Nomura said about the only reason why they didn't start production on one was because at the time he gave that interview, the English version with the English voices wasn't released. That is no longer an issue now. How about the months we didn't get to see what was happening that had immense plot value? Spoiler All the Riku-Xion interaction since you know, he's the single biggest influence on her in the game, half of Axel's time in Castle Oblivion, more Saix-Axel insight, some more insight about other members since for a game that was supposed to feature the Organization, we got nothing about them in large, etc
1) there will be no PS2 port as the FM+ was Nomura's final game for the PS2. I could sooner see it on the Wii, but - 2) Nomura said - basically, this: We might get a Final Mix, but no remake.
Chain of Memories. It was the first glimpse about just about everything about the true story of the series. It showed us CO and gave us Namine that we still don't know what she really is. CO no doubt ties in to BBS as well so that's importance right there. It introduced us to the Organization and Replicas that seem to pick up in importance, and the whole Memory issue which seems to mean almost as much as Hearts do if not more. Then we have it being the direct cause for too much of what happened in KH2 (even if it was only shown in the novels while Sora was busy cheering on Simba and Jack Sparrow while they were fighting Scar and Barbossa), and Days being non-existent without it. And I can only assume how much it caused for Coded. tl;dr without CoM we wouldn't have had too much after KH1.
Saix is hardly loyal to Xemnas as Days showed us. It's the Chamber of Waking they were searching in Castle Oblivion. I'd sooner say the reason Saix wanted to off Vexen and Zexion was due to their research as they're the two CoM members aside from the traitors who seemed to know the most about the Spoiler Replica Program
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He wouldn't have had to actually use it. Xehanort opened the Door to the Heart of Radiant Garden, but made no indication he was aware he was a Wielder, despite everything pointing to him being one. Riku had the KK by then and an arguable amount of wielding abilities. He could've opened the Door without actively summoning the Keyblade.
Neither are the Keyblades as far as we know. I'm still waiting for a better source to confirm it than the KH Wiki :\ I wish someone'd bother translating the KH1 Ultimania in full. They confirmed Mickey to have been the voice in Sora's Destati there. I'd kill to see what else it said. Actually, Terra was the one who chose Riku for the KK. The KK just "went along with it" until it saw it shouldn't. Had it truly chosen Riku properly on its own, I doubt we'd have seen half the tug-o-war we did in KH1. I don't know about that. I'm not denying Riku's Heart to be strong or anything but it seems that with him being the original wielder, it had less impact in that sense. Look at Traverse Town for instance. I don't think the difference in strengths should've meritted Riku's temporary control over the Keyblade. It's just that in Hollow Bastion he decided to actively call it back to him. Otherwise, if it only relied on strengths of Heart, I think we'd have seen a lot more tug-o-wars in the series than people like to think. As far as we know it's based on Heart. Which still raises the question of why only Mickey, Riku and Sora have them :\ because arguably Leon and such should be able to wield it too, and don't even get me started on PoHs and their cheat sheets. Which brings us back to BBS issues and how it probably ate all the Keyblades up, save for Mickey who had one from before and knew about the IKK, and Sora and Riku who had direct ties to TAV.
Not sure you even remember but that theory of mine you said you were curious about's been up and about for a while :3
The novels actually answered that, which means it's up to you about whether or not you take them as canon (I tend to take them as such so long as they don't bluntly contradict the games' canon). Spoiler They wrote in the novels about when Namine toyed with Repliku's memories, giving him Riku's - and he was in a pod when she did that What the- the most the pods were said to do without Namine's help was sample Memories, not go to town with them. And when did they ever managed to put Riku, let alone either of the girls in them? :\ The pods were moved, not changed. Xehanort never wrote anything about Castle Oblivion in his reports, so doubtful the pods - who originated from there, it seems - were used for that. Master Xehanort's Keyblade has on it a beast similar in design to the one on Castle Oblivion. So not that I'm supporting your theory, just pointing it out. I like to relate it to the Ven factor and tie it to CO from there as much like there's something of Aqua's in the Chamber of Repose, Ven is supposed to be in the Chamber of Waking, which is supposed to be in CO.
Never said making a game is easy. But it doesn't seem like Nomura needs the best of reasons to come up with more KH games. More like excuses.
They did Days because Nintendo wanted a game for the DS. If they were asked to make another game and the console fit the whacked plot concept Nomura would come up with - it'll happen.
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Twilight Town. It's an official abbreviation from inside the game XD; written on the station, I believe. I know that. But then he set out with Mickey, ditched Mickey, and then found them again. So what was up with that. And lurking is not good enough for me :\ ...which is basically what I was saying >_>
Why should it tie in? The Oblivion was there first. Xion having the same times as the Oblivion - to both Sora and Riku - would explain her being related to it.
Riku didn't lose the Keyblade because he 'gave into the Darkness'. You say that, you say he couldn't have taken it back from Sora - but alas, both in Traverse Town, and then in Hollow Bastion - when Riku was as far gone into Darkness as he could get without being possessed - he took the Keyblade from Sora. Also, the Keyblade doesn't care squat about Darkness, so it doesn't matter either way. The reason why Sora had the Keyblade was that when the Darkness surrounds them, and we see the flash of light right before Riku disappears and Sora gets the Keyblade - the Light we see is the Light in Riku's Heart - which is where the Keyblade is. Sora literally reached in and took the Keyblade from Riku. Hence why he was able to wield it - while Riku still had ownership until Hollow Bastion where Sora became the true wielder.
Uh... Riku's Heart did leave his Body and Soul :\ after Kairi woke up and Riku stopped XH from hurting her, Donald and Goofy, XH pretty much kicked Riku's Heart out so he wouldn't interfere. The first FM confirms this when we see Riku - as only a Heart and maintaining his physical appearance - in the Realm of Darkness. Mickey then manages to contact him as his Heart's no longer buried in Darkness (which was no doubt why he contacted Sora and had him go through his Destati at the start of the game). When Sora defeated XH, Riku's B+S returned to where they belonged - to where Riku's Heart is, which was on the other side of the DtD. Hence why Riku showed up there at the end - albeit with XH still lurking inside the B+S. All of this was confirmed in interviews.
I think that if she had more lines than those 30 seconds in Reverse-Rebirth, she might've bothered. KH is a fairly popular franchise after all. Namine actually sounded older than in KH2 :\ Re:CoM was mostly released as a publicity stunt to keep people aware of KH again before they released Days. The same day Re:CoM was released, Days was announced for an English release. Here's to hoping they'd pull the same thing for the FM+ and BBS. The new one did Xion in Days. She needs to work on it a bit more, but I loved her as Xion. I have to wonder how she'd do as Kairi though as the two girls act nothing alike.
For all of Nomura's will to tell us more about him, he's withholding far too much about him. We still know basically nothing about what happened to Riku between Reverse-Rebirth and - hell, the end of KH2. The bread crumbs they threw at us during Days are just about nothing, but he's effectively the plot for the series. He's what got Sora to react during KH1, was the reason for Sora to even come to CO and had his own scenario in CoM, and well, no need to explain KH2. The goal was to find him and we got to see him here and there. But we know NOTHING about what really went on with him. When did he get the Blindfold? Why? How? When did he ditch Mickey? How did he find Namine and Diz in TLTW? what did he do during the times Sora was still asleep? Where was he during KH2 aside from lurking? God dammit Nomura. You had BETTER make that Mystery KH game you're planning which isn't KH3 be about Riku.
I'd hope so, I replayed the game for this XD; Well, I tend to believe that Riku got his Memories back, but seeing how neither Days nor KH2 bothered to show us too much about him, basically everything's up in the air. As for Sora remembering... well, we can't say "the Memories were of other people so he wouldn't remember them" as Xion's existence is based on that not being true, but then again she was a Replica created to absorb other people's Memories. So time will tell. I do like to think that Xion is why Sora ended up remembering Namine. Going by how she told Axel that she met him in Castle Oblivion, it seems she also had Sora's Memories of what took place there - which would make sense as those would be Memories Namine would no doubt leave delinked, thus letting them leak out to Xion easily enough. So once Sora received those Memories through Xion through Roxas - he remembered Namine.
Actually, Mvalentine, as I wrote above - Xion called out to Riku, begging him to stop Roxas - after he had already given Roxas back the Keyblade. You did bring up a good point of why Xion spoke to Riku and didn't try harder to turn Roxas away from going along with his suicidal plan. The question now is if Riku didn't simply "go along with it" when it came to what Xion wanted simply because his goal was already to take Roxas back, and keeping him from offing himself against the Org o,o
