First, I’ve done the non-branded translated version of the Secret Ending by itself here:

Also, Deathspank has now made most of the Re: Chain of Memories available for download with subtitles! Fourth and Seventh Floors coming soon.

There’re also new interviews from a magazine, found in the “Light In The Chaos Blog”. Found at KH-Vids:

- A part of the latest secret movie is related to the new series.

- You get the “Experience Zero” ability at the beginning of Critical Mode, which is for those who might find Critical Mode too easy. It a problem if you accidentally equip it though.

- At the top of Pride Lands, there use to be exactly 144 heartless there, but in Final Mix they have become one enemy. (No more free experience from there.)

- Making the Enigmatic Soldier an Optional Boss Fight was a staff member’s idea.

- The Organization XIII battles from before have changed a lot.

- At a new scene, when Zexion is walking, he suddenly stops as though he’s thinking of something. The players should be able to work out why Zexion stopped.

- The Organization XIII Mushroom Heartless were an idea from the staff ever since Kingdom Hearts II was developed. Back then it was too big to put into the game, so it was added as a sidequest for Final Mix.

- At first Nomura was going to put the Roxas fight in Kingdom Hearts II, but due to the time consumption, he took the fight out in the end. He also wanted to add an additional bit to that event, and a new form. He was thinking about the abilities that could reside around the first Kingdom Hearts game.

- The music after the battle against Roxas was meant to match the event completely. When Nomura did the battle against Roxas, he wanted to convince people about how emotional the battle was, and so created an event after the battle. The battle music he saw as “Different” for when he had Sora face up against Roxas.

- There are some changes in the game the staff made that even Nomura doesn’t know about!

- Re: Chain of Memories was made more from a less justifying view first. It seemed that Nomura wanted to make the camera like Kingdom Hearts, but it would be hard for the team to fully do this, so he changed it around. (Thank goodness they didn’t.)

- The team also put in a few changes for the Last Boss against Sora. Nomura took charge for this battle. It seemed to be *** of **** of Sora. (The *** were censored in the magazine.) All he can say is that it has to do with Marluxia, and it is a very very painful attack.

- The New Series is NOT Kingdom Hearts III. (Nomura wants to make sure you remember that.) (The fact that he says it’s a series is promising!)

- For Re: Chain of Memories, Shimomura and the team worked day in and day out, although this was only for the battle music. She wanted to have different feelings such as “Happy Battle” “Sad Battle” and “Terrible Music”. There is also something about a “Third Form” added to the Last boss.

- Yoko Shimomura put ALL her work and effort in the Roxas battle music. She was pushed to her limit. The battle is meant to be very very emotional. Nomura believed Shimomura already met the standards, but Shimomura wanted to push herself further.

There are two versions of the Organization XIII battles. The first ones are scattered throughout the Worlds, and Nomura stated no one should have any trouble with them at all. However, for the re-fights in the new area, players will have to be at least be level 99 if they want to stand a chance.

This is it, guys! - I’ve put the highest quality Kingdom Hearts II Secret Ending, and the highest quality Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ Secret Ending, together with the translations on!

As of tomorrow or Monday, I’ll make it possible to download a non-branded highest-quality version of it! (120MB AVI file to warn you in advance.) Enjoy!

Deathspank from KH-Vids.net has now put translations for every Re: Chain of Memories cutscene so far - Links in This News Post.

Thanks to our Forum Member, Saint_Leon, we can now see some of the Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix Cutscenes and Organization Battles, recorded by Pikachu 025 from GameFAQs!

Darkhelmet543 from GameFAQs has managed to get the Extended Secret Ending already, and it looks awesome! Unfortunately, there’s no sound on it yet, but it’s still worth a watch!

Edit: I put the music from the final track of the Kingdom Hearts Official Soundtrack Complete to the High Quality version of the Secret Ending! Enjoy!

More Re: Chain of Memories Footage from KH-Vids’ Deathspank has appeared, which I’ve put in This News Post.

With it now being past midnight in Japan, today is technically the big day! Some people have been lucky enough to have had their game arrive already though, and one of the KH-Vids staff has already got some Re: Chain of Memories Footage, all translated!

We have Kingdom Hearts Complete Official Soundtrack images. The first three are images from Play-Asia of the box set, the next two are 4 of the 9 CDs and the second is a photo of some of the artwork included. Click any images to enlarge them:

And we also have some Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ images taken by someone lucky enough to have the game now:

Today, I’ve put in a new addition to the site:

It includes a video of Utada Hikaru singing live with English subtitles, so if you’ve ever wondered what it means, enjoy watching it!

Recently posted on YouTube was the Television Commercial in Japan for Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+.

Edit: I’ve posted the full length version now:

The shorter version is downloadable:

Edit: And now this version is as well (Right-Click and “Save Target As…”):

I took some screenshots as well - Click any to enlarge them:

Extended Secret Ending: Three Knights With Capes

Extended Secret Ending: Unknown Creature/Person And Old Man

Unknown Scene: Someone Watching Blue Kingdom Hearts

A journalist named Itani from Kingdom Hearts Extreme has posted part of an interview which was mostly about Final Fantasy XII, but here are the Kingdom Hearts related questions:

Itani: At the Final Fantasy XII launch in HMV, Oxford Street, my friend had a couple of questions based on Kingdom Hearts, which he asked the Square Enix Marketing Manager. You may or may not want to believe it, but this is pretty much re-assuring the Kingdom Hearts fans of future projects.

F = Friend
SEM = Square Enix Marketing Manager

F: Hi. I have to ask this on behalf of all the Kingdom Hearts fanboys in Europe. Can you PLEASE bring Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ to Europe?

SEM: *Laughs* We have big plans for the Kingdom Hearts series this year globally. It has become a big series for us.

F: But will Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ hit Europe?

SEM: I think it’s safe to say you will be pleasantly surprised around the end of the year. *grins*

F: What is the future of Kingdom Hearts like?

SEM: Well Kingdom Hearts III is going to be released on PS3 and we will see what we can do with that.

F: What about a Kingdom Hearts movie? Advent Children was sick!

SEM: Well you never know - We are good at CGI aren’t we? *grins*

F: Will we see another Kingdom Hearts game on a Nintendo platform?

SEM: Well like I said, there will be big Kingdom Hearts related announcements made this year. Please look forward to it.

F: Will Kingdom Hearts III be a new trilogy with new characters?

SEM: Can’t answer.

Whenever the Kingdom Hearts related announcements are, they won’t be at the Square Enix Party 2007, as Tetsuya Nomura confirmed himself.

In other news, a Translated/Subtitled Version of the Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ Promo Video is now on the internet!