In an appliance store in Japan, a blog poster managed to snap a quick shot of a Kingdom Hearts II FM+ Advertisement. They refer to this as a "Dummy Package", possibly meaning that it's what the back and front cover looks like, with no game in the case. However, we'll just have to wait and see. Also we managed to get you an even bigger picture of Sora holding up his new weapon! Source: FF13 Vids, 2ch
A new Famitsu scan has appeared over the net, featuring never before seen images showing new additions to KH2FM+. 1... Donald's new weapon is the axe Lexaeus wields. 2... Goofy's new weapon is the shield Vexen uses. 3... The name of the new difficulty is now known as "Critical Mode", and it's the easiest way to reach the new secret ending (meaning that now even Proud Mode requires something probably). Sources: FF13 Vids and Tomogirl from KH-2.net
The cover art for Kingdom Hearts II Novel Volume 4 - Anthem - Meet Again / Axel Last Stand, has now appeared online. This novel is to be released on February 20th of this year for 1500 Yen. Source: FFKHBlog
An interview was conducted with Nomura, however I'll just give off the important parts and summary of the new/old things. - There is a new mode that's harder then proud mode, however it's name is still not mentioned (Meaning it''s a yes/no for it being called Serious mode) - Since Nomura wished to use abilities from the previous games, and also have a last installment feeling, the Limit Form was created. - It is possible to battle members from COM in KH2 (Well yeah...) - Marluxia uses the "Sentence of Death" to grab your attention, and attacks you continuously. - The battle against Lexaeus uses a "Power Gauge" although no information as to how to earn points or so is mentioned. - The enemies will be in different colors like they were in the original Final Mix. - All your abilities will be put to the test, in the additional maps. - It was actually complicated for the group when they were making more maps. - The development of the mysterious man in the armor, is meant to be a suprise. - The Secret Movie will NOT answer any questions, instead it's believed to confuse you even more. - A hint is that, there is a connection with Xigbar. - Nomura believes the new Kingdom Hearts Project will be shown in visuals, by the end of 2007. - They believe that the new re:COM will be better then the game boy advance version. Source: 2ch poster 287
Square-Enix has finally launched their KH2FM+ Website! Click here! Thanks to our forum member libregkd for bringing this up. Extra stuff For those wanting to see teh stuff on the website, yet don't have flash, we got it handled. Lucky for us it seems as though Square-Enix tried holding back by downsizing the images, since upon ripping the images, the actual sizes were bigger with little effect to the quality. Roxas vs Sora Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5
Jeux-France has updated their Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+ Section featuring higher quality, and more views of those scans which were released a while ago. Now we can see Limit Form alot clearer, as well as the battle between Sora and Marluxia! Scans Source: VideoGamerX
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQuGi25wdk I forgot I had this video onto youtube, god that was a bit horrible... I somehow won though!
The Light in the Chaos managed to type up a great summary of everything in the scan, due to the text being too blurry for us to see. 1. The Organization XIII mushrooms indeed have abilities similar to that of the Organzation XIII members. 2. The former abilities of the other forms, can be used by the Limit Form, and each of Limit Form's special abilities comes with a reaction command that leads to a stronger attack. (Just like Kingdom Hearts I did, just with the triangle button this time) -Strike Raid leads to Judgement -Ragnarok leads to Giga Impact -Dodgeroll leads to a counter offensive, this last one is by speculation. However these moves are more powerful then how they were in Kingdom Hearts 1. 3. The scene where the unknown Organization member is talking to the knight in the Jump Festa trailer is known as the "White Room". It's unknown though if we will actually be visiting this room or not. 4. There is a new area where a new Organization battle is added (Roxas?). The command window is changed with a Nobody mark instead. 5. Marluxia is alot stronger in Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix than he is in Chain of Memories(and possibly Re:CoM). 6. Marluxia VS Sora 7. The reaction command for Marluxia is Ariel Strike --> Rob Scythe. (More coming soon)
It should be noted that this is probably for Japan only, though we don't know if we'll have the same privilege, however for those in Japan that managed to reserve Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+ will be given a hard cover book known as "Kingdom Hearts - Another Report" It talks about the outline of the visuals of the game, goes into more detailed information about the character, spells, and worlds. In ways the game could not teach us. Also 3 Higher Quality images, from scans have appeared on the net, in decent size too. Screen 1 Screen 2 Screen 3 Source: FF7AC Reunion and Famitsu
A new Kingdom Hearts II FM+ Scan has appeared over the net. Scan Scan 2 Edit: Short Summary Edit 2: We managed to find the second scan thanks to VideoGamerX! The Limit Form is able to Dodge Roll, Ragnarök, and the Marluxia Reaction Command is called "Rob Size" The images that we have seen, including a place called "White Place" are all newly added areas. Also to add on, Nomura has been thinking about giving a Reservation privilege to those wanting Kingdom Hearts II FM+, as shown in the scan here Short interview And finally, a Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+ Fan book, is said to be in the making, for those unsure. Fan book does not mean it's made by a fan, but as other games releasing fan books, it's basically information on characters, and things in the game that were never revealed, or were just too obliviously hinted. Source: FF13vids, FFACreunion and VideogamerX Note: Upon discussing this with tomo from KH-2.net we have been able to determine the real name of his reaction command being either "Rob Scythe" or "Lob Scythe" Lob meaning smacking the Scythe back and forward as Lob is used in Tennis matches. There will need to me more clerification as to what the reaction command does, since we only know it causes Sora to throw the scythe back at Marluxia.
Hey guys, FF13vids, and FFAC Reunion updated their sites featuring 4 new scans, from the Vjump magazine! Scan 1 Scan 2 Scan 3 Scan 4 Also, there has been a new announcement for a "Kingdom Hearts Original Soundtrack" Featuring music from Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, and Kingdom Hearts II. It's unknown how Chain of Memories music will be done, if it will be the Game Boy Advance version, or the new KH:reCOM version. Edit: For a brief note, none of the information with the pictures are new, however we can confirm Sora's new form is known as the "Limit Form" Source: FF13 Vids and FFAC Reunion for the scans, and KH-2.net For the OST info.
