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Square-Enix has released an update for 'Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep -A Fragmentary Passage-', fixing a number of gameplay issues to offer a smoother experience with the game. The full list of changes include:

Controls

• Adjusted reflect (guard) response
• Adjusted cartwheel (evade) response
• Adjusted cancellation timing after a Barrier Cracker (counter)
• Adjusted MP consumption

UI

• Adjusted camera speed
• Adjusted shortcut button response
• Adjusted magic command display

System

• Proud Mode adjustments (lowered the amount of damage received from enemies)
• Critical Mode adjustments (increased the amount of damage dealt to enemies)

Enemies

• Adjusted enemy AI and parameters

Source: Gematsu

According to Amazon, the fourth volume of the Kingdom Hearts II manga will be released May 23, 2017. The site also states that the first (of two) Kingdom Hearts II novels which will be released on June 20, 2017. Covers for these two books have been not released as of yet, but likely will later as the year progresses.

Check back for more news about the Kingdom Hearts novels/manga!

Special thanks to the Kingdom Hearts Manga Facebook page for posting about this!

Funko Pop News is at it again! Today they released pictures of the Mickey and Goofy keychains, as well as the Pete Funko Pop. These figures should be out March 2017 and according to KHInsider, you should be able to preorder these at your local Gamestop (something I haven't been able to test out for myself yet due to being a broke college student).

What do you think about these figures? Let us know down below!~

It has been brought to our attention by @Hayabusa that after unlocking one of three themes that are supposed to be free in the just released 'Kingdom Hearts 2.8 HD Final Chapter Prologue', you will be charged $2.99 to download the theme rather than being able to download it for free:


To make things even more confusing, KHInsider stated:
Most likely, this appears to be an error that'll hopefully be resolved soon. In the meantime, we'll be waiting for a response from Square-Enix.

EDIT: A GameFaqs user appears to have contacted Square-Enix regarding this issue, stating the following:
EDIT 2: The same user, domnu, also posted a screenshot of the email.


We'll let you know if we hear anything else about this story. Thanks to @Hayabusa for letting us know!

EDIT 3:

According to Churro, a long time figure in the KH community, it seems like the themes are now free. As soon as we hear anything else (or if anyone in NA wants to give us a screenshot of this), we'll update this story more!

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