New Interview + HQ Images: Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

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    This is the final Interview, that Famitsu put up, featuring Tetsuya Nomura (Director of Kingdom Hearts), Yasushi Kurosaw (Battle planner of FFXI) and Yoichi Yoshimoto (Director of Brave Fencer Musashi)

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    Interview: Development from Kingdom Hearts re Chain of Memories, therefore the team in Osaka is handling the game as well.

    Nomura: Development started earlier, however due to re:COM needed to be improved a lot, the production of BBs was interupted.


    Interviewer: Then we can consider it possible that the secret movie of KH2FM+ will play an important role in BBS?

    Nomura: Yes


    Interviewer: So does this take place before the first Kingdom Hearts game?

    Nomura: Yes, however it doesn' start immediately before Kingdom Hearts.


    Interviewer: Is there a representatoin to the name of Terra, and the other characters?

    Nomura: In the origin of the names Earth is Terra, as Wind is Ven. However the real name of Ven is loner, this is just an alias.


    Interviewer: The figure and age of the old man who is called Master Xehanort, is different from the Xehanort of Kingdom Hearts II. Also what is the relationship with the person who looks just like Roxas?

    Nomura: There is a mystery to who each character is in the story, which I can not reveal right now.


    Interviewer: Is the master who taught the three from the current series?

    Nomura: I can't say.


    Interviewer: The story will advance around these three people?

    Nomura: Yes, it is also pretty complex in this game, and can become very series. Watanabe who took chare of the scenarios is skillfull in this. Also he is supervising some of the scenarios of the other two titles. This game will also be a bit challenging since the game will be featuring the aspect of three people.


    Interviewer:There will be an individual story for each of them?

    Yasushi: Yes, also the gameplay and feeling for each of their playthroughs will be different. It will feel as if three games were made.


    Interviewer: In Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories there was a chapter of Sora, and a chapter of Riku. Would you call these two scenarios?

    Yasushi: Yes, however in this case completing one story will create more mysteries for the other characters, making you wanting to play them to figure out the mysteries.


    Interviewer: Like zapping?

    Yasushi: Well it depends, in a way the game wouldn't be the same if we changed it's contents.

    Yoshimoto: It's not really easy to explain right now, please wait a bit more in the future. (Laughs)


    Interviewer: How about the composition of the worlds? Where do you beigin, and does it become an adventure where you go into Disney Worlds?

    Yasushi: I think that it will be better to keep a normal feeling of Disney Worlds, but also have new worlds as well. Of course there will also be two or more new worlds where you are surprised.


    Interviewer: How much will they enjoy the games?

    Nomura: Mainly the story will be their enjoyment, and because this game will take place in the past the Disney Worlds will also have a little timeshift as well.


    Interviewer: When the battle images were shown to the public, there was a new enemy that wasn't a heartless or a nobody, what is it?

    Nomura: It is neither, a Heartless or a Nobody, this is a new type of enemy. Because the existence of these creatures came before Heartless and Nobodies a starting point needs to be imaged, and it became a wild concept to them.

    Yasushi: Basically it becomes wild. However, its moves are fast!



    Interviewer: What will the battle system become? As well as the "Lingering Spirit" and the character in the Secret Movie.

    Yasushi:That was done as a hint, because it is an image to the end. Also this game will be introducing a new system!

    Nomura: It might be one of the most current games of the series that have been announced during this time. Also the Level system features a new idea that has not been seen before.

    Yasushi: "When you absorb it in what?" (Laughs) It is considered as a Novel, and an impact to the leveling system. (He seemed to have been quoting something, could it be a hint?)

    Yoshimoto: It is really interesting actually, however I think you'll be able to understand it more if youo saw it from a screen image, so please wait a while longer.

    Nomura: This growth system was made, by one person.


    Interviewer: Can you give a hint?

    Yasushi: .....The level up is like growing.



    Interviewer: Is it possible where people can play by bringing PSP's together?

    Yoshimoto: Well, we are thinking by a co-operation between people, or even competing against each other. We are trying to think of an element that could make use of the PSP fully.

    Nomura: Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days has a different concept, and multiplayer is also complete, and different.


    Interviewer: Though there seems to be a variety in the beginning of the story. The game system also seems to have more content to make it enjoyable.

    Yoshimoto: Well, the idea first came out really fast, and changed rapidly as well. It was interesting to see the traditional gameplay of Kingdom hearts, but at the same time the hardship of the gameplay as well.

    Nomura: This is a game which the variety can play, even if all the mysteries in the story were solved.

    Yasushi: From here on after, the game is just going to get better. The battle system will also be enjoyable. The feeling of the game will be as close to Kingdom Hearts as possible, but with a few twists.

    Yoshimoto: Also even tohugh the game will be more serious, it will please those that are a fan of Disney. The worlds are prepared with a surprise even though the story is serious. I think the mixture of disney with this will be interesting.


    Interviewer: By the way, this game was announced at the same time as Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, and Kingdom Hearts Coded. Were you anxious?

    Yasushi We were very anxious about everything, the system and the story. I thought it was considerate through the PV that was shown at the Tokyo Game Show.

    Nomura: This game will have to wait sadly, however we also need to think about the sales in the end.



    Source: Famitsu and 2ch
     
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Discussion in 'Kingdom Hearts News & Updates' started by Xaldin, Oct 20, 2007.

    1. Eternal Session
      Eternal Session
      Yea.. just a thought anyway..lol..
      i doubt that he give mickey the star-seeker and mickey is training under him.. and Terra and Ven as well XDD
    2. Musutka
      Musutka
      Yen sid is the old ******???
      XD
      It could be interesting...
      AND 1 more question...
      What da fak happened with maleficent and pete???
      Cuz in KH2 are the happy endings on the end they showed that what happened to da others,BUT nothin about Maleficent and pete......
      Are they ded?
      Or living in castle oblivion????
    3. Shadows Of Oblivion
      Shadows Of Oblivion
      I'm pretty sure we're talking about Terra/Ven/unknown's teacher who ISN'T Master Xehanort...

      But good question, what DID happen with those 2?
    4. Poki#3
      Poki#3
      Note that when Xehanort appeared in Radiant Garden and was found by Ansem had no memories of his past. I think that SOMETHING happened that made him lose that memory and change his appearance.

      Another possibility I see is that the Xehanort we know stole Master Xehanorts name, just like he did with Ansem's name... but that's a stupid theory compered to the first one.

      Oh... and I really need to get this out of my system... I think Ven is either Sora's older brother or... his father >.<
      ...phew, that's better.
    5. Shadows Of Oblivion
      Shadows Of Oblivion
      My theory on that is that the Xehanort we know is/was Master Xehanort's apprentice... and there's NO way known Ven is Sora's father... older brother is a definite possibility though...
    6. Poki#3
      Poki#3
      Xeh - well SOMETHING happened to him. That's why BBS > other 2 games imho :P
      Ven - He's connected to Sora SOMEHOW, that's a fact no one can argue with. I personally think there are connected by blood. But again, this is only speculation, as is practically everything about these games at the time :P
    7. Shadows Of Oblivion
      Shadows Of Oblivion
      I'm not saying that there ISN'T a connection... just that the chances of Ven being Sora's father are practically 0...

      BBS is 10 years prior to KH1, which means Sora's 4 years old... Ven looks to be 14 or 15, just like Roxas in KHII... which means that he'd have had to get Sora's mum pregnant when he was 9 or 10... and that DEFINITELY wouldn't be in a Disney game lolol
    8. Eternal Session
      Eternal Session
      Lol.. about maleficient and pete, i guess they are probably hiding somewhere and waiting to revenge on Sora..
      Ven is connected to Sora and Roxas probably born from Ven heart, since i think Ven is part of Sora heart.. so Roxas does look a lot like Ven..
      just my thought...
      o.o, if Ven is Sora's father, that could be child pregnancy..lol
    9. Poki#3
      Poki#3
      Yeah, the age Ven looks like also strikes me as young...


      Roxas is born from Sora's heart. Since Sora is already alive by the time BBS is taking place I think it's safe to assume that his heart is whole, since he isn't a heartless or a nobody, nor is he unconscious like Kairi in KH1.

      That said, Kairi's heart found refuge in Sora. Something like that might have happened to Ven by the end of BBS, but that poses more questions (Ven's Nobody?).
    10. Eternal Session
      Eternal Session
      someone might put Ven's heart inside sora
    11. dirk123
      dirk123
      I think that the Xehanort/Xemnas we came to know is Terra with his memories wiped (they look a like). During the end of the battle a part of MX essence (like Xehanort's heartless to Riku) fused with Terra. MX spirit within wants to take over Terra's body, but Terra somehow erases his memory. When he is found by Ansem, he only remembers the name Xehanort.
      It would explain why Xehanort's Heartles's face and clothes look more like MX and Xemnas more like Terra/Xehanort.
      That's my theory in a nutshell.

      So 2 world's are confirmed:
      Sleeping Beauty's castle (Malificient boss battle, which she survives obviously)
      Olympus Colloseum - Pre-Phil Training, so a weaker looking Herc.

      I wonder if you need to finish all 3 characters before you can do the final battle....
      Since all 3 are connected with eachother to finish the story. (a la Sonic the Hedgehog - Must collect all 7 Chaos Emeralds)
      Unless you do the final battles from each characters perspective.....

      I also wonder if there will be a secret movie in it.....
      CoM/RE:CoM is/are the only ones thus far without a secret ending.
    12. ~AngelOfHearts~
      ~AngelOfHearts~
      Far feched

      I know this might seemed far feched but...

      What if Ven and Sora are brothers, That one girl that looks like A girly Riku is

      Riku's sister and the other person is some how related to kairi?

      Okay now here is the far feched part...

      what if when Ven was fighting the Master Xehanort guy, Master Xehanort took

      Sora (Little 4 year old Sora Soooooooo cute!) as a hostage and Ven hade to

      give up his heart so little Sora would live and all (Very emotional T_T) and then

      Master Xehanort thought he won and could open Kingdom Hearts but Ven's

      sacrifice had saved little sora and saved the worlds and all of humanity as we

      know it. And Then sora would inherit Ven's good heart (And the keyblade) and

      then when Sora made the sacrifice to Kairi, Ven's spirt became Roxas and Ven

      couldn't remember his true name (When Roxas couldn't remember) And

      everyone said it was sora when it could of very possiably of been Ven! And if

      the other two keyblade weilders are related to Riku and Kairi then that

      explains why they have keyblades too!

      It may seem far

      feched but in

      video games anything

      is possable!
    13. Poki#3
      Poki#3
      Then:
      1) Why is Terra present in a cutscene with Xemnas in KHII:FM?
      2) Where does Terra look like Xehanort? <.<
      3) Taking over Terra's body, and then having it split into a heartless and a nobody and then taking over another body again (Riku's)? ...seriously, that's beyond everything. Even fiction...


      Liek I said before, Ven and Sora are probably related somehow. I'm not convinced about Riku and Kairi being related to Terra and Aqua. Note however, that the secret ending of KH2:FM is the end (or very near the end) of BBS, and Ven's alive and kicking there, and no Sora in sight.

      PS: I think everyone's forgetting about the Riku lookalike apprentice of Master Xehanort...
    14. ~AngelOfHearts~
      ~AngelOfHearts~
      You never know....XD

      Me too! I will play this game even if it kills me!

      Im not talking about the secret ending, I mean what if like at the end,END of the game that happens, that would explaine some unanwsered questions!
    15. Eternal Session
      Eternal Session
      i agree that Master Xehanort could be fused with Terra, just like Xehanort's heartless to Riku.. Riku and Terra could be connect not just their name but they maybe have the same fate too.. both of them give themselves into darkness..
      i think that Terra is fall into darkness and he lose his memories, only remember the name of Xehanort... he could be get some of his memories from Aqua armor in the room of sleep and begin to remember all his tragic and begin to hate Xehanort, i think he take Ansem name not just he wish to continue his research but he hate Xehanort this name too..
    16. exile0025
      exile0025
      that sounds right
    17. Shadows Of Oblivion
      Shadows Of Oblivion
      1) He isn't... That's Aqua, not Terra lol

      2) He doesn't...

      3) I agree... that's WAY too convoluted...

      And yeah, the apprentice DOES seem to have been overlooked lol
    18. Paopu
      Paopu
      I don't understand why it's coming to PSP. Doesn't seem very fit. If it were a sort of 'in between' story like CoM - which came out for GBA - then I could see it... but there's a lot of hype and seems to be like a huge installment of Kingdom Hearts so why not release it on the PS2/3?
    19. CheeseandChicken
      CheeseandChicken
      Wow!

      That's all I can say is wow. I can tell the next games are going to be awesome!!!:)

      Yep. PS2. DO IT ON PS2!!!:yelling::yelling::yelling: Sorry about that. :stupid:

      Well, this will be fun.
    20. 13518211989Marina
      13518211989Marina
      I know the two men are mostly main, their story probably has more importance than Aqua who hardly has a scene. It's like the other KH story lines (even though Kairi was involved, she hardly as much part in the scene, and more of Sora/Roxas Riku).

      What I don't like about it is that it'll be on the PSP. I'd prefer it be on main consoles like PS3 (-_-).

      I am excited though. This game is too addictive, even though the Disney makes it look childish, it's still fun. Not saying Disney wasn't cool in the first place.
      Can't wait, but really disappointed in the whole PSP deal.