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Published on July 7, 2013 @ 01:44 am
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During Japan Expo, fansites Finaland and Final Fantasy Dream had the opportunity to ask Series Creator Tetsuya Nomura a few questions about the Kingdom Hearts series. Details discussed included the option to include French dialogue in Kingdom Hearts -HD 1.5 ReMIX-, the inclusion of Marvel and Star Wars properties in the series, as well as going into details about Final Fantasy XV which will be available on our sister site Final Fantasy Network.

Thanks to forum member Santiago for the find!

Finaland & FFDream: Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX includes Kingdom Hearts Final Mix, which was released exclusively in Japan. How then will the new cutscenes be localized for the Western version? Will it be dubbed in French?

Tetsuya Nomura: Unfortunately we didn’t have any opportunity to put the French voice over in this 1.5 version so it’s going to be French subtitles only.

Finaland & FFDream: How did you come to split the development team into two teams? How far are you involved in the development of Kingdom Hearts III?

Tetsuya Nomura: For this HD version of Kingdom Hearts 1.5, the main programmers never actually worked in the Kingdom Hearts series before and they did all the remastering, all the processing, all the actual work by themselves and for Kingdom Hearts III the other staff is doing all the testing, deciding which kind of elements we want to put in the game and everything.

So there’s one team doing HD 1.5 and another one doing KH3, that’s how we’ve been working for the last couple years.

Regarding my personal involvement in Kingdom Hearts III, I always have been heavily involved in this project compared to the other games i’m actually producing or directing.

The team creating Kingdom Hearts III is in the studios in Osaka, and as you guys know Osaka and Tokyo are a little bit far away from each other but we meet enough with meetings quite often and we’re doing telephone conferences too. So we communicate all the time as I am quite heavily involved on this project.

Finaland & FFDream: With the acquisition of Marvel and LucasArts by Disney, could you imagine adding some kind of stuff from these licenses in the game? 

Tetsuya Nomura: (laughs) Of course it would be great if we could add those licenses as well. But there are lots of rules and restrictions by disney so we can’t actually put everything people want, so it’s a quite difficult decision but we’re gonna prepare some surprises for you so, just wait for the informations.

Finaland & FFDream: Because you know that Kitase-san (Yoshinori Kitase) is a big fan of Star Wars! So you have to do that! 

Tetsuya Nomura: (laughs) We’re not going to decide it whether Kitase-san likes Star Wars or not but we’ve been talking about Star Wars itself since it became Disney’s content recently. When I eared the news I was like “Wow! Wow!” Yeah obviously it’s gonna be great if we could add it, but like I said there are a lot of restrictions and rules by Disney so we don’t know what’s gonna happen but yeah, we’ll see.

Finaland & FFDream: Can we expect a multiplayer cooperative mode with many playables characters in KHIII?

Tetsuya Nomura: The Kingdom Hearts series always had Sora as the main character, so we want to make the most of Sora, playable Sora of course. But again, Kingdom Hearts III is going to be the last chapter of the Kingdom Hearts main numbering title series, so lots of fans actually want to play as their favorite characters in Kingdom Hearts III so we will consider that, we will listen to what fans wants but hopefully we could give you some surprises in the future announcements.

Finaland & FFDream: You watch a lot of movies, how does that inspire you? Do you pick some ideas in the movies you watch ?

Tetsuya Nomura: I watch movies a lot, I mean A LOT (laughs), normally like two, three films a day, it’s my pace. I watch quite a lot so I don’t always remember the names or titles even. So I watch and then I get a bit of inspirations from films and stuff, I can’t name the actual titles of the movies that actually inspired me to create games but when I’m watching movies sometimes I feel like “ Oh ! That’s nice !” or “That’s good!”, something like that.

Finaland & FFDream: Nomura-san, your character outfits are more and more detailed. When we saw Cloud for the first time in 1997 and now Noctis in 2013, there’s a lot of greatness in them. Have you received some fashion lessons or do you just follow fashion ?

Tetsuya Nomura: Obviously I always think about the current kind of trend and fashion and everything when I create the characters but this time for XV and Noctis and all the main characters that have been revealed, this time we actually asked for a professional brand to create the characters outfits, we also have the actual clothes in the office so our CG team and all the teams can actually see the clothes with their own eyes to create exactly the same image in the game. And that’s really easier because previously when I created the characters, all the CG team and all of our entire development team always asked me “Is this leather? Is this coton? Is this nylon? How many percentage ? Dadadada” That’s a lot of detailed questions so it’s always difficult to precise what kind of texture are the clothes made off and stuff like that, so that’s why this time we had the actual clothes made and then we take it from there and put it in the game.

Finaland & FFDream: Nomura-san, you work on a lot of project like Final Fantasy XV, the Kingdom Hearts Saga, The World Ends With You. How do you manage all the projects you have at the same time?

Tetsuya Nomura: Actually I am not very good at managing myself, especially at managing lots of different projects, but because of my staff and all the staffs are very very intelligent, very good and very capable I’m able to run all the different projects at the same time. And also the most important are the Co-Directors in each project, again they are very capable and skilled people, they are the people actually managing the actual everyday job on the ground. That’s why I’m here, they are supporting me all the time.

Finaland & FFDream: You’ve created a lot of characters for the Final Fantasy series. What’s your favorite character between all those you’ve created ?

Tetsuya Nomura: Hmm if I had to choose a favorite character, I would say Sora, and Noctis. Why them? Of course Sora, I’ve been together with him for more than ten years now, this is the first time i’ve been with a character for such a long time, so he’s very very special for me and he’s been adopted by Disney also, so he’s a very very good boy. More like a good son actually.

Also there is Noctis, he hasn’t been in front of you, I mean moving etc yet in a real gameplay but he will soon, in the future.

Do you know the name Sora mean the “sky”, in japanese and Noctis, his family name is Caelum which mean sky as well so basically, Noctis mean “night sky”, so they are kind of complete opposites to each other. There is a reason why I named these characters as opposites. Noctis is kind of like my latest boy, or latest son and I expect him to be more clever than Cloud.

Finaland & FFDream: Okay, one question Tetsuya Nomura, very important for us, and for Hideo Kojima because Hideo Kojima said he’d love a remake of Final Fantasy VII, but what about you ? Would you like to play a Metal Gear Solid 1 Remake ?

Tetsuya Nomura: To play?

Finaland & FFDream: Yes, to play.

Tetsuya Nomura: Of course I’d like, if he were going to do a MGS remake.

Finaland & FFDream: And what do you think about the differences between the Fox Engine and your own Luminous Engine?

Tetsuya Nomura: I think the Fox Engine and Luminous Engine are totally different engines because they each got different kind of abilities and skills and stuff that we could use in a game. One engine can do certain things the other engine can’t for example. It depends on what you want to do, but I think they totally are two different kind of engines.

Finaland & FFDream: A Final Fantasy XV question, what should we expect in terms of vehicles ? Can we pilot airships and explore the world of Final Fantasy XV and discover its secrets?

Tetsuya Nomura: We don’t have any big plans for having different type of vehicles and stuff like that. There’s one you saw in the recent trailer of course.

Well two things you probably could use, first, the car, the car is gonna be the vehicle you’ll use probably the most in the game. The other one, the magitek armor, you can actually control and ride the magitek armor as well, in a future reveal you’ll probably find more.

Finaland & FFDream: A motorbike?

Tetsuya Nomura: (laughs) In Final Fantasy XV you play as a party, you’re always with your friends so five guys riding a motorbike together, I’m not sure if this would works.

Finaland & FFDream: In a gang! Like Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo.

Tetsuya Nomura: (laugh), yeah maybe it doesn’t look very good in a game.

Finaland & FFDream: Why did you change Stella’s design and made her look so much younger. Is it because of story development or because you made a survey with the audience ?

Tetsuya Nomura: There is no specific reason behind hit, but we didn’t want to make her look younger, we just wanted to make her a little bit prettier. That’s all.

Finaland & FFDream: But in 2007 she was very nice! She’s very nice and still pretty but she’s still a little younger.

Tetsuya Nomura: When I created Stella, back in 2007, I actually created something that is not my type of character, but obviously time has past since then, about six years now, and then she actually became something that I quite like now.

Finaland & FFDream: In the trailer we could briefly see Noctis with red eyes. Will the red eyes give him some sort of special power during the battles?

Tetsuya Nomura: In the last promotion trailer, Noctis got red eyes because he got the ability of teleportation, so that’s why when he did that, his eyes got red. Actually Visual Works created the trailer back then in 2007.

When you actually play the game, you can’t really see and zoom in the face of the character anyway. And he moves very fast as well so... if the character’s face is actually seen in a zoomed-in on the screen, we probably could still make his eyes red but we haven’t decided whether we’re gonna need the red eyes or not.

Finaland & FFDream: The game looks very serious and fatalist. Have you planned to add some sort of fun moments or funny mini-games ?

Tetsuya Nomura: We are actually thinking to have some sort of fun elements in the game, but for the moment the priority is to create the main game itself. I will add or not add stuff like that depending on how the development of the main game goes , but yeah we are thinking about that.

Finaland & FFDream: About the artistic direction of the game. The appearance of the Kingdom of Lucis is much like the Shinjuku district in Tokyo and Accordo has the same feeling of Venice, in Italy. Can we hope to see some places inspired by the French regions perhaps? Paris perhaps?

Tetsuya Nomura: Well do you have any games actually based in Paris?

Finaland & FFDream: Deling City from Final Fantasy VIII with the Arc de Triomphe.

Tetsuya Nomura: If we’ve used it before we might not want to use it in a new game (laughs). So i’m not sure about using Paris. In my opinion, in lot of RPG games there are many European motives, European things, cities and stuff where your characters live and play but you guys still think like you need more European things or French things?

Finaland & FFDream: We’d just love to see that in Final Fantasy, we are sure it would be very nice.

Tetsuya Nomura: Well we’ll thing about that, that’s all I can say.

Finaland & FFDream: Thank you very much!

We’ve seen a lot of male characters with Noctis and his friends. Is there going to be girls as playable characters as well?

Tetsuya Nomura: I can’t say anything specific now but it would be...quite difficult, to have a girl playable.

Finaland & FFDream: Question about this place, we are in Japan Expo, there are more than two hundred thousand people there, loving japanese culture so much. We actually watch anime in original version and we watched Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete only in Japanese.

Can we hope to get the original Japanese voices for Final Fantasy XV in Europe.

Tetsuya Nomura: That all depends of the capacity of the disc. The two main reason are the disc space and also the lip sync, because if we’re making the game, with the characters speaking in english but with the voices in Japanese, the lip sync would not match. Even though you’d prefer having the Japanese voices?

Finaland & FFDream: Yes, actually, please, we have a solution for you, can you think of a limited edition with only Japanese voices and French text, would it be possible to do that?

Tetsuya Nomura: You really want this that much?

Finaland & FFDream: YES YES YES we really want Japanese voices.

Tetsuya Nomura: (laughs) You’ll have to say this YES YES YES to Square Enix though for not to me. If you guys really want THAT kind of request very much from all the fans and all the community side and everything, it would probably be best to tell Square Enix France or Square Enix Europe to make that happen. Square Enix France of Europe could speak to Square Enix Japan and it probably could make it happen, but we’ll see.

Finaland & FFDream: Thank you! Next question, is it "Game Over" if Noctis dies?

Tetsuya Nomura: At some time I said that the game was gonna be over when Noctis died, when we were talking about Versus XIII, but now as Versus XIII became Final Fantasy XV we haven’t decided it actually so we can’t really say if it’s going to change or not, we’ll see.

Finaland & FFDream: Will we be able to customize weapons and equipments of our characters?

Tetsuya Nomura: I’m sorry but we can’t say anything about that, yet.

Finaland & FFDream: What can you tell us about the future of Dissidia, on PSVita or PS4 maybe ? With the addition of Noctis?

Tetsuya Nomura: I’m not that heavily involved in Dissidia project, but if director Takahashi want to include Noctis in the next Dissidia game, I would probably think about it then, but I can’t really say anything so far.

Finaland & FFDream: You made the two video presentations for E3 from Artnia the place for all your fans in Japan

The announcement was so exciting for us, how do you react to that and are you glad to be back?

Tetsuya Nomura: I was very very busy, I didn’t prepare enough to do that video message recording at all...

Finaland & FFDream: It was GOOD!

Tetsuya Nomura: (laughs) Actually that recording was, yes, happening in Artnia, recorded by the promo and publicity staffs. There was not even a microphone there, so it probably was quite difficult for you guys to listen to what I actually said. I was myself really surprised as well because Sony said they needed a video message so that’s why we did it, only a couple of days before flying for E3.

Finaland & FFDream: What will the addition of Hajime Tabata, the great producer of Final Fantasy Type-0 bring to the FFXV team?

Tetsuya Nomura: The reason why we bringed Tabata-san into the team is because he always said to me that it wanted to join the Final Fantasy XV project. I asked him in the team, his vitality and mentality are always very motivated and very high. In the future campaign and until the game is out, Tabata-san himself will be going to speak in front of you guys more often so please ask him in details when he’s available.

Finaland & FFDream: Nomura-san can we imagine that you’ll work on Final Fantasy XV-2 just after finishing the first one?

Tetsuya Nomura: Obviously we haven’t decided yet. We don’t have any concrete plan for a future sequel of FFXV, it would be good if we could do that but we can’t announce it or say anything into detail for the moment so wait for future informations.

Finaland & FFDream: Last question, Nomura-san it’s the first time we saw you with the fan communities in France, we are very happy to see you. Do you think that you will come again next time?

Tetsuya Nomura: Of course i’d love to come again, but other people working on my project obviously want to come to meet the fans and meet you guys as well, so we’re gonna decide depending on what kind of event or opportunity we’ll have in a future. You guys definitely want to see the same face every year so (laughs) we’ll see about that.

Finaland & FFDream: We always see Kitase-san and Toriyama-san. Hashimoto-san too. We saw them every year for XIII, XIII-2, Lightning Returns. I saw Shinji Hashimoto in 2010 and we talked about Versus XIII and we were talking about teleportation in the game and he said “Oh I don’t know if Nomura-san will do that” and now we actually see that in the game and it’s just amazing.

Thank you very much for your work and we all hope that you will succeed with this project.

Tetsuya Nomura: This time I came here to promote Kingdom Hearts 1.5 (laughs) so it’s a bit early for me to talk to you about the details of Final Fantasy XV, but when we’ll have to decide when to release, or for the campaign kick-off i’ll probably come back again, we’ll see, and thank you.

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State

July 7, 2013 @ 02:03 amOffline

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Finaland & FFDream : Can we expect a multiplayer cooperative mode with many playables characters in KHIII ?



Tetsuya Nomura : The Kingdom Hearts series always had Sora as the main character, so we want to make the most of Sora, playable Sora of course. But again, Kingdom Hearts III is going to be the last chapter of the Kingdom Hearts main numbering title series, so lots of fans actually want to play as their favorite characters in Kingdom Hearts III so we will consider that, we will listen to what fans wants but hopefully we could give you some surprises in the future announcements.


I'm having a hard time picturing multiple scenarios with Sora, Riku, Mickey and the other wielders, so I bet they're going to make a multiplayer a la Days or BbS and have you select between all the plethora of characters available in KH3.



Finaland & FFDream : You watch a lot of movies, how does that inspire you ? Do you pick some ideas in the movies you watch ?



Tetsuya Nomura : I watch movies a lot, I mean A LOT (laughs), normally like two, three films a day, it’s my pace. I watch quite a lot so I don’t always remember the names or titles even. So I watch and then I get a bit of inspirations from films and stuff, I can’t name the actual titles of the movies that actually inspired me to create games but when I’m watching movies sometimes I feel like “ Oh ! That’s nice !” or “That’s good!”, something like that.


Cool.



Finaland & FFDream : Nomura-san, you work on a lot of project like Final Fantasy XV, the Kingdom Hearts Saga, The World Ends With You. How do you manage all the projects you have at the same time?



Tetsuya Nomura : Actually I am not very good at managing myself, especially at managing lots of different projects, but because of my staff and all the staffs are very very intelligent, very good and very capable I’m able to run all the different projects at the same time. And also the most important are the Co-Directors in each project, again they are very capable and skilled people, they are the people actually managing the actual everyday job on the ground. That’s why I’m here, they are supporting me all the time.


Nice. Good to know he complements his subordinates and is surrounded by capable people.

Nice interview and thanks for sharing.

TheSupremeFace

July 7, 2013 @ 02:05 amOffline

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Oh dang, possibility of a Star Wars world is getting bigger...Lightsaber Keyblade here I come!


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July 7, 2013 @ 02:11 amOffline

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Some characterizations of Birth by Sleep had Star Wars elements in them and Nomura wanted some of the SW stars to voice-act some of the BbS cast members. Other than that, Nomura's an avid fan and, since he said he's been looking forward for the possibility ever since Disney acquired SW, I'm pretty sure that, by KH3 or post KH3 we should have a SW world.

TheSupremeFace

July 7, 2013 @ 02:13 amOffline

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Star Wars world would probably be from the Original Trilogy, Episode 4

Zettaflare

July 7, 2013 @ 02:16 amOffline

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So SW and marvel in kh has been pretty much guranteed hasn't it?

chefdiz19

July 7, 2013 @ 02:18 amOffline

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With what he said about the "main numbering title series" I wonder what is in store after KH III.

Chaser

July 7, 2013 @ 02:19 amOffline

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Swoosh
So SW and marvel in kh has been pretty much guranteed hasn't it?

No .

kupo1121

July 7, 2013 @ 02:20 amOffline

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Swoosh
So SW and marvel in kh has been pretty much guranteed hasn't it?


I actually took that quote as a confirmation that SW and Marvel are guaranteed not to be in KH (at least KH3). Nomura was essentially saying that those licenses are really cool that Disney has acquired them, but it might be to difficult at the current time to get them into KH due to licensing. He then proceeded to cushion that bad news by saying "there are other surprises though so don't worry."

I personally still hope that Marvel and SW won't be in KH so maybe that's why I'm biasing my views.

Zettaflare

July 7, 2013 @ 02:22 amOffline

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King Chaser
No .


Maybe "guranteed" wasn't the right word, more like a small possibility

kupo1121

July 7, 2013 @ 02:25 amOffline

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Swoosh
Maybe "guranteed" wasn't the right word, more like a small possibility


I feel like Marvel and SW were always a small possibility, but that "small possibility" is really, really small, like in the 4% or less.

Santiago

July 7, 2013 @ 02:27 amOffline

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Ah, the things I accidentally find. I swear I have a knack for this.

Seraph
I'm pretty sure that, by KH3 or post KH3 we should have a SW world.

Disney would be pretty thick-headed to not allow a Star Wars world. It's essentially free advertisement for people to watch the new SW movies, even if the movies don't honestly need it.

Zettaflare

July 7, 2013 @ 02:29 amOffline

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kupo1121
I feel like Marvel and SW were always a small possibility, but that "small possibility" is really, really small, like in the 4% or less.


Oh. Well hopefully the surprises Nomura promised will make up for the disappointment of fans who wanted those properties in kh

siddharm

July 7, 2013 @ 03:10 amOffline

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Blegh :P
Incompetent FFNET!
I want the rest of this interview!

The_Echo

July 7, 2013 @ 03:17 amOffline

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King Chaser
Finaland & FFDream: With the acquisition of Marvel and Lucas Arts by Disney, could you imagine adding some kind of stuff from these licenses in the game ?

Tetsuya Nomura: (laughs) Of course it would be great if we could add those licenses as well. But there are lots of rules and restrictions by disney so we can't actually put everything people want, so it's a quite difficult decision but we're gonna prepare some surprises for you so, just wait for the informations.

Oh God... please no. Please God no Star Wars or Marvel worlds.

I will puke everywhere.

Sign

July 7, 2013 @ 04:52 amOffline

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siddharm
Blegh :P
Incompetent FFNET!
I want the rest of this interview!


You know, you could always have just gone to the original source in the meantime. Nevertheless~

Final Fantasy Network

skyfoxx

July 7, 2013 @ 05:00 amOffline

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That's really interesting that they actually made real clothes to model off of for FFXV. I'm actually curious to see if they would be willing to show pictures.

So Tetsuya Nomura talks about how it is hard to say as far as Marvel and Star Wars goes due to Disney allowing the licenses to be used, and then follows up with "

We’re gonna prepare some surprises for you so.

" Am I the only one who read that and immediately thought "PIXAR?"

ajmrowland

July 7, 2013 @ 05:12 amOffline

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Disney blocking star wars world? Nomura watching more movies than me to the point where they meld in his life?

Officially, this is a worthwhile interview.

Luap

July 7, 2013 @ 05:16 amOffline

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skyfoxx
That's really interesting that they actually made real clothes to model off of for FFXV. I'm actually curious to see if they would be willing to show pictures.

So Tetsuya Nomura talks about how it is hard to say as far as Marvel and Star Wars goes due to Disney allowing the licenses to be used, and then follows up with "

We’re gonna prepare some surprises for you so.

" Am I the only one who read that and immediately thought "PIXAR?"


That's what I'm thinking the "surprise" will be too. Disney is probably telling Square that Marvel and Star Wars are hands off, but agreed to let them finally get into their other properties starting with Pixar. With how big of a money maker KH3 is gonna be, I expect we'll see Disney allowing Square to be a little less safe with content.

Toy Story is probably one of the most requested worlds for KH ever. Wouldn't be surprised for it to be one of the first, if not the very first, Disney worlds announced, like how with 3D they showed off Notre Dame, which was another very requested world.

WaveK89

July 7, 2013 @ 05:21 amOffline

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I don't know about Star Wars and Marvel. Perhaps, if they were confined in their own world, that would be fine. However, both utilize multiple worlds in even multiple galaxies. Sure, they got away with Stitch on a ship, but still...

Whatever, I'm sure I'll probably enjoy what they throw at me. I am excited that Nomura has surprises up his sleeves.

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Antilurker77

July 7, 2013 @ 06:09 amOffline

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I really hope they don't do Marvel / SW. They wouldn't fit at all.

Sign

July 7, 2013 @ 06:27 amOffline

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skyfoxx
That's really interesting that they actually made real clothes to model off of for FFXV. I'm actually curious to see if they would be willing to show pictures.


They did show off a few outfits years ago:

[spoiler=Noctis][/spoiler]

[spoiler=Noctis and Stella party clothes][/spoiler]

ajmrowland
Disney blocking star wars world? Nomura watching more movies than me to the point where they meld in his life?

Officially, this is a worthwhile interview.


Pretty much all old info on the KH side lol

Chaser

July 7, 2013 @ 06:32 amOffline

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Sign
They did show off a few outfits years ago:

[spoiler=Noctis][/spoiler]

THE RED SOLE SHOES




Pretty much all old info on the KH side lol


It was still worth publishing :<

skyfoxx

July 7, 2013 @ 07:12 amOffline

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Sign
They did show off a few outfits years ago:

[spoiler=Noctis][/spoiler]

[spoiler=Noctis and Stella party clothes][/spoiler]



Oh sweet, that's pretty cool!

As far as the Marvel and Star Wars thing goes... you know, I don't believe they can do those franchises the same way they do the Disney movies. Buuuuuut I really don't think we should rule out the possibility.

Because let's be completely honest. Kingdom Hearts is a game in which Disney characters meet Final Fantasy characters. That concept alone is far weirder than having Marvel or Star Wars and yet somehow it worked. If Star Wars or Marvel does become a thing (I don't think they'll even really think about that until the next saga), I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt. Because who knows... if they got Disney and Final Fantasy to mesh, then them getting Marvel and Star Wars to fit is a possibility.

AdrianXXII

July 7, 2013 @ 07:24 amOffline

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Good interview.

I find it interesting how he answered the Marvel and SW questions. It's obvious that he himself would love to add SW to the series though at the moment he's not allowed to. I wonder, if the same restrictions and rules apply to Pixar and other Disney properties as well.
As of now I'm assuming we wont have any Marvel or SW in KH3, though by the way he worded it I wouldn't rule out references and the like.

King Chaser

Tetsuya Nomura : The Kingdom Hearts series always had Sora as the main character, so we want to make the most of Sora, playable Sora of course. But again, Kingdom Hearts III is going to be the last chapter of the Kingdom Hearts main numbering title series, so lots of fans actually want to play as their favorite characters in Kingdom Hearts III so we will consider that, we will listen to what fans wants but hopefully we could give you some surprises in the future announcements.


I think this is pretty interesting. I'm curious what he meant with this being the last entry in the Numbered Series? Does that mean there wont be a KH4 even though the series it self is continuing?
Also it kind of sounds promising for the possibility of playing as the other characters even if it ends up just being in multiplayer. I'm definitely looking forward to hearing more about this in future announcements.

Wave57

July 7, 2013 @ 10:06 amOffline

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Perhaps he means that he won't name the next main game KHIV, but rather KH"Blahblahblahcooltitlehere"?

Or he could just be saying that it's the last of the arc. I wouldn't look too much into it.

Vanitas666

July 7, 2013 @ 11:59 amOffline

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Please by Kinchan let there be no Marvel world Ever. I don't really mind Star Wars although I think it's better left alone but I would hate there to be a Marvel world

ajmrowland

July 7, 2013 @ 05:22 pmOffline

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Sign
They did show off a few outfits years ago:

[spoiler=Noctis][/spoiler]

[spoiler=Noctis and Stella party clothes][/spoiler]



Pretty much all old info on the KH side lol

Well, yeah, but I didn't know nomura watched like 3 movies a day. And I'm a film buff. As for the FFXV outfits, that's actually really fascinating. Going one step further than Pixar has done with their costumes(they hired tailors as consultants) and making something that an employee could actually steal and use as cosplay

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Xagzan

July 7, 2013 @ 05:42 pmOffline

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Seraph
I'm having a hard time picturing multiple scenarios with Sora, Riku, Mickey and the other wielders, so I bet they're going to make a multiplayer a la Days or BbS and have you select between all the plethora of characters available in KH3.


Except that mode sucked in Days.

Would really be bummed if that's all Kairi is relegated to after the 3D teaser.

rokudamia2

July 7, 2013 @ 05:57 pmOffline

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Xagzan
Except that mode sucked in Days.

Would really be bummed if that's all Kairi is relegated to after the 3D teaser.


I preferred it to bbs's multiplayer, if only because you could play as characters like Donald, and Goofy.

I'd like a mix of both though.

Elysium

July 7, 2013 @ 06:10 pmOffline

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Wave57
Perhaps he means that he won't name the next main game KHIV, but rather KH"Blahblahblahcooltitlehere"?


That's what I was thinking. I'm thinking the next saga will have its own subtitle for the main console games (I wonder if the side-games will continue after this saga or not...).

I don't mind the idea of Marvel worlds so much, but having Darth Vader in the same game as Sora or Maleficent would be really strange to me. o.O

Zettaflare

July 7, 2013 @ 06:46 pmOffline

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Well I'm glad the numbered titles are ending after kh3. It would have been silly to call the first game in the next saga kh4 XD



im really looking forward to the surprises nomura has planned

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Roxion

July 7, 2013 @ 08:16 pmOffline

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The Office- Michael Scott No God No - YouTube

^^This was my reaction to the Star Wars thing being on KH3

kupo1121

July 7, 2013 @ 08:32 pmOffline

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Santiago
Disney would be pretty thick-headed to not allow a Star Wars world. It's essentially free advertisement for people to watch the new SW movies, even if the movies don't honestly need it.


I think it's fairly smart. I mean, yes it is free advertisement, but what type? If SE messed either world up (which is easy to mess up when the fanbase of each, Marvel and Star Wars, are much bigger than KH's) the backlash would be terrible and it would end up as bad advertising and really hurt not only KH, but way those fanbases view Disney. They would blame it all on Disney and that's not something Disney should want.

Luap
Toy Story is probably one of the most requested worlds for KH ever. Wouldn't be surprised for it to be one of the first, if not the very first, Disney worlds announced, like how with 3D they showed off Notre Dame, which was another very requested world.


I definitely can see Pixar being the "surprise" we've all been waiting for and personally, that is a better surprise than Marvel or SW to me, since Marvel or SW isn't a great surprise to me lol

I hope it isn't just Toy Story or even just Pixar, I really can't wait to see movies KH picks. Tangled, PatF, WiR, so many great worlds they could choose, I cannot even wait.

Swoosh
Well I'm glad the numbered titles are ending after kh3. It would have been silly to call the first game in the next saga kh4 XD


That's very true. I cannot see someone new to the series picking up KH4 and being able to understand that they don't need any of the past games to understand it >_<

Atlan

July 8, 2013 @ 04:43 amOffline

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Am I the only one who doesn't want Star Wars in KHIII.. I mean.. It would've been cool in any other one of them.. but not in this one... this one has to be loyal to the.. you know.. KH feel...

Oracle Spockanort

July 8, 2013 @ 04:45 amOffline

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Atlan
Am I the only one who doesn't want Star Wars in KHIII.. I mean.. It would've been cool in any other one of them.. but not in this one... this one has to be loyal to the.. you know.. KH feel...


No, you aren't. Many people don't want it. It would be weird and rather unwarranted. BBS was pretty damn close to being like SW anyways.

Atlan

July 8, 2013 @ 05:03 amOffline

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You know.. I always pictured a Kh multiplayer mode in a big map like the one where you find Lingering Sentiment, and wherever you look there's guys hitting eachother with flashy attacks and lots of movement, kind of like a keyblade war multiplayer thing...

Chaser

July 8, 2013 @ 05:10 amOffline

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Atlan
You know.. I always pictured a Kh multiplayer mode in a big map like the one where you find Lingering Sentiment, and wherever you look there's guys hitting eachother with flashy attacks and lots of movement, kind of like a keyblade war multiplayer thing...

You mean like this?

[video=youtube;jdf9ije8Lp0][/video]

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Gram

July 8, 2013 @ 06:03 amOffline

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Swoosh
Well I'm glad the numbered titles are ending after kh3. It would have been silly to call the first game in the next saga kh4 XD

I agree. xD It'd also be a bit of a turn off to newcomers seeing they've missed 3 (from their pov) games before.

I can't wait to see what surprises he's talking about. Hopefully their not SW or Marvel >_>

TheSupremeFace

July 8, 2013 @ 06:17 amOffline

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first world revealed better be toy story

skyfoxx

July 8, 2013 @ 07:25 amOffline

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King Chaser
You mean like this?

[video=youtube;jdf9ije8Lp0][/video]


I REALLY want this to return! If they just balance it out more so players can't be super overpowered (maybe have the highest leveled player revert down to the same level as the lowest leveled player, kind of like Dissidia), then it would be perfect!

kupo1121

July 8, 2013 @ 11:37 pmOffline

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skyfoxx
I REALLY want this to return! If they just balance it out more so players can't be super overpowered (maybe have the highest leveled player revert down to the same level as the lowest leveled player, kind of like Dissidia), then it would be perfect!


I agree, that was one of the biggest steps in the right direction KH ever took. I'd love if they included Mirage Arena in future games (not just 2.5 HD Remix which I'm still hoping has it with online) since it could be really cool creating your own wielder and really duking it out in a balanced setting (besides levels, certain commands were broken, so whenever you went online to find random people, the game consisted of all lvl 99 people with the same commands).

Inner-Demon

July 10, 2013 @ 02:58 pmOffline

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I don't necessarily need Marvel in Kingdom Hearts, but I would absolutely adore Star Wars in Kingdom Hearts. After Mark Hamill provided the voice for Eraqus I desperately want to see a proper world. There are all ready many parallels between these franchises, and I feel as though Disney would strike gold to include Star Wars in a seminal, memorable role.

Wehrmacht

July 10, 2013 @ 03:23 pmOffline

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I don't think Star Wars "fitting in" or not is cause for concern. The series is already a mishmash of things that ought not to be meshed to begin with. Star Wars or Marvel is fair game as far as I'm concerned.

As for whether or not I want it...meh. I actually wouldn't mind Marvel, but I've never cared for Star Wars at all. I doubt they'd really use either that well, but the same can easily be said of every disney property they've used so it's not a big deal. Whether they use them or not I'm game for either.

king_mickey rule

July 10, 2013 @ 03:52 pmOffline

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Roxion
The Office- Michael Scott No God No - YouTube

^^This was my reaction to the Star Wars thing being on KH3


Pretty much. Keep it "Disney-original" (and Pixar), Nomura

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