"The Birth of Kingdom Hearts"

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Published on April 27, 2007 @ 07:19 am

Written by monkeybutt

Hey there, KH fans. Recently an interview with the Director of the Kingdom Hearts series, Tetsuya Nomura, has found it's way onto the internet. Thanks to GameFAQs board member TheWertle, we have a translation of what may be a series of short interviews entailing how Kingdom Hearts came to be:

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Your debut as director was with KH, What was the process of bringing that out like?

Nomura: With the designs of KH, I had a plot around the time that FF7 was in production, and by the time of FF8, I had full out designs. But at that point the disney characters hadn't completely appeared. Hashimoto came up with the idea of a story with Disney. Since at that time Mr. Disney was in the same building, Hashimoto would sometimes talk with him on the elevator. And I guess they worked something out.

Were you the director at that time?

Nomura: No, I was polishing up the KH designs, and was thinking of what the next line of development would be, and someone else was appointed as the director for this "Disney game". I think until then the things I did were often pretty useless. But the KH team told me "We want you to participate with us Tetsu-san, no one else would make a better director", and so they pushed for that afterwards.

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