Riku on 27 Apr 2007 06:02 pm
Small New Nomura Interview
GameFAQs’ TheWertle translated an interview from FF13Vids, who got it from the Japanese magazine “Dengeki PS” (電撃PS):
Question: Your debut as director was with Kingdom Hearts. What was the process of bringing that out like?
Nomura: With the designs of Kingdom Hearts, I had designed a plot around the time that Final Fantasy VII was in production, and by the time of Final Fantasy VIII, I had full out designs. But at that point the Disney characters hadn’t completely appeared. Shinji Hashimoto came up with the idea of a story with Disney. Since, at that time, Mr. Disney was in the same building, Hashimoto would sometimes talk with him on the elevator - And I guess they worked something out.
Question: Were you the director at that time?
Nomura: No. I was polishing up the Kingdom Hearts designs and thinking of what the next line of development would be. Someone else was appointed as the director for this “Disney game”. I think until then the things I did were often pretty useless. But the Kingdom Hearts team told me “We want you to participate with us Tetsu-san. No one else would make a better director“, and so they pushed for that afterwards.
on 27 Apr 2007 at 6:34 pm 1. Justin
yeah right, this interview is fake,
on 27 Apr 2007 at 6:46 pm 2. Riku
It’s been known for a few years that Kingdom Hearts was born in an elevator. This is a translation of an interview about the birth of Kingdom Hearts, shown in a Japanese PlayStation magazine (Dengeki PS (電撃PS)).
on 27 Apr 2007 at 8:48 pm 3. Justin
yeah, but is h saying he got the isea of KH during the time he was making the first FF7?
on 27 Apr 2007 at 9:12 pm 4. Riku
Yes - What’s the problem there? He got the ideas during 1996 to 1997, had designs complete by 1999, and then had the game created for 2002.
on 28 Apr 2007 at 1:23 am 5. Justin
it sounds like o long ago, the idea, cuz during that time some of these things, like storylinewise wasnt there, for the Disney and FF part, but anyway since u believe it guess its real.
on 28 Apr 2007 at 8:19 pm 6. Dinnomicx
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on 29 Apr 2007 at 12:31 am 7. TheWertle
It said he had started his ideas on a plot when FF7 came out. That doesn’t mean he had the entire game planned out. Production stages for games take a long time. Final Fantasy XIII was in production long before FFXII came out, i can assure you
on 29 Apr 2007 at 11:38 pm 8. Kai
Nomura… Why is there no toy story becausew thats my fav disney game… ty so mutch for kingdom hears check my vedios out on youtube =] Play3eyond
on 28 May 2007 at 5:10 pm 9. Exdeath64
he is right, i have programmed a few things, and working out the chinks take a while…
on 14 Jun 2007 at 9:15 pm 10. dogusd
When is KH3 coming out? Does Shinji even have the plot ready?