Nomura: Kingdom Hearts 3 Development Reportedly is "Relatively Advanced"
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- Published on June 18, 2015 @ 10:58 am
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French website Gameblog were lucky to interview Tetsuya Nomura who is currently working on both Kingdom Hearts 3 and Final Fantasy VII Remake. Recently Kingdom Hearts 3 had it's development moved to Unreal Engine 4, and with Final Fantasy VII's remake announced, some were worried that development on both titles will be strained.
Gameblog asked Nomura about this, to which he confirmed that both titles are being developed by two separate teams, therefore no interference between the two schedules should occur. He also said that Kingdom Hearts 3 is at a relatively advanced level of development, and development won't take his time away from Final Fantasy VII.
@reishikii has kindly translated parts of the article and provided a summary for us!
Tetsuya Nomura himself says that he wants to take a different approach with the gameplay. The biggest challenge for him is to change the elements of FFVII without denaturing the original game. He thinks some aspects of the game needs to be evolved, like the design of the characters. He then says that he'll be able to work on both KHIII and FFVII as a director and that the two games are developed by two different teams.
At last, Tetsuya Nomura says since there are two different teams working on KHIII and FFVII Remake, neither of the two games will be delayed. KHIII is relatively advanced while the FFVII Remake is at the early stages of development.
No doubt this just refers to Kingdom Hearts 3 being further along in development than Final Fantasy VII Remake, however with the recent news of Disney working closely to ensure that the Disney worlds in Kingdom Hearts 3 are faithfully recreated, maybe it's almost time for full promotion of the game to start?
Disney working closely with Square Enix to create Kingdom Hearts 3 has been mentioned a few times. Nomura himself mentioned it in the interview with Engadget:
Compared to previous titles that we folded into Kingdom Hearts, we have a lot of creators still alive. The process of gaining approvals then is pretty different. Because the animation studios are actively involved, we want to polish up anything we meet to the standards we demand, before taking it to Disney to approval.
Then there was Nomura revealing he's just talked to Disney about what world to reveal next, and that it might be soon!
Nomura just met with Disney about what world they could announce after Tangled; they might be able to announce the next official world in Kingdom Hearts 3 soon!
And finally we have Greg Coleman, VP, Worldwide Marketing and Franchise Management for Walt Disney Animation Studios and Roy Conli, Producer of Tangled at Walt Disney Animation Studios announcing during the Tangled reveal that;
Coleman: "We're working with the best animated story tellers, and the best game developers in the world to put this out."
Conli: "And I'm incredibly proud because this is my film, the film that I produced, that I love, is going to be the first one in a series, it's called Tangled. We have this amazing partnership between Square Enix and Disney and the fact that Square Enix is really trying to bring it to life with the same integrity that we brought it to life with. It's going to be cool."
What's your take on the information? Think we'll be seeing Kingdom Hearts 3 next year or does it need some more time in the oven?
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This is the greatest news ever. This also supports the December/Winter 2016 Calendar/Leaked Trailer Theory.
I think the big question right now is how people would feel with thoughts that what we saw is "advanced" so to speak?
this means they are not going to start on ff7 until he thinks kh3 is okay to give tai yasue then right?
I mean, if it's true, then fantastic, I look forward to seeing more of their work and anticipate it coming out soon. If not, well no harm in this, we kind of get a feel of where FFVII is at (and they're at a stage where they actually can show screenshots and whatnot from FFVII which is even more fantastic for VII)
I am really surprised. They seem to be moving fast but I still wouldn't expect the game to launch in 2016, it kinda seems crazy!
I hope they take time to polish it though. Small details here and there will make a huge difference. Nor do I want them to cut content to improve shipping time.
Fair enough. I got a little carried away. I, just like most of us here, just want an excellent game even if it means being a little patient. I still wish KHx was released during E3 or we got a release date. I think that was my only disappointment during E3.
Happy he says, makes me wonder what could have been...
Or he uses the internet to communicate his messages and what not. It all comes down to his schedule and from his words can is balancing both without any interruption fairly well.
There is even a Nomura Blog Post!
With the implication in another interview that they have all their worlds picked already and now it's just a potential cutting down the number of worlds as they're developed, I think the game is a little further along than we thought. Maybe a late 2016 release will be possible. This is definitely the most hopeful I've been that were not looking at 2017 since the 2013 announcement.
This actually makes me even more nervous that the odd graphical look of the characters is going to stay the same. If this game ships out with everyone looking like a Disney Infinity character, I'll be upset. I don't get why the environments look so good, yet the characters seem so cartoony looking. Even the Heartless looked a bit strange in the E3 trailer.
Again, though, they have plenty of time. I'm sure it's pre-alpha so there's more to add and touch up. But we've now seen 3 trailers and the cartoony animated art style doesn't seem to be changing. Seriously hope the final product doesn't look like that. Just look at Eraqus and Xehanort's faces when they look into the camera. They look straight out of a high-budget Barbie animated film (that's not meant to be a jab, just comparing art styles).
Also worth noting, both the English and Japanese trailers were in perfect sync with their respective languages.
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