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 08 May 2009 at 1:37 pm 1. master x
sweet trailer. Also 22 days until KH 358/2 Days comes out!!!!!
on 08 May 2009 at 3:18 pm 2. Sonicspeed
No worries Kyo school’s more important =). But not the north american release master x lol
on 08 May 2009 at 8:43 pm 3. master x
I never intended it to be the american release countdown…this is for the actual release (japanese version). Everything else after that one is just dubbed in another language, barely any time changing that stuff at all, while the stuff released in japan is the real shabang hence why Im doin the japanese countdown.
on 08 May 2009 at 9:15 pm 4. sorahearts1
well american is better so now what
on 08 May 2009 at 9:54 pm 5. Axel
I hope that the japanese version wont have something extra again lol
on 08 May 2009 at 11:19 pm 6. master x
I have to disagree sorahearts1, for one thing the final mixes have all been released in japan, all the new stuff we’ve been learning about Roxas and even the keyblade knights we learned to be Terra, Aqua and Ven were introduced in japanese trailers, games, etc. and also any game we get from there at most is dubbed and may have some scenes changed (like the scene with daisy banging donald’s chest for NA and Japan daisy was banging donald’s butt 0_0). Other than that I really happen to like the japanese versions of any game, they’re not afraid to use occasional cussing and what not.
on 08 May 2009 at 11:22 pm 7. master x
@Axel-who knows? I doubt they’d have an extra bit of stuff in this game that we wouldn’t find out in any other dubbed game especially since this isn’t a final mix game either. If anything I would think coded of all the new games would have extras hinting towards a future game.
on 09 May 2009 at 1:51 am 8. Zack
hey all, this game looks great, ive been a fan ever since number 1, but who is xion? do we know, and how does riku know her?
on 09 May 2009 at 2:25 pm 9. master x
that’s what this game is all about Zack. We know very very little about the girl other than she was a member at Org. XIII (though the name wasn’t changed to Org. XIV), she is connected to the memories of Sora somehow, and of course because of Roxas has a connection to Sora and thus to Riku. I’m not sure if Riku knows entirely who she is, but it’ll be cleared up anyhow when the game is released in Japan so don’t worry.
on 09 May 2009 at 3:03 pm 10. Sonicspeed
You bring up a good point master x. All of the good releases are in Japan unfortunately…probably something the Japanese like to hold over us lol. That brings up another point master x…how much I wish the final mixes would be released in the U.S. lol. We got Re: CoM after a couple years so we can still hope for it.
on 09 May 2009 at 4:02 pm 11. Zack
Ya i kinda of figured so, but is there anyway it could be kairis heartless? Hasnt other peoples heatless turned out to be an actual person? If so, itd be Kairi, Xion, her heartless, and Namine her nobody?
But Xion, without the X, is oni with out the X, which is DEMOM in japanese…Demon…Im stumped on this one, maybe shes just a another one of kairis nobodies…
Should the six other princeses have a nobody and heartless since sora realesed their hearts and opened it to the darkness?
on 09 May 2009 at 5:30 pm 12. Axel
I heard something about kairi turning into a heartless and her heart is in sora and with those complications Xion might have formed.
on 09 May 2009 at 5:35 pm 13. master x
the problem I got about that is that Xion keeps saying “how can two people be the same?”. This could imply many things all together that literally is one in the same person as girl ‘X’ let’s or metaphorically like girl ‘X’. However Kairi can’t have a heartless since she is a Princess of Hearts (no darkness=/=heartless) so that would rule that out. I do believe that Xion could be part of Kairi though because of the fact Roxas communicated with Kairi in KH 2 and thus Sora was contacted. Also in many game trailers its hinted that Xion is connected deeply to Sora and Kairi somehow and we have not seen Kairi at all being confirmed in this game at all. Methinks there is another element that makes a being who they are: heart, body, soul, and ‘X’. when hearts are gone Heartless appear, when body and soul are gone Nobodies appear, but what about ‘X’? whatever it may be that is what I believe Xion is and why she couldn’t be a nobody in the first place.
on 10 May 2009 at 2:12 am 14. Steve
the thing is everyone is talking about how xion is kairi’s nobody but i dont get the part where namine comes in was that not stated on kh2 that namine was kairis nobody?
on 10 May 2009 at 3:02 am 15. master x
exactly my point Steve. Namine IS Kairi’s nobody. There was the same debate about Axel being Riku’s nobody before and that was also false too. Also if Xion was Kairi’s nobody, why would she be with Kairi near the end of KH 2 with Roxas? If anything Xion is most likely an unknown element within Kairi probably, not the nobody of Kairi, but perhaps some other element like her memories of Sora and her life or something entirely different.
on 10 May 2009 at 4:04 am 16. Sonicspeed
The way I took the newest trailer from 358/2 it sounds like Xion is where Sora’s jumbled memories are being stored while Namine sorts them out and gets them back to Sora.
on 10 May 2009 at 5:07 am 17. master x
it looks like it Sonicspeed. However she also asked Riku if he was mad for stealing ‘his’ friends. Sora I could understand, but why would Kairi be involved as well other than the being an exact look-a-like of her? It could be something, could be nothing, I’m no rocket scientist.
on 10 May 2009 at 3:24 pm 18. Sonicspeed
Unless what she means by stealing his friends is stealing the memories of them from Riku (not sure how that would work out) I have no clue either. But what day is you countdown on by now cause that’s when we will know lol.
It would be cool if you were a rocket scientist though =P
on 10 May 2009 at 3:30 pm 19. master x
my apologies. 19 days until KH 358/2 days comes out!!
on 10 May 2009 at 3:31 pm 20. master x
20 days my bad….
on 11 May 2009 at 2:00 am 21. The Heart
I think that Xion has a deep relation with Aqua. And remember, her form changed at the end of the trailer… Possibly to Aqua?
on 11 May 2009 at 4:34 am 22. master x
I don’t disagree The Heart with you on that, but don’t you think its a little predictable for kingdom hearts? I mean usually TN and his crew think outside the box and whatnot. Xion being Aqua would kinda ruin the purpose of figuring out who her somebody is and anything about her.
on 11 May 2009 at 9:19 pm 23. kh3obsessed13XIII
hey everyone i havn’t been on i a while i would but each time i get on i have to put in my name again and it gets very anoying. i am very pumped about this game coming out and does it look like you can get different weapons for the nobody’s in this game because the guy with the syth (idk his name off the top of my head)it looks like its a different one.
and i agree with master x on that last comment.
on 12 May 2009 at 1:11 am 24. The Heart
I’m not completely disagreeing with any of the other theories, it’s just my 2 cents. I don’t necessarily believe that it would be seen as predictable because it would explain a (possible) relation between the old Keyblade Knights or something of the sort.
But how do you believe Xion’s appearance changed?
on 12 May 2009 at 2:16 am 25. master x
I guess what I meant to say was it would kinda squish all of TN’s hard work at keeping Xion’s somebody a secret and the identity of Aqua a secret until BBS comes out.
on 12 May 2009 at 12:32 pm 26. Sonicspeed
Even if that were true I don’t think we’d find out until BBS cause like master x said it would make Aqua no longer a secret. It may happen in BBS though for all we know.
on 13 May 2009 at 2:03 am 27. Axel
Where did pluto dissappear to after sora woke up in transverse town in CoM? (is that what coded is kinda about?
KH# obsessed guy, you are think of marluxia
on 13 May 2009 at 2:04 am 28. Axel
Where did pluto dissappear to after sora woke up in transverse town in CoM? (is that what coded is kinda about?
KH# obsessed guy, you are thinking of marluxia
on 13 May 2009 at 11:31 am 29. Sonicspeed
Coded is about Jiminy finding a page in the journal that he didn’t write so King Mickey digitizes a version of Sora from KH to go back and check it out. I don’t really know what happened to Pluto though lol…he ends up in KH2 somehow though.
on 13 May 2009 at 2:06 pm 30. master x
As far as I’m concerned Pluto in KH is like the ‘cockroache’ of any living being. It’ll be a cold snowy in Mexico City before anyone (if anyone at all) will take his heart and make a nobody and heartless (possibly unbirth, but we don’t even know how their made yet :p).
on 13 May 2009 at 2:07 pm 31. master x
Also 17 days until kh 358/2 days comes out!!!!
on 14 May 2009 at 1:53 am 32. kh3obsessed13XIII
yeah axel that was the one that i was thinking of, i knew the name but coulndt put my finger on it lol.
on 14 May 2009 at 10:24 am 33. benny
will it come out in australia ?
on 14 May 2009 at 1:42 pm 34. master x
Yeah it will, but not sooner than the American release I’m sure. It’ll probably be this year for the EU and probably Australia, but I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
on 17 May 2009 at 1:02 pm 35. OblivionRoxas
master do u remember me?
on 17 May 2009 at 1:05 pm 36. OblivionRoxas
btw what day is days comming out?
on 17 May 2009 at 3:17 pm 37. master x
But of course OblivionRoxas. You’re on this website a lot of the time just like kh3obsessed13XIII and Sonicspeed too. Also Days is coming out on May 30 of this year. I’m going nuts and getting excited to see this game, even if the english one isn’t due for another three months after.
on 19 May 2009 at 2:16 am 38. Riku #1
just wondering, how is it that riku, from the first KH was talking to roxas? he didnt even know about the heartless at that time, let alone orginization 13!!!???
was roxas just seeing things in soras body?
and riku was actually talking to sora?
please answer!!!
on 19 May 2009 at 3:41 am 39. master x
maybe it’s sorta like the same thing with Sora. In Re:COM his memories made a card of Twilight Town for him to explore and he said that he never remebered travelling to that world. I really couldn’t say at the moment what the connection could be.
on 19 May 2009 at 4:39 am 40. Sonicspeed
It could be possible that Riku reverts back to his original form/look after KH when he meets Roxas before he gives in to the darkness and turns to Ansem without the blindfold.
on 19 May 2009 at 5:07 am 41. master x
although I would like to add that the final battle between him and Roxas is pretty much their first encounter though. The scene with Zexion I believe was more or less a vision. I didn’t Roxas at all in COM for the record at all to back me up here, except for the secret endings. Although I will also say that this isn’t the first SE has surprised me and probably won’t be the last.
on 19 May 2009 at 5:09 am 42. master x
Also 11 days until kh 358/2 days comes out!!!
on 19 May 2009 at 2:09 pm 43. OblivionRoxas
WOOT WOOT THE FINAL BATTLE WILL BE SICK. but i think that riku would stay the same and not revert back to his younger self. i think that it was Zexion playing a illousion on roxas like she did to sora on destiny islands on COM
on 19 May 2009 at 2:45 pm 44. master x
exactly!! Otherwise he would have known about Roxas before hand. He even said it himself in the cutscenes of the battle ‘you really are HIS nobody…’. Riku would not have said that if he and Roxas met before. Zexion was clearly creating an illusion. Also Zexion is a dude OblivionRoxas. As far as we know now only Larxene and Xion are the only two female members of ORG XIII.
on 19 May 2009 at 9:53 pm 45. riku #1
oh, hmm.
oh and is sora or kairi gonna be in this game?
and to get things strait,
this game is taking place AFTER chain of memories and BEFORE KH2?
rite?
on 20 May 2009 at 1:29 am 46. Chaos key
No its not possible cuz sora goes to sleep in chain of memories and wakes up in kh2 so if they did in between it would have to be about a diff character or about sora’s dreams
on 20 May 2009 at 3:33 am 47. master x
The game is taking place between the end of kh 1 through to the beginning of kh 2 with the events of COM right in between as well. Roxas existed and so did Sora, but they never met each other till much later during the events of kh 2 though. He only went to sleep becuase of his messed up memories. Roxas so happens to be connected because he is Sora’s nobody and has his memories of his former life along with Xion to a certain extent I’m sure.
on 21 May 2009 at 2:13 am 48. riku #1
actuall roxas lived way b4 sora! infact his first name was ven, (a.k.a ventent) it has to be that because in birth by sleep, roxas in a major character! but has a different name! so maybe roxas died or had his heart taken and thats how he became a part of the orginization 13!!!
on 21 May 2009 at 3:06 am 49. master x
We’ll see riku #1. I believe a certain part of Ven might be Roxas, but not completely all of him. It would explain Sora knowing about Twilight Town, but not remembering being there in the first place, should Ven have travelled there during Birth by Sleep. The main problem is how did Roxas come to be who he is? Or why MX has similar clothes to that of Ansem SOD? Or Whether or not the DS or Terra is truly the Xehanort we all know (personally I’m one of those rare ppl who say Terra + the DS.)?
on 21 May 2009 at 2:54 pm 50. Sonicspeed
Just because Ven looks like Roxas doesn’t mean he is him. I agree with master x that they’re related in someway but we just don’t know how yet. Maybe it’s more indirectly like having to do with Sora who’s nobody is Roxas.
riku #1: Roxas became part of Organization XIII when he came to be a nobody after Sora momentarily lost his heart…that’s what’s shown in 358/2.