Hopes for 2.5 HD

[Sephiroth0812]

Since Nomura said "We are working diligently to brush up 2.5 much more than 1.5." I wonder what all "brush up" entails? What do you guys think the chances for things like "playable Lea vs Ventus fight" or "Capes" happening are?

I'd say that the capes may have a bigger chance being included than a completely new made battle that wasn't there before. I.5 ReMix also didn't add anything that wasn't already there, and IMO "Lea vs Ventus" isn't really worth it anyways since it's an insignificant sparring battle.

Then again, if they really include the Mirage Arena as a full fledged online multiplayer option the several capes on screen during gameplay may still cause framerate issues despite the PS3 being several magnitudes more powerful than the PSP.

With how TAV rolls and cartwheels around, capes on their armour would look really impractical. But this is Kingdom Hearts where people fight with oversized keys, so I'm obviously game for the inclusion of capes.

After all, the PS3 engine should be able to handle the dynamics of flowing fabric, right?

Besides in-universe complications (it would probably be hilarious if Ven or Aqua do their fancy acrobatics and end up their capes in their faces. ) there are also technical issues. In order to have it not look to tacked on and flow fluidly they would probably have to redo some animations for the models of TAV, which is probably another argument against them incorporating the capes.

The PS3 can definitely handle this better than the PSP, which has more PS2-like quality, but as I said above, depending on what they decide to do with Multiplayer the capes may still be an issue even on the PS3.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

Since Nomura said "We are working diligently to brush up 2.5 much more than 1.5." I wonder what all "brush up" entails? What do you guys think the chances for things like "playable Lea vs Ventus fight" or "Capes" happening are?

I doubt they'll add in capes. They'd have to redo the animations. At best they will improve on the animations they already have but they probably won't spend time making new ones.

A playable Lea vs. Ventus fight would be adorable. I doubt it'd happen, but I'd love it because I've always wondered what Lea's battle style was before he was a Nobody.

What I'd love is a Data Xion vs Sora battle to compensate for the lack of gameplay in Days HD Theater. It's not plausible but...yeah xD

 

[Sign]

They better add His Majesty.

The reason they excluded him was stupid to begin with.

 

[Solo]

A playable Lea vs. Ventus fight would be adorable. I doubt it'd happen, but I'd love it because I've always wondered what Lea's battle style was before he was a Nobody.

Considering his ready stance, Lea's battle style is most likely similar to Axel, although cruder and less refined since he was still a kid that time. And perhaps he does melee most of the time since I doubt he could already warp around to retrieve his frisbees mid-flight, unless he knew how to curve them like a boomerang.

 

[Chaser]

They better add His Majesty.

The reason they excluded him was stupid to begin with.

What was that excluded from?

 

[Sign]

What was that excluded from?

Birth by Sleep.

 

[MATGSY]

Think they'll fix this goof? (When you see it you'll...)

 

[Chaser]

I really hope they do.

I forever hate who ever first pointed that out to me because it was all I could ever look at during this scene.

 

[Solo]

Whoa, keen eyes! I hope they do catch it and have it fixed. I have never noticed that before and I guess I can't unsee it now. @_@

 

[ajmrowland]

Seen it and unseen it. Worse goofs have been made, though not quite as bizarre I guess.

They better add His Majesty.

The reason they excluded him was stupid to begin with.

I'm sorry, but I don't quite know who you're talking about? Closest I can come up with is King Stephen.

 

[Chaser]

Seen it and unseen it. Worse goofs have been made, though not quite as bizarre I guess.

What, there's been worse errors made by the localisation staff?

I'm sorry, but I don't quite know who you're talking about? Closest I can come up with is King Stephen.

Laguna from FFVIII

 

[Gram]

Think they'll fix this goof? (When you see it you'll...)

Had never noticed and now can never unsee.

 

[KingdomKey]

^ Seriously?! Why have I never noticed this before?! I hope there aren't anymore mistakes like that one. D:

 

[Zephyr]

I'd be really surprised if they don't fix that error for the remaster lol.

 

[FudgemintGuardian]

Think they'll fix this goof? (When you see it you'll...)

I'm sure it will be fixed. If I remember right it happened because the secret bosses were added. Which messed with the code a little, causing that.^

 

[Chaser]

I'm sure it will be fixed. If I remember right it happened because the secret bosses were added. Which messed with the code a little, causing that.^

Wouldn't it have been caused by them updating Kairi's model and then forgetting to remove the original model?

 

[Zephyr]

I hope Square Enix will reveal higher quality renders of Sora/Donald/Goofy's Christmas outfits.

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[Shadowned]

Please, please, please make the battle of 1000 heartless have the behemoths and wyverns that were cut out due to framerate issues on the PS2. Now that it's on the PS3, that shouldn't be a problem anymore!

 

[FudgemintGuardian]

Wouldn't it have been caused by them updating Kairi's model and then forgetting to remove the original model?

Or that. I didn't know her model was updated.

 

[Ruran]

Or that. I didn't know her model was updated.

They made quite a few changes from the Japanese to the English version of Birth by Sleep, one of them was updating the models for little SRK. Which I'm glad for because they had horrible fish face. Kairi's in particular was noticeable because of that one scene where we see her face really close up and she looks like some sort of creepy mannequin. ;A;