Re: Tetsuya Nomura's Special Message + Bonus Sketch
Heck I'd have taken a reprint of that rare Spanish comic "
The Sceptre and the Kingdom" which is vastly more interesting. While not canon or even drawn by Nomura, it was entertaining and something not everybody even knows exists.
HOLD UP! Honestly, I would have taken a translated The Sceptre and the Kingdom over even the Ultimania art O___O I've never seen a translated version of that comic (it has gotta be somewhere) so a physical, printed AND translated comic would just be too much for my heart to handle lol
On that note, do you know if there is anywhere where the comic is translated online?
AND NOTHING CAN EXPRESS HOW DISAPPOINTED I AM AT THE FACT THE BOOK AND CASE ARE ONE. :C
I cannot stand it when CE's don't include the main game case. IDK why, but I love having the main game case to put along with all my actual games and keeping the CE separate. When they include the game case like this, it makes the pure bulk package of the CE look very weird and I hate it. That being said, between eBay and GS's I am going to find a separate plain game case to use for 1.5 <_<
imagine if the preorder bonus is either Ventus, Terra or Aqua playarts and you get a random one.
That would be...kind of awesome lol xD Don't get me wrong, I would hate tracking them down (since I would have to track down them all being they are BbS) but I'd like to concept.
Square Enix should hire me because I know what the fans want.
BUT I WOULD BE EVIL TOO.
Pre-order here for a random playart.
Pre-order at this OTHER STORE for a special BIRTH BY SLEEP VOLUME 2 DLC code.
And then after everyone has rushed to pre-order those editions, a week before release I announce that the company has decided to release A THIRD bundle which is basically ALL OF THAT.
BRINGING IN THE MONEY.
The sad part is, I'd rather you do all that stuff you just said than have the disappointment they gave us. Even if you have all that to deal with, at least you'd be giving us NEW things we (by "we" I mean territories outside Japan) have not gotten yet so at least after we went through all the trouble we'd be satisfied with what we got.
Only thing I don't like is how they not only made it the shortest artbook ever (24 pages? Seriously?), but they didn't even make good use of the tiny space they gave themselves, because two of the pages aren't even art (the backsides of those translucent pictures) and then they filled up entire pages with ONE piece of art.
I understand people are upset with this artbook (I am too), but the sad part is that this isn't the first time SE has promised a KH artbook and it turned out bad. Point and case:
The 1.5 artbook is godlike comapred to the BbS one. The BbS one has a few less pages, is 1/2 the size of the 1.5 one, next to no concept art (just the art that you see there like Peter Pan where it is renders that are on the main website) and a few CGI images that are literally from the game. That coupled with the 2 lithographs which are the size of and look like postcards, yeah, the 1.5 CE is amazing now that I think about it haha xD
Let's start a petition for a full-blown artbook for all released Kingdom Hearts titles instead, it' about time we get another one, the Kingdom Hearts Visual Art Collection was released ten years ago.
Besides petitions generally failing, I don't think we need to start a petition. SE will definitely release a Kingdom Hearts artbook BUT they will wait until after KH3 so that they can release a huge one that encompasses the entire Xehanort saga and it will be massive. The price point also will not be pretty (I'm think closer to $100).
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