Kingdom Hearts II Uh-oh, next game on handheld?

this is an interview with Tetsuya Nomura. the next game seems to be another minor game leading up to the main plot like COM. here's the interview,

SOURCE: Kingdom Hearts Insider

THE INTERVIEW

Interviewer: About the new KH title that will be announced after summer this year (2007), will that be a direct sequel?

Nomura: Hmm...I'm not sure how much I can say (laughs). I'll start of by saying that it's not Kingdom Hearts 3.

Interviewer: So this game will be a side story?

Nomura: That's right. My own feelings are that I would like to give Sora a break from large adventures for a little while. So I'm thinking of making the next game's story focus on other characters.

Interviewer: So by a little while, do you mean that Sora's journey from Kingdom Hearts 2 hasn't finished?

Nomura: Yes. If you're talking about the mysteries that started from Kingdom Hearts 1, then those were all revealed. In the ending of Kingdom Hearts II, there was a scene where Sora received a letter from the King; for Sora, I would like you to consider this as a new beginning. The truth is, until the very end, I was considering whether or not to include a scene showing them setting off on a journey after reading the letter.

Interviewer: So, let's talk about this new story, which doesn't have Sora as the main character. What sort of story will it be?

Nomura: Well, I need to start with the story depicted in a Birth by Sleep. Aside from that, there's the story of how the King found his keyblade in the world of darkness and other things like that. Myself, one of the things I most want to do is to give Roxas more of a role to play. I think it would be interesting to flesh out more of the year he spent between his birth and disappearance. Or making Riku the main character, and writing about his desperate fight while Sora was asleep, and things like that. You get the impression that Riku summoned Roxas to a place of shadows, and that Riku is a master of shadows, so I would like to give him more exploration in the game.

Interviewer: Will there be anything different in the game system?

Nomura: I'd like to try something a little different to the previous games in the KH series. I'm not just talking about the next game, more about the next project, so I can't say that it will just be one game (laughs). For the Kingdom Hearts series, being made with our company and Disney, both companies have things in mind that we would like to make reality, so there's always at least two things we want to do.

Interviwer: What platform does it look like the next game will be released on?

Nomura: Hmm... Probably a hand-held platform. Right now we're working on titles for the PSP (FFVII Crisis Core), Nintendo DS (This Wonderful World) and for mobile phones (MONOTONE), so I wouldn't be surprised if it were on any of those platforms.

Interviewer: Is there any chance that this game may be released on multiple platforms?

Nomura: We haven't considered that in the development. If possible, I would like to make a system that suits the platform. But in contrast, in terms of ideas, I would want ideas that could be released on any platform.

Interviewer: The more I hear about the next game, the more exciting it sounds, but for the fans the first thing to do is to see KH2 Final Mix's secret movie isn't it?

Nomura: Yes. I'm worried that we made the conditions for getting the secret movie too hard, but through reading this guide, I hope the readers will be able to see the secret movie. Finding a way to defeat (the new boss) is tough, but I've seen it done, so I know it's not impossible (laughs). If you're able to see the new secret movie and turn your thoughts to the next Kingdom Hearts, I'd be very happy.

END OF INTERVIEW

 

Hmmm........ A KH Sequel into a hand-held........i say i hope it will be in PS3,but dude he said "probably" it means maybe....i hope...ooh well lets just wait till' this new kh thing is over so we can see what really is the story and the game about . D:

 

Eh, sorta dissappointing. I would've enjoyed all of it on the big screen.

 

So whats wrong with a handheld? I think a game could fit on it, even with it's poor graphics, I have to admit I thought it was going to the PS3 but then it seems unlikely that it will be because Sqaure beleive it's still priced too high, they are waiting for the PS3 to catch up and I think the Side games will make it to handheld and the main titles will make it to PS3, we could see Kingdom Hearts 3 by 2013 or if the side series continues 2017 or 2020.

 

i hope it's not for PSP, i can't afford that. but then again, i can't afford a PS3 either.....yet

 

Thats... Strange... I didnt expect them to make a handheld one. Especially not twice (KH:CoM)

 

Crap translation of Nomura's response. Nomura was speaking of the next game being on hand-held as a loose hypothetical; he didn't say specifically that it was "Probably going to be a hand-held platform". They were discussing the blossoming of new games entering the hand-held market, so when reverting back to the topic at hand, it was simply "unsurprising if the next game became a hand-held title".

But the fact that it's considered for hand-held just makes me further believe the next one will be what CoM was for KH2. It might be a simple add-on title that'll prepare us better for the eventual KH3.

 

:D


that would be cool

 

I agree with you.

 

Oh. Well that's good to know.

 

Awesome news that a new KH game is coming out. =D I just hope it's not for PSP.

 

crap? do u have a good one then?

i believe that it's like an add on for KH3 as well

yea, i would love to play as Riku

 

It'd be cool to play as Roxas again, also.

 

Handheld game dosen't sound too, too bad. I'd like to play more as Riku or Roxas. That minute and a half using Riku in the Xemnas battle was kinda cool but i wanna play more as Riku. Or Roxas. :silence:

 

Errr....there's a thread like this so search more carefully next time.

I don't mind if the next game is on a handheld because I always have to go on boring car and plane rides(Yeah,my father travels alot!) so maybe this next game can keep me occupied especially with the fact that the console wars is a major problem among gamers so the handheld is safer IMO.

 

I can't really say if I like or hate the idea cuz it's very elementary with the information we have now. But if I were to choose, I'd probably pick the DS. Moblie sounds plain weird and hard to play. PSP just doesn't catch my attention very much for Kingdom Hearts games for some apparent reasons. So I'd pick the DS considering that they've already worked with Nintendo once before.

 

It's good to know that Sora's story ain't over yet.

 

NOO! I bought the PS3 for the next Kingdom Hearts game, and well.... I'm like "OH NOES!" *smacks self* Now, I have to buy the other hand-held game systems. *smacks self again*

Anyway, great to know this info.

 

If anything, i hope that the new game would come out on the DS or the PS2. For handheld on ds, you could just tap the touch screen to use items or magic, and the mic could be used to ggive donald and goofy commands to do certian attacks when you wanted them to.