News ► Playstation JP reveals KINGDOM HEARTS HD 1.5 + 2.5 Main Menu

[Kounelli]

Oh! I always called them blank/doll faces but figured that must have been what you were talking about. I agree, I hope they can take those out completely but I'm not holding my breath on it tbh. :/

 

[Muke]

Well, it's not impossible. Yeah, a lotta work, low budget and all, but still.
Just look at the fake screenshots they published for KH1.5, basically advertising that the fish faces were gone:

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Just please do that this time.


Also, it's like… what else is their do graphically improve upon? This is the only thing that really comes to mind, imo

 

[The Dark Mamba]

Looks beautiful and there you go pretty much confirms at this point exactly what Nomura said, this is the best order to experience it and if they wanted to it be the other way Days would of been put after KH2. Roxas's opening is just narratively so much better with Days than without. Because Days doesn't actually show the transition rather deliberately the last thing you see is Roxas running through twilight town meeting up friends for a possible beach trip, an immediate cut from Roxas laying on the ground beaten up and crying for his lost life. The mystery of the start is still very much intact and the only real difference is instead of the narrative introducing and spending several hours having you get to know characters that will all almost inexplicably be dropped from the plot for 90% of the game. Now the narrative is just having you watch the final sad week and giving various conclusions/semi-conclusions to tales you've been watch unfold for an entire other game.

Not saying there is anything wrong with release order just that release order was ultimately a failed experiment that does more to sour the overall experience KH2's narrative can offer.

The debate continues.......

The Roxas prologue is self explanatory. It treats him like it's the first time you've seen the character, building off his brief appearance at the end of COM.

KH2 treats the KH2 organization XIII members like it's the first time you've seen them. They've got their hoods up, there's not as much development for them as there was in Days and it spoils anything that was meant or intended to be a surprise in KH2. I've tried the Days before KH2 experiment and anything that involved organization XIII comes across as weird because KH2 is intended to be the first time you see them.

Final trump card. Days has scenes of KH2 in its opening.

 

[Grono]

The debate continues.......

The Roxas prologue is self explanatory. It treats him like it's the first time you've seen the character, building off his brief appearance at the end of COM.

KH2 treats organization XIII like it's the first time you've seen them. They've got their hoods up, there's not as much development for them as there was in Days and it spoils anything that was meant or intended to be a surprise in KH2. I've tried the Days before KH2 experiment and anything that involved organization XIII comes across as weird because KH2 is intended to be the first time you see them.

Final trump card. Days has scenes of KH2 in its opening.

Playing devil's advocate here, BUT organization XIII was already a presence from Chain of Memories. It's a mystery who these other members are, BUT, to be fair, we do already know, as the audience, what this organization is. the memory loss is just an excuse for Sora to have to be re-introduced.

That being said... Days before Kingdom Hearts II would really, really ruin the experience for me. Sorry, but unless I'm playing chronological order, I'd never do that to myself and spoil Kingdom Hearts II. also skip days and just play II

 

[Chaser]

Also, it's like… what else is their do graphically improve upon? This is the only thing that really comes to mind, imo

IDK maybe actually bringing the games up to actually be 1080/4K instead of 720p lol

 

[Obey_Robin]

this really should be in chronological order of time line. :frown:

but I like the simple menu

 

[Muke]

this really should be in chronological order of time line. :frown:

but I like the simple menu

Lol no it should totally not. This is fine, though I favor KH2>Days over the other way around.
BBS spoils plot points of later(/earlier??) games, so playing that first is ruining the whole experience.

@Chaser ...shoot, didn't think about that. :s

 

[Lnds500]

I saw that scene in 3D yesterday and I was surprised no one had no one noticed that's where that picture came from back then

 

[dbG33K]

IDK maybe actually bringing the games up to actually be 1080/4K instead of 720p lol

This. I'd think they will get most, if not all, of the textures to be full 1080p. While the PS3 remasters did look great overall, the textures clearly weren't full 1080, but rather, well anti-aliased 720p for the most part. I would love for them to have full 4K textures all around, but I iimagine it'd be difficult to fit all of the textures in 4K on one disc, considering how many games are included. Unless of course the 4K texture pack was some sort of DLC or patch. I kinda doubt that would be the case, though, since most PS4 users would not be able to take advantage of such hi-res textures (only those with Pro could).