Kyo on 08 May 2009 12:01 am
Yes, Kyo Is Alive
That’s right, I’m still alive. I’ve had a busy couple of weeks filled with finals and the start of a new semester, and I’m already behind. I apologize for not updating sooner.
To make up for it, I’ll give you a large chunk of what I’ve missed.
Official 358/2 Days Box Art
New Famitsu Screenshots
Nintendo Dream interview with Nomura and Hasegaw
First Part of Nintendo Dream interview with Nomura and Hasegawa
PROLOGUE————–Roxas and the Player’s Viewpoint
The reason for producing a new installment of the series on the DS―― First of all, why make a new title for Nomura’s masterpiece Kingdom Hearts series on DS?
Nomura: The invitation to do so had been received from Nintendo for a while. From making Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories on Game Boy Advance to It’s a Wonderful World*, working with Nintendo had been successful, so we opted to make a Kingdom Hearts title on the DS. However, having seen the advances being made on the preceding title It’s a Wonderful World, we considered what we would do with Kingdom Hearts on the DS.
――Sora is the main character of Kingdom Hearts, why is it Roxas is the hero in the DS game?
Nomura: To start with, since it was for the DS, we wanted to make a game that could be played multiplayer. With the desire to have two or more playable characters in mind, we considered the interesting individuals of Organization XIII. However the part involving the time axis worried me. Since in Kingdom Hearts II we followed the final footprints of Roxas, the story begins from his birth into the world. I think those playing the series for the first time will see the viewpoint of Roxas and will want to catch up on the story until now. If the hero is a common character to the series, it’s considerably difficult to present them abruptly without the player knowing the other works they appear in to some extent.
―― From what we can tell, Roxas’s main point is concluded in the early stages of Kingdom Hearts II. Will the story for 358/2 Days still be enjoyable for fans of the series?
Nomura: In Crisis Core –FFVII- for the PSP, the ending of the story was known from the beginning; however it did not particularly hinder the story. So even if the ending is understood for Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, I think that it can be developed interestingly.
Source: KH Insider
New 358/2 Days Trailer Translated
Source: HeartStation
on 30 May 2009 at 10:14 pm 101. riku #1
Yesss!
and hopefully the story about xion will unravell in a few days!
on 30 May 2009 at 10:21 pm 102. master x
I wish I could be excited right now as you are, but for now I got a lot of stuff to do in the next week or so. Even out on the town there’s still stuff to do, but thankfully I can probably see that new Pixar movie UP and course do the countdown till kh 358/2 days comes out in N. America once we do get a release date.
on 31 May 2009 at 1:48 am 103. riku #1
wow that stinks.
but maybe in a week or 2 theyll set a release date for 358/2 days for NA.
since its out in JP now!
or… maybe they wont… =-(
on 31 May 2009 at 3:51 am 104. master x
hope for the best. That’s all I can say.
on 02 Jun 2009 at 6:56 pm 105. riku #1
I know what happens to xion!
=-(
on 02 Jun 2009 at 6:56 pm 106. riku #1
I know what happens to xion!
=-(
on 02 Jun 2009 at 11:54 pm 107. master x
my predictions about who she was were right, unfortunately for me. This just makes me even more sad to find out what the fate of Terra, Aqua and Ven are along with Master Xehanort and the Dark Soldier too for KH BBS. If I’m right about that one, pretty much the ending for that one won’t be pretty either.
on 03 Jun 2009 at 1:03 am 108. riku #1
oh i hope they dont die! exspeacially aqua, i hate it when the girls have a tragic fate!
whats your prediction?????
on 03 Jun 2009 at 4:52 am 109. master x
now bear with me on this when I say this riku#1. The kingdom hearts series has captured my interest not just because its fun but it also has mirrored my life almost exactly. Now away from that little tidbit of info., the point to get out of this is that they may not die persay, even though my grandpa did die like thirteen years making a ‘great disaster’ occur for my family in general and whatnot. Anyhoo, I believe that a part of Ven may become part of Sora, I believe Aqua may be hiding out until the time was right for her to appear again to defend the KH universe, and as for Terra he eventually becomes Xehanort (being possessed by the Dark Solider after getting manipulated by whatever is left of Master Xehanort).
on 03 Jun 2009 at 4:56 am 110. master x
It makes sense if you ask me, because in order to save the kh universe, they would have had lock away Kingdom Hearts, but at the cost of each other’s future. With Terra being possessed by the Dark Soldier, whom being already possessed by a nearly destroyed Master Xehanort, would be found by Ansem and the story straight, Maleficent would eventually escape the Enchanted Dominion (after the end of Sleeping Beauty of course), part of Ven would become Sora’s nobody Roxas while the other part would be in the Room of Awakening and Aqua would be in her ‘unknown’ fate as of yet.
on 03 Jun 2009 at 10:45 pm 111. riku #!
wow. me and my cuzin where just talking about how terra and xemnas look the same and how terras eyes turned yellow at the end of the trailer. so maybe he turned into a look alike of xemnas at that point! but xemnas is actually a nobody of xehanort, and if you go to kingdomhearts.wika.com, and search for xehanort, they have a SHOCKING resemblince. but its sad to think of how aqua, terra, and ven were such good freinds. knowing that there fate probably isnt so great. and if aqua is still alive and in hiding, it must be so depressing to think about it.
man im really rapped up in these games.
but nomura and his team make the story(s) so interesting!
oh and sorry about your grandfather. ive never met mine, he died when my mom was a baby, and my other grandfather wants nothing to do with me, or my family. but i have two step grandfathers.
on 04 Jun 2009 at 3:38 am 112. master x
That’s too bad riku#! It’s a sad predicament when a relative wants nothing to do with you. My parents sort of were in the same boat with me as a kid, so I had my own independance as a little kid, but being only 8 at the time (shocking I know) I couldn’t do anything. Anyways, not to weird anyone out, but I got my predictions about the future KH games kindof from my own life and how similar it was. Sora being in his pod for a year, me switching schools and my friends sort of forgetting me and remembering me the second I come back. Or better yet, my constant sibling rivalry with my older bro (like Sora with Riku) and how I looked after my little bro (like Sora did for Kairi). It’s a very freaky thing and to top it all off, Terra has a similar build to my older bro :p.
on 04 Jun 2009 at 3:40 am 113. master x
again to get to the point, KH BBS however is leading up to KH 3 from what Tetsuya Nomura said, so maybe we’ll see Terra, Ven and Aqua again as well and maybe MX/DS or both. We’ll definitely see a complete form of Xehanort (confirmed through Ansem SOD death first and then Xemnas death a year later).
on 04 Jun 2009 at 4:09 am 114. riku #1
Wow. Your parents didn’t want anything to do with you at 8 years old?
And now that I think about it, my life is like kingdom hearts also, although I think of my self as riku, im constantly at rivlalry with my 11 yr old cousing, who surprisingly is really strong and sometimes seems older than me. (Like riku and sora) and its so strange, at my school there was this quiet gothic girl who was in one of my classes, but at some point she quit coming to school and I nevered thought about her, but last week I saw her walking her dog and all of a sudden I remembered her, but its wierd how she left and I never noticed it, and none of my friends remember her except for one but it took me forever to convince her that she even excisted. I think we all forgot about her though because she might have left after christmas break! But its wierd how my memory was blank about her for all that time. Because she would always stair at me and I kind of liked her…. lol
on 04 Jun 2009 at 4:19 am 115. riku #1
Also there’s this girl named lakota that me and my best friend really like. But she sort of likes my friend better than me, which keeps me distant from him some times when ever I see them together, it also causes a little jealousy. (Like riku and sora with kairi) but now she kind of likes me more than my friend, so now that we’ve gotten so close, I can’t even see her anymore because she got in a fight with some girl and is suspended. And its the last week of school, so she won’t be coming back, and my other friend is also suspended. (So its Like how sora, riku and kairi were all seperated)
You know I never thought how much my life was like kingdom hearts till now.
on 04 Jun 2009 at 5:27 am 116. master x
To be honest, I never thought about it much until KH BBS came into the picture, with my older and younger siblings being like that of Terra and Ven, I myself (a cross between Aqua and the Dark Soldier I would believe), my dad would be most like that of a cross between Yen Sid and Master Xehanort and my mom a cross between Maleficent and the Fairy Godmother.
on 04 Jun 2009 at 12:27 pm 117. riku #!
hahahahahahaha! my mom and stap dad would be the same!
my bro would seem like terra and my sisters would definetely be aqua/namine/kairi.
oh have you seen the english trailer for 358/2 days?
its at khinsider.com
on 04 Jun 2009 at 6:16 pm 118. master x
I did too. I am impressed that Christoper Lee has reprised his role as Diz F.K.A. (Formerly Known As) Ansem the Wise along with Jesse McCartney coming back too to be Roxas.
on 04 Jun 2009 at 8:51 pm 119. riku #1
yea im surprised to!
but axel sounds like a stupid robot, his voice does not match him at all!
and allison stoner is xion, which is ok, i guess…
on 04 Jun 2009 at 9:48 pm 120. master x
I guess its scripting too. Axel before he met Roxas was very serious about his job and everything. Over the course of his time with Xion and Roxas he became a more relaxed and cool dude that we know of today.
on 04 Jun 2009 at 11:28 pm 121. riku #1
yea i guss thats true.
3 months till 358 2 days comes out!
on 05 Jun 2009 at 1:47 am 122. master x
we’re getting closer.
on 12 Jun 2009 at 9:08 pm 123. wergtkwherklthwerkltherklwh
for those of you who don’t know, Xion is a replica of sora
on 13 Jun 2009 at 3:05 am 124. master x
way to spoil it buddy. This is why I said no one is to say anything if they’ve played the japanese version already. It spoils it for those who want to wait to find out about the juicy details. Though KH WIKI doesn’t help either.
on 13 Jun 2009 at 2:43 pm 125. Sonicspeed
Don’t worry too much about it master x cause if everyone else is like me then that made no sense whatsoever haha
on 13 Jun 2009 at 4:21 pm 126. master x
well alright…
on 14 Jun 2009 at 2:06 pm 127. Sonicspeed
besides I have things I need to save money for besides a DS so unless 358/2 comes to PS2/PS3/PSP I’m not going to play it