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Hey everyone, it appears that another interview with Nomura has been added. This interview appears to be very long and talks about four topics for the Kingdom Hearts series. Once again, I'll try to get translations up for this interview ASAP. In the mean time, click HERE to access the interview page. If you click the links on the page, you'll be able to access some interesting cutscenes from Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days. Translations will be added to this page shortly.

Projecting KINGDOM HEARTS
The start of the interview contains information on the general Kingdom Hearts series success. Kingdom Hearts already has two new titles coming out for the series. "It is a unique game that features various elements with a variety of Disney characters." Final Fantasy characters are also placed as guests in the Disney classic worlds, which "makes a good mix. I think it is a title that everyone can widely enjoy."

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"It's the first time that the Kingdom Hearts series has been added to the DS." Apparently there were opinions from people saying that he should add the series to the Nintendo DS. The interview also adds a response to the way Days works on the DS. In this part, its a rough translation, but Nomura is talking about the touch screen and how the battle appears on the upper screen. Nomura mentioned that his previous work The World Ends with You gave him a lot of experience and inspiration for creating Days on the DS.

Later in the interview, Nomura explained that his ideas of making a 3D RPG, starting when he had involvement with Final Fantasy: VII. During that time period Mario 64 was released on the Nintendo 64 and Nomura was very interested in giving an RPG some sort of feeling that he got from that title. It was only years later, before that was possible. I guess you can say that Mario inspired Kingdom Hearts.

Nomura explains the difference between Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. Nomura added that there are many worlds and new story lines for Final Fantasy, but for Kingdom Hearts it's all in the same universe.