Kingdom Hearts II Here's something for you all to think about

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wow.......... good point. Ill just buy it from japan i guess or wait for youtube vids for it.

Very nice thought!!

 

Well, there is a good chance they will not release it, so I don't know.

The bottom line is that POSSIBLY Nomura just cares about his fans, and wants everyone to be able to play the full version, with the new secret ending, and being able to fight Organization XIII.

But that's just a prediction.

 

My thought is that since KH1FM wasn't released outside of Japan, KH2FM probably won't be either, regardless of how many more extras it has. Since Re:CoM is a remake from GBA to PS2 it would be nice if it was released outside of Japan, but it's doubtful since it comes with KH2FM in a package and does not have it's own price.

 

The reason why KH:FM wasn't released here was because KH:FM was made in 'retaliation' to the drastically improved NA version of KH in comparison to its original JP release.

If you played the original JP Kingdom Hearts 1, then played the NA KH--you'd see that the improvements were actually on the 'Final Mix' level of change--us North Americans got incredibly blessed with our version. Because of this, the JP gaming community who enjoyed KH seemed to demand and *want* the NA version brought to them as well. However, it didn't go so far as to keep it the way it was. In response, KH:FM was made--which was an even bigger improvement with many more extras than ours--and of course, it was also decided that they would *not* bring that back over to NA. It was quite a bitter time, and not much news of the Final Mix version was brought over here until people started snooping around.

That being said, it's a different story with KH2. There *are* some minor differences between the two, but nothing worthy for anyone to complain about. Some scenes are censored (like Will Turner *not* pointing the gun to his head in the NA version), and the crosshair/cursor for Xigbar's target was changed. That aside, the JP and the NA version are overall, uniform in content.

This time around, I think it was more tradition and Nomura's desire to get some of his scrapped ideas back into the game that caused the creation of KH2:FM+, and boy did he put a crapload of stuff in there this time.

Releasing the game to NA/Euro does have some benefit *if* all they do is translate text. Something like that doesn't require an entirely huge budget, nor does it require an extensive amount of time, as opposed to hiring back voice actors to run new lines for Re:CoM and any scene in KH2:FM+ that may or may not have voice-overs. It's true what libregkd said about KH2:FM+ not selling nearly the amount that the original did, however it certainly will show profit if their budget was strictly about translating menus and subtitles. Anything more extravagent may hurt their returnings.