing Mickey in the end of the video Fate of the Unknown, and who obtained his keyblade. for PSP or DS.
on 05 May 2007 at 4:29 am 13. Shakespeare
…which explains why the news post says that they’re concept art for bosses. Besides, if you can’t play the games, how would you know that?
on 05 May 2007 at 2:37 am 12. shadow sora
i have those games but i dont have a chip to make it work for a amarican PS2 that big heartless thing is Roxas on his Anti form and the cool warrior guy is Roxas on his Master form.
on 04 May 2007 at 11:12 pm 11. nuyoricanprodigy
kingdom hearts is were hearts are made. and thier is darkness in the heart so darkness in kh. light in the heart lite in kh
on 04 May 2007 at 6:22 pm 10. JForever
can someone tell me what kingdom hearts is (in game) is it the plays were all hearts go or is it the link between licht and dark because ansem (KH1) want open the door to kingdom hearts and then darknes went al over the light worlds (for chaos). but if kingdom hearts is the plays were all hearts go how can it be a link from light to dark, it shoud be a world were all hearts are (I think that). can someone tell the good story how it is. that is the only thing I don’t know about KH
on 04 May 2007 at 3:30 pm 9. roxas
well he looks strong! @_@
on 04 May 2007 at 7:45 am 8. JForever
e jack of all trades what for connection does zexion, xigbar and xemnas have with the 3 Armored Knights?
on 04 May 2007 at 12:54 am 7. Shakespeare
Kentaurosu kinda looks like a cross between the summon Alexander and Omega Weapon, now that I look at it. Interesting.
on 03 May 2007 at 11:47 pm 6. roxas
who is the third???????????
on 03 May 2007 at 11:44 pm 5. AyuSora
yeah, i want to know that kinda stuff
on 03 May 2007 at 6:20 pm 4. Jack of all Trades
If it was, it would’ve been that HUGE Nobody Roxas fought. I’m not saying you’re wrong, it’s my theory. That looks like a pretty kickass boss to me. Hopefully, we get a chance to fight him. This leads to me believe that Zexion is more involved with this story than I thought. There’s more to Organization XIII than what was in Kingdom Hearts 2 & Chain of Memories. There’s gotta be a bigger story behind them. Zexion, Xigbar, Xemnas having a connection with the 3 Armored Knights, and all this commotion over Roxas. Organization XIII has to be hiding something. We all know The Heartless are born out of the Darkness of people’s hearts, but what about Nobodies. What else do we know besides when a person’s heart is tempted by Darkness that a lifeless body is left behind and acts on it’s own?
on 03 May 2007 at 6:12 pm 3. vinan123
This is probably the Nobody version of Darkside.
on 03 May 2007 at 3:05 pm 2. Kai
King a nobody pff more guys we can kill lmao =] cool thoe
on 03 May 2007 at 2:34 pm 1. Shakespeare
King and …’Kentaurosu’? Kentaurus? Kentauros? Kentauroth? What’s that second one? Is there an official romanization on that guy?