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 21 May 2009 at 6:58 pm 51. master x
No stress if we know now or not. KH Coded, KH BBS, and KH 358/2 days are coming out this year in Japan and momentarily for US and Europe over the course of this year and possibly going into Jan-Mar of next year anyway so we’ll eventually find out. On that topic, I recently got word from a certain kh website (I promised the guy who manages the website to keep the site name confidential sorry) that Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep is in post-production!!!!
on 21 May 2009 at 7:00 pm 52. master x
Also new episodes of KH Coded are coming out in June for Japan depending on how many you order through their mobile phones (too bad its not for North America too
), although I still think that’s pretty cool too 
on 21 May 2009 at 11:01 pm 53. riku #1
sonicspeed- when did sora momentarily lose his heart?
and does that mean when any one loses their heart a nobody is made?
if not, why just sora?
on 21 May 2009 at 11:07 pm 54. master x
usually anyone who loses their heart becomes a heartless and a nobody is soon made (just take a look at Xehanort from KH 2 and compare between Ansem SOD and Xemnas), however Kairi is an exception!! She has a nobody being Namine, but no heartless since everyone knows a Princess of Heart can’t have darkness in their hearts, thus no heartless (heart tainted with darkness). Sora WAS a heartless temporarily in Hollow Bastion during KH 1 and regained consciousness when Kairi was protecting Sora from the heartless attacking them (or displaying her love for him if you wanna call it that). The point is up until KH 2, Sora was just half a being (only his heart).
on 21 May 2009 at 11:07 pm 55. master x
usually anyone who loses their heart becomes a heartless and a nobody is soon made (just take a look at Xehanort from KH 2 and compare between Ansem SOD and Xemnas), however Kairi is an exception!! She has a nobody being Namine, but no heartless since everyone knows a Princess of Heart can’t have darkness in their hearts, thus no heartless (heart tainted with darkness). Sora WAS a heartless temporarily in Hollow Bastion during KH 1 and regained consciousness when Kairi was protecting Sora from the heartless attacking them (or displaying her love for him if you wanna call it that). The point is up until KH 2, Sora was just half a being (only his heart).
on 21 May 2009 at 11:09 pm 56. master x
I did not mean to comment twice and for that I’m sorry, I have butter fingers today.
on 22 May 2009 at 1:04 am 57. riku #1
Oh I see! Thanx!
Oh and 358/2 days comes out on august 31 for north america! Wooooooooo!
=-D
on 22 May 2009 at 1:44 am 58. master x
actually that date was set up by IGN, don’t trust it, they’re morons when it comes setting Square Enix dates. They said KH BBS would be released on December 31, 2009 in Japan, but that’s wrong too since KH BBS is in post-production and getting ready for shipments, trailers, etc. The only reason that one too has been a little iffy on info (aka the KH Info drought) is one in part of the anticipated release of kh 358/2 days. However, I firmly believe the game will come out in NA sooner rather than later. Why you would ask? They had confirmed a North American release back in December last year. They never bring info like that to the ‘public’ unless the core of the project is finished.
on 22 May 2009 at 1:45 am 59. master x
You heard it here first folks August 15-25 of this year is my guess for the release of kh 358/2 days in North America.
on 22 May 2009 at 3:21 am 60. riku #1
Since you say KH BBS is in post production, getting ready for shipments, trailers, etc.
What exactly does that mean?
Is it getting ready to be realesed?
In other words is japan getting it b4 decamber 31 2009, or later??
on 22 May 2009 at 3:24 am 61. riku #1
I didn’t mean to spell December wrong!
on 22 May 2009 at 5:02 am 62. master x
post-production means that production of a certain thing in entertainment is at an end. In other words, the necessary work to get KH BBS ready for release is done and over!! It has not gotten a release date because of the hype with kh 358/2 days in coming up along with Coded episodes due in June. KH BBS has been speculated to be the last one to be released and it has been told to be taking longer than what was originally planned for.
on 22 May 2009 at 5:07 am 63. master x
KH BBS I would say would be on its way to release and might be delayed the same way with KH 358/2 days. I would not say it would be dec 31 For 2 reasons:
1. because everyone knows no game company or anything in entertainment at all releases something on the last day or first day of a month.
2. because it is in post-production, the game is ready to be sold in stores, but has been put on hold like a guy with customer service.
You heard it here first with KH BBS too: to be released between September through November 2009!!
on 22 May 2009 at 11:46 am 64. Sonicspeed
I do hope you’re right about all of this master x cause it means sooner release dates in the United States :).
Way back @ my last comment lol: Loses his heart, turned into a heartless same thing…not lol
on 22 May 2009 at 3:37 pm 65. master x
I would think those would be reasonable time frames if you ask me. Usually after post-production things go by very fast for releasing movies, games, etc. The only thing that really is a pain in the butt now for kh 358/2 days for the game makers is shipping and handling to make hundreds of thousands of copies of the game. Likely that’ll be the same way with KH BBS and KH Coded (although I here there is a website that you can order episodes onto the mobile phone used to play it on). Also, yeah losing a heart and turning into a heartless are sort of different only if you count Riku who temporarily lost his heart to darkness, but retained his soul, body and heart together. In other words there wasn’t a sufficient ammount of time for him to turn into a heartless.
on 23 May 2009 at 3:31 am 66. riku #1
oh, so maybe, or hopefully KH BBS will come out in summer of 2010 for U.S!
on 23 May 2009 at 3:35 am 67. master x
I wouldn’t say that far for the North America release. More or less for us between January through March of 2010, since it is a handheld console we’re talking about here.
on 24 May 2009 at 4:57 pm 68. master x
6 more days until KH 358/2 days comes out!!
on 24 May 2009 at 8:38 pm 69. riku #1
2&1/3 months till it comes out in us. (Said by wikipedia.org) and other websites.
So I hope its true!
on 24 May 2009 at 8:39 pm 70. master x
I hope so too.
on 25 May 2009 at 2:13 am 71. master x
5 days until kh 358/2 days comes out!!!
on 26 May 2009 at 3:22 am 72. riku #1
Say? Do we get to play with xion in 358/2 days? Because in one of the pictures above it shows a character select. But xions face isn’t there!
on 26 May 2009 at 3:53 am 73. master x
Yes Xion is playable, along with Sora, Donald and Goofy apparently. I know it sounds strange, but this is non-canon to the events of KH 2 if we are talking multiplayer. Xion, Sora, Donald and Goofy are confirmed to be unlockable characters, so that’s why they’re there. I don’t think Xion is playable in Story mode mostly cuz its about Roxas’ time in the Organization, not so much her (although she is connected to Sora and Kairi).
on 26 May 2009 at 3:53 am 74. master x
Yes Xion is playable, along with Sora, Donald and Goofy apparently. I know it sounds strange, but this is non-canon to the events of KH 2 if we are talking multiplayer. Xion, Sora, Donald and Goofy are confirmed to be unlockable characters, so that’s why they’re there. I don’t think Xion is playable in Story mode mostly cuz its about Roxas’ time in the Organization, not so much her (although she is connected to Sora and Kairi).
on 26 May 2009 at 1:04 pm 75. riku #1
Oh wow sora! My cuz will be excited to hear that so I hope its so! But in the trailor when xion is fighting axel the leads me to believe she is in story mode, plus they show her so much in the trailers!
on 26 May 2009 at 1:52 pm 76. master x
I guess I said I don’t think she is playable because even the recent trailers showed no playable character in the Story Mode other than Roxas at this point. I could be wrong for all I know, but let’s face it. SE probably would have hinted towards it by now, right? Oh well lets wait until youtubers upload the game onto it over the month of June and into July to find out.
on 27 May 2009 at 1:09 am 77. riku #1
yes! i cant wait for people to start up loading videos! im so interested in xion for some reason. and i hope we get to play with riku in multiplayer mode, or free play, something like that! oh and by the way.
spoiler- nomura said in a recent interview that zions fate in the game is “tragic but brave”
tragic? i guess she dies =-(
i got this info from “kingdomhearts.wikia.com”
on 27 May 2009 at 1:11 am 78. riku #1
i meant to say xion not zion
on 27 May 2009 at 5:05 am 79. master x
3 days until kh 358/2 days comes out!!!
on 28 May 2009 at 2:02 pm 80. master x
2 days until kh 358/2 days comes out!!
on 28 May 2009 at 4:52 pm 81. riku #1
Im so excited! Only 2 days left!
To bad xion dies!
Wahhhh!
Why!!!???
on 28 May 2009 at 8:28 pm 82. master x
well we don’t really know if xion dies yet, but it does look that way. Personally, I think they might surprise us with her though, so I say we just wait and see what happens.
on 28 May 2009 at 11:19 pm 83. riku #1
Yea.
Although Nomura said in his latest interview that xions fate is “tragic but brave”
Also, in the trailer she said to axel “don’t go easy on me” and she looked ready to fight!
But who knows yet.
Btw- you can go to heartstation.org. They have a buch of info and the site is updated almost every day!
on 29 May 2009 at 2:25 am 84. master x
‘tragic, but brave’ could mean anything you know. What about Roxas’ fate? He chose to become part of Sora once more when his time as a nobody ended, but he didn’t die. Axel was fighting Xion because of what Saix said to him. Clearly something that Xion is doing would have likely destroyed Roxas and Saix made him choose right there what he wanted to do: continue the trio friendship they have or save Roxas. Clearly Xion is going to have a major plot element in the story that has not been revealed to the public.
on 29 May 2009 at 2:28 am 85. master x
I thought I heard someone say once that when Tetsuya Nomura says stuff in interviews, its not as ‘literal as you would believe it to be’. Xion was told by him to not be playable. Yet almost half a year later we hear she is an unlockable character in multiplayer of the game. Right there he meant she is not initially playable, but can be if unlocked. I guess my point is we should play the game first and then we can make this interview a thing of the past and get psyked for its NA release along with Coded’s release in NA and (eventually) BBS in NA.
on 29 May 2009 at 2:56 am 86. riku #1
oh. wow. lol.
man i hope coded comes out in NA soon! same with BBS.
so far all of them are being so hesitent!
i wish they would just set a release date already!
BBS was half way finished in 2007 and still has no release date!
EERRRRRGGG!
on 29 May 2009 at 3:04 am 87. master x
BBS as the creaters said somehow was loopy in the schedule, most likely I think cuz of stupid KH Coded getting released into ‘episodes’. They should have just released KH re: COM like a year earlier and started work on these three games sooner. It would have relieved a lot of the stress upon these game creaters if you ask me.
on 29 May 2009 at 3:32 am 88. riku #1
That’s true.
It was uncalled for of how long they waited to release Kh:RE COM
And now its caused all this.
(Maybe)
I can’t believe though that 358/2 days beat BBS!
Even though BBS was made first! Errrrrg! Again!
Oh and did you know xions name is pernounced
“She-on”
I was pernouncing it as “zie-on”
on 29 May 2009 at 1:36 pm 89. master x
yeah I think I did see something on this back a few months ago on her name pronunciation. Although its too bad about all this though. It means that KH 3 will likely not be made before 2012 after all, like I hoped. Course then again, I was having second thoughts on its release and figured it would a little into to probably midway 2012 or early 2013.
on 29 May 2009 at 1:37 pm 90. master x
22 hours and 24 minutes until kh 358/2 days comes out!!!
on 30 May 2009 at 1:29 am 91. riku #1
yea that does suck!
huh? how did u right that at 1:36?
are you already on summer break?
on 30 May 2009 at 3:19 am 92. master x
I happen to be a lucky guy who has already had grad like a week ago and so happen to get a lot of awesome grades. My final exams don’t start till the 19th of June and end on the 25th of June.
on 30 May 2009 at 3:21 am 93. master x
That and I am writing from Western Canada, where Mountain time is six hours behind this current time zone for this website.
on 30 May 2009 at 4:40 am 94. riku #1
So you’ve graduated high school? Wow.
I just graduated middle school.
Ann DDDDDAAAAAANNNNGGGGG!!!!
YOUR A CANADIAN?
Im a Floridian! (I live in florida)
So its 12:40 am for me!
on 30 May 2009 at 1:52 pm 95. master x
I see. I heard middle school in the states is very different than that of middle school in Canada, let alone Alberta. Is that true or was I just told a bunch of hot headed balony?
on 30 May 2009 at 1:54 pm 96. master x
Also awesome to hear that kh 358/2 days has come out!!! Also 4 days until new KH Coded episodes come out!! (even if it is for Japan, Coded has been angled from SE to be sent overseas around the world in the future.)
on 30 May 2009 at 4:43 pm 97. riku #1
Yes, middle school in anmerica is different, maybe, idk cuz I don’t know watbits like in canada.
But I have 7 hours of school, monday through friday,
For 10 months.
And some school have 6 classes a day and some have 3 one day, and 3 the next.
Also the standards are high and they try to fail us!
With 3 final exams for each class and a test called the “FCAT”, which is a big fat test given by the state that determines your placement in the next grade that you go to.
And you can only score from a 1-5. If the score is to low, you fail.
on 30 May 2009 at 5:53 pm 98. master x
wow, and I thought kids in my ‘neck of the woods’ had it tough. We have standardized SATs and what not, but other than that our education system is kinda laid back. Not by much mind you, but a tad bit.
on 30 May 2009 at 8:43 pm 99. riku #!
yup!
hey and at “heartstation.org” there is a new interview today and nomura said there are more “secret playable characters besides donald, goofy, and xion”
so i hope sora and/or riku aare one of them!
on 30 May 2009 at 9:38 pm 100. master x
actually Sora Riku and even King Mickey are also playable. It was just announced today I think on KH Insider. The stupid site is on the fritz though for some reason. I dunno why.