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Hello everyone and welcome to yet another episode of the KH-Vids Podcast. Your usual hosts -- @Misty, @Llave, and @libregkd -- are joined by @Calxiyn and @Plums to discuss video game graphics, at the behest of @Eric Luna !

As per usual we begin with some Kingdom Hearts news and updates, including the official translation of the Re:Coded secret movie, the new Introducing the Magic trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2.5, and the announcement that Kingdom Hearts 3 is now running on Unreal Engine 4. The latter piece of news feeds into our larger discussion, where we cite some of the games that have impressed us over the years, the influence of MoCap and facial capture in video games, the uncanny valley, the benefits of stylized graphics versus photorealistic, and finally the influence of environments and environment design on a gaming experience.

After that we move along into our user-submitted questions! @Eric Luna has us reminisce about childhood, @Graxe asks what we would add to a KHV Giferator (the original @Mish pic is cited, along with Kairi ♥ licking a certain Kingdom Hearts character, and @Stardust 's creepy doll), @Hayabusa makes us fuse with another KH-Vids member, and we build a special Halloween playlist for @Sweeney Tummer !

It's a fun filled episode and we encourage everyone to listen, comment, and participate in the podcast!


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Our newest media reporter, @Karuta, is hard at work recording KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.5 ReMIX for us. Previous posts of the ending have included fan translations and fan subs. By modding the game, we now have an official translation of Re:Coded's secret ending. The video, of course, still has the Japanese audio, but with the very same English subtitles you'll see when the collection releases worldwide this December.


You can download the video by clicking here. We'll have a full archive page up when we have more videos ready to go -- so please stay tuned!

With Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD ReMix's release in Japan this week, there only remains two more months for the highly anticipated remaster's release internationally. So, Square-Enix has released a new trailer shown below to keep us excited, which includes a recap of events from 1.5 ReMix while showing the neat stuff to experience in 2.5 ReMix.
Source: Playstation Blog

It's Tuesday and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS... !

This week we celebrate the release of Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix in Japan by talking all things Kingdom Hearts! @Misty, @Llave, and @libregkd are joined by @Stardust, @Karuta, and @pink gabr for this exciting episode. We discuss what we're most excited for in the HD remaster, the trophy list compared to the previous 1.5 collection, the likelihood of a Dream Drop Distance HD remaster, the secret movies including in Kingdom Hearts 2.5 (spoilers!), and finish off with some of our expectations and speculations about Kingdom Hearts 3, particularly how Tetsuya Nomura's departure from Final Fantasy XV will affect it.

As per usual we also answer user-submitted questions! @Eric Luna puts us in the shoes of another member, @Graxe has us calculate the Kingdom Hearts universe economy and gives us a unique challenge for Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix, and @Robiɳ polls us about our favorite Doctor Who companions.

Finally we plug some site news, including a big welcome back to the staff to @Kairi ♥ and a status update on the Kingdom Hearts 1.5 and Kingdom Hearts 2.5 videos.

Everyone please listen and enjoy! If you have any thoughts on what we've mentioned, want to tell us what you're most excited for in either KH2.5 or KH3, or anything else, please reply below!


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In the full interview about Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix, Famitsu asked Nomura on a status update on the development of Kingdom Hearts III. In his answer, Nomura stated that development was proceeding as planned, however the team is no longer using the Luminous Engine and have switched to the Unreal Engine 4 for a variety of reasons. He says that because of this switch there have been having some graphical rendering issues but that Epic Games is working closely with the development team to resolve them.

Famitsu Interview. Translation regarding the change to the Unreal Engine courtesy of duckroll at NeoGAF.